From 27 inches to play at Philips

The manufacturer Philips has recently announced will launch in Europe of a new model of LCD for gamers: the E-line 273E3LSB. With a slab 27 inches diagonal viewing Full HD resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels, this screen has a backlight LED. The response time reached 1 ms (gray to gray, 3.5 ms "typical"), brightness peaked at 300 cd / m² and contrast ratio is 1200: 1 (20 million: 1 dynamic).

The viewing angles reaches 178 degrees on the other horizontally and 170 degrees vertically. Equipped with VGA and DVI (but presumably not HDMI or DisplayPort) and an adjustable stand tilt (-5 ° / +20 °), the E-line 273E3LSB Eventually, a typical consumption rather low of 19.6 watts. This LCD monitor is available at a recommended retail price of 339 euros.

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A microSD to bring NFC compatibility

Netcom, a Chinese company, has introduced a microSD interesting: in addition to a capacity of 8 GB, she joined the NFC. NFC (Near Field Contact) can send and receive information at a short distance more and more phones integrate this technology, used in particular for electronic payment. The solution still has some drawbacks: it requires that the microSD slot is not behind metal, to avoid interference and the integration of the antenna in the card limits the scope of the technology, already very short in basis.

Corsair announces the expansion of their Professional Series Power Supply

Corsair has announced it is expanding its range of high-power performance with the addition of models and HX1050 Series Professional Series Professional Gold X650. The Professional Series HX1050 provides 1050W of continuous power, and joins her sisters HX1000, HX850, HX750 and HX650 in the Professional Series.

This new source has 80Plus Silver certification, with an efficiency of 88% to 50% load. The Professional Series Gold ZX650 provides 650W of continuous power, and joins the AX750, AX850 and AX1200 in the font family maximum performance Professional Series Gold. Like the rest of her sisters, 80Plus Certified Gold account, providing more than 90% efficiency at 50% load.

Intel Z68: 3 motherboards compared

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IBM Launches SmartCloud dedicated to education

IBM Expands Cloud Public "with dedicated services to the world of education. Last April, IBM joined Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Salesforce. com and Rackspace in the clan of the major suppliers of public clouds. The U.S. giant announced in the cloud services specifically for the world of education and who intended to simplify the creation of private clouds in universities and colleges.

Regarded as an offer essentially "IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service), it has several components SaaS (Software as a Service). The offer is essentially built around two elements: Offer "IBM SmartCloud for Education" is currently intended that the U.S. market. Its extension to Europe, especially France, is not yet considered.

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Kingston HyperX SandForce of SF-2281

Kingston showed a SSD at Computex HyperX shipping the new controller of SandForce SF-2281. It has a read speed of 525 Mb / s. This is the first time that Kingston uses a controller SandForce. The range is the high end market and will be split into version 120 GB and 240 GB are writing speeds of 480 Mb / s according to the statement.

SSDs use Intel NAND etched into 25 nm that provide 5000 cycles of writing - crash. Compatible with SATA 6Gb / s, the new HyperX is guaranteed for three years and will be sold July 11 next United States at a price still unknown. With this new controller, Kingston joined Corsair has already unveiled its SSDs using the same controller (see "From SandForce SF-2281 for Corsair Force 3).

Nintendo LulzSec attacked by the blackmailer?

Nintendo has confirmed to the Wall Street Journal that had been hacked, but no important information has been stolen or compromised. The video game maker says it does not know the identity of the attackers, but the group claimed the attack LulzSec. The Pirates have just published LulzSec configuration file servers Nintendo.

They claim however that it is mainly because they like the Nintendo 64 and they do not want to hurt the firm. They therefore call on to fill the flaw they exploited. The group is becoming more of him. The identity of its members and so far unknown, but they caused a stir by hacking PBS.