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Future Television in 3D format

A television system in 3D format that will provide holographic images could become a reality in our homes in a very short time, according to research conducted by a team from a British university.

Experts from the organization started a project funded by the European Commission to investigate the fundamental principles, technologies and practical in terms of placing on the market consumption of 3D TV systems.

Specialists in media claimed a few years ago that 3D TV will need about a decade to gain a significant share of the market. Recent discoveries, however, showed that a tridimesional television stereotypical with holographic images that do not impose the use of special glasses has come just a few steps to become a reality.

The research consisted in testing several technologies for the development and implementation of 3D TV, which would receive and display programs that incorporate 3D images.

Because tridimesional television will become a reality, researchers must develop a technology for creating programs that can be televised in this format and have the ability to transmit a vast amount of information required in the formation of a complete 3D images.

3D television could give consumers an experience more trained without the need of special glasses. Specialists say that besides changing the way in which we watch TV, 3DTV technology can be applied in other fields such as medicine, air traffic, military area, entertainment and more.

Mozilla is dependent on Google

Mozilla recorded revenues in 2007 increased by 12% and were in total 75 million dollars, of which 88 percent are generated by searches in Google, exactly 66 million dollars. Unlike the financial report done for the year 2006, the financial benefits of Google rose by 3%.

At the time of launching Chrome browser, Google announced that it will maintain for another three years marketing partnership with the Mozilla and Firefox. Thus, the agreement between the two companies will end in 2011, not this month as had been originally set.



The report for last year of Mozilla only strengthen the reason for which the company has agreed to extend the agreement: the profit brought by the giant search engine. Space search Google Toolbar Mozilla Firefox brings the company revenue every time a search is performed on Google.

Even if the browser Firefox is successful and used by many people, it is free, which makes Mozilla to be depending on the financial benefits offered by Google.

Some market analysts say that Mozilla has delayed financial report for last year just because they saw the need to make advertising revenue from Google, which only demonstrate that Mozilla is no more a non-profit company.

Stupid Filter for the Internet

StupidFilter project wants to create a filter to detect silly comments from the Internet and to filter, like a spam filter


A group of software developers in the United States aims to fight against stupid comments on blogs and websites by creating a so-called "stupid filter". The project is called StupidFilter and wants to work like spam filters does. Software that will be installed on web servers, would intercept comments published, and if they are deemed not pass a minimum level of intelligence, to reject, with a message to their author, like "This comment is more or less obscurely. Tries to cure him". Comments will be rejected repeatedly until you have a point and an end or until the author or quit.

The authors of the filter, which is of course for English language are currently struggle with defining the rules which it will use. One of the problems is the difference stupidity of irony or sarcasm. "People are smart often ironic," said Gabriel Ortiz, the project leader, who believes that irony and sarcasm may seem, to a computer, as stupid. The project has already identified a series of rules such as using too much or too little capital letters, too many text abbreviations like in SMS-ups or excessive use of abbreviations such as LOL or punctuation. The people who created StupidFilter admit that it is an elitist project, but says that this is precisely the point. The project currently appealing for volunteers (who can register online) who notes taken by the comments on YouTube to help determine a draft set of rules for this filter. StupidFilter will be released as open-source software in the form of plugin for WordPress and Firefox and would be completed next year.

Microsoft support call after 10 years

An American received a call from the Microsoft department support for problem he had 10 years ago



On January 8 this year, Brian, a young American, was notified by his parents that someone from the department of support of Microsoft was looking for him, in order to find out if the issue regarding his computer was resolved.
Intrigued, not only because Microsoft does not call for any problem, but that was searched at home parents, which no longer lived for years, Brian, as it relates in his blog , initially thought it was about someone who claimed it was from Microsoft, wanting to find out who knows what information, a kind of phishing by phone.
Once he verified the telephone number that the people who were calling left to his parents, saw that really belongs to Microsoft, began to think of moments in which he appealed to this support. It was about 3 times in the past 10 years, last 2 cases were resolved the day after the call. Then he remembered the first time had a problem with his PC - something about Windows 95 - and call to Microsoft, while still living with his parents, not received any reply.
Then he realized that the date on which he called Microsoft 10 years ago was on January 7 1998. And he found a possible explanation for the call 10 years later. Likely someone from the support office wrote in the database that the client had to be called the next day, that is on 08/01/98, but accidentally wrote 08/01/08. Where the telephone call of more than 10 years.

If the story is not a farce, and the author insisted that was not, certainly is a very funny, but also very strange story.

The number of PCs that are in use has reached 1 billion

Approximately one of 7 inhabitants of the planet currently uses a PC


According to analysis firm Gartner, the number of PCs that are currently in use (not sold) in the world reached 1 billion and will double by 2014.

Growth will be supported in particular by developing countries, which now represents 42% of this market, but whose contribution will increase in 6 years up to 70%.



In a population recent estimated at around 6.8 billion, this means that on average one of 7 inhabitants of the planet currently uses a PC.

According to Gartner, this growth creates problems to the environment. Only this year will be replaced 180 million PCs, 35 million of them will be thrown to the dogs without measures recycling toxic components and heavy degradable materials from them.