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Company Users turn to Twitter from The ailing microblogging service Twitter has for the first time since the IPO in 2013, active users lost. Founder Dorsey announces additional conversion measures. The short messaging service Twitter has been disappointing Geschäftzahlen presented. For the fourth quarter of 2015, the company 305 million active users, if the subscribers…

Munich Security Conference “The more sharing, the better” The Munich security conference creates a framework in which informal meetings between difficult partners. The the world needs in these difficult times, says SIPRI-Chef Dan Smith in the DW-Interview. Deutsche Welle: As if there were not already enough conferences, summits and forums such as G7, G20 or…

Germany Strong rise of extreme-right violence Burning Flüchtlingsheime, rights Schlägerbanden – the number of right-wing extremist crimes is rising steeply. The most violent have a xenophobic Background. According to preliminary Numbers have the security authorities in Germany in the past year 13.846 criminal offences with extreme right-wing Background were registered. This corresponds to an increase…

USA Lawsuit for failed Polizeirefom in Ferguson After the violent death of the Afroamerikaners Michael Brown in 2014, should the police be reformed. But the city in the U.S. state of Missouri to block the Plan. Now she gets legal pressure from Washington. The U.S. Department of justice has filed a lawsuit against the town…

Debt crisis Who should be Portugal’s debt to pay? Change in Lisbon: on another stubborn Save, the new government on more money for the citizens to the crisis to solve. The creditors see the development is rather critical. In the coming years, from 2016 through 2019, must Portugal a total of around 43 billion euros…

Dell has the consumer electronics show CES Latitude and Inspiron models announced that are available with the new Broadwell cpu’s from Intel. In addition, the range of laptops, its subsidiary Alienware updated and adapted. Dell has the laptopreeks Alienware renewed and the 18″model is deleted. The company has a new 15″model is introduced and the…

Intel has a module the size of a node is announced, that soc combines with support for bluetooth and the presence of sensors. The module should be used for, among other wearables. The module has the name Curie received and must be in the second half of 2015, to appear. The module consists of a…

Saygus at CES with a 5″smartphone announced that two micro-sdxc-cards. The standard storage capacity of 64GB may, therefore, with a maximum of 256GB to be extended. The Saygus V lwa would be in the spring of 2015 need to appear, and the retail price is still unknown. The smartphone from the American company gets by…

Kingston has at CES a number of new HyperX Predator ssds announced that in a pci-express 2.0 x4 slot and pinned. This would edition lwa le read and write speeds can be obtained, respectively, to 1.4 and 1GB/s. In the first instance, announces Kingston models with capacities of 240 and 480GB. This should be in…

Mad Catz has a modular wireless controller was released that is aimed at the mobile market. The Lynx9 can be made in various ways with a smartphone to be linked. Also is there a toetsenbordje with the controller included. Cheap is the Lynx9, however, is not. On the Lynx9 a cell phone on the upper…

A researcher has found a way to http strict transport security, a method of tapping of internet connections to prevent this, in order to track users on the internet. That method also works if someone incognito mode. Websites can, thanks to hsts by means of an http-header to know that they are in the sequel…

Bang & Olufsen at CES, a new audio system shown. It comes to a speaker with an associated muziektablet’ on both sides to operate. Striking to the detachable device is that the back of a houtlaag. Bang & Olufsen has opted for oak, as in the announcement clearly. On the right side of the back…

Ziggo will start soon with a trial in which a ‘much higher’ speed of internet connection is offered. An unknown number of customers may be the higher internet speed to test. How high the new speed is, is not known. Ziggo confirms the test request compared to Led, after some customers in a letter are…

The Internet Archive has 2386 dos games online directly in your browser playable thanks to a javascript implementation of DOSBox. Among other classics like Doom, Budokan, Prince of Persia, Lemmings, Wolfenstein and Leisure Suit Larry are in the archive. Since december is experimenting The Internet Archive with the working of the DOSBox-emulatorcode in modern browsers.…

Intel at CES, the Compute Stick announced. The stick is equipped with an Atom processor and have a hdmi input of a tv or monitor to be pricked. In the first instance is a version of Windows released, but Intel is also working on a Linux version. The Intel Compute Stick contains a quad-core-Atom-processor from…

Dell has during the consumentenelektronicabeurs CES a new laptop ge lwa site. The XPS 13 has a 13.3″screen and is optionally available with a resolution of 3200×1800 pixels delivered. The laptops are equipped with different Intel Core processors. The company has the laptop on his site announced. The entry-level model includes an Intel Core i3…

DFB-Pokal Also Bayern and Hertha in the Cup semi-finals No Surprises in the last two DFB-Pokal-Viertelfinalspielen: FC Bayern win at VfL Bochum, Hertha BSC when 1. FC Heidenheim. In the semi-finals play in Munich and Berlin home. Bayern Top Scorer Thiago (2.v.r.) salutes Twice 2. against 1. Bundesliga, twice put himself in the quarter-finals of…

NATO Comment: With cannons on sparrows Germany and Turkey have in Nato to assist in the refugee crisis asked. The Alliance aims at the Detection of Schlepperbanden help. It is not a task for the military Alliance, says Barbara Wesel. Some ideas are just with the desperation of their authors to explain. So Angela Merkel…

Security To Bad Aibling: train safety in Europe After the disaster in Bavaria is the issue of train safety is again being discussed. In the EU there are no uniform Standards. The “ETCS System” is designed to change that. We explain it and look on Zugunglücke in Europe. The Train wreck of Bad Aibling, the…

Media In the propaganda war against the will The Russian TV accuses the ZDF, testimony in a Putin-documentary manipulated to have. The Mainzer transmitter DISCLAIMED and there are small manufacturing defects. The incident is a puzzle. “We do not want a propaganda war,” says Robert Bachem. The head of ZDFinfo, society, and life repeated this…

Literature New Harry Potter book coming in summer After seven Supersellern with the adventures of Harry Potter, wrote author J. K. Rowling crime novels for adults. However, now comes the sorcerer’s apprentice – as a seasoned man. Scene from a Harry Potter Film Nine years after the seventh volume, “Harry Potter and the deathly Hallows”…

USA Christie and Fiorina withdrawn to throw in the towel They cut in New Hampshire, the second area code in the race for the U.S. democratic presidential nomination, is particularly bad: the Republicans Carly Fiorina withdrawn and Chris Christie. Now draw the consequences. You could not convince Carly Fiorina withdrawn breaks down the U.S. election…

India Elephant raging through Indian city On the other hand is the proverbial bull in a China shop a Schmusestier: An elephant went on a rampage in the Indian city of Siliguri. Hurt no one – even the bull is not. A wild elephant has in the city of Siliguri in northeast India homes and…