Archive for ‘December, 2011’

Intel and Micron introduce NAND flash at 20 nanometers and 128 Gb

Intel and Micron introduce NAND flash at 20 nanometers and 128 Gb

IM Flash Technologies (IMFT) has presented a prototype of a NAND flash memory chips with 128 Gb (16 Gb). He was already made in the manufacturing process was introduced in April for NAND flash memory with 20-nanometer feature size. In the meantime this multi-level cell module with 64 Gbit (8 GByte) capacity are produced in [...]

RIM may name “BBX” provisionally not use

RIM may name “BBX” provisionally not use

A small software company from the U.S. state of New Mexico named based International has achieved a success in a dispute with Blackberry maker Research In Motion is the name BBX. The court issued an injunction against RIM, which may no longer use the name for now. RIM wanted to name its new operating system [...]

Yahoo updates search offering for foreign sites

Yahoo updates search offering for foreign sites

Yahoo renews its open search platform BOSS. BOSS stands for Build-your-own-search service, thus: “Build your own search engine.” The redesign will include the user better, reduce the maintenance and development costs and facilitate the monetization through ads. There are now a new page of the program and three offers to developers. One of three search [...]

Apple iPad loses brand name in China

Apple iPad loses brand name in China

A court in the Chinese city of Shenzhen has decided the long-running dispute over the trademark to Apple iPad. Apple had sued Proview Technology in Shenzhen, for infringement of trademark rights and was refused. Proview is a display manufacturer in Hong Kong and Taiwan, which has a subsidiary in Shenzhen. He tried for years to [...]

Enisa: Europe is not prepared for Duque

Enisa: Europe is not prepared for Duque

critical infrastructures in Europe are not sufficiently prepared to cyber espionage attacks – such as information-stealing malware as Duque. This emerges from a report (PDF) of the EU cyber security agency ENISA. Industrial control systems (ICS), therefore lacking in security standards, guidelines and regulations. “Europe has a shortage in particular specific initiatives and procedures to [...]

Facebook bug allows private access to photos

Facebook bug allows private access to photos

Facebook has fixed a bug that made it possible to retrieve a privately-rated photos of other members of the social network. The gap was in the tool with which users can report any content that violates the Facebook guidelines.   According to the company, the error in a recently rolled-out update was detected. The code [...]

Cable connects Germany with a further 200,000 households 100-MBit/s-Netz

Cable connects Germany with a further 200,000 households 100-MBit/s-Netz

From now on cable Germany offers in Ahrensburg, Barmstedt, Elmshorn, Großhansdorf (all Schleswig-Holstein), Germersheim, Woerth (Rhineland-Palatinate), Herzberg (Lower Saxony), Saarlouis (Saarland), Sonthofen and Straubing (Bavaria) internet connection with up to 100 Mbit / s downstream and 6 Mbit / s upstream to. From the introduction of data communication standards EuroDOCSIS 3.0 also benefit households in [...]

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 released

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 released

Red Hat is the second update to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (RHEL) is released. The final version of RHEL 6.2 brings not just minor bug fixes and improvements, some new features, and hardware drivers. For example, the developers have optimized performance and scalability. Improvements to kernel-level processes affect, networking, virtualization and I / O [...]

Adobe warns of attacks on Reader and Acrobat

Adobe warns of attacks on Reader and Acrobat

Adobe has released a security warning for Adobe Reader and Acrobat. A critical vulnerability lies in versions 10.1.1 and earlier, and 9.4.6 and earlier on Windows and Mac OS X. Also, the Linux version of Reader 9.x and earlier are affected. The hole is exploited in targeted attacks against Windows for Reader 9. The vulnerability [...]

Amazon invests in Foxit PDF Reader

Amazon invests in Foxit PDF Reader

Amazon has invested in the Foxit Corporation, which developed the Foxit PDF Reader. The team will help Amazon, according to press reporting, to enhance support for the document format on the e-book reader Kindle. The amount of the investment was not made public. Amazon e-book reader already has the ability to display PDFs, but the [...]

EU wants to increase penalties for data protection sinners drastically

EU wants to increase penalties for data protection sinners drastically

companies that do not adhere to the privacy rules of the EU could in future be punished with fines of up to five percent of global sales. This is a proposal out for a recast of the EU Data Protection Directive, the Financial Times (FT) is present. Next month, the rules are adopted. Still had [...]

Microsoft has released “Windows store” for Windows 8 before officially

Microsoft has released “Windows store” for Windows 8 before officially

Microsoft has been in San Francisco a comprehensive view on the App Store for Windows 8, through which it plans to offer free and paid Metro-style applications. Apart from the App guidelines and the terms and conditions for the “Windows Store” Antoine Leblond, corporate vice president for Windows Web Services, including the construction of the [...]

RIM may name “BBX” provisionally not use

RIM may name “BBX” provisionally not use

A small software company from the U.S. state of New Mexico named based International has achieved a success in a dispute with Blackberry maker Research In Motion is the name BBX. The court issued an injunction against RIM, which may no longer use the name for now. RIM wanted to name its new operating system [...]

Microsoft announces Windows 8 Beta and App Store for February

Microsoft announces Windows 8 Beta and App Store for February

Microsoft has the App Store, which it developed for Windows 8, presented to the public for the first time. He will start end of February 2012 with both the first and only eighth beta of Windows As All Things Digital reported, developers can offer their applications for free or at prices from 1.49 to 999.99 [...]

Adobe warns of attacks on Reader and Acrobat

Adobe warns of attacks on Reader and Acrobat

Adobe has released a security warning for Adobe Reader and Acrobat. A critical vulnerability lies in versions 10.1.1 and earlier, and 9.4.6 and earlier on Windows and Mac OS X. Also, the Linux version of Reader 9.x and earlier are affected. The hole is exploited in targeted attacks against Windows for Reader 9. The vulnerability [...]