Inexpensive mini-laptop becomes stationary

Computer manufacturer Asus has confirmed rumours that a stationary version of the Eee PC is on its way under the name Ebox. It recalls in appearance on the gaming consol Nintendo Wii, as it fills not much on a desktop.

Ebox will allegedly be equipped with a 160 GB hard drive, 2 GB of memory and the same special version of the Linux operating system which is in the portable model.

The price is still unknown, but Ebox expected to be cheaper than Eee PC, as the stationary PC, among other things, without the keyboard and screen. On the other hand, you can then use your own equipment and get an appropriate and readable resolution on the screen. Eee PC will be available on Windows, the same will probably happen with Ebox.

Guitar Hero now with drums

After the great success on consoles, we PC gamers finally have access to the Guitar Hero game, as the third edition of the popular series also came to the PC. Just to see the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 owners, who switched off the guitar with bass, drums and karaoke microphone to play the competing and even more popular Rock Band.

Fortunately, it appears that Activision come to our rescue. The fourth Guitar Hero games will have the name Guitar Hero World Tour and has in addition to guitar also vocals and drums. So now we can also come to play virtual rockstjerner bathed in PC monitor's glow. The game is published for Xbox and PlayStation in the autumn and hopefully to the PC later. In addition to the new instruments, it will also be the first game in the series, which creative amateur musicians can record their own songs, as others can play. One feature that is made for a PC version with a mouse and keyboard.

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4 x Full HD from Samsung

In a television trade fair in Los Angeles, Samsung displayed a screen of 82 inches. It is impressive in itself, but the sensation was the TV's resolution of 3840x2160 pixels. It is four times as many as we find in the best television on the market today - the so-called Full HD sets.

Full HD - also known as 1080p - enough resolution to display perfect pictures on the screens between 40 and 80 inches, but according to Samsung, there will be a need for better solution as the monitors to ordinary consumers for the sizes around 80 inches. The so neither produced films or TV in 2 x Full HD, is a diffrent talk.

At the same trade fair there was presented several television sets over 100 inches.

Watch tv on your messenger

In addition to the numerous other functions in chat program Live Messenger, it is now also possible to see popular TV shows directly in the programme. The feature called Messenger TV, and opens a window into the chat dialogue, so you can see the TV broadcasts along with your Messenger friends and discuss the broadcast.

With Messenger TV you can click your way to broadcasts from, among other things, the music MTV and nature programs from National Geographic - and thus maintain the momentum of social life as you see them.

You find Messenger TV by opening the chat window to one of your friends, click on the activity button in the toolbar at the top and select Messenger TV.

If the function is missing, you should probably download and install a newer version of Live Messenger.

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Two out of three use Google

The people at Google must look long in hindsight to find competitors. In the United States uses two uf three network users search robot from Google.

On the Web is Google, and then there are all the others. A new study by the American analyseinstitut Hitwise shows that 64 percent of all network users in the United States is seeking their information via the Google search robot. This increases the Google its lead to his closest rivals MSN and Yahoo.

More precisely, search giant stands today for 64.1 percent of all U.S. searches, which is an improvement of small 6 percent from the same month last year when Google accounted for 58.3 percent. According to analysis institute, which has based its measurement of 10 million U.S. Internet users, has rivals from Yahoo and MSN lost as many points as Google has gone up. According to Hitwise is Yahoo's market share of 21.3 percent, while MSN must merely 9.2 percent.

passwords broken in 12 seconds.

It takes only one hacker about 12 seconds to reveal a simple password. Security expert warns that make it too easy for hackers - and to use the same password in multiple locations.

Many Internet users choose to use passwords that are too easy to break. Security expert Carsten Jørgensen from Devoteam Consulting says that it takes an hacker about 12 seconds to reveal a password consisting solely of small print.

People will typically use their pets, leisure interest as username or password, but it is a bad idea, the hacker knows that you do, says Carsten Jørgensen to the newspaper Date.

He recommends using a combination of capitalization and special characters and numbers - and that the password is not used in several places. -- If you use both large and small letters, numbers and special characters, it is difficult for an hacker to understand. But it is not smart to write "123" at the end of his password, for it is that so many who do, says security expert.

The number of spammails is still growing steadily, and hackers are today is cold businessmen rather playful boys. It shows the six-monthly report from security company Symantec.

Symantec, which is the world's largest provider of security software, has published its biannual report on the Internet situation. The report, which apply to the second half of 2006, showing among other things, that the number of spammails has risen once again, so that 59 percent of all the world's e-mail is now spam. This is an increase of five percent compared to the last half-yearly report. Two-thirds of all the annoying advertising mails are in English and when you receive a spam, is the odds of that are from the United States also very high.

Otherwise, it is not surprising conclusion from Symantec that hacking is now primarily a matter of cold calculation rather than more or less innocent boys pranks, as in the early www years. Also joining the Internet-security company on an increase in data theft and data leaks, and that in the second half of 2006 was sent more targeted code of the malicious kind than before. And so it is fortunate that Symantec together with the safety launches its latest security product, Norton 360

Commodore makes comeback

Many who were born before 1990, probably have a relationship with the name Commodore, which at this year's CeBit fair will have a sort of comeback with the launch of the multimedia platform, CommodoreWorld.

Commodore 64 was the first game computer that really pealed through to the masses, and the model is to date the best-selling PC ever. But it is now more than 20 years ago that Commodore thrilled us all with the game classics as "Bruce Lee" and "SummerGames," and since then there has been fairly quiet about the California company.

But this year's CeBit fair is a sort of comeback for Commodore, which uses the show to launch its new multimedia platform CommodoreWorld. CommodoreWorld is an Internet portal, which includes music, movies, TV, radio and videos. Gateway launches - coincidentally along with a host of new wireless devices from the Commodore and these products have the common name "Gravel".

It will be interesting to see if Commodores launch anno 2007, just near the popularity that the company experienced in 1982 when it introduced the world for a game computer called C64.

Samsung wants to conquer the printer market

Samsung will invest largly on printers, and has a year-CeBit trade fair, among other things, presented the world's smallest and lightest multifunction printer.

Samsung, which currently is probably best known for its thin mobile phones, will in the coming months make a tremendous push on the printer market. Half of the products that Samsung presents at CeBit this year, are printers or multifunction printers, as it is called today.

Among these are found CLX-2160, which will be the world's smallest and lightest multifunction printer, which is based on colour laser. The machine contains printer, copier and scanner and printer four color prints and 16 black and white prints per minute with a resolution of up to 2400x600 dpi.