Google has been found guilty by a French commercial court of abusing the dominant position of it’s Google Maps application. Google has been ordered by this court to pay a fine and damages to a French mapping company.   Google must pay 500,000 euros ($660,000) in damages and a 15,00 euro fine   The French mapping company provides the same services for a fee and it claimed that...

And that’s a quote. Below you will find the rest of their official statement. So NVIDIA isn’t supporting the SOPA, now let’s wait and see what AMD‘s “position” on this subject will be as they haven’t officially responded yet NVIDIA wasn’t consulted by ESA in formulating their position on SOPA. Our position is this: we oppose piracy, as it hurts our...

Firefox has released it’s latest version and says it will use 20 to 50% less memory and the “http://” URL prefix will be hidden by default now. Maybe this will get Firefox back in the game again. They managed to reduce the memory use by updating the frequency used for the garbage-collection-mechanism and by a more efficient way of assigning memory to the Firefox system-processes...

Facebook has responded to the publication of Nik Cubrilovic claiming Facebook will track it’s users via the Social-Website’s cookie even after logging out from facebook. At this point no official statement from Facebook has been given but the article is still a interesting read. Facebook Engineer “Arturo Bejar” comment son the alligations of Nik Cubrilovic, Arturo Bejar...

Hacker Nik Cubrilovic made an analasys on the http-headers that come from Facebook and the cookies that the social-network site produces. The new Facebook API makes it possible to send status updates to the Facebook Timeline without any actions take on the user side something Facebook likes to call “frictionless sharing” and not many people seem to like the new Friction Less Stalking...

The legal exchange of game-items and game gifts has gone life on steam. Welcome to the official launch of Steam Trading, which allows you to exchange In-game items and Gifts with everybody in the Steam Community. Now you can trade Steam Gifts and in-game items from Valve games Team Fortress 2 and Portal 2, as well as from Spiral Knights, the cooperative adventure from Three Rings and Sega....

With this new formation Intel hopes to streamline the government and it’s primarily focus will be “supercomputers” SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 30, 2011 – Intel Corporation today announced the formation of a wholly owned subsidiary, Intel Federal LLC, to provide strategic focus in order to better address new opportunities in working with the U.S. government. Initially Intel...

Hitachi, Sony and Toshiba announced they want to start a joint venture for producing small and mid range LCD panels. The three Japanese companies hope they can compete better against the Taiwanese and South-Korean LCD manufactures. - To establish a leading global company by integrating three companies’ businesses -   TOKYO, August 31, 2011 - Innovation Network Corporation of Japan...

So instead of making the 3D experience easier with smaller and lighter glasses Sony decides to go another way. These kind of Head Mounted Displays are normally used for virtual-reality purposes. - Offering a new 3D-viewing style with movie theater-like virtual screen experience -   Tokyo, Japan – August 31, 2011 – Sony Corporation (“Sony“) today announced the launch...

AMD has introduced it’s new C and E Accelerated Processing Units. The new APU’s that are used in Ultraportables, Netbooks and power efficient desktop PC’s the new APU’s also have added DDR3 1333MHz instead of DDR3 1066MHz (E series). While the new C APU’s get: Enhanced HD graphics capabilities Performance boosts with enhanced memory DisplayPort ++ for connecting to...

The successor to 3G / LTE or LTE Advanced (4G) is said to be installed in stores already. It has been known for quite some time that a new I-Phone supporting the LTE standard has been circulating around and being tested. It would make sense as 3G has been doing it’s job for quite some time now Here’s something unexpected: An Engadget tipster claims Apple’s installing LTE...

It might block more malware but it’s still not my favorite browser, I’m for chrome all the way. In Q2 of 2011, NSS Labs performed a test of web browser protection against socially-engineered malware targeting users around the globe. This test was in addition to our recent European and Asia-Pacific  browser tests. Socially-engineered malware is a widespread problem, claiming one...

The Drag and Drop noob friendly website design and publishing tool Create websites as easily as you create layouts for print. You can design and publish original HTML pages to the latest web standards without writing code. Now in beta, Muse makes it a snap to produce unique, professional websites Some of Muse’s Features: Plan your site: Easy-to-use sitemaps, master pages, and a host of...

And another one bites to dust, it’s like Google is playing real-life Pac-Man and keeps eating other big companies. Since its launch in November 2007, Android has not only dramatically increased consumer choice but also improved the entire mobile experience for users. Today, more than 150 million Android devices have been activated worldwide—with over 550,000 devices now lit up every...

Google announced some new improvements for it’s chrome web platform. Native Client allows C and C++ code to be executed inside the browser and Web Audio API that offers advanced audio capabilities. These new features should take Browser based games to the next level but only time will tell. Today’s new Beta channel release brings big improvements to Chrome’s web platform capabilities,...

Google announced on it’s official blog that it has added games support to Google+. With a newly added button on the top of the screen. Not only can games be played but it’s also possible to see game-updates from your “friends” circles. My family has a games closet. Inside you’ll find a few decks of cards, two decades’ worth of board games and a Twister mat for those...

New Specification Provides Next Generation Storage Solutions for Solid State and Hybrid Drives Beaverton, Ore. – August 09, 2011 –The Serial ATA International Organization (SATA-IO), the industry consortium dedicated to sustaining the quality, integrity and dissemination of Serial ATA (SATA™) technology, today announced it is developing SATA Express™, a new specification that combines...