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.

In Italy, wifi is free

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through card 'identity, how to connect to the internet in wifi in bars, restaurants and public houses have been repealed.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.

The virtual address of the home. Here comes the box label, paperless and postmen

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).

Design Tips: How to manage photo book composition

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.

Hackers claimed the policy

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.

VAT: telcos refusing cancellations will be punished

"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.