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Large-scale data under KPN-customers want to massively change
Many TELECOM customers away due to the introduction of the new, more expensive subscriptions. In a research among visitors of Tweakers.net says about 84 percent of the participating KPN and Hi customers about to go steps. Of the customers that say to continue, there would be many opt for the cheapest subscription, according to a…
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Apple knock Nokia from the throne as the market leader in smartphones
Apple is the new global leader in the field of smartphones. Former market leader Nokia sold in the second quarter to 16.7 million smartphones; Apple did in the same quarter of the 20 million iPhones to sell. Nokia sold in the last quarter, 34 percent less smartphones than in the same quarter last year. According…
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Konami introduces Teammates Control in PES 2012
Developer and publisher Konami introduces a new feature in Pro Evolution Soccer 2012 ‘teammates control’ is called. This new option in the controller allows players to during the game two players at the same time to control. Teammates control is by Konami thought of the player more control over where the other football players walk…
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Foundation does a tax return because of hack site for update
The foundation behind a christian site for doing declaration, due to theft of the database with data from a few thousand members. The hacker who the leak was reported, is outraged at the declaration. A hacker, who operates under the name SyntaxNL, obtained thanks to a sql-injection to access the database of JongKatholiek.nl. Tweakers.net has…
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Samsung netbook with MeeGo in India
Samsung has in India the N100 released. The manufacturer provides the model standard with Intel’s MeeGo OS, but optional to install Samsung also Free DOS or Windows 7, click the small, light netbook with Atom n-435 and 10.1″screen. After Nokia disappeared as a driving force behind MeeGo was Intel only. However, it seems that MeeGo…
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Gartner: no significant growth of mobile payments
The market for mobile payments is growing not as hard as expected. While large companies, people still have to convince of the usefulness of paying via nfc, the use in developing countries because there are no phones with nfc. Therefore, people in developing countries pay with sms and ussd, a technique to deal with a…
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‘Hadoop is easier to use’
The Apache Hadoop project is easier to use, says the ceo of HortonWorks. The new version will come out probably in the second quarter of next year and also offers better scalability and performance, the ceo. According to HortonWorks ceo Eric Baldeschwieler must use the new Hadoop version, the threshold is lower to use the…
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Microsoft drops in-app purchases in Windows Phone Mango
Microsoft has the option, within applications to make purchases deleted from Windows Phone Mango. The function would initially be built, but to the disappointment of some of the developers that happens now anyway. The function was on the list for Mango, but did not make the cut, according to Microsoft employee Todd Brix in a…
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Hitachi announces to 4.5″-ips panel with 720p resolution and 3d
Hitachi has a 4.5″3d lcd based on ips technology developed. The screen has a resolution of 1280 by 720 pixels and to the autostereoscopic 3d effect to achieve this, Hitachi uses an lcd lenslaag. The current, small autostereoscopic 3d displays, including the Nintendo 3DS and the LG Optimus 3D Speed to be used, for the…
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Taliban accuse US of hacking
The islamic talibangroepering accuses the United States of its phones, e-mail accounts and websites of the group to have hacked. This would mean that false messages about the death of a talibanleider are spread. According to the Afghan taliban, the United States has their systems hacked to make false reports about the death of a…
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First game Respawn Entertainment comes only in 2015
The first game from Respawn Entertainment, the studio founded by ex-Infinity Ward employees Jason West and Vince Zampella will only appear in 2015. Reports that Iain mccaig’s, which as a concept artist for the new studio works. West and Zampella want to now little release about their first game. Concept artist Iain mccaig’s is more…
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Slip is still used more often than iDeal
Despite a growth of forty percent compared to last year is iDeal, still less used than credit slip and Chip. Now are there per month to eight million payments made through the Dutch onlinebetaalsysteem. The use of iDeal growing since the beginning steadily and in June, the milestone of eight million transactions for the first…
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GameCube games may still be playable on Wii U
According to Amber McCollom, director of entertainment & trend marketing at Nintendo of America, will GameCube games be playable on the Wii U. Nintendo would the games as a download offer via the WiiWare service. “The Wii U may not GameCube discs, but a number of games that are playable on GameCube can be downloaded…
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Intel would pci-e x2 interface, consider
Intel would consider to be a new standard for expansion cards in the life to call, in the form of a new pci-express slot. That slot would have two lanes should go, enabling bottlenecks in bandwidth should disappear. The current standard-pci-express-x1-slots, many of which expansion cards to use, can 500MB/s of bandwidth to deliver. Now…
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Panasonic adds nanocoating to lens new advanced bridge camera
Panasonic has the Lumix FZ48-advanced bridge camera announced. The camera has a 24x-zoom lens, which is provided with a nanocoating, and has a new ccd image sensor with 12.1 megapixels and a faster readout. The Lumix FZ48 is the official successor of the Lumix FZ45, which in July last year was announced. The new advanced…
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Google removes a Labs projects
Google seems to be an end to make to its Google Labs website. Although the company explicitly indicates that the site is closed, a part of the projects were terminated and another part as an independent project. In a blog post says Google that its Google Labs-activities will ‘bring back’. Gmail, Calendar and Maps to…
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Ubisoft sees quarterly revenue drop
The French game publisher Ubisoft in the first quarter of its financial year 2011-12 to 103 million euro turnover achieved. That is less than over the same period a year ago, but more than Ubisoft initially for this quarter expected. Although Ubisoft, with a turnover of 103 million euros lower scores than last year, when…
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Capcom announces Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3
In november Capcom the fighting game Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 on the market. It is an extended version of Marvel vs. Capcom 3, with eight new stages and twelve new fighters. The new version is 40 dollars. Publisher Capcom handle stripboekenbeurs Comic-Con to a renewed collaboration to announce with comics publisher Marvel. Both work…
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Intel sees revenue from data centers to increase
Intel saw revenue from its division for datacenterhardware in the last quarter, with fifteen per cent increase to 2.4 billion dollars. At the same time decreased the revenue from Atom processors with fifteen percent to 352 million dollars. As a whole, saw Intel’s revenue in the second quarter with a 21 per cent increase to…
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Apple says goodbye to the white MacBook update
Apple has the white, plastic MacBook from its product range removed. His place as the cheapest Mac notebook is occupied by the 11.6″-MacBook Air of 949 euros. Apple introduced its first MacBook five years ago. The MacBook in 2006 was the successor of the iBook G4, then the MacBook Pro’s Release followed. The introduction marked…
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DeLorean from Back to the Future goes back in production
The DeLorean from the classic Back to the Future movies comes after almost 35 years in production. In the movie trilogy was the car a tijdreismachine when the mythical speed of 88 miles per hour was achieved. The car manufacturer hopes that in 2017 the first replicas. The DeLorean Motor Company for the first time…
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Hobbyist builds with smartphone-controlled life-size version of Star Wars droid BB-8
A hobbyist has a life-size version of the Star Wars droid BB-8 is made via a smartphone to control. The head and the body are connected by magnets, while the control is via an Arduino board. The robot is made with ordinary household materials, the author on Instructables. The creator is a 17-year-old boy from…
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Hobbyists build robot rubik’s cube in less than 2 seconds to solve
In november 2015, improved fourteen-year-old Luke son of a bitch is the record rubik’s cube solve’. He did it in 4,904 seconds. A Lego machine with a Galaxy S4, it could in 3,253 seconds. Now have two engineers built a robot in 1,019 seconds. In the video knows the robot is the puzzle to resolve…
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Drone lands on moving car
An autonomous flying drone managed to land on the roof of a car to 75 miles per hour reed. The precision embroidery was supplied by researchers of the Deutsches Zentrum f lwa r Luft – und Raumfahrt DLR. The system that the drone used to land on the car is designed for non-military operations in…