Thursday, January 13, 2011

Saud Arabia requires a license to create online publication

Saudi Arabia has imposed a new law requiring every citizen who wants to publish a new website (eg blogs) to obtain a government license. According to Fast Company, the measure has come into effect this January and is harder than the drafts they met last year. The license issued by the Ministry of Culture has a term of three years and the applicant must be over 20 years, a citizen of that country, demonstrate good conduct and a minimum level of schooling.

BlackBerry Curve is renewed inside and out

What you see on these lines is the new look to take the BlackBerry Curve, and now it seems the day of RIM leaks, after the BlackBerry Dakota we have shared with you a few minutes ago. Accompanying the image are a specs, less original than those of the Dakota with its touch screen, but equally interesting for fans of BlackBerry.

It seems that the new Curve will be framed in the range of access to the Canadian firm. Do not know the size of the screen, we think it has with respect to 8520 (2.46 inches), but its resolution: 480 x 360 pixels (HVGA). As the BlackBerry Dakota receives two major developments, a 5 megapixel camera with flash, and support the new NFC technology.

Panasonic VT30, plasma for 2011

As you are many of us are asking about the new Panasonic range for this year, we will come forward some of the details that the company confirmed in Las Vegas, although data for the American market at the moment. And we could not start with another model as the star, the renovation of the famous series of plasmas VT20 now called Panasonic VT30.

The new Panasonic plasma TV line VT30 remain sober for their design, which must mean for their own brand loyalty and technology. Nevertheless, the use of a single sheet of glass gives an appearance Inside is where we find, as it should be almost always, additions and improvements. For starters we have a new panel, the Infinite Pro 2, which helps to increase the brightness by 30% (comes in handy to offset the darkness of the 3D glasses), reduce the consumption of the television and joined the new image processor, a avoid effects such as crosstalk.

Brussels casts doubt on the effectiveness of parental controls

A European Union report cited by several French newspapers and published this week claims that parental control systems are not efficient. Designed to prevent access to sites not recommended, the report says they are pretty good at filtering out pornographic sites but do not prevent access to sites that "encourage young people to get hurt" as those promoting anorexia, suicide or self-mutilation.

Sony CLM-V55, auxiliary monitor or recorded with camcorders SLRs

Sony just announced the launch in Spain for the next April, its photo and video monitor Sony CLM-V55. The auxiliary display device is a five-inch diagonal that comes to lend a hand to those who need to see clearly what they are recording with your camcorder or SLR camera with interchangeable lenses. The CLM-V55 Sony connects to the camera or camcorder with auto-lock brake shoe or ISO and plugs with HDMI cable so that, in principle, supports more cameras than those of the Sony Alpha series.

Sony wants to be the second vendor tablets in a year

Difficult to see it, but not impossible for a factory of all kinds of electronics such as Sony, which has been able to enter entirely new markets and dominated, to conquer them completely in a generation, I mean the video game market. That of the tablets is an untapped market, so that the pieces of the pie are more easily definable, but is a reality that IOS and Android are standard operating systems, if the BlackBerry webOS Playbook or tablets do not cure it.

Sony closed a factory CD

Sony CD will close its factory in New Jersey (United States) to declining sales attributable, among other reasons, the increase in digital downloads. The factory, established 50 years ago by the Columbia, is dedicated to the production of vinyl records and CDs. The closure will mean the layoff of 300 workers.

DVD production had been transferred to another plant in the United States. The CD production is maintained in this second plant in Indiana. "In light of the current economic environment and to the threats facing the hardware industry, Sony has taken further steps to reduce costs and maintain competitiveness," the company said in a note.

Delicious: guess the pileup

We have new and important pileup on the desk of Tech News Buzz (also known as Tech News Buzzcueva) and although the first snapshot of a part of it would be more difficult to guess, I eventually put penalty has been very difficult and I decided to give many clues to the image and in the post title. So this time you have it easy in our Guess the Pileup, section after the CES will be a whirlwind of new products that will analyze for you.

The Sony TD10E looks at you with its two big eyes

Camcorders are not likely to die suddenly under great number and strength of the new Sony consumer camcorders. With TD10E and 3D recording mode that we tested in Las Vegas at the helm, the Japanese company lets us your catalog for 2011 Handycam camcorder very completito, with models for almost every user.

The most spectacular media (notice how we look from above with its two big eyes) is the Sony TD10E, the first model for the Japanese consumer market and three-dimensional video recording and high definition. Inaugurating its range of camcorders consumer 3D shows the new Sony TD10E, comes with 64 GB flash memory and duplicity around inside to get the 3D effect, two Sony G lenses, two R Exmor sensor and two BIONZ image processors.