EU-Project: Single Mobile Phone Charger in 2011

 But really: For two years the EU Commission promises single cell phone chargers, you now need the truth. The standards are set, from 2011, industry should produce uniform EU-chargers. Brussels - The long-awaited universal chargers come. In the next few months they will be in stores, promised the European Commission.

The necessary standards are intended for production to start. "Now it is time for industry to commit to the deal and start selling mobile phones for the new Charger," said Industry Commissioner Antonio Tajani. The Commission hopes mainly to falling prices and less waste. "It's a real win-win situation", said the Italian.

New procedure of Microsoft cofounder cons oeb giants

Two patents cover boxes that appear outside of a screen to attract attention. DR Facebook, Google, but Apple and eBay ... All major Web companies, under attack for violations of patents in the field of online research by co-founder of Microsoft. Paul Allen, now in charge of the company since 1992 Interval Licensing, has again filed a complaint (.Pdf) Tuesday, December 28, against eleven IT firms. The procedure for Mr. Allen was actually initiated in August. The complaint was filed in federal court in Seattle mid-December but rejected by Judge Marsha Pechman, saying the document does not "identify what are the products that infringe" the patent.

Facebook moves up to third place in the World Wide Web

This is undoubtedly the year of Facebook. While its founder, Mark Zuckerberg, was crowned in mid-December Man of the Year by Time magazine, is now its number of unique visitors that allows him to confirm his meteoric rise. With 648 million unique visitors in November, the online social network and climbs to the third-most visited websites in the world, according to research firm comScore World published by Les Echos Wednesday, December 29.

CCC-Congress: IT researchers and Tor anonymizer

IT researchers at the University of Regensburg have on the CCC-27C3 hacker conference in Berlin presented a method how the surfing habits of users of the Tor anonymity service monitor. A solution is not yet in sight. Who has a good reason to hide his movements on the Web before the eyes of potential supervisors should, but use the gateway service - the recommended civil rights groups like the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) for years.

Hacked Hacker

 The second day of the 27 congress of the Chaos Computer Club (27C3) has an agenda about as tight as the previous day. Hack does not necessarily mean getting the tickle a given operating system or find some of the deficiencies technological devices with which we are accustomed to live, areas where much of the conferences of the Congress, if not find alternative ways of doing things such as creating logical systems rather than electronic tire or make a given device to do something or use it for something for which there was thought, transforming a Epson printer in an affordable way to design circuits in the building motherboards.

An application to know the fate of taxes

 The state has 238,000 million euro budget (excluding Social Security) 2011. Although the figures are public and are on the website of the Ministry of Economy, it is difficult for a citizen to know how money is spent watching a tangle of raw data. The application Where do my taxes? (Http://dondevanmisimpuestos.

S) is solved graphically and easily, while the ability to compare the figures of the last term, including transfers to autonomous regions and municipalities. For example, 74,000 million in 2011, the budget allocated to debt. Previous year: 58,000 million in 2008, 51,000 million. The increase in four years is 45%.

Online shopping, Amazon debuts in Italy

It took more than ten years before the Amazon to see the light in Italy, but now the goal is only one: go straight and fast as the trains. Doubts sull'inaffidabilità logistics - which has long been attributed to the absence in Italy of the great portal of e-commerce - seem to be allayed. Now the company has sufficient stores in Europe, and carriers that relies on an international level that they are more than functional.