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EU reaches agreement on rules for lower roaming rates
The parliament of the European Union has reached agreement on the plans for roaming charges to reduce further. For example, in July, among other data, capped at 50 cents per MB. Also the prices of call minutes and sms must be down. The bill was approved, but shall only come into effect after the parliament…
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Makers online shooter Hawken, pick up $ 10 million
Meteor Entertainment, the owner of developer Adhesive Games, has a 10 million dollar collected from investment firms to the end of this year, the free playable online mech game, Hawken, on the market. Investment firms Benchmark Capital and FirstMark Capital cross $ 10 million in the development of Hawken. The money is intended for Meteor…
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Suspects arrested in sms malware case
In Paris are two of the persons arrested who are suspected that they are behind the Foncy trojan for Android-devices sit. With the help of the Foncy-malware would the suspects, an estimated one hundred thousand euros have earned. The two men have been arrested in Bobigny, a suburb of Paris. With the help of the…
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University of Twente gives network upgrade to 1Gbps
The University of Twente, the network has had in his educational buildings and dormitories ge lwa pgraded to 1Gbps. The UT claims now, along with the Google campus in Stanford, the fastest university internet connection. The gigabitnetwerk could be constructed because the existing 100 mbps network infrastructure is already ten years old and due for…
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Microsoft demonstrates augmented reality mirror with a Windows Phone
Microsoft at its annual TechForum event in augmentend reality-mirror is shown. This is the use of a Kinect sensor, a translucent mirror and an lcd. Also can a smartphone be used. The augmented reality system, that Microsoft ‘Holoflector’, and reminiscent of the 3d gui that is also on the event was presented. This system is,…
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‘Feather-light’ Present encryption included in industry-standard
Present, ” a lightweight encryption method that is part of the KU Leuven is developed by the ISO and the IEC are included in a new standard for cryptographic algorithms that have little processing power is needed. The Present-encryptiestandaard is developed by Andrey Bogdanov of Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in collaboration with French colleagues from Orange…
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TomTom see 2012 is not rosy in
TomTom gets more and more affected by the contraction in the market for pnds. The company’s turnover decreased in the fourth quarter of 2011 with a whopping 31 percent compared to last year, while the net profit with 67%. The consumententak of the company had the most to suffer from the decline in demand for…
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IBM announces breakthrough in quantum computer
IBM has once again made progress in quantumcomputers. The onderzoekstak Big Blue says are important steps towards a workable quantum computer to have set the necessary qubits would can be scaled. Three ‘breakthroughs’ in the field of quantumcomputers have to calculate with qubits closer. Scientists from IBM Research say three records to have established on…
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Google praises $ 1 million for Chrome exploits
Google wants hackers reward for finding exploits in Chrome with prices between 20,000 and $ 60,000, depending on the zwaarheid of the exploit. Google this would be normal in the pwn2own contest to do, but see there this year. The prices that Google wants uitloven are twenty thousand dollars for a bug in Flash, Windows…
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High Council: the Netherlands foreign gambling sites fend off
The presence of foreign gambling sites and mobile gambling services is not in conflict with European law, so the supreme court ruled. The British Ladbrokes have the access for the Dutch to block, such as monopoly Lotto demanded. The High Council has all the symptoms of the England-based Ladbrokes dismissed and the appeal of the…
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AMD expands its range of FX processors
AMD has its range of FX processors, cpu’s with Bulldozer modules on board, extended with two new processors. The company has a hexacore and a quad-core to its line-up added; other cpus will get a price reduction. The new hexacore, who already in december was announced, in the FX series, the FX-6200. This processor has…
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Microsoft demonstrates 3d-gui with transparent screen
The Applied Sciences-research team of Microsoft has came up with a technique that allows users a 3d interface can operate. The technique works with a transparent oled screen from Samsung and Microsoft’s Kinect controller. A research team from Microsoft demonstrated the new technique at the annual TechForumconferentie, where Microsoft showcases love ‘inventive’ ideas and prototypes.…
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Yahoo threatens Facebook with patent lawsuits
Yahoo wants Facebook to pay for the use of technology to which the company’s patents. It would go to 10 to 20 patents in the field of advertising, pages, personalize, social networks, and messaging. Yahoo and Facebook have Monday consulted about the possible patentschendingen, message The New York Times on the basis of sources who…
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Lionhead looking for engine programmer for new project
Lionhead might work on a game for a new console from Microsoft. The British studio, owned by Microsoft, is looking for an engine programmer who has experience with Direct 3D 11 and OpenGL 4.x, which the current Xbox does not recognize. The British developer Lionhead mentioned in the employment advertisement is not on which platforms…
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Sony provides Cyber-shot HX20V-travelzoom of 20x zoom lens
Sony has seven new Cyber-shot compact cameras announced. The HX20V has a 20x zoom lens and a new Exmor R image sensor with 18.2 megapixels, while the HX200V-advanced bridge camera with this new sensor. The Cyber-shot HX20V is the successor of the Cyber-shot HX9V and adds mostly more zoom range and a new sensor. Instead…
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UvA students can after delay switch to Google Apps
From march provides Google the e-mail of students of the University of Amsterdam, where the used mail for almost all students remains the same. Unforeseen problems have the project half a year delayed. The plans to switch layers back in June ready. The intention was to have it in september to roll out, but it…
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T-Mobile works with html5-based operating system for smartphones
T-Mobile has let know to work with Firefox maker Mozilla with Boot2Gecko, an html5-based operating system for smartphones. It is still unclear whether T-Mobile smartphones with Boot2Gecko is going to sell. T-Mobile makes the people free of its Innovation Labs to work on the development of Boot2Gecko, Firefox developer Mozilla is known. In addition, the…
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Nvidia is showing a prototype of Toshiba’s 7,7″-quadcore-tablet
At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona was a Toshiba tablet shown with a screen diagonal of 7.7″ and Nvidia’s Tegra 3 soc. The software is based on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. Probably this is still a prototype. The screen of the tablet has a resolution of 1280×800 pixels. Additionally, the tablet is very…
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Intel announces new soc in Medfield-series
Intel has plans for his Medfield-soc explained during the Mobile World Congress. The chip maker is still to come this year with a successor to the performance of the current model should double. There will also be a budget-soc. The first Medfield-soc, the Z2460, is already several Android manufacturers used for the yet to be…
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“Apple has both the A5X as the A6 soc in development’
In the source code of a not yet released version of Apples iOS operating system are a number of references to two new chips to Apple. It’s probably going to be the tweekernige A5X and quad-core A6. The references are in the beta version of iOS 5.1 which is currently only available for developers. Therein…
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Nokia: still no decision taken about Windows 8 tablets
Nokia did not make a decision on the placing on the market of Windows 8 tablets. Nokia is already looking for a while for the possibilities to do so, but do not know for sure whether it can differentiate itself from other tablet manufacturers. Nokia will not another manufacturer be with roughly the same tablet,…
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Samsung Galaxy S III gets full hd and 1.5 GHz quadcore’
The Samsung Galaxy S III will get according to new rumors, a 4.8″display with a ‘full hd’resolution. If processor, Samsung has reportedly opted for an in-house developed 1.5 GHz Exynos processor with four cores. That reports the website of BGR on the basis of new information from an anonymous source is obtained. The website was…
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Google recognizes difficult Android tabletverkoop
Andy Rubin, head of Android division at Google, at the Mobile World Congress recognized that the sales of Android tablets is somewhat disappointing. In two years time, there are about 12 million Android-running tablets sold. Rubin called in Barcelona, the 12-million-selling Android tablets are a ‘not insignificant’ number, but less than would be needed to…
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Elpida asks bankruptcy
Memory Manufacturer Elpida Memory, Inc. has bankruptcy requested by the Japanese government. The company would no longer be able to survive in the competition with other manufacturers and the decline in dram prices. The geheugenmarkt is under pressure; prices of ddr memory decline for about five years so rapidly that manufacturers see their turnover decrease.…