Google scans books from the British Library
Google scans 250 000 works from the collections of the British Library.The digital books are available to users free of charge.Google digitizes a portion of the holdings of the British Library .That’s what the British National Library and the Internet companies have agreed upon.
When the books are works from the period between 1700 and 1870 in various European languages.Including, for example, is a unique collection of texts from the time of the French Revolution.The copyright protection of books has already expired.
Google pays
The books will be scanned at an undisclosed location.Google wanted the British newspaper Daily Telegraph revealed not even know in which country are the scanners of the company.Google is also the cost of digitization.
Users can digitized books later, both about the offer Google Books and look on the website of the library itself is free.
British Library on the iPhone
The British Library strives to make their older collections digitally accessible: Recently it has an app for the iPhone released, free of charge to users around 1,000 titles from the 19thCentury can be read.In the course of the year, followed by a paid version that provides access to over 60,000 titles.
Earlier this year the library has the smartphone app Treasures released.This enables users of Android devices , iPhones and iPads especially nice collection of documents from the British Library, including the Lindisfarne Gospels or the Magna Carta, watching on their mobile device.
Nokia CEO: Qt is a platform for the “Next Billion”
Nokia Konzerntration on Microsoft’s smartphone operating system, Windows Mobile 7 is not the end for the Qt framework.The developers should adapt to the contrary, that the platform will grow in the coming years, yet again.
The Nokia CEO Stephen Elop said at the conference “Nokia Connection”, which is currently taking place in Singapore.Qt is therefore an important part of the “Next Billion” strategy of the company .This aims to provide billions more people in emerging and developing countries with inexpensive, yet increasingly powerful mobile phones.
Given that currently about 100 million devices with Qt support and the platform currently in use is still an integral part of Nokia’s smartphone strategy, there is no reason for concern.In just the next twelve months will at least approximately ten new models with Qt support to the market come Elop announced. Several developers of smartphone applications programmed for the platform had previously feared that their previous projects will be worth nothing if his move to Windows Mobile Nokia takes 7thThe first such model will come later this year on the market for the coming year, a number of other models planned.
Elop knew here but calm.Finally, Windows Mobile 7 is intended rather to the smartphone market in the industrialized countries, where purchasing power is large enough.Nokia wants to get involved but also in the huge market that is growing steadily in the states with low income, strong.
Here is the company but barely able to score with expensive Windows Mobile, but relies on a low-cost devices that are supported in large part also Qt.How Elop pointed out, the Qt developers can expect some more because the number of potential customers in the coming years will increase significantly.
Hacker groups unite against governments
NEW YORK (AP) – The two currently most enterprising of hacker groups in the world now want to pull together against the government and the financial world in the field: After Lulz Security and Anonymous had fraternize, they prided themselves on Monday at Twitter, a police website at have crippled the UK.
The authority for the fight against organized crime (SOCA) was unable to reach the night www.soca.gov.uk.
The hacker groups had announced their pact on Sunday on Twitter, after they had been attacked several times.Lulz Security (short LulzSec) was seen as “fun guerrilla” and was in recent weeks with attacks on the entertainment giant Sony, the U.S. Senate and the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency has become known.Anonymous contrast, pursued political goals from the outset and has established itself as a supporter of the revelation made a name for Wikileaks.
Governments and banks do not know what approach you tweeted Anonymous.LulzSec and announced after the attack on the British police want to take the same number of other goals to target.In a statement distributed on the Web LulzSec justified the attacks with the opinion of their ongoing efforts by the government, to dominate and control the Internet.
“Our ultimate goal is to steal any kind of secret government information and disseminate,” said Lulz Security.«Main targets are banks and other senior facilities.” The hackers were talking about a “war” against those who would restrict freedom.”Together we can defend ourselves so that our privacy is not overrun by greedy profiteers.”
Police and intelligence agencies are expanding their fight against the elusive hacker.In addition to politically motivated groups are also all sorts of criminals cavort in the network.So unknown in recently penetrated the computer systems of defense giant Lockheed Martin and Citibank.In Germany, the new National Cyber Defence Centre avert the dangers from the Internet.
Cartel Bundesliga allows the network instead of the “sports show”
FRANKFURT / MAIN. The Federal Cartel Office has given the green light: The Bundesliga may be the end for the “sports show” threatened and put under pressure so that the ARD. The league will receive an invitation for an Internet “sports show” more money for their rights from the first. The Authority maintains a summary of league action on the Internet instead of on TV for legally defensible. She signaled approval on Monday for the planned tender of the German Football League (DFL) and also agrees with the central marketing to continue.
The ARD, which currently pays 100 million euros for their rights package, responded calmly. “We accept the decision of the Cartel and competing well,” said Axel Balkausky sports coordinator. But with the Internet scenario would be the end of the previous “sports show” possible. The model provides clock at 21.45 to allow only images in the free television.
It go “no question of abolishing certain programs,” said league president Reinhard Rauball in a DFL-release. Target fair opportunities for all suppliers are. (Dpa)