Thursday, March 17, 2011

Mizuho bank tries to restart its ATMs

The bank Mizuho, \u200b\u200bJapan's third financial institution, announced Thursday it was trying to revive the operation of its ATMs, victims of a blackout for three days. ATMs the company stopped working Monday, but the bank says that the failure is not directly related to the earthquake and power outages that followed.

The bank has been unable to explain the reasons for failure, but says it will be able to provide details on the outage on Thursday. The first two days of failure would have blocked about 570 billion yen (5.2 billion) of transactions, according to estimates by the bank. Withdrawals as transfers were blocked by the outage.

DVD in crisis, the big Hollywood launch field UltraViolet

It is called UV (ultraviolet) and is the new standard technology designed to revolutionize the world of home-video, or at least try. Behind this acronym is a consortium - the Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (DECE) - which includes almost every major Hollywood by Warner Bros to Paramount Pictures, and hi-tech giants like Microsoft, Nokia, and Sony Hewlett-Packard.

Not to mention actors like Netflix and Comcast, the largest provider of cable Internet services in the United States. The new technology is based on three principles: the "cloud storing" (save all the video directly on the provider's server) the acquisition, lifetime, the right to see a movie, the independence of content from any type of physical media and its virtual ubiquity on every kind of device, from TV to the tablet.

Netbooks cheaper: the idea of \u200b\u200bAsus and Intel to meet the tablets

The netbooks or ultra death are touched with the advent of the tablets should be engaged. Perhaps now is a bold assertion, but I firmly believe so, at least for users who bought or thinking of an ultraportable in addition to their primary computer at home, work or take digital entertainment more convenient and manageable.

I speak of seeing shows, movies, streaming from your computer, email, social networking, web browsing and even games. Asus, the "inventor" of netbooks, has been to see very clearly the wolf ears and might be thinking of a new concept of ultraportable still cheaper. If not set, since its original Asus Eee, both the performance and price have been growing in that scene.

Facebook launches in multiple purchases

The network Facebook has launched Wednesday, March 16, a bundled service, taking the system as a site Groupon. The principle is given a promotion when several users, in this case "friends" of the Facebook network, upon request. "These tips will be available soon in Atlanta, Austin, Dallas, San Diego and San Francisco" or several hotspots of techie culture of the United States, indicated that the social network, which boasts more than 500 million registered .

StarMax HD starts March 29

Finally it will be the 29th of March when the new satellite television platform StarMax HD of which I've been talking about this last month to begin its emissions. A few days ago met the first channels to be available, including some in high definition detail that should mark the existence of this new television offers that risk in the era of streaming TV and Freeview seated, differing from other operators for their commitment to the prepayment, no strings attached.

Acer H5360BD, 3D cinema in your living room with more support

Gradually video projectors are becoming a niche in the windows just below the 3d century. The new Acer H5360BD lands these days in Spain with extra support for the 3D DLP HDMI 1.4a, already a model compatible with the 3D Ready DLP technology for which was necessary active glasses. The Acer is not a model H5360BD FullHD but natively 720p, but since the scope for which has been designed home with a mortgage is involved, it's not bad.

'The who bet on Android does not mean that we close the door to internal developments, "Interview with Mark Larroy, Director of Marketing for Motorola Spain

Larry Bensadon, director of strategic sales of RIM in Spain has not been the only one we interviewed in relation to landscape tablet. Tech News Buzz In particular we were interested to know first hand impressions of each manufacturer on the whole batch of new devices that are about to hit stores. For this second interview we chat with Mark Larroy, Director of Marketing for Motorola Spain, we cleared some doubts about the Motorola Xoom and the strategy of the company.