A slide for marketing by the industry partners AMD, which concluded that the Mainstream Platform named "Trinity" was leaked to the web. In it, AMD claims that the next generation APU offers up to 29 percent higher productivity performance (read: CPU performance), and up to 56 percent higher visual performance, as compared with the current generation (Llano). At least the graphics performance figures seem consistent with the results of initial tests.

Samsung recently launched the external optical drive that is claimed to be the thinnest in the world.
The device has a size of about 14 mm or 18% thinner than conventional DVD writer. Its weight was about 8% lighter than similar devices, so it is an ideal accessory for ultrabook who do not have the optical drive as well as tablet PCs.

With names Samsung SE-218BB, it has ability to read and write to CDs and DVDs. Specifications offered are able to use to write CDs up to 24x and 8x speeds for DVD. 

Besides the computer, this device can be used on a tablet PC with Android operating system 3.1 to above. Even later, support for Windows 8 RT was possible.

Apple has officially announced the WorldWide Developer Conference (WDC) in 2012 which will be held at 11 until June 15 at Moscone West, San Francisco.

"During the five day conference, later the developers will learn about the future of IOS and OS X that allows them to create innovation in the delivery of new applications," said Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing.
This statement was also once reportedly denied rumors that the iPhone 5 will be launched at the conference.

SNSD was recently announced to be the new models for Intel.

According to an industry representative on January 9th, Intel recently selected SNSD as their next advertisement models, and will soon make an official annoucment.
The terms and conditions of the contract have not yet been revealed, but it was said that Intel plans to use SNSD for advertisements and promotions for the whole of Asia.
Intel revealed their new graphics integrated processor at the ‘CES 2011′ in Las Vegas on January 5th, and announced that they are currently preparing for a massive shift in their marketing scheme, with SNSD allegedly being their main models.

Android growing popularity skyrocketed in the wilds of the operating system. Not surprisingly, the latest operating system made ​​by Internet giant Google Inc., Android OS was quickly adopted by some manufacturers as the rapid growth of smartphone mobile (smart phone) globally.

The appearance-based mobile operating system Android, or Android phones are often called, is often touted as the biggest competitor first iPhone released by Apple. Its existence until now is often matched with the only smart phone Steve Jobs made ​​it.

Users were confused until now, what advantages each of these touch-screen smart phone? Who is superior? On the operator side, Android is considered more troublesome than the iPhone.

Samsung Galaxy S III and iPhone 5 will probably undergo a fierce battle in 2012. Two highly anticipated smartphone is reportedly already will be launched at the close.
Recent leaked Galaxy S III showed a formal invitation that may come from Samsung.Launch time is listed in the city of London on May 22, 2012. There has been no confirmation from Samsung, but once they've made sure the Galaxy S III was introduced in mid-year.




 "Successor to Galaxy S II will be revealed at a separate event in the first half of Samsung this year, adjacent to the availability of commercial products," Samsung said in a statement some time ago.

DG News Service - Tim Berners-Lee has said that the problem with companies like Facebook and Google is not that they collect vast troves of data about their users, but that they don't share with them what they learn from it.

Berners-Lee, who is often described as the inventor of the World Wide Web, was speaking out against the U.K.'s proposal to allow government intelligence to monitor digital communications. Berners-Lee is a U.K. native.

He acknowledged that users reveal deeply personal information about themselves through their use of the Web.

"You get to know every detail, you get to know, in a way, more intimate details about their life than any person that they talk to, because often people will confide in the Internet as they find their way through medical websites ... or as an adolescent finds their way through a website about homosexuality, wondering what they are and whether they should talk to people about it," he said.

But rather than pushing companies to stop collecting the information, Berners-Lee suggested technology companies should show more restraint in how they use the information and should share it with the users themselves.

"We're moving towards a world in which people agree not to use information for particular purposes. It's not whether you can get my information, it's when you've got it, what you promise not to do with it," he said.

In a scenario that some privacy experts saw as naive, the technology pioneer said an insurance company, for instance, could agree not to use personal details gleaned from Facebook to set the most profitable premium for a would-be customer, even if one of its agents was connected to the prospective customer on the social network.

The problem, according to Berners-Lee, is that "social networking silos" like Facebook and Google "have the data and I don't. "One side of this that I think gets insufficient airing is the value to me of that data," Berners-Lee said.

Berners-Lee said location data from his mobile phones could help him track his exercise habits, for example.

It's hard to say if reams of unstructured data would help individuals less tech-savvy than Berners-Lee, however. Justin Brookman, director of the Project on Consumer Privacy at the Center for Democracy and Technology, was skeptical. But Ryan Calo, with the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford University, said he thought the data could be quite helpful to individuals.

The privacy experts agreed that releasing the data would educate consumers on the issue of Internet privacy, which can seem abstract.

"It's good for companies to make their information available to people. But from my point of view it's just so people have an awareness of what sort of information companies have about them, and collect, and track and keep," Brookman said.

Calo thought seeing the data companies have collected on them would clarify privacy questions for many users.

Compared to "reading generalities about the information that a company might have about you, which is what privacy policies are, being able to access the information that the company does have is much better," he said.

In order for users to draw the kind of useful personal insights Berners-Lee pointed to, data from one source would have to be compatible with data from another. As an advocate of the "open Web," Berners-Lee often argues for data formats to be standardized.

Standardizing data formats would also make it easier for users to opt to leave a service whose privacy practices they don't like, Calo said. That could spur "privacy competition," in which Web services companies would compete for users based on the quality of their privacy policies. The result could be more consumer privacy.

Calo said, by not addressing consumer concerns about privacy, Berners-Lee was "missing a selling point of his idea" of an open Web.

Source : www.computerworld.com

Google Drive is poised to give IT departments yet another headache to deal with.

Drive, the name of Google's data-syncing cloud storage service that's rumored to launch sometime next week, will likely offer many of the features of popular storage apps such as Dropbox and Box, including 5GB of free storage with upgrades of up to 100GB of storage for users willing to pay for service.

But there's a big difference between other cloud storage apps and Google Drive, which is namely that the former are run by small, independent firms while the latter will be run by one of the largest companies in tech and will thus be harder to avoid. Forrester analyst Frank Gillett says that the ubiquity of Google applications such as Gmail, YouTube and Maps will make it much harder for enterprises to block Google Drive than Dropbox or Box.

Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom may not be going to trial after all on charges of copyright infringement.

That's according to the judge in the case, and the development comes after months of drama involving the now shuttered filing-sharing website.

U.S. District Judge Liam O'Grady made the proclamation while hearing arguments about deleting Megaupload member files, which are enormously expensive to maintain.

The judge said a discussion about wiping Megaupload's database could be premature and that a more relevant question was why Megaupload had not been formally served with criminal papers by the United States.

At its heart, Mac OS X is still an operating system designed for desktops and laptops. Sure, Apple brought over a number of features from the iPad, but OS X is still based on windows, menus, folders, and the like. With Windows 8, Microsoft has bigger aspirations: Windows 8 will run on your desktop and your laptop as well as on your tablet, and it's unlike anything that has come before it.

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