As if the bentgate affair of Apple iPhone 6 (Plus) wasn’t already a shock for
the entire mobile phone business, Vivo tries to claim new records with their
recently announced Vivo 5S. Although no Vivo phone has hit the EMEA
market so far (and probably never will), the specs are just crazy.

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It seems as if Apple is ready to release the next technical gadgets on
their users. The last event was just month ago whereiPhone 6 and 6 Plus
had their debute while the “one more thing” was the Apple Watch. But
what has missed, was an iPad with Touch ID. Apple TV was also expected.

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Only eleven more days to go until Apple lifts the curtains and
shows us our possible new communication companions. But
not only the iPhone 6(L) is/are to be presented. New rumors
came up telling that Apple will also show the iWatch.

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A few months ago, I have read an article about LeGioN Meter, a USB
dongle that overrides the host recognition and thus allows USB devices
to drag the most power available. When visiting the Kickstarter page of
PLX devices, another gadget pulled my attention to it: LeGioN!

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September 9, 2014 could be another milestone for Apple. Not only
is the highly anticipated iPhone 6 to be shown then but also another
gadgets may be finally seen by the public. So what’s in this blog
entry for you? Let’s have a close look on some of Apple’s new things.

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Aereo, known as Online Stream Cloud service, allowed people
to watch TV shows via Cloud recording. Even timeshift was
possible which meant to advertisers loss of “customers” as
TV ads could easily be skipped by the touch of a button.

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With the release of Windows 8, the Sidebar and it’s gadgets have been
disabled as they see a huge security problem in them. Sure, they can grab
information about you, they can allow malicious code to infect your system
but they have good uses, too. Especially, when it comes to System-info!

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For some years, FullHD was the sufficient resolution  for many areas
of entertainment, be it PC gaming, TV or console gaming. the PC
community however has evolved faster than the others and soon
2560×1600 became state of the art, also called 3K.

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What you see left of this text is the actual size of a 128GB(!) microSDXC card on a
26″ screen which arrived today. with a size if 12x8x1mm this is the smallest
biggest memory card that can actually be used to expand a mobile phone’s
storage. Read the full review by triggering the “Continue Reading” button.

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According to several mobile news sites, Windows Phone is getting
a File Manager which is desired by many WP8.1 users. There are
indeed Alternatives in MS Appstore but why not have it on board
already? It seems as if the File Manager will be available soon.

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Firefox has released the new version of it’s browser. With Version 29 there
are a bunch of new things to look at: The Interface has been redesigned and
is now called “Australis”. Thus you’ll probably have noticed that the big
orange Firefox Menu button is now missing.

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And Toshiba shifts up the gear! It seems that speed is crucial even with
the smallest memory products. According to size and capacity, the
microSDXC memory chip still beats them all as SanDisk has recently
released it’s 128GB microSDXC card. So what’s new?

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Since the leak got public, every IT service provider is going crazy about
the heartbleed bug that is active with OpenSSL 1.0.1 to 1.0.1f. But what
exactly makes the heartbleed bug so dangerous? This website has com-
prehensive information available for those running OpenSSL.

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AMD fights back… and seems to be successful. While NVidia is currently
promoting it’s TITAN Z series GPU (2x Titan Black), AMD goes ahead with
a dual 295X GPU card. The tremendous heat dissipation of 500 watts is
managed by a pre-mounted watercooling solution from Asetek.

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Long time, the IT seems to have slept the winter over in order to feed
us with new data storage gadgets. Seagate has announced a 6TB drive,
SanDisk has announced it’s 128GB microSDXC and Hynix seems to
have built the first 128GB(!) DDR4 memory stripe.

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Noone would have believed the Nightly News that has hit lots of local
media and tech magazines. But it’s true and official: Facebook has
bought WhatsApp. A whopping $19 billion whereas of 4 billion have been
paid directly, has been forked out by Facebook to seal the deal.

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As usual I am in front row when new things have to be tested. In this case it’s
cablecom and their new internet packages. The bandwidth has been ordered
(250/15) and was instantly set up. Not more then one hour did I have to wait
to benefit from the new speed. The speedtest.net result speaks for itself…

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Here we go again, and it looks bad for Germany to process an Anti-Spy-Act
with the USA. Susan Rice has officially stated that the USA are NOT willing
to give a non-spying warranty in the future and thus create a precedence
case for other countries to demand such from the USA.

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Funny enough to see that it takes 2 minor releases ’til Microsoft recognizes
that you’d better not change a running system. While Windows 8 is a real
goalgetter on tablets and touchscreen notebooks, it cannot get ground on
stationary PCs and classic notebooks. Win7 makes it’s rounds there.

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It was time to upgrade my cell phone as the iPhone 4 was on it’s way to
complete the 4th year of service. Don’t get me wrong – the iPhone 4 is
still an outstanding device. But you notice that iOS7 is giving it serious
headache. Apps start sluggish and iOS7 drags power as hell.

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So… finally the US cartel authority has given green lights for Microsoft to
take over Nokia’s cellphone business. With a total sum of 3.6 billion US$
and additional 1.45 billion US$ for patents held by Nokia today, the deal
is also okay for the european cartel authority in Brussels.

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Some saw this acoming, many of the early MP3 adopter will miss it.
Winamp 5.666 will definitely(? be the last release of the legendary,
15 years-old media player that revolutionized MP3 playback on Win95,
Win98, Win2K and XP. With Vista/Seven VLC and MPC HC took place.

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Well For a very long time, TV sets were nothing more than an image
projector. Since TV sets nowadays have a computer built-in so they can
display entire online content and smart innovations like image
improvement, their abilities can reach far beyond your imagination…

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Once more it seems as if the end of HDD isn’t reached yet. Have we stated,
that Western Digital has brought out a 12.5mm HDD with 2TB capacity.
Now it seems as if Samsung (also part of HGST/WD now…) has managed
to squeeze 2 TB into a 9.5mm high HDD case which is just amazing.

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As the title suggests, this is all about the upcoming expansion of Diablo III.
More darkness, more spookiness, a new loot system, a new character class
and a new Act to play through promise some more excitement and longer
lasting difficulty steps.

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When “Providers” get fed up with customer-unfriendly methods of the NSA,
they start mocking up. In this case, Google has decided to lock out the NSA
from sniffing the communication between Google’s server farms. Google
announced to encrypt their traffic between the data centers.

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If it has ever been a concern to you if Nokia is outdoors capable, this story
might help you build a better opinion. So has a swedish man picked up a
Lumia 800 from the ground of a lake which resided 3 months down there.
Freeing it from mud and other dirt and let it dry has shown: It still works!

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I hate it when good game series get wasted because a gaming company,
let alone the biggest among them all, doesn’t have the financial outcome
it has prospected in advance. So what happened, you may ask? Well, as
of today, Electronic Arts has officially stated, that C&C and it’s studio…

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Nothing is more annoying than an update to a newer version of a software
part of your smartphone or tablet. I got me a Google Nexus 10 which
initially runs on Android 4.2.3. After setting up everything including the
Google Play Store, I got notified about Jelly Bean (Android 4.3).

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Nokia’s event is over, unveiling some new goodies in the way to us. Apple’s
event is just around the corner and at 7p.m MEST, we will witness Apple’s
new gadgets being unveiled. What’s coming on to us? Most likely the new
iPad 5, which is anticipated much and said to have Touch ID.

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Is this the last bunch of devices branded “Nokia”? – The currently finished
Live event has brought up six new devices for us to expect in the near
future. Beginning the sales in the USA, the EMEA will see most of them in
early 2014. So let’s have a close look, what’s coming on to us!

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Windows 8.1 is out. With it, the start button came back (although the function is
still doubtful as a single left click simply shows the tiles surface again. Sure the
update brought back some functions back to the user. Yet there are essentials
missing, Windows 7 users (like me) still want to have.

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