F-06B mobile phone killer compact cameras

As is customary in Japan, the phone operator sells under its own brand. In the case of the F-06B - company NTT DoCoMo. But the real credit for the creation of this unique phone belongs to another Japanese company - Fujitsu. After all, its engineers have developed and launched a series of cell phone F-06B.

So, let us consider the characteristics and capabilities F-06B. The most interesting thing here - the camera. Resolution of the matrix is 13.2 megapixels, and it records video in resolving FullHD. And this despite the fact that the top-end smartphones and phone-based shooting photos and videos that are so proud of the producers, the cameras are 8-megapixel cameras, and videos of such quality they can not boast.

But the Japanese alone revolutionary camera phone was not enough. They decided to further equip the F-06B waterproof housing. And this is not the conventional water-resistant shell that protects the most out of the rain. With F-06B can easily dive and take pictures or shoot video, at a depth of four feet with a sensitivity of up to 25 600 units of ISO.

BFG graphics cards stop

Exclusive partner of NVIDIA in this area, the American BFG Tech has announced its withdrawal from the market of graphics cards. The manufacturer guarantees its customers that after-sales service will be provided on products already marketed. Other product lines developed by the brand power supplies and laptop computers, will be maintained.

"After eight years ago to provide innovative graphics and quality to the market, we regret to say that this product is no longer profitable for us," said in a statement John Slevin, president of BFG Technologies.

BFG, which graphics cards were only distributed in France, has rapidly developed its brand image, particularly among public players, offering customized templates, guarantees a very long time, and some commercial operations rebranded. In late 2008, the brand had such offered free replacement of an AGP graphics card with its equivalent in PCI-Express.

It remains to know the reasons for the failure to return raised by the firm. Frequent delays Fermi architecture, the low availability of chips and the margins provided by NVIDIA partners there are probably not unrelated. The rumor that BFG could switch on the side of AMD cards / ATI - as did XFX early 2009 - had also been mentioned several times in recent weeks.

A new trailer for Call of Duty: Black Ops

The new version of Call of Duty franchise, named Call of Duty: Black OPS, is revealed today in a trailer for two minutes giving an overview of the most explosive new baby Treyarch already behind several episodes of the series, including World at War.

Call of Duty: Black OPS will take place during the Cold War and offer the player to play as an elite soldier in the heart of diverse environments, ranging from the Arctic to Cuba, through Vietnam. The game is scheduled for 9 November on PS3, Xbox 360 and PC.

Google Apps : A new programming interface for Gmail

While Microsoft has just announced the news of the next Hotmail and again wishes to impose itself directly against Gmail, Google unveiled its part for a new programming interface for its Gmail webmail in the Google Apps offering.

Via the secondary options of Gmail Labs, it is possible to activate the preview of some types of documents. Users may view such a file directly from Gmail to Google Docs, a slideshow from Picasa or Flickr or a YouTube video. In future, media integration of third party sites should be even further.

The Google Enterprise team announced on their official blog: "From today, third-party developers can create gadgets and contextual distribution within Google Apps Marketplace. These gadgets can get information of community sites, professional services, web applications (...) and users can interact with the data directly from Gmail.

Remember that Google Apps Marketplace, unveiled in March, is a gallery of free and commercial web applications that you can choose to graft following hosted Google Apps Standard or Premier. We thus find Box.net, Aviary Trips or Zoho, but also professional services like Cloud Sherpas Sada Systems or ScheduleOnce. The question is whether these gadgets preview will be available in standard Gmail accounts later.

Free Facebook Mobile Access with 0.facebook.com

 Facebook launching another way for people to access Facebook anytime, anywhere: 0.facebook.com. 0.facebook.com is a new mobile site that includes all of the key features of Facebook but is optimized for speed. It initially is available through more than 50 mobile operators in 45 countries and territories with zero data charges.


Mary Meeker of Morgan Stanley recently forecast that the two fastest growing areas of the technology industry are the mobile Internet and social services. At Facebook we're at the center of these two trends with more than 100 million people actively using Facebook from their mobile device and with more than 200 mobile operators in 80 countries offering and promoting Facebook Mobile.


By visiting 0.facebook.com on mobile may update its status, view their private flows, comment or send a publication and reading her private message. The main difference lies in the management of photos. Indeed, in order to lighten the page they are hidden and accessed through a link.


For this new mobile portal, Facebook announced it has signed more than fifty contracts with mobile operators in 45 countries. The access is totally free and is mainly in emerging countries which offers unlimited Internet are not as widespread as in France. However, the user will be charged the cost of bandwidth if it wishes to see a picture hidden or leave the site to go to an external page.

Here is the list of countries in which the site is accessible:

New MacBook from Apple

Apple is proudly officers report the sale of one million tablets iPad in record time , and is preparing for the world premiere of this revolutionary gadget . At the same time, HTC accuses Apple of violating copyright and you do not want to sell the iPhone in the U.S. . However, Steve Jobs seems to be on the subject is not going through, and prepares the announcement of a new generation of notebook Apple MacBook, the first information about which penetrated the network.

The next novelty company Steve Jobs earlier period given Vietnamese comrades. Earlier they showed in the Internet photos smartphone iPhone the next generation . But now it's not about mobile "apple" gadget, but of the most affordable laptop Apple. He and loans.

So, if you believe the Vietnamese, then inside the new version of the plastic MacBook was a place of 2,4-gigahertz chip Intel Core 2 Duo processor and video card Nvidia GeForce 320M. If this is true, then the most affordable "Apple" notebook would be significantly more powerful than the predecessor, especially in graphics, but what his performance came so close to a similar indicator most affordable MacBook Pro.

However, the differences between the aluminum Apple notebook from its plastic counterpart great. Thus, the MacBook Pro 1913 is a minimum of four gigabytes of memory against two in the MacBook. And by the time of the white "Apple" notebook is essentially concedes gray - 7 hours to 10.

It is encouraging that the price of MacBook with all these improvements will not change. This computer will continue to cost $ 999 (U.S.). However, when waiting for a new version of white computer Apple, has not yet reported.

Yahoo to Acquire Associated Content

Yahoo! has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Associated Content Inc.

This move extends Yahoo's ability to provide high quality, personally relevant content for users as well as tens of thousands of advertisers.

"Combining our world-class editorial team with Associated Content's makes this a game-changer," said Carol Bartz, CEO, Yahoo! Inc. "Together, we'll create more content around what we know our users care about, and open up new and creative avenues for advertisers to engage with consumers across our network. These are important aspects of building engaging consumer experiences on Yahoo!, and one of the reasons why we're one of the most visited destinations online."

"The Associated Content team and our 380,000 contributors are looking forward to joining Yahoo! and to the opportunities that being part of a global Internet brand presents," said Luke Beatty, Associated Content founder and president. "Combining our crowd sourced content with Yahoo!'s distribution, world class editorial team and online marketing leadership will accelerate our growth as we continue to leverage our best-of-breed platform to deliver high quality compelling content on more than 60,000 topics."

For advertisers, this deal will expand Yahoo! into more topic areas and real-time content generation. The combination promises to offer advertisers even more opportunities to engage groups of passionate consumers in ways they will find appealing to their interests and tastes. Having insight into user intent through its search products enables Yahoo! to identify topics important to advertisers and users. Yahoo! plans to use Associated Content to create content around those topics and leverage Associated Content to contribute content to existing media properties.

While current Associated Content content is U.S.-centric, Yahoo! expects to scale the platform globally.

Associated Content was founded by Luke Beatty in Denver, Colorado, in 2004. Associated Content receives more than 16 million unique users per month (comScore) and the editorial staff reviews more than 50,000 pieces of content per month, including articles, images, audio and video.

Yahoo! expects to complete this acquisition in the third quarter of 2010. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Microsoft Files Patent Infringement Action Against Salesforce.com

Microsoft filed a patent infringement action against Salesforce.com.

The company issued the following statement from Horacio Gutierrez, corporate vice president and deputy general counsel of Intellectual Property and Licensing:

"Microsoft has filed an action today, in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, against Salesforce.com for infringement of nine Microsoft patents by their CRM product.

Microsoft has been a leader and innovator in the software industry for decades and continues to invest billions of dollars each year in bringing great software products and services to market. We have a responsibility to our customers, partners, and shareholders to safeguard that investment, and therefore cannot stand idly by when others infringe our IP rights."