A little over a year ago, the developers of Wi-Fi announced Alliance is a new specification standard Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi Direct and promised her entrance in 2010.Well, you can put in their punctuality example many others – yesterday was officially announced begin certification of devices for compliance against the standard Wi-Fi Direct.

The main feature of devices supporting Wi-Fi Direct will be able to create a connection without the need to connect to home or work network, just as now use Bluetooth.

Another good news for owners of devices supporting Wi-Fi is the new standard will enable devices certified to connect to a Wi-Fi gadgets without Direct support for Wi-Fi.While some manufacturers may even offer a software update to start a new standard (on site, Wi-Fi Alliance stated that the new technology there is no need to upgrade hardware).

Currently certified Wi-Fi Direct has the following products:
• NIC Atheros XSPAN Dual-band 802 .11n PCIe Mini Card (AR928x)
• Wireless adapters (draft) Broadcom BCM43224 Dual-Band 802 .11n 2 × 2 MIMO Half PCIe Mini Card
• Network card Intel Centrino Advanced N-6200
• Ralink MIMObility network card 802 .11n Half-life 2 x 2 PCIe Mini Card
• NIC Realtek RTL8192CE-VA4 HM92C00 PCIe mini card

Continuing the race for megapixels in the mobile world, the Japanese Corporation Sony introduced two new optical sensor: 16.41-megapixel Sony Exmor R IMX081PQ 8.13-megapixel Sony Exmor R IMX105PQ, which are the most compact today among the similar class.

New high-resolution CMOS sensors are pixel size 1.12 micrometers and allow you to shoot video with 1080p resolution at 30 frames per second (16-Megapixel models) and with a resolution of 720 p at 30 fps (8-megapixel version).

Mass production of Sony Exmor R IMX081PQ is scheduled for January 2011, the price of this 16.41 megapixel module is about 30 dollars.As regards 8.13 megapixel IMX105PQ, its production is planned for April 2011, while the cost has not yet been reported.