Xtion PRO Developer: Develop your knowledge with Asus

Asus unveils its first online contest for its new revolutionary device that allow Xtion PRO interact with the PC through your body in motion. In may participate in this contest developers, creatives and programmers around the world eager to create games and applications specifically for this new Asus device.

Body motion using the new Asus Xtion Pro can interact with the PC and includes all the tools necessary for developers to create their own programs. The event provides a first prize of $ 20,000 (14,000 euros) and the inclusion of application or platform game ASUS @ vibe, a second prize of $ 3,000, and a third $ 1,000.

Windows Phone: Adreno 205 and gyroscope

Microsoft has updated the minimum specifications for Windows Phone 7. So far, it was mostly to impose a specific hardware configuration with no other choice chip Snpadragon classic (1 GHz Adreno 200), Microsoft seems a bit open its aircraft. Because Microsoft's policy is flawed: if imposing a hardware configuration allows us to offer appliances that are all effective, it standardizes the park and does not originality.

Google: Revenues and profits up

The giant Google has released its financial results for the first quarter of the year. Reaching 8.58 billion dollars, the group's turnover rose by over 27% year on year (6.77 billion dollars recorded in the first quarter of 2010). Net income reached for his $ 2.30 billion, up 17% from last year. The profit margin was weaker than analysts had hoped, Google saw its general operating expenses rose from 1.84 billion dollars (27% of revenues) in the first quarter of 2010 to $ 2.84 billion (33% income) for the first quarter of 2011.

A GTX 590 to the water at Point of View

The manufacturer Point of View has launched in the market a GeForce GTX 590 overclocked from the factory and with a waterblock, the latter being manufactured by Aqua Computer. Dubbed Beast Edition, the GTX 590 graphics chipsets are two boarding GF110 clocked at 691 MHz and 1024 with CUDA cores running at 1382 MHz.

The reference model used to recall the GPU running at 607 MHz (1215 MHz for the shaders). The 3 GB of GDDR5 memory, interfaced to 2 x 384-bit, turn them on at 927.5 MHz. SLI, the GeForce GTX 590 Beast Edition has two PCI-Express 8-pin and DVI outputs (x3) and HDMI. Displayed on a tariff of 778 euros, this graphics card is currently in pre-order.

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€ 1.7 / GB: Crucial SSDs M4 slashing prices

Overdue and tested by us last Wednesday, the Crucial SSD M4 (aka C400) new generation finally arrived in the French dealers. LDLC and RueduCommerce have referenced today announced availability for April 18. At what price? These rates are very aggressive, well below those of SSD SATA 6 Gb / s competitors (3 Vertex OCZ and Intel 510).

In our last survey of prices of SSD, in fact, the average price of the new generation is much closer to the above 2 € / GB At about 1.7 € / GB, M4 are also flights from the previous generation, while providing superior performance. The 512 GB model, though very expensive in absolute terms, even reached the record price per GB lowest to date, 1.5 € / GB Is clearly crucial to get a place in the sun on the SSD market.

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Apple closes a security hole three weeks after Microsoft

March 15, Comodo, one of the organizations issuing SSL certificates for secure transactions on the internet detected an intrusion on behalf of one of its customers. The author manages to be granted nine licenses for major domain names: google. com, login. yahoo. com, login. live. com, etc.. With these certificates, the attacker could create false websites visually identical to the originals and authenticated them as well and retrieve the IDs of users.

PCMark 7 available May 3

The publisher Futuremark yesterday gave a release date for its new 7 PCMark test suite which we have already had occasion to talk to you. It will be available for download on May 3. The publisher Futuremark yesterday gave a release date for its new 7 PCMark test suite which we have already had occasion to talk to you.

It will be available for download on May 3. As usual, Futuremark will launch in several versions, including a free one. 7 Free PCMark give access to one of the seven tests PCMark 7, but there will be no restriction on the number of executions of the test and everyone can save its results in the base line data from Futuremark.