Ovi Store Translucent 5 Million Download Day

Stores Nokia, Ovi Store recorded significant growth. The number of downloads on Ovi Store has now reached 5 million times per day and application rates have exceeded 40 thousand units.

Reported by Computerworld and quoted on Wednesday (04/13/2011), the number of applications on Ovi Store increased 8-fold over the past year. It's pretty much when compared with Apple's App Store which has about 350 thousand applications. But Nokia still consider the application store is a success.

"With more than 5 million downloads per day, Ovi Store is very important for Nokia and its customers Symbian, and Nokia will continue to support him to provide the best experience for consumers," said Nokia spokesman.

But in the future, there are questions about the viability Ovi Store serving Symbian-based phones. This is related to cooperation with Microsoft to use Nokia Phone Windows OS 7 on a smartphone.

As we all know, Microsoft also has its own application store, namely the Windows Marketplace. Analysts assess Ovi Store and Windows Marketplace will not stand alone, but may be incorporated when Nokia started selling the handset WP 7 in the next year.

Nokia itself has promised to continue to support Symbian though WP 7 serves as their main OS. Finnish vendor has just released two smart phones based on Symbian, E6 and X7.

'Thousands of Bloggers' Sues AOL IDR 905 Billion

Huffington Post, now part of AOL Inc., entangled in a lawsuit worth USD 105 million (approximately IDR 905 billion). The lawsuit filed on behalf of 9000 bloggers.

Class action lawsuit was filed Jonathan Tasini on the basis of about 9,000 unpaid bloggers who contribute to the Huffington Post.

The lawsuit was filed on Arianna Huffington and Kenneth Lerer, the Huffington Post managers. However, Tasini said the lawsuit was filed because the Huffington Post has purchased AOL for USD 315 million.

For the sake of this lawsuit, Tasini create a site called HuffingtonPostLawsuit.com. One of the information displayed in the background there is a lawsuit.

"In the business model (Arianna) Huffington, the economic benefits may only be obtained by him. Someone else apparently hoped would work for free even though they provide added value. Greed and want to win themselves a king, and should not," he said on the site, are quoted on Wednesday (13/04/2011).

According TheRegister, Tasini never done a similar lawsuit in 2005. When the New York Times as a defendant eventually did a deal with freelance workers.

Performing Phone Call to Mind

Just think of the phone number you called, and you are directly connected to that number. This is not a ilusionist scene in the show, but it happened thanks to a recent discovery.

A group of scientists at the University of California, San Diego, United States (U.S.) sebuh develop a system that lets users make phone calls just by thinking about it.

As a new invention, the method is claimed to be quite accurate. The developers are optimistic, this finding could be very useful for people with disabilities or those who require more hands-free function.

Tzyy-Ping who led the research, explains that the system he developed with his team, to track electrical activity in the brain by means of a special headband equipped with electrodes and Bluetooth.

Reported by Mashable and quoted on Wednesday (13/04/2011), users who use a headband that connect to this computer will be shown a series of numbers from 0 to 9 on the screen.

Each digit is thinking blinks and detected by the electrode. Furthermore, Bluetooth will know it as the number to call and forward it to your mobile phone to make calls. "The level of accuracy has reached 70 to 85 percent," claims Ping.

However, this finding is still a prototype and needs further development. But at least, this shows the potential for the development of devices with growing minds based interface. As is known, there is also the invention of computers and wheelchairs are operated by the mind.

Disable Internet Two Countries, 75 of my grandmother, telling stories to the public

Still remember with a grandmother in Georgia who cut off the internet connection in the two countries? The grandmother who identified named Hayastan Shakarian has now been arrested, but the proposed defense that he was innocent.

Shakarian indeed horrendous act, where he cut the fiber optic cable and make thousands of Internet users in Armenia and Georgia fail online. The grandmother also confide that he did not know anything about the internet.

"I do not cut this cable. Physically, I could not do it. I also do not understand whether the Internet was," said the little old lady in tears, as reported by AFP and quoted on Tuesday (04/12/2011).

Shakarian grandmother lived in a poor village in the region Armazi, about 15 km from the capital Tbilisi. He is currently being processed in court and could face 3 years in prison if convicted.

"My mom is innocent. She is crying all the time. He was very scared," said his son, Sergo Shakarian.

However, although pleaded not guilty, Georgia's Interior Ministry to ensure that the grandmother had confessed his actions damaging fiber optic cable. This incident has attracted worldwide attention and much discussed in online forums.

Some parties feel sorry for grandma Shakarian. They suggested that he is not sentenced to remember that old age and ignorance about the effects of it.

But indeed the impact of the act of the grandmother is very significant. Cable company owner, Georgian Railway Telecom, said the damage to make 90% of regular Internet users and corporate customers in Armenia lost access for 12 hours.

New Beyonce Single Leaked on Internet

Beyonce's new single leaked Fans who will soon release. Beyonce fans via twitter account, @ Beyoncelite they were open-aperture about his new album.

As reported by NME on Wednesday (02/13/2011) Beyonce's new single is titled 'Girl'. The pieces of her latest single video clip also has begun to spread across the Internet.

Latest video clips of women's full name Beyonce Giselle Knowles was taking place in the Mojave Desert, California. 'Girl' directed by Francis Lawrence, who previously had directed the video clip Buzzworthy 'Bad Romance' and Britney Spears 'Circus'.

Francis describes the newest video clips female dancers who wear 200 juxtaposed with two male dancers. This video clip talks about how the power of women in the eyes of men.

Beyonce will release her new album in June. In the same month, 4 September 1981-born singer will also perform at Glastonbury music festival.

New Faces Website Twitter

Twitter has launched the latest version of its homepage. Look cleaner, simpler, by eliminating a number of sections on the front page, such as See Who's Here, Top Tweets, and Discover Twitter.

These measures succeeded in making the front page of the website Twitter more fresh. It is also expected to attract the attention of new users of Twitter. What has changed from website Twitter?

The most felt was the color scheme has changed from traditional shades of light blue to blue metallic chrome. Thus, the impression of hi-tech becomes more pronounced. There are users who say the color resembles the up, but we think Twitter does not mean that.

Despite having to sacrifice features and Trending Topics Top Tweets, Twitter just create a simple bar at the bottom of the homepage which presents the world's most popular user avatars.

In addition, there are minor changes that focus more on the user interface. For example, the tabulation of previous searches in addition to Twitter logo moved to the bottom of the bottom.


But the biggest change lies in the new user registration mechanism. Yes, new users no longer need to click the 'Sign Up ' to open the registration page. Now, new users can directly register at the front page of Twitter. Condition, just have one e-mail address is active.


If you have not been able to enjoy the new website Twitter, do not panic first. Because, the new look is not in force in Indonesia and the new seem to be enjoyed in certain countries only. The possibility of a new micro-blogging sites celebrating the fifth anniversary of that year still want to listen to feedback from its users in the U.S. first

Facebook, Get rid of Underage Users

Mozelle Thompson, Chief Privacy Adviser up states, the social networking site to cancel the membership up to 20 thousand users per day. This step was taken to exclude those who are not eligible ie 13 years and above.

Figures for 13 years is a minimum age limit which allowed the system to register. However, the system is not perfect because there is no mechanism to detect whether children are registering with a fake age.

"There are many people who lie. Many are still under 13 years old yet sign up for Facebook, "said Thompson, as quoted by the Associated Press, March 24, 2011.

As an illustration, from the latest research, nearly half of all adolescents aged 12 years in the United States use social networking sites, and privacy issues, especially young users on Facebook later this into the spotlight.

Earlier this month, Al Franken, a member of parliament from the Democratic party in Minnesota, United States wrote a letter of protest to Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's Chief Executive Officer. He asked siuts social networking overhauling its security settings.

"In the policy up now, 13 million users are under 18 years may share their personal information, such as adult users," Franken wrote.

Users of this young age, Franken said, is very vulnerable to criminals who use the Internet or in particular up and should they not share phone numbers and home addresses to anyone, "he said.

However, the number called Franken has not depict the actual number of Facebook users under 13 years old. As is known, the social networking sites and other sites that are popular among the children solve the problem in different ways.

For example, MySpace, also requires that users aged 13 years and over. But just as up, he had no mechanism for verifying the age of applicants.

Disney.com allow children under the age of 12 years to explore the site and gather information about these children before they are allowed to participate in the competition, for example.

Site Yahoo different again. He does not allow children under the age of 12 years to do the registration without the consent of their parents. But just like Disney, they only limit the information used to participate in competitions or other similar interactive features.

Firefox beat IE in the Blue Continent

Firefox managed to subvert the dominance of Internet Explorer (IE) in Europe. Mozilla's browser has replaced the IE as a web browser of the most widely used there.

In December, Firefox successfully occupy the portion of 38.1 percent in the browser market share on the continent of blue, slightly exceeding the market share of IE which decreased to 37.5 percent. in the Blue Continent.

This is the first time Microsoft was eliminated from the top.

Exciting news also came from Chrome. Google's browser market share in Europe rose sharply from the previous 5.1 percent to 14.6 percent now.

"This is the first time IE undefeated in the main area of his control. Looks like IE lost market share due to the rapid growth of Chrome. Chrome steal market IE, while Firefox growth is actually not changed much from before," said Aodhan Cullen, StatCounter analyst.

Cullen added that this situation is also part of the impact of the European Commission's agreement with Microsoft is asking the software giant in Europe allows consumers to choose who you want to use.

As is known, since March last year Microsoft has approved this policy, namely to give consumers a choice in browsers that use Windows.

500 Thousand People Donate Simple 144 Billion Rupiah's

In order to continue to operate Simple often raise money from its users. By the end of 2010 yesterday, there were 500 thousand users who urunan contributed, with a total of U.S. $ 16 million or around Rp 144 billion.

Wikipedia is one of the non-profit site which provides various types of information that was donated directly by its users. Therefore, sites that started online since 2001 is not to dredge the revenue from advertising revenues, but through donations of the visitors.

Total users who are willing to donate to Wikipedia in 2010 reached 500 thousand people, a sharp increase compared with 2009, which only reached 230 thousand users.

"Fundraising can continue the project Simple that is, engage people who want to share what they have and create something amazing, "said Jimmy Wales, co-founder Simple through blogs, as quoted from CbNews.


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'Lost', TV series Most hijacked in 2010

TV series 'Lost' is created by Jeffrey Lieber and Damon Lindelof into TV series of the most widely pirated during 2010. In addition to 'Lost', the series 'Heroes' is also still favored the spectators 'free'.

According to TorrentFreak like Aceshowbiz launched on Monday (03/01/2011), the level of piracy on the second TV series was still very high. In 2009, they also occupy the top although the number of illegal downloads declined slightly this year.

An episode of 'Lost'has been downloaded almost 6 million times, while the American TV audience estimate is 13.5 million. 'Heroes' ranks second after being downloaded 5.4 million, while the average TV viewers was 5.3 million.

'Heroes' is one example of how TV viewing habits have been constantly changing throughout the year around the world. At the same time demand for TV shows in the USA increased, but it takes many months before the show aired overseas.

Here are 10 TV series of the most widely pirated in 2010, according to TorrentFreak:

1. 'Lost'
2. 'Heroes'
3. 'Dexter'
4. 'The Big Bang Theory'
5. 'House M.D.'
6. 'How I Met Your Mother'
7. '24 '
8. 'True Blood'
9. 'Glee'
10. 'Family Guy'