Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Seagate Slim hurry GoFlex thinness

After introducing the technology in the last GoFlex CES 2011, Seagate has already put on the market its first external hard drive with this system. And "Operation Bikini" has also come to them. The Seagate external drive GoFlex Slim, with a capacity of 320 GB which costs $ 100 is positioned as one of the most interesting external hard drives on the market.

The values of its design and very small thickness of only 9 mm plain to see, but inside we find for example a hard disk that runs at 7200 rpm and connectivity based on USB 3.0. The model is available and is compatible with both Windows and Mac computers, and remember that your system can be placed on a consistent basis to serve the content instantly, becoming one of the most compact NAS.

Apple patented a new generation of 30-pin connector that supports USB 3.0 and Thunderbolt

A connector for all and all for one. That seems almost Apple's philosophy that, as reported by our colleagues Applesfera, just patent a new version of its 30-pin universal connector. The patent keeps the same face of the current 30-pin connector, but adds support for the estandarUSB 3.0 and with the recent connection format that comes Thunderbolt sujstituir to DisplayPort and transfer speeds reaching 20 times superioers to USB 2.0.

New Intel Xeon processors for servers basic professional

Intel has filed this morning its new Intel Xeon microprocessors E3-1200, included in the Xeon product family that has traditionally been linked to the professional world in both servers and workstations. The CPU unveiled today are of a similar idea, maintaining its status as professional product but basic.

Its main purpose is, according to Intel, to be used in small business servers that do not have a huge workload endured. They are simple and have some characteristics of the elderly, such as ECC memory support, systems security and data redundancy and good performance in areas of virtualization.

Altec Lansing octive 650, speaker system connects to your TV

The Altec Lansing, one of the brands that best cares for Apple products, and touched him renew his sound equipment for players and phones apple company. The new Altec Lansing octive 650 is a good speaker system design and brings us attractive to connect the TV to play videos full screen from your iPhone or iPod Touch.

How could it be otherwise, this new product comes with an application under the arm, although this time there is a remote control but Mood Music, responsible for downloading videos relaxants. Despite being a compact sound system, Altec Lansing has taken care of details like the 3-inch drivers and integrated 4-inch subwoofer that projects the sound down to improve the listening experience with our music.

Google's auto-suggest pinned in Italy

The American group Google has lost, late March, a trial in Italy regarding the defamatory nature of some of the suggestions made by its automated search engine. When a visitor entered the name for an Italian entrepreneur, whose identity was not revealed in the American search engine, the terms "fraud" or "crook" was immediately associated by the "Google Suggest" .

In its decision dated Thursday, March 31, the Milan court confirms an initial ruling in late January, which estimated that reconciliation defamatory words for personality. Google will have to remove these "suggestions" from its search engine. According to the court document in Milan, the complainant pointed out that Google's service lacking "preventive filters" to avoid such outcomes in research.

"Tips defamatory" Google held responsible

The Suggest feature in the Google search is defamatory, if approached as a person in words which may undermine the professionalism and dignity. This was established by the Milan Court, upholding an appeal by a citizen who felt defamed by the words that Google Suggest automatically associated with his name.

The court dismissed the complaint and the company's California-based company has imposed to eliminate quell'accostamento, charging the costs of litigation. Remarkable story, because it feeds the notion that the algorithms are not neutral, and makes the search engines be liable to web content indexed.

Be Your Own Souvenir, creating 3D models of ourselves with the help of Kinect

It seems that we are not going to get tired of seeing the original application in which it is engaged Kinect, this time used to create three-dimensional figures on the Rambla. The project has been named Be Your Own Souvenir. As you read, making 3D miniature people passing by the famous Barcelona avenue, as you can see in the following video, made by system designers, the people of blablabLAB.