Microsoft hat eine nützliche, wenn auch selten genutzte Anwendung für Stiftbenutzer gestrichen. Angeblich wegen zu vieler Sicherheitslücken muss das Windows Journal für Tablet-PCs aus Windows 10, 8.1 und 7 entfernt werden. Der Anwender bemerkt das allerdings nicht unbedingt. (Tablet-PC, Windows 7) Category: Uncategorised
FTTH: Stadtwerke bieten Gigabit-Zugang für 80 Euro
Stadtwerke machen vor, was die Deutsche Telekom nicht schafft: 1 GBit/s im Download und Upload für 80 Euro mit FTTH. Das ist natürlich auf das Ausbaugebiet beschränkt. (Meizu M3E smartphone launches in China for $195
Just weeks after launching the $298 Meizu MX6 smartphone in China, Meizu has unveiled a new phone with less impressive specs, but a design that’s reminiscent of the MX6 and a price that’s more than $100 lower.
The new Meizu M3E is priced at 1,299 yuan, or $195. The phone has a 5.5 inch full HD display, 3GB of RAM, and a fingerprint sensor, among other semi-premium features.
The Meizu M3E has a MediaTek Helio P10 octa-core processor with four 1.8 GHz ARM Cortex-A53 CPU cores, four 1 GHz Cortex-a53 cores, and ARM Mali-T860 graphics.
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Just weeks after launching the $298 Meizu MX6 smartphone in China, Meizu has unveiled a new phone with less impressive specs, but a design that’s reminiscent of the MX6 and a price that’s more than $100 lower.
The new Meizu M3E is priced at 1,299 yuan, or $195. The phone has a 5.5 inch full HD display, 3GB of RAM, and a fingerprint sensor, among other semi-premium features.
The Meizu M3E has a MediaTek Helio P10 octa-core processor with four 1.8 GHz ARM Cortex-A53 CPU cores, four 1 GHz Cortex-a53 cores, and ARM Mali-T860 graphics.
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US broadband: Still no ISP choice for many, especially at higher speeds
If you can choose from two high-speed ISPs, consider yourself lucky.
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The latest Federal Communications Commission statistics show that Americans still have little choice of high-speed broadband providers.
On the surface, the numbers appear to show that the broadband market has gotten slightly less competitive since 2013. But what has really happened is the FCC is collecting more granular data that better illustrates the lack of choice for most Americans. Things are probably getting a little better as providers boost speeds and new entrants like Google Fiber and municipal ISPs offer service. But the FCC's improved statistical analysis shows how far there is to go.
This is the key competition graphic from the FCC's latest Internet Access Services report, which was released last week and contains data through June 30, 2015:
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Russia Plans Social Media Piracy Crackdown
Authorities in Russia are planning new legislation that could see a crackdown on users uploading pirated content to social networks. Also under consideration are measures to ban advertising from infringing sites and block subscription-based platforms from processing user payments.
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Despite a reputation for not doing enough to thwart online piracy, Russian authorities have become unusually keen to make amends in recent years.
Site-blocking, for example, is now a common occurrence, with sites that infringe multiple times now being subjected to a permanent lifetime injunction, actioned by local ISPs.
But while users continue to flock to torrent sites and streaming portals, copyright holders and local authorities are concerned that social networking platforms are a potentially more serious threat.
In many cases, users are allowed to upload content at will, thereby creating huge libraries of infringing material, a serious headache for copyright holders.
To tackle this problem, authorities and entertainment industry groups are now in the process of drafting fresh legislation aimed at those social media platforms that allow users to upload content.
According to Izvestia, the Ministry of Culture and groups including the National Federation of the Music Industry (NFMI) and the Association of Producers of Cinema and Television (APKIT), believe that a change in the law will make it harder for social platforms to evade liability.
Under Article 1253.1 of the Civil Code, social media sites are considered “information brokers”, meaning that sites like vKontakte (Russia’s Facebook) can avoid being held liable for infringing content uploaded by their users.
Rightsholders would like that legislation to be removed or rewritten in a way that would provide them with more useful options to enforce their intellectual property rights.
Also under consideration are changes to the law that would further punish sites that have already been ordered to be blocked by the Moscow City Court. Currently, local ISPs currently put Internet blockades in place but rightsholders foresee a situation where the finances of infringing sites are put under pressure too.
On the table are proposals to ban those sites from carrying advertising. In the West, advertisers are working on voluntary schemes that aim to keep their funding away from ‘pirate’ sites but it appears that Russia is considering enshrining those principles into law.
Additionally, rightsholders are asking for sites that run on a subscription basis to be forbidden from accepting payments from their users. Again, voluntary agreements with companies such as Visa, MasterCard and PayPal are already in place in the United States and Europe, but legislation could compel Russian companies to comply.
Also continuing its path through the system is another bill designed to tackle the rise of so-called mirrors, sites that crop up after a site is blocked in order to facilitate access to the same content.
The draft bill, which also proposes an obligation to have search engines strip content from results and measures to tackle VPNs and proxies, has already been sent to the Ministry of Communications.
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Patchday: PDF-Sicherheitslücke betrifft Microsoft-Browser
Das mittlerweile im Browser übliche direkte Anzeigen von PDF-Dokumenten kann zu einem Sicherheitsproblem werden, wie ein aktueller Fall zeigt. Der Anwender muss bei Microsofts Edge-Browser auch ohne Adobe Reader auf Schad-PDFs achten. (Windows 10, PDF)
Das mittlerweile im Browser übliche direkte Anzeigen von PDF-Dokumenten kann zu einem Sicherheitsproblem werden, wie ein aktueller Fall zeigt. Der Anwender muss bei Microsofts Edge-Browser auch ohne Adobe Reader auf Schad-PDFs achten. (Windows 10, PDF) Oracle: Micros-Kassensysteme gehackt
Kriminelle haben offenbar ein weit verzweigtes Kassensystem von Oracle kompromittiert. Bislang ist unklar, wie viele Systeme tatsächlich betroffen sind - Oracle selbst hält sich mit Statements zurück. Hinter den Angriffen wird die Carbanak-Bande vermutet. (JDI’s new display could lead to phones that are nearly all screen
Japan Display Inc is taking the war on screen bezels to new heights. While we’ve seen a number of phones with super-slim side bezels over the past few years, there are usually pretty thick chunks of plastic or metal above or below the screen: because that’s where you hide the circuitry, speakers, and other gear.
But Japan Display (JDI) says its new 5.5 inch “Full Active” display has slim bezels around all four sides and could be used for phones that are nearly all-screen (on the front, at least).
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Japan Display Inc is taking the war on screen bezels to new heights. While we’ve seen a number of phones with super-slim side bezels over the past few years, there are usually pretty thick chunks of plastic or metal above or below the screen: because that’s where you hide the circuitry, speakers, and other gear.
But Japan Display (JDI) says its new 5.5 inch “Full Active” display has slim bezels around all four sides and could be used for phones that are nearly all-screen (on the front, at least).
Continue reading JDI’s new display could lead to phones that are nearly all screen at Liliputing.
Report: Thinner MacBook Pros to have touchscreen function keys, TouchID, more
An AMD “Polaris” GPU option and USB Type-C are also on tap.
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Apple hasn't updated its pro laptop lineup in well over a year, and rumors about refreshed models have been floating around for months. USB Type-C, an OLED touchscreen that replaces the row of function keys, and a thinner design are all expected at this point, and a new report from Bloomberg's well-sourced Mark Gurman reiterates all of those points while offering a couple of new details.
Past reports have suggested that the touchscreen function keys will allow Apple and app developers to offer keyboard shortcuts that change based on what you're doing or what app you're using, and the Bloomberg report offers no new details here. It does, however, say that Apple plans to bring its TouchID fingerprint sensors over to the Mac for the first time, and that "Apple has tested versions of the upcoming laptops that integrate the scanner beside the new function key display." The upcoming macOS Sierra update already allows users to unlock their Macs with their Apple Watches, but a TouchID option would offer easy authentication that didn't require separate hardware.
The report also says that the laptops will be thinner, include slightly larger trackpads, and have smaller footprints than the current MacBook Pros, though they won't switch to a tapered design like the ones used for the MacBook or MacBook Air. As expected, USB Type-C is also on tap, though it's still not clear whether those Type-C ports will also be Thunderbolt 3 ports. Finally, some models will allegedly offer a dedicated GPU option based on AMD's new Polaris architecture. Dedicated GPUs are usually confined to the larger 15-inch Pros, leaving other models to make do with Intel's integrated GPU offerings.
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3,5-Zoll-Formfaktor: Seagate packt 60 TByte in eine SSD
Drei Platinen, ein 20-Kanal-Controller und über 1.000 Flash-Speicher-Chips: Seagates namenlose SSD hat es wortwörtlich in sich, denn die Machbarkeitsstudie liefert eine Kapazität von 60 TByte. (Solid State Drive, Speichermedien)
Drei Platinen, ein 20-Kanal-Controller und über 1.000 Flash-Speicher-Chips: Seagates namenlose SSD hat es wortwörtlich in sich, denn die Machbarkeitsstudie liefert eine Kapazität von 60 TByte. (Solid State Drive, Speichermedien)