Apple polish a "Cloud" Music

The future of digital music through the cloud. After Amazon and Google, Apple would prepare the upcoming release of its own music service in the cloud, "obviously related to iTunes ... According to Greg Sandoval of CNET, Apple has recently signed agreements with EMI and Warner, and is on the verge of do the same in the coming days with Sony and Universal.

The company had a few days ago, signed an agreement with DuPont Fabros Technology to build a second data center in Santa Clara giant (Clafornie). These two elements together support the hypothesis of a forthcoming availability of a music service in the Cloud able to compete with the service launched in March by Amazon and the one announced last week by Google.

MSI announces its new Z68 family of motherboards.

MSI already has in its inventory of their new motherboards with Intel chipset Z68, come equipped with exclusive features such as technology MSI OC Military Genie II and Class II materials. OC Genie II triggered a total capacity in the system. The Genie II OC MSI exclusive can get an impressive performance in a short time and trigger high CPU performance, memory and integrated graphics at the same time.

MSI N580GTX Lightning Xtreme version

The manufacturer MSI has announced the launch of its N580GTX Lightning Xtreme Edition, a GeForce GTX 580 receiving and shipping factory overclocking to 3 GB of memory. Equipped with a floor of 16-phase PWM power, the GTX 580 uses components of the Military Class II ". She also has a cooling system Twin Frozr III consists of a radiator crossed by three heatpipes and two 90 mm PWM fans.

The graphic chip is clocked at 832 MHz (772 MHz cons for the reference model) and the 512 CUDA cores running at 1747 MHz. GDDR5 memory works on it at a frequency of 1050 MHz on a 384-bit bus. Compatible with 3-way SLI, this N580GTX Lightning Xtreme Edition has finally DVI (x2), HDMI and DisplayPort.

Apple wants a SIM card even smaller

In the words of an official of Orange reported by Reuters, Apple has proposed a new standard SIM card even smaller than the micro-SIM. A spokesman for the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) has confirmed the proposal of Cupertino, but no decision has officially been taken. Subsequent events will greatly depend on the operators.

Indeed, the new standard will be proposed to the members of ETSI. If they fall all in agreement, the discussions would only require a few months and the standard will be approved very quickly. In case of discord, the process could take a year or two. Anne Bouverot, head of mobile services at Orange, said the French operator was "happy" to see Apple that this new standard, a sentiment that is shared by its competitors.

Optimize performance and capacity of your DSS

High performance core, SSDs can still see their performance and capacity improved with some software optimizations. But how far?

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• How to Enable TRIM on Your Mac's Solid-State Drive [How To] (19/05/2011)
• OWC's Legacy SSD Tested in Mirrored Drive Door Power Mac G4, Dan Knight, Mac Daniel (18/05/2011)
• SanDisk to buy SSD maker Pliant for $327 million (16/05/2011)
• Review: OCZ Vertex 2 SSD (17/05/2011)

Solid-state drive (wikipedia)  

TDJ: Revoltec K102 Touch

Our fellow Cowcotland just put online a test Revoltec K102, a USB wired keyboard multimedia look pleasant, with an impressive wrist rest and low-profile keys. With dimensions of 450 x 187 x 20 mm (450 x 256 x 20 mm when the wrist is extended), the K102 has over 1 kg on the scale. Verdict?

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An AMOLED folded at will

Researchers in a laboratory from Samsung introduced an AMOLED display can be folded more than 100 000 times without showing signs of wear. These are actually two screens joined by a hinge. The novelty lies in the use of a flexible material to give the illusion of a continuous screen. The results were published earlier this week in the journal Applied Physics Letters.

So far, it was impossible to conceal the hinge. We met up with two screens and is an important edge in the middle, with a slab or flexible, but difficult to fold. To give the illusion of a large folding screen, Samsung has been working on a new hinge. This is a hyperelastic material silicone rubber that covers the entire visible surface.