Google pays $ 20 million to charity

Merry Christmas. On the occasion of sending his greetings to the press, Google said it paid the $ 20 million to charities.

"Because charities have experienced one of the most difficult years, we allocated 20 million dollars to help those who help us all. The gift that we want to offer is their gift." Google said on its electronic map.

The lucky recipients are mostly American associations, African or Asian. Note still present in the list of Reporters Without Borders, the combination of Robert Menard, who fight for freedom of the press.

• Feeding America
• Boys and Girls Clubs
• Smile Train
• CARE, Mothers Matter
• World Wildlife Fund, Natural Capital Project
• Mobile Creches
• Prajwal
• HEAL Africa
• African Institute for Mathematical Sciences

• The Mango Tree
• National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
• Harlem Children's Zone
• Save the Children, Latin America focus
• Reporters Without Borders
• Witness
• Loud Against Nazis
• Global Voice

• Ushahidi
• Save the Children, Middle East and Eurasia focus
• Grupo Cultural Afro Reaggae
• Ashesi University College, Ghana
• Pratham
• Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience
• Shin Shin Educational Foundation
• Tzu Chi Foundation

Cherrypal Africa a netbook for $ 99

Stronger than the OLPC? The Asian manufacturer Cherrypal began in early December deliveries of its "Cherrypal Africa," a miniature laptop to record price of 99 dollars. At this rate, it is logically unnecessary to wait for benefits similar to those of a computer sold several hundred dollars, and Cherrypal are also well aware, he who attacks the form of its presentation by the netbook 'statement that "small, slow, but adequate.

Intended as the OLPC XO, emerging countries, the Cherrypal Africa embarks Xburst processor - which is not x86 - 400 MHz and 256 MB of RAM and 2 GB of flash memory for storage . Equipped with a 7 inch screen displays a resolution of 800 x 480 pixels, it has an Ethernet port, a wireless controller, two USB 1.1 ports for adding a keyboard and mouse, but also a memory card reader. The 1800 mAh battery is surely self up to 4 hours. Finally, it would come with a distribution of Linux or Windows CE. Only hitch: the machine can be ordered online only, which should not make it easier for people covered by this netbook at deflated prices.

eBook: A hacker breaks DRM Amazon Kindle

Christmas Sale for Amazon? An Israeli hacker has announced that it had managed to break the system of digital rights management, or DRM, associated with its electronic book reader, the Kindle. Thus, it becomes possible to export to PDF eBooks acquired proprietary format used by Amazon in its booth download the. AZW.

Labbe, the author of this hack, merely be a "challenge" issued on the forums hacking.org. In publishing the rules for operating the flaw he discovered, he still takes care to remind his tool is intended to be used on books purchased legally for use on d ' Other devices that Kindle. Interoperability as a justification of piracy? Amazon has so far not responded to the announcement, but probably will respond quickly.

Sold approximately 175 euros, the Kindle is now the product most exported to France from the U.S. site of Amazon. It opens access to a catalog of some 300,000 books, among which we find at the moment that few books in French. Very popular across the Atlantic, he now faces competition from more and more sustained. Sony or Barnes & Noble now offer competing terminals while offering considerable develops mobile, notably through the App Store from Apple.

Eee PC Pine Trail at really affordable Asus

Asus formalized turn its mini-notebook platform to Intel Pine Trail. It complements the Eee PC range with three models Seashell embedding the second generation of Intel's Atom platform: the 1001P, 1005P and 1005PE.

The manufacturer shall not surprisingly focused on two major contributions of the new Atom promising to "muscle performance and autonomy". He actually claims autonomy Herculean 14 hours allowed by the proprietary technology Super Hybrid Engine that optimizes the use of the Eee PC for the tasks running, while one of its competitors announcement 9 hours and a half. In fact, with a 6 cell battery, initial tests show a range of 8 hours which should however not have to blush.

The three models also share a similar configuration. They all revolve around a three WSVGA screen of 10.1 inches topped with a VGA camera and feature an Intel Atom N450, with a CPU clocked at 1.66GHz and a GMA 3150 GPU, 1 GB of RAM and a 6-cell battery of 4400 mAh standard for a weight of 1.27 kg.

The first model price, the Eee PC 1001P is delivered with Windows XP with a drive of 160 GB 1005P The Eee PC has about him 7 Windows Starter Edition, which provide greater autonomy. The Eee PC 1005PE finally passes to a hard disk of 250 GB and 500 GB of online storage WebStorage.

The Asus Eee PC 1001P, 1005P and 1005PE will be marketed to an unspecified date to be 260, 280 and 300 euros. Once is not custom, cost less than promised by Intel for its solution Intel Pine Trail affects the selling price.

New iPhone will equip 5Mp camera

There are reports that Apple has already placed an order for a new, fourth in a row, the smartphone version of Apple iPhone. Order 5Mp CMOS modules made by OmniVision Technologies - the same company that supplied the 3.2 megapixel sensors for iPhone 3GS.

Taiwanese sources claim that OmniVision Technologies plans to deliver 40-45 million units in 2010, which gives an idea about the marketing plans for Apple.

In addition, the publication Business Insider reported on the readiness of American companies to provide "a new mobile device with a high-resolution screen is already in January next year. Apparently it comes to the Tablet computer company Apple, rumors of which with enviable frequency appear on the Internet.