Galaxy is a worthy successor to the popular S3 S2 Galaxy

The Galaxy S3 comes with an 8 megapixel camera on 31 May 2012 in the trade. The mobile phone can already be pre-ordered at Amazon or media market.

The Galaxy S3 is a worthy successor to the popular S2 Galaxy. According to Samsung, it should be inspired by the “human nature” that is, it looks (by the front camera), listen (with voice commands) and responds intuitively. While this is all a little exaggerated, but provides at least the technical progress out today’s smartphones. An example of this. The Galaxy S3 on the front camera recognizes whether the user is looking at the phone. As long as this is the case, it does not go into standby mode or shuts off the screen. Ingenious.

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The Galaxy S3 is available with a brushed white plastic housing in the colors blue and Marble. It measures 136.6 x 70, 6 x 8.6 mm and a 4.8 inch super although it has HD AMOLED screen. So it is hot on the dimensions not particularly larger than the Samsung S2 Galaxy with a 4.3 inch screen. The Galaxy According to Slashgear S3 feels very light and weighs only 133g. Most users, however, due to the plastic casing rather have the feeling that something cheap to hold in their hands.

Compared to all phones of the Galaxy line, the Samsung S3 Galaxy has more in common with the original Galaxy than with the S2. With the highly curved edges, it stands out in its formal language very much on the Galaxy S2, however, resembles very much the iPhone 3G. For this reason, already write the first media, have the new Samsung mobile phone designed for Apple’s lawyers. The keyboard arrangement was taken over by the Galaxy S3, the home button has been extended slightly, however.

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Overall, the Galaxy looks like the S3 from Samsung Nexus Galaxy. With a pixel density of 309ppi, the S3 ready to compete with the iPhone 4S and makes us aware that a retinal display nice, but a 3.5-inch screen is just too small. One may expect an Apple fan, which is also the iPhone 5 will have a larger screen. The popularity of the HTC and the Galaxy X S3 is forcing Apple to rule, to design the iPhone screen’s 5 new.

BSN’s Syntha-6: Is It Worth the Extra Money?

We ask the question is Syntha-6 worth the extra money over any ordinary of the shelf generic protein powder?

Are all protein powders created even? No, is the short answer. Why you ask. Well as the name syntha 6 as it suggests it is made of from 6 different proteins. The reason for this is that it has been designed to release a steady stream of protein to be absorbed by the body for a period of up to 8 hours. Each of the 6 different proteins has a different rate of absorption creating a time release effect.

To start with there is micro filtered whey protein isolate which is absorbed 1-2 hours after consumption. Then there is ultra filtered whey protein concentrate which is absorbed around hours 3-4 and also egg albumen within the same time window. After that around hour 4-6 protein is provided by milk protein concentrate which is followed up by Micellar Alpha, Calcium Caseinate and Beta Caseins plus Caseinates covering hours 6-8.

So why do you need this? Well it has been scientifically proven that the body needs amino acids (the building blocks that make up protein) to repair and grow muscle among other things. The body can produce some of these amino acids but the rest it needs to get from food. If the body does not have enough amino acids for the more essential functions like respiration enzymes and blood cells then it will take it from the muscles reducing muscle mass and stopping repair and re-growth

On the smartphone market is currently known, a lot of movement, which is partly due to the new releases of the various manufacturers. And the Finnish company Nokia mixed with it, and brings the new Lumia 900 now in the German advance. The online retailer Amazon is offering the smartphone for 575 €, and in the colors Black, White and Can. The delivery erflogt but only from 25 May, which, according to industry experts is the fact that the Lumia 900 is in the U.S. more than it sells well.

With the new series, like Lumia, the Finnish manufacturer Nokia again be competitive, and to catch up with the leading group to Apple and Samsung. And the sales of the model Lumia 800 covers in the United States indicates that this task seems impossible. Sun ranked the Nokia smart phone, for example, several days on the first places in the Amazon sales charts.

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Nokia would like to repeat that success in Germany, and the 900 model is now officially released for sale. From now on you can now also pre-order the Nokia 900 at Amazon Lumia, at a price of 575 €. But what the new smartphone brings to this summer really proud of yourself? The highlight is the 4.3-inch AMOLED display with a resolution of 800 x 480 pixels. The processor is fast Snapdragon CPU is used, which is clocked at 1.4 GHz. The main memory is 512 megabytes compared to the current competition is rather meager.

For this, the built-in camera a resolution of 8 megapixels, and the internal memory can be around 16 GB through the microSD card called again expand to 32 GB. Another interesting feature of the Lumia 900: Nokia offers the user another 14.5 GB of online storage, as a cloud solution called SkyDrive. If you want to buy the Windows phone made by Nokia, should decide soon, however, because according to Amazon, only a relatively limited number available.

Google Drive Cloud storage start

On an official blog of Google France have recently all the details about the new Google Cloud Storage Drive was published. Apparently it was a mistake, because the blog post is now gone. Yet now are all the official information was provided on the service attentive because Google + users a copy of the post published .

18:38 Update: As of now Google Drive is available. This message was updated and edited.

Update 19:45: Apparently, Google leads the service in several steps, as some German users report that with them the message, Google Drive is not yet available for them.

Google Drive is described by Google’s senior vice president Sundar Pichai, who is responsible for Google Chrome and apps, as a “central place for creating, sharing, storing and joint editing of documents.” All documents, videos, photos, Google Docs, PDFs and other files will be accessible in a user’s Google Drive. Pichai Drive called “The Evolution of Google Docs,” which ensures that users “live in the cloud, work and play” can.

“Evolution of Google Docs”
Google Docs is integrated directly into Google Drive, so you can work in real time with colleagues on documents, spreadsheets and presentations. All media, whether PDF, image, video or other, can be commented on, the user will be informed if other users want to share documents or comment on them.

Google Drive ( HD version )

The Google Drive can be accessed from any Internet device, from anywhere in the world on his documents. For this, either the web interface or a new application for PCs, Macs, or a special app for Android smartphones and tablets are used. In the coming weeks will also appear an app for Apple’s iPhone and iPad. Google Drive can also be used by visually impaired people who use a screen reader.

On Windows, the installer of Google Drive as its competitors Microsoft SkyDrive and a special Dropbox folder, the user can synchronize the files with the web space. In this folder all end up in the Web documents stored where it is possible to synchronize only certain folders to the desktop folder.

Data storage: Germany flunks EU deadline

Germany is to expire, the EU deadline, for now, the federal government does not adopt new rules on data retention. Now face a penalty, but is not currently predict when and if it ever comes to that, since the EU directive on the European level is controversial.

The EU has the federal government a deadline to 26 April grants to implement the retention according to the EU directive. An agreement could not reach the coalition, however, the ideas of the FDP-led Justice Department and the CSU-led Interior Ministry to gape widely. This was evident again last week when a bill from the Ministry of Justice, which included the Minister of Justice Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger (FDP) preferred quick-freeze method, the Home Office was grossly abgebügelt. As well as helping any discussion between the Minister of Justice and the Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich (CSU), even Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) was the dispute between the ministries do not stop .

The action brought by the European Commission before the European Court of Justice is now taking into account, pending a decision should still take a few months. Also open is how high a possible penalty. “In Germany we have already a partial implementation of data retention,” said the FDP politician Jimmy Schulz network, so it assumes that only one process would be opened because of “insufficient implementation”. Whether it will eventually come to a penalty depends also depends on what the outcome of the EU Commission in the evaluation of the policy is announced – Criticism of the benefits of data retention was formulated some time ago at the EU level.

In connection with the debate about the retention are also different interpretations of the judgment by the European Court of Justice, after the release of stored data in file-sharing processes in line with EU law is. While supporters have welcomed a stronger protection of intellectual property rights, the judgment in general, it caused on the part of opponents to frown – initially criticized, it is according to initial analysis no longer perceived as a decision in favor of retention. According to Patrick Breyer of AK retention explains the European Court held that only “on condition that an Internet access provider may rightfully traffic data on a different basis than the EU directive on data retention stores, [...] the national law of judicial subpoenas in favor of rights holders [may (not must)] permit. “

Spanish media do not interact on Twitter

Twitter is becoming increasingly fashionable in the media, but to what extent? Just wanted to check this # tuitexperimento . For several days, and with the collaboration of several users made ​​three questions to the accounts of 22 Spanish media with national coverage. The result? Quite worrying when you consider that 13 of them did not bother to respond. Of the 264 tweets sent, 32 received only 32 responses.

Considering the tweets that did have replication by the media in question, it is noteworthy that 40% of them were questions about the medium itself and its editorial line, while the least successful were those who had performed critical or calling for proposals or extra information. In the picture you can see the overall results, the reason being that most of them answered. What do you think this information?

Galaxy vs. S3. iPhone 5: Release of new mobile phones in May / June 2012

The launch of the Galaxy S3 but now might take place already in May 2012. Currently circulating on the Internet by an alleged press invitation Samsung, based on a presentation on 22 Will leave in May 2012. Whether the invitation is genuine, is still unknown. The Galaxy S3 is, among other things with a 4.8 inch HD display, a quad-core processor and LTE to be equipped.

The presentation of the Galaxy might S3 on 22 May 2012 be made. An invitation to this date is currently circulating on the Internet. The Samsung S3 Galaxy will be presented on that day in London. Whether the press invitation is authentic, has not yet been clarified. Insiders hold a launch of the Galaxy S3 before the Olympic Summer Games for quite probable. The South Korean manufacturer is one of the main sponsors of the games will be held this year in London.

The smart phone with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich is rumored to be equipped among others with a 4.8 inch HD display with super AMOLED technology. Inside the case is a quad-core processor coming out of the house Exynos series with a clock frequency of 1.5 GHz. The resolution of the digital camera of the Samsung Galaxy S3 should be increased to 12 megapixels. Photos and videos should be able to put in 32 GB of memory. A quick Internet access should be ensured by the new LTE.

Galaxy S3 apparently leaked actually

There have been over the past several months, allegedly leaked images of the much-anticipated Android flagship of Samsung. The Vietnamese side has now apparently real pictures and a video of the Samsung Galaxy S3 published.

On ‘ Tinhte.vn published ‘photos or video are so far (by far) the best that there was to see the phone with the model number GT-I9300. So you can certainly assume that this actually is the Galaxy S3. The Vietnamese side Tinhte.vn technology is the way to be reliable, the makers succeeded in the past, to the current iPad and the (first) to get Galaxy Tab, before they were officially introduced.

Galaxy leaked S3 ( HD version )

However, it is unlikely that it is indeed the final design of the S3. Reportedly, Samsung has already distributed some S3 prototypes for testing, but obviously this put in enclosures that are dummies. This circumstance has also ‘Tinhte.vn’ back and finds that the screen is not obviously associated with the sustainable housing.

This supports the contention that there is a dummy design, but at the same time which means that the information could vote for the Vietnamese blogs inside the (alleged) Galaxy S3 or likely.

Writes’ Engadget ‘, citing Tinhte (the original story is now no longer available) that the device has a 4.6-inch screen with a resolution of 1184 x 720 pixels. This results in a pixel density of 320 dpi, but this depends on whether it fades in the Android on-screen buttons or not.

Xbox LIVE: Go Sky & Co at the weekend for free

Microsoft will start the weekend a new promotional campaign, with which one wants to emphasize the benefits of a paid Gold membership to Xbox LIVE. This time, however, are not the multiplayer features, but the entertainment offerings in the foreground.

As Microsoft’s Xbox Live Director of Programming Larry “Major Nelson” Hryb on his blog announcing can be used via the online service to access the Xbox 360 entertainment services this weekend, even without a gold membership. The promotional offer in Germany from Friday the 20th April 13 clock until Monday 23 April 13 clock.

In the U.S., interested owners of an Xbox 360 in the context of action to choose from a very wide selection of streaming services, including Hulu Plus, Netflix, HBO Go, Vevo and ESPN. In this country, the offer falls far from much smaller, but at least Sky is go along with Muzu.tv, Dailymotion, YouTube movie releases and free of charge.

CSU wants internet freedom anchored in the constitution

The CSU has established a Commission on the Future, which emphasizes, among other things, the importance of the Internet for an active civil society. Also wants the chairman of the Commission, Manfred Weber, enshrine the freedom of the Internet in the Bavarian constitution.

These are unusual sounds from the CSU, which were heard in this form so far only by the CSU Netzrat led by Dorothee Baer. Usually, the hard-line faction within the party dominated the public debate, network, coupled with demands for data retention, Websperren and the stigma, the Internet, there were a “legal vacuum”. Although Weber uses the same wording, but after all these borders.

It explains that the internet for “our life reality of such importance” that certain principles such as freedom of access and privacy could be enshrined in the Constitution, says Weber. When asked on Facebook and Google, he also sees regulation of monopolies in the network as necessary to, as well as the “protection of property from which to derive copyright or patent law.” Property in his opinion deserve special protection, he also feels the rejection of patent protection on software and business ideas as an attack on the German economic model. With this criticism, it is also aimed at the pirate party and balances in the arguments of the Handelsblatt recently launched campaign for the implementation of a stricter copyright laws.

The report of the Commission on the Future ( PDF file ) also relies on the social responsibility of society and politics, it should be no “digital divide” between those who are on the Internet to opinion leaders and those who do not have access to the network. As a possible starting point for the provision of network competence Weber considered the school “must provide in addition to the purely technical aspect, the responsible use of the new medium.”

The CSU will open it for an intra-party debate on power politics. The numerous protests this year have probably been effective, as well as the success of the Pirate Party, which is currently in a survey high.