iPhone 8: Duas baterias em um design reutilizado?

Mas nós acreditamos nos rumores?

A onda do Galaxy S8 começou a refletir-se, o ciclo de rumores ao redor do novo iPhone 8 cala-se discretamente. Dessa vez foi Benjamin Geskin quem publicou no Twitter o diagrama interno do próximo smartphone onde nós podemos observar a presença de duas baterias.

Em amarelo nós podemos ver a bateria tradicional, a mesma que aparece no iPhone 7, e em laranja podemos observar uma bateria menor que poderia servir de complemento. 

O smartphone poderia carregar uma bateria maior e em formato de L, com uma capacidade de 2700 mAh. De acordo com o analista, esse é o último modelo de smartphone, com display OLED que se beneficia desse novo sistema de carga.

O diagrama de Geskin também revela outras pequenas inovações, como a presença da tecnologia True Tone (luminosidade que se adapta de acordo com o contexto) e carregamento wireless. O painel ID foi mantido na interface frontal, mas será que ele ficará por baixo da tela?

De acordo com o calendário oficial, o lançamento do novo smartphone está confirmado. De acordo com a KGI, a Apple teria prorrogado seu lançamento de Outubro para Novembro.

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Locky, uma nova onda de spams

Diversas companhias de segurança virtual detectaram uma nova onda de spams se espalhando através do sistema Locky.

Locky foi a estrela do mercado de ransonware em 2016, mas no final do ano sua popularidade caiu lentamente conforme surgia uma nova variante de ranzungware, chamada Cerber. Conforme informado pela companhia Malwarebytes, essa evolução se deve, em particular, pela decisão dos operadores de botnet Necus e seu distanciamento com relação ao já antigo ransonware.

Mas diversas companhias de cibersegurança soaram o alerta cedo nesta semana, após terem noticiado uma nova onda de ataques spam. Conforme informado por Talos, essa nova onda de e-mails foi detectada ontem e parece vir da botnet Necurs. Aparentemente, os operadores da botnet finalmente  decidiram se reconectar a seus sistemas antigos e utilizar ransonware sua infra-estrutura.

Após o documento contaminado ser aberto no word, a seguinte imagem aparece ao usuário para que ele então permita o uso de macros, o que permite que o vírus execute o download dos programas que irão criptografar seus arquivos pessoais.

Após completa a infecção, os arquivos se encontram criptografados com a extensão .osiris e os cibercriminosos então pedem um resgate de 0,5 bitcoins (aproximadamente 1800 reais) para a devolução dos dados.

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Raspberry Pi: 12.5 milhões de unidades vendidas

Um número que marca o sucesso do nano computador, inicialmente planejado para uma audiência muito menor, mas os números merecem ser colocados em perspectiva.

A fundação Raspberry tem muito a fazer com seus 12.5 milhões de unidades vendidas. A britânica está em direção ao 3º lugar no podium de computadores mais vendidos no mundo. Finalmente, é tudo uma questão de ponto de vista: a fundação anunciou que ultrapassou a marca de 12.5 milhões de Raspberry Pi vendidos, combinando-se todos os modelos. O criador do projeto Eben Upton explicou que Raspberry Pi destronou o Commodore 64, tirando-o de seu 3º lugar no pódium, logo atrás do Mac e PC.

Obviamente, as categorias aqui são bastante abrangentes e seus componentes devem ser colocados em perspectiva. Vamos olhar as vendas do Commodore 64, que estão longe de um consenso: de acordo com os dados publicados pela companhia, baseando-se nos resultados publicados em 1993, Commodore vendeu 17 milhões de unidades, excluindo-se da conta o seu sucessor, Commodore 128, a última evolução de sua arquitetura.

O Raspberry Pi de fato destronou o Commodore 64? É difícil compara-los em ordem de grandeza que não são comparáveis. O que fica claro, por outro lado, é que o Raspberry Pi se mantém um grande sucesso: originalmente lançado com uma proposta puramente educacional, o Raspberry Pi foi um projeto experimental e foi produzido, a princípio, em alguns milhares de cópias. Mas o sucesso crescente do pequeno computador de fato abriu um novo mercado, no qual ele engoliu grandes fabricantes, como a Intel.

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Windows 10 CloudBooks: Microsoft's strategy against Chromebooks

The minimum specifications for devices running Windows 10 Cloud to compete with Chromebooks in the education market have just been made public.

Windows Central has found a Microsoft Confidential document that describes the recommended minimum specifications for Windows 10 CloudBooks.

Windows 10 CloudBooks do not lie about their name: these devices were designed to compete with Chromebooks and embed the still unofficial cloud edition of Windows 10. Windows 10 Cloud and some compatible devices would however be presented at an event on 2 May in New York.

Not much to do with the cloud

Windows 10 Cloud, as far as we know it at the moment, has little to do with the cloud. This is a low-end version of Windows 10 designed to run only the applications contained in the Windows 10 Store. This is an evolution of Windows RT and Windows 7 Starter Edition. The update of Windows 10 Cloud to Windows 10 Professional will be possible say some testers.

The recommended minimum specifications of Windows 10 CloudBook published by Windows Central indicate that the first devices running Windows 10 Cloud should have at least Celeron Quad-core; 4 GB of RAM; 32 GB of storage (or 64 GB for 64-bit versions); A battery of more than 40 WHr; Fast eMMC or Solid State Drive (SSD) for storage. The pen and the touch pad are optional.

The disclosed document states that these devices will run the Windows 10 Cloud Creators Update (Redstone 2) and will not necessarily have to wait for Redstone 3, which will be released in September. This makes sense given that the school market is preparing for the re-entry from September to early summer. There is no mention of ARM-based CloudBooks in the document, but it is certain that Windows 10 Cloud will work on Intel-based and ARM-based devices.

Microsoft and its partners are directly targeting Chromebooks with these devices equipped with Windows 10 CloudBook explains the document. The lifetime of each battery cycle of these devices must be more than 10 hours, which in term of marketing translates to "all day".

I'm curious as to whether Microsoft will go to hardware with CloudBook, not necessarily with a Surface device, but with a high-end machine similar to the Chromebook Pixel.

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Galaxy S8: an update for red screens

The world number one has not dragged on to address this problem of reddish hue that seems to affect some users.

After the fiasco of Note 7, the Galaxy S8 is logically scrutinized closely. And while the first South Korean buyers received their smartphone, embarrassing testimonials begin to multiply on social networks. Many users thus report a persistent red tint on the screen, a particularly embarrassing defect when we know that the screen is the number one trump card of the terminal.

Images of these red screens are multiplying on local forums like Ppomppu and Ruliweb. The query "Galaxy S8 red screen" is also leading the search for the Naver engine, the most popular in the country.

Obviously, it is too early to say that the S8 suffers from a technical problem but for Samsung, the wound of Note 7 being barely closed, the slightest polemic could still hurt. So his reaction was not long in ensuring that it was "not a quality problem and this can be adjusted in the settings of the smartphone".

However, the world number one decided to push an update that would complement the functionality of color optimization of telephones. This will also increase the range of colors that users can define, he said. The software update applies to all Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus models and will be performed automatically. The company reaffirmed that there was no quality problem with the new phones. According to local media, the update will come this week.

And to take no risks, the manufacturer indicated that if the proposed software update did not solve the problem of the red veil, the terminal could be exchanged in the shop. Details of these exchanges were not disclosed.

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Datacenters: an ultra-dominated US market

According to Cloudscene's quarterly study released this week, the global data center market is largely dominated by North American players. This is unfortunately also true in Europe, where the local players are absent from the Top 5 continental.

Cloudscene released this week its quarterly study on the universe of data centers, Internet points of presence and cloud service providers. The least that can be said is that the dominance of the USA on this world market is undivided.

In North America, two players stand out: the Californians Equinix, which operates 153 datacenters, and Digital Realty which owns 174. They are followed by CoreSite, based in Denver, Colorado, Zayo based in Boulder also in Colorado , And Century Link headquartered in Monroe, Louisiana.

More surprising and a little worrying, the European market is also dominated by actors from across the Atlantic: when one observes the Top 10 data center operators in Europe, one finds this domination of the North Americans with in the " Equinix, Interxion, Telehouse, Digital Realty, Global Switch and Level 3 Communications. The first European actor is Nikhef, only 7th: it is an atomic research center based in the Netherlands, which operates for the needs of its scientific activities a data center in Amsterdam. The 8th and first commercial operator of European origin is English Colt, and only one French infrastructure operator appears in the top ten Europeans: it is Orange, which is ninth with its subsidiary Orange Business Services. The Top 10 is completed by a Romanian actor, NXData.

The main traffic exchange point in Europe is the Dutch NL-ix, whose 142 members serve a hundred data centers in more than a dozen countries and which alone accounts for nearly 2 Tb / s of Internet traffic.

Globally, 41.6% of North America, 40.4% in Europe, 9.5% in Asia and 8.5% in Oceania (1), have access to more than 14,000 Internet points of service managed by data-processing operators analyzed by Cloudscene.

The facts are there. We in Europe are extremely dependent on technical infrastructures managed by private companies whose decision-making centers are located in the USA. The election of Donald Trump has led to more uncertainty, particularly as to the political decisions that could be made: the new US administration could completely abandon the preservation of the neutrality of the Net and make decisions towards more protectionism. Given all this, would it not be appropriate to launch a major European Internet infrastructure policy that would favor the development of international players with their headquarters in Europe?

(1) In this note I have summarized under the term "Europe" what Cloudscene means by the acronym EMEA, namely Europe, Middle East and Africa, because it is according to this geographical division which is The world's leading IT providers. However, it is Europe that makes up the bulk of the EMEA area in terms of data centers, as Africa still has very little capacity.

As for the absence of South America, I asked Cloudscene who said that I have the greatest difficulty in obtaining data on this region, whose actors are not yet very transparent. Cloudscene hopes to be able to integrate South America into its studies in the near future, we will have a clearer idea of ​​who are the players in the data center market in Brazil, Argentina and Colombia.

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