Sunday, January 10, 2010
Saturday, January 9, 2010
CES 2010
Intel’s Touch Screen Interactive Wall has rotating Cubes. Touch on a cube for more info. It’s running on an Intel i7 Processor.
TWiT will be streaming live from CES Jan 6-10.
Wired has a preview of this Year’s CES and a transparent LCD screen.
PC World tested out the AR.Drone Quadricopter
Revision 3 shows new Skylight “smartbook”, a unique sub 2 pound form factor which promises 10 hours of battery life.
jkkmobile.com demos some new ereaders and Android devices.
source : dailywireless.org
New Phones
Posted by Sam Churchill on January 8th, 2010
Phone Arena has the new phones announced at CES while PhoneScoop has hands-on reviews of the Motorola Backflip, Lenovo Lephone, Samsung TV and projector phones, Palm Pre Plus, new LG phones, and more.
Here’s Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3
Phone Scoop talked with Clear this week and talked future strategy and direction of their WiMAX service.
Clear says it is on track to cover 120 million points of presence by the end of 2010 and already covers some 30 million people in 27 markets across the U.S., with New York City, Boston, Houston and other large markets scheduled to go live later this year.
Clear said embedded laptops, dongles and MIDs will be the primary WiMax devices available throughout 2010. A WiMax-equipped smartphone isn’t expected to launch until the end of 2010, with deeper adoption of WiMax smartphones coming in 2011.
Clear didn’t say which smartphone platforms nor hardware vendors it is speaking to, although LG, Samsung and HTC have been mentioned before. Clear indicated that it will rely on VoIP applications and fallback on Sprint’s existing CDMA network.
Apparently Clear’s partners have held back from making their own investments in WiMax technology, equipment and services until they were sure that Clear had the capital to continue operations. Now that Clear has secured the capital, more companies will begin to make and sell WiMax devices.
Clear thinks that its time-to-market gives it a leg up on the competition — notably Verizon and AT&T — which won’t have LTE networks up and running for quite some time. AT&T won’t complete their backhaul for their current HSPA upgrade until 2011 while Verizon says they’ll have coverage of some 100 million subs by 2011, using their new 700 MHz band.
Clearwire has also launched a mobile WiMax service in Malaga, Spain, covering a metropolitan population of almost 600,000. The service, called Instanet, offers average downlink speeds of 3Mbit/s to 6Mbit/s, with service plans starting at €29.90 (US$42.85) per month. It plans to launch in another Spanish city, Seville, in 2010, and also holds spectrum licenses in Belgium, Germany, Ireland, Poland, Romania, and Denmark.
The WiMax Forum announced that in 2010 it will finalize its WiMax Release 2 specification in parallel with IEEE 802.16m and IMT-Advanced, ensuring that WiMax 2 (IEEE 802.16m) will remain backward compatible with legacy WiMax Release 1 (IEEE 802.16e). It will provide 100Mbps mobile.
Samsung Electronics is seeking to take the lead in WiMAX 2.0 which uses 20 Mhz channels and 4×4 MIMO. It may be deployed in 2011-2012.
In other news, T-Mobile will stop selling its landline replacement Hotspot@Home. The service allowed users to connect a home phone to a T-Mobile router. T-Mobile@Home allowed corded and cordless phones to connect to T-Mobile’s router. It also allowed you to use a Wi-Fi enabled phone around your home. It won’t impact the Wi-Fi calling (Unlimited HotSpot Calling) service, says T-Mobile. The operator introduced unlimited WiFi calling with the launch of its Hotspot@Home service in 2007.
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
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Best of Asian Babes of the Week
And here you are : (Top Left) Ai Shinozaki, (Top Right) Elly Tran Ha, (Bottom Left) Hwang Mi Hee and (Bottom Right) Aki Hoshino.
Transparent fish!?
New Genetic Design by Japanese Researchers rendered Goldfish all transparent
This new type of goldfish, totally unaware of the infringement of his privacy, naively swims in the water with all his transparency because the scales and the skin bear no pigments anymore. The result of the efforts of Japanese researchers to do away with the usual dissection method to study the internal organs of the animals, it has now become possible for researchers and curious ones among us alike to observe the organs of the fish real time while it is alive. They are said to live up to 20 years and grow 10 inches in length. The next in the line are see-through frogs which is said to be mass-produced sometime this year by the Institute for Amphibian Biology of Hiroshima University and be available at around $110.
Via Dailytech
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source : akihabaranews.com
Sweet iPhone App
Rotoview: Single-hand Navigation
Posted by Sam Churchill on January 5th, 2010
A new free iPhone app called RotoView enables “tilt and scroll” display navigation system for smartphones. RotoView provides intuitive single-hand navigation, allowing the user to simply tilt the device left-right or up-down to see beyond the virtual boundaries of the display. RotoView complements multi-touch, especially when the user cannot use both hands.
It’s being ported to other smartphone platforms, including Google’s Android.
The company says it will bring single-hand view navigation capabilities to web pages, photo, map or other scrollable data view. The free RotoView app is now available at the App Store.
source : dailywireless.orgApple diversifies
Google recently paid $750 million for AdMob, a Quattro competitor, which Apple had also made a bid to acquire.
Both start-ups are aimed squarely at the fast-growing market to advertise on smartphones, such as Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android devices.
The Quattro Network offers a full spectrum of mobile marketing solutions, including display advertising, SMS/MMS/shortcodes, rich media, video and custom programs, across thousands of mobile web sites and applications.
In other news, Apple announced today that more three billion apps have been downloaded from the App Store for iPhone and iPod Touch users.
source : dailywireless.orgSamsung Mobile Does ATSC Mobile TV
Samsung Mobile, today announced a mobile phone using the North American mobile digital TV broadcasting standard. The Samsung Moment will be exclusively available from Sprint, and receive live digital TV using Samsung’s Mobile DTV Chip, the world’s first single-chip solution for the recently approved Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) Mobile Digital TV standard (ATSC-M/H).
The TV chip will allow Samsung Moment to receive live TV programming from local broadcast stations, including prime-time network programs, local news and sports and emergency alerts at no cost.
The Samsung Moment was selected for a showcase with Sprint customers in the Washington, D.C. and Baltimore markets during the first quarter of 2010 — the first-ever consumer showcase of this technology. Moment was selected because of its 3.2-inch AMOLED display screen, which delivers bright pictures outdoors, and wide viewing angles. Samsung’s single-chip implementation of the standard lowers power, size and cost.
Mobile DTV technology will allow DC area consumers to watch their favorite live programs broadcast by eight local TV stations, according to Brandon Burgess CEO of ION Media Networks and President of the Open Mobile Video Coalition (OMVC).
OMVC is actively promoting mobile digital television technology within the U.S. broadcast industry to achieve widespread market penetration in 2010.
Samsung’s Moment phone provides access to built-in Google mobile services, including Search, Maps, Gmail and YouTube, as well as thousands of applications available in Android Market. Moment is powered by an 800 MHz processor and has a full QWERTY keyboard.
With the MPH In-Band Mobile DTV solution, local ATSC broadcasters will be able to dedicate a portion of their 19.39 Mbps transport stream to mobile and/or handheld services. Mobile TV systems typically use H.264 compression systems, at quarter VGA resolution (320×240 pixels) with a data rate between 300 and 500 kbps.
There are many Mobile TV Standards. The United States is the only one trying to make it work using 8-VSB modulation. Most use variations of ghost-resistant COFDM. Typically ATSC-M/H service in the United States will offer two to three program channels. Some 4.4 Mbps may be allocated for the MPH stream, leaving approximately 15 Mbps for the main ATSC television programming.
The Samsung Moment without Mobile DTV capabilities is available through all Sprint channels including Web (www.sprint.com). Retail pricing is currently $179.99 (excluding taxes) after a $50 instant savings and a $100 mail-in-rebate with a two-year service agreement.
As charter members of the Open Handset Alliance, Sprint and Samsung are closely aligned with the Android community.
While MediaFLO has become available in parts of the U.S., it is a premium service that requires subscription. ATSC-M/H would be free to air, as are regular broadcast signals.
The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas will have more than a dozen companies introducing new Mobile DTV products that are expected to roll out in the coming year.
If you want Mobile DTV to work with your current phone, a subscription service that uses cellular channels will cost about $15/month. MediaFLO uses a dedicated 700 MHz broadcast channel and consequently requires a new phone.
Another alternative comes from a company called Valups, which can use the free broadcast mobile standard. The Tivit is a tiny gadget that doubles as a Mobile DTV receiver and a Wi-Fi access point. You can watch local Mobile DTV channels in your area using your phone’s built-in WiFi, included in the iPhone 3G and 3GS iPod Touch, Android phones, BlackBerry and Windows PCs. The Tivit’s built-in, rechargeable battery lets it operate on the go for 3 hours at a time (or you can leave it plugged in to the wall). The Tivit is expected to hit America in the spring, where it will retail for between $90 to $120.
source : dailywireless.org
Friday, January 1, 2010
This Decade in Tech
This Week in Tech ends the year, and the decade, with this look at the most important stories from 2000-2009.
It also illustrates why Leo LaPorte has got to be the netcaster of the decade. A must see.
Leo LaPorte, Kevin Rose and Robert Scoble touch on all the high points and they are complimented with dozens of short videos from correspondents expounding on their favorite stories of the decade.
