Forever Techie

According to the Associated Press, a Canadian woman who worked at IBM that was receving the subsidy because of depression, lost the right to it by placing some photographs in which he was at a party birthday, on her Facebook.

After these photos reach those responsible for insurance company Manulife withdrew the right to security, arguing that "it was clear that Nathalie Blanchard was no longer depressed," to being "very funny."

In response to this reaction from the insurance company, Nathalie Blanchard, claims that he was following doctor's orders, advised that in order to reverse the psychological state, go out and have fun.

Apple is accused of denying the guarantee of their products to users smoking, saying the devices are 'contaminated' and can harm the health technician.
The news site is published by the American Consumerist denouncing the brand claims that tobacco smoke accumulates waste within the computers that make the guarantee is no longer valid, since his concert presents risks to the health of technicians responsible for the arrangement.

Apple customers say the store brand has a list of harmful substances, including nicotine and talcum powder to be considered harsh environments.

Faced with the claims Apple made no comment.

The alternative to Internet Explorer developed under the Mozilla Foundation is celebrating five years of life. Firefox is an open source product that includes the development efforts of a community of programmers and over the years has managed to assert itself as an alternative, in fact, the IE from Microsoft that at the time that Firefox was released dominated about 95 percent of the market.

Today, Firefox has around 330 million users, which gives it a market share close to 25 percent. It's currently in version 3.5 and on the way to a renewal, the foundation will ensure faster than the last, narrowing the time intervals which have hitherto separate the various releases. This range was up to now about a year.

Chris Blizzard, Mozilla Corp., said the purpose of the anniversary that over the past five years the Foundation has focused on the following five years. "The Web is faster and no slower and modern browsers should be prepared to work in view of that fact."

Mozilla also highlights the major changes in the five years of existence of Firefox, with competition in the browser market to grow strongly, thanks to the entry of new players.

Some names to remember in this area are those of the Opera - as well as a mobile version of the product with the same name - or Google, which launched the Chrome. Very little media coverage but still effective in terms of membership of users. Oldest is the alternative to Apple via the Safari, which controls 4.4 percent of the market.

The birth of Firefox took place on November 9, 2004. Four days after being launched as one million users had downloaded.

It is the first virus and has a face. The singer Rick Astley is the face of a virus that is attacking the users of the iPhone in Australia that has unlocked phones. The virus changes the screen image to a photo of the singer and spreads through the software with a message.

Despite the rapid spread, the 'Virtual plague' does not cause further damage. The virus is limited to replace the display picture and fook for other phones to infect.

However, the new virus can be used as a vehicle: "There is a real risk of someone using the code to do something harmful," said the senior technology consultant at Sophos, Graham Cluley, according to the G1.

The virus has been spread by Ashley Towns in order to alert users of the phone to the risk of not changing the password of origin of your iPhone. This virus only attacks the users who unlocked their phones to install programs from Apple.

Intel is being accused by prosecutors in New York to monopolize the worldwide market for microprocessors by threats and coercion.

In the complaint submitted to the U.S. authorities consider that the manufacturer may have abused its dominant position to hinder the free competition in violation for years antomonopólio federal laws to "strangle" the market by signing agreements with major computer makers like Dell and Hewlett Packard for the exclusive use of their chips in exchange for billions of dollars. "

"Rather than compete fairly, Intel resorted to bribery and coercion to maintain its total market dominance," said Attorney General Andrew Cuomo was quoted by international media, adding that the company threatened to and actually , punished the computer manufacturers that worked with their rivals. "

According to the prosecutor, the Intel "not only restricted the presence of potential competitors, such as impaired consumers, depriving them of better products and lower prices."

In his complaint, the prosecution calls an end to anti-competitive practices by Intel and compensation for damage caused.

This is not the first time that the number of processors is accused of abuse of dominant position. The same monopolistic practices have led to the record fine of 1.06 billion euros imposed by the European Commission in May this year.

Google announced on Thursday the global launch of a new feature that allows Internet users to view, manage and delete all information related to personal accounts of Google.

The Control Panel lets you know, in a centralized manner, what kind of information is indexed by the search engine for users, such as Gmail, documents and even Youtube. So you can choose whether the information will be accessible to all or a restricted group.

"The privacy of the data can be summarized in one word: transparency," said Peter Fleischer, head of the company's Privacy worldwide.

Besides this novelty, Google announced the launch of a new website, developed by engineers at Google, through which users can export your personal information, stored in any of the services offered by Google or other companies.