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There are, in 2011, approximately 220 million smartphones sold, with Google’s Android mobile operating system. That treasure analistenbureau Gartner. That is a tripling compared to 2010. The number of sold iPhones doubled. Gartner has the numbers per mobile platform not published, but a sum of all estimated sales figures per quarter, the sum again. The…

Scientists affiliated to a Finnish research institute have an accessory for mobile phones is developed, that of a built-in camera to a microscope. This include visible cells. Although there are earlier microscope-accessories for the iPhone appeared, the model developed by the Finnish scientists has developed considerably more compact. The device, which on different mobile phones…

The Dutch mathematician Arjen Lenstra concludes that two out of the thousands of public rsa-keys, which, among other things, be used for https encryption, is unsafe. These rsa keys are on the same priemfactor based. A group of mathematicians at the École Polytechnique Fédérale in Lausanne in switzerland, has a collection of 7.1 million 1024…

Anti-viruspakketten of Microsoft agreed on different Google domains, temporarily, as a virus in Internet Explorer. The av programs blocked users access, but Microsoft released quickly afterwards a fix. Microsoft released for its anti-viruspakketten, Security Essentials and Microsoft Forefront, an erroneous virus definition. The websites of Google, after the latest update 1.119.1972.0, by the program’s wrongly…

THQ has let us know that Darksiders II from June 29 to purchase. In contrast to the first part appear the versions for pc, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 at the same time. The publisher also announced what pre-order bonuses are available. That Darksiders II in the first half of 2012, it would appear, was…

Microsoft has more insight about the improvements that the accessibility of Windows 8 for other visually impaired people need to increase. The narrator would have greatly improved while the magnifying glass with touch screens can handle. In a blogposting on the Building Windows 8 blog gives Microsoft insight into the improvements in the accessibility options…

There are details and screenshots have appeared of the LG P880 is the first quad-core smartphone from the Korean manufacturer. The P880 has a 4.7″screen with a resolution of 1280×720 pixels and has an 8-megapixel camera. One of the screenshots shows a benchmark app Quadrant, that a score shows somewhere above 4000. This would make…

HTC is going to be smartphones in the future with a private streamingmuziekdienst. According to rumors, there is cooperation with Beats Audio, which HTC now the majority shareholder of. The Taiwanese smartphonemaker supplies for some time, headphones Beats for some of his phones, but the company would also be a streamingmuziekdienst want to convert. Beats…

Sandisk has its range of solid state drives extended with two series. The Extreme series is intended for consumentensystemen, while manufacturers for ultrabooks, purpose-built ssd’s from the X100 series could be reduced. The Extreme series should provide users a nimble solid state drive that has a sata-600 interface. According to Sandisk would speeds of around…

Onkyo has four new av receivers to be released. Two of them are 5.1 models, while the other two 7.2-channel sound reproduction support. The latter are also features a Qdeo chip for upscaling to 4K video. The four models are the first 2012 models from Onkyo and make the new entrylevel-lineup of the brand. The…

ING the internetbankiersysteem separate from the system that is used for mobile banking. The bank wants to the risk for interference limit and thus ensuring that the environments are not adversely be lwa influence. Chief information officer Ron van Kemenade said in a conference call that ING has already started the necessary preparations to make…

In total, Zynga-games 54 million players per day. That is an increase of 13 percent compared to a year ago. Spelletjesmaker Zynga suffered in 2011 to a loss of more than eur 400 million, as the company has announced. A large part of the revenue comes from games on Facebook be played, the company said.…

With the Silent Pro M2 series power supplies Cooler Master, the successor of the eponymous M-series released. The M2 version has a slightly higher yield compared with the M-series. In addition, the new power supplies are slightly larger. The Silent Pro M2 series consists of six power supplies. The two heaviest power supplies, the 850W…

Google has released an update for its payment service Wallet, allowing attackers are not easily able to access the account. A “brute-force” hack on rooted Android devices is, however, possible. According to the internetgigant can users of prepaid cards to link their Wallet account. Rather, it proved possible to gain access to other people’s Wallet…

Tele2 this week the prices of the subscriptions by up to 50 percent increased. Thereby, consumers no longer have the ability to separate sms bundles to close. The price of mobile internet is largely unchanged. The subscriptions have the name SmartMix received, notifies the virtual provider. That name was chosen because the bundles of call…

Ubisoft announces Mad Riders, a racing game that is made by the Polish developer Techland. The studio produced last year zombieshooter Dead Island. Mad Riders is a downloadgame for pc, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Techland makes Mad Riders is a an arcade game in which quads on dirt circuits raced, Ubisoft announced. The game…

Allegedly is RIM planning to release version 2.0 of its PlayBook operating system on February 21. After the update, users can for the first time without pairing with a smartphone e-mail and calendar functions. The BlackBerry manufacturer has the release date of the update is not yet confirmed, but said earlier this month at its…

Samsung is considering its lcd division to make it more independent, following poor figures from this business unit. The company sees more bread in oled. Possible going to the company’s existing lcd production lines to retool for oled production. Rumors about an impending privatisation of the lcd division of Samsung to do the round, but…

Sony Pictures has signed a deal with the brothers Avi and Ari Arad, who is a film production that is based on Twisted Metal, the PlayStation 3 game, which at the beginning of march appears on the market. Brian Taylor is directing the picture. With the deal between Sony Pictures and the brothers Arad would,…

Users worldwide are complaining about login problems with Hotmail. Microsoft has problems with his mail service, confirmed and says to examine the case. Yet it seems only Hotmail affected and continue to other Live services outside shot. Due to the problems with Hotmail users can’t login, so mail sending and receiving is not possible. Via…

AMD has their new series HD 7700 graphics cards announced and different manufacturers have simultaneously made their own versions. There are cards with custom pcb’s, new coolers and variants that are overclocked. The HD 7700 is based on AMD’s new Cape Verde gpu which uses the Graphics Core Next architecture. This is at TSMC on…

A number of Dutch webshops turns out cat5e cables to sell that no gigabitsnelheden over lengths longer than a few meters can be achieved. The cause seems to lie in the fact that not all veins of copper are made. The finding emerges from a topic of Tweaker Sine on Gathering of Tweakers that also…

HP Z1 workstation, announced an all-in-one for the business market with a screen diagonal of 27 inches. The display has a resolution of 2560×1440 pixels and makes use of an ips-panel with led-backlight. HP Z1 in different configurations which can be chosen from multiple processors, video cards and storage options. The entry-level model will use…

HP is working on a new browser for webOS called Isis. The Isis project is based on the built-in web browser of webOS and makes use of the Enyo framework. The browser is opensource and the source code is on GitHub. HP has for the project a separate website was set up where the progress…