CEO de Hulu, les recettes sont plus que doubler cette année

Populaire des États-Unis Web service de vidéo Hulu devrait plus que doubler cette année des recettes de 240 millions de dollars, son directeur général, a déclaré mercredi, une projection de croissance susceptible de créer plus de buzz autour d'une offre éventuelle du public.

PDG Jason Kilar, parlant à San Francisco, a déclaré Hulu livré vidéos à 30 millions de téléspectateurs dans le dernier mois d'une bibliothèque qui comprend des spectacles à succès tels que "The Office" et "Glee". Hulu a actuellement plus de 235 partenaires de contenu, at-il dit.

Extraits du discours de Kilar ont été fournis par la société, qui est soutenu par General Electric Co NBC Universal, Walt Disney Co, Nouvelles Corp et privés de capital-investissement Providence Equity Partners.

Lancé il ya trois ans, Hulu est maintenant le service de vidéo deuxième derrière Web YouTube de Google aux États-Unis. Tous les grands annonceurs des États-Unis 25 ans maintenant exécuter des taches sur le site Hulu, Kilar dit.

Mais Hulu est également confronté à une rude concurrence de plus en plus dans les médias numériques, avec évolution rapide rival Netflix et mieux financée grandes sociétés de technologie comme Google Inc, Apple Inc et Amazon.com Inc faire des jeux dans le secteur de la vidéo en streaming.

Sources récemment déclaré à Reuters que Hulu envisage un effort pour amasser 200 millions de dollars 300 millions de dollars dans une offre publique qui aiderait à financer ses efforts pour étendre et de payer pour les offres de contenu plus. Une telle offre serait la valeur de la société à environ 2 milliards de dollars selon les sources.

Hulu et ses propriétaires ont refusé à tout commentaire sur une IPO possible.

Mais son optimisme des projections financières pourraient augmenter l'appétit des investisseurs pour une vente. L'an dernier, Hulu a affiché des revenus de 108 millions de dollars, donc cette année 240 millions de dollars prévu représenterait un bond de près de 125 pour cent

Un métamatériau flexible qui manipule la lumière visible pourrait conduire à un meilleur camouflage.

Des chercheurs de l'Université de St. Andrews ont créé des fiches d'un métamatériau flexible qui peut manipuler la lumière visible. «C'est une étape très importante vers l'avant», dit Steven Cummer, professeur de génie électrique et informatique à l'Université Duke et de l'inventeur de la cape d'invisibilité métamatériau à base d'abord. "A des fréquences radio, nous savons comment faire un grand nombre de ces choses. Mais aux longueurs d'onde optiques, les choses ont été très limitées dans la fabrication."

Google commencera le blocage de Facebook

Google Inc commencera le blocage de Facebook et autres services Web d'accéder aux informations de ses utilisateurs, en soulignant l'intensification de la rivalité entre les deux géants de l'Internet.

Google ne plus laisser d'autres services d'importer automatiquement des données de ses utilisateurs de contact e-mail à leurs propres fins, à moins que le flux d'information dans les deux sens. Il a accusé Facebook en particulier, de siphonner les données de contact Google, sans permettre à l'importation et l'exportation automatique des informations des utilisateurs de Facebook.

Facebook, avec plus de 500 millions d'utilisateurs, s'appuie sur les services de messagerie comme Gmail de Google pour aider les nouveaux utilisateurs à trouver des amis déjà sur le réseau. Quand une personne se joint, il leur est demandé d'importer leur liste de contacts Gmail dans le service de réseau social. Facebook dit alors l'utilisateur qui est en contact e-mail sont également sur le réseau social.


Dans un communiqué, Google a déclaré des sites comme Facebook "laisser aux utilisateurs dans un cul de données morts." Facebook n'a pas fourni immédiatement un commentaire vendredi.

Photoshop Forensics

New application JPeg Snoop 1.3 promises to be able to analyze open and attempt to decode any file that contains an embedded JPEG image, such as:

.JPG - JPEG Still Photo
.THM - Thumbnail for RAW Photo / Movie Files
.AVI* - AVI Movies
.DNG - Digital Negative RAW Photo
.CRW, .CR2, .NEF, .ORF, .PEF - RAW Photo
.MOV* - QuickTime Movies, QTVR (Virtual Reality / 360 Panoramic)
.PDF - Adobe PDF Documents

and lets the user know if the JPeg has been tampered with. It looks at quantization table matrix (chrominance and luminance), chroma subsampling, estimates JPEG Quality setting, JPEG resolution settings, Huffman tables, EXIF metadata, Makernotes, RGB histograms, and returns a classifiaction for th target image ranging from:

Class 1 - Image is processed/edited
Class 2 - Image has high probability of being processed/edited
Class 3 - Image has high probability of being original -- NOTE: Please see description below!
Class 4 - Uncertain if processed or original

Once JPEGsnoop has determined a match, it will list out several known editors that use this particular scale, as they are all candidates and can produce the same signature.

YouTube Mobilized

YouTube for Mobile's Download Now button links to m.youtube.com, where users can directly download You Tube for Mobile via your mobile browser. The cellphone app is simple, fast, and well-designed application for a variety of Windows Mobile and Symbian phones and supports both landscape and portrait views. Enabling search for videos through the search bar at the top of the screen, or through Top Rated, Most Viewed, or Most Recent categories. The results display in a horizontal ticker, which displays a thumbnail image from each video and shows the blurb and ratings below. The Menu options show a shortcut key to return to the Home page, and a shortcut to search for videos related to your current pick.

YouTube videos loaded quickly and play in landscape mode. Users control the Back button and controls to pause, skip, and adjust the volume; otherwise the video will play full screen. Playback quality varies by device and connection strength. YouTube's videos will chew through data, so having a monthly data subscription is strongly recommended before downloading the application. So long as that applies, any devout YouTube fan with find YouTube's mobile application an easy way to get a quick video fix - although the community aspect and saving favorites are presently missing from this mobile version.

New Laptop for only $20 announced in India

India announced a new Laptop initiative crushing the OLPC program's rock-bottom price of $100 per laptop.
R.P. Agrawal, secretary of secondary and higher education, said last week that the cost of the laptop was about $20 a unit, and that expected that to fall. He also said he expected the units to be commercially available in six months. My suspicion is that the laptop will actually be a Network Node - i.e. not have software embedded, and work in a local "cloud" suitable for Universities or IT networked schools.

New 8 Wheel Electric Cra

NEXT: a four-door eight-wheeled electric car. Called the Eliica and is intended for the consmer market.

The Eliica which stands for Electric Lithium-Ion battery Car - is an eight-wheeled powered by eight in-wheel electric motors producing 60 KW or roughly 80 hp each, the Eliica will accelerate to 60 mph in leunder 4 seconds and is promised to reach 100mph in just 3 seconds more. PRICE: one Eliica for $255,000 pending development sponsorship.

Disposable Email Accounts Made Easy - look Ma I'm melting!

Melt Mail is a new free email forwarding service that lets users create a temporary email address for forw3arding email to their "real" email address. Users enter the email address they want messages forwarded to, define how long they want it to work, and then hit Create. Melt Mail generates a random address suers can register on spam-likely sites so the site's subsequent forwarding will stop. Very simple interface. We can expect an alternate solution from GMail soon!

Speed Typing by Smearing letters on touch-screen

The screengrab (left) shows how to type the word “quick” on any touch-screen device, by tracing the path shown above in a fraction of a second, by roughly aiming to pass through the letters of the word. The intention of Swype is that there should be no need to be very accurate, enabling very rapid text entry. Swype was one of 5 top TechCrunch finalists - and their primary business model is to be OEM licensing.

Sign up here for the beta: http://www.swypeinc.com/beta.html

New nano drug delivery mechanism

The new proposed AdminPatch system is a microneedle transdermal delivery technology that forms hundreds of tiny aqueous channels (micropores) through the skin. Proteins and water-soluble molecules can enter the body through these aqueous micropores. The punch holes or created aqueous channels stay open while AdminPatch is applied through the skin.

The AdminPatch system can be a single-use disposable unit - or a re-useable handheld Applicator. The disposable AdminPatch contains a proprietary microneedle array laminated on a conventional transdermal drug-in-adhesive patch.

AdminPatch is based on the proprietary microneedle shape which has been developed by nanoBioSciences LLC. The proprietary microneedle shape allows continuous delivery of drugs when the microneedle is inserted in the skin. The microneedles are formed from a standard metal film. A conventional transdermal drug-in-adhesive patch is laminated on the back surface of the microneedles.

The aqueous channels formed by the microneedles have a depth of about 100 microns, deep enough to extend through the viable epidermis but shallow enough to avoid the dermis and any pain receptors.

When the transdermal patch is removed from the skin, the micropores simply collapse and the skin barrier repairs itself.

Xobni adds facebook, Yahoo! and Hoovers to Outlook

Xobni (inbox spelled backwards) the powerful Outlook plug-in has just added third party functionaily with facebook, Hoovers and Yahoo. If you haven't tried Xobni already - the Xobni free plug-in adds search and statistical data to your Outlook Mailbox that puts the email application on Steroids. With the new thrid-party integration, Xobni users can search within their Outlook and Yahoo inboxes. Similarly, clicking on a Facebook tab will bring up the most recent updates from contacts who are also your Facebook friends. Hoover, meanwhile, provides data on the company associated with a particular contact's e-mail address. Tabs that do not interest users can be collapsed.
Xobni already had functional integration with Skype and LinkedIn - dated back last July. Here's the download page for Xobni: http://www.xobni.com/download

Wiki for Nano Safety

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced that it is is co-developing a collaborative Website intended to establish standard methods for controlling the environmental, health and safety risks of nanotechnology.

how to make your website iphone compatible - fast!

Intersquash is a new Web application that can make any site iPhone-friendly with a few clicks. Paste in your site's name and its RSS feed, and Intersquash creates custom code that preomises to allow iPhone visitors to browse your original site content in an interface familiar to them. Wathc the demo here:

Intersquash list their technical contact as a Milov Patel based in Delaware, but the demo sounds as though they are based in the UK!