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According to British “Daily Telegraph” reported, Australian and Japanese scientists have invented  solar batteries thinner than cobwebs, this battery is very soft, or even can wrap around a hair.

This ultra-thin solar battery is made by the electrode inseted in the plastic sheet, only 1.9 microns thick, which is the equivalent to one tenth of the thinnest solar battery. This ultra-thin, ultra light and ultra-flexible solar battery will be widely used, including for portable electronic charging device or used in the manufacture of electronic textiles.

University of Tokyo researchers Tsuyoshi Sekitani said: “The thickness of this device is less than a spider’s web, so you may not feel its weight, but its flexibility is quite good. You can wear it on clothes like the badge, then it can absorb solar energy. The old wearing sensors to monitor physical health no longer need battery. ”

Since the Fukushima nuclear crisis, many Japanese scientists and consumers are growing concern on solar energy. This new type of solar battery will be put into use within five years. The researchers is now research how to increase the efficiency of its sunlight into current. In addition, they still find ways to increase the size of the new solar battery, because the solar cell power generation capacity and body size is proportional. This battery is very flexible, even if the size increased will not damage the battery due to bending.

$1.4 billion loss reported in the fourth quarter 2011 Nokia sales reached new lows in the world, but a recent report showed Nokia was the first smart phone manufacturer in Middle East. The report from analyst firm-Gartner the analysed teh sales of smart phones in the Middle East last year. The results showed that the Nokia Corporation ranked the highest sales.

The report said the Middle East and Africa statistics data showed that in 2010 Nokia’s market share was 58.5%, dropped to 52.9% in 2011. Samsung ranked second with a share of 15.8%. Seen from the point of the operating system, Nokia’s Symbian system underwent tremendous changes which was 86.8% in 2010, only 39.3% in 2011. Nevertheless, Symbian is still the most widely used system in the region. The BlackBerry system has increased from 4.5% in 2010 to 27.5%, iOS rose from 3.6% to 9.9%. Android system rose from 0 share to 19.6%.

Although Symbian performance is not satisfactory, but Nokia is struggling to maintain its market share in the region, whose method is the introduction of inexpensive Windows Phone handheld terminal.

The end of February this year, the report said Apple has sold the local production of the 8GB version of iPhone in Brazil, which marks Foxconn has already been in normal production in local factories. At the same time there is news that the Foxconn factory will start to assemble the iPad in Brazil, so that the Brazilian domestic production of the iPhone and the iPad will be able to avoid high import taxes.

While Apple has not yet sold the local production of the iPhone 4S in Brazil or shows any intention to do so, but the news shows that Apple has been made Progress in iPad production. Precisely, Apple has received a license for local sales of the 16GB version of the iPad in Brazil. Apple has begun to sell a wide range iPad in Brazil, but before the listing of new iPad, the iPad 2 product line will retain the 16GB version. it seems that the Brazilian will be using the self-assembly iPad 2 later.

For the new iPad, all models of the new iPad are still being assessed, the Brazil and China productions are included. It is currently unclear when Apple will officially sell new iPad in Brazil. Of course, the license to sell new iPad is the most important part. To the iPad, and iPad end number that made in China is the BZ/A, while the end number local producted in Brazil BR/A.

Apple announced the new the iPad will be sold in mainland China and other 15 countries on April 13th, the new iPad Price in mainland of China is 3688RMB for the 16GB, 32GB for 4388RMB, 64GB for 5088RMB, which is the same with iPad2 listing price. 4G version of the new iPad not sold in Asian countries has yet listed in mainland China either.

The latest batch of sale countries Apple announced are: Argentina, Brazil, Russia, Malaysia, Peru, South Africa, Switzerland, Uruguay, Spain, Singapore, Israel, Jordan, India,China, Chile, a total of 16 countries.

It has been a month’s time since Apple’s new iPad released, the domestic Apple fans have finally waited for this long-awaited third-generation iPad. This is Apple’s first time after a month’s releasing time to enter the Chinese mainland. Cook just-concluded his visit to China,and the Apple released the new the iPad the third batch of listed countries.which can be seen that Cook had a productive session for this visit to China, while the Chinese market is also increasingly attented by Apple.

Apple’s new iPad is equipped with quad-core graphics processors A5X chip clocked at 1GHz, memory is upgraded to 1GB; screen is using extremely delicate 9.7 inch Retina display whose resolution is up to 2048 x 1536. In addition, the new iPad has been greatly enhanced in the camera, which is the full introduction of the camera technology from the iPhone 4S: 5 million pixel back-illuminated camera, five optical lens, IR filter, auto focus and auto exposure ! In other words, no matter where you are, you can use the built-in camera for full 1080p high-definition video! What is worth mentioned is that despite the charm have been enhanced significantly, but the new iPad still has an amazing 10 hours  battery life.

Members of the NotebookReview forum leaked some pictures, it seems that Sony will soon refresh the existing VAIO CA and CB laptops. The 14-inch VAIO CA models will receive the Intel Ivy Bridge processor, while the 15-inch VAIOCB models will run Intel’s Sandy Bridge processor.

As shown above, there are four colors to choose from.

With the current version, the price is set at entry-level series $750. And these notebooks are expected to be released in April this year.

Apple will enhance the capacity of new 15-inch MacBook Pro in April, while the new 13.3-inch MacBook Pro capacity will be increased in June. It is reported that Apple starts mass production of 15-inch MacBook Pro in April, from the upstream supply chain news that Apple 13.3-inch MacBook Pro orders is much more than the order of 15-inch models, which means that Apple will mainly focus on the 13.3-inch models.

The 13.3-inch model will increase capacity from June. Monthly production of 15-inch MacBook is between 100000 and 150000, which will also be increased dramatically.

Reported that the time of the increase capacity in April exactly coincides with the listing time of the new Intel Ivy Bridge chip . Another source said the new MacBook Pro body design will be thinner without the optical drive. According to previous reports, we know that Apple may Retina display in Mac products .

Nokia will sell a series of new smart phones equipped with Microsoft software in China in April in order to recover the market share that was tightly controlled by Apple and Samsung in the last year. Nokia CEO Stephen Elop announced new models of Lumia 610 and 800 Lumia two for China Telecom’s network.

Cook, Apple CEO, appeared in Beijing and discussed with Chinese government officials on labor and trademark issues,which confirmed that China has become the best and most developers touted the market in the sales of smart phones .

Nokia will focus to Windows Phone, which is also an important test of its own. Because Windows Phone appeal, after all, is that not strong , while the Nokia the world’s largest mobile phone maker on the number , betted all of its The mobile phone platform on Microsoft platform last year.

London market research firm CCS investigators, Geoff Blaber said, “Stepping into the strong market of China is very encouraging for Nokia”; Nokia’s head of sales, Colin Giles said, Nokia eventually plans to cooperate with China Telecom to sell Telecom version of Windows phone, Nokia said the Windows phones will be across the board selling in the Chinese market in the second quarter ; the analyst Sami Sarkamies of Nordea banks in Helsinki, Finland claimed the Chinese market will change much in the second quarter . ”

After the Nokia shares securities rated in Swedish banks,its share also rose from 3.6% to 4.14%.

According to the researchment of Strategy Analytics, Nokia smart phone market shares in 2010 dropped bfrom 70 percent to 30 percent, lost to Apple, Samsung, as well as local companies.

Strategy Analytics firm also said that Microsoft has won Nokia full support for Windows Phones, however, it is difficult to get the appropriate support treatment from other handset manufacturers, for example, Samsung. Samsung has focused on the top of the Android system. The last quarter, Microsoft’s smart phone market share dropped to only 2%, 3% in 2010 compared with 13 percent four years ago.

The third-party comment platform application developed by Google is coming soon. The functionality of this Comments platform is similar with Facebook’s comments plugin and run when it’s attached to Google + .The news has not yet officially confirmed by the Google, but the comment on the platform launch still bright people’s eyes, as it is a replica of Google+ old application functionality trying to be innovative.
 
It is reported that the message is originated from a blog in the Tech-WD website in Arab region, whose writer, Saud Al Hawawi, has been involved in Google Saudi Arabia Conference.

Google Comments platform in addition to the binding with Google+ , through the sharing box in the same manner can also be connected with other Google products. Other sites can also access to the comment platform.

Previously, the industry has some very popular independent network reviews platform, such as Disqus and Facebook Comments plugin. Facebook Comments plug-in won the favor of the users, the application is also very popular, many Web sites facilitate Facebook users to comment the browsing the website by installing the Facebook Comments plug-in, despite without the need to re-register the account, but it also forcs the user to be submitted to the visiting site of their personal information on Facebook. This situation is likely to occur in the application of Google comment platform, and the only difference is the two different individuals of the Google reviews platform with Facebook reviews platform.For each site, the concept is sufficient to distinguish the two.

Saying that the network reviews is to occupy an increasingly important position in the network search, the reason may be that the function of “Search Plus Your World” application. If the Google has added many Google+ application in its search engine, then the add of a comment platform applications are not surprising. In addition, Saud Al-Hawaw also broke the news in his blog that Google will follow the example of Facebook’s approach, to apply the application of Vanity URL in Google+.

ta Motor Corporation announced on the 27th, they launched a study with Germany’s BMW AG vehicles with lithium-ion battery technology. The collaboration aims to cut costs and increase development speed.

According to Kyodo News, Toyota and BMW signed a memorandum of understanding in  long-term environmental and technical cooperation in December last year. The two sides also signed a contract, BMW will be scheduled to offer two diesel engines for Toyota sale in Europe in 2014.

Khronos Group announced today that have already been approved and posted a modern processor of cross-platform, parallel computing programming standards “OpenCL 1.2″, of course, continue to open, royalty-free license. OpenCL release 1.1 eighteen months later, in more than 30 home industry leading enterprise’s efforts, the new version for parallel programming brought more strong performance and function, and realized the backward compatibility.

Khronos also has been updated and expanded the OpenCL comprehensive conformance test program group, to ensure that the implementation of the new rules for cross-platform application development to provide a complete and reliable platform.

Through the following the update and additional items, OpenCL 1.2 significantly increased parallel programming flexibility, function and performance:

Equipment division: make the application may put a equipment to the son of equipment division, direct control special unit task allocation, calculation of storage equipment for high priority/sensitive incubation period of task, or effectively use Shared hardware resources, such as cache.

The link editor and independent objects, and promote the traditional editor of the performance and flexibility to create OpenCL library, used to link with other programs.

Stronger image support: including the 1 D image and 1 D & 2 D image array of extra support. At the same time, the sharing of OpenGL extended now realizes from OpenGL 1 D texture and 1 D & 2 D texture array of images to create OpenCL function.

The built-in kernel represents a special or not programming hardware and linked to the firmware, such as video encoder/decoder and digital information processor, realized these customized by OpenCL framework drive or equipment and tight integration.

DX9 media surface sharing: to achieve the OpenCL and DirectX 9 or DXVA media sharing between the surface high efficiency.

DX11 surface Shared: OpenCL and DirectX 11 surface for the seamless sharing.

OpenCL working Group chairman, Khronos Group chairman, NVIDIA mobile content vice President Neil Trevett said: “OpenCL working Group very carefully to listen to the developers and users among the feedback information software, and offer for its timely and effective, heterogeneous computing functions across the suppliers to open standards. OpenCL working Group also expanded its members in size, and from mobile industry development to embedded industry, have pushed forward like FPGAs such innovation equipment using OpenCL”.

Khronos Groups as members, AMD Fusion experience programs global vice President Manju Hegde, ARM and the processor department calculated subsystem vice President James McNiven, Intel software and services group vice President and general manager of developers products division Bill Savage, Fixstars company founder and CEO Satoshi Miki also represent respectively their companies expressed OpenCL 1.2 support, including AMD, ARM were clear expression Fusion APU Radeon HD graphics processor, and Mali GPU core, Cortex processor will graphics to join the OpenCL 1.2 support.