In the United States Bing iPhone inspired Google Goggles

The search engine Bing endlessly adding new features ... Finally, the U.S. of course, since the French version seems to evolve much less rapidly since its launch in June.

This time the terminal of the Apple development team was retarded . Indeed, it is now possible to use the phone's camera and take pictures of a book or a music CD to get search results. Bing iPhone can also read the barcode.

This novel is reminiscent of Google Goggles, a similar application was initially developed for Android and available soon in the repository of Apple. This time, Microsoft seems to have taken a little ahead of its eternal rival.

ViewSonic: 4 new energy efficient screens

ViewSonic has unveiled its new LCD VG28. Meets Energy Star 5.0 and EPEAT, these monitors are advertised as 30% less energy than current standards, with an ECO mode performance.

Four models make up this new range: the 20-inch VG2028wm , 22 inches (22.5 visible) VG2228wm , 24 inches (23.5 visible) VG2428wm and 27 inches VG2728wm .

Models 22, 24 and 27 inch feature full HD resolution of 1920x1080 pixels, 20-inch version for it to settle for a 1600x900 pixels resolution, and all feature a response time of 5ms. As for contrast, it is 1000: 1 for all models except the 27-inch (1200: 1).

Side connections, all models have two USB 2.0 ports and a VGA port and DVI: The VG2728wm also benefits from two additional USB ports and an HDMI port.

Models VG2028wm and VG2428wm are already marketed in the United States at the respective prices of 249 and 369 dollars, and the other two formats are expected in July to charges $ 299 for the 24-inch and 579 dollars for the 27 inches. No date of scheduled arrival in Europe at the moment but we bet it is a matter of months or weeks.

Microsoft's new action against spam

Microsoft continues its efforts in the fight against spam and announced that it filed a complaint against several individuals using Hotmail accounts to send bulk spam.

In a note published on an official Microsoft blogs, John Scarrow, Head of Safety Services, explains: "In our complaint we explain that the defense has opened millions of Hotmail accounts and hired people to manually identify spam from legitimate mail as ". This method will then translate into biased results in the spam filter for Microsoft SmartScreen.

Microsoft said that its anti-spam technology, that is also found within Microsoft Outlook and Exchange, continues to block this type of spam. This is not the first ticket of its kind published by Microsoft. Tim Cranton, consultant to the company, explained in the month of July 2009 have launched actions against Funmobile MobileFunster and for sending massive spam by messenger. In February Microsoft announced that it had participated in the closed network of zombie PCs Waledac after several months of investigation.

10.54 Opera: an update for Mac and Windows Security

Opera Software has distributed an updated security for its browser to version 10.54. Five holes have been filled for users of Windows and Mac OS X. Opera has not wanted to detail them. The company said that two of these faults were considered "extremely severe". One of them concerns only Windows users and recalls a security update released by Microsoft earlier this month. A hacker could now deploy an attack through the font manager for Windows used by the browser.

For users of Mac OS X, version 10.54 Opera fixes several other dysfunctions are:

- Installing a new version of software cleaner.
- The right-click gesture coupled with a mouse (eg to return to the previous page) activated a popup menu.
- Scrolling a page on a MacBook was three faster than normal!
- Problem with automatic filling and selection at the input method.
- Support for links to third party applications.
- No mouse clicks in a menu.
- Bad display of notifications.
- Sudden closures of the application.

Sony unveils notebooks with AMD

Sony seems to remember that there is no Intel processors in the world. The Japanese firm unveils new VAIO notebooks based on AMD processor Danube.

The first computer is marketed VAIO EE25FX, whose price was fixed at 650 U.S. dollars. 15.6-inch screen (1366 * 768), Athlon X2 II P320 clocked at 2.1GHz, 4GB RAM, 320GB HDD, ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4250 and a Blu-Ray up this machine.

The second, the VAIO EF22FX, will cost $ 720 and will ship the same processor, same amount of RAM and the same graphics card. Its screen passes to 17.3 inch (1600 x 900 display), the hard drive is upgraded to 500GB, and includes as one more DVD burner.

European prices and general availability were not announced.

Internity recycle your laptop and gives you money

The vendor has launched telephony Internity Yourecycle , a service offering to buy used mobile phones in order to recycle them, or repackage them and sold them in emerging countries.

The site of the operation allows to know the surrender value of the phone, as estimated by Internity "best market" for example, for an iPhone 3G 16GB functional, the seller will receive 200 euros for a Nokia N900 , 180 euros for a Sony Ericsson K750 10 euros, ect. Of course price drop drastically if the mobile does not work, since it will not be repackaged for resale, but recycled.

Once the mobile model selected, the seller is then asked to provide a postal address and bank, then send the phone to the address: Internity then agrees to pay the money from the sale on behalf of user in the four days after receiving the phone.

If the older phone models does bring back a few euros to their vendors, the opportunity is still interesting to rid her of her drawers used mobile. Note that the operation Yourecycle is not limited in duration in contrast to that carried out each year by Orange in April , and has a good chance to compete against it.

Innpu: a mobile phone with integrated wired headset

The Chinese manufacturer Innpu just introduced a mobile phone: what if the characteristics of the latter were not disclosed, it is simply because it is a pretext for presenting wired headset connected to it .

Indeed, Innpu will eliminate the phone jack for directly linking the pair of headphones instead. The latter, retractable, to "hide" in the mobile device when not in use.

Introducing the first phone equipped with retractable headphones, the Chinese brand hopes to push users to no longer stick your ear to the phone to make calls, and minimize exposure to radiation emitted by mobiles.

A function that avoids continuously find its true hands-free, but it is still necessary that the sound quality and durability is the appointment ... If the trademark has not indicated the precise date of placing on the market, it indicates that this technology should be "soon available worldwide.

Brightcove Launches SDK for Android

The professional video platform Brightcove has released a software development kit (SDK) for Android smartphones, which incorporates new features of Adobe Flash Player 10.1.

Brightcove, whose will is to place its video platform with suppliers professional web content - with clients like the New York Times, for example - so its accompanying SDK new templates for Adobe Flash Player 10.1. This SDK will enable developers to write native applications for mobile video Android. These tools include components such as pre-written for the reading and the discovery of content and services are added to the Media API Brightcove.

The SDK should in time offer similar services to integrate with Facebook and Twitter with a click in the application. Other planned features: a Coverflow type display and the ability to browse popular content or similar as video viewing.

This is not the first SDK released by Brightcove, which has launched the iPhone in November. The company and clearly shows his willingness to be present on all mobile or fixed, whatever the constraints of reading (especially in terms of codec or language). "We believe Android will be the other major mobile operating system with devices such iPhone, at least for the next few years," justifies the president of Brightcove, Dave Mendels.

New Asus Notebook: GeForce and bamboo for the upscale

Asus does not stop in so good way and enjoy his last press conference dedicated to laptops to renew two other families of laptops and adjust the same time the price positioning.

GeForce for PC multimedia
The Asus third generation N series processors adopt unsurprisingly Arrandale family, or optional power hungry CPU and quad-core Clarksfield family, as well as GeForce GT 325M.

The graphics are not the only ones to honor these new laptops as the N series are in turn the house SonicMaster audio technology, the same one that was designed in collaboration with Bang & Olufsen for the flagship presented earlier. We therefore promises a good quality sound for a laptop.

Available in size 15.6 or 17.3 inches, the Asus N53 or N73 as standard features a dual processor Core i5 heart-450M clocked at 2.40GHz, a graphics chip integrated over the chip GeForce 325M GT associated 1 GB of DDR3, with auto switching through Optimus technology, 4GB of DDR3 RAM and a 640GB hard drive the sake of cost, the basic model of 17 inches is deprived of Blu -ray found on the entire range.

The power-hungry users can opt for a Core i7-720QM, but then they must draw a line much of the autonomy of their computer because this CPU does not include graphics chip, leaving all the work the greedy GPU dedicated.

The Asus N53 is 39 mm thick and weighs 2.7 kg and a price of 1100 euros in standard configuration. The Asus N73 measures the same thickness, but charged 3.41 kg on the scales for a cheap price of 1150 euros. They will be launched in September.

Of bamboo in the ultra-portable Eco
The Bamboo range is also updated to accommodate the platform Arrandale. It differs from other ultra-portable brand by integrating proprietary technology Super Hybrid Engine, which handles sub-clocking components even more that their specifications do not provide, and thus save even more energy, all in one sustainable manner. The bamboo that covers the palm rest and the cover of the screen is actually a plant that repels most easily and quickly in the world.

The Asus Bamboo U33 revolves around a screen WXGA LED backlight 13.3 inches while the Asus Bamboo U53 has the same definition of a screen of 15.6 inches. They contain both a Core i5-450M, an integrated graphics chip and a chip dedicated Nvidia GeForce 310M G equipped with 1GB of dedicated memory and compatible with the technology scale Optimus, 4GB of DDR3 RAM and hard drive 500-GB Model 15.6 "entitled to a DVD including the 13.3-inch guard.

The U33 is 31 mm thick to 1.8 kg and 1070 euros, the U53 33 mm 2.86 kg and 1130 euros. They will be launched in September.