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Thursday, July 14, 2011

Windows 8 will run easily on existing PC

The news on the new operating system from Microsoft, are becoming more numerous and of rumors and denials, occasionally get some news from Microsoft that this time is felt by Tami Reller, corporate vice president of the Windows division, about the minimum New Windows 8.

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Spotify entering the United States

Spotify has achieved its goal. Enter the United States. Swedish music service has spent months negotiating with record labels launch in that country. Finally he did it. This evening will give details of the premiere, but the American media that Spotify will anticipate and invitations to enter their U.S. site today and the full opening will occur soon. The service model will follow the already offered in other countries, including Spain. A free advertising and limited hearing and a payment, monthly subscription fees of five and ten dollars depending on the services you want.

New hacker attack against the Pentagon by Anonymous

Another coup for the group of hackers Anonymous, who published Monday a list of email addresses and passwords that its "hackers" say they have looted from the network of Booz Allen Hamilton, a firm that advises such the U.S. Department of Defense. Anonymous said it had posted more than 90,000 addresses stolen from a Booz Allen Hamilton unprotected server.

"Anonymous says he removed four gigabytes of source code, revealing information that could help them attack the U.S. government and its contractors," said the security firm Sophos on his blog, saying that the real victim of this intrusion was "the U.S. government." Booz Allen Hamilton confirmed Tuesday afternoon to have suffered an "unlawful attacks against its computer system." "We are conducting a comprehensive review of the nature and extent of the attack.

WikiLeaks: Brussels complaint against Visa and MasterCard

The Icelandic company that collects money for the site Wikileaks has sent a complaint to the European Commission against the credit card giants Visa and MasterCard for blocking since the end of 2010 donations to the site, his lawyer said to Agence France-Presse , Wednesday, July 13. "The complaint was sent (by mail) and will be filed Thursday," said Svein Sveinsson Andri, a lawyer at the Supreme Court of Iceland which represents the company DataCell WikiLeaks and in this case.

The Xbox 360 will also run on Windows 8?

The news is doing the rounds of the network quickly, the site Insideris explains that Microsoft could make compatible the new Windows operating system 8, with their Xbox 360 games through a subscription to Windows Live Marketplace.

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Electronic Arts buys PopCap Games

The video game publisher Electronic Arts (EA) announced Tuesday, July 12, an agreement to buy PopCap Games, a specialist games on mobile devices and social networks. The acquisition, which may range from 750 million to $ 1.3 billion, should be completed in August. EA will pay approximately $ 650 million in cash and $ 100 million in securities for the designer of Bejeweled and plants against Zombies.

Cisco would consider removing 10,000 jobs

The U.S. telecoms equipment supplier Cisco is about to eliminate 10,000 jobs or 14% of its workforce, Bloomberg announced, Tuesday, July 12, citing two anonymous sources. According to Bloomberg, 7,000 jobs could be lost in the month of August 3000 more job cuts would correspond to early retirement. In May, the group announced quarterly results that have troubled analysts and investors.

A $ 1.81 billion, fourth quarter net income of the group is falling by almost 18% over one year for the second consecutive quarter. Sales, up from 4.8% to 10.87 billion dollars, is itself just as expected. In April, Cisco also announced the closure of small Flip video camera, purchased two years earlier, resulting in the elimination of 550 positions.