Instead of malware update: FBI warns of hotel WLANs

The U.S. federal police FBI has issued an alert to warn the owners of mobile computers from public networks. Especially in hotel WLANs you have watched recently that users will be “foisted” on a routine update disguised malware.

How the FBI on the government side ‘ Internet Crime Complaint Center ‘(IC3), a joint task force of several U.S. agencies, writes that it was able to observe more recently that the users in hotel networks malicious software could be captured.

Here travelers have tried to build the hotel rooms have an Internet connection. She then received a pop-up with a notification that informed them that there was an update for widespread and frequently updated software products. The message window is hardly to be distinguished from a legitimate update request, the FBI wrote.

Therefore advises the U.S. federal police to the users of public hotel networks to be cautious, especially government officials, representatives of industry and academic staff. Laptop owners should receive in a hotel an update notification advises the FBI, the author or the digital certificate check to see if this coincides with the manufacturer.

Basically, you should activate his laptop at home before departure and check if any updates are made available. If an update during the trip be necessary, then it is recommended to download the necessary software directly from the manufacturer’s website.

Who (in the U.S.) victims of such malware attack is suspected or has an equivalent should like to inform the FBI or leave a message on www.IC3.gov.

Samsung S2 Galaxy LTE now in Germany with Vodafone

The Long Term Evolution technology, LTE is short, known as the new wireless standard, replacing the predecessor officially in UMTS. But while the so-called 4G technology is already on the market for some time to consider the manufacturer to be slow. For example, the current flagship of Samsung, the Galaxy S2, in the LTE edition only now to have at the mobile operator Vodafone. But what does the LTE standard and is it worth to go up to now?

Whether the upgrade is recommended, you can certainly answer directly in the affirmative. The reason: the Long Term Evolution technology currently provides a download speed of up to 300 megabits per second. Compared to the maximum 21 Mbps of UMTS standard that is a true milestone. But who wanted to establish in the recent past, a smartphone with LTE support, had to look far, because in addition to the velocity of 4G HTC, it was only the LG Optimus TrueHD LTE commercially in Germany. However, this situation will change now because now is the Galaxy S2 in the LTE in the trade edition.

Is the flagship of the house of Samsung is currently the only mobile operator Vodafone, and weighs in at around 150 Euros – but only if you look at the same time decide on a collective contract with the Superflat Plus or Superflat Allnet. But if you already own a different contract, can benefit from the offer that is only if he signs a new contract. Whether Vodafone LTE also offers the Galaxy S2 without a contract, and how much it will cost, at the present time, however, is not yet clear.

The Galaxy S2 LTE is different, the next available LTE-technology course, only in terms of display of the normal S2. Thus, the touch-screen version of the LTE is larger by about 0.2 inches – which does not change the resolution. This continues to be at 800 x 480 pixels. At the end, however, remains to say that Samsung on 3 Imagine May, a new smartphone, in all likelihood, the Galaxy S3, is officially. This also has the LTE standard, so you should perhaps wait until you strike at the Vodafone offer.

Telecom: LTE is launched in four other cities

The German Telekom has now turned in four other cities its LTE network. As the company announced that customers can now also in Bonn, Hamburg, Leipzig and Munich use the new generation of mobile communications with bandwidths of up to 100 megabits per second.

The first city was Cologne equipped with a network of Deutsche Telekom of the fourth generation of mobile communications. Recently followed Frankfurt am Main . This year will bring even more of the telecommunications company about one hundred other German cities at the start.

“2012 is the year of LTE,” says Bruno Jacobfeuerborn, chief technology officer of Deutsche Telekom of Germany. “With LTE, we can offer our customers over the air velocities, which we have previously known only from a landline. This is to reflect the growing use of mobile devices in everyday life of citizens and businesses.”

The event at the start of the new infrastructure was also the same as used to demonstrate their performance. In all four cities at the same events were held, each of which prominent representatives of local politics were represented. The individual cities have been connected together here with a video conference via LTE.

Currently, in the four towns primarily supplies the inner cities. The expansion will continue in the coming weeks and months ahead step by step in the border areas also, it said. Until there, LTE is available, the Telecom offers in the appropriate tariffs to a fallback to UMTS / HSPA in a stage that enables bandwidths of up to 42.2 megabits per second.

Awesome camera, trying to increase the average in the competitive world of photography in IOS Apps

Although initially it was not from the latest devices like the iPhone 4 and especially in the 4S, the camera in the iPhone has become a cornerstone of the Smartphone. Are increasingly more and more applications for photography, although some do not get very satisfactory results . The truth is that this application before us today, Awesome Camera brings a number of features that are very interesting. If you like taking pictures with your iPhone you should not miss.

Awesome Camera is an application which among many features, allows us to better photos once taken. But this may not be as important, although it is true that the results you get are very interesting. Awesome Camera aims to be the ultimate all in one, the truth is that the more you try, more features are. It’s like they picked the best applications of photography that is now in the App Store and have mixed in a shaker, getting this application.

At first photographic film has its own and does not allow synchronization with icloud, but simply telling the program that you back up your photos in the camera roll to solve this problem. You can share your photos in the most common, Flickr, Picasa, SmugMug, YouTube, Facebook. We may share any photo just taken with any of these services without leaving the application, even Instagram.

But this is related to social networks, a photo application must offer something more. Although no longer a mobile camera and may not be the best camera (even if he was high on a hypothetical “top5″ in my opinion) the truth is that the iPhone’s camera more than met its mission. And therefore interesting offers help when taking pictures themselves. Since rules of composition of scenes as the rule of thirds or golden ratio .

We will also have their own filters that have applications like Instagram or Hipstamatic, allowing different effects with a photo. Aid to the shooting are also present, as I said before, Awesome Camera aims to grab as many features for you do not need another application in your day to day. Image stabilization, burst slow, quick burst at low resolution timer.

For my taste has a switch of focus and exposure much more accurate and faster than the one in the camera application itself IOS and also increase the Zoom switch much easier to use. In short and its price (free) is an application that you can not miss and is more than likely become an essential when taking pictures.

Attack of the physical games.

Hambo

We are accustomed to being treated as stupid pigs in the world of animation. Maybe that’s why both Hambo surprised that from the beginning shows a pig who, pistol in hand, ready to kill all enemies of the pen.

No running, jumping and shooting, remember that today is the physical thing, so in this game is all that will control the direction of our bullets, designed to break our way platforms on our way to the enemy. I hope you have wanted to squeeze the most, because taking into account all levels offering that means you have done a good buy.

Hambo

Developer: Miniclip.com
Language: English
Requirements: iPhone, iPod touch and iPhone with iPhone OS 3.1.3 or higher
Price: 0.79 euros
Download it in the App Store

Shark Dash

Undoubtedly the star of the week, we note that Gameloft has put the batteries and leave the games in three dimensions to focus on simple but effective mechanical. Dash Shark puts us in the shoes of various toy sharks, all with different powers, they will have to eat several rubber ducks to pass each level.

The design of the screens is extremely good, it shows that there are people who enjoy such games in their development. Sizzlin ‘Skillet also offers a good level and goals, so the duration of the game is beyond question. The video and makes it quite clear that you are indispensable to a purchase.

Euskaltel ordered to pay 222 million euros to France Telecom

Six years after the conviction becomes final, Euskaltel will have to pay 222 million euros to France Telecom, parent of Orange, for breaking the agreement that had mobile telephony until 2006.

The story begins in the year when the operator decides Basque set a new course on the mobile phone industry becoming a virtual operator under Vodafone coverage. Until then Amena, Orange later converted into the purchase of shares by the French company was not marketed in the Basque Country by the agreement between both companies.

At the time of the break created a conflict because of questions about who owned the mobile customers of Euskaltel and CMT established a period in which these were those who had to choose between an operator or another, after which most opt ​​for the Basque company.

France Telecom is not happy with the opinion of the committee decided to sue in court Euskaltel French, who after years established that this violated noncompete agreements established in the agreement between the two companies so that the French should compensate for the loss customers suffered.

After the condemnation of the French Arbitration Court of Justice Superior Court of the Basque Country must “validate” the judgment having been rendered in another country. Today there has been such validation, although it includes the individual opinion of one of the referees which is in total disagreement with the judgment.

Euskaltel finds no “theft” of customers and demand that the compensation of 222 million euros is totally disproportionate, corresponding to the benefit of seven years of business activity in which the mobile is a small part of them.

As expected the cable companies look for ways to appeal a fine that could jeopardize the economic viability of the company.

Apple will expand its offices in Cork in Ireland with 500 new workers and a new building

Although Apple is mostly present in the United States and base their business on the services of that country, the international presence is far more important than just a few years ago. The recent expansion of the Apple Store around the globe is proof of this, as well as specific sales figures from countries like China that are mentioned in the press conferences. Another example is that Apple has confirmed today that it will expand its European headquarters in Cork with a new building.

Cork, in Ireland, has long been serving as the basis for Apple throughout EMEA (Europe, Middle East, India and Africa). In this country there are also other major European power companies such as Twitter or Google. The new central building will mean 500 new Apple jobs added to the 2,800 already in place, Apple will cover positions throughout the next year and a half.

If this expansion of staff serving for the expansion of services such as iTunes faster Match internationally, will be more than welcome. Meanwhile, in Cupertino are plans to build a second major campus building Apple a giant ring-shaped .

The Spotify client for iPhone on the way, says Daniel Ek

Lutz Emmerich told us not at the time, and two days ago we came rumors to the contrary . We talked about the iPad version of Spotify, one of the most expected by users of the service seems to have finally will come to light.

And it says a rumor has been confirmed Daniel Ek himself earlier today in New York while presenting at a press conference an advertising agreement with Coca-Cola . Although his words have been rather terse (have been reduced to a simple “we’re working on it”) I think it take for confirmed news.

And so stark were the words that have not given anything like a run, a release date or anything. We will have to continue biting our nails waiting for a client who, after the image was published the other day, looks great.

Virtual PDF Printer three free alternatives

With the growth of communications between Internet users, more and more using the standard PDF (Portable Document Format), Adobe Systems to transmit information. The PDF format was created in 1991 and after more than 20 years of existence remains a favorite container documents.

One of the easiest ways to create PDF documents from any program is by using virtual printers. In this article I will tell you about three programs that emulate a printer whose output format is a PDF document. Are known, free and in Spanish: doPDF, PDFCreator and BullZip PDF Printer.

doPDF

Like the other products reviewed in this article, doPDF is used to create PDF documents emulating a virtual printer. This software works on Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2008, 2003, 2000 Server (32 and 64-bit).

After installing the application will appear in the list of “Printers and Faxes” and also in the “All Programs”. In addition to using the program as a virtual printer, you can run directly from the “Start” menu and convert documents to PDF format, following the wizard provided by the application. doPDF is a free software for both private and commercial use. The download size of the latest stable version is 4.05 MB.

doPDF, main characteristics

Predefined page sizes (A4, A5, A6, Letter, Legal, Executive, Envelope DL/C5/B5/Monarch / # 10).
Adjustable page sizes in the case we need to preset sizes.
Different measurement units (mm, inches or points).
Graphic resolution adjustable between 72 and 2,400 dpi.
Adjustable graphic scale (from 1% of original size to 400%).
Page orientation (horizontal or vertical) with Preview.
Assume the fonts of the original document.
Supports over 400 document types.

Football Championship: Police in Poland does not support Indect

Polish media reports , according to the local police in the neighboring country has decided, not by reference to the 2012 European participate in the monitoring program Indect.

When it comes to Indect so Critics accuse this system is that it leads to a total surveillance of citizens. The Polish interior minister Jacek Cichocki had therefore decided to stop for police cooperation with the project. Even without Indect Poland have sufficient resources to respond to threats, it is said by officials.

Indect was originally commissioned by the EU commission and stands for Intelligent Information System Supporting Observation, Searching and Detection for Security of Citizens in Urban Environment. Funding for the project to monitor multi-million €. As part of the European Football Championship, held this year in Poland, is the first system are used .

In Indect one accedes to data and information from different sources. This should be a very quick way to analyze relationships in terms of the behavior of people and can even predict. The data sources are used, among other surveillance cameras, government databases, social networks and location data of mobile operators.