specialists from the organization Pew Internet and American Life found that blogs, or traditional online diaries have ceased to interest today’s young people, who now spend their leisure time only in the popular social networks.
As the Infox, whereas in 2006 their own blog can boast 28% of teenagers, in 2009 the proportion of young lovers services like Livejournal or Blogger decreased to 14%. The number of active commentators during these three years also fell in half. According to the statistics of American adults still faithfully write in their online diaries.
Hobbies young people, by contrast, have changed. According to the Pew Internet and American Life, 73% of all American young people having access to the network, uses services of Facebook and MySpace, while in 2006 only 55% of teens actively writing in social networks.
As it turns out, Twitter has not yet enjoyed special success among the young – only 8% of adolescents aged 12-17 years stated that mastered mikroblog. As a replacement for the popular young adult audience service uses SMS – statistics, short messages written 66% of all teenagers.
What’s interesting, for access to your favorite resources, the younger generation is increasingly was to use their netbooks and smartphones, and this trend has led to the transition to a “small forms” in online communication – inconvenient keyboards simply do not have to write long blog entries.
In addition, a mobile lifestyle and has influenced the choice of computers among young people – so, among respondents aged 18 to 29 years only 53% said that they have a stationary PC, with the share holders of netbooks or laptops was 66 %.
The world’s largest social network Facebook on Feb. 4 said six years. According to the developers blog founder of the Mark Zuckerberg, to this point approached Facebook with almost 400 million users, with more than half of them joined the network in the last year. In addition, Zuckerberg announced the redesign of Facebook.
Redesign touched notifications when new entries to the “wall” of a user of new photographs in which the user is checked, and other materials. Also changed the menu on the left side of the screen, chat and gaming interface and other applications, Facebook.
It should be noted that not all 400 million Facebook users receive the new design soon. It will spread gradually, and it may take several days, informs Lenta.ru.
Facebook was created by students at Harvard, Mark Zuckerberg and his classmates and neighbors in the dorm Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverini and Chris Hughes in 2004. Today, this social network recognized as the most popular in the world and remains one of the fastest growing network of social services.
company IDC said the record growth in shipments of smartphones, which are up to the last quarter reached 54.5 million units.
This is 39% above the result for the last quarter of 2008-the first: if the world has sold 39.2 million communicators.
In 2009, a total of 174.2 million set manufacturers smartphones. For comparison: in 2008 sales amounted to 151.4 million units. That is, growth was approximately 15%.
The largest producer of communicators is Nokia, shipped last year, 67.7 million units (by 11,9% compared with 2008-m when sales were estimated at 60.5 million). Nokia’s market share of 38,9%.
The second and third places in the ranking by Research In Motion and Apple, have set in 2009, 34.5 and 25.1 million smart phones responsibly . These companies now owned 19,8 and 14,4% of the market.
NTS is located in the fourth position with a share of 4,6%: in 12 months the manufacturer shipped 8,1 million communicators. Closes five company Samsung, which controls 3.3% of the market that matches terms Boxed 5.7 million devices.
All other manufacturers of smartphones, according to IDC, last year implemented 33.1 million units, occupying 19% of the market, transmits Kompyulenta.
Announced last fall Notebooks HP Envy 15 Envy 13 and stand design, but have a fairly high cost. Now HP offers an alternative solution to the price of $700, which looks a lot like image line of the company.
HP G62t has a 15.6-inch LCD display with support for resolutions 1366×768 pixels. As the processor can apply the model of Intel Core i3-330M (2,13 GHz, 3 MB cache L2) to the Core i7-620M (2,66-3,33 GHz, 4 MB of cache L3). Maximum DDR3 RAM in the device is limited to 8 GB and storage capacity – 500 GB. Unfortunately, the graphics adapter is offered only one – Intel HD. There is a laptop and built-in optical drive DVD, although if you want you can order the Blu-ray. Works PC running 64-bit version of Windows 7 Home Premium and is powered by a 6-cell battery.
Among the other features are present module Wi-Fi, webcam, Ethernet adapter , output VGA, optional HDMI, three USB ports and card reader (optional). Novelty already gone on sale, reports ITC.ua.
In the coming Tuesday, February 9, Microsoft has published 13 papers describing 26 vulnerabilities in Windows operating systems and different versions of office applications. Five papers will be devoted to critically dangerous loopholes that can be used to gain unauthorized access to the remote computer and perform arbitrary operations on it.
Vulnerabilities discovered in Windows 2000, XP , Vista, and Windows 7, the server operating systems, Windows Server 2003 and 2008, packets Office XP, Office 2003 and Office 2004 for Mac. It is noted that in the patch will “patch” for the dangerous “hole” in the core 32-bit versions Windows.
Traditionally, together with the patch will be offered the update utility for Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool to remove malicious programs.
For more information about upcoming updates can be found here.
released the final version of the most popular торент client Utorrent 2.0. The program corrected many errors, increased productivity, but also adds support for UDP and automatic adjustment of the load on the channel.
Recall that support UDP provides a lower load on the tracker by using the appropriate protocol instead of HTTP. Also from this win and the user, which usually Internet applications run slightly faster at uploading the torrents. Similarly, the work of other Internet programs and technology affect uTP, to automatically adjust the load on the communication channel when it detects the activity of other network programs. In addition, users with a limit on the traffic may come in handy new feature limiting the number of downloaded / month prevalence given information Transfer Cap.
Recall that already are working on the client version uTorrent 2.1, in which it is possible to view video files in the process of uploading.
Fusion Garage officially announced the launch of mass production of its Internet tablet Joojoo, whose fate, until recently was very vague.
Sales Joojoo should appear in the next 8 -10 weeks, that is about the same time as the Apple iPad, but whether he can with him to compete at a similar price of $500 – still hard to say. The main feature novnki is a 12.1-inch LCD display, with resolution of 1366×768 pixels and a capacitive touch panel. The same type of sensor used in the iPad, but less diagonal display – 9.7 inch (1024×768 pixels). On the other hand the development of Apple is much smaller (700 g versus 1100 g in Joojoo), but the fact that a competitor can oppose full support for Flash, including Flash HD (will be added after the release of Platform Flash 10.1).
As reported by Engadget, the device supports such services as YouTube HD and Hulu, offering users to watch streaming video quality via the Internet. It is worth paying attention to the fact that Joojoo is a highly specialized device – internet tablet in its pure form. Running operating system is just 9 seconds, after which activates the Web browser. Over time, Fusion Garage plans to launch the store web applications for your gadget, but functionally iPad, already has a huge assortment of software from the App Store and Media Player, looks interesting.
Among other features Joojoo You can select modules Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, web camera, 4 GB of flash memory, port USB, 3,5-mm audio jack, microphone input and dynamics. In offline mode, a tablet can work up to 5 hours. Recall that earlier between the former partners, Michael Arringtonom (Michael Arrington) and Fusion Garage a conflict, calling into question the fate of Joojoo. But it seems that the parties agreed, wrote Ruformator.
laptop connected to the free Wi-Fi, may be subject to hacker attack. With an open wireless network attackers can gain access to the cache of your browser and make changes to it.
These findings shared by Mike Kershaw (Mike Kershaw), one of the developers of the device Kismet, designed for detection networks, Wi-Fi. When the computer is connected to an open wireless network, says Kershaw, hypothetically attackers can gain access to the script to cache headers, and make changes to it, reports PC Advisor.
For example, instead of the welcome page of social networks will open a phishing site, that copies of its design and content. If a user enters such a resource for your username and password, they will be stolen.
Kershaw admitted that he had no information about how attackers are frequently resorted to this method of attack. He also recommended that companies prohibit their employees to connect laptops to the free service networks Wi-Fi.
As a protective measure Kershaw Board to keep cleaning your browser cache or whether to include private browsing mode, said Ruformator .
Scientists found that the rains do occur even in the sun. They, of course, differ significantly from normal, but its characteristics still resemble them.
It should be noted that due to this phenomenon can explain why the solar corona has a higher temperature than the inner layers, wrote Science.YoRead.ru.
«coronal rain” is a high density of nodes, which differ relatively low temperature is several tens of thousands of degrees, that the Sun is not much. A mechanism of how it happens, very similar to regular rain.
heated to enormous temperatures of the plasma rises to the upper layers of the solar atmosphere, which cools down considerably and poured back with great speed, which more than 100 km / h. Currently, there are two theories to explain this phenomenon. The first is that this process is influenced by magnetic field that accelerates the plasma. For the second hypothesis, the influence of seismic processes.
Japanese scientists have built a computer model of the sun in order to understand how there is a “coronal rain.” As a result, they concluded that the closer to reality, the second theory, and emissions of plasma in the upper layers of the Sun due to the fact that at the stellar surface from time to time there are seismic processes.
It turns out that global cooling may cover the entire northern hemisphere literally within a few months. Canadian scientist William Patterson believes that the cause of the cataclysm will warm currents of the North Atlantic, which, due to changes caused by external influence, will bring to the mainland cooling.
Such pessimistic forecast is based on a study of the ice period, “Young Dryas, which occurred in the northern hemisphere, 12.8 thousand years ago, wrote Science.YoRead.ru. Then melt the ice of Lake Agassiz in North America thrown into the North Atlantic and Arctic, an enormous amount of ice water. As a result, during the warm water has broken, and the northern hemisphere was plunged into the cold.
Team Patterson has collected information on the flow and temperature regime of the Young Dryas “in the oldest lake in Ireland – Lough Monriche. To do this, scientists using radiocarbon analysis examined settled at the bottom of the lake fossilized deposits. Their findings are disappointing – cold spell gripped the northern hemisphere for 3-4 months since its beginning, but after a couple of years, every life activity stopped altogether, and its restoration needed millennium.
However, this version of events, according to Patterson, could happen in the case of Greenland. Then, according to the hypothesis of the scientist, global cooling again can reach the northern hemisphere, and the events shown in the film The Day After Tomorrow “will become a reality.
