The company Bloom Energy has introduced a new development called the Energy Saver – solid oxide fuel cell that can convert almost any kind of fuel into electrical energy. The level of pollution from burning fossil fuels in the Energy Saver compared to coal-fired power plants is lower by 67%. The development was originally created for the Mars program of NASA.

Each installation size approximately as the passenger car, and is able to provide electricity for about a hundred houses. In collaboration with Bloom Energy is interested in such companies as Google, Coca-Cola, Staples and eBay, the headquarters of which was a presentation design – an event visited by even the Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger.

By the way, Google, despite the fact that the Energy Saver was announced just now, uses a similar setup has a half years. Pleased with the cooperation, the Internet giant reported a significant reduction in energy costs.

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On the Internet a video that proves that the plug-in Adobe Flash 10.1 is not so terrible as it malyuet Steve Jobs. To test the new version of the plug was taken androidofon Nexus One; for 17 minutes in a browser, a video was played c YouTube – battery during this time the village only 6%. In theory, when the WiFi connection charge Nexus One is enough for playing one or two films that, in general, not bad.

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At the peak of the company Yota "Comstar intends to deploy its own network of the fourth generation in dozens of settlements, Moscow region, reports RBC daily. Initially planned to deploy 40 base stations, WiMAX, each of which cost $ 50 thousand

To implement the project, Comstar will use not only their power, but also the infrastructure of the MTS. The stations will have to work at frequencies 2,5-2,7 GHz.

"We will soon obtain the frequency of WiMAX in the suburbs. Firstly, we are planning to provide wireless access to major highways and shopping centers outside the Moscow Ring Road, as well as in satellite towns. In such places, we expect to provide WiMAX services and private and corporate customers "- says the president of Comstar Sergey Pridantsev.

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Federal Monopoly Service (FAS) revealed no violations by the Ministry of Education and Science in the competition for the supply of computers to children with disabilities, Lenta.ru reports with reference to Kommersant.

In December 2009, Russia's largest manufacturer of personal computers Kraftway filed a lawsuit in which he argued that the Ministry of Education deliberately makes conditions of competition such that the tender has won one of the suppliers of technology Apple.

In particular, the Ministry of Education requires the availability of computer module Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR, that is all notebooks Apple, and the possibility of 20-fold approximation images on the display. However, as in Windows, and Linux image can only bring in 16 times, while Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard is fully suitable for submission of claims.

At the competition has already allocated one billion rubles from the state budget, within three years of funding for the project is expected to reach 2,5 billion

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From the main page Skype disappeared once two versions of Messenger – Skype Lite (version for mobile phones) and Skype for Windows Mobile.

In an official statement said that the decision to discontinue support for these versions were made in accordance with how they coped with their tasks. Thus, according to developers, they do not meet the requirements of users as it turns out, for example, a version for the iPhone, was particularly great popularity (about one million uploads from App Store).

Of course, you can continue to use "thrown overboard" version, but it is worth bearing in mind that the updates for them to go no more. Moreover, the same version for WM is still nowhere to the end has not disappeared – it just removed from the home page, you can download it from here.

I think that ending support for platforms Windows Mobile (it is now Classic) is relative – because at the end of this year will be released Windows Phone 7.

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Company Valve announced a completely new version of the game service Steam, which aims to give new impetus to the PC-games. The new version includes new tools for managing libraries and monitor results. The developers even decided to abandon Internet Explorer engine and switched to WebKit, which operate Safari and Chrome.

"We have a Steam client hundreds of changes in the interface, performance and functionality, taking into account any feedback from users, – said the director of the group Steam Valve John Cook (John Cook). – For example, we have replaced Internet Explorer on WebKit, which influenced the size, stability and performance. With the release of a new version of Steam, we are fully prepared for another year of development with confidence.

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Adobe has released a third beta version of Flash Player 10.1 for Windows, Mac and Linux. First claim to support integrated graphics Intel GMA 500, so that manufacturers can be taken for testing. The new version of Flash finally start working on netbooks, which previously had no Flash, including the very small models such as the Sony VAIO P.

A beta version is tested on ASUS UL20A with GMA 4500 graphics chipset. Successfully reproduce the video resolution of 1080p. Much difference with previous versions of Flash have been reported. In another model, ASUS EeePc T91MT graphics GMA 500, plugin successfully tested with a resolution of 720p, while now it's full videos, not a slide show, as it was before.

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Charlie Kindel (Charlie Kindel), coordinator of the group developing Windows Phone, reported on how the principles will be the development of the new OS. In particular, he wrote that to "fix the energy, ability and attention of developers and manufacturers to the platform and ecosystem for the cross-cutting principle.

Among other principles, the development of the following theses:

"Every decision we have taken should take into account what impact it will have on end users.

We will do a little, but very high quality. It is better not to do some sort of functionality than to implement it badly. There are always new versions.

The creation or documentation of the API without a clear understanding of how it will be used. API, created by the principle of "do, and then we shall see," almost always futile, and unnecessarily burden the system.

We will build on the shoulders of giants. Wherever possible, it is better to integrate than to build.

We will try not to show our organizational boundaries developers.

Some results of these approaches can be seen now, such as the integration of Windows Phone 7 with Xbox, Zune and Microsoft LIVE. The principle of "do not create the functionality of poor quality" has already manifested itself in the fact that there WP7 some functions that are in WM6, such as multitasking and advanced file system.

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Representatives of the Philips press conference was told of the forthcoming issue of the media player running Android 2.1. He will be called GoGear Connect and will be largely similar to the current flagship player Philips Muse, but in addition, will receive GPS, Wi-Fi and a bigger screen diagonal of 3.2 inches and a resolution of 480 × 320. There will also be player trackball style Nexus One, 8 GB memory card reader for microSDHC and HDMI-out, allowing to issue signals to 720p. Thus, the functionality of the player come close to the latest smartphones on Android.

Sales of new items will begin in July, and the price is still unknown.

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Professor of automotive Southern Illinois University, Dave Gilbert (Dave Gilbert) has detected an error in the electronic system of automobiles Toyota, responsible for the acceleration. Earlier cases had already been observed spontaneous acceleration of Toyota, with the computer system in such situations does not recognize any mistakes. The problem was seen in four models Toyota: Lexus, Tundra, Avalon and the Matrix.

Dave Gilbert was able to identify a defect in the electronic system of the car, due to which on-board computer can not detect and prevent short circuits, leading to a sharp acceleration. The reason for the closures could become rust, humidity and some design flaws. Sometimes it leads to driver errors, sticky gas pedal and jam the gas pedal to the mat. Board computer simply does not capture such circuit and does not write the error code for further diagnosis. Gilbert was able to demonstrate this error in the laboratory.

Official representatives of Japanese companies recognize this problem before, but so far argued that it was not in electronics. President of Toyota USA even admitted that he never for a moment admit the possibility of errors in the electronic system. The newspapers even published ads, emphasizing the perfection of electronic filling Toyota. Now a lot of work will be the engineers of the Japanese company, and her lawyers.

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