Still having pics online on facebook you’d better not have posted? Deleting
them now is no option either for quick vanishing. As Ars Technica has found
out now, the pictures will still last for three more years until they get deleted.
Facebook has already admitted that theyir system is “fairly” slow in this.

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Just on February 1st it seems that facebook is planning their enlisting at the
NYSE. According to the 2011 financial report, the company has made $1
billion profit, according to 2010 of $606 million and $229 million in 2009.
The stocks shall fork in another $5 billion dollars for invests in facebook.

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It seems that the winter finally wants to show teeth to us. Has the January been too warm
(approx. 4 degrees over the average meridian), so are temperatures rarely breaking the
-10 degrees barrier in the upcoming days. Metereologists say it isn’t too uncommon for
February to be that cold, however it is uncommon after such a warm January.

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There are things that cannot correlate with each other. And in the internet your words can
always be read by people you’d better not wanna face. In this case a young couple from
UK has used twitter to fork out some black humor and celebrate their holidays by
“destroying” the USA and “exhuming” Madonna. Their holidays wne into a horror trip!

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It seems as if Nintendo plans an own Online store for the WiiU. This way, Nintendo follows
the steps of Microsoft and Sony. Talking about the XBox. The new XBox 720 should be more
powerful (30 times) as the XBox 360 and 6 times more powerful as the WiiU. However
the sale of used games will be prohibited so that your game is tied to your console.

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It seems, the economy rating won’t ever come to a silence andrest. This time, the US
rating agency Fitch has lowered the ratings for Spain, Italy, Cyprus, Belgium and Slovenia.
Cyprus has been hit very hard as they have BBB- which means that they’re only one rating
step away from junk rating. Although these news being published, the Euro didn’t loose.

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…how ironic to see that again a man got confined for a rather harmless
crime (DWI). The man got incarcerated into isolation confinement and
was not allowed to consult an attorney at law nor a doctor. Even worse:
He was not even allowed to take his depression-easing medicine.

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On the ISE 2012 in Amsterdam, Benq will show its brand new laser beamers. With its
revolutionary BlueCore Light Engine, the beamers will have a common durability of
20’000 hours and a light output of approximately 2000 ANSI Lumen. Thus being
able to be used in daylight environment. A contrast of 80’000:1 sounds good too!

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What seems almost impossible to believe, has happened now. AMD has been
involved into trademark violation. Arctic Switzerland AG has claimed rights
to the trademark “Fusion” for their likewise-named power supply series. As
AMD has not shown reaction to Arctic’s concerns, lawsuits have been filed.

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After a big uproar about PIPA worldwide, the US Senate has set out the ballot for the
PIPA law that would have led the internet into more and more censoring than now.
The most actual case of protest has come from the english Wikipedia, who has blacked
out it’s site for 24 hours between Wednesday and Thursday. With success ans you see now!

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Today, Megaupload has been officially reported to be busted by the FBI as MPAA, RIAA
and mayor labels have claimed for big losses due to copyright violations, Megaupload has
probably done. Several persons have been taken into custody for further audition.
According to the lawsuit, the media industry claims for $500 million.

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The traditional photo film maker and pioneer in the film industry has finally
filed for insolvency. With the 9th negative fiscal quarter, all financial reserves
have been used up. Promoted sales of patents do different companies have not
been as successful as hoped. Kodak however tries to still keep up business.

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According to the blog entry from yesterday (read here), Wikipedia has indeed
put Wikipedia into blackout. Where you would usually see the main page of
Wikipedia, there’s now a black page criticizing the new legislation about SOPA
copyright and the attempt to put the free internet “behind bars”.

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How do these words relate, you ask? Well… it sems as if the mayor members of
the  Copyright Association have finally decided to push thorugh the SOPA.
SOPA stands for Stop Online Piracy Act and in this Act, there are several points
to censor the internet in many ways. Not only in the USA but worldwide!

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As time goes by, even transportation advances. Faster, bigger, more luxurious.
That’s what the transportation is aiming for. The Costa Concordia, that has hit gound at
Giglio island, is one of the most modern luxury liners that have been built. Nearly one
billion dollars expensive, that ship was able to hold 6000 passengers and 2000 crewmen.

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It’s been awited for so long and the rumors start to roll around. the iPad 3 is,
besides the iPhone 5 one of the items, Apple fans are waiting for. Rumors
spread that in March, Apple could release the new iPad 3. A product show
is awaited for February 24th, the birthday of Steve Jobs.

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The CES has opened their doors in las Vegas some days ago and interesting
items have already been shown. So has Victorinox, manufacturer of the
legendary swiss army knife, shown a prototype of a 1TB-USB-Knife.
HP shows it’s Envy 14, a 14-inch-size Ultrabook, Huawei a 6.2mm thin phone.

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The weather in Switzerland could not be more different. While
villages in higher regions are almost cut off from the rest of the
country due to heavily snow-blocked roads, in other regions a
storm called “Andrea” brought rain and heavy winds.

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A team of engineers at the University of Illinois has developed a self-healing system that
restores electrical conductivity to a cracked circuit in seconds. Led by aerospace
engineering professor Scott White and materials science and engineering professor Nancy
Sottos, the researchers published their results in the journal Advanced Materials.

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The CES is just a few days ahead, but Broadcom already announced to release
WiFi-chips that are compatible to the all-new 802.11ac standard. So what does
that mean to you as customer? The first thing is that the fastest WLAN-routers
and dongles can handle 450 Mbit/s at most which means 50-80 Mbit in real.

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It seems as if LG wants to bring new excitement into homecineasts’ homes
At least the newest addition of LG will let the hearts of many of us beat faster:
With a diamenter of 55 inches, a thicknes of only 4mm and a weight of about
15lbs (7.5 kg) the TV sets new records.

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It seems as if the new southern island GPUs are right on track when you read first reviews
about them. My favourite GPU test site Guru3D has checked on these and even managed
to do a Crossfîre scaling test with the new 7970 GPU. The results are promising and it
seems that the power consumption has been held in place or even dropped a little.

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After a real fancy night out. I am back to the business and keep this place busy as always.
Hope you all have enjoyed New Year’s Eve and slipped into 2012 without any problems.
My “night” ended at 06:30 and gave me the chance to get home with the public
transportation service and not by taxi (which is awfully expensive in Switzerland!)

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The Ninth Circuit Court for Appeals in the USA has put down a lawsuit of many private
persons who have filed for a lawsuit against Cell network carriers who allow the NSA to
tap the line of customers without prior notice and without a definite suspected case.
It seems, the NSA still holds tight to their right to spy on innocent people!

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It seems the popular WPS technology has another set-back to deal with! While
the setup of WPA-based encryption is safe in most scenarios, the handling with the
long security keys can be a real hassle. That’s why the WiFi consortium brought out
WPS which lets one set up WiFi-Connections by simply pairing a device with a code.

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It seems as if the next-gen CPUs of Intel will be lithographed in 22nm structure size. Also
a new technology, called tri-gate transistors will be introduced. Instead of flat transistors
new three-dimensional gates will be used instead. With this technology, smaller structures
annd more transistor switches per mm² Die area are possible.

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So… Apple again. Rumors say that the new iPad 3 will be presented on February 24th, as
it is the birthday of Steve Jobs who passed away this year on October 5th. What’s most
interesting, is that there are also plans for a small form-factor iPad with a 7inch screen.
It’s probably only a rumor but hey, other companies have all sizes in their portfolio!

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And with it I am signing off for a quiet 4 days with my beloved ones! So whenever you
comment on something or your registration needs to be unlocked, you have to wait till
December 27th.
Until then enjoy the quiet time. You will read prepared posts in the upcoming days!

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It seems as if also my blog cannot be spared form plugin issues.In this case it was the newest
release of FancyBox for WordPress which is, in my opinion, a cool plugin to pep up the blog
especially when using lots of images in a post or page. So what did I do to get the newest
version to work properly. The author posted a tweet asking everyone to default the settings,

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So for all of you winter-loving people, here comes the new ultimate iPad!
Although it is not the way, most people have expected the new iPad that is sort
of overdue, the concept and design are by far superior to the classic models that
are currently out. Imagine what crazy stuff you can do with that thingy!

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As I have written just this saturday, today the stock papers of Zynga had to proove theirselves
on the market today. And the start wasn’t that good! Actually, Zynga is at 9 dollar per share.
Their deepest dip was at 8.8 dollar per share and thus 6% less than the opening value!
Okay, the NASDAQ didn’t have a good start either but it seems there’s some doubt around!

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As of today, it seems, as if AMD is trying to bring you the new graphics chips earlier then
planned. So are the 77xx series for entry-High-Level gaming. Their chip called ” Cape Verde”,
the 78xx series “Pitcairn” adress High-performance gamers and the flagship, 79xx series
“Tahiti” are dedicated to the enthusiast users. AMD plans to bring them cards out for x-mas!

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