Category: Tech News

Noticias sobre tecnoloxía, como novo software.

Facendo uns novos nomes de versión de Android

Cute graphic of android version evolution
De Cupcake de Jelly Bean, Quedou máis bonito de todas as versións de Android.

Androide, o sistema operativo de código aberto para teléfonos / tablets, fíxose moi coñecida polos seus apelidos versión incriblemente bonito – Cada versión ten o nome dunha sobremesa, e eles van en orde alfabética. Ata agora eles tiveron Cupcake, Donut, Eclair, Froyo, Pan de especias, Honeycomb, Ice Cream Sandwich, Jelly Bean, e KitKat (a última.)

Google debe empregar un equipo de xenios para facer eses nomes versión. Entón eu vou probar a miña man a facer algúns nomes de posibles. Aquí están algúns que eu pensaba, en orde:

  • Pinga de limón
  • Milkshake / Muffin
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BREAKING: Tech giants unveil smart toaster

A smart toaster: the iToaster, Windows Toaster 8, and Google Toast image picture toast
Mazá, Microsoft, e Google están revelando plans para torradeiras intelixentes. Aprontar – este é enorme.

En algún lugar en California — Nunha serie impresionante de revelacións que se transformou o mundo da tecnoloxía na súa cabeza, un trio de xigantes da tecnoloxía anunciaron plans para unha torradeira esperta. Mazá, Microsoft, and Google held launch parties this weekend for a series of new devices. Este reporteiro valente asistiu todos os tres.

Imos dar un ollo.

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The future of smartphones

Google Android and Apple iOS fighting
Move over, Android and iOS. You have company.

Right now, if you want to buy a smartphone you have two main options: iPhone e Android. If you’re feeling brave, hai Windows Phone. Non moito variedade.

Todo o que está a piques de cambiar.

Este ano que vén vai ver o lanzamento de novo, libres sistemas operativos de teléfono que parecen a piques de cambiar o mundo dos smartphones – para mellor. Imos dar un ollo.

Ubuntu

Ubuntu, o incontrolado popular open-source do sistema operativo para ordenadores has been spreading rumors that they’re going to release a version of the operating system for smartphones. The phones aren’t out yet but folks around the internet say they’re definitely in the works.

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So much for IPOs

As you probably remember, the professional networking (no other way to describe it) site LinkedIn went public in May under the symbol LNKD. Its IPO (initial public offering, or first release of shares in the stock market) was valued $45 per share. Later that day, LinkedIn shares were trading at $122.

LinkedIn's logo
LinkedIn's IPO was hyped, but did it work?

LinkedIn closed at $94 per share, with a volume of 30 million shares. Not bad for a day’s work. (News article.)

 

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Chrome OS: all web, all the time

As you might have noticed, the guys at Google have released (ben, not released, they’ve just publicly shown it for the first time; Chromebooks are coming out on June 15) Chromebooks, which are netbooks that run the Chrome OS.

Chrome OS (official site)

More about the actual computers later; the interesting part about the computer is its operating system. Chrome OS is a completely web-based operating system; it’s nothing but Chrome, Google’s web browser. Está certo, the only application on the computer is Chrome.

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Can’t get enough Angry Birds? Play it online

Playing Angry Birds 1-1
A red bird crashing into a structure, killing a pig in the process

If your phone’s battery keeps dying on you because you spend all your time playing the wildly popular mobile game Angry Birds (or if you’re too cheap to buy Angry Birds), you should be pretty excited about this latest development.

You can now play Angry Birds online here. Here’s what you need:

  1. A decent browser (more on that later)
  2. Adobe Flash (Sentímolo, iDevice users)

As the URL (chrome.angrybirds.com) might hint, Angry Birds works best in Chrome. I’ve tried it on several browsers and here’s what I’ve found:

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Microsoft buys Skype

Skype logoMicrosoft has bought the popular IM/voice chat application Skype (ben, not just the product, the whole company) for $8.5 billion, making it Microsoft’s largest purchase ever. I find that a little funny since Skype actually made a loss of $7 million last year.

Mais, when you think about it, it makes some sense. Skype has 663 million user accounts (claro, not all of them are active) and about 8 million paying users – obviously not very many, but it’s still some.

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