iPhone/iPod phone headset and dock all in one by valliswood. After 2012, Microsoft Is Done With CES Keynotes. Microsoft is ending its years-long run as the Consumer Electronics Show keynote kick-off event. Its 2012 keynote, which should highlight Windows 8 will be its last and next year will also mark the software giant's last trade show booth at the event. Microsoft made the surprise announcement Wednesday in a brief blog post by Corporate Vice President for Corporate Communications Frank X. Shaw: "We have decided that this coming January will be our last keynote presentation and booth at CES. After participating in the event for almost 20 years, Microsoft will still have some sort of presence at the show.
While these keynotes are among some of the most highly anticipated events of CES, they haven't really been the same since Microsoft Founder, Chairman and former CEO Bill Gates retired from the company to focus on his philanthropic activities. Mashable contacted the Consumer Electronics Associations (the group that runs CES) for comment and received this statement: 2012 Annual Letter From Bill Gates. Given the central role that food plays in human welfare and national stability, it is shocking—not to mention short-sighted and potentially dangerous—how little money is spent on agricultural research. In total, only $3 billion per year is spent on researching the seven most important crops. This includes $1.5 billion spent by countries, $1.2 billion by private companies, and $300 million by an agency called the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR).
Even though the CGIAR money is only 10 percent of the spending, it is critical because it focuses on the needs of poor countries. Very little of the country and private spending goes toward the priorities of small farmers in Africa or South Asia. This shortage of funds for research is particularly worrying because of the increasing prevalence of plant diseases, such as those destroying Christina Mwinjipe’s cassava plants. Just like humans, plants get attacked by viruses, bacteria, and fungi. The 10 biggest tech stories of 2011. The world of entertainment mourned and remembered Steve Jobs with social media mentions. In 2011, perhaps no news story was bigger than the death of Steve JobsSocial media was used heavily to organize protest around the worldMysterious hacker groups rose to prominence in 2011 (CNN) -- The technology industry often finds itself pontificating about the future, but the busy news cycle this year gave us plenty to discuss.
Very influential tech pioneers died; cyber-security cost companies billions of dollars; and trends in electronics and on the Web provided new tools and created new challenges. Smartphones and tablets each grew so immensely this year that we decided to give them their own mobile year-in-review list. As for future talk, there were plenty of bold, futuristic initiatives that did not quite bear fruit this year. These 10 stories in 2011 had a huge impact that could resonate for many years: 1. 2. In London, participants in riots used BlackBerry Messenger. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Occupy Geeks Are Building a Facebook for the 99% | Threat Level.
Protesters volunteering for the internet and information boards of the Occupy Wall Street protest work and broadcast from their media center in Zuccotti Plaza on Oct. 2, 2011. Photo: Bryan Derballa for Wired.com “I don’t want to say we’re making our own Facebook. But, we’re making our own Facebook,” said Ed Knutson, a web and mobile app developer who joined a team of activist-geeks redesigning social networking for the era of global protest.
They hope the technology they are developing can go well beyond Occupy Wall Street to help establish more distributed social networks, better online business collaboration and perhaps even add to the long-dreamed-of semantic web — an internet made not of messy text, but one unified by underlying meta-data that computers can easily parse. [bug id="occupy"]The impetus is understandable. Social media helped pull together protesters around the globe in 2010 and 2011. YouTube Launches in Kenya. Kwa KiswahiliEn Français We are very excited to announce the launch of a Kenyan version of YouTube. The goal is to give Kenyans an easy way to discover local content and content producers. This means that when users visit the Kenyan domain, they will immediately see the most popular videos in Kenya and local content that matches their interests.
Alongside this launch, we have partnered with local broadcasters and producers to bring content ranging from KBC and NTV news segments to HomeBoyz produced Tinga Tinga Tales to a global audience. To find out more about partnering with YouTube, take a look at our partner resources. If your internet is slow, try out YouTube Feather. This beta offering helps to ensure that those with low-speed Internet connections can play videos faster. We’re very much looking forward to working with Kenyan users and partners to enrich the diversity of the YouTube community and bring more Kenyan content to the web.
YouTube arrive au Kenya. No iPhone 5? New iPhone 4S Announced by Apple; Includes Voice Recognition, Faster Processor. Apple, Inc., announced its new iPhone today -- a powerful updated model called the iPhone 4S, but a disappointment to investors and the tech world because it wasn't a completely-new iPhone 5 people had come to expect. Apple stock, which had been up on a down day, dropped more than 4 percent as the product rollout went on at Apple's headquarters in Cupertino, Calif. -- never mind that the 4S had many of the features widely expected in an iPhone 5.
Top 5: The iPhone, from debut to deluxe machine. On the outside, the 4S is similar to the phone Apple has been selling for more than a year. But with an A5 processor (the same that runs the iPad 2) and dual-core graphics, Apple said it would be up to seven times faster than its predecessor. Perhaps the most striking new feature was called Assistant -- software that allows an iPhone user to work the apps in the phone by talking to it.
This kind of intelligence is something that has been hard to package in a consumer device. Kenya gets own YouTube domain. YouTube has announced the launch of a Kenyan domain, YouTube Kenya ( that will now offer some of the most informative and entertaining video content from around the world through a local interface that promotes the content most relevant to Kenyans. Kenya will soon have their own YouTube domain (image: stock.xchng) As proved by Julius Yego, javelin gold medalist at the 10th All Africa Games in Mozambique who perfected his technique by watching YouTube, there is something on YouTube for everyone. From amateur to professional content, the unexpected to the emotionally affecting, the educational to the entertaining, Kenyans now have greater flexibility to tell their stories, and find videos most useful to them.
“We are thrilled to be launching YouTube in Kenya today,” said Olaga Arara-Kimani, Google Kenya’s Country manager. “We have remarkable reserves of information right here in Kenya, from music, educational clips, news, and self-help tips. Brian Adero. Apple Earnings: That's a Blowout - MarketBeat. Apple shares are up nearly 7% in late-trading after the company posted another blowout quarter, with earnings nearly doubling from a year ago and any questions about the company’s strength soundly silenced.
Apple saw its fiscal second-quarter profit rise 94%, to $11.6 billion, or $12.30 a share, from $5.99 billion, or $6.40 a share, a year ago. Sales rose 59% to $39.2 billion from $24.67 billion a year ago. The Street consensus was for EPS of $10.02. You could say they beat the Street. However, and we’re in very relative territory here, the “beat” wasn’t quite as blowout-y as the last quarter, S&P’s Howard Silverblatt said. This quarter, EPS beat Street views by $2.28; last quarter, it was $4.25. But that’s a minor quibble.
IPhone sales rose 88% from a year ago to 35.1 million phones. Cash flow was $14 billion, and the company pegged fiscal third-quarter earnings at $8.68 on sales of $34 billion. Shares are up 6.9% in late trading at $598.72. The company’s conference call begins at 5 p.m. Build Your Own Server | Why pay somebody to do it for you when you can build it yourself! [global] panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d workgroup = "Name" netbios name = "Server name" invalid users = root security = user wins support = no log file = /var/log/samba.log log level = 3 max log size = 1000 syslog = 1 encrypt passwords = true passdb backend = smbpasswd socket options = TCP_NODELAY dns proxy = no passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u passwd chat =*Enter\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n *Retype\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n . obey pam restrictions = yes pam password change = no null passwords = no #Share Definitions [homes] comment = Home Directories browseable = yes writable = yes security mask = 0700 create mask = 0700 #!
/bin/sh x11vnc -nap -bg -many -rfbauth ~/.vnc/passwd -desktop "VNC ${USER}@${HOSTNAME}" \ |grep -Eo "[0-9]{4}">~/.vnc/port. 5 moves Meg Whitman needs to make right away. HP CEO Apotheker fired, replaced by Meg Whitman - Sep. 22. Meg Whitman (left) will replace Leo Apotheker as Hewlett-Packard's CEO. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Hewlett-Packard's board on Thursday ousted CEO Leo Apotheker after just 11 months on the job, replacing him with Meg Whitman. "I am honored and excited to lead HP," Whitman said in a prepared statement. "I believe HP matters -- it matters to Silicon Valley, California, the country and the world. " HP's board said the company needed a change at the top.
The company cut its financial outlook three times in Apotheker's tenure, and on Thursday, HP said it was not confident it would be able to meet its sales targets for the current quarter. Shareholders sent the stock down more than 40% this year before Fortune and other outlets broke the news this week that the board was considering letting Apotheker go.
Lane was formerly an independent, non-executive chair. The chairman said on a conference call Thursday that the board considered many candidates and decided together that Whitman was the right fit.