Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Blog - The handkerchief and the crime scene

Samsung Corby II, renovation of a bestseller

One morning, affordable mobile phone, is that after the surprise unveiling of Nokia X1-00, I now turn to show the renewal of a seller's market, we talk about Corby II. Internally known as GT-S3850 has been introduced in the Sea Forum Samsung Singapore, the same place where we met the Android model with a QWERTY keyboard, Samsung Galaxy Pro Since filing his older brother, also is scheduled to depart in Europe, reaching in this March to Germany and later to other markets.

Google invests in video and price comparison

The American group Google launches a new policy of strategic acquisitions. YouTube, owned by Google, announced on Monday, March 7, the acquisition of the sapling Next New Networks, launched in 2007 and specializes in video content. The New York Times, citing two anonymous sources, Google would pay less than $ 50 million (36 million euros) for this acquisition.

"In case you still doubt, Google is now officially a media company," warns the website specialized Business Insider. With Next New Networks, which helps designers to optimize the distribution of content and monetize them, Google wants to effect change towards a logic of programs. "Instead of trying to obtain the agreement of rights holders, YouTube hopes that he may urge the community to produce high quality videos," explains TechCrunch.

An agreement of one billion dollars between Microsoft and Nokia

Microsoft is about to pay $ 1 billion (700 million euros) to promote and develop for Nokia smartphones running Windows 7, according to information from Bloomberg. The contract between the two companies, which would be on the verge of being signed, also provides that Nokia pays Microsoft a fee for each license Windows Embedded Phone on its phones.

According to the sources Bloomberg, Microsoft would also hand over various patents of Nokia, whose applications for mapping and location-based Navteq. The two companies had announced last month their partnership for the development of Nokia smartphones running the Microsoft OS, while the market share of Nokia phones and Symbian OS home continues to erode the face of competition from Apple (IOS) and Google (Android).

Nokia X1-00: attractive, inexpensive and powerful speaker

While we work to talk about the intricacies of the alliance with Microsoft, the Finnish firm Nokia is dedicated to presenting cell, and not Smartphones, but a very affordable terminal without losing the attractive design that typically print their creations. We talk about the Nokia X1-00. A phone that wants to be on the market in April at a price of 35 euros, free, before taxes.

The Nokia X1-00 is aimed at the general public looking for a "music phone", which is that despite its price is part of the family X. Therefore, they have installed a rear speaker of considerable power (106phon). I would like to advertise here other phone to be acoustically polluted the streets of our cities, but Nokia is aware that the younger the cell type they like, and I have no doubt that he has designed for them: attractive, inexpensive and powerful speaker.

AMD 6990, leading the new graphics card and dual core AMD

We started the morning with the AMD 6990, the new AMD graphics card. His release was expected for months, and after GTX 580 looked like a sure bet. AMD has always placed a step behind Nvidia in terms of raw power ... until today. AMD 6990 is presented as the most powerful graphics card market, although trap, yes, integrates two 40-nanometer GPU, specifically the 6970 model of AMD that promise very high performance.

Dell is also preparing an ultrathin laptop, with Sandy Bridge

During the next six weeks, Dell will be introducing the portable market with the latest Intel technology, processors Sandy Bridge, starting next week with the family of Inspiron laptops. But more interesting is that in the coming weeks they plan to show a slim laptop, we understand that the MacBook Air style or Samsung 9 Series, but without neglecting the processing power, as Intel is also committed to Sandy Bridge.