Started a pre-sale iPhone 4

Apple has started pre-selling smartphone iPhone 4, wrote The Daily Telegraph. Make a reservation on the device can be in company stores and Apple on the sites.
You can order only the iPhone, made in a black casing. In this model in a white casing will be available for order later, the website reported Apple.com.

At the same time Apple opened the iPhone price in April outside the U.S.. Thus, in the UK and France can be purchased without a contract mobile operator. In the UK Apple site smartphone with 16 and 32 gigabytes of memory available for the 499 and 599 pounds (about 23 and 28 thousand rubles). In France, these models are 629 and 739 euros respectively (24 and 28 thousand rubles).

The cost of a smartphone in the U.S. of 199 and 299 dollars for a model with 16 and 32 gigabytes of memory respectively. In the U.S. the iPhone will be sold together with the contract mobile operator AT & T.

Smartphone iPhone the next generation was represented by Apple chief Steve Jobs at WWDC a conference on June 7. Sales of iPhone in the U.S., Britain, Germany, France and Japan will begin June 24. It is expected that sales of the iPhone 4 in Russia may start in the autumn. In this case it possible price not yet announced.

Yahoo! Wrested domain Flicker.com

Corporation Yahoo! Patched lasted from July 2009 lawsuit with the company AshantiPLC, owning the domain Flicker.com, wrote DomainNameWire. The domain name reminds Flicker.com Flickr.com - Domain photohosting Flickr, owned by Yahoo!.
Judging from the data service whois, domain transfer has been completed a few weeks ago - the last time an entry has been updated on May 27. Nevertheless, at flicker.com still open the page of the old owners with information about the Enterprise domain.
Terms of the agreement were not disclosed. It is known that AshantiPLC, partly owned merchant domains Sahara Sarid, refused several offers to buy Flicker.com. In one of them for the domain offered 700 thousand dollars. AshantiPLC, presumably acquired Flicker.com on eBay for 55,000 dollars.

Domain flicker.com was established in 1998, while flickr.com - in late 2003. According to figures published on flicker.com, every site comes to 3,6 million unique visitors. Over 95 per cent fall in the address bar. Day of advertising on it is from 2700 to 3300 dollars.

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Facebook Kingdom

Speech by Mark Zuckerberg at All Things D conference last week was a flop so that many - including previously supported him author of the blog Scobleizer, Robert Scoble - call for him to leave his post and hire a new executive director.
These people are crazy.
They are fools if they think that Mark needs to resign. They are crazy if they think that Mark will go into retirement.
Yes, Mark made some mistakes. When he was 19 years old, he wrote insulting things about users of Facebook, behaved unethically with business partners and perhaps even violated the law by breaking into email accounts of users sotsseti. Now Mark 20 with the tail. He - the head of a large company, and he performed poorly with the pressure of the press on the privacy of users sotsseti and simply horrible acts in public - whether in interviews or conferences.

But - like it or not - these bugs do not have any influence on the future of the company.

Facebook users do not know about them, and if they knew - they probably would not care. For them sotsset - especially handy product. Each month, Facebook enjoyed 500 million. Half of them are doing it every day.Revenue diversified as much as Google can not dream. In 2010, Facebook will earn more than two billion dollars, given that in 2009, was rescued about 800 million. In May, Mark proved to be the most incompetent of all time at the helm of Facebook. However, the increase in the number of subscribers sotsseti only increased. Obviously, the errors did not affect Mark's ability to offer Facebook users a good product.

And even if the various weaknesses and shortcomings Mark really mattered, we very much doubt that Mark would have left for them to resign.

After all, Mark stopped working together with the twins and Vinklvoss Divia Narendra Harvard Connection over the network and launched a Facebook just because I wanted to manage his own company. The desire to stand at the helm guided him in making important decisions:

- Marc first got funding from Peter Thiel, because Thiel wanted it, Mark was at the helm.

- Mark has received funds from the investment fund, Accel Partners, because Jim Breer allowed Mark to appoint three of the five members of the board of directors.

- Mark refused to sell the holding company Facebook Yahoo! Over one billion dollars, because he wanted to retain control over sotssetyu.

- Mark has sold 1.6 percent stake in Facebook from Microsoft, because that allowed him to control the company.

- Mark has received funding from the DST, because its director Yuri Milner,has no objection to the fact that DST got ordinary shares without voting rights - Milner wants to control the company named Mark.

Facebook has already parted with many successful top managers, specializing in internet industry, who came to the company, full of confidence that one day they will stand at the helm. Fact: The current Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg holds office because she is the only one of all qualified candidates for this position has not expressed a desire to take the place of the head.

Another fact: Facebook - Mark Zuckerberg company. He controls three of the five members of the board of directors. In November 2009, Mark has manipulated the structure of shareholders Facebook in the image of Google Inc. and the managing company of the newspaper The Washington Post.After Facebook hold IPO, Mark and his allies will package of preferred shares that will give them 10 votes for each share at the meeting. Other investors would get shares of common stock with one vote. Mark is not really the executive director, he - the king.

So no, Mark Zuckerberg should not and will not go away. And the next director of Facebook, is likely to be his (until you see the light), the heir.

However, we, like other media, do not stop in the foreseeable future, meticulously examine all of the Mark. As vicious mob of participants All Things D, we envy him. His youth, power, wealth and popularity of Facebook users.

Twitter users at the time were without records

Community largest microblogging service Twitter for a few hours lost part of its records. Their tapes message emptied soon after entering the new service associated with positioning microbloggery.
Twitter myself while away in off-line for several hours. Some programs, customers have reported the impossibility of sending the record.

The reason for failure, according to company representatives, was an attempt to improve the mechanism of caching the list of messages. This is stated in the official blog that tracks the status of the resource.

In Twitter promised as soon as possible to troubleshoot. During the correction of microblogging may temporarily disappear or duplicate records.

On Twitter comes to more than 100 million unique visitors per month. The service registered tens of millions of people. Nevertheless, he regularly breaks down.

Microsoft has released a slim version of the Xbox 360

Microsoft has released a slim version of the Xbox 360. The device will do in American stores is June 14. Residents will be able to buy this console at the end of the week. The official announcement of the updated console, held a press conference by Microsoft, which took place in Los Angeles before the start of the exhibition E3. "Lenta.Ru" conducted online broadcast of the event.
Representatives of Microsoft said that the new model of Xbox 360 will be equipped with a hard drive to 250 gigabytes. We also know that the console will have built-in adapter, Wi-Fi. In other words, gamers do not need to buy an extra accessory to connect to a wireless network.

In the U.S., a thin version of the Xbox 360 will cost 299 dollars. The same is now American gamers have to pay for top-end model of Xbox 360 Elite. Released an updated console outside the U.S. Microsoft representatives did not say. According to Eurogamer, in European stores the console will be 16 July 2010. About the price yet nothing is reported.

Sales of the first model of the Xbox 360 began in late 2005. Console of Microsoft ranks second in sales among the current generation of game systems. To date, the world has already sold over 40 million consoles. In the first place is Wii from Nintendo, and the last line is from the PlayStation 3 by Sony.

Sony unveiled its touch-sensitive computer-monoblock

Sony has introduced a new family of budget computers monoblocks Vaio J. The new systems are equipped with multi-sensory displays with a diagonal of 21.5 inches, according to an official press release.

Screen Vaio J will have a resolution of 1920 by 1080 pixels, which will play on the computer video HD. Also, computers will be equipped with a drive Blu-ray.

The computer will come with processors Intel Core i3, i5 and i7. The most powerful of them - Core i7 620M - has a clock speed of 2.66 gigahertz. Also Vaio J will have up to 8 gigabytes of RAM and hard disk of 500 gigabytes.



Vaio J is equipped with a built-in Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, webcam and microphone, as well as a slot for SD cards and Memory Stick. Complete with a monoblock will be delivered to the wireless mouse and keyboard.



According to a press release, the cost of candy bar will start at $ 900. At the same time on the website of the U.S. online shop Sony lowest cost model is 1100 dollars.

Computer-monoblocks produced a number of major manufacturers. Thus, in the line Sony has sensory monoblocks family L. In May, Japan's NEC has announced plans to release a candy bar with a 3D-display. He is expected to go on sale in June and costs about 2450 dollars.

Jobs showed the iPhone 4

 June 7 at a conference for developers WWDC 2010 Apple CEO Steve Jobs formally introduced the iPhone a smartphone new generation, which goes on sale in the United States in June.

His speech Jobs began with a story about the success of the company over the past few months. The first "hero" of his story became a Tablet PC iPad. According to Jobs, the device worked over thousands of engineers, but for the time elapsed since the start of sales, was sold more than 2 million computers, it is sold every three seconds one iPad. By the end of July planshetnik will be available in 19 countries worldwide.

Also, Apple chief demonstrated the most popular applications for iPad and stressed that the device is now able to show documents PDF (one of the most popular formats, including electronic books). Also, Steve Jobs talked about the store App Store, where every week is sent to the 15 new of thousands of applications, of which 95 per cent approved by the Administration.

After Steve Jobs appeared on the scene executives video service NetFlix, a developer of social games Zynga (in which he put $ 180 million Russia fund DST) and other companies, telling about the successful partnership with Apple.

Finally, after half an hour after the start, began the work for which a hall full of journalists and bloggers - Steve Jobs started talking about the iPhone. According to him, a smartphone is the second largest market share in the U.S. - 28 percent. In the first place - the company RIM, manufacturer of BlackBerry, with 33 per cent in the third - Windows with 19 per cent. The share of Android-devices accounted for only 9 percent of the market.

At 10 hours 31 minutes proceeded to the head of Apple's story about the new iPhone 4 - this is the official name of the device. Smartphone for 24 percent thinner than its predecessor - iPhone 3GS - has a thickness of just 9 millimeters. According to Jobs, iPhone 4 was the most thin smart phone in the world. The unit is also equipped with slot format microSIM (it took to make room for more cumbersome and capacious battery), built-in camera and LED flash.
In addition, the new iPhone 4 supports mobile standards GSM and UMTS, and wireless WiFi and Bluetooth, is equipped in GPS. The housing is made of steel - users can choose black or white - and protects the display glass is strong
Diagonal Size iPhone screen 4 is 3.5 inches, and resolution - 940x640 pixels. Special attention is given technology Retina Display, whereby pixel density is increased to 326 dots per inch (whereas the human eye can not perceive more than 300 dots per inch). Thus, the screen iPhone 4G provides a much clearer picture than previous models of smartphones.Apple chief likened the image on the display with a well-printed book.

At the same time according to Jobs, the developers of games and programs do not need to do to the picture in their application has better quality - for them it will make the Retina Display, converts text, pictures and images in higher resolution.
IPhone became the basis of processor A4. In addition, the smartphone will be supported by new communications standards HSDPA / HSUPA (download speed / send data - 7.2/5.6 megabits per second). Finally, another innovation has built-in gyro that combines four sensors, a compass and accelerometer. The head of Apple, gyroscope - a new record for game developers. As proof of Steve Jobs launched a little Jenga - a game in which you want to rotate in the space of wooden blocks.
Camera in iPhone 4 pyatimegapikselnaya, with an emphasis not on the resolution, and picture quality. In addition, the camera has a 5 x digital zoom, can record video in HD-format, has a built-in software for video editing, and supports a new "chip" - to touch the screen to the camera focus. Finally, users will have the option, which allows one click to upload video to the web.

Software for processing rollers allows you to add a video photos, titles and subtitles, as well as transition effects between scenes, and musical accompaniment. Created a video, you can save a maximum (720p), average (540p) and low (360p) resolution. The cost of the application iMovie for iPhone would be 4.99 dollars.

During the demonstration of a smartphone in the hall there were noticeable problems with the Network. According to Steve Jobs, to blame for this were journalists, continuously broadcasted events in news feeds and blogs of their own. In this regard, Apple chief asked the attendees turn off the WiFi, then the journalists moved on to mobile communications.

Another innovation was the operating system, dubbed iOS 4, supporting more than 1500 new API (programming libraries), and are fully multitasking. In addition, it, like in other OS, there were full folder. The system for processing mail messages supporting chain letters, applications can be grouped into folders, and search for it will be possible with the help of Google, Yahoo! Or Bing.

Will be maintained in the iPhone 4 and Annex iBook, designed for reading electronic books.Steve Jobs said that users will be able to read books in PDF, and various devices Apple will be able to synchronize to the book can be read, for instance, the iPad and iPhone, with the page open itself by synchronizing bookmarks.
Another innovation in iOS 4 was advertising system iAd, display ads in applications. This helps the developers to increase their earnings. Click on the banner will not result in switching applications - advertising will unfold in full screen, and at any time you can turn. In the near future developers will be able to introduce iAd in their programs. According to Jobs, advertising in applications Apple will bring $ 250 million profit a year, while in the second half of this year, the company intends to become the second player in the mobile advertising market.

Also, the crowd showed FaceTime - functions in video calls. It only works in standard WiFi (but promised support for other communications standards in the future) and allows you to link the iPhone only 4, if the user does not need to install any software.

Cost iPhone 4 in the U.S. of $ 199 for 16-gigabyte version and $ 299 for 32-gigabyte - subject to the two-year contract with mobile operators. Pre-order smartphone may be placed, starting from 15 June, the start of sales in 18 countries is scheduled for June 24. In addition, owners of third-generation iPhone since June 21 will be a free upgrade software platform to iOS 4.
In conclusion, Steve Jobs talked about the fact that the creation of four iPhone took 18 months and thanked the developers for their work.