Tech News Buzz: 01/22/11

Saturday, January 22, 2011

Facebook, the site is worth $ 50 billion

The social networking site Facebook said on Friday it had raised $ 1.5 billion, including $ 1 billion to customers of Goldman Sachs outside the United States. "Facebook announced it has raised $ 1.5 billion in a transaction valuing the 50 billion dollars," the Internet giant said in a statement. At this level of valuation, it would be one of the most important marketed in the technology sector of the U.S.

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Malicious software: Koobfac

What is the worst that can happen to a malicious software? be hijacked by malicious software to self. Experts have discovered that a well-known Trojan poses a major security hole - which can be exploited by competitors. This makes the Trojans twice threatening. Actually the computer worm Koobface be a very bad pest.

Since 2008 he is driving in different variants on the loose, and uses entirely new - well - distribution channels to distribute its cargo from the computer to computer. For some time he is even on the road in a cross-platform version that feels on Windows PCs, Linux machines and Macs, OS X-native alike.

Memup will soon expand its range of peripherals with USB 3.0 connectivity thanks to an external hard drive and interesting design that is paid to number three and will come with a capacity of 3 TB. Memup Kiosk LS used for this purpose a 3.5-inch internal drive that part of the 500 Gb but at its best in the capacity of 3 TB.

Lots of space and access speed, is not that what we want for an external storage system? This new external hard drive from Memup hit the market in February with a price of 169 euros.

When technology becomes the architect of our privacy

"How many times a day do you check your e-mail? Awaken? Before going to bed? A dozen times between the two? If you are like many of us, the red flashing your BlackBerry is the first thing you see every morning - you've got mail! - and the last light disappear when you fall asleep, "recalls Jessica Bennett for Newsweek.

Add Twitter, Facebook and the rest of our social media these obsessions and constant connectivity that was supposed to simplify our life became the millstone dragging it with you from morning to evening. The advantage of these gadgets, of course, is the connectivity that allows us to respond to a message on the road and that we can keep in contact with more people than we are able to meet in a day.

If you plan, despite the multimedia hard drives and televisions with advanced playback of files, build your own media center for the living, we bring you today a new box LianLi hand to give a very elegant touch to it but not is precisely a discrete element in size. The LianLi PC50 is designed to work with Micro-ATX boards and offers four expansion slots.

Inside, we can accommodate up to two 120 mm fans, three 2.5-inch drives, three 3.5-inch external drive bay via external 5.25 inch. Not be a problem include graphics cards very long (up to 250 mm) but we know that does not come with power supply. To avoid rattling, all the sections reserved for components incorporate anti-vibration reinforcements.

ActivBoard 500 Pro-series is the new multi-screen model that the developer has submitted Promethean and it could come to replace the pencil and paper in offices and schools. The ActivBoard 500 Pro-series was launched during the last BETT 2010, the famous fair of new technologies that takes place every year in the city of London.

It supports both electronic pens and fingers, ie support multi-touch technology, something that could be a boon for schools or offices, provided the cost is affordable. This new screen will come with multiple applications and others that we can acquire for free from which you can find maps and lesson planning, especially designed for business and academic frameworks.

Web companies and computer publishing results in very strong growth despite a challenging economic environment.

Fee for private copying: audiovisual manufacturers will go to court

The Union of Industrialists of audiovisual materials and electronic (Simavelec) announced Friday, Jan. 21, he will file an appeal with the State Council to request the annulment of the new fee for private copying. "We will enter the State Council once the text will be published in the Official Journal, "he told Agence France Press () Bernard Heger, managing director of Simavelec.

The purpose of this action before the Supreme Administrative Court is seeking the annulment of the new scale of this tax, which will come into force on 1 February. The Simavelec demand for replacement of a device BRAKING SYSTEM "fairer and more responsive" which is based on the "injury".

After Belgium, France: the Union of the national daily press (SPQN) announced on Thursday, January 20, will enter the competition authorities and an inquiry into the practices of Apple's sale of subscriptions press. The Belgian Minister of Economy, Vincent Van Quickenborne, announced Tuesday that he seized the policeman of the Belgian competition for the same reasons.

At the root of this anger, a change in the rules adopted by Apple for the applications of its iPhone and touch pads iPad. While many newspapers were developing materials for these subscriptions, the company decided to deny them the direct marketing of subscriptions on their websites. Apple therefore requires publishers to sell their newspapers through its iTunes library, where the company collects 30% of sales, excluding subscriptions coupled iPad paper.

Do not say: "My soldier is X, Camp Y, Z of the city, Afghanistan." Instead say: "My soldier is deployed in Afghanistan." Here is one of the recommendations of the U.S. Army soldiers who use social networks on battlefields. This new edition of "Manual" from the U.S. Army, Release Thursday, January 20, is presented as a guide to good practice and sounds like an incentive for prudence in the face of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

The telecom operator Orange is about to take a significant stake in video-sharing site Dailymotion, revealed Friday Express. fr. Orange could invest up to 30 to 50% of capital. Deficit for several years, Dailymotion has reached equilibrium at the end of 2010 with a turnover of 18 million euros. The site has greatly expanded its audience over the last two years, including the international rankings published by various firms comScore, Nielsen / company Alexa, rank it among the 110 most visited websites in the world.

"The alien jumping Cebolla7 escaped the planet and returned to continue his odyssey." Flea and with it returns to its creator, Paco Suarez, head of the new study Mandanga. The Spanish considered the first game was developed on a computer Sinclair ZX81 and later adapted to the ZX Spectrum, one of the most popular home computers of the eighties and with which many computer enthusiasts and interactive entertainment, today already exceeds music, film and video together by level of income.

The publication of quarterly results from Google, on the night of Thursday to Friday, has been largely overshadowed by the announcement of the passing of founder Larry Page to executive management of the company, replacing Eric Schmidt. Yet the numbers are impressive: the benefit of Google jumped 30% in 2010 to 8.505 billion dollars (6.283 billion euros).

Turnover increased 24%, exceeding analysts' expectations. In the fourth quarter alone, net profit is 2.54 billion dollars (1.87 billion euros), up 29%. The action took 2.67% to 643.50 dollars in electronic trading after the close of trading. Mark Mahaney, an analyst at Citigroup, the results reflect "a significant positive impact" revenue gleaned from not only the search engine (PPC), but also with the increased presence in the mobile Internet, with video site YouTube and illustrated with advertisements.

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Hewlett-Packard refreshed its board of directors

The computer giant Hewlett-Packard (HP) announced on Thursday, January 20, the appointment of five new directors, including Patricia Russo, former CEO of Alcatel Lucent, Meg Whitman, former eBay boss, and the dominant French Senequier , head of Axa Private Equity. The other directors are incoming Shumeet Banerji, managing director of Booz & Company, and Gary Reiner, former chief information officer of General Electric and current adviser to the investment firm General Atlantic.

The next G8 summit in Deauville, in May, will not ultimately dedicated to the regulation of the Internet. It was the wish of Nicolas Sarkozy, had announced the entourage of the president in early January, but ultimately this issue will be discussed at an informal session in May, before a possible meeting of the G20 in Cannes devoted copyright.

The bottom of the presidential address has also changed slightly during the month: "We will put on the table a central issue of Internet civilized, I'm not regulated the Internet, I say civilized Internet" , he insisted on his wishes to the world of education and culture. If the expression of "civilized Internet" is regularly appeared in government rhetoric in recent years it is evoked without distinction to criticize the revelations of Wikileaks and the fight against illegal downloading.

Google announced on Thursday, January 20, a reorganization of the triumvirate that runs for ten years: one of its founders, Larry Page, becomes CEO while current CEO, Eric Schmidt, will retain the presidency of the Board of Directors . In a teleconference with analysts, during the presentation of financial results flattering, Mr.

Schmidt explained that the current organization where decisions are taken at three, between himself, Mr. Page and the other Co-founder Sergey Brin, had led to red, now that the group has nearly 25,000 employees. "We always take decisions together; (...) it adds delay." THE END OF "triumvirate" Mr.

A Russian visitor faces a sentence of six years imprisonment for having posted on a social network eighteen songs from his favorite band, reported, Thursday, January 20, several media. The surfer of 26 years, social network user V Kontakte, considered the Russian Facebook, is accused of violation of intellectual property rights of a music group, said the television channel NTV, without specifying which group it was.