Caterpillar launches Android smartphones

The Caterpillar brand, specializing in construction equipment, released its Android smartphone which is obviously made of impact resistant and waterproof.

Smartphone Android CAT B10, proposed by the Caterpillar mark, that is known mainly for his shoes from construction to fashion and its robust construction gear, is a terminal that is ultra-resistant.

Indeed, to not fail the reputation of the trade mark, the smartphone meets the IP67 standard conferring resistance to dust and sand and a seal in the water to "survive" immersion up to 1 metre in depth.

Photo credit: The Verge

The hull, to the military look is made of rubber and of "3.2 touch screen is protected by a layer of glass designed by the Asahi company and not by Corning and its Gorilla Glass that team most other mobile terminals.

For the rest, CAT B10 features rather modest with a processor running at 800 Mhz, a 5-megapixel AFN, Qualcomm has a front sensor VGA and the bone mobile Android version 2.3.5 update provided to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.

This smartphone dedicated adventurers or the clumsy is expected for the month of may at the rate of €379.

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Shuttle unveils a new touchscreen all-in-one PC and fanless, the X50V3

The company Shuttle this new model of PC all-in-one touch and silent as devoid of any fan, the X50V3.

Shuttle announces the next arrival of a new model of PC all-in-one touch and fanless, the X50V3.

Equipped with a touchscreen slab "15.6 displaying 1366 x 768 pixels, this all-in-one embarks a D2700 dual-core Atom processor 2.13 Ghz with Hyperthreading and can accommodate up to 4 GB of RAM with its two slots of SoDIMM DDR3-1066 Mhz single channel

The graphic part is managed by the integrated in the 2700 Atom Intel GMA3650 chip and out signal through output VGA or HDMI output. A location is reserved for the integration of a hard disk or an SSD 2.5-inch in SATA.

The chassis, available in white or black, also incorporates a front webcam of 2 megapixel, four USB 2.0 ports, a reader of memory cards 4 in 1, a Gigabit Ethernet network port and connectivity Wifi b/g/n. All 391.3 x 327 x 42 mm, weighs a little less than 3 kg and can be configured with the RAM and storage and more as well as with a pre-installed OS (Windows or Linux Open Suse).

No information about the date of availability or a any tariff has been specified.

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Toshiba Excite 10 the, the exciting Tablet?

Japanese Toshiba released a new ultra thin tablet at the cost of appeal of €425 with a bundle of rather complete connectors.

Just a few days after the announcement of the new iPad, Toshiba counterattack by presenting its next tablet. Named Excite 10, it is therefore show that Toshiba knows how to make shelves that can compete with that of its direct competitor by adding it to the side of another existing model, the Thrive.

Rated specifications, according to the Canadian site of Toshiba, the new Tablet would be finer than its competitor since it measures only 7.6 mm for a weight 535 g content. On the sheet, we can also read that it is animated by a Texas Instruments OMAP 4430 in dual-core slightly overclocked to 1.2 GHz Cortex A9 architecture and PowerVR SGX540 graphics part, all accompanied by 1 GB of RAM. The screen is 10.1-inch IPS, with a definition of 1280 x 800. Behind, a rocking camera is present and recorded in 1080p and a second camera on the front of 2 Mpx for visio for example calls. To complete all, Toshiba has equipped its Tablet chip GPS, gyroscope, Bluetooth 2.1 and WiFi b/g/n of a microSD card reader of a mini USB port and an HDMI outlet in micro format.

                        

First delivered under Android Honeycomb 3.2 and then Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0 assures us, it will be declined in two models. A first version of 16 GB proposed at about €425 and a second version of 32 GB to €475. Two new models that titillate our curiosity by offering a fine ultra product at a competitive price that we look forward to see arrive in France, which should no longer delay.

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Five new screens Acer available!

Ranging from 20 to 27 inches, Acer offers screens LCD high definition 16: 9 with multiple entries.

Acer announces the delivery of five new LCD screens. Let's start with the smallest, 20 inches, under reference S200HL which proposes a definition of 1600 x 900 and standard VGA and DVI inputs. The proposed public tariff will be $ 139.

Then come the two screens in 23 inches, under commercial reference S230HL Abd and S230HL Abii. 16: 9 For these two models, they also have the definition that goes hand in hand, or 1920 x 1080, including Acer prédestines them before for multimedia. Acer S230HL Abd offers two interfaces to standard input, VGA and DVI HDCP standard for it. While S230HL Abii trades the two ports HDMI DVI port, always with the support of the HDCP. The first arrived in store with a label to $ 169 and the second at $ 189.

A third "23 is also part. named S235HL, it offers a VGA input and two others in HDMI. These interfaces will be connect to the level of the foot and thus avoiding the cables that climb along the screen to go with the design. It will be sold to the around $ 219 from next month.

Finally, the model presented by the Taiwanese, is a 27 inch screen under the name S271HL also in 1920 x 1080 and in 16: 9 format. This screen will connect in DVI and HDMI with the supported HDCP and adds more compatibility VESA for wall mounting kits or foot of Office. It will be available that month next to the price of $ 329.

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PCWorld.fr seeks its Noob for the Asus Overclocking Challenge

Come and try your luck to represent PCWorld.fr in the second edition of the Asus Noob Overclocking Challenge!

Saturday March 31, 2012 will take place in the Atrium of the Surcouf Daumesnil store in the 12th arrondissement of Paris the second edition of the Asus Noob Overclocking Challenge.

The concept is simple: four teams and a pro overclock a noobie (a beginner what) compete in a compet' overclocking... Except that the pro is not entitled to receive the configuration, or the keyboard, its role being solely that of the coach! The idea being before all of a day fun around the computer matos between passionate.

If one speaks of this competition, it is because we present a PCWorld.fr team which will be formed by Thomas "Pt1t" Kerrinckx and... one of you! Indeed, to complete our training, we need an amateur overclocker, before all passionate by the computer and faithful equipment PCWorld.fr drive.

This is where you enter in game. If it attempts to participate, it lets you send your personal information (name, first name, age, address, phone, mail) and a small word explaining us why we should you choose you and not to the address: concours@pcworld.fr. By drawing the fate or villainous selection (not tickets send, we're incorruptible), we involved the which trifouillera config' competition which will be made available teams.

For information, Asus will bear our Noob transport which, alongside Pt1t, will have the honor to face teams of our colleagues from PCInpact, Clubic and a stamped Asus ROG team.

The configuration of the competition will be the following:

Motherboard: ASUS Maximus IV Gene-ZProcesseur: INTEL Core i7 2600KCarte graphics: ASUS GeForce GTX560 Ti Direct Cu 2Mémoire: CORSAIR Dominator GT Kit 4x4GBAlimentation: COOLER MASTER Slient Pro Gold 1200 WSSD: CORSAIR Force GT 60 GoVentirad: Hyper 412 S with dual fan 120 mm (Blade Master) n…read COOLERMASTER Tables

It waits for your applications, and do not hesitate to speak of this event around you. Moreover it is crazy, merrier!

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PCWorld.fr week update

4 K, Hadopi, FuelBand, Galaxy, start, denigration, Broadwell... Some of the key words of the week, for a news reviewed and corrected.

Side tests, we have been busy this week by offering in the order of publication of graphics cards AMD Radeon HD 7870 & 7850, enclosure Carbide 300R Corsair, the Ultrabook Folio 13 HP and the mini PC Shuttle SZ68R5... not to mention the tour in a preview card mother Asus Z77. Matos always, news we proposed you a compilation of the Radeon HD 7870 and 7850 once by the manufacturers that will land in stores, presented the new Intel Xeon E5, spoke of the after - after Ivy Bridge with Broadwell processors, announced the arrival of Toshiba drives market 3.5 "hard, and describes the Gigabyte Ultrabooks coupleront processor Ivy Bridge and connector Thunderbolt.

    

The new Radeon and the Folio 13 HP, two tests proposed this week...

Equipment always, but more tech that purely computer news referred future Sony 4 K televisions, but also the future smartphones Galaxy of Samsung, between a Galaxy Pocket in mini format, and a Galaxy S III who finally more than do fantasize fans of smartphones Android top-of-range, which could land in April. The smartphone, we talked with Roccat - equipment manufacturer for players PC - with its Power-Grid concept proposes to transform the touch phone in very advanced gaming Companion. A good concept to discover, who will be accompanied by the arrival of a dock and a special keyboard. For the moment, only the iPhone is concerned, but the application also arrives on Android. Android discussed this week to announce the change of name of the Android Market, the shop of applications becoming Google Play, the giant of the Web decided to consolidate many of its services for the content behind this new name.

Finally a news for hackers who want to provide their Consumer Preview of Windows 8 of a real "Start button", and statements of Free Mobile has more intend to smear campaign that have set up its main competitors against him.

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Nike + FuelBand in TheVerge test
The test of the Thermalright HR - 02 Macho in the Hardware counter
The Silent Pro Hybrid 850W in GinjFo test
The test of the Samsung Series 5 Ultra in Clubic

Red card: the Hadopi and MegaUpload

We have not stood up to distribute a red card this week, and it is the Hadopi making expenses. Not to have engaged the third repressive branch of the graduated response in recent weeks (whatever...), but for his analysis of the benefits to the legal supply of the closure of MegaUpload. Analysis which deals with just a few days and tries to say what it wants in the figures. Thus, according to the Hadopi, suite MegaUpload closed most of Internet users arrested immediately pirating content on the Web, to the drive for legal services of VOD and catch-up TV.

The problem is that the findings of the high authority are based on a study which relativizes well its nuances, the Hadopi not encumbered. The catch up TV would suddenly exploded following the closure of MegaUpload? No, in fact the hearing of these services grew 67% over one year. No analysis is made of the increase in the volume of data passing by P2P networks or spillage of fans of direct download on MegaUpload competing platforms. Result, attempting to have us believe that the closure of MegaUpload swept a setback to handle the bulk of the problem of piracy, but this is hardly the case.

And as we have concluded a paper dedicated to the SVOD, we finish here by reminding that the legal offer is not yet adapted to the expectations of consumers (price too high, limited catalogues, VO too often absent, time available, etc.) and that as long as this is not the case, it will unfortunately not the time of sounding the end of piracy.

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Microsoft Board on the latency of touch screens

In the laboratories of Redmond, engineers have found a way to reduce the response time of touch screens. Currently, our tablets and smartphones are on average to 50 ms. With their new system, latency would then fall to 1 ms, paving the way for new applications as for example drawing.

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