According to several accounts, the Google search from China is no longer accessible. Also irrelevant search queries are not possible. Only on the Google Toolbar, users in China now have access to the results pages hosted in Hong Kong in Chinese, like the British newspaper Guardian has discovered. Google initially suspected to have caused the [...]

Sales of music downloads for mobile phones have decreased in the first time last year. 2009, they amounted, according to the Bitkom € 7 million, one-fifth less than in 2008. Due to the high price pressure was in the market. According to a survey by the GRP Panel Services on behalf of Bitkom, the average [...]

Oracle has released a security update to its Java Standard Edition 6 (Java SE) and Java for Business, which includes the consolidated total of 27 vulnerabilities. In addition, the revised version according to the company improved the stability of the software and fixes minor, non-security related bugs. The vulnerabilities in the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) [...]

Microsoft has announced, released an unscheduled update for Internet Explorer, which includes ten vulnerabilities. Among them is one classified as critical gap in IE6 and IE7, for free for several weeks, an exploit is available on the Internet. The patch MS010-018 affects all supported versions of Microsoft says Internet Explorer on Windows 2000, XP, Server [...]

Intel has introduced its first processor, combine the eight cores on one die. The Xeon 7500 series CPUs in the offer according to the manufacturer with an average performance increase by a factor of three the biggest performance boost in the history of the Xeon processors. A single server with Xeon 7500 CPU will be [...]

Greenpeace warns that increase the power consumption of data centers and telecommunications networks by 2020 to 1.963 trillion kilowatt-hours. That would be an increase in energy consumption by a factor of three to ten years. The number of hits, according to environmental group together the current electricity consumption of France, Germany, Canada and Brazil. With [...]

The Seton Hill University in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania wants all 2100 full-time students from the winter semester are available to an iPad. The Apple Tablet, which is not currently on the market, is to facilitate both subject-based learning and enhance the technical competency of students. At its purpose-built iPad side writes the university. [...]

Analyst firm Gartner published a report with a list of the most important technologies for handheld devices in 2010-2011. Topping the list technology Bluetooth 4.0, where the emphasis is on maximum energy efficiency. Other trends in the market handheld electronics include distribution networks, 4G, GPS, touch screens, mobile browsers and M2M. Thus, the 10 technologies [...]

Amazon got awarded a patent on a technique that enables a new kind of shipping confirmation: U.S. Patent 7,689,465 describes a system which records the packaging process an order on video and send the film to the customer by e-mail can. It has discovered the blog TechFlash. The patent does not only promise to the [...]

Eric Schmidt (Image: Google) Google has spent considerably less than the year 2009 for travel to its executive suite. The budget for travel and security services by CEO Eric Schmidt declined by about 52 percent. This emerges from a mandatory notification of the publicly traded company. Schmidt is awarded as the co-founder of the company, [...]

The Association for the Promotion of Public Mobile and Immobile Data Traffic (foebud) today handed over 60 file folders in Karlsruhe, with more than 22,000 full powers for a constitutional complaint against the electronic payment record ELENA the Federal Constitutional Court. Are all of the past two weeks more than 30,000 people followed their call [...]

German Rail is starting with DB Railnavigator now available for Android smartphones an application ready. It can be downloaded for free in the marketplace. The iPhone version has been available since December 2009. Both programs lead users via GPS to the nearest train station and about departure and arrival times and delays. The main objectives [...]

Mozilla Messaging has released the fourth update for Thunderbird third Version 3.0.4 includes five security vulnerabilities, three of which the manufacturer deems to be critical and two slightly. The critical vulnerabilities that attackers can use to inject and execute arbitrary malicious code. Two of them can be exploited only if you activate JavaScript. Unlike Firefox [...]

Red Hat is the fifth update of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 released. By his own account in the updated version, the developers have improved the stability of the operating system and eliminate errors. In addition, the new edition comes with support for new multi-core CPUs and server platforms from AMD, Dell, HP, IBM and [...]

The Mozilla team has set itself graphics, a new destination and communicating via mailing list: By the end of the second quarter we will finalize a Developer Preview of Firefox with Direct2D. Direct2D to allow direct write together with the browser on Windows machines to use the GPU for display of graphics, but also by [...]