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AMD is prepared with the new processors. The company estimates indicate that cloud computing is the most advanced markets in reality an.

The adoption of cloud computing is growing at companies are beginning to see positive results, according to a study conducted by Advanced Micro Devices. For 42 percent of respondents cloud computing is already being used in part of IT operations for hosting the data or to use applications remotely. To what use the cloud to 60 percent is held in a position to give an economic value for its business.

Only a year or two before the user is questioned simply on the meaning of the cloud, it is something you use. It’s good news for AMD because it means increased demand for high-performance servers with energy efficiency for the management of virtualized applications. Now that the Fusion strategy, which integrates CPU and graphics, has taken a clear roadmap of AMD plans to release chips with multiple core processors such as Option Interleague that use the Bulldozer core and can be up to 16 cores per chip.

Other issues of research, which was founded only for internal use, indicate that 46 per cent feel the cloud a strategic shift for the IT business processes, while another 35 percent is a tactical move to address specific needs. 19 percent cited the need to reduce costs.

For many companies, security and privacy are still concerns regarding the management of financial data with employees and customers, while it does not seem concerned about the availability of internal IT staff to manage cloud computing.

Closed due to piracy in April, the PlayStation Network is gradually brought back online. The Internet platform will be re-opened in Japan on July 6. After hacking April’s massive PlayStation Network, Sony calls in running its Internet platform attached to its flagship game console.

The PSN service is gradually being restored in the world, after the IT security measures. This applies to the United States and Europe since early June. Sony expects a return to normal on its domestic market in Japan from July 6.

The service Qriocity digital entertainment (music and movies) will also be restored for the occasion at the local level. Like the players around the world, fans of PSN in Japan enjoy a “Welcome Back package” (as a gift compensation). It will include free games and access to the premium service “PlayStation Plus” for a specified period (a month or two).

The first half was hard on the security front for Sony, struck by a series of cyber attacks has led to such a massive loss of personal data and banking (77 million users NHP exposed, 4, 7 million in France). Last week, the group high-tech Japan announced a change of management of its subsidiary, video games, now entrusted to Andrew House, a Sony veteran of Welsh origin.

Kazuo Hirai, who oversees Sony Computer Entertainment (SCEI), will combine his duties as President of the subsidiary video games (replacing Akira Sato which starts late August). Sony needs to regain control at the bottom line.

In 1995, Scott Carter acquired the domain name Social.com for $ 100. In 2011, he sold $ 2.6 million to a mystery buyer. The auction to acquire the domain name Social.com peaked. Bought in 1995 for the modest sum of $ 100, the domain of the most evocative recently sold for $ 2.6 million.

Here he sold 26 000 times more. But the new owner, based in the UK, preferred to remain anonymous. It could be a group of investors and not a single person. Among the names circulating, Facebook is well positioned, as well as Bing (from Microsoft), Google and Apple. 2011 is the record on the second hand market of domain names (for now).

The history of the domain name Social.com is original. Flashback: In 1995, the USB was only his appearance on personal computers. The Internet was still in its infancy. Without standardization and connections broadband, it was accessible only by a few million homes worldwide.

At the time, who could have predicted the rise of social networks by 2010? Scott Carter, Social.com acquired in 1995 with Network Solutions, is the first surprise. An operation that he had returned $ 100 round all the time. Among the first projects launched by him around this domain: a dating site.

“My intention was to develop a site that would compete with Match.com,” said Scott Carter at the last DOMAINfest Barcelona. Without conclusive results, Social.com was auctioned first in 1997. Initial investment: $ 50 000. Scott Carter seemed too greedy in spite of the good old days of the Net economy.

With the rise of social networks (Facebook, Twitter …), the holder of the generic domain name is trying his luck again in 2011. The expected $ 5 million. It received only half. But this is still a good sale, which will remain anchored in the saga of domain names.

Eight months after its launch, Windows 7 Phone Reaches Milestone of 25,000 applications available on the Microsoft Windows Marketplace. WP7 the ecosystem now has 40,000 developers, for 3 to 4 million users. It took just over eight months to the successor of Windows Mobile to reach the symbolic level 25 000 applications available for download on Windows Marketplace. Note that 51% of them are free.

Disproportionate to the IOS platform and apps 425 000 (100 000 for the iPad only), Windows 7 Phone can no more hold a candle to Android, which has some 200,000 applications. But given the bitter failure of Windows Mobile, Microsoft has caught up with flying colors. Its ecosystem Phone Windows is used by more than 3 million mobile users worldwide.

Every day, they are 186 applications that benefit from updates. In total, the number of applications available on the Windows Marketplace has doubled in just three months (11,500 in March). However, some trackers like Windows Phone App List or WP7 App List, 4000 of these programs are outdated, if not updated.

With a new partnership with the Finnish manufacturer Nokia, Microsoft can now continue his ascent to the heights and dream to be familiar with the figure of 50,000 as expected applications. Indeed, Nokia is committed to equip its future smartphones to an enhanced version of Windows 7 Phone, called Mango. Enough to give a little more impetus to an operating system that should eventually provide hundreds of features unpublished.

Microsoft Windows Azure is enriched by two modules. First, PRESTO 2 (Exchange Protocol and Open Standard), which guarantees the exchange of data in a formalized way, and also OGDI (for Open Government Data Initiative).

Available through the cloud, Microsoft Windows Azure is a PaaS (Platform-as-a Service). It meets a growing demand for this type of development platform orbited by a real ecosystem with its own language, dedicated to the development tools and modules.

And Microsoft announced two new modules  PRESTO OGDI.

More than a billion documents are exchanged between administrations each year. With this in mind, the DGME (Directorate General for State Modernisation) embarked on a collaborative project with the goal of normalization of an envelope technique for data exchange.

PRESTO was defined in accordance with the requirements of openness, interoperability and scalability with thread as compliance with international standards. It is September 13, 2006 as a PRESTO was published on the basis of Web services. And the first PRESTO Starter Kit for Microsoft. NET Framework 3.0 was released under a free license CeCILL-B.

Microsoft announced that France PRESTO Starter Kit 2 for Windows Azure is now also available for free download, especially since the Microsoft Download Center. If PRESTO guarantees certain universality, we keep in mind that portability does not PaaS services if only one wants to change. So is Windows Azure as other platforms of this type.

Twitter has acquired the start-up BackType, which provides a platform of analysis for companies to monitor their impact on social networks. BackType is a platform providing a business analysis service to easily track their impact on social networks.

Twitter, which was devoid of such a tool, bought for an undisclosed sum. Two products start-up could be particularly interesting for micro-blogging site: BackTweet, described as “helping publishers to understand the scope and content of their tweets, which they reach their tweets and how to convert Web traffic sales and other key performance indicators (PKI) “. Basically, a Google Analytics to social networks. As well as Storm, a proprietary technology of real-time processing flows. It would be “distributed, reliable and resistant to errors”. Its utilities are numerous. In particular, it would greatly facilitate the processing of messages and updating of databases in real time. In its other applications, it allows for example to display continuously and accurately over 50 messages “retweeted” the social network.

In addition to these technologies, Twitter acquires the full team that created them. She will move into the offices of the micro-blogging service. In the war for talent that is currently playing in Silicon Valley, this alone would explain the acquisition. Note that in March, TechCrunch reported that the startup had raised $ 1 million in seed funding from investors including Y Combinator, True Ventures, K9 Ventures, Freestyle Capital, Lowercase Capital, Startups 500, Collective and Founder Raymond Tonsing.

Microsoft holds patents in case of aircraft operating under the Android OS and requires the payment of royalties. Samsung may proceed to checkout. Microsoft wants to defend its patents if they are used in smartphones running the Android OS.

And Samsung has received an order to that effect from the firm of Steve Ballmer. According to eWeek UK, Microsoft claimed the South Korean manufacturer therefore the payment of royalties: $ 15 for each smartphone Samsung sold under the mobile operating system. A new potential financial windfall for Microsoft: Samsung sells millions of units per year of Android phones.

Its fresh Galaxy S II would have sold 3 million copies in less than two months. It is not known what the reaction from Samsung. But the risk of opening of proceedings for patent infringement is serious.

In April 2010, Microsoft had HTC bend . The Taiwanese manufacturer of smart phones (like the Android model Desire) had finally comply by signing a licensing agreement to exploit the intellectual property of Microsoft. Recently, eWeek UK said that four small shelves manufacturers Android yielded under pressure from the Redmond Company: Wistron, Onkyo, Velocity Micro and General Dynamics Itronix.

But others resist: for example, in October 2010, Microsoft filed a complaint against Motorola, which would use illegally nine patents in the U.S. publisher of its smartphones Google Android.

PDAs, tablets and reading lights now on Android. In March, Microsoft has accused Barnes & Noble to use illegally several patented technologies in its e-book reader Nook.

HP has formalized a booth of 300 applications for the TouchPad, the new touch pad. With a few applications available exclusively for WebOS, the selection is oriented multimedia, travel and media.

Lovers of good movies will rejoice, as well as lovers of the written press. Otherwise, the software provides the operating system WebOS is very limited.

This selection of 300 applications submitted by HP for its new tablet TouchPad may well leave a bitter taste in the mouth of the public.

Although inspired by the adage that claims that “one cannot have everything,” seduced by the customer TouchPad it certainly will resume twice to consider a repository after all reduced to its simplest expression.

David Guetta, official partner of the TouchPad, is unlikely to have much to put in their mouths during the next twelve months. A period during which the new HP tablet accompany each movement of the famous DJ. Despite some long-term partnerships with renowned companies such as Warner Bros., HP figure of bad student address the manufacturers who have elected Android and its applications 200 000 Phone or even Windows 7, which now totals 25,000 .

Announced with fanfare at a conference last week in Paris, the agreement with Marmiton.org, the website dedicated to recipes, gives birth to an original application and unique, which enhances the general appearance the catalog.

In 2010, the purchase invoice semiconductor Apple has been estimated at $ 17.5 billion (79.6% in one year). These components are primarily intended to equip the iPhone and iPad. Apple has a new record: it was in 2010, the largest buyer of semiconductors, according to the classification established by the IHS firm iSuppli.

Among the manufacturers and suppliers listed, Apple raises so on top of the podium, with 17.5 billion electronic components purchased last year: enough to develop many of iPhone and iPad … This corresponds to an increase of 79.6% compared to 2009. And 61% of the “semiconductor” is reserved for Apple’s mobile devices.

Recall that in the first quarter of 2011, just on the mobile market, Apple has become the fourth largest manufacturer worldwide with a market share of 3.9% and 16.8 million iPhones sold. HP is second on the area of the largest buyers of semiconductors last year, with a bill for $ 15.2 billion (82% of its expenditures are devoted to PCs and servers), followed by Samsung (13.9 billion).

Major players in the high-tech arrived right behind, like Nokia and Sony, who have respectively spent $ 8.3 billion in 2010 and 8.1 billion in electronic components, nearly twice as Apple. For 2011, iSuppli predicts that IHS spending in this area of ​​the Cupertino Company would peak at 22.4 billion, against “only” $ 14.8 billion to 14.3 billion HP and Samsung.

The sapling French Surikat raised one million Euros to develop new services and products related to mobile marketing. The start-up Surikat specializing in mobile marketing services, has just finished a round of one million Euros from the fund’s investment Covent Partners.

In July 2010, the young shoot had already made a fundraising boot. Founded in 2010 by Jules Manville under the name Appsteur, Surikat develops marketing services on mobile devices, such as a referral service, an advertising agency, as well as tools and services for advertisers and publishers of mobile applications.

Surikat currently has more than one hundred customers, including Carrefour, LaFourchette.com, Cadremploi, Mappy, LeFigaro.fr, Beezik Michael Page or Go Travel. This round of funding should allow the marketer to develop more mobile by launching new services and products on the market.

Surikat thus the idea of ​​developing more activities as an offer for market research on mobile applications. The startups also seriously considering launching new services and CRM analytics, and new advertising formats.

Surikat will also take advantage of this new money to recruit employees and initiate new partnerships through equity participation in the capital of actors with complementary activities.