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Two billion dollars have been offered by Electronic Arts to acquire Take-Two. The offer was made last February 19, but negotiations are under way, secretly, for about a year. Take-Two has offering Electronic Arts, branded as “inadequate” and “opportunistic.”

The offer currency every single action of the company with a premium of 50% compared to the closing of title on Friday. Electronic Arts have made the proposal at a delicate period because of ‘completion of the work on Grand Theft Auto IV, which will be released April 29.

Take-Two, therefore, leave a window to trafficking, announcing that a final decision will be taken only after the release of Grand Theft Auto IV. Electronic Arts expects to make an important contribution to support financially the Grand Theft Auto series, even after the release fourth episode. Ensure, as usual, the independence of the teams that are now part of Take-Two, and then, in addition to the GTA Rockstar is also talk of Firaxis, Visual Concepts and Irrational.

The treaty, therefore, will continue. A conference between the members of the holding company of Electronic Arts will be held February 25 and then you decide to continue with the strategies of negotiation. The buyer sets the transaction “amicable” and “negotiated”.

Electronic Arts has recently lost the primacy which third-party developer of the largest gaming industry. It is away from Activision / Blizzard, giant born of the merger of Activision and Vivendi Games. The acquisition of Take-Two restores the balance and creates a reality of enormous dimensions.

Past exactly one year since it has spoken for the last time the Readius, an instrument in half between a phone and an e-book reader, which is characterized by the presence of a flexible display and just roll around the body. He had spoken then of accessory to match the common mobile phones, which should have been provided by the operators (Telecom, Italy) in combination with special contracts. None of this has happened, although PolymerVision, born from a rib of Philips, the colors this year launch its product in the revised and corrected.

The pattern seen at Mobile World Congress 2008 is in fact identical aesthetically compared to that seen in the past, although a year of maturity of the product has led to interesting changes. The first and perhaps most important, is that now Readius can make calls, as integrates Triband connectivity and HSDPA. The user interface provides for the presence of only 8 buttons, designed to simplify the best equipment. The composition of the numbers is done far more difficult than with a normal phone, but there is to say that if you use numbers in the phone book, there is displacement.

The physical characteristics of the declared about 115 grams in weight, 5-inch display diagonal of 16 shades of gray, flexible, roll, USB 2.0 and Bluetooth 2.0 for communicating with other devices, expandability up to 8GB thanks to a type of memory card Micro SDHC.

What you appreciate time Readius is a good versatility, although the function e-reader is always to greater weight. Used as a reader of text files, the unit boasts 30 hours of battery life and an almost perfect readability in any light conditions and with any inclination. The debut is expected in the middle of this year, even if we have learned to take the necessary precautions with these estimates.

After several signals from other markets and several allegations, Dell revealed its channel strategy aimed at: U.S. Wal-Mart has long sells PC producer in the U.S. and European ground Carrefour is doing likewise. For the moment Italy is still foreign to these dynamics reserved for retail, but things are destined to change.

Dell at this time is selecting potential dealers which will have the opportunity to join the Partner Direct program, is being built alongside a structure capable of supporting all phases of indirect sales.

“It is a truly extraordinary for Dell – we are proceeding with our strategy of channel quickly and well, strengthening relations with partners and, ultimately, with customers, “said Josh Claman, Vice President and General Manager Dell Channels – for the EMEA region. “In recent months we have spoken with hundreds of partners and the feedback has been invaluable. Dell has more than 30,000 global partners around the world that have generated about 9 billion dollars in turnover in the last year our goal is to grow the business partners faster than the average company, certifying several thousand partners who invest in solutions, in line with those that are the strategic priorities for Dell. “

It was also a follow-up program is dedicated to operators who wish to establish an even stronger partnership with Dell; the Certified Partner provides additional marketing resources, enables the use of the logo and allows Dell to have a product demo. Dell wants to promote and sell new solutions to known indirect benefits of the direct model, in which the option build to order is a key feature.

Kingston, a well-known producer of memory, takes advantage of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona to present a new product, designed for people who travel often or just want to integrate into a single device a card reader and a good storage capacity, all in a very short space. We’re talking about the model DataTraveler Micro Reader, whose appearance is quite similar to that of a simple USB dongle, but with a special compartment behind a door.

Inside the room, Kingston has effectively integrated a card reader 3 in 1, capable of reading formats microSD, microSDHC and Memory Stick Micro, often used on devices such as cameras but especially cell phones. This way you can bring in your pocket everything you need to download the contents of memories just mentioned, without the need for a traditional reader.

DataTraveler Micro Reader will be available initially in cutting 1GB, followed by models with a capacity of 2GB and 4GB. Completing the potential of the new model compatible with the Microsoft ReadyBoost technology, which offering a good transfer rate, though not declared. Prices initially provided for the United States, about $ 19.25, $ 28.25 and $ 42.00 respectively for the models from 1GB, 2GB and 4GB.