Sunday, April 22, 2012

NASA Challenge Indonesia

Today the competition to make application to the U.S. government's spaceagency, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) opened in@ America, Jakarta.
The competition was held in 24 locations across 17 countries such as India,Brazil, the United States, Britain, and Japan.

International Space Apps Challenge aims to provide a platform for people whoare interested in space exploration. The event lasted for two days is challengingdevelopers to create applications for the technology solutions that can meet thesocial needs of space exploration as well.

NASA provides more than 40 tasks that have been whittled down to 8 forimplementation in Jakarta. The competition is divided into four categories, data visualization, knowledge of the citizens, open hardware and software. Thesechallenges are given:
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Twitter and Apple officials Disappointed Instagram

April is a month full of surprises for Instagram photo-sharing applications. First, inthis application that were previously only available on Apple's IOS operatingsystem became available for the Android operating system. The second surprise was when Instagram acquired social media giant Facebook.Money of U.S. $ 1 billion had to be direlakan up to take over kepemillikanInstagram.

However, two events occurred in the month of April was also a fan of Instagramlead to disappointment. There are at least two technology leaders who openlyexpressed discomfort with the change in Instagram.
The disappointment came from the founders of Twitter, Jack Dorsey. Acquisitionsvalued up to be a cause of disappointment Instagram Dorsey. Moreover, alreadycommon knowledge that Dorsey wanted the creation of the integration of Twitterwith Instagram. Any form of disappointment Dorsey performed Instagram stop using his account.

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