Month: July 2016

Mit dem Anniversary Update für Windows 10 wird die bisher optionale Suche durch Cortana ersetzt. Wer die Assistentin dann noch loswerden will, kann das zwar auf Umwegen - dann gibt es aber keine Suchfunktion mehr, zumindest nicht ohne weitere Software. (Cortana, Applikationen)

Amazon kann das fünfte Mal in Folge einen Rekordgewinn vorlegen. Die Zeiten, in denen der weltgrößte Internethändler meist einen knappen Gewinn machte oder ein Minus erwirtschaftete, scheinen vorbei zu sein. (Amazon, Web Service)

Oracle übernimmt den Konkurrenten Netsuite. Oracle-Gründer Larry Ellison ist zugleich mit 40 Prozent größter Aktionär von Netsuite, was Kritiker seine Interessen bei dem Kauf hinterfragen lässt. (Larry Ellison, Oracle)

Alcatel recently launched two new smartphones, the $400 Alcatel Idol 4S and the smaller, cheaper $200 Alcatel Idol 4.

But it looks like the company that produces phones sold under the Alcatel brand has another model on the way, and leaks paint a picture of a phone with a faster processor, more RAM, and a higher resolution camera.

The TCL 950 showed up at the GFXBench website a few months ago, and now it’s made its way to the website of Chinese regulatory agency TENAA.

Continue reading Upcoming TCL 950 could be the flagship phone the Alcatel Idol 4S isn’t (leaks) at Liliputing.

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Last week Polish law enforcement officers arrested Artem Vaulin, the alleged founder of KickassTorrents.

The arrest resulted in the shutdown of the site, which came as a shock to millions of KAT users and the torrent community at large.

The Polish authorities acted on a criminal complaint from the U.S. Government. In the indictment, the 30-year-old Ukrainian is charged with criminal copyright infringement and money laundering.

These charges are similar to those lodged against Megaupload and Kim Dotcom. With this in mind, it doesn’t come as a surprise that Vaulin has decided to retain the same lawyer.

Ira Rothken confirmed to TorrentFreak that he will lead Vaulin’s defense working in collaboration with local counsel. Besides his familiarity with criminal copyright charges, Rothken also knows the ins and outs of torrent sites, as he previously represented isoHunt in a civil case.

While it’s still early days, Rothken believes that they have strong arguments to have the criminal complaint dismissed.

“We believe the US criminal complaint lacks merit. Torrent sites and trackers are devoid of any content files. If any infringement occurs it happens offsite and leaves Kickasstorrents behind,” Rothken informs TorrentFreak.

“This type of copyright theory is known as secondary copyright infringement and there is no United States criminal statute for secondary copyright infringement – that type of theory is at most a civil liability issue.”

The same arguments are also being raised in the Megaupload case, which is still pending after nearly half a decade.

Rothken and Kim Dotcom (credit)

Last December a New Zealand District Court judge ruled that Dotcom and his former Megaupload colleagues can be extradited to the United States. This decision was immediately appealed and a new series of hearings is scheduled to take place in a few weeks.

As noted by ARS, who first reported the news, Vaulin remains in a Warsaw jail pending his extradition request. However, Rothken hopes that the alleged owner of KickassTorrents will be able to fight his extradition outside of jail.

“We are working with local Polish counsel to try to get Artem out of the Warsaw jail so he can assist with his defense,” Rothken tells us.

The KickassTorrents website, meanwhile, is still offline. Although there are numerous mirrors available, it is unlikely that it will come back in the near future.

The KAT “community,” however, has been revived and remains active.

Source: TF, for the latest info on copyright, file-sharing, torrent sites and ANONYMOUS VPN services.

It’s been more than two years since Google added support for add-ons to its web-based Docs and Sheets office suite, allowing you to integrate third-party tools to sort sheets, add fonts to documents, create forms, merge labels, use additional types of charts, and more.

Now Google Docs and Sheets for Android also supports add-ons.

There are 9 available at launch, including add-ons from DocuSign (for digitally “signing” documents,” Scanbot (for scanning documents using optical character recognition), and AppSheet (for turning a spreadsheet into a mobile app).

Continue reading Google Docs and Sheets for Android now supports add-ons at Liliputing.

The Asus Zenbook Flip UX360CA is a 3 pound convertible notebook with a 13.3 inch full HD touchscreen display and a 360 degree hinge that lets you flip the screen around and hold the computer as a tablet.

It features an Intel Core M processor, 8GB of RAM, at least 256GB of storage, and while it has a list price of $749 or up, it’s been available for as little as $699 since the day the notebook first went on sale.

Continue reading Deals of the Day (7-28-2016) at Liliputing.

Motorola’s first modular smartphones are now available in the United States.

As promised, the Moto Z Droid is available for $624 and up, while the Moto Z Force Droid starts at $720. But those prices can climb pretty high if you decide to deck out your phone with extra storage and some of the Moto Mod accessories that are what truly make the Moto Z phones stand out.

Both phones are available exclusively for Verizon Wireless customers in the US.

Continue reading Moto Z smartphones now available for $624 and up (and Moto Mod dev kit for $125) at Liliputing.

Mehr sehen, als draußen zu sehen ist: Die Deutsche Bahn will in einem Zug transparente Bildschirme ins Fenster einbauen, auf denen sich der Fahrgast digitale Informationen anzeigen lassen kann. Partner in dem Projekt ist Hyperloop Transportation Technologies. (Verkehr, Deutsche Bahn)