The small portable Nintendo consoles are especially popular among children and younger adolescents. The small, inexpensive devices, although still look like a contemporary designed from Gameboys, but devices like the DSi console are surprisingly well equipped.

With the Nintendo DSi XL (in Germany from 5 March 2010,) will see a version with a larger screen by 93 percent. Although the resolution remains the same, but much can be seen on the larger display simply better. Instead of a diagonal of 7.6 cm, the screen of the DSi XL offers a diagonal of 10.7 cm. In addition, the readability has been improved from oblique angles. Nintendo emphasizes that one can play better in pairs. › Continue reading…

Much has been reported, and much has been presented at the Mobile World Congress. A clear winner is in place, but a trend is discernible.

Especially in view of the abundance of “Firsts” sting HTC and Google out. HTC introduced the Touch phone Legend and Desire, is perhaps the best phones before the show. Both phones were no technical weaknesses, and visually convincing and sparkled with its fantastic displays.

This success of HTC goes hand in hand with Google’s Android. Besides the two HTC Touch phones here stung even the Sony Ericsson phones X10 Mini and Mini Pro and the Motorola QUENCH out. Virtually every mobile phone manufacturer now relies on Google Android. One of the exceptions: Nokia. Overall, not so much to see from the Finnish industry giants. Anders then even Samsung.

With a huge booth and the new OS Bada Koreans have tried to stand up to. The Samsung S8500 Wave could convince this already and will enrich the market. Here too obvious: The best thing about the mobile phone is the display. Still has some work to do, however Microsoft. Phone Windows 7 was presented and therefore was indeed on everyone’s lips, but there are still months away until the first cell phones are available with Microsoft’s new mobile operating system in stores. › Continue reading…

The Windows Live service connectivity problems presented yesterday as a result of difficulties in one of its authentication servers.

Diario Ti: Microsoft writes on his blog that one of the authentication servers in Windows Live session would have experienced difficulties resulting in a surcharge that must be absorbed by the remaining servers. This situation led to many users experience difficulties in access to Microsoft Services for about an hour.

However, this does not seem to be the whole problem. According to Business Week, some users have accidentally accessed other users’ accounts. One of them told the paper that “suddenly opened the account a user totally unfamiliar to me. I tried again with the same result. I tried it several times and each time opened a separate account.

According to Microsoft, it is uncertain whether the two events are related.

“We are investigating reports that a limited sense of Windows Live users have had access to accounts of other users trying to access them by mobile readers,” said Microsoft in a statement reprinted by publications Cnet and Bloomberg, among others.

Microsoft emphasizes that assigns critical importance to the privacy of its users, and therefore has initiated an investigation to clarify the issue.

Sources: Business Week and CNet Silicon Republic.

A well-known programming error left the newly opened service to Google Buzz intruders interested in taking over the accounts of its users.

Diario Ti: Google Buzz has received strong criticism after its release. According to initial reports, a failure in the mobile version would be made possible, at least in theory, attacks by a cross-site scripting.

Microsoft, meanwhile, has assured that cares Buzz”, while the government of Canada is investigating the privacy policy of Google’s new service.

The latest negative news about Buzz has been filed by the computer security expert Robert Hansen, president of SecTheory, who says that Buzz could be easily hacked. Hansen himself was informed of a hacker named TrainReq, known in hacker circles for having spoken the email account of Miley Cyrus, stole photographs from which was subsequently made available without permission from the artist.

Hansen said that Google programmers have made a mistake and that the service could easily be spoken by intruders, using the so-called cross site scripting, which allows servers to run malicious code on others (in this case Google).

Thus, an attacker could publish a text in the account of a user of Google and use it later for phishing. Whereas knowledge of the user believes that the message comes from this person, you may induce them to click on links that would otherwise not activated, said Hansen.

Google fixed the problem immediately, a situation which was verified by Hansen himself. Indeed, the script in question is now presented only in text without being interpreted or executed by the browser.

According to Hansen, then it was a shameful mistake for a respected company as big as Google. The expert concluded by wondering how you can feel safe with all the information Google collects from its users when the company is not able to adequately secure their own services.

Wikipedia information about Cross Site Scripting

The executive director of the “ODF Alliance has criticized the display of choice for document formats that Microsoft has implemented in the Release Candidate for Office 2010. Marino Marcich OOXML criticism that heading the list and description bias that Microsoft offers its view of ODF. “Microsoft will play fair? “

As the next Microsoft operating system of choice will screen browsers, Office 2010 will also feature a “ballot screen” to pick the default file type: Office Open XML format or OpenDocuments.

This display, as well as web browsers, only appear in the European edition of the suite, and as Microsoft is offered “to meet our commitments to interoperability and customer choice in its default format in Word, Excel or PowerPoint .

You know amply OOXML format (imposed by Microsoft, despite the widespread existence of standard ODF) approved by the ISO International Standardization Organization after a scandalous trial and a multitude of opposing views especially on the free software community, governments and big technology with IBM forward.

Marino Marcich, executive director of the ODF Alliance has criticized the selection screen and compared it with the browser “that offers them in random order and includes a link to information provided by each supplier.  ”In the office suite, OOXML is directly in first place and Microsoft offers ODF biased information,” said Marcich.