Google Alphabet, the mother corporation of Google and
other subsidiaries has found an innovative way to evade
huge tax payments. We speak of no less than twenty
billion US$ using legal tricks. so how did they do that?

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Well, the fight isn’t fought yet. While Qualcomm is
probably celebrating it’s win in the first step against
Apple, Apple itself has today announced to file an
appeal against the verdict that has been issued.

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We can’t exactly say what has happened. But it seems
as if Apple Stock shares have had a real bad impact.
Dropping from 157.18 down to 142.13 is really baffling!
What could have caused that massive drop?

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Apple is no longer allowed to sell iPhones in Germany!
The models iPhone 7, 8 and X are no longer allowed to
be sold directly by Apple! The reason is a lawsuit filed
in Germany for Apple infringing Qualcomm patents.

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Happy 2019 fellow readers. Hope you enjoyed the New Year’s
Eve as much as I did and you had a great party. Right to the
start of the new year, there are again Top 15 Garfield comics
to start the year with a good laugh! Have fun and enjoy!

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A new year is beginning and also this blog will
keep you up to date with posts every day where
possible. We hope you had a great 2018 and
that you can start into 2019 with full energy!

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Well, this is it. 12 hours to go and then we’re in a new year.
2018 was a hectic and eventful year for us all. Not only in
technology we had a lot of improvements, but also changes
in the way we act together. And this Blog woke up again…

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Well, we all know SD memory cards, right?
We all know MiniSD memory cards, right?
We all know MicroSD memory cards, right again?
But who knows of NanoSD memory cards?

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Well, when glass shatters, you see the cracks afterwards. But how
dos the glass actually break? Are the cracks expanding in given
time or are they instantly there? A question, The team of the
Action Lab was trying to find out. The following video is the result.

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Do you remember the times when you had to type commands in
order to play a game? No Mouse cursor, no icon, just a “C:\>”
prompt and a blinking cursor begging for a command. And if you
supply a false command, well… nothing happens!

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One would say, why fork out money for an 8K
display if there’s no material to feed it’s native
resolution with. Good point here! Indeed there
are hardly any sources to feed such panels with.

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If you ever wondered what a 2700 Euros expensive
Titan RTX would perform against a 1200 Euros
Geforce RTX 2080Ti then the following images might
give you a clue. A PC enthusiast got one of them!

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It is again hard times for the POTUS. We have seen a
governmental shutdown in the past and in 2018 es-
pecially on christmas it is happening again. So people
trying to use governmental services must be patient!

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As the team of Netspark’s blog is recreating, we hope the
server will still work in the background and publish the
posts for us while we’re spending some quality time with
our beloved ones. In case you’re here: Have some fun!

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Hello everyone! The team of Netspark’s blog wishes
you a merry christmas and some quiet days. Enjoy
the days at home with your beloved ones and a lot
of presents for everyone of you!

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We all know it from our childhood: Christmas was
often the time where we looked forward to fool
around in the snow. But with ongoing time the
temperatures were no longer allowing snow.

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Primes are always a challenge to mankind. Especially
if they have millions of digits. M82589933 that’s the
officially detected 51st prime. But what exactly is a
Mersenne prime? Because not every prime is Mersenne!

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A new level in the fight between Qualcomm and Apple
has been reached. Qualcomm is seeking for a sale ban
of certain iPhone models. Affected are iPhone 7,8 and
the X. The XS, XS Max and XR are not affected.

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Stealing a pacrcel from the doorstep or porch from a
stranger might be a bad idea. This guy had his parcels
stolen multiple times so he came up with an ingenius
idea. A very clever set-up booby trap.

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Planet discovery in a far distance is quite a challenge. A team
for space science has discovered “2018 VG18” which is 120 AU
(astronomical units) away from the sun. It’s nickname “Farout”
is symbolic according to it’s distance from the sun.

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After two pulls Microsoft has finally released Build 1809
for download for everyone. However this update isn’t
shown automatically and you have to manually trigger
the installation via Windows Update!

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Logitech’s Options Software is the key component to
customize the behavior of your input devices from them.
However an exploit has been discovered by the Google
Project Zero team. All users should update immediately!

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This can be a real hassle. New version of WordPress gets
rolled out and again our cronjobs to release scheduled posts
are simply gone! We wonder what ditches our cronjobs and
thus hinders WP to publish posts that are scheduled.

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In Austria a team of four scientists have managed to
communicate with each other over a fully encrypted
channel using Quantum cryptography. This might be
the first step into the next-step secure communication

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It seems as if VW is not allowed to rest when it comes to the
diesel scandal for diesel cars. Now there’s a lwasuit pending
from Baden-Wurttemberg. They state that VW has caused a
tremendous damage and attempted to hide the problems.

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Well it was only a matter of time until someone would release an
online video on “Who builds the better phone” with actual compe-
titors. Today we’ll see the Apple XS Max perform against the
Huawei Mate P20 Pro. Huawei says, they have have beat Apple!

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When Australia has passed the anti-encryption law, things couldn’t
be more worse for tech companies that sell products that warrant
one’s privacy. Apple and other technology companies have already
signalled opposition to the doubtful law. What will come next?

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It took quite a while for Apple to get the license to offer
Apple Pay together with most major banks in Germany.
While ApplePay is availabe to other countries for years,
the final switch has been triggered in germany today.

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Hard times for Apple. The once-trillion-worth company has lost
over 26% of it’s value since it’s peak-value in October 2018.
The shares of Apple are even less worth than last year which
means that Apple even missed it’s 52wk goal.

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It’s official: Project “Edge” has been buried by Microsoft.
It seems as if the browser engine was unable to succeed
among Chromium and Quantum. With this, the browser
engine “market” is now shared among two competitors.

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Microsoft finally seems to roll out Fall Creators update
regularly after fixing some problems with another pre-patch
Some problems were based upon a faulty graphics driver
from Intel for their HD Graphics.

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If you ever thought, there’s a maximum age for playing
Pokemon Go, you’ll be surprised about the following
man. Not only has he found an innovative way to hunt
down pokemons, he also is very creative.

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