Saturday, September 17, 2011

Samsung Balas Apple di Australia

Samsung Balas Apple di Australia Jakarta - Sengketa hak paten di antara Samsung dan Apple seperti tidak ada habisnya. Tuding menuding dan saling menggugat masih terus berlanjut bahkan tampaknya kian meluas ke berbagai negara. Kali ini, klaim baru diajukan Samsung melawan Apple di Australia.Pekan ini Samsung mengajukan klaim ke pengadilan di Australia yang menyasar iPhone dan iPad Apple. Di negeri Kanguru ini, Samsung berupaya memperjuangkan tujuh paten wireless yang diklaim sebagai miliknya. Dilansir Cnet dan dikutip detikINET,...

VMware Dorong Pemulihan Bencana ke Layanan Awan

VMware Dorong Pemulihan Bencana ke Layanan Awan Jakarta - VMware mengeluarkan solusi vCloud untuk memudahkan perusahaan kelas enterprise mencari, menggunakan dan mengelola berbagai layanan awan dari para penyedia layanan yang tergabung dalam VMware service provider program (VSPP).Salah satu solusi tersebut adalah vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5 yang bisa dioptimalkan untuk pemulihan bencana.4 mitra penyedia layanan VMware sendiri telah mengumumkan rencananya untuk memperkenalkan layanan pemulihan bencana berbasis awan yang dibangun...

Huawei Luncurkan Jaringan Komersial LTE TDD/FDD

Huawei Luncurkan Jaringan Komersial LTE TDD/FDD Jakarta - Persaingan di antara vendor teknologi dan komunikasi kian sengit. Episode terbaru menghadirkan gebrakan Huawei dengan meluncurkan jaringan telekomunikasi komersial konvergensi LTE TDD/FDD yang diklaim pertama di dunia. Dengan memanfaatkan solusi inovasi SingleRAN LTE, jaringan LTE TDD/FDD Huawei disebut-sebut mampu meningkatkan akses internet mobile dengan kecepatan download 134Mb/s dan upload 124.8Mb/s. "Sebagai pemimpin ekosistem teknologi infomasi dan komunikasi yang...

WhatWasThere.com creates album of then-and-now photos

WhatWasThere.comaA photo showing part of Adamson Square in Carrollton, Ga. from the 1950s is compared to what it looks like now, with a photo from Google Street View.aBy Suzanne ChoneyYou know how neat it is to go into a town or city museum and see then-and-now photos of a place, mulling over markers of its history that remain or perhaps are no longer reflected in current photographs.aNow, a website wants to do the same thing with photos from every place in the world — but it will take a global effort to make it work.aWhatWasThere.com describes itself as a "virtual time machine of sorts that allows users to navigate familiar streets as they appeared in the past."aThe site makes it easy for anyone to upload a photo, and only two "tags," or identifying pieces of info, are needed: Location...

Storage Eternus DX60 S2 Fujitsu Sasar UKM

Storage Eternus DX60 S2 Fujitsu Sasar UKM Jakarta - Fujitsu memperkenalkan sistem storage untuk entry level Eternus DX60 S2 terbaru yang diklaim bisa dikembangkan untuk memenuhi kebutuhan manajemen data perusahaan skala kecil dan menengah (UKM). Fujitsu memang membangun sistem storage Eternus DX60 S2 ini khusus untuk UKM yang akan melakukan konsolidasi, menerapkan sentralisasi manajemen data, dan menjamin keandalan storage di kantor cabang. Sistem ini juga bisa mendukung seluruh operasional TI, termasuk aplikasi bisnis dan database...

FTC Seeks Changes to COPPA Rule

The Federal Trade Commission is proposing changes to the Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule, which is mandated by the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, or COPPA. The COPPA Rule governs the information that websites can request from visitors under the age of 13, and the agency is requesting public comments on the proposed changes. The proposed modifications are in the area of definitions, parental notice, parental consent mechanisms, confidentiality and security of children's personal information, and the role of self-regulatory "safe harbor" programs. The federal agency is looking to receive written comments...

How to stop pervs from stealing your naked pics

Duane Hoffman/msnbc.comaBy Helen A.S. PopkinScarlett Johansson's got her lawyer trying to purge her stolen nude pics from the Internet — yeah, good luck with that — and her people on the horn to the feds, to to put the hammer down on whoever ripped those self-portraits from her phone.aMeanwhile, someone's shopping revealing pics allegedly plucked from the phone of Mila Kunis, in a hacker's haul that's rumored to contain a cameo from Justin Timberlake's junk, as well as sexy text messages between the two. And the FBI continues to investigate similar compromising content snatched from the electronic devices of Jessica Alba, Christina Aguilera, Miley Cyrus, Lady Gaga and Vanessa Hudgens.aThis isn't just a Hollywood trend, however. In at least three recent cases, men face criminal...

Steve Ballmer Akui Penjualan WP7 Loyo

Steve Ballmer Akui Penjualan WP7 Loyo Jakarta - CEO Microsoft Steve Ballmer mengakui bahwa penjualan ponsel Windows Phone 7 (WP7) yang semula tumbuh cepat, agak loyo hingga sejauh ini. "Kami tidak menjual cukup banyak handset sebagaimana yang saya inginkan pada tahun pertama," kata Ballmer dalam sebuah pertemuan analis finansial. Namun demikian Ballmer cukup puas mengetahui reaksi developer dan para partner yang digandengnya terhadap sistem operasi (OS) tersebut. Dilansir TG Daily dan dikutip detikINET, Jumat (16/9/2011), Ballmer...

Muppets do 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo'

By Helen A.S. PopkinWith a wink and a nod, the Disney puppet masters behind the Muppets ongoing Internet comeback bring you a trailer for "The Muppets" movie, due out this Thanksgiving, that parodies the fake bootleg trailer for the Americanized version of "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" (due out this Christmas).aRather than attempting to trick the Internet into believing this is somehow stolen footage — as was the shtick with the "Dragon Tattoo" viral marketing campaign that confounded some of the Internet back in May — "The Pig with the Froggy Tattoo" is straight up commercial, even pointing out its cross promotion with "The Green Album" Muppet tribute record. There's even a well-delivered joke about the inability to get rights to Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song," that...

Friday, September 16, 2011

Steve Ballmer Akui Penjualan WP7 Loyo

Steve Ballmer Akui Penjualan WP7 Loyo Jakarta - CEO Microsoft Steve Ballmer mengakui bahwa penjualan ponsel Windows Phone 7 (WP7) yang semula tumbuh cepat, agak loyo hingga sejauh ini. "Kami tidak menjual cukup banyak handset sebagaimana yang saya inginkan pada tahun pertama," kata Ballmer dalam sebuah pertemuan analis finansial. Namun demikian Ballmer cukup puas mengetahui reaksi developer dan para partner yang digandengnya terhadap sistem operasi (OS) tersebut. Dilansir TG Daily dan dikutip detikINET, Jumat (16/9/2011), Ballmer...

Mouse without borders – Multi PC control with one mouse / KB

Microsoft has released “Mouse without borders”, a personal project of one of their employees who got frustrated with the clutter multiple PCs and handling them made with multiple input devices. Many people use multi monitor setup, and they know how easy and blessing it is to use just moving your mouse to edge of screen takes you to other screen. But what if those two displays are connected to two different machines? This software brings the same functionality to two different machines over the standard network protocol. You can use your one keyboard and mouse move / type / use both the PCs at same time. The features go beyond this by even allowing drag and drop between the two PCs. Copying files over a network is no magic, but its just easy this software makes it happen...

Apple Store Palsu Serahkan Produk Abal-abal

Apple Store Palsu Serahkan Produk Abal-abal Jakarta - 2 toko yang menjual aksesoris palsu Apple akhirnya setuju untuk menyerahkan barang-barang mereka. Kasus ini menyusul gugatan yang diajukan Apple terhadap toko tersebut yang dituding melanggar hak cipta Apple.Apple Story Inc dan FunZone Inc adalah pihak yang digugat karena ketahuan menjual aksesoris seperti case, headset dan lain-lain untuk iPhone, iPad dan iPod. Kedua toko ini terletak di kawasan Chinatown, Queens, New York.Sebelumnya Apple Store palsu tersebut bersikukuh mereka...

If This Then That – automate web tasks

“If this then that” is a fabulous web automation service where you create simple “recipes” of what triggers any following action automatically. There are lot of services available that you can link together using the service. e.g. you can create a trigger that whenever u create bookmark on delicious, then it gets tweeted; or if you favorite a video on youtube it gets posted on facebook; or when you post a picture on flickr it gets saved in your dropbox etc. There are loads of services compatible with it from flickr, instagram, gmail, google calendar, evernote, readitlater, last.fm, youtube, facebook, twitter, gtalk, craigslist, linked.in, stocks, weather, tumblr, foursquare and many many more. You can quickly sign up and start creating your own recipes or formulas, as well...

NATO dan Taliban Perang di Twitter

NATO dan Taliban 'Perang' di Twitter Kabul - Pasukan NATO dan Taliban masih berperang sengit di Afghanistan. Tidak cuma di medan laga, peperangan mereka ternyata mampir juga di situs mikroblogging Twitter.Baru-baru ini, serangan bom di dekat Kedutaan Besar Amerika Serikat di Kabul mengakibatkan 11 korban jiwa. Lembaga Afghanistan International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) yang digawangi NATO pun mengomentarinya via Twitter."Pertanyaanya adalah seberapa lama teroris akan membuat orang Afghanistan yang tidak bersalah berada dalam...

Operator Kompak Ajukan Tuntutan ke RIM

Operator Kompak Ajukan Tuntutan ke RIM Jakarta - Para operator boleh saja terlibat persaingan sengit di industri telekomunikasi Indonesia. Namun untuk urusan mengajukan tuntutan ke Research In Motion (RIM) demi masa depan layanan BlackBerry yang lebih baik, operator beserta petingginya solid merapatkan barisan.Dikatakan Kepala Humas dan Pusat Informasi Kementerian Komunikasi dan Informatika Gatot S. Dewa Broto, para operator mitra RIM -- yakni Telkomsel, Indosat, XL Axiata, , Bakrie Telecom, Axis Telekom Indonesia, Hutchison CP...

Killing Star Wars, one Ewok at a time

By Todd KenreckDo you have those Star Wars special edition blues? Then murder some Ewoks, kill Han Solo and toss some Wookiees. In-Game's Todd Kenreck reports.a...

Ambisi Intel Ciptakan Perangkat Hemat Energi

Ambisi Intel Ciptakan Perangkat Hemat Energi San Fransisco - Intel telah memamerkan salah satu inovasinya dengan menciptakan sebuah prosesor komputer paling hemat daya. Prosesor tersebut bisa digunakan hanya dengan mengandalkan tenaga surya.Dalam ajang Intel Developer Forum (IDF) yang digelar di Moscone Center West, San Fransisco 13-15 September 2011, Intel berhasil mengundang decak kagum para pengunjung dengan memamerkan prosesor hemat energi.Prosesor tersebut dioperasikan hanya dengan mengandalkan sebuah baterai kecil penyimpan...

Can Yahoo-Bing-AOL Battle Google on Display Ads?

After Yahoo fired Carol Bartz, many wondered what the search engine firm would do next. Would Microsoft make another bid for the beleaguered brand? Would AOL swoop in and snap up the search prince? Yes and, well, no. Google probably never saw this one coming. If rumors hold true, AOL, Yahoo and Microsoft plan to join forces to sell ad inventory on one another's sites. The idea, of course, is to grab market share from the 800-pound gorilla named Google. According to All Things D, execs from all three brands hooked up with top web publishers and ad buyers to spell out the competitive plan at a Manhattan dinner earlier...

US data on 'bad doctors' closed to the public

By M. Alex Johnsonmsnbc.com reporterThe Obama administration has closed public access to its database of disciplinary action against doctors and other medical professionals, basically because reporters were getting too good at using it.aThe Department of Health and Human Services compiles a National Practitioner Data Bank to centralize reports on malpractice cases and licensing board actions against individual doctors and health care companies. The idea is to make it harder for practitioners who've been hit with disciplinary actions or malpractice judgments to move to other states and get new licenses. aFour times a year, HHS has published a version of the database to the public. Because the database is supposed to be confidential, it's scrubbed of names, addresses and other information...

Canon upgrades 2 top point-and-shoots

CanonaCanon PowerShot S100aBy Wilson RothmanWhile you can buy impressive Canon point-and-shoots for under $200, real photographers keep their eye on the pricier S series. It's compact but it has a larger sensor and pro-level controls. Today the S100 appears at the top of the totem pole, with an improved sensor and zoom lens, plus GPS. Meanwhile, in the super-zoom category, the SX30 is replaced by the SX40 in a less spectacular leap.aYes, the jump to the S100 from its predecessor, the S95, is far greater than the previous jump from S90 to S95. The $430 camera still has an f/2 aperture lens for low light and nice shallow depth of field, but now it's got a 5X zoom, from 24mm to 120mm. Its new CMOS sensor is not only an increase in megapixels, from 10 to 12, but a shift from CCD for improved...

Thursday, September 15, 2011

Sony, Toshiba and Hitachi merging LCD production

Japanese LCD manufacturers are facing tough competition right now from Samsung (Korea) and LG / Chimei Innolux Corporation (Taiwan) etc to keep competitive prices for their LCDs. Thus they have decided to merge their production center to remain competitive. Only the LCD manufacturing division will be merged together to produce LCDs for all 3 Japanese companies; for both their TVs as well as for smartphones / tablets. The jointly-owned company is now called: Japan Display K. K. ight now, Sharp Corp is biggest individual production company of LCDs by producing 15% of total market requirement, and Samsung and Chimei sharing second place at 12% each. The number of LCD units in production by Sony, Sharp and Hitachi were individually not competitive enough to get the companies...

Nvidia launches Win 8 developer program

Windows 8 developer conference revealed the new Windows 8 as the first OS that will run on both x86 and ARM architect. This will bring the huge library of windows applications natively to both the platforms. PCs are based on x86 chips while the smartphones and tablets are dominated by ARM processors. Nvidia has jumped the Windows 8 bandwagon by announcing their full support for development of games on it. Both the tablet and desktop developers can join this program to get the best benefits out of new Windows 8 features and their usage with Nvidia’s processors like Tegra, Geforce, Quadro and Tesla. This developer program will give developers nvidia support, tools and resources to easily develop games and apps for Windows 8 based devices. Nvidia has ATI as rival in dekstop...

Pemenang Blog Award Sesi 21 - BRONZE

Pemenang Blog Award Sesi 21 - BRONZE Jakarta - Tim Internet Sehat telah memilih dua blog pemenang Internet Sehat Blog & Content Award (ISBA) 2011. Setelah melakukan proses verifikasi dan penilaian, bersama ini kami menyampaikan bahwa blog berikut ini layak dan berhak mendapatkan penghargaan ISBA 2011 untuk kategori BRONZE minggu ini, Kamis (15/09/2011): http://dianwidiyanarko.com Menulis kapan saja tentang apa saja, itulah motto dari pemilik blog yang beralamatkan di http://dianwidiyanarko.com. Dengan berpedoman pada semangat...

REVIEW: 'Gears of War 3' loves itself too much

By Todd KenreckThe conclusion to the trilogy has great gameplay, a desolated landscape, but fails to deliver on a desperate and dark story. In-Game's Todd Kenreck gives it an 8 out of 10.aMore video game newsa 'Resistance 3' is gritty, dirty, and deadly 'Dead Island' is dead on Breaking down Batman...

AMD 7000 series GPU details out

New details have come out from Nordic Hardware about the next generation of AMD graphics card coming out later this year. First off, let’s take a look at the mid-range cards that will be replacing the HD 6800 series. The first major change everyone will notice is the long awaited move from a 48nm die to 28nm, bringing along with it the obvious benefits of lower power consumption and lesser heat. The increase in texture units and Radeon cores was to be expected, as was the resulting increase in bandwidth. While these upgrades seem incremental, the juicy bits were reserved for their flagship models. The Tahiti chips will be based on the new PCIe Gen 3.0 interface, providing a significant boost to the already high bandwidth. Further improvements come in the form...

Penjualan BlackBerry PlayBook Melempem

Penjualan BlackBerry PlayBook Melempem Jakarta - BlackBerry PlayBook sepertinya susah meraih kesuksesan di tengah para pesaingnya. Diketahui, angka penjualan per unitnya jauh tertinggal dengan komputer tablet keluaran Apple, iPad.Menurut survey yang dilakukan oleh Bloomberg, pada kuarter terakhir lalu RIM hanya mengapalkan satu Playbook untuk setiap 19 unit iPad yang dikapalkan Apple. Dikutip detikINET dari Bloomberg, Kamis (15/9/2011), RIM hanya menjual sebanyak 490.000 unit PlayBook di kuarter pertama, sedangkan iPad sudah terjual...

Yahoo, AOL dan Microsoft Keroyok Google

Yahoo, AOL dan Microsoft 'Keroyok' Google Jakarta - 3 perusahaan internet: Yahoo, AOL dan Microsoft dilaporkan tengah menjalin kerjasama untuk meningkatkan pendapatan yang didapat dari penjualan iklan. Kerjasama yang terjalin di antara mereka juga dimaksudkan untuk lebih kompetitif saat berhadapan dengan sang pesaing tangguh, Google.Dari hasil diskusi yang mereka gelar di New York, Selasa lalu, perusahaan-perusahaan tersebut sepakat untuk menjual iklan di masing-masing situs. Mereka juga setuju untuk lebih menyederhanakan proses...

iPad Success Floating Other Tablets To Sales Boom, IDC Says

Could Apple's utter domination of the tablet market actually be good for the competition in the long term? Market research firm IDC believes so, raising its forecast of tablet shipments for the year to 62.5 million units, up from 53.5 million units, based on global media tablet shipments rising 88.9 percent on a sequential basis and 303.8 percent year over year in the second quarter to 13.6 million units. That demand was heavily fueled by the release of Apple's iPad 2 in February, which saw shipments reach 9.3 million units, or a whopping 68.3 percent share of the worldwide market, up from 65.7 percent the previous...

BlackBerry App World 3.0 Sudah Bisa Diunduh

BlackBerry App World 3.0 Sudah Bisa Diunduh Jakarta - Research In Motion (RIM) akhirnya resmi meluncurkan versi terbaru toko aplikasinya, yakni BlackBerry App World 3.0. Sebelumnya ia memang sudah tersedia, namun masih dalam versi beta.Dalam versi ini sejumlah perubahan terlihat, dari mulai desain home screen yang lebih mulus, ikon-ikon baru serta pengaturan aplikasi yang lebih mudah.Berikut fitur-fitur baru yang terdapat di BlackBerry App World 3.0 seperti yang dikutip detikINET dari Technorati, Kamis (15/9/2011):1. New Design...

Sony will launch PlayStation Vita in Japan with 26 games

SonyaSony says 26 games and apps will be available when the PlayStation Vita launches in Japan this December.aBy Winda BenedettiSony has announced that it will put its brand new handheld game machine — the PlayStation Vita — on sale for the first time starting Dec. 17.aThat's good news for gamers in Japan — which is where Sony will first launch its powerful and unusual gadget which comes with touch-enabled screens on both the front and the back sides. North American and European gamers, however, will have to wait a bit longer to find out when, exactly, they can get their hands on Vita.a Sony unveiled the Vita's Japanese launch date early Wednesday as the Tokyo Game Show got under way. The company also announced that 26 games will be available for the machine on the day it launches and that...

Ivy Bridge Bikin Prosesor Intel Kian Melesat

Ivy Bridge Bikin Prosesor Intel Kian Melesat Jakarta - Intel siap menghadirakan generasi ketiga dari jajaran seri Core i. Ada beberapa perubahan yang membuat proseor tersebut melesat lebih kencang dari pendahulunya.Ivy Bridge sudah mengusung proses fabrikasi 22nm, ini berarti prosesor akan lebih ramping namun juga memiliki jumlah transistor lebih banyak dari seri Core i sebelumnya. Alhasil, selain hemat daya komputer pun lebih bertenaga."Ivy Bridge memiliki arsitektur Sandy Bridge yang telah disempurnakan. Intergrasi GPU telah...

Ultrabook, Era Baru Komputer Jinjing

Ultrabook, Era Baru Komputer Jinjing San Fransisco, AS - Intel mengenalkan Ultrabook sebagai standar baru komputer jinjing yang hemat energi. Ada beberapa fitur menarik di dalamnya, termasuk fitur anti maling.Ultrabook merupakan penggabungkan antara performa dan kapabilitas komputer jinjing dengan beberapa keunggulan tablet PC. Tak heran, jika akhirnya Intel mengklaim bahwa standar baru ini dapat mengubah pengalaman pengguna terhadap notebook pada umumnya.Selain untuk mengakomodir kebutuhan meningkatnya mobilitas pengguna, Intel...

Facebook Responds to Google Plus with Friend Lists

Taking a page from Google Plus, Facebook is doing what most social-media industry watchers expected: giving members the ability to segregate their friends based on specific circles. Facebook calls it Friend Lists. Facebook has made it possible to create lists for years, but members have complained that it took too long to organize lists and keep them up to date. Google Plus makes it simple with a drag and drop function in Circles. Facebook had to respond. "Want to see posts from your closest friends? Or perhaps you'd like to share a personal story with your family – without also telling all your co-workers," Facebook's...

Apple doesn't want you to play this smartphone game

Molleindustriaa"Phone Story" - banned from the App Store -- tells the not-so-happy stories associated with smartphone production. The above portion of the game takes a look at the many suicides committed by workers who manufacture our phones. aBy Winda BenedettiIt seems there's a smartphone game about smartphone manufacturing that one of the most famous smartphone makers doesn't want you to play.aThe game app — called "Phone Story" — was available in Apple's App Store for a few days before Apple yanked it from its virtual shelves on Tuesday.aCreated by indie developers Molleindustria, "Phone Story" is a collection of four mini games designed to show the horrible human and environmental costs of smartphone manufacturing and sales.aAs Molleindustria explains:a Phone Story is a game for...

IT Admins Catch a Break: No Critical Issues in Patch Tuesday

Microsoft has issued five security bulletins to address 15 vulnerabilities. In a rare occurrence, none of this month's vulnerabilities are rated critical. But that doesn't mean IT admins get a free ride in September, especially with the DigiNotar issues. "Despite the number of patches Microsoft issued today, it's important to not let the out-of-hand advisory Microsoft updated last week slip through the cracks," said Joshua Talbot, security intelligence manager at Symantec Security Response. "The advisory essentially revokes Microsoft's trust of various DigiNotar certificates. This update should probably be kept...

Windows 8 tablet strategy still risky

MicrosoftaReference design Windows 8 tablets from Qualcomm, Texas Instruments and IntelaBy Wilson RothmanWindows 8 is impressive, an opportunity for Microsoft to regain its footing in the shifting, post-PC world. But how will it fare against the iPad? If Microsoft's OS can't run on a wafer-thin piece of glass and metal, for 10 hours or more, it's not going to get very far.a(Msnbc.com is a joint venture of Microsoft and NBC Universal, but that has no impact on our coverage of Microsoft or its competitors.)aHardware/software loveMicrosoft doesn't build hardware, and as such, is at a crucial disadvantage to Apple, whose ability to design software and hardware in conjunction allows it to produce slimmer designs, unparalleled interface response and better battery life.aYes, better battery life....

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Android coming soon to Intel processors

If you thought Windows 8 was the only OS coming up with capability to run on both x86 and ARM processors then you are wrong. Intel and Google have unveiled their partnership to allow Android to run on x86 processors i.e. in future normal laptops and PCs can be installed with Android OS too. Although the Android OS is not meant for mainstream desktop PCs but would see positive response on Intel Atom processor based netbooks and ultrabooks. On other hand this will give Intel to get in on the tablet market too by introducing their atom processors for use in tablets as well as smartphones. Android will be made fully compatible with x86 architect in first quarter of 2012. While the very first Intel chip smartphone / tablet may appear in first half of 2012. This partnership will...

Preview Windows 8 Bisa Diunduh Gratis

Preview Windows 8 Bisa Diunduh Gratis Jakarta - Sistem operasi Windows 8 baru saja diperkenalkan Microsoft. Produsen software raksasa ini pun mempersilakan para developer untuk men-download preview Windows 8. Asyiknya, masyarakat luas bisa juga mencobanya.Microsoft memposting link download Windows 8 di website Windows 8 Developer Preview. Namun ini masih versi pra beta sehingga para pengunduh yang ingin mencoba harus bersiap jika banyak bug atau ketidakstabilan. Ya, versi ini masih jauh dari sempurna.Terdapat 3 versi Windows yang...