Facebook is follower

It's not just all in just five years of age gather to blow out the candles together with Serena Williams, Piers Morgan and astronaut Paolo Nespoli, Hillary Clinton and Snoop Dogg. No, it is not the offshoot of some celebrities, but Twitter, the microblogging site in 140 characters at this time celebrates its fifth anniversary with a video chock full of testimonials of exception.
From the first tweet, signed Jack Dorsey - one of the inventors of this social network - which was limited to "invite collaborators" have passed all right of chirps (the code name of each message). Every day we sent out about 140 million tweet - a year ago the average was only 50 million - while the number of profiles enabled is around 572mila daily. It took 3 years, 2 months and a day to get to the billionth tweet, now just one week.
Appalling figures which give an idea of ​​what rapidly became the hottest site of the moment, with potential for growth that threatens to overshadow even the social network by definition, that is Facebook.
The trio that was the basis for this phenomenon - in addition to Dorsey, Biz Stone and there are Evan Williams, who has now left the company - managed to define the Zeitgeist these days busy and hectic in the space of a text message: c 'is even those who have bothered to tweet the whole Recherche Proustian 140 characters at a time. So, movie stars (even those out of favor as Charlie Sheen in a few hours, found themselves followed by 3 million "followers"), and statesmen, sports and kids next door, blogger and Nobel Prize winners, thanks to the spread of smart phone , spend whole days to chirp what they do or read, see or dream. And thus far it still falls into the category leisure or fooling around, if you prefer.
The turning point came with the democratic uprising in Iran in 2009, the green wave in Tehran has gone through the "frequency" of Twitter, the only instrument allowed because not even monitored by the censorship regime. Legend has it that it was Jared Cohen, a brilliant brain of the U.S. State Department now at Google, to ask the kids to give the site a "gang" to the thousands of protesters to the streets defying Ahmadinejad.
She was born in Iran that "diplomacy of Twitter" that so angers a critical thin Evgeny Morozov (author of the blasé The Net Delusion ), but that is called a stroke of millions of retweet (forwarding messages) in the streets Tunisian, Egyptian , Yemeni and Libyan uprising of the Arab world that is inflaming the Middle East and North Africa.
When the other night, the official press release of the Paris Summit on the situation in Libya was the site of the Elysée retweeted that Downing Street is like a treaty was signed in a nanosecond. Some time ago in America even thought of giving the site of Dorsey and Stone the Nobel Peace Prize.
A speed and ease that is transforming the world of information in depth, although - as Europe has recently written - that revolutions are told we are seeing dismayed by Twitter, thanks to the tireless work of journalists like Andy Carvin of National Public Radio or Italy Marina Petrillo Radio Popolare, even before they reach the big piece on global networks.
Among hashtag and livetweeting , the new global nervous system, with all due respect Mark Zuckerberg, now passes through these Chirping 140 characters. Better equipped for the next five years.

GOOGLE VS CHINA: BLOCK GMAIL

The Chinese Gmail users have reported this past weekend a disservice to e-mail to Google: while being able to access your account, it is impossible for them to send e-mail or see the heading , for example. All problems encountered by Internet users in China access to e-mail service to Google in recent weeks is probably derived from a block decided by the local government , stated a spokesperson for the American group in a statement to the press.
"For us there is no technical problem . We have examined in detail, it was stated in a message sent by e-mail from Google team. "There is a cleverly designed to block the government believe that the problem is with Gmail. The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs has not yet responded to ' charge of Google . The censorship of Internet content has increased in recent years in China, especially after the publication of certain "facts" uncomfortable.

The weather on Titan: rains of methane equatorial

As spring makes its way to the planet Saturn, Titan, it rains in the deserts of the equator, the second largest moon of the planet. And the rain, unlike what happens on Earth, not water but liquid methane. To discover this unusual weather, a world away from us more than one billion three hundred million kilometers, is an international team of researchers who gives the news in an article published in Science . 

At the end of 2010, Cassini's instruments have indeed found that large areas of the surface of Saturn's moon appeared darker than they were before. The best explanation seems to be that these areas have been wet from rains and storms of methane. 

The clouds are formed from methane on Titan and are part of a cycle very similar to that of Earth's climate in which methane replacing water. On the moon of Saturn, is in fact the gas to fill the huge lakes on the surface to saturate the clouds in the atmosphere and fall as rain. Although the surface shows traces of the past presence of liquid that probably ran in the equatorial areas of Titan, the liquid hydrocarbons, particularly methane and ethane, were so far only been observed in lakes near the poles.

The vast expanses of sand dunes that now dominate the equatorial regions of the satellite indicate a mainly arid climate. Until now, scientists suspected that the clouds could appear only at equatorial latitudes and the spring makes its way in the northern hemisphere. But they were not sure that the large dry channels reported so far were due
to seasonal rains or testimony of a previous more humid climate.

On 27 September 2010, a storm - the arrow-shaped structure - has appeared in the equatorial regions and in the next month, there was a large structure of clouds. In the following months, researchers have observed rapid changes of the surface. A region of about 500,000 square kilometers situated on the southern edge of the dry hilly area called Belet and other smaller regions in the vicinity quickly became darker.

The scientists concluded that this change in brightness is most likely due to the fact that the surface was washed by the rains of methane. By comparing the image data obtained by other means, have in fact ruled out other possible causes of the phenomenon.

That probe Cassini, a joint mission of NASA and ESA ASI that for almost seven years orbiting Saturn and its moons. INAF is involved in the mission with the use of scientific data spectrometer VIMS, an instrument of the probe. ( gg )

Internet Explorer 9 on Windows phones, first appearance

While users of smartphones with operating system Windows 7 Phone are waiting to receive the update node that will bring copy and paste, more speed and some new to the Marketplace, the developers of Microsoft are already working on next step code-named Mango , who will introduce the most important among the new engine of the web browser Internet Explorer 9 in the mobile world.

Through the video that you can play just below you can search the news: Full support for HTML5 , including vector graphics SVG and tag videos that makeInternet Explorer 9 web browser to Microsoft more standards compliant.Hardware acceleration and improved JavaScript engine, currently beta Internet Explorer 9 on Windows 7 Phone browser is faster than Safari on devices iOS( iPhone and iPad ), but it is said that things would improve for the operating system of Apple before Microsoft releases the update.

Mango and 9 Internet Explorer for Windows 7 Phone are expected later this year, it has not specified a time frame in which the update will actually be available.

Toshiba ready for the new Tablet 10.1 Android

For some months after the release of Toshiba Folio 100, the Japanese manufacturer is ready to market a new tablet, the Toshiba Tablet 10.1 Android. The new device will be based on the latest version of the Google OS, Android 3.0 or Honeycomb.
Toshiba's new tablet will also be able to rely on NVIDIA Tegra chip dual-core 2 on a 5-megapixel back camera and a 2 megapixel.
As is already the name of the new tablet, the touch screen is 10.1 ", while the range resolution is 1280x800. There will be also 3G, WiFi 802.11 b / g / n and Bluetooth.
The new tablet has an HDMI connector and a slot for SD cards. Real innovation in the tablet will be loaded with a replaceable battery.
At the moment Toshiba does not have an official launch date, nor the price of Toshiba Tablet 10.1 Android.

Nokia Phone Windows, development is already underway

Nokia is working on his first Windows smartphone Phone. To confirm it was Stephen Elop, chief executive of Finnish. There is much waiting to see the first terminal. Although there are rumors on several occasions of not debut until 2012, Elop seems convinced he can get in line with their intentions in time for those long-awaited Christmas vacation by electronics manufacturers.
"Right now we have people who are working on the first Windows phone devices from Nokia. Work is already underway , "said Elop Reuters. The CEO also dismissed the rumors about a possible acquisition of the company by Microsoft.
" I am not aware of Microsoft's strategic interest to the rest of our business . To the extent that it has formed a partnership (with Nokia, Microsoft would pay a billion dollars, ed) about what is real interest , what would an acquisition than a year antitrust investigation, a great fuss and delay? ".
It is comforting to know that the work already started. The change of platform promises not easy, according to company documents the transition to Windows phones as their primary platform will require at least two years. In fact, Nokia does not adopt the new mobile operating system of Microsoft sight unseen, but will work to improve it, with interesting effects on growth software.
Apparently the first Nokia device should not appear before the second update - code-named Mango - Phone Windows platform, which will IE9 mobile, multitasking operating system and extended in many other news

Apple iPhone 5: NFC yes or no?

Milan - There is no doubt the campaign by the media advertising designed to mount on the waiting ' 5 iPhone is in full swing. The rumors regarding the presence of support NFC chase: considered a must for the new smartphone, the technology has been absent to date on the iPhone by just a week ago. But the latest rumors circulating re-open the game.

NFC ( Near Field Communications ) has been developed by Sony and Philips and allows communication between devices at short range: it means being able to transfer data when two devices are just a few inches away, close enough to be able to touch, and is a technology suitable for applications of e-wallet is already in use in Japan in development experiments in the U.S. and in Europe. But Apple - can be read on CNet - would be thinking of other uses.

Last year, a report published by TechCrunch described the Cupertino company's intentions to develop a new iPhone with supporting NFC technology-based NXP Semiconductors and after the ' enlistment of Benjamin Vigier , expert solutions to payment of mFoundry, many suggested that the aim was to give the iPhone by the electronic wallet function. Cult Of Mac , however, now brings to the table a new paper: that of remote computing .

If a user were to have a iPhone and a Mac, both with NFC support could approach them and allow the Mac to load on whether 'applications, settings and data from the smartphone to work with that computer as if working on your Mac staff, with the possibility of finding the icons of their app : Click on the icons, the user can actually download and run the applications you want.

Not only that will do the job - according to another new philosophy, that of cloud computing - storing the data on your Mac, but on Apple's servers, which allow you to continue your work from any other Mac with support NFC as well as that of home, with confidence that the host computer - once disconnected the device - will not track personal information processed.

The aims of Apple there would be only payments, then, but advanced solutions portability of data and applications. Undoubted benefits from technological innovation, which probably suits the philosophy pursued by the company. doubt on the schedule, however, is not dissolved: NFC is being studied, some tests are in progress, but you can not tell if the fruits of development are already mature to be harvested from the iPhone will have to wait 5 or more.

The history of the hype that the media have recently anticipated iPhone and iPad teaches that when you sign to a technology or a new feature , the games are already made. IPhone will be true for 5?

Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc

ony Ericsson Xperia Arc is the new top end of the range presented by the leaders of the joint venture during the fair nippo Swedish CES 2011 last January and will arrive in all Italian stores over the next few weeks.
One of the highlights of this smartphone Android is the presence of the camera rear 8.1 Megapixel camera with autofocus, LED flash and sensor Sony Exmor R can guarantee good quality shots in low light conditions.
The Taiwanese site Sogi has recently published a series of interesting photographs taken with just the ' Xperia Arc and confirming the very high picture quality, both outdoors and in the dark.
Not only the focus is comparable to that of high-end digital cameras, but also the sensor Sony Exmor R is able to return sharp images and rich detail both inside at night.

Adobe Flash 10.2 available in the Android Market

This version of the Adobe Flash Player , however, must be considered final only by those who use it on a smartphone with Android 2.2 and 2.3 , while those with a tablet with Android 3.0.1 should be considered a beta version, and potentially unstable.

In any case, the new Flash player can seamlessly access to all the Flash content available on the Web , including videos, games and interactive content, as if we were all on a computer rather than on a mobile device.For optimal performance on the tablet with Android 3.0.1 is recommended to view content in full screen mode using the button provided by the content provider or benefited by tapping on the content to display the button that enables