Nintendo has brought it’s new console on December last year, Microsoft and
Sony still wait to date until they reveal their new next-gen consoles. But the
date for Microsoft’s console seems to be known now and on May 21st, 2013 it
is probably shown to the public.

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It got quiet on the HDD market since Western Digital has shipped it’s first
2TB external pocklet Hard Drive (read my review). Now, Western Digital
is about to set a new mark and era in hard drives and their usability in
ultrabooks. An added SSD cache of 24GB helps seed up things a lot.

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Not only is Titan (a Cray XK7 machine with 17PFlops/s) the fastest
Supercomputer to date but soon it’ll have access to the fastest SAN
attached to it. With a net data speed of 1,4 TByte/s it can save a
private person’s video library faster then it needs for the click.

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While the gadgets from Apple still sell like fresh-made bread, it seems as if
the stock shares are being dropped like a hot potato. So has the share
value reached a new 2-year-low with “only” 389 US$ per share. Is this a
new trend of Apple? According to the plans to release another iPhone…

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According to some sources, it seems as if Microsoft has recognized that the
tiles surface isn’t everybody’s taste.  That’s true and there are many people
who avoid upgrading to Windows 8 for the very same reason. Even I do not
update to Windows 8 as I don’t like the tiles and the “flat” windows style.

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As it wouldn’t have been enough with all the bad news about webservices,
here’s another one for the saturday. It seems as if there’s a bib botnet sear-
ching for security holes in WordPress installations and using them as
zombie servers. The first thing is the brute force attack on the admin pass.

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My attention can be easily attracted, when it comes to interesting gadgets. In
this case, the japanese company Zoom has to offer an interesting tool that acts
as mobile dictaphone, microphone and can also be used as home microphone
attached to the computer. Time to get me one of these while price is reduced.

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As you can see, my blog is also using the Social Media Widget. However it’s
not version 4.0 which has been considered a SPAM machine. It is said to
add “Pay Day Loan”-SPAM by injecting third-party PHP code, which is
loaded from an external source. The fact that the programmer changed…

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It seems as if Samsung has trouble with almost every bigger company that
seals with electronics. Now it’s LG who has sent inspectors to the offices of
Samsung to search for patent violations. LG states that it is a bit odd that
Samsung is releasing big-size OLEDs nearly at the same time as LG does.

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Usually, WLAN is mostly used for connecting end user devices to an
existing WLAN. But what if you have two rooms in your home and do not
want to lay cables in order to connect them. This is where WLAN bridges
or Network distribution kicks in.

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With iOS6, the UI hasn’t changed much. many bugfixes have been made,
some new features have been added. But with the release of the iPhone 5,
the resolution of the screen has changed but the iOS ap hasn’t. So some users
took their ideas together and made an impressive video.

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Facebook has planned to bring out an own smartphone which puts
facebook in the center of the smartphone apps and OS. However it seems as
if these plans were too expensive or too ambiguous and thus Facebook has
now officially stated to bring out a special App: Facebook Home.

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It seems as if there are some rogue divers around who want to take Africa
offline. The Egyptian coastguard has captured 3 divers who were about to
cut the underwater line connection. As the repair of such a cable is often
very complex and expensive, the avoidance of such incidents is crucial!

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Okay, so I have now purchased a new gadget and am trying it out right now. A
mobile companion is often used for quick sharing of information these days. As
my iPhone is rather small for ergonomic typing, I decided to go biggie and here
we are with the new iPad 4 LTE which is supposed to compete with today’s tech.

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So there we have it. The new SimCity didn’t have a lucky start. Time for EA to act
and give all loyal buyers a free game for the initial problems, SimCity was prone
to. Okay, the mail from EA tells it is very easy to claim the free game. Just log in
to origin, launch the “Featured tab” and grab the desired free game.

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So iOS 6.1.3 is out for a couple of days and many users have cheered that
the security flaw where you could bypass the lockscreen was fixed. But
now there’s another security flaw which allows access to the iPhone and
it’s contacts and photos. However it ain’t as simple as with the old iOS.

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It is now over a month since the security leak is known that allows thieves
On March 6th, 6.1.2 has been released but not adressing the issue yet. Now
iOS 6.1.3 shall do, what two other releases haven’t done yet. Stop access to
sensitive data without having to deal with the device code.

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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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Well… nowadays, servers don’t produce as much heat as their older
pendants which had to be cooled using water. Yet the Microsoft data
center in Ireland hat to stutter when the air flow has shut down for an
unknown reason with a firware update recently successful applied.

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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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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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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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New computers are often a bliss. Sometimes it can be just annoying. While
upgrading my computer, I had to install some software from scratch as
important device drivers were just broken. One of the more annoying ones
are these from VIA. Had to manually delete them later as the setup failed.

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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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Seems as if not only Apple has the trouble when it comes to delivery flaws upon
the release of new hardware. The Surface Pro tablet is also among these gadgets
which are highly demanded but where the manufacturer cannot deliver the item
in time. So it’s simply waiting time for those who want to have a Surface Pro.

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