Archive for ‘September 30th, 2009’

Patent dispute: U.S. appeals court cancels ruling against Microsoft

Patent dispute: U.S. appeals court cancels ruling against Microsoft

A U.S. federal court has lifted a ruling that Microsoft’s product activation offends against a patent held by UniLOC. This leaves the software giant and the payment of $ 388 million saved. As the Bloomberg news reports, Judge William Smith, no violation of the rights of UniLOC noted. He refused, however, question the validity of [...]

Zotac has proposed a “ion” high-class fee

Zotac has proposed a “ion” high-class fee

Press Service Zotac announced a new motherboard called IONITX-FE in the form factor Mini-ITX, built on the basis of advanced NVIDIA Ion platform and positioned as a solution to the category high-end. This model was originally equipped with dual-core Intel Atom 330 processor with 1.6 GHz, and its foundation lay Chipset NVIDIA GeForce 9400M integrated [...]

Google Expands Wave Test

Google Expands Wave Test

Google has announced the beta test of its new communications service launched wave. So far, only a select few developers were allowed to test the service, which Google introduced in late May as “e-mail of the future”. Some 100,000 users have registered under wave.google.com get access to the platform. However, over a million applications have [...]

Vodafone also sells the iPhone in the UK

Vodafone also sells the iPhone in the UK

Vodafone also sold future Apple’s iPhone in the UK. After expiration of the two-year exclusive contract between Apple and O2 Orange Vodafone addition, the third provider offering the phone in the United Kingdom. In contrast to Orange, the iPhone takes over the fourth quarter in his program, Vodafone will start selling until early 2010. The [...]

Yahoo is planning a longer video formats

Yahoo is planning a longer video formats

Yahoo’s department for media content will experiment with longer videos than before. Let us consider both programs from a script as well as those without, and some concepts have been ordered, said Jimmy pitaro, vice president for the media sector, in an interview with ZDNet. Until Yahoo provides to the web news and entertainment programs [...]

Toshiba Satellite T100: ultra-thin laptops for $ 450

Toshiba Satellite T100: ultra-thin laptops for $ 450

The range of Toshiba notebooks is a new line of Satellite T100 Series. New items belong to a relatively young class svertonkih notebooks provide autonomous operation for an entire workday, and with all this different attractive prices – from $ 450. line T100 Series so far represented only by the two models. Satellite T135 notebook [...]

Audio Steno AU851 – MP4-player with support for microSDHC memory cards

Audio Steno AU851 – MP4-player with support for microSDHC memory cards

Apacer Technology Company released to the Russian market a new MP4-Player Audio Steno AU851. It features a stylish slim body (colors – white and red) with an aluminum back panel, the size of the player are 86h50h7, 8 mm, weight – 39 grams. At full-color 2.4-inch TFT LCD-screen player, you can view videos or pictures. [...]

Microsoft’s top managers earn less in 2009

Microsoft’s top managers earn less in 2009

from a routine disclosure obligation (Proxy Filing) with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission stating that Microsoft’s top executives have earned in the fiscal year less than last year. On average, the income from Steve Ballmer, Chris Liddell, Robert Bach, Kevin Turner and Stephen Elop declined by 29 percent. The Microsoft executives were mentioned but [...]

Nettop Acer AspireRevo on NVIDIA Ion LE for only $ 200

Nettop Acer AspireRevo on NVIDIA Ion LE for only $ 200

Acer has updated its nettop AspireRevo. Now he’s compiled on the basis of platfrmy NVIDIA Ion LE, which has a positive impact on working with graphics and gaming applications. Pleased to note that the cost of updating the device, however, reflected not much – $ 200 price does not seem grossly overestimated. Recall that AspireRevo [...]

O2 offers business customers a flat rate for corporate communications

O2 offers business customers a flat rate for corporate communications

Telefónica O2 Germany is now offering companies a flat rate for the national corporate communications. In addition to calls from mobile to mobile and from mobile phone to the company’s fixed-O2 are in it for the first time voice calls from landlines to mobile phones. The integration of an existing telecommunications system is also possible [...]

Sophos brings free data encryption tool

Sophos brings free data encryption tool

Sophos has published a free data encryption tool for home users, professionals and small businesses. Sophos Free Encryption with them to protect confidential data and comply with data security requirements in the workplace can, for example, the specifications of the second amendment to the Federal Privacy Act (the Act). The Sophos solution is based on [...]

Panda Security’s malware reported significant increases in September

Panda Security’s malware reported significant increases in September

Panda Security has seen a marked increase in September of malicious software. From August to September 2009, the security experts say the number of infected computers worldwide increased by 15 percent to 59 percent. This is year record. The security researchers have conducted their investigation in 29 countries. Germany with a share of 48.89 percent [...]

Euro Youth Council wants to improve safety on the Internet

Euro Youth Council wants to improve safety on the Internet

The Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe (PACE) has published a series of proposals on the protection of minors on the Internet. The Committee calls upon, among other things, Internet service providers for illegal content on the network to account, even if third-party or user of this set. Children and teenagers use the Internet more [...]

Report: U.S. government gives to largely control over ICANN

Report: U.S. government gives to largely control over ICANN

The U.S. government wants a report by the BBC to drop significantly, according to exert less control on the ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), who worked under an agreement today, ending officially on their behalf. The tasks of the Authority include the allocation of Internet address space and managing top-level domains and [...]

Facebook provides translation tool for websites

Facebook provides translation tool for websites

Facebook has announced the release of a tool called “Translations for Facebook Connect” announced for early October. This allows the user to help the social network to translate web sites and applications using the API Facebook Connect. Facebook it uses the same solution, which it has used in 2008 to get help in translating your [...]