New Domain ". Post" Exclusive Post Office

Although this Internet age, it does not mean the post office closed. In fact, the post offices around the world can now have a specific virtual address with the domain diresmikannya ". Post" by ICANN (Internet Corporation or Asssigned Names and Numbers), an independent body that regulates Internet addresses.

New domain approved last week. Right to manage top-level domains is given to the UPU (Universal Postal Union) will soon issue guidelines and rules that domain usage.

"People who access a site. Post will automatically be sure that it is the official postal service or postal service provider," the statement that submitted proposals UPU this domain name as reported by AFP.

UPU and ICANN plans to offer these domains starting the second half of 2010 after completing all the forms of agreements. Although sending a letter dropped dramatically, many post offices are held by expanding into online business and support the delivery of the goods sold through online stores.

Discover Galaxy Hubble's Advanced Camera Oldest

Hubble, a space telescope that has been updated, found the oldest galaxies never seen before, scientists said, as reported by AP.

The picture was taken in the area of space were observed in the year 2004. Hubble captured thousands of galaxies that had never seen before. These galaxies formed 600 million years after the Big Bang. The scientists believe, a big blow this lead to the creation of the universe.

A camera "wide field" just in pairs on the Hubble this summer. Hubble also has an infrared channel that allows close-orbiting telescope to see into the universe and galaxies more sharply with distance.

Hubble is a collaboration between NASA and European space agencies. This camera has been installed in May by NASA astronauts as part of its mission to upgrade and repair old telescope. This galaxy is 13 billion light years. Each one light year equals about 6 trillion miles.

Storage Trends 2010, Data Center Virtualization The Popular

In the year 2010 there are several trends that will occur in the storage industry in Indonesia. This was despite the increasingly growing needs of data centers is increasing.

Described Nettap Indonesia Country Manager, Stephen Law, the first trend that will appear in next year is the virtualization of data centers that include widely in the enterprise, especially in telecom vendors and energy companies.

"Virtualization in the data center of enterprise segment actually has happened in recent years, but its still small. The next year, in many application virtualization increasingly used by large companies," said Stephen, when discussions with NetApp, at Pacific Place, Jakarta.

The second trend that will happen in 2010, according to Stepehen, is the shift of the disk storage format to disk (D2D) to disk to tape (D2T). "The use of real D2T will remain on next year, but that nature are few and limited," he added.

The use of electricity-saving storage and environmentally friendly as well as a future trend in 2010. The problem in Indonesia using monolithic storage format than the use of many modular. In the future, monolithic will soon abandoned because of electrical problems that can not be compromised.

"In Indonesia, instead of monolithic can not be used, but use a very large power. If such force is used, can-can PLN (Perusahaan Listrik Negara) angry," selorohnya.

Clearly, the vendor data center will continue to be urged to create new innovations, since many firms will tighten their belts and change the spending of funds from capital expenditure (capex) to the operational expenditure (OPEX).

Microsoft Promises Bing will be 'Open'

Microsoft stated its commitment to expand in developing strategies Bing, by way of opening up to partners and developers. This was done to their property search engines have a more diverse taste.

Senior Vice President of Microsoft's online services Satya Nadella revealed that the company has agreed to implement third-party model. This is done so that the content and application developers can work together with Microsoft to enrich the facilities owned by Bing. In this way, of course, expected to improve their position stagnant, and still lose a lot with Google.

"We want to provide an open strategy to follow current market trends. Took a third-party developers will surely make Bing far better prepared to compete," said Satya, as quoted by The Register.

Nadella was speaking after Microsoft launched a new feature on Bing interesting reading Microsoft's algorithm and the traffic and depending on the data center computing and storage architectures. Microsoft also announced a beta version of Bing maps that use Silverlight media player and some laboratory technology to alter photographs and maps together to provide 3D flavor.

"We want to be able to get an open strategy that allows us to enter the ecosystem and the ecosystem will again provide a good economic value for Microsoft," he said.

Coin Collecting Tweets: Looking for petty cash via Twitter

Coin A Chance, a social movement is gathering 'coins' or coins to help the children drop out of school just launched a new program, 'Coin-Collecting Tweets' (CCT).

CCT programs present on the cooperation between the Coin A Chance with a soft drink company Coca Cola. Through CCT, the donors who are outside Jakarta can channel their pennies to put hashtag # open a new spirit in Twitter.

Incidentally, Coca Cola has just launched a new spirit Open campaign which invited young people pass on positive things. Associated with it, Coca Cola will donate Rp 100 to Coin A Chance for every tweet that describes the spirit, hope, optimism or positive thoughts given hashtag # open a new spirit.

"Coin A Chance Mission is to help the children drop out of school. Our program is also aimed at them in order to continue their education.

Later, the donations collected will be divided equally between the Coin A Chance Jakarta, Yogyakarta and Bali, and coordinated to help the children drop out of school in the area.

To assist in gathering this tweet, Twitter users only have to write hashtag # open a new spirit at the end of their posting. Thus, one would be appreciated hashtag Rp100.

Since its launch last Tuesday, December 7, the program has collected approximately 630 tweet or Rp63.000 (Rp100 per hashtag). The number is expected to continue to grow until the program closed on December 31, 2009.

Chinese Internet Companies Drill Friendster

Friendster social networking site which first circulated in cyberspace than Facebook and MySpace certainly be sold later this month. As proclaimed Reuters, Friendster will be released to one of the buyers from Asia at a price of about U.S. $ 100 million.

Currently, Friendster fame, founded in 2002 with a rapid decline than any other social networking sites in the United States. However, Friendster is now widely used in Asia, where more than half the 100 million registered users. The agreement between the buyer and Friendster own party will be announced late this December. So said a source who refused to publish.

TechCrunch, a blog industry, says in months uli, Friendster worth U.S. $ 210 million. This means less competitive compared to Facebook is worth about U.S. $ 10 billion.

Top management (CEO) Friendster Richard Kimber told Reuters, Morgan Stanley has been hired to handle this transaction. "We have a short list at this point, that we are negotiating," said Kimber.

Friendster, like Facebook, has been struggling to find effective strategies, such as The access targeting the younger site on Friday and will move the focus of the ad revenue for micro-transactions.

Social networking company headquartered in California, United States, has refused to purchase U.S. $ 30 million from Google Inc.. In fact, Google has offered since six years ago.

Tencent Holdings, the largest Internet companies in China that offered by the market value of U.S. $ 35 billion, was among the short list of bidders. While Facebook is also showing interest, but declined because of competition and the issues of intellectual property. The Friendster holds five U.S. patents relating to the social networks in accordance with the Office of Patents and Trademarks United States.

Week, 12.5 Million New Opera 10:10

Opera Software claims to have detected more than 12 million downloads 10:10 Opera, Opera Unite features in it. This figure is quite capable of downloading Opera beat the record 10 two months ago.

"We have launched the Opera 10:10 on 23 November. In a week when Opera Unite interesting pendownload approximately 12.5 million Opera 10:10," said Opera Software CEO Jon von Tetzchner through its official statement on Monday (7/12/2009).

According Sajnani, Opera support for open web standards, commitment to improve the speed, performance, and security services is one goal Opera presents a powerful browser. 10:10 Opera itself offers a number of innovative features packed in an elegant user interface.

One mainstay Opera Opera is 10:10 Unite, a web server that allows sharing personal content such as photos and files.

"With Opera Unite, allows computer users to find new ways to listen to music, share photos, files and others," said Sajnani.

Opera currently has approximately 45 million active users on the desktop, while millions more use Opera on several types of handsets, including mobile phones, game consoles, TV and portable display devices.

Opera Unite In addition, several other features that Opera is Opera reliable Turbo, visual tabs, speed dial, Opera Link and Mouse Gesture.

Twitter Logo Changing Red Color Heart

World AIDS Day celebration which falls on December 1 also received special attention in Microblogging site Twitter. Page face immediately turned red with the theme of the liver. Background color becomes more soft than a light blue to gray so that no visible contrast.

However, these changes seem to be adjusted to the time when you visit the U.S. because Kompas.com, Tuesday (1 / 12) yesterday there has been no change. For the record, the time difference between Indonesia and the U.S. about 12 hours in advance of Indonesia. This is different from Google that has put a red ribbon since yesterday and still visible to this day.

Changes made to the logo colors Twitter while still a blue color bird. In the middle of the search box and even trending topics added "ribbon" red elongated heart with writing in it.

"DEC 1 is World AIDS day. Help turn Twitter (RED) ™. Follow @ JoinRED to find out how." Therefore the text. If the link to @ JoinRED click will be taken to RED's Twitter page, one of the social organization of HIV / AIDS.

The topics about AIDS also began to dominate the information on Twitter. When visited by around 10:30, keywords AIDS ranked the top five hottest topics being discussed. Keywords World AIDS Day, # worldaidsday, Red, HIV, and # aids were included in the most popular topics today.