3 Tameng Menangkal Racun Twilight: Breaking Dawn

3 Tameng Menangkal 'Racun' Twilight: Breaking Dawn Jakarta - Antusiasme terhadap film 'Twilight: Breaking Dawn - Part 1' pasti bakal membanjir. Namun awas, penjahat cyber telah beraksi mendompleng film tersebut.Perusahaan keamanan Norton mengungkap, banyak pencarian di internet terkait kisah percintaan Edward Cullen dan Bella ini yang memberikan hasil berbahaya. Saat diklik, link 'beracun' dapat secara otomatis menaruh virus, program keylogging (di mana penjahat dapat memantau apapun yang Anda ketik), dan software lain yang terinfeksi...

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3 Tameng Menangkal Racun Twilight: Breaking Dawn

3 Tameng Menangkal 'Racun' Twilight: Breaking Dawn Jakarta - Antusiasme terhadap film 'Twilight: Breaking Dawn - Part 1' pasti bakal membanjir. Namun awas, penjahat cyber telah beraksi mendompleng film tersebut.Perusahaan keamanan Norton mengungkap, banyak pencarian di internet terkait kisah percintaan Edward Cullen dan Bella ini yang memberikan hasil berbahaya. Saat diklik, link 'beracun' dapat secara otomatis menaruh virus, program keylogging (di mana penjahat dapat memantau apapun yang Anda ketik), dan software lain yang terinfeksi...

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Kupas Tuntas Desain dan Teknologi Max Payne 3

Kupas Tuntas Desain dan Teknologi Max Payne 3 Jakarta - Rockstar baru saja memarkan sebuah video singkat yang memuat seluruh isi dalam Max Payne. Mulai dari desain, teknologi, hingga sistem permainan game tersebut diungkapkan.Seperti yang sudah dibeberkan sebelumnya, dalam seri ini Max Payne digambarkan sudah memasuki usia senja, tapi bukan berarti keahlian mengembaknya berkurang. Dalam video bertajuk Max Payne 3 Design and Technology Series: Creating a Cutting Edge Action-Shooter, itu terlihat seperti apa sang jagoan.Meski masih...

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4 Kiat Percepat Adopsi Cloud Computing

4 Kiat Percepat Adopsi Cloud Computing Singapura - Berbagai perusahaan mulai memikirkan untuk menggunakan layanan cloud computing atau komputasi awan. Namun baru sebagian kecil yang telah mengimplementasikannya.Itulah salah satu temuan yang terungkap dalam survei global bertajuk State of the Cloud 2011 oleh Applied Research. Dua pertiga organisasi masih berada dalam tahap diskusi, percobaan atau bahkan belum mempertimbangkan layanan sama sekali.Berbagai isu menghalangi organisasi untuk segera mengadopsi komputasi awan. Seperti...

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Google Co-Founder Donates $500,000 To Wikimedia

Even as WikiLeaks remains silenced by a lack of funds, another wiki is getting support from high-tech places. Wikimedia, the parent company of Wikipedia, just raked in $500,000 from two heavy hitters. The Brin Wojcicki Foundation, started by Google co-founder Sergey Brin and 23andMe co-founder Anne Wojcicki, awarded the half-million-dollar grant to the Wikimedia Foundation, which runs Wikipedia and its sister sites. The Wikimedia Foundation kicked off its eighth annual fundraiser on Wednesday. "This grant is an important endorsement of the Wikimedia Foundation and its work, and I hope it will send a signal as we kick...

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Firmware Update 2.1.1 untuk Canon EOS 5D Mark II

Firmware Update 2.1.1 untuk Canon EOS 5D Mark II Jakarta - Firmware update untuk kamera full frame Canon EOS 5D Mark II sudah dirilis. Hasil update versi 2.1.1 ini pun memboyong sejumlah perbaikan.Ada 2 perbaikan inti yang didapat pengguna kamera full frame tersebut dari 2.1.1, yakni:1. Perbaikan bug yang menyebabkan hanya satu foto saja yang bisa diambil pada continous shooting mode atau AE bracketing continous mode.2. Pengkoreksian wording di layar menu yang tampil dalam bahasa Belanda.Canon EOS 5D Mark II sendiri adalah kamera...

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Facebook Beberkan Praktik Pelacakan

Facebook Beberkan Praktik Pelacakan Jakarta - Dalam sebuah wawancara, Facebook mengungkapkan pandangannya mengenai praktik pelacakan data. Seperti diketahui, jejaring sosial ini kerap dikritik terkait dengan masalah privasi. Untuk pertama kalinya, Facebook mengungkap detail spesifik tentang bagaimana mereka melacak dan mendapatkan data pengguna.Dilaporkan Digital Trends dan dikutip detikINET, Jumat (18/11/2011), pertama, Facebook menentukan jenis cookie yang berbeda untuk disisipkan pada browser pengguna, bergantung pada aktivitas...

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Amazon Pays $201.70 To Build $199 Kindle Fire

A teardown of the new Kindle Fire tablet performed by IHS iSuppli researchers found that it costs Amazon $201.70 to make a device that began retailing this week for $199. "Amazon makes its money not on Kindle hardware, but on the paid content and other products it plans to sell the consumer through the Kindle," said Andrew Rassweiler, senior director of teardown services for IHS. However, the Kindle Fire hardware cost breakdown released by the analyst firm Friday only tells part of the story. Amazon had not disclosed what it is costing the online retail giant to roll out the tablet from a software perspective -- including...

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Brewer to turn spent grains into energy

Alaskan Brewing Co.aAlaskan Brewing Co. received a nearly half-million dollar grant to install a steam boiler fired entirely by spent grain.aBy John RoachThe U.S. government is giving a nearly half-million dollar grant to a beer maker in Alaska that aims to install a first-of-its-kind boiler that is fueled entirely by spent grain.aAll brewers are confronted with mountains of spent grains — mostly barley. Many get rid of the waste by routing it to farmers for animal feed, a noble service that can help grow a steak to accompany your fine ale.a For the Alaskan Brewing Co. in Juneau, this has involved an added step, since the closest market for its grains is a long-distance, boat-ride away in Seattle.aTo keep the grains from decomposing during transport, the brewery first dries them in a machine...

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Google family portrait celebrates photography pioneer

GoogleaBy Rosa GolijanIf Louis Daguerre — a physicist, painter and photography pioneer  — were alive today, we'd be trying to squeeze 224 candles onto a birthday cake for him. But since that's not the case, we're instead celebrating the anniversary of his birth by watching the Google logo turn into a family portrait.aYou're probably aware by now that a Google doodle — a redesigned version of the Google homepage logo — is the highest honor the search engine can bestow on a significant date. Some of the more elaborate ones we've seen in recent memory include a Freddie Mercury birthday video, an animated interpretation of John Lennon's "Imagine," and a playable/recordable Les Paul guitar.aThe doodle honoring Daguerre is simpler than some of its...

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CP Diminta Segera Kembalikan Uang Pelanggan

CP Diminta Segera Kembalikan Uang Pelanggan Jakarta - Badan Regulasi Telekomunikasi Indonesia (BRTI) meminta seluruh penyedia konten (Content Provider/CP) yang tidak memiliki izin dari regulator untuk mengembalikan semua uang yang diambil dari pelanggan telekomunikasi terhitung sejak pertama kali menggelar layanan.Menurut Anggota Komite BRTI Heru Sutadi, dari hasil evaluasi sementara terhadap pemanggilan empat CP, ditemukenali ada yang tidak memiliki izin dari BRTI."Kami minta kepada seluruh CP tersebut mengembalikan uang konsumen...

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Stylish Elegan, HP DV6 Whitelinen

Stylish Elegan, HP DV6 Whitelinen Jakarta - Ajang Jakarta Fashion Week 2011, dimanfaatkan Hewlett-Packard (HP) memperkenalkan kembali notebook premium terbarunya di lini Pavilion DV Series. Sesuai tema acaranya, notebook yang dipamerkan HP di ajang ini adalah notebook yang diklaim mengedepankan desain stylish dan elegan, Pavilion DV6 Whitelinen. Theresia Ellytasari selaku Marketing Director Personal Systems Group HP mempromosikan notebook berwarna putih bermotif ini sebagai pilihan konsumen, terutama kaum hawa yang sangat mengindahkan...

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Notebook Stylish HP Berlenggak-lenggok

Notebook Stylish HP 'Berlenggak-lenggok' Jakarta - Tak sekadar mengutamakan fungsi, desain menarik menjadi daya tarik tersendiri dalam memilih gadget. Itulah mengapa HP secara khusus melirik segmen ini, menghadirkan laptop dengan tampilan stylish.Sederet notebook cantik dipamerkan Hewlett-Packard (HP) di acara Jakarta Fashion Week 2011. Keterlibatan HP di acara fashion tersebut dikatakan Theresia Ellytasari, Marketing Director Personal System Group HP, menunjukkan concern HP terhadap keindahan desain pada perangkat yang mereka...

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With NeverWet you will never have to wash anything, ever

Those who suffer from ‘can’t-keep-anything-clean’ syndrome will soon have nothing to worry about. Ross Technology Corp., a company who focuses on steel products, has created a new spray called NeverWet that literally propels stuff off the object that has been sprayed on. For example, something as thick and sticky as a chocolate syrup will smoothly glide of a shoe if NeverWet has been sprayed on it. The technology was at first designed to be used on steel products, but the folks at Ross quickly realized the potential applications for daily use. The product will be available sometime next year. Now only if they were running a pre-order. ...

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Anonymous Says Facebook Spam Not Theirs

New spam on Facebook, which displays pornographic and violent imagery, is not the work of Anonymous. That's the word in a new posting from the political hacktivist group. There has been speculation by security researchers that the spam was result of something called the Fawkes Virus, a reference to the Guy Fawkes masks that Anonymous members wear in their video communiqués. Fawkes was famous for his role in the Gunpowder Plot that targeted England's King James I in the 17th century, and the Guy Fawkes masks figured prominently in a popular, anti-totalitarian movie set in an alternative modern England, called V for Vendetta....

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Kimmel: It's 'National UnFriend Day' on Facebook

The Official Jimmy Kimmel Live Channel / YouTubeaBy Suzanne ChoneyIt's "National UnFriend Day" according to comedian Jimmy Kimmel; the perfect opportunity to lose some folks from your bloated buddy list on Facebook. Too hard to decide how to pick and choose? Kimmel has devised a point system to help you out.a"If any of your so-called friends make it to 50 points, unfriend them," he said on his show. Here are some of the point ratings:a "If they change their profile picture more than once a month," 5 points. "If they took their profile picture in the bathroom mirror using a cellphone," 5 points. "If they've ever posted more than three photos of food, that's 5 points each." "If they've ever posted the phrase, 'OMG, my friends are the best,'" 5 points. The Official Jimmy Kimmel Live Channel...

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Komputer Tablet & Smartphone Mengubah Dunia

Komputer Tablet & Smartphone Mengubah Dunia Singapura - Perubahan di dunia teknologi memang berlangsung begitu cepat. Seperti kehadiran perangkat mobile canggih dalam dua kategori: smartphone dan komputer tablet, yang dinilai telah mengubah dunia."Kita sekarang memasuki era yang berbeda dalam hal internet dan konektivitas. Internet telah mengubah dunia selamanya, dan kini tablet serta smartphone juga telah kembali mengubah dunia," kata Angela Tucci, Chief Strategy Officer Symantec di Marina Bay Sands, Singapura."Tidak peduli...

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MWI Tuntut Transparansi Pembagian Airtime Rp 54,6 Miliar

MWI Tuntut Transparansi Pembagian Airtime Rp 54,6 Miliar Jakarta - Masyarakat Wartel Indonesia (MWI) yang mewakili tujuh elemen komunitas menuntut transparansi pembagian jatah airtime tahap kedua untuk periode 2005-2006 yang jumlahnya mencapai Rp 54,6 miliar.Demikian disampaikan oleh kuasa hukum MWI, R Arlond, dalam jumpa pers di Hotel Cipta, Mampang Prapatan, Jakarta, Kamis (17/11/2011)."Kami juga menolak tegas rencana pencairan dan pemotongan sebesar 40% dana airtime wartel melalui Asosiasi Pengusaha Wartel Indonesia (APWI),"...

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Is Desktop Flash Fading Away?

Last week, Adobe announced that it was abandoning mobile Flash. Now, two new developments raise questions about whether desktop Flash will eventually suffer a similar fate. Adobe has submitted the code for its Flex framework, which is based on Flash, to the Apache Software Foundation. Flex, a Software Development Kit that is used to build cross-platform Rich Internet Applications for browser-based Flash as well as standalone apps , is expected to be managed by the Apache Foundation as a new, open-source project. The SDK has been an open-source project, but under Adobe's management. The Apache Foundation still needs...

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Facebook user or not, you're being tracked

msnbc.comaBy Helen A.S. PopkinHeads up to all you Facebook haters out there regularly ripping on us self-absorbed "sheeple" trusting all our personal info to the Big Bro we call Facebook. If you’ve ever clicked on a Facebook profile or page — you know just to see what the big whoop is or whatever — Facebook follows you around the Internet too.aJust exactly how and why Facebook does this was laid out in an exclusive report in USA Today. And while the info gathered through interviews with Facebook representatives may or may not surprise you, the story rattled Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W. Va., who now wants Facebook to explain these details directly to Congress.a"Is this a violation to my privacy?" you may be asking yourself, and even if you’re not, Rockefeller, along with others in...

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Nook Tablet review: Great hardware, stiff competition

Wilson Rothman / msnbc.comaBy Wilson RothmanBarnes & Noble has a problem. It's not software. It's not hardware. It's Amazon. aThe B&N Nook Tablet, successor to the underground hit Nook Color, is a terrific tablet, with a vibrant screen, a speedy CPU and a nice offering of books and other media. If you buy it, especially for reading, or streaming from your Netflix video or Pandora music accounts, you'll likely be quite happy. For $250, it's hard to find a nicer media-focused 7-inch Android tablet.aBut there's a war on. aAmazon didn't have a tablet when people were snapping up Nook Colors (or is that "Nooks Color"?). Now that it does, Amazon has priced its own 7-inch Kindle Fire deliberately low, at $199, and tied in a ton of no-extra-charge videos and books from the $80-per-year...

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Gmail For iOS Returns To Apple Store

Good news for all Gmail users who have been using shitty third-party applications to do something that Google should have allowed to do a long time ago – access Gmail through an iOS official app. When Google earlier announced and released their official native Gmail app for iOS, they quickly took it down from the Apple store citing “a bug which broke notifications and displayed an error message.” Looks like the bugs have now been fixed. On their blog, Google announces that the app was taken down due to the bug and is now available on the App store. Some of the new features of the application is the ability to auto complete e-mail addresses and also advanced search functions that the third party applications couldn’t implement. I’m sure it makes many Google users happy to...

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Megapixel Besar Bukan Jaminan Kualitas Foto Bagus

'Megapixel Besar Bukan Jaminan Kualitas Foto Bagus' Jakarta - Ukuran megapixel bukanlah faktor utama saat membeli kamera, termasuk jika ingin menghasilkan foto dengan kualitas bagus. Demikian dikatakan Yase Defirsa Cory, selaku Marketing Executive PT DataScrip, distributor resmi Canon Indonesia."Selama ini konsumen, apalagi di pasar kamera low-end banyak yang menjadikan megapixel itu segala-galanya, padahal kualitas foto itu yang utama dan inilah yang ingin kami edukasi ke masyarakat," tambah Yase di Palalada, Grand Indonesia,...

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Jiplak Tampilan Situs Lain, Bolehkah?

Jiplak Tampilan Situs Lain, Bolehkah? Jakarta - Seorang blogger Indonesia tengah dibuat pusing lantaran kreasi themes blog besutannya dipermasalahkan Facebook. Memang ia tidak mengambil untung dari kreasinya yang mirip tampilan Facebook itu. Namun apakah hal ini diperbolehkan di mata hukum?Kisah berurusannya Ainun Nazieb -- nama blogger tersebut -- dengan Facebook ini bermula ketika ia coba berkreasi membuat themes untuk blog yang tampilannya mirip dengan Facebook. Tema yang ia pilih adalah 'Smells Like Facebook'. "Awal membuat...

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Intel’s ‘Knights Corner’ brings 1 TFLOPS from 50 cores on one chip

Intel has announced details of their next generation high-performance platforms, starting off with the Intel Xeon E5 processors. This new family of “Knights Corner” co-processors are the first in line to be developed on Intel’s new Many Integrated Core (Intel MIC) architecture, breaking the 1 Teraflop barrier. The Knights Corner project came from Intel’s failed Larrabee microarchitecture that lost steam in face of Nvidia’s Tesla GPUs. Most of the supercomputers in the Top500 list use Intel Xeon’s (85%) or AMD Opteron processors in tandem with the Nvidia Tesla GPUs. However, with the Tesla GPUs involved, scientists have to write special codes where the processing is offloaded onto the GPUs. “With Knight’s Corner, the programming model that you’re using is the same programming...

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KTT ASEAN Jadi Ajang Unjuk Gigi Operator

KTT ASEAN Jadi Ajang Unjuk Gigi Operator Jakarta - KTT ASEAN yang berlangsung di Nusa Dua, Bali, tidak hanya jadi pertemuan para petinggi sejumlah negara. Namun juga menjadi ajang unjuk gigi para operator seluler untuk mengawal perhelatan yang rencananya bakal kedatangan Presiden AS Barack Obama tersebut.Tercatat, tiga besar operator seluler Tanah Air sudah berlomba-lomba menegaskan komitmennya menyiapkan jaringan telekomunikasi berkualitas tinggi selama KTT ASEAN berlangsung.Pertama, Indosat yang mendapat peran menjadi mitra...

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Kindle Fire Rooted in just two days

Amazon started shipping their US-only and closed Android based tablet, the Kindle Fire just a couple of days back and it has already been rooted by a member of the XDA Developers forums using SuperOneClick. Detailed instructions can be found here but, as with most devices, proceed with caution. Let’s see what rooting the Kindle Fire brings to the table but my guess would be the Android Market will be making an appearance pretty soon as Amazon only allows access to it’s Market on the Kindle Fire for the moment....

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Nokia's First Tablet To Run Windows 8

Armed with Microsoft 's Windows 8 operating system, Finnish handset giant Nokia hopes to go to battle next year in the growing tablet market. The move would deepen cooperation between the American software giant and the world's biggest cell phone maker that began with an estimated $1 billion deal to install Windows Phone 7 on Nokia's newest smartphones. Nokia's CEO is former Microsoft executive Stephen Elop. French Connection Word of a Nokia tablet emerged from an unlikely source Wednesday, when the head of Nokia's French division, Paul Amsellem, told Les Echos, a business magazine, that the Windows 8-based tablet...

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