Microsoft began selling another version of the tablet

Microsoft began selling another version of the tablet

       Microsoft Corp. today announced another expansion of its retail partners, who will soon begin selling Internet tablets Surface, and also provided evidence that soon the market will be another kind of Internet Tablet Surface Pro, designed for business. 

        Reportedly, the new version of the tablet will be the most advanced and functional of all. The size of the memory it will be increased to 256GB, and the cost in the U.S. market will reach $ 1,200. Recall versions with 64 and 128 gigabytes worth 900 and $ 1,000, respectively. 

      The rest of the hardware components in tablets identical. Noteworthy is the fact that the new tablet is based not on the basis of the announced one month ago chips Intel Haswell, and on the previous generation, while many alternative tablet manufacturers have already announced Haswell-model.

        As the processor used in the Surface Pro Intel Ivy Bridge Core i5-3317U. Also, it is worth recalling that in the past, many analysts have criticized Microsoft for what the company sells and so too expensive tablets that weak demand. The experts recommended that Microsoft releasing more budget device, but the Microsoft, as can be seen, not heard of it.

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Microsoft executive heads Zynga

Microsoft executive heads Zynga

            Zynga company picked itself a new CEO, who will do its development in the near future and try to lift the company out of a depressive state at least to the same position held by her at the time Zynga to market. As can be seen from the official statements of the company and its new CEO is Don Mattrick, who until recently headed to Microsoft's software development for the Xbox, and was one of the senior managers of the corporation.

            Among Zynga He replaces founder Mark Pincus, who originally filed great promise in terms of development, but in the last year was a disappointment, investors unsatisfactory results of the company. According to the decision Zynga, Mattrick will lead all of the current activities, while Mark Pincus will continue to be a major shareholder of Zynga and will be led by the company's board. Zynga said in a statement that Mattrick has unique qualities - he has experience in the gaming industry in the software and in the hardware that will allow Zynga increasingly go mobile and console devices.

            "He was at one time responsible for the creation of products such as Need For Speed, FIFA, The Sims, and others. He is one of the few managers who can manage the whole cycle of product development, the game industry. Besides, he has a deep understanding of the meaning and value of network games and the importance of building quality relationships with customers, "- said in a statement Pincus.

             Prior to Microsoft Mattrick worked at Electronic Arts, he moved to Redmond in 2007, immediately taking up Xbox-direction. Analysts say that Zynga coming Mattrick - this is a positive step , but for Microsoft opposite. Especially in light of the upcoming release of Xbox One and the criticism that has already sounded to the game console.

              Newspaper The Wall Street Journal notes that the company Zynga was recently a lot of both organizational and financial problems that forced her to abandon the development of projects , turn the support of the previously created games, as well as to mass layoffs and the closure of several studios in the United States.

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Underground bacteria will be the last inhabitants of the Earth

Underground bacteria will be the last inhabitants of the Earth

           At the time, deep underground and underwater bacteria and microorganisms were the first inhabitants living on Earth. Scientists believe that they are the same and the last ones left on the planet in the end. To a similar conclusion was reached by the Scottish biologists who tried to predict the pattern of development of the planet. They found that when our Sun will become bigger and hotter, only underground microbes will be able to get along with these extreme conditions. Jack James of the University of St.

           Andrews in Scotland, said that by the time the world will be very little oxygen, so the bacteria must be able to to survive in oxygen-free conditions in the high-pressure and high salinity, which is formed from drying out of the oceans. "The future of the Earth depends on the Sun, and our star will eventually be more and more bright," - he said. research team from Scotland took over based on the data on how our sun will grow in the future and based on this model is constructed of biology on Earth.

          According to their forecasts, a couple of billion years our sun will become so active that the oceans will evaporate, and after the Earth will pass a critical point in the atmosphere produced a high concentration of water, because the water will act as a greenhouse element, it will only increase the heat the planet. In the end, the temperature of the planet will be around 100-120 degrees Celsius, the researchers believe.

          Given the strong decrease in the levels of oxygen, it will put an end to the terrestrial and marine life of the Earth. In such circumstances, you can only survive deep underground, where the impact of a poisoned the atmosphere and the oceans dried up will not be so strongly felt. Scientists believe that bacteria of the future will be concentrated near the small remaining underground reservoirs.

         According to the calculations of researchers, our planet will become completely uninhabitable by 2.8 billion  years. Now experts say that their predictive model - a sort of a guide to action for search living in extraterrestrial conditions on planets where there are no signs of surface life.

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In RuNet growing DDoS-activity - the report data

In RuNet growing DDoS-activity - the report data

           Power DDoS-attacks in RuNet in the first half of 2013 has increased dramatically. If the second half of 2012, the average attack of this kind had capacity 109 Mb / s and the maximum should not exceed 2.9 GB / s, then in April of this year, experts have documented a number of attacks, with capacity of 10 Gb / s and above. This fact suggests that the attackers changed their ways and have adopted a more "potent" tools, according to a recent report, "Kaspersky Lab".

          Turning point in the spring of this year were sustained DDoS-attacks on a number of Russian web resources, in reflection who took part, "Kaspersky Lab". At the turn of March and April 2013 attackers for three days attacked the website of "Novaya Gazeta": taking as the main tactics of powerful attacks such as DNS Amplification, cybercriminals during peak hours, "raised" traffic above 60 Gb / s. Because of this powerful attacks were briefly locked even channels a few large providers. Yet another case of the application of tactics DNS Amplification was recorded in just a few days

           Intruders attack site of a small Russian financial organization - there attack power is also significantly higher than 10 Gb / s. Moreover, all in the same month cybercriminals managed to "bring down" one of the largest hosting companies in RuNet - Ru-Center. Attackers used an extremely large-scale "weapon", which blocked channels hosting the center, resulting in inaccessible immediately became a lot of web resources. capacity described attacks and all their influence on large Internet channels illustrates the statistics of the Moscow Center for Internet Traffic msk-ix .

           At times of DDoS-attacks suffered entire providers and a large number of them have no relation to these incidents customers. It is such a "failure" and reflect data msk-ix. sharp "dip" in Internet traffic, as recorded by msk-ix 2 April 2013 at the time of the powerful DDoS-attacks "Today in RuNet DDoS-attacks such as DNS Amplification ceased to be something unusual. When a site or a resource does not give up under the pressure of low-power attack, attackers use this type of attack and block hosting, data center , service provider or group of providers.

            From this tool, no one is immune. DNS Amplification attack types can be compared with the explosion of gas cylinder in a separate apartment high-rises - such an explosion could destroy the whole staircase ", - says Alexey Afanasyev, project manager Kaspersky DDoS Prevention« Kaspersky Lab. "

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Microsoft TechNet closing system

Microsoft TechNet closing system

          Microsoft is preparing to roll the system subscriptions to technical system TechNet, designed for IT administrators and programmers. Launched in 1998 TechNet allow IT professionals to obtain permanent licenses for both client and server version of Windows.

          Although these licenses are technically designed for the needs assessment and testing, many have used them as a cheap license for the personal computer. Today Microsoft TechNet subscribers informed that new subscriptions will be available until August 31, and their activation can be carried out until September 30, that is technically work TechNet will be terminated one year later - September 30, 2014. Volume Licence for customers TechNet subscription will run for the duration of the license.

           Note that closing TechNet comes against the background of the growing incidence of resales cheap Technet-licenses for the commercial market. Today, Microsoft announced that the online catalog software Windows Store crossed the mark 100 000 applications. Microsoft says that the significant increase in the activity of programmers in the Windows Store comes after the announcement of Windows 8.1, as well as the last conference Build.

            Recall that the Windows Store catalog was launched in October last year. should be noted that to achieve the level of 100,000 programs Windows Store catalog took 7 months, whereas Windows Phone Store for the same thing it took 18 months.

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Apple is building a solar power plant in Nevada

Apple is building a solar power plant in Nevada

 Reuters has reported that Apple is planning to build a new solar power plant with a contract organization NV Energy. It is expected that the new plant will supply electricity to a new data center Apple, located near the city of Reno, Nevada. Earlier, the world's leading IT companies have been criticized for the creation of large data centers, the power of which consume large amounts of electricity, causing significant emissions of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere .

Over the last year or two of Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook and Apple are independently started to build the so-called "green" data centers that feed in varying degrees by the energy from renewable sources. The companies say that the construction of data centers - is vynezhdennaya measure that allows them to cope with the growing volume of traffic.

 expected that the new solar power plant in Nevada will be managed by Sierra Pacific Power Co. After the completion of the solar power plant will generate about 43.5 million kW / h of clean electricity per year. Today, Apple already has the largest U.S. data center that is partially powered by solar energy. Power, based in North Carolina, consumes 167 million kW / h, which is enough energy for 17,600 private homes.

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Yahoo buys IT startup Bignoggins Productions

Yahoo buys IT startup Bignoggins Productions

       Internet company Yahoo obvila today the acquisition of mobile startup Bignoggins Productions as part of a previously announced campaign for the development of mobile activities.

       Recall that recently, Yahoo announced several small corporate acquisitions and the purchase Tumblr blog service for $ 1.1 billion. Bignoggins absorption cost is not disclosed.

        In Yahoo said that engineers acquired company will join the development team for Yahoo in mobile products. The company was established Californian IT entrepreneur Jerry Shen, the headquarters is located in San Jose.

         Today in porfele Bignoggins includes such applications as Fantasy Monster or Draft Monster. At Yahoo has not said exactly how are going to develop the purchased asset.

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India today launches first navigation satellite

India today launches first navigation satellite

      India today will launch the first of a series of planned space launches its navigation satellites, designed to create a national navigation system IRNSS (Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System). The intensification of India's efforts against the background of how China has set up more than half of its Beidou navigation system.

      Chapter of Indian space organization ISRO Devi Prasad Karnik says IRNSS designed in such a way as to provide accurate navigation data and additional services over the territory of India and within a radius of 1500 km from its borders.

       The launch with the first satellite is expected today from the territory of Andhra Pradesh in the south-east of the country at 21:41 MSK. According to the adopted plan now, India will launch one satellite every six months, and fully functional navigation system will be in 2015.

       It is known that in addition to military navigation IRNSS will provide civil services related to transportation management, monitoring, disaster, and civil positioning. For military satellite navigation signal will be encrypted. Reportedly, the cost of the project amounts to 14.2 billion rupees, or $ 237 million.

       Satellite constellation Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) will consist of seven satellites in geosynchronous orbits at an altitude of 24,000 km. They will broadcast information about the location and time signals.

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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has written off GALEX

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has written off GALEX

       On the eve of NASA reported that disabled the telescope GALEX (Galaxy Evolution Explorer) after nearly 10 years of operation of the latter. The apparatus, as the name implies, studied the evolution of galaxies, using its ultraviolet eyes. GALEX was researching galaxies far from us at a distance of 10 billion light years. According to the space agency, the signal on the decommissioning GALEX was given from the Mission Control Center Orbital Sciences Corp in Dulles last Friday. 

       According to calculations of ballistics, the unit will be in Earth orbit for approximately 65 years, after which it will begin to fall and actively burn on re-entry. machine was launched April 28, 2003 with the launch vehicle Pegasus XL and launched into an almost circular orbit at 697 km with an inclination of about 29 degrees. The first observation of 21 May 2003 was dedicated to the crew of space shuttle Columbia, in the course of which were obtained images of the sky in the constellation Hercules. 

       This area was chosen for the reason that it is in the direction of the constellation was the shuttle during the last contact with mission control. Sputnik produced Corporation Orbital Sciences Corporation based platform LeoStar-2. Originally allocated for 29 months to work planned to look into the history of the universe 10 billion years ago, in order to figure out how to form stars and galaxies.

       Space Observatory has studied hundreds of thousands of galaxies, based on the results of these observations has been compiled several surveys of the sky. In 2007, a member of the research team Telescope Mike Seibert discovery was made, indicating the fate of stars like the Sun. This is made ​​possible by the ability of the detector telescope Galex focus on one type of radiation. The star Mira was discovered tail of gas and dust around a long 2 degrees (13 light years). 

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Nokia becomes the sole owner of the Nokia Siemens Networks

Nokia becomes the sole owner of the Nokia Siemens Networks

       According to Bloomberg, Nokia has agreed to acquire the German Siemens its stake in Nokia Siemens Networks. Citing anonymous sources close to the company, Bloomberg reports that Nokia and Siemens are to formally announce the deal today, although it is still subject of negotiations between the parties, nothing was reported. known that Nokia will pay a 50% share of Siemens slightly less than $ 2 billion, or $ 2.6 billion, and Nokia itself does not have the money, so the company will use the complex structure of loans to raise money.

       Sources say that although the middle of the year between Nokia and Siemens have a moratorium on the sale of their shares, the German company decided to sell a few years ago. By selling a stake in NSN, Siemens intends to focus on the production of equipment for power, rail and public health. For Nokia, which did not take off in the smartphone market, the transaction is a chance as well as an additional burden.

        Nokia gets full control of NSN, which allows the company to more broadly representative of the telecom market and actively negotiate with the operators, on the other hand the company is now experiencing a shortage of hard cash and additional spending $ 2 billion - a dangerous maneuver. known that Siemens previously led negotiating the sale of its stake in NSN with a number of management companies and investment funds, but Nokia has always been seen as a priority customer.

       Also, there is evidence that even in 2011, Nokia and Siemens, faced with financial and organizational problems in the NSN, held talks on raising their third investor in the joint venture, but have not been able to agree on the transaction. According to estimates Bloomberg, now the net cash balance Nokia is 4.5 billion euros, 100 million euros more than in the previous quarter. All three major rating agencies hold rating on Nokia debt to junk level. Updated on 9:05 MSK: press service of Nokia and Siemens officially confirmed the sale of a 50% share of Siemens, Nokia. The transaction value was 1.7 billion euros.

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