05
Jan
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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04
Jan
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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03
Jan
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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January 3, 2019Netspark
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02
Jan
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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January 2, 2019Netspark
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01
Jan
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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31
Dec
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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December 31, 2018Netspark
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29
Dec
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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28
Dec
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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December 28, 2018Netspark
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27
Dec
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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26
Dec
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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23
Dec
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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December 23, 2018Netspark
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22
Dec
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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21
Dec
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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December 21, 2018Netspark
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18
Dec
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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17
Dec
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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15
Dec
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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14
Dec
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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13
Dec
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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12
Dec
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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11
Dec
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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December 11, 2018Netspark
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11
Dec
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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10
Dec
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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09
Dec
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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December 9, 2018Netspark
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07
Dec
Spectre strikes again! It seems as if Intel has no time to
rest. Has Spectre V1 been digested halfway, there’s some
new competitor hitting the floor: SplitSpectre! While the
decessor requires time-critical timing for attacks, the new…
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December 7, 2018Netspark
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06
Dec
Samsung wants to take the crown back for the best
smartphone. The S10+ seems to be the perfect tool
to do so. While Dual-Cameras are state of the art for
now, Samsung features at least 6 cameras in the S10+!
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December 6, 2018Netspark
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05
Dec
WordPress is releasing a new form of editor to create posts.
Called Gutenberg, the concept of WYSIWYG is brought to a
new Level. Instead of editing your text and insert media the
classic way by using office-like toolbars, you use blocks now.
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December 5, 2018Netspark
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04
Dec
It’s not the first time that NVidia is doing a “One more thing”
after releasing the mainstream of graphics cards. Initially the
20×0 graphics cards family has been released earlier this year
and probably many thought: Is this all you got?
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December 4, 2018Netspark
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03
Dec
While 14TB HDDs are already released to the public, Seagate
has risen the bar a little more. Internal test units of HAMR
drives have broken the magical 16TB barrier meaning that
larger HDDs for datacenters may soon become available.
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02
Dec
Hey fellow readers. Maintenance has completed and we’re
back online on monday again. We could find the culprit of
our repeated downtime and disabled the plugins in
question. Actually we’re investigating with the developers.
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01
Dec
If you ever thought, running a blog is a breeze and never
lets you run into problems, think again. Same here. We
experienced issues with the DB and some rogue plugins
flooding the DB with senseless stuff thus increasing size.
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30
Nov
If you thought, flying like the Silversurfer from Marvel
Comics is a fiction, then you haven’t seen the modern
hoverboard. Is this a prototype for how people might
travel short distances in the future?
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29
Nov
Well known that WPA2 can be infiltrated by 3rd party users
using KRACK method, the WFA has now made direct plans
on how to solve the problem with the security holes of WPA2.
When WPA3 will be applied via firware updates to routers…
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