Tuesday, June 22, 2010

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.