Developer of the Atom processors is Intel: top manager Anand Chandrasekher takes his hat

Anand Chandrasekher headed for years the field of "Ultra Mobility Group." Under his leadership the group flourished. The main achievements: the "Centrino" chip with built-in Internet connection and mobile processors, the "Atom" series. The latter are used in most used. Since then, boom smartphones and Tablet PCs, but the pressure grew on the manager.

Main problem: The producers of mobile devices provide a power-efficient chips of the ARM competitors the advantage. Still, Intel has initially set at Anand Chandrasekher chosen course: On the Intel announced a smart phone with the new Atom processor "Medfield" on.

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• Intel executive quits as smartphone biz falters (21/03/2011)

Anand Chandrasekher (wikipedia)  

BlackBerry Playbook: April 19 $ 499

The same day Samsung launches Galaxy Tab 10.1 and 8.9, RIM has officially launched its Tablet BlackBerry playbook. The machine has a smaller screen (7 ", 1024 x 768 pixels) is slightly thicker (10 mm) but also lighter (425 g). Raw performance platforms will be close because RIM has chosen a processor Texas Instrument OMAP 4 also based on an ARM Cortex A9 dual core 1 GHz.

The playbook will be available in the U.S. on April 19 at $ 499 (16GB), $ 599 (32GB) and $ 699 (64 GB). All builders aligned the same price equal capacity, the choice will be easy to do depending on the performance of the OS and individual preferences.

• BlackBerry PlayBook will be available on April 19 (22/03/2011)
• BlackBerry PlayBook Coming April 19th, Pre-Order Now (PRESS RELEASE) (22/03/2011)
• BlackBerry PlayBook Available for Pre-Order Today for $499 (22/03/2011)
• BlackBerry PlayBook to hit North America in April (22/03/2011)
• RIM's BlackBerry PlayBook prepped for April 19 launch (22/03/2011)

BlackBerry PlayBook (wikipedia)  

New Series Laptop: Dell Vostro 3000 Business Laptops

The Vostro line will start with four devices with screen sizes 13 to 17 Brisk pace of work provide the Intel processors "Core i3", "i5 Core and Core i7" second-generation ("Sandy Bridge"). Selected models ensure a battery of up to twelve hours. Modern interfaces (such as 3.0, Bluetooth 3.0) are on board.

Video telephony and VoIP as well as many places to work everyday. Therefore, the speech enhancement software "SRS Premium Voice Pro pre-installed on the devices, the Vostro 3000 series. It provides, according to the manufacturer for a much better speech understanding, especially in applications such as.

NVIDIA GeForce prepares the launch of the next with a teaser

NVIDIA has made a video ad that anticipates the launch of the next model of the GeForce graphics card as for now we can not reveal the name and characteristics. The launch is expected on Thursday 24 to 14 hours Italian and we promise we'll be on time for a full review. Tom Petersen, who appears in the teaser has the novelty saying only that it is the next generation of NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards with high performance.

AMD Radeon HD 6990: new graphics card is the world's fastest AMD

AMD has announced the launch of the fastest graphics card in the world, the AMD Radeon HD 6990, with a single graphics card has managed to break the 3DMark11 world record with a score of P11865. Designed to Power Gamers, the AMD Radeon HD 6990 architecture includes AMD's second generation of Microsoft DirectX 11, advanced image processing and intelligent technology to enable AMD PowerTune higher speeds and increasing experience in games and other features.

The iPad 2 is cheaper in France

A few weeks ago, Apple had increased the price of its tablet taking account of the tax on private copying. With iPad 2, this tax is included in the price of the device and - good news - the price is lower than before. IPad 16 GB worth € 499 at launch, he went briefly to € 508.56 and iPad February 16 GB will be offered at a price of 489 €.

The 32GB version is increased from € 599 to € 610.96 and is now fixed at 591 €. For the 64 GB model, the three values are € 699 at launch, then € 713.35 € and 693 for version 2. 3G Handsets versions cons increase by a little: from 599 € and € 610.96 at launch, one passes to 609 € for the 16-GB 32 GB version goes for 711 € and the 64 GB to 813 €.

Suit in U.S. court: Apple vs. Amazon: Dispute over name "App Store"

Apple makes in any application made according to U.S. media reports claim the trademark on the name App Store claims to a software download platform. The move came time for the start of the Amazon service, for 22 March is provided. There should be programs for the Google operating system "Android", initially only for users in the U.S.

Apple has its App Store with applications for devices with the IOS operating system such as iPhones and iPads since 2008 and has applied for trademark rights. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office granted it already, but rival Microsoft complains about it. Amazon calls his platform "apps store", written as one word.