Microsoft investigated for bribery of foreign officials

According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, the federal government of the United States, Washington, for instance, would be investigating Microsoft for corruption. An anonymous source reported that Microsoft would have paid to foreign government officials to obtain contracts for its software.
According to the article in the WSJ, the Department of Justice (the equivalent of our ministry) and the Securities and Exchange Commission are investigating anonymous complaints qualiMicrosoft would pay according to officials in China, Romania and Italy.

It is thought that the company may have violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, according to which listed companies can not offer money to foreign governments.
In China's case, Microsoft would have hired an outside firm to conduct an investigation lasting 10 months which would have discovered that there was no wrongdoing.

Here, however, what the WSJ writes about Italy:
"According to the sources, the agencies (U.S. governtive, ed) are examining the relationships with Microsoft consultants in Italy specializing in programs fidelizzazionie customer. The allegations received claim that the Italian unit of Microsoft consultants would use these as vehicles to lavish gifts and trips to Italian officials, procurement officers in exchange for business with the government. "

In a post on a blog, Microsoft diminishes as reported by the WSJ explaining that it is important that the government investigate allegations of this kind, and that is a good idea to do so. Microsoft, however, has not denied nor confirmed the investigation, but said that if there was an investigation, it would release statements. Everyone should draw the conclusions he believes.

Samsung presents Rex line to oust the Nokia Asha

Last week Samsung unveiled a new series of phones, the Rex series, consisting of smartphones that are designed in such a way that you can go through the rough version of the Galaxy S III and running with an operating system based on Java with the interface TouchWiz Samsung.




The four devices, the REX 60, REX 70, REX REX 80 and 90, have displays ranging from 2.8 to 3.5 inches and mount a 1.8 megapixel camera on the most basic, up to 3.2 megapixels on the most sophisticated. Samsung has not announced prices or availability dates, but it is clear that this line of phones will compete directly with the Nokia Asha in an attempt to steal the Finnish company's market medium-low. Win Samsung and Nokia will sell? Or the Finns will sharpen knives and resist the attacks? Only the temp will tell.

Asus MeMo Pad ME172V: 7-Inch Cheap Tablet for € 149

Asus makes the Nexus 7 now also brings competition and the 7-inch MeMo Pad ME172V out for 149 euros. 16GB hard drive, 1GB RAM, 1024x600 resolution, 1GHz single-core processor, Mali graphics 400, Android 4.1, microSD slot and battery 4720. Nearest competitor in the price race to the bottom would be Acer's Iconia B1, with the 119 euros is still a touch cheaper, but only has 8GB memory.

The toy comes already with the iPhone jailbreak

If you want to submit to jailbreak your phone, you must work a little 'and lose some' of your time to fulfill your purpose. But if you buy one of these iPhone toy, however, will not have to do anything because there's already done with the jailbreak.


If you look carefully at the picture, in fact, you will see the Cydia icon, the store accessible from iOS devices that have been jailbroken. For some strange reason, instead of Cydia, the icon is called "gift", but there is and it is unmistakable. As can be deduced from the screen, this is not an iPhone 5. And as can be seen from the buttons at the bottom, it is just a toy for children. It seems that someone has wanted to take the tour to entertain the iPhone with a toy.

The next Sony PS4 could have games streaming

The Wall Street Journal reports that the next PlayStation of Sony, the company should submit an event announced for February 20, will include a technology that allows you to send streaming video games.
Sony bought Gakai, a streaming service for video games last year and at this point should be able to allow its users to access video games released Trami you internet.

The new technology, according to the Wall Street Journal, will be presented Wednesday with the new console. The streaming service is designed to use both the current PlayStation 3 games that to be enjoyed by a new console. The new Sony PS4, however, should be able to run games on optical discs.
The games would be streamed news that we had not seen game consoles and it will be interesting to see how Sony will balance games on optical discs with those for streaming.