Monday, January 31, 2011

Meka Thermaltake G1, a mechanical keyboard to play

Meka Thermaltake G1. Under this curious name lies one of the few mechanical keyboards for gamers that exist in the market along with the best known Razer BlackWidow. The Meka G1 becomes part of the family Tt eSports, the range of Thermaltake products for gamers. Meka Thermaltake's G1 must also point out that it is mechanical, which includes several USB ports, headphone and microphone inputs and a small area to support the wrist.

Samsung has a "Phone Iron"

The Korean company Samsung has unveiled its new mobile B2710, a phone, almost all layers of resist. This new device was developed specifically for the industry for a device layers to withstand harsh conditions. As you can see the new Samsung B2710 neglects the aesthetic design in search of a ... Read more »

PRISA acquires the digital gaming magazine Meristation

Digital and Meristation PRISA, the online gaming magazine leader in Spanish-speaking world, have reached an agreement under which the said digital site will become part of PRISA. "This partnership opens a new era of high expectations of collaboration and success for both parties," said Kamal Bherwani, CEO of PRISA Digital.

PRISA in the news stands, "The agreement is part of the new strategy Digital PRISA oriented development and launch of new digital content, and demonstrates the commitment of PRISA" to become a multinational technology " . Online games are one of the strategic sectors for new business development in the digital realm.

The file eMule-Paradise returned to education

This was to be the great trial of downloading illegal earlier this year, but the trial of the site's creators eMule-Paradise, which offered links to download software emule, was cut short: the court recognized that Monday, January 31 a part of the procedure was invalid, and remanded the case to trial.

EMule-Paradise, a leading directory of links eMule French, attracted over 300,000 visitors per day at the height of his popularity. Created and maintained by a small team, the site had angered the rights holders, who were demanding substantial damages for 10 million euros in total, for the provision of more than 7000 films - a figure disputed by the defense.

Samsung launches new LED display line

The Korean company developer of technology products Samsung has introduced its new line of LED monitors from which we find new models SA300 and SA350, both capable of reducing energy consumption up to 50%. After last CES 2011 there are many who were impressed by the performance ... Read more »

Researchers: Google operating system overhauled Nokia

From fourth best in the world: Google's Android operating system dominates the smartphone market worldwide. Estimated 101 million smart phones, manufacturers have shipped worldwide in the fourth quarter of 2010 - one in three runs with Google software. Microsoft loses slightly below average, and Google growing Nokia wins by far.

Tired of reading the tweets? Bear Charatter will do it for you

It is a fact to read the tweets, messages sent via Twitter, it is not at all strenuous activity taking into account the limited number of characters the same, but the Japanese company Wiz technology developer does not think so and we has presented the new Charatter Bear .... Read more »

Huge fine for distributing spam on Facebook

A U.S. federal court has imposed a fine of 360.5 million dollars (265 million euros) to be responsible for distributed 7.2 million unsolicited commercial emails (spam) to members of Facebook. The network points out in his statement on the ruling is not the first time we have successfully responsible for spam before the courts.

In 2008 and 2009 were the judgments for the same reason against other companies worth 637 million euros and 519 million. Facebook had received the last year more than eight thousand spam complaints from members of the network and over four thousand chose to deactivate their account.

Al Jazeera and protests if television becomes militant

CAIRO - The web and social networks were crucial during the protests in Egypt. But a fundamental role also had the "old" television. If the Internet has helped organize the protest and communication among the protesters, especially in the more targeted policies, such as against Mubarak or the one that portatao the expulsion of Tunisian President Ben Ali, the TV, since the beginning of the revolts in North Africa , had an important role in linking the protests.

Design Error: Problem-Intel chips cost hundreds of millions of dollars

Cougar Point is to blame. Because it means one of the newest Intel chips, a piece of high-tech silicon that should be especially notebooks this year, a boost. But Cougar Point has a problem. He does not work as desired, can cause users long term problems and should be replaced. The Intel says himself and announces even help.

The problem: Cougar Point is in charge of Intel's new chip sets for the control of hard drives and DVD drives. In this case, however, have now been found Intel's developer, there may in time lead to difficulties. "In some cases, the power of Serial ATA (SATA) deteriorate over time and potentially degrade the performance of disk drives and DVD-like devices, or interfere with their operation," it said in a statement the group.

Facebook: over 20 million users in France

The social network Facebook, which boasts more than 500 million registered in Tech News Buzz, has surpassed 20 million users 'active' monthly in France. "We're over in France over 20 million active users, that is to say, account holders who made at least one action - accepting friend comment - last 30 days," said Monday, January 31 Damien Vincent, France Commercial Director of Facebook to Agence France Presse.

Nvidia GTX 590 in February

The launch of a NVidia GTX 590 is imminent, or at least so say the guys Nordichardware. Characteristics, expected by many: dual core, huge size and very high performance. The cores will be two GF110, the same model used in the NVidia GTX 580 that resulted in the most powerful graphics card mononuclear today.

In the NVidia GTX 590 will come underclocked to minimize both energy consumption (which still could be facing a 300-watt TDP) and operating temperatures. Despite this performance will bring the 590 will be considerably higher, perhaps around 20-30% above the original 580. And you can imagine that NVidia GTX 590 card is not for any user.

Smartphones: the Android platform that Google dethrone Nokia

Android, the operating system for mobile phones in the U.S. Google has dethroned the fourth quarter of the system of Finnish Nokia, Symbian, the smartphone segment, according to research firm Canalys, published Monday, January 31. The market share of Android phones to equip these multifunction flew in a year from 8.7% to 32.5% or 32.9 million phones last quarter, according to the study, from first compared with that of Nokia.

Peter Sunde: "The current structure of the Internet is dangerous"

While the trial of the site manager eMule-Paradise, suspected of allowing illegal downloading of seven thousand movies on peer-to-peer eMule in 2005 and 2006, opens Monday, January 31 in Paris, Peter Sunde, founder of The Pirate Bay gives an overview of P2P. Limewire service had to close at the end of 2010.

After his trial initiated by the Recording Industry Association of America, Napster has been bought by Bestbuy, and is now a legal music service. Kazaa has followed the same path. The model of sharing P2P services can be sustained? I think if you embarrass the big industries, they will eventually fight you and try to get by using their considerable financial resources.

A fine of $ 360 million for spamming Facebook

A federal court sentenced a Facebook user accused of spam to pay 360.5 million dollars (265 million euros) in damages to the social network, Facebook reported Thursday, January 27 on its official blog. This person had obtained IDs at least one hundred and sixteen thousand network users and sent more than 7.2 million spam, Sophos says the company specializes in computer security.

Some spam redirected users to malicious sites, the complaint also says Facebook, repeated on the Sophos blog. The directors of the social network have also received complaints from users eight thousand victims of this spam campaign, and over four thousand five hundred of them have chosen to deactivate their account.

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Online Censorship in the network: China censors the term "Egypt"

Who in popular Chinese online news services to the term "Egypt" is looking for, receives an error message since Saturday. Affected comparable with Twitter micro-blogging platforms provider of Sina and Sohu, where individuals maintain their own news streams, videos and sources can include. The search for the word "Egypt" conducted in an attempt to Reuters to any sites, while the search for a politically stable Finland, for example, Sohu found more than 1,700 hits.

Facebook offers offers discounts from the mobile

Facebook sites (in English, Places) was the first step in making Facebook a physical service. It became the best way to move the action of real-world network. In places, people could open the application and state that was at that time and at that site. Out automatically in the profile and their friends could go to the meeting.

From today, still in evidence (or 'beta' as they say in the computer world) Facebook has enabled offers (which is how they have translated the English word 'deals'). The first companies that have chosen this way to promote their establishments are El Corte Ingles, BBVA, Starbucks, Sol Meliá, FC Barcelona and Clinique.

Samsung increased its range of LED displays

We know that many of you are waiting for news of interesting displays that Samsung showed at CES 2011, as the TA-950, but we fear that there will have to wait. South Korea announced today the release of other models in its series LED display. It concerns the Samsung Samsung SA300 and SA350, monitors able to save up to 50% of their electricity consumption.

The Samsung SA300 arrive in diagonal of 18.5 to 24 inches, while the SA350 will make between 21.5 and 27 inches. In both families, the resolution reaches 1080 from the 21.5 inches. The response time is 2 milliseconds and reaches the 5,000,000 dynamic contrast: 1. In connection, it comes to VGA and DVI, although we assume that also include HDMI.

Samsung B2710, a phone that resists all

As we reported in Tech News Buzzmóvil, Orange has become the latest Samsung phone SUV, the B2710. As you can see nothing but take a look over your design, the Samsung B2710 is not one of those big-screen smartphones, but a terminal dedicated to those employees or users who know the phone, above all, will suffer in the day.

It is therefore able to resist water, dirt, drops and extreme temperatures. The Samsung B2710 has a two-inch TFT screen in which what matters is its resistance to scratches and water and dust. We can even soak it in water up to one meter deep for 30 minutes. The operating temperature range, this model can withstand environments icy terrain up to 20 degrees below zero or stifling summer days with 60 degrees.

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Pakistan plans to block the connection of the foreign service BlackBerry

More trouble for Blackberry and its customers. The Pakistani authorities have ordered local ISPs to block access to BlackBerry services connection used by embassies and international organizations. The measure, for now, does not apply to citizens. Pakistan opposed in 2005 at the entrance of BlackBerry in the country, particularly in the corporate messaging service that runs with strong encryption.

Samsung integrates the streaming service Lovefilm in the UK. In Spain, the family well, thank you

Samsung just integrate the streaming service and rental cineLovefilm in Blu-Ray and connected TVs that sells in the United Kingdom. Lovefilm, for those who do not know, is one of the few European alternative to Netflix. It is a service that combines streaming viewing traditional rent movies and video games by mail.

Lovefilm has several subscription fees vary depending on the amount of content that we consume. For example, for a flat monthly fee of 9.99 pounds (only 12 euros) you can see online catalog of more than 5,000 classic films between quality and premieres of recent years. The display can be done online from your computer or from compatible video devices that now have the Samsung catalog.

The European Commission doubts about the effectiveness of blocking websites

The European Commission has doubts about the effectiveness of blocking websites. Not only because of technical difficulties but because of the high economic cost. A scenario that also does not preclude an illegal supply is still available on the web, harming the legal operators and brands. This conclusion is in the public consultation launched by the EU executive about the game online.

The document, leaked by the site Linx Public Affairs, says in his introduction: "While blocking access to national unlicensed operators may be justified, has shown that is technically costly today" and therefore , a "lawless offer but significant residual remains accessible." Later he adds: "the effectiveness of a locking system depends on a list of items to block predefined date and also the softwareadecuado.

Linux distributions pose a common shop applications

The main companies Linux distributions (Red Hat, Canonical, Debian, Novell ..) met in Germany to create a system that unifies the installation and distribution of applications for this open operating system. The aim is to create a common interface to improve the implementation of them, according Phoronix quoted by Slashdot, where there is a lively open debate on the scope of the agreement.

The project is called AppInstall. Linux is an operating system that has different distributions and as Android mobile operating system Linux-based Google, suffers from a fragmentation resulting from various developments. Hence the attempt to open a platform to provide common access. The project should lead to an application store, AppStream,

Superphone, we resign ourselves to having to load more times

Last week I proposed, following the imminent arrival of superphone in the MWC, an interesting discussion about whether we are prepared to assume the power that is expected to reach the new terminal thanks to the dual core might affect the autonomy of smartphones , which admittedly has gotten a hold rather well in the past two years.

The xatakeros have spoken and after two thousand responses, we can say that clearly winning the option of resignation at having to recharge the phone more times than they do now. Nearly 900 xatakeros (45%) assume that at the expense of not giving more power and screen size are likely (though not agree with boundless joy) to make your next load superphone more often.

Google and U.S. prosecutors negotiated a deal on Street View

Prosecutors in Connecticut (USA) led an investigation last year, which joined a quarantine of prosecutors from other states, data on the Street View cars had collected from private wireless networks in their journey for cities to develop the said street photography. Now, the new prosecutor of Connecticut has announced that it has reached a deal with Google to negotiate a penalty for this reason that states would save the expense of initiating a lawsuit.

In Egypt, the circumvention of the blackout of the Web is organized

Four days without internet since the almost total blockage imposed on the night of Thursday to Friday by Egyptian authorities, the defenders of freedom of expression have organized to try to provide alternatives to the Egyptians, so they can receive and disseminate information. The first and simplest of parades was ...

a little jump backward technology. Service Providers (ISP) from Egypt were forced to block connections to broadband, fixed telephone lines but still work. So nothing prevents access to the Internet at low speeds, via a 56K modem. The connection is weak, but works: several foreign ISPs, including NDF in France have therefore established a number of Egyptian Internet connection.

Flinkin, a social network to share links espaola

A couple of enterprising locals in December read rumors that could disappear Delicious, hosting and sharing site for blogs, and decided to launch a social network that specializes in this, Flinkin. "It turned out that Delicious is not closed, but we had already launched the site," says one of its creators.

The fact that the law in the courts Sinde progress has significance to Flinkin was not the day of his birth. "We were not born as an alternative against the law Sinde. Our goal is that Internet users can share links, your use each of this possibility is your responsibility," says David Roche, a telecommunications engineer who along with Marc Taulé specialist web design company have Beweb.

# Egypt "banned Chinese social networks

China wants to avoid contagion from the Egyptian dispute over the Web. Since Saturday, January 29, authorities have asked the Internet portals or sites micromessagerie, Chinese equivalent of Twitter, not to show the result of the keyword "Egypt." If this launches a Chinese Internet research on sites such as Sina and Sohu, the following message appears: "The laws in force, the results of your search can not be divulged." Blocking remains effective Monday.

By the copyright complaint against web All AGCOM

Italy is coming to an automated system and directed to seize foreign sites of any kind: from Wikileaks to foreign newspapers online, from blogs to videos. E 'contention that a campaign will start this afternoon, signed by many associations and sent in the form of an open letter to Parliament. In the viewfinder there is a AGCOM (Authority for Communications) Copyright and now in public consultation.

Facebook Flickr eat ground

Flickr, the great portal dedicated to sharing photos, you have serious competition from social networks that can do the same and, more particularly, that of Facebook. Although Flickr is very popular, the number of unique visitors (in December) in the United States had fallen by 16% in one year, leaving the figure at 21.3 million, according to comScore, while the area to share photos of Facebook grew 92% to 123.9 million users.

Julian Assange promised a "flood of secret documents"

"She went out cautiously from the doorway before disappearing into a battered red car." The scene, described by The Guardian, takes place in London, and this mystery woman is none other than Julian Assange. The co-founder of Wikileaks had disguised himself to escape the agents of the intelligence that he thought the tracks.

Mr. Assange is currently the subject of a criminal investigation into the leak of reports and despatches. He is also pursued by the Swedish courts for cases of sexual abuse against two young women, and is currently in the United Kingdom on parole. British justice should decide the 7 and 8 February on the request for extradition of Stockholm.

iPad 2, returns to his alleged specifications

We could not start another week without betting technology that will bring the iPad 2 under the arm. The rumors come this time of the Ming-Chi Kuo analyst who has detailed the key aspects of the new iPad 2. In the future second generation of Apple tablets are two fronts that more discussions are leading: the display and processor.

The first case, after the illusion that the new screen was a retinal display with pixels that fall in the amount he could incorporate, we have been already more sensible values and away from the illusions of fancy. IPad future screen 2 may improve the resolution, but with values not far from the present, and yes it was focused on reducing its thickness to make the thinnest tablet.

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Amazon is an e-tailer and Christmas sales that the merchant builds have not been made as Kindle and e-books, despite their success. Far from it.

Z-Drive OCZ R3, storage for your computer faster

The third version of the Z-Drive OCZ comes to evolve to its predecessor. Z-Drive OCZ R3 reaches the market little changed, while maintaining its status as brutally fast storage. Because, of course, the Z-Drive R3 is based on the PCI-Express link directly to this board and reach figures of about 1,000 MB / s in both reading and writing, which comes to about ten times more than traditional hard disk , and about four times more potent the SSD market.

The weekend at the 1354 games were born

For many, the youth are lost. For others, it is only fast stimuli. Pedro Gonzalez, director of the Master in videogame design at the Complutense University, has managed to touch the appropriate key to motivate their students. During the weekend lived a GameJam (http://www. Globalgamejam. Org /), a challenge is to create a game in 48 hours.

The MediaLab Prado was the place chosen to live together, discuss and give shape to ideas. The open call allowed the registration of students in other courses, such as the video game design degree ESNE the school, attached to the University Camilo José Cela, or true fan, as Jose Manuel Alcaraz, who, like the legendary Super Mario in their day to day is dedicated to the plumbing.

Sunday, January 30, 2011

Circumventing censorship coup fax

The Egyptian regime fails to shut completely to the Internet. On Thursday, the government of Hosni Mubarak ordered all vendors operating in the Arab country that cut off their international connections to the network immediately, Anonymous launched a campaign that was faxed (especially to schools) cables Wikileaks that revealed violations of human rights under President Mubarak.

Now, the activist group Telecomix Anonymous seems to have joined to launch another mass mailing of faxes to Egypt, in which broadcast an alternative way to access the Internet, according to blogger Andy Greenberg Forbes. They are collecting international telephone numbers through which you can connect to a modem.

The Sony Cybershot HX100V is exposed

Although Sony was sure the information locked so that nothing was discovered on one of its major releases, LetGoDigital has finally brought to light what we needed to know about the future Sony HX100V. And most importantly, the improvements it brings us all the fields in which Sony is working the picture and sound.

For starters, this new bridge type camera, ie a bit above the advanced compact with a DSLR but without being able to change the objectives, will debut with much resolution sensor (16.2 megapixels) which is backlit (Exmor A CMOS) that accompanies a 30 power zoom lens with improved technology to automatically focus the Bionz processor that helps.

The Toshiba Qosmio is almost magical T750

In today's laptops, and more in sizes as this Toshiba Qosmio 15.6-inch T750, little more than one design can uncheck the other competitors, at least if you do not go into details of the operating system. That is why the Toshiba Qosmio T750 boasts a special coating on the casing, the work of the company's own collaboration with a Japanese company materials, which makes it change color depending on angle of vision with which we observe .

Overcome the challenge of creating a video game in two days

Shortly before three o'clock in the afternoon, moments lived more tension in the MediaLab Prado. At that time had to be all finished games. The GameJam had begun 48 hours earlier. The 60 participants went to present the results. There were people like Enrique Gil, a computer is participating for the first time and wants to turn around his life.

Just quit his job to "learn more and get into an industry full of opportunity." Paul Iáñez, Zaragoza, is making video game design degree from ESNE. First time and has brought with it the computer tower. Campus Party With several appear behind your machine with a handle at the top seems very normal.

Scenes from "Top Gun": Internet users expose cheating Chinese TV

In China, TV journalists are obviously big Hollywood Fans: A report on an air force maneuvers intended images from the movie "Top Gun" refers to Tom Cruise. Internet users recognize the misconduct of public TV station - and criticize them fiercely. Beijing - The Chinese state television has appeared in an article on Chinese air force maneuvers showed scenes from the Hollywood movie "Top Gun".

The timing of superphone, analysis and weekly specials

Just two weeks lie ahead to enter one of the most scandalous vortices gadgets that everyone wants for months. Yes, I speak of the Mobile World Congress Barcelona which starts on 14 February, but very delicious dishes the day before, Sunday. Will be there to tell thee first hand, but now we have to review the analysis and weekly specials on Tech News Buzz:

Funai TV line features Katana

Increasingly, the Spanish who bet on LED technology for TVs in the home and the Japanese company Funai is one of the little by little it has been dipping into the market of Spain, now dazzles us with the new range Katana has excellent technical characteristics. This new line of televisions Edge LED technology does not seek to dazzle with its design, rather sober and unremarkable, but it is trying to bring more households LED televisions with various sizes and prices to match.

"Assange? The world does not need another tables, another pop star"

Daniel Domscheit-Berg (Germany, 1978), activist techno-whatever it is what it means, and principal contributor for years Assange, Wikileaks left last September and has created his own project, Openleaks, which aims to be fully operational in few months. You are about to publish a book with an explicit title: Within Wikileaks: Julian Assange my time anywhere in the world more dangerous, which is not exactly a hagiography of Australia.

Saturday, January 29, 2011

DAB vs. FM Digital Radio

Radio broadcasts are transmitted more often digital - on the web. The DAB standard ekes out a shadowy existence on the other hand, although he really should replace the analog broadcasting. The good old FM radio does not appear to be used. In television, the digital standard DVB (Digital Video Broadcasting) has quickly established.

The little sister for the radio called DAB (Digital Audio Broadcasting) ekes out a niche but so far - although the resulting 15 years ago digital radio standard almost fully available in Germany. Experts are skeptical that the official successor of the analog standards will succeed FM, establishing itself as a transmission method.

Play Xperia is getting closer

Approaching the Mobile World Congress 2011 which will take place in February in Barcelona and more and more rumors about possible releases that take place there, among these is the new Xperia range of mobile Play, a mobile that integrates entertainment console PlayStation Portable. While it appears that this new device will not be presented to the MWC some U.S.

users have had the opportunity to try and opinions are found throughout the web, opinions through which we could learn some of the characteristics of this new device. The Xperia will play powered by Android 2.3 as operating system, will have a 4-inch, 1 GHz processor and a CPU frequency Adreno 205; features remarkable considering that it is a Smartphone.

Congratulations Macintosh: Image of the week

We are situated on 24 January 1984. Then a very young Steve Jobs got on stage and introduced the first Apple Macintosh computer, which they began a new era in the world of computing both domestic and professional. This computer, the Macintosh 128K, consisted of an 8 MHz Motorola 68000 microprocessor with 128 KB of RAM and 64 MB of internal storage, mainly emphasizing the design all-in-one that even today is characteristic of Apple and iMacs.

Acer presents the new generation of the Aspire range

For those who bet on the economy and the performance of Acer technology has come a new generation of the classic series of Aspire laptops, the company has launched in Spain the new Acer Aspire 5253 and Acer Aspire 4253, both powered by new AMD Fusion. Acer Both models are aimed at users looking for high performance multimedia products for that reason are equipped with the new range of AMD Fusion.

Computer science revives language Cobol half century later

Cobol revived half a century after his birth. Has just been updated with Visual Cobol. Born in 1960, COBOL was the first computer language designed for businesses. When there is a need to develop a new software application, one of the first critical decisions referred to the programming language being used.

And it's not an easy decision. There is nothing less than almost a thousand different languages (according to Wikipedia, 769, plus a few dozen options, extinct or simply forgotten). For comparison, the number of languages spoken is around 6,900 people, according to Ethnologue, but in alarming decline.

48 hours to create a video game

Nearly 5,000 competitors in 173 cities are going to be locked during this weekend to create a game from scratch. Shortly before three o'clock in the afternoon of Friday, began to arrive the first creators. They come with cushions, backpacks, computers and grocery bags. Have coffee and refrigerator, but no showers.

"Those of us from Madrid we can go home ... or there's always some friend who lends you his," said one participant. This challenge, called GameJam, is performed worldwide since 2002. In Madrid is organized by the Master of Game Development at the University Complutense and the MediaLab Prado gets the seat.

Friday, January 28, 2011

To circumvent the blocking of the Web, 56K modems

When technology does not work anymore, there is still the old: the face of almost complete blockage of the Web in Egypt, in place since the evening of Thursday, January 27, the provider of Internet access French NDF has established a connection relief to low-speed flights of Egyptians who have a 28K or 56K modem.

"Because it is indeed a blatant attack by one State against the Internet, FDN has decided to open a small window on the network by providing an account that wishes to access RTC [telephone network Dial], "said ISP, known for its commitment to net neutrality or freedom of expression. Customers can use the Egyptian line +33 1 72 89 01 50 and connect with the username and password "foo" to access a backup connection at low rates.

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Samsung has put two million Galaxy Tab in three months

The technology development company Samsung has succeeded in the market more than two million of its new Samsung Galaxy Tab, the tablet made by the company late last year. While this figure is not at all comparable to the seven million sold iPads Apple, the company Steve Jobs, in his first months on sale without a doubt is a good sales volume, which indicates that perhaps Samsung is one company that managed to compete with Apple in the growing market for tablets.

Egypt disappears Internet map

In a move unprecedented in the history of the Internet, the Egyptian regime of Hosni Mubarak has ordered all ISPs operating in the Arab country to cut their international connections to completely silence the protests that began on 25 January against the Egyptian government and now have their peak with an outpouring of opposition groups in Cairo.

The Egyptian government's decision means in practice 20 years back in the calendar, a world without Internet or mobile, also blocked throughout the country to avoid the sending of SMS among the participants in the marches. The government blackout of the four major operators of Internet-Link Egypt, Vodafone / Raya, Telecom Egypt and Etisalat Misr-did this last night after leaving inoperable access to Facebook and Twitter, the two social networks used by young Egyptians to coordinate, organize demonstrations and give encouragement to each other.

Playing with the living

InternetActu - We are still far from predicting the physicist and mathematician Freeman Dyson (Wikipedia) - which announced in 2007 that "the final step in the domestication of biotechnology will be biotech creating games, designed like computer games for children from kindergarten, but played with real eggs and real seeds instead of images on a screen.

The winner will be the kid who will create the seeds producing the most thorny cactus, or the one whose egg will give birth to the cutest dinosaur "- but slowly approached. If this summer has attracted Foldit (finally) media attention (see our article), other "games of biological research" have emerged since September 2010.

Egypt, another country call centers

Effect of near-total blockage of the Internet introduced by Egypt on the night of Thursday to Friday, several major companies face Friday in significant difficulties in their customer services. Egypt is home to many call centers, unreachable since the cutoff of communications, who put their employees laid off.

In recent years, many companies, particularly in the field of computers and new communication technologies, have in fact relocated or outsourced their call centers in Egypt. From a business perspective, the country has many advantages: a young population and large, speaking both Arabic and English, low wages, and strong technical infrastructure, thanks to the presence in the country of several cables very high speeds.

A cyber attack is a form of protest?

It's a fairly original line of defense: Friday, January 28, following the arrest in Britain and France of five people suspected of involvement in attacks against sites computer PayPal and MasterCard, one sites used by the network Anonymous believes that attack is similar to an event. AnonNews site, including hosting a chat channel and various texts, claims to be an informational site by and for members of the network Anonymous, an informal group of activists coming together occasionally for a cause.

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Launch OpenLeaks, an alternative to Wikileaks

OpenLeaks 101 Openleaks from Vimeo. The site OpenLeaks, ridden by former members of Wikileaks, opened on Friday 28 January, a month behind the originally scheduled date. Like Wikileaks, OpenLeaks intends to publish the documents provided by informants that anonymity is guaranteed. The project was mounted by several Wikileaks dissidents, including Domscheit Daniel Berg, the former spokesman for Germany, organization.

Microsoft wants to entice Intel to evolve the Atom

We all know that large datacenters not use the same hardware as that of our homes. Maybe sometimes be similar, but usually not integrated in the same way. One of the main priorities for these institutions (which, incidentally, are much more common than we think) is to optimize the ratio performance / watt and achieved great potential but at affordable prices for any company.

Including Microsoft. The guys from Redmond are one of the leading companies in the sector, and of course make use of multiple data centers physically located throughout the world. These centers are used for storing and executing information based on cloud computing services (also called the cloud).

How Egypt has cut Internet

There are still a few days, it was almost unthinkable: cutting total or near total access to the Internet had never been practiced by any government, with the exception of Burma, whose network is poorly developed and where both providers of Internet access are directly controlled by the state. But within hours, the Egyptian authorities have managed to cut off access to the entire network by ordering Internet service providers to interrupt both access protocols DNS (Domain Name Server, which directs computers to the addresses of sites) and BGP (Border Gate Protocol, which indicates which IP addresses are used by ISPs).

The Acer Aspire 5253 and 4253 to reach Spain AMD Fusion

The new Acer Aspire 5253 and 4253 and are willing to fill the windows to the delight of those who rely on more traditional models, but these new Acer computers feature a case design very attractive and the new AMD Fusion. The solutions can complete integrated or dedicated graphics on the hardest. In addition to the latest AMD to have face-to-power multimedia applications, the Aspire x253 includes Clear.

Parobook, a social network for unemployed

"Another social network? A new Facebook impersonator? Parobook, at first glance, is a clone of Facebook dyed red. To stare at the status messages of users notice a big difference. Ianthe, for example, reads: "looking for work in computer repair and maintenance." Santiago fire is technical in Malaga but is unemployed.

Parobook is a social network to help unemployed people to contact other people out of work. It takes less than a week online, has surpassed the thousand records and the load on the servers is such that the service falls are common. The creators are Carlos Ayuso, Iñigo González, José González and Ramírez Sarmiento Antuan.

GeForce GTX 590 from Nvidia here is the counter move against AMD

After the announcement of the AMD Radeon HD 6990 (Here are the first pictures of the AMD Radeon HD 6990) Nvidia has a new video card that goes counter to the proposed AMD for hig-hand market, with the GeForce GTX 590, with two GF110 GPU, which should debut in February. The new GeForce GTX 590, has the heart of the GTX 580, this means that CUDA will have a total of 1024 Core, 3 GB of memory and 2 x 384-bit bus, but given the current GTX 580 TDP of up to 244 watts and has a single GPU, the GTX 590 will have lower frequencies.

Sony gets the sentence to unlock the PS3 GeoHot

Sony has won a court victory against GeoHot which issued a release system (jailbreak) PlayStation3 console. A San Francisco judge has ordered the owner of the site to remove any information on systems of "piracy" of the console. The 21 year old behind GeoHot shall deliver the supplies that have related with the above tool to Sony within ten days.

In its application, Sony had invoked the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) that prohibits the release of the tools to protect a system. However, this principle was qualified last year by the U.S. Congress recognizing the impasse in the case that used to use other software on the device not provided by the manufacturer, if it were not pirated copies, or to facilitate interoperability .

Funai Katana, Edge LED TVs for all

Gradually the company Funai, Japanese them is sticking her head in Spain. This leading manufacturer of ready televisions already have their new LED-type models for the Spanish market. Funai Katana LED TVs are sober and some highlights in the design, but this is its main attraction. Where appropriate seek to bring LED technology to more households with sizes and reduced prices on a par.

The new models use of Funai Edge LED technology, re recall system that places the LEDs in the frame, getting less consumption, more streamlined and better contrast, while not a complete LED system. The new LED TV Funai Katana start with a screen size of 19 inches and are models of 22, 24, 32 and 40 inches of choice.

Cyberactivists Anonymous distraught face of the blocking

They had seized the protesters Tunisian and Egyptian, but the near-total blockage of the Internet in Egypt has dampened expectations of activists claiming the network Anonymous. Informal network, Anonymous is not a group in the strict sense: it brings together Internet users, usually young and technical knowledge variables, which occasionally combine for a cause.

Using tools very accessible, it is already taken Anonymous sites Mastercard or PayPal, in support of Julian Assange, official websites and Tunisian or Egyptian. But the Internet outage throughout Egypt deprives the network of its traditional mode of action: the attack called "denial of service", notes lead to a large number of connections to a fake site saturate and thus block its access.

Nintendo Wii has the record for sales in Italy

Nintendo in a press release, announced that its Wii console has the record for sales in the beautiful country, it has sold well in 2010 730 000 console, a figure up from the previous year, however, confirms that the best selling console the world. But the climb is not limited to the Nintendo console itself, as even 5 titles for this console are the top ten annual: Wii Fit Plus, New Super Mario Bros Wii, Mario Kart Wii, Wii Sports Resort and Super Mario Galaxy 2 .

The filter, filtering

A leak on OpenLeaks site design, platform for receiving leaks have forced the organization to submit your site but is in alpha stage and, for the moment, without content. In OpenLeaks site, an alternative to WikiLeaks proposes another system to manage the leaks received, explaining that someone "impatient", Cryptome.

org, "has leaked the contents of the web that we are still preparing for launch. Some parts are not finished yet." The message ends of the Internet for comments to the project. OpenLeaks born from the initiative of a group of former members of WikiLeaks critical of the direction of Assange.

Despite good sales KINECTS, mixed results for Microsoft

Net income for the U.S. computer group Microsoft has stalled in the second quarter, but the results, benefiting from the popularity of video game system KINECTS have still exceeded expectations. The net appears to 6.63 billion dollars (4.84 billion euros), down 0.4% year on year. But compared to the number of shares, it is up to 77 cents, well above the 68 cents analysts have been waiting for.

2 Crysis demo is also coming to PC

After the release of Crytek Crysis Demo 2 for Xbox 360, has undergone many protests have also released for PC is not a test of his new title, this made the company decide to release a demo for PC, before the official . The statement was given on Twitter, the message does not contain much information, but from what little we read we will have new information soon.

Rcord Samsung achieves its benefits due to the 'smartphone' Galaxy S

IPhone, Apple's smartphone, you are leaving serious competitors. The smartphone from Samsung, the S Galaxy, has allowed the company to achieve in 2010 a profit of 10.522 million euros. The South Korean group consolidated sales last year as worldwide leader of consumer goods and has achieved a new record in net profit thanks to sales of this model of mobile phone and semiconductor sales.

Samsung is the second largest manufacturer of mobile and part of his success is due to the positive reception during the second half received S Galaxy which has sold over ten million units since July. Sales revenue increased by a 2010 Samsung 13% to 100,650 million euros, operating profit increased 58% to 11.303 million euros.

Egypt cut off Internet

After two days of occasional blocks of telecommunications services and Web services like Twitter and Facebook, the authorities have moved to a more radical attempt to prevent demonstrations planned on Friday: they simply cut off access to the Internet throughout the country. Shortly after midnight, many witnesses have reported that Internet access was blocked.

According to data assembled by the computer security company Arbor Networks, all Internet access providers Egyptians cut their services on Friday morning. This is a historic first: until now, no regime had used a total blockage of the Internet in response to events. During the demonstrations that followed the disputed re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Iran, the authorities carried out mass blockades and ordered service interruptions of services targeted geographically, but had not ordered a cut in service throughout the country .

Google Launches Cloud Print

Google is still expanding and now presents the new set of prints Cloud Print. A system that seeks to universalize and FULL SUPPORT that allows you to print the document that is regardless of the operating system or application that you may be using. As deberáis I no longer worry about device compatibility, great news, congratulations! This new system is mainly aimed at mobile phones, will soon be developed for other computers and devices, tablets, and other iPads.

Apple iPad pushed to third in global PC sales

Canalys has released its figures for global PC market in the fourth quarter of 2010 and includes the tablets as such. Apple has pushed it into third place in the list. Jobs's company reached a market share of 10.8% when in the fourth quarter of 2009 was 3.8%. Apple has sold 4.13 million and 7.33 million Mac iPad.

HP remains at the top of the list with 17.7% market share, followed by Acer (12.8%). Canalys prefaces his study with a consideration of teaching: "Manufacturers have to accept the new market realities by recognizing the tablets as a new element in the overall market for PCs." The company points out that a similar debate took place with the advent of netbooks that some analysts are not included in the lists on the PC market.

Samsung Galaxy Tab over two million units sold

The sales expectations Samsung's own back in September were 10 million units a year, on a very high considering the very competitive price with the coming to market. In its first two months getting the thing were encouraged to spend one million tablets Samsung Galaxy Tab. Continue growing with the figure may be difficult in view of the new tablets, with Honeycomb, are being announced, and even Samsung over from the current Tab Galaxy about to be submitted as soon as the Mobile World Congress as the last leaks.

Sony replicated with a powerful mini-console Nintendo

It has no name, no price or release date, but is the device designed by Sony to stand up to the three-dimensional console Nintendo made a week ago. In key is known as NGP (Next Generation Portable, next generation laptop) and presented on Wednesday in Tokyo as a PS3 console the size of a PSP (portable).

Much power, many connections, many possibilities. Everything seems more than the Nintendo 3D, although not the first time that the most powerful and ambitious falling. The Little Nintendo goes on sale in Japan in February and a month later in Europe, the NPM at the earliest, in summer in Japan and the world is likely to fall.

Thursday, January 27, 2011

The Elysée wants to take hold of the National Council of the digital

Who will be the National Council of digital? This body, that Nicolas Sarkozy had announced plans to create in 2008 and is expected to emerge in the spring, will have a particularly wide range of missions, the digital economy to the protection of personal data online. In late December, during a visit to the local Priceminister, the Minister of the digital economy, Eric Besson announced that he entrusted the company's CEO, Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet, also brother of the Minister Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, the direction of this organization.

The government hopes social tariffs for internet access and telephony

The government reactivates a true "sea snake": the "social tariffs" for access to Internet and mobile phone. Major telecom operators were invited to a roundtable on Thursday morning of January 27, hosted by Minister of Industry, Eric Besson, and his Secretary of State for Consumer Affairs, Frederic Lefebvre, to consider the establishment these offers.

The government wants mobile packages to 10 euros per month, with "minimum" thirty minutes of talk time and 30 SMS for recipients of income solidarité active (RSA). He also wants to offer broadband Internet to about 20 euros per month, without specifying whether it will be a true triple play (Internet access, Internet TV, phone connection).

Google Desktop Notification arrives in Gmail

Google has introduced a new Gmail feature called Google Desktop Notification, which notifies you of incoming email via a pop-up on the desktop, this has been possible thanks to some features of HTML5, and you can manage this function from the control panel Gmail. Currently this feature is only accessible to those who use the browser Chrome, but Google is already working to create plug-in for Firefox and Internet Explorer.

AMD Turks, the GPU for the entry-level

AMD has unveiled Turks, code-named the new GPU designed for the low end of the market and will be sold under the name of Radeon HD 6570 and Radeon HD 6670 which will replace the current Radeon HD 5570 and 5670. The GPU is developed at 40 nanometers, and is equipped with 480 stream processors, 16 ROPs and interfaced to the memory with a 128-bit bus.

The first video card, will be the Radeon HD 6570, which will have the GPU frequency to 650MHz, coupled with 2GB of GDDR3 memory operating at 1800MHz. The Radeon HD 6670 will instead be marketed with the 800MHz GPU coupled with 1GB of GDDR5 memory, clocked at 4000MHz. Here is a screenshot of GPU-Z.

MSI AMD Fusion architecture CR650

MSI has unveiled a new laptop called MSI CR650, based on the new AMD Fusiono, particularly to integrate within it a dual core CPU Zacate E-350 with Radeon HD 6310 graphics core and features Cinema Pro Technology, which makes it particularly suitable for watching videos and movies. This last feature is activated by a dedicated pusante that greatly enhances video quality by bringing the display to the maximum supported resolution giving more saturated colors and captivating photos.

PSP Console 2: Sony makes the Playstation to the androids

Well, at last: For months, rumors were drifting on a new portable game console from Sony through the net. Now the company has announced the device at last - for the holiday season. What could really bring the Group forward, but it was another message. Tokyo - Sony will win back with a new mobile high performance console and the opening of Playstation games for Google's Android operating system lost ground in the gaming market.

Internet Campaign: Web activists threaten government of Egypt

"Stop the censorship or we will cripple your government or" This threat will compel the hacktivists group Anonymous, the Egyptian government to release the communication channels such as Twitter. In the case WikiLeaks the group had already bowled a number of companies on the net. These are harsh words: "To the Egyptian government..

Anonymous is challenging all who are involved in censorship efforts Anonymous calls enables her across the country have free access to uncensored media ignored her this message, we are not just your government Web Sites attack. We will also ensure that international media have seen what a horrible life it imposes on your citizens.

Facebook responds to hack attacks

Facebook is making something at last to a wide-gaping door for identity thieves: the transfer of unsecured access. Whoever wanted to could now comparatively easily get to the username / password combination of a Facebook member. This could be written in the name entries, read emails, upload photos. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was even recently casualties of an attack - as well as to numerous Tunisian Facebook members whose ex-government have stolen the access to an unparalleled, state-Hack Action.

Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac OS X in 30-day trial

Microsoft has released a trial version of its Office 2011 package for Mac OS X, giving you the chance to try it for 30 days and try to convince users to buy the full version of Apple seems to have found some success in the past. The software is available for both the Home for the Professional, then you can try all the programs in the suite: Word, Excel and PowerPoint, Outlook, and also, who took over from Entourage software that did not satisfy users Apple.

Google censorship on the BitTorrent

Google has set up a filter that does not appear the proposed instantaneous typing eg uTorrent, BitTorrent, Xunlei, RapidShare and MegaUpload, but the filter is active as BitComet, Vuze, 4shared, MediaFire and HotFile, the complaint has been recommended by the MPAA and RIAA, which are the film and music industry associations.

For the moment, this filter only acts on the proposals snapshots that appear as you type, but not going to touch the search results that appear to give the same results. Simon Morris, BitTorrent Inc, said: "We respect the right of Google's algorithms determine that allow users to get appropriate results, but our brand is legally unique, and we are confident that those who enter the first six or seven letters get the results that you expect to occur as with other companies, "adds the comment," the term BiTorrent currently provides a set of links, which includes information about the company, the software, the open-source protocol, and much more.

The PSP2 here becomes the first official images

In the last period has been much discussion on Sony PSP2 nova should enter the market later this year. but had not yet appeared in the actual pictures of the new license plate handheld console Sony. In a conference held in Tokyo, Sony has confirmed the various rumors that have followed in recent weeks, confirming the technical part is that the marketing of the NGP (Next Generation Portable) code name revealed at the time of the first part this holiday season.

AMD Catalyst 1.11 released!

Each month as AMD has released Catalyst driver for Radeon family of video cards, the HD 2400 series fiona newcomers to HD 6900, driver version is 1.11 which indicates the month and year, strength of the completion of this version of the Catalyst Control Center, already seen in part by the previous driver, the resolution of many bugs and improved performance for the last card of the HD 6800 and HD 6900.

Blackberry: India can not control the messages of companies

The Canadian Research In Motion (RIM), which manufactures the BlackBerry smartphone, announced on Thursday, January 27, it would not provide the Indian authorities the technical means to monitor the messages sent or received by mobile-owned enterprises. "There is no solution. There is no key" to decrypt the emails from companies, told reporters in New Delhi a Director of RIM, Robert Crow.

"It is not possible because the keys are in the hands of service firms" using them, "he adds. India has set an ultimatum to RIM expiring on January 31 that the Canadian manufacturer found a solution to Indian security agencies access to data sent via e-mail services and instant messaging from their mobile ultra-secure.

BlackBerry denies India access to corporate messaging

RIM, the Canadian maker of BlackBerry, has announced that it will provide the Government of India access to enterprise messaging on their phones. India had set a deadline that expires on January 31 for the company to offer a solution that would allow authorities access to emails and messages that are exchanged business through RIM's own system.

The Canadian company had agreed that the Indian authorities could control the exchange of public chats and instant messaging, but the problem occurred with the corporate mail using powerful encryption. India could shut down RIM's service for reasons of national security. RIM has in the country 1.1 million subscribers.

Asus EeePC 1015PW, netbooks to boast precious

First it was cheap netbooks, then autonomy and improved features and now comes the evolution of the design. And if something pulls me back to the ultraportable design is often, in general. So the new Asus EeePC 1015PW has me overjoyed. The company has opted for a sleek design and away from the rough and straight lines, and has placed SeaShell chassis that gives such pleasure to watch and play.

Nokia profit falls again after a year of hardship

The world's leading mobile phones, Nokia, announced Thursday, 27 January a further drop of 21% of its profits in the fourth quarter, after a 2010 where he struggled to turn the tide against the competition of Apple and Android smartphones. Between October and December, net income for the phone giant has dropped to 745 million euros against 948 million a year earlier, while turnover rose 6% to 12.65 billion euros according to its annual report.

One explanation for the diversion of the Facebook page of Nicolas Sarkozy

The security officer of Facebook, Joe Sullivan, said, Wednesday, January 26, that the social network had fixed a security flaw that was used to divert briefly Page by Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook. The fault was probably also used to post messages twice on the page of Nicolas Sarkozy on Sunday night and Tuesday morning.

"A vulnerability has allowed third parties to publish updates to some articles on public pages. The flaw has been corrected," said Sullivan, asked about publishing a status page on the enigmatic Mr. Zuckerberg . The flaw was in the API (application programming interface) of Facebook, in which the ability to publish updates was inadequately secured, details Cnet.

Browser shield with anti-spot now there's more privacy for the user

ROME - The targeted advertising is an important innovation for users of the web, which is no longer bombarded by thousands of useless messages, but communications based on his voyages, and then, in theory, of its interests. A filter "spam" on the mountain that has its undoubted capabilities, but with an important cost: privacy.

To find out what interests you or not, providers of online advertising, they need information on the habits of web users. These are provided by the browser and of course, expose your privacy to a certain risk: the marketing companies know where you are, you're looking for, what you've looked, and try to understand what he wanted.

Acer Aspire E100 debuts with Android and Windows

Probably already thinking about next year, Acer has launched in Spain and its new netbook for students, but does not preclude other uses of course. The Acer Aspire E100 in its educational version comes in a striking blue color and the choice of a structure of special rubber to protect it from everyday wear and intensive.

But not only call attention to that. This netbook will have a dual boot system to choose if you want to work with Android or opt for Windows 7. The 1 GB RAM is also basic, and 250 GB hard drive more of the same. A feed is 5-cell battery which will give 8 hours of autonomy. No lack of WiFi, Bluetooth, webcam or USB ports and memory card slot.

Wikileaks: 5 suspects arrested belong to Anonymous

Five people, aged 15-26 years, suspected of having carried out attacks in the computer network Anonymous, were arrested Thursday, January 27 by the British police. The five young men 15, 16, 19, 20 and 26 years, placed in custody, were arrested at their home in London and the provinces. They are suspected of abuse in the IT field, which makes them liable to a maximum of ten years imprisonment and a fine of 5,000 pounds (5,786 euros).

Facebook will further secure its connections

To fight against the hijacking of accounts on social network Facebook announced that it would implement in the coming weeks two new protections for its users. The first of these innovations, particularly for users who are afraid to use a monitored connection: they can now go through the https protocol, notably used by banks online, to connect to Facebook.

Google has also introduced a version last year https his search engine. The social network will also establish a new identity verification system, called "Social Authentication". "If we detect suspicious activity on your account - for example, if you logged into California the morning, and in Australia a few hours later - we may ask you to confirm your identity, to verify that your account has not been hijacked, "says the company.

Sony launches NGP

Sony and Nintendo continue to lead the entertainment market. This time, a new handheld device the faces in the race for leadership, and is nothing less than the launch of the handheld NGP recently manufactured by Sony, whose name means "Next Generation Portable." A product that is innovative and revolutionary in the console market.

From the go, this new platform marks a major change with respect to all previously produced by Sony, and that no more be called "PSP2" but renamed "NGP". This new device features a 5-inch touch screen and it incorporates different sets of geolocation system. Your screen, perhaps the most original of what is known so far, OLED technology has muiltitáctil and two cameras, one front and one rear.

The "application" of the Red Cross life-saving

The winners of free downloadable applications on iPhone, the stars are called Burger Queen, or IceCube Iface Fat ... The games that feature hamburgers, ice chips or swollen faces have the desire to do so. In recent days, they are seriously compete with "The Appli-saving" of the French Red Cross. Launched January 22, this new, completely free, already exceeding 100,000 downloads.

A record for a useful application that will teach the first aid to save lives. "We're pleasantly surprised. According to Apple, which launches the carton reaches 40,000 downloads per month," says Jean-Francois Riffaud, director of resource development at the Red Cross. In a few days we have far exceeded those numbers, and we oscillate according to the days between the first and seventh place.

All-in-one PC: Desktop beauties

Long as they were niche products, now they are pop culture: All-in-one PC. Smaller and smaller components make it easier to do away with the inner workings of the computer in the monitor housing. However, there is under the hood are considerable differences in performance. Apple has shown us for years that the concept can work an all-in-one computer - now the competitors from the Windows world are on the train.

Sony MDR-XB1000, monster headphones

Sony has been dispatched today like a string of new handsets among which above all a monstrous models that will occupy much of your head when you're using. The new Sony MDR-XB1000 are circumaural model with a diameter of no more and no less than 70 mm. With this size we can expect the best in bass boost, which gives results in a frequency range between 2 and 30,000 hertz.

The technical aspects highlight the intensity of 106 dB and impedance of 24 ohms. The design is very careful, they seem extremely comfortable but you must know that weigh 375 grams. It goes on sale is currently scheduled only in Japan, which cost about $ 300 to change. We hope to have them in Spain soon.

Nintendo's profit falls 9 months, despite a good third quarter

The Japanese video game giant Nintendo has reported, Thursday, January 26, a net profit down 74% year on year to 49.6 billion yen (452 million euros) for the first nine months of 2010 - 2011. Between April and December 2010, Nintendo has a turnover totaled only 808 billion yen (7.35 billion euros), sharply down from 31.7% a year, after a plunge of 23% already had One year ago, due to poor sales of consoles and the negative impact of exchange rates.

The Facebook mobile closer

We all hope, and rumors growing louder sound. Facebook's mobile phone is almost a given network and many theories circulating about how they will design and performance. But all that is worth waiting for, has an end: apparently the rumors have come to be true and everything would unveil at the upcoming Mobile World Congress in Barcelona which runs from 14 to 17 February next.

From there, fans of the social network in the world, will now have a mobile will adapt to their needs, connected 24 hours a Facebook and more news of the network itself has. To make everyone happy and satisfied, the release shall not one but two mobile phones, which will be up to the manufacturer HTC.

Spain is the European country where most grown Twitter

Not only the media, especially television, have embraced Twitter. In 2010, as did singers, artists and athletes. Edelman PR agency, with data from ComScore consultant, has conducted a study which examines the evolution of micro-system in Europe, Middle East and Africa in the period between November 2009 and November 2010.

In general, the use has increased by 64%. Spain is the country where there has been greater explosion in the use of the service, 151%. It is followed at some distance, the Middle East, with a 104%. Followed by Netherlands (99%), South Africa (68%), Italy (50%), Germany (49%), France (31%), United Kingdom (28%).

Google limits searches related to download

As he had promised in December, the search engine Gogle has disabled its auto-completion of research for a number of terms that may be related to illegal downloading. The terms "BitTorrent" or "RapidShare" no longer appear in search suggestions. "We will prevent the piracy of terms associated with Telex / Facsimile suggestions in our search," Google explained in December.

"Although it is difficult to identify positively the terms used to find files subject to copyright, we will do our best to block the most common terms used for this purpose." Problem: BitTorrent, as RapidShare, Megaupload or other services used to download illegally, are not themselves breaking the law.

The Spanish music clings to 'streaming' to survive

A week after the international recording industry group (IFPI) published its annual report and brought to Spain as the country with more unlicensed content percentage of online music consumption, it has Promusicae, an entity that encompasses the majority of companies producers in Spain. And most importantly, the dramatic fall of 21% augured, is confirmed.

But some of the Spanish document detailed data reveal some interesting trends in buying music. The only section of the report is positive on the authorized streaming (listening system without downloading songs on the computer), which has risen 1711% over last year. In economic data that translates to going from a turnover of 500,000 euros to 9.4 million.

Nexus S, analysis (II)

After the video analysis of Nexus S and a first look at its features and first impressions about the turn of the operating system, multimedia aspect, range and overall performance of the Nexus S. The Google phone is his second attempt to convince users after an attempt last year with the Nexus One In this model HTC chose to fabricate it.

This year for the S Nexus has chosen Samsung, a company that has an impressive jump with his Galaxy S. The Nexus S is the Google model, except surprises, you should captain new mobile phones with Android. Within weeks, when done MWC 2011, benefits will have been exceeded by nearly all his rivals (in fact we saw at CES that stays in 2010), but nevertheless remains the master of the army called to fight Apple's iPhone.

Syria tightens its control to turn the Web

The Syrian authorities have blocked Wednesday, January 26, access to several programs that use the live chat feature on Facebook's mobile phone. EBuddy Nimbuzz, two programs that use Facebook chat or other software discussion, do not work across the country. Syria, led since 1963 by the Baath Party, a practice widespread censorship of the Internet.

Classified as "enemy of the Internet", such as Tunisia and Egypt, the organization Reporters Without Borders, Syria blocks many sites: YouTube, Facebook or political sites, accused of being "exploited by Israel to corrupt Syrian youth. CENSORSHIP OF IRON "All the indicators are red Tunisian since the revolution," said Mazen Darwish, head of the Syrian Center for Freedom of Expression and Media, authorities closed three years ago.

Sony unveils new handheld

Sony on Thursday announced the upcoming launch of a new portable video game console, whose code name estNext Generation Portable (NGP). Hybrid object, with features similar to those of a mobile phone, the console can connect to 3G mobile networks. This new console range PlayStation Portable will feature several technical innovations, according to information released by Sony at a press conference in Tokyo.

Google and applies the filter to Find it on trouble spots suggested downloads

The site says Google Instant Torrentfreak no longer reflects results relevant to content downloads suspected of infringing copyright. According to this site, Instant Google is filtering and blocking the emergence of links to Megaupload, Rapidshare or BitTorrent, among others. A spokesman for Google in Spain has shown no soprpresa for this information because it responds to the commitment made in December by the company regarding content or links suspected of infringing intellectual property.

The Blackberry Playbook could run Android applications

The importance of applications in the world of mobile operating system for tablets is reaching the point that RIM would be proposing the inclusion of a program to virtualize and Android applications to use the Google operating system in its next tablet, the Playboook. Chosen as a key component of the QNX operating system seems to be Blackberry Playbook Dalvik, Android also used as a virtual machine.

PSP Store, Near and LiveArena, so are the online services of the PSP2

After months of rumors, false drawings and talk more, Sony has finally unveiled its new PSP2 will be like that, for one, has been called the NGP and boasts a brutal power play and multiple touch-control options. But if there is anything that characterizes the NPM is a full level of connectivity that includes WiFi and 3G.

The reason for this support is a whole new gaming services and online communities with which Sony has many papers to become the team to beat in the world of mobile gaming. For starters, NGP (or PSP2, because currently the name seems provisional) will have its own app store, the PSP Store.

PS, Sony tries again comes Next Generation Portable

Sony tries again and from Tokyo presents its new PlayStation Portable, code-named Next Generation Portable (NGP), heir to a console that since 2004 has been sold in more than 65 million units. We'll see in stores by Christmas 2011, with its beautiful OLED touch screen 5 inch (960 by 544 pixels), a powerful ARM processor core four, wi-fi, GPS, 3G, two integrated cameras and price still to be define (guarantee low, I wonder if it really well).

Second day of the blackout on communications in Egypt

Suez cut off from the world according to many testimonies published on the Internet, the city, which was the scene of violent clashes between police and protesters yesterday, no longer has access to the Internet or the telephone network. On Wednesday, Twitter and Facebook social networks were largely inaccessible throughout Egypt.

Twitter has confirmed that all its services were blocked on Wednesday, while Facebook claimed not to have noticed significant change in traffic from Egypt. According to many accounts, the two networks have been intermittently inaccessible since yesterday. Contrary to the Government of Tunisia Ben Ali, Egypt had never before practiced large-scale blocking of sites or services.

Europe approves proposed acquisition by McAfee Intel

The European Commission has authorized the purchase of security firm McAfee by the chip maker Intel. The permit imposes the condition that Intel, in its chips, not introduce systems that lead to the use of McAfee security system and curb the use of solutions from other companies. Given the strong presence in the market for Intel processors equipped with computers, the EU has paid particular attention to this point to prevent operations against the competition.

Sony introduces new portable console with 3G connection

Sony has in its portfolio this year launching a new handheld console, the Next Generation Portable (NGP). She wears two sets of controls on each side of the screen, front and back camera, touch screen OLED five inches, a touch pad in the back, flash, wifi y. .. 3G connection. Be the first handheld that can connect to mobile networks.

LiveArea is a function of communication we can know in real time what they are doing the friends of the owner of the console. The main objective, apart from competing with Nintendo announced in 3D is to curb the rise of mobile phones as a gaming platform. By the way, the company announced its own open platform, PlayStation Suite, with counting for the Android operating system.

New laser keyboard, the future in your hands

The gadget that we present in today is a clear demonstration that the future is already here. Who has not dreamed of writing on a keyboard exist? Now it is possible that touch the desktop, you will be writing on the screen of your computer, because it has launched the first Bluetooth laser keyboard, which is drawn in the superificie that you want.

This is the Bluetooth Laser Virtual Keyboard, a keyboard that works after connecting via Bluetooth to a device that activated by a sensor: from now you can see the keyboard on any flat surface thanks to the image projected by it. This will give you the opportunity to travel with your notebook anywhere, and use a keyboard more comfortable or distant from it.

NGP, this is the future PSP2

NGP or whatever it is, Next Generation Portable. That is the code name Sony has just put his future PSP2. Like Nintendo did with 3DS, in a surprise event in Japan, Sony has released details of what to expect ... for Christmas 2011. Then we can see on the street's new handheld console the Japanese in the NGP, that this time it seems to have hit the nail.

The data are revealing little by little of the Sony console future make us completely change the idea of handheld console had. Nintendo chose to go all the 3D world while what we have seen, Sony committed a brutal tune the portable game pure. The Japanese company admittedly has put all eggs in one basket to stand up to Nintendo and 3D console while driving away the specter of mobile phones for a while.

Still with us the possible submission of the PSP2

Packard Bell portable for all

Laptops Packard Bell EasyNote S series, rounded lines, are ready to connect to social networks and HDTV. The keyboard includes a direct access to popular social networks. The webcam and microphone built into the laptop easier to talk face to face in high resolution. Includes wireless connection for music.

Take wifi, Bluetooth connection 3 and HDTV, 8 gigabytes of memory and backlit display. The price is 600 euros, which increases with USB 3.0 to exchange data 10 times faster than before, and Blu-Ray Disc.