Lenovo IdeaPad S206, continue betting on netbooks

We learned of its existence at CES 2012 , but since then we heard nothing more about it. From a video posted on YouTube know that Lenovo has finished cooking the new netbook, which is a 11.6-inch model by the name of Lenovo IdeaPad S206.

Like previous models of the brand in China, featuring the use of AMD processors, in this case dual-core, as there is no official information, we assume that this is an E-450 . We go with the video:

We stress the computer screen resolution, 1366 × 768 pixels, but we’re both glossy finish (also used throughout the inner zone of the team). The thickness of the team is 20.7 millimeters, the chiclet-style keyboard with Lenovo typical design, and the touchpad seems quite large.

We also have three USB ports, SDHC card reader, and the autonomy of the team is about four hours, I think something short of what is needed in this type of equipment.

The laptop comes out in June in the U.S. at a price of $ 350, we hope to soon have information on their European exit. The metallic finish of the housing will be available in three colors, white, pink and dark gray.

Analysis of how it affects users in practice the new business model for Vodafone

Having clarified the details of Vodafone’s new business model in which we have analyzed the developments in tariff , the new program loyalty of existing customers , the elimination of subsidies to attract new customers and terms of financing without interest or penalties Failure to stay , now it do a summary of what all this means in practice for users.

Are you still looking for a mobile phone?

Mobile phones have never been nor will be free but if we were used to find them for $ 0 (no pay no input) to be subsidized in return for a stay and in most cases, being associated with specific rates.

In this sense, from the April 10, 2012, unless a customer Vodafone, and not going to “give away” if you change a mobile operator Vodafone from another but instead provide funding to facilitate mobile payments without interest at you end up paying the same rates as before and also the mobile in installments.

If you are already a customer (at least one year) so if you renew your phone from 0 euros with the subsidies that were used by the new Renew advantages. A mobile system to change with more attractive prices if you promise to stay in a minimal consumption rate that mimics concrete and the benefits previously only offered to new customers.

A new way to renew that prices may improve access to terminals by comparing them with those so far offered us by points, which represents a real shift to better treat loyal customers rather than new, something that for many it was simple logic.

The purpose of this system is that you’re a mobile phone, more profitable to stay in Vodafone to change to another operator even if we see a price comparison of smartphones with Orange , it is unclear whether they have succeeded so despite improved prices and expand the catalog with the new HTC and HTC One X One S , the results remain to be seen.

As for the traditional program points if it was far too attractive for the small grant offered by the new Renew spot in practice does little or nothing because the same points as before, the phone can cost 300 euros more so if you decided to renew residence, probably the best option is to renew with the advantages associated fees sizes.

Cinemagram camino for Android

Interesting new applications make the leap to Android IOS, the present case is not as important as Instagram , but certainly more than one will be interesting, or was waiting.

Cinemagram is an application that allows us to share images with something more than life, creating animated GIF s from small video we made ​​with the phone. All this in a simple way and with a fairly good quality .

Yesterday, Nikoo Asadi, one of the developers in Factyle, reported they were working on the Android version. We’ll see how they manage to work with such different phone, and therefore different hardware and cameras.

From a static image and a short video, the application combines the two to create a little animation, which usually take one to two megabytes. There are plenty of filters, or the ability to share on social networks.

The IOS version in Cinemagram is free, so we expect the same in the Google operating system.

Reuters launches campaign for “intellectual property”

“Under the title belongs to me My head “Handelsblatt has launched a campaign to say at which representatives from the arts, media, business, science and policy for the protection of intellectual property. Their intention is to resist the “Free Culture” on the Internet and the Pirate Party.

The Pirate Party is the focus of the campaign. For instance, raises the Handelsblatt the Pirates in the accompanying article before, they wanted to abolish copyright and citing in this regard a statement by Martin Delius, director of Berlin’s Pirate Party, which sees the term “intellectual property” as a battle cry. Among the participants in the commitment to include some of the former Bertelsmann chief Thomas Middelhoff, SAP CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe or the Green Party politicians Renate Künast. Among the participating creatives – which should be supported with the campaign – including the actress Franka Potente, Julia Franck and the author of Mirror journalist Jan Fleischhauer.

The reactions in the network fell away over the holidays, as expected, mostly in the range between more or less outraged contributions to the campaign and copyright debate and scorn and ridicule, by referring to some 100 authors, who, once Einstein’s relativity theory railed . A detailed statement provides, however, the pirate Bruno Kramm, who responds to each of the 100 participants separately and rejects the fundamental criticism. The pirates were not for the abolition of copyright, it would simply adapt to the digital environment and make it even creative people in the foreground.

The debate about the value and protection of “intellectual property” moved several weeks ago called the Internet community. This example also includes the polemical sounding open letter of 51 crime writers who spoke out for stronger protection of intellectual property. In response came a pamphlet of the Chaos Computer Club, which also critically reflecting on the concept of “intellectual property”. In addition, attention was provided by the Wutrede the musician Sven Regener.

The campaign, however, the Handelsblatt corresponds to the demands of stakeholders, the creative sector should be involved even more in the public debate over copyright law. In an event of media industry and lobby groups complained Parliament simply as the GVU and politicians who stand up for a better protection of copyright on the “opinion leader” of Internet activists, reported the blog Netzpolitik.org. That is why the creative industries should also be active in order to make understandable the concerns of authors – this call seems to have arrived.

Amazon strengthens its Android App Store with payment option ‘In-App

He started Apple with iPhone OS applications in Apple Store and Google was quick to apply in its Android Market after seeing the source of benefits that could mean: buying calls ‘in-app’, that allow users to make payments within a same application without having to go through the store, and can be implemented in applications for sale from Amazon Android App Store.

Amazon has taken the opportunity to promote the system using the video you can see just above. The company provides an API, the developer uses it to sell additional services or content within the same application (additional levels in games, eliminate advertising or remove other limits in various applications …) and both company and a profit developer. All set, of course, that the user only cost you a click.

The movement, given that Amazon’s App Store gets more benefits for developers Google official store, you can accentuate this effect more damaging to the original store of applications the company’s Mountain View. Being a free software based business there is no other than trying to offer more benefits, which is precisely what benefits us directly to us. If you are a developer and you have your application on Amazon, and you have the API and documentation available to make these purchases.

How do you send to the authorities Facebook account information from a suspect?

Although almost two years ago was leaked on the net a document explaining the steps to be followed by the authorities who wanted to inquire owned and published the account of a suspect, had never yet seen the final document was sent to Facebook researchers. I say until now because of these lines have an example.

In this case, the police asked Facebook account information from a man who landed two women and murdered another just before committing suicide. The first pages of the paper are the own request of the Boston Police, but then you can see the response of Facebook with all the required data: sent messages, comments, pictures and information published … on your friends. This is precisely the most striking.

One can understand that, in a substantiated case, Facebook is obliged to provide information about a suspect in a murder case, but what fault have friends? The document accompanying this post is not private, is public (they wanted the Police of Boston, and it has spread to the rest of public materials of the case) and only has parts “censored” in black because that I wanted the newspaper that published it last. The public version is really, unedited, with all the problems this may cause.

Mac Trojan exploits unpatched vulnerability in Java

Employees of the security services’ F-Secure ‘were aware of a new variant of the Mac Trojan Flashback. This will become an even unpatched Java vulnerability in Mac OS X to target.

Flashback was the name of the malware that was first discovered in the past year, as they alleged to be a popular Flash playerfrom Adobe. Gradually, the developers have taken care of the trojan that more vulnerabilities will be exploited in other applications.

This includes, among other things Java. During Flashback could previously only use older Java vulnerabilities that malware is now a not yet fixed vulnerability in Java ( CVE-2012-0507 ) to exploit. Apple has yet asked for an update available.

Corresponding updates for Windows, Linux and Unix were released in February by Oracle. The malicious code contacted after a successful infection, a command server and can send only personal information and screenshots.

For the infection itself is already visiting a malicious Web page according to a Java applet is provided, sufficient. First, before the malware is trying to import an update and asks the user to to enter the administrator login.

The Apple-virus scanner detects XProtect only older versions of Flashback. The current version is not recognized by this security solution. As for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard no longer comes standard Java, only systems are affected, where Java was installed afterwards. A patch for the vulnerability addressed is not yet available.

Another one that falls: Wikipedia lets Google Maps and OpenStreetMap passes on their mobile applications

Wikipedia gets a lot of traffic from its mobile applications, so it’s no wonder that they receive a major upgrade. And today has been updated, but with an interesting detail: The Google Maps Wikipedia leaves as a platform for their applications maps and OpenStreetMap passes, joining a movement that have made ​​companies like Foursquare or Apple itself (albeit with some maps desmerecidos something ).

Thinking it must not have been a difficult decision for the Wikipedia, a staunch advocate of free access to all kinds of information. OpenStreetMap is specifically intended to provide a mapping platform completely open, while Google Maps is a proprietary API. This is bad news for Google, which looks like just another small company does not abandon a platform that seemed to dominate over all others.

Have you lived and Google Maps better days? Will this trend of companies to adopt free platforms? The monetary benefit is obvious and the benefit is even more common. In addition to other improvements in both the version of IOS and in the Android, Wikipedia has promised more frequent updates. For users this is good news.

Three little free apps from the Mac App Store to test this weekend

Weekend. Good time to browse a bit for the Mac App Store and search applications that the authors tend to fall in price or, as is the case, to completely free for a limited time. Today I bring you three utility applications completely far apart, all that you can try free quietly in your Mac before it arrives on Monday and return to routine.

The three applications are focused on a particular objective, you will not find large suites with multiple uses and which are small tools that everyone can keep in a corner of your Mac for when we’re needed. A photo application, one for keeping records of our credit cards, and the last to keep clean our OS X.

Remember that all applications are for OS X, and will need an operating system that has the Mac App Store to download, ie Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6) or higher. We begin to see them:

Smart Splash Color

This little photo editing application allows us to apply different effects on your images. One of the key elements of the application is to highlight areas of color photo keeping the rest in black and white, thanks to its selection system more or less intelligent (we always have to sharpen a bit) and its tools.

It incorporates more than 40 filters, adjustments for brightness, contrast, zoom, comparison between before and after photo, support TIFF, JPEG, PNG and BMP formats and more than 100 RAW. Despite not being an application with great pretensions, is not bad to take control of the colors in our photos and get original photos. Well now you have it on the Mac App Store for free for a limited time, so you have no excuse not to try it if you feel curious.

Download | Smart Splash Color (Free, Mac App Store)

BadPlastic

Many of you sure you carry your household accounts with Macs. What utilizais Numbers, Excel, to do this? Perhaps something more practical like Evernote to store in the cloud all your expenses? For all of you I recommend you have a look at BadPlastic, a simple application to control spending we are doing with our credit cards.

We’ll just introduce the movements we make with the cards, and the application will show lots of useful information: Table with the balances of all your cards, details by period, expenditure charts to visually identify when we spend those euros you no longer remember, SAD of each of them to know right away which is the most expensive credit remaining, payments remaining to pay off a credit … The application is not bad, and now you can also download for free (it cost about 4 €).

So imagine the future Nokia phones in 2006

The multimedia we share in this story is a creation of the Nokia design team, before they appeared iPhone or Android on the market to determine what is a smartphone today.

The video has been uploaded on YouTube since 2006, so it could be even earlier, and apparently served as media support for the Nokia World that year. Interestingly enough, some ideas were already daily in Nokia’s mind in those days:

We find an unlocked Android screen much like a pretty powerful image gallery, features based on Augmented Reality (thanks to the camera, GPS, and accelerometer), and above all, highlight the obviate the use of a pointer to directly use your finger, a matter in which the competition is ahead in putting into practice successfully.