Drinking Pake Buy Mobile, Why Not?

TEMPO Interactive, Jakarta - Do you feel thirsty while waiting queue in Grapari, at Plasa Semanggi but did not have time to stop by to shop or cafe? Now there is an easy way to buy a drink. Soon vanding approached Coca-Cola machine and buy with your mobile phone.

Starting this month's PT Telekomunikasi Selular up with PT Coca Cola vanding testing machine drinks. PT Telkomsel any customers to easily buy soft drinks cold.

The trick, simply press * 878 * 101 # enter the number of machines and operators shall ensure that liquor transactions. Users choose the types of beverages with live dialed. Wait a few moments after that bottle will come out and you to enjoy. Also automatically will cut your pulse USD six thousand for all types of beverages.

General Manager of PT Telkomsel Ricardo Indra said they are still doing tests. "As of this June in some places just for testing," said Ricardo told Tempo on the sidelines of LTE technology discussion at the Hotel Gran Melia, today.

Ricardo says this machine will not be released commercially. The reason is still in testing stage. According to him, technically well proven technology and applications running. But Telkosel still waiting for regulations on these services. "We are also still in discussions related parties," he said.

Problem drinking costs a little bit expensive than in the shops or supermarkets, Indra said that this is related to the cost of technology and economy is also good. Since this machine will be placed at a certain place, where consumers are often difficult to obtain.

Import Apple iPad Screen

TEMPO Interactive, Calif. - Apple iPad able to meet spikes in demand and iPhone 4 which is selling well. The Company is led by Steve Jobs finally took Samsung Electronics to supply touch screen measuring 9.7 inches iPad.

Apple Impor Layar iPad

Thus, it means Apple's use of two South Korean companies as a supplier of touch screen for homemade gadgets, namely Samsung and LG Display.

LG Display, the manufacturer of the LCD panel maker Samsung Electronics the second largest after previously has sent nearly one million touch-screen in May. The figure is in addition to over 700 thousand and 800 thousand touch screen iPad which has been sent in February and March.

Meanwhile, starting in July, Samsung is expected to meet the demand for touch screen 500 thousand units per month. Each touch screen Apple iPad is estimated to cost up to U.S. $ 90. The iPad the cheapest prices in the United States amounted to U.S. $ 499. That is, this touch-screen components to be the most expensive part of the iPad.

Newspapers technology, estimates that as many as 1.2 million DigiTimes iPad bestselling every month, until the end of this year while demand for tablet computers that reach 2.5 million units per month.

Offer Firefox Facebook and Twitter Safety

TEMPO Interactive, Jakarta - Firefox offers security for its users to be free from data theft or "peeking" when you're accessing many popular sites including Facebook and Twitter.

Thanks to the collaboration of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the Tor Project, Firefix offers a new way to encrypt the user interaction is via HTTPS web browser Everywhere.

Sites that work with software such as Google, Wikipedia, Twitter, Facebook and Paypal as well as content sites such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The EFF and Tor.

In the Firefox browser, Everywhere HTTPS is denoted by a padlock icon in the lower right side. HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure) is tasked with connecting links to the site. If the lock icon is shown open, which means that pages will appear unencrypted.

In May, Google began offering search HTTPS via https: www.google.com link.

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Introducing Samsung's NAND SSD With DDR

Interactive SonyTEMPO Walkman, Seoul - Samsung launched a Solid State Drive (SSD) with the latest DDR NAND flash memory.

SSD with a capacity of 512 GB for a single this is the first drive that uses NAND chip DDR mode. Drive which began production in November 2009 was made with multi-level cell (MLC) with a capacity of 32 GB for a single individual (4 GB for a single). So there are 128 MLC dirve packed inside this 512 GB for a single.

With large memory capacity, these drives have a data read speed of 250 megabyte per second and write speed of 220 megabyte per second.

Along with making the drive, the Samsung also developed power-saving new controller for the drive. Despite the large capacity, Samsung claims the use of electrical power for the SSD 512 GB for a single dummy no more than a capacity of 256 GB for a single driver.

Drive controller was also able to activate power-saving mode that can extend the lifetime of the battery leptop up to an hour or more. Samsung said that the new SSD is designed for portable computers premium level.

Sony's Walkman Water Resistant

TEMPO Interactive, Jakarta - After a lot of vendors launched a photo and video cameras waterproof, now there is also a music player (walkman) that are resistant to water. Is Sony, which launched the vendor walkman waterproof. W series walkman, a waterproof MP3 player, walkman series launched with B, by Sony Indonesia recently.

W newest Walkman series was designed as a revolutionary. Apart from water-resistant, the device is available in a variety of attractive colors can also be washed with running water after use. But, with a note, do not use a brush, foam, soap or detergent to wash.

"As a pioneer in portable music players, Sony understands the desire consumers about the level of portability and durability," said Satoru Arai, President Director of PT Sony Indonesia. With the Walkman series W and B of this latest, he said, Sony offers users a lightweight media player and high stand helpless, with a longer usage time.

That's why these two Anyar device is claimed ideal for users who are often actively engaged in activities such as exercise. "Series NWZ-W250 is now waterproof and can be washed, so that users can enjoy music, either in a state of rain or heat," he said.

W Series Walkman is targeted for users who are fond of outdoor exercise. Users can wear it in rainy conditions and even cleaned with running water. Similar to previous series, this product uniquely designed, ergonomic and free-cable for convenient use and listen to music while exercising.

Transfer of music on the walkman series is also very easy and no hassle. This device is equipped with Content Transfer application package for data transfer music files directly from Windows Explorer or iTunes to Walkman with drag and drop. W Series also features a unique music control button to select songs. W250 Walkman NWZ-series also offers up to 11 hours of usage time with full battery charging time for 90 minutes.

Meanwhile, Sony walkman series B is a compact and slim device equipped with an integrated bass amplifier. This series was planted Enhancer Bass button with red illumination function to support the bass sound in the playback songs. Illumination of the LED light will move with the beat of songs. Like the W series, series B, which also features a lipstick-sized ZAPPINTM feature for easy song playback.

Quick Charge function allows its users to enjoy 90 minutes of playback songs with just enough battery charging 3 minutes. This Walkman also has a high battery life up to 18 hours, just by filling out the battery for 70 minutes until full. Interested? Both the Sony walkman series Anyar will be available starting late June.

"Overclockers" Indonesia Forward into the World Level

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - An overclocker Indonesian named Ekky finally managed to achieve "ticket" to attend the final competition Gigabyte Open Overclocking Championship (GO OC) 2010 in Taipei, Taiwan, September. Ekky became deputy Asia Africa after winning a third championship in the final region that was held last weekend.

In this competition, Asai Africa sent three best winners. Respectively as the winner of one Zolkorn from Thailand, the second winner Syahryar_Neo Middle Eastern origin, and Ekky from Indonesia. All three managed to exclude competitors from 16 countries in the region finals being held in the Mangga Dua Mall, Saturday (06/19/2010) then.

Sebelunya Ekky is the second winner in a national provision which is held the day before. Alva Jonathan Indonesia is still ranked as the first of three large failed to break ranks on the level of the Asian-African

Two Inspiron R Series, New Legion of Dell

BANDUNG, KOMPAS.com - For nearly two years working on Dell's consumer market in Indonesia. One by one laptop products are designed for the personal needs of any entry into Indonesia. This time, Dell Inspiron laptop presenting two choices of R series.

What makes the interesting part of the Inspiron R series is a unique design and fresh appearance. This product comes in a choice of four colors, black, blue, red, and pink with airbrush access. Padnya from chromed metal parts that look more luxurious.

Its uniqueness can be seen from an unusual part of the hinge. If the previous Inspiron series using the screen hinge angle below the pad, the Inspiron R series, all the sails on the pad so that it appears there was the back of the pad and the battery protruding behind the scenes. However, not only makes users more comfortable to look at the screen, the protruding part can also be used as handles. So when the laptop is safer to carry than the holding part of his body.

"The target for the family, young families, college students, aged 18 to 45 years," said Willy Hendrayudo, Dell Consumer Marketing Manager Indonesia at a news conference launching the product in Bandung, Tuesday (06/08/2010) night.

In addition to the stylish, Inspiron R series is not outdated because it supported the brand new computing technology and Intel Core Microsoft Windows 7. Both are also equipped with ATI graphics card 1GB, DDR3 memory, and SRS audio to provide convenience to enjoy various multimedia needs such as watching films to HD video, view photos, and enjoy the music.

Willy said the R series Inspiron entered in two variants of each type of 13R with the price of 969 dollars and 779 dollars worth of types 14R U.S.. Each distinguishable only screen size only, ie for type 13R 13 inches and 14 inches for the 14R and the processor type used is the Intel Core I3 for i5 for 14R and 13R. These products are now available on the market.

Google's V8 Video Codec Now More Open than Ever

Google debuted its open, royalty-free WebM video format last month. Based on the open-source V8 video codec, WebM is meant as a challenger to the propriety H.264 video codec, which threatens to saddle web video with hefty licensing fees and royalties.

Google, Opera and Mozilla are easily its most prominent backers, with the trio pledging WebM support in their respective browsers. As for the rival camp, Apple's weight is firmly behind H.264, whereas another important patron, Microsoft, has decided to support both H.264 and WebM beginning with IE9.

Now Google is busy honing the V8 codec. It has “added an experimental branch to the VP8 source tree” so that the community can easily propose changes to the codec for the sake of achieving better performance and stability. If it proves “significantly better” than the stable version, the experimental branch will be merged into the main branch.

“Like every codec, WebM is not immune to change; the difference in our project is that the improvements are publicly visible, and compatibility and implementation issues can be worked through in an open forum,” Jim Bankoski, Google's Codec Engineering Manager, wrote in a blog post.

Google's AdMob Buy Detailed in SEC Filing

We have all heard the rough details of the Google AdMob buy. The deal was worth $750 million in cash and stock, but we had no idea how much of each was involved. Well, thanks to some SEC paperwork Google has filed, we finally know. It turns out El Goog used $530 million in stock for the deal. Most of the remainder, about $220 million, would have been cash.

We find this breakdown interesting. Google has more than enough cash reserves to have paid for the whole thing in cash. Google is currently way into the black with over $26 billion in cash. The AdMob folks must feel pretty confident that Google's stock will continue to increase in value. With the way the search giant is attacking new markets, we'd probably say that's a safe bet.

Opera 10.60 Beta Boasts Key HTML5 Technologies, Speed

Last month, Opera Software proved beyond reasonable doubt that its browser is much faster than a potato. But with the launch of Opera 10.60 Beta 1, the Norwegian developer has made it virtually impossible for potatoes to keep up with the browser. The company says that Opera 10.60 is way faster than its predecessor, with version 10.60 emerging 50% faster in some Javascript tests. “Opera 10.60 beta is so fast, it will blow you away,” said Chief Development Officer, Christen Krogh, Opera Software.

However, Speed alone is not the only area of improvement. The browser is now armed with key HTML5 technologies, including Appcache, Web Workers and the royalty-free WebM online video format (based on the VP8 codec). The latest version also brings improvements to the UI and search suggestions. “Beyond the speed boost, the latest version of Opera improves on our robust HTML5 support and provides more options for quick and efficient Web search through your preferred search engines. By combining raw speed with intuitive and easy-to-use features, Opera places you among the fastest Internet users on the planet.”

YouTube Now Has Online Video Editing

Google has just unveiled a new feature of their popular video sharing site, YouTube. The YouTube Editor will allow users to perform some rudimentary video editing entirely online. It's not going to challenge desktop software in the feature department, but it will serve the needs of many people.

Users will be able to trim any video in their collection, as well as combine multiple clips into a longer one. The files are saved instantly, as Google already has them on their servers. You may not have access to more advanced features, but it brings some new options to a less tech-savvy crowd.

There is no way to edit other's videos for obvious copyright reasons, but wouldn't be surprised to see video sharing features added later. This feels to us like another feature destined for integration with Google's upcoming Chrome OS cloud connected platform. Have a look at the service here, and let us know what you think.

AT&T, Verizon Looking for Net Neutrality Compromise

The FCC headed by Julius Genachowski has made it clear that Net Neutrality is a top priority. So much so that they intend to boost their authority in order to impose rules on all purveyors of IP data. Both AT&T and Verizon have voiced concern with the prospect of being weighed down by new regulations. The two are now pushing for Congress to intervene and come up with Net Neutrality compromise legislation.

The principal of Net Neutrality holds that an ISP should be required to treat all data in exactly the same way. For instance, an ISP could not filter torrent traffic and delay/ block it. By asking Congress to head the FCC off at the pass, the telecoms are hoping they can lobby their way to weaker regulations.

We're concerned that any congressional action would rules would likely be filled with loopholes enabling ISPs to continue non-neutral practices. Do you think the FCC should move ahead with making rules, or should the legislative branch tackle it?

Google Focusing on User Experience for Next Android Version

Google has been iterating Android at an astounding pace since it was first introduced in the fall of 2008. Barely a few months have passed in between releases, and now much of the feature set has been fleshed out. Ask most people familiar with the operating system what's still missing, and they'll probably say the user experience needs work. Google has apparently gotten the message, because sources within the Android team are saying the upcoming Gingerbread release will focus on improving the user interface.

The overall polish of the operating system has been a sore spot for the open source software. Apple's iPhone OS is much more tightly controlled, but more cohesive experience. Various third parties have tried to build skins for Android to clean up some of the rough edges. The most obvious example of this is HTC's Sense UI. Google may not be looking to squash these ventures, but maybe make them less necessary.

It's hard to build a really slick user interface when you have so many different devices floating around. But Google's recent hiring of Palm UI engineer Matias Duarte could be a sign the search giant is serious. We're looking forward to trying some tasty Gingerbread, but we haven't even had our Froyo (Android 2.2) yet.

AMD Caught Off Guard by High Demand for Hexa-Core Chips

This isn't the first time we've seen AMD fight back against Intel by releasing low-cost alternatives to Intel's pricier parts (how many of you have fond memories of owning a Barton platform?), and as expected, AMD's six-core processors are flying off of store shelves.

Sales have been so well that AMD is having trouble keeping up with demand. As such, the Sunnyvale chip maker is cautioning vendors about placing orders, DigiTimes says.

Not just six-core chips are affected, either. The increased demand also applies to sales of 800-series motherboards, mobo makers say, and could impact pricing. Citing un-named sources, DigiTimes says AMD has decided to postpone the launch of its SB810 southbridge and will continue to sell the SB850 at a higher price.

CoolIt Eco A.L.C. Review

Back in the prehistoric times (April 2009), we reviewed the Domino A.L.C, an all-in-one liquid CPU-cooling system with three different speeds and an LCD screen. It worked well and was easy to install, but the screen (and attendant fan control) was, in our opinion, poorly thought-out. To see the apparatus, your case needed a side window, and to use it, you’d need to remove your side panel entirely—in which case, why not just use air? But the Domino performed well, so we let it slide.

Those features are gone in CoolIT’s new Eco A.L.C. In fact, the Eco bears a strong resemblance to Corsair’s H50 all-in-one that we reviewed in September 2009.

Like the Corsair H50, the Eco consists of a heat exchanger and pump that mount directly to the CPU socket, a radiator connected to the pump by a closed cooling loop, and a 12cm fan that connects to the radiator. The radiator and fan replace the rear 12cm or 14cm exhaust fan that’s standard in most ATX cases. The pump is powered by a 3-pin connector attached to any motherboard fan header, while the exhaust fan has a 4-pin PWM connector and attaches to the CPU_FAN header—just like with the H50.

Continue reading this review after the jump.

Nvidia GeForce 257.21 WHQL Driver Now Available for Download

New drivers are available for Nvidia graphics card owners, version 257.21. The latest release adds support for Blu-ray 3D with Nvidia 3D Vision technology and serves up a ton of performance improvements for GTX 400 series owners, some of which include:

• Up to 14 percent in Aliens vs Predator
• Up to 4 percent in Batman: Arkham Asylum
• Up to 5 percent in BattleForge
• Up to 24 percent in Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
• Up to 40 percent in Metro 2033 with SLI
• Up to 9 percent in Unigine: Tropics
• Up to 5 percent in 3DMark Vantage

Nvidia also made upgrades to the PhysX System Software to version 9.10.0223, added support for OpenGL 4.0 for GTX 400 cards, added a new Control Panel feature for "ultimate control over CUDA GPUs," and a bunch of other changes, some of which are specific to version 257.21 and others that apply to the 256 (and above) family of drivers.

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Solid State of the Union: 5 Top SSDs

At the end of our November 2008 solid-state-drive roundup, we concluded that those NAND-flash-based drives just weren’t ready for prime time, thanks to astronomically high prices, small capacities, and flaky first-gen controllers.

Flash forward to mid-2010. Not only have newer drive controllers thoroughly washed the bad taste of the first-gen SSDs out of our mouths, but performance has shot through the roof. And the slowdowns that early SSDs experienced when writing to memory blocks where data had been deleted have been vanquished by the TRIM command. Implemented in modern SSDs as well as in Windows 7 and Linux, TRIM’s garbage-collection functionality has helped SSDs overcome one of their remaining hurdles.

Of course, there’s still the matter of price. While solid state drives have several advantages over their mechanical hard drive brethren—durability, reliability, and speed among them—they still cost a lot more. A one-terabyte mechanical hard drive costs less than $100, but a 256GB SSD can cost close to $800. Nevertheless, today’s SSDs have significantly dropped in price, and combined with the technological advances, are a much improved value. Is that enough to get your purchasing dollars? We were compelled to find out, Maximum PC–style.

Google Could Launch an iTunes Rival this Fall

Google is said to be prepping its own music store for a fall 2010 launch. The internet giant had announced a web-based iTunes rival during its I/O developer’s conference last month. The music store was revealed as a new section of the Android marketplace, but knowing Google, its music plans could be far too ambitious for the service to remain confined to Android.
According to a Cnet report, quoting music industry sources, Google is indeed looking beyond Android. It is likely to link digital downloads and streaming music to its search results.

Sapphire Radeon 4870 X2

For a long time, we’ve considered videocards that sport two GPUs second-class citizens. They have all the problems of multi-card solutions—namely application incompatibilities and no multi-monitor support—but fail to perform as well as dual-card solutions, since multi-GPU cards usually use slower midrange GPUs. That’s finally changed with the new RV770-powered Radeon 4870 X2, which mounts two of ATI’s fastest GPUs on a single card, without sacrificing power-user features like multi-mon support.

The 4870 X2 is essentially two Radeon 4870 HD cards running in CrossFire mode packed onto a single board: The X2 has the same GPUs, the same 800 shader cores running at the same 750MHz core clock, and the same GDDR5 memory running at 900MHz. But, there is one difference. The single-GPU 4870 includes 512MB of memory, while the X2 has a whopping 2GB. However, the memory is duplicated between the two GPUs, so the effective frame buffer for the card is just 1GB. The X2 also features a high-speed PCI Express interconnect between the two GPUs, which should, theoretically, boost the efficiency of the shared GPUs. However, in our tests, we didn’t see an appreciable performance difference between a traditional CrossFire solution and the X2.

The 4870 X2 outperformed the previous single-card performance champ in most of our benchmarks, delivering playable frame rates at 1920x1200 and 2560x1600 in nearly every game we tested. Naturally, the exception remains Crysis, which, at its highest quality settings, punishes nearly every system we’ve tested. We’re slightly concerned about the accuracy of our Crysis benchmarks; the ATI card seemed to render far-off textures at a higher resolution than the Nvidia card. We’ll test further and report back next month.

As always with high-end cards, if you’re running a low-resolution display—pretty much anything below 1920x1200—you won’t be able to harness the full power of this card. At lower resolutions, the 4870 X2 performs exactly the same as the single-GPU 4870. For anyone running a high-res panel, the X2 truly kicks ass.
This card is a significant upgrade if your GPU doesn’t support DirectX 10—and is much better than some last-gen cards that do. If you’ve been waiting to make the jump to DX10, now’s the time to shell out the bucks—you won’t see a better performer for quite a while.

Benchmarks

	Radeon 4870X2	GeForce GTX 280
Crysis 4X AA/Very High (fps)	16.3	17.4
Crysis noAA/Very High (fps)	21.6	20.8
Call of Duty (fps)	81.8	68.3
Vantage Game 1 (fps)	10.8	17.6
Vantage Game 2 (fps)	13.0	12.1
UT3 (fps)	131.0	124
Grid (fps)	35.9	46.0

Best scores are bolded. Benchmarks are run on an Intel Core 2 Quad Q9770 Extreme, with 4GB of memory running Windows Vista. All tests are run at 1920x1200, with 4x AA and 8x anisotropic filtering, unless otherwise noted.

Asus ENGTX480 Review

The fastest single GPU can be made even faster

Just about everyone knows that Nvidia’s hot new Fermi graphics chip is literally hot. So, when Asus bundled its new ENGTX480 card with a custom voltage tweaker for overclocking, we wondered if it was such a good idea.

After all, do you really need the card to run hotter? And with the speed of the ENGTX480, you probably don’t need the higher clocks anyway. The ENGTX480 ships with 32 shader processors (what Nvidia calls “CUDA cores”) disabled, yet the card still manages to be the fastest single-GPU card you can buy today.

Asus's ENGTX480 ships with a voltage tweaker for additional overclocking--and heat.

In addition to 480 shader processors, the GPU also offers 60 texture units and a whopping 48 render output (ROP) units in its render back end. This incarnation of the Fermi GPU is built onto a board with 1.5GB of GDDR5 VRAM. The GPU core clock is 700MHz, while the shader units run at 1,401MHz. The GDDR5 memory frequency is 924MHz, suggesting that Nvidia’s GDDR5 memory controller is less efficient than AMD’s, which runs GDDR5 at 1,200MHz on the Radeon HD 5870.

All this graphics goodness comes with a double whammy: a high price and high power consumption. The Asus card typically costs $520–$550, somewhat higher than the expected $500. System power consumption at idle is 159W (versus 134W for a stock Radeon HD 5870) and a whopping 399W at full throttle (compared to 268W for a stock HD 5870).

We popped the Asus ENGTX480 into our standard Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit test system, which is built on an Asus P6X58D Premium motherboard and an Intel Core i7-975 Extreme Edition. We ran six very different games, all at 1920x1200 and 4x AA, with graphics detail maxed out, plus the Unigine Heaven 2.0 benchmark, with tessellation set at extreme. We compared the GTX 480 results to three AMD cards: the dual-GPU Radeon HD 5970, a factory overclocked Radeon HD 5870, and the similarly priced Sapphire Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity Edition (which offers 2GB of 1,200MHz GDDR5.)

While the Radeon HD 5970 won most of the benchmarks, bear in mind that it is a dual-GPU card, so it may have issues running some games in dual-GPU mode. The 5970 is also hard to find for $680. Most 5970 cards break the $700 mark. Even then, the ENGTX480 card won a couple of benchmarks. If you compare just single-GPU cards, the ENGTX 480 won every contest except Crysis, which was a dead heat.

Despite the added power consumption and higher cost, the ENGTX480 impressed us with its overall performance. It’s very much a forward-looking card—performance in recent games is excellent, indeed. It is pricey, though, at up to $150 more than a stock Radeon HD 5870. So while performance is excellent, the price differential is pretty substantial. Bear this in mind when deciding between AMD and Nvidia.