WD Black: soon hybrid hard drives from Western Digital

SSDs are great, it is a fact, but they are not necessarily perfect and ugliest default, this is undoubtedly their limited storage capacity. To overcome this drawback, the manufacturers are working on hybrid solutions and bringing together the best of both worlds. We had an example with Fusion or Apple Drive with the latest Toshiba Qosmio but this time it was the turn of Western Digital to enter the race with its WD Black, the hybrid hard drives formatted 2.5 inch and which may be of interest to a lot of people.

But before that, we will still take the time to briefly explain the operation of hybrid hard drives. To make it simple and to summarize the idea in a few words, a hybrid hard drive combines in a single case of the traditional mass storage (which drives our old team) and the SSD . On the one hand, we will have the space to store our files and the other, a fast disk that will improve the overall performance of our machine.

Architecture that Western Digital has decided to take over to build its new hard drives, series WD Black. The latter will not happen on the market right now, it is a fact, and we do not yet know the price of these discs, but we already know that the first two models play the map with a compact 2.5 format inches and extremely fine ranging from 5mm to 7mm depending on the model.

On the disc itself, you should know that it will be available in two models to start: one 500 GB and 1 TB one. Both drives will ship 24 GB or 32 GB SSD and they should arrive at the market somewhere in the next 6 months.

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BBK Box Bittorrent: Bittorrent on your TV (and after prison)

Bittorrent worked hard for many years and we have all taken one day the dark corridors of this protocol like no other. And if you're one of the fans who refuse to turn back, then the BBK Bittorrent Box may hold your attention. Logic, since this little media center running Android proposes simply to bring Bittorrent ... on your TV. All for € 90 and with a good chance of ending up in prison behind.

Level design, since you have to start somewhere, BBK Bittorrent Box broadly similar to Apple TV. We thus find ourselves facing a housing with compact dimensions and rather mat, the kind of case that will not be ashamed to proudly display in his living room. Or in his cell. Same for the remote control is rather pretty to look at, although very conventional.

Concerning the technical specifications of the beast, we know that embeds 512 MB ​​of RAM, 4GB of flash memory and a card reader 3-in-1. The connection is quite complete since found an ethernet port, RCA output, HDMI 1.3 output, three USB 2.0 ports and a mini USB port. If you find it difficult to keep your holiday movies in UltraHD above, you can always opt for an external hard drive that will plug into the housing of the BBK Bittorrent Box. Also be noted that the latter benefits from Wi-Fi 801.11 b / g / n and will be able to decode most of video formats, including MKV.

Turning now to the features of the product and then tell you all right now, we can do many things with this little box. The first thing to know is that it is DLNA certified so it will be possible to use it to fetch the content on external devices. Conversely, we can also stream media content between BBK Bittorrent Box and smartphone, tablet or touch her. Cool, and note that they can also be used to take control of the box. On paper, this is quite full and we can add that the BBK Bittorrent Box will also be able to download Bittorrent media and play them directly on your TV then.

Cool, and we can note that the list is not exhaustive. If you want to know all the little beast, the best is yet to go snooping on her official website, everything is explained and you will find more complete list of its technical characteristics. Here and ends with two small demonstration videos.

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The Facebook page manager is (finally) available on Android

Facebook released some time ago its application "Pages Manager" on Android which unfortunately was not available on the Google Store Play French. It is now the case.

This page manager is indeed available recently on the mobile operating system from Google and embarks essentially the same features as its big brother on iOS, like the ability to view the activity or statistics Page Insights of your pages, or simply respond to your fans.

Pages Manager allows among others to post new statutes and new photos, respond to comments as a page, read and respond to private messages or receive notifications on the activity of your pages in real time.

That said, Facebook has put a lot of time to get his manager on Android pages because we must remember that the same application on iOS was released in May 2012 and has already enjoyed significant updates. This application should in any appeal to community managers and more generally to all persons who manage at least one page on the social network.

Facebook Pages Manager download on Android or iOS

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B & You also includes unlimited calls to DOM

"These new products were well planned", provides  B & You. Nothing to do with the announcement of Free announced that also include unlimited calls to the DOM, last Tuesday.

Bouygues Telecom reacts quickly. Tuesday, Free Mobile announced include unlimited calls to overseas departments (DOM), except Mayotte, in all its offerings. Customers who subscribed to the mobile Freebox are also involved.

B & You then responded by also offering unlimited calling at no extra cost to the overseas, either to mobiles or landlines. From January 14, 2013, a subsidiary of Bouygues Telecom will therefore include this new option to its old and new customers Package 24/24 9,99 euros per month, as well as 19.99 euros per month.

Users of prepaid packages will in turn call fixed and mobile in the DOM, Mayotte out without paying extra cost. That is to say, 10 cents per minute.

One step ahead

Bouygues Telecom insists he is not to imitate Free. "These innovations were well planned," wrote B & You on his twitter account, adding that these changes were occurring after the decision of ARCEP, Constable of telecom, lowering the cost of call termination charged by operators to the DOM.

One would therefore expect that as SFR and Orange announce the addition of unlimited calls to overseas, including the offers via their respective subsidiaries and Red Sosh. But again, Free Mobile had a stroke ahead of all its competitors.

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RIM: BlackBerry 10.6 new in 2013

It is on January 30th that RIM will formalize its new mobile platform, namely BlackBerry 10. With it, are two smartphones that will happen very quickly in the market, the BlackBerry Z10 and X10 BlackBerry. Terminals known almost all, of course, but should eventually be soon joined by other motives that emerge later in the year. For indeed, if one believes the CMO of the Canadian firm, then RIM could launch no less than six terminals in BlackBerry 10 in 2013.

According to Frank Boulben, the objective of RIM would be clear, it would simply appeal to the widest audience possible. To do so, the firm would therefore run very quickly on the terminal market at prices varied, targeting and as much input as upscale. In other words, the Canadian manufacturer wants to flood the market to regain its place as well.

So of course, all these terminals do not go out during the next few days, or even during the next few weeks. In all likelihood, RIM should start by focusing on the Z10 and X10 history to give a little boost to the new version of its platform. To take advantage of other terminals, it will be necessary to show a little patient.

If you are interested in all the rumors surrounding RIM and its products, then this news should not surprise you more than that. And this is normal since part of the roadmap the company found itself on the canvas last summer roadmap even announced the arrival of a new Playbook nicknamed "Blackforest" the third quarter of 2013.

In addition, we can also remember that question, since the end of last year, a third of smartphone stamped "Aristo" and that aims above all the high end. A smartphone that would benefit from a screen of 4.65 inch 720p, a quad-core processor Qualcomm and even 2 GB of RAM. A beautiful beast, so who would not be ashamed to face its competitors. Especially since it would incorporate a battery 2800 mAh to top it off.

Friends BlackBerry-philes, it is now a certainty, 2013 is your year.

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Samsung Exynos 5: 8 hearts lots of love

Since last November , we know that Samsung is preparing a surprise and we know that this will surprise a 8 core processor. And finally at the CES 2013 that the South Korean manufacturer has formalized its new chip, and therefore its Exynos 5. Just after Nvidia, Qualcomm just after just after Intel. Yes, and like them, we can say that the slut is very promising because it allows us to take advantage of 8 cores running at 1.8Ghz minimum. A real powerhouse, which portends many good things for the future.

Eight cores, a frequency of 1.8 Ghz minimum and should therefore blithely exceed 2 GHz on the next versions, it must be confessed, fleas our smartphones and our touchpads are taking precedence over the processors in our computers. So it will probably come a day when they equip our bikes. Moreover, according to rumors in recent months, it is the same question that Apple is already working on the issue , and no doubt if the bitten apple really decides to switch their machines on these chips, then competition will not fail to do so.

Exynos 5: 8-core, ARM Cortex A15 and etching 28nm

Finally, a little back to our sheep and let us look at the new Samsung chip. Apart from its many heart and frequency, we also know that it is engraved in 28nm and it is based on the ARM Cortex A15. The trick quite positive, moreover, is that the Exynos 5 will not only provide significant computing power, the chip also consumes less power than the previous generation, which should significantly improve the autonomy of mobile terminals will benefit.

And the thing is, precisely, is that the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 should be the first smartphone to ship with the new chip, which also means that the Exynos will arrive on the market, at the latest in September 2013. Interesting and can also remember there is a small chance that the Galaxy S4 can also benefit. Mind you, there is not yet won, huh, so do not you pack too quickly either.

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Android applications pirates walk on the BlackBerry App World

It is no secret that Seller's Store Play is much better stocked than the BlackBerry App World . It seems indeed that developers still have trouble trusting RIM and that is what prompted some malicious attempt to take advantage of the situation. How? Simply recovering applications on the Play Store, then converting them to our friends the BlackBerry before uploading quietly on the BlackBerry App World. Yes, and the funny thing is that your application could even be part of the lot!

It all started when a developer has received an odd request by mail, an application written by a mobile user who bought the BlackBerry version of the application . No wonder you say it is anyway lot to all developers, but where things get very funny, it's nice that our encoder was not sure porting the application to the RIM's mobile platform.

Yes, it is great fun to tell, but probably less to live. Our developer has obviously not been slow to respond and it has sent a nice letter to RIM to remove the application from BlackBerry App World. Its requirements have been met, of course, but it all the same chosen to make the case public. to prevent his friends developers. And this is where things started to get complicated, because many people are not made ​​aware that their application had suffered exactly the same fate.

Morality, if you are used to code for Android, and if you already have some applications on Play Store, then you'd better take the time to browse on the BlackBerry App World just to check if your creation is beautiful is not there. And if you find that this is the case, then know that you can simply send a mail to RIM for your application to be removed from the shop.

Well, I leave you, I have a few gigabytes of applications to recover. Oh, and if you start with Angry Birds Space?

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