Technology Unleashed

Oracle announced a new migration tool that extends the MySQL user in the operating environment of Microsoft Windows, allowing them to move from Microsoft SQL Server to MySQL. New plug-in software module MySQL for Excel also allows analysts to access and manage data stored in MySQL, the application Microsoft Excel without the need for prior technical development MySQL. Also available for download tool setup MySQL Installer for Windows, which helps users to configure advanced features of information security and logging, and a new application platform MySQL Notifier for Windows, which allows users to monitor and manage server instances MySQL.

New migration tool, which is integrated in the MySQL Workbench, which allows visualization of the design, development and administration of databases MySQL, now provides a complete solution for the migration of tables and Microsoft SQL Server database to MySQL with less time and effort. using MySQL Workbench, SQL Server developers and DBAs can convert existing applications to use MySQL as the platform of Windows, and other operating platforms. improved installation tool MySQL Installer, allowing users in most cases go from download to develop within three minutes or less, with operations provides "point-and-click" («point-and-click to choose") to configure new instances of the database MySQL, and configure advanced features security and logging.

New tools will be demonstrated at the upcoming two-day conference MySQL connect Conference, to be held September 29 and 30 in San Francisco.

Hitachi showed a prototype experimental data storage in digital form, relying on a carrier such as silica glass. According to the developer, the new storage technology saves the information in its original form "hundreds of millions of years." On the eve of a research unit showed Hitachi storage solution that includes a square glass area of 2 sq cm and a thickness of 2 mm, which can be up to 40 megabytes of data. In terms of density per square inch novelty almost complies with the standard CD.

At Hitachi said that data is written in binary format using the so-called laser points, located in the quartz glass with four layers. Engineers say that the glass is easily possible to add additional layers, increasing the recording density. "The volume of data generated every day are growing, but today there are almost no solutions that can save the information at least a couple of generations to come. This must be rewritten to newer media. Recently, the industry really was a problem of long-term data storage. Modern CD and film system can store data at best a few decades, and in most cases they can not store data longer a dozen years, "- says the engineer Hitachi Katsioshi Tory. According to him, the new system is writing data, heating quartz glass with a thin laser to 1000 degrees for two hours, then this carrier are not afraid of any radiation, nor water, nor the majority of chemicals, and the recorded data can be read, even after hundreds of millions of years. "This glass will hold it for as long as you do not destroy them physically," - says Tori. engineer says that another advantage of the new design is the method of writing data. It is a simple binary sequence, which can be considered not only with special equipment, but in an ordinary microscope.

Earlier in space on Voyager vehicles were sent gold discs containing basic data on human civilization. And experts from Cornell University, USA, published a study which said that the average life species on Earth is 10 million years old, so new media in theory could leave data on people even after the disappearance of the latter with the Earth.

YouTube is working on promotion of own resources of a global audience. This time the company initiatives aimed at promoting the video of the audience who do not speak English, which is currently most downloaded movies.

Today, YouTube announced the possibility of transferring videos to more than 300 world languages. "Audience YouTube globally is growing, but not all of them speak the main language group and not all speak English," - said YouTube product manager Jeff Chin.

YouTube has two types of translators: the first - this is the usual Google Translate, which allows translated subtitles and video description for 60 languages, and the second - is Google Translator Toolkit, which allows you to put the video itself. The latter operates under Video Manager, available in the administrative interface.

According to the latest statistics, the monthly audience of YouTube now reaches 800 million people, 70% of them live outside the United States, about 43 countries.

China will become the world's largest technology power by 2049 and a leader in innovation and technological progress. This is said in a public statement today, the Chinese government document on deepening the reform of scientific and technical system and accelerate the steps of creating a national system of innovation. In this document, the CPC Central Committee and the State Council put forward ideas for the implementation of the State medium-and long-term program of scientific and technical development for 2006-2020.

According to the document, the country needs more efforts to deepen the reform of the scientific and technological system and accelerate steps to establish a national system of innovation in order to lay the foundation for the transformation of the country into the global technological power during the celebration of the centenary of the founding of New China in 2049. share of cash funds for research studies in the total GDP of the country should reach 2.2% in the 12-th Five-Year Plan (2011-2015 gg.), and more than 2.5% in 2020, according to the document, and the average level of investment for large and medium-sized industrial enterprises in the field of research and development to increase to 1.5% of their income during the 12th Five Year Plan. It is also necessary to speed up the development of strategic new industries, such as energy-saving and environmental sphere, a new generation of information technology, bioengineering, advanced production equipment, development of new energy sources, indicated in the document. value added products of strategic new industries to be approximately 8% of total GDP by 2015 and 15% in 2020, according to the document.

According to the Guardian, Iran to completely block access to sites google.com and gmail.com in response to placement on YouTube anti-Islamic video, provoking protests from around the world. "Google and Gmail will be filtered through the existing system in the country firewall until further notice," - said Abdolsamad Horamabadi, the Iranian government department responsible for online censorship and computer crime investigation.

According to him, this decision was taken after the religious majority in the country has put pressure on the authorities because of anti-Islamic video. Iranian media claim that although the authorities and are going to resort to such drastic measures, many of today's ordinary Iranians movie "innocent Muslims" do not touch them. As of midnight Monday access to Google c Iran was still open, but there was some Access to your email Gmail, as some local ISPs have blocked or partially restricted locally. Upgrading from 12:30 MSK: Google has announced that Iran has restricted access to your email from Gmail in the country. According to the monitoring Google Transparency Report, is currently understood about the total blocking Gmail not, many users of the service in the country report problems with access.

Note that in Iran Gmail is used not only as a consumer service or solution for communication of the political opposition, but also as a means of communication for local businesses. Recall also that Iran permanently banned from Facebook and Twitter.

This large-scale composition collected from innumerable elements constructor does not perform any application tasks. They only move through a variety of conveyors tiny basketballs and soccer balls in a closed circuit. It looks, however, is very impressive. To create a creative take about two years.

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Japanese engineers from three universities have developed a new system for charging mobile phones with hydrogen. The generated hydrogen cell is a compact device with a fairly high output power, hydrogen produced from raw materials. Inside the fuel cell are thin sheets based on calcium hydride, which in contact with water, react with the release of electricity. According to engineers, create a completely eco-friendly and allows you to charge from one plate to 2-3 cellular phone, ensuring the generation of electricity for five hours .

Strictly speaking, to use hydrogen fuel cell can not only to charge the batteries, but also as a source of autonomous power for any electronics that does not require a current capacity of 200 watts. Japanese experts say that during the chemical reaction so-called gidrosinteza emits no harmful dispose of waste materials and power supplies can be in normal household waste. Supplied to specialty laminated shell that allows you to store a charge for 20 years, despite the fact that modern batteries lose power in 4-5 years from the start of use.

Developers say that before they released similar fuel where as the main element not used calcium hydride and magnesium hydride. However, as shown by experiments, the latter allows for a more stable reaction to generate electricity, but also to generate a given amount of electricity requires less of the original component. commercialize new "hydrogen battery" experts plan in 2013. Showing the development planned at CEATEC in Japan (in October) and in Germany at Electronica in Munich (in November).

The company Apple, previously sued Samsung Electronics in the U.S. 1.05 billion dollars, said that a record amount of compensation awarded to her by a jury, is not enough. On Friday evening, the District Court of Northern California received a new claim on the apple company lawyers, who said they initially missed losses put the South Korean manufacturer and Samsung now require a payment of $707 million.

In a statement Apple said that 535 million dollars to be pay in addition for "repeated and deliberate" violations in the field of design, while another 121 million dollars - in compensation for the forced partial suspension of sales during the trial. Additional $50 million in Apple requires as compensation for legal costs.

Apple requires that these amounts were paid by 31 December. But that's not all individual claim (other than $707 million) Apple requires that Samsung has 155.8 million dollars in compensation for violations in five products for which the jury jury calculated the loss at a rate below the formula adopted for the calculation of other gadgets.

Finally, Apple has demanded a new process for calculating damages associated not with the tablet Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, and from its packaging and its design, which Apple also said copies packing iPad.

    

Oracle Corporation today announced that its results for the first quarter of fiscal year 2013 was below expectations due to the continued decline in sales of hardware, the increasing costs of the transition to cloud computing, and to strengthen the dollar . in the quarter ended August 31, Oracle sales decreased by 2.3% to 8.18 billion, operating profit of 53 cents per share. Wall Street analysts expected the Oracle sales at 8.42 billion dollars and earnings of 53 cents. At the same time, the situation in the company would be even worse if it were not previously made ​​buying companies and RightNow Technologies Taelo, that have improved the software sale and pick up the first traditionally weak.

However, even the growth in this area was not able to block the fall in the direction of hardware sales, which is the sixth consecutive quarter of decline. predicts Oracle, the current quarter results will remain the same, plus or minus 4% in either direction. Operating income in the current quarter will be 59-63 cents. Wall Street analysts expected an operating profit of 61 cents per share. in fiscal first-quarter net income rose 11% to 2.603 trillion dollars, or 41 cents a share, from 1.84 billion dollars a share a year earlier. At the same time, sales of the company in the hardware segment totaled 779 million dollars, which is 24% below last year's total for the same period. Analysts had forecast a fall, but they expect that it will not exceed 14%. "

The actual drop is greater than the forecast and it says that the company has no clear plan to support the hardware business , "- says Brent Thill, an analyst at the bank UBS. itself in Oracle say that promote sales hayend system Exadata and Exalytics, based on processors Intel. According to Oracle president Mark Hurd, the sale of these systems during the year more than doubled. However, sales of SPARC-servers in the line Oracle still look very weak. During the reporting quarter, Oracle has also changed the licensing and reporting of new software licenses. Rather than consider selling databases, middleware and applications, the company now considers cloud subscription and a new single license to use the product. Sales of new software licenses for Oracle in the quarter rose 5.1% to $ 1.6 billion.

Note that from September 30 to October 4, Oracle will hold its traditional annual conference of the Oracle World, which will present new developments in the year ahead. It is expected that the conference Oracle head Larry Ellison will present the new flagship product Oracle Database 12c, which will include the design and technology to work with cloud services. Previously, the company said that the presentation of 12s in October, while the customer a product available only by February 2013.

Together with the mobile operating system iOS 6.0, Apple has also released an update for its desktop Mac OS X 10.7 and 10.8. Desktop versions of the traditional systems were bugfix, some changes in programs aimed at improving the stability, better integration with Facebook, support released iOS 6.0, as well as cloud service iCloud.

Version Mac OS X 10.7.5 includes a Gatekeeper, a new security feature that helps to protect your Mac from malware, providing greater control over the software, install it on your computer. According to the description of the Apple, version 10.7.5 has also received:

• Resolution of the problem, leading to a possible change in your arrangement Launchpad restarted.
• Improved reliability when working with Wi-Fi on the iMac (release late 2009 or newer).
• Troubleshooting problems with the use Spotlight to search your SMB-server.
• Improve compatibility when connecting to servers Active Directory. And others.

Much greater list of innovations the company has prepared for Mac OX 10.8.2. This update was the second in July of this year, when it was released on Mountain Lion. It declared the possibility of a unified identity with Facebook, Facebook contact system is now integrated with the contact system in the Mac OS, and notifications from Facebook are now available in the heart of operating system updates.

As for innovations in Game Center, here there is support exports account sotseti popular games, as well as the ability to search through the Facebook Game Center. Among other new features can provide support for Power Nap for MacBook Air, Software Integration Passbook in iOS 6.0, including the ability to add maps. Version 10.8.2 also received support of the Chinese blogging service Sina Weibo.