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Posted organization "Reporters Without Borders" and the "Electronic Frontier Foundation" legal and other dozens of journalists, authorities and privacy advocates and Internet activists, an open letter to the chat service "Skype", a subsidiary of U.S. software "Microsoft", demanding that the company more transparent with respect to data users .
The letter called that was published today "Microsoft" to clarify the data issued by the constantly uncertain about secret talks between users via "Skype", and especially, about the ability of governments and external parties access to data and user connections.
Given that the "Microsoft" plans to shut down the chat service its "Windows Live Messenger" in the middle of March next , and convert users of this service to "Skype", demanded organizations and bodies and Internet activists company to answer their questions, sooner rather than later, how secret their calls and conversations, and dials the user's data.
They also called for those responsible in the "Microsoft" issuing estimating transparency on a regular basis, as do software and services company American Internet "Google".
And across the activists expressed fears related to the program "Skype-TOM" a copy of the "Skype" intended for users in China, which are subject where talks users text of the nomination and surveillance by the Chinese government, and fear activists that their data may pass through the protocols and Khodam service in China, and thus subject to control as well.
Accordingly, activists demanded from "Microsoft" to clarify current operational relationships between service "Skype" Global and Chinese version.
In response to questions, confirmed "Skype" that the Chinese version only and is subject to the nomination and monitor text conversations, depending on the local laws.
Attention shifted manufacturers of mobile phones or computers tablet recently to a new technology unrelated industry screen non-scratching, or high resolution camera or operating system features new, but turned its attention to technology transfer energy wireless, any possibility of shipping the device without the need to connect it with wires charger.
Technology transfer energy wirelessly:
Introduced the concept of wireless energy transmission for the first time by Nikola Tesla, who laid the foundations for power AC as well as his invention of the electric motor which operates the alternating trend, and uses the concept of wireless energy transmission, electromagnetic field to transfer energy between any two devices.
In December of 2008 Society was established energy wireless and talked about the project known as "Che" to provide property shipping wireless mobile devices, an association whose members from different continents Asian, European and American works different fields, such as Philips, "Logie Teck", and Saneewoo also joined in In 2009, Nokia and followed two Huawei and Vezton in 2011, and launched "Aanerjaiser" American manufacturers of batteries shippers to Aslkyin, one for charging mobile phones and works Atguenih "Che", and the second to ship handles gaming platform "Wii" from Nintindwa.
In 2012 Samsung announced and Qualcomm for the formation of the Alliance for Energy Wireless to develop Chargers wireless, where it began Qualcomm developed shipping Wireless since 2009 when it announced a WiPower shipping wireless, and aspires Samsung through this alliance to develop a better product than Technology "Che" can transfer energy through non-metallic surfaces. And you want to access the system through which shipping low-energy devices such as Bluetooth headsets and high consumption devices tablet Kalhawwasb.
As Intel Corporation joined to a series of companies which is working to develop wireless charging system, n cooperation with the company IDT , which announced the provision of magnetic circuits at a 50% lower price than its competitors.
In addition, unveiled "BuQu Tech" for a range of solutions shipping Wireless , called it "Magnetyze" allows mobile users "Galaxy S 3" and "iPhone 4" or "iPhone 4 S" shipped wirelessly, similar to devices that have emerged newly that support this feature, such as phones, "Umia" from Nokia.
Devices that use Wireless shipping:
The Nokia has introduced two of Umia 820 and 920 with property shipping wireless, in addition to LG produced for Google Phone Nexus 4 which supports this technology, the company HTC, which was launched in December 2012 a Druid "DNA er" with support for "Che."
Pros and Cons:
Featuring technology transfer energy wirelessly effective and client, where the user gets rid of the concept of the device charging wire, where the existence of this technique only the user placing the device on the charger to start the process, as well as reduce the risk of getting electric shocks. But the technology the most important of these disadvantages slow process compared to conventional cargo shipping using wire shipping, in addition to the high thermal energy compared to traditional shipping.
apple unveiled its sales volume in both series smart phones "iPhone" or series tablet "iPad" in the last quarter of 2012 and ending at the end of December last year.
The company achieved a record level in the volume of sales in the quarter - which is the first in the current fiscal year - as compared to the same period of the last three months of 2011.
The American company explained that it has sold 47.8 million copies of the series smartphone "iPhone" an increase of 10.8 million copies for the same quarter in 2011, where Apple has sold only 37 million phones.
Apple sold in the fourth quarter also 22.9 million Tablet PC "iPad" compared with 15.4 million computers from the same series in the same quarter the year before.
The company's disclosure comes from the high volume of sales of phones iPhone days after the publication of the newspaper "The Wall Street Journal" report confirms that Apple reduced the requests of the components of the "iPhone 5" because of weak demand.
The increased sales volume series iPhone in the fourth quarter - after launching the iPhone 5 - compared to the third quarter of 2012, Apple sold in the period from July until the end of September to 26.9 million copies of the series smartphone, which indicates that many consumers wishing to renewed their wait the new Apple icon in order to resolve the purchase decision.
Furthermore, Apple has reference to the earnings per share in the fourth quarter of 2012 reached 13.81 U.S. dollars, after having reached the company's revenues in the quarter to about 54.8 billion dollars, and the average of the weekly income of 4.2 billion dollars compared with revenues $ 3.3 billion in the same quarter of 2011.
It is noteworthy that many of the news reports indicated an intention to Apple offering a number of smart devices soon remains notably iPhone 6 and iPhone Mini, noting some reports that the U.S. company began testing the next version of iPhone under the name iPhone 6 and explained other reports descent Apple to phone market low the iPhone Mini phone cost .
Trend Micro the famous in data security released forecast for 2013 on cyber attacks and more as potential platforms for malware in the current year.
The company explained through an official statement , that the Android platform will be the most targeted in 2013 between mobile operating systems platforms and with the direction of Internet hackers and book worms to attack smart phones in the light of the significant spread in recent times.
The "Trend Micro" that the selection of the pirates and Coded makers and malware for the Google Android platform to focus on comes for several reasons, most notably the open-source software it unlike Microsoft Windows systems iPhone and Apple iOS.
She discovered programs "Trend Micro" anti-viruses and other malicious software so far 350 thousand threat to the Android platform, and the company indicated that the threats are increasing at a significant rate over the last three years, making it expects to reach those threats million threat.
The company also predicted to continue targeting Java platform found in most hardware operating system Microsoft Windows.
JavaScript is one of more software targeted by hackers to penetrate the bodies of their victims, especially with the presence of a large number of vulnerabilities discovered in the code that podium despite the large number of security updates released by the company "Oracle" Java developer.
To see "Trend Micro" in its outlook for 2013 that pirate attacks and cybercriminals various social networking sites will increase during the current year and will target more victims who have computers running Microsoft Windows.
The company confirmed that hackers and makers Coded malware developed their tactics to lure their victims, so that the growing use of advanced technologies such as technical black holes (Blackhole Exploit Kit) and symbolized also (BHEK) and IT system automatic transfer (Automatic Transfer Systems) and denoted by (ATSs ).
Google the American company announced a specializing software and Internet services, today announced the updated service presentations "Google Slides" cloud, so that allows the creation and editing presentations without the need to connect to the Internet.
The company said that any amendment to the slide presentations will be updated automatically when you connect to the Internet, which observers believe that step from "Google" in reducing the gap between cloud computing and traditional computing through personal computers.
It is noteworthy that the company had announced in June "June" 2012 for the ability to edit files in the service of Google Docs "Google Docs" without the need for an Internet connection, and if the user has done the status of liberalization without an Internet connection, he can count now create and edit slides directly without the need to change the settings.
And promised to "Google" to provide this capability for documents, spreadsheets service "Google Sheets" soon.
The application of the social networking site Facebook removed Google Maps from the top applications used by smart phone users in America .
According to statistical by comSCORE Foundation , the number of users for Facebook application exceeded the number of users of Google Maps since September to December 2012.
The statistical that the number of visitors who have to enter a freelance via Facebook Application for mobile phone in December reached about 85,000,574 thousand visitors from out of more than one billion active users of social networking site, with the number of users of the application Google Maps for less than 75 million users .
The primary reason for the decline in the number of users of Google Maps on phones to Apple's abandonment of Google Maps in version 6 of the operating system iOS.
The Apple has abandoned support application Khrit Google operating system iOS 6 launched in conjunction with the iPhone 5, where the company decided to America to provide a special application by the maps did not admired a lot of users because of the number of errors, which summoned Director Alnive to Apple, Tim Cook to formally apologize , and before you start to ask for that application updates again.
It is expected to increase the number of users for Google Maps again after the company introduced a copy of the application for the sixth version of the iOS system , which is the version that was welcomed by users of iPhone, iPad frequently soon as it became available on the App Store.
Returning to the statistical comSCORE Google Inc. account for the largest proportion of the most widely used applications by the Americans, where statistics showed that it owns four of the top five applications used in the United States.
The order comes most frequently used applications on the phones in the United States, according to statistics comSCORE as follows:
- Facebook (85.574 visitors)
- Google Maps (74.631 visitors)
- Google Bly (61.461 visitors)
- Google Search (60.587 visitors)
- Gmail (53.934 visitors)
- YouTube (52.572 visitors)
- Pandora Radio (48.023 visitors)
- Apple iTunes (45.884 visitors)
- Cooliris (42.927 visitors)
- Yahoo! Messenger (36.124 visitors)
The statistical comSCORE also pointed out that the Facebook application is more applications that spend phone users in the United States and their time, so spend it minute of every three minutes, using the applications installed on their phone.
The White House announced the establishment of a national day of civil piracy, to be held on the activities of this day through on 1 and 2 June in a number of U.S. states.
He called the White House, through its official blog , the American citizens, hackers and software developers and entrepreneurs of the Union for invention and new ways and means to benefit American society using three data from the largest U.S. government institutions.
The U.S. government has opened a website entitled "Qrsn for Change" and it can be accessed via the link ( Hackforchange.org ) to the Americans for registration to participate in the activities of this national event.
The White House will access the information stored in the U.S. Department of Labor and the U.S. Census Bureau and the Aviation and Space Agency of America "NASA" during the National Day of Civil piracy.
The White House chose the slogan "build a better America through civil piracy" for the national event, which broadly 27 states out of the 50 States.
The U.S. government hopes behind this national event to demonstrate transparency and willingness to share and collaborate with the community using open data to offer the best solutions to the problems of America.
America was in 2009 adopted an initiative open data by creating site (Data.gov) mail where he published it then 57 file to a group of government data, such as the list of visitors to the White House and a map of hurricanes and records flights and continued deployment of new data regularly to many government departments States.
Noteworthy that the current U.S. administration of President Obama attaches great importance to the electronic solutions to the problems of society as well as to communicate with the Americans, and the evidence that Barack Obama was the first U.S. president to use social networking sites while publishing note, at the expense of a Red Cross social networking site Twitter in 2010.
Agroup of hackers a few hours ago hack the Google search engine of Morocco "google.co.ma" for reasons that are still unknown.
The hackers left understandable phrases Points until now, but it was pointed out that they had to do so in the past in 2009, and now do it again, in reference to this breakthrough.
Phrases was directed to the Google search engine that is still just a failed site, has been re-impenetrable to confirm that.
The hackers to their nikname and them are: ZombiE_KsA;Agd_Scorp; Zer0Byt3
Noteworthy that the site is still breaking even for a moment spread the word, and most of the time indicates an errors in the network "Not Found", and sometimes a message appears a black page.
"Microsoft" The American company specialized in the field of software, on Tuesday released an update for "firmware" Firmware your tablet Bhasabha "Surf ART," would solve the problem of voice which complained some users of the machine.
And ensure the new update, which is the second since the introduction of "Surf ART" in October (October) the past, a series of reforms and `` patches'' to Windows system and pack desktop applications "Office", and others, in addition to updating the "firmware" for computer Microsoft new tablet.
According to Microsoft, the target of this "firmware" is computer "Surf ART" only, while for Computing tablet produced by third parties and come equipped with a "Windows 8 ART", did not address the company to talk about this prospective for those devices.
And ensure that the new update, improvements and solving the problem of sound which some users complained "Surf ART", in addition to the more possibilities that allow updates "firmware" in the low-energy conditions.
The company has also through the update issued yesterday, according to the site, "Microsoft" on the Internet, fixes some security problems and other non-security, as well as updates to the system "Windows 8 ART", and included these updates to the system, improve the application of 4.5 Net., And improved harmonic in the system.
Group adopted hackers known as "Anonymos" responsibility for the attack of the type DoS or aspiring attack "denial of service" on the website of the Ministry of Defence of Mexico, which led to the suspension of the site to work for several hours on Thursday, according to the Agency "Associated Press" .
A group "Anonymos Mexico" to leave a message on the site breached, denounced the government, described the government, which manages the affairs of the country as "bad," she said of herself she struggled for peace, but the country's government "evil" declare war and destruction, as she put it.
The group also left a video clip proves the involvement of security forces Almxhexh using violence against demonstrators in one of the demonstrations that erupted in the first of the month (December) last year.
The group said it now in a row with the National Liberation Army "Zapatista" who declared war on the Mexican government 20 years ago, and it condemns the mistreatment of indigenous army and the poor who live in the state of Chiapas.
According to the Agency "Ostoshitd Press", and confirmed the Mexican Defense Ministry yesterday, that their site has stopped the service, and added that none of the information they contain internal network computers to the ministry, was not affected by the attack.
It is noteworthy that recent years have seen an increase in the number of attacks with political objectives that waged a "Maioush", has adopted a group responsibility attack on the Ministry of Justice British defense founder site "Wikileaks" Julian Assange, as they launched several campaigns against the official websites of the Syrian regime, and Israeli positions in response to the aggression against the Gaza Strip late last year.
"Linked In" social networking business, announced its intention to stop "asking questions" starting from this January 31.
The company said in an email sent to the network users on Thursday, it would halt service answers by January 31 (January), by contrast, will focus "Linked In" efforts on developing new methods and more effective to share and discuss topics professional across the network, and added that he can still
Observers believe that the reason behind the move is the limited service and they were not required effective.
The "Linked In" had been raised this service in 2007, so that allows users to ask questions to other users with whom there is direct contact or even contact of the second stage, that these replies to those questions. The service enables the questioners of the classification and evaluation of the answers and users who give the best answer.
It should be noted that this step comes after he announced the social networking site "Facebook" in October (October) the past it would stop service to ask questions, because he, like other social networks, did not succeed in competitive service "Quora" where 1.5 million visitors per month , according to July statistics (July).
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