Tech News Buzz: 02/01/11

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Intel chipsets recalls Sandy Bridge due to a bug

Intel is calling the 6-series chipsets (P67 and H67), code-named Cougar Point, Sandy Bridge processor, due to a bug in the chip design, which may cause degraded performance on the Serial ATA "SATA" slowing system.

Sandy Bridge (microarchitecture) (wikipedia)

Revolt in Egypt and Tunisia: Why the Twitter revolution is a myth

The successful coup in Tunisia and the popular uprising in Egypt in those days back called "Facebook" revolutions, praised the liberating power of technology. It is naive and wrong, critics say. The question of whether the Internet leads to a better world finds itself again in the weeks after the Tunisian people overthrew its dictator and the Egyptian attempts to expel his.

In Tunisia, youth used the Facebook to transmit videos of demonstrations and police violence or to arrange for protest marches. In Egypt, people put a facebook to disseminate reports, rumors and news about the situation in the country. They dined a picture and video, every second, from Cairo, from Suez, of Alexandria, and have been linked by thousands, on the social networks Facebook and Twitter.

VAT Mobile terminations facing resistance from operators

The law is very clear: any change in the contract between a telephone and a special offer him the opportunity to cancel their subscription at no extra cost, even if the customer is always committed and regardless of the commitment period. The impact of the VAT increase on Internet subscriptions, which also affects, through a sleight of hand, most telephone subscriptions, thus enables subscribers to cancel their contracts triple play and mobile.

Apple blocks an application to use the Sony electronic book

Apple has announced a policy of charges for the contents of the applications in your shop that prevent third parties from engaging without going through your In-App System Purchase. The first sign that it will apply to the letter has been blocking an application submitted for approval by Sony. This is an application that redirected to the catalog of your ebook and allowed to read from an Apple mobile.

Video - Cube, the first images of gameplay

Both set of platform and puzzle game, the Cube project is one of 30 projects Playtime Hits Contest, the contest video game creation Student World. fr. You can follow the progress of the project on the developer blog.

U.S. blocks Tarjetaroja.org

The U.S. authorities have closed the tarjetaroja domain. org for linking to content that did not have the copyright. Tarjetaroja other domains, like. com, still standing does not depend on the U.S. authorities. The site is one of the most popular football matches on the internet. From the early hours of Tuesday morning, on the cover of tarjetaroja.

org are three arms of U.S. government agencies and a notice which states, in English, the site is down for "reproduce or distribute copyrighted material without permission of the owners of copyright." All ORG domain names are those of PIR (Public Interest Registry) in the U.S. since January 2003.

Mobile World Congress 2011, which we hope (I)

You have seen that we put a banner on Tech News Buzz on Mobile World Congress last week, it will go gathering all the information about the event which will be held from 14 to 17 this month in Barcelona. Officially these are the days of the conference organized by the GSMA, but one day soon we will have three important presentations at the same time, Sony Ericsson, Samsung and Nokia, companies seeking first hit the media, fortunately we know that Samsung will follow from home.

Telephones and consoles are more than they appear: Supergadgets January 2011

After CES 2011, a little more caffeine than we thought (of the most anticipated tablets we've only known a few data image and the final product) and February with many expectations for the MWC in Barcelona, ahead of our selection of Supergadgets. Of all the products that have been effectively introduced this January there have been two that have been raised with our seal of Supergadget News Tech Buzz.

Soviet classic movies on iTunes without the agreement of rightholders

Films or cartoons of the Russian Soviet period, posted on iTunes, but without the agreement of rightholders, found the BBC, Monday, Jan. 31. Plusieursclassiques the late 1960s to mid 1970s were especially available on the platform for downloading from Apple. Quoted by the BBC, the Mosfilm production company, a leading beneficiaries of these films did not provide consent.

"The only official website where you can legally watch films of Mosfilm was the site of Mosfilm," said a spokeswoman, quoted by the BBC. "No third company has been authorized to use our content," she adds. Contacted by the British chain, Apple has ensured that it would investigate. "We understand the importance of protecting intellectual property, and when we receive complaints, we respond quickly and appropriately," says the head of the U.S.

LaCie Slim Blu-ray gets rid of the power cord

Lacie has a new recorder of Blu-Ray will make a perfect game on your laptop or desktop. Yes, I will do with any of them because it is an external model that recording, rewriting and playback BD and DVD video in HD and 3D. The new optical device LaCie Slim Blu-ray has an advantage over other solutions already on the market does not need external power supply.

You only need the feeling you get from your computer, so we save more cables and accessories items on the table, reason enough sometimes to not get the recorder from the box in which tends to be stored. Although little weight (320 grams) and is relatively thin (25 mm), Lacie unit comes with scratch proof housing to always look pristine.

Noor, the last Egyptian ISP business, cutting its network

Noor, the last service provider (ISP) Egyptian still in office, "began to disappear from the Internet" on Monday evening around 22 h 46 (Cairo time), according to Renesys, a site specializing in monitoring the Web . Since Thursday evening, the networks of the other four main operators are split into Egypt.

FAI large companies and the Bourse, Noor was the only operator to continue operations after the complete blockage of the Internet set up in the night from Thursday to Friday on the orders of the Egyptian authorities. If less than 10% of traffic in the country, Noor provides Internet access to institutions such as the American University in Cairo.

India calls on BlackBerry tracking corporate messages

The situation of the Canadian manufacturer of BlackBerry, RIM, worse in India. After opening the offer messaging from their smartphones excluding channel tracking corporate messages, the Indian government has said it is insufficient supply of RIM. "RIM has a solution for their messaging service but also insist that the service must be offered for business." The authorities believe that this channel is used by terrorists and wants access to track your traffic.

Appthusiast, creator, connector tell you what the app

Smartphone as a mirror of the soul, installed applications such as a photograph of his character. This was revealed by Nokia is the latest research, conducted on more than 5,000 users in 10 countries, who studied the habits of use of smartphone owners to reach a conclusion: we are what you get, to paraphrase D'Annunzio.

A maxim that is particularly true in our country, where obsession with mobile phones is now closely linked to lifestyle. Do not be a coincidence that, in Italy, approximately 45% of smartphone owners find that the applications to help improve their lives. More than 74% of Italians own up to 30 applications, with a slight majority of men (79%) women (69%).

Controversial projects: the debate about the Internet-off switch flares up again

Barack Obama-like decision-making power over the Internet should have, as demonstrated Hosni Mubarak recently in Egypt? Yes, find members of a Senate Committee on Homeland Security - and send the controversial "kill switch" law again in the race. You do not let up: For the fifth time will be U.S. Senators bring in a few days a bill on the way that will give the U.S.

president a kind of "emergency switch" for the Internet to your hand. The U.S. president is so hats can a simple way to connect to America worth protecting so-called critical infrastructures. Specifically: A specially established for this purpose, authority, would then also against private companies reported.

A factory error forcing Intel to change the platform of their latest processors

A manufacturing flaw in the platform (chipset) Cougar Point Core i5 and i7 Intel will force you to change all the computers and sold it. The cost of error is around one billion dollars (300 for the interruption of manufacturing operations and 700 for parts). The replacement, according to a company, it is not urgent because the failure causes a degradation rather than immediate paralysis of the devices.

Sony CyberShot HX100V and HX9V, new Japanese superzoom more prepared than ever

Finally we've got here the new superzoom cameras from the Japanese brand Sony, disclosed that after almost all his secrets, was confirmed as a very complete camera with almost everything that we can ask today to advanced compact. The new Sony Cybershot premiere HX9V HX100V and backlight sensor and tracing its features almost everything.

Only zoom and design tell us the differences between these two cameras that come in April with high-end prices and some other improvements inherited from the company's Alpha DSLR. Design with a bridge or bridge-type camera hit the market the Sony HX100V, a camera with Exmor sensor type R backlit with the barbarity of 16.2 megapixels and a 1/2.3 size, more than enough to be able to wallpaper the front Your five-storey building.

Bezos: Amazon tip over Italy started with 4 million users "

Jeff Bezos is a satisfied man. Amazon, the company that he founded and which guides many years, and enjoys good health, despite the markets expecting better results, growing both as consumers and as sales and revenues. The overall e-commerce giant has broken even in Italy, where he arrived a few months ago and is winning, after the United States and Europe, the Asian market, with growing success in China.

Google lets you send messages from Egypt despite Internet court

The company Google Inc. has developed a program that allows you to continue sending short messages to Twitter application from Egypt even though the government of Hosni Mubarak has announced the cut of mobile and Internet services across the country Tuesday, the day expected that a large demonstration by opponents to his government to take the streets of the capital, Cairo.

In these three phone numbers: +16504194196, +390662207294, +97316199855 may leave a voice message is immediately transformed into 140-character messages in the network that will appear with the keyword # egypt. Moreover, according to the company's blog, you can also hear the messages posted to Twitter by checking the same numbers or the twitter website.

3D Optimus The LG phone is confirmed as 3D

As if news of the heart is involved, LG has provided a statement to confirm that yes, the 2011 MWC will have your most advanced phone, the LG 3D Optimus. The company did not give details just has not shown any real image of the phone, but it has confirmed two aspects that we can not speculate until its release.

The 3D Optimus LG will double lens camera to take pictures and a screen tredimensionales recreate this 3D effect without glasses. On his appearance itself more time we can discuss, but people Phandroid and offers you a quality quite well could be real. Do not expect much revolution in the design or less.

The tablet chip opens a fight

The dual processor for mobile and other different laptop ends with the arrival of the tablet. Each type of processor excels in one aspect, so the dilemma is to decide the most suitable for a hybrid device like the tablet between laptop and smartphone. There are two broad classes of processors: those based on x86 and ARM.

All desktops, laptops and servers run many x86 processors made by Intel or AMD. Macs are also based on x86 since Apple switched to Intel in 2006. Smart phones and many electronic devices, however, are based on the ARM architecture. Symbian operating system, Android, Windows Phone and iPhone and BlackBerry working on ARM processors manufactured by Qualcomm, Renesas, Samsung, ST, Conexant or nVidia, little known firms because they have not worried as Intel to enhance the brand image a processor, but are equally important.