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The South Korean Federal Trade Commission has ten lcd manufacturers fined for price-fixing on lcd’s. The fine for the ten companies, which together, eighty per cent of the market operate, amounts to a total of 125,5 million euros. According to the FTC, the ten companies between 2001 and 2006 in the secret discussions about price-fixing…

In the United Kingdom is the usenetindexeerder Nzbsrus taken offline, after the owner a cease & desist was received from the Federation Against Copyright Theft, a dochterorganisatie of the MPA-association. The Federation Against Copyright Theft would be the owner shortly after the ruling in the Newzbin2 case have accessed. In the judgment of the Newzbin2…

Smartphonemaker HTC has in the presentation of its quarterly figures let you know 13.2 million smartphones to be sold. That’s more than the 12.1 million copies of the previous quarter, what was then a record meant. The number of sales in the third quarter means almost a doubling compared to the same quarter last year.…

Hackers who would work on behalf of hostile countries have in the past few months on a large-scale British government attacked. Among other foreign affairs and systems of defense were targeted. That sets Iain Lobban, director of the intelligence service GCHQ, at the London Conference on Cyberspace, where, among others, EU commissioner Neelie Kroes and…

According to the new European rules require member states of the EU in January 2013 and have given permission for the setting up of mobile networks for internet access on the 800MHz band. This should be the roll-out of mobile internet speed. The force of a frequency spectrum for mobile internet in each member state…

Intellectual Ventures patents is collected for court cases, Nikon has sued for breach of four on camera-related patents. Unknown is which Nikon-products infringing on the patents. According to the indictment, on October 26, filed in the court in Delaware, Intellectual Ventures, founded by former Microsoft cto Nathan myhrvold who, already in 2008, try to make…

Syri lwa used American equipment to active blocking, it is apparent from the data of Blue Coat Systems. That company supplies equipment for blocking websites. How the Syrian regime the resources received, is unclear. The American Blue Coat Systems produced initially filtering devices for an Iraqi ministry. By an unknown cause, this would, however, have…

Motorola Mobility, the company that supposedly Google is taken over, is going to eight hundred employees to lay off. The layoff the company 31 million dollars, but Motorola denies that the acquisition plays a role. That reports news agency Bloomberg, on the basis of documents that Motorola has filed with the Us Securities and Exchange…

Sony wants out of the joint venture with Samsung for production of lcd’s for tv’s steps, according to sources in Japan. The group would share want to sell it to focus more on the supply of cheap panels from third parties. Sony is about half owner of the in 2004, formed S-LCD joint venture, Samsung…

On a Chinese website, the first pictures shown of the Lumix GX1-m4/3 camera from Panasonic. The compact system camera may seem a little grip at the Panasonic LC1 from 2004 and is the ‘spiritual’ successor of the Lumix GF1. On Mobile01, a Chinese forum, this weekend, pictures posted of the Lumix GX1 from Panasonic. On…

Publisher Ubisoft has released in the past week domain names registered that point to an impending new Rainbow Six game. On the basis of the registered names seems to be the new game ‘Rainbow Six: Patriots’ going to be called. Website Fusible wrote this past weekend that Ubisoft, among others, the domain names Rainbow6Patriots.com and…

Microsoft wants in early 2012, starting with the sale of the Windows Kinect sdk. The motion sensor can then, from that moment in commercial lwa le products are used. The sdk was already available for scientific use. Microsoft is already working together with 200 commercial companies, which are involved in a beta of the Windows…

Researchers have developed a method for oleds to produce on a plastic surface. This would be the oleds enough light output to compete with oleds that are more expensive, glass substrates are made. The majority of the oleds for displays is produced using glass as the substrate, allowing the displays are relatively heavy and are…

The Japanese Nippon Electric Glass Co Ltd, glass of 30 anti-reflective layers so that it hardly reflects. This feature makes the glass almost invisible. The technology would make it easier to build displays to read. Nippon Electric Glass Co Ltd has demonstrated the results at the FPD International 2011 exhibition, recently in Japan was held.…

Asus expected in the next quarter less notebooks, netbooks and tablets to sell, although the lucrative christmas period for the door. The reason for the conservative expectation is the flood in Thailand. Asus sold in the last quarter, 4.3 million notebooks, of 800,000 tablets and 1.3 million Eee PC’s. In addition, sold the Taiwanese group…

China has made its first supercomputer, which runs on 8704 in their own country developed ShenWei processors, put into operation. The brand new supercomputer would be enough powerful to be able to run in the top of the world. The rekenmonster, Sunway BlueLight MPP as a name has been given, in september, installed in the…

Canonical wants its linux distribution Ubuntu also on mobile devices such as phones and tablets offer. Thus, the company wants to eventually compete with Android into. That’s going to take a while; the first release will appear around 2014. Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth calls the expansion to mobile devices is a ‘natural’ step. “If people…

Security ISSX was involved in a weiter on investigative journalist Brenno de Winter. The owner of the company says to have this done because his company because of a campaign of The Winter against vulnerabilities. Computerworld, one of the publications to which investigative journalist Brenno de Winter is connected, writes that ISSX was involved in…

The French company Jolicloud is a closed b lwa ta launched a new cloud-based that the content of various other web services should merge to completed. n as a whole. Jolicloud is also in the short term with Android and iPhone applications. The start-up Jolicloud started in 2008 with the provision of the same operating…

The Chinese company Shenzhen Technology has a laptop built with a design very similar to a MacBook Air from Apple. The clone, however, is based on the considerably less-powerful Atom processor instead of a Core i5 cpu. The still unnamed laptop from the company Shenzhen Technology features a 13″display with a 720p resolution, 2GB ram…

The developers of the mediacenterpakket Plex have under the name of myPlex, a cloud-based ge lwa site that content at a distance can be approached, for example via a smartphone. Also, there is a wachtrijfunctie ge lwa mplementeerd. MyPlex makes it possible to have media files on a Plex Media Server to be accessed via…

The Linux Foundation has published a proposal that describes how computer manufacturers with the secure boot mechanism on a ‘fair’ and ‘open’ way in systems with a uefi can implement. Just like various other organizations that open-source software to promote, the Linux Foundation is concerned about the possible restrictions that the secure boot mechanism to…

Cisco has a module for applying hardware-based encryption on its ISR G2 routers announced. The module can ip-traffic through vpn tunnels with various encryption algorithms to be encrypted. According to Cisco can VPN Internal Service Module works with so-called “Suite B” algorithms. These encryption algorithms by the NSA approved for encrypting data traffic with the…

Apple presumably works on an alternative to Google Maps for iOS, by the acquisition of a maker of 3d-cards. The acquisition would be in the summer already have taken place, but Apple never made public. That reports 9To5Mac, anonymous sources has learned that employees of 3d-mapping company C3 Technologies now for Apple to work. Thus,…