Month: October 2017

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Das S410 soll für den Außeneinsatz gut gerüstet sein. Es wurde nach verschiedenen Standards geprüft und wird vom Hersteller daher als Semi Rugged bezeichnet. Mit dabei: neue Intel-Prozessoren und das alte extrem helle Display. (Getac, Display)

Qualcomm hat per 5G-Modem mehrere Gigabit die Sekunde übertragen, passend dazu wurde ein 5G-Referenz-Smartphone vorgestellt. Ebenfalls neu ist der Snapdragon 636, welcher eine höhere Leistung und einen besseren Bildprozessor aufweist. (Qualcomm, Smartphone)

Google’s Pixel 2 smartphones have some pretty strong hardware including excellent cameras, good displays, 4GB of RAM, at lest 64GB of storage, and Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 835 processor. But it’s the software that really sets these phones apart from the competition… and in some cases, the way the software interacts with the hardware. For instance, you […]

Google Pixel 2: Software review is a post from: Liliputing

Mit Speak hat Garmin einen Lautsprecher vorgestellt, der Alexa vorinstalliert hat und explizit für die Nutzung im Auto gedacht ist. Der Lautsprecher kann nicht nur Musik abspielen und Fragen beantworten, sondern mit Richtungspfeilen auch den Weg anzeigen. (Garmin, Navigationssystem)

After seizing several servers operated by popular private music tracker What.cd, last November French police went after a much bigger target.

Boasting millions of regular visitors, Zone-Telechargement (Zone-Download) was ranked the 11th most-visited website in the whole of the country. The site offered direct downloads of a wide variety of pirated content, including films, series, games, and music. Until the French Gendarmerie shut it down, that is.

After being founded in 2011 and enjoying huge growth following the 2012 raids against Megaupload, the Zone-Telechargement ‘brand’ was still popular with French users, despite the closure of the platform. It, therefore, came as no surprise that the site was quickly cloned by an unknown party and relaunched as Zone-Telechargement.ws.

The site has been doing extremely well following its makeover. To the annoyance of copyright holders, SimilarWeb reports the platform as France’s 37th most popular site with around 58 million visitors per month. That’s a huge achievement in less than 12 months.

Now, however, the site is receiving more unwanted attention. PCInpact says it has received information that several movie-focused organizations including the French National Film Center are requesting tough action against the site.

The National Federation of Film Distributors, the Video Publishing Union, the Association of Independent Producers and the Producers Union are all demanding the blocking of Zone-Telechargement by several local ISPs, alongside its delisting from search results.

The publication mentions four Internet service providers – Free, Numericable, Bouygues Telecom, and Orange – plus Google on the search engine front. At this stage, other search companies, such as Microsoft’s Bing, are not reported as part of the action.

In addition to Zone-Telechargement, several other ‘pirate’ sites (Papystreaming.org, Sokrostream.cc and Zonetelechargement.su, another site playing on the popular brand) are included in the legal process. All are described as “structurally infringing” by the complaining movie outfits, PCInpact notes.

The legal proceedings against the sites are based in Article 336-2 of the Intellectual Property Code. It’s ground already trodden by movie companies who following a 2011 complaint, achieved victory in 2013 against several Allostreaming-linked sites.

In that case, the High Court of Paris ordered ISPs, several of which appear in the current action, to “implement all appropriate means including blocking” to prevent access to the infringing sites.

The Court also ordered Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo to “take all necessary measures to prevent the occurrence on their services of any results referring to any of the sites” on their platforms.

Also of interest is that the action targets a service called DL-Protecte.com, which according to local anti-piracy agency HADOPI, makes it difficult for rightsholders to locate infringing content while at the same time generates more revenue for pirate sites.

A judgment is expected in “several months.”

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

Internetzugänge mit höheren Datenraten von mindestens 50 MBit/s sind in Deutschland stark angestiegen. Auch die Datennutzung nimmt im Festnetz massiv zu. Die Telekom plant wohl etwas Großes zu FTTH. (Festnetz, Glasfaser)

Das Essential Phone von Android-Gründer Andy Rubin soll das essenzielle Android-Telefon sein: ohne viel Schnickschnack, nur mit den wichtigsten Funktionen. Es beeindruckt im Test an mancher Stelle, zeigt jedoch auch eine eklatante Schwäche. Ein Test von Björn Brodersen (Essential Phone, Bildstabilisierung)

Im Pixel 2 (XL) verwendet Google neben dem Snapdragon 835 noch einen selbst entwickelten Chip: Der Pixel Visual Core genannte Bildprozessor ist für HDR+ gedacht, derzeit aber noch inaktiv. Das ändert sich allerdings in den nächsten Wochen. (Pixel 2, Smartphone)

Während Telekom-Konkurrenten 33,1 Prozent ihrer Glasfaseranschlüsse auch wirklich verkaufen können, sieht das beim Festnetzmarktführer nicht so gut aus. Doch die Studie beruht auf Recherchen, nicht auf Angaben der Telekom. (Glasfaser, Studie)