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As part of IFA in Germany, Sony announced new details about Sony Tablet S tablets and Tablet P, formerly known as S1 and S2, respectively. Both the tablet based on a dual-core processor, NVIDIA Tegra 2, have on-board Wi-Fi modules and 4G (exclusively for the network operator AT & T), and are running Android 3.1. By the time of release, as stated in a press release, the operating system will be upgraded to Tablet version of Android 3.2.

Implementation of the tablet Sony Tablet S, equipped with a 9,4″ TruBlack display will begin this month in the U.S. and Europe. Price of the device in the U.S. online store and retailers will be $ 499,99 (c 16 GB of internal memory) or $ 599.99 with 32 GB of memory on board. The cost of new products in Europe will start from 479 euros.

The second tablet Tablet P with two 5,5 “Sony TruBlack displays will be on sale in Europe in November with the price of 599 euros.

VIA has recently published a white paper, which compares the performance of dual-core Nano X2 1,2 GHz Intel Atom D252 as a single-threaded and multi-threaded applications. The VIA D252 surpassed in all tests, providing better performance in different benchmarks (22.9% and 39.2%).

The biggest difference is observed in the benchmark SPECfp2000, which measures the performance of single-threaded applications. In multithreaded applications also benefit Nano X2 is undeniable: they receive an average increase rate of about 35% when running on a processor, VIA.

How many of you know, Atom D525 has been designed primarily for use in nettops and other platforms with support for Hyper-Threading. Recall that the Nano X2 is available with the Q1 2011, but was used only in multiple systems.

HP in conjunction with the official announcement of AMD Llano has expanded its line of consumer and business laptops with 11 new models that use the latest AMD processors accelerated series A4, A6 and A8, providing a good level of performance at an attractive price. AMD chips A series combine the core x86 and powerful discrete graphics on a single chip.

Entertainment series HP Pavilion dv consists of three models – the 14-inch Pavilion dv4, 15,6-inch dv6 and 17-inch dv7. They offer support for features such as HP CoolSense, HP True Vision HD webcam and HP Beats Audio (dv6 and dv7). HP says that graphics performance solutions to more than twice the previous generation integrated graphics. HP Pavilion dv6 cost starts at $ 600, and Pavilion dv7 – from $ 700. Notebook dv7 Pavilion dv6 and should go on sale in July.

More budget series HP Pavilion g calculated on the average user, and everyday uses. It also consists of three models – the 14-inch Pavilion g4 with an initial value of $ 450, 15.6-inch g6 with an initial value of $ 500 and 17-inch g7 with an initial value of $ 500. In selling the device should be available in the U.S. in July.

Notebooks HP ProBook outwardly generally repeat the earlier solutions based on AMD and Intel. As a 14-inch ProBook 4435s and 4436s, and 15.6-inch 4535s can be based both on 2-core processors, A4-3300M (1,9 GHz and 2,5 GHz – Turbo Core) and above, and at 4 Nuclear-up to the A6-3400M (1,4 GHz and 2,3 GHz – Turbo Core). Devices can have drives from 250 GB to 750 GB, equipped with the support of 3G (EVDO or HSPA +). Laptops are endowed with a reliable painted aluminum body, multisensory panel and an integrated HD-webcam.

Finally, the 14-inch laptop ProBook 6465b is equipped with an accelerated processors A8-3510MX with operating frequency 1.8 GHz (2,5 GHz mode Turbo Core), as well as the possibility of installing a semiconductor storage capacity of 128 GB. 15.6-inch 6565b offers the same choice. Solving a series of ProBook b also have an aluminum housing coated with HP DuraFinish with increased durability.

The cost of HP ProBook series b starts with $ 680, HP ProBook Series s – from $ 520. Those and other professional units will be available in the U.S. later this month, starting on 27 June.

Consumer Notebook Series HP Pavilion dv-and g-and business-solutions series ProBook s can also be equipped with discrete graphics in addition to the integrated, which may be included in the mode of AMD Dual Graphics to use the integrated GPU in games and off at work undemanding applications. AMD Image Enhance Technology and AMD Perfect Picture HD are designed to dynamically improve color and contrast and realistic color display, making video more smooth and rich.

Microsoft has announced the availability of beta versions of the first service pack for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.

Recall that the first service pack for Windows 7 does not contain any fundamental innovations. This update includes fixes that were released during the time that has elapsed since the release of the OS, as well as some other patches, correcting errors and improving the stability of the system.

As for Service Pack 1 for Windows Server 2008 R2, it includes two new virtualization technology – RemoteFX and Dynamic Memory. Technology RemoteFX provides an opportunity to remotely manage the system, while maintaining the contents of any remote PC screen, including full-screen video applications based on Silverlight, 3D-applications. Dynamic Memory Technology allows administrators to Hyper-V allocate the available memory on the physical host, and from there dynamically reallocate it to all the virtual machines that are working on it.

Press office of the company SPARKLE Computer Co. announced the release of a graphics card NVIDIA GeForce GT 220 based on 40-nm chip GT216 with 48 stream processors.

The model of SPARKLE GeForce GT 220 1GB DDR2 Passive (code SXT2201024D2G-NMP) has a blue PCB, created with the use of capacitors with solid electrolyte and endowed gigabyte of DDR2 memory with 128-bit interface. This video card is equipped with a passive cooling system with a large aluminum radiator and a copper heat pipe, and is characterized by reduced energy consumption by 20%.

Accelerator is compatible with DirectX 10.1 Shader Model 4.1 and OpenGL 3.1, supports the technology NVIDIA PhysX Technology, NVIDIA PureVideo HD Technology, and NVIDIA CUDA Technology, and also fully compliant with the Microsoft Windows platform 7. On the frequency indicators novelties accurate yet, set retired to the rear panel output consists of ports DVI and HDMI.

Microsoft took another step in enhancing the competitiveness of its search engine Bing – the software giant is teaming up with service Wolfram Alpha, which issues a search query is not a page of links, and direct response. So-called “computational mechanism of knowledge” ( “computational knowledge engine”) – is the development of physics Volfrema Stephen (Stephen Wolfram). The transaction will lead to optimizing the results of Bing in categories such as nutrition, health and mathematics. Initially, cooperation will focus on the North American market. Bing since it launched in May this year, increasing gradually regains his share. According to Experian Hitwise, in the U.S. service owned 9,57% of the market search services – by 0,6% more than in September (8.96%). However, in the dominant position Google competitor’s success is hardly affected: the company holds 70.6%.

To give a direct answer, Wolfram Alpha “on the fly” searches on the open and licensed databases. Users can get information about simple facts, such as the height of Mount Everest, or convert one value to another. It is also possible to collect different portions of data into a single result, for example, the country’s GDP. The information base is compiled and managed by employees who monitor so that it contains records could be correctly interpreted by the system and displayed on a screen. As stated Wolfram Alpha, a partnership with Microsoft will allow the latter to take “tens of thousands of algorithms and trillions of pieces of data, introduced in the search results Bing. Redmond Corporation notes that will be very popular to use information about nutrition and fitness, as 90 million Americans each year, in selecting a diet.

Collaboration was made possible after the October decision Wolfram Alpha open access to its API (Application Programming Interface – API). API, which allows third-party developers to create custom applications for a particular platform, recently gaining popularity among web services. Computers Internet Blog says thet Facebook and Twitter also use them to enhance interaction with users outside of their sites.