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Daca vrei o masina din grupul VAG (Volkswagen Group) adica Volkswagen, Audi, Skoda, Seat si probabil mai nou Porsche, si daca ai drum prin nordul Germaniei in Oldenburg, iti recomand autohaus-ul  BOES-AUTOmobile, care ofera masina bune la preturi bune - masini second hand (Gebrauchtwagen) sau abia uzate, asa numitele Jahreswagen. Oferta e si online, in 27 de limbi.

Recomand un site cool, mai ales daca v-ati saturat sa cautati site-uri care fac traduceri online. Traduce Instant ofera traduceri online gratis, cu un singur click, instant, datorita technologiei AJAX. Traducerile online sunt instant, in real time si ofera chiar si recunoasterea automata a limbii textului introdus. Cu cat textul introdus e mai lung, cu atat e mai precisa traducerea. Pe deasupra ofera pentru multe limbi si varianta fonetica a traducerii (text-to-speech), functioneaza cu orice browser modern (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, Chrome, Safari) care suporta HTML5 si ofera variante optimizate pentru iPhone, iPad si Windows Phone. Mie imi este folositor si zic ca merita utilizat, mai ales daca esti mobil si ai nevoie urgenta de o traducere, scoti smartphone-ul si nu mai ai probleme sa intelegi ce scrie pe un afis :-) Traduce Instant - Traduceri Online - Traduceri gratis online în timp real în peste 50 de limbi - suna mai mult decat bine.

Noutati despre serviciul de traduceri online gasiti pe Facebook si Twitter. Versiunea romana se gaseste aici.

Site-ul de informatii locale Pentru Clujeni mentioneaza site-ul de traduceri online Traduce Instant ca pe un site util. [Update: se pare ca site-ul pentruclujeni.ro nu mai este online.]

Dupa cum am anuntat mai demult pe blog, primul produs al parteneriatului Nokia Microsoft se numeste Windows Phone Nokia Lumia 800. Va apare si o varianta mai inferioara, Nokia Lumia 710 iar la anul inca 14 modele de Nokia ruland Windows Phone.

Caracteristici principale:

• Display: 3.7 inch AMOLED ClearBlack care se imbina perfect in design-ul minimalist al carcasei
• Procesor: 1.4 GHz care este destul de suficient pentru un smartphone
• Memorie: 16 GB suficienta momentan penztru urmatorii 2-3 ani
  
• Camera cu lentile Carl-Zeiss si diafragma f2.2, nimic de comentat
• Redare video HD
• Culori: negru, cyan, magenta
• Aplicatii: Internet Explorer 9, Nokia Music, MixRadio, Sports Hub, Nokia Drive, Office + Markeplace pentru aplicatii, jocuri, muzica, video-uri
  

Prezentare generala

Marketplace si jocuri

Contacte si socializare

Internet si cautare

Office si mail

Cand nimeni nu se astepta, Jay Cutler a pierdut titlul Mr. Olympia seara trecuta la Las Vegas in fata lui Phil Heath, noul nr. 1 in culturism. Heath castiga pentru prima oara acest titlu, Jay a castigat de 4 ori deja. Lupta va fi f interesanta la anul, sa vedem daca Jay reuseste un comeback ca si in 2009.

Jay vs. Phil

Top 10 Mr. Olypmia 2011

Microsoft released the final general availability of Windows Internet Explorer 9 in 39 languages across the world. Download and experience it.

The best experience of the web is on Windows with Internet Explorer 9. IE9 redefines fast with a fully hardware-accelerated browser, harnessing the full power of the PC through Windows. IE9 delivers a clean, site-centric experience, putting the focus on your sites. People can use what Windows offers around the browser – for example, pinning sites to the taskbar just as they pin applications in Windows 7. IE9 delivers new protections from real-world threats to safety, privacy, and reliability that make it the world’s most trusted browser. With HTML5 at its core, IE9 enables a more interoperable web, so developers can write the same markup across browsers and the web.

This short video gives you a small sense of what Microsoft have been able to achieve as a company with the IE9 release. To learn more about what’s in IE9, and to start experiencing a more beautiful web please visit: http://beautyoftheweb.com

After you download, make your perfect Windows 7 taskbar with IE9. Pin Hotmail, MSN, and Bing or any favourite site you might have. Keep your favorite social, media, and content experiences one click away. Enjoy the web with IE9!

Here are 9 facts about IE9 that may surprise people:

1. IE9 is the fastest adopted beta in IE browser history. With over 40M downloads and a usage share on Windows 7 well over 2% globally, IE9 adoption has more than surpassed expectations.
2. IE9 is enterprise ready. IE9 is ready to go with your Windows 7 deployments.
3. IE9 has the fastest JavaScript engine in the industry. Script is one of many factors in performance. On a commonly used micro-benchmark, IE9’s improved JavaScript performance now holds the top spot in the industry, an improvement of almost 18 times from IE8.
4. IE9 is the only fully hardware-accelerated browser. All graphics, video and text in IE9 are hardware-accelerated. Microsoft re-architected IE9 to take full advantage of the Windows PC. IE9 was the first to introduce this concept and other browsers have been scrambling to catch-up. See the difference for yourself.
5. IE9 treats your favorite sites like apps. The site is the center of attention in IE9’s new frame. When you pin a site to the taskbar, your experience is even better. Over 250 of the world’s top sites have already taken advantage of Jump Lists, notifications, and thumbnail previews to make their sites more app-like. Web site publishers are seeing close to a 50% increase in engagement from their IE9 customers through pinned sites.
6. IE9 protects against 99% of socially-engineered malware. Malware is the #1 threat on the internet today. With Microsoft SmartScreen and the new SmartScreen application reputation feature in IE9, no other browser comes close in protecting consumers from these real-world threats. IE9 is 33 times better than Chrome and over 5 times better than Firefox.
7. IE9 is the only browser with integrated online tracking protection for consumers. Microsoft changed the browser and industry landscape with the introduction of IE9’s Tracking Protection, providing the only built-in browser solution protecting consumers today.
8. IE9 is leading with site-ready HTML5 support. IE9 is all in when it comes to delivering developers new standards-based capabilities with HTML5. Microsoft co-chairs the W3C HTML5 working group and during the IE9 release has contributed almost 6000 test cases to the W3C and international standards bodies. Currently, IE9 has the best conformance with W3C HTML5.
9. IE9 has had the strongest press in IE history.

Grupul finlandez Nokia, cel mai mare producător mondial de telefoane mobile, a anunţat vineri încheierea unui parteneriat strategic în domeniul software cu Microsoft Corp, pentru a răspunde provocărilor lansate de rivalii Google Inc şi Apple Inc.

Directorul general al Nokia, Stephen Elop, va anunţa vineri la Londra detaliile strategiei sale de recâştigare a cotei de piaţă şi a profitului companiei finlandeze. Parteneriatul dintre Nokia şi Microsoft este menit să ajute ambele companii să recupereze terenul pierdut în faţa rivalilor Google Inc şi Apple Inc pe piaţa telefoanelor inteligente (smartphone) şi tabletelor.

Stephen Elop a venit de la Microsoft în septembrie 2010 pentru a redresa Nokia, în special în sectorul software. El a făcut schimbări minore, anunţând concedierea a 1,800 de angajaţi din totalul de peste 120.000 şi numirea unui nou şef la marketing, Jerri DeVard.

Nokia a anunţat vineri că sistemul de operare Windows Phone 7 va fi utilizat ca platformă principală pe telefoanele inteligente fabricate de compania finlandeză, ca parte a strategiei noului director general Stephen Elop.

Cele două companii 'vor combina activele şi vor dezvolta telefoane mobile inovatoare la o scară fără precedent', au anunţat Nokia şi Microsoft, fără a oferi detalii asupra sistemului de operare Symbian, care nu a răspuns aşteptărilor companiei finlandeze.

Luni Nokia a anunţat că smartphone-ul E7 va fi disponibil începând de săptămâna aceasta.

Smartphone-ul E7, modelul pe care mizează Nokia pentru a recupera terenul pierdut în faţa iPhone şi Blackberry, este ultimul produs din linia de aparate Communicator lansată de Nokia în anul 1996.

Telefonul funcţionează cu un sistem de operare Symbian-3, este dotat cu un ecran AMOLED şi o tastatură completă şi dispune de un pachet software Office Communicator Mobile, dezvoltat special de Microsoft pentru Nokia. În schimb, aparatul foto este mai puţin performant decât cel care echipează modelul N8.

În ultima perioadă, Nokia a început să fie supusă la presiuni, în condiţiile în care a pierdut teren pe segmentul smartphone în faţa rivalilor Apple şi Google, iar agenţiile de evaluare Standard and Poor's şi Moody's au avertizat recent că ar putea retrograda ratingul companiei finlandeze.

Oferta slabă de produse pe segmentul telefoanelor mobile inteligente a fost unul dintre principalele motive care în luna septembrie 2010 au determinat Nokia să înlocuiască directorul general Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo cu Stephen Elop, care anterior la lucrat la Microsoft.

În România, Nokia a investit 60 de milioane de euro în localitatea Jucu din judeţul Cluj într-o fabrică inaugurată pe 24 septembrie 2008.

Nokia has joined forces with Microsoft in an attempt to regain ground lost to the iPhone and Android-based devices. The deal will see Nokia use the Windows phone operating system for its smartphones, the company said. It means that Nokia's existing operating systems will be sidelined. Speaking at the launch of the partnership, Nokia's chief executive Stephen Elop revealed that there would be "substantial" job losses as a result of the tie-up. Nokia will remain "first and foremost...a Finnish company. Finland is our home and will remain our home," he said.But job losses around the world, including in Finland, will be inevitable, he added.

Speaking about the new partnership with Microsoft, Mr Elop said that "the game has changed from a battle of devices to a war of ecosystems". "An ecosystem with Microsoft and Nokia has unrivalled scale around the globe," he said. Microsoft's chief executive Steve Ballmer was also present at the launch, underlining the importance of the deal to the computing giant. "Nokia and Microsoft working together can drive innovation that is at the boundary of hardware, software and services," he said. Microsoft's Bing will power Nokia's search services, while Nokia Maps would be a core part of Microsoft's mapping services. The new strategy means Nokia's existing smartphone operating systems will be gradually sidelined. Symbian, which runs on most of the company's current devices will become a "franchise platform", although the company expects to sell approximately 150 million more Symbian devices in future. "It is a transition from Symbian to Windows phone as our primary smartphone platform," said Mr Elop.

Windows may not be the exclusive operating system for Nokia tablets though. "We reserve the right to introduce tablets using other platforms, including ones we may be working on internally," he said. There was no specific announcement about when the first Windows-powered Nokia phone will be available. Mr Elop revealed that the firm did consider a tie-up with Google's Android operating system. "We spent time with our colleagues at Google and explored the Google ecosystem but we felt we would have difficulty differentiating within that ecosystem," he said. It was also revealed that talks with Microsoft only began in November, illustrating how quickly the deal has been pushed through. The move away from Symbian is a brave decision for Nokia, according to experts.

"This is a clear admission that Nokia's own-platform strategy has faltered," said Ben Wood, an analyst with research firm CCS: Insight. "Microsoft is the big winner in this deal, but there are no silver bullets for either company given the strength of iPhone and Google's Android," he added. Nokia's share of the smartphone market fell from 38% to 28% in 2010, according to monitoring firm IDC. Nokia's upcoming Meego operating system will also be sidelined. According to the company statement: "MeeGo will place increased emphasis on longer-term market exploration of next-generation devices." The MeeGo platform was expected to form the core of Nokia's future smartphone and tablet strategy. The company says it still plans to ship one Meego device by the end of 2011. For Magnus Rehle, the Nordic managing director of research firm Greenwich Consulting, Nokia may have difficulty juggling its three operating systems: Windows, Symbian and MeeGo. "Three platforms is a lot to work with. I'm not sure there is room for so many platforms," he said. And, as with any tie-up, there could be clashes between the two firms, he said.

“Today, developers, operators and consumers want compelling mobile products, which include not only the device, but the software, services, applications and customer support that make a great experience,” Stephen Elop, Nokia President and CEO, said at a joint news conference in London. “Nokia and Microsoft will combine our strengths to deliver an ecosystem with unrivalled global reach and scale. It’s now a three-horse race.”

“I am excited about this partnership with Nokia,” said Steven A. Ballmer, Microsoft CEO. “Ecosystems thrive when fueled by speed, innovation and scale.The partnership announced today provides incredible scale, vast expertise in hardware and software innovation and a proven ability to execute.”

Microsoft Corp. today announced at 2011 International CES that the next version of Windows will support System on a Chip (SoC) architectures, including ARM-based systems from partners NVIDIA Corp., Qualcomm Inc. and Texas Instruments Inc. On the x86 architecture, Intel Corporation and AMD continue their work on low-power SoC designs that fully support Windows, including support for native x86 applications. SoC architectures will fuel significant innovation across the hardware spectrum when coupled with the depth and breadth of the Windows platform.

At today’s announcement, Microsoft demonstrated the next version of Windows running on new SoC platforms from Intel running on x86 architecture and from NVIDIA, Qualcomm and Texas Instruments on ARM architecture. The technology demonstration included Windows client support across a range of scenarios, such as hardware-accelerated graphics and media playback, hardware-accelerated Web browsing with the latest Microsoft Internet Explorer, USB device support, printing and other features customers have come to expect from their computing experience. Microsoft Office running natively on ARM was also shown as a demonstration of the potential of Windows platform capabilities on ARM architecture.

Windows will continue its industry-leading support across the widest possible set of devices, delivering the breadth and choice that customers demand. Intel and AMD continue to evolve and improve the x86 platforms, including new low-power systems, and advance new designs such as the recently announced 2nd Generation Intel® Core™ processor family and AMD’s Fusion accelerated processing units (APUs). NVIDIA, Qualcomm and Texas Instruments are joining Microsoft to provide ARM-based designs for the first time.

“With today’s announcement, we’re showing the flexibility and resiliency of Windows through the power of software and a commitment to world-class engineering. We continue to evolve Windows to deliver the functionality customers demand across the widest variety of hardware platforms and form factors,” said Steven Sinofsky, president of the Windows and Windows Live Division at Microsoft.

SoC architectures consolidate the major components of a computing device onto a single package of silicon. This consolidation enables smaller, thinner devices while reducing the amount of power required for the device, increasing battery life and making possible always-on and always-connected functionality. With support of SoC in the next version of the Windows client, Microsoft is enabling industry partners to design and deliver the widest range of hardware ever.