A WiMAX router for mobility

For the few people who have access to the Internet in WiMAX, I - O DATA offers an interesting solution with WMX-GWMR. Indeed, this small device is a WiMAX router able to redistribute the signal Wi - Fi standard 802. 11 g. It's interesting for people who are smart phones, tablets, or simply of the Notebooks are not compatible WiMAX: the apparatus will be the bridge between the WiMAX and Wi - Fi, as 3 G routers that become more and more popular.

The compact router 96 x 68 x 17 mm for 99 grams and can reach 40 Mbps in WiAMX in the 2.5 GHz band. He worked in 802.11 g Wi - Fi (54 Mbps) and comes with a dock. Its internal battery offers to 6 hours approximately and part Wi - Fi supports the WPA2.

For the price, it remains high: 21,000 yen, roughly €170, but mobility at a cost...

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Google offers Motorola Mobility and its patents

By purchasing Motorola Mobility 12.5 billion (approximately EUR 8.6 billion), Google is the largest acquisition in its history.

By buying Motorola Mobility 12.5 billion (approximately EUR 8.6 billion), Google is the largest acquisition in its history. As confirmed by Larry Page on the official Google blog, it is Motorola commitment towards mobile devices shipping Android who created this match between the 2 companies. He also confirmed that the two companies will operate separately and thatAndroid will remain an open system. A message to manufacturers such as Samsung or LG that integrate Android in the Smartphone.

But with this acquisition which has surprised everyone, Google appropriates especially over 20,000 patents. An asset which, without Google from the trial, should enable it to better protect the development of Android. Indeed Apple has recently announced its intention to sue Motorola for banning the Xoom whose design would be too close to that of the iPad.

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Google buys Motorola Mobility!

Google announced the acquisition of Motorola Mobility for the modest sum of $ 12.5 billion. Redemption...

Google, five letters Planet Internet knows by heart, and a number very important Internet users use every day, sometimes even without knowledge. Indeed, it is not certain that all users of Android smartphones are aware that this small green robot behind is the ogre Google. Over the years, the most popular search engines has become a giant who little by little is intruded are in areas beyond its original jurisdiction: governed advertising, mapping, satellite images, Google Street View, e-mail with Gmail, Android OS for phones, tablets and laptops light, social network with Google +, GWT (Google Web Toolkit) for the development of pages web 2. 0…

This earlier this week, Google goes even further with Motorola Mobility purchaser for the modest sum of $ 12.5 billion. For recall, Motorola Mobility is the result of the split in the Motorola, one of the oldest brands of mobile telephony. With the decline accelerated from its positions on the market, the pattern of the group all relied on Android, with the key a certain commercial success. It is probably what explains the interest that has to be Google.

This is significant because it is the first Google entry into the world of hardware with for obvious goal to strengthen its position in the very promising sector of the smartphones, where Google team already more than 40% of the models with its Android system. To be specific, note that Google already had a phone of its logo, the Nexus, but it was a phone HTC rebadgé.

By purchasing the manufacturer of mobile phones Motorola Mobility, Google also acquires a portfolio of 17,000 patents, along with other 7.500 pending. This will allow Google to better protect its Android operating system against its competitors, whose fiercest are Apple and Microsoft. Remains to be seen what will Google attitude marks having popularized Android as HTC and Samsung. The California becomes a serious rival to these trademarks of day to the next. The future will also tell us if the phones and tablets Motorola will be sporting the Google logo or will continue to be sold under the Motorola brand.

In Google, it welcomes well obviously this redemption: "the acquisition of Motorola Mobility, a dedicated partner of Android, will allow Google to boost the Android ecosystem and will intensify competition in mobile computing." Larry Page took the opportunity to highlight the competition: "this acquisition will also allow Google to better protect Android against anti-competitive threats of Microsoft, Apple and other companies". The CEO of Google has is also wanted reassuring by saying that "Android would remain available to all manufacturers of phones, Android is still open."

Financially speaking, Google offers $ 40 per share, or a higher value of 63% on the Friday closing price. Of course, doubtful the stock market mechanisms were flying the title Motorola 56.31% 38,25 dollars on the New York Stock Exchange. At the same time, the action of Google assigned 2.38% to complete to 550,35 dollars.
Remains to be seen now how Google will use this acquisition the first effects should be that in the year 2012, the time that competition authorities approve this redemption!

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Nostalgeek 2001 (6) : Mobility Radeon, Bluetooth, MRAM

This summer, we offer you the return of a topic, Nostalgeek. And we decided to dwell on a specific year: 2001. Distant and close both the year 2001 is interesting to analyze, to show developments in the high-tech in 10 years. Every day, during the holidays, we will offer you a retrospective of a week of 2001, with the news of the day and a small analysis on what there is in 2011.

In February 2001, what happens?

In 2001, if the "dual core" are still as sweet dreams in the general public, it is possible to work with two processors. And AMD will propose a solution of this type with the 760MP chipset, which allows two Athlon Socket A parallel. And in the world of memory, IBM shows its MRAM prototypes, a memory intended to replace the DRAM and flash.

In 2011, the "bi - CPU" public platforms are rare, current processors for more SMP without server versions, but processors were in the vast majority of cases at least two cores. In the world of memory, the MRAM is a sweet dream and flash and DRAM are always very used. The next Holy Grail, this is the PRAM, which combines... benefits of DRAM and flash.

In the small world of the GPU, GeForce 2 MX 64 MB announcements are multiplying and the first rumours on the NV20 spread: NVIDIA should call the GeForce 3 map. In laptops, ATi finally enters the dance of the "GPU" with a Radeon Mobility. The map consumes little (0.5 W in some cases) but misunderstands the T & L engine. The maximum memory is 16 MB and DirectX 7 is part.

In 2011, entry-level cards were sometimes 2 GB of RAM and the information on the next NVIDIA chip, Kepler, multiply. It is (simplifying) the fifteenth generation of GeForce. In cards GPU mobile, Radeon 6970M, the current top of range, can handle 2 GB of RAM and is compatible with DirectX 11.

In mobility, the first Bluetooth cards arrive: format Compact Flash, they are worth about €250. In laptops, IBM announced that the Thinkpad will be delivered with Linux preinstalled (TurboLinux) because there is a demand. But Windows Me will remain in part on the side of the system open source. Finally, Plextor Announces the decision of its line of SCSI CD drives and CD burners.

In 2011, the Bluetooth is standard in lots of machines and chips are worth only a few dollars. For laptops, some try to still offer of Linux as the operating system (there is a demand) but it is still (too) rare. If Linux is not imposed in 10 years in the public computer, it is still widely used in many areas, smartphones for example. Finally, in the small world of optical drives, the SCSI is, like the PATA. And if the SATA is omnipresent, the future of the same optical drives is dark: they are less and less used.

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