Tuesday, May 18, 2010

YouTube updates its API Flow

Last night, Google posted a video on Youtube with version 2.0 of its API feeds, a tool that displays the latest headlines from an RSS syndication come to any web page. The link to the code is not yet active, but as the giant net, it will come after the conference I / O this week. The link to version 1.0 is still available .

According to Google, the API is the most prized by developers, and the main change introduced by Google in this version 2.0 is PubSubHubbub , a protocol for extending RSS and Atom feed that allows publication and an update of sales in real time. One step closer to the indexing of the web in real time for the giant, and new opportunities for developers.

For end users, the changes will be mostly the F5 key, which will remain alive longer, the flow will update automatically, without need to refresh pages for new content.

Geforce GTX 470 in single slot for Galaxy

Galaxy, according to its website 4gamer, intends to announce at Computex, which will open its doors in early June in Taiwan, a single slot version of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470. The board would adopt a standard feature while providing a significantly reduced footprint, which would facilitate its integration into the boxes or type Barebone make easier the formation of configurations with several graphics cards. A risk, however: the small size of the heatsink fan could justify a much faster, causing noise nuisance to those of the standard versions.

Fully faired, the card have two DVI outputs and an HDMI connector. Although it is difficult to be certain, it appears to adopt a PCB slightly longer than the standard 470 GTX (24 cm), suggesting that the subsidiary of Palit was able to appeal to the GeForce PCBs 480 GTX (27 cm). Then imagine that the Galaxy is also trying to propose a single GTX 480 slot format, there is only one step ... that we will not cross until you have landed in Taipei for Computex!

Google to Stop Offering Nexus One Through its Web Store

The weak online sales of Google's Nexus One smartphone has pushed the company to stop offering it online.

Google launched Nexus One in January. Since then, the adoption of the Android platform was strong and the technology behind Nexus One has found its way into numerous Android handsets, like the HTC Evo 4G from Sprint and the Verizon Droid Incredible by HTC.

However, while the global adoption of the Android platform has exceeded Google's expectations, the web store has not. It?s remained a niche channel for early adopters.

As a result, google decided to make Nexus One globally available and follow the same model the company has adopted in Europe, where it is working with partners to offer Nexus One to consumers through existing retail channels.

Once the Nexus One devices will be available in stores, Google will stop selling handsets via the web store, and will instead use it as an online store window to showcase a variety of Android phones available globally.

Google Says Mistakenly Picked up Data From Wi-Fi Networks

Google said its cars responsible for photographing streets around the world have for several years accidentally collected personal information sent by consumers over wireless networks.

Nine days ago the data protection authority (DPA) in Hamburg, Germany asked to audit the WiFi data that Google's Street View cars collect for use in location-based products like Google Maps for mobile. Google sent a technical note to data protection authorities the same day, claiming that while Google had collect publicly broadcast SSID information (the WiFi network name) and MAC addresses (the unique number given to a device like a WiFi router) using Street View cars, it did not collect payload data (information sent over the network). However, google now admits that it has been mistakenly collecting samples of payload data from open (i.e. non-password-protected) WiFi networks.

Google said that since Google's cars are on the move, someone would need to be using the network as a car passed by and its in-car WiFi equipment automatically changes channels roughly five times a second, the cars typically have collected only fragments of payload data.

Alan Eustace, Senior VP, Engineering & Research at Google explains:

"Quite simply, it was a mistake. In 2006 an engineer working on an experimental WiFi project wrote a piece of code that sampled all categories of publicly broadcast WiFi data. A year later, when our mobile team started a project to collect basic WiFi network data like SSID information and MAC addresses using Google?s Street View cars, they included that code in their software?although the project leaders did not want, and had no intention of using, payload data."

Google did not specify what kind of data the high-tech cars collected, but a security expert said that email content and passwords for many users, as well as general Web surfing activity, could easily have been caught in Google's dragnet.

Google's team grounded its Street View cars and segregated the data on its network as soon they became aware of this problem. The company plans to delete this data as soon as possible.

To deal with the issue, Google plans to ask a third party to review the software used by its data collecting system, how it worked and what data it gathered, as well as to confirm that we deleted the data appropriately. The company will also internally review its procedures to ensure that its controls are sufficiently robust to address these kinds of problems in the future.

In addition, given the concerns raised, Google has decided that it?s best to stop its Street View cars collecting WiFi network data entirely.

"We are profoundly sorry for this error and are determined to learn all the lessons we can from our mistake," Google Alan Eustace wrote at the company's official blog.

MySpace plans to update its privacy settings

Faced with the blunders of Facebook and its privacy settings extension , MySpace seems keen to capitalize on the bad news of his rival social network has announced yesterday that its own set-up options would soon be simplified.

"We want our users to know that we are preparing the launch of simplified privacy setting. Although we have had such plans in the works for some time, given the outcry about these issues in the media, we felt it was important to reveal these projects now, "Mike Jones told the co- Chairman of MySpace, on his blog.

The new settings will take a public profile at a private profile in a single click, and the default options will focus also display only with friends.

This announcement takes place while MySpace is undergoing restructuring, and seeks to revive its activity as a community oriented around music. The site was certainly not the same audience as Facebook, which is much more general, but focusing on the privacy settings more concrete and easier access might be to allow users to glean dissatisfied with his main rival .

Mike Jones has not given specific dates on the modified settings MySpace, but we bet that given the current turmoil around the protection of privacy online, it should not take too long.

Dell - Inspiron M301Z Unusual and affordable laptop

The tablet iPad, exploded the world , is rapidly gaining market mobile computers, pushing to active competition , the demise of the era of laptops say no. That only is the recent announcement of Acer's hottest new products . Now the ranks of trendy new laptops has expanded from the company Dell - Inspiron M301Z.

Main chip Inspiron M301Z - AMD Platform and processor AMD Athlon II Neo K325 with two cores and a frequency of 1.3 gigahertz. It is clear that such a chip does not make a novelty desirable for those who need a powerful computer. Mark knows this, and therefore proposes a model Inspiron M301Z with more powerful CPU AMD Turion II Neo K625.


Instead graphics subsystem innovations pleased. In the Dell Inspiron M301Z default decision ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4225. This means that 13.3-inch screen, new items can easily watch HD-movies. And if you try, you can run on a laptop and some toys. In general, for an Inspiron M301Z can be forgiven for the most advanced processor.

As for the other amenities Inspiron M301Z, it is, first of all, 320-gigabyte hard drive with a speed of 7200 revolutions per minute. Complementing this picture triumph speed fast memory DDR3, which is a computer set of 4 gigabytes.

Beautiful, fast and efficient computer - this is excellent. But who needs it without the Internet, wireless module and a long battery life? Perhaps no one. Therefore, the Dell Inspiron M301Z have all modern wireless delights, but what works without a recharge it for five hours. It is encouraging that the price of the computer at the same time starts from $999

Microsoft will pay $200 million to VirnetX Holding Corp

Microsoft will pay $200 million to VirnetX Holding Corp and obtain a patent license to settle litigation accusing it of infringing two patents for communicating over the Internet.

As part of the settlement, Microsoft takes a license to the VirnetX patents for Microsoft?s products and will make a one-time payment of $200 million to VirnetX. All other aspects of the settlement and license were not disclosed.

"This Agreement highlights the need for VirnetX?s Secure Domain Name Initiative, and we believe that this successful resolution of our litigation with Microsoft will allow us to focus on the upcoming pilot system that will showcase VirnetX?s automatic Virtual Private Network technology," said Kendall Larsen, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of VirnetX Holding Corporation.

"We are pleased to work with VirnetX to bring these cases to a successful resolution through this settlement," said Tom Burt, corporate vice president and deputy general counsel, Microsoft Corporation.