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In Japan, Tablet PC Enter Primary School

December 17th, 2010  |  Published in Technology News

Japan will begin to try to apply the electronic textbook education in primary schools. This is done to increase the use of technology in the classroom for children who were born in the digital age.

Under the project “future school”, no less than 10 primary schools will get a tablet PC and designing their class with an electronic whiteboard as soon as possible, in beginning next month. In these devices there is a software that allows children to access learning materials.

Japan, though known as a pioneer of high technology, so far lagged behind South Korea, Singapore, UK and other countries that use tech tools for education. Implementation progress will be learning how to teach there.

Publishers of electronic books, software, and educational devices manufacturers will showcase their latest production to education in the New Education Expo held in Tokyo this weekend.

Yahoo Prepare Minty

December 14th, 2010  |  Published in Technology News

Yahoo is now in the plan to launch the Yahoo Mail service to provide improved performance, a more refined design and excellent integration of their products to cope when your Internet connection slowed down. The project is called minty Yahoo, where Yahoo would merge performance of web-based email service and bring it for iPad and products Android version of Yahoo Mail, according to reports from The Wall Street Journal.

Although web-based email service products to Yahoo Mail is No.1 in the U.S., competing with Gmail and Hotmail, but Yahoo Mail is already experiencing a decrease of total users, according to ComScore observations reported by The Wall Street Journal.

Facebook ‘Kills’ IE6

December 3rd, 2010  |  Published in Technology News

For those of you who frequently access Facebook using the browser Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) soon you will not be able to play certain features, such as chat. Social networking site with 500 million users that now began to attract support for IE6. Users will not be made through the facilities of Facebook Chat. Officially, Facebook will kill IE6 later on September 15 2010.  This date coincides with the launch of the beta IE9 conducted by Microsoft.

Facebook explained, the decision was taken after many users complained about the instability while chatting, or even through chat conversation stopped altogether. The instability appears when the user is chatting on Facebook using older browsers. Microsoft actually plans to attract support in IE6 with Windows XP until April 2014. Admittedly, the software giant is pulling support for IE6 is not an option. But Microsoft is trying to further promote while criticizing IE6 IE8.

Meanwhile, there are many technology companies that have already withdrawn their support for IE6. Among them are Google, the internet giant has pulled out IE6 support for Google Docs and Google Sites, Gmail and Google Calendar, and YouTube.

Malicious Applications ‘haunts’ in Market Android

December 3rd, 2010  |  Published in Technology News

Android phone users are expected to be more careful. The reason is reportedly found in a special software that is harmful to users of Google’s mobile OS is based. Software is capable of stealing personal data belongs to millions of users Android and allegedly sent to a server located in China.

The software itself is camouflaged with a custom background wallpaper application was distributed officially in Google’s Android Market for free. The danger, this application has been downloaded as many as 4.6 million times. Read the rest of this entry »

Motorola Accused Huawei of Stealing Their Company’s Data

July 23rd, 2010  |  Published in Technology News

Motorola blamed China’s telecommunications equipment vendor, Huawei for stealing some company trade secret information. Motorola previously accused Lemko of being behind the company information sales to Huawei.

Now, Motorola has changed its accusation to five former employees who moved to Lemko Corp. as the information theft ringleader. This case is being handled Chicago court. Motorola directly accused one of five former employees for sending confidential documents to the founder of Huawei. The company is very aware that the information was stolen from its employees.

“Huawei knew they received information on Motorola’s trade secrets that were stolen without authorization and approval of Motorola, the documents were attached with the word” confidential “,” the court wrote in the report Motorola.

The case is not the first time where Motorola is in conflict with Lemko, especially with former employees who worked at Lemko. In 2008 an employee who still works at Motorola and is thought to work well in Lemko known at O’Hare airport on a plane, heading for China and brought approximately 1000 and sold for Motorola documents USD30.000.

Huawei denied when they relate directly to my ex-Motorola employees directly. They claimed only to have a relationship with Lemko and no sale of secret documents. Huawei is often accused of stealing a number of other proprietary trade information. Last time Huawei was accused of stealing trade secrets, by Cisco. Cases like these are considered damaging China’s image as a whole.

Analysts: 2013, Is the Tablet Era

July 22nd, 2010  |  Published in Technology News

Many observers said that the year 2010 is the year of tablets. However, according to analysts from ABI Research Jeff Or, the tablet is still much to master a large market this year. “Tablet will dominate the market later in the year 2013. This is because a lot depends on the distribution of the coverage Apple is still very limited,” says Orr told TG Daily. “In addition, a number of competitors iPad tablet released now, but a global recession, the implementation of the operating system most suitable and appropriate challenges iPad user experience all the causes of delays,” she called again.

He also added that the increase in tablet specifically also resulted in increasing categories of MID (Mobile Internet Device). “Most of the volumes that we’ve projected for the MID category since 2007 are now being taken over by the other form factor devices such as media tablets but also smart phones, which sees more and more functionality,” said Jeff. However, Orr projected that 11 million tablets are expected to be shipped in late 2010. “Our estimates 11 million tablets of media delivery in 2010 were based both on the availability of a wider iPad,” he said.

Google CEO: Developers Will Continue to Focus on Mobile

July 7th, 2010  |  Published in Technology News

According to Google CEO Eric Schmidt, the developer is still focused on creating applications for mobile devices than on computers.

“Mobile application is a winner. The developers are currently working on a smart phone for mobile applications before they are written for desktop Windows or Apple Mac,” he said, as quoted by Computer World, Tuesday (06/07/2010).

According to Schmidt, it naturally happens, because accessing the Internet via mobile will grow eight times faster than Internet access on a PC. Although, he admitted that mobile devices are supported by the “one million computers.”

However, despite Schmidt’s comments on the strengths of mobile, Google will launch a new version of the smartphone, which is Google’s Nexus One, which was inaugurated at the beginning of the year.

“The idea of one and a half years ago was to make Nexus One to try to move the platform of smart phone sales. We recognize the response is still not good enough,” he added.