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23Jul/100

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Key features provided by the general public of the product are able to receive notifications of new messages while working with other programs (push notifications), integrated microblogging service and phone book synchronization feature smartphone contact list messenger. Emphasis is placed on the developers ability to interact with the program Motionsensor G-Sensor automatically change the orientation of the display when you turn the device 90 degrees.
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Mobile Mail.Ru Agent is available for download in the store Apple Store (both directly from a mobile device or through iTunes) and on a special site magent.mail.ru. The company argued that the messenger is saving money: on average, for 1 ruble spent on payment of GPRS-traffic, you can send about two hundred messages to someone who is considerably cheaper than standard SMS.
Mobile Internet is rapidly gaining popularity in our country. If two years ago, every 12th message into the agent dispatched from portable devices, in the past year - is already out of every six. In the first six months of this year, the number of users of mobile version of Messenger has increased by 50% and reached almost 4 million people. Given the growing popularity of the platform iPhone, we plan to continue to actively develop mobile Mail.Ru agent for this smartphone, "- said Anna product release Artamonov, vice president of communication services Mail.Ru.

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23Jul/100

Nets 4G Troika wrote Putin

Until the end of July remained little more than a week, but despite the promise of the Minister of Communications and Mass Communications Igor Shchegoleva decide until August, the distribution of the 4G networks are still hanging in the air. Fearing that the 4G network will give no contest to the registered third in June 2010 the company "basis of Telecom, which seeks Defense Ministry, the operators of the" Troika "is on July 6, addressed to Igor Shchegolev, but" WHO, and still there. "
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In the past 15-July meeting of the State Commission for Radio Frequencies (SCRF), which is chaired by the Minister for Communications, the question of frequency distribution 4G was not discussed. However, it was reported that the issue of distribution has already been solved. According to one partner "Troika", the frequency of 2,3-2,4 GHz already "promised" "The basis of Telecom, and other range - 2,5-2,7 GHz will be given another newcomer - registered on June 1, of "Red-Telecom", for which there is, according to informed sources, the chairman of the board of directors of UST Gregory Byerozkin. Sam Byerozkin its involvement in the "Red-Telecom denies.
Wanting to prevent development in an undesirable direction, the leadership "troika", including the president of MTS Mikhail Shamolin, general director of VimpelCom Helen Shmatova and CEO of Megafon Sergei Soldatenkov, sent a letter to Vladimir Putin, who ask for help in bringing order to the distribution of frequencies .
Not agreeing with the impact frequency recruits that will either have to re-sell them, or to a substantial delay in the launch of 4G networks from having to build from scratch, the leaders of the MTS, Vimpelcom and Megafon asked Prime Minister to instruct the "additional work to develop clear and transparent approach to the allocation of state radio. "

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21Jul/100

Adobe demonstrated FlashTime video calls on Android

Adobe held an interesting demonstration of technology with defiant naming FlashTime for Google Android, which mimics Apple FaceTime. The project is designed for the upcoming on Android platform-independent environment for running applications, Flash-Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR).

Wednesday AIR 2.5, demonstrated at the Smartphone Nexus One, as developers claim, completely identical to the functionality of a desktop platform, Flash, and provides access to the Camera and microphone, allowing developers to create applications with support for video conferencing.
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Starting with version 10, table Adobe Flash Player lets you use Adobe Stratus service to transfer data directly from one client to another (technology P2P) using the UDP protocol with minimal server, whose task is merely the connection of users (such principle, for example , running Skype).
Now and mobile platforms will have this opportunity. This demonstrated Adobe. The demonstration FlashTime using Adobe Stratus servers were connected two smartphone Nexus One, running Android. As a result, users can communicate with the help of a video chat.
Dohirti Mark (Mark Doherty), promoter and developer of the Flash FlashTime notes that in general office work, but in this demonstration have been only basic functionality.
In recent months, Apple has made some steps to combat Adobe Flash. Thus, in devices iPad, iPod and iPhone, this technology seems to not appear ever. The main reason Steve Jobs (Steve Jobs) describes the instability and vulnerability of Flash on the desktop Mac, and high for mobile resource use.
Demonstration of technology FlashTime, clearly aimed at a confrontation with FaceTime, it seems, do not add heat in the relationship between Apple and Adobe. By the way, Adobe itself says that FlashTime - only the first to come to mind for developers called the demonstration. Adobe itself has no plans to release a product with a similar name. But you can be sure that third-party developers after the AIR for the Android operating system necessarily represent programs that use such features video calls.

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21Jul/100

“MegaFon” summed up the first results of the fight against mobile fraud

All-Russian mobile operator Megafon summarized the first results of a comprehensive program to combat wireless fraud.
According to information presented by the representative of the company for six months - from January to June 2010 - the department to combat fraud OJSC "MegaFon" was worked out about 44 thousand incidents, among which appears more than 2500 customer complaints on the use of premium-numbers for fraudulent purposes, as well as more than a dozen requests regulators. With the use of law enforcement agencies have been identified and blocked more than 200 fraudulent websites. Daily blocked about two dozen attackers used prefixes. It is reported that a comprehensive program to combat fraud in the first half resulted in the reduced four times the number of complaints about content providers coming into the company "MegaFon". Dynamics of incidents with premium-numbers decreased in half.
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The company notes that among the main areas of the program appear on tightening requirements for content providers, development and implementation of special services, informing customers about fraud schemes and how to protect and expeditious resolution of the claim appeals. In particular, in June 2010 MegaFon launches internet portal stopfraud.megafon.ru, devoted to practical advice on countering mobile fraudsters. The operator is actively using the technology of automatic awareness of the value of content on several short numbers - Advice of Charge (AoC). Also the company has established a free service "Service to the short number" (presented at the site of the Caucasian branch of OJSC "MegaFon"), which allows you to find out the cost of outgoing SMS to short numbers.

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15Jul/100

On Friday, Apple will tell about the future of iPhone 4

According to the blog All Things D publication The Wall Street, at the end of the week, Apple intends to host a campus in Cupertino press conference about the problems iPhone 4. No details about the upcoming event has not been revealed - the representative of Apple, Steve Douvling (Steve Dowling) just notified Wednesday evening, members of the media that on Friday July 16 at 10 am, will take place on the latest smartphone iPhone.
Apparently, there was no need to say that the problems with the reception signal from iPhone 4 aroused the shaft of criticism that befell the company from, both users and experts.
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Earlier this month the company finally acknowledgedthat the problem with the reception iPhone 4 still exists. Defect reception, according to Apple, was due to an incorrect reflection of your smartphone received signal strength caused by the erroneous pre-calculation algorithm of its level. To many, this explanation seemed convincing, but this scandal began to flare up after the publication of a report of imposing their authority magazine Consumer Reports, published by the American non-profit organization «Consumers Union» (Consumers Union), which recommended to refrain from buying iPhone 4. The same day, the cost of the company's shares fell 3.1% and experts talk about the possible revocation of their phones from retailers, costing the company about $ 1.5 billion remains to add that due to defects in 4 to iPhone, Apple has filed a court.
What will take in response to "Apple" company, headed by the most efficient CEO Steve Jobs planet, we'll know tomorrow. To pull a solution the company has no meaning, since according to the calculations of experts each week for postponing the decision to continue selling the smartphone will run into the future in an additional $ 200 million cost of damages.

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15Jul/100

G. Empire GeForce GTX 480 – the fastest single-chip graphics card

Since the announcement video NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 has been more than three months, but until recently, all submitted graphics cards based on GeForce GTX 480 were equipped with the reference cooling system with a few exceptions.
One of the pioneers in this area has become the company G. Empire, which announced its version of the GeForce GTX 480, equipped with a productive cooler Accelero Xtreme Plus. Talking about the effectiveness of such solutions is still early, but looking at the previous flagship model of cooling systems for video production of Arctic Cooling, it is hoped to reduce the operating temperatures of at least 10 degrees, although the manufacturer promises twice as much.
New product based on the circuit board of its own design using the design of tantalum capacitors and 8-phase power subsystem, which implies an increased overclocking potential and stable operation at high frequencies.
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Modified PCB and effective cooler allowed to increase the frequency to 801, 950 and 1601 MHz. The average increase compared to reference design models is 10% and is quite a good result, given the hot-tempered family video Fermi. For supplementary feeding on the map there are two 8-pin, which means that power consumption does not exceed 375 new items Tues
At this point card G. Empire GeForce GTX 480 is available in limited quantities for testing, but soon we plan and mass output devices on the market. The cost of new items remains a mystery.

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13Jul/100

RIAA against students. The judge reduced the penalty 10 times

About a year ago we wrote about the lawsuit that was filed by the American Association record companies (RIAA) against a student at Boston University Joel Tenenbaum (Joel Tenenbaum). The result of the then began proceedings prescription, which Tenenbaum had to pay the owners a fine of $ 675 thousand, ie by $ 22.5 thousand for each of the thirty illegally distributed them songs.
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Recently the case took a bizarre twist, after a federal judge Nancy Gaertner (Nancy Gertner) reduced the amount of fines tenfold - to $ 67,5 thousand, calling the previous amount of "nekonstitutsionalno excessive. In fact, even a fine for the 30 musical tracks, which Tenenbaum downloaded and distributed in the peer network Kazaa, appears to protect it too much. More than two thousand dollars for each piece - a high price, but the RIAA does not plan to surrender. "There is no doubt that even the reduced penalty is tough, even harsh," - added the judge. "It not only compensates for losses plaintiffs in a relatively small injury to Tenenbaum, but also sends a strong warning signal to all those who exploit P2P-network for illicit sharing content protected by copyright.
In response to an RIAA statement said only that "judges do not have the right in its sole discretion to change the amount of statutory damages and compensation in case of copyright infringement. Copyright law provides for compensation for damages in the amount of $ 750 to $ 150 000.
Apparently, Joe Tenenbaum and Jamie Thomas Russet, accused of distributing 24 tracks' worth at $ 1,920,000, will be those for whom the legislature will have to change the U.S. copyright law. In the end, Joe admitted his responsibility for his acts, but it still was not enough.

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13Jul/100

Unknown Americans claim to 84% on Facebook

Our next news concerns the social network Facebook, its founder and leader Mark Zuckerberg (Mark Zuckerberg), and a man named Paul Chelia (Paul D. Ceglia), who stated that he owns the rights to ... 84% of the assets of social networking. The judge handling the lawsuit, imposed a temporary ban on the operation of the transfer of assets Facebook.
The reason for such a loud statement Chelia considers a contract allegedly entered into with Mark Zuckerberg April 28, 2003. The document states that Chelia ordered Zuckerberg development and design of the site with the working title «The Face Book», for that Zuckerberg should get $ 1000, and Chelia - 50% of assets. In case of delay of the order Chelia share in the business would grow by 1% for each day of delay, starting from January 1, 2004. This claim is based on the date of February 4, 2004, when the contract allegedly gave the right to dispose of 84% Chelia sotsseti. Recall that this date is considered the official starting day of the work site Facebook.
Interestingly, none of the parties - not Chelia nor Zuckerberg - the situation would not comment. However, the spokesman for Facebook said that "action is very frivolous, and we will vigorously fight in court." This leads to a reasonable question, why "resolutely fight" with "frivolous lawsuit"? We hope that the answer will be known shortly.
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In addition, lawyers comment on the matter, reporting that the contract is highly unusual, because it indicates that he must get Zuckerberg, except for the infamous $ 1000. It also reported that in New York State statute of limitations of such cases is 6 years old, that is Chelia late for half a year.
Recall that in the current state of social network Facebook is the largest in the world, bringing together more than 500 million users and continues to increase the number of subscribers. Just over two years ago, Microsoft, gaining 1.6% stake in Facebook, paid for them $ 240 million is easy to calculate on a "bonus" expects Chelia if it wins in court, although such a scenario is very unlikely: Paul Chelia known only by the fact that 2009 collected from their compatriots about $ 200 thousand, promising to establish a supply of pellets, and so do not put ...

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1Jul/100

“Gogul” 1.1 – new version of Child browser

New version of Child Browser Gogul. This - the first browser in Russian, aimed at children and adolescents. Service, developed by New Generation ", is an" abridged version "of the Internet, where children can travel freely, without giving parents cause for concern about the content of visited pages.
The project includes more than one thousand Russian-language sites, more than half a million pictures and videos on various topics: from culture and science to comics and online games. This selection of resources, photos and video materials, "admitted" to "Gogul", specially created team consisting of parents, professional child psychologists and educators from various regions of Russia.
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To access the service using addition for Firefox. In addition, children's browser "Gogul has extensive customization capabilities and allows, in particular, schedule access - that is pre-programmed time limit for users of Internet child per day. Also, if desired, parents can get a detailed report on what sites visited by their children, and add or remove sites from the list available to browse.
The latest version of the browser is available in two versions: a free basic and premium paid, providing users with additional opportunities. Premium mode with new additional features will be available from June 30 to 10 days for all users Gogulya. The cost of using Premium will be from 79 rubles a month. For schools, preschools and other educational institutions Premium accounts will be provided free of charge.

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1Jul/100

In the sale of pirated appeared personnel database

It's no secret that Moscow radio markets if you want you can get almost any database. Very popular database structures such as traffic police and customs, the base of phone numbers, etc. And now it was added to another - human resources database containing contact and personal information 847 thousand persons, who posted his resume online. The cost base of the "Summary of 2009" is a half thousand rubles. Traders call this database "collector resume" - it contains the names of job seekers, their home and mobile phones, email addresses, information on education, marital status and place of work. Most of the applicants - the inhabitants of Moscow and Moscow region, but there are also representatives of other cities.
Several people, whose coordinates were discovered in the personnel database, confirmed that placed their resumes on the site Headhunter.ru, may leak occurred from there. However, the company president Headhunter Yuri Virovets totally denies the possibility of hacking the site and says that this information could be obtained using a conventional search engine robot. Annual access to the complete database on the same site Headhunter is about 400 thousand rubles, so that the sale of pirated counterpart in the first place hit by a major recruitment agencies.
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In fairness it should be noted that the number of entries in the pirate base is not so great, for example, in an internal database of only one staffing agency Visavi "contains more than 700 thousand records. CEO "Visavi Valery Dvortsevoy feared consequences of the proliferation of pirate bases, noting that candidates rely on personal information to agencies on a confidential basis:" The appearance of this information in the public domain could lead to the fact that recruiters will be less trusting, a spot could go to all market participants " .
CEO Leta Group, engaged in information security, Alexander Chachava, said the other side of the negative effects of leakage of the database: the information can be used by spammers and telemarketologami. The fact that the "Summary of 2009 - first base, allowing the phone number to search e-mail and vice versa.

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