Saturday, April 24, 2010

Yahoo plans to Q2 to achieve the integration with Facebook and Twitter

7:15 PM by speed ·
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SAN FRANCISCO April 24 message, Yahoo is reportedly planning summer activities to their Facebook and Twitter search pigment products together.

Yahoo community of users will begin within the next few weeks to see each other updates, including news, movies or other content of the idea of Yahoo.

Users starting from May the second quarter of fiscal year Yahoo will begin to see their own contacts in Facebook updates. Soon after, Twitter updates will also be integrated into Yahoo search.

Yahoo has been planned for some time to integrate social networking sites. However, this is the first disclosure of the updated Yahoo specific time.

Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz said in March, including Yahoo intends to YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and Skype co-operation, including social networking sites to more users from Yahoo to a time when social networking sites provide a seamless experience.

Yahoo announced in December last year, Facebook Connect can be accessed through its website. This year in February, Yahoo announced the cooperation with Twitter allows users from the Yahoo home page and Yahoo Mail and Yahoo Twitter sports channel to access personal information transmission.

Yahoo's product marketing manager David McDowell said that Yahoo chose the first integrated with Twitter and Facebook because these sites are "the most relevant services."

Global 2015 is expected to reach 894 million mobile banking users

7:14 PM by speed ·
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According to foreign media reports, over the past year, telecommunications and finance companies are in many important efforts to promote financial services to the banking market is not universal. Asia-Pacific region expected to be the most important regional market; its users are likely to exceed the amount of the global banking half of total users. On the other hand, mobile banking will also be in the banking business to promote the Middle East and Africa play an important role in the process. In Europe and North America, as more and more people use mobile phones access the Internet, mobile banking will be available primarily an extension of online banking. According to Berg Insight predicts that by 2015, Europe's mobile banking users will reach 115 million, North America, subscribers may reach 86 million.

Telecom analyst firm Berg Insight ∙ Marcus Persson stated that from 2008 to 2009, global growth of mobile banking subscribers more than doubled again by 2010 will nearly double. Banking and related financial services provider, the phone has become a major figure of the media. Consumers may purchase the mobile phone is the mobile banking business potential consumers so that they will integrate into the current financial system. Mobile operators in this development can play an important role, but also have the opportunity to actively participate in creating the future in Asia and Africa the most important financial organizations in the process.

In addition to traditional retail banking business outside, Berg Insight's report also noted that the mobile operators, international funds transfer will be their major source of income. At present, the international funds transfer business is largely from a variety of formal or informal agency network processing, 2015, there will be 3-15% of the share of the mobile phone to complete, and its production business income or to reach 12-62 billion.

Google Search one 100 watt bulb power consumption of 1 hour

7:12 PM by speed ·
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"Search Engine" is the word really wonderful. Engine is the engine, you want it started, obviously can not do without energy or power, this is true, the network search millions of computers need to be completed in coordination. Through networking, they are placed in the warehouse into a single computer system. As with any system, the system can not violate the laws of thermodynamics, it will consume energy.

First law of thermodynamics that the work needs to consume energy, such as promotion of small silicon electronics such work as well. The second law states that no engine is perfect. In other words, the input of some energy as heat will eventually disappear.

A successful search results page, need to have these two conditions are clear and orderly. To provide the ideal results, the server group will be too busy to mess. Thermal motion of silicon atoms stirs the air behind the computer CPU support and its heating elements. In order to drive the heat out of computer fans and air-conditioned warehouse, we need to consume more energy. No matter what search, eventually comes down to the same work process: moving atoms and then cooled. All of these steps require consumption of energy.

Let us to Google, for example, to see how much energy consumption of the whole process takes. According to U.S. IT research firm Gart-ner estimates that Google data center with nearly 1 million servers, each server consumes about 1,000 watts per hour of electricity. In other words, Google's search engine consumes 1 million kilowatts hour of electricity. The search engine produces per hour, nearly 10 million search results; the energy consumption of each search can work a 100-watt bulb for one hour!

This result, many people have not heard of. In the United States, Americans conducted 1.5 searches per day. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates that data center energy consumption in the United States, the proportion accounted for 1.5%. If the Americans carried out hundreds of searches per day, this ratio will happen to? If the world's 6 billion people use search services, in turn consume much energy?

We have all heard the view: cloud computing will be the future of information architecture. But the future awaits us, may be a huge "carbon dioxide cloud."

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