RipCode: Flash to show videos on iPhone and iPad

"If there is no solution, there is no problem." The U.S. RipCode, specializes in designing solutions to real-time video transcoding, this week announced the upcoming launch of an offer that would allow companies and media that play Flash video playback to provide their content on mobile devices from Apple, yet do not support the format supported by Adobe.

Real bone of contention between Apple and Adobe, not management of Flash technology with the iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad forced numerous sites and specialized services to encode their video content in a format that can be read on Apple's products. The constraint is important because it involves issuing two separate streams for one video and store on its servers two versions of a file.

As a workaround, RipCode is announcing the upcoming marketing of its "TransAct Transcoder V6, an application server capable of re-encoding on the fly Flash content when called by a product that is not compatible with this technology. In other words, when a user tries to read an iPad Flash video, it is rerouted in real time and seamlessly to a new video stream generated by the tool RipCode.

Performed server side, this manipulation has an elegant component that requires no special software on the client side. According RipCode, the solution TransAct Transcoder V6 easily take place in any system of streaming video from the moment it is based on a Linux-based, coupled with Intel processors. The question remains how much it will cost.

Toshiba Tecra M11 Laptop

Laptop Toshiba Tecra M11 is equipped with 14-inch screen with a resolution 1366h768 pixels and LED backlight. Inside the notebook is the processor Intel Core i3 or i5 with clock speeds ranging from 2.13 to 2.4 gigahertz.

In the standard RAM Toshiba Tecra M11 is two gigabytes. Most of the laptop you can install up to eight gigabytes of memory. Winchester in the laptop may be installed a maximum capacity of 320 gigabytes, or replaced by a 128-gigabyte SSD-drive.

For work with graphics in the Tecra M11 meets the integrated solution Intel. More adjusted by models - discrete graphics card Nvidia NVS 2100M. Inside the notebook there are modules Wi-Fi, Bluetooth. Open the computer operating system Windows 7 Professional. In the basic configuration Toshiba Tecra M11 will cost $ 900.

Skyfire on the App Store

Skyfire, whose CEO Jeff Glueck was quick to congratulate his successful competitor, last Tuesday on his blog, while stressing the fostering of Apple's decision. "The Skyfire team followed the submission of Opera and the market for the iPhone and iPad closely, and that will certainly accelerate our strategy on these media." Glueck said.

We can therefore expect an official announcement of a version of Skyfire for iPhone in the coming weeks.

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Intel announces the Light Peak in 2011

At the Intel Developer Forum 2009, the U.S. manufacturer had presented the Light Peak , a new technology to transfer data between two devices using optical fiber.

The main advantage lies in the Light Peak transfer rate announced, consisting of 10 gigabits per second, twice the USB 3.0. The technology is also capable of handling multiple standards such as Firewire, DisplayPort, USB, Ethernet or SATA: its use would therefore drastically reduce the number of cables used on computers, both externally only internally.

Intel announced yesterday at the 2010 edition of the IDF, that the Light Peak will be available next year on the market. The manufacturer's listing as an alternative to USB 3.0, but nourishes ambitions more consistent with his new baby: "We see the Light Peak as the logical successor future of USB 3.0," said Kevin Kahn, one leaders of society. "We would like to offer the latter type of cable you have to use.

But before the Light Peak dominates the world, we'll have to update, hardware ..

Google expands its search in the archives of Twitter

Having launched its search service in real time - the answer page in addition a continuous flow from Facebook, MySpace and Twitter - Google now offers a search function in the archives of Twitter. This new feature in the form of time-scale evolution of messages posted on Twitter, with a statistical indication as blue bars.

For the Google Blog , this feature is justified by "constant conversation" that exists with blog services and micro-blogging. "Starting today, you can zoom into any point in time and review what people were saying publicly about a Twitter." The function should be deployed on all English versions of the engine search in two days, and should appear later in other languages. Google did not specify any date, but provided a link to test the service.

The interest of the service? Google explains by example: "You want to know what people were posting during your marathon?" The service will be available in the search options tab Updates released for display in real time recently. A table will appear, which will choose a search term, and the extent of the time scale: two days, the last month or last year. Google allows for instant back to February 11, 2010, but announced the upcoming availability of the archives until March 21, 2006, the date of first tweet Jack Dorsey, Twitter co-founder: "just setting up my twttr."

Alex eBook Dual Screen starts at $ 399

The first electronic reading lamp from American Spring Design had marked the spirits during his presentation at CES in Las Vegas last January. Claiming to want to combine the best of both worlds yet distant, he actually proposed to discover "Alex", a hybrid features - such as Barnes & Noble Nook - two screens: an e-ink slab similar to the one we found on the Amazon Kindle and dedicated to the display of electronic books, in which we find another slab, LCD this time to interact with Android, the mobile operating system from Google.

The bet all-in-one will he pay? On the upper part of this unit to gauge uncommon, we thus find a slab of a 6 inch diagonal on which we can view works in formats EPUB, PDF, HTML and TXT files, stored on a MicroSD card (2GB provided ). At the bottom, a 3.5-inch touch screen from which we can exploit the features of Android and connect to the Internet through WLAN controllers and GSM / 3G, subject of course to have a SIM card.

Really necessary, these two screens? Spring Design is hard to remember that it is possible to annotate the work being played or to manage your library from e-ink slab, we can totally listen to music, launch video or surf the Internet using the Android embedded. It thus enjoys the comfort of reading on a stone dedicated, without sacrificing the side "connected applications" that is now the happy hours of products like the iPhone. It remains to be seen to what extent the use of these features web / multimedia impacts the battery life, since the use of an electronic ink is at this level one of the highlights.

Supplied with a pair of headphones, a USB cable, a protective case and a 2GB MicroSD card, the player Alex is finally available for purchase from $ 399, or about 300 euros, two colors. A reasonable fee under the hybrid nature of the device, but still higher than that of devices dedicated exclusively to the consultation of electronic books. Spring Design could also suffer because his camera is so far backed any content distribution service. It will remain in all cases an original idea, which could well be emulated.