Why should only the financial pundits would they benefit from the IPO of Facebook? The so-called "small shareholders" also want to take part in the phenomenon of the Internet economy. But many obstacles lie ahead of them.
Before 3:30 p.m., Friday, May 18, impossible for an individual to claim the purchase of one of the 421 million shares "FB" on sale at 38 dollars on the Nasdaq market. No special treatment is planned for the 900 million social network users. But even at the fateful hour, it is primarily institutional investors and the wealthiest investors, who will be favored. Insurance companies, pension funds and other mutual funds are tailleront and the lion's share.
"The actions Facebook will be a very good investment"
The "small investors" can then access a lot of shares reserved. Only the definition of "small" is relative: Brokers face a huge demand and announce that they will favor their best customers. Fidelity in the U.S. broker, the actions Facebook will first be reserved for customers with at least $ 500,000 in their account or those who perform at least 36 transactions per year. "It's certainly not a system where a first come first served," said one employee. Same story at brokers TD Ameritrade, which require at least $ 250,000 in his account or 30 transactions in the last three months.
Let's face it: [small shareholders] are unlikely to have Facebook shares at the time of IPO, "notes the analyst Rocco Pendola The Street. But," there is still plenty of time to take the train on. This is a long-term, very durable, and with good growth prospects.
In the days following the listing of social network, any individual may purchase shares through their bank or by placing an order to purchase shares by telephone or Internet, either via a website dedicated to the Exchange. Anyway, "the actions Facebook will be a very good investment," said Philippe Torres, head of technology watch The Workshop. "The high-tech companies like Google and Apple keep the distance with the stock market turnover exponential."
A stroke, also known as stroke, stroke or brain attack, is the loss of brain function due to a lack of blood in a given area of the brain (infartando tissue) or the rupture of a vessel cerebral blood, eg due to a sudden rise in blood pressure. A person who has suffered a stroke may suffer loss of strength in the limbs, slurred speech, difficulty driving or loss of vision among other consequences that require the patient to undergo a rehabilitation program to help you cope with some independence after suffering this episode. With the idea of extending rehabilitation, for example, the patient's home, the University of Newcastle with Limbs Alive are developing a new type of unconventional therapy but could be very effective and, above all, entertaining for patient use special games as rehabilitation therapy.
A few months ago we knew that treatment was being followed at the University of Oxford to accelerate the learning of patients using electrical stimulation of the brain and thus reduce treatment times, a rather unique perspective that was being used within the heart of the U.S. Air Force to accelerate the learning of the pilots. This time, the vision is very different and, above all, much less invasive because you are looking for empathy with the patient to the rehabilitation process is something fun and, of course, a video game is a good choice.
The use of video games in rehabilitation therapy is not new, for example is something that uses the Rehabilitation Centre for Advanced Therapeutics in Singapore combined with occasional robotic system but this time it tries to extend the therapy to the patient's home for their family, for example, help speed up the process using this game.
Using a wireless controller, patients will be driving to the characters while performing exercises that will help you regain mobility and coordination, something that has already been found Danny Mann, a 68-year old man who suffered a stroke in February and never had been set before a game:
"I had fun even though I was exercising and sweating. Therapy exercises are normally quite boring but necessary but this game is somewhat different, encourages me to continue going to therapy ... I wish I could play with my grandchildren. I do not think there is a better motivation to play this game with my grandchildren for me to continue on the path of my recovery "
The idea is that the game system also can include a monitoring brief for doctors and therapists can follow the evolution of the patient and make sure you are following the exercise at home.
An interesting therapy that will surely help speed the recovery of many patients who do not see getting rehabilitation therapy as something heavy or dull.
It's been a couple of years we took a look at the progress of Google Chrome in HTML5 language use through the site called Chrome Experiments. Since then, developers have not only demonstrated their skills in implementing HTML5 and JavaScript in general but will also see many experiments with extensive use of WebGL. I decided to revisit this interesting site, and make a selection to my readers.
Much has been said about WebGL , how to open the door to the applications with high 3D and hardware allow the use of video on our browser more efficiently. However, the position between the developers of browsers is polarized, which does not fall quite right for those interested in creating programs and games that make use of this API. The best proof of this comes through the different experiments available on the Web. There is always one that works in a browser and completely fails in another, while in other cases you have to manually activate WebGL because their support is not complete. Also come into play other aspects such as video drivers, as they may introduce unexpected problems.
But WebGL progresses, and the same experiments that expose weaknesses in browsers also show a remarkable growth in the use of the API. From simple technical demonstrations to complete games to keep you glued to the screen, it is clear that you can achieve impressive features and effects, all from inside the browser, without need for external software. The potential is enormous, and we want to share this idea with our readers through few experiments collected from Chrome Experiments site. You may already know some of them, but there may be one or two who take them by surprise.
WebGL Aquarium
Nothing better to start with a classic like the WebGL Aquarium. Is almost a year and a half on the site, but still delivers a wonderful view.
WebGL Terrain Editor
Imagine a future of browser games with map editors and land, completely in three dimensions. Canyons, mountains and craters with corresponding textures are visible in WebGL Terrain Editor. GLSL is the main language, while WebGL is responsible for rendering. Excellent.
X-Wing
Anyone who is considered "fan" of Star Wars should see this more closely. An impressive flight in an X-Wing through the eternal runner in the Death Star, avoiding structures and their limits your ability. No explosion of the Death Star at the end, but if any ... phone, LucasArts!
WebGL Path Tracing
WebGL is not all about performance, but also allows some really eye-catching effects. The example of Path Tracing WebGL focuses on lighting and shadow generation, and the best part is you can change the position of objects, recording immediate changes. Put some pressure on your graphics card (there are some reported incidents), but you should certainly try.
Human Bio
Personally I consider it one of the best. There are some tools to visualize different aspects of the human body, but the level of quality that has Biodigital Human definitely worth your attention. It may be simple curiosity, but who want to record some things on anatomy and English at the same time, you can not ignore.
Cloth Simulation
Finally, a very good simulation of fabric, which is altered according to his brush with the areas and contact with the air stream than you think. And to think that some time ago we needed a dedicated physics card to generate a similar effect.
Researchers at the National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) have tried what is considered the first gene therapy is able to extend the life of rats. It is a treatment which acts directly on genes, in adult animals, and which is applied only once. Mice treated with this procedure lengthened her life by 24%, delaying the onset of diseases of old so without increasing the incidence of cancers or other disorders. And the good news is that this is a therapy which can be applied in humans.
This may be one of the most important news of the year: Maria A. Blasco and M. Bruno Bernardes de Jesus, along with a group of colleagues from the National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) have developed and successfully tested what it believes is the first gene therapy can extend the life of rats. Unlike previous works, this treatment is implemented in adult, directly modifying genes. In other experiments had to modify the genes while the guinea pigs were in an embryonic state, a situation that was virtually irrelevant in humans and, of course, completely useless to extend the life of those who are alive. This is a therapy that could be applied in humans, which has proven safe and effective in mice, and has managed to extend the life of the treated mice by up to 24%. Another remarkable aspect of this experiment is that the treatment they have tuned CNIO scientists has not only prevented the emergence of diseases typical of old such as osteoporosis, but has improved neuromuscular coordination without thereby has been increased the incidence of cancer.
The results of this work have been published in EMBO Molecular Medicine, and statistics show that mice were treated per year of life lived 24% longer than those who received no treatment. Those who were treated at 2 years of life managed to live 13% longer. In essence, gene therapy is used to treat the animal with a virus whose DNA has been modified to incorporate the gene for the enzyme telomerase, which is closely related to aging. Scientists know that telomerase is able to repair the telomeres (the ends of chromosomes), "holding back" the clock cells. The role of viruses in this therapy is simply to act as a vector capable of delivering the modified DNA to each cell of the body being treated.
The authors note that the experiment has "shown that it is possible to develop an anti-aging telomerase gene therapy without increasing the incidence of cancer", which until now had never been achieved. "The adult organisms accumulate DNA damage result of the shortening of telomeres, this work shows that gene therapy based on the production of telomerase has the potential to repair or delay this damage," say the authors. The telomerase gene is active only in cells of the body before birth. The cells of the adult, with few exceptions (basically, the stem cells and cancer cells), lack of telomerase. In fact, this makes tumor cells virtually immortal. Now, thanks to this treatment, you could get the same "aging effect" without the risk of cancer. You may not apply this therapy in humans until several years, but nobody can doubt that this is a very good first step on the road that leads to a prolongation of life expectancy without additional risks.
On the Apple developer conference scheduled for release a new MacBook Pro screen retina. This would not be the only one of its products that the company will incorporate the retina display that is already present on the iPhone and the new iPad. The iMac and the Macbook Air will also see the significant improvement in the resolution.
The retinal display has been so successful on iPhone and iPad the latest, recently released, will expand to other Apple devices outside the mobility sector. Laptops and desktop computers will also see this improvement.
In the following versions of the Macbook Air and the iMac,
retina screen will be incorporated. This is what one source has indicated that the portal appointment 9to5mac.com, who emphasizes that the company already has scheduled the presentation of a MacBook Pro with this new component.
It will be in the Apple developer conference, held between the 11th and 15th of June, presented the above screen MacBook Pro retina. Although the other company's products will have to wait. At present we are working on new versions of the MacBook Air 11.6 and 13.3 inches, which otherwise will not bring significant design changes, although they will be more efficient and faster.
In 2010 developer conference provided the first retinal display device, the iPhone 4. Later this technology was transferred to the fourth generation iPod Touch and Apple's new smartphone, the iPhone 4s. More recently, the iPhone has also adopted this improvement, although the resolution is not as dense as in the smaller screen devices. Therefore, we do not know what density in dots per inch will have a considerably larger surfaces, such as the iMac.
While the launch of its offer on 10 January, was orchestrated through a press conference (and teasing) skilfully presented, it is by a simple press release sent Tuesday morning at 7: 30 pm, the troublemaker announced the mobile subscriber numbers earned in the first quarter: 2.6 million people joined in late March that the operator does not exist on 1 January 2012. After his first 80 days old, Free will is offered 4% of the mobile market in France.
More importantly, the least we can say is that it did not leave the competition marble. Orange, SFR and Bouygues Telecom, the three main operators, have each unveiled an offer low cost (respectively Sosh, Red and B & You) and maneuvers continue: Bouygues Telecom to offer just Darty Mobile, ensuring a place in the distributor stores. SFR, who thanked Frank Esser, will be piloted in September by Michel Combes, the former head of Vodafone Europe. Orange, who lost in the meantime just over 600,000 subscribers, says not to let down our guard and could review again its offerings in the coming weeks.
Free had to reassure his side connection problems faced by some of its subscribers in late afternoon. But Xavier Niel, the main shareholder of Free, firmly believes in its disruptive model. He launched this week with Michael Golan, former CEO of Free France, Golan Israel Telecom. An operator that offers monthly plans ranging from NIS 9.99 (2 euros) to 99 shekels (20 euros). Never change a winning formula?
The Next Web noticed a correlation between the number of active users of the Facebook app for Windows Phone 7 and the number of users of Windows Phone 7: there is a new user of this application all WP7 6.756 smartphones sold. In January 2011 the site was estimated that 2 million WP7 smartphones were sold, a figure confirmed a few weeks later by Microsoft. If this ratio still holds, there are now 12 million Windows Phone outstanding.
The Facebook application for Windows Phone 7 is indeed actively used by 1.9 million people: it is thus slightly less than 13 million Windows Phone that would be activated, a figure reduced to 12 million by the site as a precaution. Of course, a ratio also resists simplistic poorly to the test of time, especially since a second-hand market is set up. However, we note such a peak usage of the Facebook app for WP7 from the marketing of the first Nokia smartphone Lumia, which tenderait to confirm the positive impact of the Finnish manufacturer of mobile ecosystem of Microsoft.
Nevertheless, the need to look at any cost figures shows that the release of Microsoft is deficient: the Redmond company has only very rarely communicated to the sales figures of WP7 devices. If the estimated 12 million was good, it would show in fact that Microsoft is far from having won his bet to become a major player in the telephony world: it takes months to sell as many Apple iPhone. History shows, however, Microsoft can do the back round and continue to invest: hope for the Redmond company that WP7 will be more than Zune Xbox.
There are many ideas on how to make Web content access fairer for consumers and more profitable for companies, but until one of these methods can not be implemented efficiently, others seek to keep attacking the means of distribution and exchange. In the same way some governments hired mercenaries to fight their wars, large corporations are turning to companies dedicated to interfere and / or stop traffic on BitTorrent. One is the Russian Pirate Pay, with financial support from Microsoft, and reports to date have stopped tens of thousands of downloads.
It is clear that the ultimate solution for piracy is the classic process of demonizing the user. There are distribution mechanisms that have earned an excellent reputation among consumers. Probably the best example we have for this is Steam. In addition to the user off the road (something they can not do DRM systems), there are times when Steam puts very attractive offers that keep the players challenged. Why not think of a Steam for movies? Instead of implementing something like this, companies continue to attack the idea of distribution channels, and BitTorrent, despite being technically legal, is not in your list of favorites. More than a corporate giant would like to see dead and buried to BitTorrent, but for now looking to stop functioning.
How do they do? Mainly bombarding customers with false information exchange network, something similar (at least in concept) to what we remember of the Kazaa network with the flood of fraudulent sources. The work is the responsibility of a Russian company called Pirate Pay. The story began in 2009 from what was a traffic management tool for providers. The prototype performed much better than expected, and the development process eventually caught the attention of Microsoft, which provided the not inconsiderable sum of one hundred thousand dollars to the anti-piracy effort. Last December, some of the companies that hired the services of Pirate Pay were Walt Disney Studios and Sony Pictures.
Apparently, the company has greater effectiveness in protecting a specific movie instead of stopping the discharge at a general level. One of his recent projects focused on the Russian film "Vysotskiy. Spasibo, chto zhivoy ", stopping almost 45 000 downloads. The number is in every small when you consider the magnitude of the BitTorrent network, nor can we say that the services are cheap Pay Pirate, because depending on the complexity of the project may charge up to fifty thousand dollars. Pirate Pay is not the first company to do so, and probably not the last, but there seems to be an efficient method in the long term. Companies lose money "real" outsourcing these services, when in fact, if its contents were accessible at a reasonable price, they might be making it.
Some days, if not all, we live among a myriad of tasks, duties and tasks that we perform, usually with the time playing against us. In many cases, the simultaneity of tasks to do and little time available may lead some people to suffer severe stress disorders and physical and mental exhaustion that in the medium and long term impact on our quality of life. At MIT, a research team in collaboration with Indiana University and Tufts University are working on a system that at first glance may touch the singularity, because their purpose is to detect an "overload" in our brain to transfer some of the tasks to a computer.
This perhaps may sound so that a computer will become part of our work while we do the other party and, frankly, would not be bad that someone develop a system like that but, really, Brainput (which is the name of this system ) is oriented to detect if your brain is trying to process multiple things at once and help although somewhat more limited.
How can make the survey of the workload of our brain? This monitoring, which monitor a server's CPU is performed using near infrared spectroscopy, to some extent, provides similar results to those who can offer an MRI at the time of study brain activity. With this measuring system detects Brainput the brain of a subject is performing several processes at once and be activated with the idea of help and free.
Helping in the task? Free it from having to do it? The Brainput development team led by Erin Solovey, worked in a rather curious use case to explain how the system works and this "strange principle" to rid our brain. They put a guy to handle two robots by remote control so that, in turn, had to move along a maze and calculate the movements of both devices simultaneously. The subject, of course, was connected to the system so that it detects Brainput he was "managing two tasks at once" and be activated by the robots so that their sensors were able to lower the effort of the subject and contribute to their own guidance (lowering the computational burden of the brain of the person who controlled).
This experiment Brainput team wants to show that such systems could be applied in many aspects of our daily lives, for example, a car that could detect that we have distracted (the phone with another occupant, etc.) and assume some control of the car (to avoid accidents). In addition, the team wants to explore the use of certain systems Brainput to adapt to our level of concentration, for example, increase the font size of an application or a text if it detects that we are tired or something slower reflexes or adapt the layout of buttons on a graphical interface to make it somewhat easier.
In a web portal presented project plans that detail very specifically how the ship could be built with existing technology.
The flagship of Starfleet United Federation of Planets known as the USS Enterprise in Star Trek universe could be built in 20 years as an engineer with over 30 years experience BTE called Dan.
This individual, who is working in one of the 500 largest U.S. companies by Fortune found that only two decades sufficient to achieve this milestone.
His idea is embodied in a website called Build the Enterprise where are project plans that detail very specifically how the ship could be built with existing technology and will arrive soon.
According to him, the USS Enterprise take an ion propulsion engine that is powered by a nuclear reactor power of 1.5 GW. This would add three more reactors to feed the rest of the spacecraft system.
This powerful team is allowed to travel from Earth to Mars in 90 days and the moon in just three.
In 2011 the number of malicious attacks increased by 81% compared to the previous year but spam messages fell considerably (34%) and the number of vulnerabilities.
According to the 17th edition of the Threat Report Symantec Internet Security, the main objective of the offenders in the network has changed and now the focus on mobile devices and social networks. These represent an appetizing target, since the data stored on them are highly reliable. The study also indicates that the number of vulnerabilities fell 20% and malicious attacks increased by 81%. Another prominent finding was the increase in data breaches with 232 million identities stolen, the commonest cause was the loss of devices. And, it is increasingly common the stale BYOD (Bring your own device) which implies that the worker has the corporate environment their own computers loaded with personal information. No wonder, therefore, they have grown by 93% of vulnerabilities in mobile, 163 in 2010 to 315 last year.
Finally, Symantec introduced the bot ranking cities in Spain during 2011. According to the report ISTR 17, there were 30,207 bots being Madrid, with a percentage of 50.33%, the city with the highest number of computers infected with malware. Behind her are Oviedo (27.59%) and Bilbao (7.76%).
The assault on television is one of the continuing objectives of the brand on the block, bordering on obsession. Steve Jobs himself spent his last days trying to guess at how to create the definitive connected TV that's very easy to use, as recounted by his official biographer. So far his approach goes through an external box, called Apple TV, a media receiver with wireless connectivity. Now in its third generation.
The first generation of Apple TV, which integrated a hard drive, reached the U.S. stores in March 2007. The second is stripped of the integrated hard drive, but maintained access to the Internet via Ethernet and Wi-Fi plus the ability to play streaming media content. This March 2012, premiered the third generation of the "box" of Apple playback capabilities in high definition (1080p). But that is not enough. What the company pursues its own connected TVs are known as Apple iTV.
The news about the future of HDTV-capable Apple Internet access are succeeding regularly, in the absence of confirmations. This time, the information comes from the president of Foxconn, a leading provider of Apple, which deals with the joining of brand products like the iPad, iPhone and Mac computers Leveraging the laying of the foundation stone of a factory in Shanghai, Terry Gou, the chairman of Foxconn, has revealed interesting details about Apple iTV television sets, as published by the China Daily.
The first is that Foxconn is preparing to manufacture the new Apple TV. And, recently, the Chinese manufacturer has partnered with Sharp to set up a joint venture in Japan dedicated to the production of television sets. Just last November 2011 rumors pointed that Sharp would handle that task, so that the first units were ready for the second half of 2012.
Foxconn Chairman pointed out other features of future Apple TVs, which have high-definition panels and have housings made of aluminum, a material modern yet elegant, the brand already used in other products like the iPad or iPod. In addition, Terry Gou has confirmed another feature that has been rumored since the launch of the iPhone 4S. ITV Apple TVs can understand verbal commands from users, with the addition of voice assistant Siri. Similarly, those connected TVs allow video calls, except that instead of using Skype, which is the most common service in smart TVs currently on the market, will be through FaceTime, its own protocol.
The previous wave of information on Apple TV iTV occurred in December 2011, when Apple was meeting with electronics companies and television world to exchange ideas
While Apple has released an update these days its mobile operating system (IOS 5.1.1), the Internet is full of rumors about iPhone OS 6, which will probably be presented at the WWDC 2012 developer conference, held from 11 to 15 June in San Francisco. A new feature that has become an increasingly body is the disappearance of Google Maps as App preinstalled on IOS. Apple will have its own map application, clear and simple, although it seems that those who wish may be downloaded from the App Store Google option.
Apple controls the design of the implementation of IOS Maps, but the server owned by Google. It is believed that changes in IOS 6. Apple would have already completed mapping and would be willing to use their purchases by companies Placebase, C3 Technologies and Poly9.
The same rumors indicate the new application will include a powerful role in 3D.
The conversion of the mapping system is the most remarkable new Internet users expect from IOS 6. However, there are many other possible modifications. These include facial recognition as a system of locking / unlocking of the team, as does Google in Android 4.0.
Remember that the new iPhone, released in March, moves with IOS version 5.1 (now updated to 5.1.1), which introduced a few changes from iOS 5, so that "appleadictos" believe that, inevitably, the new operating system will be ready in the coming weeks, at WWDC in June. This version also introduced an enhanced version of Siri, the voice personal assistant that Apple introduced its iPhone 4S, and NFC payment technology.
If you've spent your life blaming yourself for not paying attention to those kinds of programming, close the valve of your oppression and stand right now in the process of creation. The rap game developer's fault again to introduce Construct 2, Scirra tool to create games without programming skills HTML5 nothing. Just be smart enough to drag things and give them motion parameters, the rest is just imagination. And the need, because if your game is very good, Scirra gives possibilities to sell it.
For new tools with which to create new games, more fun, more customizability, more levels, better graphics and with the experience that you have to come created on other platforms. With the advent of HTML5, the opportunities in this field is considerably amplieron taking now available alternatives to the typical games in Flash or Java. Who is now providing this functionality is Construct 2, created by the compañíaScirra, is a platform to create games for free and without knowing HTML5 programming.
GameBrix style or other systems to create games without knowing HTML to Hello world, the model-building games Construct 2 has renewed options in relation to the previous edition. Back then we had the ability to create 2D games with an ease that makes conventional designers pull their hair, but now the interface has been revamped to include more events in free mode, project control, parameters that vary from paths , dimensions, layers, and tab to view the acceptance of various types of animations. Additionally, when you finish creating your game, you can upload it to the platform called Scirra Arcade, where you will see how millions of users play your creation.
The idea of this type of platform to create games for free HTML5 is that you can fill the games own website whether for fun and full dissemination of your art or for videojueguil, attentive ambitious to make money. Yes, because in addition to a 2D physical simulator that takes great with the ideas you can think of to make games like drag and drop, Construct 2 will let you sell your games for Chrome and Facebook applications, something that your games will have to have some level of development meeting it personally difficult to achieve in the short term. To sell the games you must have a paid version of Scirra Construct 2, which are around $ 80 in the standard version and $ 365 in the Business version. Connected with buyers makes Scirra, you just have to put that imagination to work. Share with us the games you've created!
