Tech News Buzz: 01/28/11

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.

Playtime Hits, the first artworks

Tech News Buzz. en organizes until June Playtime Hits, a competition to create video games for students.

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.

82% of organizations do not respect the law and freedoms

51% of surveyed companies and governments trying to enforce the law, but without success, and 31% did not even take the trouble to try, according to the French Association of Correspondents to the protection of Personal Data .

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.

Crysis 2 (gamerevolution) Crysis 2 (wikipedia) Crysis 2 Nanosuit 2 Wireframe Trailer (youtube) Crysis 2 - Crynet Systems - Nanosuit 2 HD (youtube)

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.