Thursday, August 11, 2011

Ice Cream Sandwich Android 4.0 is scheduled for October

The makers of smartphones would try to move the output terminals of the first Ice Cream Sandwich for the month of October to enjoy the holiday season to boost their sales and to overshadow the iPhone 5. The BGR site would have this information to a source close to the development of the operating system.

This date seems logical then that Android needs to strike hard at the end of the year. Ice Cream Sandwich is an important step for Google, while the firm is at a pivotal time in the history of their favorite operating system. Gingerbread (Android 2.3) is officially available since December 2010 and the source code was published shortly after his inauguration.

RIM Announces New BlackBerry Smartphone with BlackBerry OS 7

The "Blackberry 9850 Torch" has, in contrast to the "Torch 9860" do not have the support of shared European GSM wireless standard. It will therefore not be available on the European market. The Blackberry 9860 Torch serve you - not typical RIM - only about 3.7 (9.4 centimeters wide, high-resolution (800x480 pixels) touch-screen operation for the liquid provides a 1.2 GHz speed with 768 megabytes of RAM in the device itself..

Intel invests $ 300 million in Ultrabook

Intel Capital, the investment arm of the founder, announced the creation of an investment fund dedicated to Ultrabook. With its $ 300 million, this fund will go to the capital of companies' developing hardware and software technologies to improve the way people interact with Ultrabooks, to make possible a full day of battery operation, to allow physical designs and innovative storage capacity increased.

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Might and Magic - Heroes 6: The heroes are late

The "Heroes of Might and Magic" series has a long tradition: In 1995, she debuted on the PC. Since then, she is one of the constants in the games with fantasy content. Part 5, the most recent offshoot, was released in May 2006. This was followed by two extensions, but no word on how it goes. On the Gamescom 2010 Ubisoft finally gives information about the successor award.

The game is a prequel called: The story begins 500 years before the events of the fifth offshoot. A general of the Archangel involved Greifenherz Dynasty in a war, underestimated his sinister plan to wrest control of Ashan in itself, but the strength of the heroes. The developers promise the Black Hole typical blend of strategy and role-playing elements.

An 82 " touch screen: will you have enough fingers?

Perceptive Pixel, a company that helped popularize the capacitive touch screens, has just launched the largest marketing capacitive touch screen in the world, it measures 82 "diagonal or 208 cm. On a slab of this size it is easy to to collaborate more persons and, fortunately, the 82 "LCD Multi-Touch Display Perceptive Pixel is able to detect any number of fingers.

His only error of taste is ultimately to its definition: 1920 x 1080 pixels. On a slab of this size, given the distance of use, the pixels are very large (0.95 mm). In return, the capacitive technology is so precise that we can touch one pixel at a time.

Sony KDL-46EX715

The Sony KDL-46EX715 are pictures in motion again (1920x1080 pixels) and has a 117 centimeter (46 inch) screen. Note this: The greater this focusing screen, the greater the distance between seats should also be about the device. For the backlight provide built on the edge (edge-LED). Thanks to this technology you save over the traditional fluorescent lamps (CCFL) is not only electricity but also space - thanks to the LEDs, the manufacturer can make the TV very thin.

SATA Express 16-Gbps SATA

The SATA-IO (Serial ATA International Organization, the body responsible for developing various standards SATA) is currently working on a new SATA, SATA called Express. The future standard is expected to achieve speeds of about 8 Gbps to 16 Gbps, while the current rises to SATA 6 Gbps. To reach such speeds, the standard SATA Express should follow the structure of the software but rely on the SATA PCI-Express 3.0.