Dell announced 10" Netbook

Dell joined to Netbook club. The 10" Netbook, named Inspiron Mini 10, has display with resolution 1024 x 576 (16:9), Intel Atom Z520 @ 1.33 Ghz, 120 GB hard drive, 1 GB RAM and Wi-FI 802.11b/g. You can also get more powerful model with 802.11n, Atom Z530 @ 1.6 Ghz and 160 GB hard drive. In the feature it will be availble built-in GPS, TV-Tuner, HSDPA 3G, 250 GB hard drive and 2 GB RAM. It comes in various choice of colours: Obsidian Black, Alpine White, Cherry Red, Pretty Pink, Ice Blue and Jade Green.

Google was down

If you tried to access your Gmail yesterday about 9.30 GMT for about 2.30 hours! worldwide for consumer and business accounts too - Google Apps. This is not good news if I mention that Google Apps Premier cost 50$ per year. They guarantee the data will be accessible 99.9% of time (9 hours not working in whole year). This is not guaranteed for users, who are using free Google Apps. Google find the bright side in that problem, telling users, that they can try Gmail Offline to read and browse old e-mails. On Google blog they posted the update what happened with explanation:

This morning, there was a routine maintenance event in one of our European data centers. This typically causes no disruption because accounts are simply served out of another data center.

Unexpected side effects of some new code that tries to keep data geographically close to its owner caused another data center in Europe to become overloaded, and that caused cascading problems from one data center to another. It took us about an hour to get it all back under control.

Google Earth revealed hidden CIA millitary base

Although the Pakistan government in 2006 claimed that the USA does not have any millitary bases in Pakistan anymore, the records (2006) from Google Earth, revealed that the US was secretly flying unmanned drones from the Shamsi airbase.

From this airbase the CIA was secretly launching the Predator drones that observed and attacked al-Qaeda and Taleban militants around Pakistan's border with Afghanistan. On later Google Earth records is possible to see new hangar, which experts assume to be for storing three Predators.

Big Google is watching you!

NVIDIA supports OpenGL 3

Three weeks after AMD, NVIDIA announced their version of graphic drivers, which fully supports and takes full advantage of all OpenGL 3.0 capabilities, accelerating their delivery of cutting-edge media platforms and applications. GeForce 182.06 (WHQL) drivers will be supported by GeForce 6,7,8,9 and 200. NVIDIA promised to provide users with most advanced functionality, best performance and widest compatibility possible. Due to OpenGL 3.0 the games like Fallout 3, Half Life 2 and Race Driver, will run faster for about 10% if antialiasing is enabled. They improved PhysX, which won't have any issues anymore with non-english systems. You can download the new drivers here.

The Pirate Bay trial

On monday The Pirate Bay trial has started. Without a doubt this is the most important case the file-sharing community has ever witnessed. This is going to be express trial, which will ends in just a couple days. On the second day of the Pirate Bay trial, due to shortcomings in the prosecution evidence, around 50% of the charges in the case are going to have to be withdrawn. The prosecution cannot prove that the .torrent files used as a evidence are actually using The Pirate Bay tracker. The charges left, are just relating to "asisting making available" Everything related to the production will be removed from the claim, said prosecutor Håkan Roswall. The defense said that this is a sensation. How many times does happen to drop half of charges in just one day of trial? Peter Sunde said that this is a "EPIC WINNING LOL".

Third day of trial has court ended early. Prosecution presented the amended charges. The defendants all called for acquittal while Carl Lundström’s lawyer scored points with the already legendary ‘King Kong’ defense. According to IFPI's Peter Danowsky, the damages claimed to the Pirate Bay are just the same as if the site had "legally" obtained licenses to distribute the music world-wide, regardless of whether all the downloader had later decided to buy the music or not. He called the Pirate Bay organized crime on grand scale, which made significant revenues. “If I have all this money they claim, someone has apparently stolen it from me,” Peter Sunde twittered in a reponse.

On fourth day the trial has focused on Fredrik, questioned at lenght. Movie industry lawyer Monique Wadsted unexpectedly introduced new evidence. The defence and the court complained at this point, with Wadsted choosing to shout down the judge. Later in a trial Fredrik was questioned about his relation to advertiser Oded Daniel. When the prosecution asked if Oded was involved in the technical aspects of TPB, Fredrik replied.. “No, he’s not good at that. He uses Windows, so…” There was laughter heard on the live audio feed after that remark, not from the court room, but from the listening lounge next door where the bloggers are situated.

If you want to check latest complet updates on a whole story also check Torrentfreak blog, where they are up to date with the full story of trial.

LCD TV market losing steam

In the last quarter of year 2008 the total number of shipments of LCD TV in North America was lower comparing to the last quarter in year 2007 according to data released by DisplaySearch.

Instead of 8.9 million LCD TV, it was sold just 8.7 million. Plasma TV shipments increasead by 28% during the fourth quarter of 2008 and overall were up to 10% for the year. The number of major manufactures of plasma sets is declining. Third biggest manufacturer Vizio will decease production of plasma and focus entirely on LCD TVs. The NEC has allready deceased production of plasma and
the Pioneer is also leaning toward exiting of plasma business. That leaves only Panasonic, Samsung and LG manufacturing plasma sets.

10 privacy settings every Facebook user should know

Web page All Facebook announced 1o privacy settings every Facebook user should know.

They advise to users how to use their friend list, how to remove theirself from Facebook search results, how to remove theirself from Google, how to make contact information private and much more. For full 10 advise with instruction visit their web page.