Ubuntu 'Natty Narwhal' (11.04) - released

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After blogging about Panasonic's lay off announcement, its time to give some good news. Ubuntu 'Natty Narwhal' (11.04) is released! This is the first desktop version of Ubuntu to have Unity Desktop. It is designed to make more efficient use of space given the limited screen size of netbooks, including, for example, a vertical application switcher. Unlike GNOME, Xfce or KDE Plasma Desktop, Unity is not a collection of applications but designed to be used with existing GTK+ programs.

The main feature of the new version is the Unity desktop. It uses a hardware acceleration for rendering and the downside of this is that not all machine supports this rendering technology. Fortunately, Natty Narwhal still have the classic environment "GNOME" and can be activated during the log in.

Another noticeable changed is the music player, Ubuntu used Rhythmbox as the default player, in this new version it uses Banshee.

After I finished downloading my Ubuntu copy, I will test and write a full review about it. If you'd like to test the new version drop by to Ubuntu and download the version 11.04.

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SONY VAIO - 'Freestyle Hybrid PC' and 'Ultimate Mobile PC'

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IT Mobile Meeting in Tokyo - After Sony Tablet S1 and S2, Sony showcased their new upcoming Vaio Laptops. The SonyVaio 'Freestyle Hybrid PC' and Vaio'Ultimate Mobile PC'.

The Sony Vaio 'Freestyle Hybrid PC' is a a combination of a Tablet and a Netbook. It has a slider keyboard to use as a fully functional Netbook.

While the Vaio 'Ultimate Mobile PC' is a lightweight and thin laptop.  The specs for both machine is not know yet. I guess SONY likes to teas us.

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Panasonic will layoff 40,000 workers globally

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After Nokia's plan of cutting off jobs, another company is planning to reduce its global workforce. Panasonic will reduce its workforce, of around 40,000 workers making up 10.52% of Panasonic's total 380,000 global employees due to reconstruction effort, according to Nikkei. The most affected are those outside Japan.

I hope Panasonic have plans for those 40,000 that will lose their jobs. This is has nothing to do with the recent Japan Earthquake. I hope that Panasonic Philippines will not severely affected buy this lay-off especially this hard times.

Source: Nikkei via Engadget

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Nokia to Cut 4000 jobs, Symbian development to Accenture

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Espoo Finland  - Nokia announced a new company strategy that will cut 4,000 jobs worldwide by 2012. The most affected is the Symbian division. With workforce coming from Denmark, Finland and the UK.

Nokia has partnered Accenture to transfer all its Symbian development/activities to this outsourcing company.

The company goal is  to reduce its Devices & Services operating expenses by 1 billion euros for the full year 2013 in comparison to the full year 2010. - Tech Crunch.

I think Nokia will  focus on the future development of Microsoft Windows Phone mobile OS. As Android and iOS dominating the market, this is a bold move from the number 1 mobile producer.

Would MS Mobile can compete with Android and iOS? It would take a year or two to see the real impact of Nokia's - Microsoft partnership.

Read the Full Press Release;

 Source: TechCrunch

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MP3 Tag Editor - Free download of the day

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Mp3tag is a powerful and yet easy-to-use tool to edit metadata of common audio formats where it supports ID3v1, ID3v2.3, ID3v2.4, iTunes MP4, WMA, Vorbis Comments and APE Tags.
It can rename files based on the tag information, replace characters or words in tags and filenames, import/export tag information, create playlists and more.

Mp3tag supports online database lookups from, e.g., Amazon, discogs, or freedb, allowing you to automatically gather proper tags and cover art for your music library.

• Batch Tag Editing Write ID3v1.1, ID3v2.3, ID3v2.4, MP4, WMA, APEv2 Tags and Vorbis Comments to multiple files at once. 
• Support for Cover Art Download and add album covers to your files and make your library even more shiny.
• Import from Amazon, discogs, freedb, MusicBrainz Save typing and import tags from online databases like Amazon, discogs, freedb, MusicBrainz, and more. 
• Replace characters or words Replace strings in tags and filenames (with support for Regular Expressions). 
• Create Playlists automatically Create and manage playlists automatically while editing. 
• Rename files from tags Rename files based on the tag information and import tags from filenames. 
• Export to HTML, RTF, CSV Generate nice reports and lists of your collection based on user-defined templates. 
• Full Unicode Support User-interface and tagging are fully Unicode compliant.

Download MP3Tag Editor: Here

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Windows 8 Build 7955 leak - download via private FTP

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It seems I am late with the news about Windows 8 leak, regardless I am pretty excited with this new version from Windows. If this leak is not intentional or perhaps some good Samaritan was able to crack the golden vault that keeps this Windows 8 precious build we should be thankful because we can have the first taste for the upcoming version from Microsoft.

The latest leak is the Windows 8 Build 7955 Milestone 2 and is available for download at private FTP servers.

    Microsoft Windows 8 (”Windows 8” 6.2.7955.0) (Ultimate) (m2)
    ISO Size: 2.47GB (2,657,079,296 bytes)
    ISO MD5: 40861A02CB14B0D2D7930910DB6CC6E4

    It is now available on the FTP :) Enjoy!

    Notes provided by the leaker:
    You can unlock the following:
    - Ribbon UI
    - Application Folder (now working, in 7850 it was broken)
    - Full DWM (hideblur)

    The following requires the ”red pill”:
    - Webcam
    - Login (that ugly guy with ctrl+alt+del, the fishy wallpaper, pattern login)
    - TaskUI (new taskmanager)
    - PDF Reader
    - Immersive Browser

I do not have the FTP link but for sure we can have the copies soon via bittorrent.


via: Technobolt source BetaArchive

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Google will shutdown GOOGLE VIDEO - migrating all files to YouTube

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Google will shutdown its video streaming service Google Video. As reported before Google encourages its subscriber to either download their personal video or transfer the video to YouTube using the "Upload Videos to YouTube" button.

As engadget reported, Google will do the migration automatically rather than the users themselves. I am not sure why Google encourages first its subscriber to the manual labor despite the fact that they can do the job in a matter of few press of a button.

One main reason I can think of is that they need extra data center to handle the files temporarily. And I guess they found a fast way of migrating the video files to YouTube data center.

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