Gadget Review

MegaUpload file sharing site was officially closed

2012-01-19T19:08:00.000-08:00

MegaUpload file sharing site was officially closed. One of the biggest file sharing website in the world, MegaUpload, officially closed by the Department of Justice in America.

File sharing sites it has been officially closed since prosecuted by the Department of Justice in America. MegaUpload itself is a site based in Hong Kong, but they are pirated content on servers located in America so that copyright holders who feel their content in the plow by MegaUpload directly to the lawsuit.

MegaUpload sites claimed to have made copyright holders lose revenues of 500 million USD. In its official statement, the Department of Justice declared that his party had captured Kim Dotcom and 3 MegaUpload employees in New Zealand.

Miyazawa Kenji's classic story made into an animation

2012-01-19T11:37:00.000-08:00

Miyazawa Kenji's classic story made into an animation. Animated adaptation of the classic story of Kenji Miyazawa (Night on the Glactic Railroad) will be aired in Japan starting July 7 this year. Anime titled The Life of Guskou Budori is an adaptation of the second time for the story.

Tezuka Productions, who took over The Life of Guskou Budori of Group TAC, has announced a list of staff for this film. Gisaburou Sugii (Astro Boy, Lupin III) was chosen as director, and using the original character designs from Hiroshi Masumura (Night on the Galactic Raiload).

Miyazawa Kenji created the story Night on the Galactic Railroad is in the form of novels. As reported by Animenewsnetwork, Thursday (01/19/2012), the story centers on young man named Guskou, in the woods Tohoku, northeast Japan. Set the time period of the 1920s, drought and natural disasters hit Guskou forced to leave their homes and seek life elsewhere. Then, Guskou joined a group of researchers at the Department of Volcano ihatov. Research groups that deal with natural disasters are the same as the cause of Guskou leave her home.

Since the TAC Group, the company that produces animated remake is bankrupt, its production was taken over Tezuka Productions. Yoshihiro Shimizu, General Manager of Tezuka Productions said the reason it wanted the company released an animation based on the work of Miyazawa is, for compatibility with idealism Osamu Tezuka, especially on the theme of "how to live one's life, it is more important than the environment."

Twitter Criticized The Google +

2012-01-19T11:32:00.000-08:00

Twitter Criticized The Google +. Google recently announced a change that makes Google's Picassa + and content, are at the forefront of search results. Apparently this is a negative response by Twitter, in an official statement said it was not like change the search model. Meanwhile, via Twitter tweetnya general counsel and former employees of Google, Alex Macgillivray criticized the Google's move, saying it as 'a bad day for the internet'.

Officially, Twitter also sends the statement containing the disappointment over the lack of integrity of Google. "For years, people have relied on Google to deliver the most relevant results. That's bad for people, publishers, news organizations as well as twitter users," said Twitter, as reported by Yahoo News, Thursday (12/01/2012). "Seacrh, plus Your World 'is rated as a upayan to promote and create a product Google + center. Basically this makes the service more personalized search results, by bringing up the Google content network + of users based on relevant keywords.

Responding to criticism of Twitter, according to TechCrunch, Google seems to respond with a posting on the official page Goole +, and said he was surprised by the responses Twitter. "We were a little surprised with Twitter comments about the 'Search Plus Your World', because they chose not to renew an agreement with us last summer." Previously, Google and Twitter have a deal that includes tweets into Google's search results in real time. But the contract between the two companies have ended in July last year, so Google was forced to vacate the real-time search.

Google come the SOPA protest

2012-01-19T11:28:00.000-08:00

Google come the SOPA protest. Proposed anti-piracy laws in the United States (U.S.) recently drawn protests from many sites online. Wikipedia, Google and Craigslist is a site that joined forces to protest about the proposed legislation. Wikipedia, online encyclopedia is a voluntary freeze its website for 24 hours starting yesterday. Google also joined to protest two proposed legislation, the Stop Online Act (SOPA) and Protect Intellectual Properst Act (PIPA).

Search engines also could discolor the logo for the U.S. version of the website, and add a link at the bottom that reads 'please do not cencor the web'. Until now those links are still listed in the search engines. Through this blogspot, David Drummond, Google's legal director said the reason why the search giant is supporting the protest. "We think there is a good way forward, which does not cause collateral kesusakan on the web," he said, as reported by telegraph, Thursday (19/01/2012).

In addition to Wikipedia and Google, Craigslist online classified advertising service that is also popular protest. Meanwhile, other sites including Reddit, WordPress, Flickr, Twitpic and hundreds of people have also agreed to support a day of protests. Both SOPA and PIPA, both are attempts to address online file filtering problem by giving the power to shut down sites that make the material, such as movies, music and television programs, if you do not have permission from the copyright holder.

After complaints by copyright holders, this action will allow the website domain was confiscated. If the site is not a U.S. site or hosted in the U.S., then they have the power to force the U.S. search engines to remove links to Web sites and to U.S. payment networks or advertisers to stop doing business through the site. Critics of this plan, argued that the move would give too much power to copyright holders and may result in legitimate sites is stopped or seized without due process of law

Facebook increasingly vulnerable to viruses, Here's how to to deal

2012-01-12T08:23:00.000-08:00

For those who have a Facebook account, maybe you've got mail messages from your friends and tell your steamy link to click the link. Be careful, if the link is suspicious, it could be a virus. In its report, security vendor Check Point said many of the links on facebook that contains a virus. According to their research, as much as 20% of the overall link directs users to open the virus.

Checkpoint also reveal a variety of other data about the security vulnerability in Facebook. As many as 4 million Facebook users receive spam messages every day. Then 600 thousand logs in contact with other people hacked or hijacked.

To secure the your facebook account, PCMag gives gives a few tips that seem especially useful, ie.

- Create a password consisting of numbers, symbols and letters, so as not easily known to others.
- Do not accept friend requests are suspicious or not well known
- Keep an eye on what was submitted and shared by a friend Facebook
- Do not click on suspicious links

Malware Ramnit Steal 45 Thousand facebook username and password

2012-01-12T08:19:00.000-08:00

Facebook was still susceptible to the virus, after a number of viruses in the form of a link, now a malware program called Ramnit back throwing a tantrum. This malware was reported to steal passwords and usernames belong to 45 thousand more Facebook users.

The majority of Facebook users who become victims are Facebook users in France and England. Not satisfied with just steal Facebook usernames and passwords, Ramnit also rumored to have infected a Windows computer and Microsoft Office files and HTML.

Suspected hackers using stolen confidential data to log-in to your Facebook account casualties and spread malicious links to the Facebook friends of victims.

Worse, if the victim uses the same username and password for email accounts, site microbloging or any other social networking sites, then everything will be exposed to the virus.

WikiPad Special tablet Gamers With 3D Display Without Glasses

2012-01-12T08:09:00.000-08:00

WikiPad is an Android tablet first to use 3D display without glasses (like the LG Optimus 3D or HTC Evo 3D). Wikipad been equipped primarily to dock additional gaming keys with two analog sticks.

This tablet seems devoted to the gamers. Wikipad have 8-inch screen with a resolution of 1920 × 1080 pixels and equipped with 8 GB of internal memory, micro SD slot also available up to 64 GB and HDMI ports.

WikiPad using Android OS 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. These tablets will be sold, with the game with great graphics and phosphorus such as Quake Live Beta. WikiPad price is unknown but certainly this tablet will be released in the spring of this year.