Monday, March 21, 2011

The Archos tablets Gen9 dual-core 1.6GHz and 3G connectivity in June

The French company Archos goes through good times on the market, with revenues in 2010 exceeding 44% over 2009. The fact they have worked with portable devices for 10 years has placed them in a good position to adopt the Android operating system. His most recent success is found in the tablets affordable with Google operating system, and unlike other projects of large manufacturers, there are products that never quite reach the final customer, as it is possible to find in most specialty .

Street View: the CNIL fines Google

Commission Nationale Informatique et Libertés (CNIL), the French gendarme of privacy, has condemned the Internet giant Google to pay a fine of 100,000 euros for collecting personal information when setting up Google Street view, its interactive mapping service. To implement this service, Google uses vehicles equipped with cameras and recorders, which circulate in the streets and filming the landscape over 360 degrees.

Mountain GTM 2000, analysis

We began today with the analysis of GTM Mountain 2000, a review that will take us a few days. There are a total of six innings, we squeeze the last Mountain computer to play with different tests and configurations. Of course too long we will draw conclusions about what this team, the audience it is directed and the quality offered.

Let's start today with confidence and discuss the technical, construction equipment and the differences between it and another computer. It is the beginning of the analysis of one of the most interesting market computers for those who want maximum power and are willing to spend an amount certainly high on your new computer.

Sonos ZonePlayer S5 and ZoneBridge, analysis

In the past years Mobile World Congress took a small step Sonos devices, a California company that specializes in developing audio systems or multi-room multi-room sound. Now let's go into detail about how the hand pallet analysis of two of its flagship products, the Sonos ZonePlayer player S5 and ZoneBridge Sonos wireless router.

Both teams form a tandem with which to distribute music for different rooms of your home or office on a WiFi network can be controlled from as many devices as you want. Powered audio kits are more powerful, but connectivity and, above all, ease of use of the Sonos multiroom system and I anticipate that is simply spectacular.

NGP Sony always rely on the distribution "digital"

If last year was to the revolution in the world of home console, with the advent of systems and Sony Kinect Move, the 2011 has the move to its compact form. Here we have the Nintendo 3DS which we shall discuss in depth this week and of course the fat of the Japanese commitment to Sony: the NGP. Precisely the latter we know to be the missing link between the consoles mainly betting games in physical format, and are thrown into the arms of digital distribution, better control, lower costs and more opportunities for small developers.

Cell phones, PDAs and PCs was the work of no-limits

At first it was the Commodore 64. Then came mobile phones, internet, broadband, email, beep-beep of the Blackberry, the army of the tablet, Skype and teleconferencing. A godsend, guaranteed. The key hi-tech to free man from slavery after thousands of years of work allows - as John Maynard Keynes prophesied - "to devote a maximum of 15 hours per week." Too bad that did not go their way: new technologies have allowed us to increase our efficiency for four (9 hours today in what we produce in 1950 was made in 40) but our office hours are not shorter than one second .

A mini version of the Samsung Galaxy SII to the United Kingdom

Three British operator will have soon in Smartphones offer a version of "mini" Galaxy SII Samsung, could well have used the name to pull advertising, but the truth is not so mini, and is quite capable. The 3.7 inch screen puts it in the orbit of other phones like the HTC Android Desire or Nexus One, to give you a first idea.

With respect to the operating system directly come with Gingerbread. We had high hopes of finding a dual-core, whatever, on this phone, but it is curious that uses a 1.4GHz processor, so we will have a terminal seems interesting in terms of power. Remember, we only have the HP Pre 3 with a processor with similar speed.