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U.S. agency uses Facebook as a Job Center

So far, costing Facebook postings like to the job, now is the social network in the U.S. finally get working: The American “Department of Labor,” the support of Facebook has backed to jointly help unemployed people.

Not only make sites like Twitter and Facebook for a new profession , as companies increasingly set social media manager, then make the Americans the power to a portion of their mediation efforts. The office will initially work for Facebook and other social networks such later Twitter clamp and LinkedIn to find for job seekers across the country through employment. The Labor Secretary Hilda L. Solis announced yesterday during a conference organized by the Facebook office in Washington via live stream broadcast.

As part of the ” Social Partnership Jobs ‘various initiatives are being planned. First, we want to spread virally through new jobs across the community – free of course. In September, 103 000 reported vacancies (beyond the agricultural jobs). Which are instantaneously compared to about 14 unemployed Americans. The unemployment rate has reached 9.1 percent, the government statisticians report. Across all sectors is assumed throughout the country about three million jobs that need filling.

Since the situation is so dramatic, wants the new partnership, the topic and further thematize and get private employment agencies, recruiters and other governmental agencies with the network. This includes nonprofit organizations such as the “National Association of Colleges and Employers,” the “Direct Employers Association” or the “National Association of State Workforce Agencies.” Also hoped that Facebook users, who themselves own a company or enterprise, continue to hire some people right over the net.

 

Lenovo Compal joint venture produced from 2012

In about a year in China’s Anhui to the mass production of laptops and all-in-One PC systems start. For the products from the two producers have combined their know-how.

Lenovo and Compal Electronics have over their joint venture built a factory that loose an annual capacity of 10 million units system could lift. The volume is large enough to attract more manufacturers and especially IT-and component suppliers, thus forming in Anhui, a technology cluster could estimate market analysts.

They see this as a deliberate step by the Chinese because they had been in mobile computers in the cold against Taiwan, where some 90 percent of global mobile computers roll off the assembly line. Lenovo and Compal will play the opener, so that a stronger China-based suppliers fancy.

iPads to overtake iPhones in the Web access

US-American users of the Apple – Tablets surf more than users of Apple’s Smartphone, is the new analysis from comScore Web analytics. The website Mashable, which was once set for the description of the mash-up of online applications, reports now on the motto “Everything is growing along with everything” about the increasing change in the Internet access of various devices.

This time, the authors found a remarkable message of the capture web access to ComScore, the general access to the Web by smart phones and tablet describes – this would account for 7 percent of web traffic by now.

Hide in the long ComScore report is worth knowing the details, from the Mashable has fished the big picture. The iPad causing 46.8 percent of web traffic to the IOS devices in the U.S., the iPhone only 42.6 percent, the most important message for the Mashable-writers. The original way of ComSore found numerous other little jewels of information about the global distribution, the user groups, the Einkaufsverhlten and other data for mobile internet use.

PayPal as a central login for online shops

Who shops at different online stores will, in future, according to the will of eBay no longer need to remember numerous log-INS, but can simply log in with access PayPal. The delivery address is the same over with and need not be typed.

At its Innovate Developer Conference 2011 has presented eBay with Paypal access a new service that makes the PayPal login to the central log for other online stores. Shop owners should be able to easily integrate Access PayPal, eBay promises, and thus reduce the barrier to entry for potential customers. Because the need is not in every shop to re-register and type in their personal information but simply log on to the PayPal login – the required information is taken from the Paypal profile, such as the delivery address.

The user can specify exactly which data will be released for a shop and so prevent, for example, to be bothered with advertising shop advertises PayPal for eBay access. In addition, the user does not need to remember numerous passwords. When PayPal Access is available in Germany is not yet clear.

O2 is testing Skype-like VoIP service

With the technology that O2 took over in 2009 with the company Jajah, Telefonica subsidiary apparently wants to make a Skype-like service.

O2 had Jahjah acquired 2009th its technology allows it to operate without installing any software cheap internet telephony. Now, Smartphone users are similar in the vicinity of a wireless network such as Skype users can use the VoIP service.

This is for 207 million U.S. dollars from O2 acquired company expanded since the fall of the daughter, “Telephonic digital,” says our British colleague, Sophie Curtis. The plans of the new business unit, according to the VoIP product “O2 Connect” only for IOS and Android phones to be available. Around 1000 O2 test customers to participate in the field test, the more launch this month.

By installing O2 would prevent telecommunications companies only to “dumb data pipes” for providers such as Skype and Co. were demoted – one has its own service, the competition can be very easy to exclude.

Whether O2 to become serious competitors for the recently acquired by Microsoft Skype may be, is questionable: The Federal Trade Commission FTC in the United States and the antitrust guardians of the EU approved the purchase, Skype is now with a lot of Microsoft trying to cash to keep the competition small.

Skype acquisition by Microsoft is complete

Following the commitments made ​​by the American and European authorities step Microsoft moving quickly to complete the accounting integration of the 8.5 billion dollar purchase quickly.

In May, Microsoft the contract for the purchase of Skype from, now is the integration done. Even if the reader ITespreyo said in a survey, the 8.5 billion purchase price may be too much money for the value of VoIP experts have been, it is still a good investment that Microsoft plays its long sleepy Internet sector.

The concerns raised by competitors were reviewed by the antitrust authorities, and finally laid aside. First, said the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, with the usual lag then nodded and the EU from the transaction.

Now the deal is completed, Microsoft comes forward with an official welcome message. The threaded with the help of the investment group Silver Lake business follow a common goal of Microsoft and Skype: Connecting people all across devices.

Microsoft wants to integrate Skype into its technology in future products, Steve Ballmer said in an inconspicuous clause. Skype recently announced, delivering even 300 million minutes video calls per day – Microsoft is the success message as a graphic in the center of its own integration message, presumably to show how valuable the purchase was.

The official end of Buzz is in sight

The weekend announced the Webkonzern that in a few weeks both buzz and the Buzz API will not continue.

The plans were soaring: Google wanted to emulate the success of Twitter and Buzz put an emerging alternative, however. But the service was never so fully fledged barely lifted off the ground. Therefore, it was actually predicted that Google would move sooner or later the pilot’s license back. Especially since you now with Google + finally show a social network can attract an army of millions of users that could. Now the forces are concentrated (as reported), various services such as notebook, desktop, or pack and terminated their team used specifically for the social network.

“We are focusing instead on Google + “confirms the company’s blog. The shutdown of Buzz is gradual: first, the members will be sometime next month will no longer be able to post new posts. Your existing content they can via Google profiles reached yet. Participants want the buzz of them still retain something that they can Google Takeout use for a download. Google announced in the same breath to even that was planned in January 2012, even Google Labs Code Search to end (as well as API), and Jaiku.

To change “Around the world, one must focus on the future -” and honestly deal with the past, Google is on record. You’ve learned a lot of the products such as Buzz and let his now contribute their experience and knowledge into products such as Plus. In addition, the customer always expects something special from Google yes. Why would they now seek.

Samsung and Microsoft Windows 8 here is the tablet

A Samsung quad core tablet with Windows 8. Windows 8 will not see the light in the next year, but Microsoft has been active in publicizing its next operating system. Samsung is building a tablet optimized for Windows 8. In the meantime, Microsoft is ready to show some aspects of the upcoming Windows 8 to an upcoming event for Microsoft developers (BUILD).

Even if Windows 8 will not see the light in the next year, Microsoft has been active in publicizing its next operating system through the blog Building Windows 8 . The objective of work for Windows 8 is to offer a peaceful coexistence between the tablet and a touch interface for your desktop.

As they become known features of the new operating system also increase the reactions, often negative, developer of the world. The last case concerns the use of the ribbon interface in the Metro user to replace Aero.

Despite the interest ahead of its time demonstrated by Bill Gates for the size of the tablet PC that goes back a Comdex in November 2001, the HP tablet wielded by Steve Ballmer at CES in January of this year 2011 has never seen the light . The arrival of the finished product from here to 12 months will give a competitive advantage that experts estimate that two and a half to Apple and its pad (29 million units sold).

Amazon gives new form to the tablet market

Analysts at JP Morgan indicate that the arrival of a tablet, Amazon could boost the market for tablet alternative to iPad. Market debates the possibility of Amazon’s next tablet as a credible challenge to Apple and its iPad. An analysis of JP Morgan indicates that the arrival of a tablet, Amazon could boost the market for tablet alternative to iPad.

But analysts at JP Morgan bring into account the tablet based on Windows 8 as a platform to challenge iPad launch and on estimates for 2011: 52 million units sold in total, against 46 million last year with a jump of 13 percent. The confirmed approval of the Android-based tablet has already pushed into a corner and RIM’s Blackberry Playbook put an end to the attempt of HP Touchpad.

In 2012, unit sales will be between 72 and 76 million. But “there has not been well iPad another tablet offered in other volumes. We are waiting for the emergence of a clear number two, although this cannot happen before the launch of Windows 8.

“But for the next October-November will be launched by the so-called Amazon Kindle tablet 7-inch color for less than $ 300 in Christmas sales that will challenge the iPad. The OS will be Android. Amazon’s brand and its distribution capabilities in the field can make a difference.

Ericsson quantifies the impact of broadband speeds on GDP

The doubling of broadband speed produces an increase in GDP of 0.3%. The positive effects derive s from simplification and automation of processes, increased productivity and improvement in access to basic services.

Ericsson has conducted a study of 33 countries’ OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development), including Italy, which quantifies the impact of broadband speeds on the economy and shows how to double your connection speed wide-band produces an increase in GDP of 0.3%. Both the availability of broadband is its speed is key factors for the growth of an economy.

Last year, in fact, Ericsson and Arthur D. Little had shown that each 10% increase in the rate of broadband penetration is an increase of 1% of GDP and the creation of 80 new jobs. This growth stems from a combination of direct, indirect and induced effects. The direct effects provide a major impetus to the economy especially in the short term, creating new jobs to build new infrastructure in areas such as construction, telecommunications and electronics, the indirect over the medium term, improving efficiency in the various areas in socio-economic and ‘entire production system.

The induced effect instead is the introduction of public services and advanced business models and processes, which include eg: teleporting and telepresence. It is this more sustainable size, which can be represented by only one third of GDP growth above mentioned.