The number of phones in use worldwide has reached five billion units. This condition is driven by increased demand in emerging markets in India and China. According to a study conducted by Swedish telecommunications giant, Ericsson, Thursday (15/07/2010).

“The fifth billion mobile phone users in the world record on July 8,” the company said in a statement.

In ten years, the mobile market has grown to seven-fold. “In 2000, approximately 720 million people are registered as users of mobile phones. The amount is smaller than just mobile phone users in China today,” said Ericsson. Read more

After the acquisition of location-based networking site, owned Koprol.com SkyEight Indonesia, Yahoo! Inc. has prepared various plans. Yahoo! Do not just want to deploy this service in local markets, but also bring Koprol to all countries. Thus, users can go to Koprol when inserting the identity of Yahoo!.

Vice President and Director of Yahoo! Southeast Asia, Yvonne Chang said the society will be increasingly dependent on mobile phones to communicate and access the Internet. “This is happening in developing countries and we see this potential to introduce Yahoo! On new Internet users,” said Yvonne. Read more

Koprol, social networking services work of Indonesian children who acquired Yahoo, Tuesday (25/05/2010), initially just for fun projects PT SkyEight Indonesia which was completed in February 2009.

“Initially the project fad. Our company software development, people love him. Dapet attention from the media, the technology community. Earlier this year the attention of the business, brand,” said one of the founders SkyEight, Satya Witoelar SkyEight encountered in the office, road Radio I, South Jakarta, Tuesday (25/05/2010). Read more

Want to see pictures of three-dimensional impressions? On the movie screen, on your PC screen, notebook screen, or in a special television screen carrying the 3D feature, you need a special eyeglasses that can make images look 3D. Can the old type glasses (shutter model, or one blue lens and one red), or a new model glasses (type polarizers). Bother you? It takes a lot of sunglasses too, if that many people watching.

Well there is good news about this 3D impressions. Applied Sciences Group, Microsoft, so lansir Technology Review, has developed a new lens that negate the necessity to wear glasses that fat could see the 3D video. This lens is quite thin, around 11mm at the top and 6mm at the bottom. So he could easily be embedded in the LCD screen.

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