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Systems of the Belgian federal public service Finances, lwa n have since Thursday, dealing with a computer virus. It would be an old but fast spreading virus that the systems slow and late failure. The federal public service Finaniciën’d have trouble with the spread of the Sality.gene-virus under control. In addition to the service would…

Reportedly, the European Union and the American authorities the acquisition of Motorola by Google next week to approve. Thus, the acquisition of which $ 12.5 billion is involved a fact. According to Reuters news agency report various anonymous sources that the deal is approved. If the acquisition effectively by the EU and the US is…

KPN is going to two million Kpnmail-, HetNet and Planet-mailacounts to say that in the course of Saturday, once again reachable. Customers are given instructions on how their password should change. The Opta start an investigation into the hack. “The e-mail accounts of KPN are from 9.00 hours to live”, wrote KPN initially, but an…

The Dutch branch of Amber Alert, an initiative to help find missing children to the clinic, has an application for iOS released. With the app, users can be kept informed of the notifications that the organization spend it. The app is free to download in iTunes, and is suitable for iPod, iPhone and iPad. In…

Acer is planning to introduce a smartphone with Android Ice Cream Sandwich on the market. The device, called CloudMobile, will end this month announced at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The manufacturer the unit still not officially announced, but has, among other, Pocket-lint to let you know an award for the design have been…

The mail service of KPN’s Friday unreachable. The service has been taken offline after a large number of account details with passwords of KPN customers online. This would be in the hack have been captured. Webmail.kpnmail.nl and pop3.kpnmail.nl since Friday afternoon is not accessible. KPN has the servers as a precaution taken offline after the…

Germany is the controversial ACTA treaty will not sign it. Thus, the country will among others, Poland and the Czech republic before and it comes back on an earlier promise to have a signature. Germany wants to wait for the European Parliament. This has the German press service DPA from government circles heard. The German…

In Iran, websites of, among others, Gmail, and Facebook is blocked. Also inhabitants in the country is no longer https-sites, so that, for example, they can not use online banking. The Tor Project wants to provide a solution. Among the blocked websites are a variety of Google services, Yahoo, and Facebook. Furthermore, all the websites…

Chip maker Intel has suitable in a lawsuit in New York over alleged antitrust practices of the company. The settlement would mainly since the end of the 2009 legal costs incurred by the state should compensate. The attorney-general of New York complained to Intel in november 2009 because of violations of the antitrust laws. According…

The hackers that break-ins at KPN, may have also broken into one or more core routers. It was therefore possible in theory to internet traffic at KPN customers to intercept, but the attackers would not have done it. That says a source around the hackers of the systems of KPN have cracked across Tweakers.net. The…

Belgacom customers have a total of more than 500,000 FON networks. Wi-fi via open home networking achieved in the meantime large portions of most of the Belgian cities. The expectation is that the number is growing. The Belgian provider had less than four months to a half a million home networks to make it suitable…

In the context of Google’s reward program for vulnerabilities to be found, there are 1100 bugs and vulnerabilities in the software and services of the company found. Google has more than 310,000 euros awarded to the hackers. Approximately 200 hackers are already little more than a year trying to find vulnerabilities and bugs in websites…

There are specifications and a picture online of the Samsung Galaxy Mini 2 S6500 is the successor of the Galaxy Mini from last year. The device has a larger screen, while the processor is higher clocked. The device should soon come true: the information provided by GSMArena is published, suggests that the device already this…

There are pictures online published by a successor to HTC’s Android handset the Incredible S. The smartphone resembles its predecessor a lot, and has specifications which suggest that it is not a flagship model from HTC. The smartphone is most likely not to the Netherlands: at startup, it is stated that he 4g technology lte…

Fujifilm has on its booth at the CP+-fotografiebeurs in Yokohama, a Leica M-mount lens adapter for its X-Pro1-camera system is shown. Fujifilm, the adapter has not yet been officially announced. With the introduction of the Fujifilm X-Pro1 was the comparison with Leica M cameras due to the meetzoekeruiterlijk already made, but may Fujifiilms first compact…

Google launched a project in which the users will pay for access to their internet usage. People who want to join will receive $ 25 per year in vouchers. Google can then, under the browsing history. With the project, that Screenwise is called, claims to Google are services want to improve, to gain insight into…

There are details published of AMD’s new Cape Verde gpu which is going to happen in the HD77xx graphics cards. The cards from AMD’s new midrangeserie get 1GB of gddr5 memory and clock speed between 800MHz and 1GHz. The website 3Dcenter says the final specifications of the HD7750 and HD7770 in your hands, reports Techpowerup.…

Blizzard doesn’t want Valve a trademark on Dota requests. Dota, or Defense of the Ancients, is a modification for Blizzards rts-game Warcraft 3. Both developers are working on the successor of the Action Real-Time Strategy mod. Valve began in 2010 with the procedure for requesting a trademark on the word Dota, reports Kotaku. Blizzard showed…

Micron has released a new series of economical memory ge lwa device that primarily suitable for tablets and ultrabooks. The chips on the modules have a very low standby power consumption and are available in 2Gb and 4Gb versions available. Since ddr3 memory, just as all the volatile geheugensoorten, takes energy data, reducing the power…

Two patents that relate to how to embed interactive applications in web browsers, by a jury in the U.S. will be declared void. Eolas complained 22 major internet companies, including Google and Apple, for infringing on the patents. With the invalidation of the patents runs Eolas hundreds of millions of dollars wrong. If the company…

The FCC has pictures of the interior of the Lytro-lightfield-camera published showing that it has a Marvell chip for wi-fi and bluetooth. The camera supports officially, however, no wireless communications. The Marvell Avastar 88W8787-soc makes according to Wireless Goodness for wi – fi- and bluetooth-functionality is possible, but Lytro has no mention of the hardware…

It seems trivially easy to get access to an account of Googles mobile payment service Wallet. By the data in the app is stored to throw away for a new pin requested, making a hack is not necessary. The application data can easily be discarded by going to the settings of the Android device. When…

Tesla Motors has a prototype of a new electric-powered car, the Model X, will be presented. The zevenpersoons vehicle will get a 17″touch screen with most likely features of a 3g connection, hd-picture and satellite radio. The buyer of a Model X can choose from three different accupakketten with a capacity of 60 or 85kWh.…

Mike Morhaime, ceo of Blizzard Entertainment, estimates that rpg Diablo III in the second quarter of this year the market will come. The company has feedback from the b lwa tatest carried out, whereby the first quarter is not feasible. In september, Mike Morhaime with an official statement that was intended to fans of Diablo…