The manufacturer of the BlackBerry fires 2000 people

Research in Motion, the maker of BlackBerry, announced Monday its intention to eliminate 2,000 jobs, or 11% of its workforce in the face of increased competition from Apple and Google. The principle of job cuts, which was announced last month, is a bit more than expected. "It's not totally unexpected.

The number of job cuts is higher than had been left heard at the beginning, "said analyst Peter Misek of Jefferies & Co." This is obviously focus to realign the cost structure of new growth, that is to say about the reality of sales. " The reduction of the workforce will reduce the number of RIM to about 17 000 employees.

The album became "app" Bjork reinvents the music

ROME - The name makes you smile: "app album." Still could be the future of the troubled music industry, hit by declining CD sales endemic. The project is signed by Bjork, the Icelandic singer, who recently posted on Apple's online store the first song of Biophilia. Or rather, the first constellation, a galaxy of media that will be completed Sept. 26. A new way of making records at the time of the iPad, synthesis of sounds, images, interaction. He goes out, not surprisingly, in the first place for the tablet of Steve Jobs and later as a regular compact disc. It is not the first "album app" in the strict sense, in May, the duo has created a Bluebrain iPhone called The National Mall, which incorporates songs and geolocation, but it is the first truly multimedia, thought to be a pop star and developed in collaboration with Apple itself.

Surprise resignation of a manager of information security of the United States

The head of an agency of the United States to coordinate responses to cyber attacks announced his resignation Monday after a series of attacks against computer systems of the U.S. government. Randy Vickers, the director of the Computer Emergency Readiness Team (CERT) has resigned without giving reasons.

The resignation follows a series of attacks against Web sites linked to the Pentagon, the CIA and the U.S. Senate, which had not resulted in the leakage of sensitive information by U.S. authorities. The attacks were claimed by the group LulzSecurity since dissolved. Last week, sixteen suspected pirates, including two with a direct part of LulzSecurity, were arrested in Europe and the United States in an international dragnet.

The album became "app" Bjork reinvents the music

 - The project is signed by Bjork, the Icelandic singer, who recently published in the Apple online store the first song of Biophilia. Or rather, the first constellation, a galaxy of media that will be completed Sept. 26. A new way of making records at the time of the iPad, synthesis of sound, text, images, interaction. He goes out, not surprisingly, in the first place for the tablet of Steve Jobs and later in the form of standard compact discs. The video is not the first "album app" in the strict sense, in May, the duo has created a Bluebrain iPhone called The National Mall, which incorporates songs and geolocation, but it is the first truly multimedia, thought to be a pop star and developed collaboration with Apple itself.

Google + is hunting for nicknames

The search engine Google, which launched there about a month a social networking competitor Facebook, said Monday that its policy for managing aliases, prohibited by the terms and conditions of service. During the weekend, Google had removed a large number of accounts using aliases, without warning their creators, causing a wave of protests.

"We have noticed that many violations of rules on Google + names were honest mistakes, and our practices for those users could be frustrating and disappointing," said Bradley Horowitz, one of the leaders of the project. "We are putting in place a number of improvements to our procedures - particularly on how we warn users that their account is not in compliance with our policy." In the future, holders of an account under a pseudonym will be notified that account will be deleted if they do not use their real name.

The Mozilla Foundation is preparing an operating system for mobile and tablet

The Mozilla Foundation, which publishes such as the Firefox browser, announced Monday it is working on a project operating system for mobile phones and touch pads. Called "Boot to Gecko" (B2G), the project should lead to a complete operating system - the main software of a computer or a telephone, such as Windows, Mac OS, Android, or GNU / Linux.

Still nieau initial design, B2G should work on the model of Chrome OS, the operating system Google's Web-oriented, with applications based on Web standards. The operating system will be fully free and open, meaning that its source code - the structure of the program - is freely available and modifiable.