Rovio, the inventor of 'Angry Birds', raises $ 42 million

The Finnish software developer Rovio, inventor of the famous game for mobile phones Angry Birds, announced Thursday, March 10, he had raised $ 42 million (30.5 million euros) to finance its expansion. "We will strengthen Rovio position and continue to extend our franchises in games, merchandising and media ", welcomed the chief and cofounder of Rovio, Mikael Hed, in a statement.

These funds were raised by the Intermediate Corporate venture capital firm Accel Partners and Atomico Ventures, with participation of Felicis Ventures. The small company Rovio has gained worldwide recognition a year ago by Angry Birds, a game for smartphones in which players catapult Bird cartoon strongholds held by pigs green egg thieves.

iPhone 5 could be done this way?

Rumors about the new iPhone 5 now follows each other almost every week. The latest rumor comes from Chinese site idealschina. com, a manufacturer of covers and accessories for iPhone, which shows some drawings. From the photos show it would seem that the new iPhone will not change much on aesthetics, except the screen size increases.

These rumors are to clash with the background that they assumed a restyling of the new iPhone with a curvature of the back cover made of aluminum and a lot of similarity with iPad 2.

Firefox RC1 arrives 4

Mozilla after many delays and 12 beta, was able to release the RC1 release candidate 4 of its Firefox browser, fixing bugs well 8 million in 8 months of testing and throwing out the interface and the Gecko engine and the JavaScript 2 . Firefox 4 as many of you know has changed is the interface is inside, where there is a renewed version of the Gecko 2.0 engine, revisited in every detail and a new JavaScript engine much faster and able to take advantage of hardware acceleration video cards.

Google introduces a button to block sites

Google has announced on its official blog that will introduce a new button in your list of search results. With those who can go to the cached version or similar sites will see a third party. Google explained that sometimes the surfer finds a place in the results presented as pornographic, offensive or of poor quality.

In these cases, and if the surfer have an account at Google, you can press the button so you will not be presented in future searches. When you click the button above, Internet users receive a message confirming the blocking or waived. The next time you perform a search in the browser shows sites rejected by the internet, will not appear on the list.

Special keyboard to Facebook

Facebook has 600 million members and is a figure powerful enough for third think about products aimed directly at them. A sample is Snake. This is a computer keyboard designed for use by the community social network Facebook. In addition to traditional keys, displays, side, 19 buttons to give direct orders and accurate various steps that can be made within Facebook.

On the left side, show 11 buttons to view messages, view alerts, edit your profile, join new groups, go to help adjust your privacy settings or return to the home page, among others. On the right side, eight buttons are dedicated, among other things, to send photos, videos, add Facebook to the website of the Internet ...

Dutch Justice annuls the seizure of 300 000 PlayStation 3

Sony will be able to repossess the 300,000 PlayStation 3 seized by Dutch customs in the wake of its legal battle with the manufacturer LG Electronics. Dutch courts had indeed ordered consoles seized since the end of February are made by Sony, which will resume distribution in the European market. LG has launched in early February of litigation against Sony for infringement of several patents for disc playback bluray player, whose PlayStation 3 is equipped.

Loppsi 2: Wise validate blocking child pornography sites

The Constitutional Council censored, Thursday, March 10, thirteen provisions of the Internal Security Act (Loppsi 2) voted Feb. 8 to the Government's initiative to strengthen law enforcement's arsenal against crime and criminality. Among the main passages Retoque text, which has 142 provisions is the possibility of extending the minimum sentences for minors, so far reserved only for repeat offenders, a regulation that was "contrary to constitutional requirements of juvenile criminal justice" depending on the institution.