Facebook testing homepage with separate News Feed scrolling

Facebook is testing a new home page design that allows the news feed to be scrolled independently of the rest of the page. This allows ads, app bookmarks, and the top navigation bar to remain visible no matter how many news feed stories a user scrolls through.
The tested design, if implemented, could increase click through rates for advertisers, improve user retention for applications, and make the site easier to browse.

As you can see in the image above, a user has scrolled down the news feed, but his top and side navigation bars remain visible.
Last week Facebook began testing with a very small number of users a new real-time feed called Happening Now in the right sidebar where Upcoming Events are usually listed. We discussed how this design could extend time on site and draw in users who were just checking their notifications by increasing the frequency with which fresh content appears above the home page’s fold.


The latest incarnations of the test, though, show the Most Recent news feed (called “Neueste Meldungen” in the German version of the site, above) as a second segment of the Top News feed. This could come as a shock to users who developed browsing behaviors around the current two-tabbed news feed, but the Facebook home page hasn’t seen a major redesign in 16 months, so it’s about due for an update given Facebook’s fast-paced approach to iterating on products.

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LG is introducing its first one-piece PC: V300 with FPR technology

LG Electronics will present its first one-piece computer with innovative Film-type Patterned Retarder (FPR) technology, already used in CINEMA 3D and 3D-series monitors D41P and D42P. Computer LG V300, developed in collaboration with Intel, will be shown at Computex-2011 in Taipei (Taiwan). 


It is reported that 23 inch Full HD 3D-touch monitor with LED backlight provides vivid and detailed 3D-images with less noise and less screen flicker. And because FPR technology does not require synchronization with the source image, the heavy shutter glasses are in the past. LG V300 comes with a pair of lightweight polarizing type glasses, providing an easier viewing of 3D-content. Moreover, the quality of the 3D picture is much better than the previous models. This issue largely eliminated through the use of LG V300 IPS matrix, provides viewing angles of up to 178 degrees. LG used their Color Shift technology that will accurately show colors to people seated not in front of the screen. 


Processor: Intel Core i7, i5 second-generation i3 
Operating system: Windows 7 Home Basic (64-bit) or Windows Home Premium (64-bit) 
Screen: 23" LCD (IPS) with a resolution of 1920 x 1080 LED-backlit display and support for Full HD 
3D: 3D-technology FPR 
Touchscreen: multitouch technology (on some models) 
Viewing angle: 178 degrees 
Memory: up to 8 GB (DDR3, 1333 MHz) 
Graphic system: AMD Radeon HD 6650M with DDR3 1024 MB memory or Intel HD Graphics 3000 or HD Graphics 
Hard drive: 750 GB (5400 rpm 2,5" SATA) 
Network: Gigabit LAN, Wi-Fi (802.11 b / g / n), Bluetooth 3.0 + HS (Combo) or 2.1 + EDR (Discrete) 
Optical Drive: DVD Super-Multi or Blu-ray 
Audio: HD Audio, SRS Sound Solutions or SRS Wide 3D Sound (only in 3D-models) 
Reader for memory cards: 5-in-1 (xD, MMC, SD / SDHC / SDXC, MS, MS Pro) 
Web-camera: high definition (720p) with stereo 
Software: Application LG Smart (Smart Care, Smart Recovery, Smart Page), LG Media Funtasia, LG Intelligent Update, Cyberlink Youcam 3.0, Microsoft Office 2010 Starter, Norton Anti-virus 2011 (trial version for 90 days), 3D-application DDD TriDef (only in 3D-models) 
TV Tuner: Yes (on some models) 
Dimensions: 
Screen: 561,75 x 346,2 x 44,65 mm (touchscreen model) / 39.8 mm (without touchscreen) 
Stand: 192.35 x 169.55 x 263.6 mm 
Design: slim, minimalist design, white 


LG engineers have reduced the thickness of the active screen LG V300 up to 44.65 mm. Through the use of a wireless keyboard and wireless mouse, this monoblock PCs requires a single cable - power cable, so that users are automatically freed from the chaotic intertwining wires. 


LG V300 fully supports DLNA (Digital Living Network Alliance), allowing to communicate with other DLNA-devices and technology, Intel Wireless Display, also known as Wi-Di, for wireless streaming of content to the TV. LG V300 will appear in Korea in July this year, then in Europe and Middle East and Asia.
LG Electronics will present its first one-piece computer with innovative Film-type Patterned Retarder (FPR) technology, already used in CINEMA 3D and 3D-series monitors D41P and D42P. Computer LG V300, developed in collaboration with Intel, will be shown at Computex-2011 in Taipei (Taiwan). 


It is reported that 23 inch Full HD 3D-touch monitor with LED backlight provides vivid and detailed 3D-images with less noise and less screen flicker. And because FPR technology does not require synchronization with the source image, the heavy shutter glasses are in the past. LG V300 comes with a pair of lightweight polarizing type glasses, providing an easier viewing of 3D-content. Moreover, the quality of the 3D picture is much better than the previous models. This issue largely eliminated through the use of LG V300 IPS matrix, provides viewing angles of up to 178 degrees. LG used their Color Shift technology that will accurately show colors to people seated not in front of the screen.

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Google+ traffic dropping - Is the shine beginning to fade for Google+?

Google's social-networking foray saw fewer U.S. visitors last week, and those who did visit spent less time on the site on average, according to new data released today by market researcher Experian Hitwise.
Google+ had 1.79 million visits for the week ending July 23, a decrease of 3 percent compared with the previous week when the network had 1.86 million visits, Experian Hitwise reported.
The average visit was 10 percent shorter, down from 5 minutes 50 seconds to 5 minutes 15 seconds.
Google+, the Web giant's latest attempt to challenge Facebook for the social-networking crown, launched late last month in a field trial, letting in only a handful of users, who could later invite their friends and family.
Despite this, Google+'s early growth has been meteoric, hitting the 20 million member mark in its first three weeks, according to data released last week by market researcher ComScore. If that data is accurate, Google would have doubled its membership in just one week. Google CEO Larry Page reported on July 14 that the social network had reached 10 million visitors and had received a "ton of activity" with more than 1 billion items shared and received each day.

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2020 Future Vision of Information Technology

Information technology is a highly important aspect today. Having the ability to transfer data, store data and keep it safe is crucial in many ways. Without information technology many medical facilities and corporations would find it difficult to keep information stored securely.


Computers allow users to communicate with many people at once or in far away places. It stands to reason that will the development of better technology yearly, computers will play a vital role in the ongoing support of information technology in the future.


Computers allow users now to do many things such as writing much faster than a traditional typewriter or pen and paper would do. They also make it very possible to keep track of people, conduct business globally much easier than before and organize and store multiple files.




They also make education possible from remote locations and provide


communication that far outreaches what a traditional telephone could ever do. Of course the human brain is far more advanced than a typical home computer.


Our brains allow us to keep track of things as well and to remember faces and names, find entertainment, love others and enjoy the simpler things in life.


The future of information technology may very well involve using computers to enhance the human brain. Common computers are expected to possess the same or nearly the same capabilities as the human brain in the future.


In another twenty five years or so it may be very likely that you will be able to have a computer that will possess the ability to feel emotions and have spiritual experiences. Of course this prediction will be met with skepticism as all others have been in the past.


The first gasoline powered vehicle was met with much scrutiny as was the first airplane. Society as a whole does not generally accept things that it can not understand or control. Believing that scientific technology can produce a computer that is capable of human emotion is so far-fetched that many simply will have to see it to believe it.


It does stand to reason however, that if developments have come as far as they have today, then having a better and more efficient information technology in the future is virtually a given.


More advanced computers that can help those with memory loss problems or virtually run your entire brain may seem too far in sci-fi land to believe but stranger things have happened.


Medical science has come a long way since the turn of the twentieth century. Many things have come into play that were never believed to be possible. The world may not ever see a computer that will retain memory of an individual’s life, but then again it may.


The computers in question will have the ability to hold images, videos and anything else that the memory retains within the human brain. Information will be kept forever, which will make it much easier to conduct personal and professional business.


Those who acquire Alzheimer’s Disease will have the ability to retain their memories and their personal life information in spite of the disease that typically takes all that away.


Keeping your personal life information and history safely stored in a computer may seem like a reach beyond belief but it very well may happen in the foreseeable future.










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Transfer data from PC to phone with a photo

Have you ever found yourself looking up directions on your computer just before running out the door, only to end up retyping the same addresses and mapping the same route on your phone minutes later? 
A new system designed by Tsung-Hsiang Chang, a graduate student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology , and Google's Yang Li makes it much easier to transfer computing tasks between devices. 
Simply take a photo of your computer screen with your smartphone's camera, and the phone automatically opens up the corresponding application in the corresponding state. The same process can also work in reverse, moving data from the phone to a desktop computer. 
"People are used to using heavy tools to transfer data or synchronise two devices," Chang says. "You have to plug in a USB cable and maybe open iTunes and synchronise a bunch of data at the same time. But sometimes you just want to send a tiny bit of information, or a single piece of information." 
The system, called Deep Shot, exploits the fact that many Web apps use a standard format, called the uniform resource identifier (URI), to describe the states they're in. 
For instance, if you search for directions on Google Maps, then click the link that says "Link," a window pops up that says "Paste link in email or IM." 
The link consists of a long string of symbols, including the addresses of the starting and ending points and codes that indicate their geographical coordinates and the approximate size of the map window. 
That's a URI. The data contained in a URI can vary widely, and URIs are a common feature of many Web applications - if sometimes harder to extract than they are with Google Maps. 

EASY TO IMPLEMENT 

Deep Shot requires installing some minimal software on the phone and on all of the computers with which the phone will interact: You might, for instance, want to use the same phone in conjunction with a home desktop, a home laptop, a work desktop and your spouse or children's computers. 
When it's uploading data to a phone, Deep Shot uses existing computer vision algorithms to identify the application open on screen, and then the software installed on the computer extracts and transmits the corresponding URI. 
Changing the framing of the photograph will also change the framing of the application window that opens on the phone. Conversely, when Deep Shot is downloading data from the phone, the computer vision algorithm identifies the computer that the camera is trained on. 
At present, the system works with several common Web applications, such as Google Maps and Yelp, and with minimal additional coding it could be made to work with any application that reveals its state through URIs. 
Since URIs use a standardised set of codes, Deep Shot can also mediate between different applications, transferring data from one map application running on a desktop computer, say, to a different map application installed on a cellphone. 
In principle, the system could also work with off-the-shelf software: It would just require software developers to make some minimal modifications to their code. 
Since Chang was at Google when he worked on Deep Shot, Google owns the rights to it. Google has not yet made the system publicly available, but when it does, Chang will be among the first to install it, having come to depend on it during the summer he helped invent it. "It just makes everything so much easier," he says.






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1.29 million customers' data stolen from Sega

TOKYO: Hackers have stolen the personal data of some 1.29 million customers of the Japanese game maker Sega, the company said today, in a theft via a website of its European unit. 

The Sega Pass website, operated by London-based Sega Europe, did not contain credit card information, the Japanese firm said. 
But names, dates of birth, e-mail addresses and encrypted passwords were stolen by intruders to the site, Sega said in a Japanese-language statement, adding the theft had been confirmed on Friday. 

"We sincerely apologise for troubles this incident has caused to our customers," it said. 
The service, which has been suspended, was mainly to announce new product information to registered customers, Sega said. 
"An investigation has been launched to find the cause and channels used for the leakage," it said. 
No other websites managed by Sega have come under attack, it said.


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