Facebook Offering Scholarships Tweet

CALIFORNIA - Facebook will announce the launch of a new scholarship program. However, this program is limited to computer engineering students across the United States alone.

In addition, these students are also required to work in fields related to social computing and Internet technology lainny. To get the scholarship, students are required to submit a work with the theme "Yeah determined to fight one of the themes offered. To support this program, Facebook itself has launched a new site.

Later students were selected to receive scholarships, Facebook will provide facilities for paying tuition academic year, including tickets and pocket money $ 30 thousand dollars in pocket money, $ 5 thousand to buy a computer, and USD5ribu to pay for travel and conferences.

They will also have the opportunity to be placed as an intern at Facebook's office and paid for next summer. So that was launched by Tech Crunch. Saturday (9/1/2010).

The fifth theme is meant is:

1. Internet Economics: algorithmic theory relevant online advertising auction.
2. Cloud Computing: Storage, database, and optimization for distributed computing on a large scale in the environment.
3. Social Computing: models, models, algorithms and systems in social networks, social media, social search and collaborative environment.
4. Data Mining and Machine Learning: learning algorithms, feature generation, and effective evaluation methods to produce a model of behavior online and offline.
5. Systems: Hardware, operating system, runtime, and language support for fast, scalable, efficient data center.
6. Information Retrieval: the search algorithm, information extraction, answer questions, cross-language and multimedia.
   

This application is submitted later than the date on February 15, 2010, and winners will be announced on March 29.

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Facebook users from Indonesia increased Tweet

San Francisco - Predictions of the analysis that says Facebook users outside the U.S. dominated proved true. But once Americans still listed as users of Facebook with the largest percentage.

Inside Facebook was launched through Wednesday (6/1/2010), approximately 70 percent of Facebook users come from outside the United States. Indonesia is the country's largest Facebook to 3 in the world. Indonesia's position under the United States and Turkey with a total user, in this January 2010, reaching 15.3 million. While Turkey reached 16.9 million users.

Figures in both countries is still very much with Facebook users in the United States that reaches more than 100 millions, exactly 102.6 million. This number increased approximately 5 percent compared with last December, which only reached 98.1 million.

If the growth in America is only 5 percent of their users, in contrast with Facebook users in Turkey is only increased approximately 4 percent compared to users in December, reaching 16.3 million. Facebook users in Indonesia alone grew approximately 10 percent compared to the number in December which reached 13.8 million users, or an additional approximately 1.43 million users.

Overall, the growth of Facebook users continues. At the end of the month ago, Facebook users now have reached 350 million, compared to the previous month that only 337 million. This means that there are adding 13 million users in over a month.

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Multi Touch In Google Nexus One Tweet

The only thing that prevents Google Nexus One phone call from support multitouch features Apple's patent possible.

Allow me to explain: None of this hardware device to prevent the multitouch as seen by Google's comments this morning at their press conference. When asked if the Nexus One will one day support multitouch, a Google representative said, "We'll consider it." In a word, this means that the hardware is ready for users' pinch and zoom, but the repetition of the current Google software is locked to prohibit multitouch for reasons law. We provide a mobile world of hackers from several days to hack the device - after all, it has been done on the Droid.

Here is a video that shows the multitouch Droid:

And this is the way to achieve. European hackers found a way to jailbreak the device that is less a month after its release. In the United States, the people in AllDroid sussed how to port a web browser from Motorola Milestone - which does not support multitouch - the Droid. Granted, would only serve to hack a web browser, but a significant improvement for those who can live with a brick phone.

Hack requires candidates to have multitouch hero root access to the phone and install and remove certain components. Clearly, these users run the risk of violation of this device and may violate TOS Motorola and void the warranty.

All of the above applies to Droid. However, the same provisions that prevent multitouch device that also applies to Nexus One: It's not about hardware, software just locked. So, we tend to see waiting a few days to see who wants to risk $ 500 + device in an effort to Android mobile through multitouch violating KL-hack.

Apple's involvement with delaying or preventing more and better multitouch devices has become a topic of speculation in the press mobile gadgets since last year, when a group of several key patents issued to certain cues. Since then, several multitouch devices, such as Palm Pre, was released without fanfare law. However, some speculated that Google holds in multitouch for legal reasons.

"I think now more than legal considerations than on technical things, because many phones that run Android has the ability to support multitouch hardware level," wrote Jason Chen of Gizmodo as he played with the device last month.

And Chris Ziegler from Engadget says, "This is still very much a sensitive - but at least we have some confirmation that the limitation of the software alone ... there must be some logic (probably legal logic, but logic still) on the back of the device where the market got. "

What do you think - is this patent issue? Or the software just is not ready for public consumption yet? Better yet, if you have one of these devices, would you jailbreak for multitouch capabilities? Let us know in the comments.

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The Nexus One Application Developers Disappointed Tweet

The application developers for Android operating system held off complaining about the release of Software Development Kits (SDK) for the latest version of Android, Android. 2.1 is used for Nexus One. This problem has also happened to release the SDK for Android 2.0 is also delayed. Yet without the SDK for Android 2.1 is used Nexus One, the developers will be difficult to ensure performance in the phone application is made.

"How one can accept that people will have a 2.1 on his hand before the developers get the SDK," wrote one developer who uses the name pcm2 in a discussion forum.  "How can I test in 2.1," wrote pcm2. Not only pcm2, Goutham Sukumar of Touchdown application developers have also been getting many e-mails from users who want to use the application in the Nexus One output.

This application allows one to access the Microsoft Exchange e-mail, contacts, calendar, and other tasks of the Android phone. The developer concerned, that Google is deliberately not providing the SDK because it wants to develop their best applications.  Android operating system version 2.1 is used in new mobile Google released on 5 January. The phone is quite light with a thickness of 11.5 millimeters and weighs only 130 grams.

Phone collaboration with Taiwanese manufacturer HTC is equipped with touch screen size of 3.7 inches. Additional, there are also a feature OLED display technology, a trackball as a control for the user interface, accelerometer chip and a five-megapixel camera. This phone is the result of Google's partnership with HTC to use Qualcomm's Snapdragon processor speed 1 Gigahertz.

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Recycling Programs for Samsung Phone Tweet

Samsung initiated a program called March for a Million Phones, which through their program to recycle as much as 1 million handsets in the United States. Increasing number of wireless communication devices such as mobile phones in circulation around the world, certainly the more 'junk' phone obsolete, it will accumulate between the old phone new cell phone replaced. Seeing the danger, Samsung tried to offer the program to save the Earth.

Vendor based in South Korea are, initiated a program called March for a Million Phones, which through this program Samsung wants to make recycling by targeting as many as 1 million handsets in the United States, and is scheduled to end until the end of 2010. "This recycling program to encourage companies to recycle mobile phones. So, recycling is not limited to just Sony Ericsson's products," explained Telecommunication Samsung Chief Marketing Officer Paul Golden, breakfast on the sidelines of the 2010 CES show, in Las Vegas.

Added Paul, March for a Million Phones will be campaigned through education in schools in the United States is. Later, they will hold various events regarding this recycling program, or become a sponsor if there are activities related to recycling.

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End of Tenure Arnold Schwarzenegger Tweet

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger entered the last year of office. After six years serving Head of State, a movie star who has become the governor should be willing to face the reality that he failed to deliver on promised fiscal reforms at the beginning of his term, and the chance to fulfill that promise dwindled. Last year his office will most likely be marked by economic misfortune that has hit the state in recent years and caused collapse of tax revenues. "There's something very wrong with our budget, our tax system. Also there is something very wrong with our budget system because we do not have emergency funds to cover this reduction, reduction, so I have been talking about it since I took office and I will continue to speak and fight for issues like that. "He said.

However, the governor who is always optimistic, said that he would continue to seek an aggressive agenda in the year 2010 which will include plans for tax reform, politics, and retirement. In the state of Arnold Schwarzenegger's speech is expected to explain how the state of California thinks and how he plans to guide the state through one year of this heavier. Arnold Schwarzenegger press secretary, Aaron McLear, said California also will seek to get more money from the federal government because the state only receives 78 cents of every dollar sent to Washington. Being a "donor state" is a position that no longer held California after nearly 60 billion dollar budget adjustments during the two fiscal years through large cuts in educational programs and social services, temporary tax increases, and funding of the federal stimulus done, McLear said.

After making major cuts in programs and high school education, higher education, health services, and other programs to close the budget deficit over the last two years, Schwarzenegger had little option as he described the budget plan for fiscal year 2010-1011 and little opportunity to display a beautiful picture of the state. Even expected, California will still be a deficit budget of 14 billion dollars in the next fiscal year. Republican governors seemed not ready to release his power as leader of the state's most populous in the United States. "I do not acknowledge the fact that this is my state speech last or that this is my last year.

So let me live in denial, "he said about his plans for his tenure last year. With declining state revenues, it also decreases the level of support in the governor performer formerly known as an action movie like Terminator, now only a 27 percent. "From the point of popularity, not much he can do," said Jack Pitney, professor of political science at Claremont McKenna College. "The government does not put Schwarzenegger's Obama's priority list," said Pitney.

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Nexus One From Google Phone Is Superphone Tweet

MOUNTAIN VIEW - Google calls its design the phone that was released with the name as superphone Nexus One, not just smartphones. What are the advantages?

Yes, a number of features is the leader in cell phone range, such as 1 GHz processor made by Qualcomm's Snapdragon. In fact, Nexus One is the first device using Android 2.1, the latest version of the operating system based on open source developed by Google.

Another breakthrough is provided as a mainstay try Nexus One feature is the keyboard-based voice recognition system with voice to text translator. Users do not need to type to write e-mail, SMS, or message on Facebook, but just say it.

The screen also uses AMOLED has a very high contrast ratio, so objects that appear very clear and uninterrupted outside light, such as exposure to sunlight. Like Android devices generally, provided five options wallpapers and five options simultaneously active panel, but this time with three-dimensional view.

In addition, Nexus One is so thin and light. Compare it, he is thinner than a standard pencil and lighter than a standard Swiss pocketknife.

Well, what features are embedded in so-called Nexus One superphone? Here are the details of the specifications:

• Processor: Qualcomm QSD 8250, 1 GHz
• Operating system: Android 2.1
• Memory: 512 MB RAM, 512 MB ROM, and 4GB Micro SD card (can add up to 32 GB)
• Dimensions: Length 11.9 cm, Width: 5.98 cm, Thickness: 1.15 cm Weight: 130 grams
• Screen: 3.7 inch widescreen, WVGA AMOLED
• Camera: 5 megapixels
• Connectivity: Cellular: UMTS Band 1/4/8 (2100/AWS/900) HSDPA 7.2Mbps HSUPA 2Mbps up to 5.76Mbps GMS / EDGE (850/900, 1800.1900 MHz) Wi-Fi (802.11 a / b / g / n) Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR Bluetooth stereo A2DP receiver AGPS Cell towers and Wi-Fi Digital Compass accelerometer positioning
• Talk time: 10 hours with 2G, 7 hours with 3G
• Standby time: 290 hours with 2G, 250 hrs with 3G
• When the Internet: 5 hours with 3G, 6.5 hours with Wi-Fi Play
• Video: 7 hours Play
• Audio: 20 hours
  

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