Shareholders sue Nokia because of negative development

In the U.S., several shareholders class action lawsuit in a New York district court against Nokia are using their lawyers filed. The background is the negative development of the company in recent months.

According to the shareholders of the Finnish mobile phone manufacturer, the prospects for change have glossed over to Windows Mobile 7. Corporate chief Stephen Elop had with the announcement of the cooperation with Microsoft in February 2011, talked about that with this step, stop the continued downward trend and would be reversed. Latest with the announcement of the final quarter numbers in mid-April but it was obvious that this trend will not occur, then the shareholders.

On the contrary, within twelve months, the number of smart phones has sold more than halved, reduced consolidated revenue by 40 percent. According to the company was able to sell Nokia January-March 2012, only two million sets based on Windows Mobile – the opposite just are ten million Symbian smartphones.

Therefore, the applicants claim compensation from the companies. The top management was aware of the fact that no improvement despite the use of a new platform is in prospect. However, they had just communicated this to the exterior. However, the disbursement of $ 100 to all purchasers of AT & T variant of the Lumia 900 due to a technical problem, which is a best seller should have created is listed as critical in the lawsuit. This is, in fact refers to provisions of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

Nokia itself has left comments on the allegations, as the Wall Street Journal reports. We will review the allegations and the action exactly, but see no evidence for its own misconduct. Especially great chances of success should not be the plaintiff. For not only that the allegations are very difficult to prove: Trading in stocks is always associated with risks such as exchange rate losses.

A similar case last September. At this point, an HP shareholder had a complaint to the manufacturer submitted. The former corporate CEO Leo Apotheker was accused represented the future of webOS glossed respectively silent about the problems to have. While outwardly of a positive future and many new devices based on’ve spoken originally developed by Palm operating system, the end was sealed prior to the sale of the tablet pad.

Swiss Arrows, controls the position and size of the windows of your applications

When we face our Mac do not usually have only one open application. Usually by the window of your browser and other applications with us could be a text editor, the application of Twitter, instant messaging, email client, etc … When are multiple windows, move between them, especially when we work with both at the same time, can be a slow and cumbersome process based on mouse clicks. To solve this we use Swiss Arrows, a manager position and size of the windows of our applications.

Swiss Arrows is nothing new, we have shown in similar applications Applesfera as Spectacle , Optimal Layout or Divvy . So what brings Swiss Arrows? or simply why I opt for it rather than any of the above applications? We will try to answer these two questions as clear as possible.

As already mentioned, Swiss Arrows allows us to manage not only the position but also the size of the windows of an application and is compatible with the use of multiple monitors. Default has ten window states: full screen, up, down, left, right, center, equine upper left, upper right corner, lower left corner or lower right corner. But we can also customize up to ten new custom status.

That’s one of the benefits, how to create custom states. In other similar applications have a grid on which mark the position and size of the window. In Swiss Arrows to create the custom status captured the position and size of the window as we have placed on the desktop go to preferences, create new state and captured the position and size of the window as if a snapshot is question. In the video you will see how.

And now the key question, why Swiss Arrows and not another? I have no universal answer as it depends on each user, but I will say that to me is essential to manage the position and size of windows quickly. Optimal Layout is a very complete but for many the price is € 10.99 paste with Divvy occurs much the same. Swiss Arrows only costs € 0.79 and it has nothing to envy, in addition to export or import settings So if you have multiple computers, all have the same configuration will be simpler if possible. Ideally, for future versions, such synchronization settings will be made via Dropbox or icloud.

OWC Mercury Accelsior is storage for Mac Pro PCIe

In PC we have multiple solutions, but Mac is more difficult to find such devices. One brand that is working harder to satisfy users of Apple products with regard to storage is OMW, Other World Computing, who had already talked about some of their products like the Aura Pro Express. Today we present the Mercury OCZ Accelsior.

On the picture above and see clearly how storage is PCI Express, and I thought right highlight being one of the few promises compatibility with Mac Pro. Its performance is overwhelming: 780 and 648 MB / s read and writing, respectively, figures significantly higher than any model SSD brings the market.

OWC has announced it will distribute four models with different capacities between 120 and 960 GB for the following prices:

OWC Mercury Accelsior 120 GB: $ 399
OWC Mercury Accelsior 240 GB: $ 549
OWC Mercury Accelsior 480 GB: $ 979
OWC Mercury Accelsior 960 GB: $ 2,179

They are available except the 240 GB model, which will begin to launch in the coming weeks.

Firefox 12 is now available for download

From now on the final version of the Mozilla Firefox browser, available for download. The biggest change is the new update mode, which is carried out now as the Google Chrome browser “silent”, ie without the user will notice a lot of it

The new update system that is introduced with Firefox 12 is intended to make the updating process more convenient and also has the background that Firefox users have complained in recent years sometimes, that the frequency of publications has increased dramatically and “constantly” updates needed are.

Firefox is because 12.0

From now on, it automatically takes over the browser, similar to what is already common practice in Chrome. However, no one is forced to use these “maintenance service” called to function, they can already be disabled during the installation process. Here, we explicitly asked in an appropriate window, if you want to install this feature, who does not want, should remove the corresponding hook.

You can activate the silent update, but also later (en): do this you go in the tab “Tools” on the “Settings”. Then you can find under “Advanced” tab (far right) the “Update” tab, here you can set how you want Firefox behave in this respect – and that one puts the mark at “a background service to use to install updates”.

Diablo III’ beta-end and new book

Eventually everything comes to an end – and this is the case in the beta to “Diablo III” a good thing. Developer Blizzard has now announced that the test run on 1 May and ends so that the scheduled release nothing more stands in the way. Parallel also new literature from the “Diablo” was announced universe.

“You have done a remarkable job in testing and we were very pleased about your feedback at this critical stage of development,” Blizzard begins to notice the end of the beta on the 1st May – a good two weeks before the launch of the Gold variant – all characters and even the beta accounts of non-preorder will be deleted.

Blizzard announced Paralllel to a new “Diablo”-Book titled “Diablo III: The Order” at the same time the game will be available and supported Deckard Cain’s search for his religious members.

Alleged picture of a GeForce GTX 690 in circulation

For some time now are rumors of a new dual-GPU graphics card on the “Kepler” generation Nvidia in circulation . The speculation has it that the new high-end spearhead two GK104 with 3,072 CUDA cores available, which can either use two gigabytes of VRAM.

The rumors about a new graphics card on the green giants are a couple of days, a rather mysterious announcement on Facebook has been further fueled. The first time an image that shows a possible GTX 690 is, appeared on the Internet. According to the alleged consumption of up to 375 watts using the new card seems a cooler with “Vapor Chamber” technology and sedentary middle radial fan that is since the last dual-GPU generation, the tool of choice for such heat level.

GeForce GTX 690
More information can be found next to the picture is not. Just the clock rates are therefore still in the dark corners of the rumor mill. As a possible publication date, however, is already being talked of May – there will also introduce new AMD HD7990.

Medion Launches First Ultra Free – Soon at ALDI?

The German electronics supplier Medion wants to enter within the next few months in the market for ultra-Books. At an exhibition in the UK was the first ultra-Book model of this country known primarily as a supplier of computer discounter ALDI first manufacturer to see.

Medion UK presented the Medion Akoya S4611 Ultra-called first in-house, according to Book ‘ netbooknews ‘on the Gadget Show in Birmingham, England in the last week from the first time. According to the company is a pre-premiere, which is why we have so far released only the key facts about the new ultra-Book with 14-inch display.

The Medion Akoya S4611 is, according to Medion therefore in an aluminum housing and is equipped with the latest Intel Core i3, i5 and i7 processors. It is not clear yet whether it will be the new chips based on Intel “Ivy Bridge” architecture. Apparently to the device as a high-end system to be positioned for Medion promises up to 16 gigabytes of memory and hard disk capacity of up to 1 terabyte.

In addition to those contained in the CPU built in Intel graphics Medion S4611 can add an additional graphics card type GeForce GT630M, which offers DirectX 11 support. Other features include USB 3.0, HDMI and VGA outputs, and Ethernet port, SD card reader and a webcam.

Apple Snow Leopard gives licenses to users of MobileMe to encourage the adoption of icloud

icloud already has more than one hundred million users six months after launch, so we can say that the adoption is going well. But there is one problem: his predecessor, MobileMe, will disappear June 30 . And as it does all users who have not migrated to MobileMe icloud will have problems. Apple, to facilitate this migration, is giving away licenses Snow Leopard to all those users.

icloud is not compatible with Snow Leopard, but Apple gives licenses for that version of the system because from this version can be upgraded to Lion from the Mac App Store and to start to have the license information of OS X account linked to Apple . And you kill two birds with one stone, because it takes Apple to update all those users who have fallen behind with Leopard or Tiger.

This promotion ends shortly before the deadline for MobileMe, June 15. So if you are of those who have a Mac with an older version of OS X and MobileMe account active, you can use this little push that Apple gives you to be more updated.

Cairo-Dock 3.0, new version of the dock that improves integration with Gnome and Ubuntu

Yesterday we launched the new version of Cairo-Dock, a toolbar and apliaciones launcher for Linux that includes some features that make me feel very comfortable with its use, and I make it much easier with new desktop versions, both in Gnome 3 as in Unity. Cairo-Dock 3.0 improves integration with Gnome and Ubuntu, but also the speed of execution and animations.

Specific aspects have been improved, as the volume control better integrated with the sound menu of Ubuntu, but others are more general and keyboard shortcuts to launch applications, lock the computer or the volume control, for example, we can set as we more comfortable. It also included the possibility of changing session between users on the menu off, which was not available.

It also includes improvements to its miniapliaciones, for example, which allows for example for Twitter that allows us to write directly with just one click. Cairo-Dock addition GTK3 used for better integration with Gnome, and the truth is that he succeeds. To install on Ubuntu and derivatives can do running on the console:

In my case one of the issues that I value the launcher are the shortcuts that I include applications and folders configured as best I can I will. At the same time, every time you do not find any option in the menus of Unity or Gnome 3 I go to shortcuts pitcher is usually faster.

Like all such applications are intended for the user to have to hand that to which access is often more frequently, so it is essential to be very configurable and can adapt to the needs of each. In my case I meet.

Valve works with top technology for wear

It seems that Google is not the only one that works on hardware for wear , the boys at Valve have confirmed that its research and development also plays with technology to wear on top.

It was the distinguished programmer Michael Abrash who told us a bit about the project, making it clear that this is not a commercial product that will appear on the market soon. A few weeks ago came out the possibility that they were creating their own video game system .

Valve is important to start preparing the future from the standpoint of hardware and software, so studying user interfaces of systems that we carry. How does the computer on which location you are or where you are looking at are important things to develop.

It seems that the concept of Augmented Reality begins to charge interest for large developers, who also wonder how it must be the hardware logic that has experience and interest.

Abrash makes clear, does not want to talk about Steam glasses for the next E3, this is an internal project team’s research and development. With the push of Google in this field, and the arrival of more big names, it is speculated that in 2013 this kind of hardware will start to become habitual.

Additionally inform you that Tim Cook, Apple’s current boss, has been visiting the offices of Valve to establish businesses.