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.