Sony ends the PSPGo

Sony has announced that it had ceased production of PSPGo. Those wishing to buy one will have to rely on stocks in shops and the latest models that have not yet been delivered to dealers. The PSP, which was demarcated by the absence of a UMD slot, debuted in 2009. It simply does not have the desired success.

The lack of UMD slot and no viable alternative and its high price ended up being right of the public who turned to the PSP-3000 or other platforms. This decision is the result of a renewal of the catalog of the firm who works on the NGP (see "PSP 2" NGP "announced"), the PSP generation whose output has been postponed (see "Shelf Playstation and NGP delayed; Sony goes to confession), but that will probably be appearing at E3 in June.

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The revolution will have to wait streaming

A study shows that the NDP Blu-ray and DVD media are choices for consumers who prefer to streaming media such widely. The study is limited to the United States, but appears to reflect a trend that is found everywhere. 78% of the money spent by households for watching movies at home is going to buy Blu-ray or DVD and only 15% is allocated to streaming.

Contrary to what the signs gave the impression a few years ago (see "Samsung and Netflix: the end of Blu-ray?"), The revolution will take time streaming and disks still have a bright future ahead of them. Although it is still largely dominated by DVD, Blu-ray is still relevant for several reasons.

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.

A GT 520 TurboCache Gigabyte

Formalized recently by NVIDIA, GeForce GT 520 has already appeared in the catalog of Gigabyte. The manufacturer has launched two versions of this graphics card: a "classic" (GV-N520OC-1GI), and a model TurboCache (GV-N520TC-1GI). Featuring a slightly overclocked graphics chipset GF119 (830 MHz) and has 48 stream processors running at 1660 MHz, these two cards use DDR3 memory clocked at 900 MHz on a 64-bit bus.

AOC is 30 million screens in 2012

In 2010, the manufacturer AOC has passed 16 million LCD screens, a performance rather honorable. But for AOC is far from satisfactory. The manufacturer hopes to sell 24 million because of displays this year and not less than 30 million in 2012. Installed on Asian and African markets, and to a lesser extent in Europe, even AOC hopes to lead the overall market for LCD monitors by 2013.

Historically focused on the LCD display market entry level, the manufacturer has already begun to diversify its activities by offering models - still relatively affordable - equipped with MVA or IPS panels, but also by launching its first touch pad . The competitors had better take ...

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iPad and Japan are on the lips of Apple

Apple announced its financial results for its second fiscal quarter ended March 26 and took the opportunity to explain the long-term impact that should have the Japanese earthquake last month. Again, the company beat its own record with a turnover of 24.67 billion dollars (approx. 17 billion) and earnings of $ 5.99 billion (about 4 billion euros), +83% and +28% respectively over the same period last year.

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This computer will be in the car: Reading the test graphics cards to 600 € but it buys model at 100 €, good enough to play on a screen of 22 ". In this highly competitive niche, the market was upset recently by the successive outputs of Ti 550 GeForce and Radeon HD 6790. So now, what's the best graphics card for midrange? response in our test.

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