Intel has updated its high-end processor Extreme Edition line. The new Core i7 Models 3960X and 3930K are replacing the previously fastest Intel chip-990x, which is still based on older technology, Westmere. Substantial difference to the previous platform is the quad-channel memory interface based on DDR3-1600, which doubled as compared to the triple-channel DDR3-1066 technology [...]

American Express announced that it will put $ 100 million in start-ups, dealing with e-commerce. Main topics to be mobile and online payment services, security, bonus and incentive programs. Simultaneously, a set for the search for candidates local office in Silicon Valley. Head of the Department is Harshul Sanghi, former head of Motorola Mobility Ventures. [...]

Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information, John Caspar, prepares claims to take legal action against Facebook. The social network is not complied with his requests to make the automatic face recognition in accordance with European and German data protection regulations. “To ensure in future that the new technology of facial recognition is [...]

Thanks to a good business and cost savings, Germany, the German telecom has increased its net profit in third quarter (PDF) from the previous year by 14.6 percent to 1.07 billion euros. Adjusted for special items, it rose even by 48.9 percent to 1.29 billion euros. Revenue and operating profit, however, went back again. Without [...]

The Red Hat-sponsored Fedora project has released version 16 (code name Verne) of its Linux distribution Fedora. She brings in particular improvements in the areas of cloud computing and virtualization. Altogether there are about 30 new addition to updated software features. As the bootloader comes off like in Ubuntu Grub 2 is used immediately, so [...]

Cisco has earned in the fiscal first quarter of 2012 (until 29 October) GAAP net profit of 1.8 billion dollars (1.3 billion €). Compared to the same period, the surplus shrank by 7.9 percent. The non-GAAP earnings were $ 0.43 per share. Sales of the network specialists increased by 5 percent on the other hand, [...]

EU Commissioner Neelie Kroes has called on the European Internet users via Twitter, to test the promise of Internet providers. “How fast your broadband connection really is? With power and help to measure the actual performance of the EU’s high-speed network,” it said in its message. Together with the British company SamKnows will “provide reliable [...]

A developer has detected a panorama mode for the camera of IOS devices. Conrad Kramer reported the discovery on Twitter. He confirmed that long circulating rumors that there is such a hidden feature in IOS. panorama function in IOS (Image: Chpwn) The mode allows you to connect devices with IOS photos taken horizontally therefrom and [...]

Been in the bribery scandal involving the Media-Saturn Group is Michael Rook, Head of Media Markt Germany, was arrested. Broadband providers should have paid managers of Media-Saturn Group € 3.5 million in bribes to be allowed to sell their products in the stores of the chain – and Rook has apparently known about it. Prevailing [...]

ARM has introduced a GPU design, the four to ten times the speed of its predecessor – will deliver – Mali-T604 and Mali-400 MP. The Mali GPU-T658 is based on the Midgard architecture and supports 3D graphics, visual computing, augmented reality, voice recognition and procedural texture generation. He has up to eight graphics cores – [...]

Microsoft has released a fix for a vulnerability in the security function AppLocker. You can get around by business information with Office macros. This affects Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2. AppLocker allows administrators to prevent the execution of specific applications. Microsoft had introduced the feature with Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2. Users can [...]

Google has been able its lead in U.S. search market in October to expand somewhat. It rose by 0.3 points to 65.6 percent market share, as is apparent from data from Comscore. Until September, the market leader had shown a slight but steady downward trend. Yahoo lost 0.3 points in return and, at 15.2 percent [...]

Rakuten has acquired the Canadian e-reader manufacturer Kobo. The Japanese e-commerce company pays claims to $ 315 million in cash. In terms of sales, Rakuten is one of the three largest e-commerce companies. Kobos e-book partner, the Borders Group, had to sign up mid-February 2011 bankruptcy. Kobo will retain both its head office in Toronto [...]

AOL, Microsoft and Yahoo have signed an ad agreement. Each of the three companies can sell display ads in the future of the other customers. This is “the process of buying and selling of online display advertising to improve dramatically.” The agreement they had come up in September at a meeting in New York and [...]

Mozilla has updated its e-mail client Thunderbird to version 8. It is based as the latest version of Firefox browser on the revised rendering engine Gecko 8th This release fixes numerous bugs, according to the release notes, which should substantially increase the stability of the application. In addition, Mozilla eliminated a total of six vulnerabilities. [...]