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After the madness of the Netbook, here come from the Internet Tablet. This is reduced to a computer touch screen, in color, which can surf the Internet, play games, watch movies, listen to music, reading newspapers and books. The Apple iPad, which will be marketed in April, "will revitalize the market for tablet PCs, which could reach for the equipment alone, 12 billion dollars in 2014," says research firm Strategy Analytics.

On the PC market, which continues to grow in units at a frantic pace but stagnant in value, a revolutionary new product is an opportunity of choice for manufacturers. As with every change in technology, new players could emerge, as was the case with the netbook, which has allowed the rise of Taiwan's Asus and Acer.

Since 2010, he could sell 10.5 million tablets of the Internet, said Gartner.Alone, Apple could sell 4 to 6 million units iPad, believes his side firm GfK. The firm's apple is not alone in this ball of suitors. The French Archos hopes a return to grace with his tablet PC equipped with operating system Windows 7.

In late March, just before placing on the market iPad in the U.S., Sony could make a stretched version of its portable game console PSP foothold in the niche of Internet tablets, said recently the Wall Street Journal.

HP, the world's number one PC, plans soon to launch his magic slate. Presented earlier this year by Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, Slate HP recalls the Apple iPad. "We continue to finalize our product. We expect to launch Slate around the summer, "says Eric Cador, the boss of HP's PC division in Europe.His tablet use "operating system Windows 7," warns one from HP.

Cooperation with the content

One way to respond in advance to the ambitions of Google with Chrome operating system OS, which should be used this year for large touch screens. Meanwhile, Slate is the most innovative product promised by HP's PC division this year. And Phil McKinney, a charge of HP's research, says that in three years it will be possible to launch an "Internet Tablet flexible.

For its part, the director general of Taiwan's Asus is also planning to enter the market for Internet Tablet "provided to establish cooperation with publishers of content in music, video games and movies.This ambition is shared by other manufacturers reported.

For Internet Tablet "might cannibalize existing products such as netbooks, digital media books and mobile devices to surf the Web," suggests one expert from Strategy Analytics. It will also be a way to renew the genre, for the Tablet PC, launched some ten years, never really took off.

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With Twitter, the communication is passed in real time. With Shazam, the iPhone has become a machine to recognize the music. German Aka-Aki opened the madness of mobile location based social networks. These services are transforming our lives for several months have been identified, there are one or two years, the Forum Netexplorateur. Founded in 2008 by Martine and Thierry Bidegain Happe, it seeks to identify innovations that can have a significant impact on the uses digital economy or society. The third edition, including Le Figaro is a partner, meets Thursday and Friday to the Senate in Paris. It is an opportunity to set new standards in the "socio-digital revolution" underway.

The winners of the 2010 edition were selected from more than 440 projects emerging. They are part of a new digital world where the Internet becomes ubiquitous.The URL can not be visited more but found himself. Many objects become key input into an ecosystem where real and not real live. Databases and servers are scattered, software and outsourced services, terminal dematerialized. The interface for mobile augmented reality Sixth Sense allows to browse the Internet with a virtual screen projected by a minicam, dial a phone number in the palm of his hand or view a video on a newspaper article. Accessible from anywhere, this new Internet makes the user knowing. With mobile browser layar augmented reality, any building or environment is an opportunity to unwind "layers of virtual information.Augmented with TAT ID, the user can display a variety of virtual cards and virtual social networking profiles around her face, free to the caller to download this information.

Freeing the user of the computer

This ecosystem is emerging as new human-machine interfaces capable of freeing, ultimately, the user of the computer or its smartphone free business cards . The aircraft of the future will respond to a voice command, gesture or brain. The French HiLabs has already begun to deploy an intelligent window on the windows of merchants Grenoble: responding to displacement of people, she then called by a movie, the way to interact with one giant touch screen (Eyelights).

On the Internet also should be contacted individually to the consumer.Social networks like Facebook and Twitter is why a "hunting ground" ideal marker there conversations on Internet brand and integrate it with an ad campaign that takes account of these opinions (People Powered Ads).

In this new digital world order, and environmental organizations are impacted first. The technology can learn to change and therefore it is the creed of Source Map, which shows the carbon footprint of a product or a food or Mobile Lucas, who turns the mobile phone Minilab analysis medical use and particularly to distinguish true and false cases of malaria.

Similarly, the Better Place project relies heavily on intelligence network, able to indicate to drivers of electric cars recharging station nearest, then manage the transaction load and billing.At work, it calls for transparency on the powers of his future employer to decide to change. What improve individual productivity or collective, as the founder of the website Get a Great Boss. In parallel, microtâches can be relocated and create microjobs for solidarity: the draft Work Give an iPhone application developed by Samasource, which proposes to perform computing tasks mechanical ( "tag" a video detailing card, test application) by refugees from Dadaab camp in Kenya. Initiatives that, once industrialized are likely to reverse the tide.