Asus shows a tablet in July

April 26, 2010 – 9:28 pm
Corporation Asus will demonstrate its own Tablet PC EeePad at Computex in June 2010, wrote tehnoblog Gizmodo. The device should go on sale in late July. Configuration EeePad not accurately known, but the tablet will be equipped with a webcam and USB-port. In addition, it will support Adobe Flash technology and is likely to be based on the Nvidia Tegra platform for mobile devices. Estimated cost EeePad range from 475 to 505 dollars. Thus, EeePad is in the same price category as the tablet Apple iPad. In the latter there is no USB-port or web-camera. This did not prevent the corporation within a few days to sell over half a million devices. By year end, Asus expects to sell 300,000 EeePad.

Microsoft won a court from the Chinese about pirated software

April 23, 2010 – 11:00 pm
Microsoft has won a case on the corporate use of unlicensed software in China, writes Computerworld. Microsoft for the first time in its history, managed to extract confessions is a Chinese company for the installation of pirated software. Local Dazhong Insurance Company was fined 2.2 million yuan (320,000 dollars) for installation on corporate computers unlicensed versions of Windows XP and applications of Microsoft Office. Total computers Dazhong found 450 copies of pirated software. The company said that this amount was the largest of all, awards ever Microsoft in China. The representative of Dazhong said that the insurance company plans to appeal the decision of the court, reports Lenta.ru. China ranks first in the world in terms of software piracy. In 2008, according to IDC, the proportion of unlicensed software in the country stood at 80 percent. ...

At first collider got pretty particle

April 23, 2010 – 10:56 pm
physicists working at the Large Hadron Collider, unable to register the first beautiful particle - meson B +. It is stated in a press release on the site of the experiment LHCb. B + gets its name from the fact that consists of a u-quark and b-quark, or antiquark, beautiful, said tape. pv. To register one such particle, which was born as a result of the collision of high energy protons in the accelerator, scientists had analyzed nearly 10 million such collisions. At present, the Large Hadron Collider is gradually gaining momentum . For example, most recently at the accelerator was set a record - the collision energy beams was 3.48 teraelectronvolt. Large Hadron Collider is the world's largest particle accelerators. The length of his ring is 27 kilometers. With the accelerator scientists plan to answer ...

iPad perfectly compatible with Wi-Fi outdoors

April 23, 2010 – 10:42 pm
We have repeatedly reported problems experienced by iPad Tablet PC at work with wireless networks Wi-Fi. Recall some of the first buyers of tablet complained of extremely low level of Wi-Fi signal, or even its complete absence, as well as the low speed download files wirelessly. Moreover, in early April, the existence of such problems itself recognized the company Apple, has a number of recommendations for users. But experts resource PadGadget decided to personally check on the great problems in the interaction iPad with Wi-Fi networks, as they write users. To test were taken three available copies iPad, as well as the MacBook Pro laptop and HP Tablet PC (the latter is a Tablet PC running Windows XP SP3). Incidentally, both the laptop works with Wi-Fi network adapter Broadcom BCM4322AG. experts have tested these devices at work in the frequency ...

Russia received the domain. RF

April 23, 2010 – 10:28 pm
Organization of ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) has delegated the final Russia the Cyrillic domain. Russia, said in a report published on the site Minkomsvyazi. Russia became the first country to receive the right to Cyrillic TLD. April 22 at the board meeting of ICANN, which is responsible for assigning domain names have been approved for the delegation of the new country TLD level. Besides Russia, the domains in the national language operable Egypt, UAE and Saudi Arabia. Solution ICANN will implement procedures for the physical launch (raising) the root domain Technical Center IANA. The representative of the Coordination Center for TLD Julia Ovchinnikova told RIA Novosti that this procedure may take up to two months. In this case the approval of ICANN is the final step in creating domain zone. RF. Note ...

There was a mini-version VKontakte for iPhone

April 23, 2010 – 10:14 pm
Founder and CEO of social network "VKontakte Pavel Durov informed about the new opportunity created for owners of smartphones and mobile phones. As we know, for mobile devices, there lightweight version of the resource, which differs a minimum of graphics and animation, which allows to provide download speeds with a maximum economy of the traffic. It turns out that visitors to a lightweight version of the resource has repeatedly appealed to the administration's request to establish different versions of the site for different models of mobile devices. Paul Durov decided to respond to these requests, and announced that it is now called "opportunity for all developers to create programs for fast work VKontakte on any device, informs 3dnews.ru. To demonstrate the new methods created a mini version VKontakte for the iPhone and other sensory devices - ...

Microsoft calculates profit

April 23, 2010 – 10:00 pm
Microsoft Corporation reported on the results of the third quarter of the fiscal year ended March 31. the software giant's revenues reached a record $14.5 billion is 6% above the result for the third quarter of last fiscal year, when the company received approximately $13.8 billion revenue. «Microsoft notes that the growth largely contributes to the high demand for new software platform for personal computers, Windows 7. Quarterly revenue from sales of operating systems corporation on an annualized basis increased by 28%, while the share of Windows 7 in the world market for the PC platform has already exceeded 10%, according Kompyulenta. Net profit Microsoft jumped immediately to 35% - to $4.01 billion, equivalent to 45 cents in cents a security. A year earlier, the corporation earned $2.98 billion, or 33 cents per share. ...

Nokia reveals its secrets

April 23, 2010 – 9:56 pm
Nokia has reported back on the results of the first quarter of 2010. According to her, during this period was sold 107.8 million phones - this is 33% of the market. This indicator is less than in the fourth quarter of last year, but slightly higher than in the first quarter of last year, that is - a year ago. Of the 21.5 million units - a smartphone. In addition, important information is entered on the new versions of the operating system Symbian. According to Nokia, the first smartphone based on Symbian ^ 3 will go on sale in the third quarter of this year. In turn, expect to see models with Symbian ^ 4 is not worth until 2011, wrote Ferra.ru. After this announcement, the network has spread information about that release devices on the Symbian ^ 3 has ...

HP showed its first 3D-printer

April 23, 2010 – 9:42 pm
Earlier this year, Hewlett-Packard Company entered the market of 3D-printers, industrial concluded a cooperation agreement with the company Stratasys, and in May the markets of France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom will be available the first product of joint work of engineers two companies - printer Designjet 3D, designed for prototyping facilities. In some cases, such a device can significantly reduce production costs. "Millions of 3D-designers using traditional printers are ready to implement their design in 3D, - said Santiago Morire ( Santiago Morera), vice president of HP and general manager of large format printers .- Technology Stratasys Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) is an impeccable foundation for HP, to get into print 3D MCAD and begin to benefit from these untapped opportunities. " To create an object CAD-file is sent to the Designjet 3D, then the printer using ...

In the United States launched its first unmanned orbital flight

April 23, 2010 – 9:28 pm
In the U.S., with AFB on Cape Kanaverell, Florida, April 22 was first launched an unmanned space plane X-37B. The launch took place in drone 19:52 April 22 (2:55 on April 23 Moscow time) with rocket Atlas 5. U.S. Air Force reported that the launch was successful, but did not provide details of the mission vehicle in orbit. As noted Lenta.Ru, X-37B is able to remain in orbit for 270 days. Estimated landing sites - the U.S. Air Force Vandenberg base in California. Flight of X-37B will be offline before entering the atmosphere during landing. A few days earlier, Deputy Assistant Head of Space Programs, U.S. Air Force Gary Payton (Gary Payton), referring to the unit, told reporters that the agency "did not know when he would come back". The U.S. military ...