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Bulldozer, Radeon HD, 28 nm, Free Mobile, 4 G, Elysée, fiber optic, eBook... Some of the keywords of the week for a news reviewed and corrected.

This is a falsely calm week ends on the computer news. Step really groundbreaking announcements, and especially the rumours, but full info still. Side first processors, it is rumored that AMD will take advantage of the holiday of the year to launch a new Bulldozer (FX-6200), two new débloqués APU (A8-3870K and A6-3670K), while at Intel, we learn that the Ivy Bridge quad-core to 35W TDP will exist in 2012. This should make happy the enthusiast to ultrabooks, new range of laptops that will invest Samsung with its 5 Series, and is required as the new challenge of providers of chassis and - unexpected - webcams.

But the news was especially warm around the new Radeon HD 7900 of AMD. These engraved at 28 nm GPU arrive and feed the rumor via many leaks. We were therefore able to take advantage of the slides by those who do not respect the NDA to evoke the characteristics of the 7970, new top-of-range reference of the manufacturer. A card which the output will be accompanied by that of new pilot Catalyst, finally giving the possibility to manage profiles. In the face, what Kepler data, new GPU Nvidia 28 nm, which are compiled.

Alpha Tempest 210 and Cybook Odyssey, the two products passed by our lab this week

In telecoms, it had also been a lot of things this week. The agitator of Free Mobile having his show every day. Xavier Niel once again returned to its competitors, has suggested a deadline of output and talked about missile ready to draw. Furthermore, it learned that Free Mobile is actively implementing its hotline, expecting a big success of its offer as early as its launch, while it is discovered the cost of the endings of appeal that offers him the Arcep. Also, two interesting news on the front of the 4 G, the one to say that the call for applications is launched on the 800 MHz band (four operators have sent their records), the other to discuss the potential problems of fragmentation of the LTE.

Of the network, it spoke also at the Elysee Palace, with an IP address from the Presidential Palace that would have been used to steal content via Peer-to-Peer networks. Not good...  During this time, against Universal complaint is Megaupload which has lobbied to remove certain video platforms the file hosting service MegaSong, in which big names of the song - for some signed in the Major - promote MU. A nice buzz for the hoster.

Finally, it is Orange which has news this week with the misunderstanding surrounding an imposed limitation on its subscribers optical fibre concurring 100 Mbps symmetric flow option. A phrase badly formulated on the website of the operator was suggesting that the line could be cut more than 1 TB of data exchanged. Despite everything, is finally not the case, and only a clamping of the 10 Mbps upload may be applied in the case of very large bandwidth consumption.

Get when artists make the pub of Megaupload, Universal is excited...

Finally, a small word on Microsoft, where some would well be Bill Gates back on the throne, instead of a Steve Ballmer who has less and less the rating among its employees. Note also two tests published by editorial this week, the case of Alpha, Tempest 210, and the map light Bookeen, Cybook Odyssey, just close our eBooks tests this year you can all be found on this page (Amazon Kindle, Cybook Orizon and OPUS, Sony PRS - T1 and Kobo by Fnac). Without forgetting our selection of Android apps to download on the Tablet freshly unpacked in a small week...

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Among our colleagues, we spotted testing keyboard mechanical Roswill in Pure-OC, the headset of game of Corsair revenge 1500 in TweakTown (that we will have soon the opportunity to test ourselves), and the AFN micro 4/3 NX200 of Samsung for Engadget that meets that of the Fujifilm X 10, very good compact expert tried by Clubic.

Red card: the guarantee of hard disks

As each week, we distribute finally a red card. After the policy of renaming of deplorable but repeated GPUS at Nvidia as in AMD, are manufacturers of hard drives in the CWB. And for cause, the latter come to decide to revise downward the length of warranty on most of their products.

If should of course get rate of failures and returns in order to analyse in depth the situation, it regrets, however, that Western Digital as Seagate have intent, effective January 1, 2012, to deprive consumers of precious months of warranty.

Because if it is a material element which is expensive, it is the disk storage. Not necessarily for its market value (what what clusters are worth gold, cf. the shortage), but for the data invaluable that it may contain between family photos, vacation and other valuable documents. More information on changes to security policies.