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“Samsung wants to WebOS devices’
HP has confirmed that there are ongoing talks to makers of mobile devices, a license to WebOS, the mobile operating system, which HP owns. According to rumors, in any case, Samsung interest. According to HP ceo Leo Apotheker, there are various companies who are interested in a WebOS license, reports Bloomberg. The ceo, however, wanted…
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Government: Hollywood stands behind our auteursrechtplannen
State secretary Teeven of Security and Justice received Wednesday the visit of the president of the American Motion Picture Association. Both expressed the hope that the Dutch copyright policy in other EU member states picked up. State secretary Teeven of Security and Justice, and Chris Dodd, chairman of the MPAA, discussed Wednesday the copyright policy…
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UPC is set-top box with online-playback testing
UPC Netherlands is the Horizon Mediabox from Samsung in the coming months to try on his cable network. The set-top box is able to onlinevideocontent to show and can stream video to several tv’s or mobile devices. That has UPC confirmed opposite TotaalTV. The arrival of a set-top box with internet technology, it was announced…
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Telfort announces new subscriptions, mobile internet
Telfort offers the rates and speeds of their mobile-internet subscriptions adjusted. Customers can choose from three package types, with a maximum speed of 3.6 Mbps for smartphones and 7.2 Mbps for laptops. It performs the KPN-daughter data limits. The phones are offered for a price of 6,95, 10,95 or 15,95 euros per month. Therefore the…
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LG brings small hdtv with passive 3d
LG brings the beginning of July a new, little hdtv cum monitor with passive 3d capability. The DM50D will get a quickview-ability for usb storage and built-in functionality for 2d-to-3d conversion. The LG DM50D is a small tv cum monitor, which LG the size, and the exact resolution is not yet known. However, the model…
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EA: SWTOR contains over 200 hours of gameplay per class
Frank Gibeau, head of EA Games label, said in a interview apart from the fact that each class in mmog Star Wars: The Old Republic, a story contains a minimum of 200 hours. The chief would not say what the development costs of the game. Frank Gibeau, head of EA Games, got to GamesIndustry, the…
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Full Tilt Poker loses license and goes to black
Players can no longer play poker at Full Tilt Poker, after the Alderney Gambling Control Commission the license of the poker site instantly has withdrawn. This allows the pokeraanbieder at the moment no real money games offer. Full Tilt Poker had, until recently, a licence for the provision of gambling from the Kanaaleilandje Alderney. The…
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Microsoft brings b lwa ta of Windows Phone Mango from
Microsoft has a b lwa ta of Windows Phone Mango released for developers. Mango is a new version of Windows Phone, which this fall should appear on phones. With the b lwa ta developers can get apps to optimize. There are for developers, many possibilities have been added in Mango, writes Microsoft in a blog…
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Apple responds to criticism on Final Cut Pro X
Apple has a faq published in which the answer to the criticism about his new video editor, Final Cut Pro X. The software manufacturer from Cupertino promises a number of problems in a future update to fix. Final Cut Pro X came out a week ago on the market and offers a revamped and simplified…
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Thirty-year-old Amiga makes still for climate system schools
A Commodore Amiga send for thirty years, a climate system of the nineteen public schools in the city of Grand Rapids, Michigan in the noordnoordoosten of the United States. The computer switches to the heating and the air conditioning on and off for the buildings. The Amiga system is of great importance. It not only…
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Dutch casemodster in the latest round of Intel RACK design competition
The Dutch casemodster, and Tweakster, Femke Supply, the top five achieved at the Bit-tech-competition for the best design of an Intel RACK housing. She made a bowl-shaped aluminum housing with blue transparent cover. Femke Supply, or FAT, has the top 5 of the RACK Case Design Competition 2014, Bit-tech reached with the Flux. They made…
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Onlinesupermarkt going to test to do with robots, which jobs to take over in warehouse
A British onlinesupermarkt is robots bets to technical defects to repair in his warehouse. The SecondHands need help with the material, tackle, cleaning and other chores. The robot must operate autonomously and works via voice commands. The SecondHands is primarily intended as assistance for the current employees of the warehouse and must be simple commands…
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Hack open garage door using a toy and algorithm Dutchman
Developers are fond of claiming that certain hacks are child’s play, but it happens not so often that they are really children’s toys. An American did it, to garage doors within ten seconds to open. The hack has a Dutch touch. The used toy is a little machine to be able to chat, IM ME…
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ESA and the ISS ‘shaking hands’ with joystick via telerobotica – update
Wednesday shook an astronaut aboard the International Space Station, the hand with a telerobotica specialist on the ground in the Netherlands. The astronaut tested a joystick that will make it possible for astronauts to see objects at a distance, to “feel”. That writes the ESA on its website. The astronaut, Terry Virts, shook at 21:10…
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Casemodder builds huge Thermaltake Fast&Furious-housing
Thermaltake has in its booth at Computex, a rather striking case. Here we thought that the Taiwanese company is itself a monsterbehuizing had built, but it turned out to be the casemod of a Thai casemodder. This Suchao Prowphong has his casemod inspired by the film series The Fast & The Furious, in which racing…
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Two-legged robot walk over the obstacles without looking
Researchers from Oregon State University have developed a two-legged robot on a human scale: ATRIAS. The robot is used for the testing of theoretical concepts. Now it turns out that the robot about obstacles. The robot was designed to function as a simple mass-spring system, a model similar to a pogo-stick. This two-legged spring-model can…
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Original Apple I computer found at thrift store
A thrift store for electronics in the California Bay Area got a remarkable product delivered: an Apple 1 computer. Of this computer are only 200 copies made and it was the first Apple product that by founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak has been released. The Apple I came into the hands of the Clean…
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Researchers make origami-robot see
Scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have a robot shown that self-fold on a heating element. Then swims or moves to the small robot continued by an externally generated magnetic field. Researchers from MIT and the Technical University of Munich worked together on the droid, that Wednesday was presented in the International Conference on…
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Retro-game-and -movie Kung Fury are on Steam
Both the game and the movie Kung Fury are to see and download via Steam. The creators brought with 17,000 backers more than growth invested $ 630,000 dollars together via a Kickstarter campaign. The movie is free and the game costs just two euros. The Swedish actiecomedy in which the oriental martial arts and all…
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Cheetah robot can run jump over obstacles
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has its cheetah robot learned to run over obstacles to jump. It would be the first robotic four-legged friend are autonomous with a speed over barricades and jump off. The MIT shows in a video how the mechanical cheetah, the hordes. The institute has the four-legged friend to do this…
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Tweaker set espresso via browser
A tweaker has his espresso machine linked to a Raspberry Pi 2 for its coffee via the web. For his project the machine was opengeschroefd to the buttons with the gpio ports of the small computer to connect. Ict specialists and other engineers to invent the most creative solutions when it comes to their caffeïneverslaving.…
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Google Roboto font is completely open source
Who, for example, for a hobby project to get the Android interface in detail want to recreate, since Tuesday Googles Roboto font to use. The techgigant has the font being fully open source. Google has introduced Roboto in 2011 with Android Ice Cream Sandwich. With the font designer Christian Robertson tried the techgigant to the…
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Hardwarefan turn 55-year-old IBM mainframe in for mining of bitcoins
Ken Shirriff, a hardwarefanaat, has tried to do with an IBM Model 1401 mainframe, which on punched cards running, bitcoins to mine. That was successful, but patience is needed: a single block of hashes to calculate, more time is needed than the lifetime of the universe. Shirrif tried the sha256 algorithm that bitcoin mining is…
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Belgium lwa take farewell of the last public phone booth
Monday disappears, the last public phone booth in Belgium lwa. The telefoonkot to the Middelheimlaan Antwerp was three days long, the only remaining phone booth in Belgium lwa, but now it is also for this phone box the cloth. Friday was the last phone booth in Belgium is already shut down, in the Wallonian hills.…