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Boxee Inc. has released version 1.5 of his eponymous mediacentersoftware released. This will be the last version that users can run on Windows, Mac, and Linux. The new release is until the end of January 2012 to download. The company informs that on his blog. The downloadable version of Boxee currently offers approximately eighty-five percent…

Samsung would reportedly still considering his Galaxy S-smartphone update to Android Ice Cream Sandwich to give. Recently gave the company yet that the smartphone runs out of memory for an update to ICS. According to MSN Korea, would the decision to have the Galaxy S and Galaxy Tab 7 cannot update to Android Ice Cream…

Samsung, Sharp and five other lcd manufacturers have a class action case about price-fixing of lcd’s suitable for a amount of 538,6 million dollars. Earlier this month, all were the direct recipients of the panels offset. The vast majority of the settlement amount, 501 million dollars, will be used to consumers a portion of their…

Microsoft’s application store for Windows Phone has reached a milestone of 50,000 applications achieved. There was the mobile OS for fourteen months, that there is something more than iOS, that twelve months needed. It is going to be the 50,000 published applications, of which about six thousand applications in the meantime not to be found…

The flemish region wants ‘.flanders’ as a top-level domain register. A few years ago wanted the northern half of Belgium lwa ‘.custard’ as tld,’.flanders’ would have been clearer and brighter. Ghent wants to have its own tld. That writes Datanews. The Flemish government is looking for a commercial partner and that the operation of the…

Gigabyte Taiwan gets four X79 motherboards from the shops, because oververhittingsgevaar when overclocking. Buyers are advised to the latest bios version to download and install. The affected motherboards are successively the GA-X79-UD3, GA-X79-UD5, GA-X79-UD7 and the G1.Assassin 2. In extreme overklokpraktijken, according to the Taiwanese manufacturer oververhittingsgevaar occur, with all the consequences. To resolve the…

According to rumors, Apple televisions on the market with a screen diagonal of 32″ and 37″. The company would have some time to work on their own television, which ge lwa integrated with the already existing set-top box. According to Digitimes that suppliers plan to be in the first quarter of next year to start…

Different Asian first-tieroem manufacturers would from april 2012 Intel’s Thunderbolt interface, like screwing in motherboards, laptops and desktop pcs. Currently, the standard mainly by Apple. According to DigiTimes, the cost for the Thunderbolt technology in the second half of 2012 so decreased, that it is for pc manufacturers to get interesting is to get in.…

The iPhone Dev Team has an untethered-jailbreak for iOS 5.0.1 released. The jailbreak only works on older hardware. Until now it was only the tethered-jailbreak is still available, where the need for a pc to boot. The untethered-jailbreak by the iPhone Dev Team has released will not work on hardware with an A5 cpu, allowing…

Apple has in Italy lwa a fine of 900,000 euros because the consumers bad front light on their right to guarantee. The company tries customers AppleCare to sell while consumers are partly protected by the law. It concerns two separate infringements for which Apple was fined in Italy, reports Reuters. First of all, the company…

JVC will be at the upcoming CES 2012 show in Las Vegas is probably a camcorder for consumers to introduce 4K video can take. The first tvs with 4K resolution will be at the end of 2012 are available. Last year at CES-consumer electronics knew JVC all the attention with the announcement of a full…

Hackers have gained access to the database of the Chinese internet forum Tianya. They have the data from 40 million users are published, including passwords, which for a large part is not stored encrypted. The well-known Chinese forum, users are informed and an apology offered. The data from 40 million users are now on the…

VR-Zone has released the first benchmark results of Intel’s new Medfield-soc for tablets. The new mobile processor is, according to the Caffeinemark 3 almost a quarter faster than the Samsung Exynos chip. A few weeks before the official launch has VR-Zone already the first benchmarks and power consumption of the new Medfield Tablet Platform, the…

The Chinese government has concerns expressed about the acquisition of the opslagtak of Hitachi by Western Digital. The acquisition would restrict competition. Recently, the European Commission has yet to agree to the acquisition. The Chinese mededingingswaakhond has been concerns expressed about the acquisition of Hitachi Global Storage by Western Digital, reports Business Week. The Chinese…

Six Japanese and South Korean elektronicagiganten establish a joint venture for the development of lte chips. According an American business newspaper, they want to hence the dependence on Qualcomm to reduce. The company was founded by one of the six companies, the Japanese telco NTT Docomo, brought out after The Wall Street Journal about the…

Sigma has on its website a teaser for an announcement on 10 January. That is the start date of the PMA-fotografiebeurs. According to the teaser, it is the ‘hottest’ technology of Sigma in 2012: probably the lenses. The teaser doesn’t give much information, but the background image shows the ridges of a zoom or focus…

The Chinese alternative to gps, Beidou, is in the air. From China and the surrounding areas, the system can be used. There are currently ten Beidou satellites in the sky; the next year six. From China and the surrounding area, the system can already be used, reports the Chinese state news agency Xinhua. Earlier this…

LG shows at the CES-consumer electronics an oled panel with a diagonal screen size of 55 inch. It is the largest announced oled panel, though it is suspected that competitor Samsung at CES, a 55″tv with oled screen show. The 55″screen is the largest in its kind: there is still no oled panel with such…

The Belgian telecom operator Proximus, part of Belgacom, has a weak security against eavesdropping of mobile phone traffic, such as phone calls, text messages and voicemails. This is evident from examination of telefoonhacker Karsten Nohl. Proximus is between the provider with the worst security against the eavesdropping of phone calls, text messages and voicemails via…

The use of an e-reader on a plane during takeoff and landing, can’t hurt. According to research from an American newspaper. The electronic radiation is negligible: it amounts to only 30 microvolts per meter. Also in the United States, it is forbidden to use electronic equipment during take off and landing of an aircraft, with…

A hack makes it possible to use apps provided by manufacturers for their own Windows Phone devices have been made, on other phones to install. This allows users of HTC’s, for instance, Nokia’s kaartenprogramma download. By a special application to install, apps from a certain manufacturer will be visible in the Marketplace, according to a…

Windows Phone devices from Samsung, such as the Omnia 7 and Omnia W, can gejailbreakt be via the browser. A well known Windows Phone developer, the method designed. The tool works not yet on other devices. The tool works by creating a link to open to a page on the domain of WindowsPhoneHacker.com and then…

Sony sells share in lcd joint venture S-LCD to partner Samsung. This is Samsung are the full owner of the company. The screens are used in tv programs, but also in smartphones from Sony Ericsson and HTC. Samsung takes all of the shares of Sony in the joint venture S-LCD, Sony has announced. Sony was…

The open-source FreeBSD operating system contains all twenty years a large vulnerability in the telnet server, allowing remote root access can be obtained. The bug is also in Mac OS X and Linux distros. FreeBSD developers have announced the vulnerability just before the kerstweekend and have updates released to fix the problem. According to the…