The count is not official, but is still cause for celebration for the staff of Twitter: the microblogging service would come to 20 billion messages.
The data is the tracking service GigaTweet.
Just two months ago was celebrating the Twitter posts 15 billion, indicating an accelerated growth in service activities.
4K format is capable of playing quality videos four times the full HD
YouTube has released a new option that allows users to watch videos with cinematic quality. The announcement was made during VidCon, conference on the online video industry, held this weekend in Los Angeles, USA. According to statement posted on the YouTube blog, the new format, called 4K is four times the full HD, capable of playing videos in 4096 x 2304 pixels. The 4K is capable of filling a screen 7.6 meters without losing quality resolution, according to YouTube. However, to be accessed with quality, the videos require a high speed connection and a large screen. YouTube has released five short films on a special channel for testing. To activate the new option simply choose "Original" menu of resolutions. The differences are almost imperceptible in a conventional monitors, without the option of high-definition.
A hacker tried to invade this young Twitter
A hacker identified as Frenchman Francois Cousteix was convicted by a court in Paris, five months in prison for attempted cybercrime. Cousteix admitted having tried to steal the password for Twitter as the famous American president, Barack Obama, and Britney Spears and Lily Allen. Cousteix's lawyers argued that the developer acted without intent to steal data. According to the defense, the man would have acted only with the intention of proving the security flaws of Twitter and gain fame. The Tribune, however, considered the criminal attitude of the young Frenchman who is 23 years.
Record hits has led to instability, maintenance should occur at different time of the games
Twitter has faced record access during the World Cup. Because of this, the site has gone through instabilities. Published the second vice president for communications of the company, Sean Garrett, the company's blog, June has been the worst month since the site last October. Second Report of Twitter, the site already was 5h and 22min off the air this month. "We are working with adjustments in our system to provide greater stability. We have long-term solutions in which we are working so that we can increase our capacity and to avoid interruptions during the World Cup, "Garrett said in a post on the company website. The executive said that the page is undergoing maintenance during the next two weeks and that the site can "baleiar. However, the changes will not occur while the games. Who wants to follow the schedule of maintenance can follow the profile @ Support .
Service will use the database of the Foursquare and Gowalla
Twitter announced the deployment of its service geolocalicação. Place with Twitter, you can report the location where you are sending the message. To make it available, Twitter has partnered with the Foursquare and the Gowalla. Thus, after clicking on an address posted on Twitter, the Internet can also provide check-ins made by users in Foursquare address. For now, the function is not available to Brazil. According to the director of geolocation Twitter, Othman Laraki, wrote on a company blog, the function must be available to 65 other countries next week. In the U.S., is now available. The new option will appear just below the box for publication on the site. The address will already referenced in the base of Tuite, next to the time of dissemination of the message. Twitter Place will run in the standard version and the mobile site. Users will be able to georeference from addresses already registered or enter new locations. According to the blog from Twitter , the API is now available for developers to incorporate the function in your applications. Last week, some users have had access to the "Friends in common" , but the service was not fully deployed.
The three days of opening the World Cup, Google has decided to innovate again. Now the company has replaced the familiar "Goooooooogle," which appears on the results page for a "Goooooooooool. The change seems only to those who search for "World Cup" in inglês.A search generates 156 million results.
Right at the top of the page, Google offers a spreadsheet with all groups in the competition and timing of the first two games, which happen on the 11th. Although well distributed, the spreadsheet has no other links.
In the sequel, comes the FIFA website in Portuguese, where you can check news, table games and group classification. At the base of the page, is the new icon, which has eleven letters O. A rout!
Kingston, global manufacturer of memory products. Today announced the launch of next-generation memory cards Kingston SDXC (eXtended Secure Digital Capacity), the fastest memory cards on the market with capacities ranging from 32GB up to 2TB. While very few cards SDXC are available on the market today, more and more devices are being built with slots for these cards. Devices to take advantage of these cards are high capacity and performance cameras, camcorders, HD TVs, navigation systems, computers, smartphones etc.. The card reader 19 in one of Kingston (Kingston part #: FCR-HS219 / 1) is also now compatible with this format.
The Kingston SDXC is compliant with SDA Memory Card Standard Version 3.01, UHS-1. UHS-1 stands for Ultra-High Speed Bus 1, which is the new architecture of SDXC. It is designed to achieve download speeds of around 104MB/se 300MB / s in the near future. Kingston is already secure read speeds of 60MB/se writing at around 35MB / s.
The Kingston SDXC UHS-1 Class 10 will be available for sale worldwide from the end of June for prices rondarão 450 Euros. Be covered by a lifetime warranty.
Features: Kingston SDXC UHS-1 Class 10:
The parent company of the operating system Ubuntu, Canonical, has released the first alpha version (version preceding the Beta versions) of the next Ubuntu 10.10, code-named "Maverick Meerkat." This is the first of three planned versions of Alpha. Alpha 1 Maverick Meerkat is based on Linux Kernel 2.6.34, which comes with Gnome in the version 2.31. In the version with KDE, the Kubuntu more properly, will come with the first beta of KDE 4.5, KDE compilation SC, code-named "Cucumber." Funny code names that put these versions, are not they? More details about this can be found in the Alpha release notes . The final version of the Maverick Meerkat is expected on 10 October 2010. The latest stable version of Ubuntu is version 10.04, code-named "Lucid Lynx", launched last April.
