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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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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Okay, you all know about FullHD. Nothing much to explain here. Quad FullHD
with a resolution of 3840×2160 pixels is about to come to us (also known as 4k)
BBC and NHK think, that Quad FullHD isn’t satisfying enough for the upcoming
London Olympic games in 2012. SHV (Super Hi-Vision) is the answer!

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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 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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Today I thought: Would it be possible to push the AI back into the utmost
edge field of a chessboard while maintaining 3 Queens and 8 Rooks?
Just for aesthetic reasons? I played almost 30 rounds to find out!
Mostly I ran into stalemate or checkmated it before my goal!

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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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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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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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Well… Christmas is in the Go and if you thought, They’re giving Apple a break
(or vice versa), then you’re definitely wrong. Samsung again tries to raise three
more lawsuits (in total 7 then) to even up with Apple, who claim 6 lawsuits
against Samsung at the moment. The patents are very trivial!

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In early 1940’s first attempts to create Stereo sound have
been made by Disney, the real stereo sound has been
attempted to broadcast in 1940’s too however with mediocre
success. The first really usable results came up in 1969.

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You all know these Cards you need to have in order to activate your cell phone.
While the first cards had a size of 85.6x54mm, as the phones of earlier times
were ridiculously big and heavy, modern smartphones happen to need smaller
and smaller cards. The current smallest factor is Micro-SIM.

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It seems to be a black day for Apple. The courts in Germany have decided that Apple
violates a patent of Motorola that deals with GPRS. Apple still seems to be calm yet
announced to take further actions against the verdict. Apple also doesn’t see it’s christmas
business endangered although Apple is currently not allowed to release new devices.

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It seems as if the german sister of the IFPI finally makes life easier for online music stores.
The new contract foresees that for each music title a fee of 6 to 9 cents will be payable.
Also customers may profit from this contract as the preview snippets may now be 90
seconds in length instead of 30 seconds.

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Samsung and Apple have reached a new agreement level. So Apple may sell
the iPhone 4S again in France while Samsung may sell the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in
Australia. It seems as if a long-lasting fight finally reaches an end. However
There are still some lawsuits pending… it stays interesting so far!

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It seems as ifAMD is near release of the new generation 7 Graphics cards cards
(Codename Southern Island). So it seems as if the cards are almost the same length as their
older sisters (AMD Radeon 6xxx). However the GPU will be manufactured in 28nm process
allowing higher speeds/clocks while still decreasing power consumption.

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Seems, Microsoft is trying to bring out a similar feature, called TellMe, as Apple
has with Siri. However the successful recognition rate is far behind Apple’s Siri.
Now you could impute pro-Apple advertisement to me but I don’t need to do
any way of commercial advertisement for apple or the like. A video shows, why!

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I am annoyed with all that password security stuff, OAuth crap and what’s all around with it!
Always some errors with any security-related stuff because they  change things here and
there. What’s the game anyways Why change a running system for god’s sake? I am going to
kick out every single plugin subject to any changes that render my blog unusable.

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The iPhone 4S hit’s the negative news again… Long waiting times, short battery
life… and now, annoying ticks and pops during some calls seem to add to the list
of bugs of Apple’s newest coup. It seems as if Apple has to deal with some real
nasty issues concerning design and technics of the iPhone 4S.

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The rumors start cooking again. Samsung is said to be shoing the new Galaxy S3 on the
Mobile World Congress in Spring 2012 and Apple seems to be finally working on the
iPhone 5. So what’s up? The Galaxy S3 shall come with a 1.5GHz quadcore processor
while the iPhone 5 is still only a visual concept with no further details.

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Today, Universal has filed lawsuit against Grooveshark, a music streaming service.
Universal claims rights to about 100.000 songs that are available in Grooveshark’s
song library making the lawsuit monetary value up to 100 million US dollars. Crazy stuff!
The reason for Universal trying to sue Grooveshark can’t be followed as Grooveshark

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WebP? PNG? These two acronyms areunfamiliar to you?
Well, this is mostly interesting for Web designers. WebP
promises higher compression rates than PNG. Unfortu-
nately WebP isn’t supported well by now.

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Today, Apple has got the patent on location-based information services. Using
GPS to locate the user and then providing him/her with the available infor-
mation available to that location seems to be a growing market. No wonder,
Apple wants to protect this kind of intellectual property…

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Today, Intel has shown a first mockup of the new Knights Corner processor.
The processor is not like other processors but rather to see as a co-processor
that shall assist exisiting XEON-Processors in multithreaded computing. With
50 and more cores on one die, each rated at 1 to 1.2 GHz, the co-processor…

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Today, Intel celebrates it’s 40th birthday. Exactly On November 15th, 1971,
the first Microprocessor with integrated circuitry has been publicly released.
With 2’300 transistors clocked at initially 108 kHz, later 0.7 MHz, the
processor was able to do 92’600 instructions per second.

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Seems as if Hacking and theft of sensitivedata is getting more and more an issue these days.
This time Valve got hacked and according to Valve, a possible access to the customers
credit card data also got possible. At current, Access to the steam network is not possible.
However Steam suggests that you check your credit card account balance regularly.

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This story describes how the webcam got invented. A small idea grown during
the question on how full a coffee machine’s can in a distant office room is.
Quentin Stafford-Fraser picked up the idea to remotely watch the coffee can by
a camera pointing to the coffee machine shooting a picture every 20 seconds.

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It ain’t a good day for Apple. Today, Charlie Miller has shown another exploit,
that could Apple bring some big problems. The reason: an unobtrusive stock
ticker app. The purpose (besides shoing stock tickers): Getting access to the
inner core applications and files of iDevices. No wonder, Apple striked back!

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