Piwik Instead of Google Analytics "Data protection"

Who wants to use a web analytics system should resort to open-source solution Piwik advises the Independent Centre for Privacy Protection Schleswig-Holstein (ULD) and explains how Piwik can be used data protection.

Many of the frequently used web analysis tools are not rules in accordance with the law to bring, the ULD shares once more . This is especially true for Google Analytics, the Google website operators makes available free of charge, the privacy advocates, because Google's service in this country can not use data protection.

which the ULD, which has prompted the use of Google Analytics to refrain from website owners, had been "the continued use of Google Analytics waived and asked the company, to delete personal data stored there" , the ULD on. In addition, we have Google, the lead developer for Analytics, the existing data protection concerns, including presents. Google has so far done nothing but.

However, the ULD is limited in its current position not only to pointing out what does not work, but also made ​​a recommendation, as the subject of web analytics data protection compliant to implement it. The answer is Piwik . The open-source solutions are the same as Google Analytics for free and have the advantage that the processing of data is not that of any other place or at a processing order data held in, but on the servers of the website provider itself, the turn is then but with costs connected to the website operator.

The ULD explained in detail how Piwik can be used privacy-compliant, but insists that the "positive assessment Piwik for the purposes of usage analysis [...] is not the product of a certification offered by the ULD procedures for the issue of certification of Schleswig-Holstein or European Privacy Seal equals " . So far there is no such certified analytical tools and no relevant procedures.

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Samsung Introduces Dual-SIM Smartphone

The Samsung B7722 is aimed to take advantage of users who expect their classic Smartphone organizer functions, and both in business and personally just want a phone. Mobile phones simultaneously use several to have is no longer a rarity. But many employers already miss their employees a service unit - for private purposes is often requires a separate. A fact that many cases to limitations in the mobile performs in everyday life. Smartphones just keep a variety of functions - such as calendar, to-do lists, annotations, etc. - ready to serve simple, small and big things of life to organize. Must, however, such as the dates on two different devices to be maintained, facilities are the electronic limits quickly.

The solution to include mobile phones, one SIM card can hold more than as the Samsung B7722. The hotel's own TouchWiz user interface provides a widget is, switching between two different SIM cards in operation is to allow simple one. Thus, for example, in addition to a traditional contract, the prepaid card of a low-cost provider will be used in parallel.

Otherwise, the B7722 classic features of a smartphone: For the mobile data traffic can both GSM and UMTS networks are used - up to here 3.6 Mb / s via HSDPA are achieved. For a fixed network is available a wireless chip. Bluetooth 2.1 and USB 2.0, allowing direct data transfers.

In addition, information can be stored on an up to 16 GB microSD card. The touch screen is built with a screen size of 3.2 "space not only to be user of the smartphone, but also for media applications offer. Is given in the unit a 5-megapixel camera housed. As many users may, however, limiting the operating system feel that is not by the manufacturer, in more detail. So one can certainly assume that for social networks like Facebook or MySpace is access, the use of additional apps is hardly possible. Even a price of 349 €, despite dual SIM rather daunting.

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Sky Go brings more content to the web and onto iOS

The pay-TV broadcaster Sky has added "Go Sky" started with a new offer, customers can use to follow the program on the when not sitting in front of their home television.

"Sky Go on the Web" offers the opportunity, in addition to live sports, a number of films on the website of the provider to retrieve. Furthermore, in the package include the possibility to display on a second television in the household other Sky channels.

Sports fans who want to track live outside the four walls of the games of their teams, with the more advanced Sky Go App operated for the iPad. The expansion includes both improved performance and usability on the second iPad

WLAN can be received by the app the live Sky Sports 1, Sky Sport 2, Sky Sports and Sky Austria Bundesliga football in HD. Over 3G connections, the programs Sky Sports 1, Sky Sports 2 and Sky Sport Austria can be seen. Sky Go to the iPhone and iPod Touch provides access to the channels Sky Sports 1, Sky Sports 2 and Sky Sport Austria.

The offer by Sky Go to be expanded in the course of the year. The next steps, the company announced the expansion of the Sky Go app for the iPad to make movies and the integration of the new sports news channel Sky Sports News HD.

Sky Go can be booked by satellite and cable customers. The Sky Go to receiving content according to each of the main subscription packages booked. The selected programs can only be seen in Germany and Austria. Sky customers pay 12 euros per month in addition to take advantage of the offer

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Sony Ericsson Moves Launch of Android Smartphone

At the Mobile World Congres in Barcelona had Sony Ericsson , four new Android smartphones presented, that the Swedish-Japanese joint venture will be number one in the Android. The launch of the Xperia Neo , the company has now the destruction wrought by the earthquake in Japan in the third quarter moved for, reports the Wall Street Journal.

Previously, Sony Ericsson, only small quantities of the Android device, manufactured and delivered in individual markets. Which also featured in Barcelona's Xperia Xperia Arc and supply chains are interrupted by sometimes also affected.

The Xperia Neo display has a 3.7-inch 854 × 480 pixels, a 1 GHz Qualcomm processor and as a special feature an 8-megapixel camera with Exmor-R sensor, the low light conditions especially low-noise images by supplying should.

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Download Speed ​​Test for Firefox

Firefox: The starting rate is a constant issue in the criticism of the otherwise popular Mozilla browser. Mozilla developers have now taken the initiative and 25 add-ons placed on the pillory, the delayed browser start blame should be on. On average, the Firefox will start by each installed extension by 10 percent held back for so Justin Scott from the add-on team at Mozilla.

What's more: Over time, collect a variety of extensions that do not just make the browser faster. Who has the feeling, Firefox 4 takes forever until it is finally loaded, this can now using the more experimental Firefox extension About Startup check.

Make firefox faster
After installing the add-ons you give to the next browser start simple "about: startup" in the address bar of your browser. Based on the now displayed values ​​can be observed how long Firefox 4 currently required to start - this is measured in three different stages: The first stage relates to the start ("main"), followed by the recovered articles of the previous session ("session restored" ) and most recently uploaded pictures ("first paint").

If you install add-on that is suspected of making Firefox slower, then disable it for testing, and simply run the speed test again. To do this, the add-on manager, and click on the appropriate add-on just click the "Clear" button.

Then you start the browser again and type "about: startup" in the address bar, to obtain values ​​of the new - and, eventually, performance brake permanently, to adopt from. Tip: Conversely, can have an extension course, tuning tools for Firefox to verify their effectiveness.

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Samsung B7722i Dual SIM Mobile Phone with Touchscreen

Samsung launches the B7722i a dual SIM mobile phone on the market. The mobile phone is operated by touch screen for taking pictures, there is a 5-megapixel camera.The B7722i Samsung has two SIM card slots. One slot supports only the two GSM networks with 900 and 1800 MHz. The other slot will work in all four GSM networks and supports UMTS including HSDPA technology with a bandwidth of up to 3.6 Mbit / s. Probably both SIM card slots also support GPRS and EDGE, this information did not, however, Samsung.

The parallel use of two SIM cards used one hand to separate the personal from the professional use of mobile phone use. As a further application for a SIM card abroad can the local network operator can be used. This can be circumvented high roaming charges and the user is on the regular phone number remains achievable.

The B7722i is operated by a 3.2-inch TFT touch screen. The display with a resolution of 240 x 400 pixels up to 262,144 colors. All entries must be made across the screen. For photo and video recordings, there is a 5 megapixel camera with autofocus and photo light. Here are the camera features Smile Shot, Panorama, Macro, and continuous shooting are available. The phone supports Bluetooth 2.1 and Wi-Fi 802.11b / g.

The mobile phone is equipped with a Google Maps client, an FM radio and a music player. The internal memory is about 47 MB. Slot can be utilized by micro-SD cards with up to 16 GB. The operation of the mobile phone is on, developed by Samsung TouchWiz interface. With a special widget to the user can easily switch between the two SIM cards.

Battery lasts for up to 12 hours talk time

The mobile phone measures at a weight of 112 grams 114 x 56 x 14.3 mm. The lithium-ion battery with 1,200 mAh to the UMTS business to achieve a talk time of 6 hours. In GSM mode, the extended talk time on one battery charge to 12 hours. In standby mode must be charged the battery after about 13 days.

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Linux Kernel 2.6.38 Brings Performance Boost

Linus Torvalds has just under two and a half months after publication of the previous version 2.6.38 of the Linux kernel released . It stands now as a tar archive or as a single patch to download ready. In total she brings more than 9,000 changes.

Among the many additions to drivers and support for infrastructure is one of AMD's Fusion APUs . The Accelerated Processing Units integrate multiple processor cores on one die and a DirectX 11-capable graphics chip. The Wi-Fi drivers for chips from Atheros, Broadcom, Intel, Ralink and Realtek were optimized.

The most important innovation is the "wonder patch" advertised function Automatic Grouping Process: It shares the CPU processing power on so that slow is not particularly power-hungry processes them. These changes in the process scheduler to significantly reduce the latency and response such as desktop environments much more quickly.

Another important change and Torvalds' personal favorite is the improved scalability of the Virtual File System (VFS). The use of RCU (Read Copy Update) are file system operations that use a lot of file paths, massively accelerated. Of which will benefit nearly every program on a multi-core processor system even if it uses only a single thread.

The file system Btrfs untertützt now an alternative to the zlib compression algorithm, LZO . Moreover, it can now write protected create snapshots.

Transparent Huge Pages make it possible, 4 KByte memory pages to use in transparent applications over. This increases the performance of memory management, while the memory requirements decrease. A list of all changes in kernel 2.6.38 is found in the 6.3 MByte Changelog . For more information, visit kernelnewbies.org .

The new Linux kernel 2.6.38 will include the distributions in Fedora 15 and Ubuntu 11:04 come to use. Both are to appear in April.

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