Significant demand for Windows 8 demo

Witnessed the trial version put forward by the U.S. software company Computer giant Microsoft last Tuesday of the new operating system Windows 8 and a high demand of users who have started to download this version to be used, which promises great success for this release.

The company's chief executive Steve Ballmer that during the first 24 hours to put this version was downloaded 500 thousand times, and added Ballmer told a conference of software developers in the "Anaheim, California" The initial response has all that "we had hoped." Palmer added that "Windows 8 is an important step is reshaping the Microsoft."

He described the Sector Manager, Windows, Microsoft Stephen Sanowski Windows 8 as the most significant update to Windows since Microsoft introduced technology and desktop mouse and the user interface depicted in Windows 95.

It is expected to put the new system on the market in 2012 to replace the system and Windows 7, one of the most successful operating systems in the history of Microsoft, having sold 450 million copies of it almost since its inception.

Analysts say that Windows 8 will be a vital development for the future of Microsoft and its only chance to narrow the gap with rivals such as Apple and Google, which occupy a large share of the market for the Tablet PC.
The new system is designed to work with the same efficiency with the PC and the Tablet PC in an attempt by the computer software empire to face the growing competition posed by the iPhone and any devices produced by Bad Apple rival.


Source: de NBA

Fantasy and reality Car Fair in Germany

First electric car from Opel bilateral seats a maximum speed of 120 km per hour (German)

125 years after the invention of the automobile for the first time, they re-discover herselfagain, and adapt to the circumstances of the times, which will become a very busyroads in addition to the scarcity of natural resources and increasing environmental pollution.

  It seems evident to visitors to the Frankfurt International Motor Show, which holds itscurrent slogan "technologies of the future will become standard equipment."

And where the visitor is over his face in the corridors of the Frankfurt show, he findsmany of the models are far or near future based on clean energy, snaking roads and goquietly into the city without the noise.

Any tour of the exhibition halls to support the impression that the era of electric cars has already started, you can hardly find a car company did not provide battery-poweredmodels or during their participation in the activities of the Frankfurt International.

Mercedes-Benz test (German)


FormsStand many of the electric car displayed a few steps away from entering into the stage of record production.
For example, Mercedes-Benz presented the third generation of electric Smart car, which will go on sale in the markets over the next year.
The company is Volkswagen German customers offering an electric car model in addition to the launch of small battery-powered model of the famous golf car. Also there is talk of BMW about the car i3, is expected to appear in shows selling cars in two years.
VersionsThe car companies continue on this path and provides many of the Frankfurt Fair releases electrical forward-looking term.
And reflected in the small car with high technology for functioning within the big cities which allow you to walk in narrow paths during traffic jams and bottlenecks permanent, as well as driving pleasure while walking within cities.
Although the models look like seats or bilateral single-seat, as if they were designed to portray a science fiction comedy.
Speaks of the Executive Director of Opel, Carl Friedrich for these models as experimental designs to open the appetite, which wants to discover the extent customer acceptance of such concepts.
He says development director for Audi Michelle have said, "but the test of these models is more than just exercise for the fingers of the designers, it technically is expected to enter the stage of record production within two to three years."

Volkswagen (German)
New In addition to experimental models and models for display only, saw the current session of the Frankfurt International unveiling several new models, which will be put on the market soon.
Show that small cars prompted by the aspirations of a large car such as Volkswagen and the new model of Fiat and the second generation of Kia and third version of the Toyota car.
The exhibition also attracted people who want to acquire a family car, through new models such as Opel or the second generation of Mercedes-Benz.
The exhibition included new models to meet the desire of fans driving in rough terrain where she was waiting in the car from Mercedes-Benz M-Class and a Mazda C X-5.

  Source: German

Three killed in U.S. plane crash

Two people were killed and dozens injured Friday in Reno, Nevada (western United States) when the plane crashed in an old review of air close to the public, is, according to U.S. media.
The local television station, "Kolo" - citing a medical clinic close to the scene - that at least two people were killed, but the toll could rise, as the media have talked about the fall of the 12 dead and 75 wounded.
Did not confirm any official source yet the outcome of the incident. However, the president of the air race in Reno, Mike Hutton said he believed the deaths in the ranks of spectators, according to images broadcast by local television station, "or as the BBC."
For his part, said the witness, Gerald Lint told the Reno Gazette Journal "It's a massacre, as if a bomb had exploded." He pointed out that "a man who had broke into two parts and there is blood everywhere .., there are hands and legs."
Mike Hutton explained that the pilot had died apparently, it works in real estate in Florida and at the age of 80 years, according to television stations.
Hutton noted that the incident was almost completely destroyed the front row of the podium.
A videotape released on the American television stations and on the Internet showed the plane - a type of Musting P-51 dating back to World War II - has crashed near the podium after it struck the ground. It is nevertheless difficult to see if they had crashed directly to the public or nearby.
According to a spokesman for the event, the race was going on between the old aircraft, and was captain of the aircraft in the first or second session of the race when he made a distress call before the plane crashed.
"I do not know the cause of the crash. Contacted the pilot of the plane and came out of the race, and this is what happens when there is a problem."

Source: agencies

Earthquake hits Japan

Japanese experts have confirmed that the earthquake was magnitude 6.6 on the Richter scale struck Saturday in northern Honshu Island coast east of the country, followed by aftershocks, without reporting casualties.
 The sources added that there were no reports of damage or announcement warning of a possible tsunami, "Tsunami" Although the number of aftershocks followed the first tremor hit about five degrees of severity depending on the Richter scale.
 For his part, the U.S. Institute of Geological Survey and the first tremor occurred at a depth of 36 km at a distance of 108 km east and south-east of the city of Hachinohe, located 574 kilometers from the capital, Tokyo.
 The Institute pointed out that this type of earthquakes often cause the occurrence of waves of a tsunami, "Tsunami" Although the center of the Pacific Ocean early warning of tsunami denied the registration of any strange activity in the level of the waves near the site of the quake.
 Slightly higherHowever, the Japanese Meteorological Organization reported that its recorded a change significantly in the high level of the waves near the epicenter, but without reaching alarming levels, noting that the first tremor hit the area of ​​Iwate, which had already been largely destroyed by the earthquake that struck the north-eastern Japan in March / March and the last was the cause of the crisis in the radioactive contamination.
 The agency said that the tremors Artdadetyn Tbata strong earthquake hit the first five degrees on the Richter scale in the same area surrounding the city of Hachinohe, and were followed by three tremors aftershocks other less strongly, but local police sources announced that it had not received any calls indicating the occurrence of injuries or material damage.
 It is noteworthy that Japan - which is located at the junction of what is known as the Ring of Fire in the Pacific Ocean known earthquakes and volcanoes - was on March 11 / March, a series of earthquakes and tsunamis that struck a number of nuclear power stations north east of the country damaged the resulting high rate of radioactive contamination in the affected areas.
 Experts fear that impede the successive earthquakes by the region concerned teams work to restart the Fukushima nuclear plant.

 Source: agencies

State of Palestine is threatening the U.S.

The White House said that he inherited a careful between the United States and the Arab world, which complicates the task of President Barack Obama in improving the image of his country in the Middle East, in the midst of the face of the United Nations on the Palestinian state.


The Ben Rhodes - Assistant U.S. national security adviser - that there was an improvement - in the eyes of public opinion - to his country's image in Africa, Asia, Europe and North and South America, since the election of Obama.


In the Arab world - and the talk Rhodes milk - there is also a big challenge, attributing this to the negative impact caused by the old caution accumulated over a very long time, and the difficulty in resolving such conflicts quickly, as he put it.


"It is obvious that there is great frustration in the Arab world is linked to the lack of progress in resolving the Israeli-Palestinian issue."


The United States, alluded to again use its right of veto in the face of the Palestinian quest for membership of a Palestinian state in the United Nations, and reiterated it after the speech by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas yesterday that the Assembly stressed his determination to move made in this direction.


He said State Department spokesman Mark Toner said that direct negotiations between Palestinians and Israelis a real priority, and that any further action would be fruitful.

The White House said Friday that Obama will meet with Israeli officials this week to advance the negotiations with the Palestinians.


Said Ben Rhodes, said the meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu - who strained his relations with Obama - will focus mainly on how to rebuild the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks back on track, and is expected to be interviewed on Tuesday or Wednesday.
Israeli response
In response to Abbas's speech, Netanyahu said that peace is not achieved unilateral steps and reconciliation with the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas).


He said in a statement issued by his office that direct negotiations with Israel is the only way to achieve peace, accusing the Palestinian Authority President Abbas and what he called the evasion of direct dialogue with Israel.


The Israeli newspaper quoted a senior official level - unnamed - as saying that Israel is not willing to be extorted by threatening to go to the Security Council or the General Assembly of the United Nations.


The official ruled that Israel agrees to talk about the limits of a permanent or a settlement freeze in the West Bank.


For its part, called on opposition leader and former Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, the Israeli government to initiate talks with the Palestinians.


She said in a press statement that a diplomatic agreement is "the only way to maintain a Jewish Israel and its democracy, security and acceptance in the world, and this is possible."


It is noteworthy that President Abbas said in a speech on Friday in Ramallah Palestinians' determination to go to the UN Security Council in order to obtain membership of the State of Palestine on the borders of the United Nations in 1967 and independence is not a request, and will return later to resume negotiations with Israel.

Abbas said in his speech in front of dozens of Palestinian officials, the presidential headquarters in Ramallah, "our decision that all informed of our going to the Security Council. Once you take the floor I will demand of the Secretary-General of the United Nations to bump up to the President of the Security Council."


Source: Al Jazeera + agencies

The Washington Post published an article written by MPs Republicans John McCain and Lindsey Graham and Democrat Joseph Lieberman all agreed on the seriousness of the withdrawal from Iraq.

The paper says they hope not to the health news of the survival of three thousand U.S. troops in Iraq after the withdrawal, and justify this hope that this approach ignored the recommendations of military leaders, and threaten the fragile stability in Iraq and puttingall the gains made by America's hard-won in danger unnecessarily, and gain costAmerican blood and money.
The book they traveled frequently to Iraq, and met with leaders in Baghdad and local officials across the country, also met with U.S. military commanders and diplomats, and what they have heard is always that security and stability in Iraq requires the continued U.S. military presence after the end of this year, at the end of the security agreementcurrent with Iraq. Also heard also that in view of the basic tasks after the end of 2011 carried out by the remaining force, the required number of soldiers must be between ten thousand and 25 thousand soldiers, but no one has suggested that three thousand would be enough.
The authors explain their reasons and they said that the fears and placed before the Committee on the Senate Armed Services last February by senior civilian and military leaders in Baghdad, the Americans, such as Ambassador James Jeffrey, Gen. Lloyd Austin.
As stated in the commentary, there are significant gaps in the ability of Iraqi security forces that can not be ready before the end of this year, including intelligence gathering and analysis, counterterrorism operations, training and maintenance, and protection of Iraqi airspace. And concluded that either the survival of some U.S. forces to help the Iraqis to bridge these gaps, or withdrawal, but at the expense of the security of both Iraq and America.
The book also touched on what seemed to them the most dangerous mission to stabilize Iraq, and they said that the situation in the north is what raises concern, as intensifying tension between Arabs and Kurds. On several occasions, most recently last February, almost the tension turns into violence, but that U.S. forces prevented the conflict could spark a new civil war. To avoid this terrible result, it is necessary to maintain U.S. military presence in the disputed territories after 2011, be sure that this task will not be possible with three thousand soldiers only.
Also opposed the book statements by some advocates of reducing the U.S. presencefor reasons of tax, where they said there is no difference in the budget of three thousand soldiers, or more than that, but the difference will be between democratic and stable Iraqand a pro-America and Iraq is mired in chaos and can cost Americans a lot, and thencan be seen from the outside it as a major defeat for the United States and falling in front of her greatest enemies, namely al-Qaeda and Iran.

The authors concluded their article by asking Barack Obama to listen again to the advice of military commanders and others with experience in Iraq and not to listen to the proposals demand a smaller troop there, because they risk dragging on America's foreign policy and national security.


Source: Washington Post

Obama's call to stay in Iraq

The Washington Post published an article written by MPs Republicans John McCain and Lindsey Graham and Democrat Joseph Lieberman all agreed on the seriousness of the withdrawal from Iraq.

The paper says they hope not to the health news of the survival of three thousand U.S. troops in Iraq after the withdrawal, and justify this hope that this approach ignored the recommendations of military leaders, and threaten the fragile stability in Iraq and putting all the gains made by America's hard-won in danger unnecessarily, and gain cost American blood and money.
The book they traveled frequently to Iraq, and met with leaders in Baghdad and local officials across the country, also met with U.S. military commanders and diplomats, and what they have heard is always that security and stability in Iraq requires the continued U.S. military presence after the end of this year, at the end of the security agreement current with Iraq. Also heard also that in view of the basic tasks after the end of 2011 carried out by the remaining force, the required number of soldiers must be between ten thousand and 25 thousand soldiers, but no one has suggested that three thousand would be enough.

The authors explain their reasons and they said that the fears and placed before the Committee on the Senate Armed Services last February by senior civilian and military leaders in Baghdad, the Americans, such as Ambassador James Jeffrey, Gen. Lloyd Austin.

As stated in the commentary, there are significant gaps in the ability of Iraqi security forces that can not be ready before the end of this year, including intelligence gathering and analysis, counterterrorism operations, training and maintenance, and protection of Iraqi airspace. And concluded that either the survival of some U.S. forces to help the Iraqis to bridge these gaps, or withdrawal, but at the expense of the security of both Iraq and America.

The book also touched on what seemed to them the most dangerous mission to stabilize Iraq, and they said that the situation in the north is what raises concern, as intensifying tension between Arabs and Kurds. On several occasions, most recently last February, almost the tension turns into violence, but that U.S. forces prevented the conflict could spark a new civil war. To avoid this terrible result, it is necessary to maintain U.S. military presence in the disputed territories after 2011, be sure that this task will not be possible with three thousand soldiers only.
Also opposed the book statements by some advocates of reducing the U.S. presence for reasons of tax, where they said there is no difference in the budget of three thousand soldiers, or more than that, but the difference will be between democratic and stable Iraq and a pro-America and Iraq is mired in chaos and can cost Americans a lot, and then can be seen from the outside it as a major defeat for the United States and falling in front of her greatest enemies, namely al-Qaeda and Iran.

The authors concluded their article by asking Barack Obama to listen again to the advice of military commanders and others with experience in Iraq and not to listen to the proposals demand a smaller troop there, because they risk dragging on America's foreign policy and national security.

Source: Washington Post