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Updated: 2009-11-03T13:18:10.035-08:00

Speech Controlled Computer in car

2009-03-27T02:23:35.196-07:00

You can ask the computer for which there is heavy traffic and long traffic jams, or the cheapest gas station. You can not lift a finger to activate your address book or select tracks.

Microsoft's speech-based system Commuter UX is a follow-on research from the Sync system that Ford Motors has built into many Ford models. Sync system was built on the Microsoft Auto platform. The following link to a video demonstrating the system makes it possible, through talking, to select a song title, or call someone from your mobile phone address book from the car.

Commute UX is still in the research, the main requirements for such systems is to reduce driver distraction, and therefore tested the product in the simulator.

HP 2133 Mini-Notebook PC

2009-03-18T04:51:51.967-07:00

The first time you start the HP 2133, its similar to an ordinary Windows computer, but it is thus equipped with the free operating system Linux. It quickly becomes evident when you open the Start menu.

The interface is both easy and logical to navigate and feel most as a little clumsy version of Windows. The computer comes with a reasonable selection of software that allows you to handle mail and address book, surf the web and do everything else you expect to with a computer. HP has also put OpenOffice on your machine for word processing, spreadsheets and so on.

The machine comes with a big six cell battery which can provide a reasonable battery life, but also ends a few centimeters from the rear of the computer and thus raise the keyboard to a just legal oblique angle that is not comfortable to write in. The angle also makes it difficult to tilt the screen far enough back.

On the other hand, the computer equipped with a very good keyboard, as in the right angle is comfortable to type on.

HP has unfortunately chosen not to include a card reader in the machine, making it slightly more difficult to pull files in and out of the computer.

Facebook admits mistake

2009-03-17T16:03:55.618-07:00

In just a few days, over 108,000 Facebook users signed up in protest to the group "People Against the new Terms of Service" because Facebook took ownership of all uploaded material. Now pull Facebook change back. It is a great victory for consumers.

A few weeks ago, Facebook revised their "Terms of use" and it meant that when you put pictures on your profile in Facebook, so you surrendered the rights to Facebook. Even if you deleted your profile, Facebook will retain rights to all of the content on your page. There has been so large protests that Facebook pull the changes back and return to the past "Terms of use."

Facebook has obviously noticed that many have removed their profile on the page where you disable the profile, now you get a message that changes in "Terms of use" was a mistake that has now been corrected.

In the official response from Facebook's Spokesman BARRY Schnitt states:

"It was never our intention to confuse people or make them afraid in the context of sharing files on Facebook. I would say very clearly that Facebook will not, nor ever, have claimed ownership of people's content. Your content belongs to you .

Nokia N96

2009-02-26T02:04:41.173-08:00

The Nokia N96 is the new slide design that most phone manufacturers now have at least a few of the program. When you shoot it up, the phone buttons appear, and when you shoot it down, pop the controls for the media player up.

It seems a bit redundant with the extra buttons for media player, because they are already accessible on the phone front. But smart as it looks like.

N96 is a great phone. It can, with its 125 grams, clearly marked when it is in the shirt pocket. The screen is 2.8 "and is an excellent solution. Navigation buttons work well, with lights in them when using the relevant functions.

Stuffed with technology The phone is stuffed with the latest: Here's built-in GPS, wireless networking, 5-mega pixels camera, built in television, internet and so on. Looking at the previous models from Nokia, it is so-so with the news, so if you already have for example a Nokia N95, there is no reason to risk out and switch to the N96.

When you buy N96, do well to invest in a data subscription. Many of the features required to retrieve information from the Internet, and it costs. GPS component which is free download information from the GPS satellites, using an equally free maps to navigate by. But not all cards information found in the phone memory, so they must be downloaded from the web - and then suddenly it starts to cost money. It is a good idea to make sure to fill your phone with the card while still having access to home network, so you can save the cost of data traffic to the phone.

Good camera The camera is in the better end of its five megapixels and image quality is quite okay compared to other phones. Quality can not get to the side of a true pocket camera, but it is good if you do not have his camera. The built-in flash is just a few powerful LED diodes, and the flashes are not powerful enough to freeze the movements like a real flash does.

The phone is sadly not particularly fast and can be quite slow to open programs. The "seed" also a few times during the testing period, so we had to remove the battery and start it again. It works just as if Nokia has not finished developing the phone entirely - and it is a shame.

Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Desktop 7000

2009-02-25T01:52:56.362-08:00

Microsoft wireless mouse and keyboard set relieve wrists and provide a working position, which is healthier than the normal flat keyboards and mice. The keyboard is two tier and shaped so as to reach the entire alphabet without having to move wrists. The arcs sharply up the middle, where there is a zoom button located between the right and left part of the keys. If you come from the surface normal keyboard, you just get used to the Natural Ergonomic Desktop 7000, but already after a few hours writing it feels really natural and very pleasant to work at.

The mouse is tall, so you can rest your hand comfortably on it while pushing it around on your desktop. It is very good in the right hand, and apart from the location of the two thumb buttons, so you have to lift your hand to achieve them, it is very easy to operate.

The two left / right buttons are soft and comfortable, scroll wheel adjustment goes tight and then it could also scroll sideways. The only problem with the mouse is that it is because of its height can be difficult to control the cursor exactly. It lends itself, at least not particularly good for gaming.

Both the mouse and keyboard are wireless and connect to the PC via the small USB receiver. Installation is very easy. Just set the CD in your PC and follow the instructions.

Make money on Youtube

2009-02-19T12:39:53.286-08:00

In a blog from YouTube product manager Thai Tran, he says that you will be able to download videos from Youtube. Moreover, it will be possible for the video provider to obtain payment for video clips.

The video can be downloaded below a so-called Creative Commons license. It is up to the author of the video clip to be available for download or not.

This service is currently in beta and only selected, initially given the opportunity to try to sell video clips. The bottom you'll find a link where you can preview the video President Obama, who is free to download as MP4.

The price per video will be around. 5.75 dollars and it is not clear how many of those who go to Youtube.

11,000 Norwegian credit cards blocked

2009-02-19T10:12:27.241-08:00

Hacker attacks in the U.S. is spreading. Now also Norwegian banks have their cards replaced after the biggest hacker scandal ever.

Teller AS, which is Norway's largest provider of payment services, publishes these days letter to 1800 Norwegian Eurocard and Mastercard customers:

"Dear card holder, we suspect that your credit card has been copied by unauthorized persons. There is therefore a risk that your card can be misused. Against this background, we are forced to replace your credit card."

11 000 Norwegian Visa customers can expect a similar message soon.

Blocking of cards comes due, the newspaper refers to as today's biggest hacker scandal in the banking and credit cards. Heartland Payment Systems, one of the largest U.S. companies in payment transactions, has previously issued warnings that their systems were vulnerable to hackers, and thus vulnerable. Now the Norwegians are also affected by the intrusion of Heartland Payment Systems.

Heartland otherwise considered as having the most advanced security system approved in the U.S. called PCI, and thus had direct access to the transaction system in Visa and Mastercard.

"We have a list of 11 000 Norwegian credit card customers who, due to Heartland case currently monitored 24 hours a day," says public relations at Teller AS, Anders Bigseth.

Smart Firefox plugin gives a taste of Web 3.0

2009-02-11T23:55:37.303-08:00

The wise have long talked about the "semantic web" or "web 3.0" but the vision is lagging, as you know after the fact. And perhaps many of the things which is cool by the vision can be implemented relatively simply, instead of complete re-design of existing websites.

A clever little program that gives you a bit of future browsing is Firefox plugin SimilarWeb which allows the user to see which sites other users feel offers something of the same major as the website you look at in the browser window.

The program can be configured either to display a small selection of thumbnails from the other side of the left-or right column, or display a longer list of URLs without images. You can also completely remove the program from the columns, and only access the list of pages in the browser's taskbar, if you think it turns a little too much, or just use it once in between.

Mobile phones can not withstand cold temperatures

2009-02-10T16:49:56.435-08:00

Modern mobile phones do not work at low temperature. Some models will stop working when the temperature falls down to zero, because the battery is too weak, "said Swedish experts.

They believe that the producers did not provide enough information about the problem and it is relevant and important knowledge, especially to consumers in countries with damp and cold, such as in Scandinavia.

The instructions for phones from Nokia of Finland says that the phones must be handled at temperatures between 15 and 25 plus degrees.

Competitors LG, Siemens and Sony Ericsson say that their phones can withstand temperatures from minus 10 to plus 55 degrees. Apple writes in the manual for its iPhone that it should not be used at temperatures below 0 or above 35 degrees.

The new and popular mobile phones with pressure-sensitive screens instead of buttons, is particularly temperature sensitive.

Nokia's head of customer services in Sweden, Anders Larsson says that its phones are likely to operate in temperatures below 15 degrees. But he admits that if it is very cold, then individual functions set out, for example, you may notice that the screen is slow.

Windows XP will not die

2009-01-21T01:09:31.137-08:00

The sources, who spoke with Intel Mobile Group, which explains that Microsoft has become convinced that you have to keep XP for the many Netbook coming on the market that do not have specifications to run Vista.

After Windows 7 comes into the stores, Microsoft will make a version targeted Netbook writes Fudzilla.com, in order to phase out XP. Whether it is a basic version or a special OEM version is not yet information about.

The agreement between Intel and Microsoft could mean that Windows XP will live at least until 2010 and probably a little longer, to accommodate computers with Intel Atom CPU, not running particularly well with Vista.

Five reasons not to run Windows 7 Beta

2009-01-20T00:54:44.341-08:00

The self-described "hardcore Mac guy", Sam Diaz, on his blog at ZDNet, where five reasons not to install the new Windows 7 Beta, and immediately have raised a small tsunami of angry comments. Right now the article has been minus 233 combined with a total of 339 votes cast, and there are 200 comments on the ... most contradictory blogger.

Mr Diaz 'five reasons were:

1. It would be difficult to obtain a copy

2. Windows 7 Beta 1 will expire August 2009

3. You can lose data

4. Driver problems with old hardware

5. When the beta expires, there is no guarantee when the full version can be purchased, leaving your Windows 7 Beta partition in limbo.

You can then judge yourself to see if Sam Diaz 'reasons are solid enough to dissuade you from trying out Windows 7 Beta.

Internet Explorer still loses to Firefox

2009-01-19T02:56:15.811-08:00

Over the past year, only gone one way for Microsoft's Web browser, and it is downward. From February last year to nearly 75 percent of the browser market, the latest global figures from Net Applications now that the browser at the end of December last year had lost nearly 7 percent, and now used by 68 percent of net surfers.

Most of the seven percent that IE has lost in 2008, Firefox has picked up. Firefox has gone from having just over 17 percent of the browser clients to have more than 21 percent in December. Apple's Safari offers grew by 2.5 percent to be close to 8 percent and Google's Chrome browser, which recently came out of beta stage, came straight to climb over 1 percent of users by the end of last year.

The Norwegian Opera browser seems to be largely unaffected by the others fight, and is stable at around 0.70 percent of network users.

Five good reasons to buy Netbook

2009-01-14T02:04:48.445-08:00

They are small, light and costs by half, and if you ever have doubts whether they have something for you, then arstechnica.com done a small list of other good reasons to purchase:

1. They dont have to function as a primary computer

2 They are not vulnerable to the tasks they are designed for

3 They offer tomorrow's mobility today

4 You can buy docking station

5 Price and size appeal is genuine

In addition, CES 2009 has just been launched brand-new models that may not be the next generation of Netbook, but at least free of childhood diseases, which they first had. In other words, there is now talk about a more mature technology.

And so the idea is simply good, most people do not need to run large, heavy-duty applications. They need word processing, Internet and messenger for a cheap money, and they need to take the opportunities with them. All something Netbook mastered. So what you really waiting for?

Test whether you can become Jedi-Knight

2009-01-13T11:26:51.627-08:00

If you do not quite know whether the force is strong with you, or if you prefer to be throwing yourself in a career as an imperial stormtrooper be employed, so you get this opportunity to test whether you can deliver the medichlorianere be required to go Luke Skywalker in the beds.

You think maybe it is a lie, but with "The Force Trainer" you can really get a ball to float, if you focus deeply enough. Depending on whether you emit specific brain waves, then manipulated the ball with an air pump, while the Star Wars sounds emitted from the bottom of the tower, which the ball is encased in. The product requires that you put on a headset to be reading your brain waves .

In what is described as the first mass-produced brain-to-computer product, we EEG technology, which has been used exclusively in the health community, writes USA Today. This technology is used primarily to ensure that the brain is functioning correctly, but now you can thus also use it to improve its ability to concentrate through the game.

The price will be around 90-100 dollars, which should allow most of us to acquire one of these "Jedi-coaches."

Naked Beyonce gives viruses on LinkedIn

2009-01-12T12:10:04.397-08:00

You may be tempted to become LinkedIn friends with Beyoncé and Victoria Beckham, but there may be a virus if you try.

The network LinkedIn allows you to get in touch with professional contacts that may help you to new jobs, or just to keep track of where your contacts are. But you can be tempted to try an online friendship with a musician superstjerne as Beyoncé or perhaps actor Salma Hayeck. But if they are naked in the profiles you are looking up on LinkedIn, you should think you before you offer yourself as the contact.

The security firm Trend Micro warns that there are a lot of fake LinkedIn profile, which has only the aim to get you enticed into the fold so they can send malware into your computer and, at worst, steal your personal information.

The fake profiles contains links that seemingly lead to naked pictures of celebrities are. But if you click on them, are secretly put programs into your computer that cyber criminals behind the fake profiles can then use to steal information from your computer.

Google finds too much porn

2009-01-12T02:03:13.265-08:00

Leaders in the Goverment are strongly dissatisfied with that via Google or other search engines can find almost infinite quantities of pornography, and therefore they will have prompt search engines to filter the kind of dirt from dailytech.com reported. Pornography is banned in China, and very recently, a woman was even arrested after having posted a whereby authorities unacceptable video of themselves online.

The justification for the desire for more Internet filters officially that the Chinese authorities want a "cleansing of the Internet's cultural environment and the protection of children's healthy development." If not search engines mate court waiting heavy fines or even exile.

Some observers of China expects that this battle against Internet porn is only the beginning of a larger campaign of censorship of the Internet.

Bono challenges Apple and iPhone

2009-01-12T01:45:15.317-08:00

Bono's firm Elevation Partners, is now increasing their share of the Palm from 27 to 39 percent, and it can be seen by the theinquirer.co.uk who suffered from an attack on Apple, Steve Jobs and especially iPhone. Bono has had a large star of Apple's legendary boss, but after that he has allied with many former Apple people in Elevation Partners, and invested heavily in Palm, so he was now persona non grata with the Cupertino-firm.

It does not help Bono and Jobs' friendship that celebre, philanthropic rock star was seen with both Bill Gates and Michael Dell in the past year.

Elevation Partners has previously bought and then sold Pandemic Studios, the owner of the highly successful game company BioWare, the Electronic Arts with high margins and is estimated to have a good $ 1.9 billion at the coffin bottom, so support for Palm should certainly be taken seriously.

Malware attacks your hard drive in 2009

2009-01-11T02:47:58.565-08:00

Viruses, worms and Trojans is not something that disappears during the coming year. On the contrary, believes security firm Panda Labs.

From January to August in 2008 took Panda as many threats on the network as the company's previous 17 years put together. And the trend will increase when the New-year hangover is gone, 2009 will actually be the hardest year for the security of your computer ever.

It is especially banking Trojans and fake antivirus software you have to be vigilant against in 2009. Banking Trojans designed to steal passwords and account numbers from your bank. The fake antivirus programs try to convince you that your computer has been attacked by hackers and will sell you extended protection, which you obviously do not get something out of, besides empty pockets.

Cyber criminals will be much more than now focus on attacking your computer through social networking services like Facebook or Myspace, where you can lose confidence.

Another area where you have to be vigilant when you are looking for jobs online. Because when unemployment rises as a result of the global economic downturn, there are several jøbsøgere and therefore good opportunities for malware to send away for a job postings.

Microsoft Arc Mouse

2009-01-11T02:17:39.442-08:00

Microsoft Arc Mouse is practical design whilst surprisingly good to work with. Arc mouse can be folded together, and although it is small, it lies surprisingly well in hand.

The mouse reminds a little about the combination folding clam shell mobile phones and can be folded into a short length of about 8 centimeters. When folded out, the length slightly more than 11 cm. But even if 11 cm just seems rather short, it was surprisingly good in the hand of this tester. Much of the good experience because the mouse bows at the center and is about as high as an ordinary mouse.

Apart from a single thumb button on the mouse left, the symmetrical and is equally well in both hands. Scroll wheel is the type who rolls in stutters and we wish it rolled something looser. The mouse worked fine on most substrates, we tried it. A nice detail is the USB receiver to be inserted into a USB port on the laptop. The stack of only 1.6 cm from the USB port, which is good because you can let it sit in when the laptop placed into the bag.

CES: Try the free beta of Windows 7

2009-01-10T12:46:17.761-08:00

If you can not wait a year or half of the Vista successor Windows 7 is due on store shelves, you can now try a free beta version of the upcoming operating system. Beta comes as Microsoft at CES Fair in Las Vegas presenting a newer version of the operating system than we have previously seen.

The big news is a better integration of Windows Live, which provides access to a range of online tools, better security, more stability and a much-needed adjustment of the annoying user account control, which have irritated users worldwide. There will be so many tools built into the Windows installation. Instead, you may download such as Windows Photo Gallery, which in turn has been added to the Live name. In other words, it becomes less fun to use Windows if you do not have an Internet connection.

Google Picasa program now for mac

2009-01-08T12:40:19.016-08:00

Mac users can now obtain the Windows and Linux users who are already well under way to refine and edit photos with Google's free Picasa program. With Picasa, you can even put its edited photos of grandmother or birthday party at the network in a free photo album, so friends can see too.

Now, Google has therefore decided to also allow Mac users to play with, although not all features which have been place in the mac version. Geotagging and photo-print is not yet, but the core functions are there and in the future Macs will probably get caught up, the promise of Google.

If you are a Mac user look for Picasa here

PC users can try Picasa of here

iTunes removes copy protection

2009-01-08T10:45:23.423-08:00

The music you download from the Apple iTunes is now no longer locked to your computer, iPhone or iPod. Once you have downloaded music, you can freely copy it between different devices.

In cooperation with the four leading record companies Universal, Sony BMG, Warner and EMI, Apple now remove DRM copy protection for eight out of ten million songs. From April, all the songs in iTunes have no copy protection.

You can easily move a purchased song from your computer for example, a Sony Ericsson W902 and Nokia N79.

If you have a large library of songs from iTunes in the old locked format, these can also be DRM free. Towards the payment offer Apple upgrading old downloads. The price is about 30 percent. below the normal list price.

Windows 7 faster than both XP and Vista

2009-01-07T08:24:35.507-08:00

In a test on 23 small daily activities the new operating system is clearly fastest.

It is Adrian Kingsley-Hughes over at his blog at ZDNet, which has made a test of how fast the various Windows versions perform tasks such as installation of the operating system boot time, file-transfer, file-packing or office installation. He has tested two different machines, none of them are decidedly high-end, but one is nevertheless equipped with a quad-core Phenom processor.

The conclusion is clear: Windows 7 wins in all tasks except 2 out of 23 In second place, there is more tension: it turns out that Vista is the second fastest quad-core machine with 2GB of RAM, while XP will silver less 1GB dual-core machine.

Kingsley-Hughes is very enthusiastic about the new operating system, but he has, however, as we also have written a few reservations.

Mp3 player saves lives

2009-01-07T06:18:28.763-08:00

Two tourists who were lost in the snarl Swiss mountains, was found by using the light from an MP3 player.

The two French tourists, a skier and a snowboarder, was lost in the mountains by ski resorts Savognin in southeast Switzerland, writes Reuters.

They were luckily to warn the emergency services via mobile phone, but then the battery died.

Shortly after midnight nonetheless the helicopter crew managed to find and rescue the two men thanks to the weak light from their MP3 player.

So now it is proven that music can save your life.

11 convicted of one billion scams on Microsoft's expense

2009-01-06T02:49:34.270-08:00

A Chinese court has sent 11 people behind bars for the one billion-piracy.

The convicts, who have distributed software illegally, have been between a half and six and a half years in prison. This is the toughest so far ruling of its kind in China, writes Internetnews.com.

The 11 convicts were arrested in July 2007, after which the FBI and China's Public Security Bureau (PSB) started to investigate the matter further.

The illegal software that pirates behind, were found in 36 countries on five continents. Among others were found false - but high-quality versions - of 19 of Microsoft's most popular products at least 11 different languages.

Copy-protection reveals counterfeit versions Pirate software, which among others included Windows XP and Office 2007, was sold to relavtivt high prices around the world, primarily in the U.S. and in Europe.

"Microsoft greatly appreciate the PSB's and FBI's efforts to take strong action against this global software counterfeiting ring," said David Finn, who is in charge of Microsoft's anti-piracy council.

According to Internetnews.com delivered 'Microsoft customers' evidence which has helped to settle the matter through the company's Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) tool is used to identify counterfeit versions.

Although the entire 25 people were originally in the authorities' scrutiny in the piracy ring, was only 11, therefore doomed in this game.

Later another nine people, however, a trip to court.

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