Thursday, March 10, 2011

Philips SoundHub 9000, a Blu-Ray with 2.1 speakers to improve the TV sound

Among the new Philips introduced yesterday, he cast an eye on this Philips SoundHub 9000. Under its stylish appearance hides a Blu-Ray player and multimedia player with USB and Wi-Fi. The SoundHub 9000 also integrates new online content platform of Philips Smart TV, which we shall discuss shortly. Apart from the remote control device controls are hidden under the translucent plastic cover.

On one side, Apple fans will find a retractable dock for charging your iPod or iPhone and access all the music or videos stored on the device. The SoundHub Philips 9000 is not low price. Released in May this year at an estimated price of 799 euros. The good news is that the player does not come alone.

New Firmware 3.60 for PS3

Sony has released a new firmware at version 3.60 for its PlayStation 3 console, totally abandons once the firmware makes changes that should make the console more secure and the support to back up saved games online. Bakup The service is only available for users to PlayStatio Plus, the paid service, which allows up to 1000 to save a total of 150GB of space on a server cloud, what's interesting is that these backups can be used by 'user on the PS3 also provided several of connecting with your own account.

If HP would sell its notebook division, Samsung would be happy to buy it

It is rumored that the largest notebook manufacturer in the market, Hewlett-Packard is considering selling the division to another company with the ability to assimilate the business, and it seems that Korean Samsung would be more interested in taking it. The information coming from different sources Taiwanese returning to bring out a rumor that began circulating in the last quarter of 2010, but the movement was slow for reasons not known.

Fear of pop "the bubble of the tablets"

Some analysts began talking about the "bubble of the tablets" and the worst is that they fear that burst this year. According to JP Morgan, in 2011 there are plans to produce 81 million tablets of all the vendors. While considering that a maximum of about 47.9 million will be sold, if expectations are lowered production by 20%, the result is that there will be an oversupply of 36%.

The second part of the predictions are focused on who will be hardest hit by the fever-producing tablets. It seems that Apple, the advantages of being a pioneer, not the victim. In this market of more than 47 million tablets, Apple will retain 61% this year which leaves a sale of 18 million tablets for the rest of the manufacturers.

China a victim of cyber-attacks regular

The Chinese government sites are also victims of massive cyber attacks. According to a study by the National ComputerNetwork EmergencyResponse Technical Team / Coordination Center, linked to the Ministry of Industry and Digital China, more than 4,600 government websites have been infiltrated by hackers in the year 2010, an increase of 68 % compared to 2009.

"Internet security is a problem every day more and more important," it said in the report cited by Bloomberg, who says that intrusions into computer systems of Chinese companies, including those related to finance, the energy and high technologies, will increase. The report calls for better prevention and protection against cyber-attacks on the model of Europe, U.S.

'Shogun 2' recreated medieval Japan

The sixteenth-century Japanese samurai comes to life in the last bet the studio The Creative Assembly, who returns to his roots with Total War. Shogun 2. This turn-based strategy game tactics and battle in real time 3D takes the player to the Japanese Middle Ages, when feudal lords vying for control of the country and struggled to become shogun, administrative and political leader who ruled de facto on behalf of Emperor.

LTE, on the auction is likely to be 2.4 billion mobile broadband for super

COULD skip the auction frequencies on which the government expects to get 2.4 billion euro. And 'bad news not only for public finances - that money was already put into account as a cover for the current Law of stability - but also for the future of mobile broadband. The frequencies for which there should be an auction announced by the Ministry of Economic Development, in fact, are needed to give more resources to wireless networks.