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Google has announced that Google Health and Google Powermeter services are going to close. According to the search giant would be both the patient record, if the service that provides information about energy consumption, not enough to grow. The service, Google Health in may 2008 opened. Through the site can Americans medical information in individual…

The hackersgroepering LulzSec has in a statement announced that the themselves will lift. A precise reason, calls the group not. In a recent “dump” of the group are documents of, among others, AOL, and AT&T published. LulzSec is a small two months have been active with the cracking of websites and perform ddos attacks. In…

Facebook would be around this time its 750 millionth member welcome. That reports TechCrunch on the basis of a source in the company. The social network is by far the largest network in the world. The growth seems not to stop. The three quarters of a billion members, not by Facebook confirmed, but according to…

Sony has employees who are responsible for security of the network is fired just before the PlayStation Network was hacked. At the hack in april have made the crackers data of a total of 77 million users of loot. The security on PSN was not done according to standards, but went on an ad-hoc basis…

Problems with Android phones appear to be most often related to the hardware. This is evident from an analysis of repair company WDS. At BlackBerry’s have the problems reported least often to do with the hardware of the device. In 14 percent of the cases where a problem with an Android phone it was reported…

Minister Verhagen of Economic Affairs is investigating whether the break-up of the cable connections is legally tenable. The Second Room took a change in the law that the monopoly of UPC and Ziggo breaks, but Verhagen don’t know if that is allowed. The decision to have the monopoly of UPC and Ziggo on the cable…

Android and iOS seem to be heading in a duopoly on mobile browsing traffic”. This is evident from measurements of Tweakers.net and Mobile Metrics, which measure at 20 Dutch sites. The joint share is more than 90 percent and still growing. The visit from mobile devices has doubled since a half year, concludes Mobile Metrics.…

The European Parliament has adopted a directive that consumers on the internet protect. That must be shopping on the internet. The Council of Ministers adopts the directive, probably next month as well. With a majority of 615 of 652 votes, the European Parliament adopted a new directive for consumer protection adopted. The directive is intended…

Mozilla gets criticism from business users because of the announcement that Firefox 4 no security updates after the release of Firefox 5. Microsoft jumps to this by focusing on his long support. Last week, Mozilla Firefox 5, three months after Firefox 4 was released. At the end of april appeared Firefox 4.0.1, that eight vulnerabilities…

The two trade organisations Wi-Fi Alliance and Wireless Broadband Alliance are in conversation with each other for the creation of a roamingsysteem. With this system users worldwide can roam on wi-fi networks. It is thus possible to log in to wi-fi networks to which the provider of the user has a contract, so reports The…

European Commission, Council and Parliament have reached agreement on measures against offences, child pornography sites. States need not required sites to block, such as first proposed, but “need to do their best’ to remove them. Last year march, the European Commission for each member state to impose an internet filter against child pornography. The states…

The Us Federal Trade Commission is according to a U.s. newspaper on the point for Google to sue. The marktwaakhond would like to investigate whether the search giant abuses its dominant market position. The FTC is concerned with the preparation of a subpoena for Google, reports The Wall Street Journal. The American marktwaakhond would like…

Manufacturer Archos has introduced new versions of its Android tablets presented. The two models with the names of the Archos 80 G9 and Archos 101 G9. Both devices are equipped with Android 3.1 Honeycomb as the operating system. Both tablets have a dualcoreprocessor from the OMAP4 series from Texas Instruments, with a clock speed of…

LulzSec, the website and database of the Arizona Department of Public Safety hacked. The group says that the hack is performed because the Arizona strict immigration law. LulzSec has, among other personal information released. A spokesman for the Arizona Department of Public Safety has confirmed that the police authority is victim of a hack. “Our…

The Belgian city of Ghent wants to make it possible to register a domain name that ends in”.gent’. Monday decided the Icann that brand names, as well as cities, may be used for the extension of domain names. Ghent claims to be the first city in the Benelux, and a private extension would like to…