Intel has significantly reduced the size of the new SSD

The developer of the WikiLeaks Igor Barinov wrote on Twitter, which removed from the App Store application WikiLeaks for iPhone and iPad. In Google’s cache you can see now.

“Application WikiLeaks gives you instant access to the most well-documented source of leaks top-secret memos and other public documents”, – says the program description. More precisely, it was said.

Application cost $ 1.99 and loads the content was free. The Apple did not explain on what grounds the application is locked. Difficult to say whether it violated any rules of service. However, in recent times is not one large company denied the status of any WikiLeaks , including Bank of America, PayPal, Visa and MasterCard, so the move Apple seems logical.

Issue Kinect makes Xbox 360 a direct competitor to Apple TV, Google TV. So says a senior director of marketing for Xbox Live at Microsoft Craig Davison (Craig Davison). In an interview AllThingsD He explained that due to Kinect console started to buy people, especially far from the games.

However, he explained that the process of expanding the audience Xbox began long before the advent of Kinect, namely in 2008, when the console started to support Netflix. Later appeared Zune Video Marketplace, it became possible to watch TV channels, including live TV. Because of this, for many Xbox became a kind of media center to access various Internet content, and then game console. 42% of Xbox Live Gold subscribers every day watching TV through the console hour or more. Now with Kinect can manage even watching videos.

However, at a price of Xbox has not rival Apple TV , which costs $ 99. Xbox 360 Arcade with no Kinect costs in the U.S. about twice as much. And it's not talking about Google TV, which is significantly more expensive than from Apple.

Motorola published a promotional video with the announcement of a new tablet at CES in January. Tablet itself is not shown, is not mentioned and his name, but cast a few stones in the garden competition. So, iPad – it's just "a giant iPhone», and Galaxy Tab – a «Android … for the phones." At the end of the video shows the mysterious veil covered tablet Motorola, presented as the pinnacle of flatbed thought. Why do some flies and flies per frame bee.

On the characteristics of new items can not understand anything, but the thrust in the direction of «Android … for phones," says that there will be too Android, but not for a phone – that is, version 3.0, which in the first version of Google called Android optimized for tablets and which was recently briefly showed Andy Rubin. However, it is likely that this will be only 2.4 with the newer planshetopodobnym interface.

Tablet might well support LTE, since there are persistent rumors that Verizon at CES show LTE-tablet – certainly not our own production.

As for bees, some media have made the assumption that the Tablet will be called Buzz. However, this may be Motopad .

The Sony reported that soon will come the official application PlayStation for the iPhone and Android. According to the official blog of the PlayStation, for it will require iOS 4 and above, or Android 1.6 and above. The program will be free.

Application will perform a variety of information operations: communicating with friends, check the status online PlayStation Network, find out news about new games and consoles, models, share photos and news with friends on Facebook and Twitter, or just send them by mail.

Software version 1.0 will be available in the UK, France, Germany, Italy and Holland. Over time, the developers promise to expand the list of countries and languages. Also will be able to leave comments on my blog PlayStation.Blog.

With the release of drivers for the visual controller Kinect it started to adapt to a variety of needs, not always play. Adult entertainment industry too quickly recognized the potential hit from Microsoft.

Studio ThriXXX Software tailor it for specific sexual manipulation of a virtual girlfriend. She responds to them: publishing the groans, changes posture, etc. If you already have 18 years of age, you can see an example on YouTube. The developers promise to release a game based on the PC next year.

The authorities of the Chinese city of Chongqing have developed and launched service Red Microblog, reminding Twitter. They will manage the city department of propaganda. The first user was the secretary of the local department of the party Mr. Bo (Bo Xilai).

He has already pointed out several records party content, such as: "I really like the words of our Chairman Mao (Zedong):" The world belongs to us, just need to work together ".

Red Microblog is a response to the call by the head of the Propaganda Department of the Chinese Communist Party that local authorities should actively adopt new technologies. Obviously, now we should expect new and bold projects such as the clone Facebook or YouTube.

The site has already found the first bugs. Telegraph reports that on Wednesday, new users could not register itself accounts, so that Bo Xilai had to philosophize alone.

According to Chinese research firm EnfoDesk, currently in China microblogging are 75 million people, and by 2012 this number should rise to 240 million

The LG confirmed the existence of Star smartphone based on dual-core chip Tegra 2 by NVIDIA. True, it will be sold under the name Optimus 2X, at least on the domestic market in Korea. Thus, it is the first smartphone with dual-core processor. Its frequency is 1 GHz, and the operating system – Android 2.2.

We list the currently known technical specifications:

• 4-inch 480 × 800;
• Facial 1.3-megapixel camera with video chat;
• Rear 8-megapixel camera;
• 8 GB internal memory;
• microSDHC card slot for up to 32 GB;
• HDMI-out;
• recording and broadcasting of video in 1080p;
• technology support content transmission DLNA;
• gyroscope;
• Battery capacity 1500 mAh.

In LG promises that soon will be updated versions of Android to 2.3. Sales Optimus 2X will begin in Korea in January next year, sell it to SK Telecom. Then the novelty will come to Asia and Europe.

Facebook Photos, one of the most popular services of Facebook, will soon get a new a new function – an intelligent face recognition. The program will try to guess who is on picture. After that, people can be marked with tags.

Feature called Tag Suggestions appears to Facebook next week and will initially be available only for users in the U.S.. According to Facebook vice president Chris Cox (Chris Cox), the technology was developed by a company from scratch, although the principle is, of course, not new. The same function exists in the latest version of Windows Live Photo Gallery – photo album by default, Windows 7.

Tag Suggestions works simply – marks on the pictures the faces of people with boxes and asks the question: “Who is it?” The user can specify someone from friends on Facebook . The program itself is trying to guess right, offering the options. If desired function can be disabled in your privacy settings.

Product manager John Nack Adobe (John Nack) announced great news: the new 10.2 version of Flash Player plugin power consumption will lower ten times less in some cases than in the previous version 1.10 . This is achieved through technology Stage Video, allowing you to move the load on the video processor.

To the user felt the reduction in power consumption when using the Internet, video sites to update your player to the new version. According to Neka, the first it will make YouTube, followed by several others, including Vimeo and Dailymotion. All of these sites use Flash.

High power consumption is one of the reasons why Apple doesn’t like Flash. On new models of MacBook Air Player from Adobe is not included in standard installations, although you can install it yourself. It was noted that when you install Flash time battery life is reduced to 2 hours if you surfing the Internet.

On some sites, including YouTube, you can view video in HTML 5 . This technology does not allow the organization of the live webcast, but it does not require plug-in and it is more stable.