Jack Dorsey, author and director of Twitter, restored site of its new venture Square. It says The New York Times. The idea of this project is to using a small device, a scanner to convert to cash a mobile device that accepts payments from credit cards.

Anticipated that the first service interested private entrepreneurs, which is unprofitable because of high rates of companies servicing credit cards, accept electronic payments from customers. Jack Dorsey promises that the monthly fee for using the Square will be much lower, although long and does not specify how it is.

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Google creates virtual world's database objects Heritage YUNESKO Google and YUNESKO signed an agreement establishing a virtual database of objects from the list of world's heritage YUNESKO, said the site of December 3.

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Google has launched a project of Public DNS - available free to all DNS-service. The project aims to accelerate the download sites.

DNS-server turn entered into the address bar in the digital domain names of Internet addresses. This feature Public DNS, probably performs faster than others, processing multiple queries. Exact scheme of work is unknown, because Google does not disclose the source code of the server.

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Climatologists have determined that global warming is to get to the last bastion of the ice - such scientists called East Antarctic ice sheet, which was considered until recently affected by climate change. Research article appeared in the journal Nature Geoscience, and its brief cites New Scientist.

The new study researchers used data collected by a pair of spacecraft NASA GRACE. These devices were launched from the cosmodrome Plesetsk in 2002, devoted to studying the dynamics of the terrestrial gravitational field.

Downloaded, they said "most detailed available data on the change of the gravitational field in recent years, the computer model, scientists were that East Antarctic ice sheet is currently intensively melts. By their calculations, from 2002 to 2009 range annually lose 5 to 109 billion tons of ice (error calculations extremely large).

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In the Netherlands, discovered the first malicious worm for Smartphone iphone, air broadcasts News. Its potential victims are the users of the Internet interface of the Dutch online bank ING Direct. Zarazyvshy phone, it redirects users to a site similar to a bank and steal data.

Infected can only be broken (jailbroken) phone with an application SSH. By default its password - "alpine". If it does not change during the installation, the worm can gain access to the phone.

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In Moscow HKZ "Pushkin" the evening of November 25 was awarded "Prize Runet-2009. Her winners were organizations and Web sites in six categories.

Award winners in the category "State and Society" are the projects' Karera.ru ", livejournal.com and news site Infox.ru.

In the category "Culture and Mass Communication received a gold statuette resources Rambler, the site of children's TV channel Bibihon and Project Omlet.ru. Special award nominations - for Internet radio - was the site RTS.fm.

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