Archive for the 'Gadgets, Computers, and Internet' Category

Released by Warner Music has removed his songs from the catalogue Last.fm

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 […]

Old soil bacteria were resistant to modern antibiotics

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 […]

HP settled the litigation against Acer

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 […]

In San Francisco conference was called Apple for developers

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 […]

In Sweden, created the paper, which is stronger than iron

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. […]

FTC began a formal antitrust investigation into the Intel

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. […]

Opera 9.5 will be provided with a means of network security

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 May the average proportion of spam e-mail traffic was about 80 percent

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 […]

Saturday: outcome of the week of June 2-7

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 […]

Amazon.com Web site did not work for two hours

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, […]

T-Mobile filed in the Court of coffee at Starbucks

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 […]

Steve Ballmer Microsoft is planning to leave after nine to ten years

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 new version ICQ-client QIP for devices running Windows Mobile

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 […]

Intel advocates the unification of WiMax technology and LTE

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 […]

The new version ICQ-client QIP for devices running Windows Mobile.

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 […]