Tablet coming from Acer, Dell and RIM under $ 500

Since the publication of a U.S. site, you will learn the dates of announcement of the tablet 2 dell'iPad competitors and price lists alleged. Apart from the Xoom, all are aligned with prices below $ 500. Acer stands out: his first tablet, with 7-inch display, expected to cost $ 399.
The army of deputies to compete iPad tablet from Apple in 2011 is coming. In order of availability, we will find soon on store shelves the Xoom Motorola, already marketed in the U.S., the BlackBerry playbook ( Blackberry Playbook: $ 499 in April ), expected for March 17, the products Dell and Samsung , in arrival in late March, the tablet Acer with 7-inch display, which will arrive in April ( Acer Icon, smartphones and Tablet trio of 4.8-inch ).
According to price lists and configurations are valid for the United States, the common denominator of all these tablets is that all entry-level models will be priced comparable to that dell'iPad 16 GB.
Most of the other tablet with 10-inch display, manufactured by Acer, Dell, HP, HTC and Toshiba, will be available starting in June , with list prices ranging from 449 to $ 499 , as revealed by Pricing of a major U.S. retailers, published by the Precentral site.
The value of the new tablet would be so aligned with the dell'iPad 2 16 GB, and in some cases slightly lower. HP seems to be bringing up the rear, with the announcement of the TouchPad scheduled for September 2011, contrary to rumors circulated so far ( HP TouchPad in June, but the killer is webOS for Apple ).
None of the producers included in this list said the information, and can not be excluded that the prices remain comparable prior to marketing in the USA, in Europe, by virtue of the exchange rate with the euro which is almost never equal.
To compete iPad producers will also try to offer more attractive features. For example, Motorola, which currently has proposed the most expensive product, a point on display 1,280 x 800 dots, on the player for SD cards and support for Flash 10.2 for countering the iPad.
Toshiba, RIM and Samsung also link the Flash player, who has repeatedly emphasized ( Toshiba launches its Tablet and makes fun of Apple ), and are aligned on the same price range. Acer seems that when the manufacturer intends to focus on how money: according to the U.S. list, the first tablet should cost $ 399 .

IE9 not hit the mark. Microsoft improves privacy

In the first 24 hours of availability Internet Explorer 9 was downloaded 2.35 million times ( 9 Internet Explorer, Microsoft challenge Google Chrome and Firefox ). The browser is available for Windows Vista and 7, but not for XP.

Microsoft has said it is happy with this number . "More than 27 downloads per second, and more than 240 download every nine seconds. Wow. With 2.3 million downloads in the first 24 hours we have more than doubled the one million of the Beta version and is four times that of the RC.

The result is not the most exciting when compared with numbers obtained from other browsers. For example, Firefox 3 was downloaded 8 million times in the first 24 hours. A fact much larger, although it must be remembered that the Mozilla browser runs on multiple operating systems and, in the case of Windows, version 3.0 was compatible with the ubiquitous Windows XP.

Safari 4 for Windows , according to Apple, it has been downloaded six million times in three days, then IE9 has the opportunity to do better . Opera , however, held that the Eleventh version has been downloaded 6.7 million times during the first day of availability.

In short, the data of IE9 not stunned, but Microsoft has a card to play: Windows Update . The new browser will be released on March 21 as an automatic update "Important". Many people will download without even realizing it, so the download will grow exponentially. From download to use stable, though, there's a big difference.

Meanwhile, Microsoft stated that it had integrated into the final version of IE9 the same technology used by Firefox 4 for the "Do Not Track" , the system that allows users to control data sharing while surfing the Web

Microsoft had entered a technology called "Tracking Protection List" , which allows you to specify Web sites with which you would prefer not to share information. Users can add Tracking Protection List in Internet Explorer 9. Partners such PrivacyChoice, TRUSTe, and Abin Adblock Plus have already  

The method chosen by Mozilla Firefox for 4 - and now IE9 - is based on HTTP header instead of browser cookies . The user decides not to be traced and his will is "transmitted" to the commercial sites and advertising networks. The commercial site offering meets the required content, advertising and the advertiser is not localized and can be used to trace, on an anonymous, user activity.

This solution does not actually lock the tracking, but refers to the efforts that the advertising industry said it would do to meet user preferences. The main players are working on a code of practice and this bodes well in view of ever closer collaboration with the developers of the browser.

The two are complementary solutions implemented by Microsoft , so we can only applaud Microsoft's decision to want to ensure many more effective tools for the privacy of netizens. Internet Explorer 9 can be downloaded from this address .