Antec Unveils of new oriented alims "gamer"

Antec renews its power supplies for players, passing in semi-modulaire.

Antec Unveils of new-oriented feeds "gamer", the High Current Gamer Mr. of the semi-modulaires blocks that are launched in three versions, powers of 400W, 520W and 620W. Certified power supplies 80 Plus Bronze, yield can reach 87%.

They are equipped with a fan of 13.5 cm and are obviously protected against the court-circuits, overload and the undervoltage and overvoltage. They are designed around four 12V rails.

Guaranteed 5 years, the High Current Gamer M respectively sold $89,95, $ 99.95 and $ 119.95. What is enough in the view of the services offered for a "gamer" positioning which still sounds very "argument marketing". Beyond this range "M", you know found food Antec High Current Gamer (short and non-semi-modulaire) of 620W from €70 on our comparator award. On the modular alims more of 600W in 80 Plus Bronze, it starts there also around €70.

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307 domain names seized before the SuperBowl

ICE has conducted an operation to arrest a few hours from the SuperBowl for infringement of articles of fans, and illegal streaming sites.

New York Giants vs New England Patriots: this is the game of the year but also the sporting event most follow-up at the United States, the Super Bowl, the NFL final which will be played this weekend. A real show on the ground but also outside, this final is before all a show as only us know to produce, with stars who sing at half-time and as long as short films commercials! Inevitably, this event attracts millions of fans on the canvas, which ride on tons of sites some of which are illegal in the eyes of the law.

Thus, in a few hours of kick-off, federal authorities come to launch a great blow of net typing 307 domain names. Internet sites for some of the accused disseminate without agreement online games on the Web, and who more mostly are seized for trade of objects of sports merchandising counterfeit (jerseys, caps, t-shirt, etc.). A large wave of searches followed, leading to the seizure of a total of $ 4.8 million and the arrest of an individual who administered 9 of 16 illegal streaming sites. This operation named "Fake Sweep" was implemented by the ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) unit.

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BlackBerry London: more information on the renewal of the smartphone in RIM

A Visual of the future top-of-range of Research In Motion, the BlackBerry smartphone London, leak on the net.

It is the site Crackberry.com who disclosed which proves be a Visual of a pitchbook presenting the future BlackBerry London. This scheduled for a release later this year, will be the first smartphone of the mark to the new version of mobile OS from RIM, BlackBerry 10, who must sign the return of the constructor in the race for top-of-range mobile tactile terminals.

Design slice many from that proposed RIM before, place now to a close more "traditional" look of the HTC, Motorola or Samsung to provide large touch screen and very thin shell. The result seems prima facie very promising but design is not everything, the Canadian firm will also offer a mobile OS ergonomic and well thought out and a complete ecosystem to take advantage of all the essential applications and present on other competing platforms.

At the level of the features technical, nothing is still stopped but it is rumored that Research In Motion would choose for a dual-core processor running at 1.5 GHz and would hesitate between a Qualcomm Snapdragon and OMAP 5 of Texas Instrument.

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The return of the Prada Phone in LG

LG and Prada high-fashion brand partner for the third time and propose a smartphone "fashion" exclusively at Orange.

Korean LG proposed for the third time a Prada branded phone, the famous Italian haute-couture House. This new association, therefore, give rise to a luxurious top-of-range smartphone, classy and stylish with its imitation leather back and its entirely covered with black glass front.

         

Its technical characteristics have so far not been neglected and do not have to be ashamed to its competitors, see instead:

Screen 4.3 "(definition of 800 x 480 pixels), technology NOVA more proposing a brightness of 800 nits (600 for an iPhone) processor dual core TI OMAP 4430 running at 1 GHz1 GB of RAMMémoire internal 8 GB expandable card micro-SDCapteur photo of 8 megapixels with flash + sensor front of 1.3 mégapixelsConnectivité WiFi 802. .11n ready, Bluetooth 3.0, Tuner Radio and chip A-GPSBatterie of 1540mAhDimension of 127.5 mm in height on 69 mm wide for 8.8 mm thick and a weight of 138 grammesAndroid 2.3.7 Gingerbread + interface Optimus UI 3.0 stylized black & white (update to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich provided second trimester)

The LG Prada 3.0 is available for purchase since February 1 exclusively on the shop online operator Orange, and then from 6 February and 29 February it will be possible to obtain in the "physical" operator shops.

Rate available is €129 with an Origami package from €59, if 24-month commitment. The price of the bare device should be within a range of 500 to €600.

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Closure of MegaUpload: a lack to make clear to its providers

MegaUpload was a very large client for its hosts, which are immediately penalized by blocking of the accounts of the service can no longer pay them.

Our colleagues from ZDNet sister site themselves are immersed in the indictment of MegaUpload and there have found interesting information about the host service providers which it has heard a lot about these days here. Thus, beyond the figure of 175 million (alleged revenue recorded by the site) that we hear everywhere since the brutal closing of MegaUpload by the FBI, many sought to know how many were in the platform accommodation and its bandwidth (4% according to some estimates global Internet traffic).

According to the indictment, found therefore that MegaUpload activity was also a business thriving for its partners providers. Thus, combining the sums paid by Carpathia Hosting, Cogent and Leaseweb MegaUpload, we arrive at a total of more than 51 million between 2007 and 2011. Cogent has alone received more than 30 million since 2009. The company leased 36 MegaUpload servers to the United States but France also.

Carpathia Hosting received 17.6 million for MegaUpload between March 2007 and July 2011, and provided the equivalent of 25 petabytes of storage space via 1,000 servers based in the United States. Finally, Leaseweb, Dutch company, received $ 9 million in the same period for the rental of 630 servers based in the Netherlands (MegaUpload him in having also purchased 60 end 2011). The same indictment says that between November 2006 and July 2011, the $ 110 million that has accumulated MegaUpload on his PayPal account.

If none of the three cited hosters has wished to confirm these figures, the closure of MegaUpload in any case largely decreased their traffic and, in the case of Cogent, even caused a fall in its share price on the stock market of 20 to 16 dollars the days which followed the closure of the service. It must be said that MegaUpload was 2 to 3% of revenues from the hoster.

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Test: WinRAR, WinZip or 7Zip, which is the King of compression?

Very regularly, whether for professional or private purposes, leads to create and manipulate compressed files. In this field, WinRAR, Winzip and 7Zip are the three most commonly used software and by far the most popular. But which choose if the goal is to compress the best and as quickly as possible? Response in our test!

In our life of surfer, geek or simple PC user, are all us to use more or less frequently with compressed files. There is nothing new and older will remember with nostalgia the games archived on diskette in "ARJ". The goal is always the same: reducing the size of the files or simply sometimes grouped as a single file, a multitude of many small files. This type of tool has during many years been shunned by Microsoft but since Windows XP, it is an integral part of the operating system, basic version nevertheless.

On the market, there are many products can compress and decompress files. Some are free, others are paying or are available in unlimited use as WinRAR shareware version. In preparation for this article, we have sought to enter this comparison software and we must confess that with this offer including many exotic software or which are more updated as WinACE, we have chosen to restrict ourselves to the three lights in the field software: WinRAR, WinZip and finally 7Zip.

After a short presentation of each product, we will go to the heart of the matter, namely practical tests. At this level, we conducted three types of test:

Compression of 3 text files comprising each of the millions of rows and therefore in principle with a propensity to compression. It is what is commonly called flat files that we obtained from a large company and of its information system. They weigh 3.27 GB, mean that they contain significant amount of data.A Blu - Ray disc compression. This choice is representative of a large amount of data to deal with a potential for lower than a text file compression.Compression of many various files including Office, small videos, images, and pdf files, etc.

The configuration used for these tests in compression is as follows:

Card mother Asus Rampage III GeneCore i7 980 X 6 hearts + Hyper-Threading3x2 GB memory A-Data DDR3-1600SSD Crucial C300 disk systèmeSSD Intel 160 GB disk source for the OCZ Vertex EX 128 GB disk compressionsSSD target for the compressionsWindows 7 64 - bit (compression software have been installed in 64-bit version when they are available)

We also used a netbook Samsung NF 310 for certain cuts. It is equipped with a processor Intel Atom N550 dual core + Hyper-Threading and 2 GB of memory. It works under Windows 7 Starter 32-bit.

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Windows 8: Microsoft has listened to your comments on file Explorer

Small return on file of Windows 8, Microsoft Explorer wishing to clarify the amendments and reassure on listening demonstrated to the comments made by users.

While the Consumer Preview of Windows 8 will be available at the end of the month and discover all the features of the new operating system, Microsoft made yesterday a point on file Explorer. As such, it is known that Microsoft will not - use as he yet had successfully for Windows 7 - return of users to correct and improve its system before its release. It is for this that this version is not the name of beta and that Microsoft said "Feature Complete". However, the editor indicates much listening to developers feedback and followed with attention the reactions of users to its different notes published on blog Building Windows 8.

Among these critics, there is one in which Microsoft has already heart answer. It integration of the Ribbon in Windows Explorer, the File Explorer. For many, this new menu is harmful because it produces a loss on the display space, users are likely to appreciate can display a maximum of folders and files in this interface. Thus, having analysed the behaviour of users, Microsoft says that the Ribbon is a valued function which is soon taste in Windows 8. Remains that the editor has finally opted for a reduced display of base, and removed some functions on the ToolTip, which will also appear by pressing the "alt" on the keyboard.

Microsoft would also like to reassure users the new operation of the actions of copy and delete. Confirmation will be less present, and interrupts will be displayed at the end of event. Once the Treaty a copy wholesale, system ask therefore confirmation on files that could be a problem for example, not preventing the majority of the action requested to be carried out. The idea being to avoid blockages in the operation early and therefore possible losses of time. Similarly, a standby system may suspend an operation carried out at the level of the files, which will be taken over the return to activity of the system.

Also, Windows 8 will allow to change type of connection (WiFi / Ethernet) during a transfer of data from the network operation (only if two communicating systems are under Windows 8). Finally, file conflicts will be appear a new more understandable window, for example offering the opportunity to exclude perfectly identical files in one click. And for more ergonomic, it will be possible to pin items from Windows Explorer directly on the screen start. While the images EXIF data indicating their orientation will be supported to display thumbnails in the right direction as shown in this screenshot.

In short, Microsoft communicates all these elements in a single goal, try to show Windows users that he has thought about everything and that the remarks made by Internet users were also heard. A check at the output of Consumer Preview, we strive to shell.

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