Fine record leads Toshiba asking 2280 million in loans – EN Journal

The fine record of 55 million euros for accounting fraud, left to Toshiba in terrible sheets. Unable to finance themselves in the markets, the company had to apply for a loan of EUR 2280 million to pay the fine, continue with the restructuring and lay off employees

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Scandal sequelae’s not yet reached the limit, despite the Japanese technology have already laid off 10,000 employees.

The main problem of Toshiba was the ‘small exaggeration ‘in the accounts: between 2007 and 2014, the company overestimated revenues by 224,800 million yen (1,680 million euros) and inflated operating income of 155,200 million yen (EUR 1160 million)

. After uncovered the scandal, the authorities imposed a record fine:. 7370 million yen, about 55 million euros

To be able to pay the fine and continue with the restructuring process, the technology had already appealed a credit of 400,000 million yen (3040 million), thanks to a banking consortium, for the titles in the bag are “on alert”, which means (in practice) that Toshiba can not finance themselves in the markets.

Now, the Kyodo agency reveals that the company had to borrow again, amounting to 2280 million, granted by the Japanese financial Mizuho Bank and Sumitomo Mitsui.

Estimates indicate that Toshiba presents record loss of 550,000 million yen (4198 million) in the current year, caused mostly by the restructuring costs, which has led to dismissal of some 3200 employees

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they will join soon, according to the technological plans, more 6800 workers

The restructuring aims to focus the group’s activity in chips and nuclear power production units.

The accounting fraud, discovered in February this year, has become one of the biggest financial scandals in Japan in the last years.

Error expose information of millions of US voters – Mato Grosso Circuit

An independent security researcher in computing said on Monday (28) that a database with information of 191 million American voters was exposed on the Internet because of a configuration error.

The database includes names, addresses, dates of birth, affiliation to parties, phone numbers and e -mails voters in all 50 US states and Washington, said researcher Chris Vickery in a telephone interview.

Vickery, an Austin Technology Support Specialist, Texas, he said he found information exposed while looking for information on the Internet in an attempt to raise awareness about data leaks.

“I want our society respects more privacy,” he said. “We need a serious referendum on how private data is handled.”

Vickery said he could not say if others had access to the database of voters, which took about a day to be downloaded. The researcher could not identify who controls the database.

He said it is working with US federal authorities to find out the owner and be able to remove the public outreach data. The researcher would not identify the agencies.

A representative of the FBI declined to comment.

 
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Personal data of 191 million American voters released on the Net – Exam Information

A misconfigured database giving access via the Internet to the data of more than 191 million American voters. The vulnerability, which has just been denounced by an expert in electronic security, it risks a direct entry in the list of largest US leaks. In addition to affecting nearly two-thirds of the US population (there are 326 million people currently), the flaw allows determining data considered especially sensitive, such as name, address, telephone number or the participation of every citizen in the past electoral acts .

The proportion trail can generate amazement, but does not determine the answer to a key question: who compiled and that entity manages the server that allowed the leak? Chris Vickery, the man who made known the case in Databreaches.net site, could not answer

Cnet adds one more data that helps thicken the mystery. The Office Census of the United States has only registered 142 200 000 voters – which suggests that this will not be a state agency database that has allowed access to data of American voters dating back to 2000

<. p> Despite failing to ascertain the origin and ownership of the database, Vickery reported the case to the US states of authorities to restrict access to voter registration data (the laws that safeguard the data of American voters differ by state .)

Only the authorities will be able to determine the source of the vulnerable database, but Chris Vickery already have an assured place among the most famous names in electronic security: in early December, the same expert revealed a failure that allowed access to personal data of 13 million users of MacKeeper security solution (for Macs); and last week released a security vulnerability that allowed access e-mail accounts of 3.3 million users of the site SanrioTown.com

AVG corrects serious fault Web tuneup for Chrome – Magazine BIT Computer for everyone.

Even worse for the reputation of the company, the first approaches to solve the problem have failed. The process can be read in one of the mailing lists of the Google Security Research, where failure was reportada.

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Even worse for the reputation of the company, the first approaches to solve the problem have failed. The process can be read in one of the mailing lists of the Google Security Research, where failure was reportada.

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2015, the year that marks the beginning of the end for Adobe Flash – Jornal de Negócios – Portugal

At a time when the newspapers indicate the major 2015 events and advance prospects for next year, The Guardian decided to celebrate a death, the Adobe Flash.

“The deaths are not usually the subject of celebrations, but there is a death that certainly will not be widely mourned: the Adobe Flash” writes The Guardian, saying in 2015 marks the beginning of the end of Adobe Flash program whose serious security flaws dictate their fate.

“Once the darling of the new interactive internet (in late 1990), allowing video, apps and attractive ads , Flash has become blistered and dangerous, loved only by hackers from the open internet, “continues Samuel Gibbs in the article of the British newspaper.

At issue is the fact that it is an unsafe program, responsible for a considerable number of cyber attacks inflicted to users. Explains the newspaper that the pirates take advantage of the program’s weaknesses for access to their personal computers, which makes this ‘plug-in’ unreliable, at a time when the search and operating systems engines are becoming safer.

On the other hand, the appearance of other tools such as HTML 5 and WebGL have allowed many of the common features of Flash be possible without recourse to this Adobe program, which incidentally several weight companies away, such as YouTube, Facebook, Google Chrome and Firefox, writes the newspaper.

Until advertisers – who were slow to abandon the tool inherited by Adobe with the acquisition of Macromedia in 2005 -. began to opt for other solutions, adds

Now it’s Adobe itself that begins to distance itself from its own product, writes The Guardian, adding that in recent years the company has worked to support HTML5 and WebGL within the Flash animation tools.

Recognizing that more than a third content created in Flash Professional is HTLM5 fact, the company decided to abandon the Flash name and call your product Adobe Animated CC.

The Guardian assumes, however, that there are still reasons to Flash continue to exist. Software systems as a service – like what is used by companies to manage historical employee, complaints and budgets – depend on Flash, for example, writes the paper, assuming that the program can continue to live on the intranet of the companies, but your path in the open Internet is approaching the end.

Portugal – Quercus elects pollution of the river Tagus as the worst environmental facto 2015 – The Ribatejo | online regional newspaper

The list was announced Monday in a statement with Quercus to expect, environmental outlook for 2016 that municipalities opt more for non-chemical methods, alternative herbicides to combat weeds and that the state invest in education and environmental awareness for protected areas.

The association warns of the “recurrent episodes of pollution” in the Tagus River, which cause them to “present year after year, more degraded and threatened” and was “detected barriers to migration” of fish.

The list of the worst environmental facts encompasses waste recycling targets, the increase of eucalyptus “at the expense mainly of conversion-brave pine” , fraud in greenhouse gas emissions in diesel vehicles of the Volkswagen Group, forest fires, the lack of food for scavenger birds, the wind farm in Torre de Moncorvo, designed for a buffer zone, and illegal poisoning of birds in danger of extinction, such as the black vulture and the Egyptian Vulture.

The organization also considers as negative in 2015, the extraordinary system of regulation of establishments activity and unlicensed farms “in general highly polluting companies or lax enforcement of environmental standards “, and domestic and agricultural use, in Portugal, of glyphosate, a herbicide which can cause cancer.

For the environmental association, the targets set for recycling urban waste “are absurd”, since, pointed, inner regions of the are required to recycle 80% of waste in 2020, while the cities of Lisbon and Porto 42% and 35%.

In the list of best environmental facts 2015 include the recovery in Portugal, populations of animals that have been extinct, such as the imperial eagle Iberian and the Iberian lynx, the birth, in the Ribatejo region, of various civic movements in particular in defense of Almonda river, legislation on fertilizers produced from biodegradable waste, the climate agreement in Paris and the creation of canine teams GNR for detection of poisons in protected areas such as the Guadiana Valley and the International Tagus.

In 2016, the Quercus expects the Portuguese government “have a voice” from the Spanish government for the nuclear power plant Almaraz “definitely terminate its activity” and electronic guides waste monitoring are created, to “assist in the supervision and the proper recording of management operations” of waste produced.

Quercus elects pollution in the Tejo as worst environmental facto 2015 – Digital Journal

The environmental association Quercus elected pollution in the river Tagus as one of the worst environmental events of 2015 and the legislation that penalizes the consumption of plastic bags as one of the best.

The list was released today, in a statement, with Quercus to expect, environmental outlook for 2016 that municipalities opt more for non-chemical methods, alternative herbicides to combat weeds and that the state invests more in education and environmental awareness for protected areas.

The association warns of the “recurrent episodes of pollution” in the Tagus River, which cause them to “present year after year, more degraded and threatened,” having been “detected barriers to migration” of fish.

The list of the worst environmental facts encompasses waste recycling targets, the increase of eucalyptus “at the expense mainly of conversion-brave pine forests,” fraud in greenhouse gas emissions in diesel vehicles Volkswagen Group, forest fires, the lack of food for scavenger birds, the wind farm in Torre de Moncorvo, designed for a buffer zone, and illegal poisoning of birds in danger of extinction, such as the black vulture and the abutre- of the Egypt.

The organization also considers as negative in 2015, the extraordinary system of regulation of establishments activity and holdings without a license, “generally highly polluting companies or lax enforcement of environmental standards” and domestic and agricultural use, in Portugal, of glyphosate, a herbicide which can cause cancer.

For the environmental association, the goals set for the recycling of urban waste “are absurd”, since, pointed, inner regions of the are required to recycle 80% of waste in 2020, while the cities of Lisbon and Porto 42% and 35%.

In the list of best environmental facts 2015 include the recovery in Portugal, populations of animals that have been extinct, such as the imperial eagle Iberian and the Iberian lynx, the birth, in the region of Ribatejo, several civic movements, in particular in defense of Almonda river, legislation on fertilizers produced with biodegradable waste, the climate agreement in Paris and the creation of canine teams GNR for detection of poisons in protected areas such as the Guadiana Valley and the International Tagus.

In 2016, the Quercus expects the Portuguese government “have a voice” from the Spanish government for the nuclear power plant Almaraz “definitely terminate its activity” and electronic guides waste monitoring to be created to “assist in the supervision and the proper recording of transactions management “of waste produced

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Toshiba asks loan 2280 million after receiving record fine – publico

                 

                         
                     

                 

 
 

The Japanese company Toshiba announced on Tuesday he would seek a new credit of 300,000 million yen (2,280 million euros) to carry forward the process of restructuring after the accounting fraud scandal unmasked this year.

At the end of the day off it was to know that the company will have to pay a fine of 7370 million yen (approximately EUR 55 million) for having manipulated the accounts between 2007 and 2014. According to Bloomberg , the Japanese company has until February 25 to pay the fine imposed by the regulator of the Japanese financial market. This is the largest ever penalty imposed by a regulator in an Asian country.

“Sorry again to all our stakeholders, including our shareholders and investors by caused worries and inconvenience,” he said the company said in a statement quoted by Kiodo agency that ensures that it will pay the fine.

The decision by the Japanese regulator was formalized on Thursday and surpasses 1600 million yen (12 million euros) taxes the multinational IHI in 2008, also for falsifying financial data.

Toshiba has received a credit of 400,000 million yen (3040 million euros) of various Nipponese banks last September and subsequently announced that would carry out a new phase of restructuring to recover from the serious economic problems compounded by the accounting scandal. The new credit will be financed by Nipponese entities Mizuho Bank and Sumitomo Mitsui, as indicated company sources the Kyodo agency.

The technology company and infrastructure was forced to resort to bank loans because it does not was able to obtain sufficient funds in the financial market, as their titles were put “on alert” by the stock market regulator due to accounting manipulation scandal, one of the largest ever in Japan.

Between 2007 and 2014, the company overestimated its revenues 224,800 million yen (1,680 million euros) and inflated its operating income 155 200 million yen (EUR 1160 million), according to data provided by Toshiba itself.

Toshiba provides recorded record losses of 550,000 million yen (4198 million) in the current year, a deficit that stands to be due mainly to restructuring costs, which involves a reduction of at least ten thousand jobs, half of which outside of Japan.

                     
                 

Fee for plastic bags was the best environmental action in 2015, says the Quercus – publico

                 

                         
                     

                         

                 

 
 

Quercus – National Association for Nature Conservation, issued on Monday the environmental balance of the year, with good and bad practices of 2015. The non-governmental organization Environment calls for greater ecological responsibility for the Next year, for a more sustainable economic growth.

The imposition of charges on disposable plastic bags under the so-called green taxation, proved to be “effective in minimizing production waste and help to further environmental sustainability. ” Therefore, this measure is first in the list of good environmental actions of the year. The measure passed last year, but only came into force earlier this year. Nuno Sequeira, Quercus, states that “this is a transversal measure to all sectors. Just go to the supermarket and it is easy to see that the paradigm has changed. ” As will be meaningful, on the other hand, an increase of over 40% in consumer trash bags in Portugal but responsible Quercus insists that still have this rate helped minimize waste production.

The recovery of extinct species in Portugal also received positive note this year, after investment in endangered fauna have returned habitats for species conservation status, such as the black vulture which was abolished in Portugal over about 40 years, the imperial eagle Iberian and the Iberian lynx, which now has a population of eleven animals in the country.

citizenship for the environment is still pointing to an important step, and the organization shows the efforts of the citizens of Ribatejo by the movement “Let’s Save the Rio Almonda” as an example of “persistence” in the fight for the river pollution, which led to the suspension of some licensing of discharges of industrial wastewater. The creation of the Platform Algarve Free Oil (PALP), which brings together citizens and Algarve entities to prevent the exploitation of hydrocarbons in the region is also highlighted as a good example of active citizenship for the environment.

The Quercus also notes between good 2015 for environmental initiatives, the climate agreement signed in Paris on Climate cop21 Conference, in which the 196 signatory nations committed themselves to reducing greenhouse gas emissions to keep the global temperature rise to 1.5 ° C .

Bad Practices

But also there was bad environment in 2015. One of the main criticism concerns this year to discharge pollutants in the river Tagus, which, according to Quercus, have formed barriers that prevent migration of fish fauna along the river flow, increasingly degraded . Illegal discharges and dwindling flows leave at risk not only the Tagus basin and water quality, but question the fishing, people’s health and the tourism potential of coastal areas.

Political decisions are also critical target in the balance sheet. Quercus believes that recycling targets, established in 2014 in the Strategic Plan for Urban Waste (PERSU 2020), are “absurd, because oblige the hinterland to recycle 80% of waste in 2020, while the big cities, Lisbon and Porto, just have to recycle between 23 and 35%. ” The organization also warns that the goals of the two cities are not increased, the Community target of recycling 50% of municipal waste will not be met.

The creation, by the previous government , a special regime to regulate the activity of companies with no operating license from the quarries farms, is also pointed out by the NGO as a “green pathway to environmental irresponsibility.” Decree-Law 165/2014, which stipulates the exceptional regime and suspending administrative offenses in force against the companies, had already been pointed out in the 2014 balance of Quercus as one of the worst efforts of the year for the environment.

The new Legal Regime Applicable to Afforestation and Reforestation actions (RJAAR) also on the blacklist of the year. The rampant increase of eucalyptus plantations increases the risk of fire and undermines “brave-pine forests and other formations of our forest,” associated with “incorrect mobilization of soil.” Environmentalists accuse the lack of land-use planning and the lack of investment in other species, since the eucalyptus is already abundant in the country.

                     
                 

                     

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Star Wars Battlefront even cheaper PlayStation 4 – Eurogamer.pt

Electronic Arts has decided to further lower the Star Wars Battlefront price for the PlayStation 4, via PlayStation Network, and allows you to buy the game almost by half the launch price.

Despite all 3 Battlefront versions have fallen in price on 16 December to celebrate the arrival of Star Wars VII Episode: Awakening Force, Electronic Arts decided to further lower the cost of travel for a very distant galaxy

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The standard version of Star Wars Battlefront can now be bought for € 34.99 (originally cost € 69.99 and then lowered to € 46.89), the Deluxe version can be purchased for € 39.99 (originally cost € 79.99 and then lowered to € 53.59 ), while the Ultimate version now costs € 89.99 (originally cost € 129.99 and then fell to € 97.49).

If you want you can buy for € 14.99 the additional content of the Deluxe Edition, which are actually access anticipated and at no cost to the Ion Grenade, Ion Torpedo, the DL-44 and Ion Shock, an emote unique.

The Season Pass, which costs a controversial € 49.99, has not yet been the subject of a promotion, showing that it is firmly in dark side.

Given that the game was released on November 17, is even more impressive to see the way that Electronic Arts It is trying to get those 11 million units sold by March. The players will thank you.

New smartphone Galaxy S7 Samsung will have an initial production of 5 million devices – Jornal de Negócios – Portugal

New smartphone Galaxy S7 Samsung will have an initial production of 5 million sets

The South Korean manufacturer will launch the Galaxy S7 February. And may be preparing two versions of its new flagship:. One with flat screen and other more curved screen

Samsung, the world’s largest maker of smartphones, should start with an initial production of about five million of its new model handsets, the Galaxy S7.

This news, advanced by the Electronic Times, citing unnamed sources, also reveals that the company South Korea may launch two versions of this top-notch. One with a screen 5.2-inch LCD, which will start with an output of 3.3 million units. And another, the so-called Galaxy S7 Edge, will have a curved screen of 5.5 inches, and an initial production of 1.6 million sets.

According to the South Korean publication, the launch of the new model will take place in February.

According to the latest data, released in November, in the third quarter of this year, Samsung increased smartphone sales, but lost market share in the face of Apple, its main competitor.

The giant Seoul sold 83.6 million smartphones between July and last September, up from 72.9 million sold in the same period of 2014. But its position in the market fell from 23.9% to 23.7 % in this period.

In the year hoverboard there is a company that has a model on sale (video) – PT Journal

The film ‘Back to the Future II’ predicted that in 2015 people could move a hoverboard. The Ark Space has a hoverboard for sale, with 272 horsepower to raise a person of 110 kilos for six minutes. The problem is the price of ArcaBoard …

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For 30 years, hit theaters a movie that would lead to a saga worship: ‘Back to the Future’. In the second title, the main characters Marty McFly and Doc Brown, traveling back in time to the future, more precisely later than 21 October 2015.

In fact, that day is already past. But some of the predictions of ‘Back to the Future II’ are present, such as the hoverboard

At least one model on the market:.. The ArcaBoard, the Ark Space Corporation

“It is the first breakthrough in mobility from the bicycle, the automobile and the airplane,” says the company

But let’s get to it:. the ArcaBoard has a power 272 horse, fed by a system of 203 thousand watts of electricity.

With a dimension of 145 by 76 by 15 centimeters, hoverboard supports a user up to 110 kg in weight, at least for six minutes

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The board is to levitate to 30 centimeters above the ground and during travel can reach a top speed of 20 kilometers per hour <. /> p>

The most amazing promises to be the flight stabilizer. This is because the ArcaBoard can be controlled by smartphone, but who opt for a freer mobility can turn off the stabilizer and control 36 turbines propeller with the body

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The company revealed that the ArcaBoard can already be ordered, with the first deliveries are scheduled for April 15, 2016.

The problem is the price : is this ‘toy’ hits the market with a reference price of $ 19,900, more than 18,115 euros

Surely someone who has money for this will also order a quick loading dock, worth. $ 4500 and bearing the hoverboard in 35 minutes.

Windows 10 Mobile unconvincing and leaves suspicious users – EN Journal

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Microsoft has bet everything on Windows 10 to grow its segment of mobile devices – from Windows 10 Mobile which was officially launched in Lumias 950 and 950 XL.

With the official release of Windows 10 Mobile in the Lumia 950 and the preview versions available to registered users of the Windows Insider program (trial) gave see Microsoft’s idea with Windows 10.

The brand Redmond plans to have an operating system that works in an ecosystem where backward compatibility between devices is total, not partial, as in other operating systems.

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Microsoft This concept became visible with Windows 10 Mobile. We can see that some backward, for example, in Microsoft EDGE. Either through the saved favorite, either through reading list. – A feature that lets you save articles for later reading and that can be opened on any Windows device user

Windows gained interesting functions and, finally, keep up with its Android and iOS rivals. Some of these functions are visible, for example, in the status bar. Now there is a larger set of options for quick access, not limited to 4 tasks as in Windows Phone 8.1.

However, Microsoft does not appear to convince users and Windows 10 Mobile is already to leave some suspicious. Rudy Huyn, one of the largest developers of platform applications such as 6Tag – an alternative version to Instagram – and that can be even better, showed his displeasure on his Twitter account. According to the same, your Lumia 950 restarted alone, indicating some bugs.

In addition, the arrival of Windows 10 Mobile APPs not brought that boom that many expected and that Microsoft promised. The fact that the PPAs go to be universal and enforceable in multiple platforms, PC, Tablet and Smartphone, the truth is that they are developers who choose to develop for Windows or not, the truth is that in this field – what more restless users, we do not see anything ninth in relation to applications.

As an example we have Facebook. The official APP Facebook still does not get to the platform, and even the version developed by Microsoft, in addition to lack of features all of Facebook, as in Android or iOS, it seems that even got worse in Windows 10. Heavier, with errors network connection and some crashes, at least strange. It seems that Microsoft has, here, the worse it was no longer good

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There are various complaints from users, whether in sociaI networks in support forums Microsoft or even on websites specializing in technology. As if all this were not enough, IDC data predict a little smiling future for the mobile platform from Microsoft, a timid growth of 2.3 percent until 2019. Nothing good, so.

Court Rules Nvidia infringed Samsung’s patents – Portal Technology

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It was last year that we saw Nvidia to sue both companies for patent infringement, Samsung and Qualcomm. Samsung responded with another process, which was favorable to them.

The “patent wars” are emerging in various business segments and graphic patents, particularly related to the GPU of mobile processors, are also in courts. There was still no process of this type, but last year Nvidia announced that after trying to reach agreement with Samsung and Qualcomm, decided to go to court because they have not reached an agreement on the use of its patents.

So, accused the South Korean manufacturer and the US by Qualcomm is infringing seven patents of American Nvidia. In response to this process, Samsung sued Nvidia for infringing three patents, now a special committee of the US International Trade Commission considered valid and upheld the South Korean.

According to Bloomberg, the decision It is not final, but it is unlikely that the final decision is different. With this decision, Nvidia can see their products banned in the US market, however there is a patent that expires already in 2016, so even if sales are not allowed, might last few months, including the blocked products by this patent .

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