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• Sergei 1:06 pm on September 13, 2009 Permalink | Reply  

  Russia’s FSB thinks of something 

  

  The FSB, a draft law that when buying a USB-modems require registration of passport data, reported "Novye Izvestia".  According to a source publication in the structures of the KGB, there feel that buying a modem without a passport "it is not normal". At the same time, the newspaper said that analysts are puzzled how a change in the rules of selling mobile modems bring FSB bountiful harvest information about users.

  This is not the first attempt to take control of Russia’s Internet. Three years ago, Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev made a statement to enter passport domain registration and replacement online nics on the original names.

   

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• Sergei 12:56 pm on September 13, 2009 Permalink | Reply  

  New Opera diverges like hotcakes 

  

   

  The final version of the browser Opera 10 advanced first of September. A week later the company Opera Software, has released that browser, reported that the Opera 10 downloaded 10 million times.

  It turns out that the day was loaded approximately 1.4 million copies of Opera 10. For a company Opera Software, these figures are record highs. Although the total number of users of different versions of Opera is about 40 million people. (More …)

   

• Sergei 12:50 pm on September 13, 2009 Permalink | Reply  

  In 2019 it will be possible to relax 

  

  Professor Henry Markram, founder of the Swiss Institute for the brain, said that the model is able to reproduce the function of the human brain, can be created within ten years.

  "I am fully confident that it is technically and biologically possible. The only uncertainty is associated with finances. This is a very expensive project, and its success is not fully guaranteed, "- a quotation site led professors Foundation AlfaGalileo.

  The human brain is extremely complicated structure, but Henry Markram not see this any difficulties. Thus, today’s robots are already processed information in the tens of thousands of times faster than humans. (More …)

   

• Sergei 12:40 pm on September 13, 2009 Permalink | Reply  

  Microsoft Word is still holding 

  The action of a court decision banning the spread of Microsoft Word 2003 and 2007, suspended by the Court of Appeal of the Federal District of the United States. It will remain on sale until at least until the appeal is not considered Microsoft.

  As we already told, Microsoft was found guilty of copyright infringement by a Canadian company i4i. The apple of discord was used in MS Word file processing technology, built on XML. Canadian developers failed to prove that the patent for this technology belongs to them for 11 years. (More …)

   

• Sergei 12:27 pm on September 13, 2009 Permalink | Reply  

  VirusWriters got Apple 

  

  One of the strengths of computers Apple – almost complete absence of viruses for them. This, in particular, the emphasis in their advertising. But it seems that virus writers have made it to the company and Steve Jobs. Otherwise, why the new Mac OS X built-in antivirus?

  The new operating system Mac OS X Snow Leopard had been released on August 28. As recently revealed one of its features is a built-in antivirus filter. (More …)

   

• Sergei 12:15 pm on September 13, 2009 Permalink | Reply  

  IBM unveiled an eight-core processor 

  IBM has told some details of its new eight-processor Power7, designed for servers and supercomputers.

  The frequency of the chip was not disclosed, but it will be less than 4.7 gigahertz, which worked for previous model Power6. Since the nineties, when chip manufacturers constantly increase the frequency, the situation has changed dramatically. The high frequency of the processor leads to greater consumption of energy and heat. Now more increase in the number of cores, and with a new model of IBM joined the trend. (More …)

   

• Sergei 12:07 pm on September 13, 2009 Permalink | Reply  

  In the United States began to heal from the Internet 

  In the United States has opened a rehabilitation center Heavensfield Retreat Center, where treated for Internet addiction. It is located twenty minutes drive from the headquarters at Microsoft.

   Lump sum clinic can take six guests who are experts offered to pass a special course entitled reStart to suppress the desire for online games, social networks and even for getting rid of the excessive passion for SMS. (More …)