Friday, June 7, 2013
Apple signed an agreement with Warner Music
Apple signed an agreement with Warner Music. Yes, After Universal, Apple has reached a new agreement with, Warner Music a major music industrial giant, and still negotiating with Sony. A competing service Pandora could be launched as early as WWDC. Apple's launch of a new online music listening on the occasion of its largest annual conference, WWDC, seems to be confirmed. According to sources CNet.com, the company has concluded an agreement with another major, Warner Music.
In April, they have entered an agreement with Universal Music, the first label in the world; Apple would have reached an agreement allowing him to use the catalog of titles in the Major for his new service called iRadio unofficially as inspired Pandora. As for Sony, the last one is still negotiating with Apple. According sources, the music giant would be more financially advantageous than that made with Pandora. Yet at the beginning of negotiations, Apple would have had a much lower price, since, would have been reassessed. And to encourage the Majors to sign, Apple has promised two sources of income: the amount of each distribution ("stream") and a percentage of advertising revenues collected by Apple via its listening service attached to iTunes and thought to use of mobile terminals.
Sunday, June 2, 2013
Windows 8.1 named Windows Blue!
How the Windows Tami Reller confirms while talking to Mary Jo Foley, the internal code name Blue is a major update of Windows 8; Blue also represents a new publishing Microsoft strategy: Instead of bringing out a new operating system as before, every three years, to the current Windows in future receive a generous annual revision cycle. As Microsoft officially confirmed, comes with Windows 8.1, the first update yet launched in 2013. According to Microsoft there are some new features of Windows 8.1 will be officially awarded? Accordingly, the update brings back the missing of many users start button. By clicking through to the start screen, the start menu of the predecessor obviously does not find its way into Windows 8 Can also request the desktop wallpaper use for the start screen. So far, it has not been possible to start the Windows 8 computer immediately in the desktop mode. Also the changes with Windows 8.1 can be only available for users of Windows 8 Pro. Microsoft plans to integrate its own search engine, Bing. There are also improvements to the photo and mail service, as well as SkyDrive and camera. Internet Explorer 11 is part of Windows 8.1, at the end of June it is expected to be available for all Windows 8 users.
At the end of March has come to the Internet an early version of Windows 8.1. We guess. The example for this is the Windows Phone 8. It contains the tile surface makeover: Similar to the new Windows Phone 8 can be zoomed in and out tiles. You can also select and move several tiles at the same time. And instead of 20 colors define users with Windows blue of a spacious background and buttons. In Windows 8, there were only 20 color combinations for the new Start Center. It is colorful with Blue: Now you can create hundreds of color combinations for the background of the buttons from Windows to a smooth color control. The good old familiar Windows 8 background patterns are still present.
The diverse speculations, when Microsoft released an official version of the new Windows, Julie Larson-Green has put an end to. In early May, announced the developer's head of Windows that for 26 July 2013 a public beta version of Windows 8.1 is planned for all Windows 8 users. Microsoft will release version within the build-house developer’s conference 2013, which of 25 to 28 June runs in San Francisco. Then the update will be distributed through the Windows Store for Windows 8 and The final version should released. Microsoft's traditional strategy of the release of a new version of Windows every three years is not sustainable in today's highly mobile world. The company had no choice but to change. Microsoft now competitive with Apple that will eventually bring out a new version of Windows in cyclic and for this the first step is Instead of Windows service packs it should now pull in new functions. On the contrary, Microsoft shifted step by step functions of the traditional surface into the new tile surface. On the desktop itself, there are (so far) no significant changes. To see more, You have to wait till June end.
Thursday, May 30, 2013
AMD wants to add Jaguar in servers!
It is of course the architecture GCN (Graphics Core Next) Radeon HD 7000 is going to be used through 128 processing units, but under the name HD 8000. The functionality of video compression and decompression hardware be also present. If Intel starts pushing his QSV solution and the Media SDK on servers, the Texan also seems to be the big competitor of the pie. Each model will have four cores at its CPU, with a maximum frequency of 1.9 GHz (X2150) or 2 GHz (X1150). At the GPU side it will vary this value from 266 MHz to 600 MHz depending on the case. For the rest, everything is the same: a maximum of 32GB of DDR3 is supported and eight PCIe 2.0 lanes, eight USB 2.0 ports, two USB 3.0 ports and two GB / s Serial ATA ports 6 are found. Everything is in a BGA type packaging 24.5 x 24.5 mm.
AMD still has some clear advantages to play, as this segment of the general public. But in both cases, the quality of image could actually help to convince the customer. We'll see what it is in practice, the inertia in terms of changing attitudes is even more important in the world of servers.
Saturday, May 25, 2013
Talk With Your Chrome 27 Browser!
As usual, Google has in the new Chrome version again closed some security holes. For the discovery of the vulnerabilities of the Internet giant let go this time almost 15,000 U.S. dollars. With over $ 3,000 received from the Finnish University of Oulu, the highest premium for the detection of memory errors in the audio playback. Security researchers found a total of 14 classified as risky vulnerabilities from Chrome and those have been removed from Chrome 27. In addition, the new browser receives an improved version of the Flash Player. With Chrome 27 Chrome users get the opportunity to use the framework presented in the developer conference intelligent voice search from Google. Interestingly, Google Voice Search understands but not as an exclusive new feature of Chrome 27: In the announcement, the function appeared not once on. Go to the Google search with the latest browser version, a microphone icon appears in the input line. Have appropriate audio hardware installed or connected to your PC, ask and you dictate from then blithely go.
The version for Android devices has received an update. On Smartphones you can now surf with Chrome 27 in full-screen mode. To do this, simply scroll down to leave the address bar disappear. But on tablets that function is not yet available. Use the Omnibox to the web search, this keeps your searches from Chrome 27, instead of the current display the Google address. At the same time there is more space for your search results. For website developers; Chrome offers 27 thanks to support new HTML5 features, the easy way to integrate form elements. How to do this demonstrates in the demo page. Furthermore, the Chrome team has the developer tools optimized in some places, to facilitate the work of the web developer. Also on board is a new audio interface. Which allows feed the browser with a live stream. These benefits include the new standard for real-time communication, which Google introduced Chrome 21. In addition, the makers of Chrome have built a sync file system interface to access data from Google Drive on the Chrome apps. In addition to these changes, the new Google browser comes with a number of other minor improvements.
In Chrome 27, Google continues the trend of its predecessor. The most interesting changes for end users can be found in the Android version. While also gets the big brother profound innovations donated, but play mainly under the hood. With intelligent Voice Search you have the communication with the PC hands free for other things. In terms of speed, Google's browser leaves the competition far behind as usual.
Friday, May 24, 2013
Siri a smarter assistant!
It is not related to an update of iOS, but Siri suffers from problems of understanding since its early days and although Apple has promised steady progress, we are still waiting. Too often, the evil wizard understands what you say and you have to wait several seconds and repeat, so we almost always quicker to unlock the device and manually what we wanted do with Siri. This is particularly the case for the management of messages is very buggy and malfunctions too often, so it is very convenient, especially when traveling. Siri is useful in some cases, but it is of no help in many situations. Since this is a voice assistant is the user to activate and ask him a question, then an assistant really useful would himself inform you. This is precisely the challenge as of now, the latest service from Google that is available on Android devices, but iOS. Wizard Google intends to bring you useful information based on your current situation. It may be the weather forecast for the city where you are, but also forecasts for the city where you go. If you fly, now it will display a reminder of the flight with all the necessary information. If you have an appointment at the other end of the city then It calculates the time required to get there and alert you at the right time, taking into account traffic. Apple could make Siri as a helpful assistant. The iPhone user will enter appointments in the phone and the manufacturer now has its own mapping service to calculate the route and prevent the right time. One could imagine other services in iOS 7, such as better management of cinemas with the possibility to notify Siri for your interest in a film and an alert sent automatically when it leaves. Passbook, one of the new iOS 6 could be naturally integrated display shortly before leaving your train ticket. Until then, Apple has chosen a much less intrusive than Google where everything is automatic approach. If you appreciate the discretion that Siri is activated at the request and only what is asked, it would be much more useful with an entrepreneurial spirit. If you put a roast in the oven and you ask him to set a timer for 45 minutes, should not it tell you if you have a scheduled appointment in 15 minutes?