Sony Ericsson Elm and Hazel Phones

Sony Ericsson today introduced phones Elm and Hazel, as well as Bluetooth headset with noise-canceling VH700, who soon will join GreenHeart line of environmentally friendly products.

Make notes improved voice quality in such mobile phones, thanks to noise reduction (Noise Shield) and clear sound (Clear Voice), as well as intellectual technologies to adapt the volume level to environmental conditions (Intelligent Volume Adaptation). Easy-to-use application for work with social networks Widget Manager (Widget Manager), provides users with access to the pages of social networking through always-on widget on the phone screen, and allows you to quickly switch between different social networks.

Sony Ericsson Elm and Sony Ericsson Hazel  specifications :

• Network: HSPA 900/2100 MHz, GSM / GPRS 850/900/1800/1900 MHz
• Camera: 5 megapixel with auto focus function Face detection, Geo tagging, Photo fiash, Smile Detection
• Mediaplayer
• FM-radio with RDS
• Annex MySpace, Tracker, Twitter
• Communication: Bluetooth, Wi-Fi
• Navigation: A-GPS (to Hazel), navigation, indicating turns Wisepilot (available in some markets)

Sony Ericsson Hazel made in the slider form factor and will be available in two colors: black metallic (Metal Black) and pink pearl (Pearly Rose) from the second quarter of 2010.

Sony Ericsson Elm

• Display: 2.6-inch, with a resolution of 240x320 pixels, shows 16 million colors
• Memory: 280 MB of built-up
• Support memory cards: SanDisk microSD
• Hours: talk time up to 10 hours of standby time to 430 hours
• Dimensions: 102,5 x 49.5 x 16 mm
• Weight: 120 g 

Sony Ericsson Elm will be available in two colors: extra-black (Superior Black) and a bright red (Passionate Rouge) in the first quarter of 2010.

TRON: Evolution announced in images and video

Disney Interactive Studios has announced the arrival of TRON: Evolution, as expected on a Playstation 3, Xbox 360 and PC. Developed by Propaganda Games (a studio based in Vancouver, British Columbia already behind Turok and Pirates of the Caribbean), it should be available at the output in the cinemas.

The story of TRON: Evolution takes place during the period between the two films TRON (the first was released in 1982). Recounting the major events from the world of TRON, this action game, a true introduction to the movie TRON: Legacy, you will take part in racing light cycles, unless you prefer to participate in combat record .

"TRON: Evolution fills in the blanks of history from the original TRON film and one that will be released next year, TRON: Legacy," explains Dan Tudge, vice president and general manager of Propaganda Games. "We consider theoretically TRON: Evolution as a missing link in the mythology of TRON. Given the high expectations of the public in relation to film next year, we must give fans a creative and innovative experience that fits perfectly into the world of TRON.

Seagate: Hard Disk 2.5 inches 7 mm thick

The portable hard drive for the finest in the world? No doubt in Seagate today announced the arrival on the market of its "Thin Momentus, a 2.5-inch hard drive only 7 millimeters thick. Using a SATA interface, it will decline in capacity of 160 and 250 GB It provides 8 MB of cache and embeds a turntable at 5400 revolutions per minute. No index performance has been given, but there is perhaps not the main argument of the American manufacturer.

For Seagate, the big names of the notebook sector wishing to develop very thin laptops today have two options: switch to 1.8-inch hard drives (choice made by Sony for its high Vaio range by 11 inches) or embrace the very interesting but expensive SSD. With this disc of 7 mm, Seagate expects to be able to offer a fresh alternative to the two offers, ensuring unmatched price per gigabyte particularly good integrators. Intended primarily for OEM, the Momentus Thin will be delivered from January 2010. For now, the price was not disclosed.

The Core i7 six hearts from the first quarter 2010?

Considering the latest news for the second quarter of 2010, the first processor public six hearts Intel will finally be launched in March 2010, according to an internal document inadvertently filtered, and well ahead of AMD Thuban. If it was expected that the first processor based smart Gulftown Launches Family of Core i9, he actually respond to the reference 980X Core i7 Extreme Edition.

Yet it is the first representative of the Westmere architecture inherited from the Nehalem architecture, but using the new manufacturing process in house 32 nm. Equipped with 2MB of cache by heart (a total of 12 MB in this case), a link to QPI 6.4GT / s, HyperThreading, Turbo Boost, a DDR3 memory controller to 1 066 MHz and 32 PCI Express lanes, he shared the other hand most of its sheet with the Core i7 975, Intel's current flagship, it should also replace the rank of processor 1 000.

It would be compatible with most motherboards Intel X58 chipset and socket LGA1366 market already compatible with the Core i7 900 series, provided an updated BIOS is available by the manufacturers.

Intel will also replace the end of February its first Nehalem processor prices, the current Core i7 920, a new Core i7 930. It would display the same amount of 8 MB of cache, the same TDP of 130W, the same rate of $ 284 in quantities of thousands, and is distinguished by its frequency to increase from 2.66 to 2.80 GHz.

Western Digital offers 11% more disk space

Western Digital has recently unveiled the "Advanced Format Structure", a new formatting method that saves 7 to 11% of storage space on a hard disk formatted. It will appear on the Caviar Black family in the coming weeks, before being extended to the whole range. The process, operating at very low levels, can unfortunately not be applied to existing hard drives, even through an update of their firmware (firmware).

With this method, the physical sectors of hard drives just go from 512 to 4096 bytes. Each sector is introduced by a block header and signed by a block of error correction size unchanged, the usable space is increased. In fact, the ECC block has even been enlarged, improving the correction rate of 50%.

Conversely, any operation requires the rewriting of entire sectors of 4k, at the expense of operations that involve many small files, but the benefit, however, large file transfers.

The modern operating systems like Windows 7, Windows Vista, Mac OS X Tiger or later and Linux take advantage of this innovation by default. Windows XP, however, suffers from a gap area and requires the use of an alignment tool or the establishment of a jumper (jumper) on the hard disk.

exFAT: Microsoft requires manufacturers to pay

exFAT for Extended File Allocation Table is a Microsoft technology whose name is probably foreign to many Windows users. This file system has indeed been one of the inputs of the Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista, and logically it is present by default in the operating system Windows 7. An update for Windows XP SP2 and SP3 is also available.

exFAT successor is designated by Microsoft's older FAT (and FAT32). The former of Extended refers to a support that is extended from 32 GB to address the maximum data from FAT to 256 TB for exFAT. For example, Microsoft says exFAT can handle more than 4 000 image files in raw format (RAW), 100 HD movies or 60 hours of HD recording in a single directory.

Among other new features exFAT: support for files larger than 4 GB (FAT32 limitation), the management of the timestamp UTC (Coordinated Universal Time), metadata for storing settings OEM checklists access (Access Control List).

While NTFS is intended for hard drives, exFAT target flash memory devices. Last week, Microsoft has announced the launch of its licensing program for exFAT who had nevertheless already started. One way also recalled its commitment to respect the intellectual property after a mutual agreement reached with TomTom in a brawl around FAT which gave a cold sweat at the Linux world.

Sony, Canon and Sanyo have already subscribed to the Microsoft program. The price is 300 000 dollars for certain categories of equipment (cameras, camcorders ...) also with a price based on volume for mobile telephony in particular.

Apple attacks Nokia

Apple is accused of Nokia in the illegal use of 13 patents. Make smartphone iPhone appealed in federal court in the U.S. with the relevant claim to the Finnish company.

According to the American side, in the number of patents infringed by Nokia are technology of teleconferencing, interaction between a smartphone and a computer, working with color in applications, the implementation of energy-saving functions, etc.

Almost all the leading phone manufacturers have licensing agreements with Nokia, with the exception of Apple. According to the American company, the Finnish manufacturer has not agreed to license its technology on fair and reasonable terms. In addition, Apple accuses Nokia to increase royalty rates and considers illegal demands Finns the granting of licenses to certain patents of Apple as partial compensation.

Autumn Nokia sued Apple, accusing the latter in violation of at least ten fundamental patents. According to the Finnish manufacturer, improprieties in all generations of iPhone smartphones and related technologies of wireless data transmission, speech coding, security and encryption.

Apple has filed a retaliatory lawsuit in the same court of Delaware, in which claims will be dealt with Nokia. According to some analysts, the patent dispute between the companies may take several years.

Data loss most unusual in 2009

Like every year, Kroll Ontrack book grading data recovery the most unusual have been made in its laboratories scattered across the planet. A data recovery has been successful or almost.

The classification of Kroll Ontrack presented with his own prose rather nice:

Legal Puzzle: During a search conducted in the apartment of a suspect, investigators have had the unpleasant surprise of seeing the individual throwing the 12th floor a laptop containing the evidence of his guilt. The police recovered one by one the pieces of the computer and then disintegrated confided to Kroll Ontrack recover photos, videos and emails. The suspect is in jail today.

20 thousand leagues under the sea: During a sea tour, laptop went overboard. Found six months later to 60 meters deep, he was sent to a laboratory Kroll Ontrack where 99% of data were collected.

Dumbfounded: A rider who was wearing a camera strap fell during a walk. Free, the only victim identified was the memory card from the device. The files were corrupted and could not be transferred to a computer.

Sick as a Dog: A dog too greedy grabbed a piece of frozen meat, left in a kitchen. The animal was in bad shape quickly, and vomits on the family computer.

Moto Cross: A professional photographer, had the habit of carrying his camera in the top box of his bike. Unfortunately, the passage of a retarder, the aircraft fell on the wet pavement, throwing the memory card into a puddle.

Punch: Following an altercation between two colleagues in a computer room, one of the two players collided and damaged a disk server. Fortunately for the two boxers, the major details of the company have been recovered.

Road accident: A businessman trying desperately to his car keys in his pockets. Irritated, he placed his laptop on the roof of the vehicle. The hands free, he was finally, and went off. Unfortunately, the first corner, the computer left on the roof flew off and ended its fall against a wall.

Unidentified flying object: We will never know why a laptop has been launched in the 2nd floor of a business center!

Chat goes wrong: When a big cat decides to play with the cord of an external hard drive, it can only end badly. His paw repeatedly have obviously caused the collapse of the disc. Following this, its unhappy teachers had more access to key administrative documents.

A promise is a promise: A client formatted SD card accidentally erasing an exceptional photo made during a trip. Having promised his friends to send them by email the picture, the photographer found himself in a quandary.

Mozilla Weave Sync 1.0: third beta

Offered by Mozilla Labs, Weave Sync extension for Firefox (version 3.5) allows synchronization securely between multiple positions when the browser is present. Are concerned bookmarks, browsing history and form fields, tabs, saved passwords and preferences.

Since November, the first beta of the future milling 1.0 is available for download. The third of its kind was published last week and for developers, it is a quasi-Release Candidate.

In addition to various improvements, beta 2 Weave Sync has introduced a convenient feature that displays the computer name in the tabs to display other computers in sync.

The Beta 3 fixes several issues to improve the reliability of synchronization, improves interactions for Firefox and Fennec, change preferences at any sync in Firefox preferences panel, fixes problems for supporting screen readers.

The Beta 3 Weave Sync is available for download on the official portal of extensions for Firefox.

Download Skype Beta 4.2 for Windows : Call transfer and WiFi

A beta version of Skype 4.2 for Windows is available for download with return of call forwarding and Skype Access.

Skype invites Windows users of its popular VoIP software to test a beta version of Skype 4.2. This saw the emergence of Skype Access Service to use the WiFi access points, or otherwise call on Skype via a wireless network.

Already compatible with the final version 2.8 of Skype for Mac OS X, Skype Access allows pay per minute the time spent in WiFi connection, or 0.16 € per minute with Skype credts to connect access points network offered by Boingo, which covers more than 17 000 access points in France (over 100 000 worldwide).

Skype 4.2 Beta for Windows also sign the back of the feature call transfer, and the possibility of transferring a free call to any Skype contact. A service fee for a transfer to a landline or mobile.

In addition to these two features, Skype announced a better integration in Windows 7 (interaction with the new taskbar and system tray), a new indicator of call quality and still improvements in sound quality and video.

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