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Posted in: Technology by Irina Preda | September 10th 2010 | no comments
Many people all over the country and especially those who live in the Bay Area were impressed by the images they saw on the news, with the big fires in San Bruno. In that area, these were 40 houses completely destroyed by the fire and other 120 seriously damaged.
Though, the saddest thing is that the authorities had to deal with several fatalities and many injuries, because of a gas [...]
Posted in: Technology by Irina Preda | September 10th 2010 | no comments
On November the 4th, 2008, the same day when the Americans were involved in the presidential elections, all the members of the Federal Communications Commission voted for opening the TV white space, the term used to describe the unused airwaves between the broadcast TV channels.
This unanimous vote came after six years of intense study and analysis and can be considered as important [...]
Posted in: Technology by Irina Preda | September 10th 2010 | no comments
Google has recently launched the new website for Google Earth, where people can discover new places to see, by mean of their community, blogs, articles and Gallery. Now, just like in the past five years since the application was first released, people can find everything they are looking for, because the new website is a lot improved.
If you are already curious and you want to visit [...]
Posted in: Technology by Irina Preda | September 9th 2010 | no comments
We all know that the real world and the online world are full of similarities, especially when it comes to our children. The first thought when it comes to them is “protection”, no matter if we are talking about the real world or the online environment.
There are places in the world the we want to keep away of the children, or at least see them only with a grownup near, and when [...]
Posted in: Technology by Irina Preda | September 9th 2010 | no comments
Everybody knows that moving all the time is a disadvantage for the relationships, because the distance always has an impact on people. Especially those of you who had a father in the Army know how it feels, because every two years the family needed to move around, pack up, say good-by to friends and go somewhere else.
The bad thing is that, even if your intention is to keep in touch [...]
Posted in: Technology by Irina Preda | September 8th 2010 | no comments
The ex-President of the U.S, William Jefferson Clinton was two times the 42nd President, and he also was the fonder of the Clinton Foundation and the Clinton Global Initiative. The main objectives of this last organization are important problems that the world is facing, like the global health, poverty, the education and not least, the climate changes.
Also very important to know [...]
Posted in: Technology by Irina Preda | September 8th 2010 | no comments
The Thousand Parsec developers gathered for the first time on August the 7th, at the Googleplex. They congregated from six different locations all over the world at planned to spend a week in Mountain View, California, for coding and, of course, a lot of fun.
The Thousand Parsec is a framework-project which was created in January 2002, with the declared aim of creating a particular [...]
Posted in: Technology by Irina Preda | September 8th 2010 | no comments
Many Internet users admit that they are very frustrated when it comes to creating a new account on a website, especially because in some cases this takes too long, due to the fact that many information is required, and on the other hand because in the end of the registration they receive messages such as “Thank you for creating an account. To activate your account, please access your [...]
Posted in: Technology by Irina Preda | September 7th 2010 | one comment
After intense negotiations, the Oracle Corporation, which also owns Sun Microsystems, announced that the company’s officials hired Mark Hurd to be the new co-president of the corporation.
This announcement is even more important if we take into account the fact that before this position, Mark Hurd was the CEO of HP (Hewlett Packard), and apart from the fact that he will be one of [...]
Posted in: Technology by Irina Preda | September 7th 2010 | no comments
The latest studies reveal that more than a half of the Americans have a nervous attitude when their computer is running slow. For example, they scream, hit the keyboard, the screen or the mouse when they think the current speed is not enough for their activity.
The giant manufacturer of Intel requested Harris Interactive to start a survey regarding the behavior of the Internet users [...]
Posted in: Technology by Irina Preda | September 7th 2010 | no comments
Because Google always wants to make the search experience as entertaining as possible, as the users have probably noticed that Google’s homepage often has various illustrations, designed to mark a certain important holiday or an anniversary.
For example, Magritte’s birthday was marked with this kind of illustrations, just like the launch of the Hubble telescope, at the time. And [...]
Posted in: Technology by Irina Preda | September 6th 2010 | no comments
Recent studies revealed that racing games are often influencing the young people to act like the characters in the games they play. In this way, many teens want to become “fast and furious” because video games like the GTA (Grand Theft Auto) and Carmageddon are having a negative impact on them, especially due to the fact that the rules of the game are to drive at high speed and [...]
Posted in: Technology by Irina Preda | September 6th 2010 | no comments
As you have already seen in the previous articles related to this issue, the specialists from Google testing blog think that it really exists a magic formula that makes the testing a lot more efficient. Today we will expose the third ingredient of the “recipe”, which will help developers have a different vision on their products they want to analyze.
In the other articles you had [...]
Posted in: Technology by Irina Preda | September 6th 2010 | no comments
Some of the Google officials were invited at the 2010 edition of GUADEC, and Jeremy Allison decided that it should be interesting for people to find out interesting details from this meeting by taking some interviews to several important persons who also participated and had interesting presentations about new products or new discoveries from the IT field.
Recently, you had the [...]
Posted in: Technology by Irina Preda | September 6th 2010 | no comments
From time to time, a Google Student Ambassador is choosing to share with all of us certain tips and tricks, useful especially for the students.
Today, Taylor Bell, who is a Google Student Ambassador at Boise State University, is talking about some tips she discovered and that she thinks it would be good for the young people to know and to apply in their student life.
Google [...]
Posted in: Technology by Irina Preda | September 6th 2010 | no comments
For many of the ordinary people, privacy policies in general seem too long and too complicated for their understanding. One of the reasons is that these documents are strongly related to the legal issue, which is not so easy to understand.
This fact determined the Google specialists to work hard in order to update these privacy policies and make them simpler. In this way, from now on, [...]
Posted in: Technology by Irina Preda | September 6th 2010 | no comments
Google is permanently working to improve the services provided by the company, so that the customers to be always satisfied and to continue to use them in their daily life. Recently, Google has released two important features, called Priority Inbox and call phones from Gmail.
With these two new services, the users will save a lot of time and because both of them are very powerful, [...]
Posted in: Technology by Irina Preda | September 3rd 2010 | no comments
Margaret Gould Stewart from Google was invited to participate at this year’s edition of TED, where she talked about the YouTube’s content ID, especially about the effects of this content system after 20 hours of uploaded content.
In her presentation, Margaret talks about how this Content ID Technology works and even reveals that the speed of the system is amazing. Furthermore, the [...]
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