The All-in-One Skype 4.0

The new Skype 4.0 Is the latest version of the well nown Skype. With high-quality video and audio cals,high security and privicy mesures, it makes it the best caler host ever.

As of December 31, 2007 Skype had 276 million user accounts. Users may have more than one account, and it is not possible to identify users with multiple accounts.

It was reported that 15,952,085 concurrent Skype users were online as of January 26, 2009.

As of January 2009,Skype is available for Android and over 100 Java enabled mobile phones. As of January 2009, Skype is adding about 30 million subscribers a quarter.

Google, an internet browser, e-mail, maps and more!

Google history

Here’s a little part of Google’s history:

Google began in January 1996, as a research project by Larry Page, who was soon joined by Sergey Brin, when they were both Ph.D. students at Stanford University in California. They hypothesized that a search engine that analyzed the relationships between websites would produce better ranking of results than existing techniques, which ranked results according to the number of times the search term appeared on a page.Their search engine was originally nicknamed “BackRub” because the system checked backlinks to estimate the importance of a site. A small search engine called Rankdex was already exploring a similar strategy.

Convinced that the pages with the most links to them from other highly relevant web pages must be the most relevant pages associated with the search, Page and Brin tested their thesis as part of their studies, and laid the foundation for their search engine. Originally, the search engine used the Stanford University website with the domain google.stanford.edu. The domain google.com was registered on 15 September 1997, and the company was incorporated as Google Inc. on 4 September 1998 at a friend’s garage in Menlo Park, California. The total initial investment raised for the new company amounted to almost US$1.1 million, including a US$100,000 check by Andy Bechtolsheim, one of the founders of Sun Microsystems.

In March 1999, the company moved into offices in Palo Alto, home to several other noted Silicon Valley technology startups. After quickly outgrowing two other sites, the company leased a complex of buildings in Mountain View at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway from Silicon Graphics (SGI) in 2003. The company has remained at this location ever since, and the complex has since come to be known as the Googleplex (a play on the word googolplex). In 2006, Google bought the property from SGI for US$319 million.

The Google search engine attracted a loyal following among the growing number of Internet users, who liked its simple design and useful results. In 2000, Google began selling advertisements associated with search keywords. The ads were text-based to maintain an uncluttered page design and to maximize page loading speed. Keywords were sold based on a combination of price bid and clickthroughs, with bidding starting at US$.05 per click. This model of selling keyword advertising was pioneered by Goto.com (later renamed Overture Services, before being acquired by Yahoo! and rebranded as Yahoo! Search Marketing). Goto.com was an Idealab spin off created by Bill Gross, and was the first company to successfully provide a pay-for-placement search service. Overture Services later sued Google over alleged infringements of Overture’s pay-per-click and bidding patents by Google’s AdWords service. The case was settled out of court, with Google agreeing to issue shares of common stock to Yahoo! in exchange for a perpetual license. Thus, while many of its dot-com rivals failed in the new Internet marketplace, Google quietly rose in stature while generating revenue.[6]

The name “Google” originated from a common misspelling of the word “googol”, which refers to 10100, the number represented by a 1 followed by one hundred zeros. Having found its way increasingly into everyday language, the verb “google”, was added to the Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary and the Oxford English Dictionary in 2006, meaning “to use the Google search engine to obtain information on the Internet.”

A patent describing part of the Google ranking mechanism (PageRank) was granted on 4 September 2001. The patent was officially assigned to Stanford University and lists Lawrence Page as the inventor.

Financing and initial public offering

The first funding for Google as a company was secured in August 1998, in the form of a US$100,000 contribution from Andy Bechtolsheim, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, given to a corporation which did not yet exist.

On June 7th, 1999 a round of funding of $25 million was announced, with the major investors being rival venture capital firms Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Sequoia Capital.

The Google IPO took place on 19 August 2004. 19,605,052 shares were offered at a price of US$85 per share.Of that, 14,142,135 (another mathematical reference as √2 ≈ 1.4142135) were floated by Google, and the remaining 5,462,917 were offered by existing stockholders. The sale of US$1.67 billion gave Google a market capitalization of more than US$23 billion. The vast majority of the 271 million shares remained under the control of Google. Many Google employees became instant paper millionaires. Yahoo!, a competitor of Google, also benefited from the IPO because it owned 8.4 million shares of Google as of 9 August 2004, ten days before the IPO.

The stock performance of Google after its first IPO launch has gone well, with shares hitting US$700 for the first time on 31 October 2007, due to strong sales and earnings in the advertising market, as well as the release of new features such as the desktop search function and its iGoogle personalized home page. The surge in stock price is fueled primarily by individual investors, as opposed to large institutional investors and mutual funds.

The company is listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange under the ticker symbol GOOG and under the London Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol GGEA.

Now Google is a big and famous company, with high-quality applications and internet maps of Earth, Mars and the universe.Google is also the most used and most comented internet blog, image,forum,videos searcher of all time. Shortly sayd, Google is the best for everything!

,,Star Trek” old series but very popular

Enterprise

The ,,Star Trek” series are very old, created somewhere between the 60’s are the most popular Sciense series ever! Some say that these series are just some everyday TV-serial,while others bolieve that one day these TV-series will come to live.These series maight not be real, but every episode lives atleast one important saying. Here’s some info I’ve found on the web about ,,Star Trek”:

Conception and setting

As early as 1960, Gene Roddenberry had put together a proposal for the science fiction series which would become Star Trek. Although he publicly marketed it as a Western in outer space, a so-called “Wagon Train to the stars”, he privately told friends that he was actually modeling it on Swift’s “Gulliver’s Travels”, intending each episode to act on two levels, first as a suspenseful adventure story, but also as a morality parable. In the Star Trek universe, humans developed faster-than-light space travel, using a form of propulsion referred to as “warp drive“, following a nuclear war and a post-apocalyptic period in the mid-21st century. According to the story timeline, the first warp flight happened on 5 April 2063, and the Vulcans, an advanced alien race, made first contact with Earth on that day after detecting the warp drive signature. Partly as a result of the intervention and scientific teachings of the Vulcans, man largely overcame many Earth-bound frailties and vices by the middle of the 22nd century, creating a quasi-utopian society where the central role is played not by money, but rather by the need for exploration and knowledge. Later, mankind united with some of the other sentient species of the galaxy, including the Vulcans, to form the United Federation of Planets.

Star Trek stories usually depict the adventures of humans and aliens who serve in the Federation’s Starfleet. The protagonists are essentially altruists whose ideals are sometimes only imperfectly applied to the dilemmas presented in the series. The conflicts and political dimensions of Star Trek form allegories for contemporary cultural realities: Star Trek: The Original Series addressed issues of the 1960s,just as later spin-offs have reflected issues of their respective eras. Issues depicted in the various series include war and peace, the value of personal loyalty, authoritarianism, imperialism, class warfare, economics, racism, human rights, sexism and feminism, and the role of technology.^[4] Gene Roddenberry stated: “[By creating] a new world with new rules, I could make statements about sex, religion, Vietnam, politics, and intercontinental missiles. Indeed, we did make them on Star Trek: we were sending messages and fortunately they all got by the network.”

It should be noted that many fans believe that later producers deviated from this formula. Star Trek: Enterprise, the last TV incarnation of Trek, had very few “messages” or “morality plays,” some fans claim.(Example: How Star Trek Lost its Soul)

Television series

For a complete list of episodes, see List of Star Trek episodes.

Star Trek originated as a television series in 1966, although it had been in the planning stages for at least six years prior to that. It was canceled after its third television season due to low ratings. It was, however, highly popular with science-fiction fans and engineering students, in spite of generally low Nielsen ratings. During its original run, it was nominated several times for the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation and won twice : for the two-parter “The Menagerie” and the Harlan Ellison-written episode “The City on the Edge of Forever“. (See also Awards below.) It has served as the foundation for four additional live-action television series, one animated television series and ten theatrical films (with an 11th nearly complete). The six television series comprise a total of 716 episodes – 10 of which are feature-length – across 23 seasons (30 when counting seasons that aired concurrently). See Lengths of science fiction film and television series for more on comparative series lengths.

The Original Series (1966–1969)

Star Trek (Also known as “TOS”, The Original Series) debuted in the United States on NBC on September 8, 1966. The show tells the tale of the crew of the starship Enterprise and its crew’s five-year mission “to boldly go where no man has gone before.” The original 1966-1969 television series featured William Shatner as Captain James Tiberius Kirk, Leonard Nimoy as Spock, DeForest Kelley as Dr. Leonard “Bones” McCoy, James Doohan as Montgomery Scott, Nichelle Nichols as Uhura, George Takei as Hikaru Sulu, and Walter Koenig as Pavel Chekov. In its first two seasons it was nominated for awards as Best Dramatic Series. After three seasons, however, the show was canceled and the last original episode aired on June 3, 1969.^[8] The series subsequently became popular in reruns and a cult following developed, complete with fan conventions^. Originally presented under the title Star Trek, it has in recent years become known as Star Trek: The Original Series or as “Classic Star Trek” — retronyms that distinguish it from its sequels and the franchise as a whole. All subsequent films and television series, except the animated series of the 1970s and the earlier seasons of Enterprise, have had secondary titles included as part of their official names. A re-release of the series began in September 2006 with computer-generated imagery “enhancements” as a high-definition “Remastered” edition. The entire series has been remastered. The remastered episodes currently air in syndication while the originals appear on many countries’ channels although these broadcasts are infrequent and irregular.

The Animated Series (1973–1974)

Star Trek: The Animated Series was produced by Filmation and ran for two seasons from 1973 to 1974. Most of the original cast performed the voices of their characters from The Original Series, and many of the original series’ writers, such as D. C. Fontana, David Gerrold and Paul Schneider wrote for the series.

While the animated format allowed larger and more exotic alien landscapes and lifeforms, animation and soundtrack quality, the liberal reuse of shots pioneered by Jonnie ‘Roy’ White and musical cues as well as occasional animation errors has detracted from the reputation of the series.Although it was originally sanctioned by Paramount (who became the owners of the Star Trek franchise following its acquisition of Desilu in 1967), Roddenberry forced Paramount to stop considering the series canonical. Even so, elements of the animated series have been used by writers in later live-action series and movies. Kirk’s middle name, Tiberius, first used in TAS episode “Bem“, was made official in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, and elements of Spock’s childhood from “Yesteryear” were mentioned in the TNG episode “Unification, Part 1“. The holodeck also made its first appearance in TAS episode “The Practical Joker“.

TAS won Star Trek’s first Emmy Award on May 15, 1975. Star Trek TAS briefly returned to television in the mid-1980s when it was rebroadcast on the children’s cable network Nickelodeon and in the early 1990s on the cable network Sci-Fi Channel. The complete TAS was also released on Laserdisc format during the 1980s.^[11] The complete series was first released in the USA on eleven volumes of VHS tapes in 1989. All 22 episodes were released on DVD in 2006.

-So now you might understand ,,Star Trek” a litle better.

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