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The future MacBook Pro could join the fever Retinal Display
0372 days
With the new Intel processors , the output of the new Apple computers and laptops in the Pro range is only a matter of waiting.
End of June seems the probable date of departure of the new equipment. An iMac is thinner in all the pools and the renovation of the Pro range of notebooks that come rumors 9to5mac site suggest that the star of the presentation could be a new Apple Macbook Pro 15-inch screen which the decision would be the breakthrough that Apple would seek to re-shoot ultrabooks Competitive Advantage with Windows.
The new Macbook Pro reach a resolution that could be of 2880 × 1800 pixels, which marry earlier rumors about the new panel of this equipment from Apple. Signs of this rise of pixels on the screen of the Apple notebooks have also been found in the next version of the native operating system of the computers on the block, and as I said, it would be a differentiating factor beyond the design or even the Mac OSX.
The design of the new MacBook Pro also be renewed with a slimmer silhouette, no optical drive and it seems that with the arrival of a USB 3.0 port that the company would bet Apple: Thunderbolt. Nobody ever said they were incompatible.
Club Zed fined 200,000 euros by spam “Rico on the fly”
0380 days
It is very likely not remember but one day on the grid Antena3 television there was a program, so to speak, “Rico on the fly” which was based entirely on premium messages pickpocket viewers, to 1.20 euros plus VAT each to qualify for a number of awards that could reach 500,000.
The “program” had a first season but after low audience figures but later withdrew again, controversially included. Club Zed, one of these companies are often enriched based on deceptions and producing space, began to send short messages at the discretion invited to participate the contest.
The allegations came quickly due to the nearly 40 million SMS sent by the company with the invitation to the program. 333 complaints have led to the Spanish Agency for Data Protection to impose what is now called Time Factory Entertainment SL a fine of 200,000 euros.
The Agency has determined that Club Zed mobile numbers used to send commercial communications without consent and without complying with legal requirements as spam. And the company of luck, since the fine could have reached the 300,000 euro limit for serious offenses like this.
After that more than one insurance company this shady business think twice before burdening users with enticing messages that can be inflated invoices to dangerous limits.
Is Franklin Roosevelt? No, it’s Steve Jobs in a Apple internal video
0383 days
by messagecarriers
in Gadgets
From time to time, and especially after the publication of the authorized biography of Steve Jobs, we’ve seen how to filter some old videos and Apple internal as well as some curiosities that never would have imagined . But today it has no name, dear readers. I do not know how to classify it. A video has leaked internal Apple 9 minutes of where Steve Jobs plays Franklin Roosevelt, former president of the United States in the middle of World War II.
The video, created at the private level to motivate the employees of the company, is set in a sort of second world war in 1944 where the two main fronts are Apple and IBM. After news of the entry of troops into enemy Apple, General makes a speech to his troops saying they have “the cure” to a dull world where it is processed by processing.
I’m sure your victory will be great … Insanely great!
There are details of the video that no waste: the Apple logo on all helmets and caps of the soldiers, the presence of some computers, the “one more thing” of speech generally puns that relate to the world wars original Macintosh models, the overall panel simulating a fragment of the first Mac OS interface … and of course, the call of President General Jobs encouraging and telling him that “he and his troops have a date with destiny.”
Appears even hammer thrower athlete advertisement featuring ’1984 ‘, and end of the video we see an assault on an office full of workers’ zombie’ computers with IBM. Basically, video is a must for all bearing and his years with the brand. You can see the full footage at the source.
Ubuntu One Files for Android with support for Instagram
0394 days
by messagecarriers
in Mobile Phone
Ubuntu One Canonical Files now supports Android Instagram. This is version 1.1.0 of the application and is available for free download from the Google app store play.
The new product review provides support for automatic loads of photos from other applications and the ability to share links on Facebook, Twitter and other social networks.
Ubuntu One Files for Android also features improvements in the user interface and added some features to have more options when configuring the application, both to save energy and to avoid incurring extra costs of roaming. Files Ubuntu One runs on Android terminals equipped with Android 2.1 or higher, and the download size is 1.4 MB.
Facebook former AOL licensed Microsoft patents
0395 days
As the Redmond software giant Microsoft announced via press release announced, licensed Windows developers some of its recently acquired by AOL in patents to the currently the largest social network.
At the time negotiations with AOL, Microsoft gave one day or even access to property around 925 U.S. patents and patent portfolio of the then current AOL, which the group received access to an additional 300 patents that were not for sale.
Facebook has now acquired through the payment of 550 million dollars of Microsoft ownership of 650 of these patents and a license to use the rest of the time Microsoft bought AOL’s patents.
Microsoft, however, remains in possession of 275 patents, a license shall keep for those 650 patents that went on today on Facebook and may also be mentioned that 300 does not continue to use AOL’s patents sold. With the help of the agreement, Microsoft wants a bigger share of the costs – this amounted to a billion dollars – the AOL deal to recoup, but continue to benefit from its advantages.
Ted Ullyot, his character General Counsel at Facebook, described the agreement with Microsoft to build the company as an important step in the ongoing process, a portfolio of intellectual property and the interests of the social network to secure longer period.
Spring cleaning: Google provides a further service
0395 days
by messagecarriers
in Google
In the house Google is a spring cleaning. In order to better concentrate on its core areas, can the U.S. Internet company, according to a published blog post include some additional services.
Among the services that the Internet company will close in the near future include, among other things, Google Sync for BlackBerry. This service is Google at 1 June this year, according to the official announcements close. All users who currently use this service will also continue to have the opportunity. However, the app will be from 1 June can not download.
In addition, will pay Platform One Pass , which was aimed primarily at media companies closed. Google will make sure that the one-pass partner will be redirected to an alternative offer, they say. In addition to Google’s own Picasa photo service is a WINE -based application for the Linux operating system no longer support it.
Listed also are the Google Flu Vaccine Finder, your browser Help Google Related, the mobile web app for Google Talk , Picasa Web Albums Uploader for Mac and Picasa Web Albums plugin for iPhoto. Have also announced some changes to the programming interface, which might be of interest primarily to developers.
Late last year we have decided to use Google to ten services to no longer want to offer. Even then shared with the developers of the U.S. Internet company to try to take care better in the future more certain products.
Samsung’s icloud replacement should start with Galaxy S3
0398 days
by messagecarriers
in samsung
The Korean electronics giant Samsung is probably in parallel with the launch of its new flagship smartphone Samsung Galaxy S3 can also start your own cloud service that will make the offer Apple’s icloud competition.
As the Korean economy service ‘ Maeil Business ‘report, citing internal documents from Samsung, the company wants its plans for a so-called “S-cloud” in early May with the official presentation of the new Galaxy III. The idea is said on 3 May for the S3 launch held in London.
So far, there are unfortunately few concrete details on Samsung’s S-cloud according to the report, the offer, however, Apple’s icloud be very similar, but there should be no restrictions on the type of content that can be uploaded by the users.
Samsung S-cloud should also provide in some regions the opportunity to access well-known TV shows, movies and music, with both complimentary and fee-based media content of the speech is. The contents can supposedly be used on various Samsung devices, so next on smartphones and tablet notebooks.
The S-Cloud also includes online storage, with “more than 5 gigabytes’ capacity is mentioned, but it is unclear whether the customer must pay for it. Finally, there was speculation that Samsung wanted to introduce the new service earlier, but had problems finding a suitable hosting partner.
Meanwhile, this problem is solved but apparently, because according to ‘Maeil Business’ take over the centers of the U.S. software company Microsoft is hosting the S-cloud. In this way, Samsung makes the new cloud offering fast and reliable available in the world, they say.
SlimCleaner 3.0, new version of social optimization software
0398 days
by messagecarriers
in Software
At the time we talked about SlimCleaner, a program that helped us to optimize our equipment making use of social intelligence. Thus we compared the programs installed with your database of users and offered us if the community were considered good, average or bad. Now just leave SlimCleaner 3.0, the new version dels social optimization software with some interesting news.
This new version adds the ability to perform secure file deletion and optimizing the use of hard disk scanning added and use to analyze and detect possible problems. In this way helps us identify which directories are taking up most of your hard drive. This utility is available for both internal drives to external drives which perhaps makes more sense to use, especially in the case of secure deletion.
This option is interesting if we need to free up disk space, and that often helps us identify folders or old files that no longer useful to us but still taking up space on our hard drives. In regard to secure deletion includes several methods, which override the space occupied by the file to prevent that the latter can be recovered. Depending on the number of times to repeat the deletion operation will be safer, yet also take longer to execute.
When indentificarnos to make use of social intelligence can now log on to our Facebook user. Beyond these options we found little change, perhaps too few to warrant a version change, as well as adding several menu options SlimCleaner Windows contextual and correct some minor errors found little. One tip if you’re going to try not express that you carry out the installation by default installs the AVG toolbar AVG and puts us as a search engine to default home page.
The truth is that social intelligence bet if it really is not the right one to assess whether a program is or is not the best. I guess for most it will be, but if we want to optimize your computer, you have to tread carefully, because they serve to compare with any team, but only those of the same characteristics. Not because Acrobat Reader is a popular software has to be the best option for a team with few resources, to cite one example.
Nokia 900 Lumias build as fast as we can to meet demand
0400 days
by messagecarriers
in Mobile Phone
For now we can not access the Nokia 900 Lumia in our market, and in its early days has been surrounded by some connectivity issues that have made Nokia had to compensate their customers (the error is already corrected).
The specific sales model have not been published, but we know that have sold over three million Lumias from birth, the 900 was the last to arrive and of course there will be the least affected in this figure.
In the U.S., AT & T operator has ruled on its behavior in the market, without giving details, but ensuring that output has been a very powerful and they are running out of stock in many stores. In contrast, European operators are not so happy with the behavior of Lumias phones.
Is it a sign that is selling well? or may not have made so many units to meet demand. It is especially difficult to get the cyan version of the device.
Today we learned from the mouth of AllThingsD, which Nokia believes that your phone is selling very fast:
“The inventory situation is a function of demand,” “we have not had to change units for the connectivity problem is solved via Zune” “We are producing more phones to meet demand as soon as possible” Karen Lachtanski
Is a good time to report a new manufacturing plant that Nokia is preparing in Vietnam, we have no details about it, but it is interesting that the Finnish company wants to produce phone and outsource production.
Toshiba updates its NB500 series of netbooks
0401 days
Now Acer’s strategy for trying to pass located in the high end, Toshiba seems to have said that ‘The Seville was lost his seat’ and multiplied the number of models in its range of laptops. The netbook cannibalization despite suffering at the hands of ultrabook and tablet, also survive in the Japanese catalog with two new models in its range NB500.
The first of these netbooks is the NB510 and its greatest novelty is completely leaving fans to switch to passive dissipation systems aided by the low consumption of the latest Intel Atom.
The NB510 also adds HDMI port to the already common in the netbook. The display of this team is a 10.1-inch 1024 × 600, brightness 200Nits and between 8 and 9 hours of battery life.
Equipped with Intel dual core atom unspecified and 1GB of RAM, live inside a hard drive of 320GB. The SSD option A is not available.
The Toshiba NB520 is almost a twin of the NB510, with the addition that adds to the mix Harman Kardon speakers of 2 watts and Dolby Advanced Audio. A feature called Sleep ‘n Music enables you to use these speakers independently when the netbook is off from the USB port or the audio jack. The USB ports can also be used to charge other gadgets with the power off.
Available in blue, red and brown, this netbook will be marketed soon at a price of 299 euros and 319 NB510 and NB520 for respectively.