Neufbox supports also AirPlay

Yesterday, we indicate that the Freebox was now compatible AirPlay, the wireless technology from Apple. But this is not the only one of FAIBox: the Neufbox is also compatible. SFR had the good sense to provide the code for the GPL Neufbox V4 but also - and this is an advantage - the ability to change the firmware of the case.

And a port of ShairPort (obviously that was also used Free) exists for the Neufbox V4. In addition to the firmware compatible, it is also a USB sound card (the Neufbox has no audio capability), a device that costs less than $ 5 on eBay. Note that - a priori as in Free - the technology uses a private key from an AirPort Express and it is therefore possible that Apple is blocking devices that use ShairPort in the future.

Freebox Revolution bridge mode available this summer

Good news for the Freebox Revolution, the bridge mode will finally be available this summer, almost seven months after the release of the housing. Whereas the launch - the Freebox V5 proposed by - the bridge mode was (and is) absent from the Freebox Revolution, a lack that should fix Free this summer.

Remember, without a device in bridge mode to disable the routing functions of the latter, to use another router more effective or more comprehensive. This is especially important in companies, who prefer to use their own routing system, and certain individuals who use access points Wi-Fi external.

The icloud Apple should be paying and announced Monday

To mark the opening of the WWDC (Worldwide Developers Conference) this Monday, June 6 in San Francisco, Steve Jobs is expected to launch not only iOS 5 and Mac OS X Lion but also his musical cloud called icloud The new service ... " Apple in the cloud "has a musical vocation. The idea is to provide an online storage space and a "player" with HTML 5 which the user can not only read their music from any computer or mobile device, but can also organize your tracks and create their selections .

How could restrain SFR's competitors Neufbox

Interesting point in the battle for the connected TV, SFR (and other ...) might "encourage" the TV connected and therefore de facto limited competition. Currently, ISPs are increasing their ARPU (average revenue per subscriber) with - particularly - the VoD and TV offerings. In the future, with major deals on the web (Google and Google TV, Apple and Apple TV) and TV manufacturers (Sony, LG, Samsung, etc..), This windfall could disappear, what worries operators .

Virgin will have its "Neufbox" ADSL

Virgin, the fourth French operator, will become a broadband operator. As in mobile telephony, the company Omea Telecom (which markets the offerings from Virgin Mobile) will not deploy its network, but will become a virtual operator. For now, Virgin Mobile uses the network of Orange, but ADSL will be the SFR network is used.

In 2012, Virgin should launch regular "Quadruple Play" with a "Vrigin Box", based - as Prixtel - Neufbox on SFR. Hopefully something other than Virgin shoed change the color of the Box (Prixtel simply changes the color of the V4) and that bids will be competitive, as often with the operator.

Free fares increases "alicien" of ... 4 cents

Iliad, which recently changed its TOS, takes into account people who are still on offer "Alice" and who have not yet passed on offers Free. Indeed, people who still use a non-unbundled offers in conjunction with AliceBox see the price change. € 29.95 for monthly passes to ... € 29.99, or 4 cents more.

Free recall that subscribers in the same case, that is to say with Freebox grouped in an area, pay for their € 35.98 per month. Another small change for fans of Vanessa Hessler, offers "historical" to make calls to mobile phones lost. The offer of 8.95 € per month for 1 hour and one to 15,95 € per month for 2 hours are replaced by a single solution (interesting): 4 hours for 10 € per month.

Cloud: Citrix preaches his vision of "personal cloud"

During his lecture in San Francisco Citrix Synergy, Citrix has developed its vision of "Cloud People" in which users have access to their data, their contacts and applications from any device. Today, "work" and "privacy" intersect at all times of day, anywhere. It "works" at home and consult their professional emails on smartphones personal.

And it is not unusual to consult his or her Facebook Personal IM from his office. Similarly smartphones and other tablets purchased individually introduced into the walls of the enterprise. That is what is called "consumerization of IT." She led companies to offer more flexibility to their employees to work anywhere from any device.

Record: 26 Tb / s over 50 km

Researchers KIT (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Technology in Karlsruhe, Germany) recently announced having reached a speed of 26 terabits per second over a distance of 50 km using single laser beam, beating the record the world in this field. This DVD is 700 transferred in a second, or 400 million simultaneous phone calls.

Ironically, the difficulty lies in the encoding and decoding of information rather than transmitting the same data. No electronic device is indeed able to present to absorb this amount of data, and the researchers have developed a purely optical to "split" the data stream into smaller packets that will be processed and decoded them electrically.

Intel invests in cloud

Through his investment company "Intel Capital, the chipmaker has invested nearly $ 25 million in startups specializing in the Cloud, mobility and Smart TV ... Intel Capital is an investment company wholly owned the manufacturer of processors but operate independently. Nevertheless, the company invests only in areas that have strategic interest for Intel.

If the value of Intel's mobile revolution is well known, we particularly note that the 24.5 million invested in four start-ups yesterday are mainly in companies operating in the "Cloud" and social networks. The four companies and supported by Intel have very different profiles: If we find a common point of all these investments is likely to "Smart TV" that he must turn.

Tom's Guide: alternative browsers for iPhone

Our colleagues and neighbors at Tom's Hardware just upload a folder devoted to alternative browsers for iPhone. Opera Mini Browser to Flash via Sphere or SkyFire, discover a dozen sailors who will be happy to replace Safari on the Apple smartphone ...

• Unlocked iPhone 4 Pricing Details (24/05/2011)
• Is This The Upcoming iPhone Back Part? (24/05/2011)
• 'Invisible' touchscreen prototype tested with iPhone (24/05/2011)
• Leaked photo claims to be the first shot of the back plate for the iPhone 5 (24/05/2011)
• Verizon will get next iPhone at the same time as AT&T (20/05/2011)

iPhone (homepage)  IPhone (wikinvest)  iPhone (crunchbase)  IPhone (wikipedia)  

The Cloud can also save lives

Funny adventure for this browser does his amateur hello to its smartphone and location-based services for BING. Like most major services in the cloud ", location services online like Bing Maps and Google Maps are part of everyday life and profoundly affect our use of mobility. They account for a large share in the success of smartphones (most mobile applications are in fact simply the aggregation of services in the cloud).

A Chinese rebels against the censorship of his country

A Chinese Intenaute entered Wuhan University, one of the most prestigious Chinese schools, to launch his shoes and an egg on Binxing Fang, the father of the great firewall that restricts the sites that are officially visiting surfers in this part of the world. Associated Press has confirmed that police had been called to the scene of the incident and an investigation was opened.

There is currently no video of the act on the Web, but a surfer by the name of Hanunyi on Twitter claims the attack. According to a translation of his tweets offered by AP, "the egg has missed the target (Fang Binxing, NLDR). The first shoe hit the target. The second shoe was caught by a man and a woman.

LTE flashed to 28.8 Mbps

AT & T has demonstrated its facilities and LTE offers real rates of 28.87 Mb / s download and 10.4 Mb / s upload. These figures fall when the network is overloaded, but they are much higher levels than those from Verizon, the other U.S. operator, which has stagnated at 12 Mb / s and 5 Mb / s. This allows especially to French readers have a glimpse of what this technology reserves.

LTE (Long Term Evolution) provides data rates much higher than the 3G which then runs to more than 3.5 Mb / s download and 1.2 Mbps in upload. The demonstration operated MIMO technology, according to GigaOm, who was present during testing. Multiple antennas receives and sends signals to increase bandwidth.

4G licenses will cost over 2.5 billion euros

In an interview with Le Figaro, Eric Besson, Minister of Industry and the Digital Economy, a detailed timetable for licensing of 4G phones. He also gave the reserve price set by the government: 2.5 billion euros in total. The first stage of the licensing 4G will be the official call for applications for the auction, to be published in the first days of June.

"Nominations will take place in September. Frequencies in the 2.6GHz band will be awarded in October, those of the 800 MHz band in November. December 1, operators will own the spectrum obtained. In total the government wants to recover more than $ 2.5 billion auction: $ 1.8 billion for the 800 MHz and 700 million for the 2.6 GHz.

100 Gbps between Australia and Singapore

Leighton Contractors has signed an agreement with Alcatel-Lucent to deploy a submarine cable of 4800 kilometers long linking Perth, Australia to Singapore at a rate of 16 Tb / s. Work should start in 2012 after the cable design and a vote on the road to take. The link should be operational by 2013. According to Peter McGrath, a director at Leighton Telecommunications, the cable will offer better latency than Telstra's infrastructure that has multiple links connecting Australia to the rest of Asia.

A fiber that carries 100 Tbit / s

A Japanese team has created a fiber to 7 cores capable of delivering 15.6 Tbit / s per core. In the end we are left with a total of 109 Tbit / s. Another group from NEC combined the data sent by 370 lasers. These two studies are independent of each other, but reach the same goal, to move more than 100 Tbit / s using an optical fiber.

The first method is the simpler of the two on paper. Arriving to combine cores and eliminating the interference, we get a cable that is expensive to produce for the moment, but beyond what we have seen so far. Scientists at NEC have cons by a more complex approach. They say they were first allocated a piece of the infrared spectrum to each of the 370 data stream to combine into one laser capable of carrying 101.7 Tbit / s.

GameTree TV: the game on demand on Freebox

Free has announced that the Freebox Revolution (V6) was now compatible with the gaming platform to demand GameTree TV. The solution requires an Intel TransGaming, as the Atom of the Freebox Revolution, and offers casual games for rent. We find such hits as "Seed vs. Zombies," "Bejeweled 2", "World of Goo", etc..

The principle is simple: the games - often addictive - are downloaded directly onto the hard disk of the device and it is possible to rent the game - on a daily or weekly - or even buy it. For now, there are 25 games available on the Freestore, but new games should come out every week. As shown, Free tries to make his mark in video games, although it must take into account one thing: the market is still quite limited for the company.

World of Warcraft switches to IPv6

About a month ago, we announced a patch for the popular game World of Warcraft providing support for IPv6 - IPv4 and more - was being prepared. This is now done. The publisher Blizzard Entertainment has thus revealing that the patch 4.1 adds two new network options, especially with the possibility to optimize the network for speed (the packets are sent more frequently, which results in an increase in bandwidth used), and especially the activation of the support for IPv6.

Back on the digital divide French

The Strategic Analysis Centre has released its report on the digital divide in France and provides some recommendations to help the less connected to join the digital world. According to the report there are three major gaps that require "a strong and sustained political action and broad information campaigns." The first is generational with only 16.9% of those over age 75 with a home computer and 15% of them being connected to the Internet.

Internet cable to 1.5 Gbit / s

Virgin Media, the UK provider, announced it has launched the first tests of cable Internet access to 1.5 Gbit / s download and 150 Mbit / s upload. That would be the cable connections the fastest in the world according to him. Cisco has conducted similar tests on U.S. data rates of 1 Gbit / s. English tests will first be limited to four companies in the Silicon Roundabout London's famous for the presence of many leading companies on their Internet activities.