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The Internet has information on starting dates of sales Smartphone Motorola Droid 2. She has published a resource Android and Me, referring to a very reliable source informed. Recall, Motorola Droid 2, as is easily understood from the title, is designed to replace (or at least supplement) the predecessor – Motorola Droid. He made a slider with a 3.7-inch touch screen and sliding QWERTY keyboard. The device also comes with 1 GHz processor and built-in camera with a resolution of 5 megapixel.

Smartphone Motorola Droid 2 – 23 August, and immediately running Android 2.2

According to the source, release Motorola Droid 2 in the U.S. operator Verizon Wireless will take place only in late August. According to earlier data, start selling to take place in July, but now, according to Android and Me, it was decided to release a new product only on 23 August, but once that is running the new version of the Android operating system under the number 2.2. Its most noticeable improvement, as is known, will support the technology Flash. Presumably, the cost of Motorola Droid 2 will be $ 199.99 with a contract, although officially it is not confirmed.

The company Sony has no plans to release a version of its portable game console PlayStation Portable, with 3D functionality. The statement was made Vice President of Sony Worldwide Studios Rod Scott (Scott Rohde) in response to earlier rumors that the Japanese manufacturer will present a 3D version of its portable console PSP as a response to a similar console Nintendo 3DS, announced this month in the framework of E3 2010 .

Portable Console Nintendo 3DS, recall, has two screens, and, with the help of one of them, you can view three-dimensional images without special glasses. However, the rejection of the release version of PlayStation Portable, with 3D functionality, of course, does not mean that Sony does not pay attention to this trend. According to Scott, Rhoda, a Japanese company only focuses on production of equipment for viewing stereo at home, and it is important to be at the forefront in this particular category.

Sony Ericsson has announced that the company Skype has released an official distribution applications for Symbian smartphones Sony Ericsson Satio, Vivaz and Vivaz pro. Users of these devices can now easily enjoy all the features Skype, using the GPRS / EDGE, 3G network or Wi-Fi. The application is available for download directly from your mobile phone from page skype.com / m, as well as the portal Sony Ericsson Play Now.

Skype now on Symbian smartphones Sony Ericsson

Skype for Symbian allows users to:

* Free make and receive calls from Skype users around the world
* Save money on calls and SMS
* Merged in chat several interlocutors or exchange messages in the mode of one-on-one chat
* Send and receive images, photos, videos and other files
* To see when the subscriber is online / offline
* Call for online subscribers of Skype, or send text messages
* Import contacts from the phone book to Skype

Some surprising news came from the camp of Intel. It is likely the world chipmeyker going to cancel their sixth series of chipsets, designed to interact with Sandy Bridge processors in the performance of LGA 1155, supporting Interface PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect), informs resource HotHardware. That is, Intel supposedly is planning to remove from its chipset functionality, over which he began working for almost 20 years ago.

Perhaps chipsets for processors Intel Sandy Bridge will lose support for PCI

The reason for this decision may be Intel obsolescence interface PCI, whose speed and bandwidth does not meet modern requirements. It’s no secret that many of the new products almost close in performance to the upper limit bandwidth PCI bus is 133 Mbps. And further technological progress requires more high-speed interface.

On the other hand, many manufacturers of expansion cards still use the PCI bus to connect their devices do not require high bandwidth. But first, they can successfully move to a much more modern and high-speed interface PCI-Express, the third generation of which (PCI-Express 3.0) must be completely standardized in the next six months. And secondly, motherboard manufacturers for processors Intel Sandy Bridge may choose to implement support for the PCI bus through the controller.

Google has announced the waiver of the automatic redirection of search queries from mainland China to Hong Kong its servers, the official blog of the internet giant. From now on, obviously, will have to decide yourself. Recall the practice of the search queries from the censored service Google.cn redirected to the resource Google.com.hk in Hong Kong, where there is no censorship, was introduced the largest Internet company in March.

Google has made concessions to the Chinese authorities under threat of losing licenses

Thus, Google responded to an attempt in mid-December 2009 a wave of cyber attacks on servers, corporations, organized as assumed by Chinese hackers, with the approval authorities of the Middle Kingdom (although the official Beijing denies this). Writing also reversed its decision Google made the threat of license revocation Internet Content Provider (ICP), in the absence of which about any business in the Internet space in China may not be the question.

Note that the term of the existing ICP license expires on June 30 and in case of refusal of extension (which in all likelihood, the Chinese authorities have hinted) Google will be forced to withdraw from the perspective of the market. In this statement the Internet giant said that the company was forced to agree to the terms of the authorities of China as a site Google.cn Celestial residents enjoy a number of services, as well as access to information.

The company High Tech Computer announced updates for your device HTC Hero, which is sold in the European region. Operating system Android 1.5, which is based device now will be upgraded to a newer version of Android 2.1 (recall at the moment the latest version of Android 2.2). We are, incidentally, has already written about the release of Android 2.1 update for HTC Hero in early June, but then it appeared only in the Taiwan market. In this case, the American version of this smartphone for CDMA networks has received a new version of the OS earlier.

At the same time, Russia and Ukraine also applied to the European region and Smartphone HTC Hero there too there is a new version of the software platform. In “Live Journal” Russian units HTC already has detailed instructions for installing the update Firmware Over The Air (FOTA). We also know that the updates for versions of HTC Hero, which are sold by the operators T-Mobile UK and Orange in arrears and will be released no earlier than the end of the month.

Graphics Card NVIDIA GeForce GTX 465, which was the third decision of the company from Santa Clara based on 40 nm chip GF100, was quietly brought back in late May, and has since appeared many versions of the accelerator by almost all major manufacturers. However, some NVIDIA partners are still developing their own versions of this adapter, which is today the youngest product lineup Fermi.

GeForce GTX 465 version from the company Club 3D – a reference design, plus the frequency of inflow discharges

Among these producers was quite well-known Dutch company Club 3D, prepares his version of GeForce GTX 465-based reference design NVIDIA, whose clock frequencies are not different from the values of runoff. Characteristics of future graphics cards include 352 core CUDA and 1 GB of GDDR5 memory with 256-bit interface, as well as video output Dual DVI and HDMI.

In addition, there is support for DirectX 11 technology, OpenGL 4.0, CUDA, PhysX, and 3D Vision Surround, and clock speeds are equal to the accelerator 607, 1215 and 3206 MHz for the GPU, shader and memory, respectively. We add that the version of GeForce GTX 465 from Club 3D is now available for pre-order price of around 291 euros.

Speaking to VG247, Ubisoft employee Drast Justin (Justin Drust) spoke about the details of the action movie Ghost Recon: Future Soldier. As a basis creators have chosen a PC, yet it is here started a great series. He believes that this will help to return the series to the sources. However, Justin has not said whether the PC version different from the others.

Interview with developer of the game Ghost Recon: Future Soldier

Drast stressed that the authors rely on the popular serials today Gears of War and Halo, but nevertheless do not want to deprive your own shooter tactical component. Developers want to find a balance between the hurricane-shooting and strategic depth.

Another feature of the militants will be the presence of many real-life prototypes of weapons. Creators of the project is constantly in contact with the authors of inventions and gradually add in the draft new devices. This explains Justin duration of the development of this project.

Released Ghost Recon: Future Soldier held in the first quarter of 2011. Action will be released on PC and consoles (PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii, DS, PSP).

All well-known company from the U.S. Redmond announces record sales pace of its latest operating system Windows 7. According to the analytical units Microsoft currently sold 150 million copies of the OS. The current indicator and a half times higher than in the month of April. It is estimated the company is now in the world every second sold seven copies of Windows 7, and in the near future the pace of sales may increase even more in connection with the planned release of Service Pack Service Pack 1, which will push the availability of buyers for an early renewal of the operating system.

Such a brilliant future allow Microsoft to claim that by year-end sales of “Seven” made a mark of 200 million copies, proving once again that Windows 7 is the best-selling product in company history.

Recall that Windows 7, released October 22, 2009, replaced a failed Windows Vista. When you create a “Seven” all defects and flaws of Vista have been addressed and thoroughly reviewed, so that improved performance, stability and usability of the system, thus the popularity of Windows 7 is growing every day, and record sales of the OS – proof of this.

As expected, Western Digital has announced volume shipments of 2.5-inch WD Scorpio Black drives up to 500 GB. The new model WD Scorpio Black 500 GB (WD5000BEKT) expanding the range of 2.5-inch hard drive at a speed of rotation of 7200 rev / mini SATA interface for mobile systems.

These intensive and high-speed drives, created with the calculation for use in laptop computers, first-class, allow to disperse laptop without compromising silence and the duration of its battery life. With these capabilities, these drives are well suited to work in compact desktop PCs, external drives, gaming systems and blade servers.

Models WD Scorpio Black have a rotational speed 7200 rpm, 16 MB of cache and up to 500 GB. This allows you to collect computers, having one side capacity and speed of a desktop PC, but on the other – the convenience and portability of a laptop.

As the producer, the application of technologies such as IntelliSeek, which calculates optimum seek speeds to lower power consumption, and SecurePark, which helps to reduce power consumption by automatically unloading the heads during idle, allows this drive to consume the same power as drives with speed 5400 rpm.

Thanks to technology WhisperDrive with modern algorithms to unit heads, WD drives are one of the quietest among the currently available have 2,5-inch hard drives. WD’s ShockGuard protects the drive mechanics and platter surfaces from shocks during shipping and everyday work. SecurePark technology parks the recording heads when the drive spins, stops or is turned off. This ensures the recording head under any circumstances will not touch the disk surface, thereby improving shock tolerance, and increase the reliability of his work in the long run due to less head wear and drive.