DAB vs. FM Digital Radio

Radio broadcasts are transmitted more often digital - on the web. The DAB standard ekes out a shadowy existence on the other hand, although he really should replace the analog broadcasting. The good old FM radio does not appear to be used. In television, the digital standard DVB (Digital Video Broadcasting) has quickly established.

The little sister for the radio called DAB (Digital Audio Broadcasting) ekes out a niche but so far - although the resulting 15 years ago digital radio standard almost fully available in Germany. Experts are skeptical that the official successor of the analog standards will succeed FM, establishing itself as a transmission method.

Play Xperia is getting closer

Approaching the Mobile World Congress 2011 which will take place in February in Barcelona and more and more rumors about possible releases that take place there, among these is the new Xperia range of mobile Play, a mobile that integrates entertainment console PlayStation Portable. While it appears that this new device will not be presented to the MWC some U.S.

users have had the opportunity to try and opinions are found throughout the web, opinions through which we could learn some of the characteristics of this new device. The Xperia will play powered by Android 2.3 as operating system, will have a 4-inch, 1 GHz processor and a CPU frequency Adreno 205; features remarkable considering that it is a Smartphone.

Congratulations Macintosh: Image of the week

We are situated on 24 January 1984. Then a very young Steve Jobs got on stage and introduced the first Apple Macintosh computer, which they began a new era in the world of computing both domestic and professional. This computer, the Macintosh 128K, consisted of an 8 MHz Motorola 68000 microprocessor with 128 KB of RAM and 64 MB of internal storage, mainly emphasizing the design all-in-one that even today is characteristic of Apple and iMacs.

Acer presents the new generation of the Aspire range

For those who bet on the economy and the performance of Acer technology has come a new generation of the classic series of Aspire laptops, the company has launched in Spain the new Acer Aspire 5253 and Acer Aspire 4253, both powered by new AMD Fusion. Acer Both models are aimed at users looking for high performance multimedia products for that reason are equipped with the new range of AMD Fusion.

Computer science revives language Cobol half century later

Cobol revived half a century after his birth. Has just been updated with Visual Cobol. Born in 1960, COBOL was the first computer language designed for businesses. When there is a need to develop a new software application, one of the first critical decisions referred to the programming language being used.

And it's not an easy decision. There is nothing less than almost a thousand different languages (according to Wikipedia, 769, plus a few dozen options, extinct or simply forgotten). For comparison, the number of languages spoken is around 6,900 people, according to Ethnologue, but in alarming decline.

48 hours to create a video game

Nearly 5,000 competitors in 173 cities are going to be locked during this weekend to create a game from scratch. Shortly before three o'clock in the afternoon of Friday, began to arrive the first creators. They come with cushions, backpacks, computers and grocery bags. Have coffee and refrigerator, but no showers.

"Those of us from Madrid we can go home ... or there's always some friend who lends you his," said one participant. This challenge, called GameJam, is performed worldwide since 2002. In Madrid is organized by the Master of Game Development at the University Complutense and the MediaLab Prado gets the seat.