World of Warcraft: always a Metro in advance!

It is say stalled, WoW is still the Rolls of the MMO in terms of playing comfort, and proves it with this new feature: automatic rollback of object.

The principle is simple: If an unfortunate handling made you swing your favorite axe to nettles (recall that play after a night watered, it is wrong), now simply a simple visit to your Battle.net account to repair the error. In fact, it should be noted that this option existed, but that it required to go through the standard procedure for technical support, which could take 2-3 days.

This time, the operation is almost instant, and the lost object is found in your mailbox in under a minute. A system that just add to the long list of tips to simplify life, that it would like to see across so it is practical, and that there is finally as Blizzard. By contrast, BioWare should integrate the transfer of characters between servers on its Star Wars: The Old Republic by the summer. Hum...

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It's always trainset for the optical fiber...

The number of subscribers to the fiber progresses slowly in France, slower than ADSL. The very high speed is still not be generalized.

On the third quarter the FTTH (Fiber to the Home) has attracted in France that new 19,000 subscribers, bringing the total of households connected directly by a strand of fiber to the very high speed to 175.000. In one year, are in total only 72.000 new homes that have chosen this way of connection. And yet, despite a very slow start, the deployment continues to be, with now some 1.35 million connected housing (150,000 strands of fibre from until the additional subscriber).

Problem, deployments are in priority in dense areas, most profitable a priori, but these are areas where ADSL coverage is very good and where the flows obtained on the pair of copper are sufficient for many Triple-Play subscribers. Result, Internet users are not the tail to pass to the fiber as soon as it is available in their commune, that the conditions of accessibility often impose the access provider (only 450,000 households are eligible for at least two offers). That means steps that - even simplified - are too tedious for some, even when it comes to surfing at 100Mbit. Skimp embedded yet, suppliers are processing not to communicate the benefits of very high speed.

On the hungry (Fiber to the Building), essentially proposed by Numericable, the observation is as usual a bit better with 24,000 new customers and a total of 425.000 connected homes. And a total 600,000 families, in France, currently benefiting are therefore of very high speed, against 420 a year ago. Could be expected that with the efforts made in this area, the progression is more marked. Because the continuous high speed him to recruit more, with 270,000 new homes connected for a total of 21.8 million lines, which 98% by ADSL.

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The Sandy Bridge-E always planned for Q4

The launch of the future Core i7 Sandy Bridge-E socket LGA-2011 is always set to the end of the year...

Intel to launch new high platform of range for the general public at the end of the year. In the heart of the latter, will be Sandy Bridge-E processors, which operate the socket LGA-2011. Our colleagues of Donanimhaber come to hand over a new leaf confirming the names of these processors, as well as their time of arrival.

The Core i7-3820 will be the most accessible model, it should be proposed at a rate similar to that of the i7-960 ($294). The Core i7-3930K should be a CPU multiplier coefficients are free. An estimated $ 583 official tariff. Finally, the Core i7-3960X will be the Extreme of this future range declination, and it will be proposed at $ 999. Intel should launch these solutions over the last three months of the year. They should be supplanted in the second quarter of 2012, just after the launch of the first Ivy Bridge processors socket LGA-1155.It should be noted that once more the launch of the Sandy Bridge-E on the fourth appears to confirm, il may motherboards accompanying these processors are amputees of certain features, pending a fuller review. Question is if these two chipsets will be X 79 Express, or if Intel will launch any Z79 Express...

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WD always n ° 1: 54 HDD million sold!

The American manufacturer Western Digital keeps first place flowing 54 million hard drives.

As usual, Western Digital unveils its results in the wake of the announcement of Seagate. The American manufacturer has passed 54 million hard drives for its fourth fiscal quarter 2011 (closed July 1), or 2 million more than Seagate. WD displays a turnover of $ 2.40 billion, compared to the $ 2.25 billion the previous quarter, and the 2.38 billion last year.

The benefits of the company are $ 158 million, a small sequential progression (146 million to Q3 2011) but a large down from Q4 2010, when profits were 265 million. It should however be noted that these figures include an expenditure of $ 35 million following the acquisition of the Japanese giant Hitachi GST division.

Western Digital releases 9.53 billion dollars for all of its fiscal year and profits of $ 726 million (in comparison to 9,85 CA billion and 1.38 billion of benefits of 2010). The manufacturer therefore retains its position as world number one of the hard drives, that he should sit in a little more when its merger with Hitachi will be concluded. Unless Seagate fusion with the Samsung drives division does change the deal in the future?

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WD always n ° 1: 54 HDD million sold!

The American manufacturer Western Digital keeps first place flowing 54 million hard drives.

As usual, Western Digital unveils its results in the wake of the announcement of Seagate. The American manufacturer has passed 54 million hard drives for its fourth fiscal quarter 2011 (closed July 1), or 2 million more than Seagate. WD displays a turnover of $ 2.40 billion, compared to the $ 2.25 billion the previous quarter, and the 2.38 billion last year.

The benefits of the company are $ 158 million, a small sequential progression (146 million to Q3 2011) but a large down from Q4 2010, when profits were 265 million. It should however be noted that these figures include an expenditure of $ 35 million following the acquisition of the Japanese giant Hitachi GST division.

Western Digital releases 9.53 billion dollars for all of its fiscal year and profits of $ 726 million (in comparison to 9,85 CA billion and 1.38 billion of benefits of 2010). The manufacturer therefore retains its position as world number one of the hard drives, that he should sit in a little more when its merger with Hitachi will be concluded. Unless Seagate fusion with the Samsung drives division does change the deal in the future?

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