Netflix is ​​coming to Europe

Netflix is ​​coming to Europe

American broadcast video service Netflix begins European expansion. Initially, the company operated only in the United States, where the market for cable TV and extra pay TV is very developed, but in recent years the dynamics of connecting new customers significantly decreased. In the second quarter of this year, the company has connected only 570,000 new subscribers in the United States, while outside the country - already 1.1 million. On leaving Netflix in Europe, industry experts said a long time ago. However, the company had no experience in the European market, and it is significantly different from America, both in terms of content and its presentation. 

Nevertheless, the company's management says that now becomes important for Netflix is international expansion. Total European company plans to appear on Germany, France, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium and Luxembourg. In France and Germany, the company's services were launched on Monday and Tuesday respectively. Management believes Netflix, here is the highest in demand video broadcasting services at relatively low market saturation and high solvency of the population. example, in Germany Netflix service plans start with a mark of 7.99 euros. 

Here the company will offer both content previously proposed in the United States, as well as local produce. Users can connect to the system, not only on the smart TV, but also on the PC, smartphones, tablets and gaming consoles. In addition, an agreement was signed with the operator Deutsche Telekom on connecting Netflix to its platform IPTV (French platform works through the operator Orange - Ed.). Netflix also will be offered as a separate hardware solutions. 

Earlier, in a restricted mode Netflix earned in countries such as Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden and the Netherlands. According to the forecast of the company, due to operations in the European market Netflix can expand your customer base by 6.5 million people. Total for today Netflix about 50 million customers, of which approximately 13.8 million are outside the United States.

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Scientists chose the landing site for the machine Rosetta

Scientists chose the landing site for the machine Rosetta

Spacecraft "Rosetta" will try to send a comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko probe "Philae" to take soil samples. Staff at the European Space Agency chose the relatively flat portion of the surface of the comet, named after the scientists who discovered it in 1969 - Klim Churyumov and Svetlana Gerasimenko. According to experts, to carry out the landing on the comet's surface will not be easy. Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko, which hurtles through space at a distance of 440 million km from the Earth, - irregular shape, and even on the flat surface of the can is potentially dangerous boulders and cracks. According to preliminary data, the probability of a successful landing is 70-75%. According to the plan, the probe "Rosetta" must land on a comet on 11 November. "Rosetta" send probe "Philae" comet at a distance of about 10 kilometers. Device, its appearance resembling a spider will move over the surface "at a walking pace." 

"Philae" will cling to the surface of the comet with the screws and harpoons - on the comet is very small gravitational pull. distance from the Earth to "Rosetta" is so great that operational control of the spacecraft and the probe "Philae" is impossible, and the whole operation "landing" on the comet 67P will be held in the automatic mode, the last team "Rosetta" and "Philae" will give a few days before the operation. Landing probe "Philae" discussed at the weekend in Toulouse. Scientists and engineers in a few weeks studying "ice mountain", also known as the comet, in search of a relatively flat area, for which they will be able to land a robot.

 Among the five potential sites for planting now there are only two - the main and spare. Over the coming weeks, the researchers will decide which one is more appropriate, and take a final decision in mid-October. entire process of separation, descent and landing, is expected to take seven o'clock. If "Philae" successfully sit on the surface of the comet, it will be a historic moment in space exploration. "Philae" is equipped with a drill, the robot will be able to take soil samples from a comet in his laboratory. "If we get a few measurements and a few samples, it will be a success," - says Dan-Pierre Bibring, one of the leading researchers in this project. 

But regardless of whether the landing will take place successfully or not, "Rosetta" will follow the comet Churyumov -Gerasimenko at least for a year. Machine receives the image of the comet, the surface of which, as it approaches the sun will evaporate the ice, throwing gas flows and a huge cloud of dust into space.

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Alibaba could attract in the market more than 25 billion dollars

Alibaba could attract in the market more than 25 billion dollars

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, going on this week at the American stock market, raised the price range on Monday sales of its shares from 60-66 dollars per share to 66-68 dollars. This is stated in the published today Form F-1 of Alibaba. According to the company, the decision to raise the price on the output market obuslovnenno already significantly oversubscribed order book for purchase. In Alibaba say that all the declared amount of the sale of shares already signed at the offered price, so the company raises kordior to balance supply and demand. note that at a price of 60-66 dollars per share, the Chinese Internet giant could bring on the market for about 24 billion, which has already made ​​the largest IPO in the history of the American stock market. 

Raising the price to $ 68, the company can draw on the market for more than 25 billion dollars. Today, IT placement record is owned by Facebook, which in 2012 attracted 16 billion dollars. If Alibaba declared attract $ 25 billion, its IPO will block 19.1 billion dollars in 2008 were attracted by Visa. Alibaba plans to sell shares under the symbol BABA on the New York Stock Exchange. Alibaba Now the company is not represented in the business sector Europe or the United States (with the exception of orders from China for the delivery of goods), but in China's scale of operations is huge. The company owns several sites e-commerce, including Taobao - an online platform like Ebay, as well as the online catalog Tmall, where big brands sell their products directly to end customers. In June this year, the company launched a new online project 11 Main, to work in the United States, but today it is not achieved significant success in the American market.

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MIT led the world ranking of universities

MIT led the world ranking of universities

The British company Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) has published an annual ranking of higher education institutions. First place, as a year ago, won the American Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Followed by the British University of Cambridge, which has improved performance compared with 2013 year. Troika closes Imperial College London, ITAR-TASS reported. Next comes one of the most famous universities in the United States - Harvard. Fifth place in the ranking was divided Oxford University, located in Oxfordshire in southern England, and University College London. The remaining four positions went to American universities - Stanford University, California Institute of Technology, Princeton and Yale. 

"With the economic downturn the government and private funding sources are focusing on high-impact-based (science, technology, engineering and mathematics), most of which is studied in the specialized institutions "- said study author Ben Souther. According to him "technically-oriented institutions are increasingly becoming the basis of the global race for innovation." "With the growth of the budgets from state sources, institutions seem to be more focused on the potentially lucrative research in the field of science, technology and medicine," - he said. MSU was the only Russian university, which came in the top 200 best universities, ranking 114th among the world's best universities and climbed six places compared with 2013 year. 

Saint-Petersburg State University became the 233rd, up 7 positions from 2013. 322 th and 328 th place occupied Moscow State Technical University named after Bauman and Novosibirsk State University, respectively. Moscow State Institute of International Relations took place 399. A total of 863 high school rating included, 21 of them - Russia. It is also the Moscow Physical-Technical Institute, Russian Peoples' Friendship University, St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University, Tomsk State University, National Research University "Higher School of Economics", Tomsk Polytechnic University, Kazan Federal University, Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia BN N. Yeltsin, South and Far Eastern Federal University, Nizhny Novgorod State University named after NI Lobachevsky, Russian University of Economics named after GV Plekhanov and the Voronezh State University. First on the list were, and the National Research University "Moscow Engineering Physics Institute", Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys and Saratov national research university.

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Apple deletes the previously "donated" U2 album

Apple deletes the previously "donated" U2 album

Under pressure from users, Apple was forced to release a free utility that removes "free-imposed" a new album of the band U2. After many users suddenly found in their iTunes library records U2, on the iPhone maker a barrage of criticism with respect to abuse their access to the units sold. presentation on September 9th Apple solemnly announced that gives all its users a new album U2 «Songs of Innocence », but the company is obviously overestimated the popularity of the team by too aggressive method to spread his gift. 

Instead of just releasing an album in iTunes and make it free, Apple has added it to the library of each of the hundreds of millions of its users. And those who have not loaded tracks display is disabled by default, «Songs of Innocence» by itself appears in the list of albums. estimated that a new album was in the unit for about 500 million users of the company's products. Especially strong was the resentment of a young audiences of Apple, who are not familiar with the band U2. Apple has stated that after the album is removed from the user account, it is no longer possible to load a previously made ​​a purchase. In this case, the records themselves will remain free until October 13 of this year.

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McAfee: Phishing technique is an effective way to penetrate the corporate network

McAfee: Phishing technique is an effective way to penetrate the corporate network

McAfee Labs released a report on the threats in August 2014, revealing that the technique of phishing is an effective way to penetrate corporate networks. Test your skills to identify online fraud among corporate users, which was organized by the McAfee test to determine phishing, revealed that 80% of participants testing is not able to determine at least one of the seven phishing e-mail messages. Moreover, it appears that the financial and personnel departments of companies that store critical corporate information, coped with the worst test, lagging behind other corporate users an average of 4% to 9%. Since the publication of the report on the threats of the previous quarter, the number certain laboratory McAfee Labs phishing URL-links increased by 250,000, bringing the total amount collected in the past 12 months, new phishing addresses to one million addresses. Increased not only the total amount, but also the level of complexity of phishing attacks. 

The results showed that in the world of cyber criminals common strategy both attacks: both mass and targeted attacks. At the same time, the United States remains the leader in the number of phishing URLs in the world. "One of the most important tasks for us is to update the core technology of the Internet with a view to comply with the increased volume of traffic and the critical importance of network traffic, - says Pavel Eiges, regional director of Intel Security in Russia and the CIS. - In recent years, attacks were subjected to different levels of security systems: from passwords and public key encryption OpenSSL to USB. infrastructure on which we all depend, based on technologies that are not keeping pace with the times and no longer meet modern safety requirements. 

" The study also warns of the possibility of new cybercrime, as even after the disclosure of the vulnerability Heatbleed data exposed her sites continue to be on the black market. List of vulnerable sites and utilities to collect information quickly became popular with kiberpreustpnikov. With the help of these programs became possible to create an automated system to collect valuable information to vulnerable endpoints and systems. The report says that the number of new types of malware in the second quarter grew by only 1%.

 With that, the number was 31 million new samples, this is a record number of new malicious programs per quarter. The total number of malware for mobile platforms has increased by 17% in the second quarter, with the growth in the number of new viruses stabilized at 700,000 in the quarter. number of attacks such as "denial of service" (DoS) increased by 4% in the second quarter, makes such an attack the dominant type of network threats, the report said.

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Apple, Facebook and eBay have encountered problems with the server

Apple, Facebook and eBay have encountered problems with the server

Internet companies Facebook, Ebay and Apple over the past two days have faced disruptions in their services for users. On Facebook said that users of the social network for a short period of time have lost the ability to use the resource after company "made a mistake in configuring the server infrastructure." The press service of Facebook said that the error was sufficiently quickly find and correct. Ebay's say that and they number of people are not able to work with the resource. 

"This was the result of technical problems associated with the current server maintenance," the statement said Ebay. In the online company said that the majority of users were not affected by the failure. Problems in server subsystems Facebook and Ebay took place on Sept. 2 with a difference of a few hours, at a time when Apple and had problems with access to iTunes. According to the network metrics Apple, problems with iTunes observed on September 2 from 15:30 am to 21 pm on tihookenskomu time USA.

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AVG Technologies acquires Location Labs

AVG Technologies acquires Location Labs

 Antivirus vendor AVG Technologies buys private company Location Labs. The deal potentially valued at $ 220 million, the Board of Directors AVG holds an extraordinary meeting to approve the transaction. With AVG said that the agreement for the purchase of Location Labs will allow the company to expand their offer security products for mobile users. Under the deal being closed in the fourth quarter, the antivirus vendor pays $ 140 million now as a single payment, an additional 80 million paid in within two years.

 Recall that AVG Technologies entered the public market in February 2012. The company sells complete sets of software and online services to ensure data integrity, protection from spam and malware. Also in the line of products is the solution to optimize the performance of your computer and online service for backup. At Location Labs in the arsenal is a platform to ensure the security of mobile devices. In addition, the company has direct contracts with several large supply of mobile operators in Europe and the United States.

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Retailer The Home Depot could become a victim of hackers

Retailer The Home Depot could become a victim of hackers

Company Home Depot, one of the largest American retailers, today announced the initiation of an investigation "unusual activity" related to customer data. Home Depot - it is the world's largest seller of goods for repair and household items. The company is suspected to be victims of a hacker hacking, which resulted in the wrong hands could be numerous rooms banskovskih cards. Company announced that it is working with several American law enforcement authorities in connection with the incident.

 Known IT journalist with reference to their data reports that the incident with the Home Depot and the recent hacking of banks led by JP Morgan Chase - the links of one chain. They also wrote that soon stolen card numbers may appear on the black market data. "Protecting our customers' information - this is a topic to which we take very seriously. We actively collect evidence, while interacting with the police, "- says a spokesperson for Home Depot Paul Drake. 

Krebs writes that as a result of hacking IT systems Home Depot in the hands of hackers could be data from April to September 2014, and in the hands of could be information covering all 2,200 stores Home Depot. Earlier, victims of hackers have become some of the other major American retailers, such as Target, Michaels Store, Neiman Marcus and restaurant network PFChang's.

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HP Launches Services Business Intelligence Modernization

HP Launches Services Business Intelligence Modernization

HP Launches HP Business Intelligence Modernization - new package of services, and services designed to help organizations improve customer relationships. Today, most of the decisions in the field of business intelligence does not support the new data types and are able to generate reports only on the basis of traditional information files, not to mention the media Big Data. However, today's businesses small traditional data - it requires the ability to process unstructured information, as well as machine data collected, such as counters in real time. 

The new package of services, architectures, and HP technology to help customers improve their environment by integrating analytics big data. As said in a company statement, the packet is Business Intelligence Modernization Services offers a comprehensive approach to the analyst who covers the detection, assessment, modernization and transformation of data. In addition, the customer can choose various options for the deployment and use of these services for the continuous management of information. 

New Services HP Business Intelligence Modernization help address three critical business needs in the area of data analysis: Detection: visualization tools provide rapid detection of data across the organization. Data Analysis : HP offers solutions that ensure compliance with the specific requirements of the business in terms of data analysis. hybrid data management: special services allow you to integrate analytics into business processes and systems that use relevant data.

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