…or: “Hey Windows, you know what you’re running on, eh?”. When a user
tried to flash the ROM of his Windows smartphone, the phone suddenly asked
for an installation media. The problem is: Windows 8 comes on a DVD. So how
do you get a DVD recognized by the smartphone?

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Interesting to read these kinds of News as they’re very uncommon. A young
woman in sweden hijacked a public transportation vehicle and drove it off
the tracks leaving a big demolition behind. While the track was secured with
a bumper, the train was so fast that it crashed into a house 25 metres behind.

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The USA have a big problem. The problem is money. The USA is missing 16
trillion of it actually. So what’s the way to solve this misery? One thing might
be the issue of a platinum coin with a nominal value of, let’s say 1 trillion.
Issuing 16 of these and selling them to the FED would virtually solve the prob.

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So ebay has changed it’s logo after 17 years. But that’s not all: The fees for
an auction are risen also. So while the max capping for an auction was 45
euros, it’s now 75 Euros. The fee for a successful auction is 9% of the bid
price. An item sold for 100 Euros for example has a fee of 9 Euros.

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When it comes to updates at my place, these are rare when we have to deal
with expenses beyond the 1000 CHF border. So that’s why the upgrade of my
TV set has taken over 6 years in a rather fast common update cycle. Don’t get
me wrong. I am not Mr. Pinchpenny but such expenses are well-considered.

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When it comes to fast internet, one might think, Switzerland is not able to
provide fast Internet. Well think again. While many citizen of Switzerland
already have internet connections with over 16 MBit/s, most citizen in
Germany still hope to get fast DSL (6 Mbit/s)!

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So Chrome goes into the 24th round now. While in earlier times, the minor
number has changed even it the list of improvements was long, it seems that
the trend tends to changing the major release instead. If you think, IE10 or
Opera 12 are now grampys in the browser world, you’re wrong!

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Just as the first quadcore devices hit stores for everyone, Samsung’s plans
leaked that the new Samsung Galaxy S4 could be one of the first mobile
devices equipped with an 8-core CPU. Natively we speak of two 4-core CPUs
as octocore SoCs are not yet available or designed to a working state.

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Rosiv decided to bring his blog back online to share his thoughts, ideas and
annotations with you. unlike my blog, his blog is written in german only. But
it’s still worthwhile to read and I can recommend it to you without any hesi-
tation. his blog will, like mine, deal with all kinds of topics.

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It seems as if the wait is finally over and getting a date. While the date was
previously set something around February 2013, the date is now March, 5th
2013 and thus more specific. Next to WoW: Mists of Pandaria and Diablo 3 for
2012, this game lines up for the most-anticipated game of the year 2013.

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So, the CES allows us to see what we will get in the next year. Even in the
computing sector we have new things to expect. Kingston, known for
memory chips finally brings out a 1TB memory stick to carry a whole bunch
of data around with you. Although the price tag of over 1’000 US$ is high…

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Good day, fellas! Finally the maintenance is done. Several things have been
done, some with success, some have not been successful. Short summary is
that I optimized the database once more so that the blog will load fast with
less delay. The video implementation is still not working as intended.

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While the CES is open for exhibition on January,8 to January,11 this year
manufacturers from all countries from the entertainment industry are
presenting their newest gadgets to the public. Samsung starts first and shows
it’s newest TV set. Looking like a painting easel, it seems to float in the room.

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It seems that the US patent system still leaves some room for companies
whose only purpose is to start lawsuits against global players for violating
almost-expiring lawsuits which could have once qualified for big cash time.
One of these is Steelhead Licensing LLC, a company just funded few days ago.

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Now tests are ongoing on how the plugin is performing. As there are several
video formats being used in the blog, not every plugin can be used. Also the
smart tags are of essential importance as the video smart tag is often used
and causing problems with other plugins.

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The blog will be down for maintenance until at least January 7th, 2013. We
are going to engage a new video plugin that will allow video playback on
mobile devices without any hassle. The flash player plugin served well in the
past however on mobile devices it caused lots of trouble.

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While light emmiting diodes did not gring up much light in the past, today’s
LEDs have great potential to replace the energy-saving lamps which are in
conflict with a environment-friendly production. As Energy lamps still have
small amounts of toxic mercury and light-emmiting gases inside…

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While GPS is the most commonly used technology in the world when it comes
to navigation and other position-relevant applications, China seems to
mistrust the USA as they’re not relying on GPS. Instead, they’re engaging their
own positioning system called “BeiDou”. However it’ll take some time.

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As you might have noticed, my blog was down for maintenance and did not
receive any updates during christmas time. Reason for this was a planned
database update in order to update to the most recent WordPress version.
Due to some problems a rollback had to be done as updates went wrong.

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Scareware. A little nasty program telling you that your computer has
problems, where none are really. In most cases it’s better to trust Anti-Virus
pioneers and some system fixing software (some of them are even freeware!)
to determine your PC’s status.

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AMD seems to see time running out for them and thus unveils their 8000
GPU series. While NVidia has already announced the Geforce 7xxM series,
it’s the only logical step, AMD could have done now. The question still is if
first customer devices with the new GPUs will become available in near time!

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A land so far away? Not necessarily! The swiss airline PrivatAir has landed
a Boeing 737 the first time in Antarctica. The special weather conditions and
the ground made it necessary to train the staff more than one year until the
airline flew 32 research crew members of the norwegian polar institute there!

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It seems as if the USA will never come to peace when it comes to
killing frenzies. In Newtown, Connecticut, a mid-twenty years aged spree
killer ended the life of more than 25 people at Sandy-Hook Elementary..
The reason why he decided to do so. No one knows for sure.

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Have irisses with pictures long been a dream vision in movies, it now
seems that this is no longer Science-Fiction. The Centre of Microsystems has
developed a contact lens with a flexible LC display that is capable of display-
ing images. However the image is only viewable forothers, not the wearer.

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It seems as if Cupertino’s darling is in big crisis as the stock shares keep
falling in value. Noting at 538 US$ at the moment of this article being written,
there’s the question when the Apple share will stop sinking so rapidly. Just
today, China Mobile announced that it will enlist the Nokia Lumia 620.

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In search for good headphones and probably with the option to make phone
calls with these, too, the market of headphones is really thin. Either you
have in-ears that often tend to fall out during listening or even the slightest
tuck on the cable or you have on-ears that lack of a microphone.

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Just today it seems as if Western Digital has announced that in Q4 2013 first
HDDs with 5TB capacity are supposed to leave the gates of the WD factories.
Where 4 TB is currently the hardliner-maximum, WD is still convenient to
release their new data-libraries in time. If they’re helium-filled, is unknown.

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Long awaited, LTE finally goes online and allows owners of appropriate
hardware to surf the internet with tremendous speeds. However owners of
the iPhone will still not be able to hop on as the hardcoded baseband does
not yet understand the LTE band. And it’s not sure when it’ll be done.

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Things could not be worse between Germany and Switzerland. The object of
desire: Money! Germany wants of it… lots of it and from Switzerland. As
Germany suspects Switzerland of holding lots of financial ressources from
german citizen who don’t declare their money to the Finance departement.

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And again there are 43 billion Euro for the rescue of Greece so that it doesn’t
have to leave the financial union. While Greece is happy about how the things
finally turned for them, most other countris and their people get upset more
an more. Why is so much money burnt in a country that wastes it so much?

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Usually, people never seem to agree when it comes to size. On smartphones
the curent trend is: the bigger, the better! usually it was, the smaller, the
better. Compare a Nokia 6100 (combined with its battery, it weighs only 76
grams and measures 102 x 44 x 13.5 mm.) and an actual Galaxy Note II.

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WhatsApp,known to many for their SMS replacement and issuer of the same-
named App has recently updated the app to a new version. With this update
there comes a bunch of security fixes. But also a not-so-nice “feature” is now
active on most Nokia, Android and Blackberry phones: A licence notifier!

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