Oct 31, 2011

Special Materials Research and Cost Cheap Preferred Choice

Special Materials Research and Cost Cheap Preferred Choice


Indication of the government increased funding for future research has yet to be seen. Low research activities funds are made from cheap, but bring substantial benefits to society, are preferred.

"Now, scientists, research institutes, and universities should be responsible for sorting out research on a limited budget but made from cheaper and provide maximum benefit to the community," said astronomer from Bandung Institute of Technology, Bambang Hidayat (76), as speakers Guests on the surrender of the 17th Science and Technology Award by the Indonesia Toray Science Foundation (ITSF) in Jakarta, Thursday (10 / 2).

ITSF established companies from Japan. The award is accompanied by research funds of $2500 awarded to nine teachers at the high school level science education. Among the Cece Sutia proposing research the title "Use of Kitchen Equipment and Materials to Demonstrate Scientific Principles in Science".

Grant funds research around $3500 up to $4000 awarded to 15 researchers from various universities and research institutes. The highest award is accompanied Rp 75 million in research funding awarded to Suryadi Ismadji of Widya Mandala Catholic University Surabaya.

Suryadi research proposal titled "Cheap and Utilization of Agricultural Waste Materials for Environmental Management and Other Materials Conversion Has Become The Economist".
"One of them, research it wants to make leather waste cassava (cassava) for activated carbon as a material superkapasitor," said Suryadi.
Superkapasitor required as an element of making storage batteries or electric current. Sawn wood waste and waste distances are also mentioned as an inexpensive material that can be optimized benefits for energy sources.
"This research completely utilize existing resources in the surrounding community so that findings can be applied to communities with innovative raw materials are cheap and available as an abundant agricultural waste," said Suryadi.

Found How To Make Fuel From Vegetable Oil Seed Generator

Found How To Make Fuel From Vegetable Oil Seed Generator


Bintaro tree (Cerbera manghas) is often only used as a mere plant perindang road. Apparently this plant is good also functioned as a drag abrasion resistant to sea because of high salinity. In addition, seeds can be used as biofuels, for example for generator fuel.
 
This technology specifically for remote areas (remote areas), "said Dr. Ir Desrial MEng, Chairman, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Faculty of Agricultural Technology Biosistem at Bogor Agricultural University (IPB), in Bogor, West Java.
 
Remote areas more specifically, according to Desrial, coastal areas are susceptible to abrasion. Areas that can be a small coastal islands and beaches are also a large island.
 
Many causes damage to coastal ecosystems. Policy over the function of lowland forest to oil palm plantation concessions could be the cause.
 
In most of the lowland forests are also peatlands. According Desrial, bintaro tree can grow too well in peatlands.
 
As in the Jambi and Riau communities, coastal peatlands in many participating converted for oil palm cultivation. Some land was also lost eroded abrasion.
 
"Trees bintaro for coastal conservation as well as the seeds contain oil that can be used for substitution of diesel fuel," said Desrial.
 
Cyanide
Bintaro raw fruits bright green. According Desrial, in the fruit raw bintaro no cyanide toxicity, but easily lost unless exposed to sunlight.
 
"Use the old fruit bintaro brownish to take oil from the seeds," said Desrial.
Utilization of fruit bintaro parents can avoid the addition of cyanide poisoning while peeling at once to get the optimum content of vegetable oils. Bintaro oil making process that involves stripping, taking seeds, dried beans, and seeds extracted.
 
"Ekstrasinya the compression process, ie given a certain pressure and temperature so that the liquid oil out of seeds," said Desrial.
 
Liquid as crude oil bintaro. The content of the sap is still high.
To eliminate the sap in the oil, taken by degumming process (removal of gum / sap) is simple. Typically used the addition of phosphate to bind and precipitate thus obtained resin bintaro pure oil.
 
To obtain 1 kilogram of oil it takes 2.9 pounds of pure bintaro bintaro seeds. Bintaro seed as much as it can be obtained from the 36.4 kilograms of fruit bintaro old.
 
"One tree can produce bintaro optimally bintaro 300 kilograms of fruit annually," said Desrial.
Special converter
 
Research bintaro fruit to produce diesel oil substitution was started in 2010. Research aimed at people in the Gulf region Meranti, Riau, which have a source of raw materials bintaro relatively abundant.
 
According Desrial, research originally intended to replace kerosene, but the quality of the oil was almost equivalent bintaro pure diesel.
 
"Oil bintaro ultimately intended for oil generators, electric generating machinery," said Desrial.
Desrial also designing generators with fuel oil bintaro pure. He added a special converter that contains a heating element can be controlled by an energy source in the form of 12-volt battery.
 
"A special converter to increase the oil temperature to 70 degrees Celsius bintaro making it easier for combustion in the gensets," said Desrial.

For the initial lighter diesel generators are still used. The use of diesel is also at a late stage to avoid condensation in the channel bintaro oil genset system is turned off when wanted.
 
Bintaro oil use will help the areas difficult to reach the distribution of diesel fuel. At least, planting bintaro on the beach can also save the environment in order to avoid abrasion.

 

Oct 29, 2011

Germany Launches Super Stealth Submarine First Hydrogen Fueled

Germany Launches Super Stealth Submarine First Hydrogen Fueled


The new German-made submarines U-212 A was almost no noise. Also emit almost no heat radiation and is completely made of nonmagnetic metal.

Although sophisticated submarine is not a nuclear submarine, but also not a diesel submarine. U-212 A is the most advanced submarines in the world because it uses a hydrogen fuel cell developed by German naval shipyard Howaldtswerke Deutsche Werft, which claims that a "top German submarine technology."

Super-stealth ship is the first of its kind to be powered by a revolutionary hydrogen fuel cells that enable it cruises without noise or exhaust heat.

That's important, because, according to Bernd Arjes, a captain in the German Navy. "We operate in coastal waters around Europe and submarines are designed specifically to locate submarines. If you want to find other submarines of course you should not speak out, "he said. With the latest technology, he adds, "The submarine is virtually undetectable."

U-212 A is not like conventional submarines, which need air to burn diesel fuel, fuel cell does not require oxygen to operate.

This means it can remain submerged for weeks - hold my breath many times longer than a cousin who drank diesel submarines.

As a hitter submarine submarines armed with 12 heavyweight torpedo that is guided, each capable of destroying a warship or off an aircraft carrier.

"A carrier may not be tampered with one torpedo but maybe on the wheel or something then the carrier may not be bermanuverdan to use the aircraft," said Arjes.

Germany, which has no nuclear weapons or nuclear-powered ship itself, is the world's third largest exporter of defense goods.

Export Edition has been sold to the navy of Greece, Portugal and South Korea. With automatic device, requiring only minor submarine crew hence there is little comfort for those on board. Even so the life of submariners still remains one of the limited residence

IPB Discover How Making Biodiesel from Waste Liquid Animal

IPB Discover How Making Biodiesel from Waste Liquid Animal


Bio Fuel Biodiesel can be obtained in liquid waste containment of slaughterhouses and livestock wastewater. Researchers from the Bogor Agricultural Institute to prove it. They can obtain one liter of biodiesel crude oil per day from an average of 156 per square meter of area shelters.

Biodiesel is derived from microalgae, says Prof. Suprihatin, senior researcher at the Department of Agroindustrial Technology, Faculty of Agriculture, Bogor Agricultural University (IPB), in his office in Bogor, West Java.

Microalgae is a phytoplankton. Microalgae easily found in various waters. Various types of microalgae widely studied because fotosintesisnya ranks highest efficiency and the ability to produce oil (lipid) is high enough anyway.

Microalgae biomass formation process requires a nutrient (nutrients). These nutrients as fertilizer for plants. An abundance of nutrients can be obtained from slaughterhouse waste and animal husbandry.
"In principle, in any waters provided that absorb sunlight and contain enough nutrients can be grown microalgae," he said.

According to him, domestic waste from households in urban and water from agricultural land also contains many nutrients that are good for breed microalgae.
Quick harvest

Microalgae grow quite fast so it can quickly harvest biodiesel. From research Suprihatin and his colleagues, obtained three types of dominant microalgae grown in medium wastewater from the abattoir and farm. All three were Chlorella sp, Scenedesmus sp, and Ankistrodesmus sp.

"Microalgae began to flourish after the fourth day. Then enter the death phase after 12 days to 15 days, "said Suprihatin.

Suprihatin measure the concentration of the growth of microalgae biomass. In the medium waste from slaughterhouses found growing phase 400 milligrams per liter to the optimum to 1930 milligrams per liter.

In cattle waste medium, the initial concentration of microalgae measured 190 milligrams per liter and is able to develop the optimum up to 2130 milligrams per liter.

Productivity of microalgae was an average of 160 milligrams per liter per day for the media slaughterhouse waste. Then 130 milligrams per liter per day for livestock wastewater media.

For the record, microalgae are grown in ponds reservoirs with a depth of 0.2 meters.
According Suprihatin, the productivity of microalgae in the medium slaughterhouse waste to 32 grams per square meter per day. As for the medium farm wastes obtained the average productivity of microalgae by 26 grams per square meter per day. The allowance for the nutrient phosphorus (P) and nitrogen (N) of growing medium each about 0.32 grams per square meter per day and 3.2 grams per square meter per day.

At the same time occurred the binding of carbon dioxide by microalgae approximately 60 grams of carbon dioxide per square meter per day and release oxygen is 22 grams per square meter per day.

Suprihatin said carbon dioxide-consuming microalgae. Microalgae for mitigating global warming by reducing carbon dioxide emissions as much as possible.

From various data, the count value Suprihatin obtain an average of one liter of crude oil biodiesel can be harvested from an area of ​​156 square meters with 0.2 meters depth pool shelter.
No complicated

Suprihatin said from one liter of crude oil biodiesel can be produced 80 percent of oil biodiesel ready. The process of making biodiesel is not as complicated.

The initial steps is to identify and isolate microalgae. Microalgae Chlorella sp type most rapidly growing than the other two, Scenedesmus and Ankistrodesmus sp sp.

After entering the optimal growth phase, ready for harvest microalgae. Microalgae was filtered, dried, and extracted.

The results of extraction of crude oil that must be separated using the solvent hexane or diethyl ether. Further purification by transesterification process.

This transesterification converts free fatty acids into alkyl esters. Esterification reaction by reacting the crude oil microalgae with alcohol and the addition of acid catalyst.

Suitable catalysts, such as sulfuric acid, hydrochloric acid, organic sulfonic acids, or strong acid cation exchange resin.

"From the transesterification process crude oil by 80 percent this microalgae into biodiesel," said Suprihatin.

Suprihatin said, so far has not gained a real count of production value than the price of biodiesel to conventional diesel or diesel oil. The indication is still above the price of conventional oil.

"There are other advantages that are still to be reckoned with," said Suprihatin.
Another advantage, microalgae never compete with food production. Microalgae undergo a process of growth is very fast and capable mengonservasi water.

The initial investment for clean energy production is not high. But, all depend on the intention and determination to achieve these gains.

Oct 28, 2011

Green Energy in Indonesia are more likely Instead of Nuclear Energy

Green Energy in Indonesia are more likely Instead of Nuclear Energy


Development of renewable energy are currently more likely than nuclear power plants. During a visit to Japan last week, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said Indonesia will not build nuclear power plants as long as there are other energy sources.
"President Yudhoyono is on the right track to choosing a power source other than nuclear power plants," said the Climate and Energy campaigner of Greenpeace Southeast Asia, Arif Fiyanto, in Jakarta.

Arif said the threat of nuclear danger is greater than the benefits. In contrast, renewable energy sources there is no threat. "This is a signal for the government to write off nuclear power development plans and immediately switch on the development of renewable energy sources such as geothermal, solar, and wind," he said.

Nuclear technology expert who has worked at the National Nuclear Energy Agency (Batan), Iwan Kurniawan, said, does not mean the construction of nuclear power plants instead of nuclear experts in the Batan will be unemployed. Nuclear technology still needs serious attention to improving the economy in agriculture and healthcare.

"The problem may be in the budget already allocated Rp 450 billion for the period 2011-2013 to study the location in the Pacific Islands and the socialization of nuclear power plants," said Iwan. Funds amounting to it is put down in Presidential Decree No. 5 of 2010 on National Medium Term Development Plan 2010-2014.

"The fund will be more beneficial to the development of nuclear technology research, including the possibility to develop the capability of producing nuclear power plant components such as casings of nuclear fuel,"  Iwan says

Volvo Electric Car Successfully Develops With Mileage 1000 KM For Once Charging Battery

Volvo Electric Car Successfully Develops With Mileage 1000 KM For Once Charging Battery


Volvo makes a new step with electric car development project "Range Extender" that is able to travel a distance of 1,000 km. This project conducted a Swedish car company because of the limitations of electric cars currently cruising ability is limited. Range Extender is the electric cars equipped with gasoline engines (motor fuel).

According to Volvo, the project received assistance from the Swedish Energy Agency and the European Union. For these three combinations Volve develop concepts and technologies expected to be conducted a trial in the first quarter of 2012.

"This suggests we become more focused in the development of electric cars. During the electric car has limitations, namely the price and size of the battery charge. As a result, be very limited mileage, depending on battery type and size. With the Range Extender, electric cars could effectively increase the distance thousands of miles, but can emissions below 50 g / km, "beber Derek Crabb, Vice President of Power Train Engineering Volvo Car Corporation.

The development brings together three leading technologies of different technologies, 3-cylinder gasoline engine assist electric motor turning the front wheels. All are equipped with a brake energy concept renegeration or brake energy regeneration.

Gasoline engine used can also be given the intake of ethanol (E85). Two concepts tested on the Volvo C30 Electric. For this Volvo must make modifications include reduced battery size so that the petrol engine and fuel tank could be installed without creating new problems.

Concept I: Relationship Series
Using an electric car the Volvo C30. For this use 3-cylinder gasoline engine powered 60 PS (945kW) placed in the rear trunk. Gas tank capacity of 40 liters.

Machine connected to the generator 40 kW. The resulting power is used to rotate the electric motor with a power 111 PS or (82 kW). Penggemudi can also select and use a generator to charge the battery.
In this way, the mileage is also increased when the battery is used to run the car. The total combined mileage is 1,000 km. If only Relying on pure battery energy, about 110 km.

Concept II: Parallel Relationships
Cars get power from the 3-cylinder engine placed behind the gas tank is also 40 liters. The difference with the first draft, this version of the power source is connected in parallel. It is used for turbo 190 PS petrol engine working rotating rear wheels through a 6-speed automatic transmission.

In this way, the efficiency of cars on the highway when it accelerated better. Because the power cars rely on electric power from batteries, gasoline engines are also generated through the generator. For the 40 kW generator is used.

Motor electric motor that is used to produce power 111 PS (82 kW). The second source was the driving force when combined will produce 300 PS and is expected to sprint from 0 -100 km / h in 6 seconds. Range Extender 1000 km, while the battery is only 75 km.

Concept III: V60 Parallel
In this concept, the whole package drive is the front (engine room). The electric motor is equipped with a 111 PS turbo gasoline engine that produces 140 kW of power, transmission otomatid 2-stage and 40 kW generators. Power from the gasoline engine drive the front wheels through a transmission and recharge the batteries when needed.

Up to speeds of 50 km / h, the car always use electrical power. Gasoline engine will work at high speed. In addition, the gasoline engine is also tasked to charge the battery when its energy is below the specified limits.

The battery is placed in the rear trunk and produces mileage of 50 km (energy from the battery alone). Larger tank capacity, 45 liters and is designed to use gasoline and ethanol. Total mileage of 1,000 km.

"Through three projects allows us evaluate the various possibilities Range Extender. Among other electric car C30 and V60 Plug-in Hybrids. The goal, pressing the carbon dioxide emissions without
compromising the needs, comfort and practicality of using the car, "says Derek Crabb.

Volvo is the most complete car manufacturers perform various tests on vehicles made, especially the security aspect. Well, regarding the company's intention to produce electric cars, namely C30 Electric, various tests were carried out.

One of the interesting tests and greatly affect the performance of the battery is cold temperatures. For that Volvo electric car test at minus 20 degrees Celsius. Apparently, according to the company, which made electric car can operate smoothly.

Described, the test temperatures below zero do because Volvo apply the same test criteria with conventional cars it makes. Especially for electric cars, some new test methods were developed so that part is tested to 200 items.

"We must ensure, C30 Electricity still works fine when run, parking and charge the battery on a variety of conditions, from normal to very cold temperatures and hot. Northern Sweden is the most fitting place to do the tests below zero degrees, "said Lennar Stegland, Director of Volvo Cars Special.

Volvo C30 tested with three temperature control system. First use of heating and cooling for the passenger. Second, the use of cooling and heating for the battery (if needed). Furthermore, the electric motor and the "electronic power" or electronic control cooled using water.

Bio-Ethanol Heating
In this test, Volvo says, managed to create innovative solutions, which makes heating without sacrificing battery performance (mileage). For this, Volvo uses bio-ethanol heater mounted on the car.

Tank used to carry 14.5 liter bio-ethanol.
Utilizing these heaters can also electricity from the battery. In electric mode, use immersion heaters, which warm air in cold temperatures. "Motorists can memogram and control the temperature control unit in accordance with the conditions of his journey. Heating ethanol is the basic mode. In this way mileage vehicles with batteries farther away. For short distances, can operate the temperature control system to obtain electrical energy from the battery, "explains Lennart Stegland.

Battery charging system with no wired or wireless (wireless), it could be without plugs or stekker for hybrid electric cars and plug-ins, car manufacturers are increasingly in demand world. If previously, Toyota has been proclaimed in collaboration with WiTricity (U.S.) to develop a wireless charging system, now turn to Volvo in collaboration with the Belgian company.

This method is considered more comfortable and enjoyable. Because the owner did not bother rolling up the cable car after filling or manarik when going to plug it into the socket. The latest version - is actually still in the stage of development - which will be filled car parked on the plate battery charger (charging plate) that is hidden under the floor or road surface.

Wireless charging developed in collaboration with Volvo Drive Flanders from Belgium - the system induction. With this system, electrical energy is transferred from the source to the car charger without cables. In this way, changes or modifications to the charging system in the car.

"The main target should be fun electric car owners," explains Johan Konnberg, project manager of the Division of Special Vehicles Volvo Car Corporation. In this project Volvo C30 uses electricity to dimofikasi first filling the system.

How it Works inductive charging, the charger plate implanted under the ground, eg below the surface of the road to the house or in the garage. Charger plate consists of a coil that generates a magnetic field when energized by electrical current.

Well, when the car is parked on it, the energy of the plate was transferred to without physical contact to coil "puller" induction on the car. Flows transferred in the form of alternating current (AC).
Later in the car, an electric current is converted into direct current (DC) through a converter to charge the battery. Special to the Volvo C30 Electric, reaching 24 kWh battery capacity, takes about an hour an hour and 20 minutes for full charge.

Added, Volvo will send 250 electric cars to selected customers in Europe in the second half of this year. This is a step to accelerate the use of electric cars to choose!

Oct 27, 2011

How to Make Biofuel from Newspapers and Magazines Used

How to Make Biofuel from Newspapers and Magazines Used


SOME scientists at Tulane University in New Orleans had perfected strains Clostiridium named TU-103. Microbe is the first of its kind capable of performing the synthesis of butanol from cellulose.
Microbes TU-103 can process various kinds of plants and plant products and turn it into butanol. In other words, these microbes have the ability that one of them able to turn a pile of old newspapers into fuel.

TU-103 was discovered by David Mullin, a professor in the department of molecular cell biology and Tulane University with a postdoctoral Harshad Velankan Hailee Rask and students who worked for over two years.

The team tested the microbes in the middle of bagasse, the fibrous waste material generated during harvesting.

"Cellulose exist everywhere: paper, grass, leaves, corncobs, corn stalks and agricultural waste. These items are available in a large scale because of the stem and ear of corn is generally discarded as waste, "said Mullin.

"The results of the present invention can produce bio-butanol at a cheaper cost that can save fuel costs per gallon. As a fuel, bio-butanol made from cellulose which dramatically lowers carbon dioxide emissions than gasoline and has a positive impact on waste landfills.

Compared to ethanol, butanol is a better product. It utilizes waste material from existing products. Not made from crops grown specifically to make bakar.Butanol material has an energy content that is almost equivalent to gasoline, but with much lower emissions.

Professor practitioners in the department of earth sciences and environmental Tulane University, Jeffrey Sigler said, "Biofuels such as butanol, is generally better for air quality than petrol. This material has a much cleaner burning. "

"If agricultural waste can be recovered into raw materials for biofuels, it seems this could be a very important step forward in reducing CO2 emissions from various types of fuels, while minimizing the impact of land use," he added.

Amazingly, butanol does not require special modification for use in combustion engines that exist today in order to function as a fuel. It is therefore natural that Mullin had great hopes on the TU-103 and butanol as a fuel of the future.

Google Exec Says Facebook Overshares

Google Exec Says Facebook Overshares 


Google's arch of amusing had some aciculate words for Facebook while speaking Wednesday at a tech conference, area Google co-founder Sergey Brin aswell showed up as a abruptness guest.

Vic Gundotra, Google's top controlling for amusing products, and Brin talked mostly about the company's Google+ amusing arrangement during a altercation at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco on Wednesday.

"We wish to do amusing in a way that is added like absolute life," Gundotra said. "So I anticipate you're traveling to see us demography a actual privacy-centered approach."

Conference adjudicator John Battelle asked Gundotra what he anticipation of "the accessible amusing graph" -- that is, Facebook.

"There is a acumen why every anticipation in your arch doesn't appear out of your mouth," Gundotra replied. "We do not accept in oversharing. We anticipate curation matters."

Brin alleged himself "not a actual amusing person," but -- shocker! -- "Google+ I instantly begin compelling."

Brin talked up Google+'s "Circles" feature, in which the network's 40 actor users can put their access into altered groups and accept with whom they'll allotment their activity.
"At aboriginal I begin Circles complicated, but now I adulation them," Brin said.

But not anybody loves Google+. Battelle asked about a leaked memo, acquaint in Google+ itself, in which aggregation architect Steve Yegge accidentally acquaint accessible complaints about the amusing arrangement and how it was launched -- and Google's administration style.

"I mean, we never like to see that," Gundotra said. "But it gave humans a appearance of what we do internally. Within the Google family, we are actual honest. And analytical about our efforts."

Google (GOOG, Fortune 500) didn't blaze Yegge, Gundotra said, abacus that the aggregation took the attitude that "the alfresco apple got a blink at what it's like to plan at Google."

Brin backward mostly quiet on the subject. "I didn't accomplish it accomplished the aboriginal 1,000 pages myself," he laughed.

Brin's new role: Brin, who stepped down from his role as Google admiral in January and is now artlessly "co-founder," said he's been blessed in his new atom and enjoys the adventitious to analyze "more abstruse work."

Brin accustomed that some of Google's "products and casework can assume broadcast brandwise. But we've consistently run the aggregation as 'let a thousand flowers bloom.' But already [they] do bloom, you wish to put calm a articular bouquet."

An admirers affiliate asked whether Google's action will change if and if the Motorola Mobility (MMI) accretion goes through, but Brin ducked the question, deckling to animadversion while authoritative approval of the accord is still pending.


source : cnn.com

Oct 26, 2011

HP and Dell Ultrabooks

HP and Dell Ultrabooks


Hewlett-Packard and Dell will access the Ultrabook bazaar next year, Intel's CEO told Fox Business today. He aswell said he was "stunned" by above HP CEO Leo Apotheker's advertisement that the aggregation was cerebration about spinning off its PC business.

Speaking to Liz Claman of Fox Business Network, Paul Otellini said that all above PC companies will eventually accept Ultrabooks--the ultrathin Windows laptops that attempt with Apple's MacBook Air.

"All the above brands. Going into next year, you'll see new designs appear out from Dell and HP," he said. "And again if we acquaint Ivy Bridge, our next processor, there's 60 added designs are advancing out."

Then, if Windows 8 is appear next year, amalgam Ultrabook designs will emerge, he said. "When Windows 8 comes out, you'll see amalgam models that accommodate the functions of a anthology and a book into a individual device," he said.

Otellini aswell responded to a catechism about above HP CEO Leo Apotheker's advertisement to possibly circuit off its PC business aback in August. "I thought...What is he thinking? I achievement that they adjudge to break in the business," he said.

Otellini adumbrated that HP may be cutting itself in the foot.

"Print and ink is such as an important allotment of HP. And over time, all of us are press beneath stuff. Added and added humans are [using] agenda images," he said. "So, to leave agenda customer electronics would, to me, be a actual aberrant accommodation to make. If your accomplished business archetypal is angry up in imaging."

And he'll accept an befalling to acquaint HP's new CEO Meg Whitman a lot added after this week. Otellini said added he will be affair with Whitman on Friday.


source : cnet.com

Microsoft Answer Addition Bid For Yahoo

Microsoft Answer Addition Bid For Yahoo


Microsoft is reportedly gearing up for addition bid for Yahoo.

The software behemothic is alive with private-equity close Silver Lake Ally and one of its investors on a angle to buy Yahoo, according to a Wall Street Journal address that cited humans accustomed with the matter. The ally and different banks would advice accounts the purchase, but Microsoft would put up the lion's allotment of the money, sources told the newspaper.

However, that amount would a lot of acceptable be abundant lower than Microsoft's antecedent action for the Web pioneer, in which the software behemothic in 2008 offered aboriginal $31, again $33 per allotment for Yahoo--only to be abundantly rebuffed by administration and co-founder Jerry Yang in a abiding accumulated battle. Yahoo shares bankrupt today at $15.94, up 47 cents, or 3 percent.

Earlier this week, Microsoft continued the acquirement guarantees it had originally fabricated in a 2009 seek pact. That account came in affiliation with Yahoo's third-quarter results, which delivered a admeasurement of acceptable banking account for the company.

Yahoo's lath has been beneath burden back battlefront Chief Executive Carol Bartz endure ages in what critics say was a too little, too backward move in ablaze of the company's brackish banal price, top agent abrasion rate, and bane artefact development efforts.

Despite its problems, Yahoo has been alluring a lot of absorption from accessible suitors. Those said to be absorbed in demography over Yahoo cover adventure backer Andreessen Horowitz and adolescent dot-com wunderkind AOL.

Adding to the artifice is a address that Yang is searching to yield the aggregation clandestine in an disinterestedness accord that could see Yahoo affairs off its all-embracing assets, paying off debt, and again absorption on its U.S. operations.


source : cnet.com

Oct 25, 2011

Yahoo Profits Down But Shares Aces Up

Yahoo Profits Down But Shares Aces Up


Troubled internet behemothic Yahoo appear a 26% abatement in balance on Tuesday as it appear its aboriginal after-effects back battlefront arch controlling Carol Bartz.

The aggregation appear that balance had alone to $1.07bn, from $1.12bn a year ago, but the amount was not as bad as investors had feared and the firm's shares rose in after-hours trading.

Yahoo acquaint a accumulation of $293.3m, or 23¢ a share, down from $396.1m, or 29¢ a share, a year earlier. Analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters had predicted a per-share balance of 17¢.
The aggregation is still one of the better draws on the internet. Yahoo said it expects acquirement of $1.13bn to $1.24bn in the next three months, excluding traffic-acquisition costs.

Bartz was ousted in September afterwards her affairs to about-face the aggregation about bootless to yield off. The aggregation has bootless to accumulate clip with commercial advance at rivals Google and Facebook. The approachable arch emailed agents cogent them of her dismissal, and after told Fortune annual Yahoo had "fucked me over".

After Bartz's dismissal, the close appear a cardinal review. Bankers accept been appointed to complete out abeyant buyers.

Among those who accept declared an absorption or are appear to be searching Yahoo over are Microsoft, which launched a $44.6bn adverse bid for Yahoo in 2008. Yahoo, which is now admired at $20bn, is aswell getting targeted by Jack Ma, arch controlling of Chinese internet aggregation Alibaba, which is 40% endemic by Yahoo.

Interim arch controlling Tim Morse said he would not animadversion on the accompaniment of the cardinal review. "The lath is actively searching at the abounding ambit of options accessible to acknowledgment the aggregation to a aisle of able-bodied advance and industry-leading innovation," Morse said in a appointment call. "The lath aswell has said that if it has something to announce, it will do so.

"That will yield time. It will not be today, and not on this call."

Yahoo continues to lose visitors to its rivals. According to bazaar analyst ComScore, Yahoo accounted for 9.9% of the time spent by US web surfers online in September, while Google had 10.2% and Facebook had 14.7%.

Yahoo appear that its affectation ads business was collapsed at $449m compared to a year ago. Yahoo's allotment of affectation ads – a key indicator of the company's bloom for analysts – is set to abatement this year, according to Emarketer. Emarketer is admiration Yahoo's allotment of banderole ads will be 13.1% this year in the US, down from 14.4% endure year. Facebook's allotment will ascend to 16.3%, up from 12.2%. And Google should accept 9.3%, an access from 8.6%.


source : guardian.co.uk

Oct 24, 2011

Get Buy Apple-like our family

Get Buy Apple-like our family


Microsoft isn't bisected as bad as it sometimes makes itself out to be.
Within its abounding bosoms there adumbrate fine, even innovative, products. It's just that somehow, some of those products--like Xbox and Kinect--have been kept a little separate. So that you don't anticipate they're from the big, bad atrocious Microsoft.

Now, the wolf wants you to accept that he absolutely is Red Riding Hood. He absolutely is a beautiful little pet for all the ancestors to pet and play with. And he has so abounding fangs to his teeth. You know, like Apple. Microsoft absolutely does accept an ecosystem. In some ways, it's even added extensive than Apple's. It's just that Microsoft has never fabricated its ecosystem so friendly.
Hark, then, new ads from Microsoft that try to advertise you on application the accomplished Microsoft ecosystem. All in one evening, preferably.

In the aboriginal ad, which launched endure night, there's a dad authoritative himself attending like he's absolutely abandoned the mortgage is beneath baptize while he's adequate Dance Central 2 on an Xbox 360/Kinect combo.

Before you apperceive it, blur of his achievement wafts to a accomplished Windows PC, where, acknowledgment to Microsoft's Windows Movie Maker (I didn't apperceive there was one), it wafts assimilate the Web and completes the embarrassment--for the Dad, not for Microsoft.

"It's a abundant time to be a family," declares the ad. It a lot of absolutely is. Indeed, added and added adolescent humans are affective aback in with their parents because, well, they don't accept things like money to buy the latest Xbox 360 and Kinect.

Yes, Occupy Home Street is allegedly accepting momentum.
The additional ad in this new Ancestors alternation offers an altogether added absorbing section of casting. A admirable banal boy with glasses tries to explain to his parents why the ancestors should accept a dog. Because he is a admirable banal boy, he gets out his Windows PC and makes a PowerPoint presentation.

This is avant-garde ancestors life. Although, as I recall, on Avant-garde Ancestors amoroso coveted an iPad.

Microsoft continues its adventurous (if awful belated) attack to brainwash itself into animal affecting systems. These ads are pleasant, blue-blooded efforts. Microsoft care to accept added pride in its whole, absolute accumulating of artifacts.

The affair with the abstraction of family, though, is that it's accepting a little outdated. For I am told by demographers that a simple 22 percent of U.S. households are headed by affiliated couples with accouchement adolescent than 18.


source : cnet.com

Microsoft says that "touch-screen '. for each surface

Microsoft says that "touch-screen '. for each surface


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Microsoft Research is the introduction of technology that turns any surface into a touch-screen user interface on a symposium this week in Santa Barbara, California

Username OmniTouch is a portable system that allows multi-touch input "random surfaces every day, " says the description of a Web page from Microsoft Research.


" We desirable to offer in the vast area in the real world use" , Hrvoje Benko of Natural Interaction Research Group at Microsoft told.

The technology combines a laser pico projector and a camera depth sensing device in this camera as opposed to Microsoft 's. for the Xbox 360 Kinect. But it is likely to operate at short range.

The camera is a prototype of the first importance. If the camera and projector are calibrated to each other, the user may wear and start using the system, Microsoft told.


Key analysis challenges included defining to the arrangement what fingers attending like; the angle that any apparent is potentially a projected apparent for blow interaction; and audition blow if the apparent getting affected contains no sensors--according to Chris Harrison, a Ph.D. apprentice at Carnegie Mellon University, who alternate in the activity and wrote about the research.

Presumably a consumer-friendly arrangement wouldn't crave the beefy accoutrement that alone a accustomed propeller-head would be audacious abundant to abrasion in public.

The activity is getting apparent during UIST 2012, the Association for Computing Machinery's 24th Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, getting captivated October 16-19 in Santa Barbara, Calif.

source : cnet.com