MERRY CHRISTMAS 2U !!!!!

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

BLUETOOTH

Bluetooth technology is accepted world wide, and has been implemented as a standard having been adopted by more than 2,000 manufacturers.

PROS:
- You can use Bluetooth on laptops, mobile phones, music players, headsets, printers and a host of other products.
- Bluetooth technology is cheap to implement for the companies resulting in lower costs to the consumer. The technology itself is license free, and so does not cost a penny in data charges.
- Unlike infrared, Bluetooth isn't a line of sight technology (so is not affected by obstacles), and it comes with ranges of up to 100 metres (for class 1 devices).

CONTRAS:

-When using Bluetooth Internet, the connection can sometimes run very slow.

- Infrared technology can have data rates of about 4 MBps, which delivers very fast rates for data transfer, whilst Bluetooth only has up to 2.1 MBps.

- Battery use - although Bluetooth has a low power consumption, using this technology will use up more battery power if left on; a concern in devices such as mobile phones.

MERRY X-MAS !!!!!

RECENT INFO. about Wikileaks

London (CNN) -- Though its founder is cooling his heels in a London jail and major credit-card firms have refused to process its donations, the website WikiLeaks continued to trickle out documents from its vast cache of sensitive U.S. diplomatic cables Wednesday.
WikiLeaks' supporters in the computer-hacking community turned their ire against organizations that had cut off the site. Among the targets were the website of Sweden's national prosecutor's office, which is seeking the extradition from Britain of WikiLeaks' creator and editor-in-chief, Julian Assange.
Assange is wanted for questioning in connection with a sex-crime allegation in Sweden and surrendered to British authorities Tuesday. He has not been charged, and says the allegations against him are part of a smear campaign.
                                    

AVATAR

This avatar is better than the first one. I hope yours are also nice, and you enjoy making them.

MY AVATAR

Hi guys, this is my avatar ( a part of it because I haven't got the correct programm, which is Gimp 4.1.) about Beyonce. I think that the original is more beautiful, but this avatar isn't bad either

CHINA's Google

Google China was founded in 2005 and was originally headed by Kai-Fu Lee, a former Microsoft executive.
 Since announcing its intent to comply with Internet censorship laws in the People's Republic of China, Google China had been the focus of controversy over what critics view as capitulation to the "Golden Shield Project". Due to its self-imposed censorship, whenever people searched for prohibited Chinese keywords on a blocked list maintained by the PRC government, google.cn displayed the following at the bottom of the page (translated): In accordance with local laws, regulations and policies, part of the search result is not shown.


Some searches, were blocked entirely, with only the message "Search results may not comply with the relevant laws, regulations and policy, and can not be displayed" appearing.
Google argued that it could play a role more useful to the cause of free speech by participating in China's IT industry than by refusing to comply and being denied admission to the mainland Chinese market.
Google.cn transiently turned off its search result filtering. However, the filtering was later re-enabled without any acknowledgment or explanation; search queries in Chinese on the keywords Tiananmen or June 4, 1989 returned censored results with the standard censorship footnote.