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  • Take-Two: a bad quarter because of disappointing Duke Nukem Forever

    In the quarter in which Take-Two both L. A. Noire as Duke Nukem Forever put on the market, the American publisher a loss of 8.7 million dollars. A year earlier, the group had a gain of 26.3 million. Take-Two Interactive, parent company of Rockstar Games and 2K Games, the figures published on april, may and…

  • IBM will withdraw from megasupercomputerproject

    IBM has to financ lwa le reasons the participation in the construction of a supercomputer for an American university discontinued. The Blue Waters supercomputer needs to be delivered in 2012, but it is unclear whether that is being achieved. The construction of the Blue Waters supercomputer was already in 2007 announced. The computer must be…

  • Ben pushes higher subscription rates with discount

    Virtual telecom provider Ben, a brand of T-Mobile, try a ‘discount offer’, customers agree to deal with worse conditions. The consumer protection authority considers that Am customers in confusion. Customers of the virtual provider, which is the budget airline and entirely in the hands of T-Mobile received last week an e-mail that they per month…

  • Justice brings Dutch hackers of universities for judge

    The TO begin Tuesday in Rotterdam a lawsuit against five Dutch hackers who are suspected of break-ins on networks of various universities in the USA. The hackers wanted so games and movies available to download. The case against the five hackers, who come from Amsterdam, Hengelo, the Netherlands, Locks and Groningen, will Tuesday start, please…

  • HTC sets OpenSense-sdk available

    HTC has made available an sdk that allows developers of apps for HTC’s own Android skin, Sense. The with the sdk-made apps work only on the most powerful devices and on HTC’s tablet Flyer. The sdk contains apis for three types of apps and widgets, it appears on the developers web site. A is for…

  • More prices of AMD apus become known

    The prices of a number of new accelerated processing units from AMD are bekendgeworden. The new processors with built-in video chip convert the complete line of Llano-apus from AMD in five pieces, which completed. n triplecore. The apus for the desktop were in the beginning of July by AMD, introduced and should provide a counterweight…

  • MTV Mobile follows the big three by introducing metered

    MTV Mobile, a subsidiary of KPN, which is addressed to young people, in all the silence on August 1, the subscription terms adjusted. In place of a fair use policy applies the virtual provider has a monthly data limit of 1GB. Subscribers to MTV Mobile that after 1 August became customers or a new contract…

  • Ten-year-old hacker discovers exploit in iOS and Android games

    A ten-year-old hacker, who participated in the programme at the Defcon-hackersbijeenkomst, a vulnerability revealed in Android and iOS games. The exploit is available when the internal clock is manipulated. The young hacker, who operates under the alias CyFi, was annoyed with the long waits for to FarmVille-like games, reported the BBC. The teenager started it…

  • Tweaker explains leaks in Welovesafe.nl and Zoutzuur.com expose

    A tweaker has large leaks, exposed in Welovesafe.nl, a website for young people. Via a sql injection, among other things, e-mail addresses and encrypted passwords are retrieved. Also Zoutzuur.com it appears vulnerable. Tweakers.net got tweaker Glennox the message that Welovesafe.nl, a website that focuses on young people between 12 and 16 years, is prone to…

  • Gigabyte launches G1.Sniper 2 gamingmoederbord from

    Gigabyte has a new version of his G1.Sniper motherboard presented, which is based on Intel’s new Z68 chipset. The G1.Sniper 2 retains many of the features of its predecessor, but has a pci-express-x16-slot less. Where the Sniper even with the first generation Core i cpus meshed, the Sniper 2 because of its lga 1155 socket…

  • Panasonic with Viera Connect update for the 2010 tv series

    Panasonic brings at the end of August, just before the start of the IFA trade show in Berlin, a firmware-update for 2010 tv models with internet access. This is the Viera Cast iptv platform upgraded to the current Viera Connect. The announcement of the upgrade to Viera Connect could actually be on the 31st of…

  • AMD introduces Radeon-memory

    AMD has its portfolio in the silence enhanced with ddr3 memory. The chipproducent run a Radeon-line memory, where the memory available in three versions. The Entertainment series from the Radeon line is already on sale in Japan. AMD has on its website a section, AMD Memory, in the life called. The Radeon line is available…

  • “Apple comes with a cheap iMac for education’ – update

    Apple would plan to make this month a 21.5″-iMac to bring for customers in the education sector. The all-in-one would be less than $ 1000 cost, but has less muscles than the current entry-level model. The new iMac model would be a 21.5″ display and feature a dual-core Intel Core i3 processor with a clock…

  • NAD introduces 7.1-av-receiver

    NAD, a manufacturer of audio equipment, has a new av receiver ge lwa site. The NAD T 748 can 7.1-kanaalsaudio control, with per channel 40W available. In a stereo set-up is per audio channel 80W available. The NAD T 748 av receiver features four hdmi 1.4 inputs and a hdmi 1.4 port for connecting to…

  • Sony brings a number of servers for DC Universe Online back to four

    Sony begins with the setting up of MegaServers for mmog DC Universe Online. There remain four servers: a pc server and a separate PlayStation 3-server, for both Europe and North America. The European pc servers are the first together. The merge of the servers of DC Universe Online has already begun. The four European servers…

  • Ombudsman wipes the floor with DigiD

    DigiD, the inlogmethode to access government websites, is a very weak protection system. That sets National Ombudsman Alex Brenninkmeijer in an interview. Also would the victims could not be helped. Last week asked security researchers that DigiD is an insecure system. The weaknesses of the log-in system would among others, are in the postal delivery…

  • North Korea earns money to South Korean mmog’s

    According to The New York Times tries the North Korean leader Kim Jong-il to earn a special public service of the popular South Korean mmog’s to play and the bijeengespeelde virtual goods to sell. According to the South Korean government, the North Korean neighbors found a new way to the public treasury, to mexico, reports…

  • NMa: acquisition of Caiway by KPN is being examined

    The NMa does not have the green light for the takeover of Caiway by KPN. The supervisor will investigate further. It is feared that the competition in the Westland, the acquisition will greatly be reduced. KPN announced in may that the Caiway will take over. The acquisition is, however, challenged, as the Dutch competition Authority,…

  • Power failure puts European hosting services Amazon partly flat

    As a result of a power outage, a data center of Amazon in Dublin, in the night from Sunday to Monday without electricity sat. As a result of this, many sites on Amazons Elastic Cloud service to be hosted offline. The power outage occurred after a transformatorhuisje of the data center was hit by lightning.…

  • KDE developers want to Wayland window manager support

    The developers of the KDE desktop environment want step-by-step the Wayland window manager support. In 2012, the KDE interface according to the new plans on the likely successor of X.org Server should run. The Wayland project is still far from complete, but it must according to the developers long-term solution for a number of weak…

  • Smart provides business Optimus-ssd to 1.6 TB storage capacity

    The company Smart Modular Technologies has a solid state drive for the enterprise market announced that within a 2.5″enclosure has a storage capacity up to 1.6 TB. The Optimus ssds would read speeds up to 1GBps to achieve. Smart contends that his Optimus ssds are available in versions with storage capacities of 200GB, 400GB, 800GB…

  • Liquor stores check the age of client with webcam

    About sixty liquor stores have the hardware in their shops placed from now on via a webcam, the age of a customer to check. Through so-called Ageviewers of the company to HIM within three seconds whether or not given the green light. With the purchase of alcoholic beverages, a minimum age of 16 or 18…

  • Sony wins Pwnie award at hackersconferentie

    Sony has the Pwnie award for ‘epic fail’ won on hackersconferentie Black Hat. The Pwnies are the awards for the best hacks of the past year. Computer hacker group LulzSec silver-plated two nominations not and saw Stuxnet win. Sony won the “Pwnie” because of the security holes that last year were uncovered. The hack of…

  • Dutchman makes app for dslr to control it from Android phone

    The Dutch developer Chainfire has an application made, that a Canon dslr can be controlled from an Android phone or tablet. The app can be used to change settings or to take pictures. The paid app is already in the Android Market, but according to Chainfire, still a trial version. With the app, and the…