Tech News Buzz: 2010

Friday, December 31, 2010

A new virus threat operating system Google's Android in China

A phone with Android, the operating system from Google. A virus that target mobile phones using the Android operating system Google has been detected in China. Geinimi baptized, it may take many personal data stored on a user's phone and send them to servers. "Once this malware is installed on a phone, it has the ability to obey orders a server, allowing the operator of that server to control the phone, "said Lookout Mobile Security, an antivirus company specializing in mobile.

"YouTube is like a TV" Agcom launches the new requirements

Two resolutions have been published and impose rules to user-generated video sites. Intended to discuss the rules of editorial responsibility, the obligation to rectify and sides protected the 2010 and culminating in a "gift" for unwelcome YouTube, DailyMotion and other popular sites hosting user-generated video.

Two resolutions have been published by the Italian Communications Authority (AGCOM) will equate to broadcasting services, with all the consequences. Italy is probably the first Western country to make this leap of interpretation, leading to unprecedented requirements for websites. Even the highly contested Romani decree had gone to the hypothesis for sites "ugc", ie made of user-generated content, tasks such as those found by Agcom.

After months of promises, confirmations and denials, especially after five long years of endless waiting, the provisions introduced by the then interior minister, Beppe Pisanu, through which he had imposed an unnecessary and anachronistic requirement to identify, through card 'identity, how to connect to the internet in wifi in bars, restaurants and public houses have been repealed.

It took a few lines inserted in the CD Decree Milleproroghe to jump behind a standard that has been in the last five years, one of the many anomalies Italian and above all that has prevented the development and dissemination of public Internet connections, helping to increase the dramatic digital divide that plagues our country and relegates him to the role of bringing up the rear in every European ranking on the prevalence of broadband.

Internet Telephony: China Behrden threaten to block Skype

Skype in China is threatening the same fate as Facebook, YouTube and Twitter? The authorities have declared unlicensed Internet phone providers in the fight. These plans outrage million users. A blockade would be technically simple. Beijing - China's authorities want phone service providers such as Skype to the collar.

The announcement to allow on-line telephone calls, only two state-owned telecommunications companies and strict action against other provider shall, in China for confusion and indignation. The country has about 450 million users, the world's largest Internet community. Many now fear that phone calls could be declared illegal on Skype and get their bills therefore.

U.S. hit list: Facebook overhauled Google

Google. com was in the past two years, the website that the Americans visited most often. However, if all Google owned sites such as YouTube or e-mail service to be counted, the Primus is a search engine just under ten per cent stake at number one. Behind is the Internet service provider Yahoo. The ranking officer from 2007, the social network MySpace, has now fallen to seventh place.

Within six years, Facebook is about one half billion users to the largest social network has become the web. Facebook started in 2004 as a social network for Harvard students - there was not clear that there is only a few years later would be part of the perceived the Internet infrastructure.

Abolish the postal mail to save the forests. If our home address was replaced by a virtual counterpart, the sender would save paper, stamps and money without the risk that the message arrives late or, worse, does not reach its destination. And even in the event of natural disaster, when the streets and houses are hard to reach, the post should not be lost.

Marco Pellegrini, 45 years professional and ICT (Information and Communication Technology) has created EcoPost. org, the platform that enables members to help postmen and envelopes. Today the system is still in beta, is collecting the user feedback to improve service and access records on the rise (for this, waiting for the server that can hold up traffic, surfers had only 10 attempts to register).

Diagonal, sequences and the golden section: who knows basic compositional rules, can give a picture book to the rhythm. The trade magazine "Docma" describes twelve tricks composition. Quite intuitively you will see a photo to be particularly successful? Then you look at it closely. You may have unconsciously the classical rules of composition applied, which must now be recorded.

Because you can take advantage of the composition to create a photo book that follows in the true sense of the rules of art. Every picture follows - consciously or unconsciously recorded - the principles of composition, which were acquired in the course of centuries in architecture and fine arts.

Discover that the new German ID card has weaknesses that ill-intentioned, can use to impersonate (electronically) by the victim. Demonstrate electronic terminals ready to vote in elections in Germany can be manipulated and are also non-transparent devices and therefore undemocratic, which led the German Constitutional Court declared in 2009 its use unconstitutional.

Advocate the free flow of information, net neutrality at all costs and protect the private sphere. Here are some points of the activity of the Chaos Computer Club (CCC), the association of computer hackers and activists of Europe's largest. This does not seem to fit the usual idea that a hacker is a person of dubious morality that is dedicated to breaking into the computers of others and make havoc.

"This creates a transition period of four months may allow any customer to be free, because in fact this applies to all operators," said one industry analyst. / Secretary of State for consumption, Frederic Lefebvre, warned on Friday 31 December, the operators that they would be "punished" if they did not "consider requests for termination" for customers with Internet packages and mobile will increase due to the VAT hike.

Butts sells for $ 500 million of securities

The U.S. site Butts takes up the principles of joint purchasing Groupon. U.S. website Butts deals announced Thursday, December 30, he sold for 500 million shares (377 million) since December 17 as part of an operation to remove 950 million dollars (716 million). In a paper published by stock exchange authorities (SEC), Butts said he still offers for sale for $ 450 million (339 million) of securities.

Society Internet telephony (VoIP) Skype announced Thursday, December 30, launching an application video call for the latest versions of Apple's mobile devices. The application, downloadable from the Apple online store, works on both 3G and WiFi networks. But only the latest versions of the iPhone (4 and 3G) and iPod Touch portable media player, have so far of a front camera to film himself while phoning.

Computer and consumer electronics are merged, the Internet and mobile market has changed enormously. How could it go, asks the U.S. trade association Consumer Electronics Association - and presents bold predictions about the technology of the future. San Francisco - smart phones with them and the resulting App ecosystems could, in conjunction with new network technologies, transform the existing computer hierarchy completely.

The Chinese authorities want to limit the use of Internet telephony. According to People Day, can only provide this service certified public operators in the country. This would exclude, for example, the possibility that Skype could offer calls over the Internet. Some sources, however, require that the ban would amount to calls from a PC to a phone but no telephone connections made between two computers.

In its fight against online sex-Zockerei and violence, the Chinese Government reported a success: 60,000 pornographic sites are offline, the struggle goes on - now to Skype. Also in the news summary: warns Hadopi per day 2000 file sharers and the FBI investigated Anonymous leader. The Chinese government has on Thursday announced it has switched off within a year more than 60,000 porn Web sites - a great success for Beijing's ambitions to control China's access to the Internet better.

Freedom of Information: Data Protection Commissioner criticized the government

Berlin - Five years after the Freedom of Information Law benefit the citizens of their right to the federal authorities only moderately. And the authorities see themselves despite the legal obligation to openness largely unbuttoned. "The balance is not entirely positive," said the Federal Data Protection Commissioner Peter Schaar, the news agency dpa.

The law is there since 1 January 2006. It will allow every citizen access to official information to federal authorities. Particularly difficult with the respondents is happening, according to Schaar, the Federal Ministry of Finance. Parts of the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Affairs and its subordinate agencies behaved hesitant.

NASA Awards Contract for $ 2.5 billion to Hewlett-Packard

The U.S. space agency NASA announced Monday, Dec. 27 it had granted to Hewlett-Packard a contract of 2.5 billion dollars (1.89 billion euros) for the supply of most of its computers and software and peripherals and mobile computing. "This fixed price contract, with delivery and indefinite quantity, has a maximum value of 2.5 billion dollars with an initial period of four years and two option periods of three years," said NASA in a statement.

Media Library is a digital service free to users. Ebook and music albums are made available in streaming or download from a thousand public archives of Lombardy, Emilia Romagna, Tuscany and Umbria A public library open at all hours. And the books you borrow and consult directly on your home. It 'an innovation made possible by digital platform Online Media Library, which contains already a thousand libraries in four regions: Lombardy leader, Emilia Romagna, Tuscany and Umbria.

The offer "triple play" was initiated in 2002 by the ISP Free. Avec the VAT hike, which will apply early 2011 subscription box on the Internet, offers "triple play" combination of phone, Internet and television to less than 30 euros per month will disappear. So far, half of the bill offers "triple play" was subject to VAT at 19.6% and the other half at a reduced rate of 5.5% in exchange for a supplier of access to funds to support the cinema.

The failure had begun to overload some servers that store the instant messaging messages for users who are currently offline. This had some computer late responses from these servers and get an older Windows version of Skype software (vversion 5.0.0.152) had processed these answers wrong - which led to a crash.

This Skype for about 20 percent of users had failed. Since Skype technically but on the P2P principle is based, and each participant simultaneously relay station for the transfer of data is already meant to destabilize the Skype network. But the little error should cause far more than just a data bottleneck.

The latest version of Skype for iPhone application will make free video calls over 3G and WiFi networks. The new Skype application for iPhone, available now for download, allowing those with an iPhone make Skype video calls. According to Apple, Skype is among the top five free iPhone applications major 2010.

With video calling can make and receive free Skype to Skype call fixed or mobile phones worldwide at very low rates, and now also use Skype to iPhone video. "Video calls accounted for approximately 40% of all minutes of Skype to Skype calls during the first six months of 2010. Our users have shown interest to use the video call on their mobile phones," said in a statement Neil Stevens general director of the consumer division of Skype.

Sony adds to the long list of mobile phone manufacturers who demand a competitor for patent infringement. The U.S. has made against LG in court in Los Angeles, reports Reuters. Demand for Sony affects ten models of LG, including Encore, Rumor Touch and Neon, among others. The company sought to prevent their sale in the U.S..

The patents relate to audio systems and transmissions. LG has sold two million units of its popular smartphone, the Optimus One The clash over patent issues between manufacturers of mobile phones is not exactly unprecedented. Motorola accused Apple of infringing 18 of its inventions in the multimedia player iPod Touch, iPhone, iPad tablet and some Macintosh computers.

The hackers and trash platform 4Chan is the birthplace now ubiquitous Internet trends - (garnished with strange sayings cat photos in rudimentary English), for example, the lolcatz movement. Allegedly, the "Operation Payback" was - an informal grouping of Web attacks on financial service providers that WikiLeaks the settlement of payments refused donations - their origin in 4Chan forums.

The now international informal Anonymous protest movement takes its name from 4Chan forums: Anonymous there is the standard name for all users. Now 4Chan itself is the victim of a distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS) have become. On Thursday, the operator announced its users to the official System Status page: "The offer is currently not achievable because of DDoS - or - we have noticed that there were Master Card, Paypal and Visa alone." Before the forum disappeared from the network, passed through strange things: some of the 4Chan-forums, the organization suddenly changed, the site presented instead of the usual pastel tones suddenly red-yellow-Azur, the euro-dance-trash classic "Cotton-Eyed Joe "ran in the background, and glittered in the page header, the heading:" MOOT IS OLEV OLEV IS MOOT.

The book ebook Barnes and Noble, Nook, can download the application for Android Kindle, Amazon's digital book and enjoy Nook catalog on Amazon. Nook has a color screen. Obviously, this maneuver is not authorized by Barnes, but an unofficial blog on Kindle has released details of the maneuvers that the owner of Nook, which is Android operating system, you can do to achieve this dual use.

"Now it is fairly easy to get Kindle books Nook in color and have the catalog of both stores in a single device," explains the blog because Nook Color is not exclusively an electronic book, is also a platform Android. The owner may, after a series of maneuvers, link color Nook's shop for Android applications.

Broadband in Spain remains far more expensive than in the European Union. And Telefonica, one of the incumbents (also called incumbent) less affordable in the EU. In addition, the spread between the Spanish and European rates increases. These are the main conclusions of the report of the Telecommunications Market (CMT).

The interim report, which presents the best rates comparative to June 2010 in different EU countries, notes that the packages of broadband and voice services to medium speed (2 to 10 megabits per second), the most common because they represent 60% of the total, 21.2% more expensive in Spain compared to the average European offers the best prices adjusted for purchasing power parity (PPP), ie taking into account the income level of each country .

Young UMP victims of "cybersquatting"

Certainly, the Web Fails to the UMP. While the party should abolish early January, her social network launched a year ago, the creators of possibilities, however, supposed to become a cornerstone of its online presence, the youth of the UMP just be a victim again Internet jokes. Tuesday, December 28, LeFigaro.

fr announced that members of the Young folk were preparing to put online a site to mock the divisions of the Socialists. Ready to launch, this site is called parody TheSolferishow. fr. Led by France future youth group of the UMP led by Alexander Brugere, a relative of Eric Besson, the site was to compare the positions of different social figures to point their substantive differences.

EU-Project: Single Mobile Phone Charger in 2011

But really: For two years the EU Commission promises single cell phone chargers, you now need the truth. The standards are set, from 2011, industry should produce uniform EU-chargers. Brussels - The long-awaited universal chargers come. In the next few months they will be in stores, promised the European Commission.

The necessary standards are intended for production to start. "Now it is time for industry to commit to the deal and start selling mobile phones for the new Charger," said Industry Commissioner Antonio Tajani. The Commission hopes mainly to falling prices and less waste. "It's a real win-win situation", said the Italian.

New procedure of Microsoft cofounder cons oeb giants

Two patents cover boxes that appear outside of a screen to attract attention. DR Facebook, Google, but Apple and eBay ... All major Web companies, under attack for violations of patents in the field of online research by co-founder of Microsoft. Paul Allen, now in charge of the company since 1992 Interval Licensing, has again filed a complaint (.Pdf) Tuesday, December 28, against eleven IT firms. The procedure for Mr. Allen was actually initiated in August. The complaint was filed in federal court in Seattle mid-December but rejected by Judge Marsha Pechman, saying the document does not "identify what are the products that infringe" the patent.

This is undoubtedly the year of Facebook. While its founder, Mark Zuckerberg, was crowned in mid-December Man of the Year by Time magazine, is now its number of unique visitors that allows him to confirm his meteoric rise. With 648 million unique visitors in November, the online social network and climbs to the third-most visited websites in the world, according to research firm comScore World published by Les Echos Wednesday, December 29.

IT researchers at the University of Regensburg have on the CCC-27C3 hacker conference in Berlin presented a method how the surfing habits of users of the Tor anonymity service monitor. A solution is not yet in sight. Who has a good reason to hide his movements on the Web before the eyes of potential supervisors should, but use the gateway service - the recommended civil rights groups like the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) for years.

Hacked Hacker

The second day of the 27 congress of the Chaos Computer Club (27C3) has an agenda about as tight as the previous day. Hack does not necessarily mean getting the tickle a given operating system or find some of the deficiencies technological devices with which we are accustomed to live, areas where much of the conferences of the Congress, if not find alternative ways of doing things such as creating logical systems rather than electronic tire or make a given device to do something or use it for something for which there was thought, transforming a Epson printer in an affordable way to design circuits in the building motherboards.

An application to know the fate of taxes

The state has 238,000 million euro budget (excluding Social Security) 2011. Although the figures are public and are on the website of the Ministry of Economy, it is difficult for a citizen to know how money is spent watching a tangle of raw data. The application Where do my taxes? (Http://dondevanmisimpuestos.

S) is solved graphically and easily, while the ability to compare the figures of the last term, including transfers to autonomous regions and municipalities. For example, 74,000 million in 2011, the budget allocated to debt. Previous year: 58,000 million in 2008, 51,000 million. The increase in four years is 45%.

It took more than ten years before the Amazon to see the light in Italy, but now the goal is only one: go straight and fast as the trains. Doubts sull'inaffidabilità logistics - which has long been attributed to the absence in Italy of the great portal of e-commerce - seem to be allayed. Now the company has sufficient stores in Europe, and carriers that relies on an international level that they are more than functional.

Charger "universal" in 2011 for mobile phones in Europe

Chargers for mobile devices. IAC / Ian UsherLa European Commission announced Wednesday, December 29, the arrival in Europe chargers "universal" for mobile phones. New standards, based on a connection-type "micro-USB", just published and the first universal chargers that meet these standards should reach the European market "during the first months of 2011," said Brussels in a statement.

There are a wide variety of chargers for mobile phones within the EU, including within the same brand. Many can be used with a specific aircraft type, which complicates the lives of consumers and creates a large amount of electronic waste. "Incompatibility of mobile phone chargers is a major inconvenience for users, but also a huge environmental problem.

Internet refuge for supporters of Laurent Gbagbo? While the Ivorian president clings to power despite leaving his defeat at the polls found, the Web provides its fans a privileged space to try to influence public opinion. As noted Rue89 is through the microblogging site Twitter Ggbagbo Laurent responded, first, the announcement of the victory of his opponent.

Barely known it on 1 December, the outgoing head of state replied by announcing the extension of the curfew on its behalf. Screenshot of tweets posted to the official account of Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo to leaving the announcement of his defeat, 01/12. Capture écranDepuis, the Web is a communication tool to pro-Gbagbo.

Released in November, the shooting game published by Activision has been downloaded 4.27 million times since the trade networks of BitTorrent files, as the specialized site TorrentFreak.

Black operation (wikipedia)

Nintendo warns that 3D games are dangerous to children

Nintendo, which has a portfolio to launch a 3D console, has published a notice in which he considers dangerous use of the three dimensions by less than six years. The notice, which plays PCMag Japanese, Nintendo recalls that visual development is not finished before this age and the provision of 3D images, which presents separate images for each eye can have a potential impact on the growth of visual sistiema the children.

A development team calls on the American underground community of programmers to create video games inspired by the story of Julian Assange and cable secrets. As "Leaky World", which allows for alterations to the information network of the power of Ivan Fulco A screen Leaky World Stories The project is called Wikileaks, the idea is a small team of U.S.

developers, but the goal is very ambitious : Wikileaks tell the story in the form of a video game, or at least interactive story, rallying the people of the underground programmers. The result will be a collection themed "political game", although the authors prefer to define them differently: "We create games for freedom and democracy," explained the guys at Gnome's Lair.

A tablet of the brand Archos. ArchosLa Commission on Compensation for private copying adopted Tuesday, December 14, a new scale, raising the ire of the particular electronics manufacturer Archos French, but also access provider Free [whose founder, Xavier Niel, is a shareholder of Tech Buzz News Group], which estimates that its new Internet box should be excluded from the scope of the levy on private copying.

SAN JOSE '(California) - trouble ahead for Apple after a consumer group has filed a lawsuit for fraud and breach of privacy by computer. The process, which began Dec. 23 before a court in San Jose, California, could gain class action status. According to the indictment, some applications for iPhone and iPad (eg Pandora, Paper Toss, but also Dictionary.

Com and Weather Channel) to transmit personal information to research firms and ad networks without your consent. In particular, the codes that identify the devices (iPhone and iPad contain a "Unique Device Identifier, unique identifier, which can not be blocked by the user) to allow third parties to monitor what software is downloaded and how often and how long are used.

A user views a page of social networking site Facebook. AFP / ROSLANE RAHMANLe Constable of U.S. equity markets, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), is interested in trading activities of securities of unlisted companies promising, like Facebook and Twitter, say, Tuesday, December 28, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.

These are discrete platforms that organize private exchange market, helping to propel the economy of various companies of the Web, some valuations are reaching tens of billion (42.4 billion dollars - of 32.29 billion EUR - for Facebook), according to The New York Times. "Although trading volumes remain thin, the number of transactions increases from month to month," the U.S.

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