Flipboard, Feeling Reading Magazine

Tired of reading Facebook and Twitter in the same way? Flipboard download latest application. You will be able to explore social networks Facebook and Twitter to the design and layout of the cooler, such as reading a magazine.
Anything uploaded to Facebook and Twitter you and your friends, you can read easily, including news and photographs. Suppose you want to read more news, you just click, and instantly appear original website.
Of course, not just Facebook and Twitter you can read in this Flipboard applications.
If you want to follow news of technological developments for example, you can simply add FlipTech content by clicking on "Add a Section". Also you can add "All Things Digital" so you do not miss the latest news in the world of digital developments.
If you like photographs, you can add "FlipPhotos", and "photojournalism NYT Picks". Or you like with the development of fashion and style, just add "FlipStyle".

If you prefer to follow the development of the business world, please add "FlipBusiness". You can read news from various websites and blogs about business. Or you like with writing home about, there FlipHome.
Many other interesting content, you can read from this Flipboard applications. Like travel, streets? There is a "Lonely Planet" which contains various information about the tour, there is also "Budget Travel" which contains info-efficient travel. Also there is a "National Geographic" which contains info from the official website, twitter, including photos and video.
Flipboard made of JavaScript engines that organize the articles on pages specifically formatted for the iPad. Through semantic analysis, taxonomy article was structured so that headlines, photos, photo captions, and "pullquotes" can be seen with good.
No wonder if the application was crowned as the iPad Flipboard App of the Year 2010 and one of 50 innovative applications in the same year.
Recommendation Kompas.com: Applications FlipBoard that is worth your free download. Not only allows you to read content and view photos uploaded your friends on Facebook and twitter, but you will also get a new experience to enjoy the sophistication of the iPad.

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You Want to "Hackers" Attack Homepage What?

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Action group of hackers who called LulzSec already overwhelming number of large institutions. LulzSec have attacked the website of Sony, Nintendo, the FBI, the U.S. Senate, as well as a number of gaming sites and porn sites.

Not quite up here. The hacker group even offered to attack the web site where you want. Either with a serious purpose or just messing around, LulzSec in his Twitter account provides hotline numbers that will receive the message at the number 614-LULZSEC on Wednesday (06/15/2011) morning.

A few hours later, the group claimed to have missed more than 5,000 calls and over 2,500 voicemail. However, until now there has been no report in which the phone number originated and whether it will survive. According to records reported by PC World, the number 614 is the telephone code for Columbus, Ohio.

source: http://tekno.kompas.com/read/2011/06/15/23213179/Anda.Pengin.Hacker.Serang.Situs.Web.Apa.

Tablet Sony Released in September?

LONDON -Sony had been still kept at a splashy launch Android tablets since last April, finally got a bright spot on its release date.

As reported by Electricpig on Friday (06/17/2011) which states that, A personal note from the marketing team at Sony Talah gives glimpse into two new tablet PCs is Sony S2 and Sony's new S2 Sakura domestic output will be released. Where the British were targeted release of both products.

S1 and S2 Sony reportedly will release in September this year. In fact, Sony will open a pre-order in August.

Sony states, John Lewis and other distributors have not gotten confirmation on the launch Android tablet supplies later.

One of the real details of Sony S2 has two screen 5.5 inches with a resolution up to 1024 x 480. Both products are equipped with a package of two Tegra processors.

Tegra 2 is a dual-core mobile chips made ​​by Nvidia. These products are used in some tablet products as well as smart phones. (tyo)

source: http://techno.okezone.com/read/2011/06/16/57/469302/tablet-sony-dirilis-september

Supercomputers Watson wins "Person of the Year"

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Artis Lisa Kudrow saat mengumumkan Watson sebagai "Webby Person of the Year 2011".

If the movie industry in Hollywood has the Oscars, then in the Internet world there is Webby Awards. There are nearly 70 categories of awards presented and a special award.
Some well known, including in Indonesia. Groupon gets Webby Breakout of the Year. Dropbox won the category Best Practices. The National Geographic website won for Best Use of Photography. Beyond that, TechCrunch and Engadget also can award.
Organizers also gave special awards to a number of figures are considered instrumental in the announcement of the 15th Webby Awards this year was held on Monday (13/06/2011) night in New York, USA. For example the award Lifetime Achievement Award given to Martin Cooper, inventor of the mobile phone.
Even award Webby Person of the Year this year is very unique in that it fell to Watson. He is not a name but the name of the IBM supercomputer made recently won the TV quiz Jeopardy and beat the man.
In fact, Watson gave his testimony when announced as award recipients. "Person of the year, ironic," said Watson. As a computer savvy, Watson was invented by engineers at IBM to be able to process data and voice information and answer questions posed to him.
Watson's comments were immediately hailed Lisa Kudrow, the artist who hosted the evening. Jokingly, Lisa Kudrow suggested that the machine is out with the iPad to be more stylish.
The award for Watson would be a separate prize for IBM. Because the company's technology would be appropriate for days to 100 on Thursday (16/06/2011).
Webby Awards also give awards to Ushahidi.com, the site reported events chronologically brutality in Kenya. Angry Birds are also lined up to star as the best mobile game. In addition to the best of the selected jury award, also given award

 source: http://tekno.kompas.com/read/2011/06/15/15310411/Superkomputer.Watson.Terpilih.Menjadi.Person.of.the.Year.

Robot gas station planned for final shuttle flight

Fill 'er up: Gas-bot Dextre will help install NASA's Robotic Refueling Mission experiment gear to the International Space Station.

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NASA is set to end the 30-year space shuttle program next month with the final mission of Atlantis, but the craft may help extend the life of satellites orbiting Earth, thanks to a handyman robot.

Atlantis will carry a unique robotic experiment during the 12-day STS-135 mission to the International Space Station.

The Robotic Refueling Mission (RRM) is designed to help figure out what's needed to refuel satellites in space. As NASA describes it, "RRM is expected to reduce risks and lay the foundation for future robotic servicing missions in microgravity."

The experimental platform will attach to the exterior of the ISS, where remote-controlled maintenance robot Dextre will practice gassing up satellites that are not designed to be refueled. To accomplish that, it would have to get past the seals that typically close a satellite's fuel compartment permanently.

"During the mission, Dextre uses RRM tools to cut and manipulate protective blankets and wires, unscrew caps and access valves, transfer fluid, and leave a new cap in place for future refueling activities," NASA says on its RRM page. The robot would be able to fuel satellites as well as perform minor repairs.

A spacewalking astronaut will transfer the RRM equipment to Dextre's Enhanced Orbital Replacement Unit Temporary Platform (EOTP). It will later be moved to the ISS truss with the help of Canadarm2.

There are many satellites in orbit now that could benefit from a refueling service, according to NASA. If tests with Dextre go well, a mission to refuel an actual satellite could happen as early as May 2013, Space.com quoted agency officials as saying.

Atlantis, meanwhile, is slated to launch July 8.

source: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20071153-1/robot-gas-station-planned-for-final-shuttle-flight/?tag=cnetRiver

Google announces host of search improvements

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Google held a special search event in San Francisco this morning to discuss several improvements to its Web and mobile search products.
Though details surrounding the Inside Search event were slim leading up to it, the company promised journalists it would give them "an under-the-hood look at Google Search, share our vision, and demo some of our newest technology and features."
At a similar event last year, Google unveiled its Instant Search feature, allowing users to see results as they type queries into the search box.
This time around, the company focused first on mobile search. It reported that Web searching volume declines over the weekend after staying high during the workweek. With mobile search, however, Google's traffic jumps on the weekend. The company also said that with mobile search traffic, there is no slowdown during the summer or holidays like there is for traditional Web searches. In fact, the company's mobile search has been enjoying strong, consistent growth over the last few years.
To keep that going, the search giant unveiled several mobile search improvements, including a new set of icons on the company's mobile search page, allowing users to find local establishments, including restaurants, coffee shops, attractions, and even gas stations. Upon clicking one of those items, users can scroll through different locales and see their placement on a map. After clicking an establishment, users will find relevant information, including its address and phone number.
Google also discussed instant search suggestions to help users get answers to their queries more quickly. In addition, the company has added "plus" icons next to suggestions to let users efficiently modify their queries. For example, if a user starts typing "Hilton," and chooses the plus icon to add that to the search box, the search suggestions will change to queries related to Hilton, such as "Hilton Garden Inn," for example.

Google's new and improved mobile search.

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Finally, Google showed off a new search user interface for tablets that makes better use of those devices' large displays. People sifting through images in a tablet search also can now scroll without being forced to skip to other pages.
Google's mobile search improvements are available now on the company's mobile Web page.
Bringing mobile features to the Web
Google also said it wanted to bring some of its "mobile innovations" to its Web-based search service.
As such, it unveiled voice search for the Chrome browser. Users will soon find a microphone icon when accessing Google search from their Chrome browser, allowing them to speak a query. That service was previously only available through the company's mobile search application. Google is beginning to roll that out to Chrome users today.
Google has also added a new Search By Image feature to its image search tool that delivers results based on a photo. Users can drag and drop an image into the search box, or instead choose to upload it or copy and paste it into the field.
After a photo is added to the search box, Google delivers relevant results related to it. So, if a person drops a picture of a location in the search box, for example, Google will return information about the place, as well as any Web results on the same topic. Chrome and Firefox extensions are also available to help users search for information on images they find around the Web.

Google's new Search by Image.

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Google's voice search and Search by Image options are beginning to roll out on Chrome today.
Faster load times
Finally, Google unveiled a new improvement to its Web search that will help users get to their desired destinations sooner.
Dubbed Instant Pages, the offering instantly renders a destination page. According to Google, users currently need to wait 5 seconds to get to a destination page from its search service. With Instant Pages, they won't need to wait at all. In one example, Google said that The Washington Post's homepage loaded in 3.2 seconds without help from Instant Pages, and took 0.0 seconds to load with the new feature's help.
Like Google's other Web search improvements, Instant Pages will only be available to Chrome users when they launch. The company will be making that new feature available this week in Chrome beta.

source: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-20071058-17/google-announces-host-of-search-improvements/?tag=topStories2

How a news junkie uses the iPad

Apple’s tablet offers lots of ways to stay up-to-date on the latest headlines

I’m a news junkie. I love remaining informed about U.S. and world news, technology news, entertainment news, you name it. I don’t subscribe to a single newspaper, though, and I don’t watch the news on television. All of my news comes from the Internet, and the vast majority of that news, I consume on my iPad.

The iPad isn’t quite as light as a news magazine, but it’s still pretty portable—and it’s always more current. With Safari alone, the iPad could be a great news consumption tool. Coupled with apps, it satisfies my news addiction like nothing else can.

RSS readers like Reeder make it a snap to browse through headlines from oodles of online sources.

I start my morning news consumption by catching up on my RSS subscriptions. If you’re still not on the RSS bandwagon, it’s time—instead of surfing to dozens of your favorite news sources each day, you subscribe to them. Then you just use a single newsreader app—I like Reeder— () to catch up on the latest headlines from all of those sites.

Now RSS has existed for years, and I remain a NetNewsWire devotee on the Mac. But the subscription approach feels particularly well-suited to the iPad’s form factor. There’s a visceral difference between reading long-form news on a computer screen and reading it on the iPad, and I quite like the holding—and flicking through—the news with my hands.

Reeder is a particularly brilliant newsreader; swiping through many hundreds of articles is pleasant and painless. I can drive through Reeder on my iPad with just one hand, quickly diving deeper into stories that interest me, and skimming through other, less enticing headlines with ease. And because the app integrates seamlessly with services like Readability (to pull in the full text of articles that show only summaries) and Instapaper (to save the really long pieces for reading later), it suits my needs perfectly.

Generally, once I’ve imbibed from Reeder’s morning news fire hose, I turn to Twitter. True, sometimes Twitter “news” consists of breaking headlines of the “I’m having scrambled eggs for breakfast” variety, but it’s also a great window into breaking news and stories that I may have missed. I use the official Twitter iPad app (), but there are many excellent options like Twitterrific () and Osfoora HD (). I follow some of the biggest names in news that interests me: Besides @macworld, that includes accounts like @BreakingNews, @CNNbrk, and a couple entertainment news-related accounts, too.

I even follow Twitter feeds from news sources whose RSS feeds I already subscribe to. It’s easy to miss the occasional headline with either approach; doubling up affords me extra protection from missing a story that interests me.

The Daily is an interesting option, but it too often reports on yesterday's news, instead of today's.

For a while, after feeding my kids breakfast, I would then turn to The Daily (), News Corp’s iPad newspaper. But I found the overall reading experience suboptimal, and the content a bit stale after catching up on my morning headlines elsewhere. The Daily does offer a smart mix of text and video content. But the magazine-like approach makes it too hard to efficiently read only the content I’m interested in; swiping through pages of stories I don’t care about slows me down too much.

Instead of The Daily, then, I rely on apps that are far less flashy, but far more informative.

The first is Fluent News (). It’s an app that aggregates news headlines from a variety of top-tier sources—MSNBC, ABC News, the Washington Post, and so on—and presents them in a tablet-friendly scrolling list. Since the app breaks news down by category (Top News, Entertainment, Business), it’s easy to browse through the headlines of most interest to you quickly—and with a single finger. That makes it easier to browse stories while I eat or hold my infant son.

I’m also a fan of CNN’s official iPad app (). Although its default view is a bit flashy for my taste, the more-traditional headline view provides a great way to navigate through the latest news. Again, a key for me is the ability to dive right into stories I care about, and skip the ones I don’t; Like Fluent News, CNN’s app makes that quite doable. The CNN app is also packed with video, in case that tickles your news consumption fancy; you can even watch live streaming video from the network.

It's not flashy, but the CNN app's headline view offers a great way to browse the latest news.

Both the CNN and Fluent News apps can send push notifications of breaking news. CNN’s arrive very quickly, but the Fluent News alerts come hours after stories break, so I’ve disabled them.

Rounding out the News folder on my iPad are news apps from The New York Times, Reuters, and USA Today. None of those are daily reads for me, but each can come in handy if I want another take on specific stories.

In short, an RSS reader, a Twitter client, and a couple news apps are all I need to remain informed about the news. I no longer subscribe to any news magazines or newspapers, because my iPad always gets the stories first. It's possible my iPad newsreading habits will change a bit once Apple formally releases iOS 5. Among its many other features, the next iteration of Apple's mobile OS includes a few features geared toward iPad newsreaders. The most prominent of those is Newsstand, which will behave a bit like a super folder; it automatically downloads the latest issues of your iOS subscriptions, and displays the current covers for each on an iBooks-style shelf. Also new in iOS 5 will be Safari's Reading List, which works a bit like Instapaper, only with a far more minimal set of features. When you surf to articles that you'd like to read later, you'll tap to add them to your Reading List. Safari will save the title and URL of those pages—as transient, syncable bookmarks—so that you can revisit them later.

I know I have fellow news junkies out there in the Macworld audience. How do you keep tabs on news that interests you? Sound off in the comments below to break the news about the best iPad apps for breaking news.

source: http://www.macworld.com/article/160499/2011/06/ipad_news_junkie.html

One designer's look at the 2015 Toyota Prius

What if I told you that the Blade Runner-esque vehicle in the photo above was the next Prius? Would you be excited? Well, the bad news is that the concept above is likely not the next Prius, it's a design study by industrial designer Eric Leong. The good news is that Leong completed this study as part of last year's Toyota Design internship at the automaker's Advanced Design Studio in Tokyo, Japan, so at the very least there is a Toyota connection.

Industrial designer Eric Leong takes a speculative look at how a 2015 Toyota Prius might appear.

(Credit: Eric Leong)

Leong's concept features a windswept design that channels airflow around the vehicle to reduce drag, mimicking visually the flow of air around the concept's chassis. The result is an organically styled vehicle that sits a few inches lower than the Prius' roofline and stretches what looks like a foot and a half longer thanks to its elongated rear end. Leong makes use of the additional length with increased storage space in this new boat tail.

An inductive charging receiver at the rear end of the Leong's Prius 2015 concept allows the vehicle to wirelessly charge its battery by parking over a charging pad. Meanwhile, the interior gets a minimalist aesthetic that removes most of the instrumentation, replacing it with a large display in the steering wheel's hub and a smaller secondary display at the base of the center tunnel.

Leong's windswept Prius is both longer and lower than the current incarnation.

(Credit: Eric Leong)

If the Prius C Concept is any indication, Toyota's taking a different direction with its future Prii, but we still like drooling over Leong's concept.

source: http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13746_7-20070897-48/one-designers-look-at-the-2015-toyota-prius/?tag=mncol;txt

Motorola Photon is all about power and speed!

Sprint although rules the smartphone market from 2010, it lacked partnership with the Motorola in giving out higher end smartphones, which is now done. Yes, Sprint partners with Motorola by debuting yet another Android beast, the Motorola Photon. Photon is also Sprints’ first smartphone featuring the NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor. Undoubtedly, Android has the dominant position in the Smartphone share, especially in the US market for which some credit goes to Sprint as it was wholly focused on Smartphones last year. More than 50% of Sprint phones are Smartphones of which 70% is Android. Sprint said that this partnership with Motorola is a promise to offer customers the best ever smartphone. We cannot come to a conclusion on this until we have the final device on hand but however we can get an overall idea on the phone with the launch device which was not a final product however, and all the features it included. Go, read ahead and check it out.

What new on Motorola Photon?

Motorola Photon is the first ever 4G Word phone available from any of the US carriers. You can now roam world wide as both GSM and CDMA technologies are in built.

Design, Connectivity option and Features:

Motorola Photon although features a magnificent 4.3-inch display, it is comfortable to hold, all thanks to Motorola for such a sleek design. The flat edges at the corners doesn’t mean that Motorola has given it a masculine design but it looks like more importance is given to comfort when holding as we can place our thumb.

The phone has a dedicated camera button and volume controls with raised edges. These buttons were not easily to access, however it was not the final product. The phone also features the HDMI port and micro SD card slot on the left spine of the phone while on top of the phone is the display lock button and the headphone jack.

Photon at the demo launch featured a 8MP camera with a built in flash which leaves  our mouth open but it all end up looking at the just the VGA camera up front. The rear camera will be capable of recording 720p video while you can transfer a 1080p video through the HDMI cable to watch the same on a big screen. Motorola photon is the first ever smartphone to include a kickstand which when flipped open, the display goes to landscape mode automatically. The kickstand is sure to be loved by movie lovers as they can just leave the phone on the table while enjoying watching videos on the big display. External memory can be expanded up to 32 GB while what’s exciting is its on board memory of 16GB which gives you a total of 48GB data storage. The final product will be running on the Gingerbread 2.3, will include the corporate email access in addition to personal which was one of many Motorola’s aim before designing it and finally it will include the Sprint ID, a great achievement by Sprint. Sprint ID will help you customize your phone with widgets and ringtones like the way you want.

You can check out the press release here.

source: http://blog.itechtalk.com/2011/motorola-photon-is-all-about-power-and-speed/