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Der Spielzeughersteller Vtech wurde Ende vergangenen Jahres wegen großer Sicherheitsmängel kritisiert und nahm daraufhin viele seiner Dienste vom Netz. Jetzt gehen einige Produkte wieder online – bei der Security will das Unternehmen dazugelernt haben. (Vtech, Technologie) 
Der Spielzeughersteller Vtech wurde Ende vergangenen Jahres wegen großer Sicherheitsmängel kritisiert und nahm daraufhin viele seiner Dienste vom Netz. Jetzt gehen einige Produkte wieder online - bei der Security will das Unternehmen dazugelernt haben. (Vtech, Technologie) 
Two straight days in an HTC Vive was like “a controlled drug experience.”
There are worse ways to spend a couple of days. (credit: Game Science Center Berlin)
Virtual reality headset makers are quick to claim that they have solved the widely reported problems with nausea and "VR sickness" that plagued earlier hardware. But if actions speak louder than words, one artist's 48-hour, reportedly nausea-free stint in an HTC Vive headset speaks pretty highly of the comfort and immersion of the VR device.
"I had no physical problems, no burning eyes, killing headaches or nausea," Thorsten Wiedemann, the founder and artistic director of the A MAZE Festival, told Vice after spending two straight days in a Vive headset for an art project called Disconnected earlier this month. While a panic attack in the 25th hour almost caused Wiedemann to drop out, the rest of the Wiedemann's extended time in VR went off uneventfully, as you can see from livestreamed footage archived on Game Science Center Berlin's YouTube channel.
Wiedemann didn't spend two whole days wandering around virtual reality in fuzzy pink pajamas to prove the safety and comfort of the hardware, though. As Wiedemann told Vice, the project was an early test of what he believes will be a common pastime in 2026, when it will be "normal that you jump into VR to meet your international friends in Social VR Rooms and go on crazy adventures together. But a long trip will be still special and could be understood as a controlled drug experience."
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The Zsun WiFi Card Reader is a tiny, cheap microSD card reader that sells for between $11 and $15 (or a few dollars more if you want to order from AMazon instead of from a Chinese retailer). You can plug the card reader into the USB port of your computer, but as the name suggests, it also supports […]
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The Zsun WiFi Card Reader is a tiny, cheap microSD card reader that sells for between $11 and $15 (or a few dollars more if you want to order from AMazon instead of from a Chinese retailer). You can plug the card reader into the USB port of your computer, but as the name suggests, it also supports […]
Turn an $11 microSD card reader into a WiFi router is a post from: Liliputing
Foxit ist als Adobe-Reader-Alternative beliebt – doch die Nutzer sollten ihre Software updaten, denn der Hersteller hat einige Sicherheitslücken behoben. Die meisten davon betreffen das Speichermanagement. (Security, Sicherheitslücke) 
Foxit ist als Adobe-Reader-Alternative beliebt - doch die Nutzer sollten ihre Software updaten, denn der Hersteller hat einige Sicherheitslücken behoben. Die meisten davon betreffen das Speichermanagement. (Security, Sicherheitslücke) 
Sprint will rely on “self-service” to offset 2,000 jobs lost in customer care.
Sprint is reportedly cutting 2,500 jobs, including 2,000 in customer service, but the company told Ars that subscribers won't actually see any decline in customer service quality. "These changes will not impact the level of service we provide to our customers," a Sprint spokesperson told Ars today.
Sprint said it has already boosted "self-service and digital care tools," helping to lower its churn rate (the percentage of subscribers who leave). "In addition, we have made changes in service assurance that have now resulted in our lowest ticket levels and fastest repair times in the last three years," Sprint said.
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New research shows that online piracy is widespread in South America. Nearly half of all Internet users have used pirate sites and services, transferring a healthy 789 petabytes per year. Unlike in other regions, direct download sites are consistently more popular than P2P-based solutions such as BitTorrent.
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Commissioned by the copyright TV industry group Alianza, research firm NetNames has just released a comprehensive report on the scope of online piracy in South America.
The study is a follow-up on the global “Sizing the Piracy Universe” report released two years ago. It combines data from various sources to estimate the local piracy landscape.
Analyzing data from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Paraguay, Uruguay and Venezuela, the report concludes that nearly half of the population has visited pirate sites or services in the period of a month.
“Of the approximately 222.3 million Internet users in South America, nearly 50%, or 110 million, accessed a site that distributed pirated audiovisual content by means of either a cyberlocker, peer-to-peer network or illegal IPTV streaming site,” the report reads.
Contrary to the worldwide picture, direct download sites receive more visitors and generate more bandwidth than peer-to-peer sharing such as BitTorrent. This may in part be due to lower Internet speeds, which are not optimal for P2P transfers.
Per year cyberlocker traffic accounts for more than half of all piracy traffic, 442 petabytes, compared to 265 petabytes of peer-to-peer traffic. NetNames also includes data for pirated live IPTV broadcasts, which adds another 82 petabytes.
In total the South American piracy landscape generates 789 petabytes per year. Or put differently, a whopping 2.3 million gigabytes per day.
While these bandwidth numbers may look impressive they pale in comparison to other regions. For example, NetNames previously found that piracy accounted for roughly 20,000 petabytes of bandwidth per year in North America, and a massive 26,000 petabytes in Europe.
NetNames notes that it is nonetheless a considerable proportion, since the local Internet infrastructure is underdeveloped, and warns that copyright holders may face even higher levels of piracy if Internet penetration and speeds increase.
The report is expected to serve as an important lobbying tool to convince local lawmakers to take steps to prevent copyright infringement. Michael Hartman, Senior Vice President of DIRECTV Latin America, believes it is key to raise awareness.
“Online piracy represents a significant threat to the protection of intellectual property rights,” Hartman says.
“This is the first step necessary to raise awareness of the problem. It will enable Alianza members to educate others about the problem and develop strategies to combat this form of piracy.”
The full NetNames report is available on the Alianza website.
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Ob Kim Kardashian Werbung auf Twitter angezeigt wird – und wie ist das bei Gronkh oder Satya Nadella? Wir wissen es nicht, aber trotz mutmaßlich großer Kaufkraft bekommen reichweitenstarke Promi-Kunden bei dem Microblogging-Dienst keine Reklame zu sehen. (Twitter, Soziales Netz) 
Ob Kim Kardashian Werbung auf Twitter angezeigt wird - und wie ist das bei Gronkh oder Satya Nadella? Wir wissen es nicht, aber trotz mutmaßlich großer Kaufkraft bekommen reichweitenstarke Promi-Kunden bei dem Microblogging-Dienst keine Reklame zu sehen. (Twitter, Soziales Netz) 
The Asus Zenfone 3 isn’t expected to launch for a few more months, but Asus has added a new Zenfone 2 model to its lineup, and it’s got a faster processor than any of the models launched in 2015. The new Asus Zenfone 2 Deluxe Special Edition will be available with up to an Intel Atom Z3590 quad-core, […]
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The Asus Zenfone 3 isn’t expected to launch for a few more months, but Asus has added a new Zenfone 2 model to its lineup, and it’s got a faster processor than any of the models launched in 2015. The new Asus Zenfone 2 Deluxe Special Edition will be available with up to an Intel Atom Z3590 quad-core, […]
New Asus Zenfone 2 Deluxe is the most powerful yet is a post from: Liliputing
Wer auch im Heimbereich mal ein paar Meter mit schmalen Glasfaserkabeln überwinden will, für den gibt es von Trendnet eine günstige Variante: Der TEG-S61SFP bietet trotz weniger 1GbE-Anschlüsse auch einen SFP-Schacht für GBIC-Module. (Netzwerk, PC-Hardware) 
Wer auch im Heimbereich mal ein paar Meter mit schmalen Glasfaserkabeln überwinden will, für den gibt es von Trendnet eine günstige Variante: Der TEG-S61SFP bietet trotz weniger 1GbE-Anschlüsse auch einen SFP-Schacht für GBIC-Module. (Netzwerk, PC-Hardware) 
Die Verhandlungen zur Störerhaftung bei offenen WLANs stehen vor dem Abschluss. Möglicherweise bleibt nur ein Captive Portal als gesetzliche Forderung übrig. Doch auch das ist Freifunkern und Netzaktivisten zu viel. (
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