Microsoft Reduce Collection IP Address in Bing

BRUSSELS - Microsoft plans to reduce the storage period at Bing IP address from 18 months to only 6 months. This plan follows a request from the forum data privacy European countries.

According to Microsoft, this change will make Bing becomes a better choice for Internet users very concerned with privacy. The focus is what has been deemed not focused on the Google search engine, that in fact is the toughest competitors Bing. The reason, Microsoft will remove all IP addresses from the search list.

"We believe that the balance between privacy and efficiency is a desire in the mind of the consumer Internet. If both are equal then the search engines we will be more attractive," said John Vassallo from Microsoft, as quoted by Yahoo News, Wednesday (20/1/2010 ).

Currently, Microsoft itself admitted, in Europe, Bing was still occupying a position far below Google. Bing market share in Europe is only approximately 2 percent, while Google has reached 80 percent.

According to Google, save the data from the search lists are essential to maximize the search results and can be used as a weapon to protect the security service action against hacking and Internet fraud.
Google itself claims to let the search anonymously after a period of nine months. Meanwhile, Yahoo allows log data anonymous after 90 days with the aim of combating fraud, protect the system more secure and to meet the existing legal policy.

Institutions in the European data protection has been requested to search service providers to store search data for a maximum of six months.

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Android OS Developer Presents For PC

San Francisco - A group of developers who call themselves Android-x86, develop Android on the x86 platform, so OS (Operating Systems) Google's can be used to run a series netbook Asus Eee PC.

In the site, community-x86 mention Android, just a few months after creating a patch that lets Android running on the x86 platform, they are aware of these findings can be developed further. This group then decided to further develop the basic code that they find in order to support other x86 platforms and to hosting on their servers.

"This project first aims to provide a complete solution for Android on the Eee PC platform, and for the x86 platform," wrote Android-x86 on their website, as quoted by TG Daily, Thursday (21/1/2010).

So far, the developer has tested their findings in most series netbook Asus Eee PC. Among a series of Eee PC 701 series, 701SD, 900, 900A, 901, 904HD, 1000, 1000HE, 1000HD, 1005HAG, S101, T91 (VESA mode) and Eee Top 1602C. These findings could also work on the Lenovo ThinkPad x61 tablet. All of the above devices is known to run in native resolution (800x480 or 1024x600) through the i915 driver, which all run on Linux Kernel 2.6.29 with kernel mode-setting (KMS) enabled.

In addition to developing Android to use the PC even further, this development group plans to develop an external monitor, support Bluetooth support, power management better, support multi-touch touchpad, as well as 3G and GPS features.

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Remind scientists Hazards Satellite Navigation System

LONDON - The experts warn, a satellite navigation device on the accident risk of drivers of motor vehicles.

Mention the latest data, approximately 78 percent of accidents caused by driver carelessness. Psychologist at Lancaster University and Royal Holloway, University of London conducted an experiment to test the effects of hazards on the satellite navigation car navigation systems.

Using phone while driving is banned in the UK as well as several other countries. This is because mobile phone use can divert the driver's concentration and lead to accidents.

Now, the researchers wanted to examine other factors that could cause a car accident, including satellite navigation systems are used increasingly popular lately.

In this study, scientists analyze how the drivers handle the information they received from the satellite navigation systems and how they respond.

"At the end of the experiment, we see clearly that the use of navigation systems in cars has the potential to interfere with memory, concentration and attention and affect vehicle performance," said one researcher Polly Dalton, as quoted from the Telegraph, Monday (28/12/2009).

It is estimated there are approximately 14 million drivers who use satellite navigation system. Based on the data in 2008, survey of 2000 motorists to the conclusion that the satellite navigation system makes one of five people have faltered when the vehicle in a busy street. Satellite navigation system is also responsible for the condition of the vehicle can suddenly turn itself.

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Adding TELKOM International Bandwidth Capacity 960 Gbps

PT.Telekomunikasi Indonesia, Tbk (TELKOM) through its subsidiaries engaged in international business PT.Telekomunikasi International Indonesia (TII), on January 18, 2010 in Honolulu USA has signed an agreement to join the Sea Cable Development Consortium South East Asia Japan Cable System (SJC) or better known as the SJC.

SJC Sea Cable System will connect Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan and other Asian countries including Indonesia and will have the largest bandwidth capacity of the existing sea cable with a total capacity of 17 Tbps and bandwidth can be upgraded up to 23 Tbps.

TII addition, some operators in the world join SJC consortium including Reliance Globalcom (via FLAG Pacific Limited Bermuda), Globe Telecom (Philippines), Google SJC Bermuda Ltd., KDDI (Japan), Network i2i (India), Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. and Pacific Telemedia inc., Ltd.. (Hong Kong / Indonesia).

"Participation in the Consortium SJC TII is a strategic step to strengthen the international infrastructure networks that already exist," explained President of TII, Mulia P. Tambunan. International infrastructure in addition to business support TELKOM Group in meeting the needs of international bandwidth is increased dramatically, especially in supporting broadband applications such as internet, video, data and other multimedia services, will also be used to meet the needs of other customers.

According to estimates Mulia P. Tambunan, the growth of international bandwidth capacity needs of TELKOM Group at the end of the year 2014 will reach at least 10 times the current needs. SJC will be finished and ready to operate in the first quarter of 2012. Design innovative SJC will provide additional international bandwidth capacity TII reached a capacity of 960 Gbps is already owned by TII current with very good quality, the level of a faster connection and a reliable system of diversity.

Vice President of Public and Marketing Communication Telkom, Eddy Kurnia said, "Investment TII through investment in the SJC consortium are the manifestations of the implementation of Vision TII to be an important player in the Infocom industry in Asia and" bring the world "to TELKOM Group customers with the best technology available moment. "

"Sustainable investment in developing international networks of TELKOM Group is a proof of TELKOM Group's commitment to providing the best service, fastest, and reliable at an affordable price to its customers," said Eddy Kurnia.

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ASUS Motherboard's USB 3.0 Support

Get ready, soon motherboard that has been equipped with USB 3.0 will soon enter Indonesia. ASUS motherboards P6X58D Premium is the first officially certified by the USB Implementation Forum (USB-IF) to support the USB 3.0 technology. Motherboard officially announced on January 5, 2010 ago. This makes the ASUS is the first USB 3.0 received certification in the motherboard industry. By using USB 3.0, users can move data with data transfer speeds up to 10 times faster than USB 2.0-based motherboards. This motherboard is designed based on Intel X58 chipset and the Intel socket LGA 1336. This motherboard also supports 32nm CPUs 6-core.

ASUS also introduced a line of motherboards is equipped with Intel LGA 1366, LGA 1156 Intel, and AMD socket AM3. A Bridge Chip PCIe X4 is available on the motherboard like the ASUS Series P7P55D and U3S6 PCIe expansion cards. Both these tools have supported SATA data output 6GB / s. Integrated IC is designed specifically eliminating transmission constraints, providing performance 50% better is possible 20GB HD movie transfers less than 70 seconds or a 4MB song in 0:01 seconds.

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French Retailers Push E-Book Platform

Five of France's biggest book sellers called on publishing houses and the government for support in creating a new retail structure for electronic books to fend off Amazon, Google and Apple.

Executives from the five retailers including PPR subsidiary Fnac and Virgin Megastore said France should have a national e-book platform run by publishers and retailers with a single point of purchase.

But the idea, launched at a joint news conference on Wednesday, drew a skeptical reaction from France's largest publisher, Hachette Livre, a subsidiary of Lagardere.

They also urged the French government to extend protective measures already in place for physical books to e-books, including a single-price mechanism to muzzle competition.

"If we don't manage to do this, what's going to happen? We will find ourselves in front of a platform, or hub, already made by a private company ... whether Amazon, Google or Apple," said Guillaume Decitre, head of bookseller Decitre.

Decitre said the filtering of Internet portals in China and Amazon's removal of George Orwell's "1984" from its e-book platform were examples of why this was undesirable.

The proposal comes a day after the publication of a government report supporting a digital book exchange with Google to resolve a spat over online publication of the world's literary heritage.

A spokesperson for the French Ministry of Culture was unavailable for comment.

PUBLISHER PLEA

Although Decitre and his fellow CEOs said they and their supporters represented 70 percent of the French book market, they said they needed the backing of publishers to get content.

French publishers including Hachette have already set up their own individual platforms for distributing e-books, but Decitre said a single collective platform would be "three to five times" cheaper.

Hachette Livre sales director Francis Lang said he was not opposed to a hub, but said the interests of publishers were currently not the same as those of physical booksellers.

"Creating a governance structure where everyone is around the table but their interests are opposed is the best way for this not to go anywhere," he said.

The chief executive of Hachette's Numilog e-book platform, Daniel Zwirn, also criticized a similar collective e-book hub in Germany, known as Libreka, which the five retailers said had partly served as inspiration for their idea.

"It seems like a good idea, but actually it isn't," he told the retail executives during the conference. "The bulk of the offering goes elsewhere."

Spokespeople from Amazon and Google declined to comment.

"This will probably be uniquely French if it succeeds," said James McQuivey, an analyst with Forrester Research. "Obviously it would be the combination of cultural preservation interests that tend to be unique to France."

"(If publishers and retailers) do cooperate, it's not because it's in their interests," he added. "(It's more about) preserving the culture."

(Reporting by Lionel Laurent, editing by Will Waterman)

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Kingston Technology Launches 24GB HyperX Kits

24GB Triple-Channel Memory Kits for Intel Core i7; 16GB Kits for Core i5

Kingston has announced the release of its HyperX DDR3 memory kits in India. The new memory kits, Kingston's largest ever, will enable users the Intel Core i7 and X58 platforms to increase their system memory to 24GB with the help of six 4GB sticks. For Core i5, P55 chipset enthusiasts, Kingston has released a 1600MHz kit 16GB kit of four 4GB modules to take full advantage of dual-channel performance.

These high performance modules are directed at users working with 64 Bit operating systems and will help them run memory intensive video or photo applications, or run numerous virtual machines wit relative ease.

The 1600MHz triple- and dual-channel kits are intended for use on the best motherboards on the market from top makers such as Asus and Gigabyte. Here's an amazing video of the 24GB kit working in tandem to power eight virtual machines.

Kingston HyperX DDR3 Kit Specifications:

Pricing information for India has not been revealed yet. We tried getting the pricing details but were told that the company hasn't released them as yet. The prices will be updated here as soon as we receive them.

Sourece : http://www.techtree.com

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Review: Firefox 3.6 RC gives new life to an old browser

Firefox 3.6 is almost here, and if the release candidate is any indication, it's looking mighty good.

Computerworld - The Web browsing world is exciting again. Google's Chrome browser is faster than fast and there's serious thought that Internet Explorer may actually lose its top spot in the browser market-share wars. But for all the excitement, it would be a real mistake to overlook Firefox; with the forthcoming release of Firefox 3.6, which is now available as a release candidate, Mozilla's flagship browser is looking better than ever.

As soon as the release candidate came out on January 9, I started putting it through its paces, using two Dell 530S desktop PCs. These older computers are powered by a 2.2GHz Intel Pentium E2200 dual-core processor with an 800MHz front-side bus. Each has 4GB of RAM, a 500GB SATA (Serial ATA) drive, and an Integrated Intel 3100 GMA (Graphics Media Accelerator) chipset. One was loaded with Windows XP SP3 and the other used MEPIS 8 desktop Linux.

Much improved performance

To my delight, I found that Firefox uses considerably less memory after prolonged use than its predecessor, Firefox 3.5.6. Better memory use may not strike you as the most exciting thing about a Web browser, but if you're a serious Web user, with multiple tabs open at once for hours at a time, it's a big deal. I, and other users, have noticed memory issues with Firefox 3.5.6 that slowed a PC's overall performance. In my testing of 3.6, these memory problems appear to have been fixed, and that alone makes it a "must upgrade" in my book.

I also noticed that the new Firefox is much faster than the last version. Part of this speed boost comes from Firefox's new ability to run scripts asynchronously. In the past, Firefox waited for the first script on the page to download completely before running the next script, no matter how long it took to download. Now, Firefox runs whichever script downloads first, no matter where it's placed on the page. It's one of those small changes that make a big practical difference on pages with multiple scripts.

In particular, Firefox 3.6 does much better with Web 2.0 sites that rely on JavaScript. With its updated JavaScript engine, TraceMonkey, I found that the browser was more than three times faster than Firefox 3.5.6 on the SunSpider JavaScript benchmark test. On the Windows XP system, Firefox 3.5.6 came in at a poky 3034.4 milliseconds, while Firefox 3.6 zipped by it at 1007.0 milliseconds.

That's great, but it still leaves Firefox lagging behind Chrome, which easily lapped the field with a time of 553.0 milliseconds.

New features

There's more to a browser than just fast page rendering, and Firefox 3.6 offers numerous new features that I think make it a compelling browser choice.

Users who like to tweak the look of their browser but don't want to dig into the technicalities of Firefox's XUL (XML User Interface Language) should enjoy playing with Firefox's new Personas feature. This is a one-click Web-based tool that lets you change the look and feel of your browser. You can either roll your own theme or pick one of the more than 35,000 themes that are already available. Personally, I like the plain-old Firefox theme, but if you like jazzing up your browser's looks, you'll like Personas.

Like to customize your Web browser's look? With Personas, Firefox 3.6 makes it easy.

A more universally useful feature is that Firefox 3.6 will now automatically check to see if your plug-ins are out of date. Since many 21st-century security problems come from outdated plug-ins, this is an important fix. For example, Adobe Flash, which most of us use for Web video, has had numerous security problems fixed in the last year. With this improvement, even users who don't follow security news will be able to keep their plug-ins up to date and secure. This is a win/win situation as far as I'm concerned. I'd like to see all browsers implement this feature.

The new Firefox has also improved its support for HTML5. Specifically, Firefox now supports full-screen native video and will let you use local files with Web applications. As the gap between traditional desktop applications and SaaS (Software as a Service) applications continues to narrow, this last feature is likely to see a lot of use.

At the same time, though, Firefox's developers are preventing Firefox browser extensions from loading third-party components installed in its internal components directory. This is because the programmers were finding that many Firefox crashes were actually caused by misbehaving extensions and plug-ins. To make matters worse, users couldn't access some of these third-party components with the add-ons manager or even disable them.

The long-term gain from this change will be to make Firefox more stable. In the short run, though, Firefox's programmers estimate that about 1 in 4 current Firefox extensions will need to be rebuilt to work with Firefox 3.6. I'm more than willing to put up with that for the sake of having a Web browser that won't fail on me when I'm in the middle of work.

In any event, I've discovered that the Firefox extensions that I consider to be absolutely essentially -- the Google Toolbar and Xmark's Bookmark Sync tool -- work just fine with Firefox 3.6.

Taken all in all, I'm very impressed by Firefox 3.6. While I still really like Chrome's speed and recently introduced support for extensions, this new version of Firefox is so much better than the last iteration that I've decided I'm going to keep using Firefox as my main browser on Linux and start using it again on Windows.

Internet Explorer? Chrome? Look out. Firefox is back in the game again.

Source By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols in ComputerWorld

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MacBook Pro with Intel Core i5 to Launch on January 27 ?

A new promotional ad by Intel, which was sent out to US, UK and Spanish members of Intel Retail Edge Program has highlighted the upcoming Intel Core i5 powered MacBook Pro by Apple. The adverts which reads "Pass this month’s trainings for 2 chances to win one of 2 MacBook Pro laptops with the accelerated response of an Intel Core i5 processor" clearly indicates towards a possible new, refreshed lineup of MacBook Pros.

The current generation of MacBook Pro’s are all powered by Intel Core 2 Duo processors. Intel officially unveiled Core i5 and Core i7 processors for the first time at CES last week. MacBook Pro’s are due for an upgrade this year and it would only make sense for Apple to ship them with Core i5/i7 processors since they are now the flagship chipsets of Intel.

If you are in to get a MacBook Pro this month, hold off from buying one as there is now a high possibility of Apple unveiling new MacBook Pros with these latest chips at the upcoming mega media event on January 27th. [via Apple Insider]

Source By Taimur Asad in Redmond Pie

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Lenovo IdeaPad U1 Hybrid laptop in action; first impressions [video]

I had a chance to play with Lenovo’s brand new detachable IdeaPad U1 Hybrid laptop this week at the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show, and it’s no doubt an impressive and innovative piece of kit.

To remind you of this week’s announcement, the IdeaPad U1 is a 3.8-lb. Windows 7 system that has an Intel Core 2 Duo processor in the main body and, in the detachable tablet-style display, a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor running a Linux environment.

My impression? Lenovo has really focused on style this year. It’s a good looking, good feeling system (not quite luxurious, but not budget, either). It’s easy to snap the display in and out of its shell, and it’s very quick to switch between the two computing environments. The only downside? I found the display in tablet mode rather sluggish — but I’m hoping this can be ironed out before the system ships.

Here’s a short 35-second video introduction to the system that I taped at an event here in Las Vegas:

Is it worth buying? Perhaps if you need the functionality of a detachable tablet. The way I see it, Lenovo’s IdeaPad U1 serves as a nice safety net for those who’d like to consider a tablet device but aren’t sure they want to make a complete jump.

With this detachable form factor, you can always turn it back into a fully functional standard laptop if the tablet isn’t to your liking.

source : ZDnet News

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