Asus K Series N Series and come the first portable Ivy Bridge of Taiwan

The final presentation of Ivy Bridge has been the starting gun makers expected to introduce new equipment under the platform on which they have been working months.

Taiwan’s Asus starts with the new Asus N and K series. The first is a family of laptops with more careful design and brushed metal housings in silver on the inside and black outside.

Series N is formed by the Asus N46, 56 and 76 with screens 14, 15.6 and 17.3 inches respectively. Inside we find those new Ivy Bridge processors, including Intel Core i5 and i7, but Asus has not specified specific models.

Accompanying the processor memory up to 16GB to 1.600MHz and two storage bays can install hard drives classics, SSD or one of each. The graphics go through a Nvidia GT 630 or 650 with 2GB of dedicated memory.

Series K. Affordable Multimedia

With the K-Series, Asus wanted to launch a family of Ivy Bridge laptops more affordable but still with power for games or multimedia. The models available are the K45, K55, K75 and K95, 14, 15, 17.3 and 18.4 inches respectively. They are finished in anodized aluminum in different colors.

Internally, the K series is quite similar to N, except that no SSD option and the graphics are Nvidia 600 series or AMD Radeon 7660G and 7670M. Asus will also sell some of this equipment with the AMD processors like the Trinity with A70M.

Both N and K series are now available. Prices vary depending on equipment size and specifications.

How to Overcome Weight Loss?

Have you noticed that your weight loss has suddenly slowed down without warning?

You’re still working out and doing the same exercises that you were before. You’re still eating right and doing all of the other right things…

Yet, you’re not losing weight anymore!

This phase of dealing with stubborn fat is more commonly referred to as the weight loss plateau. You start to lose weight steadily and start to feel confident that you can meet your your weight reduction goals. Then suddenly your weight freezes and you just can’t seem shake off any more pounds despite doing the same exercise and diet as you were before.

The first thing to realize is that this is a common occurrence and experts agree that it is completely normal.

The trick here is to use this seemingly negative event as an opportunity to put in more effort and try other like taking protein pancakes, healthier ways to lose weight and ultimately reach your goals. Here are some tips to try in order to overcome this weight loss plateau.

Renewing your commitment to your goals can help you overcome the feeling of helplessness in your weight loss regimen. Be sure that you have realistic, practical, reasonable, and healthy goals. Also, it is important that you do not compare yourself with others because everyone’s body deals with weight loss in a unique way.

Users should not accept the new Facebook Terms

The Consumer Rhineland-Palatinate has called on the users of Facebook used to oppose a pending change the terms and conditions for the social network. Only with a corresponding mass of unruly members could be built up enough pressure.

Already end of March 2012 was planning a new version of Facebook’s Terms of Service. Within a short time thousands contradicted this new contract rules. Now, the company launches a further attempt to unilaterally push through his conditions, the mention of the Consumer. Not until the 27th should April, so the next Friday, at least 7,000 users contradict the conditions, these should be mandatory for all users with a Facebook account.

Content to bring the new general business conditions (AGB) to 14 closely written pages in the opinion of the Office for the consumer-using no effective improvement. There were conceptual changes have been added such as “Chronicle” instead of “Profile”, some rules have disappeared, some new. Sun let Facebook it recently approve it without being asked apps updated. Supposedly, the company also responds to court decisions in Germany, where Facebook to use certain terms and conditions and specific practices were banned.

The Consumer Advice Centre and the State Commissioner for Data Protection Rhineland-Palatinate are of the view that the new terms and conditions continue to violate a number of laws to protect consumer data. Therefore, they recommend to oppose these new rules. “I reject the changes and urge the observance of Facebook privacy, consumer protection and copyright legislation in Germany and Europe”, to specify the user as possible as a comment.

“Facebook now proceed on the principle of ‘all or nothing’. If not the entire set by the company, in many respects questionable rules consents, must remain outside,” Ulrike criticized by the Lühe, head of the Consumer Rhineland-Palatinate. Currently offering the opportunity to oppose something.

Facebook will reach one billion users in 2012

Facebook has announced that they had just crossed the mark of 901 million members. Thus, the social network is on track until the end of this year, one billion people as Facebook users to achieve.

As Facebook’s stock exchange announced plans beginning in February 2012 , has reported it in this context as membership of 845 million people. Barely two months later you come to 901 million (active) members, at least if one disregards the fact that a substantial proportion of them as fake accounts can be designated.

End of 2012, Facebook is likely to crack the billion mark

If it continues at this pace of growth, then Facebook will be able to welcome even more this year for the billionth member. The latest figures released Facebook as part of an annual report, the preparation for the expected mid-May IPO, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ‘ U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has been sent ‘and had to be sent.

In addition to the current financial figures in it are some facts about the activity on Facebook to find: So is that of Mark Zuckerberg at established social network, that every day some 500 million people come to the site and there are active, in February there were 483 million.

If you add up all user connections, then exisitieren on Facebook friendships 125 000 000 000

It also revealed that about 3.2 billion daily comments and “likes” information will be released (February 2012: 2.7 billion). Also invite the users of the network to the 300 million daily picture, two months earlier it was still 250 million. Meanwhile, Facebook has around 125 billion friendship links (February: 100 billion)

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission should however be more interested in the “naked” figures, also are in the Facebook-document, Thus, sales in the first quarter of 2012, $ 1.06 billion, which is compared to the first quarter of 2011 an increase of 45 percent. The profit is down, however lower than at the beginning of the year: So you wrote from first January to 31 March 2012 a profit of 205 million dollars, 2011 (Q1) on the other hand, there were $ 302 million.

Netgear Genie Mobile puts the controls of your network on your phone or tablet

Long since left home networks of “harboring” just our laptop and little else. Now NAS, televisions, hard drives, printers … the networks are full of equipment, so that brands want to offer advanced solutions provide us with the maintenance and management thereof.

Mobile Genie is the bet of Netgear to manage your home network through Android device and IOS. Those teams that link it to our network instantly become a sort of remote control to monitor it and manage it.

The implementation of Android and iPhone OS provides access to wireless routers Premium Netgear, parental control, to meter bandwidth and the manager of guest access. To help understand how the network is configured, it also provides a graphic picture of the connections of whole house and can identify and block those devices you want.

To top off the features included is the MyMedia service that lets you play multimedia content from the tablet or phone as a team they were pre DLNA.

Greenpeace: The cloud is a huge power guzzlers

The environmental group Greenpeace has protested in several European countries against which they considered too high proportion of energy from non renewable sources of supply of data centers of large IT companies.

In particular, Apple, Amazon and Microsoft have been taken by the organization to target. These companies are among the largest operators of data centers worldwide. The group basically includes Google, the search engine company does, however, for many years with its advertising efforts in environmental protection.

In some data centers, energy consumption amounted, according to Greenpeace orders of magnitude, which could otherwise provide 250,000 homes in Europe. The cloud were a country, it would be the world’s energy consumption at the 5th Space. Given that the demand is expected to triple by the year 2020, is the infrastructure for the environmentalists is primarily a problem.

As the largest polluters in the area of ​​Apple was branded. According to Greenpeace, which would be 55 percent icloud supplied with electricity from coal-fired power plants, another 28 percent of its one nuclear power. According to Apple’s European headquarters was especially in Cork, the target of protests.

The irony of the thing, so Greenpeace activist Iris Cheng lies in the fact that the Cork branch will already fully supplied with electricity from renewable sources. “Apple has shown in Cork, that it can ensure the supply of clean energy. Now it is time to implement the world.

Apple criticized, however, that makes Greenpeace in its campaign with false figures mood. Instead of claiming the 100-megawatt data center in North Carolina would need only 20 megawatts of electricity. Moreover, the share of renewable energies in the supply, as analyzed by the full expansion at 60 percent. This will provide a specially constructed solar power plant and a biogas fuel cell. The resulting new data center in Oregon will also run entirely on renewable energies.

Do you want a smartphone with Myspace? Avoid if possible funding

With the end of subsidies in Movistar and Vodafone is increasingly difficult to get a smartphone discounts and various establishments and traders begin to provide funding to offset the outlay would pay to play tile.

One of the operators, in this case virtual, offering this option is Myspace . After launching a revolutionary rate of pseudo-card subsidiary Movistar announced the contract fee, an exact copy of the prepaid, but offering the possibility of buying smartphones funded.

At no time Myspace has said that funding was no interest but in an environment where there are several possibilities that are not paid a fee for deferred payment policy is curious that follows the OMV with its funding.

To understand this better we took several terminals of the operator’s offer and proved the difference between pay in cash or prepaid finance a 24-month contract.

Huawei Ascend P1 arrives in Europe in June

Not the Huawei Ascend D Quad , the company superphone China, but is almost as interesting as it as it is expected to have a competitive price offered by the specifications. OS talk about the Huawei Ascend P1 .

The news has to do with its release in Europe (also in Latin America), which is dated sometime in June. The phone has just appeared in China for a price change of more than 400 euros.

The phone stands out especially for its size, as it has a thickness of only 7.69 mm, possibly the thinnest on the market. It also draws attention to its Super AMOLED screen of 4.3 inches with resolution 960 × 540 pixels.

Ending specifications, we have a dual core processor, TI OMAP 4460 at 1.5GHz, has a 1.3 megapixel front camera, 8 megapixel main, 1GB of RAM, and 4GB of internal memory.

Huawei wants to start strong with its new generation of phones and puts them directly Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich . We look forward to hearing updates on the release of Huawei Ascend D Quad market.

Read it Later is now Pocket, a new free news reader

Read it Later , the service allows you to save web articles to read later with more comfort, you’ve washed your face. Renamed Pocket, Read it Later becomes completely free and opens a new design on all supported platforms: IOS , including the Kindle Android Fire, or any browser from a website.

Pocket is capable of storing videos, pictures, tweets and any website. Remove distractions kept showing it without distractions, like ‘reading mode’ Safari browser. We can also label everything saved, mark it as a bookmark or classification by categories. On the website, the interface will behave in a certain way depending on the type of content you’re saving to read later.

But perhaps the best news is that Pocket is completely free Read it Later when before it was to pay. That is a good move directly against its main competitor, Instapaper, which has put its mobile application for IOS at a price of 3.99 euros. No trial period or anything like that: you can download the Pocket applications from now.

Hotspots.io buy Twitter, a business social media analysis

What a year that leads Twitter, and that only we in the fourth month: taking out the wallet and go shopping you’ll quickly. Summify and Posterous have been two of the most notorious cases. And now, again have taken the book, in this case to buy Hotspots.io.

In his own words, Hotspots.io was founded “with the vision to help businesses and individuals to maximize their return on investment in social media through analysis of concrete and accessible.” By all appearances, this is a talent acquisition: members of the company will work immediately on Twitter, the engineering team revenue (revenue literal translation of engineering team).

Although the statement does not indicate anything about what will happen with the service you gave Hotspots.io, I think one can speculate that should not continue to operate for much longer. And it remains to be seen whether this purchase will affect in some way to statistics service which has already been operating a few months but still not available to everyone.