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Battlefield 3 runs at 30 fps on consoles
Developer DICE has via Twitter announced that Battlefield 3 on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 with 30 frames per second runs, with a resolution of 720p. Competitor Modern Warfare 3 runs at 60 frames per second on both consoles. A spokesman from the Swedish developer Dice gave details about Battlefield 3, the shooter that…
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Icann allows brand names in internetextensies
The Icann has decided that brand names used for the extensions of domain names. Companies will, for example, a domain name ending on .ing or .coke can register, while names of cities are possible. The new rules on 12 January, the global organisation that the domeinnamensysteem manages during a meeting in Singapore decided. In addition…
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Google takes mediacenterontwikkelaar SageTV about
Google for an unknown amount SageTV acquired. The company developed the eponymous mediacentersoftware. Probably, the developers of SageTV included in the team behind Google TV. Google for an undisclosed amount, a Californian company, SageTV acquired. The software developer made since 2002 mediacentersoftware for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. Except for media playback SageTV also…
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American bill must online poker legalize
The U.s. congressman Joe Barton will soon be a bill to allow online poker to be legalized in the United States. The proposal provides for a new watchdog to providers of online poker to check. Republican Barton puts the final touches on the bill, that may be next week already submitted could be to a…
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Us Senate pulls as possible plug from railgun research
A committee lwa of the U.s. Senate has approved a smaller budget for defence research. Studies of a free-elektronenlaser and to an electromagnetic railgun of the Us navy will be reduced. The defense budget for fiscal year 2012 of the American armed forces is provisionally 664,5 billion dollars, 6.4 billion less than what the Obama…
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Hi introduces Young service for children
Telecom provider Hi, part of KPN, is launching probably Monday a prepaid service for children. This is by the telco Hi Young called, and must ensure that the telephone be held in the hand. Hi for the new service, a special website was created, which Monday live. The site gives no information about the Young,…
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Microsoft has permission to Skype to buy
The Federal Trade Commission, the American regulator of the telecom market, Microsoft has given the green light to Skype. The software giant has 8.5 billion dollars paid for the voip provider. Microsoft announced last month that Skype had acquired, but the acquisition was still in use by the U.s. regulators to be approved. According to…
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UvA gets on the Google Apps for Education
The University of Amsterdam to get to the clouddienstverlening of Google. From september, students can use Google Apps, while also the traffic by the search engine giant will be taken care of. According to the UvA students has been closely involved in the choice between Microsoft Live@edu and Google Apps for Education to replace the…
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Dutch teen turns out to be possible to LulzSec affiliated – update
There seems to be more clear about the composition of LulzSec. One of the participants is possible, a Dutchman who operates under the alias Joepie91, but he denies this. LulzSec, meanwhile, has a statement to be made public. On the weblog LulzSec Exposed are irc logs posted that is sourced from the hackersgroepering that the…
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Mozilla brings Firefox 5
Mozilla Firefox 5 released. The browser has an enhanced do not track feature, and support for html 5 and css animations. Also, the new Firefox websites faster to load by http-requests to optimize. During the development phase of Firefox 5, there was a number of new features presented, such as a built-in pdf reader and…
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Researchers improve memory in rats via implant
Scientists from American universities have a breinimplantaat has been developed in which a neuronaal signaleringspatroon imitated. By implantation in the brain may cause memory to be improved. The implant, which short electric pulses are working, is implanted near the brain area which the hippocampus is called, writes the New York Times. The electrodes were placed…
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Teenager builds a detector for nuclear bombs
An American teenager has a device built, which allows the contents of containers can be checked on nuclear weapons. The device works with fusion, and the government must help the terrorists. The 17-year-old teenager wants to this summer’s device in the real test, reports the American tv-organization of PBS after an interview with Taylor Wilson.…
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Student makes his own 8-bit computer with its own OS
A student from the United States has with the hand a computer is made, and then a self-written operating system. The computer, with the name Duo Adept, has 256 bytes of ram and 64kb of memory. The 8-bit computer by the teenager, Jack Eisenmann, from the beginning itself. The Duo Adept has about a hundred…
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Government US system of granting patents reviewed
The American USPTO has begun a round of consultations with the public opinion wants to hear when customizing the existing patentensysteem. In addition, discusses the U.s. congress enacted a new law for patents. The American government seems not really something to do with software patents, so reports of Bad Patents. However, there can be through…
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Dutch Wikipedia celebrates its tenth anniversary
The Dutch version of Wikipedia celebrates on Saturday that the ten years. It is Sunday, exactly ten years ago that the first articles appeared online. The Dutch version has become the ninth-largest Wikipedia. Wikimedia, the organisation behind the Dutch Wikipedia, celebrates the tenth anniversary Saturday afternoon with a party in Den Bosch. The Dutch Wikipedia…
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Microsoft adopts ‘jailbreaktool’ Windows Phone
Microsoft has developers given permission for a tool, which allows users outside the Marketplace for apps on their device. The ontwikkelaarsgroep Chevron will ask money for the tool. The ChevronWP7 tool will come out soon, but an exact date of release is not yet published. Chevron, a joint venture between three developers, that users via…
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Hackers steal data of 1.3 million gamers Sega Pass
The online gamersdienst Sega Pass has been hacked. That has the gamemaker confirmed in an email to Dutch users. The hackers steel user names and encrypted passwords, but not payment details. Dutch users are also affected by the hack, as appears from the mail that a tweaker received from Sega. The hack involves the online…
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Image shows presumably Android-smartphone Xperia Duo
There is an image surfaced of what the Sony Ericsson Xperia Duo would be. The image shows an Android smartphone with a large screen. Because of the name think various bloggers that it is a smartphone with dualcore soc. The image would have surfaced via the Chinese site Mobibal, but Xperiablog published the first in…
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Apple expands complaint against Samsung with Galaxy S II
Apple has its complaint against Samsung expanded with more indictments and more ‘copied’ devices. Where Apple are arrows first focused on Galaxy S variants, is now also the Galaxy S II is involved in the indictment of Apple. Apple accuses Samsung of it ‘more than other manufacturers’ to have contravened the patents of Apple, including…
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Gigabyte shows Llano motherboards
Gigabyte has introduced its line-up of motherboards for AMD’s next generation Fusion processors, also known as Llano, published. The manufacturer brings twelve motherboards for the accellerated processing units, or apus. The German branch of Gigabyte published the full line-up of the Llano motherboards from Gigabyte on its Facebook page. The Germans have the media presentation…
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Kroes wants virtual panic button for young internet users
Commissioner Kroes calls for a virtual panic button that children and young people with a click passing that they are being cyberbullied, be approached by pedo’s or with malicious content in contact be brought. Details about how the system should look like gave Kroes not, but it would be a simple and universal waarschuwingsmogelijkheid have…
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Update HTC Desire starts next week’
The update of the HTC Desire to Android Gingerbread will most likely start at the end of next week. In the update applications like Facebook removed to make it fit. The system partition is too small for a full update. The partition in the Desire that is reserved for Android and the skin Sense is…
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CBP: the Association of Home owners risk a fine with inbrekerssite
As the Association of Home owners are actually images of the burglars online, the risk of a substantial fine for violation of the privacy act. The association is deliberating on the plan after this warning of the CBP. “We have the Association Own House a firm warning is given,” confirms Lisette Rutgers of the board…
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Microsoft calls WebGL dangerous
Microsoft says that WebGL is going to lead to a long series of difficult to resolve security vulnerabilities and want the 3d technology for browsers in its current form doesn’t support it. As an alternative hint the manufacturer on a solution of its own. With WebGL enables web developers, the browser, without plug-ins, 3d images…
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