Sony Notebooks have become brighter and more accessible

A new series of mobile computers called Sony Vaio E. It includes 15.5-inch laptops, targeted at home users. They work under Windows 7 Home Premium.

Inside Vaio E, depending on the configuration, the processor is Intel Core i3, Core i5 or Core i7. Maximum RAM laptop - four gigabytes. From the wireless module in the new Vaio is a Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.

Runtime Chart Sony Vaio E is 3-3,5 hours. Dimensions are 370 computers at 248 of 31 millimeter, weight - 2,7 kg.

Very happy color variety of housing these devices. Among the proposed colors - blue, pink and brown. And the case of three of the eight variants dull. This means that some notebooks from the series Vaio E almost never will stain.

Internet Explorer 8 has become the most popular browser

More recently, the company was delighted Mozilla - its web browser Firefox 3.5 has become the most popular in the world. Then he overtook the eternal leader of the market - Internet Explorer. But in early 2010, everything fell to square one, and Microsoft product again raised himself to the leaders.

According to analysts from Net Applications, in January, Internet Explorer 8 took 22.31 percent of the market. The second most popular was the sixth version of the browser Microsoft, which accounted for 20.7 percent of the market.

Browser Mozilla FireFox 3.5 for the first month of 2010 was the third in the rankings - he was elected 17,01 per cent of Internet users. Behind him is situated Internet Explorer 7 with 14.58 percent of the market.

In total, all versions of Internet Explorer controls 62.18 percent of a browser market. The share of all versions of FireFox had 24.41 per cent, of Google Chrome - 5,2 per cent, Safari - 4,51 per cent, to Opera - 2,38 per cent.

HP Mini 5102 Touchscreen netbook from HP

Touch HP Mini 5102 netbook is equipped with 10-inch screen, which can be a touch, and no, the processor Intel Atom N450, 2-megapixel camera. Weighs in on this computer with an aluminum lid 1,2 kg. As an option for him can be added to handle for transportation. In the new stores will be in April.

Along with the Mini 5102, HP introduced several of the newest computers. This laptops HP EliteBook 8440 p and 8540 p / w in the case of anodized aluminum on the basis of the latest processors Intel. One of the chips these machines - increased security.

Also were announced HP Compaq 8100 desktop Elite Desktop, Workstation HP Z200 Workstation and compact HP Notebook Projection Companion. The latter differs miniature size - 9 by 11 centimeters and weighs 420 grams.

The new desktop HP uses the latest energy saving technologies, thereby "eating" less electricity than the analogs. Inside the PC are the latest chips Intel Core or Core vPro.

iPad / Flash: Adobe reconsiders the incompatibilities

The dispute between Adobe and Apple about the lack of Flash on the iPad continues to make waves. Recently, Steve Jobs would have qualified employees to the volatile Flash technology, adding that web developers would eventually move to HTML5 and H264 formats for video, supported by Safari and Google Chrome.


Adobe, which had already expressed on the subject after the announcement of the iPad, dates back to the niche through the voice of his CTO Kevin Lynch's blog editor, who tells us in passing that Flash has been developed the basis for "shelves equipped with stylets, 15 years before the market takes off" (sic). On the absence of Flash on a "magical device recently unveiled" Kevin Lynch points out that the Flash player 10.1 will be compatible with all mobile operating systems with the exception of the iPhone OS, and the lack of cooperation from Apple: "We are ready to Flash functionality within the browser of these mobile devices, provided that Apple provides this choice to its users.

Regarding the video HTML 5, the CTO of Adobe wants categorical: "I do not think that technology is called upon to replace another in the near future (...) If HTML can do all this that allows Flash, saves us effort, but it is not ready to arrive. . And Kevin Lynch back on the incompatibilities between different implementations of the HTML 5 video between browsers. Safari and Google Chrome in fact use format H264 while Firefox supports free format Ogg: "This may refer users and content creators in the dark hours of the site and its incompatibility". What do grind their teeth advocates open standards that will support Adobe's interest to protect its proprietary format.

Google Apps adds security tools for enterprise

One of the particularly sensitive prevents some companies to migrate to Google Apps for the security of data housed. Insofar as email, calendars, contacts and documents can be found on Google's servers, then CIOs have little control over them. On one of its official blogs, the firm in Mountain View announced the deployment of new security measures intended for mobile users.

Between the Google Apps Connector for BES or different versions of Google Sync for iPhone, Nokia and Windows professionals are now able to automatically synchronize their data on their mobile devices. But what if the phone is lost? Accounting officers Google Apps Google Apps Premier and Education will soon have new control options available directly from the web management interface.

Thus it is possible to remotely wipe the entire contents of a lost or stolen phone or block the terminal after an inactivity period of pre-configured. The administrator can also choose to require entering a password to use the smartphone and ask that it be a certain length or contain different types of characters (letters, uppercase letters, digits, special example).

Note that these security measures have not yet been deployed for mobile phones running the Android system (irony?) Even if the developer Bryan Mawhinney said that these features are under development. Moreover, the upcoming smartphone sponsored by Google and will be manufactured by Motorola should specifically target professionals.

Symbian is free and open-source

This June 24, 2008 Nokia has announced the acquisition of British company Symbian, causing the eponymous operating system for smartphones. At the same time, the Symbian Foundation was created with the support of operators like AT & T, NTT DoCoMo and Vodafone, or creators of mobile chips such as Texas Instruments and STMicroelectronics. Today nearly 200 telecom players have joined the foundation.

And nearly 12 years after the creation of Symbian is a first version of open-source and free system that will be published in the day, four months ahead of schedule originally planned. Result: all manufacturers wanting to use a Symbian phone can benefit without payment of any license. According to Lee Williams, executive director of the foundation based in London, he is converting the largest proprietary software to an open-source solution.

The integrated system Symbian is now over 330 million mobile phones in the world. The opening its source code is expected to increase the terminal equipped with this OS mobile smartphones to tablet, as proposed including Google with its Android system. But according to Lee Williams, the mobile system from Google is not truly "open".

"Nearly one third of the source code for Android is open. No more. And what is open is a collection of middleware. Everything else is closed or proprietary, "says he. In addition, the Symbian system gives greater visibility of progress to be proposed in the coming months. "We are the only ones to engage in development until 2011. And everyone can influence the roadmap and contribute to new features, "says finally.

Symbian is the ^ 3 should be offered as open-source version. The first terminal operator must emerge from summer 2010. Lee Williams we stated at the end of last year that "Symbian and Symbian 3 ^ ^ 4 will offer 664 new features. The Symbian system per se has already 40 to 50 million lines of code. All are now available under open-source license.