Wednesday, December 29, 2010

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.

Gbagbo's supporters organize the response on the Web

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.

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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.

WikiLeaks is a global game from Italy's first contribution

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.

Why private copying annoys manufacturers shelves

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.

Privacy lawsuit against Apple "The app use our data"

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.

The SEC examines the market shares of unlisted companies like Facebook and Twitter

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.