Firefox 14 Android, more swift and consistent HTML 5 and Flash

The Mozilla Foundation released Firefox 14 for Android, its web browser mobile, faster and more compatible with HTML 5 and Flash technologies.

Available on Google Play, 14 of Firefox for Android version has several improvements and optimizations made to its graphical interface but also to his Web pages rendering engine.

Completely reliftée, the user interface is more fluid and ergonomic, it now offers a home page redesigned directly proposing the list of favorite sites, bookmarks and browsing history.

    

With regard to performance, Firefox 14 initiating more rapidly and would, according to Mozilla, two times faster than its predecessor to display pages and distancerait clearly the native browser of Android but also tenors such as Dolphin Browser, Chrome or Opera. In the radius of the new Firefox 14 for Android now includes Firefox Sync that synchronizes bookmarks, add-ons, tabs, passwords, data forms with the desktop version.

    

Flash support is also of part and support new instructions HTML 5 to best display all the content available on the Web via smartphones. Firefox 14 is now available on the Google Play, a version adapted to the shelves is expected to soon and if you want to see the new features offered by the browser to the red panda in motion, the video below is for it.

> Download Firefox for Android 14

Adata XPG SX910 : SSD sous SandForce sans over-provisioning

AData presents a new SSD SandForce under reference to the usable capacity of 7%.

In late February, LSI-SandForce announced the availability of a new firmware for his star on the market for SSD, SF-2281 controller. An important update because it allows manufacturers to flash drives, if they wish, with the over-provisioning and thus offer 7% of additional storage on their models. AData has decided to take advantage of this opportunity with its new SSD in the XPG, launched under SX910 reference range.

                                

A DSS that therefore in shops in capacities of 128, 256 and 512 GB (instead of the usual 120, 240 and 480 GB). AData is of course reassuring, explaining that the lack of over-provisioning is affected in no performance of its disks, or longevity. Faithful to the message passed by LSI-SandForce upon the release of its new firmware. Moreover, since it is better to prevent healing, Adata guarantees the XPG SX910 for 5 years, without however communicate on the number of cycles that the selected cells may cash.

Interfaced in SATA III 6 Gbps and the 2.5-inch format, these SSD Adata promise to reach top-flight performance but nonetheless classic controller SF-2281, namely up to 550 MB/s read and 530 MB/s write sequential (on compressible data), and 85,000 in random IOPS. It now expected of these DSS rates.

Coup de filet on a network of bank card fraud

The FBI and authorities around the world conducted the arrest of 24 suspects in a network of bank card fraud.

After two years of investigation, the FBI agents posing as pirates have analyzed how real pirates are to retrieve credit card numbers and to share then. According to Reuters, this network of credit card traffic generates almost 205 million dollars in damages with not less than 411 000 numbers exchanged on specialized forums.

It is the largest ever made to date in this area, successful NET through the coordination of all of the authorities of the world. Eleven suspects have been arrested in the United States and thirteen other divided between Britain and the Japan. The investigations also to better understand the flaws of the system and the conclusions have been provided to the institutions that are better able to protect themselves in the future. For now, the official release does, neither banks nor credit card providers, who have been affected.

The method used to obtain the identity of the criminal is not in the habits of the authorities since they opened a forum in June 2010 under the banner "Carder Profit" is traded stolen credit card numbers. Last may, the forum was cut and the identities of offenders have been identified for the latest stop.

The 24 arrested suspects are ages 18 to 25 and can receive 1,000,0000 a sentence up to 40 years in prison. Two of them, arrested in New York, are also already passed before a judge in Manhattan and were released on bail to $ 50,000 one, and $ 20,000 the other. We now look to learn more about the societies affected by these vulnerabilities.

Gigabyte launches two tablets Windows 7 Pro on Intel Atom

Manufacturer Gigabyte launches two touch tablets, S1081 and S1081s, with an Intel Atom architecture and running under Windows 7 Pro.

Gigabyte released two models of touch tablets, S1081 and S1081s, with an Intel Atom architecture and with the Microsoft Windows 7 OS in its Pro version.

These two slates integrate in their hull Intel NM10 chipset, a processor dual core Atom N2800 running at 1.86 GHz, 2 GB DDR3, a GMA 3600 graphics chip, being assigned to a disk storage hard 2.5 "320 GB 5400 RPM for the S1081 and a 64 GB version S1081s DSS classic.

The two models share a screen of 10.1 "1024 x 600 pixels, the same connectors complete namely a USB 3.0 port, a USB 2.0 port, a port RJ45 Gigabit Ethernet, a reader of card memory SD outputs VGA and HDMI video. Of course integrate the connectivity Wireless WiFi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0 and a 4000 mAh Li-polymer battery is responsible for providing a decent autonomy.

Both models have identical dimensions of 270 x 173 x 14,93 mm, only their weight differ with 850 grams for the version S1081 HDD and 790 grams for the S1081s SSD version. These Windows 7 tablets are available today for rates public advised of €635 for the S1081 and €735 for the S1081s.

The return of the EeePC with Linux (Ubuntu)

While Microsoft makes more efforts to assist manufacturers of netbooks to offer not expensive machines, they turned, in the image of Asus, to Linux.

The first EeePC of Asus had sold equipped with a Linux OS, before that the netbook market is overwhelmingly on Windows. However, Asus intends to return to his first love, and prepares a new EeePC Linux.

It must be said that Microsoft is completely disinterested market laptop to pas cher, very occupied by Windows 8 and Windows RT. The editor offers indeed most version of Windows at low prices to the manufacturers of these computers. At the time, those who do not want to increase their prices feel free solutions and Linux.

It is made by Asus with the EeePC 1015CX. In the program, screen 10.1 "in 1024 x 600 pixels, Atom N2600, 2 GB RAM and 320 GB hard drive. All for 1.25 Kg and the dimensions of 26.2 x 17.8 x 2.5 cm, sold less than €230 with the Ubuntu distribution.

The EeePC 1015CX left and on the right the 1225C...

Note that a second model EeePC Ubuntu will be also proposed to Asus, probably a little later. Sold from €299 and known as the EeePC 1225C reference, it will be in the format 11.6 "in 1366 x 768 pixels and may have an Atom N2800 with a 500 GB hard drive. Its weight will vary between 1.33 and 1.45 Kg with the onboard battery.

Diablo III, 3DS, Kinect, etc.: a point on the sales of the video game in France

Several sources of information to make a small review of the sales of games and consoles in France since the beginning of the year, with - rare thing - quite accurate figures.

At the Cannes IDEF exhibition for professionals in the video game, GameCharts is a rather complete point on the sales of games, devices and consoles in France. Covered by GfK, the figures disclosed by companies in the sector are not complete, but make a small never superfluous point on the status of the game in France.

In terms of games, since January 1, 2012, the best-selling game in France is other than Diablo III. Released May 15 (which only adds to the performance), the hack' no slash of Blizzard sold best 174.000... And are counted here that sales of boxes, and not many digital copies sold! At the second place positions Just Dance 2 on Wii with best 129.000, evidence that music games are more recipe, those dance work well. It is followed by CoD Modern Warfare 3 that closes the podium with 150.000 copies sold on PS3.

Top 10 best-selling games in France since January 1st:

Diablo III (PC) 174.000Just Dance 2 (Wii) 129.000Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (PS3) 122.000Mario Kart 7 (3DS) 112.000Mario Party 9 (Wii) 107.000Super Mario 3D Land (3DS) 96.000Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games (Wii) 81.000Battlefield 3 (PS3) 75.000FIFA 12 (PS3) 73.000FIFA Street (PS3) 68,000

Other information obtained, sales of Kinect, for Xbox 360 motion sensor. At the end of the month of may, are France 697.000 players who have purchased the device. Worldwide, Kinect is 19 million passed copies. The Xbox 360 - more old console of this generation - was able to extend its longevity and find a blow of fasting, even if good Kinect games are rare.

In Nintendo, GameCharts tells us that the Nintendo 3DS has just pass the one million units sold in France. An Honourable performance for a portable console whose much - too - soon anticipated the failure on its release in March 2011, in a market where competition from smartphones and tablets is sharp. But he is still the path to both the DS that passed the bar of the 10 million copies sold. As the Big N show console, the Wii, is approaching 6 millions of machines installed in France.

Include for Les Echos that, in relying on data GfK, are a scene interesting progression of sales of games for download, which is necessarily the wrong boxes by signs sales brick & mortar. Thus, we see that on the first half of 2012, living room consoles sales are down 17% in value (CA EUR 174 million), which represents 443.000 past machines (-20% a year). -Side laptops, this is much better, with a decline in sales of 14%. But PS Vita is released and the Nintendo 3DS instead found the form. And despite the phenomenon of Diablo III, value games sales overall are down 10% (EUR 362 million). Georges Fornay, president of the SELL and former CEO of CES France, this is logical given the fact that have to be end-of-cycle and that the economic situation remains complicated.

But in the end, GfK expects to post stable figures for the video game in any year end. The Institute on the release of the Wii U and 3ds XL, as well as on the growth of sales of dematerialized games should represent CA EUR 550 million against 450 million year passed. 60 million euros (+ 100%) should also be generated by sales of pre-payees cards and online Pass. Finally, note that the accessories and peripherals are in progress, they should generate EUR 88 million for the year.

Sapphire Announces Radeon HD 7870 equipped FleX of the Dual-X

The Sapphire manufacturer announces a Radeon HD 7870 in its range FleX, overclockee factory and went with his heatpipe Dual-X.

Sapphire will soon offer a graphic card Radeon HD 7870 in the FleX range, frequency overclockees of plant and equipped with the system of cooling House Dual-X.

But the main feature of the Flex maps lies in their ability to use Eyefinity SLS technology on three screens without using the DisplayPort box, then just use two Dual-Link DVI ports and HDMI port with HDMI to DVI adapter provides in the bundle, easy!

For the rest, the map has a dual BIOS switchable via a button on the card, one offers the frequency proposed by AMD or 1000 MHz for the GPU and 1200 MHz for the 2 GB of GDDR5 on bus 256 bit, on the other, it grows the map to an overclocking of factory established in 1050 MHz for the GPU and 1250 MHz for the memory. Cooling is provided by the heatpipe House, the Dual-X, consisting of a large sink aluminium, four heat-pipes in copper and two 80 mm PWM fans. The rear bracket has four video output with 2 DVI, 1 HDMI 1.4 is and 1 DisplayPort 1.2.

Sapphire provided no tariff or date of marketing for the moment.

Gigabyte launches two tablets Windows 7 Pro on Intel Atom

Manufacturer Gigabyte launches two touch tablets, S1081 and S1081s, with an Intel Atom architecture and running under Windows 7 Pro.

Gigabyte released two models of touch tablets, S1081 and S1081s, with an Intel Atom architecture and with the Microsoft Windows 7 OS in its Pro version.

These two slates integrate in their hull chipset NM10 Intel processor dual core Atom N2800 running at 1.86 GHz, 2 GB DDR3, a GMA 3600 graphics chip, being assigned to a disk storage hard 2.5 "320 GB 5400 RPM for the S1081 and a 64 GB version S1081s DSS classic.

The two models share a screen of 10.1 "1024 x 600 pixels, the same connectors complete namely a USB 3.0 port, a USB 2.0 port, a port RJ45 Gigabit Ethernet, a reader of card memory SD outputs VGA and HDMI video. Of course integrate the connectivity Wireless WiFi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0 and a 4000 mAh Li-polymer battery is responsible for providing a decent autonomy.

Both models have identical dimensions of 270 x 173 x 14,93 mm, only their weight differ with 850 grams for the version S1081 HDD and 790 grams for the S1081s SSD version. These Windows 7 tablets are available today for rates public advised of €635 for the S1081 and €735 for the S1081s.

Google + share recommendations hunting

Google social network now offers recommendations for reading via the use of the "+ 1" button.

A few hours before the opening of the Google I/O 2012 conference scheduled to take place in the late afternoon (18 h 30 GMT + 1), + Google launches a new modification of the behaviour of its module "+ 1". Hallmark of its social network, the firm of Mountain View will display a few weeks for all of its members to the recommendations of reading on the pages visited, flying over button + 1.

Google said that recommendations will cover only the pages of the visited domain and no other external pages. Recommendations can come also his network of friends and readers who approved a page or another. The developers of Google + blog shows an example with the Chrome Web Store that displays recommendations for applications to install in addition to Gmail App.

Jelly Bean sculpture, new version of Android, arrived at the Googleplex

The lawn of the Googleplex now hosts the statue of Jelly Bean, now official code name of the new version of Android stamped 4.1.

As is the tradition, a new sculpture representing the new version of Android in the Jelly Bean instance has been installed on the lawn of the Googleplex. Taking place alongside Cupcake, Froyo, Gingerbread, Honeycomb or even Ice Cream Sandwich, Jelly Bean thus confirms the name of the next version of Android that will be presented in a few hours at the Google I/O 2012 conference.

The firm of Mountain View should present including his Nexus 7 "touch Tablet equipped with this version of the stamped mobile OS 4.1. We give you so go very quickly for more information...

   

MSI is the Atom to his mother mini-ITX

Of mini-ITX with Intel Atom and full output video, MSI offers a motherboard for HTPC or industrialists who wish to manage multiple control screens.

MSI presents its new motherboard format mini-ITX, which has the particularity to be equipped with a processor Intel Atom after MS-9893, this motherboard offers many output video, including two ports directly accessible to the rear as the VGA port and HDMI port, but offers also a third type video output LVDS 18 and 24 bit to connect a compatible screen directly on the pins on the motherboard.

The SO-DIMM format, MS-9893 supports only a single bar for a maximum of 4 GB DDR3-1066 memory. -Side processor, it will be possible to choose between an Intel Atom D2550 engraved in 32 nm developing 10 Watts TDP for two hearts and four processing threads supporting 64 bit for a 1.86 GHz operating frequency. This processor manages directly the LVDS 24 bit then that second processor available for this motherboard supports only the 18 bit and is other than the Intel Atom legal. Running at the same speed with the same number of processing cores with the same fineness of engraving, but with a lower TDP to 6.5 Watts.

Present on the two connectors declinations are quite numerous because there are two RS232 ports to the rear and four other via pin on the map, four USB 2.0 on the back panel ports and two internal, GPI four ports and four other GPO, a conventional PCI and a mini port PCI-Express to accommodate an mSATA map or a map of Wi-Fi for example extension. For the moment, neither the price nor the date of marketing not specified...

Tiki : mini format, maxi puissance...

Integrating the possible the most powerful PC in the smallest chassis possible, such is the aim set Falcon NW with the Tiki...

The manufacturer of PC Falcon Northwest Announces the Tiki oriented computer game that proved to be integrated in a package format "micro Tower". The challenge? To return a configuration-based GeForce GTX 680, Intel Ivy Bridge Core I7 processors, 16 GB RAM, 4TB of storage and cooling liquid in a chassis that measures a hair more than 10 cm wide and 33 cm high... or roughly the size of a game console.

For Kelt Reeves, president of Falcon Northwest, the Tiki "represents the progress made by the PC industry in recent years". "Processors and graphics cards have made a massive leap in performance and efficiency." SSDS are accessible, and the miniaturization of motherboards is a fact. It wants to say that your PC is probably much larger than necessary. "With the Tiki, we responded to the issues of noise and the heater in uncompromised" he said. No doubt, this is a CEO who can sell his products...

What is correct by discovering the Tiki, first is that it is - to our knowledge - of the first PC comes with a 2.7 Kg granite block (Yes, Yes, the stone!) that serves as its base. The kind of details that appeal to NVIDIA, partner of Falcon Northwest. Evidenced by the statements of Ujesh Desai, Vice President, marketing at NVIDIA who said: "This is super to work with partners such as Falcon, who can take our Kepler GeForce and integrate with PC as seductive as the Tiki." "I can't wait, I want a Tiki on my Office".

The Tiki is already available. Assembled on command, these computers will begin to be delivered at the beginning of July. Prices start at approximately $ 1900 for a "basic" configuration and rising up to $ 5000 with custom paint and configuration very top-of-range. The price of the "Godlike Power – Micro Tower", slogan chosen by the brand for the Tiki.

> Configure a Tiki in Falcon Northwest

Kevin Mitnick soutient Kim Dotcom

Via a tweet Kevin Mitnik announces its support to Kim Dotcom. A foot of nose to U.S. authorities.

After Steve Wozniak, it is the turn of one of the greatest hackers to support Kim Dotcom. For the record, Kevin Mitnik is recognized worldwide for its facts and harm in the 1980s. Continued for two years by the US authorities and extradited to the United States in 1995, he was detained five years. Today, he is consultant and expert in computer security and gives lectures on the subject.

Kevin Mitnik today. Mine nothing, it goes on its 50 brooms...

Kim Dotcom is still in New Zealand waiting for his extradition to the United States following the closure of its download MegaUpload online portal. A tweet Kevin Mitnik indicates his support to the Manager of MegaUpload with for content: "I hope that you 'll" by adding a link to a YouTube video "I Won't Back Down" we could result in "I not reculerai".

A first wave of support for Kim Dotcom that is will soon follow by a petition widespread on the Internet? The US authorities will soon be facing.

Firefox 14 Android, more swift and consistent HTML 5 and Flash

The Mozilla Foundation released Firefox 14 for Android, its web browser mobile, faster and more compatible with HTML 5 and Flash technologies.

Available on Google Play, 14 of Firefox for Android version has several improvements and optimizations made to its graphical interface but also to his Web pages rendering engine.

Completely reliftée, the user interface is more fluid and ergonomic, it now offers a home page redesigned directly proposing the list of favorite sites, bookmarks and browsing history.

    

With regard to performance, Firefox 14 initiating more rapidly and would, according to Mozilla, two times faster than its predecessor to display pages and distancerait clearly the native browser of Android but also tenors such as Dolphin Browser, Chrome or Opera. In the radius of the new Firefox 14 for Android now includes Firefox Sync that synchronizes bookmarks, add-ons, tabs, passwords, data forms with the desktop version.

    

Flash support is also of part and support new instructions HTML 5 to best display all the content available on the Web via smartphones. Firefox 14 is now available on the Google Play, a version adapted to the shelves is expected to soon and if you want to see the new features offered by the browser to the red panda in motion, the video below is for it.

> Download Firefox for Android 14

Coup de filet on a network of bank card fraud

The FBI and authorities around the world conducted the arrest of 24 suspects in a network of bank card fraud.

After two years of investigation, the FBI agents posing as pirates have analyzed how real pirates are to retrieve credit card numbers and to share then. According to Reuters, this network of credit card traffic generates almost 205 million dollars in damages with not less than 411 000 numbers exchanged on specialized forums.

It is the largest ever made to date in this area, successful NET through the coordination of all of the authorities of the world. Eleven suspects have been arrested in the United States and thirteen other divided between Britain and the Japan. The investigations also to better understand the flaws of the system and the conclusions have been provided to the institutions that are better able to protect themselves in the future. For now, the official release does, neither banks nor credit card providers, who have been affected.

The method used to obtain the identity of the criminal is not in the habits of the authorities since they opened a forum in June 2010 under the banner "Carder Profit" is traded stolen credit card numbers. Last may, the forum was cut and the identities of offenders have been identified for the latest stop.

The 24 arrested suspects are ages 18 to 25 and can receive 1,000,0000 a sentence up to 40 years in prison. Two of them, arrested in New York, are also already passed before a judge in Manhattan and were released on bail to $ 50,000 one, and $ 20,000 the other. We now look to learn more about the societies affected by these vulnerabilities.

Free: point optical fibre in France

In short, 60% of the French will have the fiber by 2022 and the remaining 40% will have to be jointly covered in collaboration with local authorities, ARCEP and the set of French operators.

The Convention Free 2012 in the presence of Maxime Lombardini held this weekend, it was question of the development of the fixed and mobile operator as well as the future of new technologies that will be used. Including, a good part of the agreement was the subject of the deployment of fiber optics at the national level.

The recent echoes on the subject seem not really good, and its Director General said while that Free is not only facing this problem of deployment of fiber in France and that other operators are in the same case. However, he qualifies that things are still progressing and that it can announce that almost all of Paris is fiber to the horizontal. For memory, the deployment of the fiber must be two axes. Horizontal, first to connect the heart of operator's network and buildings and vertical then to mount the fibre in each apartment and Pavilion. According Free, there still thousands of fibres to Paris to get a blanket full, but the harder remains to be done by the operator.

All operators abound in the same direction and indicate that they have many difficulties to get fiber in French homes. Mis en cause, the Trustees of building agreements or local communities which slow to give their agreements or who are too hesitant in the light of work by operators. According to figures reported by UniversFreebox, with an investment of€ 600 million by the troublemaker of the French Internet, it hopes that all its subscribers spend the FTTH (Fiber To The Home) at least in the capital by the end of next year. To facilitate the appointment of laying of fibre and making terminal optical (BTEP) in the apartments of Paris and other cities soon, Free will implement an approach simplified directly by the subscriber interface Freebox.

Outside the dense zones, which concentrate much of the French population, investments for fibre deployment will be jointly undertaken much orange at 80% and the rest by Free, and SFR. Thus, Free hopes to achieve the objective of 60% of the population covered by the optical fiber by 2022, dense and moderately dense areas would be affected. For the remaining 40%, Free plans to work with local communities to find a common solution to bring fibre to the pavilions. Because if non-dense areas represent only 40%, the profitability is lower for the operator.

It appears also that local authorities propose to fiber according to their own solutions, which complicates interoperability with operator and plans to ask the ARCEP to justify this practice. But in the end, who will pay the Bill in these non-dense areas? Local and regional authorities under the auspices of imposed regulations? The owners of the lodges wishing to pass the very high speed?

AMD: the APU Kaveri 1 TeraFlops

The Trinity APU is not yet officially available AMD shows the future of its chips with a goal of 1 teraflops to Kaveri.

At the AMD Fusion developer Summit currently being held in the United States, the skier presented what would be the future of the APU after the generation Trinity.

AMD has made the choice to integrate into the same part processor chip and the graphic part it also allows to make crude calculation with OpenCL for example. Here the next year, this type of bullet will draw in the new architecture introduced with Southern Islands, the Radeon HD 7000 cards, i.e. the Graphic Core Next. This technology allows to significantly increase the raw computing power of this graphic part. With miniaturization and the new architecture implementation for Trinity, AMD believe achieve the teraflops for the couple graphic processor and hearts.

According to our colleagues from Hardware.fr, the new iGPU of the Kaveri, the third generation of APU, the number of units of calculation could increase from 384 to 512. So compared to the APU A10-5800K who reached the 738 GFlops, the largest Kaveri have 35% of additional performance. A leap in terms of computing power that could be the future of consoles of games room or our notebooks, but it, we will not see that next year if it comes.

LiquiData: share its environment on a multi-touch table

Our smartphones capture a lot of information every day and, on an ongoing basis, why not operate?

It is on this principle that students of the University of science applied in Potsdam in Germany, developed the LiquiData software. This application designed for multi-touch tables originally developed on Windows Surface, transcribed the information captured by your phone and especially your movements and the path that you have traveled during the day.

Data collected during your journey are represented on a table multi-touch, Visual, sound and interactive form. The table reproduced a map of the area and then trace your routes. Only the visited places are clear, the rest is covered by a fog. The software offers the possibility of sharing your environment, add photos, videos, to comment, to obtain information on hotels and restaurants. It even to add a second phone to link information, resulting in the emergence of new interactions.

One can imagine this type of system in a hotel. Customers could obtain an overview of the surrounding area, add the already visited places, or even indicate the address of a good coffee.

Windows 8: Microsoft wants to convince the business

With a dual interface system, Microsoft is struggling to convince for future migration to Windows 8. Several demonstrations were made at the TechEd to reassure professionals.

At the beginning of June held conferences TechEd in Orlando in the United States where Microsoft wished primarily reassure companies on the possibility of easily migrate to the new version of Windows.

A demonstration was made to tell professionals that it was possible to launch applications made for Windows 7 but Windows 8 and that it was even possible to run an instance of Windows 7 directly in Windows 8 via the hypervisor directly integrated into this new version.

At the direction of the "Developer experience" team of the firm of Redmond, we welcomed that it is now very easy to develop an application on Windows and to the test on the two latest versions at a glance. In addition, it is also possible to separate the two systems on two screens display to check step by step the developed application and thus control the behavior on each of the versions of Windows.

Another demonstration that could delight the DSI, it's Windows To Go. This new feature allows to have a fully customized environment as per the information system of the enterprise, all on a USB key or an external hard drive. This feature is only available with the Windows 8 Enterprise version that also supports BitLocker for encrypting data contained in the key or the hard disk. Thus, the employee may have its environment in the Pocket and use it on any machine. If the user is pulling the USB or the hard disk of the machine, the system goes into pause for 60 seconds, beyond, the system simply stops to prevent access to the data of the employee.

Loss of the key or the hard disk, the system and the data can be encrypted and thus avoid the loss of sensitive and confidential business data. Microsoft States that this feature works also well on computers that have a BIOS as the UEFI and than on first use on a new machine, the drivers are install without the need to restart the system at the end of procedure.

Is this be convincing enough for businesses? The future will tell...

ZOTAC GeForce GTX 670 TwinCooler: Very short CG and overclockée

The Chinese manufacturer Zotac launches a very short GTX 670, overclockées of plant and having frequencies of a House, the TwinCooler heatpipe.

ZOTAC will soon be a GeForce GTX 670 that has the particularity to be very short, less than 18 cm, because with the PCB of the GTX 670 of reference NVIDIA but by taking away cooling at the end of card system which then rallongeait all.

The GeForce GTX 670 TwinCooler is then a compact stencil (177.8 x 111.2 mm x 35 mm) adopter then a heatpipe dual fan 80 mm responsible for blowing on a finned aluminum radiator, all occupying therefore two slots in the housing.

ZOTAC not content with planing GTX 670 size allows even to overclock all frequencies of plant for the GPU with 954/1033 MHz in standard/GPU Boost and video memory with 1552 MHz for the 2 GB of GDDR5 (against 915/980/1502 MHz on the classic GTX 670).

The map always has 2 6-pin PCI-e connectors to feed and its double rear bracket offers four video outputs including two ports DVI Dual-Link, 1 1 4 HDMI and a DisplayPort 1.2 port. The map is expected for June 20 at a rate not specified.

We will of course try to us available to gauge its performance and especially to test the effectiveness of the TwinCooler to the level of heat dissipation and noise to cool a powerful GPU on a small PCB.

Problem in encryption AES-256 for SandForce

SandForce SF - 2000 controllers are affected by a problem in the management of the hardware encryption in AES 256 bit.

An internal audit conducted by LSI discovered a concern in the management of the hardware encryption offered by the SandForce SF-2000 series chips. Other solutions of hardware encryption for hard disks, SandForce controllers use two systems separate encryption, first of 256 bit and 128 bit a second. According to the audit, the first level 256 bit is not present, not working in 128-bit mode.

For individuals, the problem is not really embarrassing, but for companies and Governments that have special constraints on the encryption of hard disks, it becomes a little more serious. For example, the US Government asked that used hard drives are encrypted in AES 256 bit, what these controllers offered natively. However, if the controller does not handle...

If this is really disturbing, some manufacturers of DSS that uses its default controllers offer rebate offers or alternatives. For example, Intel offers fully reimburse customers who have purchased flash drives of the series 520 - Yes, no error on the press release - 1 July, and have just contacted customer service before October 1 for it. Kingston for its SSDNow V200 + and its KC100 and adds that a solution is being developed jointly with LSI to repair this problem of encryption. Of course, other manufacturers using the SandForce controllers will also publish their news releases to meet the demands of their customers.

ARM: two generations of graphics processors arrive

ARM provides two new chips Mali to address different markets, a pay strategy for British society?

This time, it is the English business ARM which shows the future of mobile processors embedded in our smartphones, tablets and even connected TVs. ARM is here that his new party graphic called Mali that animates its chips. The new generation is called Mali-450 and the successor to Mali-400 that getting into four hearts of treatment with the support of OpenGL ES 2.0 for the first time.

ARM Mali-450, passes to eight graphic hearts and also optimizes the treatment of OpenGL ES 2.0 for even more performance in video games. Chief product of ARM in the process media division, Steve Steele said that Mali-450 is not that double the number of hearts on the chip, but that optimizations were performed on units of graphics for better performance even if they are a little more than place on the chip in the end.

For the moment, this new generation does not yet the latest technologies in terms of graphics as the tesselation example calculation, but Steve Steele indicates that ARM has already in its cartons a new architecture called Midgard for the end of the year and will be fully exploited in the Mali-604 chips. In the meantime, Mali-450 chips are thought to be used in the entry and the means of range and Mali-604 and 658 which will arrive a little later to the high and compete directly with NVIDIA on this segment. We are asking to see...

A chimney in my PC tell you?

CompTake, a company established in Taiwan, specialised in cooling and packaging solutions (case for SSD, USB stick, CCD, etc) presents a Heatpipe for the least original...

The CompTake company based in Taiwan shows us his new find, the Chimney. As its name indicates in the language of Shakespeare, it is a system of dissipation of the heat emitted by the processor by chimneys. While aluminum, these few millimetres of round tubes to evacuate about 100 Watts according to manufacturer's tests.

A demonstration was conducted with an Intel Core i7-930, leaving 130 Watts TDP. Coupled to the Chimney and a small fan of 8 cm to the rear of the enclosure to create a flow of air, the processor in the full heating phase was not mounted above the 50 ° C. According to CompTake, the sink is still in development phase and could still improve. We look forward to see it!

HDD: a price decline? Not before two years...

A study of iSupply indicates that trays hard drives prices still remain quite high and this until 2014.

According to the recent study of IHS iSupply, prices of hard drives trays should not fall before 2014! The rates indicated in the press release correspond to an average unit price, regardless of the sold disc storage space. In the third quarter of 2011, the average price of a hard disk was established around $ 51. With a bond of $ 10, it had risen to $ 61 in the fourth quarter to continue momentum and achieve $ 66 for the first quarter of this year. Between March and June, the average price is stagnating and loses $ 1 to $ 65.

For your information, the study also gives the figures for the number of units delivered worldwide for this year. In the first quarter of 2012, he was taken primarily from manufacturing plants in Thailand not less of 145 million hard drives and about 159 million for the second quarter and forecast for the third quarter about 176 million units.

The floods in Thailand are passed and plants are distributed, but prices fell so far. The study explained in part this state of affairs by the concentration of the two leading manufacturers of hard disk drives, Seagate and Western Digital, but also by the contracts in the long run to high prices when the plants had not yet fully resumed their activities. These contracts are signed at this price because OEMs fear a problem of supply for the manufacture of their products. With all these conditions, it seems difficult to quickly lower the price of hard drives trays and says iSupply, it is not close to arrange...

Raspberry Pi invites primary school

In our series of Raspberry, study some caveats in situation and in particular the arrival of several maps in school...

The BBC has just released a video featuring Raspberry Pi in a classroom. The event initiated by the Foundation GoTo and RS components has enabled pupils aged 7 to 9 years to approach the Raspy. Children thus have to learn Python programming and Linux environment. Qualified fantastic, results are very encouraging. Course session quickly turned into recreation. Young programmers have shown how computer languages could arouse their interest.

Some children still met some difficulties to handle Raspberry Pi. Indeed, properly type on a keyboard requires a minimum of training. It can be frustrating when that it returned code to watch in addition to its sheet, its keyboard ever. So, many students were much more experienced and did to to ask again.

The organizers and teachers are very proud. See all those smiling faces at the end of lesson do not every day. The compelling experience, will allow t - it plan other type sessions? Some see it as an excellent way to democratize the school programming. The raspberry map is not only for geeks and hackers as some want to believe.

Snapdragon S4 out of stock until 2013, HTC suffers with his HTC One S

SoC Snapdragon S4 of the Qualcomm company undergoes a shortage due to the concern for the production of the TSMC fondeur with engraved 28 nm chips. HTC suffers the consequences with his HTC One.

It was already known that TSMC was aware of some concerns of performance with the production of chips engraved 28 nm especially for AMD and NVIDIA customers. They indeed use this technology for their next generation GPU and then undergo supply problems, the Taiwanese fondeur struggling to keep pace.

But now the situation worsens a little more and impact of other actors in the middle of the high-tech including including Qualcomm and its SoC Snapdragon S4 which is then out of stock. This chip fitted to many top smartphones of recent range, this problem affects then names of mobile phones such as HTC which must also find ways to continue to produce its terminals.

The Taiwanese manufacturer of smartphones has had to resign himself to replace Snapdragon S4 fitted the original HTC One S for a Snapdragon S3 on-fréquencé to level the difference in power between the two chips. And TSMC this situation of shortage of chips snapdragon S4 should keep to the last quarter of the year 2012 to return slowly to normal in the year 2013.

Attention so if you decide to buy an HTC One S or any other product "normally" boarding a Snapdragon S4, check that it has not traded against another less powerful chip.

Prolimatech launches the heatpipe CPU Black Series Genesis

The Prolimatech constructor leaves its imposing Black Series Genesis, heatpipe CPU dual tower which is horizontal and the other vertical.

Prolimatech launches Black series of its CPU heatpipe particular design. Indeed it is composed of two towers of vanes in aluminium which is vertically and the other horizontally.

    

This perpendicular vanes blocks provision then to place up to three fans of 120 or 140 mm (sold separately) to cool not only the CPU but also strips of RAM, which must not exceed 49 mm in height, but also the other components of the motherboard.

    

As its name indicates this series offers therefore a black colour of the radiators, the base and the 6 heat pipes however remaining copper nickel plated. The bulk of all (without fan) rises to 216,5 x 165 x 146 mm and weighs 800 grams.

    

The Black Series Genesis is sold nude so without fan with a kit of compatible with socket 775 mounting, 1155, 1156, 1366, 2011 Intel and AM2, AM2 +, AM3 of AMD. It will be available in a few days at the rate of €70.