Visa confirms that the Galaxy S3 is the official phone of the London Olympics

It’s no surprise to anyone meet the new Samsung Galaxy S3 is the official phone of the Olympics and Paralympics in London, but it is good that we confirm this, as they have from Visa and Samsung.

And the fact that Visa is interested in giving visibility to the issue is not by choice, as they too are on the orchestrated plan to show the world that payments via mobile phones are a possibility, and want to use the Olympics as a before and after the adoption of technology.

A limited edition phone will be made ​​available to Olympic athletes, it will include the application Visa payWave , which makes use of NFC phone so that transactions are secure and comfortable.

The companies involved tell us that there will be about 140,000 sales terminals (inside and outside the Olympic village, from shops to taxis) in which you can buy the Samsung phone, so deployment is arguably the most important technology to reach the English market.

Nor is there too much detail about the operation, on the other hand we have more or less clear, but we report that for amounts less than 15 pounds is not necessary to enter a special code.

From the point of view of management, users can view real-time transactions made with Visa payWave system.

Nokia: Skype also runs on Windows Phone ‘Tango’

The developers of Skype VoIP clients do have in conjunction with the release of version 1.0 of their app for Windows Mobile pointed out that the software can be used on devices with only 256 megabytes of RAM, but Nokia is contrary to the now.

The Finnish mobile phone manufacturer has tried Skype for Windows Mobile 1.0 for internal testing, according to a spokesman, already on his new Nokia Lumia 610, which belongs to the new Windows Mobile smartphones with “Tango” and is equipped with only 256MB of RAM. Apparently Skype is also running on this machine now with no problems.

Nokia Lumia 610 – Official Video ( HD version )

According to the U.S. blogs’ The Verge ‘and’ Engadget ‘can be cited Nokia spokesman at the Lumia 610 Skype also be downloaded from the Windows Mobile Marketplace. In recent tests have shown that the app runs fine after it was initially overcome “some challenges”.

Apparently, Nokia has done with his new smartphone is not available a few changes to enable the operation of Skype low memory. Lumia is the Nokia 610 soon in Germany on the market. The unit is one of the first Windows phones and cheaper in the long term is to be sold for only 189 €.

Intel “Ivy Bridge”

As of today Intel officially forwarded to the next generation in processor segment. But “Ivy Bridge” is not just a new processor, more importantly, the new revolutionary production technology, this newcomer is based on the first trade in goods. For “Ivy Bridge” itself in the simplest sense, merely an optimized refresh based on the same architecture as “Sandy Bridge”. But as so often it’s not as easy as it seems at first glance.

“Ivy Bridge”
The most important innovation of the family that takes up only to start with quad-core processors, the introduction of 22-nm manufacturing. This promises not only small, this for the processors, was also with this first used the 3D transistor. In this production the otherwise 2D planar transistor also migrates into the air and are thus less room for many improvements. In addition, the whole procedure is also an economic issue, because due to smaller production way Intel can relate much more processors on a complete wafer and put on the market.

“Ivy Bridge” wafers
On the following pages we will give an overview of the new generation. We devote ourselves primarily to the desktop segment lead, but also on the notebook models. Because the architecture is the same for all models, we will show some of the differences before we come upon many considerations of the new features ultimately to the benchmarks of processors.

In addition to traditional tests, there are a number of special tests for the Turbo, Hyper-Threading, as well as scaling tests constitute a fixed clock of 3.5 GHz without Turbo & Co., the predecessor to the differences. Of course, we forget it and not to investigate whether the newcomers are working fine on a previous motherboard. Finally, we dedicate ourselves to the overclocking and undervolting. The complete assessment of the graphics is done in parallel with this test in a separate, large analysis .

The death at the hands of streaming DVD

If video killed the radio star, as Buggles proclaimed , steel that is killing the DVD (and largely physical format) wields the video streaming. And it is not simply a subjective perception, but a true statement with the figures in hand.

Forecasts for 2012 are that the number of streaming movies to see is more than a billion to the disk to see the rhythm growing popularity of the various services offered by this type of content worldwide. A good example of change in both directions Netflix shows that during the last quarter of 2011 lost more than 2.7 million subscribers on DVD.

As a representation of the picture presented, the following graphics includes some interesting facts about past, present and future of film distribution and economic evidence on the reasons for change. Is it time to start digging the grave of the DVD?

Multimedia hard drives, SSD compared to HDD

In the world of storage are two main types of memory: flash-based, commonly referred to as spikes or USB SSD , and memory found in magnetic hard drives. Today we will focus on differentiating those who today are the two types of shared storage devices, SSDs and traditional hard drives.

Although its internal operation is transparent to the user, the differences between them are more than remarkable. The way in which they work affects many aspects such as speed of information transfer and access times, and of course makes the prices are very different or that the available capacities vary greatly.

Mechanical Components versus electronic components

One of the first things I was told as a child on the operation of a computer is that the mechanical components weigh down the work of other devices. For example, let’s traditional hard disk, magnetic tape, so many years has been to our service: includes a read head positioned on a needle, and a series of albums called plates that rotate constantly. The data are scattered by the surface of the disc, and the needle must be moved along this entire area for various data.

This needle moves physically with the help of a small motor very accurate and fast. I leave you with a video demonstration to leave much clearer:

Nokia paragraph breaks

A mere 14 months ago, when Nokia announced the move to Windows Mobile 7, and thus the way out of the crisis presented . From the last time optimism has not been much felt, on the contrary. CEO Stephen Elop, the wind would blow hard today at the latest from the face.

Because , as announced by the Finnish company has reported significant losses in revenue and profit for the first quarter of 2012. The former has reached 7.354 billion euros, its lowest level in years. Compared with the same period the revenues were up 29 percent over the fourth quarter of 2011 increased by 26 percent. This is due first of all in line to the most important corporate division, Devices & Services. Here, sales fell by 40 percent, from 7.087 to 4.246 billion euros back.

The reason: With 82.7 million mobile phones shipped was also achieved a long-time low. A year ago this figure stood at 108 million pieces still well higher by almost a quarter. As is especially the dramatic fall in smartphones to call. Here are only 11.9 million copies were sold, compared to the prior-year period declined by 51 percent. At the same time fell here in addition to the average selling price of 146 to 143 €.

Austria is a hard disk before delivery?

As the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF) reported on its Web site, verlautbarte the Austrian Minister of Culture Claudia Schmied (SPO) today announced its desire for a new copyright law in their country.

In the course of a meeting held in the capital Vienna press conference on ‘Book and Copyright “she said, that” there [was] absolutely necessary to amend the copyright law “. Therefore, according to ORF could, if it were up to their will, a copyright levy on hard disks are still implemented in Austria this year.

For this purpose they have been discussions with the Minister of Justice Beatrice Charles picked up by the People’s Party, with which they would share the theme of “engagement” approach. The justification for this claim, they cited the revenue decline from the so-called ” empty cassette remuneration “for the past seven years. These should be dropped since 2005 by more than half of what may well judge of the Supreme Court in Austria, the Supreme Court, was not entirely innocent. This was the time of collecting societies namely a desire to extend the “levy on blank tapes” turned on hard disks and other media. In January of this year was another such dispute comes before the Supreme Court .

Smith emphasized the importance of a fair remuneration for artists who should be able to achieve with their performance income. However, this is problematic topic to deal with not only the Ministry of Culture and needed a solution without this in the light of a socio-political context. Finally, the intellectual property, according to Smith a “tough question of distribution” is.

“Call of Duty ‘reaches peak of the boom?

Although the “Call of Duty” series is the latest part of “Modern Warfare 3″ once again gone on record in this regard and even hunting with blockbuster movies like Avatar could compete , seems unlimited flying high now complete.

As reported on Gamasutra, citing analysts at Macquarie Equities, the latest installment based on the long-term sales success does not build on his previous album “Black Ops”. Although Activision has announced no specific sales figures, but is the latest installment of the series in the same period a total of 4.3% fewer copies have sold. In particular, in March, according to analysts, sales had plummeted in comparison with its predecessor by more than half.

PiperJaffray analysts blame the casual players responsible to acquire and use their titles now less hardware mainly in the multimedia sector would. Michael Pachter of Webush Securities other hand suggested that the importance of new titles has increased because of their relevance – and therefore fewer users buy more “old” games.

May seem, however, in view of the basically unchanged game principle, which has experienced since “Modern Warfare 1″ only slight touch-ups, have used a certain saturation of the market, especially since the game evokes among fans for several offshoots criticism among other things, on balancing. Activision seems to be the conscious, however, and has for the next part, “Black Ops 2″, which this year is to appear as promised relief.

Microsoft is looking for developers to bring Skype to the Web

The Skype team is looking for passionate developers, haci oriented teamwork and self-motivated to help bring the Skype experience to the web. You will have the opportunity to integrate Skype’s current solutions to support web services tailored using the latest Microsoft technologies. The result of your work will be used by hundreds of millions of grateful users around the world.
So says the job that Microsoft has recently published, where programmers look for the goal of making Skype in a web application. It’s something that already rumored last year , but now made ​​official with this job.

A Web-based Skype would solve the gap between versions of Windows, Linux and OS X, and at the same time increase the service support for any system that can open a modern web browser. Also simplify the task of acquiring credits for certain types of calls, but will require technologies like HTML5 to make calls or video calls with the same ease as in native applications.

Anyway, a Web-based Skype will not be all bad. I can only see advantages for the moment, although of course we will see the result as it is released publicly.

AppZapp, application to not miss the best deals on the App Store

Watch for new products, price changes, etc … both the Mac App Store and the App Store for IOS is almost impossible. With more than 450,000 applications for IOS and as many thousands for OS X is not uncommon for a price change to get new users or appear beyond those we see as highlighted by Apple. So what better than using AppZapp, an application almost essential to keep up.

AppZapp is an application for IOS from which we can see the best seller lists, the most liked, additions, etc. … now we can see which are free or have dropped in price, changes in price have suffered from both upward or downward, and to see the applications of our friends taking a social touch to the application. Not forgetting that we can filter by devices so that if we only Mac applications AppZapp discard the iPad and / or iPhone.

In addition, you can download for OS X Sync AppZapp with which to synchronize and view our applications for IOS downloaded. The application is free and we can be very useful for those Sunday afternoons where you do not know what to do. perhaps, after a look to find them a good deal AppZapp. It is the only way to know deals, there is also Store News but if I think of the most complete.