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A suicide bomb attack that killed dozens of people had just rocked the airport in Moscow, Russia. The terrorists who designed this deadly attacks allegedly got inspiration and training from war games, Modern Warfare 2.

The report from Russia Today television pointed out that the terrorists trains themselves by playing the game of Modern Warfare 2. Indeed in the game Activision made the mission in which there is a Russian airport were fired.

“The scene of bloody attacks in Moscow warned the controversial computer game which involves an imaginative character who attacked civilians in an airport,” he said on the television.

In a mission entitled ‘No Russian’, players are required to attack civilians in an imaginary airport in Moscow. It was not until a bomb explosion, but still, this scene could be considered inspiring terrorists. Since the beginning of the emergence of the Modern Warfare 2, this scene has been considered controversial.

Allegations of Russian media is quite reasonable. Walid Phares, a terrorism analyst at the United States recognizes the possibility of terrorists using video games to train yourself to do the real attack in the real world.

“I think those who have received radical insight was to see the video games they can use for practice,” said Phares, told TechRadar and quoted on Wednesday (26/01/2011).

A year later it is enough for Samsung to deliver Android as the primary OS on their mobile devices. Now turn to Windows 7 Phone will be the mainstay of their next.

South Korean vendors are reported to focus on Windows 7 Phone, after Android and made their own operating system named Bada. Specifically, the ratio in the mobile OS Samsung will use the following: Windows Phone 7 (63 percent), Android (32 percent) and Bada (6 percent). Unfortunately, there is no specific reason why they started to focus themselves in the Microsoft OS.

Samsung’s own name into one of the ‘first force’ that presents a Windows-based phones Phone 7, in addition to the HTC and LG.

Companies that rely on the prefix Samsung Focus. This phone comes with a 1GHz Snapdragon processor with 4-inch size screen Super AMOLED (similar to those of the Galaxy S). An additional feature in Samsung’s Focus is a 5 megapixel camera. Focus priced USD199 when it first launched on November 8.

China Unicom plans to spend about 70 billion Yuan to expand its 3G network in China during the year 2011. This figure is shrinking compared to last year where the second largest operator in China spends 110 billion Yuan for the expansion of 3G networks. Although investment in 3G networks in the year 2010 is not known until the closing years, but investment by the company in 2009, where China Unicom began to develop new 3G access, it has exceeded projections in 2008. As of June 30, 2010, China Unicom had 153 000 BTS (base transceiver station) 3G, grew by about 127.8 percent compared to June 2009. In China, the company claims to own 3G network has reached out to about 95 percent of the country.

Meanwhile, the number of BTS 2G (GSM) operator that was established in 2000 it reached 306 000 units, growing 24.1 percent compared to same period previous year. “Our corporate’s customers give a significant contribution, especially from 3G access. The company-client companies contributed a third of total company revenue. While the other two thirds are individual customers,” said Tian Wenke, general manager of China Unicom service department, as quoted Cellular News, Monday, September 20, 2010.

The company’s net profit continued to decline compared to previous months. Compared to last month alone, China Unicom profit fell 62 percent because most are used to roll out 3G networks and subsidies for some mobile bundling.

Europe is the continent where all great things that have to do with technology come from. If you are thinking of building a career in IT industry, Europe is such a great place to start. Many say that Europe is the Mecca of technology and that seems to be a statement that cannot be said as untrue. One of the giant cell phone enterprises with worldwide reputation, Nokia, comes from Finland. That means that you choose the right It-tukipalvelut to build your IT career. There are endless opportunities and a number of IT related works in Europe. You might be lucky enough to work for one of the biggest IT companies in Europe and that will be beneficial and exciting for your career path.

As a small illustration, there are more than 3,000 computer companies in Belgium presently. About 20% of the employment distribution for the IT market is for systems integration jobs. IT consulting is another huge IT sector followed by facilities management. This implies that there are Kaasuliesi opportunities for you to work in IT industry in Belgium or in other parts of Europe, such as in Finland. Finland is one of the countries in Europe with very strong IT industry. This is even more strengthened by the fact that the Finnish government just made 1Mb internet connection as legal rights of the Finnish citizens. Building an IT career in Finland and in a number of countries in Europe is very prospective. If you want to jump in, make sure that you equip yourself with excellent IT education background and experiences.

European Union (EU) will facilitate the citizens in using mobile devices. One of them is to eliminate the dependence of different types of chargers. As quoted by Business Week, Monday (07/02/2010), starting next year all the phones in Europe are possible to use just one type of charger.

The use of one type of charger is one form of agreement by EU governments with some mobile manufacturers. This means that mobile phones in circulation in the EU would no longer be equipped with a charger. Thus, this helped to reduce electronic waste are already mounting. Uniformity in charger is also intended to make it easier for mobile users to borrow the charger for others when they forgot to bring it.

“This strategy is quite interesting, right? Surely many people will be happy,” said EU spokesman Dennis Abbott. This universal charger is a product that has been agreed by mobile phone vendors like-Apple, Emblaze Mobile, Huawei, LGE, Motorola, NEC, Nokia, Qualcomm, RIM, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, TCT Mobile and Texas Instruments.

This universal charger will be available for data-based mobile phone (smartphone), which phones that allow for the exchange of images, files, and music via the USB port on your computer. That is, all mobile phones in circulation in the year 2011 will be able to use this charger.