Mar
16
2010

Get a new apple iPad if the battery does not work

One of the main criticisms of the iPad – as had happened with the iPhone – are sealed batteries, which cannot be replaced in case of faults. For this week Apple announced it will exchange all iPad who have problems with batteries, for a fee of $ 99 plus $ 6.95 for delivery.

According to Apple, the exchange service is true with iPad .The information was published on the official website of the company and applies only to the U.S. The iPad is beginning to be sold in the country on April 3. The cheapest model will cost $ 499.

A new iPad if the battery does not work, Apple unveils its battery replacement service for the new device .Apple cut to the chase. The company has announced the apple battery exchange service where you expect iPad. A few days after its U.S. launch, the company has informed that reset the device for a completely new if it is proved that the battery does not work. The change will take place after payment of a fee of just over $ 100.

IPad owners can rest easy, at least, for future problems with the battery. As reported by Apple, is replaced by a new device if the battery has reduced capacity load.

“If your iPad need assistance due to a decreased ability of your battery, Apple will replace the iPad in exchange for a fee,” said the company has posted on its official website.

Users must pay just over $ 100 so you can replace the old iPad. And Apple has warned that in case of replacement, the device data “will not be preserved.”"Before you deliver your iPad is important that you sync with iTunes to create a backup of your contacts, mail accounts, applications and so on..” .

The replacement service will not be valid, however, for cases where the iPad has been misused or the battery is malfunctioning as a result of an accident or unauthorized modification by the company.

Mar
16
2010

Now Tweet Anytime @ Anywhere

Twitter soon no longer ‘only on Twitter but also on other sites too , wherever the users try using the platform of’ @ Anywhere ‘. The project, launched by the micro-blogging site, will ‘bring the service’ anywhere ‘,’ Anywhere ‘in fact, outside of your web pages. The CEO of Twitter, Evan Williams said that thanks to @ Anywhere, the tweet – messages of 140 characters-will be hosted by other sites using Javascript, without going through the domain Twitter.com. Visually, when you are browsing a site with the @ option anywhere, people who own or marks a twitter account automatically underlined with a link. Passing on which opens a small box (a hovercard) with his statement and his most recent Twitter chirps. At the moment the service is free, but there is some unknown factor for the future.

The microblogging platform expands to encompass the entire web with new APIs that open up more and more new spaces for Twitter on other sites.The 2010 edition of South By Southwest Interactive (SXSWi) was the occasion to present a new option for Twitter, which promises to open the doors of the microblogging service to other sites along the lines of what has been done by Facebook.

The CEO of Twitter Evan William has announced the platform @ anywhere, presenting it as a way to insert links and information on Twitter syndication partners: in practice it is the possibility of opening a window within the visited page that plays the interaction Twitter without having to connect to twitter.com.

Among the partners with which we will start the test of the new platform (based not on the implementation of APIs, but on a simple addition of a few lines of JavaScript), there are YouTube, Amazon, Bing, eBay and The New York Times.

In practice you can follow the tweets of a journalist without leaving the page of the article just read, or those related to a video you are viewing on YouTube. It says the CEO of Twitter, a door (rather than just a window) through which you can access information and functions of Twitter without having physical access to the site leaving the page you are visiting. This should increase the usability of the microblogging (exploiting the proximity to the contents disclosed), is approached users who otherwise would have remained outside.

This would be a further step towards the microblogging service social network, in particular looking at a pattern of relationships in more than is currently adopted.

The conference allowed the CEO of Twitter also stressed the strategic importance of recognizing the philosophical open, as shown, moreover, the many API: “Openness is a survival technique – says William – be open to the idea of being in the wrong for example, means understanding that others may have good ideas. ”

William has also responded to a series of questions posed directly by chirping, the most interesting of which concerns the future of microblogging: Twitter will be sold over the next two years? ” asked someone. And with a telegraphic “No”, the issue seems closed.

Mar
16
2010

25 years of domains. Com

The first domain with the.Com in the history of the network was registered on 15 March 1985, which is symbolics.com, a domain that serves as a world heritage site, even if it was never able to host a site of great success.

In 1985, virtually no one thought to what would be the evolution of the network, consider that in those days, Larry Page and Sergey Brin (the founders of Google) had not yet completed 12 years, but Windows 1.0 was released a few months later, in ‘October of that year.

Upon registration of symbolics.com, there was a dash for the second arrived, BBN.com, was recorded April 24, while the bronze medal in Think.com that it was recorded just a month later, on 24 May.

To date, the domains registered with “. Com” are about 90 million, among them some are worth millions of euros alone, but the history of the Web is full also of DotCom which were invested billions without much wisely.

Mar
16
2010

China without Google: only loss

China minus Google is a loss-loss situation, according to experts.

 According to Chinese report, Google Inc. is on the verge of shutting its China site, Google.cn, because Beijing forces the Internet giant to censor search results.

 This infers that there would be no maps on mobile phones. A free music service that has helped to fight piracy might be in jeopardy. China’s fledgling Web outfits would face less pressure to improve, eroding their ability to one day compete abroad.

Such a step could have repercussions for major Chinese companies as well as local Web surfers. It would deliver a windfall to local rival, China’s major search engine, with 60 percent of the market. But other companies rely on Google for search, maps and other services and might be forced to find alternative.

Chinese Web surfers are blocked from seeing, YouTube, Twitter and major blog-hosting services abroad and a Google pullout would leave them increasingly isolated.

Uncertainty also surrounds Google’s China music portal, a free, advertising-supported service launched last year in partnership with four global music companies and 14 independent labels.

An expert informed that this situation was definitely a bad thing for Chinese companies that want to go abroad in the future

The industry minister, Li Yizhong, announced that China’s Internet industry would develop without Google. But even some Chinese industry leaders who normally toe the government line in public are warning that controls on Internet companies and media are handicapping their growth.

Beijing has steadily tightened controls over Internet content and foreign investment in the industry. Video sharing sites must have state-owned media outlets as partners. People in the industry say it is getting harder to register privately financed sites.

Mar
16
2010

Nexus One begins sales in Canada and becomes compatible with AT & T

Google has announced that from today begin sales of the Nexus One also for Canada. Not only that, Google also announced the availability of a new version of Nexus One that bridges the compatibility issues with the 3G network of AT & T in the U.S. (due to different frequencies) and allows the use of the apparatus with the Rogers Wireless Network in Canada.

There is nothing new instead on sales strategies. Even for Canada is that you buy the phone unlocked, whether you buy a plane bound for Rogers Wireless, the device will be distributed only by Google’s history to the usual address.

Well it seems that Google continues on its way without formally respond to the criticism received on slow down possible sale of the Nexus One. It is also true that Google will have reasons for pursuing certain choices, and then we’ll see with the months of March and April, which will open new markets, or whether the situation will change if Google change some of the plans set at the beginning.

Mar
16
2010

FBI in your friendlist

You can very soon have FBI agents in your buddy list, without even letting you know! Yes that’s exactly what this document says.

According to an internal Justice Department document that offers brief of issues related to privacy and crime-fighting, U.S. law enforcement agents are following the rest of the Internet world into popular social-networking sites with the likes of Facebook, MySpace LinkedIn and Twitter going undercover with false online profiles to communicate with suspects and collect information.

 A San Francisco-based civil liberties group, the Electronic Frontier Foundation obtained the Justice Department document.

It describes the importance of social networking services to U.S. authorities.

The document confirms that FBI agents were already logging through fake profiles to exchange messages with suspects, identify a target’s friends or relatives and browse details such as postings, personal photographs.

 In a strategy known as “deconfliction”, state and local police coordinate their online activities with the Secret Service, FBI and other federal agencies keeping out of each other’s way.

The document, part of a presentation given in August by top cybercrime officials, described the value of Facebook, Twitter and other social-networking sites to government investigators though it did not elaborate on  the boundaries for using them.

Justice Department officials reported that such investigations on social-networking services are legal and governed by internal rules  But they would not say what those rules are.

A former U.S. cybersecurity prosecutor, Marc Zwillinger, informed that  investigators should be able to go undercover in the online world the same way they did in the real world though within limits.

Zwillinger also added that the new situation presents a need for careful oversight so that law enforcement did not use social networking to intrude on some of our most personal relationships.

The Justice document describes how Facebook, MySpace and Twitter have interacted with federal investigators.

The government found Facebook cooperative with emergeny requests.

MySpace preserves information about its users indefinitely and even stores data from deleted accounts for one year. But Twitter’s lawyers tell prosecutors they need a warrant or subpoena before the company turns over customer information, the document says.

The chief security officer for MySpace, Hemanshu Nigam, said that MySpace did’nt want to be the company that stands in the way of an investigation, though they would make sure that the users’ privacy is protected and any data that’s disclosed is done under proper legal process.

The Justice document includes sections about its own lawyers. For government attorneys taking cases to trial, social networks are a valuable source of info on defense witnesses.

The government also said that online networking and law could be a dangerous combination.

Mar
16
2010

Olivetti is back with the range of Olibook

The company reappeared in the field of mobile PCs with a complete new range Olibook, consisting of four models. The goal is to offer both business and consumer solutions that are not limited to hardware but also software and services. To achieve this outcome, which parallels the path traced by Apple, Olivetti will launch a warehouse application, “a store in which you will find applications declined according to customer needs,” said the CEO. This store is not open to the public, however, as with the App Store, but will contain the applications that partners can use to complete the Olivetti offer better hardware. This is because Olivetti intends to offer a very diverse range of solutions, ranging from traditional services to software-as-a-service to get to services to consumers and virtual servers. All of exploiting the data center for Telecom Italy.

Olivetti is back in the PC world with the same CEO ,Patrizia Grieco to make the announcement with great enthusiasm but also with the awareness that they face a difficult market at a difficult time as cyclical. In this sense, states, we do not want to fight on volumes but we want to bring in business the same explosion that led to the arrival of Apple App Store in the consumer sector. Although, the company is using a different model for that.

The intent of Olivetti, new proposal, which for now is declined in a range of four laptop computers (but the number will increase within a few months), will not simply be related to the commercialization of adevice hardware. Intention is to provide a solution that includes software and services customized to clients’ needs, whether it be for business users (especially small and medium enterprises) whether home users. “Our computers are the gateway to applications and services,” says Patrizia Grieco.

On the other hand, as the tradition of the company, the channel will play an essential role in the new proposal. All 500 Italian dealers will indeed be involved in the new initiative and will become the interface with business users and, in part, even with those consumers in providing value-added solutions. But these partners will no doubt add other Olivetti is in fact in search of new systems integrators and corporate resellers, especially on the side and server solutions cloud.

The consumer will have as main interlocutor Telecom Italy, who will sell the computers Olivetti brand into new proposals that will have as their basic connectivity and communication.

Turning to products, the line Olibook which will be launched in April provides a Netbook-screen 10-inch (model M1025) and three laptops: the S1300 designed for use in the business module 13 “and low-power processor ultra low voltage, the S1500, a 15.6 “with more consumer vocation, the S1550, a corporate desktop replacement for use with Core i5 and nVidia discrete graphics. All computers, which boast a special design they use Intel CPU and operating system Windows 7. Prices should range from 300 euros to 800 euros.

In addition to other models of netbook and notebook computers, Olivetti has also anticipated the arrival in the second half of a tablet PC without keyboard and multitouch screen, which was born as a project for the consumer world but that will have an endowment that will enable hardware to be customized for use in vertical industries.

Among the first services available we have instead two proposals together under the name PC Guard and sent to data security and computer security. These Anti Theft, which follows directly from an idea born from the laboratories of Intel hardware and providing a blockade so that only the owner can access the contents of your computer and data encryption, which encodes all data stored nel’hard disk. These services will be added by year-end data recovery, based on storing important information on secure servers Olivetti and Telecom Italy.

Mar
16
2010

Capture Calabrian Mafia boss through Facebook

According to foreign media reports , Manfredi could be located by police after he was connected to the Internet. Four months ago was one of the men most wanted by Italian police. No one had seen him. But vanity was stronger and Pasquale Manfredi, one of the most dangerous gangsters from Italy, could be seized after his penchant for Facebook will play a trick.

The clan leader Nicosia-Manfredi, the town of Crotone, had escaped from the Justice last November and loaded with accusations of Mafia association, murder, extortion, drug trafficking and illegal possession of weapons.

According to investigators, his family is related to ‘Ndrangheta, the Calabrian mafia rocking the world for being one of those organized human trafficking and who dethroned the Cosa Nostra in controlling the sale of cocaine and heroin in good part of the planet.

The arrest came after that Manfredi was connected to his profile on Facebook using a 3G modem internet connection. So the police could intercept the signal and find your refuge. The gangster was arrested in Isola Capo Rizzuto while trying to escape through the roof of the house which had served as a hiding place, realizing that the building was surrounded by agents.

Researchers see it as a hit man (murderer to pay) and accused him of being the mastermind of the killings of members of rival families, as Carmine Arena, killed with a bazooka in October 2004 while riding in his armored car and Pasquale Tipaldi in December 2005. (Special)

Mar
16
2010

City of Nawabs hosts Facebook

Facebook announced on their official blog, opening a new office in the city of Hyderabad, India. The news came a few days after the confirmation of another new station network in Austin, Texas, the “request” of Governor Rick Perry (who took the opportunity to donate 1.4 million dollars to Facebook as an incentive). Both offices are responsible for online sales and operational services.

With more than 400 million users, Facebook had observed a significant growth in recent years, and these new offices represent a better support, says facebook official blog.

Deciding an office in Hyderabad is really a major step. The blog network shows that 70% of people participating in Facebook are not the U.S., and therefore the presence in other countries is crucial for continued expansion worldwide. The post also points out that only in India, the network already has about 8 million active users.

Besides Austin and Hyderabad, Facebook is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA, and offices in Atlanta, Birmingham (Michigan), Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, New York, Venice Beach (California), Washington DC, and the international Dublin Milan, Paris, Stockholm, Sydney and Toronto.

Mar
16
2010

Twitter improves integration with other sites

System @ anywhere facilitate access to content of Twitter from any address : Twitter announced yesterday an expansion of its services. By means of the @ anywhere, any site may include content in their Twitter pages. Users can also more easily access the contents of Twitter on the pages of the sites without need to navigate to the Twitter.com .The novelty was the company’s CEO, Evan Williams at SXSW, event technology and culture that occurs this week Austin (United States).

The @ anywhere is a solution similar to Facebook Connect. Twitter has not released details about this platform, but some information is already known. For example, when Internet users browse sites that have the @ anywhere, people and companies with accounts on Twitter will appear with a link. By passing the mouse over the link will display a small box with basic data of the owner of the profile. This feature already exists on Twitter.com, but until now could not be used by other sites.

The @ anywhere also allow generated content to better integrate the resources of Twitter more sophisticated. Among the sites that have announced support for the new system are The New York Times and Amazon. Twitter should start offering the service in an official way in the coming weeks.