XBMC 9.11 Alpha has been released

One of eyecatching computer media player for video, music, picture, and so on is XBMC. Free and open source media player that really observe in its improvement ti satisfy users. XBMC is an award-winning free and open source (GPL) software media player and entertainment hub for digital media. XBMC is available for Linux, OSX, Windows, and the original Xbox. Created in 2003 by a group of like minded programmers, XBMC is a non-profit project run and developed by volunteers located around the world. More than 50 software developers have contributed to XBMC, and 100-plus translators have worked to expand its reach, making it available in more than 30 languages.

The so-called Camelot build is now available for download on Windows, OS X and Linux, with the most notable changes including a revamped user interface. In this newest version, some of improvement has been done such as :
* DirectX has replaced OpenGL for Windows
* Numerous skinning engine updates which allow for use of some fancy new skins
* Many improvements to the video player which allow for much smoother playback
* Switch to Core Audio on OSX
* Many VDPAU improvements under linux
* Many platform-specific customizations

Currently XBMC can be used to play almost all popular audio and video formats around. It was designed for network playback, so you can stream your multimedia from anywhere in the house or directly from the internet using practically any protocol available. Use your media as-is: XBMC can play CDs and DVDs directly from the disk or image file, almost all popular archive formats from your hard drive, and even files inside ZIP and RAR archives. It will even scan all of your media and automatically create a personalized library complete with box covers, descriptions, and fanart. There are playlist and slideshow functions, a weather forecast feature and many audio visualizations. Once installed, your computer will become a fully functional multimedia jukebox.

Nokia N900, first Nokia’s phone with Linux inside

The Nokia N900 is a mobile Internet device and phone, from Nokia based on the Maemo platform, superseding the N810. It was launched at Nokia World on 2 September 2009 and was expected to be released on 27 September 2009 (but this date has slipped to November 2009) in the United States and 9 European countries. It runs Maemo 5 Linux as its operating system and is the first Nokia device based upon the TI OMAP3 microprocessor with ARM Cortex-A8 core. Unlike the Internet Tablets preceding it, the Nokia N900 will be the first Maemo device to include phone functionality (quad-band GSM and 3G UMTS). It functions as a 5 mega pixel camera, a portable media player, and a mobile Internet device with email and web browsing.

The N900 is being launched alongside Maemo 5, giving the device an overall more touch-friendly interface and a customizable home screen which mixes application icons with shortcuts and widgets. Maemo 5 supports Adobe Flash Player 9.4, and includes many applications designed specifically for the mobile platform such as a new touch-friendly media player.

Meanwhile Reuters said…
Nokia CEO says starts delivery of top model N900

HELSINKI, Nov 10 (Reuters) – Nokia has started deliveries of its new top-of-the-range model N900, a key product for the world’s top phone maker in its battle against rivals iPhone and Blackberry.

Nokia Chief Executive Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo said in a speech the company started deliveries of the phone on Tuesday.

The N900 model is Nokia’s first phone running the Linux Maemo operating system, which analysts see as a key for Nokia to regain ground in the coming years.

Nokia has kept its overall market share stable, close to 40 percent, but it has lost share among more expensive models to the likes of Apple and RIM.

High-end products are important for Nokia because the company has not only lost market share there, but its average selling prices have declined faster than the industry average.

Goldman Sachs has said it expects Nokia’s value share — a measure reflecting average prices and underlying market share — for phones costing more than $350 to decline to 13 percent this year from 33 percent just two years before.

Apple just Released New iTunes 9 !

Apple has released their new product of iTunes. That is iTunes version 9, the latest version of the world’s most popular software application to purchase, manage and play media, packed with innovative features such as iTunes LP, Home Sharing and Genius Mixes, as well as a redesigned store and improved syncing.

Lots of people really loved this music player software, because of its simplicity, look and feel, and also good quality of sounds output. MOreover the new fetaure like iTunes LP, it can make new experience of hearing music !! I’m sure that people will loved it!

“iTunes 9 is a great iTunes release, with innovative features that make using iTunes better than ever and iTunes content richer than ever,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “iTunes LP, for example, lets artists share more of their creativity with fans and gives music lovers the feeling of being immersed in an entire album with art, lyrics, liner notes, photos and videos.”
iTunes LP is the next evolution of the music album delivering a rich, immersive experience for select albums on the iTunes Store by combining beautiful design with expanded visual features like live performance videos, lyrics, artwork, liner notes, interviews, photos, album credits and more. iTunes LP debuts today with albums including Bob Dylan’s “Highway 61 Revisited,” Norah Jones’ “Come Away With Me,” The Grateful Dead’s “American Beauty” and Dave Matthews Band’s “Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King: iTunes Pass.” The new iTunes Extras provides a similar experience for movies on iTunes with features including documentaries, deleted scenes, interviews and interactive galleries. iTunes Extras is now available for select movies including “Twilight,” “Batman Begins,” “WALL-E,” “Iron Man” and “The Da Vinci Code.” Customers can enjoy iTunes LP and iTunes Extras on a Mac® or PC.

They claim that the new version of iTunes could include Blu-ray support, give users the ability to visually organize and arrange iPhone apps within iTunes and some kind of integration with social networking sites such as Twitter, Facebook and possibly Last.fm.

Here is the updates:
Update 1: It’s more or less official now, complete with a non-working “Download iTunes 9″ button and everything. Apple’s mainly touting the new interface for the store in this blurb, but we know it’s just a front for taking more of our hard-earned cash and putting it in the hands of starving musicians. The nerve.

New features mentioned:
* Improved store navigation, including persistent navigation menu.
* Full window iTunes store. For times when that sidebar is just too much.
* Previews from anywhere in the store — don’t have to drill down to preview.
* iTunes LP includes lyrics, liner notes, video, photos and “more.”
* iTunes Extras. It’s like DVD extras, but with iTunes. Not clear if it includes director’s commentaries, but let’s hope.

Update 2: It’s now official, and Apple has fleshed out some more functionality.
* Genius Mixes. It’s like Genius Playlists, but it plays forever like a radio station.
* App management, letting you set up and arrange your home screens on the iPhone and iPod touch. You can drag and drop to move certain apps or whole pages of apps.
* Home sharing enables file transfers between up to five local computers of songs, videos and even apps.
* You can send items in the iTunes Store as gifts, add them to a wishlist, and publish them to Facebook and Twitter — look who’s getting all social all of a sudden!
* It’s available today.

See the detail of iTunes new feature ? Click Here . . Want to Download iTunes ? Click Here . .
Some people also talking about this on Twitter.

BPPT has made Meetings Resume Notes(tracter) software

Jakarta, Kominfo Newsroom – Badan Pengkajian dan Pengimplementasian Teeknologi (BPPT) or Indonesia Research and Implemantation of Technology Institution has developed an application to the meeting minutes automatically by utilizing a speech detector technology with made tracter.

With this “tracter”, each word is pronounced the meeting participants will be any posts is tracnscipted automatically, according runut hour, minute and second, so easily known when, and who speak what is realtime,’’said Resource Center Coordinator Open Source BPPT Oskar Riandi, M. Sc on the broadcast voice Iptek in Kemeneg RISTEK, Jakarta, Friday (5 / 6).

He is also the Information Technology practitioner that explains, perisalah is a software system as one of the speech a first language in the world that are used to conduct the meeting transcript automatically.

The tracter have some features (the ability to do the application) so that the participants display a simple greeting in mind when, who and what to speak in the meeting. Edit features on the fly allows notulis perform editing / correction when meeting transcript or by the system are berlansung so that they can increase the speed and accuracy of meeting minutes.

The main problem in making meeting monograph / notulen is the length of the transcript made by notulen. One way to be a regular problem solving as it is recording a meeting with the split into several parts and assigned to several notulis to be that transcript.

The problem will be more complex when there are meetings conducted simultaneously in several different rooms, and must soon be made that tract. It will impact on the decrease of speed and size of the tract of making the cost of which must be issued to pay notulen.

Problem that does not lose too serious is note man difficult to write a detail when, who and what to speak during the transcript. By using this tracter, will be able to reduce costs and facilitate notulis archive storage form of digital voice recording and text in the electronic database, he said.

Perisa it has 4 main functions, namely as a system speech language, as the system automatically meeting tracter, as sorter tool documents automatically, and as meeting records.

Tracter new research is starting in January 2009, and currently live prototype already completed development of what later.

Zahir, Indonesia Accounting Software

Indonesia in its developing of software can produce local software that is not worse than other international product. That is Zahir, an accounting software made by Indonesian which is leading in accounting software market in Indonesia. Zahir is accounting software that can create Information Accounting System. Many companies are going to make that kind of system definitely.

Zahir Software

Now, Zahir customer up to 8000 national company in Indonesia. Muhammad Ismail as director of PT Zahir International said, “Majority of software house companies in Indonesia is in low-middle economic company, but now, they can compete with other foreign software company”.

Meanwhile, Administration Coordinator of Penanggulangan Pelanggaran Hak Kekayaan Intelektual (PPHKI) -National Institute for Violation of Intellectual Property Rights said that Indonesian people should love and give appreciate to local product, because with useing local product, it can improve citizen wealth level. And then, the further implication are the developing of Indonesian software industry, many of job vacancy will be created, and welfare is coming.