Six nation of England rugby star Chris Ashton talks tech

Rugby Six Nations Star Chris Ashton talks TechPosted the HomeNewsEngland by Luke Johnson on Fri, February 25, 2011

Winger England Ashton expresses the love of Apple

England wing and current Six Nations star Chris Ashton took time out of training before Championship clash-choosing tomorrow's potential with France to talk tech with T3.

The star of Northampton and 23 years took six Nations by storm forward aiming for individual tournament try scoring record in the first two games with a brace of touchdown against Wales in opening tie before scoring four trys as England took in Italy at Twickenham.

Talking exclusively with T3, Ashton declared his love for Apple products saying in reference to the tech giant fruity: "I am a fan of Macs. I think you all the best things, is always there with the best technology and are always on top of all that aren't ".

Added Apple style vs. substance debate Ashton, who owns the newest model 11-inch MacBook Air, as well as an iPhone 4, said: "I think it's a bit of both. With my laptop is so thin and small, has everything I need and it's just easy to put away and go ".

Man, famous for its celebration ' Ash-Splash ' swallow-dive, something he says that we'll see once again, is not a fan of all Apple products, however, after selling its iPad due to problems with its lack of Flash compatibility.

For the full interview with Chris Ashton, including his favorite apps, tech battles with teammate Ben Foden, hopes for England vs. France meet and more about this celebration infamous check out the video below, made earlier this week at Nike Town in London.

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TED talks: launches intelligent platform Q&A

Spectacle of technology and Design (TED), a global set of lectures organized by American private non-profit Sapling Foundation, launched the TED talks. TED speakers, TED TED Fellows, translators, TEDx host, and TED staff are all active on the site.

TED conversations fall into three categories: questions, ideas and discussions. Not surprisingly, can be linked to specific Ayu on TED.com and can be marked and searched by subject.

TED conversations have an expiration date: as Ayu are limited to 18 minutes or less, TED conversations are set to last a day, week or month. When you start a conversation, you decide when it will; You can sum up the debate with a closing statement.

"We are excited to announce today the launch of TED conversations, a new social platform on TED.com that connects people to the conversation, collaboration and debate," said a spokesperson for TED in a statement. "TED conversations has been designed and built from the ground up to foster meaningful conversation between global community watch, share and discuss Ayu. Who participates in the online community will find the interface simple and intuitive ".

Google CEO talks up Mobile potential

Google CEO Eric Schmidt took the stage at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on Tuesday to talk up to Android OS for tablets and phones, in addition to giving nods Chrome, search and YouTube.

Schmidt said that there are 300,000 devices Android enabled daily and 150,000 apps in the Android app store--a number that has tripled in the last nine months. Developers now start with mobile applications because that is where the growth is, he added, saying that sales of smartphones exceeded sales of PC last quarter.

There are a number of trends at work, Schmidt said: cloud computing, that was present for a long period; the fact that the devices are packing in more and more power; and the fact that the networks are increasingly powerful. About 98 percent of mobile phone operators offer speed of megabytes per second, he said. What is important to LTE, the latest technology for mobile broadband, you will create the opportunity for another set of applications that we can only imagine, Schmidt said.

One of these new applications Android demonstrated by a Google employee on stage is Movie Studio, an application built for tablets that allows users to edit videos. The demo showed how a user can drag a title to an image and also reorder items in the timeline of the video by dragging and dropping. You can also add a pan and zoom effect, and by pinching two fingers can zoom video in photo.

Schmidt said that the growing penetration of mobile phones offers hope to communicate with people around the world that are currently not connected online and solve some of the world's biggest problems, including terrorism and global warming.

Refer to competitor Google in the browser war, Schmidt said that there are 120 million active users of chrome.

Meanwhile, the YouTube video site of the company remains a force to be reckoned with: Schmidt said that 35 hours of video is uploaded every minute for the site. Its revenue doubled in 2010, he said, and Google is monetizing the professional content.

Schmidt has refused to be drawn on a question from the audience on Android fragmentation, a concern for some developers.