Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich focused on x86

Some developers try to bring the latest version of Android for x86 processors.

Recently, a version of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich for x86 circulating on the Internet. A first port whose code is primarily intended for developers to make some tests more or less promising tablets and netbooks. Obviously, the optimizations in this version pre-intended mainly to processors AMD , better used.

Chih-Wei Huang, one of the developers who made his name in bump on porting Android on x86, explains that this release supports WiFi and multi-point touch. However, GPUs are not put to use for acceleration OpenGL ES. Same, speakers, photo sensors and Ethernet are not yet recognized.

Top Most common Passwords online

123456 - A list of the worst passwords on the Internet

"Password", "123456", "monkey" or "michael". Here are the passwords of the most used by users of the web for email addresses and other accounts on social networks. This is the Telegraph, which reports a list of 25 passwords established by the American Splashdata application.

The daily notes that these accounts are therefore at high risk of piracy and said that hundreds of thousands of Facebook accounts are hacked every day, as recognized by the firm .

Also, note a consultant interviewed by the Telegraph, 35% of people use the same password for each of their various accounts making it possible for a hacker to control all your web identity even greater.

If any of your passwords is listed below, it is time to change.

1. password

2. 123456

3.12345678

4. qwerty

5. abc123

6. monkey

7. 1234567

8. letmein

9. trustno1

10. dragon

11. Baseball

12. 111111

13. iloveyou

14. master

15. sunshine

16. ashley

17. bailey

18. Passw0rd

19. shadow

20. 123123

21. 654321

22. superman

23. qazwsx

24. michael

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In Sweden, the fiber up to 120 Gbps ...

In Sweden, a new record is being built around fiber optic ...

In Sweden, a scale experiment is taking place right now. Cisco and Telia (Swedish ISP) test a fiber network to go up to 120 Gbps! They even made an application for deposit in the Guinness Book to be recognized as the largest LAN parties in the world ...

To be eligible, it will exceed the 20,000 customers who are connected to the first phase and 750 000 for the second phase. This fiber will be drawn to a length of 300 km between Stockholm and Jönköping, thus taking all subscribers of this operator between the two cities. Telia is responsible for the fiber and equipment such as Cisco CRS-3, high-speed router that can handle up to 322 Tb / s.

Chrome and Android OS in the same HTC, to save Chromebooks?

HTC is not cooled by the failure of Chromebooks and would work on a terminal mixing Chrome and Android OS.

These days, the news is pretty grim for Chromebooks , these netbooks running Chrome OS - the operating system centered on Google's web browser. Indeed, the first two partners in Google on this one point, Samsung and Acer, saw sales currently very disappointing and agree reductions on these machines to try to sell on the end of this year from 25 to 30,000 parts delivered .

Nevertheless, the Taiwanese manufacturer HTC is not discouraged by the bad news and would be in the process of developing a terminal capable of running in both Chrome and Android OS.

An Amazon Android Phone for late 2012?

Amazon could, according to some informed sources, launch its own Android smartphone by end 2012.

The giant e-commerce is booming in multimedia terminals. After launch of reading light Digital Kindle. cheap Kindle and Table Fire with Android, here we talk about the arrival of a smartphone by Amazon scheduled for late 2012.

This is a study prepared by analysts at Citigroup, which reveals information and they said Amazon had entrusted the design of its smartphone Foxconn - already responsible for Apple's iPhone - and will consider proposing a terminal environment array processor (TI OMAP 4, modified version of Android 2.3) that manufacturing costs would not exceed $ 170. And that in order to offer the unit to a very aggressive price, even losing money on it as with the Kindle Fire Tablet .

Skype is compatible with Facebook accounts

With the new beta of Skype, Facebook accounts can easily do video conferencing.
Skype, a subsidiary of Microsoft player in the world of VoIP, now accounts for more than 30 million members permanently connected. To continue to increase its user base, the service announced a partnership with Facebook, the first global social network. A boon for Skype when you know that Facebook is approaching slowly from one billion members, although the 200 million Internet users remaining to pass this course are obviously hard to find.

Available in beta version, Skype 5.7 makes it possible to connect directly with their Facebook account on the software before placing video calls. Being short registration via Skype using the Facebook Connect module should indeed encourage users to use the service. Especially a list management allows friends "Skype" easily one of his contacts.
Note also the appearance of this version of another improvement (reserved for the PC version of the software at the moment) which is to enrich the screen sharing now available to many "viewers" simultaneously. Remains an option fee.

>> Download Skype 5.7 Beta for Windows 
>> Download Skype 5.4 Beta for Mac

PayPal: a gift via Facebook

How to avoid seeking a gift idea? Send a card with PayPal money directly through Facebook!
Paypal, a global leader in money transfer on the Internet, recently introduced an application using the Facebook API to send gift cards containing an amount of money chosen arbitrarily.

 
Moreover, the application page , called Send Money, is quite clear that it targets those in search of ideas for a birthday, for example. For the transfer function requires that both players have a Paypal account and live in one of 65 countries.

A tablet From Nokia having Windows 8 by June 2012?!

If Rumors are to be believed Nokia is coming up with New Windows 8 tablet by June 2012
(Update:-Now officially Confirmed)


Everyone wants to know when will the release of Windows 8.In 2012, of course, but earlier this year, before summer, fall like Windows 7? Any info that seems to give a good indication to be taken. As such, statements by the CEO of Nokia in France, Paul Amsellem, made ​​to the Echos, will not fail to sink the ink. Indeed, the latter said that Nokia was preparing a tablet on Windows 8 (probably under ARM) for "June 2012".Revelation when he spoke of the launch of Lumia 800 , the first Windows Phone from Nokia.

HP launches a mouse button with Facebook

HP launches new wireless mouse with touch wheel and a touch Facebook 

HP today introduced a new mouse, called Touch X7000 WiFi. This is the second mouse from HP to receive a Wi-Fi interface. Except that it does not adopt an ambidextrous design, unlike the WiFi Mobile Mouse, an ergonomic shape but clearly intended for right-handed. HP has opted for a glossy black plastic on top and a flat coating "soft-touch" under the thumb, to provide better "grip".

Its range is 10 meters, and its autonomy is announced at 9 months, while the WiFi connection has the advantage of direct free a USB port, sometimes valuable for laptop users. Another specific, this mouse offers - in addition to its five programmable buttons - one button dedicated to Facebook(not Re programmable)! A button is impossible to re-configure (re-!) who will run the social network each time. Note also that the scroll wheel is replaced by a touch strip, as in mice in the range of Microsoft Touch.

X7000 WiFi Touch This should land in stores in the coming days to about 60 dollars, and as many euros?

As Far as india is concerned Launch date is not yet announced hoping for it to come soon.

State of the mobile market: Nokia leader and threatened takeover of Android

It moves in the market for mobile telephony. Small dot on the waltz of the market shares of manufacturers and OS.


Worldwide, sales of mobile continues to grow in the third quarter of the year according to figures released by Gartner. Between July and September, it sold a total of 440.5 million mobile or 5.6% from a year ago. If smart phones are clearly the locomotive market in countries where rates of equipment are already very high, it is the feature-phone markets that drive good sales in emerging markets.

Nokia still leads, closely followed by Samsung

Nokia remains the world leader with 105 million handsets shipped in the quarter, but saw its market share fell from 28.2% to 23.9%. On the one hand the Finnish manufacturer of mobile delivered 117 million over the same period a year earlier, and also its main competitors have been strengthened. Nokia is counting on the launch of its Windows Phone Lumia, and other models arriving in 2012, to rise again.

Google now sells MP3 Music

The Mountain View giant finally tackles with Google Music, Amazon and Apple on the front of the sale of online music ... but only in the U.S. currently.

"Finally!" Some will say. Google opens its online music store from competing with Apple's iTunes and Amazon MP3 already well established in this market. Available in beta since last May only to U.S. Internet, the Google Music service provides each user a fee storage space "in the cloud" is equivalent to 20,000 shares (or approximately 100 GB).

The music can then be stored and read in streaming wherever you are or from any computer, smartphone or tablet. But Google Music will now step further by proposing the sale of securities in MP3 320 Kbps via its online store and Android Market. Rates vary from 0.69 to $ 1.29 per share, the sale of albums is also planned, and some pieces are even available (live concerts, exclusive titles, etc..) History of attracting users.

 Google prides itself on offering 13 million shares to launch the service by offering the catalogs of three of the four largest music producers such as Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group and EMI. Warner Music is missing but it is almost certain that if successful the new service from Google, it comes quickly to the ranks.

Nokia is relaunching in the race for smartphones with Lumia!

9 months after its strategic partnership with Microsoft, behold,Nokia released its new smartphone " Lumia "under Windows Phone 7.5 and back with a vengeance, hoping to find a place legendary phone manufacturer.

Well let's face it, Nokia has come a long and hopes to regain all lovers of 3310 (memories, memories ...). The Finnish firm's new boss Stephen Ellop again seems to be positioned in this market and renewed the assault of Apple and Samsung.

Phonehouse Lumia had the exclusive for a few days before being sold in all stores. For the design is all about taste. A sober and minimalist, it has a nice finish. However, the effect soft touch back soft-touch coating turns out to be a very messy at the back.

The Intel 4004 is 40 years old!

Intel proudly celebrates the 40th anniversary of the first microprocessor, a small return on the Intel 4004.

Intel has just celebrated a birthday that day, one of his first 40 years of processor: the Intel 4004. A first microprocessor which has been launched on the market November 15, 1971. It was a 4-bit processor clocked at 740 KHz, which was then etched in 10 microns. Intel likes to point out that if the manufacturing process of its processors had not changed, it should be an area of ​​21 square meters to meet its latest processors ... It must be said that the Intel 4004 was composed of only 2300 transistors, which leads to smile when you know that Core i7 Gulftown account 1.17 billion!

Why Adobe killed Flash mobile ?

While Adobe publishes the latest version of Flash, the product manager plugin, Mike Chambers, points to the reasons for the abandonment of Flash mobile and cites Apple as a major contributor.

The usual way, Adobe has launched new versions of its Flash player making patches on problems of stability, performance and even security. To download the latest version of Flash player and take note of these improvements, you can go to the this page .

Adobe nevertheless wishes to clarify three points:

• The abandonment of Flash Player for mobile devices.
• The increase in resources for the development of solutions around the HTML5
• The renewal of interest in Flash for PC (especially for gaming and video) and Adobe AIR

Ice Cream Sandwich: the source code of Android 4.0 is available

Google has made available all the source code of Android 4.0, codenamed "Ice Cream Sandwich." The developers of the planet are in seventh heaven and Roma customs will rain!

Shortly before the availability of the first model to be smartphone with Android 4.0 aka Ice Cream Sandwich, the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, Google delivers the source code for its mobile OS (version 4.0.1).

The Android developer community around the world (and those of XDA-developers in particular: CyanogenMod, MluI etc.). Will be able to give them heart's in the adaptation and porting this version on many models of smartphones and shelves. These customized Roma "Roma customs' officers are actually eagerly awaited, especially by users of older models that are no longer supported by manufacturers (HTC Desire or HP Touchpad for example).

This action tends to reassure a little more about the opening of the Google mobile system which had been somewhat tarnished by the retention of the source code of Android 3.0 Honeycomb touch pads dedicated to the Mountain View giant did not want to see adapted to display terminals small.

9 Firefox beta 1, Firefox 10 already under way ...

The Mozilla Foundation does not stop versions of Firefox and chained themselves to an intense rhythm. We offer the iterations 9 and 10 alpha beta 1 browser?

One week after the release of version 8 of Firefox, no time to breathe, Mozilla already offers milling numbered "9 Beta 1" of its browser to the risk of confusing a bit users.

This version does not have much more to the average user apart from the increased performance in the execution of Javascript - about 20 to 44% faster in some cases - and the traditional bug fixes and other optimizations. Other changes concern in particular the site developers and web applications with the management of HTML elements, CSS, MathML, DOM magazine.

>> Download Firefox Beta 1 9

Version 9 still in beta, developers of the Mozilla Foundation are already thinking about the suite and version 10 alpha 1 (for adventurers) provides the mode "full screen" of the HTML5 API to test it on this page . With this, web developers can take advantage of all of the display size of the screen to their applications or games. Using this mode "FullScreen" will of course be controlled by the user who will self-activate it via actions specified in the website, this in order not to see this API misused by sites not recommendable ...

>> Download Firefox alpha 1 10

Updates Will be More intelligent in Windows 8

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On the next Microsoft OS, updates and restarting will be more intelligent


The main problem with security updates on operating systems is that they require a complete restart of the machine to apply.Many do not, especially on computers where the professional use of the standby is privileged and therefore updates will not install very rarely, often after a system crash.

The issue of rebooting, Windows users will often ask the.A silent installation in the background, and then applying the update at the next reboot would be a more efficient process. An idea already developed by Windows since Vista, where the option "Automatically install updates" is enabled. However, "only" 90% of the 800 million computers running Windows operating system is updated after one week after the delivery of a fix. Normal to Steven Sinofsky, head of Windows, because these 90% are in fact the machines on which installation option is activated.

Update the system without disturbing the user

The team responsible for development of part of Windows Update Windows 8 This raises the question: "What is the best way to update the system without disturbing the user?" A big dilemma arises for this team. What is the correct position between protecting the user against vulnerabilities and the inconvenience in daily life. Responses from the developers of this unit are:

1. The automatic installation of updates in the background without warning the user can be notified in case of critical or problem requiring intervention on his part
2. Minimize the maximum number of restarts and also to those needed more predictive, allowing admins to plan systems via WSUS (Windows Server System Update).
3. Keep as much as possible, the system update for a more secure ecosystem over time.

Windows Update to version 8


With these three principles, Windows 8 will synchronize every month to download the update packs and security and not to restart required at these precise moments. A notification will be sent only after downloading and installing them. In addition, the operating system will give you three days to restart if you do not do it manually through the new options of the Start button where there will be "Update on and off" or "Update and restart" without forget the "Standby" that will still be available.

All this will enable Microsoft to improve the user experience highlighting the new system in its eighth version. Will this be enough to keep up to date machinery in business? Will this be welcomed by the general public? Because we know that if the user is not forced to update their machine, use Windows Update module "by hand" is still a utopia and a nervous breakdown for system administrators. Finally, we expect also to see how to pass the updates to the interface of Windows 8 Metro and those related to the use of the system through the shelf ...

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Google Street View also explores the interior of the shops

Internet users will soon explore the interior of their favorite stores through the mapping service of Google.
After the ski slopes, pedestrian streets, parks, gardens and hiking trails, Google goes even further in the collection of photographs of our good old planet and offers a new feature: the virtual tour of the interior of shops . Thus users can now get an idea of ​​the decor or the ambience of a boutique, restaurant or hotel before going there physically.