Apple announced the date of commencement of sales in the U.S. iPad – April 3, said agency Reuters. Later that same month, the launch of the product to market will be back in nine countries: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK.

With the release of Apple iPad have encountered some problems with suppliers that the product of such a level somewhat strange. According to the analyst for Cross Research, Apple will sell this year from 4 to 5 million units, which ultimately adds to the value of the company's stock is $ 1.

Meanwhile, research firm iSuppli estimated the cost of one "pill": $ 219.35 for parts + $ 10 for assembly.

By the way, at the ceremony of the Oscar was presented to the first commercials iPad. In fact, it only cuts from the fact that we have already seen.

Steve Ballmer at a recent speech at the University of Washington spoke positively about the iPhone store and App Store, saying that «Apple has done an excellent job, giving people the opportunity to monetize and commercialize their intellectual property."

Obviously, this is another step in Microsoft meeting to collaborate with longtime rival. The Internet goes a lot of rumors and speculation on how this cooperation can be, but most agree that Apple will make the credit default browser on the iPhone is the search engine from Microsoft – Bing.

Bing now has a good chance to rapidly gain popularity thanks to a deal Microsoft and Yahoo, as well as – if this happens – the army of owners iPhone. For Google, which has already greatly spoil the relationship with Apple because of its mobile platform Android, Association of giant from Redmond and Cupertino would certainly not very pleasant news.

Via AppleInsider

Federal Antimonopoly Service initiated a case against the ISP "Dalsvyaz", part of the holding "Svyazinvest". Antimonopolschiki found violations in too high prices for access to the Internet in several regions of the Far East, particularly in Kamchatka, Khabarovsk and Primorsky regions and the Magadan, Sakhalin and Amur regions. In these areas, the price of access to the Internet ten times higher than in central regions of the country.

Thus, in the Sakhalin region cost unlimited access to the Internet ranging from 1899 to 5299 rubles. per month at speeds of 100 and 500 kbit / s, respectively. In Moscow subscribers of several operators, such as "Akado" pay of 100 rubles. month at a speed of 800 kbps.

FAS such pricing policies considered unreasonable, and "Dalinvestu" face fines of up to 1.5% of revenues, ie, up to 41.25 million rubles.

Meanwhile, the company did not agree with the arguments of the regulator. The representative of "Svyazinvest" Vedomosti reported that due to low population density and climatic and geographic region-specific cost of providing services for access to the Internet are higher by several times.

via Gazette

Site Electronista published another picture frame iPad, which clearly shows the characteristic opening for the webcam. Unfortunately, the date of manufacture of the frame is unknown, so it is impossible to understand, Apple decided to add the camera directly in front of the presentation, and then change your mind, or was it originally existed in the prototype, and then abandoned. In any case, this information increases the likelihood that iPad still get the camera in the next versions.

Via Electronista

Company Pixel Qi announced the release of the hybrid screen for laptops, combining traditional LCD technology with electronic paper. Its main feature is that you can install it yourself. In its official blog, the company advised that these screens were tested in Nigeria in the program One Laptop Per Child, and the 11-year-old girls themselves were replaced in their laptop screens for new staff from Pixel Qi. The company explained that it was "only a little more difficult than to change a light bulb": you have to unscrew a few screws, remove the frame, remove the display and the staff put in its place a new one. All this is doing for five minutes.

Sales displays Pixel Qi will appear in the spring. In addition, they will also be installed on a tablet from Adam Notion Ink.

Via TechRadar

Company Nokia has filed in the U.S. Patent Office for a patent self-charging battery. The official name of the invention – "piezoelectric kinetic energy harvester» (piezoelectric kinetic energy harvester). The idea of the invention is that the battery is attached to the outer frame and isolated from it by piezoelectric elements. The result is a kinetic energy, which generates an electrical signal, "partially charging the battery. The battery is moved inside the phone on runners, which goes into the condenser. Incidentally, a similar idea is used in some models of hours, which is also recharged while driving.

Via Electronista

At the RSA Conference, the representative of Google Dryuri Will (Will Drewry) reported that in 2011 will be issued a business version of the operating system for netbooks Chrome OS. The consumer version of the OS will be available later this year.

According Dryuri, the system will get a powerful integrated security to protect against various threats. In the notebooks will work hardware module Trusted Platform Module (TPM), providing secure data storage and multi-factor authentication. The system will provide automatic updates and run applications in the sandbox, it will warn the user when it comes to dangerous sites. It is noteworthy that the security can be disabled using a switch under the battery, then you can freely visit any sites.

A Google spokesperson said the openness of the platform: the developers will be able to study its source code and create their own applications.

Via Electronista

Company HP and Adobe have posted on the video demonstrating the possibility of a tablet device HP, which should appear on sale later this year. Roller is clearly seen that the device fully supports Flash, and hardware acceleration.

Via PMPToday

U.S. company Escom, which owns the rights to the domain name Sex.com, intends to sell it at auction. It will be held March 18 in New York. According to Reuters, the starting price will be $ 1 million

Domain Sex.com is one of the most valuable Internet domains. Its registered Crim Gary (Gary Kremen), Grant Media CEO and founder of the dating site with another memorable name – Match.com. According to the year 2008, the site Sex.com makes a profit of $ 15 thousand. In 2006, the company acquired the domain Escom for $ 14 million

The company Maltz Auctions, responsible for conducting the auction, saying that interest to the lot rather high. Participate in it can be both directly and via the Internet.

Via Reuters

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