It seems as if Wikileaks got many enemies on the internet. The most recent
attempt to unveil Trapwire (a surveillance network in the USA) brought a mass
of attack attempts to the Wikileaks homepage. A anonymous group called
“Antileaks” already took responsibility for this hack attempt which may be…

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Once happened to Sony Entertainment, now happened to Blizzard. Hackers have
gained access to many credit card information as well as encrypted passwords,
e-mail addresses and full names. Also, the security question for recovering the
account information is target of the Hackers. Blizzard has acted instantly.

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When it comes to Copyright and filesharing, the music industry is taking every
attempt to cross borders. In this case, the german Federal Court has confirmed
that ISPs have to issue private data from persons who violate the copyright.
That means, if a copyright owner files a lawsuit against a user from whom he…

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Heyya blog readers. I am now off for three weeks and thus, this blog may not
receive all updates in time. So don’t be afraid if one day there aren’t posts online
as I am not online very often. I guess most of you are n holidays anyways, so
this should not be of a great thing anyways. Enjoy your holidays!

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Perhaps many of you have already noticed. Blizzardn started delivering another
big patch for WoW that is approximately 5GB in size. Its contents are not yet
known except that the Horde is to evict the Alliance from Theramore and the
new talent tree system is to be introduced which is most like the one in Diablo 3.

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While Zynga has to fight with low business figures of the last quarter, the mana-
gement undergoes another change. John Schappert, who has been acquired
from EA, has left Zynga. As Mark Pincus has limited the competences of John
Schappert, this was the only logical consequence.

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Google got fined $22.5 million for repeatedly violating the privacy policy
concerning user data. The fine has mainly been spoken for using cookies in the
mobile browsers of iPhone, iPad and android devices. The main problem was
that no usr confirmation for the cookies was needed.

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So the NASA has finally placed a robot on the surface of Mars to explore
it’s surface. The question is, what’s so interesting about a planet that is
most likely not containing life (due to it’s atmospheric consistence) and
most likely won’t have any valuable ressources on it?

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I am currently changing here and there the appearance of my blog.
During the upcoming 24 hours you may encounter slight changes in the
appearance of my blog. There will be no downtime whatsoever. But you
may see some textual glitches or distorted text. If so, reload the page.

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Today I’ll give you an insight about all the current DSi and 3DS handhelds.
Newest member is the 3DS XL which gives the 3DS another tuneup in size.
This lineup will show the last 3 years of Nintendo’s handheld inventions and
give you an idea what to expect. Enjox this little overview and review!

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Long speculated, the release of the fifth addon of Word of Warcraft was
estimated for winter 2012, now Blizzard has announced the official release
date, which is September 25th, 2012! All fans are able to reserve their
digital Collectors Edition online for 50 EUR or 60 USD. The retail CE…

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Just yesterday I have written about plane-based city surveillance in
Germany. The next step onwards to total surveillance of citizen is just
one step away. The project, called INDECT is just being enrolled and
already basis for wild speculations and citizen-enforced protests.

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What sounds like a scene from Minority report or other SciFi movies has
actually happened in Germany. A little town, called Bocholt, has been
inspected using a plane and with it, a infrared camera was taking warmth
zone pictures to identify bad-isolated houses.

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Ever dreamt of a fast internet? So fast that even modern network components
at home reach their capacity? Google plans just this. In Kansas, USA Google
plans to offer Gigabit(!) Internet for everybody. And with that, a price of US$ 79
seems just too good to be true. But what makes this the sweetest deal ever?

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What sceptic stock analysts have expected has now happened: The
facebook stock shares have reached a new all-time low: 24 USD is not
what shareholders have wanted but stagnating member numbers and
an operative loss of USD 157M is not a good sign for high share value!

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Ever wondered about the QR-Tags that are visible to the left of my blog?
When you have someone around who wants to know what you’re reading
on my blog, let them have it instantly. No copy&Paste of the URL into
the other’s cell phone, no mail, no SMS. A QR scanner is all he/shee needs!

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Earlier this year I have wrote an article about Maxis to release Simcity 5.
It seems as if Maxis has shown more and more details to this game on the
E3 Game Convention in Los Angeles and also stated the release date to
roughly February 2013. With this post, some more videos are now online!

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Where most of the home WLAN devices still work with 802.11b/g/n reaching
theoretical speeds of up to 450MBit/s and 900MBit/s using MIMO techiques,
802.11ac with its 1300MBit/s is just approaching and first devices are available.
802.11ad as ne standard will allow 7 GBit/s using a 60GHz frequency band.

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It seems as if the problems around Diablo III still won’t stop. Today another
god mode bug, this time for the wizard has hit Blizzard very hard. Rumors
about a wanted advantage for a small amount of the gamers do the round.
All those, who play the game the honest way, are angry and annoyed.

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Olympia – Everyone has probably heard of it and watched it on TV to
favorize one’s country. What was fun before the millennium is now only
one more frustration when you see how money rules the world actually.
have tickets become available to the worker class to fair prices, it seems…

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Interesting to see, how Facebook has performed just four weeks later.
And it seems as if the stock won’t go any further up so far as it’s value is
at 28.75 US$ by now. Thus, the stock noted still below initial value.
Rough time for Mark Zuckerberg and his try to go for $100 billion value!

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Laws can be a real nuisance today. Especially the USA make it almost impossible
NOT to break any law. Even if you don’t know it for sure, you run risk into
breaking the law. So it happened to two men from Seattle, that they broke the law
when being in Canada and buying some treats for their children.

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Collapsing buildings always look spectacular. Even more when you see
five 200m tall cooling towers of a coal power plant collapsing within
seconds. What looks like “piece of cake” in the video is the result of a
monthlong planning and engineering to avoid surrounding damage.

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When it comes to image loss, even the biggest company may bend. When
EPEAT has revoked the EPEAT logo for Apple products as Apple has decided
not to certify new Apple hardware anymore, there were great rumors from
environment-savvy customers. But the main point could have been another.

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Rien ne va plus! Something like this could maybe come true to the unfiltered
Internet as we know it. The EU is about to bring out a Child Protection Filter.
Its purpose: Filter out any material that’s probably unsuitable for youngsters.
But what, if the technique gets into wrong lanes and is used for censoring?

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According to a verdict from the regional appeal court Bremen, Sellers
can’t wildly accuse buyers in ebay anymore when it comes to hacking.
In the given case, the seller of a motorcycle has got a bid from a hacked
ebay-account. The “buyer” then declared that he didn’t use his account.

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What seems odd for most of us, seems normal for Microsoft. So it is known
to winfuture that Microsoft wants to make the switch to the new Metro
surface more delicate to the customers by putting up a rather high budget
for advertisement of Windows 8. But seriously: is this really necessary?

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It seems as if Mozilla’s Firebird project dies not yield the results it is
supposed to. So officially, Thunderbird will no longer be actively
developed and equipped with new features. Features are now only
included when users bring in the necessary program code.

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SOPA, ACTA and other things that do not correlate with Privacy online.
In Germany another thing actually seems to break one’s privacy. The
changes in Germany’s registration law seem to allow almost unlimited
forwarding of personal info for but not limited to commercial purposes.

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What noone (even Stephen Hawking) believed before, has finally come true
at the LHC in Geneva: During the test collision of 2 Hadrons, a Boson
particle has been spotted wirh the mass of 125-127 GeV/c² and a static
confidence of 4.9 σ. A value of 5 σ is needed to confirm the discovery,

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The EU parliament has finally decided not to ratify ACTA in Europe.
ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement), currently enrolled in the
USA, was supposed to be the death of democracy and a, mildly expressed,
hidden way to allow the USA to control worldwide how piracy is handled.

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When it comes to free speech and censorship, it’s mostly the USA, China and
islamistic countries that limit these as far as needed. Also Twitter is affected
by this and the new transparency report shows the amount of requests for
tweet removals have been issued within the last 6 months.

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