Archive for ‘November, 2011’

Apple receives patent for wireless antenna design for Macbooks

Apple receives patent for wireless antenna design for Macbooks

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has awarded Apple a patent on a notebook into a housing integrated antenna design. The one provided by up to two antennas for mobile communications according to the description (eg UMTS) capable. Apple integrates it into the cover of a notebook – below the actual display, between the hinges [...]

Beta of Skype introduces video calls to Facebook

Beta of Skype introduces video calls to Facebook

Skype has first betas of version 5.7 for Windows and 5.4 for Mac released. They integrate voice and video calls between Facebook members. Users can initiate the VoIP client now calls without opening your browser and log in to the social network. All they need to link their Skype and Facebook contacts with each other [...]

Service Update for Windows Mobile 7 fixes Exchange problems

Service Update for Windows Mobile 7 fixes Exchange problems

Microsoft has announced a new service release for Windows Phone 7. Build 7.10.7740 fixes a bug that prevented customers in Europe and Asia, under certain circumstances, information about new voice messages. In addition, it eliminates a compatibility problem with Exchange Server 2003, report the number of users. For some devices will be available shortly firmware [...]

Dell launches ultra portable LED projector with 300 ANSI lumens

Dell launches ultra portable LED projector with 300 ANSI lumens

Dell has expanded its projector portfolio with a ultra-portable DLP projector. The M110 measures just 10.5 times 10.4 times 3.7 inches and weighs approximately 360 grams The 300 ANSI lumens projector offers according to the manufacturer a dynamic contrast ratio of 10,000:1 and a native WXGA resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels. In a distance [...]

European Union-regulated use of body scanners

European Union-regulated use of body scanners

The EU Commission has established rules for the use of body scanners at airports. Faces must therefore be obliterated, and the personnel responsible for the checks sit in another room than the scanner itself, the decision was a debate in the European Parliament went ahead. Spokeswoman Helen Kearns said, ZDNet, the rule to separate two [...]

Study: Google is responsible for the increase of Android pests

Study: Google is responsible for the increase of Android pests

a study by Juniper Networks, according to the number of Android-pests since July has increased by 472 percent. In October and November, the company watched its biggest increase since the start of the mobile platform. According to Juniper’s Global Threat Center, which monitors and investigates security threats, is the reason that Google applications are not [...]

Researchers are working on lithium-ion battery with ten times the capacity

Researchers are working on lithium-ion battery with ten times the capacity

U.S. researchers working on various methods to increase the capacity of lithium-ion batteries significantly. With better anodes and cathodes, they hope to batteries with a storage capacity ten times higher than before. The technology could even be on the market and also allow for much faster to load smartphones, whose duration is about one week [...]

Some users of Apple’s iPhone 4S complain of constant echoes

Some users of Apple’s iPhone 4S complain of constant echoes

A significant number of owners of an iPhone 4S complains of constant echoes, if Apple’s iPhone headset phone. Even when using the speakerphone to the adverse effects occur. Update on the IOS 5.0.1′ve brought nothing, says the Apple forum, where discussion is now over 25 sites running. A user named “Uncle PP” reports that Apple [...]

IBM’s Blue Gene third generation is expected to reach up to 100 petaflops

IBM’s Blue Gene third generation is expected to reach up to 100 petaflops

IBM has introduced a new architecture for supercomputers. Blue Gene / Q, the third generation of IBM’s HPC systems is to achieve a computing power of up to 100 petaflops. That equates to 100 quadrillion floating point operations per second. This would Blue Gene / Q is about ten times faster than the fastest system, [...]

Rating: not disclose YouTube user data must be copyright infringement despite

Rating: not disclose YouTube user data must be copyright infringement despite

The Higher Regional Court of Munich rejected in the second instance of an application for an injunction against Constantine YouTube (Az: 29 U 3496/11). The movie rental to force Google’s video portal in this way for release of user data. The Court of Appeal confirmed that the first-instance decision of the Regional Court of Munich. [...]

Apple distributed first prerelease version of Mac OS X 10.7.3 to developers

Apple distributed first prerelease version of Mac OS X 10.7.3 to developers

Apple has released last night a first developer version of Mac OS X 10.7.3. It stands for both the desktop and the server version of Lion available. Build number, and priority areas are identical. Tester Build 11D16 operating system updates are to focus on, according to AppleInsider Address Book, iCal, Mail, and the icloud service [...]

Experts: “Cyber ​​attacks can also kill people”

Experts: “Cyber ​​attacks can also kill people”

security experts have objected to a recent scientific article: A virtual attack was quite capable of killing people, they say. The opposite had claimed the German scientist Thomas Rid, who teaches at the Institute for “War Studies” at King’s College London. Rid argued that a cyber war that justifies this name should “be potentially lethal,” [...]

Apple receives patent for location-based information services

Apple receives patent for location-based information services

Apple has received from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office granted a patent right for location-based information services. It bears the number RE42.927 and describes a “location-based information system that uses a tracking system such as the Civilian Global Positioning System (GPS) Navstar in combination with a network”. Precarious for Apple’s competitors: the protection of [...]

Visa makes online payment service before officially V.me

Visa makes online payment service before officially V.me

Visa has unveiled its digital pay service officially. He is hot and V.me start in early 2012. As with Paypal can be combined with other V.me payment methods – such as a credit card or a traditional account. He is like Paypal for online payments intended – as well as from the smartphone. He then [...]

Microsoft is working on “Social Search” project

Microsoft is working on “Social Search” project

Microsoft wants to search and social networking seems to merge into a new service. The website The Verge has published the first screenshots of Microsoft’s “secret social network.” It is probably more than one research project, as initially claimed by Microsoft. Already in July, the software giant had allegedly accidentally activated the website and shortly [...]