Recording label Warner Music, as reported by CNET News, has removed his songs from the catalogue of music social network Last.fm.
Earlier this year, Last.fm service contracted for the dissemination of musical materials from companies Universal Music Group, Sony / BMG, Warner Music and EMI, as well as a number of independent publishers. Under the terms of agreements, Last.FM provides users the opportunity to listen to three times any song for free, after which the subscriber proposes to acquire it through a paid service, for example, iTunes or Amazon. Contracts with major record companies have enabled the network Last.fm literally within two days to increase the user audience at 85%.
However, as now reported, Warner Music, a licensed music network Last.fm extended the agreement on a monthly basis, decided to no longer renew the contract. There were no comments about this decision, representatives of Warner Music label has not yet offer. There is only that the corporation CBS, to buy network Last.fm last year for 280 million dollars, already is negotiating with Warner Music to resume cooperation.
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June 9th, 2008 | Posted in Gadgets, Computers, and Internet | No Comments
The bacteria contained in soil in 60 - and 70 - years of last century, were resistant to antibiotics developed by only a few decades later. Such a discovery made by microbiology from Rutgers University in New Brunswick (New Jersey). The results of their work were presented at the annual meeting of the American community in Boston microbiologists, reports New Scientist.
Three strains of soil bacteria have demonstrated extraordinary resistance to conventional antibiotics six, including tsiprofloksatsin, who appeared in only sales in 1989. And one of the strains was sustainable even for such tsiprofloksatsina dose, which can be deadly to humans.
To find out whether bacteria resistance to new antibiotics, scientists appealed to the company, which keeps thousands of frozen strains of bacteria. The researchers decided to test three strains: two conditional-pathogenic strain of microorganism Klebsiella pneuomoniae, which were obtained from the soil in 1973 and 1974 and then frozen, and one strain of bacteria Alcaligenes, frozen in 1963.
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June 9th, 2008 | Posted in Gadgets, Computers, and Internet | No Comments
On Sunday the company Hewlett-Packard announced that it settled litigation initiated against a competing producer of PCs - the company Acer. Claims were to prevent their import company Acer PCs and laptops in the United States.
Confidentiality agreement concluded between the companies, completing three federal trials, as well as two investigations, conducted by the International Trade in the United States.
HP filed suit against the Taiwan company Acer in October 2007, presenting seven violations of patents for technologies such as reading and writing optical discs, power management in laptops, digital device tires and video surveillance.
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June 8th, 2008 | Posted in Gadgets, Computers, and Internet | No Comments
Today, June 9 at San Francisco (California) opens regular Apple Developer Conference (WWDC 2008).
The annual event will feature speeches WWDC with Apple CEO Steve Jobs and other company managers. The conference will be held seminars and lectures for software developers, which, among other things, will discuss issues of design interface, security and localization.
It is expected that one of the most significant events for developers conference will present a new version of the phone with iPhone support third-generation mobile networks. The fact that Apple plans to submit iPhone networks for 3G, even last fall said the executive director of AT & T Randall Stephenson. However, the company plans about Apple release new products has traditionally remained silent.
It is possible that at the conference WWDC 2008 company Apple will share information on the next version of the operating system, Mac OS X, which would come to replace the platform Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. In addition, the company plans to tell the event of new multimedia technologies, tools for developers, etc.
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The team of scientists from the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, headed by Lars Berglundom developed a new type of paper, which is stronger than iron, reports New Scientist. Despite the high durability, the new "nanobumaga" made from the same biological material, and that ordinary paper, that is, from cellulose.
In the plant cell walls of individual molecules linked together and cellulose fibers form about 20 nanometers in diameter that in 5000 times thinner than human hair. These fibers form a strong network, which serve as the basis of cell walls.
Wood pulp derived from wood, allowed for the production of paper and cellophane, and has recently begun to apply and to create new plastic materials. But in all these cases pulp is used only as a cheap filler, and its mechanical properties are ignored. However, the methods of processing and wood processing it in the paper significantly reduces the strength of pulp. Therefore, Berglund and his colleagues have developed a more benign technology that preserves the strength fibers.
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June 8th, 2008 | Posted in Gadgets, Computers, and Internet | No Comments
The Federal Trade Commission C SHA (FTC), as reported by Associated Press, began formal antitrust proceedings against the corporation Intel, AMD that the company accuses of using illegal methods of competition.
According to AMD, Intel Corporation to put pressure on its partners to force them to abandon procurement processors competitor. In doing so, according to AMD, in the course went bribery, exclusive agreements and other methods. Three years ago, Japanese authorities have concluded that Intel to prevent the growth of the market share AMD has used methods that violate local laws. And this week for violating anti-monopoly legislation on Intel fined 25 million dollars Fair Trade Commission of South Korea.
Now in specialists to deal FTC. If the American authorities talent for Intel use illegal methods of competition, the corporation may be imposed large fines. However, the investigation apparently is not delayed by one month.
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June 8th, 2008 | Posted in Gadgets, Computers, and Internet | No Comments
Opera Company announced that in version 9.5 of its browser will be built in protection against malicious software production Haute Secure - Company based in fact say, a group of former employees Microsoft.
As the News.com, it is apparent retaliatory move to the inclusion of similar funds in Firefox 3 (due in final form until the end of June). Protecting Firefox, Pravda, based on data on hazardous sites, Google collected and the draft StopBadware, while Haute Secure - for the user community, tracking malicious resources.
According to the results of testing conducted by News.com, Firefox 3 RC2 fishingovye automatically blocked sites that have appeared over the last time, while the Haute Secure not cope with them. The reason is was that the API, provided antifishingovymi sites like PhishTank not updated until it received a clear proof that a site is dangerous. However, the download sites, like stuffing contain malicious viruses and Trojans Haute Secure successfully prevented by providing, in addition, users more information on these pages than 3 Firefox RC2.
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June 7th, 2008 | Posted in Gadgets, Computers, and Internet | No Comments
The company Kaspersky Labs released a monthly report with analysis activity spammers in the World network.
As reported in May, the proportion of garbage letters in the mail traffic amounted to an average of 79.1%. This is about 7% lower than the figure for April, when the proportion of spam exceeded 86%. The lowest percentages of garbage letters last month was observed on May 3 and amounted to 64.2%, the highest was recorded on May 17 and reached 90.4%. Malicious files and links to infected Web page containing 0.08% in electronic communications.
The company Kaspersky Labs notes that the distribution of spam case remained relatively stable compared with April. The most common users of the Network waste gets letter with the promotion of medicines and supplies for the health, educational services, as well as communications with proposals to buy cheap copies of expensive goods. In addition, last month increased slightly dispatches from advertising themselves spamming services.
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June 7th, 2008 | Posted in Gadgets, Computers, and Internet | No Comments
Week came out long, undoubtedly because :-) A and a list of news, from our point of view, worthy of attention, today went fairly solid there.
Perhaps the main event of the week was the exhibition Computex (see news for June 5), but apart from her new crop of iron was very, very rich.
June 7th, 2008 | Posted in Gadgets, Computers, and Internet | No Comments
On Friday, online bookstore Amazon.com site was inaccessible for two hours for U.S. users, said Stephen Shanklend blog CNET News. Failure in the resource occurred at 10:21 PST on the day, but in 12:45 site became available in part - many pages for some time not opened. Sites shop in China, France, Britain and Germany all this time functioned smoothly.
Clear explanation incident Amazon does not yet. The message, posted on the site shop, said only that Amazon is very complex system, and occasionally they may be problems. "We are trying to minimize damage and restore the site as soon as possible," - statement said. Further comment from representatives of Amazon refused.
Given that the world's largest online store revenue last quarter amounted to 4.13 billion dollars, you can calculate that the minute of downtime all sites Amazon costs 31000 dollars. Closure of the same store site in North America brings a loss of about 16000 dollars per minute.
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The American telecommunications company T-Mobile filed in the Court of coffee at Starbucks, accusing the latter of an illegal deal with the first competitor - by AT & T.
The contract with AT & T to provide coffee to visitors free wireless Internet access company Starbucks has concluded as early as the beginning of this year, but the full transition to a new partner, the terms of the contract with T-Mobile, should occur gradually. According to lawyers T-Mobile, AT & T and Starbucks, in violation of previous agreements in secret from T-Mobile developed a marketing plan and have already begun to implement it on the basis of telecommunications infrastructure T-Mobile, reports Reuters. Now T-Mobile calls from the former partner of damages. The specific amount, though not named.
It will be recalled that T-Mobile offers free wireless access to the network in several thousand Starbucks establishments in the United States since 2002. Access organized within the framework of service HotSpot, also for a long time acting in U.S. airports.
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June 7th, 2008 | Posted in Gadgets, Computers, and Internet | No Comments
The Director-General of Microsoft Steve Ballmer intends to pursue in the corporation still about ten years. At least, the PC Magazine, that is precisely what Ballmer made the statement during a business lunch organized by the American Electronics Association (AeA).
| Steve Ballmer (photo by Microsoft) |
Steve Ballmer joined the Microsoft in 1980 and became the first business manager, accepted a job Bill Gates, the founder of the corporation. Over the past 28 years, Ballmer was led by several units Microsoft, including the departments of operations, the development of operating systems, as well as sales and technical support. It is with the support Ballmera created the first versions of software platforms for DOS and Windows. In July 1998 he was nominated for the presidency Microsoft, and in January 2000, became general director of the corporation.
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June 7th, 2008 | Posted in Gadgets, Computers, and Internet | No Comments
Check out the new test version of free ICQ-client QIP for the device under control of OS Windows Mobile 5.0 and 6 touch screen - QIP PDA build 2000.
The new version is written from scratch and not the development of a previous version of QIP PDA build 1020. Recall that so far QIP PDA for Windows Mobile is not prominent because of the unstable and too meagre appearance.
At the moment QIP PDA build 2000 works with protocols ICQ (nearly full) and Jabber (reception / sending text messages and work with a list of contacts). Supported permission QVGA (320 И240 points) and VGA (640×480 pixels).
Before installing the new version of developers recommend remove the old, if it was installed earlier.
CAB-English version of QIP PDA build 2000 here.
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Intel Vice President of Marketing Shawn Malone, speaking at the conference Computex 2008 in Taiwan, spoke in favor of unification fourth-generation wireless services based on WiMax technology and LTE.
Maximum speed transmission of information in networks WiMax can reach 70 Mbps, and range - 50 kilometers in the absence of direct view. Mobile WiMax version theoretically allows movement in portable devices exchange data at speeds up to 40 Mbps per channel within a radius of several kilometers.
Regarding technology LTE (Long Term Evolution), in the long run it would come to replace the cellular network of third generation (3G). Theoretically system based on LTE be able to provide peak speed of data transmission from base station to the client device at 326 Mbps, and information from the subscriber will be transferred at speeds up to 86 Mbps.
Currently, Intel has paid great attention to advancing technology WiMax, which is sure corporations - the future of wireless communications. For example, last month Intel to launch WiMax networks invested approximately one billion dollars in company Clearwire, provide Internet access. In addition, at the end of last year, Intel signed an agreement with OAO Comstar-United TeleSystems "agreement on strategic cooperation for the deployment of mobile WiMax networks in the Russian Federation.
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Check out the new test version of free ICQ-client QIP for the device under control of OS Windows Mobile 5.0 and 6 touch screen - QIP PDA build 2000.
The new version is written from scratch and not the development of a previous version of QIP PDA build 1020. Recall that so far QIP PDA for Windows Mobile is not prominent because of the unstable and too meagre appearance.
At the moment QIP PDA build 2000 works with protocols ICQ (nearly full) and Jabber (reception / sending text messages and work with a list of contacts). Supported permission QVGA (320 И240 points) and VGA (640×480 pixels).
Before installing the new version of developers recommend remove the old, if it was installed earlier.
CAB-English version of QIP PDA build 2000 here.
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June 7th, 2008 | Posted in Gadgets, Computers, and Internet | No Comments
