Angry Birds Special Version for St. Patrick's Day

The developers from the Rovio home have a new version of the Season-known game for Android and the Angry Birds iPhonepublished. After Halloween, Christmas and Valentine's Day , there is now a version for St. Patrick's Day.

Players can draw on a total of 15 levels and send the additional features and St. Patrick's Day greeting to friends garden. Officially, the Irish holiday on 17 March this year instead.

In the world of the Angry Birds and Pigs are therefore green shamrocks and pots of gold again. Android users, this particular version of the Android Market and iPhone users on the App Store download.

For further expansion which has Finnish game companies recently a financial basis set. Over 42 million U.S. dollars are flowing into the coffers of the developers. The money comes from the two investment firms Accel Partners and Atomico Ventures.

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The iPad Comes 2 Rush Expected on Apple Stores

The iPad 2 is here: This Friday, the first customer to keep Apple's brand new tablet computer in your hands. Analysts expect that this will beat iPad 2 the already strong sales of its predecessor yet. It was found on the first day more than 300 000 buyers.

Now many experts expect almost twice the number. Before the U.S. Apple stores had a year ago made snakes. And even now, U.S. customers can again strike first. Sales in the 236 Apple Stores will start at 17:00 Eastern time clock, so clock 23.00 German time. In the U.S. online store can order new iPads already, but the delivery will take two to three weeks. The norm with Apple two to three days.

German customers have to until 25 March patience, then the selling season in this country. Prices are not fixed yet. In the U.S., the entry-level model with 16 gigabytes of storage costs, and wireless connectivity $ 499 (360 €) plus taxes. This is the same price that Apple had already asked for the previous model.

From the original Apple iPad had last year sold 15 million units and thus revives a long-untapped market. The competition was assembled according to market researcher IDC to around 3 million units - including lack of adequate models. Meanwhile, the electronics company, but in turn bring iPad rivals on the market. The Tablet segment is booming so much that the market researchers at Gartner expect that PC sales will suffer.

With the iPad 2 wants to Apple CEO Steve Jobs also specify further the tone: The device has a new processor that will be twice as fast as in the first generation. Via a HDMI connection you can, the iPad 2 connections with a high-definition television. Two cameras on the front and rear panel allow for video conferencing. Moreover, the device has become slimmer and lighter.

Critics are enthusiastic after the first test. However, they criticized the poor photo quality of the cameras and the somewhat limited compared to the previous battery life. Apple itself continues to promise 10 hours of surfing the Web.

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Update for Windows Mobile is The End of March

For most users is the recently distributed update of Windows Mobile running smoothly, Hautala Microsoft manager Eric writes in a blog post . However, it had "few difficulties, where a few. ... We have quickly eliminated or workarounds available," he wrote. Some Samsung phones have the software, which only prepared the first real update, paralyzed been.

The next version of Windows Mobile, have the potential to offer Copy and Paste functions will now appear in late March, according to Hautala. "I have decided to invest some more time so that the update process corresponds to the requirements of us, you and our partners." The other, at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in February announced updates that will cover various topics including multitasking and an HTML-5-enabled mobile Internet Explorer, would appear as planned. It was advised in the MWC for the second half was.

Hautala also made ​​it clear that providers of Windows Mobile could block any updates. You could ask though, at a set date to begin an update or to pool with others. Ultimately, all new software versions, but would reach the customers. He contradicts Joe Balfiore, head of the Windows Mobile program management. He had late last year said , mobile phone companies could block updates the operating system.

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Hacker Alarm on Finance Agency

An embarrassing margin of safety on the Internet provides in the Federal Finance Agency for excitement. According to the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) was for years the Finance Agency offers Internet users manipulate everyone. This was made ​​possible a graphical data manager , to which one could gain access without the password. In addition, there have been security holes in online banking. The financial agency in Frankfurt is the central service for the borrowing by the Federal Loan and Federal Treasuries.

According to CCC safety concerns would be the potential financial loss from the small have been more. "Fortunately, you as a customer of the financial agency in writing by post to confirm all orders, "said Frank Rosengart by CCC. This media break was annoying, but care for more security. "At worst, money would scale back the customer can be booked on the account," he says. It remains unclear whether access to customer data was possible. "We try to clarify," said a spokesman for the Finance Agency.

No sooner had the CCC the vulnerabilities made ​​public, the Finance Agency took the web server from the network. Due to maintenance on the website and www.bundeswertpapiere.de www.deutsche-finanzagentur.de am an online presence is not available, the official reason. Investment contracts are currently on the customer service center only.

The spokesman confirmed yesterday to request established a link between the alleged maintenance and criticism of the CCC. The decision to take the site from the network, it is not been the cause. Rather, internal systems have shown that Web attacks have taken place on the website, which is why the finance agency was at the Frankfurt prosecutor made criminal complaint against unknown persons. Whether you suspect someone, he would say not.

Humanly it would have involved in the alleged hacker attack to the work of the CCC, after an anonymous tip of the vulnerability checked - and only then informed the Finance Agency and the press.

Because of the ad makes you look there is little worry. Most of them come in such cases, a process because a process is embarrassing for the institution concerned.

The authority responsible for support of web web agency Bipper Brandao from Offenbach disclaims any responsibility for the security issue out of hand. "We have been engaged just four months ago to a system navigator to program for the finance agency," said the CEO Arne Bipper the Frankfurter Rundschau.

The hearing before a three-quarters of a year still quite different. At that time, told the magazine W & V, that Offenbacher worry about the future care and development of the entire website.

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Dragon Age 2: Bioware Released Beta Patch

In the official forum of Dragon Age 2 RPG was a beta patch for the new releases, such as this fixes a problem with save games on a PC with a single core CPU. Steam users can get the beta patch is not, buyers of the console version are the mistakes not affected.

The new role-playing game Dragon Age 2 was released a few days ago, now has a beta developer Bioware patch released for download. The beta patch is designed according to Chris Priestly from Bioware only to users of the PC version, Steam users can get the beta patch is not - according to the Steam support Bioware employees no beta patches.

The patch notes in detail:
• Fixed save game issues on single core machines
• Fixed game asking for non-existent drives
• Fixed issues where control release some players were unable to unlock correctly
• Fixed a Steam-specific issue related to VO not playing after switching languages

Since Steam does not offer the patch, Bioware has indicated that becomes active, the last point in the change until the final version of the patch. Furthermore, the developer said that the beta patch should be installed only if any of the error with the player. Buyers of the PlayStation 3 - or Xbox 360 version of the game are not of the problems mentioned in the changelog affected.

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