In this world the sun had not yet seen (VIDEO)

April 22, 2010 – 10:14 pm
a time in space was launched Solar Dynamics Observatory (Solar Dynamics Observatory, SDO), whose main objective is to study the internal structure of the Sun, its UV activity, as well as producing high quality photographic luminaries. Three months after the start of the project, scientists have finally released the first images obtained with SDO, said 3Dnews. So the sun the world has never seen. According to the plan, Observatory Solar Dynamics will document the processes taking place in the sun for five years. The researchers intend to obtain answers to many questions concerning, in particular, the influence of solar activity on the planet. At the moment SDO allows to obtain images of the solar disk with a resolution in 10 times the resolution of HD-camera. This gives astronomers the ability to capture "objects", whether changes in ...

McAfee Antivirus causing crashes in Windows XP

April 22, 2010 – 10:00 pm
Quite popular antivirus software, produced by California-based McAfee, could become a major headache for users. In any case, according to online media, this anti-virus causes disruption and repeated restarts of tens of thousands of computers running Windows XP. blamed it became defective update anti-virus, McAfee has recently released which actually makes Windows computers vulnerable to malicious programs. This update was available to corporate clients for about four hours, after which its distribution was discontinued, said Ferra.ru. The extent of risk were large enough. For example, the medical school at the University of Michigan reported crashes, occurred in 8000 from 25 000 of its computers. But the police in the town of Lexington, Ky., was forced as a precautionary measure to disable the computer terminals in their patrol cars and switch to hand-written reports. Additionally, some prisons ...

Phones displace Cameras

April 22, 2010 – 9:56 pm
Head of Sales Nokia, Anssi Vanyoki (Anssi Vanjoki), announced yesterday, April 20, that the rapid development of technology for camera phones will allow these devices in the near future, supplant not only the SLR (single lens reflex cameras), but even professional cameras , reported ITC.ua. Distribution smartphones with high-quality optical systems have enabled them to compete with conventional handheld digital cameras and will soon move to a new level. Also, Nokia spokeswoman promised that in the next 12 months will be available the ability to record video on phones to HD-quality. The recorded material can be broadcast directly to the HD-TV or other reproducer. Had in mind Anssi Vanyoki any particular design or Nokia believes that the progress of technology will improve camera phones to the level of professional cameras, is unknown.

The new Google Places (VIDEO)

April 22, 2010 – 9:42 pm
Supplement Place Pages for Google Maps were presented in September 2009 and made it possible to obtain detailed information about any location on the map Google. Different companies with Local Business Center to verify and refine the information about their institutions (timetable, the proposed products, photos of buildings, etc.), as well as get in touch with customers. The new Google Places will offer all the same features, but easier to work with them to the company, said ITC.ua. Google also unveiled several new features: * Service area (Service area) allows you to specify on the map areas where operates on-site customer support at home or office. * Business photo shoots will be placed not only their own internal and external photos of the building, but also leave a request to receive free ...

Solved characteristics handsets from Microsoft

April 22, 2010 – 9:28 pm
12 April, Microsoft announced two mobile device with a QWERTY-keyboard - Kin One and Kin Two. No official press release, or at the micro-site detailed characteristics Kin no. Space filled German Page Windows Phone on Facebook. Kin One - portrait slider. In the main characteristics appear: 2,6-inch TFT-screen with a resolution of 320 x 240 pixels (capacitive), 4 GB of flash memory, 5-megapixel camera with autofocus and dual LED-flash, 256 MB RAM, Bluetooth 2.1 with profile A2DP, USB 2.0, Wi-Fi b / g, GPS, FM-radio, position sensors and the battery capacity of 1240 mAh. Kin Two - Landscape slider with 3.4 "capacitive touchscreen with a resolution of 480 x 320 pixels, 8-megapixel camera with HD-video recording and flash Lumi LED, 8 GB internal memory, 256 MB RAM, Bluetooth 2.1, Wi-Fi b / g, GPS, FM-radio, an accelerometer. Battery capacity is ...

Germany leads on Internet Crime

April 21, 2010 – 10:42 pm
Germany ranked first in Europe to spread malware, according to Deutsche Welle referring to the annual report of the corporation Symantec, specializing in the development of anti-virus software. According to the report, in 2009 12 percent of viral programs in the European segment of the Internet have been launched from German computers. For this indicator, Germany overtook the UK, the runner-up (9 percent) and Russia (8 percent). Germany also won first place for the dissemination of so-called bot networks of dozens of infected computers, which are used by hackers. Experts note that Symantec, the German share of computers in bot-nets is 14 percent. In total, as noted by DW-WORLD, in the ten largest bot networks involving at least five million infected computers, 85 percent of spam sent to it through botnets.

On the creation of a flying machine Americans spend $43 million

April 21, 2010 – 10:28 pm
The U.S. military agency DARPA serious interest in the project of flying machines. It has announced a competition to create a similar model, which was called Transformer X. Currently, the world already has a flying machine - Terrafugia Transition, however, the characteristics it does not quite meet the requirements of DARPA, said Zhelezyaka. machine Transformer X would have a maximum capacity of 450 kg, carry 4 passengers and ammunition. In addition, the car must be able to fly in the automatic mode at a height of 300 meters of one full tank would be enough to drive 400 kilometers. Also flying car must be different high cross. How to plan a military agency, Transformer X should be ready for testing by 2015. The development of machine DARPA ready to spend $43 million.

HP told about his first smartbuk

April 21, 2010 – 10:14 pm
Hewlett-Packard Company disclosed specifications smartbuka Compaq Airlife 100, the first details of which appeared in January. As expected, based mini-computer hardware platform is put Qualcomm Snapdragon, including processor QSD8250 with a frequency of 1 GHz. The amount of built-in flash memory is the same - 512 MB, in addition, the device is on-board solid-state drive capacity of 16 GB. touchscreen smartbuka performed on resistive technology, has a diagonal 10.1-inch 1024 × 600 pixels. The strange thing is that the screen has a 16-bit (about 65 thousand colors), but not 24-bit (16 million colors) color depth. In the arsenal of Compaq Airlife 100 & mdash Web Camera with 0.3 Megapixels, controller, wireless Wi-Fi and 3G module for connecting to mobile networks. The battery can support the work of the device in offline mode up to 12 hours. ...

Yahoo! Doubled its quarterly profit

April 21, 2010 – 10:00 pm
Internet Corporation Yahoo! reported on the results of the first quarter of 2010. For the first time in 18 months the company has shown even if a minor, but revenue growth: it income for the first quarter totaled $1.60 billion, or 1% higher on the result for the same period of 2009, when Yahoo! received $1.58 billion of revenue. Net profit more than doubled. From January to March, Yahoo! Earned $310.2 million, equivalent to 22 cents in diluted earnings per share. For comparison: a year earlier profit was $117.6 million, or 8 cents on the valuable paper, said Kompyulenta. Executive Director Yahoo! Carol Bartz said the stabilization of the share of the search market and improvement in the advertising field. During the past quarter, the company received $78 million payment from Microsoft, that was the result ...

Built by the printer to print houses and sculptures

April 21, 2010 – 9:56 pm
Italian Enrico Dini (Enrico Dini), who heads the company Monolite UK, has developed a huge three-dimensional printer D-Shape, which can produce large-scale constructions, spraying thin layers of sand and firmly fastened together by a binder based on magnesium, wrote RBC daily . The developer claims that the D-Shape is designed to print ... buildings. The printer will build a house four times faster than is usually the case, as well as halving the cost of construction. The design is printed in the space. The printer head moves along the horizontal beams and print each new layer is raised to 5-10 mm. Managed D-Shape computer with installed software CAD. Printing is carried out with a resolution of 25 dpi. The material that resembles marble, it is harder than concrete and does not require reinforcement. The printing process ...