BitTorrent says “1 PB of data exchanged”!

Two weeks after being made available for its Sync client, BitTorrent has decided to take on the amount of data exchanged via its service. The figure is quite impressive: 1 Petabyte in just 14 days. But a question remains unanswered: how these figures are collected when no centralized server is at their part? The company says on this point. In late January, BitTorrent unveiled Sync, a synchronization client who wants an alternative to Dropbox. The latter uses the BitTorrent protocol, but does not offer centralized server. Two weeks after its opening at all, the company reported on the use of its application, and the results appear to exceed their expectations. Indeed, 1 Po (or 1,000 TB) of data was exchanged during this time, more than 70 TB per day.

 Some wondered how the company can get this kind of information and what exactly where the details collected. To answer these questions, it has updated the ticket and gives some explanation: "We have some general statistics on the application; we do not have access to private information." It then adds the Sync client periodically checks for new updates are available and then he took the opportunity to send "anonymous statistics" with, for example, how the data is transferred, the file size and the number files synchronized. As pointed out by a user on the forum of BitTorrent, the Sync client performs indeed queries on Usyncapp.com server via a very special URL, in which there are some details: BitTorrent states that this information has been deliberately left visible to the user: "This is the only information we collect and how we use, and we have deliberately left open. In this way, you can easily check that we do not have access to private information, just general statistics on the application. “ Anyway, some would certainly have liked to disable this option, which does not appear in the current state of things possible, perhaps in a future update?

Samsung promises of free storage on the Galaxy S4

The range of preinstalled software on the Galaxy S4 occupies nearly half of the 16 GB of storage. Samsung has promised to find a solution to reduce this footprint. Hailed for its performance, the quality of its 5-inch display and the battery life of 2600 mAh, Galaxy S4 was hand pinned to the interest and even the usefulness of the set of preinstalled software that offers. But its pre loaded software which occupy a large part of the memory storage device. In England, an analysis by BBC Watchdog has indeed revealed that S4 16GB had only 9 GB free. At first, the Korean company had minimized this problem by referring to the possibility of using an external memory card. Probably concerned with pictures, but they finally changed their mind. In a statement to The Inquirer, a spokesman for Samsung said that a solution would be found to free up storage space. A future update will show what changes are made in the range of S4 software.

The MySosh application available on Windows Phone 8, with limited options!

As promised, Sosh just put online their MySosh application for Windows Phone 7.5 and 8. Of course, it helps keep you updated on your data consumption and voice, access your past bills and manage your options, but some features are missing. For many months together requested by users, the monitoring of consumption data is now available on MySosh application for Android and iOS. Now, customers who have a Windows Phone can also enjoy. On their blog, Sosh states that "this version is slightly different from the iOS and Android versions but will meet most of your needs." Indeed, it is possible to track consumption data and voice, and you can view your last twelve bills and manage its options, some features are conspicuously absent. This is for example the case of community space that provides access to Sosh News, Sosh board, forum, etc. As for the Android and iOS apps, you will need to connect at least once to the Orange network so that the application is associated with your Sosh account. As a reminder, the Orange Application already offered similar functionality, remains to be seen whether there are differences between the two. Anyway, MySosh is compatible with Smartphones running Windows Phone 7.5 and 8. You can download it now.

Microsoft sends out ten security updates in May Patch!

Windows issued a new patch of ten security updates for its users on last Tuesday. They include crucial check for their critical vulnerabilities in Microsoft software. May Patch updates checks the Microsoft plugs for any critical security flaws in Windows operating systems. Microsoft provides with May's Patch Tuesday security updates totally ten, of which two ranks by the company as critical one, and the other eight as important one. These updates fix 33 vulnerabilities in all Microsoft operating systems from Windows XP to Office packages, Internet Explorer, as well as in special server programs. Patch MS13-038, there is finally an update that irons out the serious security problem in IE 8 - previously, users had a "fix-it" make do. Microsoft also provides a fresh version of the "Malicious Software Removal Tool" (32 bit, 64 bit). The patch MS13-037 resolves eleven privately reported vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer. The most severe vulnerabilities allow remote code execution if a user views a specially crafted Web page using Internet Explorer. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerabilities acquired in circumstances using the same user rights as the current user. For users whose accounts are configured to have fewer privileges, have less impacted than users who operate with administrative privileges. Microsoft's Tuesday Patch is usually on the second Tuesday of each month instead - so the following patch day is on 11 June 2013. The security updates will install automatically with the appropriate pre with active Internet connection.

“Hideout” new Disney’s interactive book for bed time stories!

The story before going to sleep is an lmmemorial ritual in many families will soon be turned upside down thanks to an innovation sponsored by Disney! Do you wish to use the light to live the characters in these stories? Disney is in all fronts for past several years. Yes they are in film, video games, comics and other areas, and there is much to do. What interests us this time is that some of their research teams currently working at Disney on the use of light applied to mobile phones and other items such as books. A project called HideOut. Their project will make books more interactive than ever. With portable projectors that could throw light on the books. The projector is equipped with infrared sensors that detect invisible to the naked eye inlaid on the pages elements. It then analyzes this data to recreate the form of light which is precisely the form required by the developers.

Of course, this technology is not confined only to books and concern video games, applications, Smartphone, board games, etc. Will develop a lot of new interactivity with objects of everyday life! Besides this HideOut project is also tested for table games and even wall! As you can see in the photos below, Disney Research also tested this technology for fun games for children and adults for some applications with these infrared markers released into the environment (tables, walls, other flat surfaces). Eventually your children could see dragons or knights magically out of their favorite storybooks! Or even find their heroes of Disney universe as if they were alive. This technology is of course still in the prototype stage and still requires some improvements. But we are confident and we think that such books could happen on our shelves very soon! And even if you do not have toddlers to wonder, maybe it will leave you with stars in your eyes and you ;) Be prepared to tell exciting stories to children?