After the Motive, the giant of the Internet Googleopened a new-front against Apple, by throwing his first upmarket introduced laptop computer,Chromebook Pixel, as rival for MacBook of the group in the apple.
"People will leave MacBook Air for it", assuredSundar Pichai, vice-president of division "Chrome " of Google, by introducing the new apparatus in San Fransisco.
The Internet group pointed out that its first computers " Chromebook Pixel " began being commercialised on Thursday in its onlineboutiques Google Play in the United States and in the United Kingdom, for respectively 1.299 dollars and 1.049 books and a dispatch next week, and that they would be also available "soon " on the site of the distributor of electronics American Best Buy.
These first apparatus are equipped with a wireless Internet connection (Wifi). A version compatible with the mobile telephony of 4th generation LTE will be also thrown in April in the United States for 1.449 dollars.
Chromebook Pixel blends technologies typical of bars, notably a touch screen, and of others found on the classical computers.
Google extolled the speed and the quality of the screen, resolution of which is according to Mr Pichai highest given today by a laptop computer.
The computer works with a flea Intel, and so that his purchasers could use all advantages of unbodied computer science on Internet, Google their offer a teraoctet (that is 1.000 gigabytes) of stocking on its online service Google Drive.
It will be produced in Taiwan by electronic societies which were not identified, and Google told he worked with a series of concepteurs of applications to perfect the programmes.
"It is a product with air very well", commented Om Malik, of the site specialised in technological information GigaOm. "But Google is confronted with problem to sell (...) it and to set up a base of developers for an upmarket product", he adds.
Google has had already since 2010 a range of laptop computers Chromebook, manufacture of which was entrusted between others to the Taiwanese groups Acer, Chinese Lenovo, South Korean Samsung or American Hewlett-Packard. But these apparatus positioned rather on the entrance of range and competed with apparatus working with Windows, the operating system of Microsoft.
Google attacks this time frontalement in Apple, who apparently positioned its own apparatus on the top of the range.
Both groups are already at daggers drawn in the field of smartphones and of bars, where the Mobile operating systemAndroid de Google established himself in next to no time as a weighty actor.
Google uses Android for the own telephones and bars Nexus, but software was also adopted by the whole series of other marks.
About 70 % smartphones sold in The World in the fourth quarter worked so under Android, who exceeds so widely theiPhone of Apple (about 22 % markets). The market of bars on the other hand is always dominated by the iPad, even if the competition of devices under Android increases.
According to recent information of press, Google would also get ready to open the own boutiques "in hard", to emphasise better and to enlarge the network of distribution of the own apparatus.
The operator of payments by Internet Paypal, subsidiary of the online distributor EBay, is going to throw in Europe a system intended for the small shopkeepers and allowing to regulate purchases with a bank card with flea, through a mobile phone.
According to a message published on the official blog of Paypal, he will first be introduced in the United Kingdom, where some dealers will begin having access there "in next months" and when he will be generalised " this summer ". The system will be spread later in other countries using bank cards with flea.
The system, called "Paypal Here", is a declension of that of the same name thrown in the United States last year for cards with magnetic tape, but Paypal adapted it to cards with fleas, more used in Europe.
In concrete terms, the dealer will have to download a Mobile application and order a small case to synchronise with his mobile phone (iPhone or Android), and which will be of use for him for accepting card payments and for sending bills.
The dealer will have to pay the price of the case, which Paypal promises "competitive", as well as a "small load for every transaction", according to the blog. Their sums are not specified at the moment.
"The mobile readers of credit card seem to answer a true need of the market: a simple and practical means for small trade to accept card payments without credit to be invested in expensive terminals of payment", underlines Paradise Zoller, analyst of the consulting firm Ovum.
Ovum notes that the version of Paypal Here for cards with magnetic tape, was received well in the United States and that it is logical to develop a version adapted to smart cards, even if the European market is more and more competitive.
"The United Kingdom is the logical place to begin because it is the second biggest market of Paypal after the United States, with 18 million active users", judges Paradise Zoller.
