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  • “Google stops rolling out ICS for Nexus S due to battery bug

    Google seems to roll out Ice Cream Sandwich for the Nexus S temporarily to have paused. An official lwa le declaration is not given, but it seems that the battery life for many users drops after the install of the update. Amongst other things, on Googles own ondersteuningsfora and the ontwikkelaarsforum XDA get messages from…

  • CentOS and Oracle Linux both jumped to version 6.2

    Shortly after the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2, Oracle has its RHEL-clone Oracle Linux ge lwa pdatet to the same version number. Again provides Oracle in a custom kernel. Also, CentOS has made the jump to version 6.2. Oracle Linux 6.2 is the databasereus supplied with two kernels: Red Hat Compatible Kernel, which…

  • Archos brings out budget tablet under its own name from

    Archos has an Android tablet on the market with a 7″touch screen and 8GB of storage. Also is the processor faster than the previous generation. According to the manufacturer, the 70b IT, the first Android 3.2 tablet with a price under 200 euro. The tablet, which is the 70 IT should follow, is equipped with…

  • Hackerspace, let lights christmas tree controlled by Twitter

    The Leeuwarder hackerspace Frack has a christmas tree developed in which the lighting via Twitter is to send. By selecting a color with the hashtag ‘#tree’ to Tweet, change one of the five led strips in the tree color. Hackerspace Frack, the christmas tree, which is in the library of Leeuwarden, in a few weeks…

  • Airbus A330 crashed almost by software error

    From an examination of a vliegincident with an Airbus A330 of the Australian airline Qantas, in which 119 injured, has revealed that the reason was an incorrect algorithm in the on-board computer of the aircraft. On 7 October 2008, an Airbus A330 twice a totally unexpected nose dive. The airliner of Qantas had at that…

  • Simple link price data bundle separately from calling minutes

    Sim-only provider Simpel has subscriptions presented that make it possible to with few minutes get a high data limit. Cheap the offer is, however, not; for 1GB should be 15 euro per month to be paid. With the new subscriptions of Simple, customers can, for example, a small number of minutes in combination with a…

  • American begins case against Sony for PSN terms and conditions

    A man from California lwa is a lawsuit against Sony started, because the group to the terms and conditions of use of PlayStation Network has changed. It says now that those who PSN used no lawsuit may pursue cases against Sony. Sony changed in september the terms of service of the PlayStation Network. In the…

  • Ddos’ers get community service

    A man and a boy who, last year, ddos-attacking, out of sympathy with WikiLeaks, to a community service order, and sentenced. The 20 – and 17-year-old WikiLeaks supporters fell under more MasterCard, PayPal and OM.nl . The 17-year-old boy was in december of last year, one of the attackers of MasterCard, Visa and PayPal; he…

  • Music industry loses lawsuit of p2p-developer

    The four major music publishers and collecting society in Spain, a lawsuit lost that they had filed against the developer of a few p2p applications. The developer now wants a compensation. Developer Pablo Soto has two p2p applications developed: Blubster and Piolet. Also has Soto behind the mp2p protocol has been developed. Together with the…

  • LG adds voice control to the Magic Remote

    The Korean televisiefabrikant LG has a new Magic Remote for use in combination with its Cinema 3D tv’s announced. The new variant in addition to the existing motion detection, speech recognition, and a scroll wheel. With the current Magic motion remote control it is possible to make items on the screen to ‘point’, but the…

  • AMD introduces new apus

    After the specifications were previously leaked, its now the prices and specifications of AMD’s latest processors published on the website of the company. The chip maker on december 26, two accellerated processing units. The Turkish website DonanimHaber has published the specifications of the two processors in the last week already, but AMD has the processors…

  • Mozilla provides Firefox 9 for download to

    Mozilla released the new version of Firefox already offered for download, although it is not yet on the frontpage of the browsermaker. Firefox 9 has a faster javascript engine and improvements for developers. The in Firefox 9 is improved javascript engine needs to run javascript 20 to 30 percent faster happen. This is due to…

  • Avalanche brings dlc for Renegade Ops on the market

    The Swedish gameontwikkelaar Avalanche Studios brings two expansions for Renegade Ops on the market. The Coldstrike Campaign and The Reinforcement Pack will add new campaigns and new Heroes to the game. The two extensions that Avalanche on the market, appear on the 20th of december. The Coldstrike Campaign will cost 4,49 euro or 400 Microsoft…

  • Passwords Brussels parliament were easy to guess

    Members of the Brussels parliament were at each other’s e-mailboxes login because new passwords a easy-to-guess structure had; they consisted of the initials of the parlementari lwa r and a standaardwoord. Who is the name of a Brussels-based fellow parliamentarian knew, could log into his or her e-mail account. Vice-president Robert Herzeele of the ict-centre…

  • Coolblue see tabletverkoop of nearly 400 percent increase

    At the Coolblue-webshopketen is the sale of tablets in the christmas season so far with 396 per cent, while for laptops it did well. The webwinkelketen recorded in the period before christmas, a sales growth of 25 percent. Retail the Netherlands reported last week that the kerstomzet for retailers is expected to be at 780…

  • VMware brings Windows Virtual Desktops to Mac and Linux

    VMware View software, the client to which virtual machines can be accessed, an update is given. The software is now also available for Macs, computers with a version of the Linux kernel and for the Kindle Fire. With VMware View, users get a virtual desktop is presented on a central server. The management of platforms…

  • Research: find jobs is difficult for it specialists

    For a jobseeker it specialists is it difficult to change between now and 2016 to find a job. The reason is that few computer scientists are retiring and companies are less hire new people. Programmers are an exception. Research from the University of Maastricht shows that it specialists in the next few years harder to…

  • Samsung is coming for april with Android 4.0 update on Galaxy S II

    Samsung will, within four months with an update to Android 4.0 for its flagship Galaxy S II. Also the Galaxy Note gets an update. It seems that the other smartphones in Samsung’s Galaxy line not update. Samsung says that the updates for the S II and Note in the first quarter of 2012 to be…

  • Tweakers get Android 4.0 working on budgettablet Bart Smit

    Tweakers on GoT have Android 4.0 to the talk given to me on a tablet for 199 euros on sale at the toy store Bart Smit. The port could be made, because the manufacturer have a trial version was released for a similar tablet. There did not need the rom to be doctored to get…

  • Players missing serial numbers for SW: The Old Republic

    Various players report on the official lwa le forum of mmog Star Wars: The Old Republic that they have no or an unreadable serial number in their game. That makes it impossible for the game to register and play. Developer BioWare via the forum of the mmog complaints about missing or unreadable serial numbers. Players…

  • Google and Apple working on ‘wearable’ devices

    Google and Apple would be busy with the development of devices worn on the body can be. Reportedly going with Apple for a special watch and works Google a pair of glasses with a built-in heads up display. Reports that The New York Times on his blog. Google would be in his X-lab for a…

  • Sony sells 321.000 PlayStation Vita’s first weekend

    Sony has, according to a research in the first two days that its newest handheld, the Vita on the market, 321.000 copies managed to sell. The sale of Sony’s portable gaming console began last weekend in Japan. The figures come from research firm Enterbain, reports Reuters. With 321.000 copies sold in the first weekend does…

  • Nokia recognises battery problems Lumia 800

    Nokia has acknowledged that users might experience with the battery of its first Windows Phone device to the Lumia 800. Due to a bug in the software, the device does not use the full capacity of the battery. An update, at the beginning of 2012 is distributed, it must issue to resolve, says Nokia’s own…

  • Playboy dagvaardt GeenStijl, because links to leaked photos

    Sanoma Media, publisher of Playboy, Playboy USA, and Britt Dekker filed a lawsuit against GeenStijl because the blog linked to leaked nude photos of Dekker. GeenStijl thinks nothing wrong to have done it. Sanoma, Playboy Britt Dekker accuse GeenStijl from any infringement of copyrights, infringement of portrait rights and infringement on the personal privacy of…