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Judge: KPN violated rules on procurement of fixed telephony
KPN has in the procurement of fixed telephony for the government rules are violated and should therefore no longer participate in the tender. That the board of Appeal for the business community in particular in a case of KPN. KPN manages the network of fixed telephony and had 69 hours before the close of the…
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Buhel integrates bluetooth headset ski goggles
Buhel, a company that bluetooth accessories, has a pair of ski goggles designed with a smartphone can be linked. In this way, users can make hands-free calls while they are on the slopes off ski lwa n. There is also a walkietalkiefunctie. The accessory has appeared on the website of Buhel, which reports that the…
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Optical cables with built-in electronics developed
Researchers have optical cables, which electronics is built in. The electronics, in the form of crystalline components, is a fixed part of the glass fibers, leading to improved optical components. In conventional optical networks are the optical fibres, which enable information in the form of light is transported, separated from the electronics. Converting information of…
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Wayland-displayserver is heading for the first stable version
The developers of Wayland are planning to continue this year, the first stable version. A new developerversie follows soon. A number of Linux distributions wants the displayserversoftware later use. At present, practically all Linux distributions and other Unix-derivatives the X. org-displayserver, but the major distributions like Ubuntu and Fedora have indicated that long-term to want…
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The Document Foundation provides insight into the development of Libre Office
The Document Foundation has a series of statistics gave insight into the development process of Libre Office, the open source office suite on the basis of OpenOffice.org. The numbers show a rapid growth of the project. After many OpenOffice.org-developers dissatisfaction had arisen about the attitude of Oracle, was on 28 september 2010 The Document Foundation…
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Google and Facebook remove ‘offensive’ content in India
Facebook and Google have acknowledged the requirement to content of their websites to delete. An Indian court had laid down that ‘offensive’ content should be removed. Twenty other companies should follow. Both Google and Facebook have all content removed for religious groups offensive, reports Reuters. In a trial in New Delhi for different social-networking sites,…
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Researchers develop nano-heat sink
A collaboration between researchers from the University of Groningen and the FOM Foundation has led to the development of a nano-heat sink that can be turned on and off via a magnetic field. The nanokoeling works on the basis of the Peltier effect by elektronenspin is affected. The Peltier effect is known in the consumer…
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HTC: lack of new devices leads to sales decline
A lack of new devices is leading there this quarter that the sales of HTC will plummet. That shared the smartphonefabrikant involved in the presentation of the quarterly figures. After the dip must have the revenue, however, again sharply higher. The decrease in turnover by more than 35 percent is on a ‘product transition’, according…
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HUB aims to acquire bankrupt publisher Array Publications update
HUB Uitgevers wants the bankrupt publisher of ict-magazines Array Publications take over. The publisher of it titles has now had an interest of fifty percent in Array, last week, by the court, was declared bankrupt. The curator of the bankrupt Array Publications, Jan Dorrepaal, confirms that a go-around is being worked on. HUB Uitgevers, that…
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Google’s contract with Apple ceo for a secret project
Google has reportedly Apple employee Simon Prakash recruited for a secret project. The switch is remarkable, because the two companies were suspected of appointments which were promised to each other’s employees not to take over. Prakash worked for eight years at Apple and was moved up to senior director of the product integrity department of…
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Antec expands voedingsserie from
Antec has its series of high-end power supplies for gamers is enhanced with the High Current Gamer M series. The new series is part of antec’s Hybrid Modular series power supplies, and is equipped with the 80Plus Bronze certification. The High Current Gamer M series is available in different wattages, in which the emphasis is…
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Tax office will only communicate over the internet
If the cabinet is located is the well-known blue envelope abolished. All communication with the Tax authorities must, ultimately, going digital will expire. The digitizing of the Tax and customs administration must be a miljoenenbesparing yield. The communication from the Tax office is not in once digitized, but that will be in steps, writes state…
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AMD brings part processorproductie at IBM
After GlobalFoundries and TSMC is IBM the third-party company that AMD processors are going to fabricate. Supposedly, the partnership entered into because the yields of GlobalFoundries on 32nm-proced lwa disappoint. AMD ceo Rory Read made cooperation with IBM, between the nose and lips by known at a presentation for analysts, writes XBit Labs. Further details…
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Tamron announces 24-70mm f/2.8 lens with image stabilization
Tamron 24-70mm zoom lens with a maximum aperture of f/2.8 across the entire zoom range released. The new lens is suitable for full-frame-dslr’s. He has an ultrasonic focus motor and improved image stabilization. Tamron is a third party maker of lenses, which is often due to a favorable price are interesting as an alternative to…
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Samsung comes with Smart Touch remote control
Samsung has a new remote control, the Smart Touch Remote Control, announced. The remote control would have a special user interface, speech recognition, trackpad and touchbediening. Samsung has the device with a custom user interface ‘Edge UI’, which according to the company, all the unnecessary features hides. The usual, necessary functions, such as volume buttons…
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Nokia service enables people to ‘talk’ via nfc
Nokia is coming in the future with a service that lets people messages able to type on their phone, and the message is using nfc is transferred to another phone and at the same time translated for the recipient of the message. The service is called for now Nokia Hello, at least, that had the…
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Warren Spector will get Lifetime Achievement Award at GDC
On 7 march, Warren Spector at the Game Developers Conference, the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award. The American ge lwa dre because of his work on games like System Shock, Thief and Deus Ex. At the Game Developers Conference in early march held in San Francisco, to choose the members of the Game Developers Association annually…
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EMC brings pci-e card with 300GB of flash storage
EMC under the name of VFCache is a pci-e card announced that 300GB of nand memory is available. The flash memory is meant to be in a server to be placed and is used for caching of frequently used data. The half-length x8 pci-e cards in the VFCache series feature 34nm slc flash memory chips…
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PlayStation Vita gets maps and videos
On 8 march, Sony update 1.6 free of the PlayStation Vita firmware. The update adds a Google Maps-based feature to the handheld, as well as the option to record video. There appears, moreover, an OS X client. The Japanese branch of Sony has released about update 1.6 of the PS Vita firmware. The firmware gives…
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iPhone/iPad: Enable “Slide to Unlock”
Apple iOS10 has changed the lock screen to require use of the Home button instead of sliding to unlock the screen. There is currently no setting in iOS10 that allows you to switch this. However, if you’re fairly versed in computing, you can use the following hack to bring back the “Slide to Unlock” screen…
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Torrentsite BTjunkie throws towel in the ring – update
The popular bittorrentsite BTjunkie has its doors voluntarily closed. Although no clear reason is given for the decision, is the increased hunting pressure on piracy via internet is a probable cause. The site was online since 2005. Since Monday morning, local time, on the frontpage of BTjunkie only a communication about the closure of the…
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‘Voice control Siri not for iPhone 4 due to audio chip’
Apple would be voice control Siri is not released as update for the iPhone 4 from 2010, because the older device has an audio chip that is not a voice at a distance can be distinguished. That makes an analyst from documents from the chipmaker. Both the iPhone 4S and the iPhone 4 contains an…
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Deleted photos turn out after years still online on Facebook
Facebook promises that the all of the photos that users in their profile deleted within a few months of his servers will pick up. Even pictures taken by users in 2008 are deleted, are still visible to anyone who has the url of the photo. According to Facebook it is a bug in the system,…
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Microsoft shows start button way in the Consumer Preview Windows 8
Microsoft will be in the upcoming b lwa tarelease of Windows 8, the familiar start button is no longer showing in the desktop mode. Also will the Consumer Preview, a functioning Windows Store for Metro-applications. In a leaked screenshot of Windows 8 build 8220 shows that Microsoft in the coming Consumer Preview, the classic start…