Evernote Opens a Data Centre in China

According to the Wall Street Journal, a digital note-taking service Evernote asked Beijing for permission to set its data centre in China. The company has to adjust to web services’ regulations set in China, which became a stumbling block for Google and Facebook.

Evernote says it is going to use a recently made 70 million dollars investment for expansion in Asia. The company provides such services as digital note-taking with an option to synchronize them with other devices and share them with whoever the user needs. It has also bought an iPad application Penultimate which is quite popular.

EC Requires Safe Internet For Children

The European Commission (EC) offered a new service to filter websites. The ‘ecosystem’ is targeted on children’s protection from abusive and inappropriate information. This offer follows the Brussels proposals to defend children from the Internet threats.

EC was going to develop a special authentication system that would be able to determine user’s age and to limit the sites this user can download.

Apple and Proview Might Reach a Consensus Soon

It seems like the trial considering the proprietorship of iPad trademark between Proview from Taiwan and Apple is abating due to the Chinese court. Zhao Le from international department of Guandong’s Higher People’s Court said they were making attempts both to continue assize and to arrange the difference. Roger Xie, a lawyer who works for Proview announced the trial is on the way to be settled with the help of court.

Nokia Lost Its Reins Of Power

Nokia has been a leader of cellphone sales for already 14 years and now it was pushed down by one of its biggest rival Samsung. What are the reasons for that? And what is more important what are the consequences?

Nokia is doing rather bad at the moment. According to the iSuppli report Nokia incur the highest losses of 27% in the last quarter. Although only Apple managed to lose only 5%. As for the Samsung it lost only 13% and as opposed to Nokia shipping 83m of mobile phones Samsung shipped 92m devices. It seems that Samsung is doing not so bad.

A long-awaited picture of the Sony NEX-F3 has been revealed

Sony is about to improve its NEX digital camera family and users are looking forward to trying a newly developed NEX-F3. By the way a single picture of this new digital camera has been revealed, so a great number of potential customers can have a look.

Logitech’s new Solar Keyboard Folio protects iPads and charges from light

Logitech has just revealed its new solar-powered device dubbed as the Solar Keyboard Folio. There’s no doubt that owners of iPads and iPads 2 will appreciate this robust and slim Bluetooth keyboard which is a capable of getting power from light. Aside from that the device acts as a sort of protective case which makes it more valuable for customers.

By the way the Solar Keyboard Folio originally came from Logitech’s Mac as well as PC solar keyboards. In other words the keyboard was adapted to ensure compatibility with both second and third-generation iPads. The Solar Keyboard Folio makes use of on-board solar cells so the device can be charged in any light.

2012 headphones line-up has been launched by Monster in Singapore

In a broad cooperation with Diesel, Monster has developed the Diesel VEKTR headphones, thus providing customers with high quality audio enjoyment to say nothing of a compact and stylish design of the given product. The headphones feature a catchy silkscreen Mohican head on each ear cup and grey, black and brushed aluminum is harmoniously decorated with rubberized paint. Moreover the cables have a special triangular section which is responsible for preventing tangling.

A closer look at Pixma MG4120

The Canon Pixma MG4120 definitely deserves attention as this $130 color inkjet multifunction printer is supposed to outclass its rivals in terms of cost to say nothing of its unique paper-saving automatic duplexing. Moreover the printer provides high quality output at rather a reasonable pace. As for color-ink costs they are quite low and this makes printing web pages and photos cost-effective. On the other hand, customers will have to shell out a lot to get the black ink for this printer, though there’s rather a low probability of going broke when printing out letters every day.

Samsung Corporation presents quad-core smartphones’ and tablets’ CPU

Samsung Corporation has just presented the Exynos 4 Quad processor designed for smartphones and tablets. It is the first ever CPU that uses the HKMG (High-k Metal Gate) low-power technology.

This 1.4 GHz quad-core novelty is constructed on the ARM CORTEX A9 architecture that can boast of high performance and quite low energy consumption. For example, full HD 30fps video requires 20% less power than previous CPU models, such as dual version of Exynos 4. It has become possible to obtain thanks to usage of 32nm HKMG technology, frequency scaling, dynamic voltage and hot-plug functionality that enables to switch on/off individual cores.

World Wide Web founder is against Internet monitoring

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, a worldwide web founder, is calling people for protesting against government’s plans to increase internet monitoring.

According to his interview with Guardian, the government wants to control or spy on the Internet and this fact considerably bother him. The government in its turn declares that they just want to extend the existing regulations on Internet phone services and social media.