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Another trial of a loud series of “David vs. Goliath more” could begin soon. Virtually unknown up to now, the patent firm InNova Patent Licensing LLC appealed to the court with a lawsuit against a number of leading players in the IT industry, including companies Apple, Google, 3Com, HP, IBM, Yahoo, Research In Motion (RIM), Dell, Symantec, McAfee, Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, AOL, etc.

In its petition, sent to the Texas court, the patent owner accuses these companies of patent infringement under the number 6018761 which was issued to the founder InNova Womina Robert (Robert Uomini) about 15 years ago. This patent describes the methodology used to distinguish spam entering the e-mail, and the messages that really matter to users.

This InNova immodestly declares that it is due to its spam filtering technology e-mail system is still functioning. Obviously, this company wants to get monetary compensation for alleged violation of the patent holder to which it is, moreover, seems to have the required amount of compensation may be far from small.

The American company Corsair, known as a supplier of quality computer components, today announced the expansion of its family of SSD drives Force by three new models. New items have a capacity of 40, 80 and 160 GB and, as previously reported modifications in this line, implemented in 2.5-inch form factor and are equipped with memory controller SandForce SF-1200, providing a very good performance.

The family of SSD drives Corsair Force swell new models a capacity of 40, 80 and 160 GB

To connect to the system as a new solid-state drives family Corsair Force presence Interface SATA 3.0 Gbps, while they themselves are built on SSD chips, NAND flash memory with multilevel cell (MLC) and the support team TRIM in Windows 7 operating system, which allows them to maintain the original level of performance throughout life.

The maximum speed of reading and writing data from the new models can reach 285 and 275 Mb / s, respectively. Add that the new SSD drives in a line of Corsair Force equipped with a three-year warranty and is to appear in world markets in August, and the recommended value of versions with a capacity of 40, 80 and 160 GB is $ 129.99, $ 229.99 and $ 449.99 respectively.

Followed by Mozilla, has increased six-fold (from 500 to 3 thousand U.S. dollars) prize for were found in Firefox, Thunderbird and other products of the company bugs on making edits in a similar program for the promotion, called Chromium Security Reward, announced Google. Now, enthusiasts and experts in security for each detected in Chrome, Chromium open source project and included in distributions browser extensions will have on the vulnerability of the internet giant is not $ 1337, as previously thought, and 3133.7 U.S. currency.

New program of bonuses for information about high-risk “sites” has been launched Google in late January 2010. Over the past six months, the company produced more than two dozen payments. The maximum amount of compensation was paid only once a certain Sergei Glazunov. The six participants of the program were paid bonuses of 1 thousand dollars, and all the rest – at $ 500. The company are confident that the changes made in the program awarding adjustments will help participants develop project Chromium as possible a secure and safe software.

Company Sony Online Entertainment has posted a new network of a few screenshots of multiplayer project DC Universe Online. They showed one of the greatest comic book villains DC – Joker. A sworn enemy of Batman and his team kept fighting with the heroes. In the course of going pistols and brute force. Players clearly have to work hard to overcome him. With regard to the appearance of the villain, then it is clearly borrowed from the project

The authors try to make a world of DC Universe Online more interactive, without departing from the canons of the genre. All locations will be open, and the villains and heroes exist within the same virtual space. You will visit the streets of the city Gotti and Metropiolisa. Every action will affect the world around us. If the gamer has assumed the role of villain and went to rob a bank, other superheroes, the players were sent off immediately to stop him.

Release MMORPG DC Universe Online will be held in November 2010. The game will be released on the PlayStation 3 and PC.

Released the next update to Firefox 3.5, focused on those users who, for whatever reasons did not switched to the current version 3.6. In Firefox 3.5.11 Fixed several bugs that affect security and stability of its program of work.

The program paid a lot of security: information about how the site is dangerous, well seen, the module for downloading files is integrated with antivirus, is unsafe test versions of plug-ins implemented protection against malicious content and the SSL errors on web pages. In the boot manager can pause and resume downloads. It is also worth noting the possibility of scaling the entire page, a quick search on bookmarks and browsing history, comfortable boot configuration files by type.

Unofficial blog google.org.cn reports that the search giant started testing a new interface for image search service. In the pilot version of the interface changed on SERPs: now to find out more information about the image (its size and location permit) it is necessary to put the cursor on it. In addition, the miniatures themselves increased in size.

Employees of Project M released a new video project Metroid: Other M. It heroine Samus Aran deftly disposes of intimidating boss. This process requires patience, because the player has to find weaknesses in the enemy and destroy it piecemeal. The video girl quickly avoids powerful blows and accurate fire sends the monster into oblivion. This helps her colleagues, who are frozen limbs enemy. To win, gamers will have to constantly switch between a third-and first-person.

In the battles with the enemies of Aran will not only weapon skills. The heroine will be able to promptly to avoid enemy attacks, inflict powerful enemy and kill the villains. Gameplay strongly resembles a mixture of Bayonetta and Vanquish. The developers gave the heroine ability to restore health. The action will unfold on a huge spaceship, where the heroine and her companions are sent after receiving the distress signal.

Adventure Metroid: Other M will be available only for Nintendo Wii.

We have already assumed that the video call service FaceTime, Communicator is available to owners iPhone 4 in the future be extended to other mobile devices Apple, for example, media player, iPod touch and Tablet PC iPad. Of course, this requires that the same next-generation iPod touch has got the front camera, with which and will be video calls.

FaceTime function in Apple iPod touch and iPad will use the email addresses?

In this case, however, remains an open question how it would be implemented to initiate a video call on a device without a phone number to which you can call (koimi are the same iPod touch and iPad). Experts Boy Genius Report, however, believe that the way out might be to use e-mail.

FaceTime function in Apple iPod touch and iPad will use the email addresses?

In other words, you will need to register your e-mail service by Apple, then the function FaceTime allow other users to video calls, using this address. Incidentally, the same principle, according to Boy Genius Report, will be extended to iPhone device 4, that, in general, it is quite logical.

In late June, we reported on the release of several new mobile Intel processor generation Nehalem, including models of Core i7-740QM, Core i7-940XM Extreme and Core i7-840QM. And now there is information that one of these new products, Core i7-740QM, seen in the retail market, with the cost of the CPU is $ 378.

Mobile Processor Intel Core i7 740QM seen in the retail price of $ 378

Recall, mobile CPU Core i7-740QM made on 45-nm technology, and has four cores running at a basic frequency of 1.73 GHz. At the same time to involve function of Turbo Boost, some of these nuclei can be accelerated up to 2.93 GHz, but a TDP chip in any case shall not exceed the mark of 45 watts.

Characteristics of Core i7-740QM also includes an integrated dual-channel memory controller, DDR3, support eight computing threads with Hyper-Threading Technology and 6 MB cache second level. Note that the productivity of mobile chip already offered through the laptop Dell Studio 14.

Company fring and Skype announced a cessation of cooperation. According to fring, Skype has blocked the connection of the mobile client to its network. And it happened just at the moment when fring for more devices now has a video call. According to fring, Skype company saw in this competition and therefore blocked access to the application. Mobile VoIP-client fring supports networks such as GoogleTalk, SIP, Twitter, and until this moment, Skype.

But now fringstery no longer be able to communicate with their friends at Skype, but nothing prevents to invite them to a network fring, notes the company. Chapter fring brings users to apologize for being unable to use Skype and expressed the hope that someday the situation will be settled. He also said he was disappointed in the actions of company Skype, which has always stood for freedom of communication.

The company itself is Skype not remain on the sidelines and made his version of what happened. According to her statements about the trip fring in connection with the fear of healthy competition has nothing to do with reality. Skype claims that fring incorrectly uses the Skype software and violates the license agreement. It may harm users and reputation Skype. One example is the recent termination of (temporary) support for video calls Skype for the latest update for the iPhone, and this was done without warning. And even though Skype is not blocked fring: an initiative to remove the support networks of this Skype VoIP-client came from fing, states in its official circulation Skype.