Archive for ‘April, 2011’

Attachmate Completes Novell acquisition

Attachmate Completes Novell acquisition

Attachmate announces that it has completed the acquisition of Novell. The purchase price was $ 6.10 per share or $ 2.2 billion. Novell is now a subsidiary of Attachmate Group. His stock is starting today (U.S. time) is no longer listed on Nasdaq. Novell had previously handled the direct sale of the majority of its [...]

Smartphone and Tablet boom brought ARM 35 percent profit increase

Smartphone and Tablet boom brought ARM 35 percent profit increase

ARM in the first quarter of 2011 generated a profit before taxes of 50.8 million British pounds (57.2 million euros). Compared with the previous quarter to put the surplus by 35 percent. The company increased its sales by 29 percent to 185.5 million British pounds (208.8 million euros). The number of deliveries from January to [...]

Robiton Ecocharger charges batteries and disposable batteries

Robiton Ecocharger charges batteries and disposable batteries

new charger Robiton Ecocharger allows you to recover not only charge a nickel-metal hydride (Ni-MH) and nickel-cadmium (Ni-Cd) batteries, but also disposable alkaline (LR) batteries. It allows you to use all batteries and accumulators charges carefully, ensuring a long service life. device fully automatic and has only one switch to charge alkaline batteries or rechargeable [...]

Barnes & Noble accuses Microsoft of patent misuse laws

Barnes & Noble accuses Microsoft of patent misuse laws

Microsoft’s action is directed against, among others the e-Reader Nook Color (Image: Barnes & Noble). Barnes & Noble has accused Microsoft of abusing the patent rights to competitors of its mobile operating system, Windows Mobile 7 “excessive to demand royalties. ” Otherwise, they faced lengthy and costly patent litigation. The allegations raised Barnes & Noble [...]

Fujitsu’s profit for 2010 will shrink by 41 percent

Fujitsu’s profit for 2010 will shrink by 41 percent

Fujitsu for the year ended 31 March 2011 ended fiscal year 2010, a loss of 41 percent announced. The net profit shrank by 93 billion yen (767 million euros) to 55 billion yen (454 million €). As reasons for the poor result, the company introduced the earthquake in Japan, which had also damaged the Fujitsu [...]

Gartner: 2010 operating system market is growing by 7.8 percent

Gartner: 2010 operating system market is growing by 7.8 percent

The worldwide market for operating systems, Gartner has reached a volume of 2010 $ 30.4 billion (20.4 billion euros). Industry turnover rose year-on-year by 7.8 percent. With a market share of 78.6 percent (up 0.7 points), Microsoft claimed its leadership position. The server and client segment achieved Linux or Mac OS X, the largest growth [...]

Deposit options Radeon HD 6770 and Radeon HD 6750 from Sapphire

Deposit options Radeon HD 6770 and Radeon HD 6750 from Sapphire

Following in the footsteps of his “our colleagues” in the face XFX, Sapphire Technology Limited Company presented to the consumer’s own version of the graphics cards AMD Radeon HD 6770 and AMD Radeon HD 6750 for retail sale. Recall that to this day the products were only available for OEM-channels and are renamed AMD Radeon [...]

Vice President of Apple sells shares for $ 13.7 million

Vice President of Apple sells shares for $ 13.7 million

Bob Mansfield (Image: Apple) Apple’s vice president for the Macintosh hardware engineering Bob Mansfield has this week sold 99 percent of its shares. This earned him nearly 13.7 million one dollar. One with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filed Form According to Mansfield now holds 501 shares. Fortune, however, reported that he is entitled [...]

Apple reportedly bought for $ 4.5 million domain icloud.com

Apple reportedly bought for $ 4.5 million domain icloud.com

Apple has bought the domain icloud.com allegedly the former owner – the Swedish software company Xcerion. According to GigaOm, the price is $ 4.5 million. There is no acknowledgment. What is certain is that Xcerion started work this month icloud renamed CloudMe and secured the domain cloudme.com. Currently linked to this domain also icloud.com. GigaOm [...]

Novint XIO – game manipulator in the form of “hands” of the exoskeleton

Novint XIO – game manipulator in the form of “hands” of the exoskeleton

Think Kinect for Xbox 360 – beyond the reach of the technological top game controller? Perhaps now it is, but the company Novint working on a device that can change all that. It is called the XIO and a robotic “hand” similar to the futuristic part of the exoskeleton. device worn on the arm and [...]

Netherlands: Safety camera tuning with data from TomTom

Netherlands: Safety camera tuning with data from TomTom

The Dutch police have apparently TomTom user data used to catch traffic offenders with deliberately drawn up speed traps. The reports the Dutch newspaper Algemeen Dagblad. “A user will probably not know that he informed the police,” a spokesman of the Dutch ANWB Transport Association told the newspaper. “That should not happen in secret.” In [...]

Details about the new Qualcomm Snapdragon processor

Details about the new Qualcomm Snapdragon processor

became known a few details about what specifications will be updated series of mobile processors Qualcomm Snapdragon. The company makes a bold statement that the new processors will be more powerful chips ARM Cortex-A9, which are currently used in many mobile devices, including the iPad 2 and Motorola XOOM, as well as efficient Cortex-A15, whose [...]

Acer introduced in May with an ultrathin notebook panel Shuriken from LG

Acer introduced in May with an ultrathin notebook panel Shuriken from LG

Taiwanese company Acer, as according to sources from among producers of LCD panels is going to present a 14.1-inch notebook with an ultra-thin screen LG Display Shuriken. It is noted that the production deals with Compal Electronics, and output devices on the market will take place in May. While the laptop will be equipped with [...]

Stiftung Warentest: Two smart phones failed in the rain

Stiftung Warentest: Two smart phones failed in the rain

The Stiftung Warentest has presented a new Smartphone-test. In the May issue of the magazine can be read that the Samsung Omnia 7 and the Blackberry Bold 9780 a part of it – have not survived – the rain test. Less surprising would be for experienced users, that only two of the thirteen devices as [...]

Kleptomania in a note – hotels are equipped with RFID-chips, towels

Kleptomania in a note – hotels are equipped with RFID-chips, towels

at the hotel and stop all kinds of people. In appearance you will not say which of them kleptomaniac, but quite often the case that along with a check for the services of former guest carries with it everything that is not screwed to the table and coat racks in the bathroom. Guide few hotels [...]