Microsoft does away with the ‘windows live’ brand

Microsoft has in the night today announced that it abolishes the introduced six years ago, Windows Live brand umbrella. For its Internet and cloud services will continue to establish a single-line and naming.

In an article on the ‘ Building Windows 8 Blog ‘have Windows chief Steven Sinofsky and Windows Live Deputy Chris Jones announced that Microsoft regarding the upcoming launch of the next Microsoft operating system to perform Windows 8 is a simplification and unification of its various brands is.

Cloud services to Windows 8 and Windows Phone ( HD version )

Jones starts by referring to the figures and the success of online services from Microsoft, but admits that it had failed to meet the expectations of a “truly connected experience.” It is located mainly on the fact that the services and apps on Windows Live versions of the Microsoft operating system built that were simply not designed for cloud offerings, but most for online updates.

uTorrent 3.1.3 Build 27 095 – Free BitTorrent client

uTorrent is a good 800 kilobytes rich BitTorrent client for Windows that comes up, despite its minimal size with good facilities. The software was developed to control the operation of the host computer to interfere as little as possible.

The client loads the CPU to a limited extent and usually comes from a few megabytes of memory. But he has all the qualities that makes a good BitTorrent client. He can perform multiple downloads simultaneously and also specify at what time should be used as much bandwidth.

uTorrent

uTorrent will not be installed, but comes in the form of a single EXE file, so that must be executable. These must be in an auto-start installation process of the hook when installing from a directory.

From the changelog for version 3.1.3 build 27 095 shows that the developers of the free BitTorrent client crash issues have made ​​several of the world.

Tuenti stagnate in their growth and the mistakes that companies should not commit

Like every Friday, we go back a week with our summary of Engadget Social Media , with news, stories and advice related to the world of social media. And this time you advance comes cargadito:

As you can see in the picture, Iberia has launched a very useful application for those who use Twitter. Through its website, and check-in online at a given flight, the customer has the option to allow the airline to publish in your profile automatically prompted when you book your trip, when you leave the plane and when you reach your destination.
A few days ago that has published the 4 th Wave Observatory of Social Networks and the report in question have been able to draw some interesting conclusions regarding the use of social networks in Spain and that Facebook is consolidating its dominance while the growth of Myspace stagnates.
This week we also released a very interesting section, which we call Social Media professionals we answer a few questions to help us see where this world will continue to evolve. Genis Roca, Roca Salvatella, was the first to offer their impressions, which you can read here .
Surely more than one occasion has turned to social media to seek support of any brand or product, and surely the care provided has not satisfied your claim, right? Precisely why we told you about five mistakes that companies should not commit to support through such means as 2.0 if you want to convince and satisfy their customers.
Have a business and more than one occasion you ever wondered what is the social network that best fits your needs? We have a complete graphics that precisely answers this question will help you make the decision.
Once you find the best social network for your campaign, careful when turning it on. An oversight could end it before you even start. Is it really so bad? We give an example of a sponsored tweet someone, not to read it twice before giving the green light, wasted.
We talked a while the problem of spam in Pinterest. The popular platform has recently announced changes on this with measures to take to work harder for spammers. So far, these have not been too original, as they have been limited to asking users to report unwanted publicity when they see it. Nevertheless, keep coming praise for this network. In Forbes even go a little further and the value by 7,700 million dollars . Is it really so bad?

Is passively cooled PowerColor HD 7750 in service

With the PowerColor Go! Green HD 7750 is the well-known graphics card maker AMD solutions, its first passively cooled solution of the new HD 7000 officially generation ago. Advise the client does not compromise on the clock rates take into account, as the TDP of the small HD 7700 is well below the 100 watt mark.

With 800 MHz for the “Cape Verde Pro” graphics chip and effective for the 4.5 GHz 1 GB of GDDR5 memory which operates passively cooled PowerColor solution exactly at the level of the reference model of AMD ( Computer Base Test ). Due to the TDP of only 55 watts for the HD 7750 was the model has been expected for some time, but the manufacturer offers and passively-cooled solutions on the HD 6850 and thus a three-digit TDP based ( Computer Base Test ).

PowerColor Go! Green HD 7750
About the pricing of the new solution, the manufacturer is silent on this day of, however, also have had no listing in our price comparison . There, now the Sapphire Radeon HD 7750 Ultimate is acting only as a passively cooled card of this class from 106 € is available. The premium over the cheapest HD 7750 with active cooling is manageable from 15 €, the PowerColor Go! Green HD 7750 should therefore probably end up in similar climates.

This is the new ASUS K55

ASUS is still committed to the design in their new devices, thereby not saying that other competitors do not, but the Taiwanese company knows how to give a touch of distinction to their products. The last thing we have called ASUS K55.

We are facing a 15.6-inch notebook, which include details in aluminum, although the outer shell is still based on plastics. It uses the ASUS IceCool, based on an intelligent arrangement of components, which prevents the heat of the equipment is noticed on the outer surface.

In its release appears Intel Sandy Bridge, but there is no doubt that also come with the latest versions of the American company, the Intel Ivy Bridge . In the graphics, an Nvidia GeForce GT 630M with 2GB of DDR3 RAM.

As you can see in the video, there is room enough for a full keyboard with numeric keypad, and following the trends, the trackpad seems pretty big and has no buttons.

U.S. provider Calyx: No more data for authorities

The U.S. businessman Nicholas Merrill has had enough of the authorities to request information from users where ever operated by the Internet access provider. He now plans to build an appropriate service that offers the highest data protection guarantees.

Merrill has already sought a provider itself. In recent years he was especially concerned to deal with authorities in courts. In this country it is likely some of his lecture on the 27th Chaos Communcation Congress be known, in which he explained how difficult it was for him to be allowed to speak publicly at all about the data requirements under the Patriot Act.

Currently, he is now collecting money for a new project: a non-profit providers, the primary principle of privacy and in which all connections encrypted by default run. For about $ 20 a month will be able to offer Merrill appropriate Internet connectivity and mobile services with high security standards are in the planning, told the U.S. magazine ‘ CNet ‘.

The new ISP will operate under the umbrella of the non-profit institutions Calyx. “Calyx is all legal and technical possibilities to use to ensure the privacy and integrity of user data,” said Merrill.