Google Fiber the Internet service provider

The company Google has launched as Internet service provider with prices and speed that will be the envy of competitors. These range from free to $120 per month, Google also fiber, which is widely spoken in the United States.

Google Fiber is a free Internet access with download speeds of up to 5 Mbps for sending files up to 1 Mbps, knowing that a guaranteed service for at least seven years and that the Internet is available with the box service. 

The only point of this free offer from Google Fiber is the introduction which will cost $ 300. Other offers from Google Fiber, are free to create, found on the Internet and $ 70 a month for a throughput of 1 GB in loading and unloading, simply, the speed and rhythm that is much talk of other Internet providers. The highest bid is $ 120 per month for the same flow, but with a small set of most of the company, a unit of Google with 1 TB, a box of internet storage, the tablet Nexus 7 and other things to discover. For more information about Google fiber, you can visit the official Google fiber at the following address: https://fiber.google.com/about/. 

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Greenland thaw unprecedented NASA reports

NASA has announced that its satellites have detected an unprecedented thaw of Greenland, as the melted area is one of the largest detected in 30 years of control in satellite observations. Recently detected a large iceberg was clear from the area called Petermann. This time with this report explains that most of the ice cover of Greenland, from his thin, low coastlines to its 2 kilometers thick center, experienced some degree of fusion on its surface, according to the three independent satellite measurements analyzed by scientists from NASA and the university. On average in the summer, about half of the surface of the Greenland ice sheet melts naturally.

 "The Greenland ice sheet is a large area with a varied history of change. This event, along with other natural phenomena, although rare, as the case of large delivery last week in the Petermann glacier, are part of a story complex, "said Tom Wagner, director of the Washington NASA cryosphere program.

 According to satellite data, it is estimated that 97 percent of the surface of the ice thawed at some point in mid-July. Investigators have not determined whether this event extensive merger affect the overall volume of ice loss this summer and contribute to rising sea level. What we explain is that the higher parts of the ice tend to thaw, but equally freeze back in place, what is called FUSION, so near the coast, some water is retained by fusion the ice and the rest is lost in the ocean. But this year, as detected, the degree of melting ice in or near the surface greatly increased. 


Son Nghiem of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, says that was the analysis of radar data from the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Oceansat-2 Satellite who last week made him realize that most of Greenland appears to have undergone fusion on its surface on 12 July. 


Nghiem said: "This was so extraordinary that at first I questioned the result: Is it real or due to an error of data?" . Then given the task to corroborate these results and consult with Dorothy Hall at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland City of studying the surface temperature of Greenland with the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MODIS) on board NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites and confirmed by MODIS that temperatures were unusually high and that the melting was extensive on the surface of the ice. 


The melting quickly spread. The melting was shown on maps derived from three satellites and showed that the July 8, about 40 percent of the surface of the ice had melted. July 12, 97 percent had melted. This event coincided with the extreme fusion of unusually strong ridge of hot air, or a dome of heat over Greenland. 

This merger marked the Summit and the ice has not happened since 1889, according to ice cores analyzed by Kaitlin Keegan at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration weather station Summit air at temperatures above or confirmed floated within one degree of freezing for several hours 11-12 July. Ice cores  can have fusion events every 150 years on average. Indicate that it may be of concern if such events were still observed in FUSION type the coming years, as it can alter sea level globally and some villages near the coast disappear.

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Autodesk buys Socialcam for 60mdd

Autodesk a company dedicated to developing the application software purchased for video capture Socialcam called, in a deal that puts a price on the implementation of 60 million dollars. Socialcam is an application like video Instagram but in the month of May were referred to their popularity and were made public some of its benefits as an application. 

Now that has been purchased, it is unknown whether he will continue working as before, as the group vice president, Consumer Products Company Autodesk, Samir Hanna, has been reported that such purchases should be to strengthen the way the computing and teamwork is taking place, as is atrabes cloud (Cloud Computing) and social networks.   "Video is an ideal medium for both professionals and consumers communicate and share their design ideas" Socialcam smartphone is a tool that facilitates the capture, editing and sharing video, which has become one of the most popular iOS App Store and Android Marketplace, adding more than 16 million downloads since its launch in 2011 . "The mission of Socialcam in shares of Autodesk is helping everyone to imagine, design and create a better world," said Michael Seibel, founder and CEO, Socialcam. 

Autodesk has a track record of acquisition and expansion of fast growing consumer businesses early stages, while remaining true to their core audience and vision. With products such as Pixlr, sketchbook and 123D, Autodesk is to empower creativity in millions of people around the world by its award-winning technology for everyone.

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Google just acquired Sparrow for Gmail

Google just acquired Sparrow for Gmail, the company behind the popular iOS and OS X email client. The team of the company, says CEO Don Sparrow Leca, will join Google's Gmail team "to achieve a larger view - which we think is the best you can achieve with Google." Sparrow raised a small seed round of funding from French VC firm Ventures, Kima in 2011, but took no other investments outside since. Google and Sparrow have released the financial details of the acquisition. Google buys Sparrow for Gmail, while Sparrow says that their applications will remain available at the moment, but according to an email to the company just send their users, the Sparrow, announces no updates on their applications in the short term. The company statement expresses explicitly ... 

 We’re excited to announce that Sparrow has been acquired by Google!

 While we’ll be working on new things at Google, we will continue to make Sparrow available and provide support for our users. We had an amazing ride and can’t thank you enough. 

Dom Leca 
CEO Sparrow 
 We also want to thank our advisors and investors — Loren Brichter, Dave Morin, John Maeda, Xavier Niel, Jérémie Berrebi — as well as our friends and family: Simon Istolainen, Jérémie Kanza, Sacha Cayre, Cedric Gepner, Laurent Merlinot, Didier Kuhn, Christophe Baillon, Laurent Cerveau, Christophe Giaume, Sebastien Maury, Manuel Colom, Bertrand Guiheneuf and all of you who have helped us along the way.

We care a lot about how people communicate, and we did our best to provide you with the most intuitive and pleasurable mailing experience. Now we’re joining the Gmail team to accomplish a bigger vision — one that we think we can better achieve with Google. We’d like to extend a special thanks to all of our users who have supported us, advised us, given us priceless feedback and allowed us to build a better mail application.

Full speed ahead! 

Remains to be seen how long Google plans to support the Mac client Sparrow. Until now, Google does not offer its own native email client for any operating system and considering Google's approach on the web, it seems unlikely that the company will continue to fund the development of an e-mail client desktop. It is also unclear if Google charged for applications Sparrow. The Mac application currently costs $ 9.99 and the IOS client costs $ 2.99. Although the team is locked into the Sparrow Gmail, expects his client and continue to provide services normally. IOS users and Mac OS will be able to enjoy their implementation is expected that soon the rest of Gmail users benefit from the knowledge and the work of this small business.

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Dies at 61 the first U.S. woman astronaut: Sally Ride

At 61 years of age die Sally Ride the first American astronaut. Who in 1983 was the first U.S. woman to be in orbit as part of the STS-7, a victim of cancer. The mission was in the Space Shuttle Challenger.  It seems a little ironic to remember the pioneer of aviation in Google with a doodle, because in some countries by the time difference as marked on 24 July when the other side of the world are reminded of the first American woman astronaut also that was in orbit but due to his death. Sally Ride into space traveling at 32 years old, and announced his death after battling pancreatic cancer. He died in La Jolla, California. 

Her participation as an astronaut aboard the Challenger and the launch was held on June 18, 1983. But this was not its only flight, Sally made ​​a second space flight on the Challanger just one year later in 1984 and participated in the commission that investigated the accident of the same in 1986, the Rogers commission. Sally stopped working for NASA to become a researcher and teacher in physics from Stanford University and was also involved in a program for kids interested in science. 

NASA through several press releases have made ​​known their condolences, including mentions of Charlie Bolden, director of NASA:   

"Sally Ride broke barriers with grace and professionalism -- and literally changed the face of America's space program. The nation has lost one of its finest leaders, teachers and explorers. Our thoughts and prayers are with Sally's family and the many she inspired. She will be missed, but her star will always shine brightly."

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A big Iceberg broke off the Petermann Glacier says NASA

Each zone in Greenland comes to a name very well identified. The Petermann glacier, slides into the sea along the northwestern coast of Greenland, which ends in a giant floating ice tongue. Like other glaciers that end in the ocean, Petermann regularly has small icebergs or ice islands. An iceberg, or the island of ice broke off the Petermann Glacier in 2010. 

Almost two years later, another piece of ice has been released. An enormous iceberg in Greenland shows, another in this occasion. At NASA through Resolution Imaging Spectrometer Moderate (MODIS) aboard the Aqua satellite observed the new iceberg to drift downstream of where they broke the 16th and until July 17, 2012. 

Because Aqua is a polar orbiting satellite, which makes multiple passes over the polar regions every day. At 10:25 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) on July 16, the iceberg was still near the glacier. At 12:00 UTC the same day (center), Berg had begun to move northward up the fjord. Timing of ice off the island with an area twice the size of Manhattan  A day later, at 09:30 UTC on July 17, Aqua spied a larger opening between the glacier and the iceberg. 

The iceberg seems to have made a slight turn to the left. "The floating extension is collapsing," said Eric Rignot of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA and the University of California-Irvine. "It's not a collapse, but it is certainly a significant event." Konrad Steffen, director of the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, estimated that the iceberg was about half the size of the ice island that came out of Petermann in 2010. 

If you require more information about these events, you can see the following links.

 Gallery Images from NASA 

MODIS Studies of Greenland

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Zynga has appointed Ellen Siminoff as director

Zynga has appointed Ellen Siminoff, as director of its board, to Zynga is the first woman director. Siminoff is currently the president and CEO of Shmoop University, Inc. and a founding executive of Yahoo! will also join the audit committee of the social gaming company. For the CEO and founder of Zynga, Mark Pincus, "Ellen has extensive experience and knowledge to operate web businesses to scale and brings a passion for Internet products for consumers."

Zygna is one of the leading providers of online games on Facebook, Google +. Games like Farmville, Words With Friends, Matching With Friends, Friends With Scramble, Draw Something, The Ville, Bubble Safari, Ruby Blast, Slingo, CastleVille, CityVille, Hidden Chronicles, Zynga Poker, Bingo Zynga, Zynga Slots, Empires & Allies, The Pioneer Trail, and Mafia Wars are part of its catalog of games, and Ellen Siminoff is now director of the board.

Since last year, the company has added a number of members to the board, but none were women, despite the fact that they are one of the demographics of the company's main players. For some time women have been increasing their role as policy figures in the field of technology brands, last surprisingly well documented was the CEO of Yahoo, which also was the first female engineer at Google, Marissa Meyer.


Ellen Siminoff had previously worked in educational publishing before his role in Shmoop, Siminoff served as President and CEO of Efficient Frontier, and was a founding executive of Yahoo, where he held a variety of roles. Also currently serves on the board of directors of Journal Communications, Mozilla, SolarWinds Network and U.S. Auto Parts. Siminoff graduated from the Graduate School of Business with an MBA from Stanford and Princeton University with a degree in economics. Siminoff joins to the distinguished members of the board of Zynga, including: Jeffrey Katzenberg, Reid Hoffman, Sunil Paul, William "Bing" Gordon, Stanley J. Meresman, Owen Van Natta, John Schappert and Mark Pincus

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Twitter social networking most used for companies

Each year Burson-Marsteller  presents a study analyzing what kind of mechanisms and networks are used by large companies for external communications, the Global Study Social Media Check-up has been developed by the company Burson-Marsteller, with data from Visible Technologies , which is dedicated to monitoring, analysis and social media services to companies globally. One result that courage is that Twitter is social networking site most used by large companies in the world. After Twitter, the social networking sites commonly used by large companies are YouTube and Facebook. 79% of these companies has its own channel on YouTube, compared to 57% in 2011. For Facebook, the number of companies having at least one page on this platform is 74%, and in the case of the Google Network +, despite its recent introduction, and is used by 48%. 

The media Social Burson-Marsteller Global Check-up 2012, examined the Fortune Global 100 use the popular social networking platforms like Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and for the first time, in addition to Google and Pinterest. This year, Visible Technologies provides data on the discussions of social media users online businesses. In 2012, the vast majority of companies (87 percent) are using at least one of the major social platforms to communicate with stakeholders in line with much stronger growth in business use that occurs on YouTube. 

The sample size for countries/ regions used for the study of Burson- Marsteller are: USA = 29 companies, 45 companies = Europe, Asia and the Pacific = 23 companies, Latin America = 3 companies. Comparisons were made to the first Global Fortune 100 Burson-Marsteller Study of Social Media, Social Media globally Check-up 2010, published on February 23, 2010, and the second annual Social Media global check-up, published on February 15, 2011. Data were collected by the global research team Burson-Marsteller. And along with some interesting results of this study are some important findings indicate that of the Fortune Global 100 companies have accounts in each platform more than ever, with an average of: 10.1, 10.4 Twitter account Facebook pages, 8.1 channels from YouTube, Google Pages Plus 2.6 and 2.0 Pinterest accounts. Seventy-four percent of companies surveyed have a Facebook page. Ninety-three percent of corporate Facebook pages are updated weekly. Forty-eight percent of companies are now in Google Earth Plus. Twenty-five percent of companies have Pinterest accounts. 

Each corporate Facebook page has an average of 6,101 people talking about it. About the Study The data were collected in February 2012 on the basis of the activity of the Fortune Global 100 companies, social media Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Google and Pinterest Plus. The study found that there was an increase of 39 percent in the percentage of companies with a YouTube brand channel. Seventy-nine percent of companies in the study are using YouTube channel brand compared with 57 percent in 2011. These channels each average more than two million views and 1,669 subscribers. However, the study found that Twitter is the most popular platform among both companies and online discussions about these companies. 

On Facebook, 74 percent of companies allow users to "like" your page post on your "walls" and more than half (57 percent) of companies are responding to messages and comments. U.S. companies have clearly how the interaction of Facebook before European companies with 89 percent of U.S. companies that allow messages and 72 percent of U.S. companies responding back.  To access the complete analysis of these results, visit bm.com / social.

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Yahoo's new CEO Marissa Meyer

Yahoo at his pressroom has announced that Marissa Mayer will be the new CEO of Yahoo. Marisa Meyer was a technology executive who has worked at Google since the early days of it. Mayer received his B.S. in symbolic systems and M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University, specializing in artificial intelligence for both degrees. 

The new was first reported by The New York Times and later became known in the press releases of Yahoo. Yahoo announce his appointment to Marissa Mayer, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer and Member of the Board of Directors will be effective July 17, 2012. Coming off a run of bad times for Yahoo, its last CEO Scott Thompson came in less time than ideal for the appointment of Mayer is expected a new beginning for the long-term company in Silicon Valley. 

The appointment of Ms. Mayer, an executive with leading Internet consumers, says a new focus on product innovation to drive the user experience and advertising revenue from a major consumer Internet brands in the world , whose major properties including Yahoo! Finance, Yahoo! Sports, Yahoo! Mobile, Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! Search. To which Mayer said:  

"I feel very honored and thrilled to be in Yahoo!, a leading online destinations for over 700 million users. I look forward to working with the dedicated employees of the company to offer innovative, customized content and experiences for users and advertisers around the world."

And she also express her motivation by using her own account of Twitter.

Marissa Mayer was responsible for local maps and location services from Google, the company's suite of local and geographically and Google Maps, Google Earth, Zagat, Street View, local search, desktop and phones. Mayer joined Google in 1999 as its employee no. 20 and led the efforts of many of the most recognized of Google, including the development of its search product and the main insignia emblematic of more than 10 years. Mayer did some of the most successful innovations of Google, launching more than 100 features and products, including the image, the book and search for products, tools, iGoogle, Google News and Gmail - the creation of most of the "look and feel" of user experience at Google.

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Digg was sold in three different parts

Digg sold to LinkedIn, The Washington Post and Betaworks.  The social news site Digg has been speculated to be sold at $ 500 thousand, but that is specific and accurate in its remaining assets to Betaworks. While the number is actually, according to another rumor that was heard in the ballpark, the editors were TechCruch is that the total purchase price of Digg was around $ 16 million, including the price paid for IP, an acquirer previously unreported, LinkedIn. 

This pointed to a nearby spring, the Washington Post that ended up paying $ 12 million for the Digg team. And almost at the same time, the race of the LinkedIn social network paid $ 3.75 million and $4 million for 15 different patents including the patent Digg "click a button to rate a story".  Betaworks collected all remaining assets today, including the domain, code, and all traffic data for between $500,000 and $ 725k.  Borthwick and co. will license patents and LinkedIn need to run when it decides to do with those assets. Before the acquisition, the social news Digg had raised $ 45 million in funding from Greylock Partners, Marc Andreessen, founder of LinkedIn, Reid Hoffman and other notables of the Valley. 

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Betaworks has acquired Digg

Betaworks,  has acquired the social news site Digg.com for an undisclosed amount. Betaworks’ founder John Borthwick will become the new CEO of Digg. So Digg was announced through its official blog. Betaworks founder John Borthwick will become the new CEO of Digg. The site's current general manager Matt Williams will join Andreessen Horowitz as Entrepreneur in Residence after the transition is complete Betaworks. Digg founder Kevin Rose joined Google a few months after the search engine of its most recent acquisition was updated. 


Some technology media as TechCrunch have said that there is a rumor that the price ranges at only U.S. $ 500 thousand, although it is doubtful that amount because that amount generated Digg just for publicity and has been said by the words of CEO Digg that the amount was high.Betaworks promises to take "back to the beginning"to Digg , with low budgets, a small team and rapid update cycles. None of the other employees of Digg, it seems, are moving to Betaworks. Instead, the team will take care of News.me site management. Since Betaworks is the company behind bit.ly, news.me, Chartbeat and a number of other successful products. Betaworks says Digg will soon release a new version of Digg, which will complement iPhone News.me 's, and iPad applications.

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