Egyptian President-elect to Appoint Woman, Christian Vice-Presidents

Posted in: Featured, World News by Mihai-Silviu Chirila | June 27th 2012 | no comments

Egyptian president-elect Mohamed Morsi on Tuesday announced that he would nominate six vice-presidents, including a woman and a Christian, in a bid to keep his word to be a president to all Egyptian. The move is also perceived as a step toward ending the reign of the military, which is [...]

The Swype Technology Available for Smartphones

Posted in: Technology by Monica Ionescu | June 22nd 2010 | no comments

There are plenty of smartphones in the world and many of them use virtual keyboards instead of normal ones, thus the typing becomes easier for the ones who use their phones for emails or instant text messaging. Instead of typing the word letter after letter, you could use the new and innovative typing system created by Cliff Kushler, an american who lives in Seattle and designed many [...]

The New Email System on iPad by Google

Posted in: Technology by Monica Ionescu | June 22nd 2010 | no comments

For those who use the Internet, you probably know the difference already between a Web application and a downloadable application. This difference is emphasized especially in the gaming area.If you play a single player game or a multiplayer, but only created for you and your family, the experience will not be the same as playing a game created for the entire world. You have the chance [...]

How Important is Facebook for the Internet Users

Posted in: Technology by Monica Ionescu | June 22nd 2010 | no comments

Everybody knows what is Facebook: a social network, who lets you socialize, make friends and why not from time to time money. They have all sort of promotions for their users and if you do exactly what you are told to do to get some extra money, you can round your income pretty good. For example, they wanted recently to increase the number of their  members, so they rewarded every [...]

Gaming on Facebook is Declining

Posted in: Technology by Monica Ionescu | June 22nd 2010 | one comment

Everybody who uses the social network Facebook knows that the more friends you have, the more invitations of joining different activities and games you will get. This should not be a problem, taking into account that this network is made for socializing. But when the invitations start to gather one after another and you end up in a single day to have more than 50 of those, you get [...]

Banning Theflyonthewall.com

Posted in: Technology by Monica Ionescu | June 22nd 2010 | no comments

Theflyonthewall website often presents research reports and press releases before the banks share their advice for their clients. This disturbed so much some of the banks, that this site is on the edge of closing its activity. Luckily for it, the Google giant and the Twitter social network are fighting for Theflyonthewall. They affirm that banning this website in the era we are living [...]

James Bond Played by Daniel Craig Comes Alive on Wii Console

Posted in: Technology by Monica Ionescu | June 21st 2010 | no comments

The news regarding the fact that the character of James Bond will be played in the 007 game by the actor who also plays the real character in the movie with the same name comes from the official Nintendo Magazine. Of course, it will be only the image of Daniel Craig, not the man in person. The decision comes after the management of Nintendo thought of Pierce Brosnan in the first place. [...]

New Colourful Laptops from Dell

Posted in: Technology by Monica Ionescu | June 21st 2010 | no comments

Dell announced on June 20 the availability in the USA of the Inspiron R series laptops, which were released several months ago in other parts of the world, such as Australia or India. Like all the Inspiron computers, these computers too are created to fulfil a wide range of roles, from desktop replacing and productivity features to delivering a unique experience thanks to the multimedia [...]

Wi-Fi Nook from Barnes&Noble available from June 2010

Posted in: Technology by Monica Ionescu | June 21st 2010 | no comments

The new Wi-Fi version of the Nook device coming from Barnes&Noble will be available soon for sale on Best Buy and not only there for 149 dollars. The price is the most interesting feature of this device, which is used to amaze us. The main characteristics are: an advanced E ink Vizplex electronic paper display, which provides for the reader an image like the one coming from an eBook, a [...]

Google’s New Platform for Publishers

Posted in: Technology by Monica Ionescu | June 21st 2010 | no comments

According to ITProPortal, the Google giant is contacting publishers which are willing to test the new platform coming from Google. The news is available also in the italian newspaper La Repubblica, which mentions that the publishers who agree to participate will test the new platform, that is called Newspass, in a trial run. Newspass is a new payment system which is not yet released. [...]

The Use of Text Messages While Driving – A Major Risk for Adults

Posted in: Technology by Monica Ionescu | June 21st 2010 | no comments

Adults get exposed to a very high risk when they use their mobile phones or other electronic devices for creating, editing, reading and sending messages, while they are driving. Those can have different forms, can be multimedia or simple text messages. Whatever the form, they perturb the mobile phone user and in some cases, these inoffensive messages can lead to serious car [...]

Biovail and Valeant agree to merge

Posted in: Technology by Monica Ionescu | June 21st 2010 | no comments

Today it was announced that the Biovail and Valeant pharmaceutical companies agreed to merge. The information is available from the website of The Street journal in Toronto. When two companies merge, the first thing that changes, along with the board, is the name of the company. The new company will be called Valeant Pharmaceutical International and it will have an expanded presence in [...]

Chinese Currency Consolidates Its Position

Posted in: Technology by Monica Ionescu | June 21st 2010 | no comments

The China's currency, the renminbi climbed in value against the dollar today, this being the first revival of this currency in the past 20 months. On Monday, June 21th it was announced that by the end  of the day in Asia, the reminbi has advanced 0.42 percent to 6.7978 per dollar. The Chinese central bank wants to allow more flexibility for the country's currency, that is why they plan [...]

Galaxy S Pro – The Superphone from Samsung

Posted in: Technology by Monica Ionescu | June 21st 2010 | no comments

Turn on smart life, as Samsung suggests. With the new android phone coming from them, you are really able to find out what a true mobile experience means. This phone seems more like a computer, having a lot of the technologies on which computers base too. The ultimate hardware components used for this phone include a processor running at 1 Ghz, a screen of 4 inches in diagonal, 8 GB of [...]

The New Xbox 360 – Released in Autumn 2010

Posted in: Technology by Monica Ionescu | June 21st 2010 | no comments

Microsoft announced their new console Xbox 360, which is going to be available in a few months. The feature that is the most attractive at this game console is its price. At 199 dollars, almost every child can get one. And it is not only created for children. There are a lot of grown-up people, which get relaxed by playing a new game. The news is coming directly from Microsoft and it was [...]

Libretto W100 – The New Release from Toshiba

Posted in: Technology by Monica Ionescu | June 21st 2010 | no comments

The new Toshiba Libretto W100 is a dual-screen notebook. This is an ultra-portable computer, which can't be considered a tablet, neither a netbook. The screens have 7 inches in diagonal and the Intel Pentium processor U5400 is quite a good choice for such a computer, which runs at 1.2 GHz. The DDR3 memory of 2 GB , the 62 GB solid state drive, the numerous variants to use the displays [...]

iPhone 4 on its way to success… Or not?

Posted in: Technology by Monica Ionescu | June 21st 2010 | no comments

Good news: the new iPhone 4 is coming. Bad news: some will just have to wait a little longer until they will get this technological wonder. Even though the release date of Apple iPhone is programmed on June 24th, more than 600.000 people ordered the new gadget. Due to the inability to fill the increasing demand, the management of AT&T had to stop some pre-orders. Nothing is more [...]