CurveEvents : Windows Live Messenger

Posted by admin on May 3, 2010 0 comments


Microsoft begins to reveal what will the next version of Windows Live Messenger look like , the instant messaging service which attracts over 320 million users worldwide. Windows Live Messenger is more than 10 billion messages exchanged every day worldwide.

For Microsoft, the new version of Windows Live Messenger will be hinged on two words: proximity and privacy.

This new version has been designed to allow everyone to make Messenger the dashboard of his social life on the Internet, and strengthen links with relatives, ever more mixed emotions live in confidence.

By contrast to the social networking site Facebook,on the new version of Windows Live Messenger no personal information is visible by default. You keep control over the information that you post. With a new interface simpler and more intuitive, so you can set the privacy level you want, depending on the contact and type of information shared.

so what’s new in Windows Live Messenger 10:
• The development of HD for a better live chat
• A window on social networks, to “socialize” without losing control over your privacy
• The opening on the Web, share content and points of view
• The conversation video on 16:9 HD, the format automatically adjusts depending on the bandwidth of the computer or camera used, with the possibility of projection corresponding to the TV screen useful for live a moment with his family in movie format
• The ability to share content such as photos, while conducting a HD video conversation great for commenting on the photos and to party with friends
• the opportunity to organize your conversations tab to not mix discussions
• A status (available, busy, etc..) Contacts by category
• The ability to leave video messages even offline

CurveEvents : Google Earth 3D

Posted by admin on April 30, 2010 0 comments

In addition to the views in the form of maps and satellite images, users of Google Maps have now a new option: display images 3D from Earth View.
To enjoy these spectacular images, it is not necessary to install Google Earth. A simple plug-in is now enough to visit the planet in 3D, without leaving your browser. Its installation is also automatically offered when we connect to the mapping service.

Google justified this development by the improving of Web browsers which are now much faster. The plug-in is compatible with Windows operating systems (2000, XP, Vista and 7) and Mac OS X (version 10.4 and later).
It works with common browsers: Google Chrome, of course, but Internet Explorer (version 7 and later), Firefox (version 2.0 and later) and Flock (version 1 and following), and finally Safari (version 3.1 and later).

This new option offers a real advantage for users who can explore places, known or unknown, under a new aspect. The changeover can be done very easily from an arrow navigation placed at the top left of the window. it can be tilted to control the map to discover the effects of terrain.

Navigation in 3D images is extremely fluid, whether when you move, change camera angles or make enlargements.

the terrain modeling of buildings and the spectacular function of overflying the planet when you move from one point to another. In short, this online version of Earth has the same feelings as the software, or almost.
The plug-in in fact isn’t integrating all functions of Google Earth. The historical tours, which help you see the evolution of a neighborhood over time, GPS routes, the flight simulation tool or images of the Moon and Mars are not available in the interface mapping. In these cases, using the software is essential.

CurveEvents : Who’s the fastest ? iPad , iPhone or Google Nexus One

Posted by admin on April 8, 2010 0 comments


Now that iPad tablet has been launched, it is time to compare the application performances of the Apple A4 processors and Qualcomm SnapDragon, the latter being present in many smartphones, including the Nexus One of Google.

The iPad tablet has an applications processor Apple A4 on which very little information has been made public . it’s only known that it’s clocked at 1 GHz and could be fitted with a heart ARM Cortex A8.

This is the same the processor as inside the iPhone 3Gs, but in this case, it is clocked at 600 MHz. For the application processors running at 1 GHz, the platform SnapDragon Qualcomm present in several smartphones, including the Google Nexus One.

The great temptation is to compare their performance. That what pushed to compare the loading times of Web pages on the iPad, iPhone 3Gs and Google Nexus One. The result is what it is worth knowing that this is not the same architecture, the same hardware, same OS …
The results suggest that the iPad tablet displays more quickly (10%) Web pages than Google smartphone Nexus One, which is itself faster than the iPhone 3Gs.

after running the SunSpider benchmark on the three platforms. Again, the advantage is given to the processor Apple iPad A4 tablet compared to the Google SnapDragon Nexus One.

But it is difficult to conclude that the processor Apple A4 is necessarily more efficient. software optimization can be the cause of these differences in addition to the platforms that have a little in common.

CurveEvents : The .Com Turned 25

Posted by admin on March 17, 2010 0 comments


On March 15, 1985 appeared on the Web the first domain name with the. Com: Symbolics.com a commercial site specializing in artificial intelligence. Twenty-five years later, the domain name’s owner has changed , but success of the . Com doesn’t need is any further proof. Of more than 192 million domains worldwide in 2009, there are 80 million. Com. 668 000 new domain names, with this extension, are added each month.
the first domain symbolics.com, was acquired by a company based in Massachusetts, the company sold computers specially designed to run the programming language Lisp. Symbolics thus presents itself as the leading manufacturer of industrial machinery on which turned the Genera operating system. The domain name was then sold to investment firm XF.com.


only five other domain names were registered that year (BBN.com, Think.com, MCC.com, and DEC.com Northrop.com) against 54 the following year. It’s only twelve years later in 1997 that the millionth . Com was registered. According to OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development), between 1985 and 2000, 21 million domain names have been registered against 57 million between 2000 and 2010. The BBC reports also that each month 668 000 domain names with the. Com registered or renewed on registrars.
The . com extension was initially intended to be . cor (corporation). In the same way. Org was originally.pub and . Mil , Other extensions of domain names that were launched with the. Com are. Edu . Gov . Net and. Arpa” . . com find its origins in the term company (business) and not commercial, as is commonly said today.

Now the . Com is the guarantee of an international dimension of a business, although its scope exceeds that of commercial sites. the company Verisign, which manages this extension and the. Net affirms that only Twelve million sites are oriented toward the e-commerce.
If the . Com looks like a success story, its growth was still difficult until 2000. Two and a half years after the first record, there were only one hundred domain names registered. The first big companies who have adopted this extension were IBM, Intel, the operator AT & T and Cisco. . Com has passed the symbolic threshold of one million in 1997. In total, between 1985 and 2000, 21 million domain names were registered against 57 million between 2000 and 2010.

Often preferred to national extensions, The . Com is primarily an economic windfall, particularly for VeriSign, which manages only the allocation of domain names. Com. Indeed, if ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) is the administrative authority responsible for assigning an address registered to the IP addresses of computers, it delegates. Com and. Net to Verisign.

CurveEvents : Nintendo DSi XL

Posted by admin on March 15, 2010 0 comments


DSI XL is here, a large format version of the best selling portable game console ever made. Larger than the previous model (16 × 94 cm against 14 × 75 cm) and slightly thicker (2.1 cm against 1.9 cm), also heavier (314 g against 214 g), it differs primarily by Two larger screens with a diagonal of 10 cm (4.2 inches) against 8.2 cm (3.25 inches). a more comfortable display area.
The surprise is that the definition of the two screens has not change: it still offers 256 × 192 points, which could increase the effect of pixilation of the images. But in practice, you will see that the rendering of games do not suffer from the expansion. Better still, these screens have a wide display angle, which gives you the possibility to play with your friend and your family.

The Nintendo DSi XL. This DS like no other was produced by Nintendo after noticing noticed that the majority of the gamers do play often surrounded by their relatives. Nintendo wanted then , to bring for the addicted players of the DS consoles, a better gaming comfort . The size of the screens of the Nintendo DSi XL is almost twice the size the first DSi . The screens have a better viewing angle and greater readability so more people can see the player performing , support him and participate in the game
in addition, two new software are installed on the console: Dictionary 6 in 1 provides the translation of a word you just shoot, and Brain Training from Dr Kawashima, a set consisting of full exercises that will work out your brain. In addition, on your Nintendo DSi XL, which also has a camera, you can keep in touch with your friends on Facebook, browsing the Web with Opera and create notes or works with animated Flipnote Studio. L the battery life is also increased by 3 up to 4 hours.


Art Academy is a program available on the DSiWare platform. Nintendo says that “It will make you an artist”. Art Academy will teach you how to draw and paint like a real genius. The Nintendo DSi and DSi XL will be your canvas and pen, your pencil. you will be guided by Professor Leo who will offer to copy drawings of great artists such as Cezanne or Dürer. Art Academy The game is available in two versions, the First Semester and Second Semester for the most discerning.
100 classic books is a software that lets you read over 100 classic books on your Nintendo DS, from Dumas, Hugo, Zola, Maupassant, Baudelaire, Leroux and many others. Collection Folio has selected 100 classic books in this software. It’s an educational, entertaining and quite fun to use.

CurveEvents : Microsoft next target !

Posted by admin on March 15, 2010 0 comments

Shaken by Blackberry, Google and more particular by Apple on the segment of smartphones, Microsoft has decided to regain the lost ground by unveiling not only “Windows Phone”, a new collection of smartphones, but also by opening Windows Mobile Marketplace , its new Download platform to compete with Apple’s AppStore.

Although if rumors have mentioned a Microsoft phone ,Windows Phones are those provided by its traditional partners: Acer (NewTouch and beTouchE200), Samsung (Omnia Pro B7610, Pro B7330 Omnia, Omnia Lite, Omnia II), HTC (Touch II Touch Diamond II and Touch HD II), GM750 LG, Toshiba or TG01 Sony Ericsson (Xperia X2). ” which means that Microsoft is proposing a total of 30 smart phones in over than 20 countries before the end of 2009 , and offers a wide variety of phone forms (touchscreen or not, keyboards, ..) to its users.

In terms of software, Windows Phones are obviously based on the operating system Windows Mobile 6.5, which has been enhanced with the well known Microsoft business applications (Word, Excel, Powerpoint in Officemobile, Outlook Mobile compatible with Exchange Server and Hotmail) and also general public software as Windows Live (social network) or MyPhone (sync on the web).

Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft also affirmed that people now want to communicate quickly with their families but also have immediate access to information. Windows phones offer to their users a remarkable experience whether at work or at home

in addition to the applications, the Windows Phones stand out from their predecessors by simplifying application downloads from the new Windows Mobile Marketplace. “Microsoft is currently working with 731 developers worldwide who will offer more than 200 applications on Windows startup Mobile Marketplace.” But compared to the 75 000 applications of apple store, Microsoft has a lot of work to do .

After the uncertain success of Google Phones, Microsoft certainly intends to impose its smart phones and download platform as the first alternative to Apple’s iPhone. An ambition also shared by Nokia, RIM / Blackberry and Palm the former leader in mobile technology that was dethroned by Microsoft in the early 2000s. The question is whether history will repeat itself again.

CurveEvents : Google GO

Posted by admin on March 14, 2010 0 comments


Google has released Go, a new programming language. Go combines the speed of development when programming with a dynamic language like Python with the effectiveness and safety of compiled languages like C or C + +. Even big binary files are compiled in few seconds, the compiled code runs at a speed close to that of the C language.

Google also introduced the site GoLang.org to promote its new tool for developers. The site also offers all the documentation about the language as well as tutorials and samples of codes.

The FAQ is also detailing what led to the conception of Go:

No major system language has emerged over the last ten years while during that time the computing landscape has changed tremendously.
Here are some trends:

* Computers are much faster than before, but software development is not that much faster .

* The dependency management plays a large part of the software development today, but the “header files ” of the languages in the C tradition are antithetical to clean a dependency analysis and a faster compilation.

* There is a growing rebellion against the heavy-type systems like Java and C + +, pushing people towards dynamic languages such as Python and JavaScript.

* Some basic concepts such as (garbage collector) and parallel computing are not well supported by the popular language system.

* The emergence of multi-machine processor created much anxiety and confusion.

* It is possible to compile impressive programs in GO in a few seconds with a simple computer

* Go provides a model for building software that makes the dependency analysis a very easy thing and avoids loading a large part of the include files of type C and libraries.

* Types in GO have no hierarchy, so you do not need to waste time defining the relationships between types. Although if Go has static types , the language is trying to make Types lighter than in conventional object-oriented languages.

* Go completely manages the garbage collector and provides a fundamental support for concurrent execution and communication.

* Due to its design, Go proposes an approach of software systems developing on multi-processor machines.

An additional page is dedicated to C + + developers to list the conceptual differences between the two languages. It is about class (there are none in GO), pointers and hash tables.

The GO language, is still not internally used by Google. However, if this newcomer in the vast family of programming languages interested you , you can always apply at Google. Once again, the company relies on the millions of anonymous hands around the world to complete this open-source language by libraries that will increase its popularity.

Note that the Mountain View firm already employs Guido Van Rossum, the inventor of Python, and other big names in software development such as Ken Thompson who created the B language (the ancestor of C, C + +, … ) and Rob Pike who designed UTF-8,whose next ?? me maybe :p

CurveEvents : Energy Star 5

Posted by admin on March 14, 2010 0 comments


Adopted by the European Commission, the fifth version of the Energy Star label has just become effective. Jointly developed in Europe and the United States (it is also used by the U.S Environment Agency.), Energy Star is not a mandatory standard but an eco-label created to seduce computer buyers who care about the environment or look forward to reduce their electricity bill.

The 5 is intended to desktops , laptops and work stations .
Compared to version 4, version 5 is much more stringent. The new label takes into consideration the components of the machine to define the thresholds of consumption that shouldn’t be exceeded . The power of the PC must also show a yield of 85% against 80% in the previous version.


Desktops are classified into four categories: A, B, C or D, and only three categories, A, B and C, for laptops. Each category corresponds to a minimum configuration; the most powerful desktop is classified in Class D. In each category, a threshold not to be exceeded was set. To qualify, a desktop class B should not exceed a theoretical annual average of 175 kWh, against 234 kWh for a desktop PC category D.

Each threshold is calculated on the basis of a specific use . For a desktop, it is assumed that the machine is completely extinguished 55% of the time and once lit, it is 5% of time on standby mode and 40% of the time running normally. For laptops, the scenario is slightly different. The machine is expected to remain off 60% of the time, run 30% of the time and remain on standby 10% of the time. The annual consumption not to exceed is much lower, between 40 and 88 kWh (class A to C).

according to the creators of the label, the conforming devices consume 30 to 60% less energy compared to machines Energy Star 4.

Today, the number of approved references is still limited, but should rapidly increase. But beware when you buy a certified PC, it is important to verify that it is conform to the latest version of the label!

CurveEvents : Google Chrome Os Main Characteristics

Posted by admin on March 14, 2010 0 comments


Google has been a giant in the IT industry for a considerable time, owing to their outstanding and innovative products and services. They have become versatile and universal with products and services such as some very known Efficient and quick search engines, browsers, e-mail, social web hosting, etc . And today They are coming up with a new operating system.

So Why should you opt for Google chrome OS?

*This is a new generation of OS assuming that most of our computing activities will be done online.

*It has as main function to properly operate browsers (Chrome, Firefox …) where users will spend most of their time.

*It also manages all the infrastructure components of the workstation, such as memory, processor and peripherals. Google has also recently announced a new tool called NaCl, another Open Source tool , which aims to optimize the execution of AJAX programs on workstations.

*It is an open source software, like all the modern OS (Ubuntu , Android, Moblin, l imo , Symbian) .

*it has been created by a very popular and trusted team of developers who specialize in making internet more informative, user friendly and of course a lot more of fun.

*It is been said by the company that this OS will have an open source code, meaning it can be manipulated to ones requirements.

*This OS will be Linux-based, meaning it will have the security and multi-user characteristics of Linux.

*A lot of companies joined in this new project as partners in its development and marketing in the later stages, such as HP, Lenovo, Asus, Acer … .

*This is not Android, as Android is for a wide range of devices, ranging from notebooks to mobile phones . Chrome OS is exclusively dedicated to internet and netbooks.

*Key feature in this OS is that the the booting time and starting of the browser is avoided, giving instant access to the mails and the World Wide Web.

Is chrome a serious competitor?

*Sure it’s a serious competitor, as this gives an innovative, dedicated and an open source code compared to others who are unceasingly trying to hide their code and keep it secret .
*Google is inviting supports from the open source community. This would give them an added advantage of popularity and fame at a quicker pace.

All these days, millions of people have used products and services offered by Google. There is also a very good rapport between the company, employees and the customers. A lot of excitement and expectations are involved regarding this upcoming OS. With all the added advantages that are predicted to be in it.

CurveEvents : Google And Nasa against Gas Emissions

Posted by admin on March 13, 2010 0 comments


How to monitor our gas emissions? The answer comes from space.

The NASA and Google aim to provide some new tools for measuring levels of CO2 and deforestation based on satellite technology.

NASA already had a scientific satellite , called the Orbital Carbon Observatory (OCO), which could be capable of detecting emissions of CO2. But its launch turned into a disaster,the satellite ended its race in the icy waters of Antarctica.

If it gathers the necessary funding, NASA could build a similar satellite at a cost of 330 million dollars and make it in orbit for three years. The commissioning of the satellite would “maybe” lead countries to act differently.

For its part, Google has announced that the forest countries will have a free access to its “Earth Engine”, a new software storing satellite data

Deforestation is considered a the first cause of climate change. While industrialized countries are going to pay billions of dollars to developing countries to stop the destruction of tropical forests, the Google system would allow anyone to check the condition in which they are.

But technology alone can not solve the problem. Cooperation between countries like the United States and China, the two biggest polluters, is needed to verify the reduction of emissions.

China is building so many coal plants that it is difficult for experts to have a precise knowledge of their production of carbon dioxide. The launch of a new NASA satellite that can detect emissions of CO2 could be very useful in this case.

As long as such a satellite is not in use, the assessment of carbon emissions will involve many uncertainties, in calculus , appliances and a good dose of confidence between different actors.

The ability to estimate emissions from each power plant is also crucial for the establishment of a system of emissions trading, as envisaged in the United States, which would allow companies to buy “pollution rights” to others that have reduced their emissions.

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