Microsoft renames many Live services to

Nearly six months before the likely start of Windows 8 in October, Microsoft has a name change for a number of separate services announced. This should be possible in future the names the same across platforms, or at least similar.

This has effects primarily on the Windows Live brand, which is used since 2005. These will disappear almost entirely by the renaming. Most users here is the conversion of Windows Live ID concern. In the future it will become a Microsoft account, with which all other bids are linked. Owners of such ID will automatically receive a SkyDrive account. In addition, purchases in the three online stores – Store Windows, Xbox Live and Zune store – with the same ID can be made.

NVidia is preparing a “super” Tesla

With the high power than NVidia GTX 680 has shown, many are beginning to shuffle how Kepler would be the NVidia platform in professional use. I speak of so-called GPGPU, or which has been the use of the GPU as a processing unit mass of information.

NVidia Tesla, widely used in certain sectors very professional, Kepler could upgrade to a superlative model: we speak of seven billion transistors, a really high figure considering that the 680 itself has about 3.5 billion. The new GPU would be accompanied by several gigabytes of GDDR5 memory ECC, from 2 to 16 GB depending on model, and of course would have an absurdly high price that has not yet been released.

This new NVidia Tesla based on Kepler is not official, but is expected to hit the market in mid-May conference taking advantage of a company official. Their end will be great computer workstations, servers farms and processing of information primarily used for medical, scientific or research. The specifics of the card are still unknown, but it sure does not leave us indifferent.

EA loosens restrictions on locked accounts Origin

Somewhat surprisingly, Electronic Arts, the terms of use of the online service Origin relaxed. In order to respond to another criticism of the platform since its inception as a competitor to Valve’s enormously successful Steam for controversy and concerns had been taken care of.

Users, the result of inappropriate behavior, codes or other violations of the terms of use may have been temporarily or permanently disabled, then after all, still the single player mode, the games they buy and use appropriate DLCs. This requires, however, put the affected account in the offline mode, which means “Go Offline” on the tab “Settings” using the option is no problem.

The gradual shift away from the restrictive use provisions should it just be because of the competition. Valve for this new EA regime has long been in the program. With the user rules can be worse because not win a piece of the pie, which seems to be the software giant is now probably arrived.

Youzee open to everyone but focuses on the “desktop experience”

Youzee move was expected to chip in # TheAppFest and finally it has. The video streaming service under flat rate is open today for anyone who wants to try it. Until now it was invite only.

In this encounter around the world of applications is also expected to announce the long-awaited mobile application Youzee. Finally, we have shown that they have prepared for the iPhone, but for now stay in a remote control to the desktop version, that after the coming to televisions , seem to want to strengthen before making the jump (we think necessary) to mobile platforms.

From this application we can control playback of the contents of your computer and browse the catalog, details of films and series, search using the filters and of course “send” play what we see. The application is free but need to be subscribers to use it.

Kino.to: advertising marketer arrested in Germany

Facilitation of copyright infringement will be some advertising service providers who were arrested recently by German investigators in connection with the closed platform Kino.to accused.

Targeted raids were of the Attorney General in this country performed in Dresden this week. The investigators went to advertising and more specifically, the so-called affiliate services, which have caused sales at Kino.to in the past.

A spokesman for the Attorney General’s Office confirmed to ‘ Spiegel Online ‘, a total of ten objects that were searched in five states. Because of existing arrest warrants in this regard, two men were arrested.

This action has been sought primarily in Germany-based business partner. Booked their advertisement were the current state of knowledge, according to a man in another EU country, which the German authorities could not yet grasp.

In the field of affiliate marketing, it is customary to offer just as Kino.to that the advertisements of a client are passed to other partners. In this way, the customer, you can quickly lose track of where the ads were actually relevant.

Should there be a process in this context, it is assumed that the defense argues in this direction. As a contract partner of the German service was not Kino.to directly, but an advertising sales abroad in appearance.

The previous investigation in relation to Kino.to directed against the direct operators, which may include a programmer or a system administrator included. Apparently, the investigators will now proceed to other parts of the value chain.

Nokia CEO: multicores are ‘a waste of battery’

Stephen Elop, chief of the Finnish mobile phone manufacturer Nokia, has spoken out in an interview with the use of polynuclear processors: This would just be wasting battery and bring the user no benefit.

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at Nokia told the Chinese newspaper Yangcheng Evening News “that” wasting so-called dual-core or quad-core smartphone only battery power, but for the consumers are not permanently useful, “which, according to Stephen Elop.

Background for the statements of the leaders Nokia, the Chinese launch of the campaign is already known by the Finnish manufacturer, which is called in China “Blown away by Lumia”. This smart phone owners are encouraged to compete against a Nokia Lumia 900 Windows Phone. If they succeed in a competitive device, the Nokia phone in terms of speed to beat, then they can win 1,000 Chinese yuan (about 120 €).

According to Elop, the Lumia 900 have never been to an iPhoneor Android phone is lost, even though the competitors set to just multi-core processors. Although recently had an initially recognized victory was in the “Windows Phone Challenge” (or “Smoked by Windows Phone”) caused some excitement, struck with the device, the end of March by a Galaxy Nexus owner, acted However, there is a 800th Lumia

Instagram for Android now available on Google Play

As we advance in mid-March, the Android version of Instagram would soon become a reality. The application is free and compatible with all devices that move Android Android 2.2 or more current system.

Not needed presentations, Instagram is a kind of social network for photography addicts with multiple options to improve our catches with vintage and blur filters. Has exceeded 30 million users in IOS, the only platform where we could use it until now.

A first version without tilt shift

The Android interface Instagram has few differences from the IOS. It is divided into five sections: home, Popular, camera, News and our profile. The filters can be applied to our pictures are the same we had on the iPhone, but surprisingly not find the function Instagram star: tilt shift (selective blur option).

Another difference will lie less in need is the option to share our photos with Flickr and Posterous. Needless to say this is a first version, very late and that we can blame these two shortcomings, yes, but almost as complete as that of IOS.

Bitkom: LTE for 13 million homes available

When it comes to figures from the industry association Bitkom, it is the availability of LTE already pretty good: Currently in Germany, therefore, already use about 13 million households to the new wireless standard.

The source of this number is not independent, but is, according to a survey of Bitkom produced by the network operators. Accordingly, the vendors have been about 3,000 nationwide LTE base stations put into operation. More than 150,000 customers use this new technology.

“After the supply of rural areas now continue the expansion of LTE in the larger cities,” said Bitkom President Dieter Kempf. Already under way is the expansion in Dusseldorf, Cologne, Frankfurt / Main, Munich and Berlin. By the end of this year, LTE will be available in about 300 cities. The suppliers estimate up to then provide more than half of households in Germany with LTE can.

According to Bitkom investments will flow to 2015 8 to 10 billion euros in LTE development.

Petaflops computer: Fujitsu launches serial production

The Japanese computer giant Fujitsu has installed its first supercomputer with a capacity of over one petaflops started that arose in the context of mass production. The unit is housed in the supercomputing center at the University of Tokyo.

The installed system “Oakleaf-FX” brings it to the manufacturer for a performance of 1.13 petaflops. Fujitsu plans to sell computers in this series, which officially runs under the name PrimeHPC FX10, in the future on a number of other customers. Until recently it was available on computers that operate in the petaflops range, each specially designed to have special productions.

Fujitsu PrimeHPC FX10 series is based on the K-supercomputer , the Fujitsu-developed on behalf of the Japanese government. The systems are driven by the new Sparc64 IXfx processors with 16 cores and a clock frequency of 1.85 gigahertz. Each of these chips just brings it to a performance of 236 gigaflops.

Four of these processors are arranged on a blade server. About the specially developed tofu interconnect technology, they are in conjunction with other system components. They can communicate via Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) over the entire cluster with one another and connected via PCI-Express 2.0 to access external memory and other peripheral components.

The PrimeHPC FX10 series is designed to be scaled up to 1,024 racks with a total of 98 304 such nodes. In the maximum configuration then stood 6 petabytes of memory. Such a sytem would then apply it to a theoretical peak performance of 23 petaflops. The cost of a fully-developed supercomputer, but this class would then lie in $ 655.4 million. Would be added to operating costs, with a power of 22.4 megawatts and would not be very low.

GungHo: The energy drink specifically for video gamers

In the United States has recently sold a new energy drink called GungHo that will cater specifically to the needs of video recorders. A shot consisting of 22ml, where costs about three dollars.

The known side effects of other energy drinks, which can manifest themselves in excessive consumption, should not there at GungHo. This should be understood, for example, impaired hand-eye coordination or shaky hands.

Especially video player will therefore benefit from the effect of the new drinks. The manufacturer would seem particularly appealing in these circles, a large target group.

GungHo: An energy drink designed for video players ( HD version )

On behalf of the energy drink manufacturer, the University of Utah conducted a study and in many video players asked if they are they satisfied with the commonly consumed drinks. It turned out allegedly that 50 percent of gamers are dissatisfied.

As shown in the accompanying video, you will be able to focus on the consumption of GungHo like a ninja. At the same time would be increased ability to focus and improve memory, says the manufacturer. Thanks to beta-endorphins, the energy drink’m even happy.

When and if GungHo will also be available in this country, the manufacturer has not told with more detail.