In mid-day trading Friday, Apple shares were up 0.6% t0 $496.14, bringing the company’s market capitalization — or the number of outstanding shares times its stock price — to a staggering $462 billion, or nearly half a trillion dollars. That’s greater than the sum of Microsoft’s market cap — $257 billion — and Google’s market cap — $197 billion.

Read more: http://business.time.com/2012/02/10/apple-now-worth-more-than-microsoft-google-combined/

amusing list of things that Apple is now worth more than:

– The gross domestic product of Sweden ($458 billion)

http://vimeo.com/26489936
Most phones come with flimsy manuals with complicated language and jargon. These books, which can live on a bookshelf actually contain the phone.
Each page reveals the elements of the phone in the right order, helping the user to set up the sim card, the battery and even slide the case onto the phone.

The second book is the main manual – the phone actually slots into this and becomes the center of attention.
Arrows point to the exact locations the user should press, avoiding confusion and eliminating the feeling of being lost in a menu.

DARPA’s Power Efficiency Revolution for Embedded Computing Technologies (PERFECT) program seeks to improve power efficiency for embedded computer systems, providing more computing per watt of electrical power. To increase awareness of this program and attract potential researchers, DARPA has scheduled a Proposers’ Day workshop Feb. 15 in Arlington, Virginia.

The goal of 75 GFLOPS/watt would enable a 15 megawatt supercomputer to achieve an EXAFlop of processing.
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Android accounted for 39% of the market in the final three months of last year, up from 29% a year earlier, Strategy Analytics said. Apple's share fell to 58% from 68%.

Microsoft's share stood at 1.5%.
Shipments of tablets reached 26.8 million in the quarter, up from 10.7 million a year ago.

"Demand for tablets among consumer, business and education users remains strong," said Strategy Analytics' Peter King.

Apple shipped 15.4 million iPads between October and December. That compares with shipments of 10.5 million tablets using Android.

http://www.asymco.com/2012/01/17/the-rise-and-fall-of-personal-computing/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=8h-C6u4yLj4

http://chartporn.org/2012/01/19/the-rise-and-fall-of-personal-computing-1975-2011/

Spanish banking giant BBVA is switching its 110,000 staff to use Google's range of enterprise software.

The deal is the biggest that the search giant has signed with one company for its cloud-computing services, where software is offered as a service via the internet.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-16486796

Banking - with its high security needs and strict regulations - was always considered to be one of the last industries to accept cloud-computing.

reddit hirdetes volt. ez eletem elso hirdetese, amit nem bantam meg, hogy megneztem :)
http://www.thisiswhyimbroke.com/

nehany:
Self Sustaining Ecosphere
Crystal Clear Canoe
Tron Motorcycle
Cassette Tape iPhone Case
AK-47 Lamp
Coffee Table Aquarium
Your Ex Knife Holder Set
Nose Shower Gel Dispenser

Stuxnet has been called the most sophisticated computer worm ever created. We know there are siblings to the malware which took down Iran’s nuclear centrifuges, but now Kaspersky labs is saying there may be up to four other worms in the family tree.
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Raiu said the platform is comprised of a group of compatible software modules designed to fit together, each with different functions. Its developers can build new cyber weapons by simply adding and removing modules.

"It's like a Lego set. You can assemble the components into anything: a robot or a house or a tank," he said.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTpldq3myV0

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogona
http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belf%C3%B6ldi_szak%C3%A1llasag%C3%A1ma

This single core machine runs at a cool 60 seconds/minute speed.

http://thereifixedit.failblog.org/2011/12/14/white-trash-repairs-not-quite-how-overclocking-works/

Onlive is no longer restricted to a TV or computer.

It is streaming its video games (25 at launch, ~200 eventually) directly to most recent Android devices, Kindle Fire, iPad and soon, the iPhone.
http://www.kurzweilai.net/onlive-now-beaming-console-games-from-the-cloud-to-iosandroid-devices
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=PMjTzOj_O9E

Google shows an interactive graph when you search for a Math function or a list of functions separated by commas. "You can zoom in and out and pan across the plane to explore the function in more detail. This feature covers an extensive range of single variable functions including trigonometric, exponential, logarithmic and their compositions, and is available in modern browsers,"
pl:
sin(x)/x,1/x^2

Smartphone shipments to China rose to a record 24m during the period, compared with 23m for the US, according to research done by Strategy Analytics.

The consultancy said shipments to China were boosted by "a wave of low-cost Android models from local Chinese brands".
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China is the world's biggest market for mobile phones with almost 952m users, and continues to grow at a fast pace.

At the same time, there has been a push by mobile phone operators to get more users to sign up for 3G services.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15850028

aki tudja a választ az már nem mai gyerek :)

The iPod touch (30%) and iPhone (27%) came in second and third in the 2011 wish list
Apple's (AAPL) iPad topped a new Nielsen survey of the most desired electronics products among young Americans this holiday season.
In a similar survey last year, the iPad came in first at 31% and a generic "computer" was No. 2 at 29%

annyira szar, hogy ingyen sem kell az embereknek, fizetni kell, hogy hasznaljak.

Microsoft is offering "gifts" for users who use IE9 to visit certain sites like Grooveshark, Hulu, Vimeo and Fandango. If you visit the IE9 Holiday Page from Windows 7 using Chrome or Firefox, you'll get a come-on to upgrade. If you use something else, you'll get a page telling you to go to Windows 7.
http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/2011/11/microsoft-gives-up-on-competit.php

az ok:
Microsoft's IE posts biggest share drop in three years

Are motorcycles — even superb and lovely Italian motorcycles from the land of Donatello and Bertolucci — being replaced as love objects, as arm candy, by other more contemporary show-off desirables?

Electronic ones. Mostly made by Apple.
The iPhone 4S, the iPad 2, the 11-inch and 13-inch thin, light MacBook Air computers — these are the sleek gorgeousness young people go on about, have to have, and do have, in the millions.
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The announcement was made this week at a technical meeting held in Jinan, China, organized by industry and government organizations. The new machine, the Sunway BlueLight MPP, was installed in September at the National Supercomputer Center in Jinan, the capital of Shandong Province in eastern China.

http://ngphoto.livejournal.com/158009.html

http://vimeo.com/28962540

Supplementary material video for our 2011 SIGGRAPH Asia paper (see the project page here: kevinkarsch.com/​publications/​sa11.html). 3D objects are rendered using LuxRender (luxrender.net).

http://shitthatsirisays.tumblr.com/
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