Friday, February 18, 2011

The U.S. Chamber of Representatives voted against Net Neutrality

The House of Representatives yesterday approved an amendment that would prevent the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to implement measures to protect Network Neutrality Amendment is part of a bill proposed by the Republican Party to reduce the U.S. federal budget . The amendment was adopted by 244 votes to 181 and is focused on the budget of all government agencies, among which is the FCC, for the remainder of 2011.

Barcelona "Je t'aime" Galaxy News Tech Buzz

Barcelona the week ends and obviously our Galaxy Tech News Buzz flies Barcelona to select the news you should not miss our technological world. We say goodbye to 2011 with MWC fair reflection Maquera including a more fair on the world's mobile phone.

Intel Core i7 is official 990x

We had not forgotten him after all the earthquake news and analysis of the MWC 2011. Intel Core i7-990x is unofficial and delivers what was expected of him. After months of rumors (in August and November, for example) finally came along this week. The Intel Core i7 990x is, as expected, the most powerful new microprocessor domestic market.

We could say that is the natural heir of the i7-980X, offering similar features, continues to be a 32-nanometer Gulftown with 6 cores (12 threads thanks to Hyperthreading). In fact the only difference with the 980X is that the clock has been increased to 3.47 GHz, 3.33 for the former. As you know, the price of this new model will make it a processor that is not available to everyone.

Anti-racist associations lose a lawsuit against Dailymotion

Several associations fighting against racism that had filed suit against Dailymotion for "disputing a crime against humanity" were lost, Friday, Feb. 18, their lawsuit against the video sharing site with 93 million visitors monthly. Mid-2009, five videos were posted on Dailymotion by the same user under the pseudonym Anonymous Shavox.

Y were liable for "denial" about the "legend of the gas chambers" as: "There has never been a homicidal gas chamber at the Germans, not even in Auschwitz." The Union of Jewish Students of France (UEJF), J'Accuse, International Action for Justice (AIPJ), the International League against Racism and Antisemitism (LICRA), the Movement against Racism and for the Friendship among Peoples (MRAP) and SOS Racism had then attacked Dailymotion justice.

The pattern of Nokia sells Microsoft's ACTIONS

Stephen Elop, boss of Nokia, not to feed suspicion of being an infiltrator from Microsoft, a company of which he was a senior executive before taking command of the Finnish mobile manufacturer. The pattern of Nokia has sold its shares in Microsoft and invested one million euros in bonds of the new company.

The announcement of a collaboration between the companies for which Nokia will introduce the Microsoft operating system, Windows Phone, on their cell last week had raised the suspicions of the Finnish press about her role as first pattern of Nokia is not Finnish. Some accused him of being a Trojan Horse.

Eyes that see ... fastest are: guess the pileup

MWC fever after 2011, with new toys are already in the Tech News Buzzcueva. And that you know can only mean that we bring a new Guess the pileup for you to try to guess the gadget that we are already testing in Tech News Buzz. This time though the image that we have the gadget is quite clear, it seems easy to place a category at once.

And if you read over the track, we further liam. At least you have been able to discard any other category, such as ... um, well no, because ultimately can lead to TVs webcam. How about a new coffee maker? Bah, it's not that. Well, nothing, to keep trying, little grasshopper.

Acer Iconia Smart, the lanky passes through our hands

Other terminals that are most caught our attention was the Acer Iconia Smart. Is a phone that stands out for having a 4.8 inch screen very long formats. Much, much to surprise with a resolution of 1024 x 480 pixels, 21:9 format and 14 inches high. Android 2.3 will feed Gingerbread. No doubt that Smart is a mobile Iconia different.

Betting on the big screen are doing it is almost exclusive terminal for multimedia use, but also offered as ideal for browsing web pages. Mobility? Yes, I also believe that as the motive is quite poor because their huge format always force us to use both hands, otherwise there will be certain specific locations on the screen where it will be difficult to reach.

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Windows Photo Gallery directly Facbook

Social networks, Internet and computer systems each continue to offer a service unifying complete and functional. A clear example of this is that Windows has just given us Upload your Live 2.0, a new system which will allow you through Windows Live Photo Gallery, the ability to upload your favorite photos to Facebook, in a fast and entertaining.

We all know the functions of Windows Live Photo Gallery, the fact is that developments are incorporated in this new version, adapted to the times, has built-ins to upload both photos and videos to different services. Is that not only can be done but also Picasa Facebook, Vimeo and a lot of online services.

U.S. antitrust authorities examine the subscription service from Apple

The Justice Department and U.S. competition authority (FTC) began to look at the online subscription service that Apple has just proposed to the media wishing to sell their products online, reports the Wall Street Journal , Thursday, Feb. 17, citing sources familiar with the matter. The antitrust authorities are just beginning their investigation and could not launch a formal investigation, but said the business daily, noting that the activity of the U.S.

The Netgear router DGN2200M will not lock you never

Or almost never. What is certain is that the new Netgear router already arrived in Spain will do its part to make the Internet connection at home do not miss ever. Netgear router DGN2200M This is a model that combines wireless-N and ADSL2 modem with a system that uses the 3G, 4G or WiMax through a USB adapter in case you lose the main signal.

That USB port can use it to share a device connected to it with any computer on the network. Another strong point of this router, which has four Ethernet ports, is software that includes, among other tasks, monitor the expenditure of data when using a 3G connection, prioritize traffic by QoS, SPI to filter what comes into our mailbox e-mail filters, parental control or the Push-N to add equipment compatible to our network more easily.

Asus EeePad Slider and Transformer. Taiwan's resting on the laurels of the Mobile World Congress

Of all the pavilions of the Mobile World Congress 2011, the number 4 is like the ugly duckling of the fair. Apart from its architecture, gray, old, which discourages visitors more optimistic, it seems as if he harbored all companies that prefer to hide until the storm passes. Between the oppressive and closed stands of the dark side we find MWC Asus, like the proverbial Sunday, seems determined to go on their own, in the right lane and pass to companies that have stepped on the gas over the fair .

Internet in Africa: the end of the digital desert?

For years, Africa had only a tenuous link with the Internet: a single undersea cable, the South Atlantic 3 (SAT-3), linking southern Europe to western Europe Africa. Seven years later, many projects have been launched with the promise of a significant increase in throughput for the users. Since 2009, the fiber optic cable Eastern AfricaSubmarine Cable System (EASSy), along 10,000 miles, the east African coast feeds.

OCZ goes to 25-nanometer NAND FLASH

OCZ is now shipping the new SSD solutions with 25-nanometer manufacturing process, replacing the SSD attuai to 34 nanometers, but leaving unchanged the neme of the devices, despite some problems resulting from the transition to the new production process. In essence, the new 25-nanometer NAND taken to the SSD, it is true that enable lower production costs and thus a lower price to the end user, but bring with them two drawbacks, at least for the moment.

Get to guess: best phone of 2011

What better way to close the week of MWC 2011 that making "Seer"? We suggest that you choose that you view this as the most promising mobile phone of the 2011 which has just begun, but already has left us with models to take into account in these 365 days of great intensity in the field of consumer electronics with superphone and monopolizing the podium tablets protagonists.

At the end of the year will recover this survey and its results (which will be published within a few days) and who knows if any of the experts xatakeros will hit the mark or the 2011 yet we have reserved some surprises. From time to go into heat and have a comparative superphone with Android, we've talked about three androids different and there are many points of contact with the terminals most interesting for this 2011 as the Optimus LG 3D Galaxy II S Xperia or Play.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 Ti and Ti

Nvidia is unveiling two new video cards a mid-range and a high-end labeled as the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 Ti and Ti, this is what can be seen from two lines of code found in the last beta drivers released by Nvidia . The news was disclosed by the site Vr-zone and the lines of code are as follows: NVIDIA_DEV.1244.01 = "NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti NVIDIA_DEV.1083.01 =" NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 "The video card comes from the mid-range GPU GF116 -400, which would be complemented with 1GB of GDDR5 PCB identical to that of a GeForce 450 and GTS will feature a 3-phase power circuitry interfaced with a memory bus 128-bit.

ST-Ericsson wants Windows motorized to Nokia Phone 7

All 7 Windows phones we have in the main market share hardware with minor differences. Microsoft had to meet minimum specifications, and somehow decided that Qualcomm's Snapdragon platform should be chosen for use by all manufacturers. This optimization have achieved a great system in the terminals, Apple style, it seems a wise decision.

Logically, and in view of competition is being reinforced with multiple cores, it's time to start preparing the way, especially facing the development team, and external application developers to Microsoft. Come and talk about new hardware, and it seems that things may start to change if confirmed the news that comes from Reuters, the CEO of ST-Ericsson reports U8500 hardware platform is ready for use in Nokia's new handsets Windows Phone 7.

Zynga valued at $ 10 billion

The "bubble" of "social games" is constantly growing. The company Zynga, a leading publisher of games on Facebook is now valued at 10 billion dollars (7.36 billion euros), reported the New York Times and the specialized site All Things Digital, Thursday, February 17 . Both publications, however, does not agree on the amount of fundraising would have recently completed the start-up California, founded in 2007.

Sony introduced its PlayStation Suite

Sony continues to add innovative services to mobile systems. This time it has taken a step forward to add advantages over its direct competitor, Nintendo DS. This time the strategy consists in producing portable games, and incorporate them into future mobile phones with its "Play Station": this time is the turn of a multi-platform games for all, called "PlayStation Suite." The PlayStation Suite is very similar to their predecessors, with the difference that all functions are reduced to a small mobile device.

The French court rejects requests for large-scale withdrawal of contents

The French Appeals Court has dismissed a lawsuit against the site Dailymotion raised his criminal responsibility for hosting content protected by copyright, despite having withdrawn after receiving notice of its illegality. The ruling relies on the arguments already known that a site is not responsible for the content that third parties have entered into it unless you have formal knowledge of illegal content and has refused to withdraw.

The assumption vanishes smaller iPhone

Little has gone on to jump the rumor last week about a possible smaller, cheaper iPhone. An Apple engineer would have confirmed to the people sitting NYT we can expect that a smaller iPhone hits the market. Everything seems logical and fits, as we saw this week that the trend is more towards the opposite and is Apple to have another screen size and lower if smaller.

In fact these months until the iPhone in May, allegedly planned for June, sure enough about their increased screen as the most clear. Yes, this engineer has left open the possibility of getting a more affordable version of the Apple phone, so it can be easy prey for the operators to subsidize them when creating a user base that could eventually go on to range registration or the last model.

Bouygues Orange assigns court about the "bug" from January 1 SMS

The France Telecom-Orange said Friday 18 February, it had assigned its competitor Bouygues Telecom to trial before the Commercial Court of Paris, in a dispute about misfires in sending SMS the night of St. Sylvester. "An action is pending before the Commercial Court of Paris. It is an assignment of Bouygues Telecom in proceedings 'promptly' to the serious injuries sustained image" in this case, stated at the Agence France Presse a spokesman for France Telecom, confirming a report in Le Figaro.

Castilian-speaking Foursquare

Foursquare was born in March 2009 as a location service that connected to social networks. What in slang is called a 'mashup', the sum of various applications to create a new one. Thus the purpose of this application was half playful, half practical. The system is simple and addictive, say calls from your mobile phone to people's inner circle where the user is at all times joining Google Maps, Twitter and Facebook.

"We differentiate ourselves with content and services." Antonio Alvarez, Samsung Mobile Spain

We continue with the interviews with the protagonists of the MWC 2011. Today we bring the product manager for Samsung Mobile Spain, Antonio Alvarez, who spoke on the strategy of the company, its chances this year, the arrival of the new tablets and the possibilities of the platform Bada. We leave you with his words Tech News Buzz: This is a time of significant change in the sector.

The impression is that the next two years, when you are having Nokia, Samsung has a window of opportunity to become the number one manufacturer. How do you see this scenario from the company? Antonio Alvarez, Samsung Mobile Spain: Our hope and our goal is to become the best manufacturer and continue to market great products, particularly focusing on the smartphones and tablets.

Facebook gives more options to explain the situation sentimental profile

Facebook has introduced in the U.S. more options so that the Internet can define their current romantic relationship in your account profile. Particular has added two "in a civil union" and "domestic partners." Huffington Post explains, the change was introduced following a recommendation of a coalition that created the network of advocacy groups to combat cyber homosexuality and discrimination.

Panasonic improves the design of its new Blu-Ray 3D

Panasonic would not leave them alone to their new TVs and this week has given details of their new players and Blu-Ray equipment, where you can guess that the 3D is present as ever. The new 3D home theater equipment are Panasonic SC-BTT262, SC-SC-BTT370 BTT270 and that includes not only the player but the speakers and amplifiers needed.

If we are not the complete team and trust the sound of our own TV, then you should choose to buy only Blu-Ray player. In this case the list is reduced to the new Panasonic DMP-DMP-BDT110 BDT310 and which are models that support the 3D signal but also can convert between two and three dimensions, come with WiFi, support for Skype and universal base for portable players and Apple phones.

Internet traffic reduced to Bahrain

According to figures from Arbor Networks, a U.S. firm specializing in monitoring data interchange, Internet traffic has been in Bahrain since the beginning of the week a net decrease of between 10% and 20% from the average of the three previous weeks. A fall that could indicate a hardening of Web filtering.

Classified as "under surveillance" in the list of "Internet enemies" of the organization Reporters Without Borders (RSF), Bahrain practice strict filtering of Internet sites are banned political, religious or criticism of the royal family . Youtube or Wikipedia pages are locked. Google Earth is also prohibited, because the service provides access to aerial views of the residences of the royal family.

Three personality Android

After taking a good look at the new Android superphone you realize that both in design and claims they were all very similar. Then, looking at the characteristics and preferences of each xatakero, we can choose one or the other as a favorite. But in that comparison and will ask for the Motorola Atrix 4G model that you would be ahead in another selection of Android rather special.

And here they are. Along with Motorola mobile-computer, get into the Sony Ericsson Xperia selection and LG Optimus Play 3D. They are all phones that could compete one on one with our selection, but we believe they have something special that makes them unique differentiator in the market today.

Sony also will have tablet

Sony does not want to be absent from the market for tablets. According to Engadget, is working on its own model, under the name of S1. One of the highlights is its integration with PlayStation which allow them to offer customers expanded choices in the game. The display will be 9.4 inches, bigger than the models proposed seven but somewhat smaller than the iPad tablet or the new Samsung.

The operating system will be Android. Honeycomb Specifically, specifically designed for such devices. Sony developed the tablet in the corporate team Vaio laptop, but when it hits the market does not belong to this division of the company. Sony plans to take advantage of its audiovisual content and tablet Qriocity service will have a button for direct access to it.

Eugene Kaspersky in the MWC

The Mobile World Congress that is taking place these days in Barcelona was home to the greatest personalities in the world of technology and telecommunications. One was Eugene Kaspersky, founder and CEO of the renowned Russian mobile company that bears his name. Speaking to the media, talked about Android, Windows, the new generation of mobile phones and much more, then their statements.

In presenting his new mobile, Kaspersky Mobile 9, its creator said the popular Android operating system has become essential in mobile telephony, making it as Windows phones. She also referred, when the industry is going through, making hicapié that is in a transition point for which states that people are educated in this environment, security technologies available and to incorporate new laws.

The machine is due to brain

The computer Watson has won the two contestants on American TV show Jeopardy. For three days was more rapid and accurate than their opponents. A response rate gave it a huge advantage but committed a blunder, considering Toronto as a city in the U.S.. The IBM PC has won $ 77,147 (57,000 euros) in the contest.

But in this special edition was awarded first place with a million dollars (738,000 euros), which IBM go to charity. By their appearance and even his voice was clear that it was a human, but for those who have doubts and feared the usurpation of the brain by the machines, one of the engineers who participated in the creation of megaordenador IBM has beaten two pundits makes clear: "Watson has not been modeled on the human mind." Watson beat Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, and thanks to your system by running electricity and not blood, it boasted of its success, it was overwhelming.