Facebook:-11% on the stock exchange to start the week

Facebook déchante for its second meeting on the Nasdaq, the action falls to $ 34.

Back in detail, as we did yesterday, that the introduction of Facebook on the stock exchange and the timidity of the markets that are measured to the Internet phenomenon and had just enabled the social network completed its first day of Nasdaq rating on the rise, it should be noted that the second meeting of Facebook on Wall Street is not passed.

Indeed, yesterday Monday 21 may, Facebook title ended the day at $ 34.03, 10.99% lower, while the action was - on the reminds - introduced to $ 38. Identify the range of introduction and decisions to increase the number of titles on the market in the last hours of 25% are not really their fruit.

It recalls that enhancement of the action to its introduction was about 100 times the results of the company, then as major of the high-tech sector (Apple and Google) traded on Wall Street at best between 14 and 19 times the results companies.

Something tells us that Facebook had the eyes bigger than belly for his introduction on the stock exchange, although this allowed the company to write his name in history with new records beaten the early hours (including on the number of action) exchanged at the first session.

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Very soft start for the.XXX

The .xxx lack conviction, little used by Internet users and shunned by the industrial sector...

The ICANN and ICM Registry come to disclose figures on bookings of .xxx domain names, and the first analyses indicate any relative success. Indeed, even if 215.835 .xxx domain names have been reserved, 82.976 were done as a preventive measure by celebrities or trademarks.

But despite the reservations 132.859 corresponding to sites for adults, there is that 27.555 .xxx currently online sites. And on Alexa, only 61 of these sites are classified among the one million most visited sites, even though this ranking has a very large number of pornographic sites in .com.

It is not a surprise when we know that most of the players in this industry refuse to give their confidence to the .xxx, if it matters together behind a common extension easily visible, exposing all the more to blockages of the TLD (and even outright censorship in some countries prohibiting pornography such as the India or the Saudi Arabia).

Finally, it tends to show a latest trend: If the .xxx does not convince professionals, he convinced nor users that are not many to enter the URL ending with .xxx in their browsers.

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Windows 8 will start much more quickly

Microsoft introduces the new starting procedure of Windows 8 which, through the heart of the system in hibernation (without consuming battery), will provide access to the Office in record time.

In his blog dedicated to Windows 8, Microsoft addresses today a dear point to many PC users: System startup time. According to the information released to date, it would seem that the startup of Windows 8 will be "canon", as the suggested old info on the Hybrid Boot. A startup that is promised as being much faster than Windows 7, because talking about the end of the lips of the dream of Instant Boot.

"With Windows 7, it had achieved a lot of improvements on startup, as for example by launching the drivers at the same time that programs, but it is true that we could go further to improve things still" recognizes Gabe Aul, an engineer who work on the prcédure of startup. With Windows 8 and the "Fast Start-Up", Microsoft will still improve certain things. We learn and the session of the core system (the kernel therefore) is not completely closed to the decision, but will be placed in a sort of deep sleep from which it can exit more quickly at the lighting of the machine. Imagine that the information will be stored somewhere on the hard drive or SSD for a quasi-instantané restart of the kernel, the system has more then to load the drivers and user sessions.

According to Microsoft, this new system allows to keep the benefits of sleep, while bypassing its disadvantages, a part of the system not starting cold. Tests conducted on 30 computers to different configurations show that startup time gains range between 30 and 70%. And in the case where users would completely extinguish their computer Windows 8, a type of closure "in the Windows 7" will be also proposed. It will need to go through it when changes will be made to the hardware configuration for example. Positioning between complete extinction and deep sleep, Windows 8 in any case likely to make very good impression on boot time.

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PS4: start of production end of 2011?

Taiwanese Foxconn and Pegatron, builders who Sony contract the manufacture of the PS4, expected to begin production at the end of the year 2011, for a launch of the console in 2012. Sony had already confirmed that a PlayStation 4 was to study at a meeting of investors a few weeks ago.The two mills said themselves that they were going to load the Assembly of these consoles, which will begin at the end of the year. On the device, it should embark on a close to Kinect motion detection system, which would be the main joystick for this console. If no date has been announced precisely, the console should however be available current 2012, factories to produce at least 20 million units by then.

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