The Pirate Bay: links blocked on Windows Live Messenger

It is no longer possible to share links The Pirate Bay via Windows Live Messenger, Microsoft filtering the Swedish field...

After Google has removed from its suggestions of research references to several illegal download services, including The Pirate Bay, this time it is the turn of Microsoft to apply censorship of the same type. Indeed, it is possible to send, via Windows Live Messenger, Internet links pointing to a page in the pirate field (http://thepiratebay.se).

Even when trying to send the link of a page The Pirate Bay for a free file, the instant messaging client returns an error message and indicates the message could not be issued. For the moment, only The Pirate Bay links are concerned, and those pointing to the pages of the many other similar aggregators are spared. For example can still exchange links TorrentReactor, IsoHunt and BTJunkie no problem via Windows Live Messenger.

The Pirate Bay continues (in the image of MegaUpload) to focus the efforts of major groups Internet anti-piracy strategies, visibly overwhelmed by the multitude of alternatives that exist in the major portals giving access to illegal files... What do not complain users who adapt easily. Moreover, speaking of circumvention, simply go through a service of URL shortcuts to avoid blocking The Pirate Bay by Windows Live Messenger links. Remains to be seen if Microsoft will also censor The Pirate Bay links on its Bing search engine.

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Play in the Google bar

By integrating a "Play" button in the navigation bar, Google boosts the visibility of its online store, including Android applications.

It's been a few weeks that Google decided to draw a line on the Android Market to rebrand the Google Play online store (and enjoy to there to the United States offers Google Music, Movies Google and Google Books). For a few hours, a Play tab is accessible directly from the home page of Google via the top navigation bar, with the "new" mention that attracts attention. A way for the giant to provide greater visibility to its store of terminals Android applications. It was a new pan of the Google ecosystem that is put in value - even be accused of promoting its own services - alongside YouTube or Gmail. A step of major promotion for Android...

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NVIDIA: the CEO sends a mail of congratulations to Kepler

A congratulations email that ended three years of development for this new architecture Kepler...

The manufacture of a microprocessor or a new architecture for graphics cards is not simple. This takes time. Design, development, testing and validation to finish production itself can take several years, between three to five years depending on the complexity.

A view in the long term with intense competition greatly increases the risk of failure. Even with this amount of work accomplished, it may happen that in the end, it does not terminate on a success. The examples are numerous in CPU and GPU over these last ten years.

With the arrival of the Kepler architecture designed by NVIDIA, as at 28 nm lithography, the firm to the Chameleon arrives, with the sale of the GeForce GTX 680 that we spent on our test bench at the end of a long cycle of development. And for the CEO Jen-Hsun Huang, it is a success, so he held to congratulate all employees for this success in an e-mail. The following are translated below into French...

-Original Message-

From: Jensen H Huang
Envoy: Thursday March 22, 2012 9: 48 AM
A: employees
Topic: Kepler rising

Today, the first - GTX 680 - Kepler is available everywhere in the world!

Three years for manufacturing. The effort of thousands of engineers. A single vision - making a revolutionary GPU and make a giant leap in terms of performance and efficiency.

Achieving this level of performance and efficiency, while consuming less energy, required to fully review our approach to design. A very close collaboration between architectures, design, VLSI, software, developers and systems teams, intense audits energy losses, and finds at each level where this was necessary were necessary. The results are fantastic as you'll see in the tests.

Kepler has also cultivated a passion for craft - nothing is lost, everything has been implemented with care - with aims to create an exquisite product that works well. Continue raising the bar and establish extraordinary skills as a mark for our company.

Today is only the beginning of Kepler. For its energy-efficient architecture, we will extend the GPU to the data-centers, bezels portable computers, the superphones. Not to mention the joy and delight of millions of players across the world.

I would like to thank all those who gave their hearts and their souls to create Kepler. You have created something wonderful.

Congratulations to all

Jensen

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Broadcom: a chip to locate them all

Broadcom Announces New GNSS chip destined for smartphones, tablets or autonomous GPS (NDP) units, with location within the bonus...

Broadcom announces its new controller multi-constellations for the reception of signals from several positioning systems satellite, grouped under the acronym for Global Navigation Satellite System GNSS.

This new chip is the number BCM4752 and supports the US system GPS, but also its Russian declination GLONASS or QZSS Japanese system. To improve the accuracy of the positioning signal, Broadcom adds to its smart SBAS (Satellite-Based Augmentation System) system that encompasses several standards of correction of the positioning as WAAS to the United States or to the EGNOS for Europe.

In addition to the support of these many satellite positioning systems, Broadcom provides that navigation assisted its chip will allow a faster first acquisition point positioning in said "cold" startup or detection of tunnels even faster for a follow-up of ultra navigation States, not to mention the problem of positioning in the city (called also problem of the canyon urban because of large buildings that frame the) (Street).

The use of GNSS also provides a location within buildings using nearly 59 satellites that orbit our planet. Without however that it works in all types of buildings.

Position of different satellites and the International Space Station: credit Photo Wikipedia

In addition, Broadcom worked on a mode ultra-basse consumption for a location in real time or at regular intervals for the "geofencing" used for alerts or the configuration of the mobile with its location. For example a passage in vibrator mode and display of appointments at the arrival to the Office or display a reminder from the Office or automatically turn on WiFi and enter mode ringtone in coming home.

This new BCM4752 chip also passes to 40 nm engraving, which could, according to the manufacturer, reduce the consumption of the order of 50% and size for better integration in mobile terminals in addition in most. Production of this chip should intervene at the earliest with test versions already sent to partners of the constructor.

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The tax authorities will pay 20 million to Microsoft France, with interest

Microsoft won a trial against French tax and should be reimbursed of EUR 20 million for relief for the 1999-2001 period, not to mention 4 million of interest.

The Administrative Tribunal of Versailles has given reason to Microsoft France in the trial against the tax authorities. Indeed, tax services will have to reimburse Microsoft 20 million for relief to the company for the period 1999-2001. The Express, reported information, adds that the tax authorities must also pay 4 million euros of interest to Microsoft France according to this judgment.

Also, the appeal of the Ministry of the Budget was dismissed on February 16. As a last resort, the Department could decide to enter the Council of State to challenge this decision. But Microsoft is also within two other controls of the tax authorities. One first on the 2002-2004 period for which the administration claimed the company relief of€ 1.2 million. And a second for the years 2007-2009 for which we have no more information.

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ASUS is preparing its new range Ultrabook Ivy Bridge

The refresh of the UX31 and UX21 of ASUS to unveil but should not see the day before the month of May...

According to our colleagues from The Verge, Asus is about to announce its new line of Ultrabook. To replace the Zenbook UX31 and UX21, the constructor will proceed to their refreshments under the names UX31A and UX21A. On the options, a matte screen - finally! -for a definition of 1920 x 1080 in IPS for two 13.3 declinations and 11.6 inches. In the case of the choice of a brilliant classic LCD display, resolution is 1600 x 900 for the UX31A and 1366 x 768 for the UX21A.

Propose ultra fine machines, to processors with the least possible heat. Asus will therefore take advantage of the new Intel Ivy Bridge, ULV processors which have a thermal envelope of 17 Watts only. According to our colleagues, the manufacturer might choose three references to its Ultrabook:

Core i7-3517U, dual-core, four threads, cache 4 MB L3, 3 GHz max Turbo BoostCore i5-3317U, dual-core, 4 threads, 3 MB L3 cache, 2. GHz max Turbo BoostCore i3-3217U, dual-core, 4 threads, 3 MB L3 cache, 1. 8 GHz (Turbo Boost pas)

Choice, 2 or 4 GB of DDR3L 1.35 Volts at 1600 MHz, bars that unfortunately will be welded to the motherboards removing all possibilities to update his laptop computer in the future. It is not mention next graphics card NVIDIA Kepler because Asus no use here that part GPU integrated Intel HD 4000 processor. DSS is of course present, several options will be available that can go up to 256 GB, Asus studying the possibility of a 512 GB flash disk.

On the interfaces available, there will be the Intel WiDi, WiFi b/g/n and also of Bluetooth in its version 4.0, a reader of card SDXC, two USB 3.0 ports and a micro-HDMI output. The keyboard will be back-lit and the keys will be reworked to be more robust and provide a deeper race. The specified autonomy would be seven hours for the 13.3 inch model and five hours for the model 11.6 inches. The design should not change as it is here to a refresh of the range, with the same thickness and the same weight for the two diagonals. The tariff is still not at the image of the recommendations of Intel, but remains close to the $ 1000 bar since the first model 11 "will be offered at $ 1050 and the model of 13" to $ 1100. Asus has not yet communicated on the date of availability, but we believe that they will be on sale only in may or even June if Intel is unable to follow the production and demand.

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End of the cut in the channel tunnel?

The Eurotunnel group team in antenna 2 G / 3 G to cover all of the channel tunnel.

Before the launch of the London Olympic Games, the channel tunnel to team to give the opportunity to its travellers to contact their mobile.

Currently 20 millions of travelers find themselves with an inoperative mobile the 53 km of tunnel. Just before the start of the Olympic Games, the Eurotunnel group will install a complete coverage in 2 G and 3 G. To achieve this, the Group has made the choice to take a standard of Alcatel-Lucent, GSM - R and the GSM - P, currently used for signaling and communication on the trains and stations, and up to 500 km/h. Our mobile that only support the standard GSM without these domain féroviaire, the OEM-specific extensions will provide the bridge between the two standards and thus continuity of service in the tunnel, even at high speed.

An investment of 14 million euros in total, which included a four year warranty parts and labor with the OEM, should become a reality by the commissioning of the antennas at the beginning of July.

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