Google bids to buy Nortel's 6,000 patents

Google wants to buy the Canadian company Nortel telephony in bankruptcy. In its corporate blog, the company's search engine is an explanation of the reasons that led it to bid on the portfolio of patents from the Canadian government company. According to Cnet, it's 6,000 patents for which Google would pay $ 900 million in cash.

According to Google, "the technological world has recently seen an explosion of patent litigation," often based on software patents of low quality but that threaten innovation. In some cases, the complaints are presented by companies that are not creating anything. In others, it is maneuvering to block a competitor or take advantage of their success.

Facebook allows you to convert personal profiles corporate pages

People communicate between people. This is the argument used to close Facebook personal profiles do not correspond to individuals but to businesses, brands, facilities or services. The problem arises when, often through ignorance, you create a commercial pages as if they were personal, accumulate friends, but you want to switch to advertising page before Facebook cancel.

The only alternative that was until last week was to start from scratch. Advertise in the personal profile and to encourage contacts to track activity in the retail version and then remove the bad profile created. Last week, Facebook launched a platform to make the move automatically. It lasted only three days.

MiniUSB Emtec S100, ultra-compact memory

USB drives are extremely useful devices, the volatile memory has allowed us to forget about the cumbersome procedures of tax disc to present a project or submitting a thesis gigs at the university. I must admit that I have seen more of an accident with key protruding from the computers, especially laptops that manipulated from one side to another, now offers a solution Emtec.

Emtec has unveiled its new range of ultra-compact USB flash drives, new Emtec S100 Mini USB. They just pop off your computer when connected with USB and yet not exceed the size of a 10 cent coin, as we see in the image. Its compact size makes it an excellent choice to keep connected to your computer without fear of suffering a mishap.

Sony breaks silence

Howard Stringer, Sony CEO for its North American subsidiary, has confirmed that the Japanese company is working on a new tablet that will have the Android 3.0 Honeycomb shiny. The news breaks the silence of the company that seemed to see the competitive ad carefully and so far had shown an interest in the growing market for tablets.

According to the rumor circulating on the web the new gadget from Sony would have the line recently released nVidia Tegra processor 2 and a 9.4 inches screen that would reach a maximum resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels. In addition it will be able to run streaming through Qriocity and will play games on PlayStation.

Lenovo ThinkPad W520

Lenovo has introduced its new Lenovo ThinkPad W520, a computer with excellent features already available on the market in Spain. The new Lenovo ThinkPad W520 has an LED display 15.6-inch high defición reaching a maximum resolution of 1366 x 768 pixel resolution, an Intel Core i7-2620M who works at a frequency of 2.7 GHz, 4 GB of RAM and a nVidia Quadro 1000M Optimus.

It also has a DVD burner, Wi-Fi 802.11 b / g / n and six-cell battery. The same technology can be extended for a few extra hard coming to a resolution 1920 x 1080 pixels, 8 GB RAM, 500 GB hard drive, 160 GB SSD, Bluetooth 3.0 and integrated WWAN. This notebook is now available in stores in Spain at a cost of 1020 euros, in its most basic, of course.

• Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E420s now shipping (28/03/2011)
• Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E420s with Intel Sandy Bridge Processor (30/03/2011)
• Lenovo steps up consumer push via Best Buy pact (01/04/2011)
• Lenovo ThinkPad X220 Features, Specifications And Performance Review (22/03/2011)
• Lenovo ThinkPad X220 review (18/03/2011)

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Google forced to blur faces and license plates in Switzerland

A Swiss court announced Monday, April 4, that Google was required to blur faces and license plates of vehicles photographed for its internet service Street View. In a ruling dated Wednesday, April 6, the Federal Administrative Court (TAF) has estimated that the U.S. group was to "ensure that all faces and license plates are rendered unrecognizable before the publication of images on the Internet." Launched in 2007, Google Street View provides panoramic views of streets, allowing users to virtually move around, but this service has triggered a series of controversies in many countries.

Nokia to launch this year 12 Symbian smart phones

Nokia has confirmed that during 2011 will release 12 new smartphones, all with Symbian operating system. The company has explained that his idea is to launch this year a total of 40 new phone models. The news gathered by Europa Press Hidustantimes confirms that migration to Windows Phone will not occur until 2012.

The announcement of these releases confirms Nokia's position to continue to support, for now, Symbian development. When starting out with Windows Phone models, everything suggests that Nokia will focus on the new system, but meanwhile is still committed to Symbian. The operating system change was a decision of the new pattern of the company, Stephen Elop, who has told the country that the transition would take months, even years.