Archive for ‘October, 2011’

Disruption of U.S. satellite reportedly triggered by hacker attack

Disruption of U.S. satellite reportedly triggered by hacker attack

interference of two U.S. spacecraft to a report by Bloomberg Business Week, according to hacker attacks due. The magazine says the present one, for certain U.S. government report. The four incidents dating back to the years 2007 and 2008. Hit were two satellite collect, the climate and geographic data. One system of type Landsat-7 was [...]

Apple Releases iPhoto 9.2.1 and EFI Firmware 2.2 for MacBook Air

Apple Releases iPhoto 9.2.1 and EFI Firmware 2.2 for MacBook Air

Apple has updated its built-in image editing iLife’11 iPhoto to version 9.2.1. The update fixes a bug when using the long-time free video codecs 3ivx can lead to crashes. iPhoto 9.2 is a prerequisite for the icloud feature to use photo stream. This ensures that transferred some photos taken with an iPhone at all with [...]

Facebook founded the Foundation for Open Compute Project

Facebook founded the Foundation for Open Compute Project

Facebook has created a foundation for the Open Compute Project. Your job is to be carried out in April released as open source specification to manage the Facebook proprietary servers and data centers and develop. About the directors and advisors of the Foundation include Don Duet by investment bank Goldman Sachs, Mark Roenigk, Rackspace, Jason [...]

Report: Apple’s iTV plans with voice control Siri

Report: Apple’s iTV plans with voice control Siri

The voice control Siri is likely to be the key to the integrated TV, Apple’s rumored to be prepared. Of them is in any case, the New York Times (NYT) from. Steve Jobs’ biographer Walter Isaacson had mentioned last week in a “60 Minutes” interview with CBS, the Apple co-founder had worked until recently for [...]

Google: Nexus One will receive an update on Ice Cream Sandwich

Google: Nexus One will receive an update on Ice Cream Sandwich

owner of the first official Google phone Nexus One will receive an update on Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich). Responsible for the Android product manager for Google, Hugo Barra, told the British newspaper The Telegraph, the hardware is simply too old for the new OS version that would run on it without any problems. The [...]

RIM sued over Blackberry disturbance several days

RIM sued over Blackberry disturbance several days

A law firm in Montreal, Quebec filed with a court in a class action lawsuit against Research In Motion (RIM). The Consumer Law Group represents that claims to “persons who possess the Blackberry smartphones and pay for a phone contract, but between the 11th and 14th October not to their e-mail, the Blackberry Messenger (BBM) [...]

Microsoft Settle Legal Dispute with suspected botnet operators at

Microsoft Settle Legal Dispute with suspected botnet operators at

Microsoft has settled a lawsuit with a Czech hosting provider. The lawsuit filed in September had reached the goal of closing the botnet Kelihos. The now closed Settlement provides that the company has ended all of botnet activities provided by him subdomains. In return, Microsoft withdraws his claim against him. Dominique Alexander and his company [...]

Bundestag adopted revision of the Telecommunications Act

Bundestag adopted revision of the Telecommunications Act

Against the vote of the parliamentary opposition has decided to draft an amendment to the Telecommunications Act (TKG). There is a committee for economy and technology over the original version (PDF), as amended (PDF). It is changes in the European guidelines into national law. Two amendments of Alliance 90/The Greens were not a majority. They [...]

Baidu profit increases by 80 percent

Baidu profit increases by 80 percent

Baidu has presented its financial results for the third quarter of 2011. His winning shot on year by 80 percent in the height of 1.05 billion yuan (116 million €) to 1.88 billion yuan (208.5 million euros). This corresponds to 5.58 yuan (60 cents) per American depositary receipt compared to 3 yuan (33 cents) the [...]

Sony Ericsson takes part in mobile communications joint venture

Sony Ericsson takes part in mobile communications joint venture

Sony Ericsson has taken over 50-percent stake in the joint mobile phone joint venture. It pays € 1.05 billion in cash, as the Reuters news agency reported. This scale gives Sony a number of patents which it can use for its own products. So far the Japanese had separated about their tablets and consoles strictly [...]

Facebook says delay of iPad app

Facebook says delay of iPad app

Facebook has a position on the question of why his official iPad app is released until 18 months after starting the tablets. In April 2010, when the first came out iPad, the social network did not have sufficient resources. Had you directly with an iPad app employs had more developers working on mobile apps than [...]

LSI buys SandForce for $ 322 million

LSI buys SandForce for $ 322 million

chip manufacturer LSI has entered into an agreement to acquire SandForce, a leading manufacturer of SSD controllers. The purchase price was $ 322 million agreed. The controller chip from SandForce SSDs come in from Adata, Corsair, Kingston, OCZ and other manufacturers are used. The acquisition gives the Californian semiconductor producers, who previously was renamed LSI [...]

Latest build of Windows 8 comes with Media Center

Latest build of Windows 8 comes with Media Center

latest build of Windows 8 with the number 8141, users have discovered the previously missed media center. A member of the forum “My Digital Life” writes that it seems to be the version of Windows to act seventh WinRumors holds, however, unlike in Windows 7 this time there is a separate application. Earlier pre-release versions [...]

Google: governments are demanding more information

Google: governments are demanding more information

Google has asked the people to information requests and deletion requests online, which it has received from January to June 2011th The latest issue of its transparency report shows a worldwide increase compared to the second half of 2010. Britain has been about 71 percent more deletion requests, 38 percent more requests from Germany came [...]

CCC: Even newer version of the Trojan state is illegal

CCC: Even newer version of the Trojan state is illegal

The Chaos Computer Club (CCC) has leaked claims to get another version of the Trojan state, which is dated December 2010. “Despite all the protestations of the leaders of the Trojans can still hijacked, loaded arbitrary code and even the supposedly ‘audit trail’ can be manipulated,” wrote the hacker. They demand a full waiver of [...]