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Auriculares para doctores

May 26, 2010 By: YuBe Category: 1

¿Algún médico en la sala? ¿Alguno que lo quiera ser?

Si además os gusta la música, podríais escucharla con estos auriculares con forma de fonendo y tendríais más pintas de médico que House.

Pero, desafortunadamente, hablo en futuro porque tan sólo se trata de un concepto diseñado por Antrepo Design Industry.

Así que todavía tendréis que esperar otro poco más para tener vuestro propio fonendo.

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May 25, 2010 By: (author unknown) Category: 1

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Es entre mis autores preferidos!

Towel Day is celebrated every 25 May as a tribute by fans of the late author Douglas Adams.[1] On this day, fans carry a towel with them to demonstrate their love for the books and the author, as referenced in Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. The commemoration was first held in 2001, two weeks after Adams’ death on May 11, 2001.

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May 24, 2010 By: (author unknown) Category: 1

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mmm no se de que habla.
Jamás he jugado un juego online…

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La SGAE considera que operadores y buscadores deberían pagar canon

May 24, 2010 By: (author unknown) Category: 1, google

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A pagar!

El presidente del Consejo de Dirección de la SGAE, Teddy Bautista, volvió a defender el canon y la Ley de Economía Sostenible como alternativas “necesarias” a la pérdida de ingresos de la industria cultural por la “piratería digital”. Además, se mostró partidario de la tasa Google y de que también sean los operadores quienes paguen un canon a las entidades de gestión porque “resulta evidente que no se necesitan 20 megas para enviar un correo electrónico”.

Corporate Chutes & Ladders

May 24, 2010 By: Kristian Category: 1

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Yes! Now you too can climb the corporate ladders from being a low-life temp ending up as a ruthless executive. All this and more in “Corporate Chutes & Ladders”, the new smash hit board game for the entire family! (But preferably you should print this out and play it with colleagues  during work hours.)

AppBrain – the best Android apps and games on the Android market

May 23, 2010 By: (author unknown) Category: 1

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Permite controlar (instalar, desinstalar) las apps que tienes en tu Android utilizando la web.
La verdad que me encanta!

Find, install and share the best Android apps and games available on the Android market. Supports Legend, Droid, Nexus One, Incredible and more phones.

AppBrain is a website for discovering Android apps. In addition to providing search and browse functionality, users of Android phones can download the apps they chose by simply clicking an install button on the site. Appbrain then stores the application in an application wishlist. A companion native android app then lets the user efficiently make all the desired changes on the phone.

Search more securely with encrypted Google web search

May 21, 2010 By: A Googler Category: 1, google

As people spend more time on the Internet, they want greater control over who has access to their online communications. Many Internet services use what are known as Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) connections to encrypt information that travels between your computer and their service. Usually recognized by a web address starting with “https” or a browser lock icon, this technology is regularly used by online banking sites and e-commerce websites. Other sites may also implement SSL in a more limited fashion, for example, to help protect your passwords when you enter your login information.

Years ago Google added SSL encryption to products ranging from Gmail to Google Docs and others, and we continue to enable encryption on more services. Like banking and e-commerce sites, Google’s encryption extends beyond login passwords to the entire service. This session-wide encryption is a significant privacy advantage over systems that only encrypt login pages and credit card information. Early this year, we took an important step forward by making SSL the default setting for all Gmail users. And today we’re gradually rolling out a new choice to search more securely at https://www.google.com.

When you search on https://www.google.com, an encrypted connection is created between your browser and Google. This secured channel helps protect your search terms and your search results pages from being intercepted by a third party on your network. The service includes a modified logo to help indicate that you’re searching using SSL and that you may encounter a somewhat different Google search experience, but as always, remember to check the start of the address bar for “https” and your browser lock indicators:

Today’s release comes with a “beta” label for a few reasons. First, it currently covers only the core Google web search product. To help avoid misunderstanding, when you search using SSL, you won’t see links to offerings like Image Search and Maps that, for the most part, don’t support SSL at this time. Also, since SSL connections require additional time to set up the encryption between your browser and the remote web server, your experience with search over SSL might be slightly slower than your regular Google search experience. What won’t change is that you will still get the same great search results.

A few notes to remember: Google will still maintain search data to improve your search quality and to provide better service. Searching over SSL doesn’t reduce the data sent to Google — it only hides that data from third parties who seek it. And clicking on any of the web results, including Google universal search results for unsupported services like Google Images, could take you out of SSL mode. Our hope is that more websites and services will add support for SSL to help create a better and more consistent experience for you.

We think users will appreciate this new option for searching. It’s a helpful addition to users’ online privacy and security, and we’ll continue to add encryption support for more search offerings. To learn more about using the feature, refer to our help article on search over SSL.

Posted by Evan Roseman, Software Engineer

Announcing Google TV: TV meets web. Web meets TV.

May 20, 2010 By: A Googler Category: 1, google

If there’s one entertainment device that people know and love, it’s the television. In fact, 4 billion people across the world watch TV and the average American spends five hours per day in front of one*. Recently, however, an increasing amount of our entertainment experience is coming from our phones and computers. One reason is that these devices have something that the TV lacks: the web. With the web, finding and accessing interesting content is fast and often as easy as a search. But the web still lacks many of the great features and the high-quality viewing experience that the TV offers.

So that got us thinking…what if we helped people experience the best of TV and the best of the web in one seamless experience? Imagine turning on the TV and getting all the channels and shows you normally watch and all of the websites you browse all day — including your favorite video, music and photo sites. We’re excited to announce that we’ve done just that.

Google TV is a new experience for television that combines the TV that you already know with the freedom and power of the Internet. With Google Chrome built in, you can access all of your favorite websites and easily move between television and the web. This opens up your TV from a few hundred channels to millions of channels of entertainment across TV and the web. Your television is also no longer confined to showing just video. With the entire Internet in your living room, your TV becomes more than a TV — it can be a photo slideshow viewer, a gaming console, a music player and much more.

Google TV uses search to give you an easy and fast way to navigate to television channels, websites, apps, shows and movies. For example, already know the channel or program you want to watch? Just type in the name and you’re there. Want to check out that funny YouTube video on your 48” flat screen? It’s just a quick search away. If you know what you want to watch, but you’re not sure where to find it, just type in what you’re looking for and Google TV will help you find it on the web or on one of your many TV channels. If you’d rather browse than search, you can use your standard program guide, your DVR or the Google TV home screen, which provides quick access to all of your favorite entertainment so you’re always within reach of the content you love most.

Because Google TV is built on open platforms like Android and Google Chrome, these features are just a fraction of what Google TV can do. In our announcement today at Google I/O, we challenged web developers to start coming up with the next great web and Android apps designed specifically for the TV experience. Developers can start optimizing their websites for Google TV today. Soon after launch, we’ll release the Google TV SDK and web APIs for TV so that developers can build even richer applications and distribute them through Android Market. We’ve already started building strategic alliances with a number of companies — like Jinni.com and Rovi — at the leading edge of innovation in TV technology. Jinni.com is a next-generation TV application working to provide semantic search, personalized recommendation and social features for Google TV across all sources of premium content available to the user. Rovi is one of the world’s leading guide applications. We’re looking forward to seeing all of the ways developers will use this new platform.

We’re working together with Sony, Logitech and Intel to put Google TV inside of televisions, Blu-ray players and companion boxes. These devices will go on sale this fall, and will be available at Best Buy stores nationwide. You can sign up here to get updates on Google TV availability.

This is an incredibly exciting time — for TV watchers, for developers and for the entire TV ecosystem. By giving people the power to experience what they love on TV and on the web on a single screen, Google TV turns the living room into a new platform for innovation. We’re excited about what’s coming. We hope you are too.

*Nielsen, Three Screen Report, Fourth Quarter 2009

Update 2:26PM: Updated to include more information about other developers.
Update on 5/27/2010: Updated to include additional information about partners.

Posted by Salahuddin Choudhary, Google TV Product Manager

Codere Q1 earnings ahead of forecast

May 17, 2010 By: (author unknown) Category: 1

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Sigo con economía… Alguna compañías española no le va mal! ;)
…el juego es algo mu malo…

Spanish gaming group Codere S.A said Friday that earnings for the first quarter of 2010 reached €54.4m, exceeding the company’s previous guidance range of €48m to €50m, following a marginal increase in revenues during the period.

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Comic for May 17, 2010

May 17, 2010 By: (author unknown) Category: 1

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