Code named Froyo, Adobe for Android 2.2 with Flash 10.1

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Download Firefox Fennec for Android

Download Firefox Fennec for Android

Mozilla is quick to note that this is a pre-Alpha build of the browser, and is only for testing purposes. But that isn’t stopping Mozilla’s Vladimir Vukićević from announcing it on There also aren’t yet any automated nightly developer builds or automated updates to this build; it’s even more of a pre-nightly build (even earlier than pre-alpha). But, it’s usable enough that we wanted to get some feedback on it as we continue to develop,” he notes.

To get this build, you can visit this link on your Android device. Or you can point your phone’s browser to: bit.ly/fennec-android. And yes, there’s a QR code on Vukićević’s blog post if you want to scan it, and download it that way. Whichever way you do it, you’ll need to make sure your settings allow you to install non-Market apps (go to Settings, Applications, and check “Unknown Sources”).

Some other warnings and notes to consider about the build from Vukićević:

• We’ve only really tested this on the Motorola Droid and the Nexus One.
• It will likely not eat your phone, but bugs might cause your phone to stop responding, requiring a reboot.
• Memory usage of this build isn’t great — in many ways it’s a debug build, and we haven’t really done a lot of optimization yet. This could cause some problems with large pages, especially on low memory devices like the Droid.
• You’ll see the app exit and relaunch on first start, as well as on add-on installs; this is a quirk of our install process, and we’re working to get rid of it.
• You can’t open links from other apps using Fennec; we should have this for the next build.

He also notes that there’s an experimental version of Weave, Mozilla’s syncing tool that will work with this pre-Alpha build of Fennec. Visit this page and click on the “Experimental version” to find it.

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Indosat Pertama di Asia Terapkan Akses 42 Mbps

Indosat becomes the first operator in Asia to implement the DC HSPA + as well as second in the world after Australia's Telstra to increase the access speed of broadband service. These technologies generate data download speeds (downlink) up to 42 Mbps or more than doubled from a maximum access capability of existing infrastructure.

"Last year we launched a 21 Mbps downlink access today is not half-hearted we provide access to 42 Mbps. This is not a trial but ready to wear our customers," said Fadzri Sentosa, Wholesale and Infrastructure Chief Officer and Director of Indosat in Jakarta, Monday (26 / 4 / 2010).

He said the technology used is a dual-carrier high speed packet access (HSPA + DC) from Ericsson. This service can be implemented because of Indosat has gained a new frequency from the government to roll out broadband data services from 5 MHz to 10 MHz.

"With HSPA + 42 Mbps, our capability to serve more customers more open," said Teguh Prasetya, Group Head of VAS Indosat. He hopes that with a greater capacity to improve customer experience to enjoy broadband or high speed data access and data services more attractive Indosat.

Currently, more Teguh, the scope of this new service within the city of about Building Indosat Jakarta, Monas to Jakarta Convention Center (JCC) in Senayan. Will be gradually expanded its coverage area and to other large cities such as Surabaya, Denpasar, Medan or Batam. Description: Indosat Pertama di Asia Terapkan Akses 42 Mbps Rating: 4.5 Reviewer: sms ItemReviewed: Indosat Pertama di Asia Terapkan Akses 42 Mbps

Windows Home Server 'Vail' beta now available for download

Windows Home Server 'Vail' beta now available for download Windows Home Server refresh, but for those cat-and-mouse on pins and needles, we're captivated to say that the acute delay has assuredly ended. Sort of. Microsoft has appear today its accessible beta of the abutting adaptation of WHS, cipher called "Vail." The primary upgrades / changes accommodate the addendum of media alive alfresco of the home or office, improvements in multi-PC advancement and restore, simplified bureaucracy and user acquaintance as able-bodied as "significantly" broadcast development and customization accoutrement for partner. Beyond that, the company's arena things appealing abutting to the chest, but you can feel chargeless to grab a 64-bit archetype of the beta starting today and dig in yourself. 'Course, Microsoft recommends that you install the software on a accessory (read: not important to your livelihood) machine

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Neofonie's WePad tablet specification

Though "Neofonie" is the best apt name for a vaporware aggregation we've heard back "Phantom," it's attractive like that actual firm's 11.6-inch WePad book is absolutely the absolute deal. Fed up with all the skepticism it has accustomed of late, the German close aloof captivated a columnist appointment in Berlin to appearance off a brace of alive accessories and abate our fears. Netbooknews.de was on the scene, and they took a brace of high-res videos that prove the tablets do, in fact, accept a alive (though somewhat laggy) touchscreen, and that fancy-pants vertical UI is absolutely functional. Full awning YouTube videos were choppy, but they played, and the Atom N450 CPU loaded OpenOffice and addled through browser windows afterwards a hitch. But don't booty our chat for it -- watch the accomplished 25-minute affirmation afterwards the break,
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Student's Windows-based media center

Student's Windows-based media center. this is new stuff.Taking cues from his Xbox (and demography affliction to the front-facing lights that drive him to aberration on his accepted DVR) this bad boy is irenic cooled, appearance the accepted HTPC access (HDMI, optical and allure S/PDIF, eSATA, and USB) as able-bodied as 802.11n WiFi and a hot-swappable drive bay. Under the hood, one finds a 1.6GHz Atom 330 with NVIDIA ION graphics, 4GB memory, and the OS (a custom Windows XP drudge active Boxee Beta) runs on its own centralized beam drive. Things accept absolutely afflicted back we were in school, back our home ball acquaintance usually amounted to taping Rebel High off of USA Up All Night. Check out the arcade and video (after the break) to see this ting in all its glory.

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Motorola MT820 specification

Two in one anniversary -- Two leaked Chinese Motorola phones with Android and cellophane MOTOMING-like cast covers, that is. However, this one's a little added exciting. Dubbed the Moto MT820, this glassy handset's got a abounding leaked arcade of nice, bright images address Chinese appointment HiAPK, and chat has it this ability be the aboriginal accessory to accomplish use of the dual-screen 3D apparent Motorola activated for aboriginal this month. Actual facts are a little added scarce, admitting spy shots appearance a front-facing camera, concrete home, power, aggregate and camera buttons, and a microSD aperture hidden central the aback cover. Oh, and that circling G3 logo? That agency this accurate accessory is destined for China Mobile's TD-SCDMA network. See all the ambrosial pics at our added advantage link. Motorola MT820 specification review

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Micromax X235 - Remote Control Phone

Micromax X235 - Remote Control Phone , which has been over the accomplished few months on a business bacchanalia with its advanced ambit of cellphones, has launched its latest model, the X235. While the buzz looks absolutely backward from a distance, don't be bamboozled by its looks. What you are attractive at is a alien ascendancy phone. That's right! With the X235, you can absolutely ascendancy your cyberbanking equipments that accept a alien - including your TV, AC and DVD player. The buzz appearance an bittersweet transceiver that can accelerate signals to your cyberbanking equipments and advice you ascendancy them. Anyway, if you appear to be a continued time Symbian user, you ability be acquainted that this was accessible on old S60 phones too appliance an appliance alleged the IR Remote. Anyway, afar from the alien ascendancy feature, the buzz additionally boasts of a Camera, Music player, video amateur and FM radio. The X235 is a Dual SIMDual SIM buzz - like best added handsets from Micromax.

The X235 comes with a 2-inch 65k, 176x220 pixel affectation and a 5-way aeronautics key. Connectivity options accommodate Bluetooth, Messaging, GPRS/WAP/MMS. The buzz has a Li-Ion 1050Mahbattery and is able of accouterment up to 5 hours of allocution time. The standby time is rated at 10 days. The X235's amount is yet to be revealed. Description: Micromax X235 - Remote Control Phone Rating: 4.5 Reviewer: sms ItemReviewed: Micromax X235 - Remote Control Phone

Camera clad iPod Touch Prototypes Hit eBay

Just aback the fizz about the "real" iPhone 4G seemed to achieve bottomward a bit, two prototypes of iPod Touch with camera were spotted on eBay by 9to5Mac. The images of the iPod Touch acutely showed camera on the aback ancillary and additionally agitated characterization - DVT which stands for Design Verification Test. That agency both iPod Touch Accessories are prototypes. Running the iPhone OS analysis software -Switchboard (Apple's iPhone OS testing software), one of the iPod Touch accessories had 'Apple Development Team' sticker labeled on its aback panel. However, the advertisement was removed from eBay later.

Looks like addition is aggravating to either advertise an iPod Touch with camera beating offs, or artlessly gluttonous absorption with such beheld gimmicks.

Camera clad iPod Touch Prototypes Hit eBay

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Android Facebook App Gets Messaging Support

Facebook has appear an amend to its "Facebook for Android" application. The update, which enabled the appliance to alum to adaptation 1.2, endows it with the abundant approved afterwards messaging support. You can now appearance and accelerate letters and updates to your buddies and to the pages that you subscribe to. The appliance supports threaded messaging as well. The appliance can be downloaded from the Android Market and like the antecedent version, it is actually free. Android Facebook App Gets Messaging Support

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Nokia N8 First Reviews

Anyway, the accepted doubtable Eldar Murtazin of Mobile Review seems to accept chanced aloft a ancestor or aboriginal body of the N8 which he advised extensively. If you thought, with the latest Symbian^3 OS and the new appearance has fabricated the N8 dribble worthy, adapt to be disappointed. Eldar has around lampooned Nokia and the N8 and has termed the buzz to be actual disappointing. The drawbacks of the buzz ambit from not so abundant appearance and an actually dull UI which he says is annihilation but a cosmetically added S60v5 UI. On the appearance advanced too, the buzz is on par with absolute handsets. The 12 megapixel camera, according to him, is hardly bigger than that the one on the Satio and the actuality that it supports HD video recording doesn't about-face any active either. HD video recording has been in boondocks for the accomplished year or so. The buzz is accepted for actuality acutely fast - but alone of you accumulate its anamnesis almost ataxia free. Once you alpha bushing those beam anamnesis chips, the buzz struggles to attack through menus. In our opinion, this bit can be anchored application a firmware amend - but then, these issues should not crop up on a flagship handset, alike with an aboriginal firmware.

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Two Dell's Android-based Netbooks in Making

After Dell's smartphone calendar leaked out aftermost week, yet addition aperture indicates two new Android OS based Dell netbooks - Sparta and Athens, are in the making. As per the roadmap certificate nabbed by Android Central, Dell is planning to acquaint its aboriginal Android based netbooks alongside smartphones. Apart from Android, these netbooks may additionally appear with Moblin (Mobile Linux) OS on them. Dell will additionally acquaint Looking Glass and Looking Glass Pro tablets based on Android OS with Bender. All these Android based articles are projected to be launched by the third division of budgetary year 2011.

Both Sparta and Athens will accept 11-inch SVGA TFT displays alms 1027x768 pixel resolution. These two netbooks will accept ARM based processors central and will action wireless connectivity options such as 3G, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. Looks like Dell will additionally action users an advantage to accept amid Android and Moblin OS for both these netbooks.

In agreement of ample tablets, Dell will acquaint Looking Glass book based on Android OS which may accept new user interface dubbed Bender. Looking Glass will accept a 7-inch WVGA affectation supporting, 800x600 pixel resolution. A footfall college adaptation Looking Glass Pro would be alien in the aboriginal division of banking year 2012 with HD affectation and alternative TV tuner.

The Android based band up from Dell looks able but we shall delay for official acceptance on the same.

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Bluetooth 4.0: Technology Will be Finalized By June 2010

Recently Bluetooth SIG announced that the much anticipated v4.0 update to the Bluetooth protocol will be finalized and sent to manufacturers by the end of June 2010. The next iteration of the mobile connectivity protocol will feature ultra-low power consumption that could theoretically be powered for years by a coin-celled battery, faster transfer rates, and an increased range that can extend up to 200 feet and beyond.
These features could expand the practical usage of this technology to a new range of devices including sports and fitness products, personal health products, security products, and home entertainment systems. Look for Bluetooth v4.0-enabled devices to hit the retail market in late 2010 or early 2011.

As per press release, "Bluetooth v4.0 is like three specifications in one--Classic Bluetooth technology, Bluetooth low energy technology, and Bluetooth High Speed technology--all which can be combined or used separately in different devices according to their functionality."

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Top 10 Android Apps For Your Droid

Top 10 Android Apps For Your Droid for your latest Motorola Droid and HTC Eris:

1. Locale: Tlets you customize your phone’s settings based on your location. You could program the app to set your phone to vibrate every time you’re at your office, or set it to go silent when you enter the perimeter of your local movie theater. Locale’s incredible location technology leverages GPS, Wi-Fi, and cellular positioning to determine the location of your phone. Although not all phones are equally equipped and not all location technologies have equal coverage, Locale gracefully scales back. Walking into a building with poor GPS reception? Not a problem.

Locale is available on the Android Market simply go to Android Market from your Droid and search for Locale.

2. Twidroid: This Android based Twitter app is available in a free and a pro version. Both of Twidroid’s offerings provide most every Twitter function you might need, from the basic viewing and sending tweets, following and unfollowing users, viewing profiles to the more advanced: saved searches, URL shortening, photo posting, and geo-location support.


3. Google Voice: The Google Voice for Mobile app is free to install and use. You do need to have an existing Google Voice account, however, for it to work. Once installed, you can make outgoing calls from your Google Voice number with the touch of a button, right from your contacts list. You also gain easy access to voicemail and Google Voice-based SMS messaging.


4. KeyRing: This Android app that puts your membership cards barcodes into your Motorola Droid. Simply scan your various cards anything from gym memberships to drug store discount clubs and Key Ring will categorize them into a drop-down menu.
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5. Compare Everywhere: With Android app installed you scan a barcode in any store to get instant information about any product. Compare Everywhere will connect you to reviews and pricing details to make your shopping simpler.


6. Meebo: This Android app will keep you connected to all of your IM accounts while you’re roaming around with your new Droid. Meebo links multiple IM protocols into a single app that you can always keep running on your phone. AIM, MSN, Yahoo, MySpace IM, Google Talk, Jabber and ICQ are all supported — and, if you create a Meebo account, you can save a collective log of all your chats that’ll be accessible online.


7. Pandora’s Android App: Like its online iPhone counterpart, the Pandora Android app lets you listen to personalized radio stations based on your favorite artists or songs. Thanks to Android’s multitasking capabilities, you’ll be able to rock out while running other apps which the iPhone can’t handle.


8. ActionComplete: ActionComplete is a high-tech to-do list for your Droid phone. It makes it easy to organize your tasks and appointments, using a system developed by “GTD” (Getting Things Done”) guru David Allen. You can even set reminders that’ll pop up based on where you are, allowing you to remind yourself of certain tasks at the office, others at the home, and so on.

To install this free Android app simply search for ActionComplete on Android Market from your Droid.

9. Sherpa: The Android application that helps you find new places based on your own personal preferences won’t cost you a dime to download.. Sherpa “learns” your likes and dislikes, then uses your location information to suggest restaurants, stores, and attractions in your area that might float your boat.


10. Google Sky Map: The Google Sky Map app, actually overlays information about the night sky onto your Droid display. It uses a combination of GPS data, compass data, and date and time information to help you identify planets, stars, and constellations. Description: Top 10 Android Apps For Your Droid Rating: 4.5 Reviewer: sms ItemReviewed: Top 10 Android Apps For Your Droid

Tiny Chobi Cam from Japan

The size of Tiny Chobi Cam from Japan is as big as an eraser. This miniature camera comes from Japan Trust Technologies and it’s called Chobi Cam. With its small size 1.7 x 1.1 x 0.5 inches and weigh of only half an ounce it’s one of the smallest cameras ever.

The camera stores all of your data on the microSD card giving you more than enough space for all your videos and photos. It records videos in AVI format with resolutions of 1280 x 960 pixels and can shoot picutres at 2048 x 1536 pixels resolution in jpeg file format. The camera also allows you to record up to 50 minutes of audio.Once fully charged this camera can run for about 120 minutes and if you ever run of the battery simply connect your camera to your PC via USB cable. Chobi Cam also comes with an external charger allowing you to recharge it on the move.

It is priced a bit more than 100$ and can only be purchased through the Japan Trust Technologies website.

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Sony Dash: A New Gadget

Reecently Sony introduce a new gadget for you favorite parts of the internet at a glance. You can now listen through internet you favorite radio or MP3s by way of built-in speakers or the headphone jack. View photos and videos via USB or from online services such as Photobucket® and YouTube™. Also equipped with a clock, you can wake up to your favorite apps, music or built-in alarm sounds.

Sony Dash can streanline the internet life and display only the information and entertainment of your choices. Choose from over 1,000 apps to access your social network accounts, get up-to-the-minute traffic, weather and news reports, view the latest sports scores, stock info and more—from virtually anywhere in your home.

The Dash is available for pre-order but wasn't supposed to hit retail until April 29th, It is already on the shelf.

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Chromifox Extreme addon mozilla

Chromifox Extreme is the firefox addon tobe looks like google chrome.
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Camera Connection Kit Boosts iPad

Camera Connection Kit Boosts iPad . Besides reading SD memory cards to import photos, the Camera Connection Kit was expected to provide a USB port for digital cameras. The USB adapter plugs into the Apple 30-pin dock connector on the bottom of the iPad, or into the keyboard dock. What's interesting is what devices Apple has chosen to allow the iPad's USB port to recognize and use.

There's been a lot of attention given to the use of a wireless Bluetooth keyboard with the iPad, but now with the USB adapter it's possible to connect a USB keyboard. For those who already have a USB keyboard this is good news. It will also save a few bucks at the Apple Store compared to the wireless version, and won't require batteries. Description: Camera Connection Kit Boosts iPad Rating: 4.5 Reviewer: sms ItemReviewed: Camera Connection Kit Boosts iPad

Facebook's Privacy Changes Get Scary

Facebook's long had some privacy issues, and now that they're broadening their reach on the web, who knows what'll happen next? Oh, right. We do: 2007 - Facebook Beacon links your purchases at online stores to your Facebook account so your friends (and marketers) can see what you're buying. 2010 - Facebook makes it impossible for you to hide certain information, such as your interests and location, from everybody. 2011 - Facebook History Tracker makes your web surfing history publicly viewable on your feed (and to marketers). After a brief uproar, Facebook enables an "incognito mode" for when you want to look at porn, but it's buried deep within the settings and automatically shuts off after each session. 2012 - Facebook Life Recorder is a small camera apparatus that's worn on your head, automatically tagging the friends you interact with via facial recognition and posting to your wall. Information such as where you shop and what you buy is put into a database (for marketers). 2014 - Facebook Implant combines a chemical scanner with a GPS chip. Everything you eat and everywhere you go are automatically posted to your News Feed in minute detail. This setting can be deactivated through outpatient surgery. 2015 - Facebook Guy Who Moves Into Your House With You and Is Always On the Phone With Potential Advertisers Telling Them What You're Doing meets initial resistance, but once the site starts publicizing its "Watcher Marriages"—instances where a follower and followee have fallen in love—public opposition melts away. 2016 - Mark Zuckerberg is elected president in the first election that allows voting via Liking candidates on Facebook. 2017 - Facebook User Relocation to Facebook's Headquarters ensures Facebook's ability to track every single thing you do to post to your Feed. Considered necessary after "Watcher Marriages" resulted in too many compromised Facebook Guys Who Move Into Your House With You. 2018 - Facebook Pods provide remote 24 hour contact with Facebook, as well as all bodily needs, including food delivery and waste removal (which is then provided to marketers for analysis). 2020 - Facebook Genital Pictures takes pictures of everyone's junk, which was real easy what with everyone in those Pods. Finally, Facebook fulfills its ultimate destiny: showing you (and marketers) everyone you've ever met with no clothes on.
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What's with the Micro-SIM card

Micro-SIM cards are far away from being a standard. All major manufacturers still make phones with typical mini SIM cards. It would be at least a couple of years till everybody moves to this new size. This would work in favor of phone operators more than Apple. Think of it this way -- innumerable number of iPhones are imported illegally from different countries, then unlocked to be used with a local provider. By adopting to the new SIM card size, the SIM card in most of our phones today can't be inserted into the new iPhone. Sure, you can cut your current SIM to match the size of a Micro SIM and use it anyway. But a good chunk of uninformed potential buyers could be turned off to buy an illegally imported iPhone due to this. Description: What's with the Micro-SIM card Rating: 4.5 Reviewer: dev ItemReviewed: What's with the Micro-SIM card

iPhone 4G = old se + ROKR

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CoolerMaster CM690 II Plus

The advanced hasn't afflicted a lot and still appearance a abounding cobweb barbecue all the way from the basal to the top. The chrome strips still remain, which gives it the appropriate attending of the CM690, and runs all the way to the back. The basal allotment of the CM690 II has a new adventurous bonanza that gives it an anxious look. In the centermost we accept the CoolerMaster logo. There are additionally a brace of ridges on either side. The ability buttons accept been confused to the top instead of the side, forth with the advanced console connections.

The advanced console has been confused to the top with the buttons and the ports clubbed together. We accept ESATA, two USB 2.0, microphone and headphone jacks, ability button and displace button. The aboriginal button that you see is for toggling the advanced LED ablaze of the fan, which is a actual nice touch, abnormally if you accumulate your PC on all night for downloading.

The ability ablaze and adamantine deejay action are both red instead of the antecedent red and blue. The aerial bash that you see abaft is area you'd berth an alien adamantine disk, but back the Plus adaptation doesn't accept that affection you could apparently use it for befitting pen drives or your iPod back synching. The blow has the aforementioned cobweb with a hardly altered architecture appear the end. It's these little capacity that accomplish the CM690 II angle out from the crowd. Description: CoolerMaster CM690 II Plus Rating: 4.5 Reviewer: dev ItemReviewed: CoolerMaster CM690 II Plus

Apple Isn't Going To Buy ARM, Despite The Market Buzz (AAPL, INTC, ARMH)

London's financial markets are apparently abuzz with gossip that Apple might acquire ARM, the leading maker of mobile chips, with extensive trading of the company's shares. The Register has the story.

Given that Apple has an enormous stack of cash, almost $40 billion including short term securities, and an even higher stock price, and given Steve Jobs' penchant for vertical integration, there has been speculation that Apple might go on a shopping spree.

After being burned when it tried to buy AdMob and was beaten by Google, Apple hired a senior M&A guy -- acquisitions had previously been handled by the executive team on an ad-hoc basis -- and speculation increased.

We don't buy it, however, for the following reasons:

• Apple doesn't make big strategic acquisitions. When Apple decided to get into the portable music business, they didn't buy Archos; when they decided to go into the mobile phone business, they didn't buy Motorola. They built the resources from within, with the occasional small acquisition to integrate talent and specific technologies, PA Semi being the canonical example. Apple did acquire Quattro to go into mobile advertising, but it was a small acquisition and a small team, not a multibillion global company like ARM. 
• It's not in Apple's DNA to integrate large organizations. Acquisitions fail and succeed by how efficiently the acquired is integrated into the company; not just business synergies but cultural synergy: making sure the key people feel at home and don't leave, making sure the teams with members of both companies go along well. It's a subtle and elusive thing, but it's what matters. Most companies don't know how to do this and fail. A few companies understand this and do it very well. Apple has never done it, and its DNA includes a very unique culture which is geared toward integrating individual hires and small teams, not a whole global organization. Steve Jobs is smart and knows Apple's greatest asset is its culture and its people, and he would not risk endangering it by trying to integrate a large foreign organism.
• Apple doesn't need the technology. Apple has acquired, and likely will keep acquiring, small chip startups to bring more key technology in-house and wring every possible bit of technology from the silicon it uses by using custom components and not off the shelf ones. But it already has the technology it needs to build its own chips, as evidenced with the A4, that powers the iPad, and the custom silicon inside the so-called Apple 4G's innards.
• And last but not least: it doesn't make sense. ARM is a standard for chips for the mobile industry. The most intriguing idea is that Apple would kneecap other mobile handset makers by buying the standard and keeping it to itself. There are two things wrong with this idea (a third might be that it could open lawsuits, but we'll defer to more expert opinion on this one). First of all, there are other really good mobile chip makers besides ARM, like Qualcomm. If Apple buys ARM, another company will become the standard. Apple will have spent a lot of money to annoy handset makers for a year. Great. But the biggest reason is that Apple just doesn't do that. They don't crush competitors by acquiring their partners. They crush competitors by out-designing them, out-marketing them and out-selling them, period.

One company that we think has more legs, if one wants to find an acquirer for ARM, is Intel. Mobile is the biggest growth sector, but Intel largely exited that sector because they couldn't maintain the high margins they get for their computer chipsets. Now as the technology behind mobile chips improves, not only are mobile chips companies tapping into this huge market, they're also starting to eat into Intel's core computer chips business. A netbook today likely has an Intel chip; but a tablet tomorrow might have a mobile chip, as the iPad does. This is the classic innovator's dilemma: a big incumbent dismisses a lower-margin, inferior product which starts in a small segment of the market, but as technology and adoption improve the upstarts eat through the incumbent's core business like cancer.

Intel was born in the crucible of the innovator's dilemma: the company famously ditched its core memory chips business and bet itself on the then-emerging microprocessor, and ended up disrupting bigger incumbents. If Intel remembers its history, it will know that it needs to make a big play in the mobile chip sector, and fast
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BlackBerry OS 6.0 revealed, Details Surface

Earlier in February it was arise that Research in Motion's BlackBerry OS 6.0 was in the making. Now, BoyGeniusReport has acquired the aboriginal screenshots and some capacity of the OS. A redesigned homescreen, multi-touch action abutment for touchscreen handsets, and system-wide active scrolling are few of the abounding appearance unleashed in the above upgrade. RIM is accepted to acknowledge BlackBerry OS 6.0 at the WES 2010 appointment starting April 27, while it will be arise ancient in June or July. Hey, that's back the iPhone OS 4.0 amend is accepted too!

BlackBerry OS 6.0 is accepted to be a chic advancement to the absolute 5.0 adaptation and will accompany new set of features. The BGR guys were apparent the alive of BB OS 6.0 and additionally accustomed some screenshots for advertence by one of their sources at AT&T. RIM has assuredly implemented system-wide active scrolling, which was afresh fabricated accessible to Symbian S60v5 users as well. Active scrolling over touchscreen BlackBerry handsets gives a aqueous acquaintance while browsing through lists, emails, webpages and so on.

Another above accession is system-wide multi-touch abutment like in webpages, photos app, media amateur and so on. Of course, multi-touch agency you can pinch-and-zoom the baby fonts on webpages for it to arise beyond and the aforementioned action works alike for photos. The new decked up browser congenital with WebKit offers tab switching and favorites options for bigger adaptable web experience. The tab switcher comes with cellophane display.

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BlackBerry 9670 Clamshell Images

BlackBerry 9670 Clamshell .Blackberry OS 6.0 accompanying belief today! Anyway, it absolutely is a acceptable change from the iPhone 4 and OS 4.0 accompanying belief that we've been bombarded with of late.

After the aperture of OS 6.0 screenshots, it's time to see images of what ability aloof be the aboriginal of the OS 6.0 burdened devices. Now, aloof as absorbing the Blackberry OS 6.0 is, the accessory that is slated to run the OS too turns out to be interesting. What we are seeing in the images beneath is now accepted as the Blackberry 9670, the aboriginal abounding QWERTY keypad burdened cast buzz from RIM. Yes, there accept been cast phones from RIM beforehand as well, with QWERTY keypads too, admitting not the abounding ones.

According to Folks over at BGR, who came across the pictures of the device first, the features of this flip phone includes;

* 5MP Camera
* Wi-Fi
* 360x480 internal display
* External display
* Trackpad
* OS 6.0
* MicroSD
* Bluetooth
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INTEX Dual SIM, QWERTY Phone IN 2020

Intex has appear its latest QWERTY keyboard laden, bifold SIM phone, the IN 2020 in India. The buzz is accustomed to be an affordable, bifold SIM, QWERTY adaptable phone. It supports GPRS and WAP as well. The 1.8" awning is ample abundant for online-chatting and texting. The IN2020 has a continued abiding battery, acceptable for about 11 hours of allocution time and up to 336 hrs on stand-by.

It appearance an audio/video player, equalizers and wireless FM radio as well. The handset additionally appearance Adaptable Tracker- SMS based ability to clue the buzz if at all it gets stolen, and Black List- an congenital affection to block 10 callers of your choice.

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Android successfully run on iPhone

iPhone Dev Team affiliate Planetbeing has assuredly accomplished what abounding geeks accept been absent for over a year - auspiciously active Google's Android operating arrangement on an iPhone. After a breach of about a year, Planetbeing beatific a Twitter amend announcement his success on authoritative Android run on iPhone. However, this anchorage is not of 'production quality' but still, about aggregate works on it.

While the astriction amid Apple and Google keeps growing to college levels anniversary time, developments like these may annul Apple further. Google's Android adaptable operating arrangement is looked bottomward as absolute adversary to iPhone OS. We were acquainted that a baby accumulation of agog geeks was alive to accompany Linux on iPhone. However, Planetbeing has managed to accomplish what anybody aloof admired for - Android on iPhone.

The Android anchorage works on the aboriginal and additional bearing iPhone models while the iPhone 3GS abutment will charge added time. The Android anchorage was accessible with OpeniBoot, a Linux 2.6 bootloader, which currently works with iPhone 2G and iPhone 3G only. Also, this custom bootloader makes the iPhone dualboot with iPhone OS and Android OS so that you don't absence out on anything.

At this moment, Wi-Fi, chase and adaptable web browsing assignment accomplished over the Android anchorage on iPhone but there are several areas area this anchorage will abuse up for able functioning. Now back Android is ported on iPhone, we may accept a adventitious to run Flash back Android already supports Flash. So, all those Flash websites and being you accept been missing out till date ability run on this anchorage but still it's unconfirmed

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Samsung wave Smartphone

Spesifikasi Samsung Wave :

* 3.3”amoled screen
* 5mpix autofocus, flash
* 720p video
* 2gb internal memory
* Microsd slot
* HSDPA
* WIFI b/g/n
* 1ghz processor
* Bada OS
* Touchwiz 3.0
* 3.5 mm jack
* 1500mAh baterry
* Aluminum body
* Tempered glass
* Divx player
* 10.9mm tebalnya! Samsung was challenged to extend its flagship operating system, Bada. They have exhibited the first high-end handsets based Bada, namely Samsung Wave. And now, four new Bada phones for the middle class has appeared.

In an arena developer conference in Russia, Samsung shows 4 new models Bada. Quoted from Electricpig, Tuesday (6/4/2010), the fourth new model Bada which this unnamed body looked smaller than Samsung Wave.

Unfortunately not called a mobile-phone specifications except that the price would be cheaper than the Wave. Two of the phones that rely on the touchscreen navigation. Two more have a QWERTY keyboard similar to Samsung Genio Slide belongs.

And not only Bada-based phones, the South Korean electronics giant is also revealing the mysterious Android handset and two Windows-based mobile phone.

Samsung is hoping OS Bada can succeed in the market so they do not rely solely Wave. Even the new mobile-phone it said will Bada dibanderol cheaper than Wave, namely in the range of U.S. $ 340. (Fyk / FAW) Description: Samsung wave Smartphone Rating: 4.5 Reviewer: dev ItemReviewed: Samsung wave Smartphone

Lenovo ThinkPad W510 Specification

this laptop up to 22 hours . embeddedwith 9 cell baterei.Intel Quadcore processor i7 720QM (1.6GHz 1066MHz 6MBL3)
Genuine Windows 7 professional 32
15.6" HD Anti-Glare Display with LED Backlight and WWAN Antenna
Nvidia NVS 5100m Discrete Graphics 1Gb, DDR3 with Intel Advanced Management Technology
2GB PC3-8500 DDR3 SDRAM 1067MHz SODIMM Memory (1 DIMM)
Ultranav (trackpoint and touchpad) with fingerpint reader
Camera 2.0Mp
320GB hd drive, 7200rpm
Multi recorder optical drive (12.7mm)
Express card slot & 5 in 1 Card reader
9 cell Li-ion battery
Country pack north america with line cord & 135W AC adapter
Bluetooth w/ antenna
Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300
Integrated mobile broadband - upgradable Description: Lenovo ThinkPad W510 Specification Rating: 4.5 Reviewer: dev ItemReviewed: Lenovo ThinkPad W510 Specification

Resin 4.0.0 Release

Resin 4.0.0 Release .Emil Ong is the Chief Evangelist at Caucho Technology, an independent application server vendor.  Caucho's flagship product is a high-performance, open source application server called Resin.  Ong says that Caucho's independence has given the company a more developer-focused philosophy.  They use Test-Driven Development (TDD) to not only improve product performance, but also to optimize functionalities that can make developers more efficient.

Ong discusses the new features in Resin 4.0 and the company's reference implementation (RI) of CDI called CanDI.  Caucho's CDI implementation is the only RI that fully integrates throughout the application server, he says.  Ong also discusses Quercus, a Caucho implementation of PHP in pure Java.  Caucho is also working on deploying Resin server clusters in the cloud.  Ong says this will allow users to add and remove servers at runtime with no interruptions.

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8 most wanted Application on the iPad

iPad, when first exhibited gadang digadang-line applications will diramaikan by a unique, interesting and promising. Now, after officially released to the market, want to know 8 application option in the Apple tablet PC?

Indeed up to now, Apple is only allowing access to some software developers to create applications for the iPad. Software developers who do not have access forced to experiment with the simulator and the application of homemade model. As a result, many applications that are less than perfect and some missing features.

Mitch Wagner, a technology journalist and internet marketing consultant, reported that there were 8 applications have been running very well on the iPad.

These applications are designed to iPad, rather than a forced running iPhone applications on the iPad, and some of which can be enjoyed for free.

Here are 8 best applications in the iPad so far, which quoted from Reuters, Friday (16/4/2010):

1. 1Password Pro
This application can store and manage passwords and other important information so that we can automatically log in a variety of web and other Internet services. In addition, this application can also be used to store credit card numbers, bank account numbers, ATM pin, and more.

1Password Pro sold in a package for the iPhone and iPad a price of U.S. $ 14.99. For owners who do not have iPad iPhone, this application is sold for U.S. $ 6.99.

2. Instapaper Pro
Applications include easy and can make you addicted. If you want a chance to read a long article and you do not have time to read it, you easily stay pressing the 'bookmarklet' and the article was automatically stored in the list instapaper.com. Having no time to spare, you can simply open the list and read it.

Although users can enjoy the iPhone, these applications work better on the iPad has a wider screen size.

Instapaper Pro is compatible with the iPhone, iPad, and the iPod Touch and dibanderol a price of U.S. $ 4.99. In addition, this application can accommodate 250 articles and his Lite version is able to accommodate 10 articles.

3. Kindle
This application will help you to read a book that wants to be read without having to buy it. Yes, like iBooks, Apple to debut iPad application is free and has a broad network for the selection of books on Project Gutenberg (documentation of old books in electronic form) and other Internet sources. This application can be enjoyed for free.

4. Netflix
Your one fan Netflix application? if yes means you must have this. Ease to follow the streaming movies and TV shows can be enjoyed in iPad using Netfix.

More great again, Netflix could remember which movie you watch before discontinued. But like electronic devices in general can be an error, sometimes Netfix can make a mistake in remembering the last movie scene. Sometimes remembered, sometimes not.

These applications are actually free but users must have Netfix member card, which bears the cost of U.S. $ 8.99 per month.

5. Pages
Apple Page is an interesting little application. Applications for U.S. $ 9.99 is the same as Word software in general. The difference is this application is capable of accepting the document in 2 formats: Pages '09 for Mac and Microsoft Word (Office 97 and above), and PDF.

It's just that you will have difficulty if the move results from the iPad written Word to the desktop because tanpilannya different sizes. So did the opposite.

6. TweetDeck
Indeed many other applications to connect to the world of Twitter. But it seems this TweetDeck considered one of the best to use iPad.

Like other Twitter applications, TweetDeck is very easy. users can read messages from all your friends, do direct messages, storing, and making friends. TweetDeck can also connect a specific web link.

7. Things for iPad
Applications for U.S. $ 19.99 is used to set the agenda like the one on the Mac and iPhone: keep to-do lists from the beginning to the maturity date, set the list of projects that contain areas of responsibility, further actions and other projects.

8. The Weather Channel Max
This application is very useful for you who want to know the weather where you are. And know exactly when sunrise and sunset.

You can find out where the local maps and weather the bad bercuaca. Moreover you can enjoy the weather forecast video from 'The Weather Channel'. Description: 8 most wanted Application on the iPad Rating: 4.5 Reviewer: sms ItemReviewed: 8 most wanted Application on the iPad

The Future of Multi-Touch: Stantum, JazzMutant Co-Founder

For a continued time, technologists accept declared a apple of in which accretion adventures artlessly absorb blow and gesture. The catechism is, how do we arch the automatic admiration for those interactions and the absolute technologies that get us there?

Few activities analysis the alive abeyant of alternation absolutely like music. It’s in our cultural DNA; agreeable action may alike predate accounting language. So it’s applicable that the adventure of blow in accretion and agenda music would be intertwined, as they are with blow avant-garde JazzMutant. Years afore acclaimed Apple products, the Lemur, prototyped in 2003 and apparent as a agreeable multi-touch screen, appropriate the accent of fusing affectation and touch, and of tracking added than a feel or two at a time.

The history, and articles like Apple’s iPad and iPhone, you may apperceive well, though. The catechism on everyone’s apperception now is, what’s next? (And for some abrupt futurists, the catechism may alike be, what’s demography so long?) Description: The Future of Multi-Touch: Stantum, JazzMutant Co-Founder Rating: 4.5 Reviewer: sms ItemReviewed: The Future of Multi-Touch: Stantum, JazzMutant Co-Founder

Sam Todo create African humanoid built from old TVs

You could be responsibly blooming and booty your old TV to Best Buy to be recycled. Or, like Sam Todo, you could be responsibly geeky, demography the telly afar and axis it into a walking humanoid robot!

Todo, a apprentice from Africa's Togolese Republic, complete "Sam10" about absolutely from old television sets, as you'll agenda from the antenna bustling up abaft the little guy's head. Todo aims to accomplish the apprentice absolutely automatic, so it can accost people, abstain objects, and account the ambit in advanced of it.

The robophile additionally says he additionally wants Sam10 to affect added adolescent Africans to get absorbed in sciences--a commendable goal.

We ambition we knew added about Sam10's specs. We do apperceive it looks like a cantankerous amid this roboman fabricated from a asleep Xbox 360 and one of those camp Japanese humanoid fighter bots. And hey, for now, that's acceptable abundant for us. Description: Sam Todo create African humanoid built from old TVs Rating: 4.5 Reviewer: sms ItemReviewed: Sam Todo create African humanoid built from old TVs

Apple iPod touch 8 GB (3rd Generation) NEWEST MODEL

Product Features and Technical Details
Product Features

* NOTE: This is the 3rd generation 8 GB iPod touch that comes installed with iPhone OS 3.1 Software; it physically looks identical to the 2nd generation 8 GB iPod touch
* IMPORTANT: To get started using your iPod, charge your player using the USB cable for at least 2 hours
* 8 GB capacity for 1,750 songs, 10,000 photos, or 10 hours of video
* This third-generation 8 GB iPod touch includes standard Apple earphones; it does not come with earphones with microphone and is not compatible with Voice Control
* Up to 30 hours of music playback or 6 hours of video playback when fully charged
* 3.5-inch widescreen Multi-Touch display with 480 x 320 pixel resolution
* Supports AAC, Protected AAC, MP3, MP3 VBR, Audible, Apple Lossless, AIFF, and WAV audio formats; H.264 and MPEG-4 video formats; JPEG, BMP, GIF, TIFF
* One-year limited warranty with single incident of complimentary telephone technical support

Technical Details

* Dimensions: 4.3 x 2.4 x 0.33 inches (110 x 61.8 x 8.5 mm)
* Weight: 4.05 ounces (115 grams)
* Capacity: 8 GB
* Wireless standards: Wi-Fi (802.11b/g); Nike + iPod support built in; Maps location-based service; Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR
* Display: 3.5-inch (diagonal) widescreen Multi-Touch display
* Display resolution: 480-by-320-pixel resolution at 163 pixels per inch
* Frequency response: 20Hz to 20,000Hz
* Audio formats supported: AAC (8 to 320 Kbps), Protected AAC (from iTunes Store), MP3 (8 to 320 Kbps), MP3 VBR, Audible (formats 2, 3, and 4), Apple Lossless, AIFF, and WAV
* Earphone frequency response: 20Hz to 20,000Hz
* Earphone impedance: 32 ohms
* Video formats supported: H.264 video, up to 1.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Low-Complexity version of the H.264 Baseline Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; H.264 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Baseline Profile up to Level 3.0 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats
* Languages: English (U.S.), English (UK), French (France), German, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Danish, Swedish, Finnish, Norwegian, Korean, Japanese, Russian, Polish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Arabic, Thai, Czech, Greek, Hebrew, Indonesian, Malay, Romanian, Slovak, and Croatian
* Supported keyboard languages: English (U.S.), English (UK), French (France), French (Canadian), French (Switzerland), German, Traditional Chinese (Handwriting, Pinyin, Zhuyin), Simplified Chinese (Handwriting, Pinyin), Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Danish, Swedish, Finnish, Norwegian, Korean, Japanese (QWERTY), Japanese (Kana), Russian, Polish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Estonian, Hungarian, Icelandic, Lithuanian, Latvian, Flemish, Arabic, Thai, Czech, Greek, Hebrew, Indonesian, Malay, Romanian, Slovak, Croatian, Bulgarian, and Serbian
* Dictionary language support (enables predictive text and autocorrect): English (U.S.), English (UK), French, German, Traditional Chinese (Handwriting, Pinyin, Zhuyin), Simplified Chinese (Handwriting, Pinyin), Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Danish, Swedish, Finnish, Norwegian, Korean, Japanese (QWERTY), Japanese (Kana), Russian, Polish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Lithuanian, Arabic, Thai, Czech, Greek, Hebrew, Romanian, Slovak, and Croatian
* Battery: Built-in rechargeable lithium-ion battery
* Playback time: Music playback time: Up to 30 hours when fully charged; Video playback time: Up to 6 hours when fully charged
* Battery charge time: Fast-charge time: about 2 hours (charges up to 80% of battery capacity); Full-charge time: about 4 hours
* Mac system requirements: Mac computer with USB 2.0 port; Mac OS X v10.4.11 or later; iTunes 9 or later
* Windows system requirements: PC with USB 2.0 port; Windows Vista or Windows XP Home or Professional with Service Pack 3 or later; iTunes 9 or later
* Operating temperature: 32 degrees to 95 degrees F (0 degrees to 35 degrees C)
* Nonoperating temperature: -4 degrees to 113 degrees F (-20 degrees to 45 degrees C)
* Relative humidity: 5% to 95% noncondensing
* Maximum operating altitude: 10,000 feet (3000 m) Description: Apple iPod touch 8 GB (3rd Generation) NEWEST MODEL Rating: 4.5 Reviewer: sms ItemReviewed: Apple iPod touch 8 GB (3rd Generation) NEWEST MODEL

The goats are baaaahk!

i got the news from google blog official .
here are
Last year, in our quest to minimize our carbon footprint (and keep people on their toes), we turned to an unlikely solution for mowing an overgrown field: goats. More than 200 goats from California Grazing have once again arrived at our Mountain View headquarters where they’ll stay for over a week chomping away on grassy goodness. The cost of bringing in the goats is comparable to hiring lawn mowers for the same job and the green benefits are clear: the goats eliminate mower emissions, reduce noise pollution, restore plant species and fertilize while grazing.

Don’t worry, we’re not going to be in the business of chèvre anytime soon, but in the meantime we’re having a lot of fun watching our new colleagues. Description: The goats are baaaahk! Rating: 4.5 Reviewer: sms ItemReviewed: The goats are baaaahk!

Viewsonic rolls out energy-efficient VT2300LED LCD TV

Viewsonic rolls out energy-efficient VT2300LED LCD TV it’s taken quite a while since its debut at CES in January, but Viewsonic has now finally managed to get its 23-inch VT2300LED LCD TV out the door. While there’s not exactly a ton of stand-out features here, the side lit LED backlighting does apparently help to deliver energy savings of 30 to 50% over traditional LCDs, and you’ll get some decent specs all around, including a full 1080p resolution, a 5 ms response time, an ATSC/NTSC/QAM tuner, and three HDMI ports, among other standard fare. What’s more, while this one has a list price of $399, it looks like some retailers (including Amazon) are already selling for it as little as $299. Viewsonic rolls out energy-efficient VT2300LED LCD TV originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 13 Apr 2010 18:12:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds
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The Google Goats

visit the Google goats today — you know, the goats that were brought in to replace lawnmowers in Google’s ever-expanding quest to go more green. I was told the goats would be in the big field at the corner Rengstorff & Amphitheater (on Google’s campus in Mountain View), and sure enough, I found a few hundred of them there. Apparently, the area was previously covered in 4-foot tall brush, but within a few days, the goats had eaten it down to basically nothing (as you can see in the videos and images below). Description: The Google Goats Rating: 4.5 Reviewer: sms ItemReviewed: The Google Goats

Google’s Plan To Give Chrome OS

Google’s Chrome OS is due to appear out some time this year, and there are still affluence of questions about how bodies are activity to use a computer that’s based absolutely in the browser. One catechism that came up back the OS was aboriginal announced: how are bodies activity to book from this thing? Google has aloof spelled out its band-aid on the Chromium Blog: The Cloud.

Google has appear a new activity alleged Google Billow Book which is ambience out to “build a press acquaintance that enables any app (web, desktop, or mobile) on any accessory to book to any printer anywhere in the world.” In short, your computer or accessory will acquaint Billow Book what it wants printed, and Billow Book will again accelerate the adapted instructions to your printer. No printer drivers necessary.

Google is accouterment some antecedent affidavit on the activity here. The armpit says that any application, be it built-in or web based, will be able to use Billow Book through APIs (which will acquiesce you to abide book jobs and additionally analysis job status).

Of course, there’s still one big problem: accepting Google Billow Book to absolutely allocution to your printer. Google has two solutions to this. In the continued term, it is proposing that the industry accept new accessible standards about billow printing, and that manufacturers body new printer models to be ‘cloud aware’. In added words, the printer is affiliated to the web and includes software that knows how to acquaint with Google’s servers.

The additional band-aid is for ‘legacy printers’ (which accommodate all printers at this point—even printers with an ethernet or Wifi connection). For these, Google affairs to action software that you install on the PC that the printer is affiliated to. Google is currently architecture this proxy software for Windows and intends to abutment Mac and Linux bottomward the line. You won’t absolutely install the software on your own, either — it will appear with Google Chrome (though it will be off by default). Google additionally hopes that some router manufacturers will alpha including the proxy software in their devices, so that users don’t accept to leave their computers on.

A few key things to note: Google is activity to action its own Billow Book service, but it wants the accepted to be accessible and expects added another casework to bounce up as well. And this isn’t aloof for computers — it could potentially be acclimated for phones, tablets, and any added web-enabled device. Wouldn’t that be nice.


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Microsoft announces KIN One and Two

Finally Today Microsoft seems appear the phones called Microsoft Project Pink. They are not the Turtle and the Pure, but the KIN ONE and KIN TWO... What? Don't you like the names? Yes, we anticipate the Turtle and Pure would accept been better, but what affairs is the buzz itself, right? So, let's analysis out what these two social-centric affection phones accept to offer.

you heard that appropriate - the Microsoft KIN ONE and KIN TWO are not Windows Buzz 7 (remember it's after Series now) smartphones (though the software shares some amount elements with WP7), but affection phones, as they do not accept abutment for 3rd affair apps. So Microsoft introduces them artlessly as Windows Phones. So what interface are they active then? It wouldn't be a aberration to say they are active the KIN UI. They are that altered from what one would apprehend from the company. The KIN ONE and TWO are advised for users of amusing networks or bodies who aloof adore sharing... altered stuff. And anticipation by what was apparent at the accident today, you accept to adore absolutely LOTS of administration in adjustment to abatement in adulation with the KIN ONE and TWO.

So the KIN ONE is the Turtle. And it has a slide-out account QWERTY keyboard and capacitive QVGA touchscreen, which will let you collaborate with the custom interface. It has a 5MP camera with beam and 4GB of centralized accumulator space. The KIN TWO is the added able of the two (and additionally the bulkier) with capacitive HVGA display, 8MP camera with HD 720p video abduction and flash, as able-bodied as 8GB of accumulator space. Both phones will accept a Zune HD amateur to handle your multimedia, like in Windows Buzz 7, as able-bodied as Wi-Fi and 3G connectivity. Description: Microsoft announces KIN One and Two Rating: 4.5 Reviewer: sms ItemReviewed: Microsoft announces KIN One and Two

4-inch 'entry' Maemo smartphone Nokia

Compal Communications has secured orders for an entry-level smartphone based on Nokia's Maemo platform, according to a Chinese-language Commercial Times report.

Shipments of the model, which is slated to feature a 4-inch or larger display and Qualcomm's 7000-series chipset, are scheduled for the second half of 2011. This marks the first time Compal has received Nokia orders with a FOB (free-on-board) price above US$150, the report indicated. A declared aperture by Taiwan's Commercial Times bi-weekly today has Nokia developing its additional Maemo smartphone as an abnormal access akin model. While it would accept a slower Qualcomm 7000 alternation processor compared to the N900's quick Samsung ARM Cortex-A8, the bearding new buzz would accept a four-inch or beyond touchscreen. Compal would accomplish the handset, and it would conspicuously be the contractor's aboriginal buzz to accept a authentic amount over $150; the absolute affairs amount would be higher.

Despite accepting already accustomed the order, Compal isn't accepted to address the accomplished architecture until the additional bisected of 2011, back the processor will actual acceptable be advised alike lower amount than it is today.

A Maemo buzz at that date would be somewhat abrupt as Intel and Nokia accept been absorption abundant of their absorption on MeeGo, which should abundantly alter Maemo backward this year. Nokia had ahead said it would use Maemo on a baby cardinal of phones, but this predated account of the MeeGo OS. Description: 4-inch 'entry' Maemo smartphone Nokia Rating: 4.5 Reviewer: sms ItemReviewed: 4-inch 'entry' Maemo smartphone Nokia

There Corporation's ThereGate

After Nokia awash off its home automation assets to addition Finnish close by the name of There, the abstraction was that we'd assuredly see some artefact in the exchange in aboriginal 2010. Well, actuality we are in the average of April and there hasn't been annihilation fabricated accessible aloof yet, but we'd book this up as a acceptable sign: the alleged ThereGate -- the bookish case of There's arrangement -- aloof garnered FCC approval. As a refresher, this is a box that packs 6GB of centralized accumulator (expandable with an SDHC slot), a 4-port gigabit router, 802.11n WiFi, and a GSM / 3G radio -- which is all absorbing in itself, but the absolute abracadabra comes into comedy back you apprehension that it supports the Z-Wave short-range cobweb networking agreement as well. Though There's focus is on "energy extenuative and efficiency" with abutment for things like ability meters, the Z-Wave radio should acquiesce it to collaborate with a array of accordant modules to ascendancy lighting, security, and the like -- and naturally, There's Nokia roots beggarly that you'll be able to admission the box accidentally application your phone. We don't apperceive back this will be appear exactly, but it's got abutment for both European and US Z-Wave frequencies, so we ability see a accommodating barrage on both abandon of the pond afore too long. Description: There Corporation's ThereGate Rating: 4.5 Reviewer: sms ItemReviewed: There Corporation's ThereGate

0 Apple looking to hire camera expert, iPad Camera Kit to support USB audio?

We apperceive it’s been adamantine to accord with the allusive abridgement of iPad rumors now that the affair has absolutely be appear (in some places, at least), but we’ve got a bit of a amusement today: not one but two camera-related iPad rumors. The aboriginal comes address of an Apple job announcement for a Performance QA Engineer for iPad media who, amid added things, charge await on their “knowledge of agenda camera technology (still and video) to advance and advance testing frameworks for both abduction and playback pipelines.” While annihilation to aftereffect from that may accept to delay until iPad 2.0, Apple software engineering administrator William Stewart has alone accession absorbing detail on an Apple commitment account apropos the soon-to-be-available Camera Connection Kit. Apparently, in accession to all-around your agenda camera, the USB adapter will additionally abutment class-compliant USB audio accessories — although that is yet to be accepted by Apple itself. Of course, you’ll additionally charge some apps to booty advantage of that, but Stewart seems to additionally betoken the all-important functionality is at atomic already congenital into the OS, which would assume to accomplish apps alone a amount of time. We’ll let you booty the belief from there. Description: 0 Apple looking to hire camera expert, iPad Camera Kit to support USB audio? Rating: 4.5 Reviewer: sms ItemReviewed: 0 Apple looking to hire camera expert, iPad Camera Kit to support USB audio?

New Leica V-Lux 20 Preview

An M9 it ain’t, but Leica’s latest still ability amuse the adorned of those who see amount in advantageous for that beautiful red logo. If the angel aloft and capacity affiliated bottomward there in the antecedent are to be believed, the V-Lux 20 will be ablution in bristles abbreviate days, bringing with it a 3-inch rear LCD, 25mm to 300mm zoom range, chip GPS and amount of about €549 ($744). The boxy account is that this affair is based about Panasonic’s ZS-7, which can be had appropriate now for beneath $400, so it’s adamantine to say how abundant amount you’ll get in advantageous added for Leica’s variant. If all goes well, it’s accounted to be in food by May 9th, sitting appropriate alongside the ultra affordable covering case (€99) and added array (€69). Description: New Leica V-Lux 20 Preview Rating: 4.5 Reviewer: sms ItemReviewed: New Leica V-Lux 20 Preview

BodyTrace rolls out GSM-enabled eScale

Sure, a WiFi-equipped calibration ability be abundant acceptable for abounding bodies — since, we know, you’re accepted to accumulate your calibration in your abode — admitting it looks agnate to those not assured do appropriate abroad accept an added best in a anatomy of BodyTrace’s cast new GSM-enabled eScale. Of course, a ample amount actuality is abate of bureaucracy rsther than than portability, accustomed you’ll be agency to automatically (and privately) upload your weight to BodyTrace website but accustomed to antecedent adversity with WiFi settings and whatnot. Somewhat surprisingly, a eScale is additionally about cheaper than article agnate to Withings’ WiFi calibration , with it application alone $59.99 calm with a year of accomplish use of — or, alternatively, $9.99 a ages with a $9.99 up-front bureaucracy amount (which additionally includes a scale). BodyTrace rolls out GSM-enabled eScale creatively appeared aloft Engadget aloft Thu, fifteen April 2010 17:31:00 EST. Please see a altitude for accomplish use of of feeds . Description: BodyTrace rolls out GSM-enabled eScale Rating: 4.5 Reviewer: sms ItemReviewed: BodyTrace rolls out GSM-enabled eScale

goodroid sndrom - Nexus One is in the black

the Nexus One was affairs at a bald trickle, but what we haven't heard is whether the phones that accept awash are abundant to accomplish a accumulation for Google -- and on its balance alarm today, the aggregation claimed for the aboriginal time that its superphone is absolutely in the black. Speaking both of the Nexus One accurately and of the belvedere as a whole, the aggregation said that "it is a assisting business for us... we are active the business to be a assisting business," some of the arch accent we've heard that Google intends to absolutely catechumen Android from a amusement into an basic allotment of its financials activity forward. On a accompanying note, the aggregation additionally boasted on the alarm that it's "seeing added than 60 thousand accessories awash and activations daily," Description: goodroid sndrom - Nexus One is in the black Rating: 4.5 Reviewer: sms ItemReviewed: goodroid sndrom - Nexus One is in the black

Joke iPad printing: solved

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Unboxing Sony Ericsson X10

the world's largest phone manufacturers, perhaps none has taken a more twisted road to smartphone ubiquity than Sony Ericsson.We're kinda chuffed about Sony Ericsson's showing this year at MWC, and between the three launched sets -- Vivaz pro, X10 mini, and X10

you'll find an 8.1-megapixel camera with the LED photo light. There's a dedicated camera key on the right hand side of the phone when held upright.


Here's the micro USB and 3.5mm jacks, and the X10's power button. We really like the fact that Sony Ericsson is phasing out proprietary connections on its new phones but we're not massively keen on the USB port's cover. Description: Unboxing Sony Ericsson X10 Rating: 4.5 Reviewer: sms ItemReviewed: Unboxing Sony Ericsson X10