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In a short period of time HTC unveiled five Communicators: HTC Desire, Legend, HD mini, Smart and HTC EVO 4G. Models of Desire, EVO 4G and Legend are running Android, HD mini - under Windows Mobile, and the budget HTC Smart - under Brew Mobile Platform. All smart phones equipped with a proprietary interface HTC Sense. HTC Desire - the flagship Android-background of the company, he has touch AMOLED display with a resolution 480x800 pixels, performed on a capacitive technology. As the processor uses the current popular Snapdragon, runs at 1 GHz. Everything else is also at the flagship model HD2. Communicator HTC EVO 4G - this is the second device company, is designed to work in CDMA EV-DO and WiMAX networks, however, as MAX 4G, formally delivered it will be only one operator - namely, the American Sprint (although, I think, if desire to buy this device will be with us). In fact, it's a little edited HD 2: added HDMI-connector, RAM increased to 512 MB. In the apparatus used 8-megapixe...

Since March 25 in the mail to Gmail is a new feature that allows mailbox owners to detect suspicious activity related to your account as a gift. In particular, the user's screen will be displayed a banner with information about when and who had access to the mailbox. In addition, you will see some additional information about a person who had access. The system will display the IP-address, as well as inform, if on the same account as a gift in a short period of time is available with different IP-addresses. It will also record all important operations to account as a gift, for example, attempts to change the password, or unsolicited mass emails. Submit Footage Clips to Shutterstock and make $$$!

Apple has officially confirmed that the sale tablet iPad launch in the U.S. on April 3, Saturday. New products arrive all Apple sales centers in the U.S. (a total of 221), as well as most online stores Best Buy. In its press release issued on this event, Apple has once again reminded that the scope of the device is rather broad: it is surfing the web, work with e-mail, browsing and sharing photos, watching video (including HD quality) music, games and electronic books. Fuss about the new device is quite high. For example, for the first day of receiving pre-orders were made 120 thousand applications. Market observers say that the pre-sales activity of customers in this case even more than at the beginning of sales iPhone. On the eve of the company ChangeWave survey was conducted over 3 thousands of potential buyers, who showed that iPad significantly affect the market for electronic books, laptop and other electronics. The most interesting were the answers to the question, what feature...

Maybe for someone to be opening, but modern browsers can accept the URL is not only in the decimal system, but also in the 8-and 16-hexadecimal hexadecimal, and even a single 32-bit number. That is the type 66.102.13.19 URL can be represented in several different ways. 0x42.0x66.0x0d.0x63 0x42660d63 1113984355 00000102.00000146.00000015.00000143 Click on any of the options - and get on google.com. This technique has been known for a long time, but now about her seemed to have forgotten. Worst of all, forget about it, some manufacturers antivirus software that filters e-mail traffic for dangerous options. They block the link in its normal form, but passed 8-, 16- or 32-hex IP-address. The result is obvious: had already seen the banking Trojans, which reanimated these old math tricks. Submit Footage Clips to Shutterstock and make $$$!

Geneticists have completed the analysis of fossil DNA fragment of a finger, found in 2008 in Denisov cave in the Altai. The results were surprising, perhaps in the future will have to rewrite school textbooks of biology, and indeed to revise our views of human history. The fact that the DNA from the finger does not fit into any of the known species of hominids. It is not a homo sapiens, and not parallel branch Neanderthals with homo erectus. It turns out that only recently (30-48 thousand years ago), that is in the Stone Age, the planet lived not only homo sapiens with Neanderthals, but even some humanoids. Moreover, at least, in the Altai, they all lived together. Work with the genetic material carried out a joint team of scientists from different countries, including leytsipgskogo Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Max Planck (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology), Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Academy of Sciences, as well as U.S. academic institutions,...

The St. Petersburg FSB conducted an operation to arrest the attacker Victor Pleschuka, which is considered the organizer of one of the most daring burglaries in the history of the banking business. In 2008, he and accomplices broke into the billing system RBS World Pay (a processing unit of Royal Bank of Scotland), stole information about debit cards and have access to personal data of clients and banking systems, including ATM-processing and payroll card. Somehow they were able to implement even reverse engineering PIN-codes, reports Wired. November 8, 2008 almost simultaneously with 44 cloned salary cards were withdrawn about $9.5 million within 12 hours of action were involved in about 2100 ATMs in 280 cities, including Atlanta, Chicago, New York, Montreal, Moscow and Hong Kong. The operation of cashing involved hundreds of ordinary "cashier" (mules). The large amount of damage due to the fact that the hackers managed to advance to raise the limits on withdrawals on each c...

It seems that all the inhabitants of Russia, using counterfeit software, you can start slowly rusk and learn "thieves' slang for facilitating mutual understanding with the inhabitants of" places not so remote". Because, as demonstrated by news that came from our neighbors to the east last week to become a victim of demonstration killings "evil pirates" may literally every... Of course, while that for the most part those whom Russian police caught red-handed for using non-licensed software, receive suspended sentences or fines, but, presumably, is not far off when the practice of intimidating the courts will force users to send "pirates" in the colony . In the meantime, as reported last week, news sites, in Cheboksary for copyright infringement probation was a student of the 5th year student of accounting and applied informatics one of the Cheboksary universities provided at the announcement of "computer services", is installing counterfe...

Today, an unknown attacker infiltrated the computer network of the corporation "Horns and Hoofs. According to company representatives, the damage a hacker, is equal to two million kosmokreditov. Law enforcement authorities began investigating the incident. According to preliminary data, blames carelessness administrator and the operating system "Hinged Window-Pane for Ventilation" from the company Microdumb. Some titles such replete with computer and one click press the last two years. Hackers, all-powerful rulers of the Internet, do not leave the poor user to rest for a minute, and the only way not to fall victim to another attack - this is off the Internet. And no one thinks that under the latest "sensational" article is advertising an anti-virus laboratory. Old-timers should remember the year 2000 problem. Where not only the exaggerated rumors of imminent decline of the computer industry: the press, on television, the Internet. The predicted end did not come...

ComponentOne today announced a new version of a set of components for application development ComponentOne Studio Enterprise 2010. Now he is completely compatible with the development environment Microsoft Visual Studio 2010. GridView to display data in a predetermined layout, now supports asynchronous paging and sorting. Treeview for a tree-like presentation of evidence now supports drag and drop nodes. ReportViewer for ASP.NET AJAX enables you to quickly create interactive reports and embed them in applications using a variety of additional elements of visualization, including the new linear and radial indicators. DataGrid provide a maximum speed of response when loading and scrolling through large amounts of data. Significant changes were made and other popular control, including the RichTextBox, TreeView and Book. The manufacturer is especially emphasized the compatibility of a new set of components to platforms 3 and Silverlight Silverlight 4. The new version of Studio for WPF now...

Smart thinking by themselves in the head do not come" - with such a statement recently made by representatives of the University of Washington. During a series of tests the researchers managed to prove that the emergence of smart ideas in the mind of man will certainly contribute scratching his head. How to assure the researchers, the tests prove conclusively - fans scratching or even just a stroke back of the head during meditation eventually give out almost twice as many interesting ideas than those who have a habit of not affected. While U.S. researchers carried out their tests, intricate Japanese already hard at work on the mechanical helpers for the "thinkers". Last week, the University of Tokyo researchers presented a robot whose only purpose - to scratch his head his master during the thinking process. As founders foresaw, intelligent machine is worn directly on the cap and able to work offline. Very soon, the model will be put into mass production, so that in the...

It's no secret that recently the German authorities advised citizens to their country to renounce the use of Firefox. This is because of the vulnerability discovered in the browser through which attackers can easily infect a user's computer virus - it is enough just to go to the infected site. Built Mozilla Firefox quickly took action and released a new version of the browser - 3.6.2. Developers are being told that in this version of vulnerability eliminated. However, Mozilla interesting is the reaction to the actions of the German authorities. As stated by the representatives of developers, creators of the browser have been very unhappy and even offended by calling officials in Germany to stop using Firefox. According to Mozilla, such action does not contribute to the development of IT-business in the states of Germany. The company even threatened to and did leave the German market in the event that such repeated. Well, very good that at least some of the developers are not af...

A small U.S. company Air Guardian has successfully patented a gas mixture consisting of 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen 0.93% argon 0.038% carbon dioxide, as well as how it uses it for energy to mechanical and biological systems. According to the company in the near future it is going to require owed royalties for the use of proprietary gas mixture with the major airlines, transport operators and thermal power plants. In the future business plan Air Guardian provides for deductions from the automakers, as well as with any commercial organizations, in which the gas mixture can be used in public places. The third step is to receive contributions from individual users. It should be noted here that the company takes quite a liberal policy - the use of proprietary gas mixture in a personal non-commercial purposes will remain free. However, according to the representative of Air Guardian, "the use of counterfeit air in commercial activity is simply unacceptable, so the Association for the Prot...

The initiative group of European and American citizens on the leadership of activist Sarah Connor conducted its own investigation into the activities of the European Centre for Nuclear Research, CERN, and believes that this organization can be a danger to everyone on this planet. Recall that the last few years, the hype in the media and Internet about running the Large Hadron Collider LHC at CERN arose repeatedly. In the opinion of concerned members of the public launch of the most expensive and large-scale scientific instrument may pose a threat to the existence of mankind, because the accelerator can be suddenly created black holes or strange matter, one way or another capable of destroying the earth. The information that is going to publish Sarah Connor, but argues that these fears are likely unfounded. Moreover it is likely that these accusations were CERN through nominees put forward by the organization itself, to divert public attention from the true state of affairs. As is known...