One of the authors of the book “Hacking work: Breaking Stupid Rules for Smart Results”, Josh Klein, suggests interesting ways of ameliorating working conditions by means of “hacking”. That implies reforming an old system to come up with new ideas and achieve better results. Nowadays due to globalization and Internet work can be done faster and in a more efficient way, which puts the traditional office routine in danger.
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Rovio has recently reported its financial achievement for 2011. It booked total revenue of 75.4 million euros (or 106,3 million of US dollars) and managed to earn 48 million euros (or 67.6 million of US dollars) before taxes imposition in 2011. The percentage rate of the taxes comes down to 64% of company’s total revenue during the full calendar year- that seems to be quite a significant profit margin.
By the end of the last year, the 648 million game application was officially downloaded. The total amount of active monthly users, playing this game across all platforms, has reached 200 million. Its headcount has also grown from 28 to 224 in 2011.
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The researchers made a great discovery in the field of ecological water pollution. It was reported that a way to reverse the effect of oil spills was found. Tiny submarines can become a new step towards the ecological balance.
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Elgato, Germany-based TV and video solution making company, has finally broke Apple’s monopoly on Thunderbolt cables. Two months after Elgato Thunderbolt SSD’s release, Elgato announced that their Thunderbolt Cable will hit the shelves on May 4.
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Mozilla is planning to use a SPDY protocol in its new browser versions, it was reported on April, 26. A new version Firefox 13 is announced to support SPDY and have some other changes in its performance. New Firefox is suitable for Windows, Linux, Mac. The Firefox team has improved the tabs management and done a little work with default pages. At last it is possible to control your tabs more easily. You can save a bookmark that will be displayed on a tab page. On default frequently-visited sites are shown there. Now you can choose what sites you want to see on the Tab page. And it is possible to delete any site you don’t want to be shown there. Another innovation is that browser will store your tabs from an older browser session and will open them in a new session. You don’t need to open all the tabs you were working with, for example, yesterday.
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After having bought Vozel, Internap extended its cloud hosting services to make them affordable for smaller companies. Recently a new service, Agile Hosting, has started working on Voxel.net that will give a possibility for small business to develop their IT infrastructure online.
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The U.S. Navy Research promised that the pirate’s outrage on the high seas will soon be coped with due to a new generation of pirate-counteracting devices, provided with 3D imaging laser technology. These are “robotocopers”, the drones that identify pirate ships scanning the seas below with special radars. Robocopter is the first aircraft model to operate a brand-new laser-radar technology (LADAR), which is actually a 3D images collector. High-definition cameras spot boat images, and then advanced sensors study the captured objects to recognize whether they are pirate watercrafts or not.
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“1080p is dead, long live the 4K!” is a phrase Canon developers declare to the professional video world by releasing their EOS-1D C camera.
The Canon EOS-1D C, an upgraded variant of the current 1D X, is a revolutionary DSLR camera that records video in 4K – a video format that extends the number of pixels to 4,096 x 2,160 – four times more than 1080p. The camera’s full-frame CMOS sensor captures 4,096 x 2,160 video at 24 frames per second and records regular 1080p at both 24 and 60 fps. The video is captured directly to CompactFlash card with no further loss of quality when viewing it on an external display.
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According to the latest survey carried out by the Federal Reserve, about 20 percent of Americans used their mobiles for performing different types of banking activity last year, and about the same amount of people are going to use mobile banking services in the future.
The survey also showed that a lot of consumers are reluctant to use mobile banking because they simply don’t need it. More than a half of those asked said that they were concerned about drawbacks at security level.
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It’s unbelievable but holographic storage is no longer a pipe dream as this fantastic innovation has almost entered the market. The entire world should be grateful to HVault for its intention to make this high-tech concept come true this year.
This technology enables customers to record data one time and then this saved information can be accessed many times, so it’s a sort of data archival technique. For storing 3D images with data a special photosensitive medium is used and it’s quite similar to traditional film used in outdated cameras.
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