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HP TouchPad will make its first steps in early July in France

January 29th, 2012 No comments

The first bar of HP, TouchPad, will be landed in France in early July, days after its launch in the United States. It will be powered by WebOS, the mobile OS from Palm redemption. Presented earlier this year, the first tablet WebOS to HP, the TouchPad, will enter the French market in July, notes Silicon.fr.

The American manufacturer is thus a shot together for the launch of its product: it will arrive on July 1 in the U.S., the first week of July in Germany, France, Ireland and the United Kingdom, and from mid- July in Canada. The touchpad features a 9.7 inch screen with 1024 x 768 pixels (in a 19 x 24.2 x 1.37 cm. The slate is led by a powerful dual-core processor Qualcomm (APQ8060) 1, 2 GHz with 1 GB of RAM.

Initially, only the Wi-Fi version of this offer will be available in France. Grinds 16 GB and 32 GB will be accessible to the TouchPad respective retail prices of 479 Euros and 579 Euros VAT incl. HP plays the card of caution, proposing rates close to those of the iPad of Apple , though slightly lower.

If the TouchPad will struggle to dethrone Apple’s offer, its well-designed operating system could allow him to score points against the shelves Android, struggling to convince. A phenomenon that could increase later, HP is favorable to the distribution of its mobile OS to third party manufacturers, which could then be adopted within their own products.

It will also be an opportunity to check if the accusations of plagiarism against HP, Research In Motion (RIM), whose playbook is scheduled to arrive in June, are relevant.

E-Payment Credit Agricole wants Squizz Kwixo with PayPal

January 28th, 2012 No comments

French banks continue to invest electronic payments: Credit Agricole launches its platform Kwixo based on its service FIA-Net (certification of e-commerce sites). In the field of electronic payments, the response of French banking groups organized to address pure players such as PayPal (Group eBay ).

But the field of competition is intensifying at national and global levels. Associated with BNP Paribas and Atos Origin, the French mobile operators want to impose Buys.

While Google remains in the area of payments: After Google Checkout, it has just launched the platform Google Wallet, which explores the NFC. This week, the Credit Agricole – LCL launched its own solution “e-Wallet” Kwixo who works on the same principle as PayPal.

Once registered the account number or credit card is debited, the customer will be prompted to choose Kwixo an identifier (mobile phone number or email address) and password. It will allow users to make purchases on the Internet since its Smartphone (via an application iPhone for example) or make a money transfer for a relative. And, without systematically disclose their bank details.

Client side, the prices shown for the use of the service seems reasonable for now. Lever by which the Credit Agricole has developed Kwixo? The banking group has relied on Fia-Net, a French specialist in electronic payments linked to Sofinco (also a subsidiary of consumer credit Credit Agricole).

Historically, Fia-Net is known for its certification of e-commerce sites (one thousand references). This is a first outlet for Kwixo must now concentrate its efforts for online merchants to adopt the platform of electronic payment.

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In App Purchase Apple wants to reconcile with newspaper publishers

January 27th, 2012 No comments

To calm the anger of the publishers, Apple has decided to relax the rules for using its system house Subscription Purchase in App dedicated to the App Store. No mercy for applications! Since this winter, Apple has placed on the App Store and its payment system subscription Purchase in App.

Thus, applications in the catalog of the App Store must rely on the system In App Purchase of “Apple brand” to buy “content, functionality or services from those applications. This system therefore requires that the press not to offer subscriptions to newspapers and via iTunes, allowing the Apple brand” to pay the portion of these sales, which covered 30% of the selling price of a subscription.

Indeed, newspaper editors can no longer offer on iTunes or the App Store opportunities subscription from a website.

Alerted by this condemnation, Apple has decided to calm things down, now allowing publishers to release free to set prices for selling subscriptions to their journals and magazines. Publishers are also authorized to issue to owners of an iPhone or iPad paid content available outside of the App Store, for example from the Web site editor, press, provided it is integrated, link or button in the specific application.

Added bonus: the Cupertino company said it would receive more commissions on subscriptions purchased issued by newspaper publishers off App Store.

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The Active Antenna System technology from Nokia Siemens Networks for Telecom Italy

January 24th, 2012 No comments

 

Present at the Mobile World Congress 2012, Nokia Siemens Networks offers the potential of its Flexi multiradio Antenna System can support operators in response to traffic demand in mobile broadband. The Flexi multiradio Antenna System is based on technology Active Antenna System (AAS), one of the key elements of the architecture of Liquid net Nokia Siemens Networks. Trial conducted in Italy with Telecom, the company is validating the improved performance of the radio stations.

Telecom Italy has participated very actively in the verification and testing of the Flexi multiradio Antenna System of Nokia Siemens Networks over several trials. The main Italian operator works with Nokia Siemens Networks joint project to research and development on smart antennas since 2006 and has contributed substantially to the development of Flexi multiradio Antenna System.

Active Antenna System technology integrates the various components of radio frequency (RF), such as power amplifiers and transceivers, in the antenna dipoles. This gives rise to an extraordinary ability to “beam forming” that provides significant performance increases and high energy efficiency. In addition to increased capacity and coverage, the ACD allows for greater flexibility of implementation on the ground, a site solution more compact, lower power consumption and supports multi-technology networks.

It also eliminates the need for separate RF units which are typically linked to the power supplies of the antennas traditional. As state of Nokia Siemens engineers, operators can increase the capacity of their radio stations up to 65% and increase coverage up to 30% compared to traditional antenna solutions.

Italians crazy about Mobile: Intel Study

January 21st, 2012 No comments

People in Italy are ready to give up a shower or even their partner for using mobile, recent study on mobile popularity.

It is calculated by Intel that there are more mobile devices than people in Italy. The analysis says 40 percent of people never move without at least two different technological devices with them.

93% of the people are possessing mobile phones in their pocket and 31% people are using the laptop and it is followed by net book which is used by 11% and table which is being used by 4%.

“The research we’ve done shows that mobile devices have become so pervasive in many countries in the world even now and our societies and culture, however, still have not really understood how to ‘digest’ these technologies properly in the civil life and every day, “said head of the analysis.

An Italian is considering that having two mobile devices as a status symbol and also perhaps why they say easily irritated by the bad manners of those who use it.

A direct question in the survey even reveals that 90% of Italians thinking about a hypothetical bon ton of the new technological era which might judges his behavior to grips with mobile devices between the good and even excellent.

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January 19th, 2012 No comments

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European Commission is against Internet censorship

January 16th, 2012 No comments

Neelie Kroes, EU Vice President of Digital Agenda: “I know there are pressures to ‘break up’ the Internet often within national borders. Sometimes what appears to be legitimate instances, such as the protection of personal data, other times it’s just censorship”.

Neelie Kroes also told during an event of Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris, said that the Internet must remain an open platform to ensure it reaches its full potential with Towing for economic growth and innovation. Stop fragmentation in any form of net neutrality based on the interest or censorship of particular nations would have a negative impact.

“But the main feature of the Internet is its universality: in principle, any node can communicate with each other. This has important implications for innovation, diversity, democratic values, social cohesion and economic growth. ”

Kroes added that only by ensuring that the status of universality to the Internet, all stakeholders of Internet will be safeguarded. The collaboration to fight against cyber crime and the need of keeping the data safe are key issues, such as “the protection of privacy, identity and personal data, online security, the fight against spam and cyber crime the reliability and stability”.

Intel setup to bulid CloverView in time for Windows 8

January 14th, 2012 No comments

The new Atom will be ready when Microsoft offers Windows 8.

The chip to the Intel tablet – Atom Clover Trail – will be ready in sync with the future Windows 8. Windows 8 is scheduled for 2012.

According to Intel executives of the combination of platform and processor Clover Trail, Cloverview, Windows 8 will be the trump card for entry into the world of tablets and netbooks. In fact Cloverview chip has been designed to work with Windows 8, the OS of Microsoft- tablet oriented, whose interface has been unveiled just over a month ago.

Cloverview, a 32-nanometer processor, is part of Intel’s plan to play a leading role in the market segment of mobile handsets, Smartphones and tablet. In fact, Intel is pushing its x86 architecture, the Core and Atom chip, in an arena dominated by chips on the project ARM, Qualcomm, and Samsung Envy.

For now, the Intel platform is available for the tablet Oak Trail (Atom Z670). The products will arrive later this year. Cedar Trail will follow the project for the tablet and Medfield chips for smartphones in the first months of next year. But Windows 8 is also expected on the ARM chip on laptops and mobile terminals.

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January 11th, 2012 No comments

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The concept of copying Apple Store in China

January 5th, 2012 No comments

A local distributor has opened several Chinese “Apple Store” but this is not an official partner of Apple. The shops are closed gradually disrespectful. Apple still has work to enforce the dimension of copyright in China. Its products but also on its stores.

At the end of last week, a controversy erupted when the moderator of the blog Bird Abroad (U.S. origin) has posted several videos of a false unearthed Apple store in Kunming, Yunnan Province. The discovery of the unexpected takes every angle the look of an Apple Store.

Vendors will have the official t-shirt marked with the bitten apple and say they believe work for Steve Jobs. Even commercial products are the originals. Of two new iPad MacBook Air , not one missing. But from which these stocks?

These stores would be counted by dozens across the country. According Bird Abroad, they would be at least five on the few square miles that covers the city. The Chamber of Commerce Kunming tried to make the matter clear. It’s that initiated a series of investigations designed to test the legality of these signs, one of which features the nickname “Apple Store.”

According to the records of Apple, the city of Kunming has 13 authorized distributors. But no trace of the five perfect copies which would be called Yu Cheng owner.

The Chamber of Commerce Kunming now investigating the legality of these stores is not listed in the records of Apple. It has already shut down two, according to Gizmodo.