Archive for ‘September, 2011’

Google App + for IOS extended with new features

Google App + for IOS extended with new features

The IOS version of the Google App + supports iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad (Image: Apple). Google has updated the IOS version of its app for Google +. Users can also now with iPhone, iPod touch, or connect the iPad Video Chat Hangout. Start a new hangout, but they can not, but it must still [...]

560,000 people in Germany are addicted to the Internet

560,000 people in Germany are addicted to the Internet

With the brochure “with its online degree and fun” (PDF) provides the Federal Centre for Health Education, a parents’ guide to proper handling of digital media (Image: BZgA). Around 560,000 federal citizens between 14 and 64 are addicted to the Internet, which is about one percent of this age group. This is the result of [...]

Netflix’s stock by 57 percent rattles down

Netflix’s stock by 57 percent rattles down

Netflix is ​​fighting with the biggest price fall in seven years: Since July, its stock lost 57 percent. Thus the streaming provider has lost two and a half months almost 9 billion dollars in value, as Bloomberg reported. Its stock is currently trading at around 130 dollars a piece – less than half of the [...]

Amazon expands streaming service to provide content from Fox

Amazon expands streaming service to provide content from Fox

Amazon has entered a licensing agreement with 20th Century Fox. In the fall of U.S. customer of Amazon Prime TV shows like “24″, “X-Files” and “House” can be streamed. The agreement expands instant videos to about 11,000 movies and TV shows to watch prime-subscribers free of charge. Membership currently costs $ 79 annually and gives [...]

Stiftung Warentest calls for collective computer control of the Federal Network Agency

Stiftung Warentest calls for collective computer control of the Federal Network Agency

As a result of the tampering allegations against the comparison site to the Federal Network Agency Verivox rate control computer on the Internet. This requires Hubertus Primus, chief editor of the magazine “test” in the ZDF magazine “WISO” which will be sent today from 19 Clock 45 Clock, as the station has pre-announced. In addition, [...]

Report: Facebook attracts small businesses with free ads

Report: Facebook attracts small businesses with free ads

Facebook wants to be with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB) join forces to win small business as an advertising medium. Challenge is to get the company over the value of Facebook as a promotional tool to educate and inform them why they should switch spots on the [...]

Anonymous alleged hacker pleads guilty

Anonymous alleged hacker pleads guilty

is still unclear whether the anonymous member Chris Doyon “Commander X”, the summer had spoken with CBS News (Photo: CBS News). The accused last week in California arrested Chris Doyon, the participation of the organized attacks hacker group Anonymous, has declared innocent. Currently, the 47-year-old sits in jail. The bail hearing will be held on [...]

Report: iPhone-5-presentation takes place on Apple’s campus

Report: iPhone-5-presentation takes place on Apple’s campus

Contrary to his usual practice for Apple is its fourth October planned product launch does not hold in San Francisco, but on its campus in Cupertino. The All Things Digital reported, citing sources close to the company. Presumably Apple will be introducing a fifth-generation iPhone, with delivery to start a few weeks later. Why the [...]

S3 Graphics reaches a patent lawsuit against Apple

S3 Graphics reaches a patent lawsuit against Apple

S3 Graphics has filed with a district court in Delaware patent lawsuit against Apple. It is directed against iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, and desktop and notebook computers the company from Cupertino. Apple allegedly violates the devices with two rights that were issued in the nineties. This is according to the Priorsmart.com patents 5,945,997 and 5,581,279 [...]

New Mac OS Trojan disguises itself as a PDF file

New Mac OS Trojan disguises itself as a PDF file

Researchers at F-Secure have discovered a new malware for Apple’s Mac OS X. She masquerades as a PDF file. The goal is to entice a victim to install a trojan on the system. Dubbed the Trojan Dropper pest loads for components for a backdoor from the Internet and configures them on an infected Mac. He [...]

Facebook developers: “We have no cookie-tracking”

Facebook developers: “We have no cookie-tracking”

A Facebook developer has dismissed allegations against ZDNet, Facebook, follow the surfing habits of its users even more when they have logged out. The claimed Nik Cubrilovic, who describes himself as an entrepreneur and hacker: “Even if my browser on Facebook is no longer logged in, the information including my account ID is still sent [...]

Apple patent dispute with Verizon turns on Samsung’s site

Apple patent dispute with Verizon turns on Samsung’s site

Verizon has beaten in the patent dispute between Apple and Samsung on the side of the South Koreans. The largest U.S. wireless service provider has asked the District Court for Northern California, Apple’s application for an injunction must be dismissed, as the blog FOSS patent reports. It concerns the smartphones Infuse 4G, 4G Galaxy and [...]

Groupon has information on annual sales more than halved and loses COO

Groupon has information on annual sales more than halved and loses COO

Groupon has the details of its annual sales in 2010 to more than halve. As the Wall Street Journal reported the company was responding to claims by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Instead of $ 713.4 million revenues now only $ 312.9 million in the books. In addition Groupon lost for the second [...]

Stiftung Warentest identified potential savings of up to 90 percent through third-party inks

Stiftung Warentest identified potential savings of up to 90 percent through third-party inks

Intersect at a recent test of Stiftung Warentest provider of compatible ink cartridges especially good on the price from. Tested features of the Armor, Druckerzubehoer.de / Digital Revolution were, Jet Tec, KMP, Peach, Pearl / iColor and Pelican for printers from Brother, Canon and Hewlett-Packard. In general, individual color cartridges were remanufactured better grades than [...]

Microsoft releases first beta of 2.0 WebMatrix

Microsoft releases first beta of 2.0 WebMatrix

Microsoft is working on a new version on the web developer oriented tool collection WebMatrix. A first beta is according to a report by BetaNews WebMatrix be downloaded from the website. The new version is to simplify the configuration process of WebMatrix. It contains the package manager nuget and improved access to WebMatrix extensions. IntelliSense [...]