Until now, most users are used as optical media CD or DVD. How is it with BD, and what are the forecasts for this market in the future? Japanese Organization for Japan Recording-Media Industries Association (JRIA), indicates that demand in the past year to clean Blu-ray discs is estimated at 113 million units, up 156% [...]

Inhope has published its Annual Report 2010 (PDF) on child pornography. Evaluated for the federation of illegal Internet content complaints bodies on a total of 24 047 reports. 71 percent of the victims were therefore not yet in puberty, with another four percent were of young age. The great majority (77 percent), girls were affected [...]

Microsoft made some changes to the rules of the Windows Mobile Marketplace performed. Developers can then publish their applications easier than before. Among others, there is now a partner program to deliver world apps. “The program gives developers worldwide the opportunity to work with publishers to submit their applications on Windows Mobile Marketplace,” writes Todd [...]

Scientists at the Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute (HHI) have set a speed record of 10.2 terabits per second via fiber optic cable. They have this data transferred over a distance of 29 kilometers. On the 8th Conference of OFC to 10 March in Los Angeles, the researchers presented their results to the public. The world-record [...]

The Netzwerwaltungsorganisation ICANN argues further with government representatives. Mainly it’s about how much say governments – and to a lesser extent trademark holders – get in the awarding of top-level domains are. ICANN has listed 23 points that have yet to be clarified. His organization had “good faith attempts to limit the outstanding issues,” writes [...]

The official website of GIGABYTE Technology has a description of the new alternative for the implementation and factory overclocked versions of graphics card AMD Radeon HD 6970 based on the established 40-nm chip technology Cayman XT with 1536 stream processors. model GIGABYTE GV-R697OC-2GD made to custom design a blue printed circuit board under the bus [...]

Following the official premiere of the flagship dual-GPU graphics card AMD Radeon HD 6990 on the release of their own versions of the decision there and then have the company ASUSTeK Computer, Club 3D, Diamond Multimedia, GIGABYTE Technology, Hightech Information System Limited (HIS), Micro-Star International ( MSI), Sapphire Technology Limited, TUL Corporation (brands PowerColor, VTX3D) [...]

Despite the development of technologies and the struggle for the preservation of the environment, humanity has yet to make major steps in promoting the transport electricity. This is indicated by lower sales of electric vehicles in the United States. According to data received from General Motors and Nissan, selling electric Chevy Volt and Nissan Leaf [...]

Chinese company TCL Communication Technology Holdings Limited, which owns the brand Alcatel, plans to release in 2011 about 50 million mobile devices. In the course held in Taipei press conference, executive director of TCL Communication, George Guo (George Guo) reported that in the present set of proposals the company includes more than 100 mobile devices, [...]

iPad 2 received a 2-core chip A5, graphics performance is increased by 9 times compared to the A4. The emergence of a new processor in the first place, will affect the speed of installing programs, switching between applications and so on, but will also have a considerable influence on the 3D-games, which will now be [...]

The patent war between Microsoft and Motorola has intensified in the early weeks of 2011. Copyright specialist Florian Mueller writes in his blog that in the dispute now going by 44 patents. Since late December, nine other patents had been incorporated into the process, two out of seven of Motorola and Microsoft. It is no [...]

A Paris appeal court has sentenced Google for copyright infringement in four cases, to a fine of 430,000 €. In order for damages and interest are covered. The method dealt with the works of a photographer, the film “Mondovino” by Jonathan Nossiter and two other documentaries – had a workup of the Armenian genocide, the [...]

in Sweden launched an interesting program: in accordance with its national postal service was an alternative to most holy symbol of the profession, namely, good old-fashioned postage stamp. Now, in order to send a letter, just send an SMS-message a certain number. In response, the service sends a special code to the sender. And to [...]

Taiwanese scientists announced the discovery that allows use of silk membranes in flexible electronic devices. After less than two years of research, Professor Hwang Jen-Chung (Hwang Jenn-Chang) and two graduate students of the National Taiwan University, Qing Hua (National Tsing Hua University) have found a way to use soft and, importantly, low-cost material for flexible [...]

Google has provided a “Bali” called new version of the developer for the video codec VP8. It is only the second release, has received a name – for “Aylesbury” in October 2010. The aim was to make the encoder libvpx faster while increasing the video quality. A blog entry by John Luther, according to the [...]