Review: Software For Recording Now, Playing Later

SAN FRANCISCO - If the idea of ​​being stuck on a plane for hours without access to movies in your Netflix queue fills you with fear, software that lets you record streaming videos on the web and watch them later on your laptop can be an attractive solution.

That's the idea behind the play distillates, which describes itself as "DVR for online video." It can record content from a variety of online sources - including Hulu, YouTube and Netflix - and save it to your computer. It costs $ 5 per month or $ 50 per year. New users can try it free for two weeks before you pay.

If you buy or rent more than a couple of Digital Video, Amazon.com, Inc. or Apple Inc. 's iTunes Music Store every month, sounds like a game then to save money. And even if it is a potentially useful product, must be improved long before I would be willing to pay for it.

Included is also possible that sites like Netflix to find a way to prevent a game later. They probably will not, because they do not jibe with the way they do business. In general, streaming movies are sold with the download, so both sites, and the studios risk losing the game later. Web sites do not want you to jump on the ads, either.

It is unlikely that the Web sites and film companies have legal recourse against the parent and its distillates play MediaMall Technologies Inc., as it was determined that digital video recorders (like TiVo) are legal, but you never know. A spokeswoman said Senar MediaMall are associated with certain companies whose content it streams.

In principle, the software works this way: When you click on the video to play within the application and save it on your computer, there will be a video hidden in the Internet browser and copy it from there.

This means that copies of the real-time video streaming, so you have to allow about 93 minutes to save the pilot of David Lynch in the TV movie 90's "Twin Peaks". If you save a video that includes advertising, will be there, too, but you will be able to jump ahead of them when seen.

The software, which currently works only on computers running Microsoft Windows, is easy to download and install PlayLater.tv site. It operates in 30 sites, or "channels", which vary Netflix, YouTube and Hulu is the Cartoon Network, ESPN, Comedy Central, and Internet radio service Pandora. For password protected sites, like Netflix, you must enter your login information.

The software is easy to navigate, but it is ugly and difficult with lots of text and pictures. In general, you have to click through multiple levels of tabs to find the video clip, movie or TV show you want. Fortunately, some of the channels have a search bar, and if there is one I found was, it is generally easier to use it to find what I wanted.

The resulting video, which played in Windows Media Player, were somewhat blurred and the colors fade significantly - probably the result of copying software and the transmission of compressed video and then compressed again. The logs look good when viewed in a smaller window, but have not been strong in the full screen mode. The recording technology is only slightly better than aim a video camera to a television screen, and it shows.

And I can not wait to watch these videos on the tablet PC or Smartphone just yet, they are stored in file format, which can only repeat what the computer software. This is intentional - the company does not want to spread all over the recorded video. But by the end of the year, the company hopes to repeat the iPad.

And while MediaMall also offers a software called Playon, which can be used to view recordings in other places, such as an intelligent computer or tablet, it requires an Internet connection and costs several dollars more per month ($ MediaMall offers two 8 per month or $ 70 per year).

Watch videos PlayLater my PC, I had a series of questions, perhaps indicating my laptop is also taxed to handle playback, record and other programs at the same time. Many times I tried to watch a video while recording another, I could hear the sound, but only saw a bright pink screen. And my computer crashed three times when using the program and the other at the same time. Error in installing Windows 7, and another, not saving Netflix.

There were problems with the registration, too. Senar play several times that he recorded an entire TV show, when in fact he did not. In cases recorded only part of an episode of teen drama "clumsy". MTV. Another time, the software works as if it had recorded a whole episode of "Glee" to Hulu, but could not because the show was only available to paying subscribers to the premium Hulu Hulu Plus service.

As much as I love to watch movies online and fast forward through commercials, PlayLater is not the right tool in its current state. Of things I can not see now, I'll pay for play downloads later.

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Facebook Under Pressure On Privacy: Source

LONDON (Reuters) - Facebook faces monitoring in Ireland, the site of its European headquarters, the processing of personal data, the Financial Times on Friday.

The newspaper said the Data Protection Commissioner of Ireland to carry out an audit of the privacy of Facebook outside the United States and Canada, after complaints by European and American campaign group Irish and Privacy Commissioner U.S. Federal Trade Commission.

Facebook groups as problematic, "the even distribution of" reading, listening and viewing activities, and the use of cookies on users 'surfing'.

The Financial Times reported that Gary Davis, vice-curator Irish data protection, said his office to conduct a detailed audit of the group's activities outside the United States and Canada next month.

"This audit will examine the matter, but that is also more comprehensive and will try to explore Facebook in general compliance with data protection laws of Ireland."

The European headquarters is in Dublin Facebook, which makes their operations outside the United States and Canada, subject to Irish law and European data protection.

Facebook was not immediately available for comment.

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Idaho Lab Has Analyzed Stuxnet Computer Virus

Idaho Falls, Idaho (Reuters) - Behind the doors of a nondescript red brick and gray building at the Idaho National Laboratory is the laboratory of malware, where the government cybersecurity experts analyzed Stuxnet computer virus.

Malware targets industrial control systems widely used built by the German company Siemens. Internet experts said it was driven primarily by Iran's nuclear program and sophistication indicated the involvement of a nation-state, perhaps the United States or Israel.

Stuxnet virus was "a significant turning point in the network world, says Marty Edwards, the Department of Homeland Security official in charge of the computer program, in collaboration with Idaho National Laboratory, which makes nuclear research.

The U.S. government fears that the attacks could devastate the industrial base, and cost millions of dollars. Idaho lab programs are aimed at protecting infrastructure industrial chemical plants, food processing, utilities, water and transport.

"It 's probably the most important security issue facing us today," said Greg Schaffer, a senior official of the DHS National Protection and Programs Directorate. "This is a problem that continues to grow."

In the first round of the EDS corporate media Idaho Falls, installation, Thursday and Friday, visiting the laboratory malware journalists and saw demonstrations of how the cyber intrusion can attack the computer networks of industries.

The building that houses the laboratory of malware is also behind the trucks to carry equipment that companies send the analysis of vulnerability information.

Analyzing Stuxnet

The malware is a quiet laboratory with a large conference table in dark Homeland Security analysts Idaho National Laboratory look at the computer screen large study of lines of code in the malware to try to determine how to fight it.

"This is the position of the location we did the analysis Stuxnet the virus when it first came out," said Edwards.

"The virus was brought here and run on a computer installation content control against the current system so that we can study these effects to deliver mitigation measures for the general public," he said.

Edwards would have revealed details of the analysis, because it was sensitive information, but said the findings released by industries that have a "need to know to protect yourself."

"But in general, we found that Stuxnet a sophisticated virus that has been looking for a very specific operating system," he said. "And this system engineered evil intentions."

The laboratory carries out his analysis of malicious code as a "sandbox", an isolated environment is not connected to an external computer to prevent infection.

"You do not want something, do not parse the rest, to crawl out of the U.S. Department of Energy or the Department of Safety Systems," said Edwards.

The United States vulnerable to attack Stuxnet style?

"All the industrial control systems that implement some kind of sensitivity to attacks as Stuxnet. But thanks to the efforts that have been associated with the industry, I can say that there are great strides in protecting systems," said Edwards.

White and a glass cube-shaped building shows signs along the steps, he said, "this area is not approved for classified discussions" rather than mobile phones allowed.

It was the site of the watch and warning center classified, where cyber-threat data collected and shared. It is completely optional for private companies to share data is often protected by the government when they suspect a cyber attack.

EDS has received 81 applications from private companies to evaluate the safety control system this year, against 57 last year.

Look in the middle of the staff to sit on the computer screen and watching large screens in the head to identify cases that may be cyber-threat to the industry.

"Often in the early stages, we do not know what the event is," said Schaffer. For example, they discussed the recent failure of San Diego removed the power of electricity to millions of people but then determined he was not a cyber-attack.

"We are aware of anything that will negatively impact the ability of our Internet ecosystem," said Schaffer.

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Intel Says: "Goodbye Meego, Hello Tizen"

Some days, it seems that mobile platforms are dropping like flies, but it will grow like mushrooms. On Wednesday, Intel announced it was dropping Meego mobile operating system that was launched last year, Nokia, and at the same time, will develop the Linux open-source mobile platform called Tizen.

Intel will work with the Linux Foundation, LiMo Foundation in the creation and launch of Tizen, with the first version of the OS in the first quarter of next year and Tizen based devices in the middle of 2012. Tizen will be built on technologies based on Web standards. MeeGo was an attempt by Intel and Nokia to merge their two previous Linux-based platforms, Intel's Moblin and Maemo, Nokia.

"Why not just MeeGo evolve?"

The official blog MeeGo, asked Intel Open Source Technology Center Director Imad Sousou rhetoric a central question: "Why not just develop MeeGo?" The answer, he says, is that "the future belongs HTML5 based applications in Apart from a relatively small percentage of applications ", and Intel believes that its investments should go in this direction.

But, he added, "going from HTML5 is not just slapping Runtime Web is there for Linux, at least one goal is mobile, such as MeeGo."

Sousou said, stressing the HTML5 API refers to the need to develop the technology and market segment, which is a new platform could easily provide.

Tizen reside inside the Linux Foundation is governed by a technical steering group, will develop an open and supportive tablets, laptops, telephones, televisions and intelligent integrated information and entertainment.

On the new site Tizen.org said a speech of welcome Tizen API capabilities across different platforms, including messaging, multimedia, camera, media and social networking, and there will be a development kit to create native code. It is not yet clear whether Tizen will use some of the developments already made MeeGo.

Nokia Smartphone Meego

Nokia announced Tuesday its first smartphone MeeGo, the N9, which could well be his last. Intel abandons MeeGo addition, Nokia is committed to exceeding its line of smartphones with Microsoft Windows 7, new phone platform for which a feature-rich update was available Tuesday Mango.

Intel long-term commitment Meegan was difficult, especially following the Nokia-Microsoft alliance. Last month, for example, Intel and Google have announced they will work together to optimize the new generations of open source Google Android platform low-power Atom chip maker.

Intel is particularly interested in placing a chip 32 nanometer Medfield for mobile devices, as well as future 22-nanometer processors. The dominant processor for smart phones and tablets are those based on designs from ARM Holdings in the UK. ARM chips used in smart phones from Apple, Samsung, HTC, Research In Motion, and tablets.

At this time last month, Intel said it was still committed to MeeGo, but he was interested in placing more for embedded applications.

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Linux-based Mobile Operating System May Complain Tizen Overseas

The project Tizen unveiled Wednesday to develop a new open source mobile platform based on Linux could gain ground with the wireless carriers abroad, who are afraid of becoming dependent on platforms related to U.S. companies.

The project implemented by Tizen new Intel, Linux Foundation, LiMo Foundation is to provide a viable alternative to Apple's mobile platform Android and IOS Google, which dominates the smart phone and tablet in global markets.

Wireless carriers in Europe and Asia have said privately they believe it is unhealthy for them to rely almost exclusively on two mobile platforms - or even three, including updates for Microsoft Windows for new phones , said IDC Research Manager, Francisco Jeronimo. This provides an opportunity for growth potential Tizen abroad ", because otherwise the United States govern the whole phone industry," he said.

"With Android, Windows Phone iOS and even become the largest of the platforms, European operators will be totally dependent on U.S. companies," said Jerome in an email on Thursday. "That's what they fear."

According to Jeronimo, which is Android device manufacturers wary of a rising wave of patent infringement lawsuits against the Android. And they are also wary of Google long-term intentions regarding its purchase of the Motorola Mobility earlier this year.

"The acquisition of Motorola's recently Google has changed the game [for] alienating most of the major players in the Android," Jeronimo said. "The phone manufacturers do not see Google's partner is no longer alone, but [also] as a competitor."

Long-term strategy

At first glance, Microsoft's new Windows is Phone 7.5, also known as mango, seems to provide handset vendors and wireless carriers with an alternative to the IOS and Android. "But it is not enough to compete with Android and Google, as it is still a closed platform," said Jeronimo.

The first version of the SDK Tizen and is expected to achieve the developers of the first quarter of 2012, which would allow the first device may enter the market as soon as next year in the medium term. However, it is too early to know if the new open-source platform to be widely adopted by consumers.

"Tizen is considered a long-term strategy," said Jerome. "Whether or not it will succeed - that's another story."

Among other things, Tizen promoters need to build "an interesting experience you that attracts consumers to buy phones Tizen instead of the popular iPhone and Android devices," said Jeronimo. Extensive support of industry will be asked to Tizen to grab market share at the expense of the current leaders of the mobile operating system.

Need a robust ecosystem

Jeronimo Tizen believes that foreign carriers should be taken as Telefonica, Orange and Vodafone in Europe, SK Telecom, South Korea and NTT DoCoMo in Japan. In addition, other industry players like Samsung, Huawei, NEC, and access are likely to follow, he said.

Even then, however, would Tizen need to start "a large number of units of different prices subsidized by the operators so that consumers are attracted by better value for money compared to other phones," said Jeronimo.

In addition, Tizen long-term viability will depend on the extent to which the open-source Linux Foundation attracts the support of a community of developers around the world. In the absence of a robust ecosystem, where a lot of applications and services, believes Jeronimo Tizen can not hope to compete with Apple iTunes App Store, Android Market, or even a Windows Mobile Marketplace.

"For any other operating system to be successful, needs a strong community to continually develop new applications," Jeronimo said. "But it will only be sent if you are big enough to attract them."

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Samsung Will Pay Microsoft Royalties Over The Android

Samsung is beginning to pay Microsoft royalties for every sale of smartphones, and tablet PCs that are running Google's Android platform rival.

Microsoft has long accused Android for violating its patents.

Google said that the competitor of Microsoft in the United States had "recourse to legal measures to tighten the profit of the successes of others and makes the pace of innovation."

Meanwhile, Samsung has received support from T-Mobile in their ongoing legal battle with Apple.

IP Wars

Google says Microsoft is using "the same tactics we've seen time and again."

He added: "We remain focused on building new technologies and support for the Android partners."

Fri Roman technology investment bank GP Bullhound said it did not surprise announcement by Samsung of Microsoft.

"Many people have long said that Android contains some Microsoft technologies," he said.

"Ultimately, we are in the field of IP [intellectual property] wars. There is now an intense battle between the technology giants of their intellectual property portfolio. "

In the lateral

Samsung has also received assistance from T-Mobile in its ongoing legal battle with Apple.

Samsung and Apple face off in courts around the world, as used in patent dispute smartphones and tablets.

Apple has applied for an injunction that would prevent Samsung sells several of its products in the United States. A hearing on the injunction is scheduled for October 13.

Now T-Mobile has filed documents with the court, saying any ban would bring "unnecessary damage" to itself and its customers because it would not be able to find alternative products before the Christmas season.

T-Mobile Support for Samsung follows the support of Verizon, who said earlier this week the line corporation that owns more of the patent should not hinder the flow of future devices.

"The dramatic growth"

Microsoft and Samsung is also said to cross-license their patent portfolios.

Samsung in South Korea has also agreed to cooperate in developing and marketing Windows Phone, Microsoft's own operating system smart phone.

Andy Lees, president of Microsoft Windows Mobile, said: "Microsoft and Samsung the opportunity to see the strong growth of Windows Mobile, and we are investing to make it a reality."

The chairman of the president of Samsung executive vice president of global product strategy, Won-Pyo Hong, said the two companies "continue to provide the latest innovations for the mobile industry."

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China Launches Space Station Module

 

Xinhua, Wang Jianmin - In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, a Long March-2FT1 carrier rocket loaded with Tiangong-1 unmanned space lab module blasts off from the launch pad at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China's Gansu Province, Thursday, Sept. 29, 2011. China launched the experimental module to lay the groundwork for a future space station on Thursday, underscoring its ambitions to become a major space power. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Wang Jianmin) NO SALES

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BEIJING - China launched an experimental module to lay the groundwork for a future space station on Thursday, underlining his ambition to become a major space power during the next decade.

The size of the box car Falun Tian module was shot into space from Jiuquan Launch Center on the edge of the Gobi Desert on a rocket Long March 2FT1.

It moves in an orbit 217 miles (350 km) above the ground, and to investigate the Chinese farmland by using special cameras, with essays by crystal growth in weightlessness.

China plans to launch an unmanned drone satellites Shenzhou 8 after practicing docking maneuvers remotely controlled with the module, possibly in the coming weeks. Two missions, at least one of them inhabited, are running with it next year for more practice with the astronauts stay a month.

Form 8.5 tonnes, whose name translates as "The Heavenly Palace 1" is to stay afloat for two years, after which the other two experimental modules have been launched in more testing before the unit was real launched in three parts between 2020 and 2022.

"This is an important test. We have never done that before," Jinrong Lu, chief engineer of the launch center, was quoted by official news agency Xinhua.

Space Station, which has not yet officially named, is the most ambitious space project in China, seeking to land on the moon, astronauts could.

Technically, Tiangong-1 launch sites in China, the United States was in 1960 during the Gemini program. Even if you are planning to launch a less comprehensive than the United States, China, the program also proceeds in the United States made every start, it binds, said Joan Johnson-Freese, an expert on how the U.S. Naval War College in Rhode Island.

"China has the advantage of more than 40 years later, not having to start at the bottom of the learning curve in its manned spaceflight program," said Johnson-Freese.

China's authoritarian, centralized political system also offers the advantage of the freedom of political wrangling over the financing and clearly long-term goals of the program in Soviet-style five-year plans.

China launched its first manned flight in 2003, with Russia and the United States the only country to launch humans into orbit, and to produce enormous amounts of national pride in the communist government.

However, normal, and the secret space program is closely linked to arms that was blocked by co-operation with the space programs of other nations' - such as the International Space Station.

In about 60 tons when completed, will be Chinese station considerably smaller than the ISS from 16 countries, which should continue to operate until 2028.

China has repeatedly asked to join the ISS, but was rejected largely on the objections of the United States, encouraging them to adopt a go-it-yourself approach.

Although the program went off without a problem as was the launch of a module of Falun Tian delayed by a year for technical reasons, and then again after a long Long March 2C rocket in March 2F resembles failed to reach orbit in August. The episode with the rocket have been examined, and problems are ironed out.

Although experts do not see any specific military action in China Space Station, space for other military programs, including the destruction of the dead Chinese satellite rocket in 2007, have caused alarm abroad.

"This is a country made its own, saying," Well, we can do what you have done for our country, apart from cooperation, the Chinese conditions, "said Charles Vick, an expert on the Chinese space program Globalsecurity.org, that tracks military and security news.

There are many challenges ahead of us, also try to dock at a distance - American astronauts aboard the treated room from their spaceship. Long March 5 rocket, which is ready to launch 20-tonne space station modules for real also remains untested.

Yet Beijing is expected to continue despite the difficulties, as it continues to lead the international prestige, credibility, domestic, technological and economic benefits, said Johnson-Freese and Vick.

"Basically, they will get what they want, no matter how long or what it takes for the authoritarian state to perform the tasks assigned," said Vick.

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NASA: Satellite Fell Into The South Pacific, Not In Canada

WASHINGTON (AP) - The dead NASA satellite fell into what could be the perfect place - part of the South Pacific, about as far from large land masses that you can get, the leaders of the American space said Tuesday.

New group of U.S. air calculations to 6 tons (5.4 metric tons) the death of thousands of satellites falling early Saturday of kilometers (miles) northwest of North America, where there were reported sightings. Instead, he dives in remote islands developed a vast ocean.

NASA said the new calculations show the 20-year satellite entered the atmosphere of the Earth in general, American Samoa. But falling debris as he broke not start hitting the water for another 300 miles (480 km) north-east, south-west of Christmas Island, just after midnight EDT Saturday.

Experts believe that about two dozen metal bus-sized satellite fell from more than 500 miles (800 km) span.

"This is a relatively uninhabited world, far away," orbital debris at NASA scientist Mark Matney said. "This is certainly a good place in terms of risk."

Scientists who follow space debris could not be happier with the result.

"That's the way it should be. I think it's perfect, "said Bill Ailor, director of the Center for Studies and orbital debris back at Aerospace Corp." It's just as good as it gets. "

On Saturday, investigators said, were some of the songs would have been able to achieve in the north-west Canada, and supports the results in Canada to spread on the Internet. But NASA said Tuesday that the new calculations show that landed a few minutes earlier than they thought, changing the debris field in a completely different hemisphere.

"It just shows you the difference that 10 or 15 minutes can do," says Harvard University astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell, following human space objects. Saturday, he noted: "We talked, 'Wow, he hit Seattle? "

NASA will not say how he knows climate research satellite came before, referring questions to Air Force Space Operations Center. Air Force spokeswoman Julie Horn said Ziege improved reconstruction of the computer model after the satellite has fallen helped pinpoint where the satellite - satellite called the upper atmosphere research back to Earth - Return to Earth

After UARS was launched in 1991, NASA and other space agencies adopted new procedures to reduce space debris and satellites fall to earth. So NASA satellites is not as great as that fall to Earth without control in the next 25 years, according to the NASA orbital debris chief scientist Nicholas Johnson.

But the other satellites will continue to decline. End of October or early November, a German astronomy satellite is set to plunge back to Earth in an uncontrollable. Although slightly smaller than the UARS, the German satellite is expected to survive a return to more pieces, says McDowell, who worked for one of the instruments of it.

The German satellite ROSAT was launched in 1990, died in 1998, and weighs 2 and a half tons (1.8 tons). The German Space Agency figures, 30 pieces, weighing less than 2 tons survive to return. Debris can be sharp shards of a mirror.

The German Space Agency put the odds of someone, somewhere on Earth happens to one of its satellites-in-2,000 - slightly higher than the level of risk was calculated by the NASA satellite. But the chances of success are one of a 1-in-14 trillion dollars, because there are seven billion people on this planet.

Online:

NASA's UARS site: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/uars/index.html

The German space agency on ROSAT: http://bit.ly/papMAA

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3D Learning Tools For Students With A Positive, Says Study

 

Biology teacher Ros Johnson says that the 3D projection bodies have given way to learn a new school of Reading Abbey.

A study of the impact of 3D in the classroom have found that it improves test scores by an average of 17%.

More and more schools are using 3D projectors and learning resources to add a new dimension to learning.

The research, carried out in seven schools across Europe, found that 3D tools enables learning help children focus more.

It also leads to children to talk back in class discussions.

Only a handful of schools in the UK with the technology, which requires a 3D compatible projector and 3D glasses for all students and a set of customized learning resources.

The study, by researchers from the International Agency for Research on behalf of Texas Instruments, evaluated 740 students from schools throughout France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Turkey, United Kingdom and Sweden.

Students were tested before and after school with a control group learning with traditional resources only.

On average, an improvement of 86% of students in classes in the 3D test results, compared with 52% of children using traditional teaching methods.

It also found that levels of care were fired - with 92% of the attention during class lessons in 3D to pay compared to 46% in the traditional learning environment.

"He caught the attention of children, and this continued after the 3-D episode, it seemed to trigger an interest in learning which was maintained until the end of the lesson," says Professor Anne Bamford, who led the study.

"The level of questioning has also increased funny and teachers reported that children ask questions were those who would not normally engage in the class," she told the BBC.

The researchers observed a series of biology lessons, where children learned about the functions of the body.

"Children will see how things work. Instead of a static heart to learn that they can look in a robust way, literally, to see the blood through the valves, see ', oxygen shift, tilt and zoom," said Professor Bamford.

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Amazon $ 199 Sparks Fire Power, Problems Of Margin

Price of a new tablet computer is in the fire raises questions about Amazon.com Inc., the ability to keep pace with demand, and the device is already on the edge margins.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has proven to be a millionaire fire Wednesday at a price lower than expected at $ 199.

Bezos said that Amazon will make "millions" and the pill, no deeper. However, he urged customers to advance the device at first.

"When Bezos joked that people should get their pre-orders quick, it was not just a selling point," said Brian Blair, an analyst at Wedge Partners. "It was this warning will sell."

When the Kindle first came out in 2007, Amazon has not done enough, and e-reader sold out in less than a week. This meant the company missed the sale and received a device to lower the hands of customers' limiting the rapid adoption.

"I hope they learned their lesson from the last time," said Vinita Jakhanwal, iSuppli analyst at IHS, which follows the supply chain of electronic components.

Amazon spokesman did not respond to a request for comment Thursday.

Amazon has aligned 4-5000000 fire screens in the fourth quarter, which is a "significant" amount, Jakhanwal added.

However, the technology used to screen for at least four a year and have already been produced in large quantities, which reduces the risk of supply shortages, Jakhanwal said.

One of the components have been rare in the first half of 2011, the 10-inch screen, mainly because of the IPAD, Bradley Gastwirth according to technology research company strategy ABR investment.

"This is probably one of the main reasons that Amazon started with 7-inch form factor," he said.

Specialized components still others may be in short supply and that could limit the number of fire can be done quickly, Jakhanwal said.

Other parts of the unknown, according to Blair Wedge is. But he expects to re-run of 2007 selling the fire quickly.

Colin Sebastian, an analyst with RW Baird, Amazon had the same tablet sales forecast on Wednesday, is concerned about potential supply shortages of things. 2000000-3000000 expects unit sales this year and next year 4-6000000.

Amazon has better data on consumer demand and the supply chain it did in 2007, said Scott Devitt, an analyst at Morgan Stanley.

"But price point of $ 199 could stimulate greater demand, if supply is possible, and something to consider," he added.

Part of the success of Apple Inc. with IPAD and other products has been driven by its tight control over its supply chain that ensured she got enough pieces before its rivals.

"Apple's supply chain, manufacturing and distribution capabilities to provide a competitive advantage for Amazon, which can be difficult to produce more than a few million fires Kindle for Christmas," said Gene Munster, an analyst PiperJaffray.

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$ 199 Munster of fire and other stakeholders about the profit margins on Amazon as well.

Amazon still compete aggressively on price, often pick up losses when it enters new markets. The company is now branching into several new areas and its profits have suffered.

Apple enjoys gross margins of 30 percent on the iPad. This is partly because the company offers digital content at a lower cost to encourage the purchase of such equipment. However, Munster estimated that Amazon will probably lose about $ 50 on each Kindle fire seller.

Anthony Clement, an analyst at Barclays Capital, expects Amazon's pro forma operating margin of 3.2 percent in the fourth quarter, down 160 basis points more than a year earlier.

However, Amazon hopes to make up any losses on the fire Kindle by additional purchases of other company's products and services that users of the device.

Morgan Stanley Devitt cites the example of the ebooks. Lighting the fire can increase purchases of digital books, which accelerates the disappearance of physical libraries, he said.

In fact "lead to an industry with fewer traders and therefore higher margins in the long term," said Devitt.

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Stop People Hostage Inbox

It's hard to believe that just two decades, we had a day without having to send or receive e-mails.

Now, the acceleration of the avalanche of digital missives back and forth line of fire as an epic battle between the laser rebels and the Empire - and recently, the discharge was almost enough to seriously injure the good old U.S. postal service.

All in all, we will send approximately 300 billion emails per day worldwide, according to research firm Radicati. The average business email account accepts and takes out more than 100 entries a day. And we're just going to come out and say a bunch of those emails are just useless, send a print-happy computer users across the frivolity splashing their lists of contacts.

E-mail courtesy is contagious, and it starts with you. In this sense, here are three rules of the game by sending a group e-mail.

First Think long and hard on the "To:".

All the whining we filled our mailboxes, not enough time to deal sympathetically imagine the things that send our friends. Apply Awareness, Buzzy the pop-psychology concept of being in the moment and think about what you do, e-mail transmission.

All 63 participants are unlikely to enjoy the video very adorable puppies sneezing. People who live in another state does not need to know the curtain rises on your new puppet influenced reinvention of "Lost in Yonkers." The occasional friend who never, never, never responds to weekend-planning group e-mails are not suddenly want to be known as you draw your Friday night bar crawl.

Stop the madness, and to cut carefully before pressing "Send".

Do not blindly second BCC.

We said before the Blind Carbon Copy is one of the most abused web tools. Here are the bullet points - read sloooowly then attacks:

Valid justification, the BCC recipient list:

● There is a huge and heavy list (in this case, see # 1)

● There are people on the list if the e-mail for the rest of the world should not have (eg, personal e-mail about this B-movie star, you used to go clubbing with in Berlin)

● honest person would have to include the previous e-mail blast. Did you realize the omission later, and I thought, "Dang, I forgot to Tommy, it would be hard to tack on his debate now so I'll just send an e-mail fresh, the BCC and leave this to be the first time I have to warn anyone in my chicken wire-and-dumb-string installation Opening Ceremony. "Hey, it happens.

Unacceptable for reasons of the list of Bcc recipients:

● You do not want people to know who else is invited (or whoever is in possession of information you disclose.) Sometimes, the list of people invited BCC for their birthday party to give a sense of exclusivity, for example. He turns around when you invite a friend to talk to non-guests or, worse, do not come because he is afraid of his ex-girlfriend Sulky was invited, too.

● You want to check your email to another recipient slyly. Sometimes people do this with the best intentions - you BCC your friend Carl on an e-mail you send to your heads, singing the praises of Carls and recommend it to an open position. But as a boss hit reply to all, and explains that he met colleague Carl and heard terrible things about him - a note that OL "C, to hang in limbo and get BCC. The trick yellow on your face? is eggs.

The problem can occur when the BCC does not realize that you copy hidden knowledge: he tube up to the debate, revealing gossip and embarrassing for both. Instead BCC'ing, Peeping Tom forward to change things later.

3rd Let people opt-out.

This is an injustice, really, can not unsubscribe from person to person by e-mail discussions about how you can cut that deal with daily offerings of fruits crackers cuttered animals and letters and flowers and other things. But unfortunately, when a spam reaching your inbox and not offensive enough to get the "spam" treatment, they are forced to rely on the rest of the group to give him the boot.

Quick example: Your friend Debbie e-mails to the entire band to ask if anyone wants to see the band of fellow ska punk, indie, Phat Pigeon Friday. To respond rapidly to everyone to tell their friends who will be the home of his grandparents in Ohio over the weekend, drink syrups to your liquor cabinet and watch TV with wrong powder in the five hours between bedtime and yours.

And here's the hostage situation begins. Clearly, you do not want to read, followed by 300 e-mail plan in advance the place of celebration, drink and supplies choices suit the whole group, but your friends just do not stop hitting Reply All. (This applies to business situations, too: Do ​​you realize that you're not in this project, the lips, but you're stuck in your email in the crossfire.)

Take Home Message: If you are the initiator of a group email (Debbie in this situation), it is your duty to keep quiet about the To: field clean and tidy. If someone tricks you want, even if they have nothing new to add to the thread, it's your job to react quickly and say: "I took so long and so far from the chain. What about the rest of you?"

Another tip for beneficiaries annoying, however: if the message comes from a group mailing list [a broadcast or a group of ex-Google, for example], not just hit reply and write "I stop getting this" in the body of another message. He did not lose a magic fairy to unsubscribe from your inbox, but rather than spam the group with his letter. Instead, take the extra 20 seconds to scan the offending e-mail with instructions to unsubscribe.

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Microsoft Launches Windows Mobile Marketplace

Finally, Windows Mobile 7 operating system has begun to recover.

Microsoft Windows Web Phone Marketplace went live Tuesday, years after its competitors Apple and Google have launched their own. App Store launch in the expansion of the last iteration of Microsoft operating system Windows 7 Phone (Mango).

Version 7.5 for Windows to implement the previous owner of the phone, slowly, to ensure there is no concern for users, according to the company. Mango adds more than 500 tweaks and features of Windows Mobile 7.

Windows Mobile Marketplace, a portal that will bring more than 30,000 apps behind him, an admirable enough (although still far behind its competitors). Applications are organized into 16 categories, and on the main page, you can also browse the exhibition, free, from the top or the new.

Games are an application-independent form and are organized in one of the 14 different categories. In the application of a page or a game, you get what you expect from a web application based on the market: the application icon, price, classification, description, pictures and comments.

Once you have purchased an application from the online store, you can choose to receive your phone Windows hardware via email or SMS.

The update of the handle is free and completely optional, but we had the opportunity to check in advance and, honestly, there are few reasons not to upgrade. In particular, the operating system adds some seriously cool integration of social media to your list of contacts, people called the Hub.

It also adds sharing features Wi-Fi and Yelp-like built-in app called local scout to the home screen.

If you are an approach Samsung, Dell and others Venue Pro Windows 7 phone owner, you receive a delivery notice OTA to the device when the update is up and ready for download. To check the status of available updates, visit the "Where is my day" site, which is today.

You do not need a PC or Mac software update to install the connector, but are available online for free (details can be found on the Windows Mobile blog).

A number of Windows Phone Mango specific devices will be released later this fall.

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Game Consoles To Enhance Video Capabilities

San Francisco - When Microsoft launched the first Xbox is almost a decade, analysts considered the effort and losing money to be a kind of Trojan horse in the show: an attempt to become a home media center center.

Now, Microsoft is facing a covert aggression Apple, Google, Samsung Electronics, and the creation of companies like Roku and Boxee. All of them are struggling to fill holes in Internet video on the big screen with the hardware that makes it easy to view on demand.

Microsoft and Sony, which makes the PlayStation, seeking to enhance their video offerings on the Internet before the new challengers to capture the home entertainment market which have been in cultivation for many years with their systems.

Sony plans to develop a new version of its video download service for PlayStation 3 on Tuesday. People who subscribe to the PlayStation also be able to download a summary, and from October 11, all owners of the console games you can download the application from the home screen in the same way they can get from Netflix .

Stylish Video Unlimited is a large text, and the artwork for movies and television shows. The overall design is very similar to Metro Style Microsoft uses Windows Mobile 7 and Windows 8

Video Unlimited will send a new proprietary search interface that works well with the arrow keys on the remote control, which typically do not have keyboards, and the system suggests the results of a user - just like the Google search results predictive. Just navigate menus, the app often make recommendations for movies and the like.

"We want you to be able to search and navigate in a nonlinear way," said Michael Aragon, vice president of Sony Entertainment Network, in an interview. "We want people to get lost in the experience."

The company is renaming its suite of multimedia Qriocity, which includes a subscription music and video store. Music Unlimited and Unlimited live video under the umbrella of Sony Entertainment Network, and, finally, may be accompanied by the PlayStation Network, said Aragon.

For now, the PlayStation store network will continue to offer the same unlimited video programming that has to satisfy the customers familiar with media buying through existing stores.

Music Unlimited store and the PlayStation Network will be revised later, Aragon said. The music service has about 750,000 active users, and about 100,000 to pay for access, he said.

Couch potatoes waiting to start immediately, but the video of unlimited a la carte downloads do not do this at the time of the PlayStation. This works for Sony Blu-ray, which have the application installed, it is coming to PlayStation, Aragon said.

Redesigned for the video service from Sony is becoming a set-top boxes and televisions Bravia in the coming months, Aragon said. Sony tablet which is set to debut early next month, is an unrestricted version of the video and the iPhone App finally include the ability to watch videos online, he said.

With Web services, Sony hopes to leave behind the mistakes of earlier this year, resulting in a long-term failure for your network. A reminder of the broken recently when Sony has asked its users to give up your right to file lawsuits. In the interview, Aragon boasted that Sony has added 3 million accounts and use has increased more than 10% since the accident.

But Sony's distribution network has more than its own past mistakes care of itself over time. Google has developed an unwavering in the Google TV platform, the Sony installation of some of its products. Some of the signs within the supply chain that Apple is preparing a television. Samsung is pushing its Smart TV.

Even with a capacity of more TVs with the Internet group, the market for set-top boxes is expected to grow 14% this year to 21 million units sold, according to market research firm In-Stat.

Microsoft, Sony, feel the heat and continue to advance beyond the Xbox games.

"Xbox is to become the center of your living room," said Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer at a conference in January. "Is your game system is to movies, television experience."

Steve Ballmer has expanded on this concept in a presentation at its developer conference last month. Microsoft plans to launch a new video on demand and television services for Xbox Live, in collaboration with dozens of media companies, he said. There is already a channel ESPN for Xbox Live subscribers.

While Sony is optimizing its platform for remote controls with single search function, Microsoft is promoting the Kinect, with a microphone and a camera to detect motion, as the device to navigate video content. Microsoft has refused to issue an executive to be interviewed.

"Sure, we all know the frustrations of using the menus and the guides and drivers, and we think a better way to do this is simply to make Bing and talk with Xbox," Ballmer said last month. "You say that the Xbox can be found."

With Zune Pass, and video applications limited Xbox, Microsoft has taken advantage of subscription models. It is unclear how the new Xbox will be packed.

Nintendo has been testing the waters in 3-D media delivery through your hand 3DS. The Wii is not considered a center of the media, although they may have access to Netflix.

Netflix has about 24 million subscribers, and game consoles were a people the privilege of receiving the service. Sony card favors "Netflix model," said Aragon, since they can offer new movies in the vicinity when they are released on Blu-ray. "If you want to subscriptions, you can not have new content," he said.

Sony is planning to offer a subscription service catering to young people, which include animated movies, Aragon said. "PlayStation is so strong ties with the gamer market," he said.

Subscriptions are growing, as evidenced by the success of Netflix in partnership with Amazon.com 's 20th Century Fox announced on Monday, the instant video service. Microsoft and Sony wants to sell the media, not just the hardware that plays them. But if your game consoles were actually home entertainment Trojan horses, time is running out for them from his surprise, in the spring.

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Apple To Kill The IPod Classic, Shuffle?

IPod nano, an advocate in the venerable world of consumer technology, you can get an ax in one of his cousin, the iPod shuffle, the blog, which focuses on Apple news.

Citing an anonymous source, The Unofficial Apple Weblog reports that, in addition to presenting the iPhone 5 next week, Apple plans to remove outdated versions of his music in favor of smoother models, like the iPod Nano and iPod Touch.

Blog notes that Apple pulled the "product transition" during the most recent report earnings.

To say that the source is not an analyst, says the rumor TUAW sense.

"The classic is a legacy of 10 years and the existence of the iPod, has many similarities with the original iPod," writes editor Victor Ágreda blog, Jr. "The shuffle is basically the same form factor as the nano less than a monitor. "

He writes that the blog was "sitting up" about the killing and wrote only on speculation checked on other sites.

A unit of personal technology pioneer, credited with reviving Apple a decade ago, the iPod line now accounts for only 7 percent of total revenue from Apple. IPhone and iPad, which offers music and video streaming and many other features, has somewhat outweighed the utility of iPod.

Last year, Apple has done that then-CEO Steve Jobs has called "the biggest change in the range iPod ever."

But in the midst of great change for Touch, Nano and Shuffle, no mention was made of the classic iPod, which has many speculating that the end might be near.

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Facebook Rumors: Fact And Fiction

The recent deluge of Facebook changes - both those who have already taken place and those who are on the way - has people talking.

OK ... is an understatement. You have people who cry (with joy or anger). And smoking. And sometimes panicked.

When a site is about 800 million users, and each of these users have a quick and easy way to share their thoughts with others, the high interest rates and info starting to fly fast in the light of what looks like a fairly radical overhaul.

Inevitably, that leads to things getting a little 'confused at times. So, here we look at some of the rumors flying around that we have seen great changes in Facebook, one of our best to separate them.

1. Facebook plans to start charging

Do we really need to take that one? Apparently yes.

Every once in a while, the sound begins to emerge in the current state - often capitalized. Some people can not seem to get their brains in the fact that the useful services such as Facebook will remain free. Therefore, people start to copy and paste messages announcing the date of this site is a payment model.

A quick glance and you will find more "We will not pay for the Facebook" groups. On Facebook.

So, of course, when all the new changes implemented, the planets were aligned perfectly with the rumor back in the spring. This time, apparently, was so widespread that Facebook is going.

"The voices on the Internet, has attracted attention. We have no plans to charge on Facebook. It 's free and always will be," the site Posted in its own Facebook page.

Here's the deal: Facebook will never have a reason to start charging to use it. To simplify the situation, there is a Facebook client. You are your product. The economic model of the site is based on advertising and want as many users as possible swing before hungry advertisers click.

The charge will inevitably reduce the number of Facebook users. It will reduce advertising revenue. It will not happen.

Verdict: False. Very true.

Friends see the second site I visit, even when I'm not on Facebook

This is partly true, with a big "if."

With what Zuckerberg calls "frictionless sharing," Facebook users can have the stories they read on some sites led directly to their news feed for friends to share. But this does not occur on sites with Facebook " as "button - and only when the user has given permission to share the site info.

This is equal to the privacy complaint, Facebook has suffered in the past, when the new features to be started automatically when users opt-out instead of opting in

But there is always room for confusion. Some people do not realize they are allowed to work or may simply forget that they have activated. In this case, is not better to take the habit of reading many articles on how to find a new job, if you're FB friends with your boss.

Note: partly true (If you turn)

The third calendar displays all my photos and info (if I like it or not)

One of the biggest changes Facebook made is to change the profile pages of users in what is called a schedule. It would indeed make your profile more like a blog, with a chronological flow of images and messages around the time you were on Facebook, and even before.

People viewing your profile will be able to move from one year to another and see what they have been much more easily than they can now.

The reports that have led some users to panic or even say that they intended to remove all the images before the function of the rollers.

Here's the deal: The time will undoubtedly be easier for friends to view your photos and messages, especially the oldest. A simple click can take pictures of the last games of the office and respectable and play these dates keggers infamous old university (you know ... if you are young enough to be on Facebook at the University).

But you can cure your timeline. You can delete images or messages that do not want it and resize the images to emphasize (or de-emphasize) the figures in your life. At the end of the day, there will be nothing out there that is not already available from prying eyes - but the eyes just do not need to remove tough.

Verdict: Mostly false

4. Facebook controls my business when I'm not connected

It is not directly related to changes, but have emerged as they are about to deploy. And in truth, more than off-site sharing is introduced, it may become more widespread.

Earlier this week, posted a blogger Australian data, he said, shows the data sent to Facebook, users, even when they are connected to the site.

Facebook acknowledges that uses 'cookies' when you visit the site, which then sends the information from other sites, which are connected to it.

Facebook director of engineering, Arturo Bejar told the Wall Street Journal that the system is used to prevent phishing and spam and make it easier for users to connect to their sites online social network. Facebook delete the data immediately, he said, and never used for advertising or otherwise.

"We were forced to take all the information, and the stain," said Journal of Béjar. "What matters is what we say and groped a backup."

Verdict: true (but limited)

5. Spotify I can not use unless you link to Facebook

That depends: Are you already Spotify? If so, you are clear. Otherwise, or if you have already registered using your Facebook account, the two services are fairly married, 'Til Death are part of the digital age.

For Spotify, the new music streaming service, and Facebook is a way smooth and easy to listen to music and songs to share with friends. For those who might want to listen privately, or some elusive without a Facebook account is a hassle.

Users can continue to use Spotify settings to control which information can be sent to Facebook, though. So do not worry - if you secretly listen to a lot of Bieber and Gaga is Spotify, you can still do down low.

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