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Microsoft would unveil its own tablet PC with HP
Jan 1st
Steve Ballmer should make at CES 2010 a new generation of Tablet PCs, multi-touch open and eBooks.
What will be Microsoft at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2010) Las Vegas (January 7 to 10)? If the Redmond giant is expected to discuss the market entry of Office 2010, which he announced pricesThe publisher could submit a new generation of tablet PCs.
According New York Times, Steve Ballmer should, on the occasion of his lecture, presenting a tablet PC developed with HP. One way to toast the politeness that Apple will, according to rumors, its own tablet January 26 next. A snook that is sure to delight probably not the CEO of Microsoft.
Also according to the New York daily, the combination of Microsoft-HP (whose name was not released) should support multicast (probably on Windows 7) and integrate functions of electronic book reading light. Characteristics similar to the features mentioned on the side of Apple.
If the arrival of Apple may well revive the market for Tablet PC addressed early in the decade by Microsoft, the two giants must also contend with another major player: Google. HTC, the manufacturer Nexus One, Joined in Mountain View to launch a Tablet PC OS Chrome. Freescale is at least convinced of the viability of this market. The manufacturer offers its side of design shelf under ARM processor.
Probably inspired by the success of Amazon KindleIt will be interesting to verify that the landing of the Tablet PC does not come at the expense of netbooks. Not according to Gartner, which suggests that the share of ultra-portable will be to 12% of total sales of PC in the world this year against 10% in 2009. Netbooks which will also depicts at CES 2010, including the Skylight Lenovo.
Wikipedia collection of 5.25 million euros and thank our donors
Dec 29th
Wikipedia has collected no fewer than 7.5 million U.S. dollars in recent weeks. Its founder, Jimmy Wales warmly thank the donors.
After successfully ” collection of donations the brightest of our history », Wikipedia welcomes $ 7.5 million (5.25 million) collected in less than eight weeks.
In a message The founder of the online encyclopedia, Jimmy Wales, Wished to congratulate all its benefactors. He explains: ” It’s amazing, but I’m not surprised. Wikipedia is not funded by advertising, but by you. Wikipedia is the fifth website most visited in the world, and your donations fund our servers and our few employees. »
It must be said that the 14 million encyclopedia entries in 270 languages undergoing rapid development and continuous. According to the Wikimedia Foundation, which operates Wikipedia particular, it is not less 340 million people who visited the site the Wikipedia online last month.
Since its launch in January 2001, the free encyclopedia Wikipedia was a great success. On average, each month nearly 250 million Internet users consult the articles available. All items are then written by Internet and each new visitor can freely change the content after registering with the site.
Jimmy Wales said: ” Your donations help keep Wikipedia free access and no ads. Your donations help provide free access to knowledge around the world. From the free and the free functioning
Analysis: Dell, with Perot Systems, follows the lead of IBM and HP
Dec 13th
In these difficult times, the acquisition of Perot Systems, even paid dear, is not an aberration. But, faced with IBM and HP, the battle promises to be revived especially in outsourced services
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Now that the HP EDS, after the IBM Global Services, seems to prove it was time to do so. Before the course can continue to go up …
The value of a company like Dell has everything to gain by further presence in servicesAnd especially in the Health SectorWhere Perot Systems has completed nearly half of its $ 2.8 billion in revenues.
And Dell has this need difficult periodWhere the server market, for example, has slowed considerably, due to the slowdown if not lower IT investment. Its margins have been severely affected, when its investment in distribution begins to pay.
After his breakthrough solutions for data storage, Dell has also confirmed his emergence in the data center through its lead in server virtualization, bringing innovations (for example, the virtualization port of entry / exit. ..)
Dell has all the right reasons in the world to strengthen its building with the provision of specialist services and especially in outsourcing services (IT and networks).
In this sense, the firm of Michael Dell himself up a little more the footsteps of IBM (Global Services) and HP just to get their hands on EDS.
It remains to check the finances of Perot and the loyalty of its customer portfolio. So far, the company created in 1988, was led by an iron hand, she has shown little signs of weakness in its management. Its shiny and turbulent founder, Ross Perot, a wealthy Texan, co-founder of EDS in 1962 (which was sold to Ford) has always held the reins unabated, using its reputation for ‘great mouth “. In 1992, he did not refrain from investing millions of dollars for himself as a candidate for president of the United States, where his group was at the height of its conquests abroad .. .
ATOS And why not?
It is true that this company, EDS challenger, has rarely given the impression of tack. She has managed to persist in balancing its portfolio of customers, between outsourcing networks of large groups abroad. With the crisis of 2001-2002, it had to – it also revised its ambitions-down, but keeping his head above water, thanks to its strong presence in protected areas like the hospital sector, or in the health sector more generally, where he has made over a billion in sales.
Nevertheless, as pointed out by a consultant from Duquesne Research that Perot Systems has refocused much of the United States, which may be an imbalance for Dell! “Athen why not imagine a next step, with another acquisition? For example, with Atos Origin strong presence in Europe …”
Moreover, if our memory serves, there was a time when Perot and Atos had an agreement with International …
Unveiling of the Newest Slider Phone Nokia N86 8MP by Nokia
Nov 16th
Nokia N86 8MP has many features which the people will certainly like to know:
Camera:
The gadget has whopping 8.0 mega pixels camera. It has video capturing capability with the resolution of 3264×2448 pixels. The device also has many smart features like 28 mm Carl Zeiss lens, auto focus, geo tagging & dual led flash.The handset also has VGA video call secondary camera.
Screen:
Nokia N86 8MP has 2.6 inches scratch resistant display screen supportive of 16 million colours. It has capacity to display the images or texts with the resolution of 240 x 320 pixels. It also entails the features like accelerometer sensor for rotating up and down the video or images on screen.
Multimedia:
The handset has stereo FM with RDS support. This means that the users will be able to see the music title, its author and other details on the gadget while listening their favourite songs on the radio.There is also WMV video player which besides playing WMV videos also supports the MP4 and 3GP video formats. The music player of the gadget is supportive of the music formats ie., MP3, WMA, WAV, AAC and MP4A. There is also an added 3.5 mm audio jack socket for the convenience of the users.
Memory:
The handset has overall 8 GB internal storage space. This memory size can be further increased upto 16 GB with the micro SD memory card. The handset uses the Li-ion 1200 mAh battery which has standby time of 13 days, talktime of 378 minutes and music playback time of 1500 minutes, when used in GSM network. However under 3G network, its standby time is 11 days & talktime of 234 minutes.
Connectivity:
Nokia N86 8MP uses advanced data transfer technologies such as class 32 GPRS, HSCSD, HSDPA and Wi-Fi etc. The people can view their favourite webpages either on the gadget or transfer it on the other device like desktop or laptop computer using the Bluetooth of the gadget. There is extra micro USB 2.0 socket for USB data cable so that files & data sharing between the computer & handset is made more easy. People will be able to access the internet on the WAP 2.0 & HTML browsers of the widget.
Miscellaneous:
There are many more features to be mentioned here. The processor speed of the gadget is 434 MHz. The users will find Symbian 9.0 operating system on the gadget. The handset has also messaging applications like SMS, MMS, EMS as well as T9. People can enjoy their favourite TV programmes on the gadget with the help of mobile TV application. Users can save games & ringtones(polyphonic and MP3) on the handset. The size of the Nokia N86 8MP is 103.4 x 51.4 x 16.5 mm. and it is little bit heavy having the weight of 149 grams.
Mio Moove M-Series: The new models M305 and M405
Nov 1st
From the house there were two million more navigation devices are presented and these are the two new models Mio Mio Moove Moove M305 and M405, which for the price of 99 € and 129 € are commercially available.
Mio Moove The M305 is equipped with a 400MHz processor from Samsung, a InstantFix II with SiRFstarIII GPS receiver, an integrated lithium-ion battery with up to 3 hours duration, a 3.5 inch touchscreen display with a resolution of up to 320 x 240 the MioMap navigation software, the Desktop Manager MioMore, lane guidance, voice navigation instructions, several route options, a variety of navigation views, the Tele Atlas map data from the 2.2009 and the European street maps with over 23 countries.
Mio Moove The M405 is also equipped with a 400 MHz processor, the integrated lithium-ion battery and the SiRFstarIII GPS chipset, but with a 4.3 inch touchscreen display and a resolution of 480 x 272 equipped. In addition, the MioMap navigation software, the Desktop Manager MioMore, lane guidance, Spoken navigation instructions, several route options, different navigation views, and also the maps from Tele Atlas and European road maps of up to 44 countries.

New 2TB hard disks with 7200 rpm
Oct 28th
In addition to the new SSD hard drives are of course the HDD hard disks evolved and what it is difficult to redress speed may be the attempt to stop just in the area of space. For this reason, the new Desktar Hitachi 7K2000 3.5 inch HDD disk presented the 2 terabytes of storage space has a rotational speed is 7200 revolutions per minute, 32MB of cache and using a SATA interface is 3.0GBps.
Add HiVERT provides the technology for a reasonable power consumption and the new series will also appear in smaller variations in the form of the Deskstar 7K1000 and in sizes 160GB – 1 terabyte.
Water-resistant digital camera the 2nd : Pentax WS80
Oct 25th
Pentax has the new Optio WS80 another water resistant digital camera presented, which in addition to the Optio W80 comes in the trade and this is even slightly cheaper than the W80, and can still use their facilities for yourself.
Among the specifications of the WS80 is a 10 megapixel sensor, a 5-fold optical zoom, a 2.7 inch large LCD screen, 720p video recording as well as an underwater up to ISO 6400 and face. In addition, the new WS80 up to 1.5 meters waterproof and this is already in September at a price of 259 € available.
Nvidia Quadro Plex S4 and Systems 2200D2
Oct 22nd
Nvidia has two new Quadro Plex multi-GPU visualization systems, VCS briefly presented, which is at Professional 3D specialists who need a lot of data must be analyzed. These are the two new systems Plex 2200 D2 (Deskside or 3U Rackmount), and the Plex 2200 S4 (1U server), which are both in different areas such as research, architecture, etc. can be used.
Both systems are equipped with the Quadro FX 5800 GPU and the more favorable Plex 2200 S4 is equipped with two GT200 GPUs equipped and offers 480 Processing Cores, 8GB of graphics memory, support for SLI Mosaic Tech, CUDA, Genlock / Framelock as well as four dual-link DVI Ausgänge.Der Plex 2200 S4 can be up to four GPUs GT200 equipped with the type and therefore offers the high-end version of up to 960 processing cores and up to 16GB of graphics memory.

OCZ SSD Hard Colossus: New information and 1TB variants
Oct 17th
We had you already OCZ SSD disks of the “Colossus” series accurately presented and are now more information about the new variants appeared. Already in three weeks, the new Colossus SSD hard drives on the market and will Colossus 120 (128GB disk space), Colossus 250 (256GB disk space), Colossus 500 (512GB disk space) and Colossus 1TB (1024GB) of storage call.
The price varies from about $ 300 U.S. (about 208 €) for the smallest and up to 2200 U.S. $ (about 1525 €) for the largest with 1TB of storage space.

LG Layla GM730: Phone With Windows as the operating system
Oct 14th
Only recently we’ve had reports that the operating system Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.5 and future versions in “Windows Phone” has been renamed and the first smartphone with which the words “Windows Phone” ones, the new LG Layla GM730, which is now in Internet appeared.
The new smartphone is equipped with a touchscreen display and it supports a resolution of 400 x 240 pixels, plus a 5 megapixel camera with autofocus, GPS, and the S-class user interface. Price and release date for the LG GM730 Layla are still not yet been announced.


