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  • Microsoft gets patent to silently record voip traffic

    Microsoft has a patent obtained on silently recording communications, in which the special redirection of voip calls for shooting lists. The request stems from to the Skype acquisition. The patent application was at the end of 2009, under the heading of Legal Intercepts submitted and 23 June received Microsoft patent assigned to it. The text…

  • Dutch AntiSec group publishes customer data importer

    A number of hackers, operating under the name AntiSec NL, has the login details of the websites Pcicase.nl and Procase.nl published on Pastebin. The unknown group also has the website of a religious denomination is attacked. AntiSec NL seems to be a splintergroepering of the loose AntiSec collective and has been since Sunday active on…

  • Blizzard makes first WoW expansion for free

    At the same time with the release of patch 4.2, Blizzard, The Burning Crusade, the first expansion of World of Warcraft, for free. Who the game now buy it, get the expansion there. Who the game already has, he can download it for free. From June 28, joins Blizzard’s World of Warcraft with The Burning…

  • Google tool will turn Flash file into json object

    Google tool will turn Flash file into json object

    Google has a tool released that enables Flash content in a json-object can be converted. This allows Flash content to be made suitable for devices without Flash plug-in. The output works best with Webkit browsers. The online tool Swiffy from Google offers developers the ability to use their Flash content into a json object. With…

  • Google launches its own social networking service

    Google launches its own social networking service

    Internetgigant Google has with Google+, its long-awaited social networking service launched. The service is still in a testing phase and works just like Gmail seven years ago with the invitations. You can register so for some time. Google+ seems to be a lot of functionality that already exists on other social-networking sites such as Facebook…

  • Microsoft develops multiplayerplatform for smartphones

    Microsoft has released under the name Switchboard a spelletjessysteem in the making that is meant for smartphone users to play using a mobile internet connection. The software connects gamers with each other. Researchers from Microsoft’s research department have a description of the system published. Users with the game software in a kind of lobby, taking…

  • Nuon Solar Team shows Nuna6-solar car

    Nuon Solar Team shows Nuna6-solar car

    Shortly after the presentation of the solar car of the Twente team has the Nuon Solar Team are new Nuna6 is presented to the public. The all-new solar car of the Delft team is more compact and lighter than its predecessor. The Nuna6 has a length of 4,44 m and is therefore the most compact…

  • Net neutrality is law passed

    The Second Room has decided to be an exception to net neutrality from the telecommunications Act. Last week was the exception added, after the Labour party the proposal of the SGP had inadvertently supported. A Kamermeerderheid of 76 seats, consisting of PvdA, GroenLinks, D66, PVV and the Party for the Animals, agreed to a stability…

  • Microsoft introduces Office 365

    Microsoft introduces Office 365

    Microsoft has its Office 365 service Tuesday ge lwa site. The service, with Google Docs competes and since april in b lwa ta turned, let business customers, both in their web browser, as with the Office client apps to work on Office documents. Users can log from this week to sign up for an Office…

  • Nvidia announces notebook-gpu GTX580M and GTX570M

    Nvidia announces notebook-gpu GTX580M and GTX570M

    Nvidia has launched two new notebook gpus announced in the 5xx series. The 580M and 570M differ little from their predecessors, but have higher clock speed. Dell goes the new gpu’s in the Alienware line as the first bet. The GTX580M is almost identical to the GTX485M, which introduced early this year. The chip still…

  • Google activates half million Android devices per day

    Google activates half million Android devices per day

    Google executive Andy Rubin has let you know that per day to 500,000 devices with the Android operating system are activated. That is a hundred thousand more than a month and a half ago. According to the ceo set the growth to continue. This left Rubin on Twitter know, he also mentioned that the increase…

  • Google: Belgium lwa requires twice as often as user data if the Netherlands

    From July to december 2010, the Belgian law enforcement agencies 85 requests for user data Google done, 42 more than the Netherlands. This is apparent from the new Transparency Report from Google. In the Transparency Report gives Google insight into the number of retrievals of data about users of Google services such as Gmail and…

  • Belgacom rolls out lte network

    The Belgian provider Belgacom has announced to have started with the provision of services on its lte network. Companies have the possibility to have an lte subscription. Consumers follow when there is enough demand. The telco said that if there is sufficient demand from customers and sufficient supply of mobile devices with support for the…

  • Fujitsu brings business Windows 7 tablet

    Fujitsu brings business Windows 7 tablet

    Hardware manufacturer Fujitsu has this week been Windows 7 tablet Stylistic Q550 released. In the tablet, which is on business users is addressed, there is a new, efficient Atom cpu, codenamed Oak Trail, which is specially designed for tablets. The Stylistic Q550 will cost 689 euros, excluding vat, runs Windows 7 and has 2GB of…

  • French search engine is claiming 295 million euros of Google

    A French internet company that search engines has developed is a lawsuit against Google started. The company is claiming compensation of € 295 million for the abuse of power and preferential treatment of own services. In addition to the compensation, requires the company 1PlusV that Google is three months long details about its anticompetitive activities…

  • “One in five selling Android devices of HTC

    “One in five selling Android devices of HTC

    A fifth of all sold Android devices coming from HTC. That claims to be the manufacturer in an interview with the Chinese site CENS. In addition, one in two selling Windows Phone smartphones from the Taiwanese-made, says the manufacturer. Thus, the share of HTC in the field of Android in the last few years decreased;…

  • Acer releases Chromebook AC700 only in Q4 to the Netherlands

    Acer releases Chromebook AC700 only in Q4 to the Netherlands

    Acer is going to be AC700 Chromebook, which this month in the United States is ge lwa site, only in the fourth quarter in the Benelux release. The netherlands does not belong to the so-called first wave countries where the device is released. That left Diana Sestig of Acer Benelux request to Tweakers.net. The AC700…

  • Firefox 7 release http-designation expired in address bar

    Firefox 7, currently in development at Mozilla, will be in the address bar is not longer ” http://’ for a url to show. This follows Mozilla’s example of Chrome, the browser from Google. Up to now shows Firefox the full url. The omission of “http://” in the address bar is visible in the nightly builds…

  • Ericsson is doing field tests with umts-successor lte-advanced

    Ericsson is doing field tests with umts-successor lte-advanced

    Ericsson has been doing field tests in Sweden to lte-advanced to try out. Lte-advanced is a faster variant of 4g technology lte. In the test was a speed of 940Mbps. In the field tests makes a network company Ericsson use of a bandwidth of 60MHz, a lot more than 20MHz, which is currently possible with…

  • Moralisk fråga innan Chandy och knepig situation för Kongressen

    Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy. (Snabb bild av Ravi Kanojia) En vaksamhet domstolens beslut att registrera en GRAN mot Kerala Chief Minister, Oommen Chandy, idag har förvärrat elände av Kongressen i den stat som är på väg för församlingen valet i tre månader. Den ordning som har ställt till en moralisk fråga, innan de kämpande…

  • Sony: we were hacked because we have our property protected

    Sony: we were hacked because we have our property protected

    Sony ceo Howard Stringer gave at a meeting for shareholders its opinion on the disabling of the PlayStation Network. Stringer thinks that the network is hacked because of Sony’s intellectual property trying to protect it. “We believe that we have become a victim of an attack because we tried our intellectual property to protect our…

  • “Intel brings Atom Cloverview at the same time with Windows 8′

    “Intel brings Atom Cloverview at the same time with Windows 8′

    Chip maker Intel would be coming Atom Cloverview-soc’s at the same time with Windows 8 want to introduce. The new 32nm chips would struggle to compete with the energy-saving ARM chips, running Windows 8 also will be able to run it. According to Intel’s Bill Kircos be the Cloverview chips simultaneously with Windows 8, introduced…

  • ICSI Foundation examen Programmet leder till 2015 förklarade @icsi.edu

    ICSI resultat 2015: granskning hölls den 26 och 27 December Institutet för Företag Sekreterare i Indien (ICSI) har förklarat att resultaten av CS Foundation Programme Undersökning på deras officiella hemsida. Undersökning hölls den December 26 och 27. I December 2015 session, 59.26 procent av kandidater som klarat Foundation Programme undersökning. Den här gången flickan kandidater…

  • Google test portal for a combination of services

    Google test portal for a combination of services

    Google is a portal to the test to which sundry of his services come together. The page is called ‘What do you love?” and groups search results to services in blocks, such as YouTube, Google Earth and Google Patent Search. The page serves for a search to Tweakers.net include a map, various blogs, and invitations…

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