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Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Nokia N9 button less and with MeeGo

Nokia has promised its arrival before the end of the year and complied. The Nokia N9 was officially introduced at the Nokia Connection event in Singapore with MeeGo as its operating system and without any front-facing button (in its side it has one for the camera and another for volume).

AMD Fusion for laptops

AMD has introduced its weapons, the long awaited AMD Fusion CPUs to give battle to the second generation of Intel Core Processors, codenamed Sandy Bridge, which have proved to be a remarkable improvement in the graphic field, with excellent performance in general and competitive prices.

Monday, June 13, 2011

Apple announces OS X Lion, iOS 5 and iCloud

Steve Jobs introduced the three new technological developments of Apple for the 2011. The new products are: iCloud online storage and sync system, iOS its mobile operating system and OS X Lion an update to the MACs operating system.

Thursday, May 26, 2011

Skype goes down globally

Microsoft stars with the wrong foot, just after a couple of weeks since they acquired Skype. The free calling service is having problems worldwide on Thursday the 26th of May, affecting more than eight millions users, and only a few days after the company has introduced their first upgrades on the program, compelling a lot of customers to update their Skype with a download.

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Acer and Samsung, the first companies to release Chromebooks

Google made the announcement of an agreement with Acer and Samsung to market Chromebooks laptops with Chrome as the operating system, to be released in mid-June with prices ranging the 349 dollars. The most distinctive feature of Chromebooks is that neither the user data nor the applications and multimedia content are stored in the laptops, but on remote servers, aka the Cloud.

Monday, May 16, 2011

HP renews the design of its desktop PCs

The new Pavilion desktop PCs come with a renewed design, strengthening HP’s trust in the traditional towers PCs by refreshing the appearance of the three main chassis designs in its tower line.
These are: the HP Pavilion HPE h8, the Pavilion p7, and the Pavilion Slimline s5. They all feature a new design with a minimalist finish and look, which seem to be focused to be placed in the living room and to be a home theater solution.

Samsung improves tablet screens with "PenTile" technology

Samsung has improved tablet screen resolution with its PenTile RGBW technology. The prototype is a 10.1 inches LCD screen that comes with a resolution of 2650 by 1600 pixels, with 298.9 ppp. It also allows a 40% less power consumption and a 300 cd/m2 luminance in its safe energy mode, while in its exterior mode offers a luminance of 600 cd/m2.

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Microsoft acquires Skype for $8.500 million

After a week that it was speculated that Skype would be in talks with Google and Facebook for a possible merger, acquisition or joint project, newspapers and specialized technology blogs such as All Things Digital y GigaOM, ensure that the deal has already been done and it would be announced this Wednesday 11th May. Both, Microsoft and Skype made no comments.

Friday, April 29, 2011

Kingston lands on GeeksHive

Since May, Kingston Technology will be the new partner inside the GeeksHive site.

“Our main goal as manufacturer is being able to reach in a more direct and concrete way by means of a business channel that is growing and growing more each day. The main idea is to enhance the positioning of our products line up, not only for the comodities line but also for more specific products such as passwords-protected USBs, and greater speeds of data transfers with encryptation, Hyperx memories for the gamer sector, Solid State Units (SSU), and every product that requires a greater and more accurate advice for the consumer. Thus, we are performing several activities to train every Geek, both at online levels and by means of events through the hives grouping all the Geeks in the country.

Thursday, April 28, 2011

Last news about PlayStation Network service's outgage

PlayStation Network service and Qriocity crashed down leaving millions of people unable to enjoy the online games while the engineers of the Japanese corporation were fighting against the clock to “restructure” the system. After being silent for days, the company reported last night that some hackers had gained access users data like passwords, postal addresses, birthdates and banking information (credit cards) of their clients. This intrusion forced them to take the decision of suspending the service the last Wednesday, April 20th.

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

The US Army has chosen Android for tactical operations

The Department of Defense has chosen Google's Android mobile operating system to develop a new application of military communication: a prototype device called JBC-P (Joint Battle Command-Platform).

Monday, April 18, 2011

CL-OLED the future for screens.

Researchers from the University of Toronto have found a way of manufacturing OLED screens using chlorine to reduce the complexity of traditional OLED devices and improve its efficiency all at once. It entails a great advance for futuristic technology which is practicaly stucked mainly in relation to devices with big screens and even for light devices.

Gigabyte and its Booktop

The GIGABYTE T1125 is literally transformed from a thin tablet-like notebook to a complete ultimate desktop PC. It majestically overcomes contemporary designs and revolutionizes the industry of portable PCs.

It has three components: the portable PC that converts into a tablet, its docking station to be converted into a desktop PC, charged or even to add some extra ports and a DVD unit through a USB.

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Amazon Cloud Player-Music in the cloud

The rumor has come true, Amazon has launched its own music storage and streaming service from the cloud, called Amazon Cloud Player and with this move it overcomes Apple and Google with a service that looks good.