Sony Ericsson Aspen - The Most "Green" Smartphone

Greenpeace has been several years routinely conduct audits of electronic products and perform rating based on the measurable environmental aspects.

Most green smartphone of Greenpeace version in 2010 fall into the Sony Ericsson Aspen, beat five other nominated smartphone, the Nokia N800, Samsung GT-S8500 (Wave), HP Palm Pixi Plus, the BlackBerry Pearl 3G, and Dell Aero.

Sony Ericsson Aspen using the Windows operating system version 6.5, this smartphone is available in QWERTY and Touchscreen. It is also equipped with WiFi, 100 MB of storage and also social media features like Facebook and Twitter.

This was announced at the International Consumer Electronics Show 2011 in Las Vegas beginning in January 2011 some time ago. This smartphone meets defined 4 categories of Greenpeace, which is free of hazardous materials, low power consumption, product life cycles, as well as innovation and marketing strategy.

Greenpeace Research conducted has shown that Sony Ericsson Aspen free of toxic materials like PVC and BFRs. Sony Ericsson Aspen Smartphone, introduced in February 2010 was also declared free from Phtalate and Beryllium.

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WordPress 3.0 - Downloaded 30 Million Times

CALIFORNIA - A lot of achievements that have been passed by WordPress. Four million blogs have been made in WordPress within the last three months. Now WordPress 3.0 has been downloaded more than 30 million times.

A few months ago, WordPress 3.0 has been downloaded 20 million times. Since then, the download numbers continue to grow rapidly. The number of downloads may increase again because WordPress will be launched next few days. As quoted from Softpedia, Tuesday (01/08/2011).

Recently, many users have started to switch from blogging services like WordPress to a kind of social networking site Twitter. At the same time some people are also switching to a more simple blogging service like Tumblr or Posterous. 2010 is the best year for WordPress as 16 million new blogs appear on the site.

WordPress is a open source Content Management System (CMS), used as a blog publishing applications, powered by PHP and MySQL. WordPress has many features, including plug-ins and templates system. WordPress is used by 13 percent from 1 million of the world's largest site.

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U.S. Investigate the Wikileaks's Twitter Account

LONDON - WikiLeaks said that detailed information on their Twitter account will be investigated by the U.S. government. Meanwhile, WikiLeaks refuse those orders.

WikiLeaks said on Saturday (01/08/2011) that U.S. investigators had gone to San Francisco, the headquarters of Twitter Inc. to ask for contact information, secret messages, and other data relating to Julian Assange and colleagues at WikiLeaks. Similarly, as quoted from Philly.com, Sunday (01/09/2011). And until now, the Twitter refuses to give a statement.

WikiLeaks also said that they suspect that other U.S. Internet companies have also been approached by the U.S. government, as part of the investigation.

U.S. authorities are examining the possibility to sue WikiLeaks along with their staff, related to some leakage of classified information to embarrass and damage the image of the U.S. government.

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Zynga Buy Flock Social Web Browser

CALIFORNIA - developer of popular games, Zynga, has purchased the site of social browser, Flock. In the meantime, detailed information regarding the acquisition have not been announced officially. Similarly, as quoted from the IT ProPortal, Saturday (01/08/2011).

Flock Web browsers allow users to browse websites while still connected with social networking platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Digg and YouTube.

Social browser was first launched in 2005, and managed to collect money funding of US$10 million. Number of Flock users is approximately 10 million people. In addition, Flock also ranked second in the top 10 list of desktop applications on Facebook.

"With more than a quarter billion users, Zynga has strong followers all over the world. An understanding of social games and they will be what users want, was much admired," wrote Shawn Hardin, CEO of Flock, in his blog. "Our team will help Zynga achieve their goal to build a fun social game and is available to anyone, anytime, and on any platform," added Hardin.

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Twitter Spreads to Afghanistan Through SMS

KABUL - Afghanistan's telecom operators began to open up access to Twitter. Although still rely on SMS, access is guaranteed to be excellent.

Roshan, a telecommunications operator in Afghanistan, which could introduce a mobile Twitter posting tweets via SMS through mobile phones. This service is for customers in Roshan, especially young children.

According to Roshan, as quoted by Cellular News, Friday (1/7/2011), demographic conditions in Afghanistan will make this service becomes popular. Even noted, young people in Afghanistan are active users of social networking, with the number reaching 60 percent of the total population in the country.

"With this new service, Roshan is not only able to become hub for family and close friends but also pave the way for Afghans to join the social networking community in the world," said COO Roshan, Altaf Ladak.

According to Ladak, communications and information ministry of Afghanistan realize that most active internet users in the country visiting social networking sites. With this service they will be easier to socialize in cyberspace.

Twitter mobile itself is not the first social networking service provided to its Roshan customers. The company is the pioneer service operator that offers access to Facebook, Hi5, as well as the Blackberry service.

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