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mercredi 14 novembre 2012

Google Sandboxed Adobe Flash Player, Makes It Secure



Posted: 13 Nov 2012 02:02 PM PST


Google has now sandboxed Flash Player inside it's Chrome browser on Mac as well thus securing users using Adobe Flash Player on all leading platforms including Linux, Windows and Mac.
Posted: 13 Nov 2012 01:06 PM PST


Google has updated its YouTube app for Android (and Google TV) which allows users to play the YouTube videos from your phone or your tablet to your TV. What the app does is it makes it easier to pair your device with your TV (select supported models) on the same WiFi network.
Posted: 13 Nov 2012 10:29 AM PST


The $199 Acer Chromebook Is For Your Home
Posted: 13 Nov 2012 12:21 PM PST


Spacetime Studios' release of Arcane Legends, the online action RPG with companion pets, has just launched exclusively on Android devices and the Chrome Web Store.

It's the fourth title in the Legends franchise. The previous titles, fantasy Pocket Legends, sci-fi Star Legends, and horror Dark Legends have been downloaded more than ten million times.

The game features an innovative "Companion" system that allows players to collect a myriad of powerful and mystical pets for use in combat. Players will select companion pets to complement their play style, evaluating the merits of each animal's combat skills and buffs. Pets level automatically as they adventure alongside players, gaining access to new skills and abilities. There are 36 pets available at launch with more scheduled for future free updates.

Set in the fantasy world of Arlor and beset on all sides by evil forces, players must battle foul goblins, trolls, necromancers and much more in their quest for glory and gold. Players help the local townsfolk as well as a host of exotic and magical animals, enrolling the latter to join them as battle companions.

Arcane Legends is free on Google Play and the Chrome Web Store, with the usual option of buying more features.
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Posted: 13 Nov 2012 09:44 AM PST


This causes a problem for the maintainer, who wants to include the Mono framework into Debian. Debian is more than simply a piece of software to download; it's a collection of free software.
Posted: 13 Nov 2012 09:11 AM PST


A team of Stanford chemists and engineers has created the first synthetic material that is both sensitive to touch and capable of healing itself quickly (in about 30 minutes) and repeatedly at room temperature. The advance could lead to smarter prosthetics or resilient personal electronics that repair themselves.

Nobody knows the remarkable properties of human skin like the researchers struggling to emulate it. Not only is our skin sensitive – sending the brain precise information about pressure and temperature – but it also heals efficiently to preserve a protective barrier against the world. Combining these two features in a single synthetic material presented an challenge for Stanford chemical engineering Professor Zhenan Bao and her team.

And now they have succeeded in making the first material that can both sense subtle pressure and heal itself when torn or cut. To make the skin interface with microchips (self-healing computers?) the researchers succeeded by combining two ingredients- long chains of molecules joined by hydrogen with particles of nickel mixed in giving the material both conductivity and mechanical strength.

The touch-sensitivity is generated due to the nickel particles, which move when pressure is applied. The movement results in a change in electrical resistance when current is present. The material can detect the pressure of a handshake, for example, and is also sensitive to flexing, such as the bending of a joint, making it useful for prosthetic limbs.


Other commercial possibilities are possible, such as electrical devices and wires coated in the skin could repair themselves and get electricity flowing again without costly and difficult maintenance, particularly in hard-to-reach places, such as inside building walls or vehicles.

Next up is the team's goal to make the material stretchy and transparent, so that it might be suitable for wrapping and overlaying electronic devices or display screens.

Their findings will be published Nov. 11 in the journal Nature Nanotechnology.
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Posted: 13 Nov 2012 08:09 AM PST


Kevin Carillo a PhD student in Victoria University of Wellington is conducting a survey to work out how newcomers to a FOSS community become valued sustainable contributors. This is an anonymous survey which means that you do not need to provide and no information will be collected that would identify you. The collected data will help to gain insights about the experience of newcomers in FOSS communities.
Posted: 13 Nov 2012 08:06 AM PST


Vizio Co-Star, the streaming device, has now got Google Play support, basically turning your TV into a big smart tablet where you can download content and apps from the Play store thru the Co-Star and onto your HDTV.

The update also includes enhanced HDMI and audio stability, better Netflix (and other TV on Demand services)  performance and faster menus and navigation. It's Wi-fi of course and it supports 1080p full HD and is 3D-ready.

It can be turned into a TV/computer hybrid by hooking up with your cable or satellite box and surfing the web while watching TV, whilst balancing a bowl of snacks on your belly and cooking dinner with the aid of a wife/girlfriend device - all at the same time.

Co-Star uses Google Chrome for browsing duties, supports flash player and the remote control even has a touchpad and a full QWERTY keypad on its rear. It can be yours for $99.99.
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Posted: 13 Nov 2012 04:13 AM PST


Samsung has been boasting about winning 27 CES Innovation Awards including a Best of Innovation Award for its as yet unreleased 85-inch UHD TV. They plan on showing off the 8 million pixel telly at CES 2013.

It's billed as, 'the world's largest commercialized UHD LED TV,' with four times the resolution of Full HD displays. It will be the company's first  85-inch 4K TV. LG has already brought out an 84-inch 4K 3D TV,  selling for around $20,000, which gives you a ballpark idea of how much Samsung's telly will be selling for.

Toshiba and Sony are also getting in on the act, having announced their own 84-inch 4K models as well. The one obvious thing Samsung has got over its competitors is the fact that their screen is 1 inch bigger.
Other Samsung products that won awards include;  the Samsung Smart TV Camera,  Galaxy S III, Galaxy Note II and Samsung's 64GB MicroSD Memory Card.

Many of the winning products will be first unveiled at Samsung's CES press conference on Monday January 7, 2013.
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mardi 13 novembre 2012

Google Launches $199 Acer Chromebook With 320 GB Hard Drive



Posted: 12 Nov 2012 10:36 AM PST


Google has announced a $199 Acer Chromebook available immediately from various stores. This Chromebook joins the recently launched ARM-powered Samsung Chromebook which was prices at $299.
Posted: 12 Nov 2012 10:41 PM PST


Evan N. Frost, 13, recently published an Android application called Jurassic Sounds to the online Google store, Google Play. The app plays sounds from various dinosaurs of the Jurassic and other periods of the Mesozoic age.

The app was published under his brand, "Hidden Ninjas." The young resident of Palm Beach, USA has been running his own website (HiddenNinjas.com) since he was 9 years old.  At his website (compelely created by Evan)  he has many games and written works available free for everyone. Some are browser based games or stories, and others are downloadable.

"I learned HTML in the third grade," said Hidden Ninjas founder Evan N. Frost, "and since then have also learned some BASIC, PYTHON and JAVA. I wanted to learn JAVA because most Android apps are written in it. I like writing stories and I like programming games."
The young chap is planning an update to "Jurassic Sounds," which he will be offering for $1. (A Kid has gotta live) He is also working on an app that can tell you how fast your computer processor is running.
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Posted: 12 Nov 2012 03:13 PM PST


It was too much for the guiltily-sensitive Apple App Store, they removed it an hour after it went live, but Android is made of sterner stuff and 'In A Permanent Save State,' an interactive, artistic work by Benjamin Poynter is now available at Google Play Store for $0.99.

Poynter's artistic piece (all hand-drawn, surrealist cartoon-style and bloody good with it) was influenced by the real-life suicides that have been occurring at Foxconn's manufacturing plants - dotted around the developing nations. A report by twenty Chinese universities described Foxconn factories as labor camps and detailed widespread worker abuse and illegal overtime.

The 'serious sociopolitical' game imagines an spiritual afterlife for seven overworked employees who committed suicide.

It was not surprising Apple acted so quickly in removing it, the artist, Poynter has said that despite never mentioning Foxconn directly in the app, he suspected that the game would be banned. It's just a pity it was taken down so soon - real Daniel in the lion's den stuff!
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Posted: 12 Nov 2012 02:29 PM PST


The Samsung Galaxy Camera can be yours from Nov. 16 for $499.99 through AT&T.

The company are also running a promotion where if you buy another Samsung smartphone or tablet along with your Galaxy camera, you'll get $100 off. (For a limitied time and with the usual selling your soul plan)

We all know it and we all want one, but here's a rundown of what you can expect out of this baby:

4.8-inch HD Super Clear LCD screen. 4G,  A 21x optical zoom lens and a 16MP backside (No, not that!) illuminated CMOS sensor for good quality in low light conditions. Powering the camera is a quad-core 1.4 GHz processor and Android 4.1 Jelly Bean.

It's got good manual controls like Expert Mode - manual setting of shutter speed, aperture, and ISO. Smart Mode with Rich Tone HDR mode and Light Trace for 'light painting' photos.

With AT&T Locker - photo and video sharing service, users get 5 GB of storage for free – enough for around 5,000 average sized photos. The usual twittering and such, social-sharing rules apply.

There's a good range of data plans on offer, such as the new Mobile Share plans, where you can share a single bucket of data across all your compatible devices.

The camera will be available from Friday 16th November at various AT&T stores nationwide and online at www.wireless.att.com.
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Posted: 12 Nov 2012 11:21 AM PST


Android-toting Bostonians can now use their smartphone as a rail ticket thanks to the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) and Masabi US Ltd, who have launched the US' first full smartphone commuter rail ticketing system.
All you have to do is install the MBTA mTicket app on your phone, find and book a ticket for your journey. When the time comes to show your ticket, you whip out your device and show the inspector your ticket displayed on the phone's screen as an encrypted barcode and as a human readable ticket.

It sounds a real boon for Bostonians. No more queuing for tickets (less than half of MBTA's 140 Commuter Rail stations have ticket machines) or having to buy a ticket on board. Plus the MBTA are happy because they'll be saving around $20 million by eliminating the need for more ticket machines and lowering cash transactions on the trains.

Anyone thinking forged tickets will have to go back the the drawing boards as these onscreen babies have cryptographic validation. Train conductors will be checking tickets to make sure they're valid using their own smartphone app, which presents a vision of the near-future where transactions involve no more than 2 people pointing their smartphones at each other.

The MBTA mTicket app is also available for iPhone and soon for Blackberry. You can download the Android app at Google Play.
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Posted: 12 Nov 2012 05:49 AM PST


India is taking its Aakash tablet seriously. None other than the President of India, Pranab Mukherjee announced the release of the new Aakash 2.0 on National Education Day. (Sunday 11th November)

The party in New Delhi was also a big video conferencing event, where hundreds of teachers throughout the land joined in with proceedings whilst showing off the Ten Thousand Teachers Training Programme – live video interaction with participants.

The Aakash 2, codenamed UbiSlate 7Ci,  is an improvement over previous versions. There's a bigger processor - a 1GHz Cortex A8, up from the measly  800 MHz. More RAM - 512MB, up from the 256 MB of the older versions. Android 4.0.3, 4GB storage - expandable up to 32GB and 4 hours on a single charge.

The 7-inch tablet will be available to students at the reduced price of Rs 1,130 ($21), while MHRD (Ministry of Human Resource Development) will get it for Rs.2263 ($41) and everyone else have to stump up close to $80. (Rs.4,394)
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Posted: 12 Nov 2012 03:05 AM PST


According to the survey 53% of the people want to buy a tablet this Christmas. Among those 53%, one out of three want a Asus Nexus 7. This edges out the 30% for the iPad, 24% for the iPad mini and 24% for Kindle Fire HD.

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