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Announced last December, the fourth version of the wireless Bluetooth interface technology has recently received final approval from the organization of Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG). Sources close to the Bluetooth SIG report that the device, equipped with modules Bluetooth 4.0, can appear on the market in the fourth quarter of this year, after the producers hold all the necessary tests. According to a press release, the main distinguishing features of the new version of Bluetooth are increased data rates, low power consumption, and increased range.

SIG representatives argue that new modules can provide data rates up to 24 Mbps (ie eight times more abundant now, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR), with the battery module, fed with the standard battery type CR 2025, can reach to several years. Range is 100 meters and more. It is also reported to increase security when transmitting data through the use of protocol encryption AES 128-bit key.

Through the application of new energy technologies, Bluetooth 4.0 modules can be implemented in low-power devices with low power. Thus, it becomes possible to use them in electronic devices in various spheres, including medicine, entertainment, sports, safety, and others.

All team members will be able to live Bluetooth SIG acquainted with devices equipped with Bluetooth technology modules fourth version of the conference, which is scheduled to start on October 4 this year. It is expected that upon closing, device manufacturers can begin active implementation of a new type of communication modules in their own products.

Wall Street Journal reports that the U.S. federal government is working on the defense program, known as the Perfect Citizen technology. The objective is to create a means of detection of cyber attacks on private companies and government agencies that control critical infrastructure such as electricity, nuclear power, chemical and biological industries, and t n.

Supervises the draft U.S. National Security Agency. Now running the NSA is already in the lion’s share of the government and military networks of the U.S. technology. The new project is planned to create interfaces for the partial merger of government and corporate networks and on all the networks put the sensors, which will fulfill the role of early detection of attacks. The sensors will continuously monitor the state of networks and listen to them for “atypical” activity. Through such “points of interaction, can be avoided the need to monitor all networks at once, at a cost of enormous resources.

Sources familiar with the implementation of the program, said that recently an American defense contractor Raytheon Corp won a government tender closed at $100 million. Now the company to design a monitoring system to protect against hacker attacks. Implement a system will most likely other contractors. From the official comments so far and representatives of the NSA and Raytheon refused, wrote CyberSecurity.

However, WSJ notes that the program in its current form quite flawed and American business is not burning with desire to take part in it, believing that Perfect Citizen – this is another attempt of intrusion “Uncle Sam” in the privacy of companies and citizens. There are, however, and the company that called the program an important and say they are ready to cooperate. Sources in the WSJ Raytheon argued that the system is constructed so that the government simply wants to ensure the security and critical infrastructure to get into the personal affairs of the companies it did not intend.

Independent military experts in Washington say that the need for the program has long been evident, and the probability of invasion of privacy is comparable with the probability of invasion of privacy from the outdoor surveillance cameras, which had been long established in the city streets. “This (program) is a logical extension of the federal agencies, done in the past to protect critical infrastructure” – said in Washington.

In this case, an unnamed military official said that while the system is still very far from complete, and even in the States at the level of the federal government has no common vision and understanding of the system.

The company ESET said that in June, with the help of early-warning systems ThreatSense.Net was recorded increased activity of the Trojan JS / TrojanDownloader.Pegel.BR.

This malware is a script that is added to the Web page and automatically redirect visitors to infected sites. After this occurs downloading and execution of malicious code on vulnerable computers. This threat, known as specialists ESET as JS / TrojanDownloader.Pegel.BR, distributed throughout Europe very rapidly. As a percentage equivalent to the total number of infected computers, its share is already 2.29%, which ensured Troyan fifth place in the world ranking of threats. Despite the fact that malware JS / TrojanDownloader.Pegel.BR had not yet spread in Ukraine, experts strongly recommend ESET Ukrainian users to be extremely careful when downloading files from the Internet network.

In June, the family Conficker continues to be active. Win32/Conficker which holds monthly palm among malicious software in the world (9,79%) and Ukrainian (19.42%) ratings of threats. This worm spreads through the vulnerability of Windows, which is located in the subsystem RPC (RPC), as well as through unprotected public folders and removable media. Also widespread is the threat of INF / Conficker – another representative of the famous family. Using the file autorun.inf, this malware is circulating last variation Conficker worm to infect PCs. A large number of infected computers around the world and in Ukraine, including (1,47% 1,66%, respectively, and) provides this threat lidiruschie positions in ratings of malware.

Experts strongly recommend ESET users to reliably protect personal data, because they do not concede its position such threats as Win32/Agent, Win32/PSW.OnLineGames and Win32/Tifaut, designed to steal confidential information. Users should also beware of malware INF / Autorun, which uses the opportunity to autorun on removable storage media and runs malicious code every time you connect a removable storage media to the computer, as well as “novelty” of last month – Win32/Sality, predstavlyauschuyu a polymorphic virus that modifies the EXE and SCR files and disables antivirus programs.

The beginning of summer could not “please” users with new viruses. In the top-10 world ranking of threats in June, presented two “novelties» – Win32/Qhost (1,16%), and HTML / ScrInject.B (0,84%). Trojan Win32/Qhost distributed via e-mail and gives hackers access to infected computers. Before starting this threat copies itself to the folder Windows% system32%, and then modifies the host file to redirect traffic to the domains of the attacker. The threat of HTML / ScrInject.B detects HTML web pages with confusing scripts or IFRAME tag, which automatically redirect to malicious software downloads.

No sooner had the company submit its new Intel dual-core chip Atom N550, specifically designed for netbooks, the company introduced the Asus netbook, Asus Eee PC 1015N, equipped with this processor, followed by a groove moved the company Acer, announcing Netbook Acer Aspire One D255.

Design of new products from Acer copied from a model Aspire One D260, and except for a few minor external changes there are no differences. But the 1.5 GHz dual-core processor Intel Atom N550 promises to increase productivity in daily tasks and true multitasking.

Recently, manufacturers of netbook does not make us happy models with matte screens: more gloss, not only on display, but also in the material body. The more interesting announcement netbook Asus Eee PC 1005PX with matte display (housing, unfortunately, still glossy).

In essence, netbook Asus Eee PC 1005PX – a well-known to us Asus Eee PC 1005PE – the same body, 1.66 GHz processor Intel Atom N450, Intel GMA 3150 video, Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n and six-cell battery. But the devil lies in details: the Asus Eee PC 1005PX only two USB-ports instead of the usual three, and six-cell battery less powerful than the predecessor and the battery is only 8.5 hours. Only plus – the price of the novelty will be slightly less than that of Asus Eee PC 1005PE.

ASUS has introduced a multimedia notebook NX90, has already managed to “light up” at CeBIT 2010. Appearance of new items dealt designer David Lewis (David Lewis) from Bang & Olufsen. Specialists of the company together with staff and ASUS worked hard to improve sound quality. As a result, NX90 supports technology Bang & Olufsen ICEpower and SonicMaster, providing a very high quality sound. The notebook NX90 installed power capacity of 11 watts, and the sides of the screen are great speakers. For comparison, in the usual laptop usually costs 3-watt amplifier.

NX90 Features include 18.4-inch display with Full HD resolution of 1920×1080 pixels, a processor with a clock speed of 1.6 GHz (up to 2.8 GHz mode Turbo Boost), 6 GB of RAM, expandable to 12 GB, two hard drives total capacity of 1 TB and optical drive Blu-ray. The laptop is running an operating system, Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit.
Available ASUS NX90 appears in July, the price of the device starts at $ 3000.

The company announced today nVidia GeForce GTX 460 graphics card, rumors of which went on the Internet for a few weeks.

As expected, the novelty will be available in two versions: with 768 MB of GDDR5 memory with 192-bit bus and 1 GB of memory with 256-bit bus. The maximum resolution output to display an image – 2560 × 1600 pixels.

Card features 336 stream processors, socket Dual-DVI and HDMI. Clock Speed chip is 675 MHz, Shader Clock – 1350 MHz. The memory operates at a frequency of 1800 MHz. The claimed power consumption does not exceed 160 Tues

The technology, which is applied dual slotted cooling system, supports DirectX 11 API, technology, CUDA, PhysX, 3D Vision Surround and 2-Way SLI.

The cost of GeForce GTX 460 with 768 MB of memory is about $ 200; gigabyte model will cost $ 230.

His version of the GeForce GTX 460 already provided us Palit Microsystems, EVGA, MSI, Gaiward, Zotac, etc.

In mid-July the company will start sales AOpen barebone-system XC Mini MP57-D, built on a hardware platform of Intel.

The device used a motherboard based on chipset Intel QM57 and CPU Core i5-520M with a frequency of 2.4 GHz. Memory and storage capacity are determined by the wishes of the buyer: users can install up to 4 GB of RAM and a 2.5-inch hard drive or solid-state drive.

In the arsenal of computer – multi-format DVD-recorder, Gigabit Ethernet LAN controller and six-channel (5.1) audio codec Realtek. Your computer can be installed expansion card that provides wireless support Wi-Fi.

To connect the display units are provided interfaces, DVI and HDMI; addition, there are six ports of USB (two located on the front panel). Dimensions – 170 × 170 × 52 mm.

Buy barebone-system will be an estimated price of 760 dollars.

Taiwan-based Mach Xtreme Technology announced a new line of 2.5-inch SSD-drive MX JET PRO. The series includes models with capacity 64, 128 and 256 GB.

All drives use flash memory NAND, performed by multi-level cell technology (MLC). Speed reading the information reaches 270 MB / s write – 210 MB / sec. Declared mean time between failure (MTBF) – half a million hours. The volume of the cache is 128 MB. At the heart of new products is the controller JMicron JMF616.

Connecting to a PC through the interface is SATA 3 Gb / sec.

Information about the cost of storage MX JET PRO yet. We only know that drives two-year warranty.

On the eve of CommunicAsia Exhibition Company Altek announced a “highly intelligent professional Camera.” Statement by the producer of reinforced brief information about the phone capabilities.

It was announced that Altek Leo will acquire a 14-megapixel camera with a matrix CCD, 3 x optical zoom, videovspyshkoy, Xenon flash and video recording high-definition resolution of 720p. To date, none of the five largest manufacturer does not offer a more advanced machine.
Leo also has a built in touch screen with a unidentified resolution, wireless module and Wi-Fi. Full specifications (including the OS) will be unveiled in June at CommunicAsia.

Alex Hsia, president and CEO of Altek, said that photography is one of the most important functions in today’s phones and it is time to make this process exciting. ”