Toshiba renews its HDD 2,5 " with 15.000 tr/min

.The Japanese giant Toshiba has unveiled a new 2.5-inch hard drives with 15 000 r / min.

Toshiba has announced a new generation of hard drives for enterprises. The MK01GRRB / R is a solution in 2.5 inches. It features a Serial Attached SCSI to 6 Gb / s and incorporates 32 MB of cache. The plates display the HDD speeds of 15,000 rpm. Toshiba's new baby will come in two capacities: 147 GB and 300 GB These discs measure 69.85 x 100.45 x 15 mm and they weigh 225 g.

Consumption was 4.3 or 4.5 watts in idle, and 8.7 watts in load as they emit 33 dB. The Japanese manufacturer will also offer versions including hardware-based encryption of data. The MK01GRRB / R feature a MTBF of 16 million hours and are guaranteed for five years. Mass production of these HDD is expected in the first quarter of 2012. It is not known yet how these new cost

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Mini external discs USB 3.0 at Freecom

The German manufacturer Freecom has unveiled its new compact external hard drives, which feature a SuperSpeed ??USB interface.

Freecom was the first to offer two years ago now an external storage solution in SuperSpeed ??USB. The German manufacturer is now presenting its Mobile Drive XXS 3.0. The solutions of this new family of hard drives are always drawn by the Belgian designer Sylvain Willenz. Their rubber shell measuring 109 x 79 x 13 mm and weighs 155 g, making it as the smallest Freecom 2.5-inch HDD in the world.

Found inside a hard disk of 500 GB or 1 TB, capable of reaching speeds of 130 sequential Mb / s. They are formatted in FAT32, and are therefore compatible with PC and Mac. Their USB 3.0 cable is included, and it serves as well as data feed. Freecom's Mobile Drive XXS covers 3.0 of a two-year warranty. These solutions are offered to retail prices respectively € 79 and € 129.

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Blackberry: after the breakdown, the breakdown!

Une seconde panne mondiale a touché les possesseurs de BlackBerry dans la foulée de la première. La grogne monte...

Hier, nous vous informions d'une panne à l'échelle mondiale (sur la zone EMEA) pour les services BlackBerry. Quelques heures plus tard, le canadien RIM annonçait que tout était revenu dans l'ordre. Ouf ! Sauf que que le calme n'aura été que de courte durée, puisqu'une nouvelle panne s'est manifestée hier après-midi, touchant l'Europe, le Moyen-Orient, l'Afrique, mais aussi cette fois-ci le Brésil, l'Inde, le Chili et l'Argentine. Certains utilisateurs américains ayant également rencontré des problèmes.

Même symptômes : e-mails inaccessibles, Web non fonctionnel et BlackBerry Messenger hors-service. Dur à encaisser pour les clients professionnels, qui font justement confiance à BlackBerry pour la qualité de son infrastructure.

RIM a expliqué que le fautif, responsable de ces pannes, est un commutateur de coeur du réseau. Et si un commutateur de secours existe bel et bien, la redirection du trafic ne s'est pas faite comme prévue a indiqué RIM dans une dépêche de l'AFP. Du coup, les données ont créé des embouteillages sur le réseau, jusqu'à le faire tomber. RIM en profitait pour rassurer les utilisateurs en expliquant que ses ingénieurs sont sur le coup pour désengorger le système et le faire repartir dans les plus brefs délais.

Et s'il ne fait aucun doute que tout rentrera dans l'ordre de manière durable sous peu, c'est de la mauvaise publicité pour les BlackBerry qui ont perdu 7% de parts de marché en un an sur le segment des smartphones. Ce qui n'est pas sans agacer les actionnaires, qui sont de plus en plus nombreux à militer pour un changement de direction, voire même une revente de l'entreprise...

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Motorola announces its Atrix 2

The U.S. manufacturer Motorola announced officially Atrix 2 ...

Motorola has officially announced its Atrix 2, which features a touch screen 4.3 inches with a resolution QHD, or 960 x 540 pixels. We will find the heart of a beast IT OMAP4 (dual-core) at 1 GHz with 1024 MB of RAM.

The Atrix 2 includes 8 GB of flash memory, and it comes with a microSD memory card of 2 GB can be found on the back of this smartphone a 8 megapixel sensor with autofocus, able to shoot in Full HD 1080p and accompanied by an LED flash.

Connectivity based on HSPA modem + (at 21.1 Mb / s), as well as WiFi 802.11n and Bluetooth 3.0. Its battery has a capacity of 1735 mAh and it runs on Google Android 2.3.5 (Gingerbread). Also note the presence of some unusual features such as support for VPN, data encryption, and support for EAS technology. The Atrix 2 as planned will be coupled to Lapdock 100.

United States, the two Atrix will be marketed in the coming days from 99.99 dollars with a two-year contract. Remains to be seen under what conditions the tariff French operators to integrate their catalogs ...

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To launch Android applications under Windows, it is possible!

With Bluestack, emulate a system Android on your Windows PC and enjoy all your favorite applications.

 

The alpha version of the Android emulator is already running perfectly, it comes with ten pre-installed applications (Pulse, Drag Racing, Bubble Buster, Aporkalypse etc.). And its use is childish.

Download the file to the site of Bluestack (122 MB), install it and then a gadget appears on your Windows desktop. Click on the little robot mascot and the list of Android apps appears, choose the one you want to run and, voila!

Applications are getting into full screen smoothly, stable and controls with the mouse no problem. Free for now, a "Pro" version is coming soon pay and will have additional options such as installing apps and unlimited access to premium games and programs.

 

 

    

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Other Motorola reveals its shelf…

The U.S. company Motorola Solutions has announced a tablet to companies ...

The company that we knew even a year ago under the name Motorola was divided into two separate companies beginning in January 2011. There are now a part of Motorola Mobility, which redeem Google account, and the other Motorola Solutions. It is this division (which manufactures telecommunications equipment of any kind) which has just introduced a new tablet. It is dedicated to the business world and therefore has nothing to do with Xoom.

The ET1 - his reference - measuring 130.5 x 25 x 224 mm and weighs 630 g. It features a 7 inch touch screen that displays a resolution of 1024 x 600 pixels and is protected by a Gorilla Glass. Found under the hood a dual-core processor at 1 GHz and 1024 MB of RAM. The storage of the beast is given to 4 GB of flash memory and a microSD card 4 GB This tablet has an 8 megapixel sensor (with LED flash) and a webcam front. This connectivity includes WiFi ET1 802.11n and Bluetooth 2.1.

This solution also benefits from a GPS module, a light sensor, an accelerometer, two microphones and a pair of speakers. She also has two USB ports and an HDMI port. Motorola finally offers an optional bar code reader. This tablet running Google Android 2.3.4 (Gingerbread), and it incorporates a battery of 4620 mAh. The ET1 is guaranteed one year. It should be available from December, with a label less than 1000 dollars.

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Firefox: when Google dependence becomes a problem

Firefox loses market share and thus the interest in search engines, only real sources of revenue for the publisher Mozilla, donations are minority ...

The Mozilla Foundation has released the results of its fiscal year 2010, and they are rising. $ 123.2 million in sales were generated by the publisher of the Firefox browser and Thunderbird mail client, an annual increase of 18%. On the expenditure side, Mozilla has a lot invested as they went from 61.2 million to $ 87.3 million. But it could not last.

The question often repeated the sources of revenue for Mozilla. How Firefox earns there money? Mainly through partnerships with search engines that account for 98% of income received by the foundation. At this level, it is Google that is most important, the money he pays to the Mozilla Foundation to appear as a search engine built into the browser representing 64% of its turnover.

Dependence disturbing, especially since the contract between Mozilla Google is nearing its end, and there is high chance that it be renegotiated downward when it was renewed. And for good reason, in the meantime Google has launched its own browser, Chrome, which has rapidly become an important market for Internet browsers, capitalizing 23.6% market share worldwide to date, threatening and Firefox 26 , 8% (source: StatCounter). At this rate, Chrome could surpass Firefox in the next few months.

The redesign process exits Firefox stick to the frantic pace of Chrome that has slowed his fall, but failed to stop bleeding. Now if Google and other search engines decide to pay less than the Mozilla Foundation, it will have even less means to fight, and could therefore fall into a vicious circle problem.

The Mozilla Foundation remains optimistic, saying that "partnerships with search engines remain a strong revenue generator." Mozilla also has a lot on the mobile sector, with the variation of Firefox. A market of increasingly strategic part of which is fighting Mozilla. Indeed, if the foundation is trying to push Firefox on Android, the mobile browser is not yet available on Windows or iOS Phone.

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