Friday, June 4, 2010

HP ZR30w Professional monitor

On the innovative device HP is not stingy. For example, it recently announced a hybrid printer and smartphone and gathered to issue an unprecedented tablet . At this time it will focus on other high-profile new product - the first high-performance monitor with a diagonal of 76.2 cm (30 inches), which displays more than one billion colors. It is called HP ZR30w S-IPS.

To be precise, the novelty displays 1.07 billion colors. And this for a minute, 64 times more compared to conventional LCD monitors. Another, for clarity, we note that due to this characteristic, HP ZR30w shows 100 percent color space, sRGB and 99 per cent of colors from the color space Adobe RGB. In short, the perfect professional solution, which still need to search.

However, not only in the colors of the force innovations. This monitor provides a fantastic image clarity at the expense of 4.1 million pixels and resolution of 2560x1600 pixels. In this case the display ratio equal to 16:10. Other characteristics of the new items are as follows: 3000:1 contrast, brightness 370 cd / m², Response time 7 ms, DisplayPort and DVI-D, ports USB. Especially proud producer stylish design and an aluminum hull HP ZR30w, which 25 percent is from recycled materials.


It is pleasant, and that ordinary mortals HP does not forget. To them, she presented widescreen monitors X20LED, X22LED, X23LED, S2031a, S2231a, S2331a, 2310ei and 2310ti, targeted primarily at small businesses. Their diagonals are from 20 to 23 inches, and all models feature an elegant design and slim body.

Nokia Bicycle Charger Kit : Now phone can be recharged from a bicycle

The range of mobile phones available today to the user, is striking. Among them there are even racing androids , as well as phone numbers, threatening to "kill" the camera . But bad luck - should go on a long bike ride, as you risk to remain without any contact from the fact that the phone battery will sit. Soon this inconvenience will be forgotten, as the company Nokia has developed a device that allows you to charge your phone while riding a bicycle.

It is called a cycle charging from Finland Nokia Bicycle Charger Kit. It is an environmentally clean source of energy for mobile phones, and most importantly - free! It charges the phone this thing is no worse than the usual network charger.

How does it work? In fact, quite simple. Something like we saw in physics lessons at school: the dynamo converts the energy from the rotation of the wheels into electricity. Naturally, in the case of Nokia Bicycle Charger Kit whole structure (generator, transforming the energy) is compact and hides in a stylish package.

Fits Nokia Bicycle Charger Kit handlebar. At the same device provides a special attachment for your phone, where it is installed and connected to the generator via a standard connector for the charger.

Nokia C1 and C2 with two SIM-cards

Supporting two SIM-cards - one of the major mobile trends. Analysts say that up to the 2010 sale of such vehicles will be doubled . Asian producers set the tone in this segment, this news is clearly provoke. As a result, there were two unusual tachfon my professional , very tough dvuhsimochny mobile phone and even a smart phone capable of working simultaneously in two different network operators . It seems that excitement around such phones seriously interested company Nokia, which released its first mobile phone with dual SIM-cards. This C1 and C2.

Today most of phones and smartphones with two SIM-cards refers to the average price segment. Budget models are very small, and decided to use than the Finns. Guessed? Yes, phones Nokia C1 and C2 represent budget decisions, the price is less than 45 euros.

So, Nokia C1. This is a very simple phone with a small screen that displays 65,000 colors, FM-tuner and 3.5-millimeter headphone jack and a flashlight. But they could not do without the Finnish engineers raisins. In the case of the C1 - is battery life. In standby mode, new live six weeks, which is a record, at least for Nokia. Cost is such a phone will be 30 euros excluding tax.

However, there is a caveat, while both my professional C1 does not support. But you can switch between cards using a special key without restarting the phone.

Mobile Phones Nokia C2 is more advanced and, logically, more expensive. For it will have to put 45 euros (for Russia 2300 rubles), but he simultaneously supports two SIM-cards. Note that the extra 15 euro affected the exterior of the phone - he became more accurate, stylish and appealing. As a platform C2 producer has chosen the Series 40, and to the owner of the phone was not boring, added a FM-tuner with recording capability of the ether. Keep the records can be in the memory card microSD.


As for battery life, here C2 inferior to their more simple fellow. In standby mode, mobile phone, according to Nokia, must survive without recharging 16.5 hours.

AMD is the first demonstration of its APU, Fusion

At Computex, AMD is the first time demonstrated a chip Fusion, which he said must embody the future of personal computing by combining CPU and GPU into a single unit, the APU for Accelerated Processing Unit. On this occasion, the manufacturer has confirmed the timetable that evokes the past two years: the first products equipped with a chip Fusion should be created in the first half of 2011.

Fusion, which hitherto had not been raised otherwise than as PowerPoint slides,, wants to memory architecture comprising a CPU and GPU into a single computing unit. The latter therefore combine the advantages of the CPU, designed to enchainer series of complex calculations (serial), to those of the GPU, especially good for parallel computing (simple operations, but must be repeated many times).

For now, two processors have been announced. On the one hand, Llano, who must come equipped standard computers, fixed or portable, and the other Ontario, netooks sent to market or why not, the touch pads.

After quickly showed a wafer Fusion processors, Rick Bergman, senior vice president in charge of the Product Group at AMD, has launched two demonstrations conducted from a machine with an Ontario: a sequence of Games Aliens Versus Predator after 2, directx 11, then a test of hardware acceleration performed within Internet Explorer 9. In itself, nothing really special ... except that we still speak of a chip dedicated to low-cost netbooks!

A year after introducing its first demo Dx11 AMD thus benefits from Computex to signal to the industry and the rest of the world the good progress of Project Fusion. To speed up, AMD has announced the launch of an investment fund, the "Merger Fund" through which he promises to financially support companies that develop tools taking advantage of the specificities of these future chips. It Manju Hedge, recently left home NVIDIA where he framed the work around CUDA, which will oversee.

The game is not yet fully played: that is genuinely running Fusion CPU and GPU together, it is necessary to develop new programming models taking into account the structural change.

New Sony Headphones PIIQ

Sony yesterday introduced its new range of headphones: dubbed PIIQ (for Peek), it offers 5 models ranging from advertised prices from 14.99 to 99.99 dollars. And if Sony does not give accurate information about the technical characteristics of these new products, the brand still offers a deluge of photos for those helmets that did not go unnoticed.

Appointed Marqii ($ 99.99), Giiq ($ 49.99) and Triqii ($ 29.99) for helmets and Qlasp ($ 24.99) and Exhale ($ 14.99) for in-ear headphones the PIIQ were designed by Japanese designer Rui Morisawa and provide elegance (and especially a discretion) fault at all music lovers.


Intended for U.S. and Japanese markets, helmets range PIIQ are not yet dated for Europe, but we can keep hoping to see the helmets of the most colorful land with us in the coming months.

Location-based search: the application is installed on Nomao Android

After investing the iPhone last January, the application of appropriate location-based search site Nomao is freely available from today on the Android mobile.

Good news for users of smartphones running the Google OS, that would be willing to experiment with location-based search of places, but the results are displayed via a function of augmented reality: it is indeed one of Nomao strengths, in addition to its ability to remember previous searches by the user to define their tastes and offer refined results. The database has, in turn, more than one and a half million sites referenced.


The application Nomao is already available for download on Android Market, for all versions of the OS.

Microsoft is preparing a big patch Tuesday

The menu of updated safety of June, Microsoft announced the release of 10 patches to close 34 vulnerabilities recognized. As with Windows, Internet Explorer and Microsoft Office are affected by the planned deployment next June 8.

On its website , the publisher of Redmond promises the publication of six patches for Windows. Two of them are also classified as critical and four major. Two critical bulletins concern and an Office update also attempts to address critical Internet Explorer. Microsoft gives little explanation but confirmed that no less than 34 vulnerabilities will be corrected.

About vulnerabilities found on Microsoft Office, the corrected versions are Office XP, 2003 but also 2007 and 2004 and Office 2008 for Mac. The firm will thus be able to put an end to privilege elevation found on SharePoint. Similarly, the publisher says that all versions of its OS, including Windows 7 will be affected by this wave of update.

Samsung S8500 Wave sold in Germany infected with a virus

The technophiles German throwing himself on the new smartphone Wave S8500 had the unpleasant surprise to discover that came with a virus.

It turns out that the 1GB MicroSD card supplied with the machine was infected by a Trojan called Win32/Heur, ready to invest any computer with autorun enabled, the mobile phone which would been connected. Win32/Heur then handles decorate the infected computer malware of all kinds, to slow down, or to display popup ads. It also takes good care to settle on the keys or hard drives connected via USB to the PC infected.

So much intrusive malware that was found suggested to many customers Teutonic, following an indelicate handling of Samsung. The South Korean manufacturer has responded to the call by the website Mobile Burn , confirming that only Germany was affected by this problem. The brand has, for the moment, not given details about the compensation of victims of this virus buyers.

A-Data launches in power supply and USB 3.0

One more! Historically focused on the market for memory, Taiwanese A-Data unveils at Computex its first range of power supplies, with models ranging from 550-1200 W. Called Horus, it is intended by the manufacturer to the public players concerned about their equipment, which are therefore willing to invest a certain sum in a power supply, without going so far as models afford the highest range. All models, 550, 650, 750, 850 and 1200 W, receive the label 80 Plus Bronze. Like many of its competitors, A-Data has delegated the production of these blocks in the main supplier of Taiwanese industry to better focus on their design. While waiting to judge the performance, the detail that kills the color of the light inside the food varies depending on the load of the latter ranging from green (0-50% load) to blue (50-100 %), or red in case of overload.



As for storage, A-Data logically surfs the wave of USB 3.0 and is preparing to launch three products compatible with this new interface: an external hard drive (mechanical, 3.5-inch) disk external hard drive (Flash, 2.5 inch) and a standard USB stick to be broken down into building 16, 32 and 64 GB It would provide performance of 85 MB / s read, cons 55MB / s writing. All of these products should be available around the beginning of September, at prices not yet determined.

Google Search for mobile is now looking at the App Store and Android Market

In addition to adding a function of minor customization of the standard search engine, Google today launched a new feature for owners of the Android and iPhone smartphones. "Google Search for mobile applications now actually looking directly at the heart of Apple's App Store and Android Market for Google.

The mobile version of website Google displays so from now links to applications, leading directly to the corresponding plugs on either catalog of applications. Some basic information such as publisher, the note or the price of the application is displayed when the results page of search engine.

Google simplifies but also short-circuits a little more how to download a mobile application. No other catalog of applications, in particular the Ovi Store or Windows Mobile Marketplace, unfortunately, is planned at the moment. But the search for applications on the App Store and Android Market is in turn accessible today from the U.S., before being gradually deployed in the rest of the world.