Tele Comix: 3 years full of love and revolution data

Almost every evening news programs on television confront their audience with images of the brutal violence that goes with the Syrian regime against the opposition. The source is often terse “Internet Video”.

The pictures were taken, for example, from Homs. They were not filmed by professional cameramen – they have long ago not to the actual focal spot. Too high a risk to life and limb. The videos were filmed with cell phones and passing the state censorship and surveillance online brought out of the country.

That it is these connections over the network even still exist, not least a group of activists is due to the banded together three years ago today. There is no set structure, no clear definition of who is for now just a member, some have known each other only by nickname. Suffice an idea, an IRC channel and a name: Tele Comix .

When it began in the spring of 2009, was filed in Europe, especially in the new EU telecoms policy. Net activists were in an uproar because it was intended to introduce extensive restrictions on the freedom of the net. The camel’s back finally brought a law in Sweden that it would allow the Secret Service officially to spy all data connections across national borders.

The Tele-Comix activists who mostly come from the hacker scene from different countries, focused mainly to gather information and to network with other groups. But even then it was already about ensuring the free flow of information. Thus, in the context of the project Streisand.me mirrored data that have been removed elsewhere on the net.

The group lined up thus in a series of mergers, another activist network, which are mainly driven by their enthusiasm for this infrastructure, which for many has become an indispensable part of their habitat. “We are from the Internet. We come in peace. May there be freedom for all people and computers,” it said in Berlin Stephan Urbach, one of the few actors who appear in public, in front of WinFuture.de.

For a break but then saw the January of last year. To the emerging protest movement in Egypt to take the wind out of the sails, the regime in Egypt came up with the idea of ​​all this with a cut-off Internet access, the most important communication platform and organization to take. The Tele-Comix activists responded by again joined their old modems and fax instructions sent towards the Nile, as one can go back online by phone. Many Egyptians were able to write at least that relatives abroad send an e-mail.

“No one comes to the store and asks for Windows Phone”

The successful turnaround for Nokia moves into ever more remote. After the Finnish mobile phone maker only last week a profit warning had to issue due to smartphone sales halved, and now the price of the Nokia share has reached its lowest level in 15 years.

One reason is the renewed downgrading of the creditworthiness of the company due to poor future prospects. And these are mainly due to the poor sales, particularly in relation to the Lumia family. These are called by European mobile operators too expensive and not competitive. “If they could lower the price, we believe we could sell for more.” Said the spokesperson for an unspecified service provider.

However, according to market observers are not only the sales prices play a role also in the eyes of many poor games marketing from Nokia and the low popularity of Windows Mobile a major role. “But even if the provider would be the Nokia’s away for free, this would not lead to success for Nokia.” As the adviser John sums up the beach situation.

The problem: “. Nobody comes into the store and asks for Windows Phone” as a senior manager of a European mobile phone company portray the situation and continue. “Nokia has itself a double challenge: Restoring the reputation as a manufacturer of smart phones and … be successful with Microsoft’s operating system, which can not prevail on the market, “the latter lies mainly to the inadequate application of the platform this possessed many good features, but which would only know the least – thus closing the circle.

“If the Lumia would come out with the same hardware and Android instead of Windows, it would be much easier to sell.” Said the manager. This thesis is not thereby established for the first time. Nokia has been criticized on several occasions in recent months for the commitment to Windows Mobile and ignoring androids. It is often forgotten, however, that for this choice largely determined by financial considerations were. Because Microsoft was at this time in search of a hardware partner and was willing to invest millions of dollars in co-operation. An advantage that it would never have been on Android.

Ultimately, it could come so far, however, that the major mobile phone provider of Windows and thus turn away from Nokia. About these would vary from one region 50 to 90 percent of all units sold to end customers. However, the provider should be broken on the lookout for a strong alternative to Android and iOS to their hegemony and create better economic conditions to be able to.

“Finally, Nokia and Windows are challengers and they must either take a really hard-hitting, innovative product or a huge marketing budget to market. Until now, neither is the case. “

Crucial here are likely to be the next two quarters. For the current quarter, Nokia expects no growth over the same period last year, is only slowly in the fall of imminent improvement. Until then, should the Lumia models will be available in major markets. If still no success then emerge, are likely to mutate the Finns to a potential takeover candidate.

Cause of the “Red Screen of Death” identifies the GTX 680

With the GeForce GTX 680 high-end graphics card ( Computer Base Test ) is a big hit for Nvidia, low power consumption and high performance speak for the board to Kepler base. But more and more users now report the “Red Screen of Death” phenomenon mentioned.

When carried up, the computer suddenly hung with a red screen and respond only to reset the video driver, respectively, of a restart. The developer of diagnostic and benchmarking tools “Aida 64″ was that formerly known as the “Everest”, have now discovered the cause of this error.

In previous versions of the GeForce GTX 680, the so-called engineering samples, the BIOS information was stored in a register directly in the GPU. In newer versions of the graphics card, but Nvidia has decided to outsource this to an external flash chip. Consequently, access to all the programs that get the BIOS information, to register a non-existent. This interferes with the graphics drivers and ultimately caused the crash.

Whether Nvidia drivers themselves against the problem by going on or fix their own development programs but provided with an update, has not yet been determined. Contrary to previous assumption, the crashes do not cause damage to the graphics card.

Small curiosity polarization of computer screens IOS

Looking for funny video of the weekend to share on your Facebook wall? And here it is called “polarization of the IOS computer screens.” What does that mean? That screens are polarized IOS devices. As the Wikipedia :

Technological applications of polarization is widespread. Perhaps the most commonly encountered examples are liquid crystal displays (LCDs), sunglasses polarized glass and polarizing filters used in photography.
The curious thing about this technology is that if we look at computer screens using polarized glasses iOS got a curious effect: the polarization of both crystals makes the screen look completely black. Have a polarized glasses to test this effect?

Samsung wants to Intel’s earlier support of DDR4 RAM

The price of DDR3 RAM is currently enduring a deep, accordingly, the production of its unprofitable. To counteract this and to further bankruptcies of companies such as recent memory only those of Elpida prevent, Samsung, Intel wants to move to a previous support of DDR4 standards.

Intel originally wanted to introduce them only with those server processors that are scheduled for 2014, which would be even more desktop compatibility followed later. With the standard DDR4, by the way, until the middle of the year by the JEDEC Solid State Technology Association adopted, will clock speeds from 2133 MHz to be possible to 4266 MHz.

In addition to the normal operating voltage RAM modules can be reduced to 1.20 volts – for DDR3, it is still 1.50 volts. For the low-voltage pendants are all then only values ​​between 1.05 V and 1.10 V provided. Samsung and Hynix are now the only storage vendor could build working prototypes and already in a position to get ready for an upgrade. Whether Samsung and possibly other memory makers have also contacted AMD is currently unclear.

Nokia CEO: “Multi-core CPUs are a waste of electricity”

In an interview with Chinese newspaper Yangcheng Evening News remarked Nokia CEO Stephen Elop opposed to the use of multi-core processors in smartphones. Even without such processors Nokia devices in everyday life are faster than the competition.

The multi-core processors, which often come into the flagships of other manufacturers are used, described Elop as “waste stream”. Users of smartphones would not notice the differences. Compared to some newly released HTC devices like the One X with a quad-core processor from Nvidia is used for example in the Nokia Lumia 800 ( Computer Base Test ) is a processor with one core to use. This is due to Microsoft’s hardware requirements, the developer of the upcoming deployment to Windows Mobile 7 operating system.

To reinforce his statements, Nokia wants to launch a contest on the Chinese market called “Blown away by Lumia”. In this users interact with their smartphones against a Lumia 900 from their own home and need to accomplish certain tasks faster than the Nokia smartphone. Should this succeed the participants, the latter a cash prize of 1,000 yuan receives. One of the principle of equal competition leads Microsoft titled “Smoked Windows by phone” a “Windows Mobile 7″ Challenge. This caused in the past because of (temporary) non-payment of the prize money for more bad news. A few hours later, Microsoft offered the blogger Sahas Katta, however the actual costs plus a Lumia at 800 as compensation.

The Parrot Asteroid adds new features

The sound system with Android Parrot Asteroid gets older. The company has announced an update that improves performance and adds new and interesting features to this computer to the car.

After the 1.5 update has already been released for free, win the Parrot Asteroid integration with controls on steering wheel through the Parrot Unika interface, compatible with most systems installed in the wheels of modern cars.

The other three are closely related improvements. Parrot Asteroid is added to the service TextFriendly voice to manage text messages and emails as well as Deezer, a seeker of songs and artists also voice instructions and trying to locate the songs you want to ring in our library , or online service if not located locally. In both cases these subscription services.

As you have shown, these functions have the common bond of connection to the Internet, so that new ways of sharing the 3G connection are welcome. At USB key or tethering that already existed, binds to share the connection from a connected smartphone with USB cable.