Archive for ‘May, 2011’

Cloud drop box service threatens FTC action for data security

Cloud drop box service threatens FTC action for data security

Security researcher Christopher Soghoian has appealed to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission FTC complaint against dropbox.In his view, meet dropbox ‘machinations to constitute fraud (“Deceptive Trade Practice”). Accordingly, the operators have deceived the cloud storage service their users maliciously when it comes to the security of stored data. “Does not drop box at the industry [...]

Cases for the iPhone 5 indicate a larger screen and flash the new position

Cases for the iPhone 5 indicate a larger screen and flash the new position

Image cover the next iPhone, which appeared on the Chinese site, indicates that the new smartphone will get a larger screen, long edge of which will be more closely adjacent to the boundaries of the phone than the iPhone 4. Also indicates a change in case of flash back of the camera shifted to the [...]

NZXT has released a controller chassis fans Sentry Mesh

NZXT has released a controller chassis fans Sentry Mesh

Manufacturer of computer cases and accessories for them, the company announced the new NZXT fan controller Sentry Mesh. Novelty can manage just five fans. Sentry Mesh is one 5.25-inch drive bay. The front panel of the unit is painted in black and includes five control sliders, each of which has one 30-watt channel. new controller [...]

ITC judge found not guilty of violating Kodak patents Apple

ITC judge found not guilty of violating Kodak patents Apple

victory Kodak ended another round in a patent war with Apple. Judge of the Commission on the U.S. International Trade (International Trade Commission, ITC) Robert Rogers (Robert Rogers) recognized Kodak innocent of violating two patents owned by Apple. Moreover, he suggested that one of these patents is invalid. Details of regulations will be known after [...]

Report: PlayStation Network attackers used Amazon’s Cloud

Report: PlayStation Network attackers used Amazon’s Cloud

Amazon Web Services (AWS) have been used as a starting point for a hacker attack that had led to an approximately month-long failure of Sony’s PlayStation Network. The Bloomberg reported, citing a person familiar with the matter. Accordingly, the hackers used false names to servers of Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) for rent and to [...]

Sony takes on the operations of the PlayStation Network on again

Sony takes on the operations of the PlayStation Network on again

Sony has begun on the weekend with the gradual recovery of the PlayStation Network. In short, all online games, forums and websites to be available again. We start with North and South America, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and the Middle East. Japan and other Asian countries will follow at a later date. In addition to [...]

LG shows AH-IPS-panel high-definition for the various devices at SID 2011

LG shows AH-IPS-panel high-definition for the various devices at SID 2011

During the event, SID 2011 Samsung can not count on all the public’s attention with its 10.1-inch panel for the tablets with a resolution of 2560 × 1600 pixels. The fact that LG Display is also going to show a lineup of high-quality LCD displays with ultra-high resolution that will be used for various electronics [...]

Microsoft Office Web Apps Reviewed

Microsoft Office Web Apps Reviewed

Microsoft has updated this past week’s online applications, Office Web Apps. The update is intended to simplify the use of the spreadsheet program Excel and the PowerPoint presentation. Users of the online version of Excel can now, as they know it from the desktop version since the worksheets in workbooks insert. In addition, work sheets [...]

Nvidia CEO Huang: “Android Tablets are too expensive”

Nvidia CEO Huang: “Android Tablets are too expensive”

Jen-Hsun Huang (picture: Nvidia) Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang in an interview responsibilities include the price for the parlous state of commercial launch of Android Tablets. In his view, are also poor marketing and lack of experience of retailers is a problem. Huang played iPad also on the starting price of Apples – $ 499. “The [...]

Ubisoft claims that the Nintendo Wii 2 – an excellent platform

Ubisoft claims that the Nintendo Wii 2 – an excellent platform

As and when a Wii, Nintendo is trying to keep secret the details of the heir to its successful console, confirming at the same time that the exhibition E3, which will be held in Los Angeles early next month, it will provide the public a new home game console. Since then, many rumors flooded the [...]

Netflix streaming and Miramax sign agreement

Netflix streaming and Miramax sign agreement

Netflix will soon offer movies streamed in from Miramax (Screenshot: ZDNet). Netflix and the movie studio Miramax have agreed: Starting next month, the streaming service, “several hundred” Miramax Films to offer – such as “Pulp Fiction” and “Shakespeare in Love” and “Good Will Hunting.” Other titles are “in rotation” will be made available. The contract [...]

LinuxTag 2011 recorded 11,500 visitors

LinuxTag 2011 recorded 11,500 visitors

Nils Magnus at the LinuxTag 2011 in Berlin (photo: LinuxTag eV) With 11 582 visitors to this year LinuxTag of 11 to 14 Last May, as many prospects as last year lured to Berlin. Total were represented at the exhibition center under the radio tower 77 free projects and 43 commercial exhibitors. LinuxTag 2011 have [...]

Apple files for patent on text and voice conversion for iPhone

Apple files for patent on text and voice conversion for iPhone

A new patent filing from Apple describes a multi-part solution to convert speech to text and text to speech. That should be possible to answer calls in a meeting or in a crowded bar where audible speech is difficult – or would attract negative attention. Part of the technique is a filter for background noise, [...]

Samsung Introduces High-resolution display with Tablet RGBW technology

Samsung Introduces High-resolution display with Tablet RGBW technology

comparison between the PenTile RGBW technology and a conventional RGB display (image: Nouvoyance) Samsung’s subsidiary Nouvoyance shows at the fair started yesterday SID Display Week 2011 in Los Angeles a screen prototype for future tablet computer. The 10.1-inch model solves 2560 times 1600 pixels on (300 dpi) and is based on PenTile RGBW technology from [...]

Android 3.1 video demonstration on Motorola Xoom

Android 3.1 video demonstration on Motorola Xoom

Updates Android 3.1, announced at the conference Google I / O, is gradually becoming available to owners of the tablet Motorola Xoom. Most of the changes in the Honeycomb is an internal function – better support for HTML5, improved performance, support for USB-Host for connecting peripherals like mouse, keyboard or game controller. Nevertheless, there are [...]