Windows 8, the first contact, first impressions

During the morning we downloaded a preview of Windows 8, available from Microsoft after the official press conference. Curiosity led us to install it and try it immediately. The installation procedure does not differ from that which we find today in Windows 7: a few simple steps the operating system is installed on a PC.

In the video below shows our first contact with the new operating system from Microsoft, the interaction with the interface Metro and the main functions that can exploit.




As we have emphasized in the video, the first contact of this particularly affects the speed of execution showed that the operating system to ensure: each application is started in no time. In our case we installed the operating system on our test platform for the VGA. These technical specifications:

Processor: Intel Core i7 Extreme 975, clocked at 3.73 GHz range on increase of frequency multiplier up to 28x;

RAM: 3x2 G bytes Corsair TR3X6G1600C8D; clock frequency 1,600 MHz with 9-9-9-20 1T timings equal to;

Hard drive: 240GB Crucial M4;
Motherboard: MSI Eclipse SLI X58 chipset;

Power: 1,100 Watts to Power

The brand Microsoft still leaves the sign, installed in the morning; early afternoon in Windows 8 has already been welcomed, as evidenced by the image below:

The Windows Update Service has already identified 8 9 useful updates for the operating system. Good morning starts in the morning?

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Spring / summer collection 2012 DKNY, romantic elegance at New York Fashion Week

A fashion show is also unique in Donna Karan New York at the New York Fashion Week. The fashion designer has chosen to parade his models equipped with a cab behind the written DKNY top, a tribute to the life of his city to mark the tenth anniversary of Sept. 11. Among other things, this is one of the finest collections of Donna Karan, where the line forms to be romantic and colorful characters, floral and retro shapes complement the beautiful idea of a parade in which the elegance of the creations Woman Karan has reached a whole other level.

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The Idiosyncratic Fashionistas - Tips and Tricks by two veteran glam fashion

Yeah, the fashion is just everywhere, do not force yourself to look too, because any place, object or person can be an inspiration to be damn fashion. They understood the two "ladies" of fashion, that the blog Idiosyncratic The Fashionistas, in which contend that the first rule of a Fashionistas-and-not to follow fashions.

Then, for show, Stroll around exhibitions and possibly a hat adorned with strange to them for example really like to wear hats Indochina style red lacquer, and if you do not see that! Then away with a bevy of beautiful plump bracelets on each arm (as Nancy Canard by Man Ray in the picture), why yes.

Somewhere at the bottom also need to copy, but there, too: better to dredge up the past. Better, among the great divas of the '30s. The Idiosyncratic Fashionistas then have a YouTube channel dedicated to those who want to learn the fine art of wearing a hat.

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In Milan fashion than the inhabitants of Europe

Confirms Milan’s fashion capital. And not only nationwide, but European. According to a survey by Trip Advisor (one of the most authoritative sites on travel, which collects reviews from all over the world) of 3,000 users in Europe, the inhabitants of Europe's trendiest are just the meneghini. Eureka. Sorry if I am called in question, but just enough to pass on the fly at the Central Station in this city to understand that fashion is an essential element of everyday life (besides work and appetizers). There are always exceptions, agree. But here the verdict was officially decreed, and it seems that there is too remote voting rigged behind.

"Milan is undoubtedly one of the most important capitals of the international fashion and design and plays a key role in strengthening the reputation and turnover of our country around the world and the survey confirms that the Milanese are seen as trend setters due to their innate ability to bring fashion from the catwalk outfits for every day”
Hence the official Top 10: Milan, Paris, Rome, Barcelona, Madrid, London, Stockholm, Florence, Copenhagen and Amsterdam. They excel in front of the French, yes sir. The worst ranked are the Turks, with Istanbul last place. While in London, or better, across Britain, is a bit 'controversial considered Trans data look, place it near the bottom along with Birmingham, Liverpool, Glasgow and Manchester. For the record here is also the percentage of voters: the poll was conducted by Trip Advisor 17 to 23 June 2011 on the 3523 European travelers of which 778 British, 532 French and 1,289 Spaniards. Our countrymen are in the majority, in fact. But at least we can boast a record in Milan. In addition to that of the fog.

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3M invests in technologies of Pixel Qi

Pixel Qi Corporation, a reality that operates in the development of technologies for LCD panels, has announced that it has received an investment by 3M by 3M New Ventures division. The amount of the investment has not been officially announced, although some rumors indicate on $ 3 million the amount invested.

Pixel Qi, founded by Mary Lou Jepson in 2008, manufactures technology for the production of LCD panels with high readability under sunlight, for use in mobile devices. The reflective technology developed by Pixel Qi allows designers to turn off the backlight of the panel in particular conditions of ambient light in order to save energy. Currently the company offers color and monochrome models of its display, 10.1-inch diagonal.

"The technology offers consumers Pixel Qi for the first time an outdoor readable display with exceptional autonomy, utilizable anywhere and at any time. It is the first industry. In our partnership with 3M, we have the ability to accelerate the mass adoption of these displays, "said Mary Lou Jepson. The company said that the financing obtained will further develop its product offering for consumer markets, as well as for digital signage applications and cloud. The funding wills also Pixel Qi to strengthen their capacity for engineering and sales.

3M Optical Systems Division provides polarizing films that are used in liquid crystal display to optimize the light output. "The combination of low-power reflective technology of Pixel Qi, with the technology of 3M products for the markets will create interesting mobile, handheld and tablet," said Jim Bauman, vice president of 3M's Optical Systems.

Recall that before the foundation of Pixel Qi, Mary Lou Jepson was Chief Architect and Chief Technology Officer for the project One Laptop Per Child sponsored by MIT .


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PC market: growth downward for IDC

IDC also, like what was announced last week by Gartner, cuts economic growth forecast for the PC market for 2011 and 2012, albeit with different proportions. The analyst firm expects a market growth of 2.8% for 2011, compared to the original estimate of 4.2%. Several reasons: a series of adverse circumstances among which the low propensity to spend by the public, the saturation in mature markets and the cannibalization of new emerging devices such as tablet.

The persistence of these circumstances, combined with growing concerns about the conditions in the economy of the United States and Europe, has led IDC also revise down growth forecasts for 2012 which increased from 10.2% to 9.3%. For the period 2013 to 2015 but IDC predicts that growth will settle back to around 11%.

During the second quarter of 2011, IDC reported a 2.7% growth in deliveries Gobal for the PC market, compared to the previous growth forecast of 2.9%. This is a result that is on target, even though the purchase of PCs in mature markets remained weak, particularly among the realities of the SMB (Small-Medium Business) and among consumers. The 'Western Europe saw a decline of 20% over the same period last year, while the U.S. market suffered from a delcino 5%.

IDC identifies, however, some positive factors including a sustained expenditure from the enterprise sector and an interesting thrust of emerging regions, embodied in particular by China overtaking the U.S. in terms of shipments of PC systems. The emerging market growth remains in double figures, indicating a clear distance from the decline in mature markets.

Jay Chou, senior research analyst for IDC, said: "Consumers have taken a step back because of economic conditions and consumer PCs have suffered because of the lack of attractive offers. With the enthusiasm for the mini notebook now behind us, the 'PC industry has had difficulty in expressing important features that can keep the audience interested and has consequently suffered from the competition for smart phones and media tablet that during the second quarter were sold respectively 107 million and 13.5 million units . Even the possible spin-off of HP's PC division has contributed to the uncertainty of the market, channel and corporate users who need to reconsider the next steps. "

Loren Loverde, IDC's vice president, Worldwide Consumer Tracker, said: "With the difficult situation of the economies and new products such as consumer and business spending money on the PC growth will remain weak in coming quarters. Nevertheless, the replacement of existing PCs, growth in emerging regions and a renewed offer for next year expected to take a good long-term growth. "

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Wacom Cintiq24HD: display / tablet 24 IPS

Wacom has long since diversified its proposal in a clear way between consumer and professional customers, carrying out in parallel product lines related to the world of graphics tablets. Yesterday was the day of presentation of the new display / tablet Cintiq24HD, but is expected soon for important new line of graphics tablets available Bamboo.


Wacom Cintiq24HD is a high-quality display that combines the functionality of a tablet, with the ability to design and then, thanks to the pen supplied with passive, directly on the display. This is an H-IPS panel 24-inch diagonal, with a viewing angle of 89 ° and resolution 1920x1200 pixels, capable of reproducing 92% Adobe RGB color space , with the ability to be calibrated for applications that require colorimetric greater fidelity.


One new feature is dall'apposito support that allows the panel to fit your needs, even posizionadolo legs, for a more natural drawing position. Coupled with passive pen, the system is sensitive to 2048 levels of pressure and 40 ° inclination, the best to control the size of the tract and its opacity. The display tablet also offers a range of customizable function keys.

Cintiq 24HD accepts analog RGB and digital DVI and Display Port, bringing to pack a DVI-VGA adapter. Output has DVI-I and Display Port, and also integrates a USB port. Compatibility is guaranteed with Windows XP and from Apple since Mac OS X 10.5. The price ranks among the professional products: we speak of a € 2,299.90 incl.

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Microsoft to developers: Metro is the future

Windows runtime library (Win RT) is the main set of APIs for application development in Windows 8 design Metro. Officially, at least as reported by Microsoft, this new set of elements is not going to replace anything in the end, however, the use of Win RT represents the future and many Web developers to abandon Silver light app in favor of the new set of APIs .

Silver light was, before yesterday, the latest platform for developing web applications: established as a subset. NET Framework, the platform has enabled the development of applications, from the Web, could have access to the system and use the rendering engine Internet Explorer. A web-based application built on Silver light, and can thus appear to be installed on the system and its work in a dedicated window, outside the browser.
Windows runtime library is a turning point for a rather important reason: it is not a subset. NET Frame work. The diagram of the new development platform is shown below:



Languages like HTML5/CSS/Javascript, along with those canons. NET (C, C + +, C # and VB) will be handled without problems by the new API package. At the moment there seems to be a direct link between, however, development platform and user interface: it is not clear why all the parties to submit applications using Win RT style "meters".
What is clear is that Microsoft identifies the slide, starting today, two kinds of applications. The first is the so-called "metro style": it is characterized by the new design and applications that can be developed with its own new API Win RT . From the usage point of view, Microsoft assures, will surely be more engaging.
The second class of applications that can be developed and run on Windows 8 is defined as "desktop applications". These applications are canonical, we are used to manage and use Windows today's scenario.

The strategy is therefore rather clear and obvious: Microsoft has introduced Windows 8 as an operating system without compromise. But there is, however, have to be an important transition, the new graphical interface, improved and simplified, it is likely to conflict directly with that which is the experience of use that Windows has provided to date. Win RT represents the set of tools that will be provided to developers to create applications optimized for the new interface, but it will still inhibited the ability to support traditional applications.

But the tip about the new Microsoft applications?

One answer comes indirectly by observing the sessions that the company devotes to developers these days: a large room for HTML5 and JavaScript to write applications more "interactive" and "metro style", but to little. Net, C # and Visual Basic. None for Silver light. And that says a lot.

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Internet Explorer interface Metro 10

On the occasion of the presentation of Build 2011 and Windows developers to 8 there was also time to evaluate the new Internet Explorer 10, which as we all browsers is growing in importance. The availability of web applications, the use of streaming content and cloud computing are just a few examples that make today's critically important for a browser user experience of a system, be it a PC, a tablet or smart phone.
Microsoft demonstrated Windows 8 of a tablet PC Samsung also giving particular emphasis to the interface metro, interface designed especially for use on devices with multi-touch display. And on this device has been shown 10 that also support Internet Explorer, the most common gesture for zooming or selection of content.


The available images show a graphical interface very clean, with large surface area dedicated to the display of content and very few controls needed arranged in top and bottom. In Internet Explorer 10 features found Pinning already seen in the current version and display the bookmarks is much more convenient than traditional user interface offered by Internet Explorer.

According to what reported by various sources, Internet Explorer 10 runs in the GUI does not show the traditional big news than shown in the two platforms preview already made public.

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Deep Safe care, anti-root kit McAfee Intel Core series CPUs

Not slow to show the fruits of the acquisition of McAfee from Intel. Let us briefly recall that Intel has paid the beauty of 7.68 billion U.S. dollars to acquire McAfee just a year ago, to the amazement of many industry analysts.
During IDF 2011 San Francisco, currently under way, Intel CEO Paul Otellini announced that the technology Deep Safe that, as the name implies, seeks to bring active safety to levels previously unattainable with the only software solutions. A combination of hardware and software, then, that will be the guard to block abnormalities hardly recognizable, such as root kits.



Currently, in most systems, it is customary to install an antivirus to protect themselves from the most common malware circulating. The anti-virus (AV slide), in conjunction with services of Data Loss Prevention (DLP), watches over our system, identifying and neutralizing an enormous number of known malware. Such a system, however, can not do anything against malware not yet identified as not in the database of reference to recognize the malicious code.




Root kits, by their nature, are hidden in the deepest parts of the code at the kernel level, under the guise of operating system files and act undisturbed and most complete anonymity. Towards the end of this year Intel will provide the new technology in Deep Safe Core i3, i5 and i7, although it is not yet clear whether all or only some versions. Taking advantage of technology VT (Virtualization Technology) CPU Core Deep Safe aims to monitor the system so much more effective for malware not yet identified.
To do so, besides the nature of hardware and software, help a special "behavior monitors monitoring", which should be able to identify abnormal behavior without relying on a database to detect malicious software? Deep Safe will not be exclusive and proprietary technology, but will be made available to other companies might be concerned.

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Windows 8 IU Metro-style: first impressions

On the occasion of Microsoft BUILD Conference underway at this time in Anaheim, California, the Redmond Company has distributed 5,000 tablets Samsung developers equipped with its own new operating system Windows 8. First impressions derived from a multitude of videos appeared online show a touch-friendly interface design completely new, at least for Microsoft.

One of the most important factors in the new UI, called Metro, is derived from the younger brother of Windows 8, Windows 7 Phone, and Live and consists of tiles. Live The tiles are rectangular or square boxes that serve as icons and viewer notifications relating to the application to which you refer.


The desktop and the classic interface in Windows 7 rimmarrà still available to users even if the form of application. The most nostalgic can still meet their needs and then finding the experience of using traditional operating system for PC world's most popular.

The two fundamental components of the new philosophy bound Metro-style interface can be identified in the two key words "touch" and "personalizazzione". As anticipated, in fact, the new UI has been designed and optimized to be used in complete mobility by accessing all that interested in you as quickly and easily as possible.

These two key changes seen since the login screen. To access the system the user can choose between three different options: the traditional password, a PIN, or a "picture password". This method involves the use of a photo in one of the galleries that will display all ' ignition and which will allow access as a result of the pressure points of the image of three previously established.



As anticipated, once you are logged in front of the home screen populated by a series of live brows able sliding tiles horizontally. Touching the display from the left edge towards the center can be accessed quickly open applications, while maintaining the same operation on the opposite side we access a kind of 'toolbar' within which were placed buttons that respond to commands Search, share, back to home, back and settings.


Similar to the use for the browser, the box for entering commands by touching the tablet is activated it from the bottom edge toward the center. Similarly they are also displayed at the open windows high above.

First impressions are good, the approach and the interface is completely renovated offering positive feedback. Judging by the video circulated on the net at this time also the fluidity and stability seem good but could be the result of specific, not low-level prototype distributed to developers. Microsoft's statements about it and let us hope, however, speak of specifications for the use of completely new OS for everyone.

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LX5 new firmware for Panasonic, Lumix G lenses for Olympus E-5

Panasonic has confirmed its decision to give support to long-term high-end products: after having promised a few weeks ago, the Japanese brand has released firmware version 2.0 for the premium compact Panasonic DMC-LX5 (found at this address in our review). It is based on a compact format CCD sensor 1 / 1, 63, "credited with 10.1 mega pixels of optical resolution from the excursion limited (3.8 x) to cover the entire zoom range between 24mm and 90mm equivalent, but with maximum brightness the focal length of at least f2.0.



The upgrade makes several improvements firm ware: improves the speed of focus, adds the menu item High ISO NR, and improves the performance of the white balance. Video recording was added to the Active Mode for better stabilization. Improvements also regarding the use, with an easier way to tweak the manual focus and better performance for the block of focus and exposure to the pressure of the shutter button halfway.

The location and size of the focus is now stored, so you find them fixed, but has been extended the maximum time for exposure in manual mode, now come to about 250 seconds. Among the Color Mode has been added the ' miniature effect (one of the most creative filters current fashion), while the menu has seen the addition of voice Monitor / Viewfinder Setup tab. Files to update Panasonic Lumix LX5 are available at this address , which also shows the complete procedure.

At home there are other Panasonic firmware updates, in this case dedicated to the optical system mirror less Lumix G Micro Four Thirds. Seven of the optical receiving the update and become part of the HD series, with performances very important in terms of video. In particular, the optical receive improvements in terms of auto focus tracking mode, with a quieter focus, and in the stabilization system prestaziondi OIS (Optical Image Stabilizer). The optical affected by the update (details, procedures and installation files are available at this address ) are as follows:

Lumix G 14mm / F2.5 ASPH. (H-H014)
LUMIX G VARIO 14-42mm / F3.5-5.6 ASPH. / MEGA OIS (H-FS014042)
LUMIX G FISHEYE 8mm / F3.5 (H-F008)
LUMIX G VARIO 100-300mm / F4.0-5.6 / MEGA OIS (H-FS100300)
LUMIX G VARIO 7-14mm / F4.0 ASPH. (H-F007014)
LUMIX G VARIO 14-45mm / F3.5-5.6 ASPH. / MEGA OIS (H-FS014045)
LUMIX G VARIO 45-200mm / F4.0-5.6 / MEGA OIS (H-FS045200)




Small update Olympus at home: with firmware version 1.2 the Four Thirds DSLR Olympus E-5 works best in tandem optional vertical grip HLD-4. In this case, the update can go through the software packaged with the camera

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PlayStation Life: the launch date for Japan is December 17 (PSP)

PlayStation Life will be on sale in Japan on December 17 at a price of 29,980 yen for WiFi/3G version and priced at 24,980 for the WiFi-only version (in Europe the prices are respectively € 299 and € 249). This was announced by Sony at its pre-Tokyo Game Show conference.



Sony will begin receiving pre-order by October 15. He announced that there will be the case in the box, headphones, a cloth to wipe the screen, the charger for the car, all with the PlayStation logo Life. The console's launch for Europe and North America is rather expected in the first part of 2012.

Sony has reached an agreement with the provider NTT Do Como to offer 3G services in Japan. NTT will offer a dedicated phone plan for users of PlayStation Life: 980 yen for 20 hours, or 4,980 yen for connecting a plan of 100 hours.

At launch there will be 26 titles in Japan, while in the "launch window" Japanese users will have even 100 different games for the new handheld console. Below the list of games available from 26th December 17 :

BlazBlue: Continuum Shift Extend
Project Noels
Fish On
Dynasty Warriors Next
WipEout 2048
Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3
Lord of Apocalypse (Square Enix)
F1 2011
Ninja Gaiden Sigma
Army Corps of Hell (Square Enix)
Michael Jackson: The Experience (Ubisoft)
2 Shinobido: Tales of a Ninja (Acquire)
Virtua Tennis 4 (Sega)
Uncharted: Golden Abyss (SCE)
Hot Shots Golf 6 (SCE)
Gyokugen Dasshutsu Adv: Zennin Shiboudesu (Chunsoft)
Dream Club Zero Portable (D3 Publisher)
Disgaea 3: Return (NIS)
Dark Quest: Alliance (Ubisoft)
Ridge Racer (Namco Bandai)
Tales of Innocence
Gravity Daze
HD Metal Gear Solid (Konami)
FIFA 12 (EA)

According to figures provided by Sony, the battery life ranges from PlayStation 3 to 5 hours. If you are just playing videos, for example, there will be a range of about 5 hours. But if you insert the handheld into standby mode and you're ready to listen to music only extend the duration up to 9 hours.

Life with PlayStation CPU quad core ARM Cortex-A9, PowerVR GPU SGX543MP4 + and 512 MB of system memory. The video memory instead of 128 MB. The system is equipped with front and rear camera, built-in stereo speakers, as well as a microphone. The front camera operates at a frame rate of 120fps at 320x240 resolution (QVGA), while the rear to 60fps at 640x480 (VGA).

The display is 5 inches and handles about 16 million colors. This is an OLED screen multi-touch capacitive. The console also has a touch pad at the rear, still capacitive. Life with PlayStation is the system of six-axis motion of the gyroscope and accelerometer and electronic compass. The GPS receiver is available with support for 3G + WiFi.

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Windows Developer Preview 8, where download

During the first day of BUILD 2011, the conference for Microsoft developers has been made available a "developer preview" of the expected 8 Microsoft Windows operating system. The download of the installation image is public, but when a load is reported on Microsoft's servers, so you must have some 'patience.

For now, have been devoted to systems released versions 64bit (x64) and 32bit (x32). Attar verso Microsoft informed that this page is currently not a procedure for upgrading from Windows 7 to the developer preview, it is guaranteed the opportunity to keep own accounts, the data relating to the individual user settings. In case of installation on systems where it was previously installed Windows XP will be maintained only individual accounts and user files.

Here are the hardware requirements set by Microsoft for using Windows developer preview 8:

1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)
16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)
DirectX 9 graphics with WDDM 1.0 or higher device drivers

Taking advantage of touch screen to input Requires That Supports multi-touch
In the information page of Microsoft, however, there is a phrase that sums up much better than the requirements for the use of OS: Windows Developer Preview works great on the Hardware That Powers examination Windows Vista and Windows 7 . So no worries: the new operating system can be tested on an ordinary PC that already use with Windows Vista or Windows 7.

Keep in mind the nature of this issue: the status of a developer preview calls for caution and to 'use only for testing operations. It would be desirable to prevent the installation of systems in production on this release also paying attention to the management of user data and the apparition of the disc. The creation of a dedicated virtual machine could be a viable solution.

And finally after the recommendations and information rite here is the official page dedicated to the Microsoft download. For those who have an MSDN subscription Microsoft has made available some additional downloads.

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Microsoft Windows developer preview 8, an operating system to rule them all

Yesterday, during a conference for developers (Microsoft Build), the American software giant has shown the public a detailed preview of the new and future operating system: Windows 8. Microsoft took the opportunity to highlight not only the new features that will characterize the future operating system, but also introduced new tools that help developers write applications for the Windows environment.

"We redesigned Windows," said Steven Sinofsky, president of Windows and Windows Live at Microsoft, during his keynote. "From the experience with the use chipsets, Windows 8 brings important new features without compromise”, the spokesman continued corporate.
The new features that Microsoft has decided to show at the conference range from the graphic interface improvements, the new way to manage applications.



It starts from the interface to use it, Microsoft has decided in this sense, the development of "Metro”, a new interface to be able to provide a better user experience with touch screen devices. In addition, this element is supported by an optimized browser: Internet Explorer, the 10 places the content in the foreground, to facilitate end-user interaction.
The operating system Microsoft web log offers new ways to interact with the applications: the utility, developed to interface Metro, promises a user experience better, full screen, so no distractions. But not all. The application should in Windows 8, in fact, communicate with each other. For example, you will be so emails and photos from different places, whether it is Face book or Flicker, or your hard drive.
Windows 8 comes, therefore, a unique software platform that adapts not only to PCs, as has been until now, but also for smart phones and tablet. The end user will be so, always in his work environment. Sky Drive allows you to manage all data in the cloud more important to have them always at hand.
To succeed in its attempt to best Microsoft is pushing its large developer community: Windows stores will now be expanded and will represent an increasingly important base for marketing applications. Windows 8 will be able to support multiple programming languages (C, C #, C + +, Net, Silver light, HTML5, CSS3 and XAML) will obviously made a difference for applications optimized for interface Metro and those "normal".


The developers at the conference held last night were "honored" with a slate of Samsung, characterized by a display of 11.6 "and capable of a resolution of 1366x768 pixels. At the base of the system with an Intel Core i5- 2467 operating at 1.6 GHz, 4GB of RAM and 64GB SSD. More than anything, though, it deserves emphasis is on such a system:

Windows 8, 8102 build: 5000 developers can now, today, begin to work actively in order to understand the true potential of the new operating system.

During the day we will cover, feature after feature, the new Windows 8 will bring on the market.


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IDF: solar-powered CPUs

Among the many presentations and demonstrations that we saw during the first day of 2011 IDF, we point out an interesting project that will demonstrate how to reduce fuel consumption is the focal point around which all the research and development of IT in this case Intel.


During the first keynote of this IDF, held by CEO Paul Otellini, was shown a very special position, because the CPU, which has not been provided to the general good chance but with a low voltage Pentium or Atom (which was excluded has well it is a pre-production), was able to remain operational with only a small solar cell. Just to be more precise: all other components of the system were powered by a common power supply and only took the CPU power from the cell.

Despite this, the result is remarkable, because the operating system was fully functional and the solar cell very small, little more than a postage stamp. Difficult to estimate the consumption of the CPU, if not impossible, but it is certain that the energy produced by such a cell is very little.

Intel wanted to demonstrate how the work in Intel Labs is strongly focused on energy, enough to be cited in this IDF much more than performance, one true heart of the issues a few years ago. Not by chance the example has been done when the discourse has shifted to Has well, Sandy Bridge micro architecture of the post, which should ensure very low fuel consumption compared to current solutions.

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New Force ware 285.27 beta NVIDIA drivers

NVIDIA has made available for downloading drivers Forceware 285.27 beta, first release 285 belonging to the family. The drivers, available for Windows 7, Vista and XP 32bit and 64bit release, support for desktop GPU GeForce series 6, 7, 8, 9, 100, 200, 300, 400 and 500 in addition to desktop GPUs ION .

Among the innovations implemented mention various performance improvements with the 400 and 500 series GPUs with a few titles on Windows 7, the implementation of a new software releases and enhancements on the side PhysX 3D Vision. The download is available locally at this address .

The following notes supplied with:

This is the first beta release of the Release 285 driver family.
This driver package supports desktop GPUs GeForce series 6, 7, 8, 9, 100, 200, 300, 400 and 500 as well as ION desktop GPUs.
New in Release 285.27

Performance

Increase the performance of the GeForce 400 series and 500 different PC games than the drivers v280.26 WHQL. The following are some examples of the most significant improvements measured on Windows 7. The results vary depending on the GPU and system configuration:

GeForce GTX 580:

Up to 5% in Call of Duty: Black Ops
Up to 7% in Civilization V with SLI
Up to 7% in F1 2010 with SLI
Up to 5% in Lost Planet 2 with SLI
Up to 5% in Mafia 2 with SLI
Up to 13% in Metro 2033 with SLI
Up to 8% in STALKER: Call of Pripyat with SLI
Up to 5% in StarCraft 2

GeForce GTX 560:

Up to 4% Bulletstorm
Up to 5% Battlefield: Bad Company 2 with SLI
Until all'6% in Call of Duty: Black Ops
Up to 7% in Dragon Age 2 with SLI
Up to 7% in F1 2010 with SLI
Up to 5% in Just Cause 2 with SLI
Up to 5% in Lost Planet 2 with SLI
Up to 4% in Mafia 2 with SLI
Up to 7% in Metro 2033 with SLI
Up to 11% in STALKER: Call of Pripyat with SLI
Up to 7% in StarCraft 2

NVIDIA PhysX

Update system software PhysX to version 9.11.06.21.

HD Audio

Update to version 1.2.24.0 HD Audio driver.

OpenGL

Adds support for OpenGL 4.2, NVIDIA GeForce 400 and 500 series.

NVIDIA 3D Vision

This package includes the driver for the controller of 3D Vision (USB). Users no longer have to install a driver CD or a 3D Vision 3D Vision separate controller drivers. For more information, check out this knowledgebase .
Added support for viewing and YouTube 3DVisionLive.com 3D PC with NVIDIA SLI For more information on 3D Vision in a window mode, see this Knowledge Base article .
The windowed mode is now the default display option for 3D Vision Photo Viewer.
Adds the following Vision 3D game profiles :

Aion
Diablo 3
Dead Rising 2: Off The Record
Defense of the Ancients (DOTA) 2
From Dust
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows Part 2
Last Remnant Benchmark
Men of War Assault Squad
Stock Car
Update the following Vision 3D game profiles:
Dirt 3 - to-date classification Excellent

Other

OpenGL 3.3 support for GeForce 8 series and higher.
Supports single GPU and NVIDIA SLI technology * on DirectX 9 and OpenGL.
Supports the new GPU-accelerated features of Adobe Creative Suite 5, including Photoshop CS5 .
Supports GPU-acceleration to ensure a smoother online HD video with Adobe Flash.
Supports overclocking and temperature monitoring by installing the GPU NVIDIA System Tools software .
Supported Products

ION (Desktops)

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3DS: Nintendo talks in Tokyo of colors, and features games (DS)

Lots of news for Nintendo fans from the Tokyo Game Show, after the pre-conference event held in the Japanese giant yesterday. First, owners can record video in 3D 3DS after installing the new update system, which will be available from November.

You can create your own original productions, and show them to other three-dimensional 3D, all without the need to wear special glasses. The system upgrade will also offer other news for those who have passed all the challenges in the Mii Plaza Street Pass.



On 7 October, then, Nintendo will launch the new Nintendo 3DS Red Metallic color you see in the images. Nintendo announces that this is done in conjunction with the launch of achieving the target of one million units sold in Europe 3DS.

Then there is the new accessory circle pad that will add a second analog stick to the handheld console, the PlayStation and then aligning Life, and will introduce two new buttons back. Circle pad will arrive in Japan on December 10, with the launch of Monster Hunt 3G, priced at 1,500 yen (48 euros).


The accessory uses an AAA battery and does not function independently. This is an initial list of titles compatible with the new accessory: Revelations Resident Evil, Metal Gear Solid Snake Eater 3D, 3D Ace Combat, Dynasty Warriors and Kingdom Hearts vs. 3D, in addition to the aforementioned Monster Hunt 3G.

In winter there are also two brand new Mario titles. Super Mario Land 3-D will debut in Europe on the Nintendo 3DS November 18. In this first Mario platform adventure in true stereoscopic 3D, players can explore the various levels to unearth secrets before you start the game using the Nintendo 3DS integrated gyro. The game will include the functionality Street Pass. Mario Kart 7 will be available from December 2 and will include a new optional mode of driving in first person, which is controlled using the gyroscopic sensor. The title also introduces new characters as playable Lakitu and Metal Mario, and a system of tricks like that of Mario Kart Wii.

As for the planned outputs for 2012, Nintendo has revealed for the first time in 3D Mario Tennis. Also in 2012, will Animal crossing 3D with several new options like the ability to become the head of the village and to improve the development. You can put some items in the village and make it even more personalized and visit the homes of other players met through Street Pass.

In 2012, new chapters will also come to Luigi's Mansion Paper Mario and Kid Icarus Uprising. Nintendo also in development of 3D animations in Kid Icarus will be made available for free via Nintendo Video.

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Intel, here are the general plans for the 22nm technology and beyond

The announcement of the production process to transition to 22nm is not new for Intel. In early May we were able to make contact for the first time, in some detail, with this new production technology by means of a conference dedicated to it, which you can find a summary in this article. If the move to increasingly sophisticated manufacturing technologies is not new, it is the radical change in the structure of transistors, as is the case with the transition to 22nm from Intel.

We can summarize the benefits of new technology, citing the use of tri-gate transistors 3D. To date, more than 40 years, has made use of the gate flat, pushing technology to the limit and with the improvements due to technological progress guaranteed. Today, Intel has explained why the move to 3D transistors, and why now. The realization of planar 22nm chip would not have guaranteed the benefits expected, especially in terms of energy consumption due to the high dispersion.

The aim of the designers of transistors are clear: to maximize the flow of current when the transistor is in ON state, minimizing the flow itself when it is OFF, as well as speeding up the transition from one state to another. The new transistors trigano work with lower voltages, while dissipating less power. Gain and efficiency, for which, at low voltages, the change of state on-off is 37% faster than conventional transistors, with a direct impact on performance.

Also according to Intel, the 3D nature of the new transistors (which have as a "fin" in the middle), allowing designers to choose whether to fulfill a certain freedom transistors, chips and then, put it on top performance or consumption, second of the final application. Here enter the stage consumption: Intel IDF in this is giving a lot of room for mobile solutions, smart phones and tablet PCs on all areas where energy consumption is more important than anything else. This is a change of no small matter considering the approach much more from a PC or server "traditional" that marked Intel during its history.



Until now the approach has been to separate the study groups in terms of design architectures. Client and server chipsets on the one hand, net books, CE and other embedded. If it is the case, these two groups were justified by the fact the head to one side to standard architectures, SoC, on the other. With the recent production of client and server processors, however, the differences were very thin and even in design, since we find the section integrated graphics, memory controller and so on. This explains why the unification in progress between apparently different working groups for the purpose.



Direct consequence of this approach will be to develop contemporary solutions with different uses have the same production process. In the slide we can see that in the future there will be a gradual alignment of the products according to the manufacturing process, which will still be developed by taking into account the priorities of performance, other than energy savings. The current focus is to convince the public and the producers of the goodness of SoC solutions for mobile, where the gap to be filled is wider, which will be made with refined production processes and low consumption, according to a statement.

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Intel Ivy Bridge far beyond the usual die shrink

Ok, the title is very cryptic (or very "nerdy", some would say with good reason), why try to explain better. Since 2006, Intel has launched a special presentation of alternate architectures for CPUs and their steps to the finest manufacturing processes, giving it the name of “tick-tock.” For each presentation of the new architecture is associated with the "tock", as it is to introduce major changes from the previous generation, while about one year after the coming phase "tick", where the very same architecture undergoes a crash diet, switching to a production process more or a little more refined.

A simple yet effective, since it allows developers to separate the issues related to the creation of a new architecture than for a new production process. One year you think of the new architecture, the next one to achieve a more refined production process, avoiding making the two things together with the possible problems exist.

Until now, this rule is spun smooth as oil, with the introduction of Intel Ivy Bridge the same staff is there to define the new generation as a simple "tick". Ivy Bridge not only introduces 22nm manufacturing process, but also brings with 3D tri-gate transistor, a true revolution in home after decades of linear transistors.

We talk, IDF 2011, will a "tick +" and, according to the findings in the present day, it is clear that Ivy Bridge is not limited to a CPU crash diet. Intel says the staff is aware that the graphics processors require performance improvements beyond those of normal computational units, taking into consideration the same period of time. Hence Ivy Bridge has undergone a complete renovation in the design of the part dedicated to graphics, which can now rely on third-level cache, support for Microsoft DirectX11 API, can control up to 3 screens, better performance in 3D and decoding .

The data reported show that extra work, since it comes to performance gains of 20% in the previous generation CPUs, Sandy Bridge, while the graphics go up to as much as 60% . If we add the new security features Deep Safe, you understand why, in fact, "tick" go a bit 'close to the fathers of Ivy Bridge.


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Ultra book Ivy Bridge and CPU together in 2012: enter the 22nm laptops

The sector remains one of those so-called Ultra book in which Intel believes more. The reason is easily explained: the decline in sales of laptops in the field, caused by new emerging fields that catalyze the interest of users who already own a PC, requires you to push different products than in the past, regardless of price range.

Intel, together with partners, has theorized that this new category of notebooks designed to revive the fortunes of the sector is that of Ultra book systems, sophisticated design, low weight and performance without compromise, possibly offered at affordable prices. This type existed for some time, actually, but it has always occupied price levels away from the user's "mainstream".



Paul Otellini, on stage IDF in San Francisco, has announced the availability of a great holiday season Ultra book priced aggressively, who will support higher priced products recently announced by some industry players. It only remains to wait and see whether the success of these devices, announced by Intel, will be confirmed or not.

The novelties do not stop at this announcement; Intel will speed up the process of diffusion of Ultra book, expanding the availability of hardware and differentiating products and services. Hence the announcement of a new wave of Ultra book expected for 2012, probably in the first half of the year, which will see the adoption of Ivy Bridge processors manufactured using 22nm tri-gate 3D, which we discussed in this article . Additional benefits in terms of performance and energy savings, therefore, going to create an ecosystem of Ultra book for every need and pocket.

For the future a little 'more distant, 2013, the CEO of Intel launches a preview: the platform-architecture development, Has well (the 'after' Sandy Bridge), will bring a level of innovation in silicon technology and design platform that can reduce the power consumption of the platform itself in a state of inactivity (idle) over 20 times compared to current solutions. We speak of a standby battery life of over 10 days when integrated into a system Ultra book, with the ability to stay connected even in standby mode, keeping up to date e-mail, social media and digital content. Below is a gallery with the solutions on display at IDF Ultra book.


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Intel-Google Agreement: the climb to the pass from Android smart phone market

Opens its doors to the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, 2011 edition. Many people have made some question in recent times about the approach that Intel held in booming sectors, namely smart phones and tablet PCs. It starts with a clear view: Intel dominates the PC industry unchallenged with regard to hardware platforms, while in these areas is virtually absent.

Although the scenario envisioned by the current year (MIDs hypothesized 10 years ago are in fact smart phones today's functionality and size), Intel is effectively absent in smarpthone, while collecting the crumbs of the tablet PC, such as all non-Apple manufacturers.

In the past we have witnessed the announcement of several prototypes smart phone or tablet, software ecosystem built around me ego. Apart from the goodness of the latter, it became immediately clear that it would be difficult if not impossible, to win the hearts of fans with an operating system to be put in competition with the popular iPhone OS and Android.



Paul Otellini, Intel's Economic Committee, immediately puts the record straight. Need a turn, accelerating to enter these sectors. Here he is then engaged to pull the solution out of his pocket: one with smarpthone Atom Medfield (fourth-generation SoC Atom MIDs) and operating system Android. Mr. Otellini also shows a tablet, based on the same architecture. To be even clearer, is called on stage Andy Rubin, senior vice president of Google Mobile, which sends the message of the day: Intel and Google will collaborate to develop hardware and software for the world's smart phones and tablet.



A collaboration that knows of a challenge to the mobile world: the Google Android operating system will be optimized for Intel platforms. To avoid confusion, we point out that the Android operating system will always be available for ARM-based platforms. The first Intel-Android smart phone models will be available in the first half of 2012. With all due respect to Meego.

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Intel Atom: support for Android Gingerbread in 2012?

Intel seems to prepare some of his solutions Atom in order to properly support Android: This feature, however, will not arrive before next year. This has already been successfully used by some developers; the Google Mobile OS with the Intel Atom is the basis of Google TV. This support is however not yet officially handled by the chip manufacturer.


In a promotional video appeared online, Intel talks about his series Atom E600 and indicates that, among the different technologies, there is room for the support of Android 2.3 Gingerbread. At the moment it is unclear whether this support will be extended to models of the Atom family Oak trail Cedar Trail.

The interesting thing is that the devices Google TV could already run on Honeycomb when Intel will release the support for the build Gingerbread. Even Logitech, according to some recent rumors, it would begin testing on their own Android 3.1 solution Box Revue, based on Atom.

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Core i7-2700K: to pick up a new Intel CPU

Intel is preparing the debut of a new version of the processor based on Sandy Bridge architecture, intended for medium to high-end segment of the market. According to information published by CPU-World site at this address, in fact, Intel was in preparation for the launch of the solution Core i7-2700K.

Insufficient detailed specifications for this processor, but a comparison with the model-2600K Core i7 on the market today can help you obtain the characteristics by inference. Considering an increase in clock frequency of 100 MHz, aligned to the increase in the digits of the name of the processor, we would get a final clock speed of 3,500 MHz, up to a peak of 3,900 MHz with tecologia Turbo Boost active.

It 'also assumes that this CPU to maintain the value of maximum TDP of 95 watts, without prejudice to other features: compatibility with motherboards LGA 1155 socket, quad-core architecture and Hyper-Threading technology.

It 'can be expected that this processor debuts in conjunction with what is the most anticipated announcement from the CPU side for these next few months, that is what AMD FX family of solutions based on the Bulldozer architecture. The latter fact will be in direct competition with the proposed Sandy Bridge Intel LGA 1155 socket on platforms, waiting for the debut of Ivy Bridge proposals expected in early 2012.


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NVIDIA Tegra platform for future Windows phone?

NVIDIA is a company that did the graphics and GPU his luck: times change, you change the market and here is that companies continue to open new ways to remain competitive. NVIDIA Tegra with the development has foot for the first time in a segment that until recently was unknown to her: that of the highly portable and handheld systems.

Precisely in this, relatively new family of NVIDIA sees much of its future and amply demonstrate some slides have emerged in recent days reveal that the California company's roadmap. NVIDIA might get to provide a hardware platform capable of giving support to the operating system Windows Phone 8 : The slide shows clearly how in 2013 the launch of a mobile processor, codenamed Grey, which will be developed with Tegra and APU circuitry Icer management communication.



The first sample of the Tegra platform quad-core processors, code-named Kal El, has been already shipped to leading manufacturers, said the CEO of NVIDIA's Jen-Hsun Huang during a conference earlier this week. By 2013 the American company should complete the acquisition of Icer, which will incorporate 3G and 4G modules within the hardware platforms. Just for that NVIDIA will, as we said before, a solution optimized for the Windows operating system 8.



In projects of NVIDIA, Wayne is the successor of Kal El and will be developed with 28 nanometer manufacturing process. The projects of the company, noting how easy it is to understand the roadmap sees the creation of a SoC (system on a chip) that integrates well Icer modules for communications.

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Record for over clocking AMD FX

Over clocking records are usually the preserve of the most passionate users, willing to adventures with the most driven cooling systems for a few minutes if not seconds, of glory at clock considered unthinkable. That the search for the maximum clock frequency at which to start a system has always been a technological challenge an end in itself, evidence of what can be done even if only for the space of a screen or so.

It's an effect and then sees how AMD today to announce the passing of a much sought after records that the higher clock frequency obtained with a processor. It is no coincidence that this has come with a pre-production sample of the FX series processor, next-generation AMD CPUs expected to debut in the fourth quarter of 2011.



The new attendance record is 8,429 MHz, well, as witnessed in the screenshot utility CPU-Z. The processor, AMD FX-8150 model has been modified by enabling only one of the modules available on the 4 integrated Bulldozers: This only justifies the use of two cores. The frequency multiplier, unlocked upwards in these CPUs, has been increased to 31x while the frequency of buses is increased to about 272 MHz compared to 200 MHz by default.

To accomplish this, AMD has used the combined standard supply voltages well above the default use of cooling systems and highly motivated. Alongside the traditional liquid nitrogen was used liquid helium, capable of a minimum temperature even more limited and already used for other similar tests from AMD with Phenom over clocking II. The use of these techniques imply the absence of so-called Cold Bug in the processor, which prevents the CPU to operate properly when frequency is increased to greatly below zero.


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Angry Birds: Rove sell a million shirts and a million

Andrew Sallow, general manager of Rovio in North America, has revealed new targets for Angry Birds, the phenomenal video game originally released on mobile devices. According Sallow, Rovio launched in December of 2010 a line of toys themed Birds Angry, getting the remarkable milestone of two million units sold in the following month of March. Since that time this rate was maintained constantly.


You sell one million shirts and a million toys Angry Birds theme for each month. Despite the enormous success of his game, however, Rovio has not yet thought about a version for Face book. "We are looking at and definitely a game like that is planned for the future. Would be affected to speak," explains Sallow.

Meanwhile Rovio announces the achievement of the milestone of 350 million downloads Angry Birds Taking all the formats that is available. Over 300 minutes to be played collectively for each day.

The Finnish company now counts 50 employees and has a value of 1.2 billion dollars.


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Why Syndicate is a first-person shooter (PC, Xbox 360, PS3)

"We always wanted to do an FPS," says Neil McEwen, game director for Syndicate. "The original idea was to capture the essence of the Syndicate and the first focus of an agent in the head. Being one of the agents will have a more immersive experience." Star breeze try this to explain why the choice of making a first-person shooter Syndicate.

Despite the change of gender, Star breeze want to strive to remain as faithful as possible to the original. "We're huge fans of the original Syndicate and we want to pay homage to this glorious game in any way possible," says McEwen. "All the elements that fans have remained loyal, as the Persuadatron (the instrument that allowed agents to brainwash the civilians and cause them to stand on your side note), weapons and brutality of the Syndicate, will be back in new evolved version game.”

"The fidelity will be maintained in the case of the single-player game in co-op. We are very fortunate to work with a universe so appealing and create a different facet. I hope people appreciate our game, but nothing can please to all. "

Syndicate will be released in early 2012 on PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.


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In 2015 more mobile Internet users in the U.S. fixed

By 2015 the United States there will be multiple users to access the network through mobile devices than users who connect via a PC or device connected via cable.

And 'what emerges from a recent survey by International Data Corporation, which emphasizes that the growth in sales of smart phones solutions, which are now coming to mobile phones surpass those of "traditional", and the explosion in sales of multimedia tablet will result at a CAGR (compound annual growth rate of compound annual growth-rate) of mobile Internet users amounted to 16.6% between 2010 and 2015.

According to IDC observes, the impact of sales of smart phones and media tablet that will initially cause stagnation in the number of users accessing the network via a PC, then set off to a slow decline. Even Western Europe and Japan are on the same street of the trend identified for the U.S. market.

Globally, the total number of Internet users will grow by about 2 billion registered in 2010 up to 2.7 billion in 2015 representing 40% of world population. At the same time increase overall spending for the B2C: IDC estimates that the $ 708 billion in 2010 to be able to reach 1.285 trillion dollars in 2015, with a CAGR of 12.7%.

Obviously also growing sales of online advertising , expected to increase from 70 billion dollars in 2010 to 138 billion dollars in 2015: it is a share, compared to the total of all media advertising, will grow from 11, 9% to 17.8%.

"We forget how much we take for granted how consumers use the Internet," said Kirsten Weide, research vice president, Media and Entertainment at IDC. "Soon there will be multiple users who access the web using mobile devices instead of PCs, and will transform the Internet into a place very different from what is now.”


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Intel SSD 520, SSD 510's successor

Intel has long been dedicated to solid-state drive market with the intention, not too hidden, to become the main protagonist as it is able to do in the x 86 segments.

A slide recently checked and reported by Vr-zone shows the future plans of the company from which you can extract important details. Intel would have it ready the successor of SSD 510, a solution aimed at the high end market, which has raised major kudos from users.



Codename Cherryville, the new solution will be called SSD 520. The main goal with the launch of Intel's new proposal is going to hit the market more broadly here, because this will be five cuts of 520 SSD, respectively 60, 120, 160, 240 and 480GB. SSD instead of 510 is only available with 120 and 250GB versions Elle.

The new solution, based on information currently available, will be able to ensure equal to 530MB/se a sequential read write 490MB / s : leading performance, capable of satisfying a consumer of fans. Random access varies from 40.000 to 45.000 IOPS for read write IOPS.

The new units will be available in the usual format 2.5 "SATA and modules will be produced with NAND-type MLC 24 nanometers, of course, produced by Intel. The controller will be able to support the SMART technology, TRIM, as well as NCQ encryption of data via 256-bit AES key. MTBF (mean time before failure) has said 1.2 million hours and the SSD is certified to operate between 0 ° and 70 ° Celsius. The full production 520 of the new SSD solutions should start in the last quarter of 2011.


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Adv-game market will grow to 7 billion dollars

The global market for advertising in video games is expected to grow from $ 3.1 billion recorded in 2010 to $ 7.2 billion by 2016. It is the result of a market study carried out by DFC Intelligence, which shows how advertisers are spending increasingly more money in the in-game advertising.

In North America was in 2010 spent a billion dollars in in-game advertising, and this figure is expected to climb to two billion dollars by 2014. An example of adv-game is the election of President Obama inserted in Burnout Paradise in 2008.

Michael Goodman, an analyst with DFC and head of the study, however, argues that the in-game advertising is still underutilized. Considering fact that video games offer compared to other media as a type of entertainment spread out over time, the number of listings is, according to the researcher, lower than what could be.

"Video games have expanded their targets by adolescent males as they did until a few years ago until all segments of the population," adds Goodman. "Despite this, advertisers are still underused advertising space theoretically allowed by the game. This is bound to change as video games are moving online."

The area is growing faster is that the publicity surrounding the games, called around-game. This is the case for example of games on Face book, where advertising is not in the game, rather than at the edges of the web page. The sector is growing so-called adver games, or products designed specifically for vehicular videogame advertising. According to Goodman, by 2016 78% of Advaita is conveyed by the in-game and around-game adver games.

DFC also estimated that sales in the gaming industry on an international basis will grow from 67 billion in 2010 to $ 81 billion by 2016.

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Lenovo aims to second place among PC makers

Definitely the attack: in this way could be summed up the attitude held by Lenovo with reference to its position in the PC solutions. The Asian company has in fact made available at this address, a statement that the projects to the second place among the world's leading PC manufacturer, behind HP.

Liu Chuanzhi, chairman of Lenovo, confirmed that the company expects to reach this position before the end of the year, Dell scavacando. At the base is an assessment of sales made within the company, is the current market conditions.

Lenovo has recently confirmed that it had obtained, in its first fiscal quarter of 2012, improved economic performance ever. Not only that the Asian company has recorded in recent quarter’s continued growth in sales of its solutions, culminating with a market share of 12.2% and a volume of 10 million PCs sold in the first quarter.

Lenovo also continued to lead sales results in China, a region in which the company holds the leading market share. Given the rate of growth in this area and the increasing demand for PCs is evident that the claims are far from Lenovo apparently disproportionate or impossible to achieve on the facts.

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Google Docs: You can now post comments without edit content

From a few hours in Google Docs is a small but comfortable new: items created and edited using the web application will be commented in Mountain View by users. The new option of comment is in fact a step in between access to a contained in read-only or full editing capabilities.



The ability to leave room for comments can be useful because it allows you to share an item, collect any criticism and comments on it without those third parties have the opportunity to make real changes or cancellations. The comment is quite granular control over: you can limit this possibility to people who receive a specific link or content and make comments in the public domain.

The new Google Docs is presented a few weeks after the renewal of the layout provided by the developers of Mountain View, while only a few days ago were released technologies to use Gmail offline. Google Docs is only partially usable in offline mode but there are major improvements in the short term.

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No makeover for iPhone 5, Foxconn, 85% of production

In a study cited in the last hour on the pages of Mac Rumors, the analyst Ming-Chi Ko reported a series of information regarding our new smart phones bitten apple. As rumored seems that the Cupertino giant is willing to release the final version of IOS with its partners in the five weeks between 23 and 30 September.

If the information proves true, and manufacturers began to install the software on the new iPhone during that week, we could expect an early distribution by mid-October, or at the latest towards the end of that month. Combined with other items already leaked in recent weeks, they did not do so only reinforces the hypothesis of an imminent debut of the new iPhone.

Ko went on to say that, according to his sources, the much-rumored iPhone by the new look would not be so obvious. It seems that, despite the possible cover photos that revealed a less "edgy" and a thickness of less than its predecessor, iPhone 5 may resume most of the forms and materials used for the construction of its predecessor, iPhone, or 4.

Other details were "revealed" by the analyst and some items on the sheet. Among these rumors about the memory RAM, as in the case of iPad 2, should amount to 512 MB and assist the very same processor used by Apple to power the second generation of their tablets.

The camera should then be very similar to the iPhone's 4 and, assuming that the thickness of the camera is a major factor in determining the thickness of a device, at least it is hoped that the new iPhone will not even so much thinner than the previous year.

The display, which some say should have been replaced with a larger panel, seems to have to stand still at 3.5 inches, as seen in the iPhone 4. For the protection of the same we should still find a sheet of glass; solution that will probably be used again for the rear.

As already mentioned in the past, will be the main producer Foxconn that will achieve the 85% of iPhone's that will be distributed over the next 5 months. The remaining 15% should be given instead to Pegatron. At this point we just have to wait until the second week of October will have to see who was right and if the "new" iPhone will be really new.


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Available demo of FIFA 12 (PC, Xbox 360, PS3)

The demo of FIFA 12 for PC and Xbox 360 is now available. Has a size of 1.6 GB and allows you to play with Manchester City, Arsenal, AC Milan, Bo Russia Dortmund, Marseille and Barcelona. It is played in the Etched Stadium of Manchester City. The download can be done by the server hardware Files.

The roster of teams is not fully up to date with the latest market movements, but of course it will be the final version of FiFa 12. The demo is limited in terms of settings and weather conditions, duration and type of the match ball. But it is still possible to experience what's new in FIFA 12, including the Impact Engine.

New in this edition of the football game from EA Sports regarding the Precision Dribbling , which creates a greater fidelity in the touch of the ball, allowing better control in tight spaces, more time for decisions on offense and more influence on the pace of the game. Innovations in attack and are balanced by a renewed defensive mechanism, Tactical Defending, leading the players to organize wisely defense. Intelligence Pro Player, also managed by the CPU gives the players the knowledge and ability to make decisions based on their skills, but also on the strengths and characteristics of their mates. Impact Engine is instead the new engine that handles disputes between athletes simulated. Football Club, finally, allows you to stay connected with their friends and compare their performance with FIFA 12, as well as keep up with real-world events.


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The initial prices of AMD's FX series

A historical marker of the upcoming availability of a marketed product is its appearance in the lists online retailers. This is what happened with some models of the AMD FX series, the next generation of enthusiast-end CPU based on the architecture of the American Forestry.

The North American online retailer Bottom-line Telecommunications (BLT) has in fact put their lists online AMD FX-8150, FX and FX-8120-6100, 3 models expected to debut in the coming weeks for which were already emerged in large part to the technical base.

These technical specifications with prices:

• AMD FX-8150 : 8-core architecture, clock frequency of 3,600 MHz, 125 Watt TDP, price U.S. $ 266.28;

• AMD FX-8120 : 8-core architecture, clock frequency of 3,100 MHz, 125 Watt TDP, price U.S. $ 221.73;

• AMD FX-6100: 6-core architecture, clock frequency of 3,300 MHz, 95 Watt TDP, price U.S. $ 188.32.

We remember how you wait for the FX solutions to debut architecture versions with 4, 6 and 8 cores and different clock frequencies. Compatibility is certified with the AM3 + motherboards, though unofficially it is also possible to adopt these CPUs for use with socket AM3 motherboards equipped with special bios updated.

It is unclear at the moment because these values correspond to the price actually charged by retailers when these CPUs will debut on the market. In general, the first price, before the official announcement, is always slightly higher than the list price will then be effective. It now remains only to understand when, during the fourth quarter of 2011, AMD will finally deliver these solutions.


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Game Stop Gaming tablet with Android

Game Stop will use Android for gaming tablet that will launch in the coming years. This is a solution branded as part of a project initiated by several months. The tablet will be launched together with a number of games already installed. The retailer Game Stop will sell its tablet devices together with other existing major manufacturers like Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo and Apple.



"I do not see the sense of creating a completely new tablet given that there are at least 300 already on the market," said Tony Barrel, Game Stop's Chairman, to Games Industry, referring to the decision to use existing hardware. "We have a center of restructuring and we are able to pre-load some games already on the device at launch. This is an Android."

Game Stop calls his solution "for gaming platform certified by Game Stop." Currently, the device is being tested. This involved some users who reside in Dallas, Texas, who were the first to have the opportunity to touch the new gaming tablet Game Stop. The test started by a couple of weeks. Dallas was chosen as the base city for the tests because it is located near the search site on which you are testing Game Stop streaming technology acquired by Spawn Labs.

Although initially there will be a limited line of video games for the mobile device, Game Stop intends to provide streaming games for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC gaming using technology similar to that of cloud and On Live Gaikai. There will also be a dedicated controller, designed to involve as many players as possible.

"Currently there are no Android-based tablet using an external controller," says Barrel. "We want to make available on our tablet a lot of games with different characteristics, and among them there are products that need a dedicated controller to be played in the best way. It would be hard to imagine, for example, you can play without a controller Modern Warfare 3 ".

Game Stop is working closely with developers to enable them to create games that can take advantage of streaming technology Spawn Labs and the new controller. There are no hardware specifications of the new device, while the image you see on this page is a concept and then the final model could be very different from the picture.


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HTC considers the acquisition of a mobile operating system

High Tech Computer, one of the largest manufacturers of smart phone solutions more accessible to the public by its acronym HTC, would have undertaken a careful consideration on the possibility of acquiring a mobile operating system, in order to better differentiate themselves from competitors and to achieve a market not yet saturated.

Cheer Wang, president of HTC, said during an interview with the newspaper Economic Observer: "It 'a consideration that we evaluated and we have discussed internally, but we do not act on impulse. We can use any operating system we want. We are capable of do things differently than our competitors on the second and third level of the platform. Our strength is the ability to understand the operating system, but that does not mean that we should make one. "

HTC uses on some of its phones Sense proprietary interface that allows it to distinguish itself from other solutions or Windows Android Phone on the market. While the proprietary interface enables it to better compete against rivals, against HTC is still fully dependent on suppliers of operating systems such as Google and Microsoft. Dependence that can not be competitive in those areas where Android and Windows Phone the side show.

The acquisition of a mobile operating system could represent a strategic move for HTC, since that would reduce its dependence on two giants mentioned above and have a more competitive against other operating systems like Apple's iPhone OS and the Mind Samsung .

The leading candidate, noting the current scenario in the industry, seems to be the operating system web OS recently offered for sale by HP. However, among mobile operating systems waiting for a better fate, there is also the project me ego originally brought out by Nokia and Intel, but has seen the defection of reality after the Finnish abandonment of a few months ago Intel announced last week.


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Buy VIPs: server user data compromise and violated

The online service Buy VIP has been violated in the past few hours and all the data access users have potentially been stolen. Buy VIP has notified its users suggesting the problem as soon as possible to change your password to access the service.
In the statement issued by Buy VIP is explicitly stated that the data related to credit cards have not been violated, and the intrusion appears to be limited to access to the database service. The problem is not; however, recently, in fact, with the credentials to access the service may at this point be able to be carried out some operations.

But the greatest concern comes from the fact that many users use the same login credentials for various services: if one of them is violated unknown potentially has access to a variety of other resources the user's knowledge. To optimize the management of passwords by providing a good compromise between security and ease of use there are several software tools that allow management of multiple accounts using a master password stored on the system.

This kind of software combined with the latest security suites can offer a valuable set of tools for protecting their accounts. It is still advisable to use strong passwords and replace them periodically, especially for sensitive services...


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20 minute did game play did The Elder Scrolls V Sky rim

Accompanied by the comment of the project director Todd Howard, this page you see the movie (three parts) that The Elder Scrolls V Sky rim was presented to the press in the case of E3, the PAX Quake on and Prime. Howard explains the main features of the game play and Sky rim change from the previous chapters.




The stories of Sky rim are set two centuries later than Oblivion. The land of Sky rim is disrupted by a bloody civil war that followed the murder of his King, which leads to the wrath of God Ladino, who is ready to destroy the world.

In the world of Elder Scrolls back the dragons. The player's hero dragon born and interpreters, along with his mentor's task is to defeat the god of the dragons.

Introduces the new graphics engine and Creation Engine will be released on November 11.

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