Farewell to the processor socket: a storm in a teacup?
According to the Japanese website PC Watch Intel plans of the 2014 expected generation processor Broadwell no versions for desktop Desktop Boards with AC versions. Broadwell chips should therefore only in ball grid array (BGA) packages appear, which are intended for direct soldering onto PCBs.
From this information, PC Watch has concluded Intel might even want to deliver from 2014 no middle class processors for changing versions more. For such high-end PCs are expected to continue, however, are derived as the existing LGA2011 CPUs server processors.
Now Charlie Demerjian contributed by Semiaccurate.com more information. Therefore confirmed employee unnamed motherboard makers that Intel actually planning any change versions for mid-Broad Wells. This does not mean that after Haswell - appears likely as Core i5-4000 or i7-4000 - are no extra processors for LGA sockets longer on the market. Rather reported Demerjian, are expected in the 2015 CPU generation Skylake which again provided. If so, then there would be no mere Broadwell CPUs to change versions, the Haswell versions would simply stay longer in the race until the Skylake detachment occurs.
Microsoft Security Essentials fall through at AV-Test
The free Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) have in recent comparison test by AV-Test is not the only anti-virus program meets the requirements for certification. The lab is every two months out his results. In the pretest the Microsoft Scanner had cut even good enough to be certified. Last failed MSE is two years ago.
AV test examines the protection performance, the operability and performance of the disinfection protection programs, wherein the test candidates summarized at best can achieve 18 points. For the certificate at least 11 points are needed, where MSE is at 10.5 points slightly scarred over. Two months ago, Microsoft's anti-virus program has yet reached 12.5 points.
Quick update for Linux Mint 14
Linux Mint 1.14 fixes several serious errors in which only just over a week released Linux Mint 14 (Nadia). As Linux Mint-maker Clement Lefebvre wrote in his blog, there are three bugs: On EFI systems booted Linux Mint is not the 14th Especially for installations in virtual machines, there could be a problem with name resolution. Used especially with Intel video Linux Mint 14 generic driver without hardware acceleration, resulting in high CPU load and low performance from the desktop;. This bug was already known at the release of Nadia
Meanwhile, the download links point to Linux Mint 14.1, although the download page is still in Linux Mint 14 is mentioned. The mirror sites listed seem to have already updated all.
High-resolution movies for Sony's 4K TV
$ 25,000 is a steep price for a TV. Sony justifies the dissolution of the XBR-84X900 of 3840 × 2160 pixels. Unfortunately, there is little content that will be the 4K resolution requirements. For the U.S., Sony has announced to lend owners of 4K TV an additional hard disk player that is played with ten films and several shorts.
In the movies there are: The Amazing Spider-Man, Total Recall (2012), Bad Teacher, The Karate Kid (2010). Salt, Battle Los Angeles, The Other Guys, That's My Boy, Taxi Driver and The Bridge on the River Kwai. There are also some short films from the Red Bull Media House.
The player will be updated periodically with new offers. How Sony will do that is not yet known. Content is far lower resolution extrapolated from the X-Reality PRO picture engine, a proprietary upscaler, to nearly 4K resolution.
Windows 8: Good for the PC market - or rather does not it?
The consumer PC market has not been the launch of Windows 8 will receive the boost that would have been needed - with this assessment, the analysts at NPD Group, at least come for the current trend in the U.S.. Thus, the sales of Windows machines in the four weeks had declined since the introduction of the new operating system by 21 percent over the same period. While sales of notebooks in the U.S. declined by as much as 24 percent, the NPD analysts registered with desktop PCs only a decline of 9 percent.
After all, but was just over half (58 percent) was the newly shipped Windows systems already equipped with Windows 8, as NPD analyst Stephen Baker said. Also, the market research context had recently said that the sales of Windows 8 would develop in Western Europe "as expected". Meanwhile, Microsoft says more than 40 million
United Nations from Wikimedia
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The Wikimedia movement behind the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia is getting a new center: The Wikimedia Chapters Association (WCA) settles in Geneva and hopes to create a counterbalance to the headquarters of the Wikimedia Foundation, based in San Francisco. Before the new organization but must clarify their finances.
The WCA is an association of national organizations Wikimedia. 21 of a total of 39 so-called Chapter have already joined the new body. The national organizations have no direct responsibility for the Wikipedia, the main servers are operated in single director of the Wikimedia Foundation. They instead serve as a focal point for public and community in each country to organize events and advocacy. Wikimedia Germany, by far the largest and oldest organization Wikimedia, the implementation of the Wikipedia database facts Wikidata took over.
Intranet clause in the Copyright Act extended again
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With the voices of the black-yellow coalition of the SPD and the Bundestag in the early hours of Friday extended the Intranet clause in copyright law for two years. May These are the third temporary continuation of Section 52 a volume of the law restrictively designed usually teachers and researchers "small part" of works by a "certain limited range of teaching participants" for educational purposes made available in a closed network.
"Sweetness and light and clarity are not thus creating really," admitted Ansgar Heveling of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group in the speeches for the record. Rather become "forced" a state of uncertainty continued. Within the next two years, the federal government should finally provide "valid data to use" the paragraph.
For the FDP Stephan Thomae underlined that the provision had proven and large. For the schools sector the states with all CRMs total contracts were concluded, in which the conditions of use are controlled for these works. The same applied for the use of schools.
Sky records football game in 4K
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Munich pay-TV broadcaster Sky has announced for the first time to want to record in German TV history in a football game, "Ultra HD", so with four times the full HD resolution. On Saturday it will be in the Bundesliga match against Bayern Munich Borussia Dortmund two 4K cameras are used. According to Sky wants to "underline position as an innovation leader in the TV and entertainment area in Germany and Austria" his.
But even if Sky CEO Brian Sullivan this result by saying, "Ultra HD is incredibly exciting for us and even more exciting for our customers," comments the audience of the new image quality has been nothing. Actually serves to record the pay-TV channel only "internal testing", but nevertheless should be "just the first of many more steps" in the Ultra HD. A TV broadcast is according to the official press release at this time is not explicitly planned
Vodafone contradicts the Vodafail campaign
Rapp points out that all mobile customers could use the mentioned services instant messaging, P2P and VoIP. If they are not already included in the contract, they could be booked. Sun Instant Messaging is all RED rates allowed in three of four VoIP and P2P can be booked separately. The customers for specific services forego if they can save money by, let the digital society seem absurd, yet it give these people.
Microsoft executive Achim Berg joins Bertelsmann
The Microsoft executive Achim Berg leaves the software company after six years and is the beginning of April CEO of Bertelsmann subsidiary Arvato. "We are very pleased that an internationally experienced top manager has opted for Bertelsmann," Bertelsmann spokesman Markus Harbaum told dpa. Berg is a recognized expert in marketing and sales of high-tech solutions. This was in the wake of stronger digital transformation of Bertelsmann's Arvato as a whole have been a major reason for the appeal.
Berg was last seen at the headquarters of Microsoft responsible for relations with telecommunications companies that should he win for the Windows Phone platform. Previously, he was CEO of Microsoft Germany. Berg joins Arvato succeeds Rolf Buch, who, according to Bertelsmann, "the leadership of Arvato Bertelsmann and from the management board on the most agreeable resigns of his own accord at the end." Arvato has more than 68,000 employees of the largest service providers for print and digital publications and a wide variety of business processes.
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