Sunday, March 20, 2011

Sony VAIO prepares two devices: one with Chrome OS and other "hybrid"

The prototype is working with the division of Sony VAIO are more than interesting, a few weeks ago we told you about the Japanese electronics giant was in the oven a couple of tablets known internally as S1 and S2, and a device with keyboard slide. We now know, thanks to Sony Insider, that a couple of new laptops hit the market with original ideas about what we are accustomed.

Obviously the information we share with you are unconfirmed, but the source seems reliable enough to do it: The first development is a portable, for now called Hybrid VAIO PC, consisting of two components: The way to connect both is not defined in the leak, but we understand that the second unit will be a kind of dock where dock the laptop.

The new AMD processors will arrive in June

So, the new range of AMD Bulldozer has been confirmed and will be released on June 11, but the news does not end here because it came with the new AMD Fusion "Llano" that promise to give a tough rival to Intel Core i7. While AMD has not shared much information about the technology it will use its new range of high performance processors are expected microchips 8-core, at least in models heaviest.

Extra cooling for the Xbox 360 without need for complex installations

Now it starts getting the heat of summer is time to start thinking about how to improve the lives of our gadgets in the coming months. The most usual is to get to work at a lower temperature than usual, and for that external cooling systems are wonderful. If we talk about Xbox 360 then enters the game the Nyko Intercooler STS, a small external fan for the slim model that is in the cooling slots of the console, on the side.

Saturday, March 19, 2011

The red lantern lights up Internet

After almost more than a decade of denial, controversy and, above all, much lobbying, the international body governing Internet domain names (ICANN) meeting in Silicon Valley, just give the decisive approval to begin shipping the suffix. to identify the portals xxx porn. The adult entertainment industry may well have their own red light district on the network.

The way was cleared last summer, when ICANN in August gave its provisional approval to the request made by the ICM log signature. But until we have the final approval of its board of directors, no one wanted to claim victory. The triple X domain has already been rejected three times before since it was first proposed in 2000.

Creeper is 40 years old, the image of the week

Creeper is a name that you probably will not say anything to the vast majority of you. But it has met its 40 anniversary this week. What is Creeper? He is recognized as the first virus ever. It was developed as an experiment to get a small program that is replicated on multiple computers, although there was some evil in its implementation beyond the memory consumption and processing time.

Was developed for the TOPS-20 operating system that ran on PDP-10 computer manufactured by Digital Equipment Corporation and used primarily in university environments, known as Stanford or MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Creeper years is considered the first virus in history, although the 70 the name 'virus' was not yet as concrete as it is now.

Digital film, there is a manifest "Do not make me steal, do this"

"The Manifesto for the digital consumer" was published a few days on a site that has a really unusual name, "Do not make me steal, do not make me steal. Who joins the manifesto promises not to illegally download movies if there are legal alternatives that meet a set of characteristics. What? There are only five points, but are exactly what the entertainment industry, the music first, the film today, can not fully comprehend, items which would be most essential to combat online piracy, and in Western countries, too much of the piracy "natural." I am convinced the drafters of the manifesto: "We love the movies! And we would love to pay for these films we love.

The Toshiba tablet Honeycomb appears on Amazon

January ending Toshiba created a page to let us know the existence of a new tablet Android to appear in spring, and will come with the intention to improve the negative impressions created Toshiba Folio 100 in the market. The marketing of the tablet has to be closer than we expect, as has just appeared on Amazon, with a product page enabled her, in which case, we confirmed some of its features, and we see a good portion of images.