What in week 43 the news didn’t make it

As usual, there were also this week again a lot of links in the submit left. A large part of them kicked it to our news section, but traditionally, we had also a lot of aside.

Stout

So we got to hear that Apple has a staggering 800 employees, the lane message. The company is not in financial lwa le difficulties and will not restructure, but is simply not tolerate theft. By way of gift had every Apple employee an iPhone. Two months later, got all the early adopters a voucher for one hundred dollars, because the iPhone is significantly cheaper, and also the free of iPhones fell with their serial number within this refund program. A achthonderdtal employees had so cheerful a request and received a gift voucher to the value of one hundred dollars. This extra cost of 80,000 euros, the company in the wrong throat shot. To their, but not our surprise, could all the staff involved their piping suits.

Robert Anderson received his income from other sources. The American said in an interview with Wired that he was in command of the Motion Picture Association of America torrentsites – including the famous TorrentSpy – in order to skim the entertainment industry of “confidential information”. The hacksessies provided Anderson in 2005, say $ 15,000. The MPAA claims that it is not aware of the fact that Anderson’s data illegally obtained.

Gadget-o-mania

For fun gadgets, Japan is the place to be. Gaming site Kotaku discovered a jewel for die-hard gamers. The Charger Bracelet consists of a simple black bracelet with a cable with a PSP, Nintendo DS or other portable device may be connected. The movement of the arm is then, like in some watches, used to generate electricity, to longer fun to ensure.

A more expensive, but not less ganz horny, gadget turned up in Hollywood. The movie companies start the move to digital images to convert. So claims Post Logic Studios, the first full feature film, digital has shot at a resolution of not less than 4096×2048 pixels. The so-called 4K cameras delivered per day around the 2TB of footage.

The End

Hitachi announced to stop the production of consumer pcs. That the systems for some time, only in Japan were for sale, the sales are not contributed, and since the average tweaker probably never seen a Hitachi-system has seen, seemed to be a listing on our frontpage to us not opportune.