Often it is read that companies have lost lots of money due to illegal copies.
Then there’s the mobile market that also takes it’s share. Finally it’s the copy
protection mechanisms that rob most games their reputation, Dilemmas as
Assassins Creed which failed to start up are only one of the many cases.

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The Wii U will hit Stores tomorrow and it’s the most-expected console from
Nintendo since the Wii came out in 2005/2006. offering Full-HD and a con-
troller with a seperate display, there is room for a new dimension of gaming
The motion control already opened new worlds. Will the Wii U succeed?

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Nintendo and Sony – archrivals since the very beginning of the game console
era. Even now it seems as if Nintendo seems to be much more successful as
these figures underline: While the PS Vita is sold 3 million times, the 3DS has
been sold 22 million times. A factor of 7 to 1 for Nintendo.

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Onlinebanking using the smartphone seems smart. That’s why some hackers
have brought out a trojan virus for Android devices which is capable of
tracing the mTAN. This mTAN is necessary for authorizing payments over
the internet. Usually mTAN should be secure but with this trojan, it ain’t!

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Again ASUS fights against Apple and their MacBooks – ASUS just released their
newest Ultrabook of  the ZEN series. With 15 Inches it’s usually no ultrabook
at all but the other sizes (height, weight) allow this description anyways. With
a Geforce 650M and a 3617 Ivy bridge processor it’s darn fast!

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Apple, being known as THE leader in innovtions lately seems to be stuck in it’s
own success. As the Apple stock shares were at 700 USD per share at the end
of September, the actual share value has dropped down to 570 USD. Sounds
not too bad? Well, get this: The total share loss is 157 billion USD! THATS bad!

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Supercomputer are mostly one’s nation to show, we can compute numbers
as fast as possible. While last year, the fastest supercomputer was situated
in Asia, it is now again situated in the USA. The Oak Ridge National
Laboratory has built up and finally activated the fastest supercomputer.

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When it comes to apple, most of you may think: Innovative manufacturer of
cool gadgets with high potential. A real strong stock market value also has
given you this idea. With the release of the iPhone 5, while the stock market
value per share was 700 US$, nowadays, the value has dropped to 558 US$.

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Elections – THE event in the USA when it comes to a big showdown in politics.
Usually, democracy demands that every citizen of a country is requested to
give his/her voe on a party member being put up for elections. In this case
we’re talking about Obaa and Romney.

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Bern is undergoing a rapid change when it comes to the club scene.
Clubs close, but also there are new ones opening. One of the new
stars in Bern is the Bronx Bar which is opening doors today. A
modern club with modern interior is awaiting you.

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As already posted last year, Starlight Events has again taken the idea to make
the Bundeshaus Bern a giant screen. This year’s show deals with the topic
technics, science, lifestyle of Switzerland. An impressive lightshow is ahead of
you. This show is 22 minutes long. Simply said: Fascinating and enchanting!

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The storm is over but the real disaster is just now visible. The following pics
show what Sandy has left. And if you think, a giant city like New York is safe
against mother nature, well… think again! All pictures are copyright of their
respective owners.

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Hello people, my blog is back again. The downtime has based on the lack of
ability to process a payment for the webspace between two banks. After some
haggling and several phone calls, the two banks were finally able to process
my transaction without any unwanted surprises. Now I have peace for 1 year!

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While in Switzerland snow dominates the current weather situation, the east
coast of the USA is facing a big tropical hurricane. Sandy, as the monster is
called is approaching and the people in New York expect massive damage.
As a result of the storm, most shops and even the Wall Street stay closed.

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Someting that can be considered quite rare these days is, when snow comes
down in October. Much rarer when the amount of snow hits 15cm within one
night. Exactly this has happened this night. Now one could say: “Nothing
special, happens often at my place” – But is yours only 550m above sea level?

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Windows 8 is just around the corner. And there are already discussions about
why to change and why not. Let’s have a quick peek on the new OS that will hit
stores tomorrow: Internet Explorer 10, DirectX 12, Tiles, Gestures, support
for touchscreens and tablets, the lack of the Aero surface…

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The iPhone 5 is just out for a month and now the first problems are already
reported. Scratched aluminum-backsides, scratched and caved sideframes
and purple-balanced picture quality under certain circumstances are the
most mentionned problems so far. Grim outlooks for a 900$ product.

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AMD, always known for fast processors for small budget has again
launched a new set of processors for enthusiasts. The FX-8350
(Codename Vishera) is equipped with 8 cores which clock in at 4 GHz.
Using Turbo-Core feature, it scratches 4.2GHz easily.

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When it comes to Home Security, the USA is willing to take every step to
reduce any possible threat. As read here. Huawei was rejected when it came
to a public tender for network equipment dealing with the overseas
connections. Huawei offered the lowest prices, but the USA still refused.

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Mess with the best, die like the rest. In today’s case, this is what Google could
have said to the french government that has planned a fee for linking to
media sites containing multimedia and press content. France has just dis-
cussed such a fee as Germany already has set up plans for the government.

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When it comes to gaming, many people know Steam, a platform where you
can purchase and download games from. The advantage: You don’t have to
store  hundreds of discs somewhere in some shaft once you have installed a
game. The disadvantages: You need an online connection and there are risks.

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The times change, as it does in the internet (speeds, availability) and also TV.
While many cable service providers have a crypted basic cableTV service or
at least only viewable if you own hardware from the certain provider, here
in switzerland, the UPC cablecom is going to change things now.

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When thinking about GPU, one has only one thing in mind. When does the
next generation GPU come out and how will it outwit it’s predecessors?
According to some ideas of the EU, GPU classes determine how much power
they’re allowed to consume. There are seven classes of GPUs.

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As if the situation for Assange doesn’t look grim already, the activists called
Anonymous have turned their backs on him as Wikileaks has decided to
make some of the critical dossiers only accessible when interested users have
donated. Being annoyed by this, Anonymous officially declared their point.

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So… now again one year has passed and the next jubilee birthday is just 365
days away… sigh… well, gotta have to do the best of it. Thanks to all who sent
me SMS, WhatsApp Messages, Facebook posts etc. as bday greetings. I still
have no idea how to celebrate my jubilee anyways.

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It’s not much time now until the new SimCity (SimCity 5?) gets released.
This new video shows more and more how the new SimCity is played.
Looks very promising and I hope they’ll get it done until the currently
planned release date (February 2013).

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The smartphone is today as essential as the daily newspaper or the E-Mail.
Communication seems essential to most of us. The upcoming generation
doesn’t even hesitate to use the gadget on the toilet. A recent study now
has revealed what happens on the toilets nowadays.

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Windows 8, also known as “Metro” is about to launch in less than a month.
Time for some news portals to make a comparison of the pre-launch
acceptance. And according to that, it looks rather grim for Windows 8.
So what’s the actual acceptance factor of Windows 8 compared to Seven?

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An era ends. One can truly say that after 62 years of business. What once
happened to Quelle, now hit Neckermann. Neckermann started as a big
department store with mailorder service. You ordered it, they shipped it.
You paid it in rates and you could afford your even-so-expensive goodie.

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The search for the right codec to play back a video file is always a big
hassle. That’s where FFMPEG kicked in and is part of many codec packs.
Also as encoder, the FFMPEG codec library could be universally used.
However the decoder and demuxer have received more changes.

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When it comes to sharp displays,one thinks of Apple’s famous Retina display.
In fact, the Retina display has a pixel density of 326ppi. Sharp however has
now increased this already sensational pixel density and produced a 5 inch
display capable of FullHD resolution. That’s a whopping 443ppi.

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About 4 years ago, Bluray discs came into the stores and finally eradicated
it’s archrival HD-DVD. Meantime, there are also Recordables that allow you
to burn 25 or 50(dual-layer) GB of data onto them. Quite a lot of space for
Photos, Movies or the like if you use this medium for backup purposes.

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