The specialized websites around the internet provide a good interface for their users. Even if you are a beginner in playing poker or any other games, the real websites will always train you and suggest methods to improve your results and to always become a better player. It may also be a good way to enrich your knowledge and skills.

The Germans are very innovative when it comes to such virtual games. PartyPoker is one example which perfectly mainstreams the idea mentioned above. They have tournaments available and a serious membership. The users can send their complaints 24/24 to the administration of the website and the payment is secured. Of course, one cannot trust every website on the internet because there can also be found scams. One should pay attention to the registration form, to the methods of payment available, to the comments on the forums and even on the design of the website.

Doesn’t matter the way you are getting your entertainment from, it is important not to forget your real friends and be sociable outside the internet. Organize a PartyPoker with your room-mates when you are together or play it on-line when you are far away from each other.
 

“This device was bought from “Mühlbauer Group” Company and it costs 35,000 Euro,” informs the Border Guard Service of the Republic of Moldova in a press release.

The most important advantage of the system is that it does not involve any humans to operate the necessary duties for the cross-border process.

“Lunching this project will open new perspectives to the Moldovan citizens,” says the same body of the Government.

Moldova’s Premier Vlad Filat welcomed the new system implemented emphasizing that such measures are part of the requirements of the European Union regarding the visa-free travel regime of Moldova within the Schengen zone.

The NIT team is dissatisfied with the decision of the Council.
“NIT TV station was the target of the Broadcasting Coordination Council right after the change of power in 2009 when more fines and bans to broadcast commercials were applied,” informs NIT on their official webpage.

The media outlet is biased favoring the Communist Party of Moldova. It has repeatedly been fined for non-compliance with the Broadcasting rules. One such transgression was neglecting to include Romanian subtitles with their journalistic reports and movies which were mostly broadcasted in Russian.

Seven members of the Council voted in favor while two voted against the withdrawal of the license. Corneliu Mihalache is one of the members of the Council who voted against and left the session.

“It is a political decision which came from the main leadership. This decision might strengthen the politicians’ resolve to shut down all the media outlets which are inconvenient to the leadership,” Corneliu Mihalache said.

NIT channel broadcasted in Moldova since 1997 having a national coverage.
 

Reactions appeared on Twitter, the users expressing their dissatisfaction.

“I already thought my boss has prevented my access to Facebook due to overuse,” said Karoliina Harjanne on Twitter.

A staff journalist from Helsingin Sanomat reported on Twitter that “Facebook is down for about half of the users. Seems to be global and Facebook is trending worldwide.”

Facebook went down in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Romania, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and others.
 

BTJunkie.org was among the top 5 torrent websites, storing more than four million active files.

“This is the end of the line my friends. The decision does not come easy, but we’ve decided to voluntarily shut down. We’ve been fighting for years for your right to communicate, but it’s time to move on,” shows the webpage at the moment.

The closure comes after several countries have signed the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) which is designed to punish those who violate the intellectual property rights.

The internet users will protest on February 11 against ACTA. Access, which is an organization that states it is a “new global movement for digital freedom” is trying to mobilize people to rally against the agreement.

“Protests are being organized all over the globe to show the European Parliament that they must reject ACTA. Though many countries have signed the treaty already, if the EP rejects ACTA, it will be sent into the dustbin on history!” says Access.
 

The exoplanets range in size from slightly larger than Earth to larger than the gas giant Jupiter in our solar system. They were discovered by Kepler, a space telescope which stares at 150,000 stars in a narrow sliver of the night sky from its perch orbiting the sun.

The alien planets orbit their host stars, which are bigger than the sun, once every six to 143 days. The largest of the newly-discovered solar systems, called Kepler-33, hosts five exoplanets ranging in size from one-and-a-half to five times Earth’s size.

Doug Hudgins is the program scientist with the Kepler mission. Hudgins says scientists do not believe any of the newly discovered exoplanets could support life.

“All of them are in orbits that are smaller than our Earth’s orbit around our sun. So they would be fairly hot planets,” Hudgins said.

In the two years since the Kepler began observing the cosmos, scientists have discovered 61 exoplanets and some 2,300 candidate planets that need to be verified through further observations.

Kepler identifies exoplanets by continuously monitoring the brightness of a distant star in its narrow field. A planet orbiting its host sun casts a faint shadow that is detected by Kepler [Photo gallery: Kepler planets].

The telescope confirms planetary candidates by measuring so-called Transit Timing Variations, or TTVs, which occur when two or more planets in a tightly packed solar system orbit their host stars.

The gravitational pull of each passing planet causes one to speed up and another to slow down, according to Hudgins, helping astronomers confirm a planetary observation

“If you had something that was just mimicking a planet transit, they wouldn’t interact. The fact that you see these transit timing variations tells us that there’s a gravitational interaction and that tells us that these really have to be planets because they are interacting with each other," Hudgins said.

Hudgins says the ultimate goal for planet hunters is a telescope that can separate the light of a dimmer planet from its bright star, allowing scientists to study its electromagnetic spectrum.

The information gleaned from the light spectrum could tell astronomers what gases make up a planet’s atmosphere and possibly even some surface characteristics, according to Hudgins, who is anxious to find signs of life.

“That’s why we do this. That’s the exciting thing, We are addressing one of the oldest and most fundamental questions of humankind. And that is, are we alone?,” Hudgins said.

Hudgins believes such a telescope will be built in his lifetime, allowing Kepler scientists to move on to the next phase of their discovery mission.

According to Reuters, the purpose of the monitoring is to “collect information used in providing situational awareness and establishing a common operating picture.”

The same source states that the recorded information will be stored for no longer than five years.

Among the monitored websites are Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, the Lede blog of The New York Times, The Huffington Post, The Drudge Report, ABC’s investigative blog, YouTube, Flickr, Hulu, drug trafficking, cybercrime and terrorism related websites, and others.

So, be careful on what you write and publish on the internet. The information posted on Facebook might come against you after a while if you become suspicious to them.
 

According to the official website of Deutsche Welle, the multimedia offer of the Romanian newsroom will continue its activity on the webpage with new formats and more information of all the realms from Germany, Romania, Republic of Moldova, Europe and the whole world.

The first broadcast of Deutsche Welle was put live on August 19, 1963. The shutdown of the radio isn’t the only one that happened in the last ten years. In 2008, the Romanian newsroom of the BBC Radio closed its broadcasting to Romania and Moldova, as well. At that time, 46 employees had to be fired. Even Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty from Bucharest shutdown its activity in Romania at the beginning of 2008; at that time the country losing two important newsrooms.

For example the new DELL STREAK PRO 101DL runs on a dual core 1.5GHz processor while supporting its own cloud service known as “SyncUP” that offers up to 2GB of storage space.

Available only in black color the Gorilla Glass phone is also finished in soft silicone rubber that is non-slip and scratch resistant. Android 2.3 Gingerbread device will arrive for sale in January 2012.

Here are some specs and features:

• Android 2.3
• 4.3-inch super AMOLED screen with 540×960 QHD resolution (Gorilla Glass)
• 8MP CMOS camera
• 1.3MP sub camera
• 1.5GHz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM8260 CPU
• SyncUp compatible
• Dell Stage 2.0 pre-installed
• Bluetooth 2.1＋EDR
• IEEE802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi
• GPS, HSDPA 14.4Mbps,HSUPA 5.7Mbps
• microSDHC card slot
• W-CDMA, GSM
• size: 65×126×10.3mm, weight: 140g

No pricing info yet. But according to Japanese tech news site Keitai Watch, the manufacturer of the DELL STREAK PRO 101DL plans to distribute it all over the world. Japan of course will be the first one state to receive it.
 

Fan-free slate features a sturdy aluminum frame construction and is thus extremely robust, quiet and offers run times up to 15 hours.

Specs&features:

• Display - LED-backlit, 10" (1024 x 600) multi-touch, 16:9
• Size - 264 x 170 x 15 mm
• Weight - 930 grams
• Camera - 1.3-megapixel front-facing
• CPU - Intel® Atom™ Z670, (512K Cache, 1.50 GHz)
• Intel® SM35 Express Chipset
• Integrated graphics - Intel® GMA 600
• RAM - 2GB DDR2 (max. 2 GB)
• 32 GB SSD S-ATA mSATA (Mini PCIe)
• Connectivity - Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, UMTS (HUAWEI EM770W), 2x USB 2.0, HDMI, Micro SD Card Reader,
• SIM Card Slot, 3.5 mm Minijack, DC-In, Bluetooth (3.0 + EDR technology)
• Battery - Polymer Li-Ion 52Whr
• Software - MS Office Starter 2010*, Kaspersky Internet Security OEM (90 Tage TRIAL), MS Windows Live

The Terra Pad 1080 is backed by a two-year warranty and costs €749 ($1017).
 

The DataTraveler 6000 is an ultra-secure USB Flash drive which will protect organization's portable data using elliptic curve cryptography (ECC), which is recommended by the United States National Security Agency (NSA) as part of the NSA Suite B set of cryptographic algorithms.

The device offers Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-2 Level 3-grade data protection and 256-bit AES hardware-based encryption using an XTS block cipher mode that provides stronger protection over other block cipher modes such as CBC and ECB modes.

The DataTraveler 6000 eliminates the possibility of password brute force attacks by destroying all critical security parameters after 10 invalid login attempts.

The flash drive is rugged – it has a tamper-proof and water-proof titanium-coated stainless steel casing.

It features a USB 2.0 interface, offers read/write speeds of up to 11/5 MB/s, and comes with a five-year warranty.

Features/Benefits:

* FIPS 140-2 Level 3 Validated
* U.S. Department of Defense Data At Rest Tiger Team (DARTT) & USCYBERCOM approved
* Ultra-Strong Security Architecture
– Drive locks down after 10 intrusion attempts and encryption
key is destroyed
– No passwords stored on device or host
– Hardware designed and assembled in the U.S.
– United States National Security Agency Suite B set of cryptographic on Board™
– Elliptic curve cryptography
– Secure channel communication
– Digitally signed firmware updates using Suite B SHA-384 and ECDSA P-384
– DT6000 can operate with AutoRun disabled
– Enforces tamper-free AutoRun files
– Cryptography made in the U.S.
* Enforced Complex Password – Password is user-set with a minimum of three of the four characteristics (lowercase, uppercase, characters and numbers) required to prevent unauthorized access
* Full Privacy – 100 percent of stored data is protected by 256-bit Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) hardwarebased encryption
— master key recreated at logon
*Customizable1 – preload content, full security policy customization, casing options
* Tamper-Proof Physical Security Barrier
* Waterproof2 – protected against water damage
* Guaranteed – five-year warranty with 24/7 customer support
* Ruggedized – titanium-coated stainless steel casing

Specifications:
• Dimensions 3.06” x 0.9” x 0.47” (77.9mm x 22mm x 12.05mm)
• Speed3 up to 11MB/s read, 5MB/s write
• Capacities4 2GB, 4GB, 8GB, 16GB
• Compatibility designed to USB 2.0 specifications
• Operating Temperature 32°F to 140°F (0°C to 60°C)
• Storage Temperature -4°F to 185°F (-20°C to 85°C)

Minimum System Requirements:
- USB 2.0 compliant and 1.1 compatible
- Two (2) free consecutive drive letters required for use5

Compatible with Windows 7, Windows Vista ХP1-2, Windows XP SP2-3, Mac OS X v. 10.5.x-10.6.x

The DataTraveler 6000 (DT6000) line includes 2GB, 4GB, 8GB and 16GB drives which cost $100, $116, $147 and $208, respectively.
 

The 7” device is a lightweight tablet which fits perfectly one’s palm. It is made to deliver performance for games, movies, music, photos and more on a brilliant HD multi-touch screen. The Android tablet offers its user the enjoyable multitasking and features a durable and slip-resistant Easy Grip finish but manages to be just 0.47 inches thick.

It also utilizes the Adaptive Display and Resolution+ video enhancement technologies and gyroscope.

Other specs and features:

AutoBrite™ LED Backlit Display with 1280x800 screen resolution
Android™ 3.2, Honeycomb
HD Cameras (5-megapixel rear-facing camera, a 2MP front camera)
Powered by the NVIDIA® Tegra™2
Dual Core Mobile Processor
16GB and 32GB Internal Storage Options
WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity, GPS, mini USB and micro HDMI ports
Stereo speakers
Weights less than a pound or less than 450 grams

The Thrive 7” Tablet will appear for sale in December. The price is still unknown.
 

The device will be the first Discovery-branded mobile phone available on the market and expectedly it will appear in Q4 2011.

The phone represents all the neediest functions for those who lives in Discovery lifestyle – it is water-resistant, dustproof and anti-shock. Also the Huawei-Discovery Expedition offers outdoor enthusiasts GPS capabilities, a torch function, along with compass and G-sensor, which makes it the perfect took for travelers.

The phone will come with pre-loaded social networking apps such as Facebook, Twitter and Opera Mini.

“Discovery Expedition, the premiere lifestyle outdoor apparel and accessories brand, is our newest retail and merchandising initiative, designed to complement the qualities found at the heart of our flagship brand Discovery Channel- adventure, exploration, technology and quality,” said Nicolas Bonard, Senior Vice President, Discovery Enterprises International, Discovery Networks International.

The Huawei-Discovery Expedition will feature 2-inch display that supports 320 x 240 pixels resolution and is protected by Gorilla Glass and will be available in a black-orange color scheme.

“This partnership will allow Huawei to leverage Discovery’s robust marketing channels to consumers around the world. This Huawei-Discovery Expedition phone collaboration is the first of many to come and we look forward to working even more closely with Discovery in the near future to co-create more innovative products that we can share with consumers,” says Victor Xu, Chief Marketing Officer, Huawei Device.

The Huawei-Discovery Expedition is already being promoted through all Discovery channels.
 

This quad-core Nvidia Tegra 3 (Kal-El) processor is clocked at 1.5 GHz, though it’s been underclocked to 1.3GHz in the interest of prolonging battery life.

Actually some critics even say that “it is probably the most powerful consumer tablet on Planet Earth right now, and also the most impressive”.

The newest device carries the modest name – T98 and features a 7-inch (1280 x 800) touchscreen, 1GB of RAM, 16GB of built-in storage, a 5-megapixel rear-facing camera, a 2MP front camera, 3G modem support, Wi-Fi b/g/n and Bluetooth support and a 4,000 mAh battery. It is 11.5mm thick and is running Android 3.2 (Honeycomb).

Unfortunately ZTE didn't mention the T98's price tag or release date yet.
 

The new smartphone will please its future owners with the next features:

• Android 2.3.5
• 4.3-inch LCD display with 1,280×720 resolution
• Wimax
• Wi-fi IEEE802.11b/g/n (tethering is possible)
• waterproof body
• 13MP CMOS camera (Exmor R for mobile, ISO25600)
• 1.3MP sub camera
• 1080p video recording
• dual-core TI OMAP4430 CPU (1.2GHz)
• 1GB RAM
• 8GB ROM
• HDMI interface, microSDHC card slot (32GB max.), microUSB port
• Bluetooth 2.1+EDR
• infra-red
• e-wallet function
• digital TV tuner
• GSM, CDMA
• size: 64×128×10.1mm, weight: 131g

Reportedly the new rival will appear in Japan in November.