Wednesday, 20 February 2013

Logiciels Windows Phone 7 & 8 :: RE: [APP] LockAgenda : Vos RDV sur l'?cran de verrouillage

Bonjour

LockAgenda est une nouvelle application qui a pour but d'afficher vos rendez-vous ? venir sur l'?cran de verrouillage.

L'application se veut simple et se param?tre en 4 ?tapes.
Vous pouvez actuellement choisir parmi 2 modes d'affichage et filtrer certains types de rendez-vous (Journ?e enti?re, priv? et les comptes)

A l'occassion de son lancement l'application est gratuite et ce, jusqu'au Lundi 18 F?vrier. Profitez-en maintenant Wink

Vous pouvez t?l?charger l'application via ce lien ou via ce QR code :

Bonne utilisation
PS: Ci dessous des screenshots de l'application

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Ding-dong, Hotmail's dead: All accounts switching to Outlook.com by summer

It's official: Outlook.com will fully replace Hotmail as Microsoft's webmail service. The company will begin to auto-update accounts, and hopes they will be fully migrated from Hotmail to Outlook.com by this summer.

The move was spurred by surprise growth in the Outlook.com mail service, which has amassed 60 million active users in just six months. Microsoft will also remove the "customer preview" label on the product, and launch a multimillion-dollar marketing campaign.

Also read: How Microsoft can regain its footing (Hint: Less Windows, more Office)

I know the first thing you're thinking: "Does this mean my Hotmail address will just go away?" No. It just means that when you go to hotmail.com, you will be re-routed to Outlook.com, and when you log in on the Web, you will get the Outlook.com experience. You can keep your @hotmail.com email address forever, but you can also use that account to create multiple new @outlook.com email addresses, too, if you so desire.

And let me tell you, you shouldn't wait for Microsoft to switch your old Hotmail service over to Outlook.com. I am an unabashed Hotmail hater, but who can forgive the original webmail service for being so far behind the times? Even when Microsoft spent millions on a "new Hotmail" ad campaign a scant two years ago, nobody was fooled: You still had to refresh the thing every time you wanted to know if you had mail.

Enter Outlook.com, which really can give Gmail a run for its money. It's a very smart service with a very streamlined design, tasteful social integration and auto organization features such as inbox "sweep" and scheduled cleanup. Because of this last bit, it's ideal for use either as a main email or as a "spam account," the kind you provide to online retailers and other data collectors.

(Switching your account over takes almost no effort: Just log into Hotmail then click Settings at the top right ? you will see the option to convert to Outlook.)

Though Microsoft was pleased at the sudden growth of Outlook.com users, I grilled David Law, director of product management for Outlook.com, about how many of the 60 million users were just converts from Hotmail's existing 350 million or so accounts. My supposition is that this represents almost all of them, but while Law wouldn't tell me the number, he did say I would be surprised how many were totally fresh.

Law was forthcoming about a different statistic, one that demonstrates Microsoft's target: About one third of the current Outlook.com users are ? or, at least, were ? also Gmail users.

Outlook.com is a very welcome email option, and ? when partnered with the company's SkyDrive cloud storage services ? a sign that Microsoft may well regain some traction with consumers looking for reliable Web services.

One of its only obvious problems is that of branding: Because it's called "Outlook," many people (naturally) assume that it is some kind of Web client for managing any email account. It's not. It's a free service, like Gmail or Yahoo mail or, yes, Hotmail, that provides you with an email account. So don't go asking if you can create an Outlook.com account and then add your corporate email to it, because that's like asking if you can take Google Maps and stick Mapquest into it.

Perhaps that's why Microsoft is spending a lot of money on explanatory ads now. Like this one, featuring the irresistable audio stylings of Seattle's own Macklemore & Ryan Lewis:

Wilson Rothman is the Technology & Science editor at NBC News Digital. Catch up with him on Twitter at @wjrothman, and join our conversation on Facebook.

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Sina Shares Rise 6% After Hours On Strong Q4 Earnings As It Promotes Former Cisco VP To CTO & Co-President

Sina LogoDespite investors' concerns over a slowing online advertising market in China, Sina's managed to post Q4 revenue that exceeded analysts' expectations, though its earnings fell 74 percent from a year earlier. Investors were encouraged by Sina's results, however, as the company's shares jumped six percent to $56.50 after hours. Sina's stock price has dropped 13.4 percent since the beginning of the fourth quarter, falling along the shares of peers like Baidu and Sohu.com due to a weaker economy.

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Cmune Takes DCM Funding To Build A Billion Dollar First-Person-Shooter Franchise on Mobile

Screen Shot 2013-02-19 at 4.42.14 PMNow that the number of tablet and smartphone gamers outnumber console players, there’s a race to see who will establish the big franchises and gaming companies of the mobile generation. In the early years of the iOS platform, makers of basic simulation games experimented with making their apps free, giving rise to several nine-figure-a-year businesses.?But other genres like first-person shooters have stayed with the paid app strategy. Brands like Gameloft’s Modern Combat and Activision’s Call of Duty have remained in the $5 to 10 range, although the freemium model has taken off for many other kinds of games. A Beijing-based company called Cmune is betting that first-person shooters can be a nine-figure-a-year business too, and they’re taking another slug of funding from DCM’s Android fund to prove it. They’re not disclosing the amount, however. “Every other platform has multi-billion-dollar, first-person shooter franchises, and there hasn’t been one yet on tablets,” said Benjamin Joffe, a founding partner at the company. Cmune is the maker of UberStrike, a game that’s passed 10 million registered users on multiple platforms, including Facebook and the Mac App Store. They have a paid version of the app now, but they’ll soon make it free once they iron out kinks in the game play. Joffe says that while Facebook is known for your stereotypical city-builder or farm game, UberStrike is the largest first-person shooter game on the social network. The company will face a number of formidable competitors, including Battlefield-maker Electronic Arts and of course, Gameloft and Activision. Ben Cousins, an EA, Dice and Ngmoco veteran, has been showing off a free-to-play first-person shooter called The Drowning in recent weeks as well. Zynga has also recently been dabbling in first-person shooters after they published a multiplayer mobile game last December called The Respawnables. Joffe said UberStrike?s tablet app will stand out because of multi-player mode. They?ve taken care to match players against players on similar platforms, so that desktop-based gamers don?t have an unfair advantage over mobile ones. The Beijing-based startup was founded back in 2007 by Shaun Lelacheur Sales and Ludovic Bodin, who had no prior history in gaming. They stumbled into gaming after some early experiments with communication apps. They were thinking about building some kind of 3D version of Skype, after Sales had published a reference book on the 3D engine Virtools. ?It was almost an accident that one of their prototypes was a

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Tuesday, 19 February 2013

Long-missing WWII medal awarded in LA

LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Hyla Merin grew up without a father and for a long time never knew why.

Her mother never spoke about the Army officer who died before Hyla was born. The scraps of information she gathered from other relatives were hazy: 2nd Lt. Hyman Markel was a rabbi's son, brilliant at mathematics, the brave winner of a Purple Heart who died sometime in 1945.

Aside from wedding photos of Markel in uniform, Merin never glimpsed him.

But on Sunday, decades after he won it, Merin received her father's Purple Heart, along with a Silver Star she never knew he'd won and a half-dozen other medals.

Merin wiped away tears as the Silver Star was pinned to her lapel during a short ceremony attended by friends and family at her home in Westlake Village, a community straddling the Ventura and Los Angeles county lines. The other medals were presented on a plaque.

"It just confirms what a great man he was," Merin said tearfully. "He gave up his life for our country and our freedom. I'll put it up in my house as a memorial to him and to those who served."

Merin's mother, Celia, married Markel in 1941 when he already was in the military. They met at a Jewish temple in Buffalo, N.Y.

About four months ago, the manager of a West Hollywood apartment building where Merin's mother lived in the 1960s found a box containing papers and the Purple Heart while cleaning out some lockers in the laundry room, Merin said.

The manager contacted Purple Hearts Reunited, a nonprofit organization that returns lost or stolen medals to vets or their families.

A search led to Merin.

She became "kind of emotional, because I don't have a lot of pictures, I don't have a lot of stories, and I've always been a crier," she said. "My mother was always the stoic one, very strong."

Markel was killed in the last days of World War II on May 3, 1945, in Italy's Po Valley while fighting German troops as an officer with the 88th Division of the 351st Infantry Regiment, said Zachariah Fike, the Vermont Army National Guard captain who founded Purple Hearts Reunited.

"The accounts suggest that he was out on patrol and he got ambushed and he charged ahead and basically took out a machine gun position to save the rest of his guys," said Fike, whose organization has returned some two dozen medals. "For that, he paid the ultimate sacrifice."

He was awarded the Purple Heart and Silver Star posthumously, but for some reason the family never was told about the Silver Star and it was never sent to them, Fike said.

Merin's mother never talked in detail to her daughter about Markel.

"It was a very difficult topic for her. When my father died, she was seven months pregnant with me," Merin said.

Her mother briefly remarried when Merin was 10 but her stepfather died three years later, Merin said.

Her mother moved into the apartment in 1960 and may have placed the Purple Heart in the locker then, Merin said. Her mother lived there until 1975 before moving away, and Merin's aunt lived there until 2005. Another aunt lived there until 2009.

They never spoke about what was in the locker, and the family must have missed the box when they took away the aunts' possessions in 2005 and 2009, Merin said.

Merin said that in addition to the Purple Heart, which Pike kept for framing, the box contained letters and other papers, and her father's Jewish prayer book.

"I found it very hard to look at. A lot of them were condolence letters," she said.

Merin's mother was told about the discovery of the Purple Heart but didn't live to see it ? she died Feb. 1 at age 94.

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Associated Press writer Christopher Weber contributed to this story.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/long-missing-wwii-medal-awarded-la-214642638.html

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Monday, 18 February 2013

BookNAround: Sunday Salon: Busy week and bookish family

This past week has been rather a busy one. My mom came to visit on Monday and my dad flew in on Wednesday. They came in because my daughter had her competition dance debut show and they were hoping to also see the youngest's soccer game and the oldest's tennis match, both of which ended up being cancelled thanks to one of our incredibly unusual snows down here. For many people, having houseguests means sacrificing time spent with books. And that was the case for me. But since we as a family are all readers, I didn't have to sacrifice as much time as I might have for someone other than family. When mom and I went shopping one day, we managed to hit three different book stores looking for some very specific titles. We made it to no other stores that day. And I pulled out the stash of books I have sitting in a closet waiting for me to host my next book exchange just before summer arrives and mom went through them to choose some for herself. Then dad claimed a book I had bought my oldest son but which my husband already owned and said he'd share. It's good to have a bookish family. Mom and dad leave today and then the plan is laser tag with the soccer team. Snow might cancel the game but we can still have the fun after the game. And then I can cozy up with another book and make my day complete.

This week my reading travels took me into a large Virginia manor home filled with antiques and a puzzling amount of fakes just after a theft, to Regency England where a woman steps in to marry the rakish Duke her sister is supposed to marry so she can save her family, through a novel based on chaos theory where one old woman's being mugged ripples through an ever expanding plot, and into a family grieving the brain death of one of their members even while they fight over whether or not to discontinue life support to this newly pregnant woman. What sorts of lives did you explore this week in your reading?

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