So the final word in one lawsuit against Samsunghas been spoken. While Apple
also has other fights against Samsung, the one about the Galaxy Tab 10.1 N is
now at an end in favor to Samsung. The german courthouse in Düsseldorf has
decided that the marginal changes of the design are sufficient.

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It seems that lawsuits in any part of our life will define the day in the future. In this case,
heise.de got sued by Megaupload for an article about Megaupload. To be more exact, this
phrase was the spark for the fire: “Megaupload pays uploaders of very popular files”. The
case has been closed now and Megaupload has to pay for all costs, the lawsuit has caused.

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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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So the weekend is almost gone again! Really sad to see three days to pass by so quickly.
It makes me feel kinda sad to leave my friends in Munich again and go back to the usual
workload week in Bern. But hey, no work, no effort, no money, honey! So best to put all
my energy into the next work week and do the best to visit my friends in Munich again.

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Well, apparently it seems that my iPhone won’t connect to ANY form of network right now,
so my updates will be online on sunday/monday. Sorry for that inconvenience. But hey,
this blog won’t be dead because of this. So what’s coming around today? Well… despite the
fact that this ghastly coldness also is present in Munich, I took the chance to shop a bit.

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This weekend I am going to Munich again and also see a good friend of mine who celebrates
his 30th birthday. Odd to see some frosting in a train car that is heated up to felt 25°C. Due
to the lack of a stable cell network and the repeated non-working status of the local cell
networks I’ll upload the pictures later on. Funny to see the snow blowing into the coach.

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Well, I must say, i love winter! As most as the other seasons! But what I really hate is
coldness below the magical -10 °C spot. The sibiric air stream that transports cold air to
most parts of Europe has made the thermometer to freeze in and and many facilities to
fail working properly. Amongst these are public transportation and other public services.

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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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In this case a young man tried to do some balancing act on a gym ball! Is
holding the balance on it a challenge for itself, he doubled the fun and tried
to to exactly this on a balance beam. If you can remember your times in
gym class, you may remember that balancing on these is hard enough.

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I really like impressive videos. This video is a timelapse series about Yosemite
Park. Nature “filmed” with a professional camera looks real beautiful and
moving, too! A young team has made effort to take the timelapse series and put
the pictures into a really nive video scenery. Watch for yourself and enjoy!

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What sounds near impossible to you, seems to have come true because of the endurance
of an amateur craftsman. His idea was to enhance a simple LED nightlight from Ikea with
a bluetooth controller and make it controllable with his android phone. Doesn’t work?
It sure does. And on his blog, you get the source code and instructions for your ideas!

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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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Usually I don’t do many reviews on gadgets and hardware. In this case I could not resist
to tell you about an item one could desperately need when the cell phone squeaks and
begging for power. You all know that crappy situation: You’re out for party etc. and you
want to show your friends some cool stuff. What happens? No more battery!

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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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Drinking beer is usually no art or challenge whatsoever. In this case, the guy
decides to sip down three bottles of beer in under 40 seconds. If you think,
that’s all, you’re wrong because as a special challenge, he doesn’t use his hands
to open the bottles or hold them while drinking.

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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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In this case, a concrete buffer has gone berzerk after someone has lost control
over the handle of the machine. The result looks spectacular, funny but also
dangerous. The problem is that such a concrete buffer is heavyweight and not
easily taken down when spinning around. They finally got it down anyways.

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This guy had a great idea how to automatize the flip of a newspaper page.
Just with the sip of his coffee mug, he starts off a big chain reaction and finally
the page is turned. Although I prefer a less destructive way for turing a page…
However the idea is nce and the video is nicely made. But watch for yourself.

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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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While in Goms, Switzerland the snow already stacks up to 2.5 metres, one
would think, it’s unbelievable. In Japan, however, the mountains and the ocean
weather streams allow much higher snow records. up to 15(!) metres the snow
may pile up there and the streets are still passable. You don’t believe it?

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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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