Apple will build a big data center in Hong Kong

Apple plans to build its first non-US data center, said the publication Hong Kong Economic Times. The new data center will be located in Hong Kong. According to the source, Apple will launch data center in the Science and Technology Park in the southern part of the industrial complex Tseng Wong about where their data centers are NTT Company and bank HSBC.

Now available Apple has several "cloud" services, including iCloud, iTunes Store and App Store. Their services are provided from data centers located in California, near the headquarters of the corporation, and in the northern states and in North Carolina. In addition, the company is building a new data center in Oregon and Nevada.

Using its own data centers Apple and other companies with extensive online presence, hoping to reduce their overhead costs for maintenance of traffic, reduce the cost of support for online platforms and more flexible management of IT capacity.

According to the Hong Kong Economic, construction of the data center Apple will begin in the first quarter of 2013, and the site is planned to open in 2015. With the data center the company hopes to serve Asian customers and especially China, where the "apple" products are in great demand.

iPad 5 and iPhone 5S will be released in mid-2013

For most users, the presentation in October, the fourth-generation iPad was a big surprise. Besides the fact that not all enthusiastically embraced the new tablet model in six months after the previous one, it violated the usual annual release cycle, "apple" product Apple. But it seems that this tradition will continue in the future.

According to DigiTimes, citing information Asian market analysts, some suppliers of components for the iPhone and iPad forecast high for the 1^st quarter of 2013. And that this is due to the upcoming release of two mobile devices from Apple, scheduled for mid-2013.

The first of these products will be a new generation of 9.7-inch tablet iPad 5, and the second - iPhone 5S. And if the release of an updated version of the smartphone can be understood - Samsung has kept the pace of Galaxy S III even after the iPhone 5, but with the release of the Galaxy S IV current generation Apple phone will have even more difficult, the release of the new iPad is not entirely logical.

It is likely that the sources are wrong, and we are still talking about the updated tablet iPad mini. The display device of the second generation c 7.9-inch diagonal is rumored to receive a resolution 2048 × 1536 pixel. The first iPad mini observers reported more modest screen performance with low current standards of 1024 × 768 pixels.