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Facebook is plagued by porn via linkspam
Facebook has confirmed that thousands of users of the social-networking site their grievances have been made about the power of acts of violence and porn-related images and videos that are popping up in their news feeds. The source is still unknown. Some users are reporting that the offensive images and videos under their own username…
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Iptv provider Starting begins distribution via fiber
The new iptv provider Starting going in a number of places digital television via glass fibre. In addition, the use of the fiber network of GlasOperator. The company aims to achieve ten thousand subscribers within a year. At Starting cost of a basic package for iptv 12,50 euro per month. In addition, 29 tv channels…
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Spanish institute builds fuel-efficient supercomputer with Tegra 3-soc’s
The Barcelona Supercomputing Center in Spain for a supercomputer to build Tegra 3-soc in combination with Nvidia gpu’s commitment to the computing power. The arm-based multicores need for a low energy use ensure. With the so-called Mont Blanc project aims to BSC ultimately exascale-performance, where the total computing power is greater than the exaflop, for…
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Samsung and stores disclaim blame of the rise in hdd prices
The prices that consumers for hard drives pay, are much more increased than what manufacturers calculate. Samsung would be the increased costs do not even pass. Also merchants disclaim the responsibility. The prices of hard drives increased in the past few months to great heights, with popular models of close price doubled. The increase would…
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Google opens BigQuery-analysis service for new b lwa tatesters
Google is going to BigQuery opening up to an unknown number of b lwa tatesters. BigQuery is a cloud-based, which provides a large amount of data can be gespit to the recognition of patterns. In the longer term for the service are paid. The analysis service BigQuery was initially only for a select group of…
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TO: hack botnetslachtoffers was allowed
According to the public prosecutor Lodewijk van Zwieten was the ‘hacking’ of botnetslachtoffers by the Dutch police certainly allowed. Last year, the police a warning on the computers of botnetslachtoffers. The national police AGENCY put at the dismantling of the Bredolab botnet, a warning on the computers of infected botnetleden. That communication was via the…
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W3C outlines outlines for privacystandaarden
The W3C has two documents released in which the organization outlines outlines for improved privacy on websites. The W3C says that the proposals are a reaction to the increased concerns of end users about online privacy. In one of the documents calls the W3C, among others, a so-called do-not-track feature, which allows internet users in…
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Toshiba, Sony and Hitachi merge lcd-branches together
Manufacturers Sony, Toshiba, and Hitachi are going to their business units for small and medium-sized displays merge. The three groups will bring the industries under Japan Display; a company that in the spring of 2012. Japan Display is 70 percent owned by the Innovation Network Corporation of Japan, a fund of Japanese companies and the…
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RIM shows two new BlackBerry’s
Manufacturer RIM has two new BlackBerry devices announced: the Bold 9790, the Bold 9780 follows, and the Curve 9380, which do not have a physical qwerty keyboard. Both new devices run on the old BlackBerry OS. The Curve 9380 is like the Torch 9860, a device with only a touchscreen, as appears from the info…
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Microsoft releases new version of Windows Azure sdk
Microsoft has its Windows Azure sdk, provided an update. Also has the software giant, a hpc scheduler released that enables high performance computingapplications on Microsoft’s cloud-based, can be linked. In the Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio 2010 according to Microsoft, various improvements were made to the link to Azure for developers, easier to make.…
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Google: change the ssid to wi-fi database to come
Who does not want that his router is included in the database of wi-fi routers of Google’s “_nomap” to add to its ssid. The router of the person who does not comes by default in the database which Google uses for determining the location. The opt-out option with the code in the ssid is the…
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4Chan is days inaccessible due to possible ddos attacks
The notorious internet forum 4Chan is struggling for two days with suspected ddos attacks. The website is for a long time has been down, reflected in different status updates. Currently, the forum is online, but very slowly. 4Chan was Sunday for the first time for a long time unreachable. The forum reports that it’s most…
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Media: Minister of the interior of the Union call for Burka ban
Internal Security Media: Minister of the interior of the Union call for Burka ban As a reaction to the Islamist attacks in Germany, the Minister of the interior of the CDU and the CSU are planning according to media reports, to strengthen the safety laws. Dual citizenship do you want to abolish. Burqa-wearers in Berlin…
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Xbox and Halo celebrate tenth anniversary
The original Xbox and the shooter Halo to celebrate on Tuesday their tenth anniversary. Microsoft introduced the first Xbox on november 15, 2001 in the United States, along with Halo: Combat Evolved as one of the launch games. Microsoft brought the Xbox on the market as a response on the PlayStation 2 from Sony, the…
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‘Sony resumed camera production in a converted Thai factory’
Sony reportedly has the production of, inter alia, the cameras NEX-7, NEX-5n, and the Alpha A65 and A77 resume. The company would use a factory in a different part of Thailand, formerly radio programs made, have been converted. The news comes from the website of the Japanese newspaper Sankei Shimbun. Sony has the production of…
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Gartner: 60 million Android smartphones sold in three months
There are in the last quarter, 60.5 million Android smartphones sold, as has analistenbureau Gartner calculated. It was Googles mobile operating system with a share of 52.5% on the smartphone market. Nokia’s Symbian operating system is the number two on the list, with an estimated number of sales of 19.5 million. Apple’s iOS is right…
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Ricoh accelerates focus for CX6
Ricoh has a new, compact superzoomcamera announced. The company has in the new CX6 the scherpsteltijd compared to the CX5 will be halved to 0.1 second. The other differences are, however, minimal, to name a few. The Ricoh CX6 is making like the CX5 use of an external off-module on the basis of phase detection…
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Terrorismebestrijder: response government at DigiNotar are not adequately
The way in which the government responded to the DigiNotar incident, had ‘weak points’. That sets the National Co lwa coordinator for Counterterrorism, Erik Akerboom. According to the terrorismebestrijder is the ssl-system in addition to ‘weak’. Terrorismebestrijder Erik Akerboom gave at the symposium of government ict-security guard Govcert.nl that the response of the government on…
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Samsung develops nfc chip with added security
Samsung has a new nfc chip announced that some of the equipment on board has to keep him safer. The chip contains a 760KB-flashprocesor, which, among other data encrypted can be stored. Samsung has the piece of hardware the “Secu-NFC chip’ number and type SENHRN1 passed. The chip measures 4,3×4,3x1mm, and is thus just as…
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‘Successor to the Xbox 360 being announced at CES 2012’
A French website has from a reliable source heard that Microsoft in the beginning of 2012 at the CES trade show a new Xbox will announce. The hardware would consist of a hexacoreprocessor with two gigabytes of memory. Website Xboxygen has learned that Microsoft is planning for the successor of the Xbox 360 to announce…
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European Union adopts law to use bodyscanners – update
The European Commission has adopted rules that define the circumstances under which member states bodyscanners are allowed to use. Among others, the Netherlands was, until recently, concerned with the testing of this security measure. The regulations of the European Commission leaves member states to choose whether they bodyscanners use or not. With these scanners, passengers…
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Activision allows mobile version of Call of Duty: Elite
Activision sets the release of the Call of Duty: Elite app from. The publisher is waiting with release until the keep track of statistics in the Elite stable. Activision was already known that the pc version of Elite until further order is delayed. Publisher Actvision had previously indicated that the mobile Elite app this week…
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Huawei buys Symantec at security-joint venture
Huawei acquires Symantec stake in the joint venture of both for more than a half billion dollars. The electronics manufacturer and the security company have since 2008 a joint venture in network security. Huawei and Symantec have argued in recent months conversations about the future of the joint venture. The companies argued that it is…
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“More than a quarter of Apple notebooks is now MacBook Air.”
Of all the notebooks that Apple sell, it is now 28 percent have a MacBook Air, as evidenced by market research. In march 2012, Apple will have a thin 15″notebook and want to release. Suppliers would be the first components have already supplied. The sales of the MacBook Air would be a good push in…