Sharp screen "3D" for mobile phone

The Japanese Sharp announces the next generation of LCD screen can reproduce a stereoscopic image without the need to wear a pair of glasses adapted. Initially, the technology developed will remain confined to the mobile phone market.

Sharp says he managed to overcome this constraint. Its screen would have a physical layer that can redirect light along two different angles, so as to send two separate images to the man who holds in his hand. The device that the manufacturer does not elaborate further, is called "parallax barrier", referring to the term which refers to variations on the observation of an object on the user's position.

The allusion is not trivial, since the screen does not restore Sharp's 3D terrain and users correctly placed in the center of the slab, if it is placed approximately 30 cm from their eyes. If necessary, they will see a blurred image.

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RIM sold 10.5 million BlackBerry

The Canadian Research in Motion has presented its financial results for its fiscal year ended last February 27. The past twelve months RIM has experienced a 35% growth with revenues of nearly $ 15 billion.

With 41 million subscribers, the user base was up 65% over the previous fiscal year. These last three months 4.9 million new subscribers have been registered.


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Google: towards a simplified update of Android?

The problem today lies in the process of updating. Indeed, the latter must be deployed by the phone manufacturer. Insofar as many of them wish to propose a system customization, deployment is slow user side. So yesterday we learned that Motorola had made available its Android 2.1 Milestone originally marketed with Android 2.0. To recall, the version 2.1 is released mid-January.

The American blog Engadget reported that Google would accelerate this process. This initiative would be carried out by disconnecting the system applications to offer them one by one to download something that is already included with the mapping software Google Maps. Google will also provide updates to the Android system itself directly from the Android Market.

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RIM: BlackBerry sold 10.5 million this quarter

The Canadian Research in Motion has presented its financial results for its fiscal year ended last February 27. The past twelve months RIM has experienced a 35% growth with revenues of nearly $ 15 billion.

With 41 million subscribers, the user base was up 65% over the previous fiscal year. These last three months 4.9 million new subscribers have been registered. And because the Blackberry is selling very well, it was also the most popular smartphone in the U.S. at the end of last year. In one year, the firm has seen a sales growth of 41%. In this fiscal year 37 million terminals that have been sold 10.5 million in Q4 against 10.2 on the previous three months.

Net revenues amounted to RIM $ 2.46 billion, this represents a growth of 29.8% over the previous fiscal cycle. In the last quarter the company posted 710.1 million Canadian dollars against 628.4 million net fiscal quarter of $ 518.3 million and previous dollars a year earlier. For its first quarter 2011, RIM expects revenue of between 4.25 and 4.45 billion dollars.