Tech News Buzz: 01/26/11

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Synology NAS smaller renews the DS411slim

It was hoped that after one minute DS409slim going to get new Synology NAS with these sizes. Its latest product, the Synology DS411slim, maintains one of its size and features, but due to the logical evolved over time and improvements in technology. With this, Synology NAS DS411slim is, in the words of the manufacturer, has a size of a quarter of a NAS for 3.5 inch disks.

Actually makes use of traditional hard drives - or SSDs if necessary - and 2.5 inches in size, so that both noise and heat and power consumption with minors. The negative aspect I find in the price of each disc, which is significantly higher than the 3.5-inch HDD, around 100 euros for 1 TB of space.

Facebook advertising partners of their Internet activities

Facebook does not want to miss any room for the advertising market. The network just launched sponsored Stories (Sponsored Stories, video) which will give greater visibility to the whereabouts of any of the network members in relation to a trademark or a local. If the surfer clicks the "like" a page of a client of the advertising account instead has entered a cafe, this action will be highlighted on the page of the Internet.

Song Theft on the Net: unpublished songs by Lady Gaga and Shakira online

The world's largest record companies shake a couple of young Germans. The hack into the computers of famous musicians and their managers, unpublished songs by Lady Gaga and Shakira online. Two were caught, the others continue. Every morning at nine in Wesel: M. Christian is still in bed, dozing in his room in the basement.

A morning like every morning that is not worth getting up. On this day no one is out there waiting for him. If no one want to know something about a boy who has chucked the vocational college and now out of work wasted, at 22, his hours at the computer. No one. Apart from Lady Gaga. Mariah Carey.

Digital Memorial Site: Yad Vashem opened its Holocaust archives

Yad Vashem in Jerusalem is not only the unsurpassing memorial to the Nazi mass murder of the Jewish people, it is also a growing memory archive. Powered by Google is now its archives digitally accessible - and allows glimpses of frightening intensity. Tel Aviv / Hamburg - One source, two photos that could not be more different: in the first, one of four young women and girls posing for the camera.

Blog - Word of Warcraft: Cataclysm or the art of recycling

In one month, 4.7 million copies of the latest expansion of Blizzard's flagship title has passed to its 12 million players, more than the previous expansion, Wrath of the Lich King. It is however not surprising that such a record sales of PC games is well established.

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Zynga, fear the "City"

The publisher Zynga, which specializes in games on social networks, is the word "city". The company, known for games on Facebook as Cityville, Farmville, or FrontierVille and PetVille, has threatened to sue another publisher for trademark infringement, reports the specialized site Gamasutra, Monday, Jan.

24. Zynga criticized because the use of the term in BlingVille, a game for Facebook, currently in testing phase. "The use of the name" BlingVille "is an obvious attempt to capitalize on the fame of the family of games 'city', and as FarmVille Cityville. We are ready to take all necessary measures to protect our intellectual property rights" said a spokesman Zynga on Gamasutra.

iPhone 5 new design would

Something must be done when the competition is good and threat. Is that nobody has won the reign, not even the iPhone. That is why Apple is planning to launch its new iPhone next summer, and could bring a striking new design. Is that the touch screen and the services offered are already commonplace in mobile and all companies must now be surprising since the design.

Information about the new iPhone model was released Porel New York Times, where it was reported that work with chip combined company created by Qualcomm. The fifth edition of the phone that revolutionized the communications not only innovate in design but will mark a new phase with respect to their ancestors, as Infineon ceases to be the creator of the chips (now is in charge of AT & T), which also means a change in the hardware.

The Mubarak government is preventing access to the short message service Twitter in Egypt.

The Mubarak government is preventing access to the short message service Twitter in Egypt. Background seems to be the concern, digital instant messages as before could lead Tunisia to the fact that the protest in the country to a coordinated movement grows. The Egyptian government is facing massive protests - and tried every means to contain the unrest in the country.

Now accumulate reports that already since Tuesday afternoon, access to the Internet short message service Twitter blocked. According to information from Twitter, the service since Tuesday 16 European time clock is the country virtually inaccessible. In some cases succeed and continue to appear from the terms, which led to conflicting reports on the closure.

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Stunning three-screen mobile

The market of mobile not ever stop surprising, and the prototype that we present in today is a clear example. This is nothing less than a smartphone that could soon be on sale, it meets all the accessories look for in a mobile, so manufactured, is the most comprehensive mobile and could even move far more successful Smartphones.

But more innovative are their screens, which surely will surprise you. Then all the details. This is a mobile with three screens, which podráis choose according to your taste. Because they touch, move, but there are also common to use with the QWERTY keyboard, for those not yet accustomed to the touch technology.

Two billion Internet users in Tech Buzz News

"In early 2011, subscribers to mobile telephony reached more than five billion, while Internet users were slightly above the two billion, announced Wednesday, January 26 the head of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Hamadoun Toure . "In early 2000, there were only 500 million mobile phone subscribers in Tech News Buzz and 250 million Internet users," said Toure before the media.

Electronics: sales boosted by the tablets and smartphones in France

After a lackluster 2009, sales of technology assets in France resumed in 2010, driven by smartphones, tablet PCs and mobile multimedia, according to the results published (. Pdf) Wednesday, January 26, by GfK. The turnover of the sector is up 0.9% to 17.7 billion euros in 2010. Even if the TVs are a big item of expenditure, despite sales down 1% to 4.3 billion euros, are the so-called "mobile" that support growth.

Facebook, Zuckerberg mocked a hacker steals your profile

There could be no better way to show how Facebook is insecure. An identity is still unknown hacker took control of the official page of Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of the social network, fun to send messages to thousands of fans of the young millionaire. Just enough time to collect 1800 "like" and about 500 comments to his post and only the social network was forced to remove the page of the founder, and hold at least some type of comment.

Assault 'pirates' apginas Sarkozy Zuckerberg and Facebook

The sprinkler, watering. The fanpage of Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's founder, has been attacked in the network of its creator. A surfer has succeeded in bringing a message of social redemption. Now, the page is invisible. But in the time available was picked up 500 comments and over 1,800 "like." The hacker's message is clear: "If Facebook needs money, instead of going to banks for what the network does not allow its members to invest in Facebook Why Facebook does not transform into a social business as they have been defined Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus? ".

HTC will host two telephones Facebook "at the Mobile World Congress

The latest rumors come about "Facebook phone" is to be presented at the next Mobile World Congress, and the next big news is that would be manufactured by HTC. I understand that phones really are the Taiwanese, but with a special partnership with Facebook, the style of posing Sony Ericsson. There is talk of two mobile phones, which would be within the concept of affordable terminal that was rumored to launch INQ Mobile, but a pair of smartphones, Taiwanese house specialty.

The "unlimited" fixed-mobile trend

From 1 February, the majority of French telecom operators offer an option call "unlimited" fixed phones to mobiles. A few weeks after Free and SFR, Orange announced Tuesday, Jan. 25, he would include this option in a new formula for its "quadruple play" - fixed, mobile, Internet and television - a price increase of five dollars, including the impact of VAT.

Among the telcos and Internet service providers of the Hexagon, Free was the first to include calls to mobile phones in its "triple play" in mid-December; SFR quickly followed. For Orange, these unlimited calls take the form of an option to 3 euros in a "triple play" and will be included in a new version, more expensive, the "quadruple play".

Germany forced to limit his Facebook "friend finder"

Under pressure from privacy watchdog the Land of Hamburg, Facebook has agreed to reduce the functionality of "friend finder" that uses including access to the email address book of its users. The head of the Hamburg equivalent of the CNIL, Johannes Caspar, has announced that Facebook had agreed a deal.

The social network is committed to inform its members that he had access to their email contacts, and to offer them an option to prohibit their use. The tool "search for friends" Facebook's important data related to e-mail account used at registration, and important information, without notifying the user.

Who climbs the movies to BitTorrent?

What started as a bar talk has become a university study has attempted to reveal who are the Internet users who upload content to P2P networks, the most popular for downloading movies from the Internet. "These networks are not as altruistic as it first appears. They do not maintain the philosophy of P2P, ie peer file sharing," says project leader, Ruben Cuevas.

During the eight months that lasted the analysis cautioned that 75% of the contents of up to 100 people. Rubén Cuevas, Head of Telematics Engineering, Universidad Carlos III, along with researchers Carmen Guerrero, Ángel Cuevas in collaboration with Michal Kryzcka, IMDEA Networks Institute, Sebastian Kaune, Technical University of Darmstadt (Germany) and Reza Rejai , University of Oregon (USA) have done the job.

Egypt, another "enemy of the Internet"

Demonstrators who use social network Facebook to coordinate, Twitter Blocked in many respects, the use of the Internet in protest against the Egyptian government like the mobilization that led to the fall in Tunisia's Ben Ali government. Classified by the organization defending freedom of expression Reporters Without Borders as a country "Internet enemy", as Tunisia, Egypt exerts significant control over the network for several years.

German extrapolation: DE-CIX expected a traffic with a factor of twenty by 2015

Last year, notify the central German Internet exchange DE-CIX, the traffic has doubled over the Internet in this country. One end of the trend is in sight as more and more TV and film content is distributed online - a trend that has arrived in Germany not even correct. The traffic on the network will be a factor of twenty in 2015 - so expect the operator of the central Internet node (DE-CIX) in Frankfurt am Main.

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.

French publishers want to pursue Hadopi electronic books downloads

Antidescargas French law, Hadopi, traffic monitoring movies and music through P2P file sharing systems. French publishers also want to include in its list of investigations to the eBook. According to various French media, the management of the editors has begun searching for a company to take charge of tracing P2P download digital books to send data to authorities and begin the process of prosecuting them.

HTC Flyer, will reveal their hidden secrets

Days ahead of many rumors. The last thing is you can bring players to Android and HTC, who will team in the future HTC Flyer. This tablet HTC Android hit the market, if the latest leak without some, Android 2.3, so that not talking about a model that intends to present much of a fight not to be input to ensure a quick update to Honeycomb.

In fact, if his departure was in fact very close to us seems a failure does not wait for the operating system for tablets Google is finished. An average experience in the world can make the consumer tablet negative. To try to amend this problem, Sense HTC interface will be modified slightly to resemble more like a classic desktop.

"The Internet is filling the space will end on February 2"

Internet is growing too fast and space is running out: in a few weeks or a few days, the IP addresses - that series of numbers that uniquely identifies a computer connected to the Internet - will be completed. The warning is Vinton Cerf, the man considered the creator of the internet for planning their own technology infrastructure of IP addresses.

According to Cerf remain "few weeks" before what has been dubbed 'the IP Apocalypse', which sounds better in English: Ipcalypse. A few weeks become a few days according to the calculations of the U.S. Hurricane Electric: fewer than 30 million addresses available and at a fast pace with which they are filled, the end will arrive around 4 am on February 2.

Twitter blocked in Egypt

The site was inaccessible micromessagerie Twitter in Egypt, Tuesday, Jan. 25, when thousands of people took to the streets demanding the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak. According to the site herdict. org, it was impossible to use Twitter, which lets you exchange messages of one hundred forty characters - in Egypt.

"We can confirm that Twitter has been blocked in Egypt. Both Twitter. Com and applications have been affected," the company said in a tweet. But Twitter has not advanced due to the sudden suspension of service in this country. "We do not block Twitter, this is a problem throughout Egypt, and we are awaiting a solution," explained the other hand the mobile operator Vodafone on Tuesday.

"Paying by credit card? In 2015 only smartphone"

ROME - In the span of four years in the U.S. credit card payment will stand as the vinyl is the music to say this is the CNN, in an investigation that begins with data from a U.S. firm, Aite Group. The year 2011 will be the year of the great development of NFC technology, says Aite Group, and woe to those who remain outside.

Why pay over the smartphone will have in the coming years an exponential growth: from $ 16 billion in 2010 to 46 this year will go up quickly to get to 214 in 2015. The data published by CNN unique to the United States, but Europe has launched some time in this new market in Italy between projects in the pipeline is that of the Italian Post Office, PosteTouch.

The espaola IDAPT wears his boots to MacWorld show

In 2003 a group of friends, and engineering students gathered in a garage. Following in the footsteps and spirit of the pioneers of Silicon Valley began to think in a different company. Jacques Giribet Guadamillas is founder and CEO of IDAPT, a company that emerged from the founding phase in 2006. Since then they have specialized in making boots careful design and attention to ecology.

This week in the fair of San Francisco MacWorld. No one can say that is dedicated to a particular brand because, almost from the beginning, thought that to be useful must be compatible with as many devices as possible. "We always include six pins and can buy additional" says this young entrepreneur.

New Panasonic TZ20, bordering on perfection

Surely if you commented on the Panasonic TZ cameras, almost everyone has good words for these compact, the Japanese company. So if you count that there are new TZ series camera and added many improvements, icing on the cake. The Panasonic TZ20 begins its new products in the same sensor, it makes the leap to the CMOS sensor that achieves a resolution of 14 megapixels with which we can take up to 10 frames per second at full resolution.

Samsung Ace and Galaxy Galaxy Mini, new Android phone for beginners

The Samsung Ace's Galaxy already heard rumors these days has been officially confirmed. The company has much work towards the MWC 2011 and does not move off of their major releases, so I forward the details of two new models of low and medium range. The Galaxy Samsung Ace place it directly as a midrange Android a very good design, pretty straight and thin.

It will certainly be a phone which will be discussed because the S Galaxy pull heavy. If the power or the latest technology is not your thing, the new Galaxy Samsung Ace is a rare opportunity to enter the market Android phones without spending large amounts of money. This phone comes to market with a discrete processor 800 MHz and 3.5-inch screen with 320 x 480 pixels.

Nvidia to launch chips for 3D images without glasses

Nvidia, known U.S. company graphics chipmaker, will launch this year a technology for the reproduction of images in 3D without glasses portable. The news, leaked on the Internet by PC World and no official confirmation, suggests that the company will showcase its new chip at the Mobile World Congress to be held next month in Barcelona.

This system will update Tegra, the graphics processor that is used in phones and tablets. Nvidia could start mass producing this technology before the end of March to be available from mid-year the new laptops. Nvidia would be added and other technologies such as Sharp and Nintendo have already announced their arrival on the 3D glasses.

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