Nokia has denied rumors about the release of smartphones with water-repellent nano

Nokia has commented about the imminent appearance of new models Pureview Lumia and with water-repellent nano. On the eve of the vice-president of the Finnish company in Western Europe, Conor Pierce said that the developed technology is "ready to apply it," but in the ensuing statement was reported that the words of Peirce interpreted incorrectly.

"Yes, of course, the purpose of any laboratory studies is that the effort is not wasted and development have been implemented in practice. However, Nokia has no plans to provide the market with a range of water-repellent coating Lumia, "- commented on the information in the publication of The Verge of Finnish companies.

Recall Nokia Technology was presented in March. Then company officials have stated that "superhydrophobic" coating Nokia contact angle of 180 degrees (120 degrees against a Teflon coating) that causes water to "bounce" from the surface.

iPhone can help control the growth of indoor plants

The Japanese do not get tired to surprise fans of the most unusual gadgets and devices at this time presented a wireless sensor Koubachi Wi-Fi Plant Sensor.


The new device is a special device, equipped with sensors to measure temperature, soil moisture and light levels. The device should be placed in a pot with a favorite cactus or any other plant.

The obtained results of measurements of the device sends over the Internet "to be." For this gadget equipped with a module Wi-Fi. This made Koubachi Wi-Fi Plant Sensor - a high-tech device for tracking plants.

On the basis of the testimony taken, the corresponding cloud service makes the necessary findings and provides users with tips on caring for houseplants. There is a Web application and its version for the iPhone. Purchase a device Koubachi Wi-Fi Plant Sensor can be around $ 100.

Women are twice as active men in social networks

The British telecommunications company BT Group conducted a survey of two thousand people for their enthusiasm for social networks. It was found that the most active users of services such as Facebook and Twitter, are women.

The survey showed that more than half of the fairer sex regularly communicate in social networks, among men the figure is 34%, reports The Telegraph. 18% of women surveyed said that if the Internet did not exist, the greatest disappointment they have caused this lack of social networks. Among male respondents referred to services of fans counted 7%.

The study also showed that 9% of women surveyed prefer online games (against 8% for men); services Flickr, YouTube and Vimeo, on the contrary, popular among the male population (13% vs 6%).

These data suggest that women are increasingly using the internet to find all sorts of information (addresses of stores, discounts and availability of data on the holding of shares), while men prefer to use a global network for learning and expanding horizons.

Latvian will pay $ 79 thousand for the fake Android-application

Antivirus companies are more and more loudly sounding the alarm about the constant coming of malicious programs that pose a threat to mobile users. But this does not mean that all criminals get away with it: one of them was caught, and he will have to pay a large fine.

This developer originally from Latvia, but no more information about him not: he knows neither the name nor the country in which he brought to justice. For a long time to sell paid versions of popular applications, including Angry Birds and Cut The Rope. Once downloaded, it became clear that the application does not work, and users instead of the game receiving the flow of premium messages. For each such message to their account removed about 8 dollars.


After some time the application Dummy removed from the online store Google Play (Android Market), a developer somehow calculated. Now he faces a fine of almost 79 thousand dollars. He was also ordered to pay 44,000 dollars affected users.

Google said that it does not check for the application at the time of unloading at Google Play, but in the case reports of oddities in the behavior of applications or cases of possible fraud, the company always tries to respond promptly.

LG announces extra-screen smartphone

The South Korean company LG Group announced the LCD screen smartphone, which is capable of displaying images with a resolution of 1920x1080.

Diagonal screen is the latest of five inches, and each accommodate four hundred and forty-inch pixels. According to experts, the new product uses a matrix that is made by proprietary AH-IPS, which allows to achieve excellent viewing angles and better color reproduction.

It is worth noting that the corporation is going to start to deliver the latest display in the second half of this year. In addition to displays, the screens will be designed for the "reader." Recall that in the spring of this year, LG has developed production screens in electronic ink.

Change orientation: Apple patents a stylus for touch screen

The new patent applications for Apple, the iPhone Stylus end of the era, the company's interest can be traced to the pen input.
Apple is developing several stylus compatible with the iPhone and the iPad, including the stylus to the handle, which has built-in feedback, according to AppleInsider citing patent applications.

Interestingly, the interest in the pen input, Apple came several years after the company launched a iPhone, the first device with a touch screen, essentially costing a stylus.

In the first of the applications described by the pen with a tiny built-in camera that allows you to increase the accuracy of product management. But a much higher interest is another application called Haptic Input Device ("Input Device with Feedback").

Stating that at the touch of the usual touch-screen user feels a hard surface, engineers have proposed to equip the vibration function is not very mobile device, and a pen. As planned, the pen must receive signals from a device with a touch screen and vibrating properly, so that the user gets the feeling that it deals with various objects and textures on the screen.

"This input device can help you deal with the content shown in the screen and create a more vivid and realistic impression" - said in a patent application filed in the Office of the U.S. Patent and Trademark (USPTO) in November 2010 The second application was also filed in 2010

As notes The Register, the date of filing means that the development was carried out stylus during the life of the former head of Apple's Steve Jobs (Steve Jobs), who was opposed to such controls. Actually, no iPhone, no iPad does not have a stylus and operated solely by hand.

We add that the placement of applications in the USPTO does not mean that Apple intends to sell patented technology into commercial products.

Apple to make friends their own solutions to the Chinese search engine Baidu

Both companies are interested in the transaction. Baidu will allow it to get to the popular mobile platform, and Apple will be interested more local consumers who are accustomed to the services of Baidu. And it is important for the American corporation, which is only in the first quarter of the year in China, earned 7.9 billion dollars. This is despite the fact that the country is a market leader in Android with a share of 68%.

Apple, we note, also decided to optimize for China, and computers: the new OS, Mountain Lion, which will appear next month, integrated services Baidu, QQ, Sina Weibo, Youku and Tudou.

Nokia's Android - the reality

Resource Nitdroid posted already the third alpha version of the firmware ported to Nokia N9, which, as you may recall, initially working on the OS MeeGo.
The owners of these smartphones Nokia (brothers blizetsov Lumia 800 WP) can install the latest Android 4.0.4 as a parallel OSes, and switch easily between the two operating systems.

And everything works - Google Play, applications, games, playing multimedia content, radio (SMS, Internet 2G/3G, USSD), Wi-Fi, Bluetooth. Of the non-working moments remained GPS and the ability to make calls, but it will probably be fixed in future releases.

But now the owners of Nokia smartphones appeared an exclusive opportunity to try - what is Android and what it eats.

Nokia Lumia 900 sets records

The new smartphone Nokia Lumia 900, running a mobile version of Windows, surely gaining popularity among users. The network has a host of movies that demonstrate the reliability of this phone, including the opportunity to score his nails. And now the authoritative American edition of Consumer Reports, a leading ratings of the most reliable devices called Nokia Lumia 900 "best buys".

Nokia Lumia won in the category of smartphones on the Windows Phone. The rating was attended by gadgets that are sold in the U.S., which also played into the hands of Nokia, as in the coupe with a contract phone it costs only $ 100.

This information is immediately reflected in the official blog of the company Nokia, which expressed its gratitude for such an appreciation of their offspring. In addition, Consumer Reports is known for its objectivity in the evaluation of gadgets and drawing ratings. From the last notable publications memorable recognition of the new iPad tablet best and the best Galaxy S II smartphone. The magazine annually produce 21 million dollars to buy smart phones, tablets and other IT-equipment for their review. In addition, employees of the magazine itself has always buy them in retail stores. So purity is ensured by the experiments, which involved regular production models of devices.

Apple employees are afraid of the Cook less than Steve Jobs

Author of the book Inside Apple and one of the permanent observers, Adam Lashinski Fortune wrote an article that reveals some secrets regarding Apple. In particular, he claims that the company's employees are afraid of Tim Cook's smaller than its predecessor, Steve Jobs. Lashinski believes that this situation may in the future adversely affect the business.

The author argues that the current Apple CEO openly behaves with investors prefer the corporate style of management, as well as more risk-averse than Jobs. As an example, results in a voice Lashinski assistant Siri, which was launched in a rather "raw" form, and still causes some criticism. According to a former insider Apple, Jobs, in contrast to the more tolerant Cook, "would have gone crazy from the Siri».

The article can also be noted Lashinski description of the relationship of Tim Cook to the Amazon. Apple CEO admits that the company is a competitor, but "a somewhat different type than the rest." Cook also said that "it will be sold a lot of Kindle» (tablets and "book readers").

In general, Tim Cook presented in the article as a man who honors the tradition of the specified predecessor, but it holds its own direction, leading to his company.

"Most of the Apple employees in more than satisfied with Cook. It often happens in the cafeteria, where communicating with different people during the break. Jobs also prefer to dine in the company's chief designer, Jonathan Ive. It would seem that the difference is small, but in fact it demonstrates that employees can easily communicate with the CEO of the company "- sums up Lashinski.

The Japanese launched a mobile printer for smartphones

The Japanese company has introduced a Mobile Star Micronics printer SM-T300, is not designed to work with desktop computers or laptops, and ultra mobile devices with the class of smart phones and tablet PCs.

The representative of the developer emphasizes that the wireless printer is not tied to any site, SM-T300 is equipped with independent power supply, it can print out materials from the iPad, iPhone or any gadget running Google Android. The device is made of rubberized casing, it can easily survive the fall on a hard floor from a height of 1.5 meters. The body meets the international standard IP54, which means protection against dust (small amounts may enter, without affecting the operation of the printer), as well as from the spray of water flying in every direction, said DigInfo.tv.

Miniature mobile printer can be used to print any material, however, Star Micronics SM-T300 is positioned as a device for printing sales receipts - the manufacturer says its the perfect replacement cash register for employees of service delivery. Runtime mobile printer from a fully charged battery is 11 hours.

Mobile nature of the device seen in the fact that in order to connect to a host device, ie, smartphone or tablet PC uses wireless interfaces Wi-Fi or Bluetooth. Stable connection and transmission of data in the required format is done by using software libraries developed by the manufacturer. The fact that the SM-T300 printer is designed to work in the field of trade is the fact that the device is mounted in the module reads the magnetic cards - which means that the owner can accept payment for goods and punch a check with a single stand-alone device.

80% of mobile banking applications are vulnerable

If you're a freelancer or independent developer, designer, content manager and begin start-up, consisting of two people, you can not even consider himself a small business.

But these clients on your laptop and the client-bank to the iPhone make you perfectly visible from the target for hackers - and lawyers.

For Neal O'Farrell, executive director of nonprofit Identity Theft Council, retreating from an explanation of security issues that you're too small - the most stupid.

O'Farrell gave a lecture on "The hackers are - why small business is big purpose, or you have something to lose" at the conference Small Business Week in San Francisco.

His goal? Scared to death of all the conference participants.

Neal O'Farrell writes on the site nealofarrell.com: «In the United States in the last year there were more data loss than people, more cases of identity theft than all other crimes put together."

If you do not shifruesh all devices, it seems you're asking for trouble.

"You've got to wake up and defend themselves, even if you use Mac», - he said. Hackers attacked by automatic bots and the simplicity with which you sinhroniziruesh contact information between your laptop and smartphone and managed with his bank account makes the data vulnerable.

"I do not use banking applications on my phone" - explains O'Farrell, who worked on the first system to protect the Irish network of ATMs. "Eight out of ten mobile banking applications have vulnerabilities, but Apple and the banks do not want you to know that. I'll wait another 20 years before siganu in this pond. "

The prevailing idea is that Apple devices are less vulnerable to cracking, the more irrelevant - largely thanks to the ever growing popularity of iPhone and iPad. "Hackers are going after the mob. We see growth of 400% of attacks on Android. This does not mean that the system is more vulnerable, but they are oriented to the general user. "

Neil, an Irishman by birth, became an expert on security 30 years ago and he has advised companies such as Toyota, Merrill Lynch, Cost Plus World Market and the Bulgarian government.
O'Farrell refers to the hundreds of cases of burglary, facing his organization every month. A small company gradually lost half a million dollars after two of its employees clicked on a fake letter from the UPS, the bank launched the Trojan, the restaurant has lost 200,000 on the card skimmer.

Police investigating less than 1% of such crimes. "It's almost nerassleduemye crime" - said the expert. "If you live in San Francisco, and your banking or personal details stolen and used in another district, the cops will not investigate it. Too much paperwork. "
And here's the thing: you may not have office staff, or anything that your grandmother relates to the business to make a hell of an expensive headache.

Imagine that your laptop is stolen from him just merged all the data in the repair, or because you have not cleaned your hard disk before selling. "My biggest fear is not hackers and lawyers," - he writes. "Suppose you had a thousand customers for all the time. When you sell or lose your computer or anything else happens, you get under the federal and local laws on disclosure of personal data. " And the average cost of losses, depending on the information that is $ 200 for a single record. Sam can calculate their costs.

Is this light and bright side: there are some very low-cost scenarios and solutions that can fix it, says O'Farrell.

If we sum them, we obtain:

Take a cheap laptop for exclusive use with the online bank - no mail, Internet, etc.
Use a credit card rather than debit for all operations except withdrawing money from an ATM - "better to lose money the bank than their own."
Remove, cleanse, encrypts.
Check back post - if something seems suspicious, it is best to ask again.

Teach everyone with whom you communicate electronically, we should prefer a cautious curiosity when it comes to electronic communications.

Sony will supply screens for the new iPhone

According to new reports, the Japanese company Sony has got the list of manufacturers who will supply the new smartphone screens for Apple iPhone, which will debut this summer or later in the autumn. Ubergizmo reports that Sony has already launched a panel of so-called «in-cell». They are, if you remember, will make the device thinner, but responsive. Their distinctive feature is that the sensors are embedded directly into the screen, but are not submitted in a separate layer.

In addition to Sony's release of the new panels will be attended by companies such as Sharp, Toshiba and LG. Apparently, Apple has decided to hedge: so impressive list of producers indicates that the problems with short delivery screens should not be.

The new iPhone, we recall, to receive a 4-inch screen. Perhaps with an aspect ratio of 16:9. He also tipped the new charging connector and the metal casing. Is it all true, we learn only during the official announcement of the model, as Apple never discloses the characteristics in advance.

HuaYi - Android-tablet for $ 65

China has released perhaps the most budget tablet to date, which was not the most euphonic name HuaYi, and its cost is only $ 65.

Despite the name and price, this device is quite cope with the most basic tasks. The gadget, running an operating system Android 4.0, has a 7-inch multitouch display with a resolution of 800x480 pixels and is equipped with a single core processor running at 1 GHz and 512 MB of RAM.

HuaYi is equipped with a slot for memory cards microSD, microUSB port, and HDMI, as well as the front camera.

Incredible two-sided display

The largest mobile operator in Japan - NTT Docomo has shown an incredible prototype of a transparent screen, touch the surface of which is from two sides.
One of the advantages of such a display - the more complex multi-touch gestures. An example was given to the program with a Rubik's cube, where the puzzle was solved faster and more convenient if used gestures while "touch" the back and front of the cube. In addition, as an advantage, it was indicated that the fingers pressing on the surface of the back, do not cover an overview on the screen.

The representative of the Japanese operator said that the biggest problem for the display is now a dim image in bright sunlight outside. However, this problem is easily solved if the back of the screen to enclose a dark object. At the same time journalists The Verge note that looking at the screen in a room is much nicer and easier on the eyes than any backlit display.

Unfortunately, as reported in the mass production of these screens will not soon arrive.

Recall that a transparent LCD panel is manufactured by Samsung.

Microsoft does not give discounts on Windows 8

Microsoft will not cut prices for upgrade of the operating system, Windows 8, as it did three years ago with Windows 7. "I think that we should not expect additional discounts, prices will remain at the level of updates for Windows 7. In the case of Windows 7, Microsoft has been a good reason to lower prices for upgrades - forcing consumers to go with Windows Vista, is now urgent need to transition to the new system, in principle, no, "- said Stephen Baker, an analyst at NPD Group.

Three years ago, Microsoft slashed prices on the packages to upgrade to Windows 7 - Home Premium for $ 10 (or 8%), whereas the full version of Windows 7 Home Premium price was reduced by 17% or $ 30 with every distribution. Other versions of Windows have remained essentially unchanged.


To date, Microsoft has not released pricing on Windows 8, but experts believe they will appear in about a month.

Baker said that the role of the Windows desktop computers are still very high, although in the minds of the mass market and there are already other systems such as Mac OS. Obviously, it is understood and Microsoft, so essential stimulants to reduce the price from a marketing point of view as a whole does not. "I think that Microsoft will not be so quick to discount Windows in the mass market," - says Baker.

At the same time, analysts noted that the actual reserve price relief from Microsoft is available. Even if you do not take into account that Windows 8 will also work on the plates, and the demand for the new system will probably be great with this operating system and Microsoft is also launching an online catalog of Windows Store, which the company is working on a wave that could make up for a discount which will provide for the purchase.

"I think that Microsoft understands and this fact, but will not reduce the price no matter what. If you shake the market position of Windows, Microsoft always be able to implement the subsidy scheme," - says Baker.

According to statistics, the majority of sales are now Windows Microsoft gets from the so-called OEM-sales, that is preset by the operating system on new PCs. Against this background, the company is influenced by the demand for computers. In retail there will be only two versions of Windows 8 - Normal and Pro. The version of Ultimate, which is the example of Vista, and 7 proved to be ineffective, Microsoft decided to give up.

The developers are not waiting for Android 5.0 Jelly Bean

Without regard to the rumors about a new release of Google-mobile applications platform developers are in a jet extracting money from the creation of programs for the current versions of Android.

It is believed that Android 5.0 Jelly Bean will be released in the autumn, bringing integration with the browser Chrome, increased corporate security, improved power management, support for dual-boot with Windows 8.

Meanwhile, developers are busy creating an application for the existing versions of the Google-mobile systems, and switching attention from the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich at Android 5.0 Jelly Bean is unlikely anyone is interested in the near future. Yes, the rumors about the release of the slip, but few people will like the further fragmentation. Many developers are forced to keep the application immediately to the four editions: Smartphone Android 2.2 Froyo and 2.3 Gingerbread, tablet Android 3.0 Honeycomb and universal Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich - the appearance of one more would hardly be received with great joy. Again, renewal of the devices to Ice Cream Sandwich is slow and difficult.

Official information about the Android 5.0 Jelly Bean to open up next month at the event, Google I / O 2012.

A new Trojan in Facebook disables anti-virus software users

Experts in network security from Trend Micro, found in the social networking site Facebook a dangerous new Trojan horse, which, when applied to users' computers, disables antivirus software. The program was called WORM_STECKCT.EVL

Found that the Trojan spreads via the built-in Facebook instant messaging. The user receives purportedly from one of his friends a message with the link by clicking on which you can download to your computer malware. She immediately locks installed anti-virus and begins to collect personal information.

It is noted that the Trojan is able to steal user names and passwords from various sites, as well as sending spam messages in a variety of services, including Facebook and Twitter. Given the nature of malware, users should be particularly vigilant and not to pass on suspicious links.

May 24 will update the Sony Tablet S

A week later, the Japanese company Sony will update the second signature tablet, Tablet P. About a month ago, she suggested that Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich owners of 10-inch Tablet S, even though both devices should have received this update together and at the end of April. Unfortunately, the owners of Tablet P have a few more days to suffer from the Honeycomb.

As Tablet S, tablet gets update, which provides a number of "chips" from Sony. For example, you can display on top of other windows and programs, a small panel with a browser, a calculator or a remote control. Users will also be able to instantly open the camera application after the lock screen and make panoramic shots. In addition, the browser can easily switch between mobile and regular versions.

Note that Sony planned to release of Android 4.0 on May 24, but it seems that so far only in Japan. It is unclear whether the owners will get a tablet, living in other countries, the update on the same day. However, all have Tablet S ON simultaneously, so that a Tablet P situation is likely to be similar.

«Angry Birds» in the new game will be the drivers

The Finnish company Rovio will soon release a brand new game - «Amazing Alex». It is, however, famous for creating the game of angry birds, or «Angry Birds», and is not going to leave this project to their fate.

This summer, Rovio will offer a new game of vicious birds, and this time it will have a racing theme. During the development of the company will cooperate with the famous Finnish Formula 1 driver Heikki Kovalainen .

"It is in many ways an amazing co-operation" - said Kovalainen. - "I first worked with the gaming company, but it fits into my plans for cooperation with the unique brands. I am a Finn, and I am particularly pleased to support the Finnish company in the international arena. In addition, I am a big fan of «Angry Birds».

The new partnership plans to make Kovalainen races to a new helmet, decorated with images of birds from the game Rovio.

New game (this note, the web game) should make his debut on June 18. At least, this information gives a new micro-site dedicated to this project.

Nokia sold an office in New York for $ 12 million

Last year's rumors were confirmed: the Finnish company Nokia has released the building in the district of Westchester County (NY, USA) at 102 Corporate Park Drive. This office is located Nokia, which, according to online edition IntoMobile, was sold for $ 12 million, despite the fact that over six years of operation it had invested about $ 30 million. According to Rao, Michael (Michael Rao), president of the New York Commercial Realty Group, provides services in commercial real estate, the building acquired biotech firm Histogenetics.

In this building were employed 300 employees Nokia, which has been assigned a difficult task - to do everything possible to increase the popularity of Nokia phones in the U.S.. Sales office in New York does not mean leaving Nokia with the U.S. market. Back in February 2011 it was decided to postpone the North American office in New York in Sunnyvale, Calif., where already large Internet-based corporation.

Meanwhile, Nokia continues to carry out the plan for layoffs. Recently, it has laid off 1,000 workers in Finland. Nokia promises to pay them compensation and to help find a new job.

The volume of pre-order on the Samsung Galaxy S III over 9 million units

Korean Business Edition Korean Economic Daily today published the material, according to which the world volume of pre-order the new smartphone Samsung Galaxy S III has exceeded 9 million units. The publication notes that similar results were obtained by one of the top managers of Samsung. The publication notes that the Korean factory, occupied by the release of Galaxy S III is now working at full capacity and is ready to produce 5 million smartphones per month.

Recall that the presentation of a new smartphone on 3 May. Russian sales of smartphones will start the evening on June 5.

New works, based on Android 4.0 ICS, Exynos processor with a clock frequency of 1.4 GHz, display, Super AMOLED 4,8 "with 1280 × 720. Unit is equipped with 1 GB of RAM and 16 or 32 GB of internal memory (later 64GB version is expected to ), support for extensions with the help of MicroSD cards up to 64GB. phone has two cameras: the main - 8 megapixel and 1.9 megapixel front. In "M. Video", the unit will be available in 2 colors: white and dark blue.

Also endowed with a smartphone, a number of unique features, including face recognition technology, voice and gestures. For example, the Smart stay automatically detects when the user looks at the display, read books, use the Internet and will support the display brightness to a comfortable level.

Twitter will struggle with obsessive advertisers

The Western press has been informed by the Director of Technology at the Federal Trade Commission United States (FTC) Ed Felten that the administration service Twitter will soon decide on the entry into force of the functions on the Do Not Track microblogging service.

Do Not Track is a feature that will prevent the collection of personal information about the user network. At present this function supports browsers Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari and Opera.

Effects Do Not Track is based on the principle of prevention of advertisers that the user does not want him to collect any information and treated it, or brought into the base of potential customers.

Twitter's initiative to take part in the fight against Assertive advertisers, who sometimes go all crossed the line and violate the privacy of personal data support the developers at Mozilla.

Statistics show that the function of preventing harassment in the network is enabled by 8.6% a PC that is running the browser Firefox.

In Samsung Galaxy S III will be 2 GB of RAM

It's no secret that many popular devices are regional differences, ie their characteristics are somewhat differing depending on which country they are sold. A striking example - Smartphone Samsung Galaxy. This did not escape the fate and the new Galaxy S III. He, for example, is equipped with 4-core Samsung Exynos, but in the U.S. will be offered with two-core Snapdragon S4 and modem LTE.

As it turned out, the Japanese will just "an American version of" smart phone, but they offer the added bonus of 2 GB of RAM. At first these rumors no one believed. Relevant information could not be found on the website operator NTT DoCoMo, which will implement the model in Japan, but later confirmed the Japanese site of Samsung. Later, the operator admitted that it is correct information.

The original S III, we recall, only 1 GB of RAM. 2 GB - it sounds, of course, a lot, but it is not clear how users will need a bonus. Probably, the benefits of a more capacious RAM can be felt by running at the same time all the installed applications on a smartphone, but hardly anyone does so in the system. And many hardly ever think about this. So those who buy the S III outside of Japan is unlikely to be upset.

In the aircraft be allowed to talk on a cell

Beginning in 2006, when the UAE for the first time passengers were allowed to talk on a cell phone in an airplane, this trend swept the world. And the lifting of the ban is automatically extended to many things: it sends SMS and Internet access, and sending voice messages.

Airlines forced to make such concessions in order to improve service quality and competition from other airlines.
Thus, the study of American agencies, passengers now prefer it to the airlines, on board the aircraft are allowed to talk on a cell phone. First of all, it concerns the business, which is extremely important not to stop work during the flight. They also joined housewives and others who simply will not prevent such a possibility.

Today was one of these airlines has joined the British "Virgin". According to the CEO, the airline tried first on the market offer additional opportunities for passengers to protect themselves from the competition in the near future.

Recall that the use of mobile phones during flight affect the operation of sensitive equipment on board. That is why for a long time, passengers asked to switch off the phone before departure.

Apple reduces iPhone supply

Analyst Shaw Wu of the Sterne Agee, in his report to investors reported that Apple has reduced the number of orders for the iPhone to its suppliers by 20% -25%, while at the same time, increasing the number of orders for its Tablet PC. It is expected this quarter kupertinovtsam put on store shelves 26-28 million smartphones. According to analysts, this trend is related to the imminent release of the sixth-generation iPhone, which should take place in September-October this year.

As for the supply of iPad, which, as already noted, rising against the backdrop of iPhone, the Vu sees the reason for this in the "normalization" of the production of Retina-displays, not least because of the appearance of an additional data provider components. All this, in turn, will help Apple to meet the high demand for their tablets.

Thus, the analyst predicts that in the June quarter, Apple shipped 27 million 15 million iPhone and iPad. As the company's profits from the sale of these devices, volumes, it is, according to Wu, in the third quarter of $ 36.1 billion to leave, and the value of kupertin will reach $ 780 apiece.

Released beta version of Firefox 14 for Android

Mozilla has released a beta version of its Firefox browser 14 for the popular mobile platform Android. The new version also reworked GUI, offering support for more than 70 specific smartphones running different versions of Android: version-2.2 (Froyo) to Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich). The current beta version of Firefox Mobile is only available for phones (tablets are not supported at all) and only in English. At the same time, Mozilla promises to add tablet support, and languages ​​in the near future.

Sami developers a new beta version of Firefox for Android 14 emphasize innovations such as a streamlined interface with the so-called "smart screen» (Awesome Screen), named by analogy with the universal line input Awesome Bar in the desktop version of the browser. In addition, significantly improved the performance of the browser launch and respond to user actions. Provides expedited processing of graphics, scrolling, panning and zooming pages, and hardware acceleration for a number of functions can significantly improve the performance of web-applications, online games and display photographs.

Like the desktop version of Firefox, the new mobile beta version fully supports Adobe Flash, though for that it must maintain the unit itself. The new home page now displays a list of frequently opened web-sites. Updated font scaling technology helps make the web-page as convenient to read. By the way, now the external plugins activated by default after touching the corresponding element on a web-page, that is when the page loads, you can always refuse, for example, view the flash-movies. And another innovation - the developers have changed the system requirements of your browser to improve the user experience from working in a relatively older versions of Android 2.x Froyo.

Twitter launches a weekly mailing popular posts

Microblogging service Twitter, whose user base is already more than 200 million people worldwide, has officially announced the launch of new functionality, which is obviously useful for people who can not appear there regularly to view the message. As the information in a corporate blog, Twitter, users can now receive e-mail digest of a special assembly, which will include the most interesting and popular recordings.

As part of our weekly newsletter will be available to the user selection of interesting posts from owners of micro-blogging, which he had previously signed up, and their retweets, replai and add to your favorites.

In addition, this digest will enable users to view popular news stories, and find out who his friends on Twitter publish this link and read the comments to her.

However, as it will be selected messages to a mailing is not specified, and the launch of the new functionality will be implemented over the next few weeks.

Among other things, if you do not want to receive the specified digest to subscribe to it will be possible to refuse, change account settings, and very similar to an option, obviously, was made possible after the acquisition of Twitter in the early years of the incubator Summify news and the recent purchase of service mailings RestEngine.

Baidu offers analog Nokia Lumia

Chinese search giant will provide Baidu Cloud, a mobile operating system based on code Google Android.

Last year, Baidu announced its Android-platform Yi - U.S. Dell has prepared for her smartphone. And very soon will be invited to its further development - under the name of Baidu Cloud.

Along the way images have surfaced on the desired mobile phone operating system. Android-smartphone for the authorship of yet unknown products made ​​in the styling Windows Phone-PDA family of Nokia Lumia: in solid polycarbonate housing. It is equipped with 3.5-inch screen and Siri-like voice assistant, has access to 100 GB of cloud storage. Phone will cost one thousand yuan (160 dollars) for a contract with an operator China Unicom.

Samsung Evan: the budget DUOS

DUOS-line enriched with a new Korean company representative.

Samsung GT-C3782 Evan, supports the work with two SIM cards in networks GSM / GPRS / EDGE, equipped with a 2.4-inch LCD screen 240x320, 3-megapixel camera, FM-radio module, Bluetooth 2.1, 3,5-mm audio jack, microUSB-port and a slot for flash cards such as microSD. Bonus is an optical trackpad.

Evan falls into the category of simple cell phones, it works under the non-touch version of Samsung-branded interface, complete with social networking applications, including cross-platform service ChatON instant messaging.

New thickness of 12.3 mm and weighing 82 g initially be available in Russia and Ukraine at a price within the 110 euros.

Handy File Tool - free file manager for Windows

Handy File Tool (HFT) - it is easy to use, efficient and totally free file manager with a set of useful additional features.


With the help of the proposed instrument ordinary users of Windows-systems can perform a variety of standard operations with files and folders on your hard drive, and professionals will appreciate the built-in tools for processing large numbers of objects in batch mode. Imagine that you need to make some manipulations with several hundred files. To perform this task manually would take probably a few hours, but due to HFT you can solve the problem a couple of clicks of a mouse button.

Attention is invited to a compact two-pane interface, designed in the style of the popular Norton Commander. At the top of the interface are buttons for quick access to the system menu, and various tools (such as Finder, Replacer, and Renamer), and a list of available drives. The contents of folders is displayed in two large windows in the center of the screen. And at the bottom are buttons for performing common actions such as viewing, editing, copying, moving, deleting, creating new folders, invert selection, etc.

Finder menu offers users a handy tool to search for the files by extension, size, creation date, and many other criteria. A Replace tab, users will find everything you need to replace the trim lines of text (supports normal and batch modes with separate sets of settings). Special mention should be an interesting feature Basket, which is an analogue of the clipboard for files and allows you to perform actions with the objects scattered around the hard drive. For example, you need to rename multiple files in different folders, or even in different sections. Simply select the desired objects, move them to the "shopping cart" and give them new names using a utility Renamer.

The application runs on both 32 - and 64-bit versions of Windows XP, Vista, and Windows 7, and 8. A copy of the file manager Handy File Tool can be downloaded from the developer - www.handyfiletool.com.

Smart Watches from Sony outstrip gadget from Apple?

Back in 2010 Apple's leadership during the presentation of the new iPod nano with a digital display hinted at the possibility of creating a tiny player in a watch. This is an interesting statement provoked the emergence of the mass models of attachment straps for a modern, iPod nano, which was converted to the player in a stylish wristwatch.

But experts say that even though now Apple Unveils smartchasov then sverhfunktsionalnogo something from this project can be expected. Based on the characteristics of their latest iPod nano, the device is not equipped with even the technology bluetooth, which could serve as a warning system, as the current date and time, and missed calls and messages without having to take the phone out of his pocket.

In addition, this time Apple will not be able to surprise their fans with supernatural technology of high-tech innovations. Japanese company Sony at this time was able to beat "apple brand" and announced its smartchasy with a very extensive functionality. So while it remains unknown whether or not to wait for Apple's retaliatory step.

Facebook acknowledged his weakness on the mobile front

A week before entering the IPO Facebook amended its registration application of S-1 to conduct a public offering, which indicated the growth of mobile users as a threat to long-term financial performance.


Facebook told investors that the number of users of its customers for smarftonov and tablets is growing faster than the number of ads that they serve as social networks have failed to develop a strategy for mobile advertising, writes The Telegraph.

"We believe that it is the increasing use of mobile versions of Facebook has become one of the reasons for the trend towards progressive growth of daily active users, compared with an increase in the number of advertisements. If users will increasingly use mobile clients instead of a desktop version of the site, and if we fail to successfully implement our strategy to monetize mobile users, or incur excessive costs for its implementation, our financial performance and ability to grow revenue decline, "- says the amendments to the application an IPO.
Revenues Facebook for the first three months of 2012 rose by 45% compared with last year, but profits fell by 12% to $ 205 million According to Forbes kolumnitsa Eric Jackson (Eric Jackson), Facebook will not be able to monetize the mobile direction. It was this failure would entail the destruction of social networks over the next 5-8 years.

Facebook came out on a road show on May 7. She set a price range of the value of shares during initial public offering of $ 28-35 per share. May 18 shares of the social network will be posted on the NASDAQ under the ticker FB. In the documents filed by Facebook in the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, stated that the social network intends to sell its shares to 337.4 million, about half of which are now owned by the founders, employees and investors. For example, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg (Mark Zuckerberg) intends to sell 30.2 million shares, which may increase his fortune by $ 1 billion in spite of a large sale, it would still be interest in a $ 17.6 billion IPO after Zuckerberg also lose control of the company - will control approximately 57.3% of the voting shares.

HP revives webOS and looking for new developers

Hewlett-Packard Company does not intend to leave the market for mobile operating systems, although previously she said the opposite. Her own project webOS, until recently was considered closed, will develop and gradually become a platform for open source.

HP's plans include a complete "reset» webOS by the end of this year. For the rest of the time she needs to have a lot in time, so at the moment is a set of new software developers, whose experience will help her as soon as possible to provide the public a new webOS - a worthy competitor and Apple iOS, and Google Android.

The official website of Hewlett-Packard section "Jobs" added to the proposals for the work of software engineers, project managers and designers. There are also suggestions on training suitable for those who want to gain experience and work in a large company with a worldwide reputation. All this is contrary to the earlier actions of HP: just a few months ago, she has reduced the staff of developers working on webOS, firing 270 people. Now she wants to recruit 12 new employees, and, apparently, it needs really experienced people who can replace the nearly three hundred laid-off. Of course, it is financially beneficial to the company, but it has turned into a collapse of the whole idea of ​​releasing a new webOS at the end of the year?
To date, there are three webOS serious competitor - it is mentioned earlier Apple iOS and Google Android, and Windows Phone operating system authored by Microsoft. Do not forget about the Canadian BlackBerry OS platform from a company RIM, despite the fact that its tenth version was not very happy and accepted by the public shareholders and its future is not defined yet.

Initially the system webOS owned company called Palm and Palm OS. It is installed on smartphones and PDAs, including a series of models Pre, while in the 2010 Hewlett Packard does not absorb Palm, with its development. After renaming webOS she was appearing on smartphones and tablet PCs under the brand HP. Now the American manufacturer does not issue a temporary portable devices, however, prepared to return to the market.

Phone-glove set thinking about the future of gadgets and useless

Phones with physical buttons, slowly but surely fading. What will replace the touch screen when they become obsolete? It can be assumed that, with proper infrastructure, the future does not need the specific device. However, the designer, Brian Sera said that, while our future is not so radically from traditional phones will still refuse.

He came up with a phone that fits over the hand like a glove, and is called the Glove One. On the back of the fingers are buttons with which you can type a message or fax. The glove looks quite unpretentious, but sulfur and does not believe that everyone will be wearing these devices. The main objective of gloves - to get people to think about the future.

According to him, this technology shows how for the gadgets we "sacrifice" for example, in his own hand, getting very little in return, "adding" a electronic device. However, it is not just a concept - a glove really works, and using it can call on any mobile phone.

Twitter has defended in court the details of your user

Twitter microblogging network will challenge a court order requiring the transfer of personal data, is accused of street riots last year in New York in the framework of the campaign "Borrow Wall Street." According to available information, it is the user known as Malcolm Harris, who, along with several hundred other people accused of organizing illegal action on the Brooklyn Bridge in New York on October 1, 2011.

The prosecutor's office in New York wants to get from the private archive of Twitter messages from September 15 to December 31, 2011, as well as personal information of the blog owner. Twitter has been involved in this process from 26 January this year. Prosecutors demand from the network delivery of data, in accordance with section 2703 telecommunications law Stored Communications Act, which regulated aspects related to data storage. The law requires the service provider's disclosure of certain types of electronic communications without a court warrant.

In Twitter speak, that on January 30 by Malcolm Harris informed that his data requested by U.S. courts, while also filing a motion to set aside requirement. The judge dismissed the petition on April 20, ruling that blog posts are not subject to the information that is subject to the law.

The memo, released Tuesday, Twitter said that the law Stored Communications Act in the form in which it treats the prosecution, impose "undue burden" on the service provider. In addition, a network of microblogging stated that if the user's personal data can be somehow tied to the law, the posts in the blog are his property and the company can not and should not be their issue.

Also on Twitter saying that before the law, the rule applied only to banks, on financial transactions, but to apply it to social networks would be wrong. Moreover, the famous American First Amendment to the Constitution guarantees the user the right to possess their property, including the content.

The American Civil Liberties Union welcomed the victory of Twitter in court, claiming that the decision of the court - this is a positive signal for all of Western Internet companies.

Apple is working on its payment system iPay

We also learned that this technology will be called as all the products Apple - iPay.

The fact that Apple is planning to create its own payment system, not only issued patents received by the Office of Patent and Trademark USA, but also the active recruitment of specialists in this field.

Recall that many manufacturers of mobile devices have already released phones with NFC and one of the supporters of this system, the company Google, has announced its readiness to cooperate with all handset manufacturers, purses, including Apple. According to experts, the system iPay will work with the coupling of NFC and will allow owners of compatible smartphones and tablets to pay for goods and services "on the fly."

Microsoft is killing Skype

The popular Skype program was updated. But seems that her popularity will soon come to naught.

Let us first consider the essence of the update, and then I'll tell you about the many shortcomings of such a "magic" of service.

A program for iOS, has acquired a version 4.0, which brings both assures the developer, new features and many bug fixes:

Now you can manually move the icon image at the time of their visual communication
program is now better suited for people with disabilities
increased reliability (which is - not reported, probably sending messages)
updated design of the contact list and chat window
when the program starts, the icon does Skype unnatural movement
Fixed some bugs
At the end, and innovation is to find out what is the Skype program starts to yield to such services IM (instant messaging), as iMessage.

Let's start with the fact that when you first start Skype, you always find yourself in a list of all your contacts (not talking about multi-tasking). When testing an updated version of the program, she flew a couple of times, and when you start, instead of the active window contacts, you are met by a long (dolgozagruzhayuschiysya) complete list of all your friends, it does not make me smile broadly.

Further, as the developer assures Skype Software (the rights to the program has Microsoft), now has an updated design of the program. You know, changing the background color and a little application icons, removing a few elements, it is difficult to say that Skype is now very different from the previous version, or rather nothing at all.

By the way, it is worth noting that such a popular program no longer supports the iPhone 3G and iOS below 4.3.



Let me not so important color application icon, but a blind eye to the constant freezes and hangs the program is simply impossible. At first, I began to think that is very used to the smooth operation slowly iPhone and begin to find fault with anything that thinks at least a second, but left after reading comments in the App Store, I realized that Skype and the truth is far from perfect.

This is what informs the user by the name Wim Norder:

Update of April 30, more zamaykrosoftilo Skype. Everything is working properly, but now the interface is more like seven vindofon: buttons are flat, as in the metro, and other visual gridienty buns replaced the light blue range. A replacement well, the animation at the entrance to it is generally the most important, necessary and a major update. Now I run Skype just for animation.

My theory about the fact that Skype has long lost its leadership confirms the user MaXenaeL:

"Design" in the style of Windows 8 - ugly and tasteless, what shows when you run the "all contacts", because the more logical and easier to show "contacts in the network"?
Chat about all silent
in general, as inconvenient, illogical and buggy, as well as to any products MC (probably Microsoft).
And on screen with a clear photoshop video - Skype had such a picture does not give (it overestimated the quality of communication).

Thank God, there's FaceTime, which is at much lower speeds Ineta produces lethal image
Bottom line: Another use Skype, because they do not all have FaceTime or iMessage, but as soon as possible cast.

Summing up my article, I want to wish all the best, working with Microsoft developers, and gradually adapt to the customers comfortable from Apple. However, the fact that FaceTime does not allow users to call Skype, very sad, because this can be from Facebook.

Angry Birds in 2011, downloaded 648 million times, revenue Rovio over $ 106 million

The company Rovio announced its financial and operating results for 2011, and as reported by The Verge with reference to agency Reuters, last year had been in the studio more than successful: Revenues for the year amounted to € 75.4 million (approximately $ 106.3 million), profit before tax reached € 48 million ($ 67.6 million). This report does not include sales figures of the new version of the most popular game series Angry Birds: Angry Birds Space, which has already broken the record for number of downloads per month. Also in 2011 came the film and the game to him Angry Birds Rio, and the total number of downloads of the game "evil birds" has exceeded 648 million times in the monthly user activity at the level of 200 million downloads. At the same time not less than 30% of all proceeds received from the sale of souvenirs and licensing of various activities associated with the franchise Angry Birds.

The agency Reuters also reported on the statement, Anders Lindberg, head of working with investors in the company's Rovio, the authors of Angry Birds are preparing to enter the stock trades. Earlier, the management has denied the possibility of Rovio IPO before the end of 2012. In December 2011 the company ahead of competitors in the field of the Zynga games for social networks.

Facebook learned to edit photos

Facebook launched two filters for instant photo processing, said, "SIT."
Note that the new product was launched in the mobile social network application for a simple phone, called the Facebook for every phone.
How to declare themselves the representatives of social networks, developers Instagram have no relation to the new option, and it was developed in an internal company contests.
New product allows users to process the photos taken on camera phone while two filters - sepia or grayscale, and instantly publish a picture on your page.
Mobile app Facebook For Every Phone is available for a fairly wide range of simple phones supporting Java - just over 3,600 units.

As you know, buying Instagram Facebook worth $ 1 billion to be transferred in cash and shares of social networks, which will be released soon for an IPO.

Energy efficient ASUS notebooks

New items were black and gray and brown body with aluminum platform under the keyboard and wrist rest to accommodate the multi-gesture touchpad cursor ASUS SmartPad. Improve performance and optimize energy consumption to help the development of NVIDIA Optimus and the ASUS Super Hybrid Engine II, and the sound quality of Altec Lansing speakers respond to the technology ASUS SonicMaster.
"Junior" model - ASUS K55VM-SX064V is equipped with 15.6-inch display with 1366 x 768 pixels and LED backlight, CPU Intel Core i7-3610QM with a frequency of 2.30 GHz, graphics NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M with 2 GB of memory, 8 GB DDR3 RAM and hard drive capacity 750 GB. The cost of new items - 950 euros.

The second laptop - ASUS K75VM-T2094V differs from it by 17.3-inch display with a resolution of 1600 x 900 pixels and LED backlight and a little less RAM - 6 GB. At the same time its value has remained at a 15-inch model.
The third new ASUS K95VM-YZ013V received by the standards of the big laptops with a screen diagonal of 18.4 inches with Full HD resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels and LED backlight, the same processor and video card, hard drive capacity to 1TB, and writing optical drive DVD Super Multi. The cost of the laptop - 1080 euros.
The last of the presented devices - ASUS K95VM-YZ015V. It differs from K95VM-YZ013V to 8 GB of RAM and the drive Blu-ray. Cost - 1150 euros.
The first device will be available in Germany and Austria, and later this month.

Recall a recent ultrathin notebook platform Ivy Bridge presented by Samsung.

The Plan of Salvation Blackberry: Business, HTML5, communicators

Who is the target audience for Blackberry? Two weeks ago, Thorsten Hines said quite specifically - business users. But yesterday he thought of political correctness (all the same business - it's people too) and made a little differently - "These are people who want to be successful." Unlike Android and iOS, focused on the games (the time-consuming), Blackberry Soup will be focused on those activities, which helps to achieve success.

Main activity for success (according to Thorsten Hines) - a communication that is messaging. Blackberry has always been famous for its keyboard and the convenience of e-mail and instant messenger. With a new BlackBerry platform 10 (fall 2012), the company not only saves communicators from the keyboard, but also equip their devices with new touchscreen virtual keyboard, which many witnesses are called the best in the world.

This keyboard can remember how to print the user and adapt to his style. For example, in a way that you have more chance I did not press the key instead of O. A smart technology offers text word that can be inserted into the message. Swiping your finger from right to left, you can delete words.

A third hope for Blackberry - it is HTML5. The fact that applications for the Blackberry - very little, and to attract new developers to the platform, experiencing a problem - rather difficult. Therefore, RIM decided to make a bet on a web-based applications and open standard for HTML5 - Technology with a ready army of the upstream developer. Portal HTML5 WebWorks provides a set of tools and examples for developing web applications for the Blackberry. Moreover, these web applications can not only work in a browser, but compiled into native applications. At the same time they can use all possible devices, in particular messenger and mail BlackBerry.

Baidu opens office in Australia

Thus, according to informed sources, the chief executive of the Australian division of the search engine will be assigned a well-known players to the Australian market Fon Hindman (Fionn Hyndman) - a successful marketing manager, who previously worked in the division Baidu in Singapore.

In the post advisor in a new subdivision Baidu appointed Dean Capobianco (Dean Capobianco), who worked previously at Microsoft and Yahoo. It is reported that Mr. Capobianco has experience in positions of commercial and executive director, and is also known as a successful director of sales department Yahoo Search Marketing, which he left in January of this year.

Also, the team will join the Australian office Baidu Paul Christie (Paul Christy), for many years served as general manager and specialist in mobile strategy a major Australian telecommunications corporation Telstra.

"Today, more than 175 million Chinese users make purchases online. It is also beneficial and western vendors and the market as a whole. As you know, Australia is in close proximity to China and this country has always been a major trading partner of Australia. Today, Australian companies are in an ideal position - they have a great chance to take advantage of growth markets of China and its withdrawal to the international level "- says Fon Hindman.

Recall also that currently Baidu has an active policy of entering the markets of Thailand, Vietnam and other countries in Southeast Asia. There are also rumors about the Chinese search engine has opened an office in Brazil.

Microsoft in May, has released seven security bulletins

Microsoft Corporation in the upcoming May release Tuesday a set of patches for its software. In the upcoming set of 23 individual corporation will eliminate a bug in Windows, Office, Silverlight and Microsoft. Net. Results are expected to release seven different security bulletins. In the upcoming issue of the corporation will issue patches a little more than usual.

As usual, a complete description of the bug fixes Microsoft releases already after the corrections will be released to the users it was time to install the patch and protect their computers.

We now know that the seven security bulletins, three are marked as "critically dangerous", which is the highest rating of four-step scale of Microsoft. Another four - "important." We also know that the four fixes are designed for Windows, four for Office, one for Silverlight and one for. Net.

Nokia may sell Vertu

The Finnish company Nokia can get rid of the premium brand Vertu, to fully concentrate on their core business. This past weekend The Financial Times reported, citing unnamed sources.

The Finnish company is planning to get for Vertu around € 200 million Nokia officially does not comment on reports of a possible sale of the brand. As you know, the company is now in crisis, and its attempts to stop the decline in sales is not too successful. For example, smart mobile phone Nokia Lumia on OC-Windows can not yet show decent sales - only for the first quarter of this year, the Finnish company's loss amounted to € 929 million, whereas a year earlier the company reported a profit € 344 million

Since May last year, Nokia shares dropped in price by 60%. In conditions of growing competition from companies Apple, Samsung, HTC and other Nokia's market share has steadily decreased - in late April, research firm Strategy Analytics said that in the first quarter deliveries Samsung phones and smartphones worldwide totaled 93.5 million, or 25 % of total (368 million) of all mobile phones in the world, delivered from manufacturers to stores in the first quarter, Nokia's delivery over the first quarter of last year fell by 24% - up to 83 million, leaving a Finnish company to second place on the market proportion (22.5%). In third place with a share of 9.5% is Apple.

Users around the world have started automatically translated into Java 7

The company Oracle, which now controls the development of cross-platform application runtime Java, today announced a new distribution of the Java version 7 through the web-site Java.com. Thus, Java 7 is a standard execution environment of Java-based applications for all who choose to download the Java environment from the official site.


This is the first step in the gradual transfer of all users of Java to the new platform, so that in the next few months, all users with auto-update enabled will receive Java 7 as the execution environment by default.

Oracle has always recommends using the latest version of Java and remove older versions since only the actual assembly JRE provide access to new features, capabilities, and most importantly - the most secure version of the runtime. These recommendations are important prerequisites: in recent months and years encountered many cases of vulnerability in the Java runtime environment became loopholes for all sorts of attacks on private and corporate users.

It is worth noting that the full deployment of Java 7 across the user base began a week after the release of the fourth update to the platform Java Standard Edition (Java SE 7 Update 4) and technology JavaFX 2.1. The first in line to have updated versions of development tools Java Development Kit (JDK) and JavaFX Software Development Kit (SDK) for the environment Mac OS X, which suffered the most recent viruses that penetrate into the system through a vulnerability in older versions of Java.

Oracle is continuing to work on merging their virtual machine Java-Oracle Java HotSpot JVM and Oracle JRockit JVM into a single product. In particular, many technical innovations from Oracle JRockit found their way into recent versions of Oracle Java HotSpot 23 and the open version of the OpenJDK.

Among other things, the environment Java SE 7 Update 4 offers developers a new algorithm for automatic garbage collection in memory, called Garbage First (G1). In the meantime, an interim release of Java SE 6u32 has received a number of operational changes and new data on the standard time zones Olson 2011L.

For embedded systems, Oracle introduced regular assemblies runtime environments Java SE for Embedded 7 Update 4 and Java SE for Embedded 6 Update 32. A new release of JavaFX 2.1 includes JavaFX SDK development tools for Windows and Mac OS X. A set of components JavaFX SDK contains everything you need to create a JavaFX-enabled applications, the latest multimedia technologies, including playback of MPEG-4 container with video in the H.264/AVC format and audio format AAC (Advanced Audio Coding). Among other differences between JavaFX 2.1 is to provide technology support WebView to refer to Java methods from scripting javascript. This technology allows the transfer of the tasks of interactive web-based application server for Java-based applications without any intermediate steps.

Windows XP remains the most popular operating system

Share Windows XP operating system market is gradually reduced, but it still remains the most popular platform for PCs, according to Net Applications. The share of XP, released more than a decade ago, has decreased from 46.86% in March 2012 to 46.08% in April.

Windows 7, the most advanced to date version of the operating system from Microsoft, this month has improved its position by almost one per cent, from 37.54 in March to 38.67% in April. If we take into account the full year, we see that the "seven" is gradually catching up with his predecessor in April of 2011 kept the XP 55.84-percent stake, and Windows 7 - 26.36%.

According to analysts, XP will dominate the market for at least another couple of years. Previously, Microsoft announced that support for XP, which was published in 2001, and the office suite of Office 2003 will be completed in 2014.

Last month, Microsoft announced the end of extended support for Windows Vista and Office 2007. This means that produced and distributed for free will only critical security updates.