Apple's new Mac Mini, iPhone 4 pre

Morning Update for Apple's online store, which after two hours of downtime, reveals the emergence of a new Mac Mini, and the opening of the pre-order the iPhone 4 , to a reception at home June 24, official launch date.

A Mac Mini finer, more expensive

Gone are the white plastic shell, aluminum up to this new version of the Mac Mini, which displays lowered dimensions: 19.7 x 19.7 x 3.6 cm, weighing 1.37 Kg standard configuration. The latter is composed always defaults to an Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz with 2 GB of RAM format SO-DIMM and a 320 GB hard drive and a SuperDrive optical drive slot-in type. The graphic is in turn secured by a GeForce 320M chip using 256MB shared memory. What guarantee, according to Apple, 3D performance than twice those of the previous Mac Mini.

The connector moving in the right direction with the inclusion of an HDMI can handle the audio connectors alongside Displayport Mini and Firewire 800 and four USB 2.0 ports and SD card slot. Network side, there is a controller WiFi 802.11n, Bluetooth 2.1 and Gigabit Ethernet.

Comes with an HDMI to DVI Mac OS X Snow Leopard and the iLife suite, the Mac Mini sees its rates start at 799 euros. For 1149 euros, you can opt for a version with Snow Leopard Server as well as two 500GB hard drives, one of which replaces the optical drive.

iPhone 4 pre-order

At the same time, Apple has opened the pre-order associated with its latest phone, the iPhone 4, which currently can only be booked in the black version. We discover the rates charged for the bare version, désimlockée, terminal: EUR 629 for the 16GB version and 739 Euros Caution 32GB model, as stated Apple "iPhone purchased at the Apple Online Store contains no SIM card ". If you decide to buy your iPhone 4 through this online store, so you need to obtain a micro SIM from your operator.

Phone Windows 7: Microsoft would finance the ports of iPhone applications

So Windows 7 Phone is still expected by the end of this year, Microsoft attempted a coup attempt Poker is expanding its applications for its mobile platform, facing an iPhone so prevalent.

Pocketgamer reported in fact that the Redmond company would be back in touch with developers of applications with a resounding success on the App Store, and they have offered to partially fund the porting of these applications on Windows Phone 7.

But the site states that if the amounts proposed by Microsoft seem important, they do not, however, would be enough to convince developers, because of the difficulties imposed by Microsoft in terms of development: the platform leaves the choice between Silverlight and the XNA Framework (C #), which requires a rewriting of the code consistent, usually in C + + to the base. The source of Pocketgamer raised the possibility of relaxing its restrictions on the part of Microsoft, but the company has not communicated to that effect yet.

RIM BlackBerry browser speeds with patents

RIM would come to file several patents on methods of navigation of its smartphones BlackBerry OS. These patents would prioritize the elements of web page loading. It is foreseen that the BlackBerry loads and displays the main content of a web page before loading the CSS files and Javascript.

RIM thus improve the navigation of its smartphones, while professionals - and the general public, especially with templates and Storm Curve - using more and more everyday web on the move. The problem is familiar to users, who have seen the page load blocked last kilobyte, preventing it from being displayed. RIM could thus enable its users to view the main text of the page without the style or the dynamic effects, the latter being contained in CSS or JavaScript files often heavier than the HTML page.

This news could be a first step towards browser based on Webkit expected in the year, and should in any case not to harm the image of the BlackBerry, including navigation remains a weak point.

The specifications of OpenCL 1.1 are released

Eighteen months after the posting of version 1.0 , the Krhonos Group released Monday OpenCL specification 1.1, the first major update of this tool dedicated to the operation of the computing power of graphics cards for general calculations.

OpenCL 1.1 introduces a series of improvements designed to give more flexibility to the programs and improve the compatibility with the OpenGL pipeline. Also on the program, but not limited to: a new adapter C + +, better load distribution among different computing clusters available in the map, a new system caching, and integration into standard some features that were proposed as an option in 1.0.

The great strength of this new version, said Khronos Group, has in particular because of its perfect backward compatibility, so a program written with OpenCL 1.0 operate smoothly once updated. Until manufacturers provide graphics and fitness OpenCL 1.1 by means of new drivers, we can see the rich technical documentation posted online by the leaders of this open source project here (PDF, 3.34 MB).