Google improves its algorithm

Google has launched a new offensive against sites "on demand" or "farm content" generated to meet the interests of users but also sometimes the only advertising, announcing that its search engine sites retrograde "poor quality
".
"We launched a sizeable improvement of the algorithm in our rankings - a change that affects 11.8% of research," said Thursday Google engineers, Amith Singhal and Matt Cutts, the official blog of the group.





"This update aims to demote poor quality sites - sites that bring little value to Internet users who copy content from other sites, or simply are not very useful," they added.
"At the same time, it will provide a better ranking for quality sites, those with original content and information such as research, detailed studies, thoughtful analysis."





This offensive responds to criticism from users who detected a deterioration in the quality of search results on Google, and extends an initiative last month.
The California group had announced a first change in its calculations to purge its search engine websites more or less containers, called "webspam.
He had also announced its intention to identify the "content farms", a derogatory term that has not used this week for copying sites scattered information answering specific questions and, according to critics, does
have the sole reason to exist than to attract advertising.



Google did not specify which sites were targeted.





At the New York Stock Exchange, the action of Demand Media Group, a company that claims to be treated "content farm", lost juqu'à 4% before recovering and finishing up 1.59
% (at 22.96 dollars), after assuring not to be concerned.
"It is impossible to speculate on what impact the changes," assured the blog of Demand Media a leading member of the company, Larry Fitzgibbon.
"But for the moment we have not seen a big impact."





The operation of Demand Media, as some subsidiaries of Yahoo and AOL internet, based on the use of armed freelancers asked to produce pages on topics sought by Internet users, but little presence on the web and
strong advertising potential: the return on advertising investment that determines the topics for writing or videos are published.
Eventually Google, whose initiative was broadly welcomed by the media, takes the risk of arbiter of quality.





"People do not like that Google has so much power and control over Internet," says Greg Sterling, an official site SearchEngineLand, told AFP.
"The contributors (the sites 'content farms') have the impression of being devalued."
WebmasterWorld on the site, many webmasters have complained of a sudden drop in traffic, as the user "rowtc2.
"For over four years that I manage a site, many hours of work, I add content and value, I get links ... and now ... a 29% drop in traffic
(...) it is rather disheartening! "he writes.





"Google is in a difficult situation", says Mr. Sterling.
"Its success has spawned an economy with freelancers who produce items designed to generate publicity and do well in the search result.
At the same time, "Google has been criticized from all sides because he has too much spam, and realizes that if he does not resolve this problem, its existence is threatened."

Sony Ericsson Relies On its Phone Console To Go Head

The manufacturer, which holds only 3% of the mobile market, introduced its Xperia Play in Barcelona. He wants to become number one of Android, the operating system from Google.

Rikko Sakaguchi discreet caresses the arch of his mobile, looking lost in the wave. "We are the only ones to have a recognizable design with closed eyes" , releases the creative director of Sony Ericsson, a Japanese Silicon Valley the sweet smile. The joint venture of the giant video game and mobile equipment manufacturer presented this week at Barcelona's gem: Xperia Play . With this device a new kind of Android, the company that holds only 3% of mobile market hopes to make a comeback. Once very strong in the upscale brands and technologies through Sony (Cybershot cameras, Walkman ...), the manufacturer has lost ground as and when the multimedia phone was supplanted by the phone "smart". "It's our big announcement in a decade. We intend to be a great actor on Android smartphones " , claims Steve Walker, marketing director of the firm. Nothing less than number one, to Samsung , and this year!

The rumored already before the release of a "PSP Phone", that is to say, a smartphone embedding a real console PlayStation Portable. After six years of study, and the opening of an innovation center in Silicon Valley, it's done, even if Sony Ericsson denies this appellation: "The Xperia is certified play Playstation, but it does is not a Sony product. It is built on an Android platform whose code is open " , says Steve Walker. Through the control panel console that slides and fits like a keyboard on the touchscreen, it can be used to play the same games on a PSP. But you can also download games designed by developers for mobile or PC. "This is the ultimate format of convergence" , said Rikko Sakaguchi, who claims to have already made agreements with a score of publishers to adapt their applications . 'We have a fifty titles in March during the marketing of the Xperia Play, then the ecosystem of games will grow at the speed of Android is to say, with news every day, " boasts Does he said.

Xperia NGP cons?

For its part, the parent company Sony is pursuing a project that is complementary, the launch of the PSP "NIM" , scheduled for the end of the year. This new version of the Playstation Portable will be connected over 3G, but instead to purchase a monthly package the user should pay money to buy a specific level of additional game or to play online. "NPM The PSP is a very terminal upscale, this is not the same kind of audience that the Xperia Play " says Rikko Sakaguchi to mark the difference. According to IHS, the game will be lost for the portable console from Sony: "On the smartphone, not only are there lots of games, but in addition it is cheap. This combination is riveting centerpiece of specialized terminals such as the NPM. " Besides it will be less convenient to call on a console, be it mobile. Therefore, IHS expects sales of 22.8 million units only after four years, while the PSP has sold 30.7 million in the same period.

Xperia Play will be launched in April in France, where Sony Ericsson is in discussions with all operators. It costs 600 euros naked and will probably sell at a price of 200 euros with a subscription. The CEO Bert Nordberg, interviewed by Le Figaro , said he considered that sell fewer than 2 million would be a failure in his eyes . If success is to go, Sony Ericsson will have to ask the network performance to meet the players with higher-end games: why not replicate some of the content servers in proximity, or negotiate with operators a stream priority for some of their subscribers? "In the future, it will in any case a better quality of service" , concludes Rikko Sakaguchi.

Low Cost IPhone: Yes, No, Maybe

If Apple can study hard to create a low-cost iPhone, this is a project among others, that will not necessarily achieving, "says New York Times.

The rumor of the iPhone nano, or at least offered an iPhone at an attractive price had rebounded with an article in the Wall Street Journal arguing details which suggested that the project was well under way but said he could not yet see the day.

The New York Times returns to the subject and suggests the other hand there is a project of low-cost iPhone from Apple, but it is only a working track among others and society still has no plans to make a commercial product.

The priority now is to finalize the next version of the iPhone (iPhone 5, we had confirmation at MWC 2011 that will carry out a module NFC), expected this summer, and there would be no other launch of mobile terminal provided.

Some advantages, many problems.

As we indicated at the mention of the article in the Wall Street Journal, such a project would not necessarily be very interesting for Apple and would bring more problems than benefits. He would lose profitability and could lead to fragmentation of the platform iOS one of whose forces currently is precisely its cohesion, both software and hardware.

While a low-cost iPhone help Apple increase its market share but the company has always targeted a particular niche, that of high-end and it has not ventured to relocate elsewhere, simply lower the price older models as and when the new ones arrive.

Make volume is not necessarily a panacea for a manufacturer of terminals and examples of Sony Ericsson and Motorola are there to remind.

Thales Successfully Launched Spaceship for ATV-2

The second vessel ATV (Automated Transfer Vehicle) of the European Space Agency successfully launched by Arianespace from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou (French Guiana). Called "Johannes Kepler", in honor of the German astronomer and mathematician, the second flight model of the ATC will join the International Space Station (ISS) after eight days of autonomous flight and dock, fully automatic mode .

The ATC "Johannes Kepler" will bring experience, equipment, spare parts and propellants as well as food and oxygen for astronauts currently residing in the ISS.

Thales Alenia Space plays an important role in the development and production of this highly sophisticated vessel. Under the leadership of Astrium Space Transportation, supervisor of the ATC industry, Thales Alenia Space is responsible for the design and manufacture of integrated cargo module (ICC Integrated Cargo Carrier), the passive thermal control, unit of electrical power systems and tests of all communications equipment for telemetry, tracking and command (TTC) of the ATC. Thales Alenia Space has also taken part in the integration and testing of complete spacecraft and the campaign of preparation for the launch in Kourou.

The ICC, manufactured by Thales Alenia Space plant in Turin (Italy), is based on a cylindrical pressurized module of 4.6 meters in diameter and 4 feet long, with a weight of 4 tons. At one end, this module receives an integrated docking with the ISS and the other refueling system propellants. These two elements, derived from systems already operational on the Russian Soyuz and Progress ships, were provided by the Russian company RSC-Energia.

Nvidia Shows Quad-Core ARM Tablet UPDATE

Nvidia shall, after huge: Even in late summer to provide a preliminary Tablets with the quad-core ARM combi processor " Kal-El to be, have, of about five times faster is reputed as the currently available Tegra 2 (Tegra 250). 2012, a Kal-El's successor, code-named Wayne appear, in turn, provides the double performance. 2013 Nvidia plans then "Logan" and 2014 "Strong" and promises to last approximately 75 times the performance available since late summer of 2010 Tegra 2

Nvidia led the MWC a working Android-Tablet with Kal-El on before. Tegra 3 it was marketing director Nick Stam not call the technical. It was not yet decided what name the processor in the market would come under.

The demo Tablet counted in the show a video in the resolution 2560 × 1440 down to its native resolution and gave it out simultaneously on a monitor connected via HMDI full resolution. Another demo showed a complex game, were simultaneously shown on the attached monitor websites - apparently without any lag.

An approximately fivefold acceleration Nvidia promises to the currently available Tegra 2 On board next to the four cores or a graphic unit with 12 cores, which will have about three times the graphics performance of the ULP GeForce Tegra 2 - twice the processing power and three times the graphics performance, Nvidia added to five times the overall performance. The battery power is to keep each of the predecessor within limits: Nvidia promises very effectively deal with the available charge.

According to Nvidia's first tablet with the quad-core processor such as in August on the market. Kal-El smartphones Nvidia expected until year end - this may get a slightly slimmed down version.

The site Anandtech.com has learned that Kal-El in nanometer technology made 40 is still and ARM SoCs huge for silicon area about 80 square millimeters evidence - more than, say, the AMD E-350 (Zacate), who at 75 square millimeters of two CPU cores, 80 DirectX 11 Shader and a video accelerator underneath. The AMD CPU however still needs a chipset, while ARM SoCs the Tegra and I / O units (SATA, USB, PCIe) stuck like.

Nvidia compares the CPU performance of Kal-El on the basis of the benchmark core mark (11 352 points) not only with the Tegra 2 (1 GHz, 2 × ARM Cortex-A9, 5840 points), but also with the four years old x86 Processor Intel Core 2 Duo T7200 (2 cores, 2 GHz, 10 136 points). Accordingly, therefore, would be Kal-El faster than the 2-GHz mobile processor.

However, while Nvidia's Android code for Kal-El with the GCC 4.4.1 and has produced many improvements mark the core (-O3-mcpu = cortex-a8-funroll-loops-falign-loops = 8-fgcse-sm-fno- tree-vectorize-MARM / heap / 4: Pthreads), allowed to the Core 2 Duo only an older compiler (GCC 3.4.4 (cygming special, gdc 0:12 using dmd 0.125)-O2-DPERFORMANCE_RUN = 1-lrt / 2: Pthreads ).

With more optimized code trumps but in the c't laboratory even one atom of D525 (2 cores / 1.8 GHz), the Kal-El with 11 311 points mark-core (4.4.4-10 GCC-O3-DMULTITHREAD = 8-DUSE_PTHREAD - lrt / heap / 8: Pthreads). In the comparisons with core marketing is also considered that there is a multi-threaded benchmark is - the performance potential of future multi-core ARM's can only use words with carefully tuned software.

"1000-Percent Success" - Images Of Comet Tempel 1

Washington (AP) - Astronomers in luck: After the spectacular flyby of NASA's space probe "Stardust" with comet Tempel 1, astronomers are thrilled.
"We have achieved all our goals", Joe Veverka, professor at Cornell University was pleased and head of the mission on Tuesday (local time). He spoke of a "1000-percent success." After all, the 72 high-resolution images that were taken by the probe at the meeting provided, the scientists already initial findings.

"Stardust" is a temple had approached on Tuesday with a speed of 10.9 kilometers per second up to 178 kilometers. Researchers have now plenty of material thanks to the photos to find out what happens to a comet after it has circled around the sun.

The new images will be compared with recordings from the year 2005. At that time, the probe 'Deep Impact' the heavenly body to pay an official visit, fired a projectile at the comet and ripped a crater so. "This is exciting because we had the first opportunity, attend twice a comet," said NASA project manager Tim Larson.

In the new images of this crater is seen with a diameter of 150 meters for the first time. The images show that the craters are composed of relatively soft material, since much of the time airborne dust and rocks slid back into the pit. "The comet has healed some of whom say," said NASA astronomer Pete Schultz.

The new photos also show parts of the comet, which were not photographed in the previous mission. Besides the images, the spacecraft collected information on the composition and quantity of dust particles that are secreted by the temple first The astronomers hope to gain information such as the celestial body is formed millions of years.

The visit to the comet Tempel 1 was the last "Stardust" mission. Since 1999 she has been traveling and now has hardly any fuel. Previously, the probe had already visited the Anne Frank and comet Wild 2.

European Space Shuttle Takes Second Attempt

Kourou (AP) - The European Space Shuttle, "Johannes Kepler" must take a second attempt for his flight to the International Space Station. The first launch attempt was aborted in the night to Wednesday.

A sensor reported shortly before the end of the countdown to a lot of liquid oxygen into the tanks of the Ariane 5 launcher

Then start the test was terminated automatically. In the many spectators who wanted to watch the spectacle of a platform, five kilometers away, there were long faces. Late on Wednesday evening there will be at the spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, a new attempt.

The astronauts aboard the ISS have to wait longer now. Will bring you the unmanned supply ship more than seven tons of equipment and food, including private mail, chocolate, canned fish and fresh clothing.

It is the 200th Start an Ariane 5 Of all the anniversary flight there were problems. The leaders of Arianespace, the company operating the rocket bore the failed attempt to start but with text. The work will attempt to re-start with 90 percent certainty, said a spokesman. Clock at 18.50 local time (22.50 German time clock) to lift the rocket. If all goes well, it is the freighter type ATV settle for about an hour later at an altitude of 260 kilometers in space.

Expected in eight days, ie on 24 February is, fix the transporter in the Russian part of the space station. The same day, actually also the launch of a space shuttle was planned. But a danger that it becomes close to the space station does not exist. The U.S. space agency NASA has announced that the shuttle until 25 Starting in February, when the Ariane actually takes off on Wednesday.

The German astronomer Johannes Kepler, named after the space shuttle is to remain in orbit until early June. Several times he will raise the ISS in time, as they steadily lose altitude. After about three and a half months, the astronauts the freighter laden with garbage. On his way back to Earth, he will burn up control over the South Pacific.

Adobe Flash 10.2: Soon Available On Mobile

On an Adobe event at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona announced the software manufacturers that will be released in a few weeks Flash 10.2 for mobile phones.
Adobe Flash 10.02 for PC and Mac has recently been published already. The mobile version is the "next weeks" will follow, so Adobe.

Adobe Flash 10.2 contains, inter alia, the new feature, Stage video, a hardware acceleration for video playback. This will playback the graphics chip, and thus diverted to accelerate. This has the advantage that the CPU load and the battery of mobile devices are no longer enormous suffering from the use of Flash. However, should this not be possible to all mobile devices with. Adobe speaks specifically of devices with Google's latest Android OS 3.0 alias Honeycomb for Tablets.

Astronauts land on Mars Sandbox

The "Mars 500" experiment has reached its climax: the participants of the simulated space flight landed after 250 days on the Red Planet, now exploring a simulated surface. Researchers are excited, but the toughest test of the crew is still to come.


Russia's Mission Control Center has seen some heroic deed: The Control and Management Centre of the Russian space agency Roskosmos resides in a massive construction in Korolyov, a town 30 miles north of Moscow. Here were Soviet and later Russian radio contact with Moscow's space station Mir. From here they set up today in connection with the ISS, the International Space Station.

Dozens of television crews push their way past the memorial plaques on Monday, reminiscent of Soviet cosmonaut feats: the flight of Sputnik in 1957, the first satellite. Or Yuri Gagarin, the nearly 50 years ago came the first man into space and orbited the Earth in a spaceship.
Today, however, directed the attention of media representatives from around the world not in the sky. It applies only to a few kilometers away, Institute of Biomedical Problems (IBMP) - and the most highly esteemed sandbox experiment in the world.

Greater interest than in real space missions

"So many journalists we have otherwise not even in real space missions," said Mark Bela Kowski of IBMP. Six men rehearse at his institute since the summer for the flight to Mars, three Russians and two Europeans and Chinese. Eight months in complete isolation from the outside world behind them, eight months without sunlight.

Radio messages reach the team's 20-minute delay, as if they really floating thousands of miles away from Earth. 520 days is to take the experiment called "Mars 500", from which Roskosmos and the European Space Agency ESA insights for future manned flights in the interplanetary space hope.

Windows Mobile 7: Internet Explorer 9 And Kinect Integration

A few days after Nokia and Microsoft have announced at Smartphines their collaboration, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona glimpse into the future of Windows Mobile 7, where a. During the year, all WP7-per smartphone update capability to include multitasking and integration with Kinect received one. Ballmer has the Internet Explorer 9 on Windows Mobile also announced.

Internet Explorer 9

With Internet Explorer 9 for smartphones heats Ballmer the browser war continues. The browser will run on devices with the same browser engine as the desktop version. With features such as hardware acceleration and support for HTML5 video wants to outdo the competition. As part of the keynote was Windows Mobile-chief Joe Belfiore, the demo of a simulation with animated aquarium fish. While the fish hinschwommen afloat on a device with WP7 IE9 before him, was the comparison device significantly behind in performance. Microsoft had it do not take the iPhone with Safari as compared are pull, which caused the audience expected to laugh. Playing a HD video on the films website IMDB, with the hardware acceleration should be demonstrated failed, however, the unstable internet connection.

Integration with Kinect

In addition, featured Ballmer Belfiore and the integration of Windows Mobile 7, Microsoft's controller-less Xbox 360 dashboard Kinect in view. In the future it will be possible for WP7 smartphones are used as accessories for Kinect games. Demonstrated, a game where the player has control over the Kinect absorption balls. The balls were in turn generated by two other players with WP7 smartphones by tapping the touch screen. A live demonstration of Microsoft guilty permanent, just exactly when the feature will be available.

Multitasking

Also announced the long-promised multitasking support, and integration of Microsoft's SkyDrive in Office for Windows Mobile 7 has been before. Multitasking was not the first release allows for third-party apps, because you could guarantee that no acceptable battery life. You might do music third-party apps running in background. For this, a task manager is introduced as a new element of the user interface, allowing for a change between open apps. The Task Manager is accessed by pressing the back button.

SkyDrive and Twitter

In addition, integrated for private users Microsoft SkyDrive online storage in the mobile version of Office. So that documents are readily available. Users can also share order to collaborate on documents with other users. In the "People Hub" next to Facebook and Twitter to be integrated.

Justification of the Nokia collaboration

Announcements for concrete cooperation with Nokia had no Ballmer, nor the later also retrieved on the keynote stage Nokia CEO Steven Elop. Stand firm also does not come exactly when the first Nokia phones with Windows Mobile 7 on the market. So far, all it means is that in 2012 the first units will be presented in different price ranges. Ballmer also announced that Nokia services such as maps and location-based services integrated into Bing and are available on all platforms. Both CEOs stressed the benefits of cooperation, Elop as "natural partnership" praised. Ballmer said that would benefit from the cooperation, the entire ecosystem of Windows Mobile.

"Provider friendly"

Ballmer and Elop recruited in Barcelona by the network operators, the devices offer significantly to their success or failure of a platform with. Over 50 providers around the world have already smartphones with Windows Mobile 7 in the program. So far there are nine devices with Windows Phone 7 "We want the reputation of Nokia as a provider-friendly range of manufacturers would in the future," said Ballmer. Many mobile phone companies have had in recent months the Google Android breakthrough helped. (Birgit Rieger from Barcelona / dpa, derStandard.at,

MacBook Air: Delayed Start - Apple Is Using Intel's Sandy Bridge

The MacBook Air from Apple is having a height of 17 millimeters as one of the slimmest netbook, but it is crucial not only design but also performance. The current generation is still on Corre 2 Duo processors from Intel, but now have new platforms on the market that perform better in terms of energy efficiency and power output. According to reports, the update will take place in summer.

According to various reports, Apple is scheduled to update with the Sandy Bridge platform in preparation, one, original release was supposedly meant for March, the current problems with the Intel chipset , however, have caused delays for - next date: June. This does not apply to MacBook and MacBook Pro line are those whose update will still take place in spring.

Windows 7 Tablet with Android 2.2

The Asian manufacturer ViewSonic will, in the coming week a new Android - Smartphone imagine, the card can be operated simultaneously with two SIM. At the same time a 10 inch tablet will go to the start, the Android and Windows 7 installed than both.

Two rather unusual Newcomers has to offer ViewSonic in the next week at the Mobile World Congress. Both models will also be designed to unite private and business use in a device. The Tablet and the smartphone solve their own way.

Two numbers - a smartphone
First there is the V350, dual sim phone. It works with two SIM cards, which means you can surf on two different phone numbers and. In this way, private and business calls can be from one device from working.

The operating system is Android 2.2 Froyo used. The display is large 3.5 inches and has a resolution of 480 by 320 pixels. On the back is a 5 megapixel camera with auto focus. V350 stuck in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity, also can expand the internal memory with a microSD card.

Win7 and Android in one device
The ViewSonic ViewPad 10 Pro is the newest Tablet of the manufacturer. It connects the two operating systems Windows 7 and Android 2.2 in one device. According to requirements, the user can start two systems and one of use. It is Windows 7 rather run the business do well, while Android is intended for entertainment and communications more.

The screen is multitouch-capable and has 1024 by 600 pixels. The device is an Intel processor works with an unknown clock speed. Wireless connections can be added via WLAN or Bluetooth, you can also surf the mobile with the 10Pro.

More information on LG's 3D Optimus

So far, LG to its 3D-Smartphone, the award given Optimus 3D, only a few details: But just the start of the Mobile World Congress is one now to answer your requests and chats about the inner workings of the smartphone. Inside a Texas Instruments' OMAP-4 CPU is dual-core and 1 GHz. As the PowerVR graphics solution built LG SGX540. The display uses again a size of 4.3 inches and supports stereoscopic 3D. Optimus 3D to convince the customers with "four times more video decoders, as the products of the competition."

What that exactly means in practice is still open. Presumably, the LG Optimus recognize eight different video formats. Likewise, LG promises about the "double graphics performance" comparable Konkurrenzprodukute. HDMI is the way 3D content can also output to other screens. And file transfer via DLNA is possible.

Pleasure Meets Reason

Nissan has collected for the Electric Car Leaf much credit. And rightly so. Finally, the Japanese five-seater, the first family-friendly electricity generation from large-scale production that can be quite regularly buy from the dealer. Despite all the praise for the clean and bold implementation - for pleasure and passion, it has not passed. For the performance figures are at best average, and the design is not dictated by the quest for beauty, but the wind tunnel.

That they can do it differently, the Japanese show now at the Geneva Motor Show. There they discover the clean sportsmanship and pull the cloth from the razor-sharp study Esflow. Drawn as the next-generation sports car 370Z offers the two-seater all that may lack the Leaf Moreover, with a long hood, pointed snout and flared fenders, he arouses desire, and with two sports leather seats and gold velvet interior, he promises that nobility, the Leaf with the soft look at the prices had cheap plastic. He also ennobles the driver to the pilot, because you will enjoy one with the machine, and thanks to the wraparound windshield views as by the sight of a protective helmet.

The performance deliver what promises to the design. Although Nissan is silent on the exact dates pending. But because the Esflow because of an aluminum chassis should be relatively easy and work on the rear axle, two electric motors, it is to create the sprint to 100 kph in less than five seconds. For quick sprint ability is matched by an extremely agile handling. Finally, the battery packs distributed in the coach not only the weight is well balanced. In addition, each electric motor is controlled separately, so the torque can be distributed quite variable. The trip by Esflow is indeed fast, but not necessarily a short pleasure: After all, Nissan promises for the lithium-ion battery has a range of 240 kilometers.

Officially Esflow is only one study, with a little pleasure in the world of reason to bring the Japanese do. But so entirely without ulterior motive has not designed the Nissan sports car. Chief strategist Francois Bancon has electric models announced further: "The Leaf is just the beginning," he says, and is adjacent to 2014 or an electric delivery van, a sporty and luxurious small car for the noble sister brand, Infiniti, and a fourth vehicle in view, the similar unconventional fails as the Nissan Juke. It's quite possible that the Esflow already a first indication there. (tg)

Opera Browser Brings IPad

Opera Mini is already there since April for iPhone and iPod Touch , the existing version also runs on the iPad. The special version of Opera will iPad but technical capabilities of the larger screen, use the. At the same time, new version for iPhone and iPod Touch, and Android, Symbian, J2ME and BlackBerry appear. Details on the new versions of Opera Mini and Opera Mobile for Android, Symbian Opera called so far. CEO Lars Boilesen stressed only to our colleagues at Macworld UK, the Opera browser for mobile devices in the premise always follow, as possible resources and bandwidth to require little like this: "A browser change probably never the world, but we do not stop try it. "

Opera reduces the amount of data needed and the demands on the processor of the smart phones by Opera Mini, the pages accessed on our servers in a specially optimized version holds up for mobile phones. The alternative approach might be the main reason why Apple even distribution of Opera Mini from the App Store allows. Apps, the functions in the iOS duplicate integrated software rejects otherwise from Apple. Opera Mini did last spring, however, relatively easy to obtain approval for the App Store is now one of the most popular apps. According to Opera downloads, iPhone users were already one million calls in 24 hours. Overall, more than 100 million mobile subscribers per month, the Norwegian browser use worldwide.

HP Pre3 And Veer: New Smartphones WebOS 2

After the purchase of Palm HP announced last night now find a tablet with two new smartphones the new Web OS 2.1 on well, the HP Pre3 and Veer.
HP Pre3: 1.4 GHz CPU, Touch & Buttons
The HP Pre3 is a dedicated business phone with a fast 1.4-GHz processor and the updated operating system webOS 2.1, which once came from Palm. The features of the phone features include a 3.58 inch wide and multi-touch capable touch screen with a resolution of 480 x 800 pixels.

For text input can be both a virtual and also use a mechanical QWERTY keyboard. On the data side supports Pre3 WLAN (b / g / n) with hotspot feature, HSPA, GPS, and Bluetooth 2.1 and USB 2.0 interfaces. The internal memory is either fitted with 8 or 16 GB. At a removable dispense HP - as earlier Palm - still. Completing the amenities of a 5-megapixel camera in the rear and a VGA camera for video calls in the front.
The HP Pre3 will be available from summer 2011 in Germany. A prize called the manufacturer yet.

Google releases Chrome 9 with 3-D function

Google Chrome released 9 . The new version of the browser brings new features with some, including WebGL support , Instant Chrome and the new Chrome Web Store. In addition, security vulnerabilities have been eliminated in some Chrome 9.

WebGL allows hardware-accelerated rendering of 3D graphics directly in the browser without additional plugins. The possibilities of using Google WebGL demonstrated by some examples on his website. The demos also work in other browsers, such as the current beta of Firefox 4 .

Another innovation is the Chrome in Google Instant Instant ajar function. So the browser loads frequently visited websites during the user types in the URL. In addition, Chrome also shows search results right away when the set engine supports it. The instant function is not active by default, but must be turned on only in the options. Google points out that the function logs information about the browser usage.

Chrome 9 continues to provide access to the Chrome Web Store. The marketplace is a browser add-ons like extensions and themes and apps for the Chrome OS available. The Chrome web store was only for users in the U.S. released first. The global availability soon to "follow".

In addition, the developers have made a total of nine vulnerabilities. One of them has Google as critical. It was found from Reddit users who had played the Browser Game Z-Type. Details of all fixes for vulnerabilities found in the Chrome release notes.

The update to Chrome 9 is usually installed in the background automatically. In addition, Chrome 9 is now available for Windows, MacOS X and Linux for free download .

Analysts urge Nokia to cooperate with Microsoft

According to a report in the New York Times could the giants Nokia and Microsoft to prepare for closer cooperation in the smartphone market: it is the details of Nokia 11th February in London to give. Both run Microsoft with its latest operating system Windows Mobile 7, with Symbian and Nokia, Maemo and the music MeeGo currently behind in the smartphone market.

Nokia's in the smartphone crisis newly appointed CEO Stephen Elop came from Microsoft to the Finns and adopt "other ecosystems to" at least not closed. The debate sparked initially from the analyst T. Michael Walkley of Canaccord Genuity, which holds a system change advisable. Shortly after, the colleague Adnaan Ahmad sat with an open letter to Stephen Elop go one better.

Nokia and Microsoft have been cooperating with each other on a small scale. Thus, Nokia licenses Microsoft applications like Microsoft Office and Exchange bought and put them appropriate software on their own for an E series smartphones. Conversely, Microsoft's search engine uses data from Navteq Bing - a company that had purchased Nokia 2007 year.

It would be conceivable, for instance, that Nokia Bing search engine on its smartphones as a preset anchors. Kuehne observers but also Nokia smartphones with Windows Mobile 7 for possible - even though the Redmond smartphone OS is not currently sets the clock. Meanwhile, deep Elop will reportedly convert Nokia's top management, the Board should be re-occupied several positions on