According to Electronista, the exhibition CeBIT Apple, Siemens and another company, Sisvel, was forced to close for violating patents exhibit booth one of the companies producing netbooks and electronic books. The name of this company is not disclosed, the contents of the alleged infringement of patents is also unknown.

On Thursday last week the lawyers of the three companies presented her a fine of 10 thousand euros, and the next day, exhibition, visited Germany and the police closed the company's stand.

A member of the Apple reported that it was not the only company to which Apple had a patent claim.

This incident is typical at CeBIT: many companies are placing it at the exhibition each other claim for patent infringement.

Via Electronista

Site TorrentFreak computed the number of movie downloads with BitTorrent, and on this basis amounted to rating the best films of last year. Since yesterday held a ceremony MTV Movie Oscar », TorrentFreak also presented his comic" Oscar ", and they became the film" District number 9 »(District 9): he was download 12 639 000 times. "Avatar" is not enough just a bit: it downloaded 11 326 000 times. However, here it is important to mention that high-quality DVD-version of "Avatar" has appeared only a month ago, while the "District number 9" is available since September last year. But "Avatar" bypassed "District number 9" on the number of torrent files: 4280 against 2948, respectively.

Recall that these "Oscars" "Avatar" received three: for best special effects, the operator's work and art director. As the total number of awards "Avatar" lost film "Lord of the storm", which received six prestigious statuettes.

Via TorrentFreak

On Saturday last week, Vice Minister of China, Mao Wei (Miao Wei) has made an official comment on the sensational hacker attack against Google, which is considered in itself an American company, comes from the Chinese government. Wei promised to take measures to punish those responsible, if Google will provide relevant evidence.

"If Google has evidence that attacks were from China, the Chinese Government is pleased to provide information and severely punish those responsible in accordance with the law – said the vice minister. – We will never support the hacker attacks, because China itself is often the victim of such attacks. "

Wei added that Google has not sent a formal notification of the decision to withdraw from the Chinese market.

"If Google decides to continue business in China and will be subject to Chinese laws, then we welcome it", – he said.

Via Reuters

Apple to cut the price several times the annual subscription for a package of development tools Mac Developer Program (MDC) and abolished the category of this subscription. Previously, the package price ranged from $ 499 to $ 3499 depending on the category, now operates a single price of $ 99. Thus, the MDC now applies the same pricing as on the iPhone Developer Program.

Subscribers receive the MDC itself Mac OS X and the pre-release versions of all its member programs, have access to the developer forum Apple, can communicate with specialists, to consult and report bugs.

Tools Xcode is still free, but it does not include technical support for Apple and pre-release versions software.

Via AppleInsider

Korean media have told tearjerker about spouses that are so fond of online gaming that their three-month daughter died of starvation.

41-year-old man and his 25-year-old wife met two years ago in an Internet chat rooms. They were so avid fans of online multiplayer games that are regularly left their daughter home alone for many hours, while they themselves go to play in Internet cafes. One day, returning home after a 12-hour night absence, they found her daughter dead. An autopsy determined the cause of death was exhaustion from starvation. The investigation revealed that parents fed the daughter of late dry milk and occasionally beaten for crying.

It is noteworthy that one of the most favorite games of the spouses was Prius Online, in which players can create virtual families and even having children. There was just such a spouse, child playing, and his "education" they pay the lion's share of time. However in real life, they were both unemployed and lived with his wife's mother, who also winked at the dire state of his granddaughter.

In Korea, Compulsive gambling is very common, many doctors and other professionals speak openly about the fact that it is no less dangerous than drug addiction.

Via TGDaily

Specialists from JSK Robotics Laboratory created the android robot with a developed musculoskeletal system, just repeating the structure of the human body. In the robot has bones, muscles and tendons, with stronger and lighter than humans. With their help, he travels and performs various actions are "humanly". The robot was named Kodzhiro (Kojiro).

We Kodzhiro about 100 muscle joints and 60 degrees of freedom, which is quite a lot. Basic material – plastics, the movement carried out by means of electric motors. The design also has a lot of gyroscopes, accelerometers, and a variety of sensors. Now scientists are working on the mental and educational abilities Kodzhiro.

Via Engadget