The customer today who started Steam digital distribution system were not greeted by very pleasant, through which Gabe Newell acknowledges that all Forums and Steam customer database had been compromised after a hacker attack.

It all started on November 6, when Steam forums were attacked. Valve started the investigation that led to the conclusion that during the attack, hackers obtained access to the database with the name Steam clients, their passwords (encrypted), purchase histories, e-mail addresses billing and credit card related data used (again encrypted).

However, according to Newell’s, there is no evidence that even hackers stole personal data of customers Steam or reports about credit card use associated Steam accounts.

Although it was not given an exact date on which the Steam forums are back online, daddy Gates said that absolutely all Forum users will have to go through a process of change passwords when the situation will be remedied. Moreover, even if this step is not necessary for actual Steam account, it would be a bad idea to change these passwords (via the Steam client) and turn Steam Guard, if you have not already done so.

This is the second major attack in 2011 took place against a service for video games, PlayStation Network hackers fall victim insistence this spring. The Sony’s have had to disable PSN services for a prolonged period (over one month), then giving every 2 games and 2 PlayStation 3 PlayStation Portable games for each user as an excuse for any inconvenience caused.

In the era of smart phones, used perhaps too often to consider safes pocket. Save or send confidential data via wireless networks free, firmly convinced that everything is secure. Perhaps the most important function is coveted wireless internet network connection. Used without the head, but can become dangerous.

In less than five minutes, a hacker may have already saved on the laptop the entire conversation.

Dangers lie, however, and behind applications that theoretically should be perfectly safe. That is the official virtual stores, praised the owners as impenetrable. Once installed in your phone, infected programs begin their mission.

A solution would be antivirus for smartphones, which in addition to real-time protection function can block and even delete data on the phone for its loss.

Philips proposes to listen to music in any circumstances and without fear. For this, we need new toys and helmets to fit very well. They have two important advantages: they are resistant and closed. This means that you can afford to do more things with headphones on and noisy environments. Next we meet Philips O’Neill The Stretch, ie SHO9560/10 model.

I had a pair of headphones with transparent plastic support have failed. No treatment had a hard plastic but that was not flexible enough. This problem was solved by Philips in conjunction with O’Neill’s using TR 55LX. It is very flexible plastic name that is built headset support The Stretch.

Philips O’Neill The Stretch headphones exterior delights us with a fine material to the touch. The cups are covered with fine soft leather and are extremely comfortable, even after many hours of use. It also can be tilted slightly cups support to suit each user as well. 40 mm speakers with neodymium magnet and Mylar difragmă of, are covered by a soft cloth.

Philips O’Neill The Stretch headphones wire is dressed in a very resistant fabric. One of the tests suggested by the manufacturer of resistance was to leave the headphones from falling and to maintain the thread. We have made ​​proof and nothing happened. The cable is not loose in next headset jack.

This is probably the most important test and I must say that Philips O’Neill The Stretch do not pass grade 10. We begin by praising the sound insulation provided by headphones. In the subway, they are comparable to a pair of headphones with active noise reduction system background. When walking the streets is shown to be very careful in moving machinery or other objects.

The audio quality is not the strength of the headphones. Joasele are well differentiated and powerful in some cases. The manufacturer specifies a frequency response that starts from 12 Hz, a value very bold. In tests of bass, Philips O’Neill The Stretch performed very well.

When things start to go up in frequency is complicated. Voice is heard less stuffy and like coming back. In music the voice side is very striking, those described above are easily seen even by those who do not have a very fine ear.

Headphones Philips O’Neill The Stretch is addressed to those who do more exercise, especially in noisy environments. Resistance was first made ​​by the manufacturer and Philips was able to create a flexible and robust headphones at the same time. Material it is made very elastic support and is incredibly resistant cable. Unfortunately, the headphones are not as good in quality audio. If you are strong joasele clear stuffy environments are heard and can be high sometimes distorted. Even so, they can thank a person less demanding, which may not compromising the quality of construction.

Galaxy Skin is the first smartphone flexible in the world, equipped a 4-inch AMOLED screen and operating system Android.

Once we thought that only in SF movies we could see it. Well no. Samsung has proven that we can and in the real world, creating the model Galaxy Skin, a smartphone that can be bent in various ways, but yet is strong enough that it can survive and a hammer.

Samsung Galaxy Skin is equipped with a flexible AMOLED screen, which measures 4 inches diagonally and displays images at 800 x 480 pixels resolution.

Still incomplete specification list includes a 1.2 GHz processor, 1GB RAM, VGA front camera with a 5MP camera.

The camera supports autofocus and features a range of facilities at least interesting, such as support for panoramic photos, a self-portrait shooting stop motion and function.

On the connectivity we have Bluetooth 3.0, Wi-Fi 802.11 b / g / n and USB 2.0.

Operating system installed will be Android Jellybean, successor to another nelansatul Ice Cream Sandwich. This could be delivered by Google on a flexible screen adapted version called Android Flexy

Samsung Galaxy Skin promises to be the first smartphone to abandon traditional format of the mobile phone for something not seen before.

If such a product is real, and Samsung is the company that will pioneer new telephone format, then Apple could finally have some serious competition for the iPhone range, but not by that patents can mimic the new presentation format.

On the evolutionary scale of mobile phones, smartphones and camera 3D screen occupies the top level. However, users are still cautious when it comes to 3D, not only because of high prices but also specific issues (in principle the purchase of additional accessories below expectations and experience).

To tempt us with a 3D experience without the hassle, HTC has chosen to equip two goals smartphone photo / video for composing self-image and a screen for displaying stereoscopic 3D content. Thus, we need additional equipment (goggles and / or perception of 3D television images in three dimensions).

In the approximately two weeks of use, I learned to use the room and tried to accommodate us this way to view pictures and video clips. First, to talk about shooting 3D.

To enable 3D mode, there is a switch (Camera Mode: 2D / 3D), located on the right side of the smartphone, next to the trigger.

After selecting the 3D mode, you will see auto-stereoscopic display and activate that display images with remarkable depth of field, but requiring optimal positioning of the phone, at a distance and a well chosen angle – basically about 20 cm, looking perpendicular screen. The look more from the side, the 3D effect is lost and the image appears doubled.

When the shoot is very important to maintain a fixed position of the phone. If the image is slightly moved in 3D mode the effect is amplified even more, and the picture is almost indescribable. For this reason, many 3D pictures taken at night or in low light are missed. We recommend using 3D cameras in good lighting.

3D pictures are saved in a special format, a file with a. MPO. This file can be processed with special software (eg Stoik Imagik) to be viewed on monitors normal: normal can be converted into JPEG or JPEG 3D anaglyph features. To view anaglyph images, you need a lens glasses classic red and one blue.

In the case of 3D video, although recorded in MPEG-4, can be viewed on the computer normally. Because both chambers are used to shooting, systems can not actually compose the image will display two identical clips, side by side: one associated with the left room, the other room on the right. So, when recording video, choose 3D mode only for viewing exclusively on the phone, otherwise, if you want to put movies on TV, select the standard 2D mode.

As our experience, the implementation of 3D on the phone a fad. It is rather a result of enthusiastic marketing expense practical trial. Only in 3D IMAX 3D films can say that we see as decent. On a mobile phone screen, be it 4.3 inches, there is no drop of pleasure but rather an ongoing effort to accommodate the eye.

We are limited to a few words about quality camera that does not make sense to write an entire chronicle absolutely mediocre implementation.

Whether you model 2D or 3D, contrast, detail, exposure calculation and image noise is at an unacceptable level for a product that wants to be “the rage”. 8 MP photos are nothing when we send the overall quality close to the original mobile phone photography. Devices now five, six, 2 MP camera (Sony Ericsson K750 and W800, Nokia N90 and others), made better pictures than this HTC.

Leaving behind the photo / video, 3D Evo HTC excellent references to the rest of the chapters is currently one of the top smartphones performance Chapter 10. Basically, unless the room has a similar configuration Evo 3D with HTC Sensation, and therefore experience daily is comparable.

In Quadrant Standard test that I run, HTC Evo 3D points obtained in 1925.

Autonomy was found a typical high-end smart devices. More on Internet and multimedia use (browsing two o’clock, two hours music, one hour games and one hour of talk time), HTC Evo 3D to download in about 12 hours after being removed from the charger.

Conclusion: HTC Evo 3D is a smartphone with outstanding performance, but dropped to exactly where it had to shine: the pictures and filming. Whether you choose 2D or 3D, these have a poor quality that even people who use the camera occasionally can not overlook.

Tablets market, Samsung wants to make a big step ahead of the competition, and preparations are in full swing. In less than a week, South Koreans will present the first tablet with Windows 8. The event will take place in California (Anaheim, September 13 to 16).

This collaboration Samsung – Microsoft is the first major strategic move of a company Google acquired after Motorola. Also, Samsung is trying to make a good impression when Apple put it on the wall with the processes that prevailed.

It is interesting to see which design will be the new Samsung tablet – if you go on a similar aspect of the series Galaxy Tab, perhaps Apple will not hesitate to launch a new attack in court.

Whatever happens, Windows 8 will undoubtedly become a platform that will open a new portable computers market direction.

Samsung Tablet with Windows 8 will appear on the market in late 2012 at the earliest with the launch of Microsoft’s OS.

The oldest university in Berlin announced on Monday it will start a collaboration with Google and three other institutions in Germany to set up a research institute.

Humboldt University representatives said that it will open next fall and will examine the evolution of the Internet and its impact on society, science, politics and economy.

Institute will focus on innovation, the relationship between the Internet and media policy, and between philosophy and constitutional rights.

Google will provide funds amounting to 4.5 million EUR for the first three years of operation, after which the institute will seek other sponsors.

The project also involved the University of Arts Berlin, Social Science Research Center and Hans-Bredow Institute Berlin and Hamburg.

By Gabriel Lynch – Google Plus is launched with a very success, because is very populated and very cool.Google Plus is promises to integrate the many things you do online, such as read news, write comments, and socialize under one platform, this is a good ideea for the online newspapers because when you read a news you, also can to write comments at the story.

Google Plus have one week with a grand success, but i want to know if Google Plus have a good potential to dethrone Facebook?

I don’t think so because Google Plus will co-exist like Facebook, Twitter and others, after a few months we will see which is the best Google Plus or Facebook.

The idea of America’s biggest two satellite-radio joining forces has been up in the air for almost four years. Although XM had a year’s start, Sirius came back on the market, eventually with both companies sharing the market in half. So, what’s to choose? XM or Sirius?

First thing’s first. XM and Sirius are based on the same principle, each of them providing music, news, sports, etc. on their channels, but, every service has its ups and downs so we will try to discuss it in this present article. A careful analysis shows that XM Satellite Radio provides a total of 136 streams, twenty-one are traffic and weather based channels and nine are sport-dedicated ones. On the other hand, Sirius offers a total of 119 streams, the premium streams not being available. Let’s take a closer look now on two – music and news – of the categories that the two major satellites are battling.

The number of music streams that both services offer is pretty much the same: 65 on Sirius and 68 on XM Satellite Radio but the difference is not in the number, but in the music genres that the radios offer.

XM is the absolute champion in providing the music by decades because you can listen to the 40’s music, service not available on Sirius. Still, you can listen to the 90’s hits together with the current hits on Sirius Satellite Radio, which is an interesting feature.

“Ride’ em cowboy!”. Even if you’re not a cowboy, you can listen to country-related songs on both Satellites. Classic country or country hits are to be heard as well as alternative country or country mixes, the last two features being available only on Sirius Satellite Radio.

Regarding the number of streams that both Satellites offer, XM offers a total of five streams and Sirius offers four, the champion in this category being XM due to the quality and the quantity of music being played.

If you are looking for sex, drogs, and rock and roll, Sirius and XM Satellite Radios can only offer you rock and roll, on a number of 14 streams on XM and 15 streams on Sirius. The rock subgenres are to be found in a large number on the stations, overall each service being very strong in this category.

If you want to boogie, you can do that on both Satellites, listening to one of the six streams provided by Sirius or four streams provided by XM. Be careful though, because you can become a clubber maniac! And if you’re strong enough, the Latin pop stream, Mexicana and tropical music streams can really drive you crazy. XM Satellite Radio as well as Sirius Satellite Radio offer three streams.

Regarding other genres, both satellites really look up to their prestige, offering hours of hours of music, from Classical to Jazz, even Urban (Sirius feature). Both stations offer high quality tunes, making it worth all the money.

Let’s skip to another interesting topic, news. CNN, FOX, CNBC, Bloomberg, MSNBC and many more news stations are being offered for listening in different languages. The number of streams is again near-by, XM offering a number of 11 news streams, not like Sirius, which offers 13.

It’s pretty hard to say which station is better, XM and Sirius being tied musically but in news and sports, Sirius holding the edge. To make a little joke, if you are a fan of Stern go with Sirius, if you like Q&A go XM. Anyway, it’s hard to say which one is better, but, what can I say is that both Satellites are worth paying for.

The first patents on the iPhone 5 out of 3D technology alerts popped up close and Sony was the best placed.Japan is the biggest bet on the three dimensions from here on with Nintendo’s 3DS and there are several guidelines to make implementing these bases, one of them for example to impose an 8 megapixel sensor.

According to CNET, the Japan is in the manufacture of millions of these to your arrival at the terminals of the company which will benefit from the technology of Exmor R, all part of the 8-megapixel quality.

It is known that three-dimensional photograph and also recorded in this great pattern, thus for example get to have one of the best cameras on the market, the iPhone 5.The manufacture of sensors will be completed by May, reaching for the month of June at Foxconn factories, mainly responsible for bringing the company’s terminals to the U.S. Apple and other territories.

iPhone 5 may appear there for the month of June or September in the U.S. market and a month later on the old continent with many possibilities.