We are currently experiencing the boom of HTML5 . Although its implementation will take many years, now is when you are defining what features will be the immediate main web of the future. One of the most controversial is the video tag , not agree on what should be the codec used to encode the videos.

At this point it is not easy to understand the positions of the main actors in this conflict , much less after the announcement of Webm . Various vested interests lead to different addresses to companies that place them in awkward positions. In this article we will clarify the ideas to try to discover the real reasons that motivate each of these companies and foundations. › Continue reading…

With time and use Windows can lose much speed. Are partly explained by the leftover data from programs long uninstalled and distributed over the disk fragments of individual files. Temporary files from Internet browsers can slow down the computer as well. But this is not a reason to invest immediately in new hardware. Remedial promise optimization programs. They analyze the contents of the disk and track down the garbage.

The magazine “Computer Bild” (No. 6 / 2010) has four programs for the optimization versions of Windows XP and 7 tested. With Windows XP, convinced the testers of Data Becker Twin XP (price 28 euro). The program was given a score well. The winner not only shortened the computer to start five seconds, but accelerated as the copying of files six times and the loading of image files by five times. Another plus point: The software saves the state before the optimization. This enables to restore these in an emergency. › Continue reading…

Much has been reported, and much has been presented at the Mobile World Congress. A clear winner is in place, but a trend is discernible.

Especially in view of the abundance of “Firsts” sting HTC and Google out. HTC introduced the Touch phone Legend and Desire, is perhaps the best phones before the show. Both phones were no technical weaknesses, and visually convincing and sparkled with its fantastic displays.

This success of HTC goes hand in hand with Google’s Android. Besides the two HTC Touch phones here stung even the Sony Ericsson phones X10 Mini and Mini Pro and the Motorola QUENCH out. Virtually every mobile phone manufacturer now relies on Google Android. One of the exceptions: Nokia. Overall, not so much to see from the Finnish industry giants. Anders then even Samsung.

With a huge booth and the new OS Bada Koreans have tried to stand up to. The Samsung S8500 Wave could convince this already and will enrich the market. Here too obvious: The best thing about the mobile phone is the display. Still has some work to do, however Microsoft. Phone Windows 7 was presented and therefore was indeed on everyone’s lips, but there are still months away until the first cell phones are available with Microsoft’s new mobile operating system in stores. › Continue reading…

The Windows Live service connectivity problems presented yesterday as a result of difficulties in one of its authentication servers.

Diario Ti: Microsoft writes on his blog that one of the authentication servers in Windows Live session would have experienced difficulties resulting in a surcharge that must be absorbed by the remaining servers. This situation led to many users experience difficulties in access to Microsoft Services for about an hour.

However, this does not seem to be the whole problem. According to Business Week, some users have accidentally accessed other users’ accounts. One of them told the paper that “suddenly opened the account a user totally unfamiliar to me. I tried again with the same result. I tried it several times and each time opened a separate account.

According to Microsoft, it is uncertain whether the two events are related.

“We are investigating reports that a limited sense of Windows Live users have had access to accounts of other users trying to access them by mobile readers,” said Microsoft in a statement reprinted by publications Cnet and Bloomberg, among others.

Microsoft emphasizes that assigns critical importance to the privacy of its users, and therefore has initiated an investigation to clarify the issue.

Sources: Business Week and CNet Silicon Republic.