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Now you can get yourself an updated version of the classic Swiss army knife from Victorinex.

This Army knives have been manufactured since the late 1800s, and are known worldwide. But by supplying the latest models of blades with built-in USB memory the company shows that that their are planing for the furture.

Victorinex Secure are the 3 models called. A model of the knife that are equipped with a USB flash, and are protected with 256-bit encryption, and as an addition, the knife is equipped with a fingerprint reader so that you can not access the files on the memory but that you first identify yourself. Victorinex Secure is available in 8, 16 and 32GB of memory and costs between 100 to 240€

Google has since January threatened China (About this you can read one of my earlier post) with that they want/are going to stop censorship of its search engine in the country.
On Monday, Google has now made seriousness of their threat and left to censor search results in China.

With the text “Welcome to Google China’s new home.” greeted visitors who are trying to reach Google.cn then they are sent to Hong Kong-based Google.com.hk. With that, Google has now closed their Chinese search engine,

On Google.com.hk the censors is not that hard as it is on the Chinese search engine. One example is that on Google.com.hk can you find the famous image from Tiananmen Square, this is an example of material that Google has agreed to keep away from its users in China before.

It now remains to be seen whether users in China can reach google.com.hk or if this address will be blocked in the system that the government uses to control Internet access in the country.

The Chinese authorities have been in intense negotiations with representatives from Google and 12 January, Google announced that it no longer intends to put up on the Chinese regime’s requirements to filter search results, although if this would mean that the local search engine will be closed , or that Google must leave the country. It is believed that this decision is alleged to have been preceded by extensive intrusion attempts against Google and its users.

Google CEO Eric Schmidt has said that they always has insisted that the goal is to stay in China, but that it will not back from the requirement to remove the censorship from the search engine.

Norwegian Opera has now submitted Mini mobile web browser to the App Store.
If Apple will approve a competitor for iPhones Safari remains to be seen.

Analysts believe that Apple will stop Opera, so Apple can continue maintain control over the user’s surfing, say the news-agency Reuters.

Opera showed first up to Opera Mini for iPhone during the Mobile World Congress earlier this year. The developers say it is “rocket fast.” and claims that Mini load Web pages up to six times faster than the Apple iPhone’s default browser Safari.
The developers say it’s because Opera do compress data by up to 90 percent before it is sent to your mobile. This is an advantage, reducing costs for users that surf without a data plan with a fixed monthly fee, or if you use your iPhone abroad, says Opera.

Operas mini-browser is already available for several other mobile operating systems and will be available in more than 50 million handsets worldwide.

On Opera Mini’s page can you follow the time to see how long time ago it was submitted to iPhone for approve, this looks little like a PR-thing but quite cool if I can say that.

Some time ago Apple sent a subpoena requests in 20 potential patent states that have been done by HTC. Patent infringement is alleged to have been made in the iPhone hardware and software. Apple writes, for example, the finger used to unlock phones with the operating system Android is stolen from the Iphone. Phones that would infringe the patent Appels include Nexus One and HTC Hero.

HTC has not commented on this before. But during an interview with CEO Jason Mackenzie, Jason says the following:
“HTC strongly disagrees with Apple’s allegations. We will use all legal tools we have to both defend ourselves and to correct any misunderstandings. We feel confident in  our innovation and our ability to defend ourselves in this case. ”

Exactly how the company intends to defend itself will Jason do’t says anything about, but Jason, have mentions that a written formal statement will show up sometime in the next few weeks. Furthermore, said Jason Mackenzie, that it took some time depending on the HTC was taken by surprise by the allegations, business representatives found out of whats happened when the press called.
Analysts have speculated about a posteriori that this, really is an indirect attack from Apple to Google underlying operating system in most of the phones in question.
Google was when it came to light, quick to say that the company stands behind HTC and Android.

Jaguar, the world’s largest supercomputer, running on Linux Suse operating system, and its not only Jaguar that’s doing that, 6 of 10 of the biggest supercomputer in the world running on Suse Linux Enterprise Server operating system.
According to Top 500 Supercomputer Sites that periodically list the world’s largest supercomputer environments.
The list also tells that nine of the ten of the largest supercomputers use Linux as the operating system.

Jaguar is called the time of writing the largest supercomputer. It is the Department of Energy facility in Oak Ridge, USA. Jaguar was upgraded in 2009. Jaguar is a petascale supercomputer built by Cray at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. As of November 2009, it was the world’s fastest computer with a peak performance of more than 1750 teraflops (1.75 petaflops). A Cray XT5 system, Jaguar has 224,256 Opteron processor cores (1 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000).
Source Wikepedia

Last week, Facebook have the most traffic of Internet in the United States. Figures from Experian Hitwise showed that they had 7.07 percent of Internet traffic. That meens Facebook had more traffic then Google.

Facebook accounted for 7.07 percent of the traffic which is 0.4 percentage points more than Google, which had 7.03 per cent. Quite scary, what are people doing on the internet these days? Playing farmaville?

Yes if we will believe mine poll, so is Firefox the most used browser, with 36%, following of Chrome and Opera på 21%.
IE only 16% and Safari 6%

Nice that Opera was landing quite high up, it’s a really good browser that I can recommend all people, if you are interesting, download it here.

I also put up a new poll, dont be afraid to vote

In 2011, the new hard disk were to reach the market. The new format represents the biggest change among the hard drives of 30 years.
The format is different in the size of each block, the current block has a size of 512 bytes, while the new standard has 4 kb. This will make the hard disk to be more effective, and that space can be used in a more optimized way.

But for people that still running Windows XP or other older OS. This new format was planned after Windows XP was released. Other operating system like Vista, Windows 7, Leopard, Snow Leopard, and some versions of Linux are already prepared for the new disk format.

The older OS, however, will work with the new disk format, but you have to use a so-called emulation, but this will lead to a reduction in performance of up to 10% of disk access.

Today celebrating .Com address 25 years
The first ever registration took place on 15 March 1985 and the name was symbolics.com. Symbolic was then a successful IT company, a spin-offs from traditional universities, MIT in Boston.
The second registered BBN.com, come 6 weeks later. This should be compares with today. It is estimated that about 6000 names registered every day, over a period of 6 weeks, this will be 252,000 names

Below are the 6 names that will celebrates 25 this year, Remarkably that companies like IBM, Sun, Intel and HP. Which existed at this time did not register their name until the year after

1985 15 mar Symbolics.com
1985 24 apr BBN.com
1985 24 maj Think.com
1985 11 jul MCC.com
1985 30 sep DEC.com
1985 7 nov Northrop.com

Here are all of Google’s company that recent have been bought, which began in November last year, For more information about the companies, click on the links.

This is not mine text, its translated from one artikle on idg.se, but i thought is was something that should be here…..

A Russian student has managed to lay hands on the Red Star OS, which is a North Korean Linux distribution.
So far, it’s only in a Korean language version.

It is the Russian site Russia Today, which reports on the Red Star OS. A person who calls himself Mikhail and studying at Kim Il-sung University has purchased a copy of the Linux distribution for five dollars, installed it and writing a review.

Mikhail describes Red Star OS as stable and easy to install. The user interface similar to Windows. An interesting detail is that the system clock based on the North Korean calendar, which this year is the year 99 under Jucheideologin, the North Korean state basic ideology.

The browser included is based on Firefox, and provides access to the closed North Korean part of the Internet.

Now can you buy sex.com again. It has been said that this is the world’s most valuable domain names.

When sex.com was sold, it gave the former owner, Gary Kremer 14 million U.S. dollars, this is the highest sum ever paid for a domain name, this took place in 2006.
But now it’s for sale again, its states that the loan provider that was a backing-store for the company ESCOM, have not received their money, and now they put the domain name once again for sale.

Bidding will start on one million U.S. dollars and will start on 18 March.

Sex.com was registered in 1994 by Gary Kremer, it’s the same person that was starting the online dating site Match.com. It was also he that sold it for four years ago, and made himself a hefty profit.

Do you have porn on your computer, and has a suspicious boss, you should be worried.
With Porn Detection Stick, revealed easy, if you have pornographic pictures on your computer.
The company Paraben has developed the solution as ruthlessly find unseemly naked pictures on your hard disk. According to the company, they have developed a new method of analysis to find porn hard disk without it giving lots of false alarms.

When it plugs into the USB, the programs start to scan the disk, for image-files.
The images are broken down into pices and analyzed each one separately, then the program determines if there is a porn picture or not. Although pornographic pictures recently been removed from the hard drive, will also be found.
Paraben says that a scan of 72 000 images takes about one and half hour with only 400 false-alarm.

Porn Detection Stick is mainly for companies that want to control their employees’ computers or parents who are worried about children’s surfing habits.
USB stick with the program costs $ 100 plus shipping

And they proberly will need all the money, when I try to go to their page is was giving me following message “The domain “paraben-software.com” has expired”…..Really great

Google has finally won the right to a patent for advertising based on your location.

Google’s patent was registered in September 2003 but was not approved until last week. The patent is a technology to display ads based on where a certain person is present
Google bought at the end of last year, up Admob company specializing in localized advertising. Even Apple jumped on the train and purchased in January this year, the ad firm Quattro Wireless, which spent the same.

Localized advertising makes it possible to customize ads based on where a person is. Above all, it is thought that the ads should be served on a mobile device like a smartphone or PDA.

Are you not satisfied with the Windows Control Panel, there are not enough configuration options?
Then you should use God Mode, this is the Control Panel in Windows that is intended for developers and is infinitely more sophisticated than the usual control panel in the system. If you want to access God Mode, you will do it by creating a folder at any location on your computer such as desktop for an example and rename it to “GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C} .” This creates a new icon of the folder that gives you access to the panel.

Windows grew its market share in February at the same rate as OS X decreased.
According to a study from research firm Net Applications, Windows grew its market share in February.

In February, Windows accounted for 92.1 of the total operating system market according to Net Applications. Windows increase with only 0.1 of a percentage point, but it is the first increase since June 2009.

Like the previous trends, so reducing both Windows XP and Vista while Windows 7 continues to increase. Windows XP, fell to 65.5 percent of the market, down by 0.7 of a percentage point. Vista fell by a full percentage point and now account for 16.5 percent of the market.

Windows 7 continues to grow and in February it rose by 1.4 percentage points and now represents 8.9 percent of the market.
Apple’s OS X dropped 0.1 of a percentage point, just as much as Windows grew in February. OS X had in February 5.02 percent of the market.

The survey by Net Applications is based on analysis of 40 000 sites, which together have 160 million unique visitors each month. The survey in its entirety can be found here.