Dell's plan is to surf.

Mobile Internet devices are considered to be the growth segment in the IT market, ranging from the iPhone to Netbook. Somewhere in between, gerüchtelt the "Wall Street Journal," Dell wants to position itself - with a Google Android-surfboard for Chen pocket.

 

The Wall Street Journal is one of the most commonly better-informed newspapers in the world and not necessarily in the category of rumors Catapult: When the "WSJ" unconfirmed news ventilated, commonly derived from the "well-informed circles." What might be something that someone wants to launch - or the mouth could not hold.

This time it is equal to "two people who saw early prototypes" and "WSJ" could tell what Dell because supposedly planning. The device resembles Apple's iPhone, but is slightly larger and does not have phone functionality, but is only for the use of the Internet. As Google's Android operating system serving platform, as the chips were typical smartphone ARM CPUs installed.

In short, Dell plans said to surf boards for the pocket.

The wheel would be the Americans can not just reinvent. "Mobile Internet Device (MID) is a 2007 from Intel already defined, moderately successful device class, in which up to now a product range of Nokia's Internet tablet 'N810 on gigabytes M528 Atom surfboard to Hagenuk rather fußlahmen Pocket Surfer many tummelt, which has hitherto hardly a customer as a necessity for everyday digital discovered. Of the also haves mobile media players with Internet features differentiate the devices primarily through the cellular connection to the network - most small Surfgeräte need a W-Lan. The MID concept was developed by major market players, but so far little and pushed Dell could trust such a thing for larger buyers to make interesting.

A third Plaudertasche from Dell enterprise circles is the 'WSJ' Reporters will still have set that the device later this year on the market could be - if Dell does not plan to let fall. This, we speculate pertly once, it could also depend on how the response to the so-prominent "geleakte" message out: Often, the transition between rumor launched a targeted marketing message, and perfectly smooth. A cheaper option, the potential demand of a technical device to find out there is very little.

Cheap Windows in Japan sold out.

Onslaught on the successor to Vista: Not even two days after Microsoft Vorverkauf very affordable prices announced, is the advance version of Windows 7 are already sold out in Japan.

 

Is Microsoft's low-cost offering for Windows-7-reservation only a short flash in the pan? In Japan, at least it seems so. As
Engadget reports, there were all available copies of since Friday offered Vorverkauf version of Windows 7 are already sold out on Saturday. Apparently, the software company so seriously, only a limited number of the new operating system at a bargain price.

On Thursday last week, the company had announced it would provide the software package Windows 7 Home Premium Pre E heavily discounted offer. In Germany, for example, be interested in the software from 15 July for EUR 49.99 order. The sales launch on 22 October to year end will be according to version 130 Euro to 300 Euro is due, from 2010 it will probably be more expensive.

The almost 50-euro Vorbestellerangebot is a real bargain - with a big hook. According to Microsoft, because it applies to "mid-August 2009 or while stocks last". How much of this inventory will be the Group has not, however, betrayed.

The price attracts

For Japan, where the Windows-7-Vorverkauf already on 26 Began in June, Microsoft's stock was obviously too low. All 17 participating in the dealer had the sale on Saturday Relisting must Engadget writes. What numbers are on the counters are gone, the dealers might, as Microsoft itself, is not betrayed. They had only vague announced that it had to be "significant" quantities.

In the United States and Canada, where the ticket has already begun, it seems from a sell-off or even a shortage yet no sign to be. Quite obviously, but Microsoft has a special price action exactly the desired effect and tempts many PC users to be Windows 7, even before the actual launch to order. That should be the Windows Group speculate.

The early buying readiness ensures that the new system right from the start on a wide installed base is built. Above all, it allows the group soon after the launch success stories with pride, a respectable number of users can be presented. That is missing the company after the introduction of the much beloved today to Windows Vista.

Lenovo makes buttons larger.

"Remove" and "Escape" are now twice as big as before, at least on the keyboards of some notebooks. The PC manufacturer Lenovo dares this design change with a small revolution - and is also planning the next.

 

It may be a minor detail to listen to, but for the PC industry, it is a small revolution, which PC manufacturer Lenovo has now announced. On some keyboards, the new Lenovo notebooks are two buttons designed larger than usual: "Remove" and "Escape". At first glance, the change hardly. But Lenovo's manager David Hill seems to focus on his anger. "Every time you herumbastelt on the keyboard, the people are nervous," says Hill.

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Lenovo Notebook: More room for escape and removal

Well, therefore, it was dealing with the changes are not made easy. Almost a year of research invested Lenovo developer, at the end with a simple insight to be able to wait. "Do you know how many times per week the 'Entfernen' button use? We know it. There are on average 700 times," says Hill. This was "Escape and deleting the two most commonly used keys on a keyboard."

This result owes it about 30 volunteers, which is a so-called keylogger software on their computers to install them. The program drew little hair on which keys to use them as often. One result of the experiment, it is also that the two keys in the height and the width is not stretched because this is the natural movement of the finger better.

Who needs "pause"?

Experiments, the fundamental design of computer keyboards to change, there were already numerous, and all have failed. The first IBM PC, the developers were about the shift key then compared with the normal typewriter layout built a bit smaller and a little moved. The result was an outcry of indignation. Already in the next version was submitted to a standard PC-compatible keyboard attached.

In the nineties caused processes against keyboard manufacturers for another wave of design experiments. The rigid layout of the keyboards was ascribed to that great writer on the carpal tunnel syndrome, a painful nerve injury at the wrist, ill. It was the era in which many companies to new keyboard concepts researched. Some of them were proven better suited for quick typing, as until now the usual QWERTY keyboard with letter order.

Their design was already more than 100 years, little changed since then. And if they do, then were introduced as new features continue uncritically from one generation to the next does. For example, special keys that have come from the time when you worked at terminals, their performance in terms of large computers. Why do we need today about a "pause" - or "roll" button (unless you are programmer, is moving in Basic or Unix worlds)?

Without a crumb case

A key but there is still a continuing source of concern to him ready, betrayed Lenovo Manager Hill news agency AP. The Caps Lock key is a remnant of frustrating the typewriter era, which always results in erroneous entries lead. This switch actually superfluous, it should one day go to the collar, and proposes Hill again but warns that there could be resistance from users indicate that their Caps Lock key from unexplained reasons, have fond.

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An innovation of the new Lenovo keyboards, but hardly anyone is likely to disturb the reduced space between the keys. Finally, the Hill, many people were at work on the computer to eat, which also saves time. To prevent the crumbs on the keyboard while the case is, the designers have the spacing between the keys is minimized. The cars would be fission of small dimensions speak. So nothing can fall through and be nobody transition. That nobody can have something to suspend.

Hot water will cool calculator.

It sounds absurd: Instead of using air to cool future computers with super hot water cooled, the waste heat of the computer be used wisely. Environment and operators which will benefit equally.

 

Hamburg / Zurich - It could be a revolution for computing are: Hot water will cool the computer giant, is treated with heat entire building will be heated. This project provided researchers at the
International Supercomputer Conference 09 (ISC 09) in Hamburg before. With the new technology can be of enormous computer power of a high around 40 percent, said the American computer specialist with IBM.

In a pilot project should now be explored how well such a system can actually work. Researchers at the company to build jointly with the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH) in a three-year research project, a first prototype under the name Aquasar.

The heat will be deducted for the heating of the buildings of the university used. The aim of the CO2 balance in comparison to traditional mainframe systems by up to 85 percent.

Ten times hotter than a hot plate

One of the biggest problems with the powerful super computers is their rapidly growing demand for electricity. In many installations use only 50 percent of the absorbed energy for their work, the other half is used for cooling the processors used. They create a computer chip on average ten times more heat in the same area than a conventional hot-plate, it was said.

To set the temperature of these chips to below 85 degrees Celsius to keep so far are usually air or cold water as the coolant used. Cooling is possible, however, with 60 degree water, said the researchers. The big advantage of this is that such warm water as a carrier of thermal energy directly can be used with conventional cooling water was at about 20 degrees is not so easily possible.

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THE blogs: Heating with data

"The energy is the biggest challenge of the 21st century," said Dimos Poulikakos, professor and project leader at the ETH Zurich. Speed and performance of computer systems should therefore no longer the only criteria.

At the International Supercomputer Conference, which takes place from 23 to 26 June the first time in Hamburg, was energy efficiency of high performance computers is one of the central themes. "It is with increasing computing power becoming increasingly difficult, the energy intake in the high-performance computing to rein in," said IBM's Dave Turek manager in Hamburg. A challenge for the next time it will also be software programmed so that they benefit the better use of computer understands.

To archive your digital photos properly.

Digital age quickly: lame hardware, software is not compatible, file formats are changing. The trade magazine "c't" betrays simple tricks that can increase the likelihood that one's own digital photos in ten years still can view it.

 

The archiving of digital photos is always a backup, but its role goes far beyond. This is not about the short-term hedge against system failures, but rather to make the readability of the files for decades ensured. And exactly at this long-term perspective is currently missing.

On the one hand, there is no storage, which in 50 years to still be readable. On the other hand, lacking standards for the structuring of images by means of metadata. New file formats come, old disappear. This cocktail of format and hardware incompatibilities makes archiving so difficult. Only with the right strategies to survive the files for decades. These are shown in the following article series.

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While a once-burned DVD disc is no longer accidentally overwrite it can see the disks at different: Once angestöpselt to consider negligence to terabyte-sized disk archive to completely delete it. Therefore, really important data on DVDs tend to safer housing. But soon, the traffic of the photos the sensible use of this medium in question. That takes you prefer the external hard drive as storage media.

This should only be possible to connect to the computer, if there is something to be archived, and otherwise are sheltered in the cupboard. And before the connection is worth a brief idea of the software environment: Is there perhaps any automatisms that are unquestioned in a newly connected hard drive to create it? Perhaps the newly installed media player that likes to make useful and spontaneously synchronize the music collection should like, if it detects a large storage medium? This is meant nice, but for a controlled archiving counterproductive.

RAID - actually a technique to the data using redundant storage on multiple disks to increase - is in long-term archiving rather discouraged. Because the problem is often when synchronization with the new machine: The change to a different RAID controller can make all the data useless, same goes for changing the operating system.

Control is better

Users who have both their data archive as well as secure, already have two copies - a good thing, because redundancy is an important factor in the data.
Our comfortable Windows script helps to fully automatic snapshots of changed data on an external disk drive. As an alternative to this on rsync-based script, many commercial programs. Traps per year only a few dozen gigabytes with a manageable number of folders, it also extends the copy by hand.

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For the archive you want to make sure that not even when burning or when you copy something distorted or omitted. Burning programs offer an option to the media to check, which should be used. When copying to a hard drive can be compared to the additional software. Examples are the Free File Comparison Program, or checksums Windiff program such as the open-source software Jacksum.

As digital media is not forever, they must be regularly reviewed. For DVD media, there are specific test software to ensure the quality of the burned raw data to verify it without error correction can be read. Thus, increasing error rates and identify the data to new media copy, before they may become unreadable. Disks can use the SMART function, the user time before an imminent failure to warn. This feature is only conditionally reliable. Moreover, the SMART function via USB external hard drive is not available.

It is also important for a change of hardware or software to archive their thinking. Before we scrapped his old PC, you should consider whether the new still to all data access. Did he match drives and interfaces? Does the external plate is actually at the port of the new computer? Can new software is still the old file is read or at least the old software still on the new operating system? If not, is Umkopieren Convert or announced before the old to the scrap wanders.

One possibility, in spite of old data formats to preserve, is the associated software, together with the data. The risk that new operating systems, the old software does not accept, you can use the old operating system virtualization encounter. The free VMware or VirtualBox (on Issue-DVD) leading operating systems in virtual machines, where the old application back to life can be. This procedure works only if the virtualization in the future still exist. Such an emulation of software has the advantage that you have to format the files, and longevity of applications need not worry about. It requires, however, that once the operating system used must be meticulously collected.

Windows 7 will soon be ordered.

Microsoft wants old mistakes are not repeated: From mid-July, the Group for Windows 7 Pre contrary, seems to want as quickly as possible as many copies of the new software under the People's will. The lure: meaningful discounts.

 

Munich - It was only in October, the new Windows in the market, you can order it in a few weeks. In an advance action could have customers in Germany from 15.7. the "Home Premium" version for 50 euros secure, the company reported on Thursday in Munich. Who before the official launch on 22 October a PC using the previous version of Windows Vista to buy, get from (tomorrow) Friday (26.6.) To a free update. This is only a handling fee, probably less than ten euros lie. By the end of the year, the full versions at reduced prices also available. How much the system from 2010 will cost, not shared with Microsoft.

For sale starting in October for the "Home Premium" - version for home users around 120 euros payable to "Professional" - version costs 285 euros, "Ultimate" about 300 euros. From the beginning of 2010 prices were higher, the company said, without details to mention. Also on the 50-euro campaign called it not details - of the sale was "as long as supplies last."

Despite the discounts, the price of a Windows Update is still higher than rivals at Apple, where the costs of upgrading the now roughly two-year-old operating system, Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard on the future Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard 29 euros - irrespective of the date of purchase .

Microsoft delivers the new software in the European Union initially without its browser - Internet Explorer - to view the current procedure is not competitive with the European Commission aneinanderzugeraten. Even if you can acquire an update must be for technical reasons, the system re-install.

With Microsoft Windows generated in fiscal year 2008 approximately one third of its total turnover of 60 billion U.S. dollars. The operating system of the software giant is estimated at 90 percent of all personal computers worldwide. Experts see discounts in Windows 7 for a response from Microsoft on the experience with Windows Vista. The introduction of this system about three years ago ran rather slow. In particular, many companies and large organizations waived the transition to Windows Vista and still used older versions such as Windows XP.

iPhone monopoly before Off.

The Telekom subsidiary T-Mobile should soon no longer the only mobile communications provider, which the iPhone can distribute in Germany. The competition makes itself ready. The prices for Apple's multimedia mobile phones are expected to fall.

 

Bonn - the future, in addition to T-Mobile and other telecommunications companies, the new iPhone from Apple 3GS permitted to distribute the manager magazin reported in its new edition, starting on Friday (June 26) is commercially available.

iPhone: The multimedia mobile phone, Apple has established itself as a seller turns

Reason, according to information from industry insiders that the end of 2009 an exclusive contractual relationship between Deutsche Telekom and Apple phased out.

Then could the Apple cell phone even with the competition from T-Mobile to have his. One consequence for the customers: The prices are expected to fall.

O2 is currently upgrading its partnership with Apple in the UK from new and wants to take this opportunity also to penetrate the German market. "O2 has reason to be confident, this time in Germany to the train to come when the iPhone will be released in November," states that from the environment of the subsidiary Telefónica O2.

When the Telekom itself trusted no statements about the next year to the rich. "The partnership with Apple in the long run. That will change nothing until the end of 2009," said a Deutsche Telekom spokesman.

Since the launch of the iPhone in Germany in November 2007, Telekom sells mobile division T-Mobile, the mobile multimedia in Germany exclusively. The customers are in two-year contract with T-Mobile tied. Similar agreements with Apple had AT & T operator in the U.S., O2 in the UK and Orange in France taken. Now run these exclusive partnerships seem all over the world.