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Windows 8 is preparing for its debut, perhaps in 2012. In the meantime, Intel is ready to officially launch the new Atom CPU Clover View, platform Clover Trail 32-nanometer manufacturing process for such high-k metal-gate solutions developed in Cedar Trail and Medfield. This association seems to mark a step forward in terms of performance and efficiency, given the characteristics of the new Intel chip and the new operating system from Microsoft, which will support high quality materials for maximum versatility.

There are not many details available at the Clover for now. What we do know is that the new processors will seek to compete with ARM on the performance and consumption. Some indiscretions that have not been officially confirmed, the order has a TDP of 3W or less, this may indeed be crucial. 8 Microsoft Windows, expected in the first half of next year, designed to collide with the new OS Chrome, and has completely renovated its user interface and introduces compatibility with ARM processors to extend the scope of work in Redmond .

USB adapter, a USB memory stick, or as we prefer to call it, has become an option in life, all PC owners, because of the ease with which you can copy and transfer data from one place to another, affect the slow fall but surely in the optical.

Always lower the price of NAND flash memory chips have become very large, we were able to make very large cuts with a USB key, and models with limited capacity, but with prices for everyone. Combining this with the convenience of a USB dongle to put in your pocket and forget about it, so the size can be found, to understand the reasons for the success of these storage devices.

China's supreme court and prosecutors' office will step up the fight against computer hacking by toughening penalties for those caught doing it, state media has said.
Under rules coming into effect from 1 September, people who "knowingly purchase, sell or cover up illegally obtained data or network control will be subject to criminal penalties", the official Xinhua news agency cited a statement as saying.
"Such activities have become increasingly unrestrained, even giving rise to large online transaction platforms. Penalising these violations helps sever the profit chain of hacking and other related crimes," it added.
While the US says many hacking attacks appear to come from China, often targeting human rights groups as well as US companies, China says that it is one of the world's biggest victims of hacking attacks.
"A crime endangering information network security poses a threat not only to network security but also to national security and public interests," the news agency said.
In 2009, more than 42,000 Chinese websites were "distorted" by hackers, Xinhua said.
Data from the Ministry of Public Security shows that the number of viruses circulating on the internet has surged 80% in the past five years, Xinhua said. The ministry also estimates that eight out of 10 internet-connected computers are controlled by hackers.

Coverage of the Games will be shown in picture quality 16 times better than HD TV on 50ft-high screens at three UK locations

The BBC is to use next year's London Olympics to debut a new broadcasting technology, Super Hi Vision, that delivers picture quality 16 times better than high-definition television.

In 2012 the BBC intends to erect custom-built 50ft-high screens at three locations around the UK to allow the public to catch a glimpse of the future of television, although consumers will have to wait until at least 2022 before TV sets will be available on the high street.

"When you sit and watch it you really get the experience of being in seat D5 in the stadium," said Roger Mosey, director of London 2012 for the BBC, speaking at the MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival. "Super Hi Vision might be a better long-term prospect than 3D in some ways a it gives you the feel of being in the stadium. People are knocked out by it."

Super Hi Vision screens will be erected at the BBC's Pacific Quay building in Glasgow, Broadcasting House in London and – subject to negotiations – the National Media Museum in Bradford.

The BBC is likely to broadcast the Olympic opening ceremony using the technology, which employs a single camera to capture a wide shot. It has already been tested with sports such as basketball and "big stadium events".

Mosey would not be drawn on the costs of the screens, which are being custom built for the Olympics, but added that its Japanese broadcast partner, NHK, has "led on the investment".

He said the BBC trialed the technology last year to prove it could successfully work by broadcasting a Charlatans concert and the Scottish Taekwondo team to NHK in Japan.

Mosey added that Sharp is working on an 85-inch TV set using Super Hi Vision technology but that it is unlikely to be widely available until 2022.

He also said that the BBC is aiming to deliver some 3D programming for the Olympics but details were dependent on the final plans of host broadcaster OBS, which will provide footage from the various Olympic venues to all broadcasters covering the 2012 London Games.

The debut of Super Hi Vision is part of a tradition of trialing new TV technology at the Olympics.

Mosey said the BBC led the way delivering the "first properly televised" Olympic games when they were hosted in London in 1948.

The Los Angeles Olympics in 1984 was the first to use HD cameras. However, it was not until Beijing in 2008 that the BBC first broadcast in HD.

Mosey said that despite the importance of providing the best possible broadcasting London Olympic coverage across TV, radio and online for the BBC brand, there would be no editorial edict for positive coverage across the corporation.

"Panorama is Panorama and Newsnight is Newsnight," he added. "If they want to be critical about the Games they must be able to do that. Our journalism must be fearless and independent."

The BBC wouldn't be drawn on costs, although the corporation will publish figures next year. Mosey said the BBC took 437 staff to cover the Beijing Olympics, while US broadcaster NBC took 2,850.

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This week's Media Talk and Tech Weekly podcasts are a collaborative affair, recorded at the MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival.

The event is the annual gathering of television bods who come together to talk through the issues that matter – but this year – as well as chats with the controllers, screenings of episodes from the new series of Doctor Who and The Killing and an appearance from Libya by Sky News correspondent Alex Crawford – the festival has got in touch with it's digital side ...

In among sessions about connected TV and Twitter, Google's executive chairman Eric Schmidt delivered the keynote MacTaggart lecture. In it he called for a restoration of science and engineering to the heart of the curriculum in schools, and hit out at Lord Sugar after his recent quip in an episode of The Apprentice where he criticised engineers for being no good at business.

Elaine Bedell, head of entertainment for ITV and executive chair of the festival, and the Guardian's head of media and technology Dan Sabbagh join Jemima Kiss to analyse Schmidt's words. We also hear what Mariella Frostrup, Steven Moffat, Alan Rusbridger and Fru Hazlitt made of the speech too.

Plus we have the controllers of the UK's big TV channels telling us all about the new programmes they'll be putting on our screens over the next few months – Jay Hunt, Peter Fincham, Danny Cohen, Jeff Ford and Janice Hadlow tell us how their channels are faring.

There's also a chat with Christian Hernandez, Facebook's head of international business development, who describes how the site is helping broadcasters analyse their audiences and create new revenues for them. Miranda Hart pops up to explain how she's braced for the move from BBC2 to BBC1 after an embarrassing incident with a chocolate member that made it's way to the BBC's head of TV.

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There are three things the TV executive audience have come to expect from the annual MacTaggart lecture: the pantomime of an inter-industry dispute, an intellectual appreciation of the past year's achievements and a warm glow of self-congratulation derived from being an industry that still matters, despite everything.
Eric Schmidt was never going to tick any of those boxes. Even before Google's executive chairman had taken to the stage, there were mutteringsfrom festival veterans that his would be the most anodyne MacTaggart ever, that he was miscast as keynote speaker, that this was tech tokenism taken a step too far.
What Schmidt did deliver was a carefully crafted lecture designed to boost Google's intellectual credibility, and give much-needed depth to the debate around the role of technology firms in the media industry's future. Evident throughout was the artful hand of Peter Barron (the former Newsnight editor, now Google's UK director of external relations)clearly balancing his first-hand insights of Google with his years of experience in the broadcast industry. But it took Schmidt's charm and erudition to carry this one off; however important Google might be to the future of broadcasting, newish chief executive Larry Page would have lacked the "human interface" required.
The biggest applause of the night was unexpectedly for Kangaroo, after Schmidt had explained the absurdity of blocking development of the online TV project because regulators thought it might be too successful. "You need to get smarter about how to … get the most from your public sector innovations," he said. "Even if YouView meets its revised timetable of launching in 2012, you'll still have thrown away several years when the UK could have been in the lead – a lifetime technologically."
There was the obligatory flattery and dash of nostalgia, too. "If any industry is poised to rise to the challenge, it is yours," he crooned. "Your creative talent is unrivalled. Your independent producers are famed for their entrepreneurial zeal. Your managers have fought hard battles for efficiency, and won. Britain's industry has an unparalleled global reputation, including journalism, comedy and drama … I grew up watching your stuff."
Not everyone was charmed by Schmidt, however. Any eavesdropping Googlers in the George hotel's bar that night might have left feeling that he had gatecrashed TV's most exclusive party. Some felt patronised by his cautious explanations and histories of the computer industry, while the self-deprecating jokes perhaps tried too hard to humanise the corporate behemoth that is Google, trying to make it seem less intimidating. If that wasn't enough to make Google seem 'one of us', Schmidt left the private jet at home (it was in the garage, he said) and arrived in Edinburgh by train. For a billionaire, the East Coast service must have been something of a rude awakening.
Schmidt was more himself the next morning in taking questions from the floor. Gone were the apologies, replaced by his more convincing corporate dynamism. Asked whether the single most constructive thing that Google could do for the UK would be to pay full corporation tax – Britain is Google's second largest market, yet its European base is in Dublin where it pays 12.5% tax instead of the 28% it would pay in the UK – he replied "We pay the legal minimum amount of tax that we have to pay," but argued that £6bn a year runs through Google into the British economy. "We could pay more, but it would be very hard to say to our shareholders 'we feel very sorry for these British people, so we're going to pay millions of dollars in extra taxes that we're not required to do'. There are probably laws against that."
Some of his points are hard to disagree with. European and US online industries must maintain their edge in the face of growing competition from the East, he said. And as well as improving support for later-stage companies, the UK needs to become better at educating children in computer science. Whether the TV industry likes it or not, these issues will come to determine the long-term success of many of our businesses, and his observation that the UK is culturally divided into tribes of "luvvies and boffins" was particularly discerning. Schmidt diplomatically gave credit to Apple's polymathic co-founder Steve Jobs, calling him the definition of creative genius and a man with "an artist's eye as well as a definition of what great engineering is". The festival's own high-profile polymath, Brian Cox, was delighted with the emphasis on better science education.
"It was superb that he talked about the importance of science and engineering graduates, and not going back to old-fashioned boundaries of arts, science and humanities," said Cox, who disagreed with those who saw Google's festival presence as reflecting contrition. "There was no notion of an apology in there. For me he was saying there's a much wider market being opened up and more good we can do together. I don't think Google needs to get down on its knees and say 'please help us be a successful company'."
Where Schmidt did seem to come unstuck was when he started to grapple with the detail of the challenges he said UK media need to address. Does he understand how TV advertising is sold? Not enough to explain it to the satisfaction of an industry expert, he replied. His suggestion that broadcasters run cheap pilots on YouTube and tweak them according to viewer feedback was dismissed by one TV executive as unrealistic. And when he asserted that the UK needs lighter regulation, it was explained to him by another that protections like contract rights renewal were designed to give smaller players a chance against heavyweights like ITV.
"Look, I'm an American entrepreneurial capitalist and technologist," he said to muffled laughter. "I want more competition and I worry about restrictions on that. There's a tendency to over-regulate, so if you want to grow really fast you start by saying 'is that really necessary?' There must be other ways to stimulate competition … Regulation has always favoured the regulated and at some level always shuts off new opportunities."
Broadcaster Mariella Frostrup felt that "what he's done is open a conversation, but he hasn't given all the answers. You want to sit down in a corner with him and say 'OK, so you want to deregulate the internet … and you believe in privacy … how?'"
Notable by their absence were mentions of some of Google's biggest controversies: last week's $500m (£306m) fine for publishing ads for rogue pharmaceutical retailers; accidentally acquiring passwords and personal emails while gathering data for its Street View service; or speculation earlier this month that it passed data on European users to US intelligence services under the Patriot Act.
Google would say that those issues aren't relevant to the broadcast industry, and that Schmidt did mention Google's investment in copyright protection software and the importance of privacy – though that was qualified by saying it must be balanced against the advantages of personalisation.
The undercurrent of any MacTaggart lecture is always self-interest, and Schmidt's was no exception. Strategically, Google was moving to repair damage caused by what he admitted was "an insensitivity to the impact of its innovations", but it was also wooing an audience who, as content partners, could determine the success of its Google TV product, now due to launch in the UK early next year. It's also easy to forget that behind all that powerful technology, Google is essentially an advertising firm, and will have recognised that exploiting the exploding popularity of video content – with the potential of interactive ads – will need quality content on board.
Schmidt was quick to try to dispel the assumption that it has stolen market share from broadcasters: "Why can't we make the pot bigger? The question we see over and over again is how the internet has displaced some existing and fixed revenue stream, but that's not how the world works. You build new businesses. The majority of advertising money Google is getting is new money created from new customers of one kind or another … growth is the solution to nearly all societal problems. Television viewership is declining gracefully and that's bad for all for us. Let's reverse that, let's grow it."
Fru Hazlitt, ITV's managing director of online and commercial, said Schmidt was right to pick up on broadcasters' fear of Google. "Google's DNA is technology and ITV's DNA is creativity – and we have frightened each over the years. But if we're going to invest in other platforms we need to make sure we get a return on that investment. For Google, without fantastic content the aggregators have nothing to aggregate."
Any savvy broadcaster should be taking its very best guess at Google's advertising road map and what that means for their content. Is it a sign of maturity in Google's business that it needed to reach out to the broadcasters, or was there a purely commercial motive?
"Both industries have come from such different backgrounds and viewpoints that it has taken a very long time to agree on what the common goals are," said Schmidt. "In the five years since we acquired YouTube we've been sued, but also developed powerful solutions to address some of those problems, and now we recognise a mutual dependency. We've matured in attitude and technologically, and you understand there's a much larger audience available to you as a result of these new digital tools."
It took four years to bring Schmidt to the Edinburgh television festival, prompting a 25% increase in delegates from more technical backgrounds. And it was right, given the seismic changes transforming broadcasting – an industry founded on the opportunities of combining technology with quality content – that what is arguably the world's most powerful technology and advertising company should have its moment in the MacTaggart spotlight.
It remains to be seen how far the ripples from Schmidt's lecture will carry, and whether delegates are still discussing computer science education or copyright protection software next year, however important these issues are for the long-term health of the UK's broader creative industries. As for the next choice of MacTaggart speaker, no doubt normal service will be resumed in 2012.

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Google is the loveable monopolist. It didn't set out, perhaps, to dominate internet search. Its executives like to remind us we have a choice in search every moment of the day – but somehow, whatever Yahoo-Bing's attractions, we end up at Google every time. Google structures how we discover, how we learn, how we shop – and it prospers, as does Microsoft or Apple, in the technology-driven, deregulated global economy, getting larger and larger but we don't seem to mind.

Monopolies used to be a bad idea, but Google's bosses like to argue there's no harm to consumers. Its search engine is free, after all; the company constantly innovates (so it should with $8.5bn of profits to play with), and now there are all sorts of other excitements, like Apple-competing Android phones. It hoards our search data, but reckons the information can be useful to help predict things like flu outbreaks and perhaps riots one day – and anyway its executives, such as Eric Schmidt, are charming. Compare and contrast his visit to Edinburgh with James Murdoch's pugnacious performance in the Scottish capital two years ago.
So Schmidt, when he comes to Britain, wants us to think about other things instead. He worries, rightly, about our lack of software education in schools, about our somewhat excessive regulation of commercial television – particularly at ITV (a company he first came into contact with because of Susan Boyle) – and he wants to be a partner to Britain's broadcasters. Which is why you can enter the The X Factor via YouTube in 2011, whereas in the Boyle era a row between ITV and YouTube meant there was no advertising income generated on any of the millions of views of I Dreamed A Dream on the Google website.
If only it were that simple, though. Some things Google gets wrong, because Google isn't always benign. It pays out $500m to US regulators because it carried illegal adverts from Canadian pharmacies cheaper than those in the US. YouTube was, for a long time, a host to all sorts of pirated content – hardly helpful to the creative industries – but Schmidt came to Edinburgh to tell us it now takes about four hours to take down copyright material from YouTube, which he wants to argue is quick enough. Yet there are limits too to his partnership proposals.