The RTM version of Windows available from 8 April 2012?

So we now know that Windows 8 will be commercially available in fall 2012 , the RTM (Release to manufacturing) to builders and developers could be available in April. Microsoft may also release a beta version in September 2011.

The schedule for Microsoft Windows are 8 states: after confirming that the new operating system would be made ​​available to the public in autumn 2012, a source close to the Redmond company told ZDNet that the RTM would in April 2012. Remember, the RTM versions are intended for vendors and developers and whether this is the finished product, it is primarily not for sale. Nevertheless, there is no doubt that some will unveil the latest secrets of the OS to end users ... The x86 and ARM / SoC (system single-chip) would be in the game.

Meanwhile, a beta version should be released, possibly as early as September 2011 still according to the source of ZDNET. Microsoft could use the conference to be held Build in September to make it available. It could also be the one and only beta of Windows 8, knowing that a release candidate for its part may arrive in early 2012. In short, the new Microsoft OS could do much about him in the coming months, after several versions Milestone on the Web at large, who have fueled the buzz for some of its new features.

Microsoft points to the company policy in Firefox

Decisions around the Mozilla's Firefox browser version 4.0 does not appear to have been digested by everyone, the opportunity to highlight Microsoft Internet Explorer.

Last week we learned that two months after its release, Firefox 4 was already considered obsolete by the Mozilla Foundation. Asa Dotzler, to coordinate the community, in fact reported on the official thread of developers, "there have been updates for Firefox 4.0.x and there will be perhaps more if a fault critical security needs to be addressed urgently. " He said this would be a fix and not provided "the security update planned for Firefox 4 Firefox is 5".

Faced with such remarks John Walicki, head of technology in the office of director of communications at IBM, published a commentary on the ticket of a consultant specialist in Firefox. He estimated then that the decision to Mozilla is the effect of a "punch in the belly." Daniel Glazman, formerly responsible for developing Mozilla Composer, NVU software founder and member of the W3C CSS Working Group, shares the same opinions, criticizing the new round of development of Firefox. Asa Dotzler Mozilla countered that records every day 2 million downloads from regular users, while the share of companies deploying Firefox is "a drop, a fraction of a fraction of 1% of our user base ". He added: "The business world has never been one of our businesses."

Taking advantage of this debate Ari Bixhorn, Director of Internet Explorer at Microsoft, said the commitments from the publisher vis-à-vis business. In an open letter to John Walicki, he admits to being interested in a migration from IE to Firefox from IBM. He said while the company has always been and always will be an important business market for Microsoft. He also wishes to clarify that the support provided to the browser is consistent with the operating system. In this case, IE9 will be supported until January 2020.

HTC Evo 3D smartphone

The U.S. operator Sprint had actually announced the exclusive marketing before qu'HTC announces that it would remain forever not reserved, as are some handsets sold by operators in the U.S..

The "Evo 3D" has an auto-stereoscopic display QHD (960 x 540 pixels) 4.3 inch, restoring the illusion of relief without glasses, and a pair of sensors and light lens (f / 2.2), taking pictures at 5 megapixels in 2D and 3D and 2D film in 1080p or 720p in 3D. This competition and the Optimus 3D LG .

It also offers access to "HTC Watch," a video-on-demand (VOD) offering including home movies in 3D.

It houses a reminder to double-SoC heart Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM8660 clocked at 1.2 GHz, 1 GB of RAM, 4GB of internal memory, 3G connectivity, Wi-Fi N, Bluetooth and GPS. The set runs on Android 2.3 Gingerbread with "brand new version of the HTC environment Sense."

The "HTC Evo 3D" will be marketed in France and Europe from July. Its price is not yet known but should be communicated to us in the coming days, we'll be sure not to update the news on time.

VoIP: Skype on the iPad

Last week the developers had spotted traces of the VoIP software Skype within WebOS system. It seems that other integration work are also underway including the IOS of the iPad. Indeed, some users were able to observe a video posted on YouTube with the application on the tablet from Apple.

This clip was released directly from the Skype team on his official channel before being removed. The next application provides an optimized management of the contact list and, like Yahoo Messenger, offers support for video chat and full screen mode. The text chat module is embedded as an opportunity to make a call to a landline or mobile.

The video in question has been captured by a user but has no sound:

Nokia updates its instant messaging application

Given the convergence of communication tools, Nokia unveiled a new application called Nokia and IM for that is positioned opposite to the BlackBerry Messenger, or more recently unveiled WhatsApp, IMessage.

Like the applications of RIM and Apple, this new tool to communicate with users having also installed on the smartphone. IM for Nokia, however, allow communication to other IM networks including those of Google Talk, Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo Messenger and MySpace IM.

Available through the kiosk downloads Ovi Store, the successor of Nokia Messenging will then pre-installed on all telephones of the next mark. After identifying himself with its Ovi account, the mobinaute must configure its various identifiers on other protocols. The basic features have been implemented, namely, the ability to add an avatar, options available and a widget easy access from the home screen.

Among compatible smartphones, the Finnish manufacturer Nokia says X6, Nokia 5230, Nokia N8 Nokia E7 and Symbian S40 phones.

Google will do R & D in renewable energy

Larry Page, Google co-founder and CEO, has unveiled a plan to invest in research and development (R & D) in renewable energy. Its goal is economic: to produce electricity from renewable sources that are less expensive than from fossil fuels.

This is not the first time that Google invests in renewable energy. The giant has already bought plants solar, geothermal, wind farms or is installing photovoltaic panels on many of its buildings. But it is a little different today, since Google wants to develop its own technology to produce renewable electricity. It intends to capitalize on its patent portfolio relating to clean energy and the R & D establishment should make a marketable solution, efficient and inexpensive.

"We spend most of our time on research and advertising," said Larry Page. "But for people outside the company, which is more interesting is what the latest crazy thing that Google has done." He explains the paradox of his business, and difficulties to invest in renewable energy . If this project RE (lower sign) C (Renewable Energy less than coal or renewable energy cheaper than coal) particularly interested in Google and its engineers, shareholders do not always follow.

Larry Page appears perspective, however, the draft ROE (as a) C has a major challenge: to make renewable energy cheaper than coal in recent years. Five persons were assigned to the project. "Their orders are clear: You're not designing laboratory experiments, you will design useful systems that must deliver effective results in the real world price."

Diamond D10: 3.0 external hard drives at Silicon Power LEDs

Silicon Power brand has unveiled two new portable external hard drives USB 3.0 displaying capacities from 500 GB to 1 TB Design flashy rigor.

Diamond D10 line made in the light, displaying two colors plaid pink and blue sky that does not go unnoticed. Declined in capacities of 500, 640, 750 GB and 1 TB, these discs include a USB 3.0 backward compatible with USB 2.0 and a power saving mode.

With a size of 124.8 x 75.8 x 13.6 mm for 155 grams (124.8 x 75.8 x 16.6 mm and 205 grams for the 1 TB version) Diamond D10 will come with a holster transportation, a 3 year warranty and will download the software suite SP Widget on the website of the brand. Only unknown size: the availability date range, and different prices, that Silicon Power should contact shortly.

WP7: Microsoft looks to Android developers

Always with a view to further expand its catalog of applications for users of Windows 7 Phone, Microsoft is turning to developers of Android.

Having facilitated the porting of applications iOS last month, the team says Windows phone in one of his last notes have worked on tools that allow developers to more easily deploy their applications on Windows Phone 7.

In addition to a quick start guide of 90 pages, the Redmond company has made available documentation back to each class of development on Android, their equivalent on Windows Phone 7. "We must consider the mapping tool APIs such as a translation dictionary," says Jean-Christophe Cemetery, an expert on interoperability at Microsoft.

BlackBerry Playbook

Research In Motion finally announces today the forthcoming launch of the international "BlackBerry playbook, which was hitherto only available in North America, following the announcement of the HP TouchPad but especially two days after announcing the location of its operating system .

Announcing the launch of a draft of his tablet in sixteen additional countries, RIM is in contrast to say the least evasive about their date of actual sale and merely indicates that she will be available "over the next 30 days ", without specifying the price.

In Europe, the "BlackBerry playbook" should land no later than July 10, 2011 in Germany, Spain, France, Italy, Netherlands and the United Kingdom.

Models of 16 GB, 32 GB and 64 GB should be sold respectively 500, 600 and 700 euros, or about ten euros more expensive than the standard meter of area, the Apple iPad 2 from July 11 2011.

Nokia: Windows is more flexible Android Phone

At a conference held in London, Mr. Elop admitted that Apple had set the bar by setting high expectations of consumers vis-à-vis their smartphones. He insists, however, the appearance of the closed system IOS. "It's Apple that has created Android, or at least they have germinated the conditions necessary to create Android," said Nokia CEO, adding that Google has carefully taken care not to implement a similar system to deploy a competitive strategy against Apple.

"There are always gray areas on Google's open source strategy, and we do not know the nature of them," Elop said, adding that most of the Android source code is proprietary. "If you count the number of lines of code to Android, you have probably a different view of its open source nature," he says. According to him, so Google would be able to dictate the uses of the system. The site specializes Mobiledia reports that the director had made similar comments earlier this month to justify the choice of Windows Phone. He then explained that Google's platform does not give him the freedom to differentiate themselves from the competition.

Nokia accuses manufacturers to focus their efforts on Android Phone at the expense of Windows 7 and do not hide that the company focus on its own platform from Microsoft.

Acer Aspire Ethos: PC multimedia touchpad remote convertible

Acer has recently announced the launch in France, alongside that of new TimelineX intended for portable use, its new "Aspire Ethos" intended for their use in multimedia and sedentary. They launched a particularly innovative touchpad.

New "Acer Aspire 5951G Ethos" and "8951G" benefit naturally turn to the adoption of Sandy Bridge to benefit from a comprehensive upgrade.

Dedicated to multimedia

They inaugurate therefore to start a removable pad, turning into remote wireless when they are used as media player, especially connected to a TV via their HDMI 1.4. The device then illuminates to reveal tactile keys.

The "Ethos 8951G" assures yet this role independently through its large screen Full HD 18.4-inch diagonal (48 cm) and its sound equipment including a loudspeaker Acer Tuba CineBass dedicated to serious. The "Ethos 5951G" sticks about him to poor definition WXGA (1366 x 768 pixels), relatively coarse for the diagonal of 15.6 inches (39.5 cm), and a pair of speakers stereo.

The screen on both computers is anyway covered with a glass Corning Gorilla Glass, the shell uses an alloy of aluminum and magnesium and the keyboard is backlit.

A data sheet on page

The "Ethos 5951G-2414G64Mn" also houses a dual-CPU Intel Core i5 heart-2410M supported by 4 GB of DDR3 RAM, a dedicated GPU Nvidia GeForce 540M GT equipped with 1GB of memory, a 640GB hard drive and a DVD burner. It is now sold 1000 euros in this configuration.

The "8951G-2414G1TMn" is distinguished by a Core i7 Quad-2630QM heart and storage based on two hard drives of 500 GB each. It is then sold 1100 euros.

More powerful processors are optional, as a graphics chip Nvidia GeForce GT 555 m, hard drives of 640 GB or 750 and a combination of SSD and HDD, a reader / writer Blu-ray.

The new "Ethos" finally boarded an 8-cell battery giving them a modest autonomy of 3.5 hours for a heavy weight of respectively 3.3 and 3.9 kg. It is removable, like on the new TimelineX, but she claims in exchange efficiency maintained at 80% after 1000 cycles of load.

Facebook activates the default recognition of faces: how to disable it?

Confidentially, Facebook has changed a few days ago the privacy settings of social network users to activate the default facial recognition in photos. You said confidentiality?

The face recognition feature is available since last year in the U.S.: When a user sends a photo to Facebook, the service compares to other clichés Tagged, and if it recognizes a person, it suggests the visitor to identify him. One method that has recently been deployed in other countries.

The publisher Sophos was the first, put his finger on the fact that the arrival of this feature in other countries has led to a change privacy settings accounts, leading to activation of the default facial recognition for all users. "There are billions of photos on Facebook, and when your friends are going to upload new photos, the site will attempt to determine if some of them like you. And if so, it will suggest to your friends to tagg with your name. " Of course, the end user's hand remains on the possibility or not to put a name on a photograph, but the fact that the social network may automatically offers to push its members to move more easily to act within the framework a manual process, perhaps at the expense of privacy, especially since Facebook still does not offer the opportunity to approve or not a tag before going online.

Users wishing to disable this function can do so by going to Account Settings , in the "What others share" and then in the "Tip of friends photos where I appear." Then just disable the option, which is actually enabled by default.

Google closed its secondary search engines

Google has decided to clean up by closing several of its search engines secondary facilitating specific queries on certain topics.

Launched several years ago, the specialized search engines Google's targeted special needs and addresses were available on type google.com / linux, google.com / microsoft, google.com / mac, google.com / bsd, google .com / about or google.com / unclesam.

And Google filtered search results to return only the contents of interest to Internet users using this type of engine. Google.com / linux it was possible to find some information by browsing the forum posts or user communities. The blog dedicated Search Engine Roundtable reports the comments of a spokesman for Google said: "The quality of research has made ​​considerable progress and through our analysis we concluded that in most cases it is possible find this specialized content through the traditional search engine. "

Samsung bada 1.2 Will Not Be Deployed to WQVGA Devices

The announcement that came via Twitter is an unpleasant surprise for bada WQVGA phones owners who are likely to turn to other mobile solutions such Android, iOS or even Windows Phone 7.

“The bada 1.2 upgrade is not applied to WQVGA devices(Wave 525). Thx.”

While the short tweet does not specify the reasons behind Samsung's decision, it will be interesting to see if bada 2.0 will be deployed to all compatible smartphones or those with WQVGA device will be left out again.

Samsung's bada lineup of devices that support WQVGA resolution include Wave 525, 533, 575, 578 and 723.

Unfortunately, that is a pretty long lineup of phones that won't be upgraded with the latest software available at any moment.

On related news, Samsung delivered bada 1.2 software upgrade for S8500 devices in India, but has yet to release a changelog for the update.

Google Analytics Integrates Search Data from Webmaster Tools

Google is debuting a feature that should make webmasters and SEOs quite happy, integration between Google's Webmaster Tools and Analytics. It's starting with a pilot program before the feature goes live later this month. Users will see a new report set in Google Analytics with data from Webmaster Tools.

"The initial release will be a set of reports in Google Analytics using search data from Google Webmaster Tools. This includes query information, clicks, impressions, clickthrough rate, and average position. You’ll also be able to use Google Analytics advanced data filtering and visualizations with this data," he explained.

"We’ve heard from many of you that an integration between Webmaster Tools and Google Analytics is at the top of your wishlists. So, today we’re happy to announce that we’re starting a limited pilot of just such an integration," Trevor Claiborne from the Google Analytics Team wrote.

For now, if you want to see the new feature in action you have to sign up for the pilot. During this phase, Google will be gathering info and feedback. Google also wants to extend the search data available in Analytics, so it wants early testers to suggest ways the integration could be improved.

The new section is placed in the Traffic Sources category and is labeled Search Engine Optimization. It features the sub-sections Summary, Queries and Landing Pages.

YouTube BoxOffice launched in India

YouTube brings the big screen to the browser with it's new offering for the Bollywood loving audience - YouTube BoxOffice. www.youtube.com/BoxOffice is an ad supported channel on the video sharing website that will screen a blockbuster movie every month.

Yash Raj Film's Band Baaja Baaraat is the opening film on YouTube BoxOffice. The movie can be watched in a number of resolutions up to 1080p HD. With related videos including making of the film, selected and deleted scenes, YouTube BoxOffice brings the DVD experience online.

YouTube's Box Office page also engages viewers with its Movie Trivia, Quizzes and Intel Win An Island contest. Featured movies on this exclusive Box Office channel will come without deleted scenes and it will offer making of the movie and other features as well.
There is already a channel to view movies for free on the YouTube, this initiative has the potential to curb piracy if the big releases are brought to this online channel soon within its launch. However, there are many other factors in India that can mar the experience of long duration online video viewing such as poor broadband services and others.