E-mail addresses and passwords of British officials, U.S. and NATO have been posted on the Internet from a computer attack against the agency Stratfor website.

Anonymous hackers group said on Twitter that he had stolen on Christmas Day a series of addresses and dates of credit cards from members of Stratfor, said the British newspaper The Guardian.

According to analysis conducted for The Guardian by John Bumgarner, an expert in the U.S. Cyber ​​Consequences sercuritate Computer Unit, a research center based in Washington, were stolen information to officials of the British intelligence and U.S. military personnel.

As the United States were published information on 173 people who have served in Afghanistan, and personal data about former Vice President Dan Quayle and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.

About 221 British military officials and 242 members of NATO have been victims of this approach and the Joint Intelligence Organisation advisers, a body dealing with sensitive information for British Prime Minister David Cameron, according to analysis by Bumgarner.

About 19,000 American military personnel belonging to the electronic addresses were disclosed.

Agency Stratfor, based in Texas, specializes in security and foreign policy.

Google has finally revealed more about Google Android 3.0 AKA Honeycomb. We have seen very brief details before, but now we have a short demonstration of what Android for Tablets will offer.

To start off, we now have it confirmed as Android 3.0 (not 2.4 like previously rumored). We also learn that this version of the Android operating system is designed for tablets only and wont be installed on smartphones.

What we see with this version is a completely different approach to the UI. Rather than being a large phone like the Galaxy Tab is, Honeycomb will bring a desktop type experience to tablets where various widgets can be placed on the desktop such as an overview of email, tasks as well as shortcuts to various websites. A 3D effect is also used when transitioning between screens. Overall, the UI looks very fluid as does browsing, email etc… However, this isn’t demonstrated on hardware as it’s all mixed in with a rendered background, so we’ll need to pass final judgment when demo models start appearing.

According to a study by Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the European communities, four in five had used the Internet in 2010 to connect to social networks and communicate on forums or blogs, write lesquotidiennes.com site, quoted Agerpres.

In the 27 countries of the European Union (EU), 80% of young Internet users between 16 and 24 were connected to social networks, blogs and forums in 2010. Their share even exceeds 90% in Portugal, Poland and Slovenia, while in France the rate is 82%.

As for the next installment of age (24-54 years), the number of people who use social networks decreases to 42%. In France, the level is 37%, the Netherlands, 26%, exceeding 50% in Denmark, Lithuania (63%), Portugal (65%) and Poland (67%).

For ages 55 and 74 years, only 18% of Internet users accessing social networks.Average Level in France (17%), while the greatest amateur of such sites are found in Lithuania (42%), Poland (45%) and Portugal (46%).

The study shows that use e-mail has been generalized in the EU, 91% of young people 16-24 years using this form of communication, to 89% of those 25-54 years and 86% of the 55 -74 years.

In general, the number of households with Internet access rose from 70% in 2010, compared to 49% in 2006. Countries ‘most connected’ are those in northern Europe: 88% in Sweden, Denmark 86%, 90% in Norway and even 91% in the Netherlands.Internet connection level is higher in families with children than those without children (84% vs. 65%).

Internet use in 2010 study was conducted by Eurostat in families where at least one person is between 16 and 74 years old and single persons (all between 16 and 74 years) of the 27 EU member countries and Croatia, Norway and Turkey.

This year, Facebook reached 550 million members.

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg, Facebook founder, was named “Man of the Year 2010″ by Time publication.

The title was awarded because the connection failed more than half a billion people and created social relations between them. “Also, Zuckerberg has designed a new system for the exchange of information and changed how we live, “according to Time.

In almost seven years ago, in February 2004 when Zuckerberg was 19 years old and studying at Harvard, started a Web service called Thefacebook.com, to “connect people through social networks in colleges. ” This year, Facebook reached 550 million members.

Zuckerberg and Facebook’s story is the subject of a recently released film, “The social network, was among the highest grossing films of 2010. The film has six Golden Globe nominations.

Among the nominees included the publication Amerian Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange. In an interview with Time, Assange said that his targets are “organizations that use secrets to hide an incorrect behavior. ” He confirmed reports that the next installment will cover a bank documents.

The iPhone application Latitude is now globally available in the App Store. With Latitude, you can easily pass your location to friends. So you can keep in touch when you go on holiday together and see if your spouse, children or friends after an appointment come home safely. Through the privacy settings you only share your location whenever you want and the people you have chosen. Latitude also works in the background, even if you’ve closed the application or if the iPhone is in sleep mode.

Last week Latitude equally in the Japanese App Store, but was almost immediately withdrawn. Now Google has officially launched the app, after a minor adjustment: the currently available version 2.0.0.346 is the only innovation “Update. on wallpaper. ” indicating that updating your site as a background process apparently was not working quite right.

Important to know: does the app not the first generation iPhone and iPhone 3G . The iPod touch is supported only from the third generation. Actually, that makes sense, because only from the iPhone 3G is the use of background processes officially supported in IOS 4 and higher. You Latitude those older devices still use it, by your mobile browser to google.com / latitude to go, but then you’ll still have to open the browser to update your location.

Latitude has a different approach than location services like Four Square and Gowalla, where you need to check. This incheckdiensten sign only specific areas (like cafes) only at specific times so that people know where you are. With Latitude, you do not check, but the service gives you continuous current location on to a server, even if no bar, restaurant or other useful place.

Google’s biggest search engine in the world launched Street View, the online service that allows users to view panoramic images captured on the streets of major cities in the world, and in Romania.
The service was launched eight cities, namely Bucharest, Arad, Oradea, Brasov, Timisoara, Cluj, Constanta, Sibiu.

Introduced in May 2007, Google Street View currently offers images of various cities in the United States, Canada, Britain, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Portugal, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Japan, Taiwan, Australia and New Zealand.

The service can be accessed via a portal on Google Maps or Google Earth.

Google began last year Romania’s digital mapping, Google Maps offers users the ability to create and edit their own detailed street-level maps of cities in Romania.

New Android platform designed to increase some things to a better way to use our smartphones.
New points are: Game Development, Multimedia and New forms of communication.

For Game Development we have:
Concurent Garbage Collection: Minimized Application Pauses, Smoother Animations, Increased Responsiveness.
Improved Event Processing: Lower CPU Usage, Faster Dispach
Robust Native Envinorment: Direct acces to: Input and Sensor events, Audio, OpenGL ES and Assets and new form Lifecycle and window management
Open API for Low-Latency Audio
Gyroscope Sensor

For Multimedia:
Open Media Formats and Tools
VP8 and WebM
AAC and AMR
Wideband Encoding
New Audio Efects

New Forms Of Communications:
Access to Multiple Cameras
Internet Telephony over SIP
Near Field Comunication (NFC)

Soprano Roxana Briban, aged 39, who committed suicide Saturday afternoon in her home in Bucharest and has prepared from time to act.

A simple search on Facebook to profile former National Opera soprano to demonstrate that the act was premeditated. Roxana Briban has put a profile photo of the bloody hand. The picture is even more macabre as the artist committed suicide by cutting her wrists.
Roxana Briban`s  life was dedicated to music since the age of 6 years, by studying the violin and singing, soon becoming a soloist of the Romanian Radio Children’s Choir, which supports over 300 concerts in the country and abroad. She graduated from the University of Music Bucharest class prof. Slatinaru-Maria Nistor in 2000. Immediately after graduation, the National Opera debut as soloist in Bucharest, the role of Countess in Marriage of Figaro by WA Mozart opera.
Top international career is marked by her debut at the Wiener Staatsoper in 2003, Micaela role of Georges Bizet’s opera Carmen. Since then, Romanian soprano scene becomes permanent guest at Vienna, to conclude contracts in the season 2009-2010, with the roles Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), Mimi (La Boheme), Amelia Grimaldi (Simon Boccanegra), Countess (The Marriage of Figaro) and Tatiana (Eugene Onegin). Bucharest scene stays true as it is called in theaters and Volksoper Wien, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Theatre du Capitole Toulouse, Teatro Municipal Santiago de Chile and Het Muziektheater in Amsterdam, Zurich, Rome, Dresden, Madrid, Athens, Bangkok, Singapore or Seoul and where it has occasion to be with renowned conductors such as Marco Armiliato, Adam Fischer, Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos, Michail Jurowski, Zubin Mehta, Seiji Ozawa, Marc Piollet, Peter Schneider, Vjekoslav Sutej, directors such as Michael Hampe, Robert Wilson and famous artists such as Agnes Baltsa, Giuseppe Filianoti, Ferruccio Furlanetto, Franz Grundheber, Ildiko Raimondi, Michael Schade, Stephanie Toczyska.
Stamp lyric-spinto voice soprano Roxana Briban approach allows a wide variety of roles, from Leila (Pearl Fishers), Micaela (Carmen), Nedda (harlequin) to Marguerite Helen (Mephistopheles) or Mozart roles as the Countess (Marriage of Figaro), Donna Elvira, Donna Anna (Don Giovanni) and Verdi roles like Violetta Valéry (La Traviata), Alice Ford (Falstaff), Amelia Grimaldi (Simon Boccanegra), with the same name from the opera Aida, Leonora (Troubadour), Elisabetta de Valois (Don Carlo), playing roles from the repertoire puccinian Mimi (La Boheme) and Cio-Cio San (Madama Butterfly). In his repertoire are found vocal-symphonic works, from Bach, Handel, Beethoven, Brahms, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Verdi, Mahler, Dmitri Shostakovich and up to Paul Hindemith.
After touring Asia with the Mozart opera The Marriage of Figaro, the Countess’s role, continued collaboration with Wiener Staatsoper in the 2007-2008 season with two tournaments in Europe (Luxembourg) opera Don Giovanni, Donna Elvira and the role of second tour in Asia (Tokyo Opera Nomori), where the soprano Roxana Briban debuted in the role of Tatiana, the opera Eugene Onegin by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, under the leadership of the famous musical conductor Seiji Ozawa.
In 2009 he was fired from the Bucharest National Opera, and employee contracts that we have the soprano of the Vienna Opera and they ended with the departure from the institution’s leadership Ioan Holender, August 30, 2010 , which is why she suffered a depression, what caused it as November 20, 2010 to commit suicide.
Director National Opera, Catalin Ionescu Arbore, said that in 2009, soprano Roxana Briban and resigned.

Roxana Briban-”Mi tradi quell’alma ingrata” -Don Giovanni

In the video below SAMSUNG presenting some products that will surely amaze:
Samsung AMOLED Showcase – FPD 2010

In clipul de mai jos prezentarea catorva produse SAMSUNG ce cu siguranta va vor uimi:
-AMOLED Dual Display Clamshell Prototype
-7” 1024 x 600 AMOLED Display – Hello Galaxy Tab
-Folding AMOLED Display (50inch)
-Flexible AMOLED 4.3” Displays
-Transparent AMOLED 14” Display

Google plans launch an operating system designed to challenge the supremacy of Windows, the system produced by Microsoft, market leader.
The operating system will be based on web browser Chrome, said Google Group, in a post on the blog.

It will be designed for low cost laptops, and will be available from the second half of 2010.

Google plans intensifying competition with Microsoft, the largest software producer in the world. In addition to web browsers, the two companies in May and compete in the search engine on the Internet.

Google attacks Microsoft dominance on the office packages, by offering online services office.

“Get messages from users, and they have a common theme – the computers have improved,” said Google. “Operating systems that run applications on the Internet navigation were built during a period in which the internet does not exist.

Operating System Chrome will be open source so developers will have access to the entire architecture and declarations under Google Chrome will be built on the Linux operating system open source.

Google has stated that the operating system will not be attacked by viruses and will not require the installation of security systems.