Mozilla’s “Gecko to boot ‘starts 2013 in Brazil

At a conference in Sao Paulo, Mozilla CEO Gary Kovacs has announced that to celebrate the HTML5-based mobile operating system “boot to Gecko” (code name) will debut in early 2013′s commercial.

It reported that U.S. technology blog ‘ The Verge ‘, referring to the Brazilian side’ ZTop ‘. Mozilla CEO Kovacs stressed that the focus of boat to Gecko on HTML5 and open web standards will allow the functions of smartphones get on poorly performing equipment. Behind boat, according to Kovacs Gecko is the idea that “the Web in the pockets of all users” would bring.

The Brazilian market is Mozilla has teamed with mobile operator Telefonica, the Brazilian subsidiary of Spanish telecoms giant (in Germany: O2 ) will distribute the equipment to sell to the open operating system and Mozilla. What phones are supported, Telefonica has not yet announced. One thing is certain: The device will be unlocked in any case, because the Brazilian law prescribes the so. As planned start date is called ‘ZTop’ a period between the end of this year and early 2013. The cooperation between Firefox developer Mozilla and mobile phone companies have begun at this year’s Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, ​​there would be no surprise if the launch carried out the first (commercial) boat-to-Gecko devices as part of MWC 2013 would be.

Prismatic, a web magazine with articles that interest you

Custom magazines are booming in a few months. Applications like zite , Flipboard or Wavii, of which I spoke at Engadget recently , show us the news that interest us without having to choose which publications go or what to filter things. Today we bring you another Web application called Prismatic this style.

The first thing you do when entering Prismatic is to connect your Twitter account and if you want, also Facebook. Prismatic analyze your network updates and how you interact with your friends, and show you a range of topics and posts that interest you. Choose those that really interest you and you can start using it.

Since then you’re ready to use Prismatic. When you enter the site, shows you the news you care about most, with a bar to the right that suggests new topics and publications. The news showed a picture and a resume, along with the comments of people (preferably people you follow) in social networks on the topic, and related news.

Without leaving there you can share the news on Twitter, Facebook and email, and favorites save to read later. If for whatever the news does not interest you have another button to ignore history, and to avoid other similar stories. And if you like, you can subscribe with one click to the issues that news.

Prismatic testing took a few days and I think a great idea. It works very well and just showed me news that interested me. In addition, simple interface that has made the review by the news very comfortable. The only bad thing is is that you need an invitation to enter, so I’ll probably wait until you can touch a try.

Kim dotcom could recover assets

Due to a procedural error could Kim Schmitz aka Dotcom Kim, founder of the hosting platform Megaupload, a few weeks ago was closed startling regain his fortune. So be the preliminary injunction, which led to the confiscation of valuables dotcoms, invalid.

As the New Zealand Herald reports that the Megaupload-founder of his time was not allowed to comment on the threat of seizure of his assets, although this is provided in New Zealand. The preliminary injunction issued by the police, for the seizure of numerous luxury items – was introduced, therefore, collected by the competent Judge Judith Potter again – including cars and paintings.

It is conceivable that Kim dotcom, which now only is still under house arrest until a decision in his case, his valuables of his investment. There is no guarantee that it does not, however, since the effects of procedural error could be limited. While dot-coms legal team rattles in the face of the methods known bug with swords and called the process “illegal”, but it would have to prove that the police had acted in bad faith on this point.

With the outcome of the trial against Megaupload, however, the process has to do nothing. Schmitz and four other defendants threatened extradition proceedings in the United States, to be decided according to experts, however, until about six months. U.S. federal authorities have accused the founder Megaupload copyright violations with an impact of 500 million U.S. dollars. Kim Schmitz denies these accusations and claims its part, rights holders would be able to remove the links.