10-14 charges: fuel cell for mobile & Co.

“Charger connected” status is the one message that smartphone owners can see almost every day. This is especially annoying if you are traveling and do not have access to a power outlet. The first portable fuel cell is to produce relief.

As the U.S. technology side ‘ Cnet ‘reports, the U.S. chain’ has Brookstone ‘announced plans to bring the first dealer to a portable fuel cell market. The energy source is about the size of a thick smart phone and can be refilled with cartridges that are about the size of a lighter. Energy source is liquefied, more precisely butane.

With that of Lilliputian Systems, an offshoot of the famous Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), manufactured fuel cell can be recharged, for example, an iPhone 4 ten to 14 times, the company said. Suitable is the energy source for all devices with a USB port.

Manufacturers of portable fuel cell, the company Lilliputian Systems

A price for the device itself is not fixed yet, filled with butane refill cartridges that are produced from lighter manufacturers, but will only cost a few dollars. Mouli Ramani, vice president of business development at Lilliputian Systems said that it will cost “no more than a coffee at Starbucks.”

Experts expect the manufacturer Lilliputian, that will be the first buyers of portable fuel cells, the so-called early adopters, then you want to win above all travelers, students and teenagers who spend much time with mobile gaming consoles, as a customer.

There have been some in past attempts to develop such a portable fuel cell, most of them but failed. According to Lilliputian Systems is the only possible thanks to its unique technology. The manufacturer relies on a solid oxide fuel cell membrane, which will have a much longer shelf life than it was in previous devices of this type of case.

Motorola: More smartphones get zero profit

The mobile phone manufacturer Motorola Mobility could expand its sales of smartphones last while, however, the company was not making a profit from it. As the company announced that last quarter ended with a loss of 86 million dollars.

Thus, the situation is hardly different than a year ago, when a loss was recorded from 81 million dollars. Revenues were up only slightly from 3.03 billion to 3.08 billion U.S. dollars despite the increased sales of smartphones.

The number of smartphones sold were in the first three months of this year to 5.1 million. This is after all a million more than in the same period last year. The set of feature phones, however, decreased sales significantly from 4.9 million to 3.7 million.

Overall, Motorola Mobility’s sales in the handset business, thus increasing by 3 percent to 2.2 billion dollars. More difficult, however, had the home division, are produced mainly in the set-top boxes. Here, the revenue decreased 2 percent to 884 million dollars.

Intel Core i5-3570T is the fastest in its class power saver

At the official launch of the “Ivy Bridge” in the coming week, Intel yesterday introduced alongside the eight processors for the desktop segment ( Computer Base Test ) nor introduce an additional model. It is the fastest power-saver in the Core i5-class.

From next Monday, may vendors sell the new “Ivy Bridge” processors officially, after the Intel price list on Sunday evening (29th April) has experienced its update. This is also the start of the now nine models that are in the desktop segment, “Sandy Bridge” replace. For in addition to yesterday conveyed eight desktop processors is still a ninth added.

This is the Core i5-3570T, a processor with a TDP of just 45 watts. The abbreviation “T” at the end of the name stands exactly for this TDP rating, are the “S” variants in the quad-core processors – apart from the normal models with a TDP of 77 watts – but with 65 watts on the market .

In order to realize this low TDP will always be screwed in the first place as the clock. Instead, the Core i5-3570K ( Computer Base Test ) as the flagship of the i5 series at 3.4 GHz, overclocked the Core i5-3570T only at 2.3 GHz in the base. But he has but a very strong turbo mode, which can overclock the model up to 3.3 GHz. It is this turbo mode is turned on the “Ivy Bridge” significantly sharper – see our test – so that the specified 2.3GHz base clock never really rest. In addition, lower TDP but also paid for by the smaller HD 2500 graphics processor with a clock margin 650-1150 MHz.

About the price, the silent side of Intel still made ​​- by pointing out that these products are only just announced on 29 April is officially released. However you look at the pricing scheme of the other power-saving models to conventional processors , shows that this cost is always the same. Consequently, expected 194 U.S. dollars for the Core i5-3570T apply.

What do the new “Ivy Bridge” processor, demonstrates our strong double-test. This first part deals with the processing power , the second part takes a look at the new integrated graphics and clarifies whether it is grown against AMD’s “Llano” an herb.

What should Google Drive to be a winning bet in the cloud?

There is much talk of Google Drive and we all hope to come to light, perhaps this week, maybe next, maybe as I write this post. We expect between forward, with respect or with disappointment early bet on the Google cloud storage … and that’s precisely what is our question of the week.

What should Google Drive to be a winning bet in the cloud?
Need more storage than anyone else? ¿Full integration with the different operating systems? Is it enough to reliability and good price? Possibility to use it easily? There are different approaches when approaching the cloud storage, but so far, one of the most beloved is the Dropbox. If you want to answer what should be the focus of Google, you can do on Engadget Responses.

Last week incitábamos to your memories of love / hate day and I wondered which program detestabais but, however, can not live without it.

The response has been evaluated for an old hated (deservedly hated, especially on Windows) and gave Carlos Jimenez :

iTunes A much needed program as hateful, essential for anyone who has an iDevice. Never stop fighting with him, that if the restoration, if the DFU mode, if I need an iTunes account but, much as it pains me, is the only one who gets search and put cover on any disc, whether both Manolo Escobar as Dubstep. I love being able to replace the amount of resources it consumes, if you look in msconfig, the Windows boot process have at least 4, but quite frankly, no other program administered with so great calidada our iPhone / iPod / iPad

Galaxy S3 and iPhone 5: The most important smartphones of 2012

The most smartphones in 2012, the Galaxy S3 and the Apple iPhone 5, could get brand new housing. Innovative materials to make this possible. So shall the housing of the Galaxy S3 from a ceramic material and the Apple iPhone 5 are made ​​of a metallic material. The advantage of ceramics and the so-called Liquid Metal: The two materials considered to be extremely light yet very robust.

Smartphones are getting slimmer. The design engineers with new challenges. The protective housing must always be designed slimmer, but this not be detrimental to the stability and robustness can. One way to realize this is by use of innovative materials. This could be already on the Samsung Galaxy S3 and the Apple iPhone 5 to be the case. Both manufacturers are working on new materials for the casing of the smartphone.

Source: ibtimes.co.uk
Samsung is set to S3 in the Galaxy, a ceramic material. Corresponding rumors circulated in February 2012 by the Internet. Ceramic is considered to be very tough, sturdy and yet lightweight – properties that are important for the construction of smartphone cases. Similar properties should also have the material for which Apple might have decided the iPhone 5th This should not be a ceramic, but be a metallic material.

So shall the casing of the Apple iPhone 5 construct from a material called Liquidmetal. Liquid metal is an alloy which consists of many different metals and should be superior to conventional materials in many ways. The fact that Apple has an interest in liquid metal, has already been reported several months ago. In addition, there were many reports that Apple is the iPhone 5 put on a back side of metal. The back glass as the iPhone uses Apple iPhone 4 and 4S seems, at least to have had its day.

Amazon’s cloud has become a force in the web

While Amazon is known for most users continue only as an online retail company, the company has developed under the radar a powerful provider of cloud services. Most users will now also supplies from Amazon’s data centers.

An investigation revealed the company Deep Field Networks, according to a report by the U.S. magazine ‘ Wired ‘, that in North America since day one third of all Internet users visited a Web page whose elements are at least partially from Amazon’s cloud. Many providers specify here from, for example, frequently used graphics or video.

The region is caused so now about 1 percent of all Internet traffic from the Amazon’s data centers. This means, in effect, however, that a major failure of the Cloud Infrastructure Group, an essential part of the North American Web severely impaired or even would not be accessible.

Amazon launched its first cloud service called “Elastic Compute Cloud” in 2006. The company was then merged that the already existing capacity could be leased in its own data centers as well as a side business. Meanwhile, the range has grown massively.

The services are for example used to absorb peak loads. For example, switch to the Netflix streaming service during peak hours Amazon’s servers to handle the high data volumes. But powerful virtual supercomputer has been built based on Amazon’s services.

AMD despite high loss than expected

After the market closes in the evening, AMD has announced its results for the first quarter. After the great rival Intel a slight increase in sales but also a drop in profits was reported , were made ​​of AMD, analysts of similar numbers – and were therefore (excluding one-time charge) properly.

With a turnover of 1.585 billion U.S. dollars was one slightly above the expectations of analysts, to the same quarter last year but did not approach you. Last year, sales totaled 1.613 billion in the same period, U.S. dollar, the profit was at 510 million U.S. dollars.

Today, the group must identify the bottom line is a loss of 590 million U.S. dollars. This is totally the new contracts with a contract manufacturer Globalfoundries owed, as they propose a “penalty” of 703 million U.S. dollars to book. AMD had after the 32-nm-problems in the past year some of the contracts to the detriment of the now completely changed by AMD independent contract manufacturers, so that in future APUs 28nm based on other foundries such as TSMC may fall back. Because of the above Globalfoundries guaranteed exclusivity of the amount was due. TSMC, so AMD has announced, for example, is already coming , “Brazos 2.0″ platform – albeit still in an older production – supplied and should not be available this quarter. Globalfoundries is already on the other side with the mass production of the “Trinity”, employs the rumored to be available within weeks .