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Tuesday, May 28, 2013
New Google Chrome plug pause the videos when we are not looking
The title seems to indicate that some industry company software has been put to work and decided to create this new and useful plugin, but the reality is quite different. There has been no software development company that created it, but a car manufacturer, the popular Volkswagen. The plugin was created to promote the new technology "Start-Stop" which is premiering the German automaker known. The idea behind the technology is to save fuel by turning off the engine when the car stops, but do it for a few seconds.
Note that this is not the first time we see this kind of functionality, and was incorporated as a similar one in smartphones like the Samsung Galaxy S III and of course his successor, the S IV.
Now you might ask: and how Chrome plugin knows when I'm looking at the screen or the other direction? Well, it's very easy actually. The plugin only requires use of webcam on our computer or laptop in conjunction with facial recognition technology. Pretty simple, right?
An old Apple-1 is auctioned for more than half a million dollars
Recently, in an auction that took place in Germany, was an old and functional topped computer Apple -1. The final amount offered was of no less than $ 671,000 dollars. This Apple-1, which was originally produced in 1976, nearly doubled the previous record price for a sale of the PC model. Great buyer, a very rich person from the Far East as indicated, has not yet been identified despite the size of the purchase.
The owner of this Apple-1 was Fred Hatfield, retired electrical engineer who a couple of months the team managed to sell $ 40,000. Note that the computer was not working at that time, but has been repaired and put into operation for the occasion. Who bought the team from Hatfield also had to purchase separately several original accessory to get it running again. Once started working again, was transferred to California for the co-founder of Apple, Steve Wozniak, put his signature on it, which increased considerably the final value.
It is quite normal that occasionally some old Apple device is placed on any auction, whether physical or online, although prices are never lower than $ 100,000.
New Start-button mouse for Windows 8
If there is one thing that has always been characteristic of Windows operating systems then this is undoubtedly the Start button. How important can become this little guy? As much certainly. For those not aware, there are many people who have complained to use Windows 8 since itdoes not have the Start button to any Windows user would be used. There is no doubt that most of the public does not think that Microsoft introduced this change. Fortunately, there is a solution.
The Start button may not exist on the screen, but it does so in two new types of mice that have been presented a few days ago. These two new classes of mouse announced by Microsoft and are called Sculpt Sculpt Mobile and Comfort. On one side, each of them carries the much sought after Home button. In the case of Sculpt Comfort, which has ergonomic design, the button will also fulfill the role of a small touch surface.
Mobile will be offered for sale in the coming days and will cost $ 30, while the Comfort will cost $ 40 and will be available from June.
The Xbox One is technically 40 times more powerful than Xbox 360
Have you ever thought that both Microsoft has improved its new Xbox compared to the classic 360 model? Well quite a lot actually. In fact, if we talk technically, is that the Xbox One is up to 40 times more powerful than the Xbox 360, which undoubtedly is a lot. Microsoft said it would only be 10 times more powerful at the launch last week, so you'd better clarify the situation somewhat.
Jeff Henshaw, one of the Xbox group manager, said that the new console will use the cloud to offer more power than it is capable of providing internal specifications using only.When connected to the cloud, the Xbox One will have the CPU performance level and the amount of memory 3 consoles, so it would be like having four instead of just one. The idea is that developers take this into account when creating new games in order to get all the juice to the Xbox One and deliver improved gaming experience possible to the user.
Adam Pollington Xbox Australia has also confirmed it himself in a recent interview, so that we can take it as a story 100% true.
Now we just need to wait until the famous console is launched in order to make use of it and test all abilities.
Samsung sending invitations for a new event in London
On Thursday June 20, the guys at Samsung will be holding a new event taking place in the famous capital of England, the City of London. During this great event, which incidentally will be broadcast live via YouTube, will be announced at least one new device Galaxy line and also at least one of TIVA line South Korean company. The venue for the presentation has been the Earls Court Exhibition Center.
In addition to the invitation also been thrown 3 official pictures of some of these new devices, although being up close can not get much data from them. Does Samsung plans to introduce three new devices in this event? That is also a possibility.
And what are our picks? First of all, we probably have one of these devices is the Galaxy S IV Mini. Second, one smartphone TIVA (Windows Phone) is expected, although it could also be a all in one, a tablet or laptop in the same line. The third and last device is sure to be another smartphone, maybe one line or the rumored Galaxy Mega mobile OS Tizen
Saturday, May 25, 2013
New data are filtered Huawei Ascend P6
They just leaked on the net new images and some Huawei Ascend P6 data, the new smartphone that Huawei is preparing to launch next month. The Ascend P6 is a super-thin smartphone that will be available in three colors which are pink, black and white. This mobile has a thickness of only 0.24 inches, or about 6.18 mm.
Recently, President of HTC, Richard Yu, accidentally leaked the release date of this smartphone. As stated, the launch will take place on June 18 in an event that will be held in the city of London in England. Through the recently leaked mobile photos could verify their colors, and is known to run on Android and will use Huawei Emotion interface.
In terms of specifications, rumors indicate that P6 will Ascend 4.7-inch HD screen, processor (currently unknown) is a quad-core running at 1.5GHz, a total of 2GB of RAM and 32GB of storage memory, while the main camera is 5 megapixels.
HP believes that tablets giants are a good idea
Windows 8 has hit the market to create a new category: the giant tablets. In the market, the giant tablet stands out is the Tap 20 Sony, which shortly will have some competition, since HP has somehow seen a good future for these devices and is ready to launch the new Rove 20,which has a huge 20-inch screen.
While that is a mobile device and its screen is multitouch transform it into a tablet, this device actually could also be considered a computer all in one extremely easy to carry from one corner of our home to another.
The HP Rove 20 is not yet available, will be launched only in June, but still much is known about him. The processor that will take this tablet is a fourth-generation Intel Core (model unknown for now), the integrated GPU is an Intel HD, 1TB of space is also accompanied by extra memory 8GB SSD. A levels have both WiFi connectivity as WiDi.
The final price is not yet set, but HP has said it will cost about $ 1000 dollars.
Google seeks to create wireless networks in emerging markets
In the U.S., Google is running a campaign to become the next big Internet provider through its super high-speed optical fiber, but in the international context the company has other plans for what we have seen. In the world Google leaves a little side bet cables and wireless networks.
According to a new report from the famous newspaper The Wall Street Journal, the boys are making plans finder to finance, build and help operate new wireless networks in emerging markets such as Southeast Asia and some in Africa.
To carry out this project, Google needs to partner with local Internet providers. This course will be beneficial both for Google and for local companies, not to mention that these networks will be the best of the best, since the search engine company will bring its latest technology networks to carry out this great project.
There is no doubt that many countries need a wireless high-speed stability, and the idea of Google to provide this service will come in handy to many third world nations.
Android: the great victim of mobile malware
Android is an excellent operating system. It is stable, fast and has a huge number of applications available. Besides all this, is the most popular mobile platform in the world. But have a problem, or rather, one big problem: the malware. Not the first time we talked about Android and its problems with viruses, but this issue is going from bad to worse.
99.9% of new malware phones discovered during the first quarter of this year are designed to attack Android phones, according to a new report from security firm Kaspersky Lab.
The vast majority of these are viruses trojans, which as you know are among the most used in the world at the computer. Additionally, most of these Trojans are the kind that sends SMS to premium numbers, and thus steal money from the victim.
Kaspersky Lab also detected that there was a "boom" of mobile viruses lately, since the amount of new malware discovered in only three months is equivalent to half of all discovered during 2012.
We hope that Google implement some new technology in software anti-malware soon, because things are getting more serious for Android.
Look what we could do with the Google Glass in the futur
The Glass of Google are without doubt one of the best inventions of recent years, but you imagine what will be in the future?
Sometimes it is good to look a bit the past and go see how they have evolved different products.Does anyone here remember what it was like Android for 4 or 5 years ago? The operating system is still in its essence, but has many differences with newer versions. Something similar happens with mobile phones : 10 years ago everyone used single cell, no applications and could not do half of the things we can do with a smartphone today.
The technology is evolving very quickly, and if things continue at this rate the future of Google Glass is just brilliant. This video you see below gives us an idea of what may be the glasses Glass in a couple of years. We use them for all kinds of tasks, we receive instructions to emergency situations, it would be possible to scan all kinds of items before buying them, and we could even use them to learn to play the guitar, among many other things. The possibilities abound, and then you can see some of them:
What do you think of the video?
Friday, May 24, 2013
EVO Zeus Storm, a powerful modern PC gamer
Is it necessary to spend $ 3,000 to have a decent PC gamer? No. For that amount we can get is a monstrous PC. A computer decent gamer will cost much less, far less than $ 3000 for sure.
CyberPowerPC has launched a new computer gamer reminiscent of a deity from Greek mythology. This is the new Zeus Storm EVO a modern PC technology which may include a Nvidia GeForce GTX 780.
The EVO Zeus Storm, which costs $ 1500, has a great gamer cabinet Boreallight IFC model. The processor includes a powerful Intel Core i7 3820 with 4 cores at 3.6GHz and 10MB cache some great, to which we add a cooling system CyberPower Xtreme Hydro, a motherboard Gigabyte X79-UP4, 8GB of DDR3 RAM, Corsair CX750 source, 1TB hard drive and a DVD burner. If we want to be equipped with the GeForce GTX 780 the price would rise to $ $ 2000 approximately.
The operating system is Windows 8, if anyone has such doubt.
If you're most interested in is the card, then I suggest that you take a look at the Fang III CyberPowerPC Xtreme Gamer is much cheaper.
What do you think this new PC?
Need For Speed Rivals reach PS4 and Xbox One
Electronic Arts has announced that the new saga title game of Need For Speed, known as Need For Speed Rivals, will also be coming to the new consoles from Sony and Microsoft, the PS4 and Xbox One respectively. Before it is released for these two consoles, will be available for PS3, Xbox 360 and PC from November 19 this year. On this occasion it was said that the player can choose which side to participate: you can be a cop or one of the runners illegal. The goal of each side is clear: runners must escape the police and the police have to catch them.
One of the innovative features of Need For Speed Rivals is that come with a feature called ALLDRIVE, which is used when playing online and allows the player to go from multiplayer to single player without giving up a run, or in other words, your friends will be able to access, or out of racing whenever they want.
Need For Speed Rivals uses Frostbite Engine 3, the same as using the familiar Battlefield 4. We do not know when they will release this game for Xbox One and PS4, but we may have to wait until next year.
Chrome 28 outside the notifications include browser
The Chrome browser version 27 of Google has already released a couple of days ago, but otherwise has also released a new beta version 28, due out in a few weeks. This new beta is exclusive for Windows and Chrome OS and one of its innovations is that notifications may include outside the browser. This is extremely useful because it happens more than once we have multiple tabs open and we can ignore an email, a new query chat, etc..
In the words of Google, these reports have been created to be useful and appealing. Can display both images and text, and even through them we can respond to e-mails that we receive, which is great.
Additionally, it will include a notification center that will allow us to see all notices that for some reason have ignored. You can also disable notifications for a particular service, such as Google Calendar or Gmail, for example. We're not sure if they also bear notifications for Facebook and Twitter, but it would be great to be included.
The notices also will be available for Linux and OS X browser.
What BlackBerry include 10.2?
It's been only a few weeks since I was released the new update 10.1 BlackBerry mobile operating system. While many users will likely still have not updated their BlackBerry BlackBerry Z10 or Q10 to the new version, some details of the new version, which will be 10.2, have been released by an official source: Michael Clewley, of section of the company's products.
Clewley has made it clear that BlackBerry 10.2 will be released this year, but did not give an exact date. Even so, most bets are for the months of September and October.
Some of the new features include 10.2 BB are:
-Support for Emojis, which are electronic Japanese smileys.
-We place multiple alarms.
He made available Level 1 notifications for email. These are special notifications or that include keywords and are important to us.
As discussed by Michael Clewley, that are some of the many improvements that include BlackBerry 10.2, though of course they still have many surprises up his sleeve that are sure to be very interesting.
The HTC First is postponed indefinitely in England
Is it necessary to spend $ 3,000 to have a decent PC gamer? No. For that amount we can get is a monstrous PC. A computer decent gamer will cost much less, far less than $ 3000 for sure.
CyberPowerPC has launched a new computer gamer reminiscent of a deity from Greek mythology. This is the new Zeus Storm EVO a modern PC technology which may include a Nvidia GeForce GTX 780.
The EVO Zeus Storm, which costs $ 1500, has a great gamer cabinet Boreallight IFC model. The processor includes a powerful Intel Core i7 3820 with 4 cores at 3.6GHz and 10MB cache some great, to which we add a cooling system CyberPower Xtreme Hydro, a motherboard Gigabyte X79-UP4, 8GB of DDR3 RAM, Corsair CX750 source, 1TB hard drive and a DVD burner. If we want to be equipped with the GeForce GTX 780 the price would rise to $ $ 2000 approximately.
The operating system is Windows 8, if anyone has such doubt.
If you're most interested in is the card, then I suggest that you take a look at the Fang III CyberPowerPC Xtreme Gamer is much cheaper.
What do you think this new PC?
10 million units of the Galaxy S IV have been sold in less than a month
This is undoubtedly great news for Samsung and for its large community of fans. The latest smartphone launched by the company, the Galaxy S IV, is being extremely well received. 10,000,000 is a round figure and very striking, and if you manage to sell 10 million units of anything, it means that you're on track. And if the number of units sold in less than a month, then it means that you have given people what they were looking for. You may remember that the Galaxy S III took two months to sell that many units, but the new Galaxy S IV took less than half the time it took his younger brother.
The S IV was officially launched in several countries last April 27 and quickly succeeded in breaking many sales records for Samsung, becoming the fastest selling smartphone in the history of the company and one of the fastest-selling phone of the iPhone story behind Apple .
The S IV is already on sale in some 110 countries, but the idea is soon to be released in about 45 nations, totaling 155 countries. The launch of the device in many parts of the world while undoubtedly immense benefits to sales.
Sunday, May 19, 2013
Will Nintendo 3DS, PS Vita or iOS?
Yes, it sounds strange to compare an operating system with a pair of consoles laptops to play games, but believe me, there is a reason to. If you enjoy many games on your smartphone and in turn accounts with a Nintendo 3DS or PS Vita, then surely you know that with money you buy a game for any of these consoles can buy many for your mobile.
During the period from January to March this year, those using iOS platform for enjoying your favorite video games spent a lot of money to download games. In fact, the amount invested in iOS games by consumers exceeded the amount spent on games for PS Vita or Nintendo 3DS, as revealed by a new study.
These figures were revealed through research conducted by IDC and App Annie. Both companies reached these conclusions after finishing their studies together. Frankly, this should not surprise too, since many of the people who own a smartphone use it to play at any time of the day.
The ASUS Fonepad get a new processor and more memory
On the morning of yesterday, ASUS announced in Taiwan conducted a revealing details of an enhanced version of its tablet ASUS Fonepad, which was released a few weeks ago. As said by the company, the Fonepad soon be getting an upgrade both the processor level and at the level of storage capacity.
Fonepad The new model will integrate a modern processor 1.6GHz Intel Atom Z2460 (the current model has a Z2420) and internal memory will be expanded to 32GB. The rest of the specs of the tablet are completely the same as nothing else has been modified. For those who do not remember, the Fonepad has a 7-inch screen with HD resolution of 1280 × 720 pixels, also has 1GB of RAM, has a 3 megapixel camera and has a microSD card reader to have several GB of extra space.
What makes the Fonepad be a very particular tablet is that it has 3G cellular connectivity, so you can use it to make calls like a mobile phone, although it must be messy.
There is still no release date for the new ASUS model Fonepad, but apparently cost about $ 300 or so.
iOS, Android and Chrome and can make use of Google Hangouts.
The hangouts, also called "hangouts" in Spanish, is video calling sessions that became fashionable for several months ago. Yesterday, during the conference Google I/O, the search engine company announced great news for Internet users. One of the biggest improvements have been introduced at the event is the new service Google Hangouts. The idea of the search engine company was always hangouts that could be carried out through various platforms, and now we can organize meetups on platforms iOS, Android and Chrome browser already traditional.
Surely you make use of at least one of these three platforms, so do a hangout with your friends, family or colleagues will be much easier now. The new Hangouts is a replacement for Google Talk, Google+ Hangout Messenger and current, and that lets you chat, share pictures and even do a video chat with a person or a group of people. In other words, Google Hangouts is a new messaging service platform, and it looks very promising.
It can be made with Hangouts for Android , iOS and Chrome by clicking on the respective links.
