According to a BBC report Microsoft founder Bill Gates was personally involved in the purchase of VoIP provider Skype. With a value of 8.5 billion dollars, it is the largest acquisition in Microsoft’s history. “I’ve made at board level, it strongly, that the transaction is complete,” Bill Gates told the BBC. “I am convinced that [...]

A burglary of a building in east London’s O2 has led to the mobile network of the provider in the UK capital, Kent and East Sussex is down for hours. Around 17.30 clock time all services were again produced, as O2 announced in his blog. It had acted in a “well-organized theft” of the company’s [...]

quite obvious that passes these days (May 15-20) show SID 2011 is a banner with the slogan “small screens with higher resolution.” It is already confirmed giants Samsung and LG, have submitted 10.1”panel high-definition for the tablets. By a holiday enormous concentration of pixels in a confined space have joined E Ink Holdings and Epson, [...]

Toshiba is on display SID 2011 after Samsung, Hitachi and LG has joined the race permits of LCD panels for mobile devices. The manufacturer has demonstrated a number of displays for use in smartphones, including highlights from a 4-inch HD-720 × 1280 (367 dpi). This screen is not only the individual red, green and blue [...]

the Russian market took the announcement of Philips Xenium X519. A simple clamshell with long work is positioned as a stylish solution at an affordable price. device with two screens (the main diagonal is 2.4 “external – 1″), FM-radio, support for second generation networks and memory cards microSD, music player, 3.5mm audio jack, 48 MB [...]

Opera has released version 11:11 his eponymous freeware browser for download. It improves security and stability. New features are not added. According to the update changelog eliminated one classified as critical vulnerability in Opera for Windows, Mac and Linux. What is it called a security warning, there is a problem in the processing of certain [...]

ioSafe company specializes in developing secure storage devices that are waterproof and fireproof. The other day the manufacturer added a line of external hard drives SoloPRO model capacity of 3 terabytes. This volume allows you to store up to 1,500 hours of video DVD-quality, up to 45 thousand hours of digital music or more than [...]

Japanese company Sony has released a new version of the memory card Memory Stick PRO-HG Duo HX, which now supports data rates up to 50 MB / c. The productivity factor of 1.6, they are ahead of the previous generation solutions. In this case the price remains at cards Memory Stick PRO-HG Duo HX old [...]

Samsung SyncMaster T27A750 LED (Photo: Samsung). Samsung monitor his portfolio to a flat 23 – and extended a 27-inch model with an integrated TV tuner. Both also make 3D content for viewing dar. shutter glasses is necessary, which is included. The Syncmaster T23A750 LED is from June for 599 €, 749 € for the T27A750 [...]

creative personality is different from the average person who is not given nor capture the imagination to create things or look into the future. Therefore, the designer Tommaso Gechchelin (Tommaso Gecchelin) clearly showed their affiliation to a class of creative individuals by providing laptop Apple MacBook concept from 2020. Keyboard, mouse, and the traditional “flat” [...]

size comparison between a standard SIM card and a micro-SIM card (Image: Donald Bell, News.com). Apple wants the iPhone and iPad 4 used in micro-SIM cards to further shrink. As Reuters reports, the company has submitted to the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) appropriate plans. This is the development of smaller mobile devices are possible. [...]

Energy-efficient platform Intel ULV (ultra-low voltage) is always different from the classic mobile processors, lower power consumption and, of course, less productivity. For example, the fastest processor ULV series architecture Arrandale – Core i7-680UM. This dual-core model (4 virtual cores in the mode of HT) runs at the nominal frequency of 1.46 GHz, with the [...]

largest telecommunications provider in Japan, the company NTT DoCoMo introduced its new smartphone, the distinguishing feature is the ability to wirelessly charge. New on sale in July or August this year. model AQUOS Phone f SH-13C was shown at a press conference organized by NTT DoCoMo for the announcement of a summer collection of mobile [...]

Howard Stringer (Image: ZDNet) After Sony’s PlayStation Network (PSN) is back online, and its inaugural CEO Howard Stringer on the consequences of the attack expressed. “No one’s network is 100 percent reliable,” Stringer said in an interview with Bloomberg. “This is a hiccup on the way to a networked future.” Compared to the New York [...]

Once upon a time the LEGO building blocks intended solely for the entertainment of children and develop their mental abilities (and for the little ones – and even motor skills), and the projectors were purely analog film. Other times – other rules. The film gave way to the figure, and LEGO building blocks has become [...]