Not enough Transformer Pad and Asus Eee in trouble

Asus would have trouble producing its Eee Transformer Pad and instead of the 200,000 units planned for the month of April, he could be limited to only 100,000 copies. It reports the China Daily Apple Daily, which also estimates that Asus should solve its problems within two weeks, thus ensuring normal production for the months of May and June.

The problems come from lack of touch screens. Apple has ordered about 60% of global production for its products, leaving its competitors in a difficult situation (see "Apple monopolizes the layers touch"). Asus is not alone, and RIM has also borne the brunt of this policy (see "The Playbook RIM late because Apple").

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New batteries for servers arrive

Sony has announced that it will market the battery using a cathode in lithium iron phosphate (LiFePO4) at the end of the month. The first copies of tests have been sent a year ago (see "A battery of 1.2 kWh by Sony") and the Japanese is now ready to put its product on the market. The firm did not give a price but it is contemplated that a kilowatt-hour will be priced around € 2500.

The batteries are designed for data centers, workstations and mobile homes who want to enjoy an alternative source of electricity in case of power failure. The modules used (photo cons) have a capacity of 1.2 kWh. You can customize the system by combining several of them that can be connected in series or in parallel to increase power or autonomy of the whole.

AMD launched its Radeon HD 6670 and 6570 Turks

AMD officially launched this morning two new graphics cards for entry: the Radeon HD 6670 and HD 6570. They both use a new GPU "Turks" and just renew the 5670 and 5570. As you can see in the table below, the differences between the two generations are quite small, but interesting given the constancy of prices.

The new line passes UVD engine 3 supports decompressing DivX and MPEG2 streams and 3D Blu-ray via HDMI 1.4. :

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Samsung would have copied the iPhone and iPad

Apple has a complaint against Samsung because it believes that the Galaxy product line is a copy of the packaging, design and interface of iPhone and iPad. The complaint was filed before a court in California. In documents submitted to the judge, Apple says that instead of innovating, "Samsung has chosen to copy Apple's technology." To support his argument, he compares, among other things, the iPhone 3G at the Galaxy and S iPad Galaxy Tab photo and description of the similarities in support.

Open Source Software: Oracle is a fee-based version of OpenOffice

The explanation of Oracle. Members of the OpenOffice community they wanted to remain in their work to ensure the success of the OpenOffice programs. Even with the further spread of the OpenOffice file format "odt" will help the company. Faced with a broad user base sees the company coordinating the project, however, be better served by an organization that is composed of a heterogeneous development team.

A housing for warriors in Aerocool

Aerocool manufacturer will soon bring to market a new package for gamers and features a design ... except, that is almost frightening: the X-Warrior. Showing the dimensions of 488 x 187 x 520 mm, the X-Warrior has a steel frame 0.5 mm SECC. It has three bays at 5.25 inches, four locations and a 3.5 inch to 2.5 inch.

Of pass partitions are present on the back, while the conventional USB 2.0 and audio connectors are placed on top of the box. Note also the presence of two 120 mm fans, respectively placed at the front and rear of the X-Warrior. Operating at 1500 revolutions per minute, they are "responsible" for achieving noise 26.67 dB (A).

Wacom announces a stylus for touch pads

On the touch pads, a defect is frequently ascended the lack of stylus. It is generally related to the technology used: capacitive screens placed in front of the stage with the iPhone and now the iPad, are not suited to this type of devices. To simplify, capacitive screens are in the form of a fine grid or passes a small current.

When you spend a finger on the grid in question, the conductivity of the latter changes the charge at a point x and it is therefore possible to determine the position of the finger. The operation involves two things: a minimum contact area (6 mm in general) and the use of a conductive component.