Sunday, March 27, 2011

Google to honor Houdini

Google changed its logo to commemorate 137 th birthday of one of the finest magicians and illusionist of all time - Harry Houdini. The logo, Houdini is presented in one of his most famous spots.



Sunday, March 20, 2011

Nokia introduced the ultra cheap music phone

In a time when Nokia is losing the battle with the competition in the market segment relating to smart phones, the company decided to win customers with ultra-cheap music-oriented phone.



Introduced Internet Explorer 9

After months of beta testing, Microsoft presented the official version of its Internet Explorer browser 9th


Incoming quality videos on YouTube

Google bought the Irish Green Parrot Pictures company which specializes in the development of algorithms that improve the quality of video recordings. The technology will get with this acquisition plans to use to increase the quality of videos on YouTube.


"Like" v.s "Tweet"

Eventbrite, a company promotes events, tested the financial feasibility of the Facebook versus Twitter. According to the results, the winner in this category is 600 million heavy users Facebook where the average "camomile" for an event that sold tickets takes 1.34 dollars, while "tweets"to carry only 80 cents.



Conspiracy or not: iOS 4.3 JavaScript acceleration only for some applications

Some web applications are started from home screen full screen on the iPhone or iPad, rather than Safari browser did not receive promised 05.02 + times faster operation with JavaScript for iOS3.

Developers say this is a "conspiracy" for web applications to perform worse than local (native) applications, which Apple has been pushing developers to App Store, where Apple have full control of what is given and, of course, profit of 30% sold for each application.