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A large group of gamers around the world complain about issues with their Xbox Live account. The users report Xbox 360 Achievements lost. A data migration of Microsoft made possible for the problems. The cause of the problem, that inter alia would lead to many Xbox 360 users can have their Achievement points have lost,…

The European Union has together with the US and Japan in a complaint against China filed at the Wto. The countries want the Chinese government to force the export restrictions of rare earth metals to eliminate it. China produces 97 percent of the rare earths. These raw materials are used in all kinds of products,…

The startup Twin Creeks has a ionenkanon developed that would make it possible to make thinner solar cells from silicon to produce. Due to significantly lower production costs, the prices of solar cells and panels to substantially drop. Normal crystalline-siliciumzonnecellen be produced with an average thickness of 200µm. When cutting a block of silicon to…

KPN, T-Mobile and Tele2 want a different judge in the summary proceedings of Brain against them treats. They have filed a request with the court in the Hague. The court treated the earlier case of Brain against Ziggo and Xs4all. Because the court the same arguments already in the case of Brein against Ziggo and…

A new piece of code in Chrome, the size of the JIT pages from the Flash controls, it leads to crashes for users, with the notification code 0xabad1dea. The addition was originally intended for the Pwn2Own-hackwedstrijd. Chrome users with large or many Flash applications, reported frequent crashes in the 17.0.963.66 version of Chrome, especially in…

Former PlayStation executive Phil Harrison will play the role of Peter Molyneux as creative director at Microsoft’s European Studios take over. It is expected that Microsoft is the appointment of Harrison Tuesday officially disclose. Game-industriewebsite GamesIndustry.biz reports that Phil Harrison at Microsoft’s European studios in the footsteps of the departed Peter Molyneux will come into…

Following In the footsteps of Mozilla’s plan, Firefox will Google Chrome browser to make them suitable for the new Metro gui of Windows 8. Will also include the construction of Chrome version for Windows 8 in the desktop mode can run. Google has told Mashable confirmed to work on a version of Chrome that also…

Nokia has released its Maps software with navigation released for other mobile platforms than Windows Phone. According to the Finnish manufacturer Android and iOS is supported, but the software also works on WebOS, and BlackBerry. By using a mobile browser to m.maps.nokia.com to browsing, is Nokia’s navigation is started. Support for voice instructions is built…

The Green Team Twente, which consists of eleven students of the University of Twente, has started the construction of a car being completed. n litres randstof thousand kilometers need to be able to drive. The vehicle will compete in the Shell Eco-marathon Europe. The students who are trained in mechanical engineering follow, make use of…

Developers that paid apps in Google Play Store have to wait for more than one and a half week on payment by Google. That report various developers. Therefore, developers are financially in trouble. Developers have Google informed about the absence of the payments, normally on the second day of the month. The payments come from…

The NPO sets thanks to improved optical character recognitionsoftware now 99 percent of the non-Dutch-speaking tv-programs to be able to convert the ‘spoken subtitles’. This must be the provision of services to the blind and visually impaired to improve. In spoken subtitles the Dutch subtitles by ocr software recognized by a voice synthesizer read out.…

This year should be the first optical Thunderbolt cables on the market, promises Intel. The current interfaces can handle the optical cables, that data faster over large distances can transport than the current copper cables. Initially, Intel-optical networking technology under the name Light Peak, but due to the high cost of fiber-optic cables, it was…

Synology has a new budget nas for the consumer market to its range. The DiskStation DS112j is equipped with. safety n drivebay and features Synology’s latest firmware, DiskStation Manager 4.0. The DiskStation DS112j features a 1GHz ARM processor. This cpu is, according to the manufacturer equipped with a hardware encryption engine, allowing it to encrypt…

Fujifilm is the so-called white disc problem with his X10 and X-S1 cameras solved with a modified image sensor, as the company has announced. The custom sensor would be in may be available. According to the statement made on DPReview develops Fujifilm is currently a modified image sensor that’s the problem definitively to resolve, but…

A vulnerability in the website of the Museum resulted in 125 other websites on the same server are also accessible. The permissions are accurate. Also another server had a flaw for everyone. Beveiligingsonderzoeker Ingratefully discovered the vulnerability. He noticed not only that the Museum vulnerable to sql injection, also he could be using the cms…

Sony has the Xperia Sola presented, an Android smartphone with floating touch. With this technology, the user need the screen not to touch it to control it. Floating touch works only in the browser. With floating touch, the user can about a site, navigating through it with his finger slightly above the screen to swipe,…

Sega is working on Total War Battles: Shogun, a new version of the rts for iOS and Android. The mobile version is real-time, but the playing field is divided into hexagonal areas, which in many turn-based games avoid. Total War Battles: Shogun is made by the British the Creative Assembly, that also the previous games…

Twitter Posterous was acquired. The team of the blog site is updated lwa integrated in the development team of Twitter. What to do with the microblog’s going to happen is still unclear, but the team promises that the users in advance will inform. Twitter has blogplatformsite Posterous bought, says Sachin Agarwal, founder and ceo of…

Apple and Microsoft have partnered with BlackBerry-maker RIM, elektronicamaker Sony and network company Ericsson patentbedrijf Rockstar was founded. Rockstar on behalf of the companies money for licenses, requirements from other companies. Rockstar manages thousands of patents from Nortel, Apple, Microsoft, RIM, Ericsson, and Sony in the summer of last year together bought. Now the U.s.…

Intel would have plans to in the United States a virtual cable provider, the tv channels over the internet to customers. The manufacturer would be working on its own set-top-box and all of the end of 2012, with the services like to start. Intel would his plans have unfolded to media companies, writes The Wall…

Apple has with the by Google to buy Motorola negotiated a deal whereby all manufacturers of Android devices, a license could get for Apple patents. In exchange, would Motorola licenses patents provide to Apple. The negotiations were at the end of 2011, and went on the ability to license each other’s patents, as appears from…

The Dutch developer Engine Software creates a new version of full-motion video shooter Mad Dog McCree. The original dates back to 1990, the new version will appear this year for the 3DS, but will not be in 3d to be admired. Very specific wants Ruud van Moosdijk, head of the development team of Engine Software,…

Yahoo has filed a lawsuit against Facebook for violating patents on the technology, which is almost the whole Facebook model. Last week warned Yahoo for a possible lawsuit. The American internet company Yahoo is claiming in the complaint that Facebook is forced to stop infringement, and claims in addition to damages. Yahoo says in the…

Lenovo is currently working on an Android-tablet with a diagonal screen size of 9.7″. The screen would have an aspect ratio of 4:3, while most Android tablets are 16:10. This seems to the screen is closely related to that of Apple’s iPad. With a screen diagonal of 9.7″ and an aspect ratio of 4:3 is…