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Wednesday, August 24, 2011

China, in the second quarter, is the world's largest market for PCs

China became the world's largest market for PCs in the second quarter 2011, surpassing the United States, according to data released Tuesday, August 23. The country could even pass the first permanent world power during the year 2012, according to IDC. "It was early or late in this sector, as was already the case for the automotive market.

China has a large population and average income rises," analysis for its part Toshihiro Nagahama, economist at Dai-ichi LifeResearch Institute deTokyo . While the market has contracted in the United States from 4.8% to 17.7 million units from April to June, China, a country with nearly 500 million Internet users, the market has increased 14 % to 18.5 million PCs, notes IDC.

Israel gives green light to Google's Street View service

The Ministry of Justice of Israel has finally cleared the mapping service of Google Street View, Monday, Aug. 22. The Authority Israeli law, information and technology, a regulator data protection, authorized to collect Street View panoramic images of the streets of Israel. The Authority however, required that cars equipped with special cameras Google who photograph data are clearly identifiable and that their trips are announced in advance, the newspaper Haaretz.

Hundreds of thousands of sites blocked by mistake in Argentina

"The Internet service providers use a bazooka to kill a fly," ironically, Friday, Aug. 19, the Electronic Frontier Foudation. This association, which specializes in the defense of freedom on the Internet, reported that Argentinian access PROVIDERS ordered National Communications Commission to block two domain names, "leakymails.com" and "leakymails.blogspot.com" . These sites have made themselves known by posting, as on Wikileaks, confidential documents related to political or security in Argentina. To block these sites, ISPs have used the method of blocking the IP address, 216.239.32.2. The problem is that the address used by the Blogger platform, owned by Google.

Hacker attack the stolen data Epson 350 000 customers

The Epson comes under attack. From the division of the Korean multinational Nagano, Japan, were subtracted data of 350 thousand customers. In addition to the name and email, were removed from the phone number and information about purchases made. We still do not know whether or not there are among these numbers credit card.

Sources inside the company said they had referred the case to the competent authorities. "We are still investigating and trying to understand the origin of the attack," said an official of the Korea Communications Commission. Entity that is developing a plan for security after a wave of hacker intrusions in recent months against government and private sites.

The button "I like" of Facebook criticized by the German authorities

A German state has deemed illegal the button "I like" of Facebook, which allows users to indicate their favorite web sites, reports the site The Local, Friday, Aug. 19. Thilo Weichert, an employee of the authority to protect the privacy of Schleswig-Holstein in northern Germany, said that the system illegally collecting social network data users.

With this built-in button on many Web sites, Facebook, which claims more than 750 million registered, slightly more than 20 million in Germany, has a mapping of interests of its users.

HP buys Autonomy and plans to separate from his division "computers"

Hewlett-Packard (HP) announced Thursday, August 18 that he bought the British software company Autonomy to 10.24 billion dollars. Under the terms of the agreement, approved by the boards of both companies, HP has 42.11 dollars per share in cash, a premium of 64% over the closing price Wednesday of Autonomy as the London Stock Exchange .

Autonomy Corp is a software for businesses, listed in London, which has two seats, one in Cambridge - East of England - and one in San Francisco. It was founded in 1996 to take advantage of technologies developed at the University of Cambridge, which help companies better manage and exploit massive amounts of data.

Google maps shows the weather

It seems obvious: when you plan to navigate the terrotorio or travel anywhere in the world wants to know what the weather will. Google just added a new layer to its mapping service, Google Maps, which shows by icons meteorology of where we are going and also the rest of the world, the site information provided by Weather.com, explains the company's official blog, by clicking on the symbol time in a specific area, a window with detailed data on humidity, wind and temperature and even a forecast for the next few days.