Many of you have probably seen Minority Report, an interesting Sci-Fi
movie about police units using future-telling individuals to predict crime
before it happens. What is base for a good Sci-Fi movie in 2006 seems to
become real in Seattle, WA. Predpol, that’s the name of the software used.

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Nope, this is no April’s fool (and it’l be 15 more days ahead!) but you have
read right. For once, Apple itself got victim of being sued for some patent.
In this Case, THX (Lucasfilm) has sued Apple for violating a patent of THX
involving speakers used in various iDevices.

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At 7:13p.m. the wait was finally over. The Vatican has a new pope! Pope Francis I.
has officially been elected as the new pope of the catholic church. Jorge Mario
Bergoglio (⁕17.12.1936) is the official successor of Pope Benedict XVI who has
officially receded from office on February 11th, 2013.

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Samsung doesn’t like Windows 8 – They see Windows 8 as the culprit for
stagnating PC-sales in the last months. They also see Windows 8 on the
same level as Windows Vista which was also not THAT successful. And
who can blame them for saying, users don’t like tiles on a desktop?

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Gaming consoles get smaller and smaller. While the WiiU is currently the
smallest of them all. The new Xi3 Piston seems to be a new goalgetter. Only
equipped with some flash RAM, a decent processor and graphics unit, it
makes use of Steam. With 999 US$ MSRP it is extremely expensive!

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The first day at the CeBIT was a huge success for a technician like me. All the
stuff dealing with IT and the server techiques around are an El Dorado there. I
could gather a lot of information for my job, too and it’s no surprise that I found
the companies of the software used at my employer.

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There I finally arrived at Hannover and finally at Celle, to meet up with Pianoman
and his girlfriend. The evening was just great to meet up with Pianoman’s cousin
and her family. Seeing Celle makes me a bit remembering Berne as well. The old
town is just lovely with all these half-timbered houses. Just impressive to look at!

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This ain’t good news for Microsoft. Brussels has sued Microsoft for violating
the Browser choice agreement. The main argument was that Mcrosoft has
not shown the Browser Choice windows to all users (which users they are,
is till unknown)! Although I am not a Microsoft Fanboy, this is ridiculous!

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Th esecurity hole where you can bypass the security code by dialling an
emergency call number is boggling Apple big time. This video shows how to
test if your device is also affected by the security issue. Even with iOS 6.1.2
the security hole isn’t fixed and I could reproduce the steps on my 4/4S

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On The CeBIT, AVM has today shown the successor to the already famous
FritzBox 7390. The 7490 series has been equipped with DualBand WLAN
offering 450MBit/s on the 2.4GHz band and up to 1300Mbit/s on the 5GHz
band. So with this new FritzBox, another competitor has entered the arena!

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Simcity is going to hit the store tomorrow. For those who are already sure
that they want to obtain the game, the Origin store takes pre-orders for the
game. Coming in three flavours, the most expensive edition (Limited Deluxe
Edition) offers additional building designs. the Limited Edition is, stripped…

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HGST, now a division of Western Digital, has made first tries to save data
on smaller space using Nano-Lithography. While common technologies
allow maximum 4 to 5TB per HDD, the Nanolithography technique allows
doubling the data density. That’s quite some space for today’s demands.

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The CeBIT in Hannover opens it’s gates on March, 5th till March, 9th.
Being a trade fair for IT professionals and decision makers in companies,
this fair has many exhibitors. Also I am on the CeBIT with Pianoman to
watch the newest Goodies and Techs that are upcoming.

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Harsh times that are ahead of the U.S. economy. While the last months have
helped many companies to catch ground again, it seems as if this time’s over
and bad times ahead again. The reason for this? The active Sequester Plan.
But not only this plan is responsible for the upcoming desaster.

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Some people never learn. Better view where you go and if you’re cheating
on your girlfriend, be honest with her because the truth always comes out.
This happened to some guy in Russia who was cheating on his fiance. What
he didn’t know that he was in a picture of Yandex Panorama.

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If you ever wondered, why some robbers are in prison for strange thefts,
this story tells one of these strange stories. A bar got cracked up and the
robbers wanted to nab the installed ATM. However they took the wrong
machine – and got the jukebox instead. Much effort for almost nothing!

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While NVidia has thrown in their Geforce Titan, which settles a new record
in graphics performance for a single card, AMD now seems to try catching
up and according to a report on Fudzilla, the new “Malta” core, formerly
known as “New Zealand”. shall bring AMD back to the top.

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I am sorry that the news had a longer time until release as I was ill and hardly
used the PC. So that’s why all messages have been released today. Hopefully the
cold won’t catch me again. Wasn’t nice at all laying in bed freezing like hell tho
the room itself was warm. That’s Wintertime! The possibility to get ill is there!

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Not only is Chrome 26 Beta released, Chrome 25 is available now and among
some security hole fixes, there are some new additions available of which the
ability to control the Browser using your voice is one of the most spectacular
ones. Available for all major OSses, Chrome 25 can now be downloaded.

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New patents may point to an idea of Apple to create an iWatch. But what exactly
could this gadget do? Will it be an iPhone reduced to the size of a watch or will
the iWatch only a smaller edition of an iPod? As integrated circuits allow smaller
and smaller devices, the iWatch might be a Mini-iPhone!

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So there it was… the presentation of the new Playstation 4. But unlike Apple,
Sony did not show the actual device in completion, only the new controller
and some tech demos on what the new console may be able to show. Also
the timeline is very tight as Holiday season 2013 usually means Christmas.

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When we speak of superlatives about displays, the iPhone is no longer the
number one as other smartphone manufacturers have already brought out
devices which support FullHD on their screen (1920×1080). The first ones
came with a 5″ display, the new HTC one shrinks to 4.7″.

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When it comes to Nokia, most of us think of the glorious times, Nokia had
once in the mid to late 90’s with their legendary phones 6110, 6210, 6310
and initially with the communicator series. Also other phones of Nokia were
innovative. With the iPhone release in 2007, the fall of Nokia has begun.

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A long time we didn’t hear anything about C&C Generals. The last part came
out in 2003 – 10 years ago. So of course most of us are dazzled to see what’s
ahead. Now EA has released the first HD screenshot of the upcoming C&C
Generals title which will also be Free 2 Play. And it looks great!

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What sounds like a polt to a B-SciFi-Movie got real today. A meteor has hit
earth today in the morning. Parts have hit the ground at Lake Cherbakul.
The touchdown was so hefty that the shock wave has burst many windows
and hurt approximately 1000 people so far. Some videos show the meteor.

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When it comes to hardware for computers, the first questions are: How
much dough to spend and what will I get for it. Now it is true that there are
many hardware testing magazines online which take time to analyze the new
hardware parts for you upon suitability for your project.

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While AMD has already some High-End GPUs on the market, NVidia’s top
speed card, the NVidia GeForce 690GTX still is using the “old” structure
size for it’s die. The Radeon HD7990 for example builds on the 28nm struc-
ture, while the 690GTX uses the Kepler GPU based on the 32nm structure.

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Yes, I know, it’s boring to read again about some copyright infringement.
And yes I am also bored, too. But maybe this is a way to show why money
still rules the world and why people are willing about to give up their soul
for something that usually isn’t worth fighting for.

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The World Wide Web has lots of real useless crap on it, mostly spam! But
there alre also some gems out there which should be mentionned. That’s
why I take focus on Captain Campus’ blog today which will be a new source
for fun stuff filtered out for you. Welcome to the Blogger’s community, pal!

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Sede Vacante it will be on February 28th, 2013 when Pope Benedict XVI. is
officially receding from his position as Pope. The decision came today and
instantly spread around the world. The resaon is easy: Ongoing health issues
the reason for his recession. So the Vatican has to select a new Pope now.

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Whenever we hear something about Flash, one’s mind is automaically set on
security issues, Flash has brought up in the last years. While Adobe tries to
fill these security holes, new ones are already being searched for. But what
once was only directed on Windows PCs now also is aimed on Mac machines.

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If it comes to the mind of the Australian Health Organisation, birthday
candle blowouts in australian kindergardens are no longer recommended.
Reason for this is a study that points out that most of the infections of kids
occur at birthdays when the birthday child is blowing out the candles.

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