Sabtu, 09 Juli 2011

Flying Cars Ready Action

Future traffic will probably be met with a car that can run alone or flying cars passing in the sky. After Google berkemudi automatic car is considered to be road worthy, now turn the car flying a turn.

As quoted from FoxNews, Thursday (07/07/2011), U.S. institutions Department of Transportation grant, named Terrafuga Transition flying car for a test drive on public roads.

Transition is described more biased toward small plane with two seats. He can transform into a car and can be driven on the streets.

This car has a wing that can be folded automatically by pressing a button. This process takes place within a short time, about 30 seconds.

Various features are also intended to reassure drivers stay safe on the streets. For example, by the presence of airbags to reduce collisions when the accident occurred.

With a variety of strengths in the technology sector, predictable price is quite high. Ie USD 200 thousand, or in the range of billions of dollars.

Transition has been successfully tested several times. Dirapkan, sophisticated cars can already be mass produced in 2012.
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Kamis, 07 Juli 2011

Games, Most Popular Smartphone Applications

Became the most popular gaming applications on mobile devices, especially smartphones. Applications topped the category of mobile games apps applications followed by weather info and social networking in the next sequence.

Based on latest data released by research firm Nielsen, users who download smartphone applications in the last 30 days, 93 percent are buying gaming applications.

"In contrast, only 76 percent of the downloaders who are willing to buy news applications," Nielsen wrote in a report quoted detikiNET by the Los Angeles Times and quoted on Thursday (07/07/2011).

Known, most gamers in the iPhone, Windows mobile phone 7 or the Android download the game that often they play. While BlackBerry users are usually only play games that are already on their devices.

"The average mobile gamers play games 7.8 hours per month. Those who use the iPhone tend to play for 14.7 hours per month while the users of Android 9.3 hours per month," Nielsen wrote.

In the data downloader application for 30 days, Nielsen recorded 64 per cent to download games, 60 percent download the application information to download weather and 56 percent of social networking applications.
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Selasa, 05 Juli 2011

Google will 'Remove' Picasa and Blogger

Two popular service owned by Google, Picasa and Blogger will soon disappear. Not that Google remove them, but because the Internet giant wants to 'throw' the name of the product to be renamed.

Picasa and Blogger that have been renamed, will remain a key component of Google's family of products. Such information is quoted detikiNET from PC World, on Wednesday (07/06/2011).

Rebranding Picasa and Blogger is reportedly part of Google's new strategy in introducing Google +, where several products that do not use Google's name was retired and replaced with names that include Google's behalf.

According to Mashable reports, six weeks away, the image editing service and the popular blogging platform will be renamed Google Photos and Google Blogs. But Google itself would not comment when questioned about this rebranding plan.

Google's decision is quite reasonable, considering the users of both services is generally less ngeh that the services they use are Google products. Well, the integration of Picasa and Blogger to Google + is expected to be the answer.
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