Google TV

Google TV will coming soon. The search giant has reportedly signed a contract with media companies and also the internet to supply the content of these digital TV services.


Quoted by Reuters on Thursday (10/07/2010), a company that has agreed to establish cooperation for Google TV shows including NBC Universal, including CNBC, HBO Time Warner and Amazon.


Others, cable networks company Turner Broadcasting, said Google is currently working to optimize a few websites to be viewed on Google TV, including CNN and Cartoon Network.


While NBC Universal will present access to CNBC financial news shows, and HBO will also be presenting a variety of impressions that are not less interesting.


What about Amazon? Video On Demand service it offers access to more than 75 video titles that can be rented or purchased.There is also offering a service Netflix watch unlimited TV shows and movies instantly.


"We also work with news sites like The New York Times and microblogging service Twitter," Google added in their statement.


Just for information, Google TV presence will be more complete, the Google TV will be launched in the near future. Sony and Logitech remote was already declared their readiness to welcome the service.

The Crystal Cathedral

The Crystal Cathedral is a Protestant Christian church that is super big in Garden Grove, Orange County, California, United States. The church is crowned as the world's largest glass building. the architect, Philip Johnson built this church to use more than 10,000 panes of glass. This church is very big, so able to accommodate up to 2900 pilgrims.

Name Crystal Cathedral, also taken in terms of building a church that is almost the sides are made of sparkling glass, so it looks like crystal.

Glass panels fitted with square-shaped interconnected, it is meant for these buildings can withstand earthquakes up to the power of 8.0 on the Richter scale.

Pink Dolphins..

Pink dolphins, are rare freshwater species, dolphins that make their home in the Amazon River. Beautiful and smart (their brains 40 percent larger than humans), they are the largest among the four species of dolphins are known in the stream.Unfortunately, they are also endangered because of pollution, catching too many fish, and the destruction of their natural habitat.According to National Geographic, about 100,000 of them remain.

Flammable Ice in China

Today China announced the discovery of 350 billion ton of pure Flammable Ice (or better known as Gas Hydrate)
This fuel would be on full production by 2019. China is the third country in the world after Canada and U.S.A to discover Flammable Ice. The fuel is said to be able to last the entire Canada population for the next two hundred years.
Flammable Ice is formed by highly pressured water and natural gas under very extreme low temperature over thousand of years. Flammable Ice is easy to combust and does not emit any impurities when burned.

Microsoft-Windows Phone 7

Buzz word on when Windows 7 Phone launched finally got an official answer from Microsoft. The company, based in Redmond, Washington, United States (U.S.) confirmed it will release the newest mobile OS on October 11, 2010.


Previously, Microsoft really had reported that Windows 7 Phone will glide around October or November, but without giving a definite release date details. Quoted from Softpedia, Monday (10/04), in its website, Microsoft said that Windows 7 Phone will be introduced at a Microsoft event in New York, which took place at the Microsoft Technology Center.


Previous rumors, there is also speculated, that Microsoft is also preparing the launch of Windows 7 Phone in Europe, namely in London, England, whose time is close to launching in the U.S..Another interesting detail, the Microsoft web mentioned also that the operator T-Mobile will be present at the event, not AT & T as the bustling heralded over the years.


As for Indonesia, Microsoft make sure, the launch of Windows 7 Phone in Indonesia will be conducted at the end of November. This was disclosed by Sutanto Hartono, President Director of Microsoft Indonesia, in Jakarta, yesterday evening. The plan, Microsoft will first launch the Windows 7 Phone on October 11 in New York.After that followed the end of the month to Europe and the United States in early November.


Sutanto admit, Microsoft was left in the competition in this sector of mobile devices. In this market, Apple, Android, and BlackBerry are rampant. "So now we want to push anymore," he said.Windows 7 Phone is the successor generation operating system Windows Mobile. For this new system, Microsoft instill the ability to integrate with Xbox Live (networking community of Xbox game console users) and Zune (multimedia player).


However, according to some writers in the technology news site, has ever tested a Windows-based handset Phone 7, one thing is lacking in the operating system, is can not do tethering. Not yet certain whether this feature will be embedded on the phone that was launched later.


Tethering is an effort to make the phone as a modem, to be used by the computer to access the Internet. Android and Palm support this feature. iPhone also, although the service will be charged extra by the operator. Windows 7 Phone mulitasking limited support, such as playing music while running the application.Though some competitors already supports full multitasking.