tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67065325261060651992012-01-25T08:31:15.989-08:00Rev-U-techCool Gadgets, Technology Updates, Computers, Cars, Software and more......noreply@blogger.comBlogger7721100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706532526106065199.post-28183312490493342542012-01-25T08:31:00.000-08:002012-01-25T08:31:15.998-08:00Mandatory Facebook Timeline update coming in the next few weeks<div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><b>Facebook</b> has announced that over the next few weeks, their <b>Timeline</b> profile layout will be pushed out to all 800 million members of the social network. Users are being given seven days to preview <b>Timeline</b> and make any changes before it goes public for everyone to see.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">Those who have not already switched to <b>Timeline</b> will see a notification at the top of their profile in the coming weeks regarding the change. Up to this point, the switch to<b> Timeline</b> view has been optional but moving forward, all users will be migrated to the new layout whether they want it or not.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: center;"><img height="222" src="http://static.techspot.com/images2/news/bigimage/2012-01-24-image-4.jpg" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" width="400" /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><b>Timeline</b> was first announced at the<b> Facebook f8 conference</b> in September 2011 alongside<b> Open Graphs</b>. The new profile layout is described as the next step in telling your personal life story with all of your <b>social network</b> updates available to view on a single page. Timeline was made available immediately to those who signed up as a developer for the site with plans to launch publically not longer after the announcement but that was delayed based on a lawsuit from <b>Timelines.com</b> over use of the “<b>Timeline</b>” name.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><b>Timeline</b> officially went live worldwide last month with <b>Facebook</b> even giving away 200,000 sets of Timeline business cards to help promote the new layout. Last week Facebook introduced 60 new Open Graph partners including<b> TripAdvisor, Ticketmaster, Digg, Zynga</b> and <b>Buzzfeed</b>, just to name a few. The new <b>Open Graphs</b> allow users to better interact with apps rather than just being able to “like” them. Examples shown included “listened” and “watched” when referencing Spotify, Netflix and RDIO.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><a href="http://www.techspot.com/news/47163-mandatory-facebook-timeline-update-coming-in-the-next-few-weeks.html">Source</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6706532526106065199-2818331249049334254?l=revutech.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>...noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706532526106065199.post-16415356654367731242012-01-25T07:13:00.000-08:002012-01-25T07:13:19.077-08:00The Pirate Bay: you'll download your own shoes in 20 years<div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><b>The Pirate Bay</b> has been a thorn in the side of big media companies for years, and though there's no end in sight for their battles over <b>piracy</b>, the controversial site is already looking at the next frontier of copying and sharing. In a recent blog post, TPB introduced a new category called "<b>Physibles</b>", which they believe is a first step in a future were anyone will be able to share digital data objects that can be turned into physical goods.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">In simpler terms, <b>Physibles</b> are files meant for <b>3D printers</b> and<b> Pirate Bay</b> has created a new section for them. Of course, the technology is still quite expensive and thus not widespread yet, but the site believes it'll be commonplace eventually. Right now, a <b>3D printer</b> such as <b>MakerBot</b>'s recently launched <b>Replicator</b> comes in at around $1,750, which is not unattainable but it's is limited in what it can create and the materials it can work with. Higher end models used for rapid prototyping can cost from $20,000 and way up.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img height="298" src="http://static.techspot.com/images2/news/bigimage/2012-01-24-image-3.jpg" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" width="400" /></div><strong style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><div style="text-align: center;"><strong style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><em style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">MakerBot Replicator</em></strong></div></strong><br /><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">Despite the current limitations it's a rather interesting concept and the file-sharing site contends it could change the world in a matter of years: "The benefit to society is huge. No more shipping huge amount of products around the world. No more shipping the broken products back. No more child labour."</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">The <b>Pirate Bay</b> says in 20 years or so you will be able to print spare parts for your vehicle and download a pair of sneakers. It definitely sounds like a pipe dream but looking at the pace technology advances maybe it isn't too far outside the realm of possibility. In any case for now you'll have to make do with the seven physible models on The Pirate Bay, including a mock-up file for a pirate ship and a tabletop wargaming robot model.</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6706532526106065199-1641535665436773124?l=revutech.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>...noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706532526106065199.post-86793462993148487172012-01-25T07:07:00.000-08:002012-01-25T07:07:33.596-08:00Nokia Lumia sales likely topped 1 million in 2011<div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">Early estimates indicate that <b>Nokia</b> likely sold 1.3 million <b>Lumia</b> handsets globally by the end of 2011. Sales figures aside, the data is great news for all involved as <b>Nokia</b> looks to rebuild investor confidence after an especially difficult year that saw the handset manufacturer lose $19 billion in value and their shares fall 52 percent.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><b>Bloomberg</b> arrived at the 1.3 million sales figure by combining estimates from 22 analysts with figures ranging from a low of 800,000 to a high of 2 million. Only one analyst predicted sales under 1 million.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: center;"><img height="266" src="http://static.techspot.com/images2/news/bigimage/2012-01-24-image-2.jpg" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" width="400" /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">Former <b>Microsoft</b> executive and current <b>Nokia CEO Stephen Elop</b> is betting the house on the company’s new<b> Lumia</b> line of <b>smartphones</b> that run <b>Microsoft</b>’s <b>Windows Phone</b> operating system. The duo announced the partnership in February 2011 as part of a deal that saw <b>Nokia</b>’s <b>Symbian OS</b> become a franchise platform and <b>Windows Phone OS </b>become the primary platform moving forward.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">Sales of <b>Lumia smartphones</b> could reach as high as 3.2 million units this quarter with heavy support from Asian markets. Estimates from Morgan Stanley indicate that 2012 total sales could eclipse 37 million units.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">The Lumia line was on display at the <b>Consumer Electronics Show</b> in Las Vegas earlier this month where the device picked up 13 awards. We were particularly impressed with the Lumia 900 that was introduced just one day before the show started as it featured the same sturdy feel as its predecessor (the 800) and was able to handle <b>Windows Phone</b> with ease.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.techspot.com/news/47159-nokia-lumia-sales-likely-topped-1-million-in-2011.html">Source</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6706532526106065199-8679346299314848717?l=revutech.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>...noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706532526106065199.post-40121015889226712822012-01-25T07:02:00.000-08:002012-01-25T07:02:59.473-08:00Steve Jobs wanted Lytro camera technology for iPhone<div class="story_content html_only" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 10px;"><div class="fronticons" style="float: right; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 20px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 6px; text-align: justify;"><br /><img alt="apple, iphone, steve jobs, camera, lytro, photography, ren ng" height="196" src="http://static.techspot.com/images/teaser/apple-steve-jobs-iphone.jpg" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" width="200" /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">A new book titled “Inside Apple” discusses how former chief <b>Steve Jobs</b> wanted to reinvent photography on the <b>iPhon</b>e in addition to television and textbook markets. Jobs reportedly met with Ren Neg, CEO of photography company <b>Lytro</b> in June 2011 to discuss this topic, according to 9to5mac who received an advanced copy of the title launching on January 25.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">As the excerpt reads, Ng caught wind that Jobs wanted to meet with him and dropped everything to rush to Palo Alto. Ng gave Jobs an in-person demonstration of the Lytro camera technology. Jobs then asked Ng to send him an email outlining three things he’d like <b>Lytro</b> to do with <b>Apple</b>.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">Ng did indeed send the email but as far as we know, a deal was never agreed upon between the two. <b>Jobs</b> passed away two months later following a storied bout with cancer, just one day after the introduction of the <b>iPhone 4S</b>.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><b>Lytro</b> went on to unveil the world’s first light field camera as a consumer-friendly device in October 2011. The Lytro camera works by capturing the light field, which is described as all of the light traveling in every direction in every point in space, including the color and vector direction. <b>Lytro</b>’s light field sensor is able to capture 11 million light rays in a single shot. This data is lost in a conventional camera which simply adds all of the light rays and records them as a single amount of light.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: center;"><img height="192" src="http://static.techspot.com/images2/news/bigimage/2012-01-24-image-1.jpg" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" width="400" /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">The real selling point of this <b>camera</b> is the ability to focus anywhere in a photo after you have snapped it. This eliminates the need to focus before taking the picture and ensures that a timeless shot won’t be ruined by incorrect subject focus.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">Pricing starts at $399 and you will need a <b>Mac</b> to edit your photos. <b>Lytro</b>’s website still lists “early 2012” as the shipping date, although you can place a pre-order now.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">It remains to be seen if we will ever see a Lytro-based camera inside an iPhone but the idea alone is enough to get excited about</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.techspot.com/news/47154-steve-jobs-wanted-lytro-camera-technology-for-iphone.html">Source</a></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6706532526106065199-4012101588922671282?l=revutech.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>...noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706532526106065199.post-75154310735301389622012-01-24T08:13:00.000-08:002012-01-24T08:13:42.903-08:00Sony VAIOs receive new CPUs and colors, Z series gets LTE<div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">We're only a few weeks into 2012 and Sony is already talking about the <b>VAIO</b> series' upcoming spring refresh(the company admits its plans aren't as extensive as a true "refresh," but we'll play along). The post-CES announcement includes the <b>VAIO Z, S, C, E, F</b> and <b>L lineups</b>, with the first three receiving most of the changes.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">First up, the ultraportable <b>VAIO Z</b> will gain the latest second-generation Intel Core i5 and i7 processors, the ability to add a RAID 0 storage configuration, an optional integrated LTE mobile broadband chip for 4G data service, along with a new carbon fiber silver style. Prices will start at $1950 with the Power Media Dock drive.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: center;"><img height="255" src="http://static.techspot.com/images2/news/bigimage/2012-01-23-image-4.jpg" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" width="400" /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">Both the 13 and 15-inch versions of the <b>S series</b> will receive<b> Intel</b>'s "<b>newest generation</b>" Core processors as well as hybrid graphics with an AMD Radeon HD 6470M or HD 6630M. The 15-incher will come standard with a 1080p IPS display for $980, while the smaller iteration will fetch $800. Both will ship in early February.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><b>Sony</b> has "girlified" the <b>C series</b> with a "<b>kaleidoscope pink</b>" style inspired by an Art Nouveau floral pattern, which will be offered on 14 and 15.5-inch models. The masculine version, dubbed "geometric black," is described as "60's retro meets the Matrix." Folks who order a <b>VAIO</b> C by February 4 will receive a free laptop sleeve.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: center;"><img height="120" src="http://static.techspot.com/images2/news/bigimage/2012-01-23-image-5.png" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" width="400" /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">Few words were shared on the <b>E series</b>, except that it's getting the latest second-generation Core CPUs. The remaining updates are software-based. <b>S series</b> will ship with the new Media Gallery 2.0 software (other VAIO owners can download it), which has a revamped interface and support for popular social networking services.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">Meanwhile, F series notebooks and L series all-in-ones will now come with <b>Sony</b> Imagination Studio Multimedia Edition, an audio and video editing suite that includes Vegas Movie Studio HD. The company is also pushing its Music Unlimited promotion, which provides up to 180 days of basic service free for first time users.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.techspot.com/news/47145-sony-vaios-receive-new-cpus-and-colors-z-series-gets-lte.html">Source</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6706532526106065199-7515431073530138962?l=revutech.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>...noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706532526106065199.post-8043647543327978472012-01-20T07:39:00.000-08:002012-01-20T07:39:02.173-08:00ZTE launches Tania, reveals cost of Windows Phone license<div class="fronticons" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; float: right; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 20px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 6px; text-align: justify;"><img alt="windows phone, smartphone, windows phone 7.5, zte tania, zte, tania" height="400" src="http://static.techspot.com/images/teaser/zte-winphone.jpg" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" width="224" /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><b>Chinese</b> phone manufacturer <b>ZTE</b> has officially launched its first <b>Windows Phone</b> at a press event in London. Dubbed <b>ZTE Tania</b>, the device features a 4.3-inch touchscreen, and is powered by a 1GHz Qualcomm MSM8255 processor along 512MB of RAM and 4GB of internal storage. For connectivity, there's HSPA with up to 14.4Mbps download speed, 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.1 and A-GPS.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">It's intended as budget-friendly offering, and while its specs are nothing to write home about, its arrival brought one interesting nugget of information to our attention: the cost of <b>Windows Phone </b>licensing.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">Speaking at the Tania's launch event, Santiago Sierra, a portfolio manager for the company's UK branch, explained to TrustedReviews that the firm pays between £15 and £20 ($23-$30) for a <b>Windows Phone license</b> from <b>Microsoft </b>and thus pricing for the <b>Tania</b> would be higher than a comparable budget <b>Android phone</b>.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">The fee is significantly higher than previously speculated, with <b>HTC</b> and <b>Samsung</b> widely believed to be paying around $10 to $15 per device. Of course, <b>Microsoft</b> could have different deals with each manufacturer depending on their sales volume or just how good they are at the negotiation table.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">This is the first time that an approximate figure for Windows Phone's licensing costs has been revealed by a manufacturer. In contrast, <b>Google</b> offers its open source <b>Android OS</b> at no cost to smartphone and tablet manufacturers, but as we've seen in recent months, manufacturers are left vulnerable to patent infringement lawsuits and are often forced into licensing deals with third-parties such as <b>Microsoft</b>.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">More than 70% of all Android smartphones sold in the U.S. are now paying royalties to Microsoft and a few of those still face legal pressure from other fronts, making the "free" proposition of Android less attractive. Google is arming itself with over 24,000 patents from the planned $12.5 billion <b>Motorola Mobility</b> purchase, but whether that'll give the company enough ammo to defend its mobile platform remains to be seen.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.techspot.com/news/47107-zte-launches-tania-reveals-cost-of-windows-phonelicense.html">Source</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6706532526106065199-804364754332797847?l=revutech.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>...noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706532526106065199.post-67906797244937371402012-01-20T07:33:00.000-08:002012-01-20T07:33:27.949-08:00Verizon and Sprint to offer the Galaxy Note as the Galaxy Journal?<div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">New rumors are swirling that suggest<b> Verizon</b> and <b>Sprint</b> could be the next carriers in line for the <b>Samsung Galaxy Note</b>. The massive 5.3-inch hybrid <b>smartphone / tablet</b> was announced for US subscribers on <b>AT&T</b>’s network last week at CES but that exclusivity could be short-lived.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">Analyst Paul Mueller believes that both <b>Verizon</b> and<b> Sprint </b>customers will certainly have the option to buy <b>Samsung’</b>s new <b>handset</b>, although it could come under a different name: the <b>Galaxy Journal</b>. Mueller expects the hybrid to be available on three of the four major US carriers during the first half of this year.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: center;"><img height="266" src="http://static.techspot.com/images2/news/bigimage/2012-01-19-image-2.jpg" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" width="400" /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><b>Samsung’s Galaxy Note</b> was originally announced during IFA 2011 in Berlin last year. The handset is powered by a dual-core 1.4GHz processor and features 16GB of internal memory, full 1080p video recording and an advanced smart pen for note-taking and drawing. The company sold over 1 million units in less than two months despite no presence in the US.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">Initial feedback from the US announcement last week seems positive overall but we weren’t terribly impressed by the device. As noted in our show coverage, the<b> Galaxy Note</b> seems to be suffering from an identity crisis. The phone felt clumsy in the hand and equally awkward against the ear, although we are pretty certain that those with larger hands will appreciate the increased real estate compared to a smallish handset like the<b> iPhone</b>.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">The<b> Galaxy Note</b> is expected through <b>AT&T</b> in the near future, although a specific release date hasn't been made available yet. More importantly, we also don't know how much <b>Samsung</b> plans to charge for the device stateside.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><a href="http://sprint%2C%20samsung%2C%20verizon%2C%20att%2C%20galaxy%20note%2C%20galaxy%20journal/">Source</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6706532526106065199-6790679724493737140?l=revutech.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>...noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706532526106065199.post-20041080082134270752012-01-20T07:28:00.000-08:002012-01-20T07:28:39.487-08:00<div class="story_content html_only" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 10px;"><div class="fronticons" style="float: right; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 20px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 6px;"><br /><img alt="camera, bankruptcy, kodak, chapter 11, eastman kodak company" height="234" src="http://static.techspot.com/images2/news/thumbs/2011-11-08-teaser1.jpg" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" width="320" /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><b>Eastman Kodak</b>, the 133-year-old iconic American company that invented the handheld camera, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Kodak has struggled for years, losing huge profits on the now redundant film-based cameras and responding slowly to market changes. Despite this, the firm still makes considerable sums on inks and related supplies.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">The move follows a long-term restructuring plan by chairman and CEO <b>Antonio Perez</b>, who has steered the firm away from its traditional markets to printers. Since 2003, <b>Kodak </b>has closed 13 manufacturing plants, cutting its workforce from its 1980's peak of 145,000, to around 17,000. Its current value is around $150 million, a landslide from its $31bn valuation around 15 years ago.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">"The Board of Directors and the entire senior management team unanimously believe that this is a necessary step and the right thing to do for the future of <b>Kodak</b>," Perez said. "Our goal is to maximize value for stakeholders, including our employees, retirees, creditors, and pension trustees. We are also committed to working with our valued customers."</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">He further added that employees would continue receiving wages and benefits and the firm would keep manufacturing, selling and supporting its products during the bankruptcy phase. This is largely due to the 18-month, $950 million funding it secured with Citigroup, enabling it to operate until it ends bankruptcy in 2013.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">"Chapter 11 gives us the best opportunities to maximize the value in two critical parts of our technology portfolio: our digital capture patents, which are essential for a wide range of mobile and other consumer electronic devices that capture digital images and have generated over $3 billion of licensing revenues since 2003; and our breakthrough printing and deposition technologies, which give Kodak a competitive advantage in our growing digital businesses," he further commented.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">As of filing, the company had around $5.1bn in assets and $6.75bn in debts at the end of September. The firm plans to sell "significant assets" during the bankruptcy according to court documents written by CFO Antoinette McCorvey. Non-U.S. assets, liabilities and production units weren't included in the filing and will continue functioning as normal.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.techspot.com/news/47102-kodak-files-for-chapter-11-bankruptcy-protection.html">Source</a></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6706532526106065199-2004108008213427075?l=revutech.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>...noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706532526106065199.post-33704132018743142722012-01-20T07:24:00.000-08:002012-01-20T07:24:22.892-08:00Apple introduces iBooks 2, textbooks at $14.99 or less<div class="story_content html_only" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 10px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><b>Apple</b> has announced their reentry into the education market by revealing<b> iBooks 2</b> at a media event at the Guggenheim museum in New York City. Fueled by claims that there are 1.5 million iPads being used in education, <b>Apple</b>’s Phil Schiller feels that <b>iBooks 2</b> will reinvent the textbook.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">With <b>iBooks 2</b>, students will be able to interact with textbooks in a whole new way. Gestures like swipe and pinch-to-zoom will supplement 3D models and video clips within a book’s chapters. Users will have the ability to view content in portrait or landscape mode and even highlight text for note-taking or to make virtual flash cards. Always up-to-date content could potentially render traditional print textbooks obsolete even before they leave the printing press.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: center;"><img height="254" src="http://static.techspot.com/images2/news/bigimage/2012-01-19-image-1.jpg" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" width="400" /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">Apple has also launched a free <b>Mac OS X </b>application called<b> iBooks Author </b>to help developers create textbooks for <b>iBooks 2</b>. The app includes templates to aid in book creation as well as the ability to drag and drop images, videos and even Word files into a page.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><b>Apple</b> is initially partnering with publishers Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, <b>McGraw Hill</b> and <b>Pearson</b> who are responsible for 90 percent of all textbooks sold in the US. Individual textbooks are being priced at $14.99 or less – a far cry from the cost of many physical books that can easily command $100 or more per title (at the college level). Once a book has been digitally purchased, it can be redownloaded at no additional charge.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><b>iBooks 2</b> is available for the<b> iPad</b> starting today through the App Store for free. The first series of textbooks online focus on math, science and other disciplines.</div><div id="jump" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"></div></div><div id="story_footer" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: url(http://static.techspot.com/images/story_footer_bg.png); background-origin: initial; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; height: 20px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 12px; position: relative;"><span class="icon icon_tag" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% -156px; height: 16px; left: 10px; line-height: 17px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; position: absolute; top: 14px; width: 16px;" title="Tags"></span><span style="line-height: 20px; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://www.techspot.com/news/47106-apple-introduces-ibooks-2-textbooks-at-1499-or-less-.html">Source</a></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6706532526106065199-3370413201874314272?l=revutech.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>...noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706532526106065199.post-19690880092851605522012-01-19T08:04:00.001-08:002012-01-19T08:04:50.249-08:00Huawei's Ascend P1 S is world's slimmest phone (for now)<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">If you connected to the internet through a USB dongle, chances are you've already crossed paths with a <b>Huawei </b>product. A technology solutions provider, they've been responsible for set-top boxes, wireless devices, and broadband modems---perhaps even the one you're using. Now, they add another accolade to their already growing list: creator of world's slimmest phone (for now). <img alt="Ascend P1 S" src="http://www.techie.com.ph/images/huawei-ascend-p1-s.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; display: block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Ascend P1 S" /></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Chinese manufacturer's<b> Ascend P1 S </b>is a looker for it's wide, vibrant screen and its barely-there depth. It narrowly beat the<b> Motorola Droid Razr</b> as thinnest phone in the world by a mere 0.42 mm. Talk about cutting it close. That's about the same width of one strand of copper wire in this spool. Technically it's not much, but bragging rights go along way in Tech land. It also means something to one-up<b> Googl</b><b>e</b>'s soon-to-be sister company, while partnering up with the Big G himself.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Just how great is this phone for a relatively low-key brand?</div><ul style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 30px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich</b> (Installed)</li><li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">4.3" Super AMOLED display with resolutions of qHD (960 x 540) and gorilla glass on top</li><li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">dual-core ARM Cortex A9 1.5 GHZ processor with TI OMAP 4460 chipset</li><li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Power VR SGX540 graphics chip</li><li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">8MP camera, with 1080p HD recording</li><li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">GSM/GPRS/EDGE support of course plus pentaband UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA, WiFi b/g/n and Bluetooh 3.0</li></ul><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It looks good so far, and we're always excited to see thinner but sturdier phones out. If this'll pick up in the tech crowd though, that remains to be seen. We wouldn't want it to suffer the same fate as the <b>Motorola Xoom</b>.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.techie.com.ph/news/Huawei-Ascend-P1-S-is-worlds-slimmest-phone">Source</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6706532526106065199-1969088009285160552?l=revutech.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>...noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706532526106065199.post-76270517127005486282012-01-17T07:52:00.000-08:002012-01-17T07:52:52.762-08:00White Galaxy Nexus breaks loose, poses for some live pics<div style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-seirf; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; line-height: 18px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A week ago we got the first confirmation from a retailer about the upcoming availability of a white <b>Galaxy Nexus</b>. The very next day we got the first official picture of the white gadget.</div><div style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-seirf; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; line-height: 18px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.gsmarena.com/white_galaxy_nexus_breaks_loose_poses_for_live_pictures-news-3673.php#" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #666666; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" height="100" src="http://st.gsmarena.com/vv/newsimg/12/01/white-galaxy-nexus-live/thumb/gsmarena_001.jpg" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(217, 205, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(217, 205, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(217, 205, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(217, 205, 204); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px; margin-top: 2px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /></a> <a href="http://www.gsmarena.com/white_galaxy_nexus_breaks_loose_poses_for_live_pictures-news-3673.php#" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #666666; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" height="100" src="http://st.gsmarena.com/vv/newsimg/12/01/white-galaxy-nexus-live/thumb/gsmarena_004.jpg" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(217, 205, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(217, 205, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(217, 205, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(217, 205, 204); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px; margin-top: 2px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /></a> <a href="http://www.gsmarena.com/white_galaxy_nexus_breaks_loose_poses_for_live_pictures-news-3673.php#" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #666666; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" height="100" src="http://st.gsmarena.com/vv/newsimg/12/01/white-galaxy-nexus-live/thumb/gsmarena_005.jpg" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(217, 205, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(217, 205, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(217, 205, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(217, 205, 204); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px; margin-top: 2px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /></a><br /><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #999999; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; font: normal normal bold 11px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Samsung Galaxy Nexus in white</strong></div><div style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-seirf; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; line-height: 18px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Today we finally got the real deal - the first live pictures of the <b>white Galaxy Nexus</b>. Quite expectedly the white fella is completely identical with the black one but the paintjob.</div><div style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-seirf; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; line-height: 18px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.gsmarena.com/white_galaxy_nexus_breaks_loose_poses_for_live_pictures-news-3673.php#" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #666666; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" height="100" src="http://st.gsmarena.com/vv/newsimg/12/01/white-galaxy-nexus-live/thumb/gsmarena_002.jpg" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(217, 205, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(217, 205, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(217, 205, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(217, 205, 204); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px; margin-top: 2px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /></a> <a href="http://www.gsmarena.com/white_galaxy_nexus_breaks_loose_poses_for_live_pictures-news-3673.php#" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #666666; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" height="100" src="http://st.gsmarena.com/vv/newsimg/12/01/white-galaxy-nexus-live/thumb/gsmarena_003.jpg" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(217, 205, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(217, 205, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(217, 205, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(217, 205, 204); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px; margin-top: 2px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /></a> <a href="http://www.gsmarena.com/white_galaxy_nexus_breaks_loose_poses_for_live_pictures-news-3673.php#" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #666666; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" height="100" src="http://st.gsmarena.com/vv/newsimg/12/01/white-galaxy-nexus-live/thumb/gsmarena_006.jpg" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(217, 205, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(217, 205, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(217, 205, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(217, 205, 204); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px; margin-top: 2px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /></a><br /><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #999999; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; font: normal normal bold 11px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Samsung Galaxy Nexus in white</strong></div><div style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-seirf; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; line-height: 18px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">February 6 is the release date for the UK according to a previous report. We guess we'll have more information next month.</div><div style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-seirf; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; line-height: 18px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-seirf; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; line-height: 18px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.gsmarena.com/white_galaxy_nexus_breaks_loose_poses_for_live_pictures-news-3673.php">Source</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6706532526106065199-7627051712700548628?l=revutech.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>...noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706532526106065199.post-71583441607234726102012-01-17T07:42:00.001-08:002012-01-17T07:42:51.626-08:00Steve Wozniak says Android is better than the iPhone in several ways<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><img border="0" height="272" src="http://www.techie.com.ph/images/articles/steve_wozniak_android.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="320" /></div><div align="center" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Steve Wozniak at Google's HQ with the Galaxy Nexus </em></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The never-ending argument of which is better,<b> Android </b>or the<b> iPhone</b>, still rages on and now, one of the most popular icons of the tech industry gave his two cents' worth on the issue. Steve Wozniak, who is fondly called Woz or The Woz, said something that might excite or disappoint you (depending on which side of the fence you're one). The<b> Apple</b> co-founder stated that, simply put, while he loves the iPhone, Android devices are just better in several ways. Ouch!</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“My primary phone is the iPhone,” The Woz says. “I love the beauty of it. But I wish it did all the things my Android does, I really do,” he added. And what are these areas<b> Google</b>'s mobile OS is better? One area that he cited is in app approval. As we all know,<b> Apple </b>can be very strict with this process so things can be a bit slow while on Android, developers can release apps, tweaks and updates faster which is something the developer community wants.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Curiously, <b>Wozniak</b> also mentioned <b>Siri</b>, iOS' virtual voice-assistant feature, doesn't work as seamlessly as he wanted it to and even said “I have a lower success rate with Siri than I do with the voice built into the Android, and that bothers me.” And it looks as though the recent "<b>Battery-gate</b>" issue didn't escape his attention as well. “With the iPhone, something happened with the new OS or the new phone, and it just started running through the battery so fast,” Wozniak says. “I’ve had a lot of issues with things I have to turn off just to save the battery life.” Another advantage Android has according to Wozniak is its GPS system.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Now don't get him wrong, Apple fans. He still offers the iPhone as the best handset for most users, especially for those who are already comfy inside Apple's ecosystem and for "people who are just scared of computers altogether and don’t want to use them." However, For Wozniak, Android is a good system, too, and that there are similarities between it and iOS. The scary thing for Tim Cook and co. is that <b>Google</b>'s spawn could transform into a huge threat like how <b>Windows</b> was to Mac, specifically in the 90s where the fight was nothing short of lopsided. And, yes, Wozniak sees the similarity.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">We're not shocked that Steve Wozniak said those things although we admit, we're a bit surprised. We recall that, just recently, he went straight to <b>Google</b>'s HQ to get a <b>Galaxy Nexus</b> (although he admits he like Moto's Droid Razr). Now we wonder, what would <b>Steve Jobs</b> say if he's still alive?</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.techie.com.ph/news/steve-wozniak-says-android-is-better-than-the-iphone-in-several-ways"><span style="color: black;">Source</span></a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6706532526106065199-7158344160723472610?l=revutech.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>...noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706532526106065199.post-27935019859684502012-01-17T07:17:00.000-08:002012-01-17T07:17:25.650-08:00Rumor: Intel-based Windows 8 tablets may start at $600<div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">We still have the better part of a year to wait until <b>Windows 8</b> comes out -- sometime around October 2012 according to the latest rumors -- but information about potential pricing for <b>Intel</b>-powered <b>tablet</b>s running <b>Microsoft</b>'s upcoming operating system is already surfacing. According to <b>DigiTimes</b>, the devices could be priced in the $599 to $899 range, putting them at a disadvantage next to the iPad and Android <b>tablet</b>s.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">Apparently the issue here is that neither <b>Microsoft</b> nor Intel are willing to drop their prices for device manufacturers. The report notes that since Microsoft is attempting to merge the tablet and laptop market with <b>Windows 8</b>, essentially using the same full blown OS for both devices, lowering prices could seriously damage pricing in the traditional PC market and bring down their gross margin performance.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="253" src="http://static.techspot.com/articles-info/441/images/Image_10S.jpg" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" width="400" /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">Unfortunately for<b> Intel</b>, <b>Windows 8</b> is expected to support the<b> ARM architectur</b>e, meaning vendors are likely to choose less-expensive yet very capable chips from <b>Nvidia</b>, <b>Qualcomm</b> and <b>TI</b>. This would most likely also result in tablets incapable of executing the current gamut of x86 Windows software.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">If the rumors are true, Intel would be putting itself in quite a predicament, consideing it has yet to make any significant advances in the <b>tablet </b>market and consumers have shown almost no interest in $500 tablets other than the <b>Apple iPad</b>. On the other hand, high prices could also hurt <b>Windows 8</b>'s chances on tablets right out of the gate. While the $599 to $899 and up range makes sense for <b>laptops</b> running a full blown copy of <b>Windows 8</b>, customers will have a hard time spending that much on <b>tablet</b>s when <b>Android</b> alternatives start at $200.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><a href="http://www.techspot.com/news/47064-rumor-intel-based-windows-8-tablets-may-start-at-600.html">Source</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6706532526106065199-2793501985968450?l=revutech.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>...noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706532526106065199.post-54347193530128119592012-01-13T08:16:00.000-08:002012-01-13T08:16:55.098-08:00Dell to relaunch consumer tablet push in late 2012<div class="story_content html_only" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 10px;"><div class="fronticons" style="float: right; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 20px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 6px; text-align: justify;"><br /><img alt="android, dell, ces, tablet, windows 8, ces 2012" height="210" src="http://static.techspot.com/images/teaser/dell-tablet.jpg" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" width="300" /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">Back in December, <b>Dell</b> quietly discontinued their <b>Streak 7</b> <b>tablet</b> from the U.S. market only a few months after the 5-inch variant suffered the same fate. The company was quick to point out that the <b>Streak 10 Pro</b> is available in China and the Windows-based Latitude ST was launched in November for education, finance and healthcare markets. Nevertheless, the move effectively removed <b>Dell</b> from the consumer tablet race in its home country.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">According to a report on Reuters, <b>Dell</b> is already planning a comeback, but having learned from the hastiness of some of its peers it is taking its time to get it right. Steve Felice, President and Chief Commercial Officer for Consumer & SMB at <b>Del</b>l, told the news outlet it's planning a bigger push into the consumer arena putting better emphasis on the "ecosystem" and not just on the hardware.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">"When you are talking about<b> PC</b>, people are more focused on the hardware itself. When you are talking about the tablet or the smartphone, people are interested in the overall environment its operating in," he said. "As we have matured in this, we are spending a lot more time in the overall ecosystem."</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">Felice confirmed the company is targeting a late-2012 timeframe for the relaunch of its consumer tablet assault, but he kept mum about about which mobile operating system Dell would favor. Although he praised the feel of <b>Microsoft</b>'s touch-enabled <b>Windows 8</b> operating system, the executive clarified that they continue to develop with <b>Android</b> as well, and are still going to be choice-driven based on customer feedback.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.techspot.com/news/47032-dell-to-relaunch-consumer-tablet-push-in-late-2012.html">Source</a></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6706532526106065199-5434719353012811959?l=revutech.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>...noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706532526106065199.post-12541189365549378562012-01-11T07:08:00.000-08:002012-01-11T07:08:25.085-08:00Dell joins ultrabook party at CES with the XPS 13<div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><b>Dell</b> has officially joined the ultrabook fray this afternoon with a new XPS 13 model measuring just 0.71 inches at its thickest point and 0.24 inches at its thinnest. Starting at $999, the base configuration includes a Core i3 processor, 4GB of RAM, 128GB SSD, a backlit keyboard, and a 1366 x 768-resolution 13.3-inch display covered in <b>Gorilla Glass</b>. Like several other manufacturers are doing these days, <b>Dell</b> has used a thin-bezeled display, allowing it to cram the 13-inch display into more of a typical 12-inch laptop case.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">The <b>laptop</b>'s main body is a mix of magnesium alloy and aluminum along the lid and keyboard deck, with a carbon fiber base that's cool to the touch. This makes it quite rigid yet also lightweight at just under 3 pounds.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: center;"><img height="117" src="http://static.techspot.com/images2/news/bigimage/2012-01-10-image-19.jpg" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" width="400" /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">You'll be able to upgrade the base model to a 256GB SSD and either a Core i5 or i7 processor, but unfortunately there isn't a higher resolution display option. Ports and connectivity options include 802.11n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 3.0, one USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 port each, as well as a mini DisplayPort, but there's no HDMI, Ethernet, or a memory-card reader.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><b>Dell</b> is also touting the implementation of <b>Intel Rapid Start</b>, which enables fast boot times and instant-on resume from standby, as well as Intel <b>SmartConnect</b>, which periodically wakes the machine to check calendar, email, social networking accounts and other data so that everything's up to date as soon as you open the lid.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">For the enterprise crowd, the Dell XPS 13 will support TPM asstandard, while companies that order any <b>XPS system</b> (starting with the XPS 13) through the vendor's business channel, will get the same ProSupport services and custom disk imaging, BIOS, and asset tagging options offered with Dell's corporate Latitude line.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">The Dell XPS 13 will go on sale at the end of February.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: center;"><img height="292" src="http://static.techspot.com/images2/news/bigimage/2012-01-10-image-20.jpg" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" width="400" /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.techspot.com/news/47000-dell-joins-ultrabook-party-at-ces-with-the-xps-13.html">Source</a></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6706532526106065199-1254118936554937856?l=revutech.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>...noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706532526106065199.post-77170774352572536512012-01-11T07:05:00.000-08:002012-01-11T07:05:22.682-08:00Intel joins smartphone race, announces two new handsets with Lenovo and Motorola<div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><b>Intel, Lenovo </b>and <b>Motorola</b> have confirmed at the <b>Consumer Electronics Show</b> that they are working together to produce two new smartphone models. The announcement marks the first major bid by Intel to challenge the dominant U.K. based company ARM, whose chip designs power the majority of the world’s best smartphones.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">"Today, I'm thrilled to announce that the best of Intel's computing is now coming to smartphones," Intel president and CEO Paul Otellini told his <b>CES</b> keynote audience yesterday. "And it's coming first to China, the largest market for smartphones in the world, with 100 million users and growing rapidly."</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">When speaking about Lenovo, Ottelini said the relationship between the two firms was “just the beginning.” Liu Jun, President of Lenovo mobile internet and digital home group joined Intel’s CEO on the stage for the Lenovo announcement. "It is my great honor today, to introduce to you the world's first Intel architecture–based smartphone, the <b>Lenovo Smartphone K800</b>."</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: center;"><img height="266" src="http://static.techspot.com/images2/news/bigimage/2012-01-11-image-1.jpg" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" width="400" /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">The <b>Lenovo K800</b> is billed as a “simple, stylish and feature packed” smartphone. It has a 4.5-inch display, 720p video, <b>Near-Field Communications</b> (<b>NFC</b>), HDMI-out and Intel’s WiDi to stream video content to a compatible HDTV. It will be powered by Intel’s 32nm Medfield Atom Z2460 processor clocked at 1.6GHz.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">"We are transforming <b>Lenovo</b> from a leading personal computer company to a leading personal internet device company," Liu further commented.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">Ottelini said Intel’s processors offer improved battery life, whilst still keeping features sought after like cameras up to 16 megapixels, rapid web browsing and capable graphics. Another Intel spokesperson added that both new <b>smartphones</b>, which will run <b>Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich</b>, were “fully buzzword compliant.”</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">Sanjay Jha, chairman and CEO of <b>Motorola Mobility</b> also joined Ottelini on the main stage to reveal details about their Intel-based smartphone. "I am especially proud to announce today that Motorola and Intel have entered into a multi-year, multi-device strategic partnership around mobile devices and smartphones.”</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">Jha confirmed his company plans to have devices in the hands of carriers for validation sometime this summer, with the official launch following shortly after. “Stay tuned for the details in coming months,” he said.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">It looks like <b>ARM</b> might finally have some competition in the smartphone and tablet market, and I have to say I’m eager to get my hands on an Intel-based handset to see how strong the competition will be.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><a href="http://www.techspot.com/news/47002-intel-joins-smartphone-race-announces-two-new-handsets-with-lenovo-and-motorola.html">Source</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6706532526106065199-7717077435257253651?l=revutech.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>...noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706532526106065199.post-59401060790483485812012-01-11T07:01:00.000-08:002012-01-11T07:01:56.158-08:00HP Envy 14 Spectre is covered in glass, has NFC chip<div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">Following up on a mysterious teaser posted last week, <b>HP</b> has officially unveiled the <b>Envy 14 Spectr</b>e at the <b>Consumer Electronics Show</b> in Last Vegas. Pitched as a "premium ultrabook", the 0.78 inches thick laptop features a stylish midnight black glass design on the outer side and silver glass palm rest on the inside, which <b>HP</b> claims makes the laptop more durable while keeping the weight down.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">As the name suggests, the Spectre features a 14-inch (1600 x 900) Radiance display but <b>HP</b> was able to squeeze all of the machines componentes into a typical 13.3-laptop frame. Starting at $1,399, the base model includes a Core i5-2467M processor, 4GB of RAM, a 128GB mSATA SSD, backlit keyboard and a nine-hour battery. As you'd expect, there will be Core i7 and other configuration options as well.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: center;"><img height="340" src="http://static.techspot.com/images2/news/bigimage/2012-01-10-image-15.jpg" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" width="400" /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><b>HP</b> didn't skimp on ports and connectivity — the <b>Envy 14 Spectre</b> has an SD card reader, two USB ports as well as HDMI, MiniDisplay, and Ethernet ports. There's also support for Intel's Wireless Display, HP's CoolSense technology, and a built-in Wireless Audio feature that allows users to stream uncompressed audio to up to four external devices or directly to any KleerNet-compatible device.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">Last but not least, <b>HP</b> included a <b>touch-to-share</b> implementation of NFC in the laptop. Although the company says it's just an "experimental feature" at the moment, it will be releasing an Android app for NFC-equipped phones that will let you transfer URLs from your handset's browser by tapping it to the laptop's palm rest. HP hopes to extend the functionality down the road as people begin to experiment with NFC a bit more.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">The<b> Spectre</b> will go on sale in the U.S. on February 8, with wider availability expected in March.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><a href="http://www.techspot.com/news/46995-hp-envy-14-spectre-is-covered-in-glass-has-nfc-chip.html">Source</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6706532526106065199-5940106079048348581?l=revutech.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>...noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706532526106065199.post-37276588440054510302012-01-10T08:28:00.000-08:002012-01-10T08:30:21.269-08:00Samsung announces Series 5, refreshes Series 9 ultraportables<div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">With <b>Ultrabooks</b> dominating headlines during this year's <b>CES</b>, <b>Samsung</b> is feeling pressure to distinguish its thin-and-light offerings from Intel's new ultraportable family. The Korean manufacturer contests that its second-generation <b>Series 9</b> notebooks are more of a premium kit than Intel's sub-$1,000 ultrathins. Opinions on that stance will likely depend on your appreciation for notebook engineering, but one thing's for certain: Samsung is <i style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">pricing</i> the systems as if they're something special.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">The 13 and 15-inch variants are set at $1,400 and $1,500. Both offer (dare we say) Ultrabook-like specs, including an Intel Core i5 processor, 4GB to 8GB of RAM, a 128GB SSD, a backlit keyboard and six hours of battery life. They also carry a 1600x900 display, a 1.3MP webcam, a 4-in-1 card reader, USB 2.0 and 3.0 ports, HDMI and VGA connectors, as well as 3W stereo speakers. The smaller system weighs approximately 2.5lbs while its heftier sibling pushes that north by 1lb.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">As noted, the difference boils down to craftsmanship, according to <b>Samsung</b>. The company's development team spent over 33,000 hours creating the new Series 9, which is 37% thinner and nearly half a pound lighter than its predecessor. The build is "nearly seamless," using a single shell aluminum body and a fully customized LCD, keyboard, motherboard, cables, fans and battery. The notebooks have a fingerprint-resistant sandblasted finish with an ash black body and matte aluminum sides.</div><br /><center style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><img height="284" src="http://www.techspot.com/fileshost/newspics3/2012/samsung%20series%209.jpg" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" width="400" /></div></center><br /><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">The company also draws attention to the matte display with wide viewing angles (no figures provided) and <b>Samsung</b>'s SuperBright Plus technology, which provides a 400-nit brightness. Between its matte surface and extra bright lighting, we wouldn't be surprised if the display was reasonably visible in outdoor conditions, but Samsung made no such claims. However, it does brag about the notebook's startup speed, citing 9.8-second boot and 1.4-second wake times. The refresh is due in February.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">Folks looking for wallet-friendly solutions might find <b>Samsung's Series 5</b> more appealing. It takes everything we mentioned above and scales it down in a more affordable package. Starting at $899, the 13 and 14-inch Series 5 will offer a Core i5, 4GB of RAM, a 128GB SSD or 500GB 5400RPM HDD with a 16GB of flash-based cache, an eight-hour battery, a matte 300-nit 1366x768 display, and the typical gamut of connectivity. The 13-inch model doesn't have an optical drive, but the 14-incher does.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><a href="http://www.techspot.com/news/46974-samsung-announces-series-5-refreshes-series-9-ultraportables.html">Source</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6706532526106065199-3727658844005451030?l=revutech.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>...noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706532526106065199.post-9694067848456903372012-01-10T08:25:00.000-08:002012-01-10T08:25:17.979-08:00Lenovo intros IdeaPad Yoga convertible and 'world's slimmest' all-in-one<div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">Lenovo has come well prepared for this year's Consumer Electronics Show, toting a handsome array of machines including what appears to be a larger, near-production version of an old ultra-compact prototype. Years ago the company released pictures of its "<a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/16/lenovo-leaks-pocket-yoga-mystery-netbook-pics/" style="color: #05408f; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-decoration: none;">Pocket Yoga</a>" concept, which was comparable to the <a href="http://www.techspot.com/news/38898-sony-revamps-vaio-p-adds-accelerometer-touchpad-more.html" style="color: #05408f; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-decoration: none;">VAIO P</a>, Sony's pint-sized novelty machine. The Pocket Yoga never came to fruition and, in fact, the Chinese manufacturer admitted at the time that it had no real product behind the mockups.</div><center style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><img height="281" src="http://www.techspot.com/fileshost/newspics3/2012/lenovo%20yoga.jpg" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" width="400" /></div></center><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">Fast forward to this week and the PC maker has unveiled the similarly named "IdeaPad Yoga," a touchscreen-enabled ultraportable. What sets it apart, however, is an unusually flexible hinge that lets you fold the screen directly over the chassis (instead of a rotating hinge). Not only does this transform the IdeaPad Yoga into a tablet, but you can flip the system over and bend the display ~180-degrees backward so the base serves as a rearward stand for the screen. <a href="http://www.theverge.com/ces/2012/1/9/2693463/lenovo-ideapad-yoga-first-hands-on" style="color: #05408f; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-decoration: none;">The Verge</a> had a hands-on, but it's missing now.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">Lenovo sent us press kits for a few devices including a ton of IdeaPad Yoga pictures, but no spec sheet. The Verge doesn't mention much outside a 10-point touchscreen, a chiclet keyboard, a clickpad and the return of a leather palm rest, which has been shelved since the IdeaPad U260. Naturally, the IdeaPad Yoga is running Windows 8 and is presumably powered by some form of Intel silicon, be that Sandy Bridge or Ivy Bridge. Hopefully we'll have more specs along with pricing and availability info soon.</div><center style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><img height="354" src="http://www.techspot.com/fileshost/newspics3/2012/lenovo%20a720.jpg" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" width="400" /></div></center><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">Among its other goodies, the manufacturer has also unveiled what it calls the "world's slimmest" 27-inch all-in-one -- an increasingly hollow title with sub-inch-thick designs. The IdeaCentre A720 features a 10-point touchscreen, an Intel Core-series CPU, an Nvidia GeForce GT 630M 2GB, up to 8GB of DDR3 1600MHz RAM, as much as 1TB of mechanical or 64GB of flash storage, a DVD or Blu-ray burner, Gigabit Ethernet, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity, along with tons of proprietary touch software.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><a href="http://www.techspot.com/news/46965-lenovo-intros-ideapad-yoga-convertible-and-worlds-slimmest-all-in-one.html">Source</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6706532526106065199-969406784845690337?l=revutech.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>...noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706532526106065199.post-81165081069324972742012-01-10T08:22:00.000-08:002012-01-10T08:22:40.628-08:00Vizio bursts into PC market with thin laptops, all-in-one PCs<div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><b>Vizio</b>, the U.S. based company best known for selling budget flat-panel TVs, is jumping head first into the <b>PC</b> market and will be showing a range of sleek-looking devices at the <b>Consumer Electronics Show</b> in Las Vegas. Detailed specifications and prices are yet to be released but from its initial lineup it appears the company will be tackling two of the hottest sectors in the computer market: all-in-ones and Ultrabooks.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">The lineup consist of two <b>all-in-one PC</b>s, in 24-inch and 27-inch sizes, as well as three notebooks including 14- and 15.6-inch thin and lightweight models (Vizio isn't officially calling them <b>Ultrabooks</b>) and a slightly bulkier 15.6-inch model that will offer "extreme portable performance." The computers will go on sale sometime around the June-September timeframe and will be priced aggressively. In fact, in an interview with Bloomberg, Vizio's CTO Matt McRae said that the products will be sold at "a price that just doesn’t seem possible."</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: center;"><img height="266" src="http://static.techspot.com/images2/news/bigimage/2012-01-09-image-6.jpg" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" width="400" /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">"We've built a business model and strategy to identify markets that have matured and have slowed and then turn them upside down," McRae added. "We are uniquely advantaged in attacking stale markets that have sleepy giants that are not moving the ball forward much."</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">Speaking to Engadget he also confirmed their machines will run <b>Windows 7</b> (and 8 when it is available) completely bloatware-free, and all but the smallest laptop will have 1080p screens. In addition, the all-in-ones will get HDMI passthrough, so they can be used as an HDTV with their PC innards turned off.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">The company jumped into the<b> tablet </b>market last year with a ~$300, 8-inch device powered by Android. Besides TVs, they have also expanded to include home theater products and Blu-ray players into their lineup.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.theverge.com/2012/1/6/2688846/vizio-ultrabooks-and-all-in-one-pcs#2816424" style="color: #05408f; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><img height="204" src="http://static.techspot.com/images2/news/bigimage/2012-01-09-image-7.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" width="400" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.techspot.com/news/46959-vizio-bursts-into-pc-market-with-thin-laptops-all-in-one-pcs.html">Source</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6706532526106065199-8116508106932497274?l=revutech.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>...noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706532526106065199.post-86188662535947350192012-01-10T08:10:00.000-08:002012-01-10T08:10:59.068-08:00Acer unveils Iconia Tab A200 and quad-core A700 tablets<div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">Acer has unveiled two new tablets from its Iconia Tab range, one of which is set to cause quite a stir as the company begins the battle to win best product of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">The show stopping powerhouse of a tablet, the Iconia Tab A700 looks set to compete directly against the Transformer Prime with its massive specification list. It features a Tegra 3 quad-core processor clocked at 1.3GHz, 1GB RAM with a native 1080p “IPS quality” 1920x1200 pixel 10.1-inch display, along with mini-USB, mini-HDMI and micro-SD ports and a reverse mounted 5-megapixel camera.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: center;"><img height="264" src="http://static.techspot.com/images2/news/bigimage/2012-01-09-image-4.jpg" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" width="400" /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">It looks to be running Google’s latest mobile OS, Android 4.0 ICS, with a subtly tweaked Acer UI skin that appears to contrast well with the native ICS interface. As it’s a prototype model there aren’t many details available, including storage options, connectivity, pricing or availability.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">Also making an appearance is the Acer Iconia Tab A200 tablet (below), sporting a 10.1-inch display with a 1280x800 pixel resolution. It features 8GB of onboard storage, is powered by a Tegra 2 dual-core processor with an integrated GeForce GPU. The front features a 2-megapixel camera, with another mounted in the titanium grey pattern rear cover. Also included is a mini-HDMI port and micro-SD card slot.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: center;"><img height="300" src="http://static.techspot.com/images2/news/bigimage/2012-01-09-image-5.jpg" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" width="400" /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">Initially the A200 will be available with Android 3.2 Honeycomb, with the company offering free updates to Android 4.0 ICS sometime in February. According to Acer the battery will provide enough juice to power it for 8 hours before needing recharging.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">The A200 will be available from major retailers in the US from January 15 starting at around $329.99. A 16GB model will also be available for around $350.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><a href="http://www.techspot.com/news/46954-acer-unveils-iconia-tab-a200-and-quad-core-a700-tablets.html">Source</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6706532526106065199-8618866253594735019?l=revutech.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>...noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706532526106065199.post-28466703334818478112012-01-09T06:01:00.000-08:002012-01-09T06:01:29.648-08:00Acer's new super-thin S5 ultrabook, Timeline Ultra revealed<div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">After a lukewarm reception with its first-gen <b>ultrabook</b>, <b>Acer</b> is ready for a second round. The new <b>Aspire S5</b> is being touted as the thinnest <b>ultrabook</b> currently available, measuring just 15mm at its thickest point. It will be interesting to see if that new benchmark holds on by the time CES is over this week, but in the meantime Acer is happy to show the S5's thin frame composed of a magnesium-aluminum alloy cover and palmrest with brushed metallic accents.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">The S5 is a 13.3-inch laptop weighing in at about 3 pounds, powered by a yet-to-be-announced Intel Core processor (we suspect Ivy Bridge), it will come stock with a SSD drive, Dolby audio, and Acer's Instant On for fast boot and back from sleep times of 1.5 seconds. Acer has further refined the ultrabook by concealing much of its connectivity ports behind a push-panel below the hinge, where you will find a 20 Gbps Thunderbolt port, HDMI and USB 3.0 ports.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: center;"><img height="182" src="http://static.techspot.com/fileshost/newspics3/2012/acer-s5-1.jpg" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" width="400" /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><b>Acer</b>'s previous<b> S3 ultrabook</b> was a relatively good value, but it was criticized for being too plasticky and for not running long enough on battery. Acer seems to be specifically addressing those shortcomings and more with the S5. The ultrabook is not expected to ship until Q2 however.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: center;"><img height="264" src="http://static.techspot.com/fileshost/newspics3/2012/acer-s5-2.jpg" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" width="400" /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">Also new is Acer's <b>Timeline Ultra</b> which is an evolution of their previous Timeline models, or if you want, a 14 and 15-inch alternative to the sea of ultrabooks that usually come in the 13.x" form factor. The Timeline Ultra is 20mm thick, offers 8 hours of battery life, uses today's Core i processors, SSD or HDD option, HDMI out, USB 3.0, and surprisingly a slim optical drive unit. The Timeline Ultra laptops are expected to ship this quarter.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">Acer is also talking about their "Always Connect" technology, present in both the <b>Timeline Ultra</b> and the <b>S5 ultrabook</b>, letting users access files and media from <b>smartphones</b> or <b>tablet</b>s, even while the computer is on sleep mode.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.techspot.com/news/46950-acers-new-super-thin-s5-ultrabook-timeline-ultra-revealed.html">Source</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6706532526106065199-2846670333481847811?l=revutech.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>...noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706532526106065199.post-4013875377552601522012-01-09T05:42:00.000-08:002012-01-09T05:42:54.583-08:00Toshiba announces Excite X10 tablet, arriving mid-Q1 2012<div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">Remember that sleek <b>AT200 tablet Toshiba</b> announced at last year's <b>IFA conference</b> in Berlin but never actually made it to market? Well, the company is kicking off its <b>CES</b> announcements today by re-announcing the 10.1-inch tablet while giving it an official commercial name: the <b>Excite X10</b>.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">The device is incredibly thin at 7.7mm (about a mm slimmer than the <b>iPad 2</b> and <b>Galaxy Tab</b>) and features an aluminum back that's more attractive than the glossy, smudge-prone plastic that envelopes many existing tablets. Its <b>Corning Gorilla Glass</b> covered IPS panel provides wide viewing angles and a native 1280 x 800 resolution, while processing is taken care of by a dual-core 1.2GHz TI OMAP 4430. Back in September this was touted as superior to Nvidia's Tegra 2 but we'll have to see how it holds up next to quad-core Tegra 3<b> tablets</b>.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: center;"><img height="286" src="http://static.techspot.com/images2/news/bigimage/2012-01-08-image-2.jpg" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" width="400" /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">In terms of connectivity you can expect 802.11n Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 4.0, as well as micro-sized USB, HDMI and SD ports in order to maintain a slender profile. Other features include DLNA support, GPS and built-in compass, dual HD Cameras (2MP front, 5MP back) with 1080p video capture and stereo speakers with SRS. At least initially, there won't be any mobile broadband connectivity options for this tablet.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: center;"><img height="300" src="http://static.techspot.com/images2/news/bigimage/2012-01-08-image-3.jpg" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" width="400" /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">Toshiba says it expects to ship the <b>Excite X10</b> with <b>Android 4.0 "Ice Cream Sandwich"</b> when the device hits the market sometime around mid Q1 2012. It will come in 16GB and 32GB capacities for $529 and $599, respectively. This will be the company's premium tablet offering, while the existing <b>Toshiba Thrive</b> will remain their 'mainstream' option starting at $380 for 8GB, $400 for 16GB, and $480 for 32GB. Toshiba is also launching a 4G AT&T HSPA+ option for the 16GB Thrive at CES for $480 -- no contract required.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">In addition to its new 10-inch tablet, <b>Toshiba</b> will also be showing off the <b>Portégé Z835 Ultrabook</b> at CES. The 13.3-inch laptop features a 1366x768 matte display, second-generation Intel Core processors and integrated Intel graphics, 128GB SSD and 4GB of RAM, a full-sized backlit and spill resistant keyboard, three USB ports (one USB 3.0), HDMI and VGA-out, Wi-Fi, and WiDi. Pricing starts at just $819 on ToshibaDirect.com.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.techspot.com/news/46946-toshiba-announces-excite-x10-tablet-arriving-mid-q1-2012.html">Source</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6706532526106065199-401387537755260152?l=revutech.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>...noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706532526106065199.post-86439082901988611962012-01-09T05:35:00.000-08:002012-01-09T05:35:33.177-08:00BitTorrent launches free personal file-swapping service<div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><b>BitTorrent</b> just released a new <b>cloud storage</b> and <b>file-sharing</b> service that's set to rival YouSendIt, MegaUpload and the like. Simply called "Share", the new service combines BitTorrent <b>peer-to-peer</b> technology with Amazon's EC2 and S3 to store any type of file in the cloud and share it with a private group of people -- as opposed to creating a .torrent file for the public in general -- without size restrictions or fees.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">For now the service is still an early Alpha phase, but the company has already released a stand-alone Share client for Windows and integrated it into the non-stable build of <b>uTorrent</b> for the Mac. To share files users are required to fill out "to" and "from" email addresses, and drag files or folders to the app to start uploading. Your recipients will then receive an email notifying them that they have files available to download. You can also connect with Facebook and create a sharing group based on your friend lists at the social network.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: center;"><img height="235" src="http://static.techspot.com/images2/news/bigimage/2012-01-06-image-1.jpg" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" width="400" /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">According to GigaOM, files are initially uploaded to Amazon's servers to provide caching, but they are also shared via a peer-to-peer connection as long as someone with the full file is online. As soon as a file is sufficiently shared by peers it is taken off the cloud, relying only on <b>BitTorrent</b> to cut hosting costs.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">Here are some key features as detailed by <b>BitTorrent</b> in a recent blog post:</div><ul style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><li style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><strong style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">No Limits:</strong> With no limits on number of sends, file size/quality, or number of recipients, users may send HD videos, high-res photo collections, and other oversized files – with no fees.</li><li style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><strong style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">Ultra Fast Downloads:</strong> Share is built on top of an innovative file-sharing technology that is already used by over 100m people every month. Friends may now download the biggest files without the endless wait.</li><li style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><strong style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">Private:</strong> Choose exactly who may access shared files. Set up groups to share with friends, family and co-workers, or just send a file to one person.</li><li style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><strong style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">Social and Fun:</strong> Friends may comment on the files in real-time.</li></ul><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">The new service will be integrated into all <b>BitTorrent</b> and <b>µTorrent</b> software clients after its alpha testing phase.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.techspot.com/news/46933-bittorrent-launches-free-personal-file-swapping-service.html">Source</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6706532526106065199-8643908290198861196?l=revutech.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>...noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706532526106065199.post-53229395447135397492012-01-09T05:31:00.000-08:002012-01-09T05:31:45.294-08:00Chrome 17 beta brings speed and security improvements<div class="story_content html_only" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 10px;"><div class="fronticons" style="float: right; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 20px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 6px;"><br /><img alt="google, chrome, beta, security, browser" height="299" src="http://static.techspot.com/images/teaser/chrome.jpg" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" width="300" /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><b>Google</b> has pushed a new version of <b>Chrome</b> into the beta channel that's designed around improving two of the browser's key aspects: speed and security. The first major change in version 17 is the ability for pages to start loading in the background before a user has even finished typing a URL into the Omnibox address and search bar.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">"If the URL auto-completes to a site you're very likely to visit, <b>Chrome</b> will begin to prerender the page," explained Dominic Hamon, a software engineer at <b>Google</b>, while announcing the browser update. The pre-rendering makes the full site show up almost instantly, according to Google.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><strong style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">Chrome 17 Beta:</strong> Windows | Mac OS X | Linux</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><strong style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">Chrome 16 Stable:</strong> Windows | Mac OS X | Linux</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><b>Google</b> also introduced an extension to its <b>Safe Browsing</b> technology that protects users against malicious downloads by analysing executable files, including Windows .exe and .msi files, for known malware. Chrome will issue a warning if a certain file appears to be malicious and will also alert the user if a file is downloaded from a website with a poor reputation for hosting malware-infected files.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">This protection targets the "<b>social engineering</b>" type of threat, such as the common fake anti-virus product being offered online, but it's still up to the user to proceed with the download or discard it. The database of known malware is relatively small for now but should grow rapidly as the feature moves into the stable release.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">A number of other minor changes and the usual slew of bug fixes are also included in Chrome 17 beta. Additionally, Google updated the browser's Stable channel to version 16.0.912.75, closing three high risk security holes. Hit the links below to download the latest stable or beta versions of<b> Chrome.</b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.techspot.com/news/46941-chrome-17-beta-brings-speed-and-security-improvements.html">Source</a></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6706532526106065199-5322939544713539749?l=revutech.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>...noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706532526106065199.post-8749508977310047482012-01-09T05:28:00.000-08:002012-01-09T05:28:07.399-08:00Facebook giving away 200,000 sets of Timeline business cards for fre<div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><b>Facebook</b> is giving away <b>Timeline</b> personal<b> cards</b> for a limited time while supplies last in an effort to help users promote their profiles and a new partnership with<b> moo.com</b>. 200,000 sets of 50 cards each (5,000 per day) are being handed out absolutely free of charge on a first come, first serve basis.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">Here’s how you can get a set of Timeline cards for yourself.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;">1. Visit your <b>Facebook Timeline</b> profile.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">2. Click the About link under the basic personal information section.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">3. Navigate to the Contact Info section and mouse over the small business card icon.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">4. You should see a message from Facebook that says, “We’ve partnered with moo.com to make it easy to print your very own set of custom business cards. The first box of cards is on us.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;">5. Click Print Cards to proceed.</div><br /><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: center;"><img height="258" src="http://static.techspot.com/images2/news/bigimage/2012-01-06-image-2.jpg" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" width="400" /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">With only 200,000 free sets of cards available, it’ll likely be pretty tough to get a free set considering the site has over 800,000 million registered members. As such, you can optionally visit<b> moo.com</b> and order a set for yourself right away. Prices start at $15 for 50 cards including delivery.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">The customizable <b>Timeline cards</b> may seem like a silly idea on first thought but print cards are a great way to network with new contacts, especially if you have a business of your own that you are looking to promote in a new and creative way. Thinking outside of the box is one of the best ways to garner attention for yourself.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.techspot.com/news/46940-facebook-giving-away-200000-sets-of-timeline-business-cards-for-free.html">Source</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6706532526106065199-874950897731004748?l=revutech.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>...noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706532526106065199.post-74605976060839591792012-01-09T05:23:00.000-08:002012-01-09T05:23:36.022-08:00Rumor: Apple to release iPad 3 in March, iPad 4 following in October<div class="fronticons" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; float: right; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 20px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 6px;"><img alt="apple, ipad, ios, rumor, tablet, iphone 5, ipad 3, ipad 4" height="194" src="http://static.techspot.com/images2/news/thumbs/2011-08-16-teaser1.jpg" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" width="320" /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><b>Apple</b> could be preparing to release two new iPads this year. The <b>iPad 3</b> may be unveiled in March and a secondary tablet, dubbed the <b>iPad 4</b>, could arrive in October, according to Taiwan component makers via <b>DigiTimes</b>.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><strong style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">Update: </strong>In addition to the information divulged earlier by DigiTimes, 9to5mac has found references about quad-core processing in iOS 5.1 which is currently in beta. This upcoming OS update from Apple is supposed to be paired with a next-generation <b>iPad 3</b> and potentially the <b>iPhone 5</b>.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">The <b>iPad 3</b> is expected to ship with a QXGA (2084 x 1536 pixels) display and improved battery life but other than these two enhancements, we are told not to expect much more from the tablet. Previous rumors had pointed to two <b>iPad 3</b> models, a mid-range and high-end product, being unveiled at iWorld on January 26.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">The latest speculation indicates that the <b>iPad 2</b> will receive a price cut to $399 with the introduction of the <b>iPad 3</b>. The lower price would allow Apple to compete with other vendors such as <b>Sony, Motorola </b>and<b> Samsung</b> that offer tablets at a lower price point.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">Sources expect the real battle for market share to take place in the second half of 2012 when Apple ships their<b> iPad 4</b>. This would be around the same time that Microsoft releases <b>Windows 8</b> and<b> Intel</b> introduces its <b>Clover Trail-W</b> platform. These sources suggest that the <b>iPad 4</b> would feature the same 9.7-inch display as the iPad 3 but would include upgraded hardware specifications and new applications. This could perhaps include the Samsung-manufactured quad-core A6 processor that has been rumored to be the successor to the dual-core A5 SoC.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">DigiTimes has a mixed track record, especially when it comes to <b>Apple rumors</b>. As such, we suggest you take this latest dose with a grain of salt.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.techspot.com/news/46935-rumor-apple-to-release-ipad-3-in-march-ipad-4-following-in-october.html">Source</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6706532526106065199-7460597606083959179?l=revutech.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>...noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706532526106065199.post-36648555903562500802012-01-09T05:18:00.000-08:002012-01-09T05:18:31.639-08:00Rumor: RIM now working on just one BlackBerry 10 device<div class="fronticons" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; float: right; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 20px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 6px;"><img alt="rim, rumor, blackberry, research in motion, qnx, london, bb10, colt, milan" height="333" src="http://static.techspot.com/images2/news/thumbs/2011-11-15-teaser1.jpg" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" width="222" /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">Rumors are beginning to make the rounds suggesting that troubled Canadian cellphone maker, <b>Research in Motion</b>, has ditched two of its three upcoming handsets due for launch later this year, including one that featured its new <b>BlackBerry 10 </b>operating system.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">Earlier reports claimed the manufacturer was struggling to integrate its <b>BlackBerry</b> Enterprise Server (BES) and the popular BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) services to run on the new QNX-based OS. The only device currently running the OS in the BlackBerry range is the <b>PlayBook</b>, released in April last year, and despite numerous promises RIM still hasn't issued an update in order to add those two key services.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">According to BGR, the Colt, which was intended to be the first <b>BB10</b> powered phone, has been scrapped. That model was due to tout the new operating system combined with a 3-inch display and the usual <b>BlackBerry</b> signature qwerty keyboard.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">Also consigned to the dustbin is the Milan, which according to the site was a BB7-based phone. Carriers were said to be unimpressed with offering another phone so close to the current BlackBerry Touch models.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">That leaves the <b>London</b> (pictured) as the only phone planned for launch using the new OS in the later part of 2012. The phone features a touchscreen display encompassing the entire front of the phone, a step away from the usual qwerty keyboard designs that made the firm so popular among business users.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">Multiple sources speaking to BGR confirmed, "<b>RIM</b> is currently shopping the London with carriers, and while it still looks very much like the image published by The Verge in November, there have been some slight design changes made." The exact changes are currently unknown though.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">It has been a rough year for the Canadian firm, with several high profile service breakdowns affecting millions, and constant problems with the development of its crucial upcoming <b>BB10</b> OS not helping matters. This has also seen the share prices of the company fall to all time lows as consumer and investor confidence decreases.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">Just two days ago, news started to circulate suggesting that the company may well be considering a change of CEO's, given the bleak year it has suffered. One thing is clear, collapsing into the oblivion is moving ever closer and big changes in direction are required if<b> RIM</b> wants to be successful this year and beyond.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><a href="http://www.techspot.com/news/46928-rumor-rim-now-working-on-just-one-blackberry-10-device.html">Source</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6706532526106065199-3664855590356250080?l=revutech.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>...noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706532526106065199.post-44820810289052071092012-01-09T05:14:00.000-08:002012-01-09T05:15:20.345-08:00Ramnit worm targets Facebook, 45,000 logins compromised<div class="fronticons" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; float: right; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 20px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 6px;"><img alt="facebook, hacking, worm, ramnit, win32ramnit" height="320" src="http://static.techspot.com/images/teaser/Facebook%20bullet%20hole.jpeg" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" width="280" /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><b>Facebook</b> users have had their accounts compromised once again after the <b>Ramnit</b> <b>worm</b>, traditionally used to target the financial industry, set its crosshairs on the social networking site. According to researchers at the security firm Seculert, 45,000 user accounts have been affected.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">Users in France and the United Kingdom appear to be most affected by the worm's new tirade on social sites. "We suspect that the attackers behind <b>Ramnit</b> are using the stolen credentials to log-in to victims' Facebook accounts and to transmit malicious links to their friends, thereby magnifying the malware's spread even further", the security firm commented in a blog post.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">"Our security experts have reviewed the data, and while the majority of the information was out-of-date, we have initiated remedial steps for all affected users to ensure the security of their accounts," a spokesperson for <b>Facebook</b> confirmed. "Thus far, we have not seen the virus propagating on Facebook itself, but have begun working with our external partners to add protections to our anti-virus systems to help users secure their devices."</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">Ramnit was first discovered in April 2010 by the<b> Microsoft Malware Protection Center</b> (MMPC). They described the <b>worm</b> as "a multi-component malware family which infects Windows executable as well as HTML files," which they say is used to steal sensitive information such as FTP login details and browser cookies. A separate report by <b>Symantec (PDF)</b> in July 2011 concluded that variants of the worm accounted for 17.3 percent of all new malicious infections.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">In August last year it was paired with source code from the Zeus botnet, and began targeting financial institutions. The additional source code enabled the worm to gain remote access to financial targets, compromise banking sessions and saturate corporate networks. Researchers at Seculert found around 800,000 machines had been infected between September 2011 and the end of December 2011.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">The new form of attack on social networking sites is likely due to the change in the way we now use computers. With social sites like <b>Facebook</b> now fast approaching one billion users, it would appear hackers are replacing traditional email spam attacks with worms like Ramnit in a bid to target unsuspecting users.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.techspot.com/news/46929-ramnit-worm-targets-facebook-45000-logins-compromised.html">Source</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6706532526106065199-4482081028905207109?l=revutech.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>...noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706532526106065199.post-12892198722959623992012-01-06T05:25:00.000-08:002012-01-06T05:25:48.030-08:00HTC profits decrease as smartphone competition stiffens<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></div><div style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-seirf; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; line-height: 18px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">Every streak has its end and the <b>HTC</b> two-year streak of continuous growth came to an abrupt halt over the holiday season. The Taiwanese company posted net profit of $364.26 million, which is a 25.5% decrease compared to the same period of last year.</div><div style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-seirf; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; line-height: 18px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">And while the company already warned that it won't be making its previously set targets, it even failed to meet the revisited goals. Obviously the company's current portfolio is not faring particularly well, with the increased pressure from <b>Samsung</b> and <b>Apple</b> quoted as the main culprit.</div><div style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-seirf; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; line-height: 18px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><img height="253" src="http://st.gsmarena.com/vv/newsimg/12/01/htc-results/gsmarena_001.gif" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-seirf; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="400" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-seirf; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-seirf; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;" /><div style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-seirf; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; line-height: 18px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-seirf; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; line-height: 18px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">To make matters worse, the company expects to see more of the same in the first quarter of 2012 with net profit expected to continue sliding.</div><div style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-seirf; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; line-height: 18px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">There's still no reason to panic of course, as the company is still making cash rather than losing it and it's probably just a hit product away from going back on the right road. Plus, the company was so successful recently that it saw its shares triple in just 14 months - there is no way it was going to maintain that kind of performance forever.</div><div style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-seirf; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; line-height: 18px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">We are holding our breath for the new <b>HTC</b> announcements that should come at CES next week and then later, at the MWC in February. The company is expected to unveil the world's first quad-core smartphone at one of these events and we can't wait to get our hands on that beast.</div><div style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-seirf; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; line-height: 18px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-seirf; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; line-height: 18px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/06/us-htc-q-idUSTRE8050DQ20120106?feedType=RSS&feedName=technologyNews&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&dlvrit=56505" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #666666; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Source</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6706532526106065199-1289219872295962399?l=revutech.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>...noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706532526106065199.post-32910994209367080012012-01-06T05:21:00.000-08:002012-01-06T05:21:43.972-08:00Samsung ships 35M smartphones in Q4, makes record profit<img align="left" id="news-img" src="http://st.gsmarena.com/vv/newsimg/11/01/samsung-results/big.jpg" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-seirf; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /><br /><div style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-seirf; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; line-height: 18px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Samsung</b> has posted its preliminary Q4 financial report and things are looking great for the Korean company. Thanks to the extremely strong performance of its mobile division, <b>Samsung</b> recorded an operating profit of $4.5 billion, which is an amazing 73% higher than the operating profit for Q4 of 2010.</div><div style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-seirf; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; line-height: 18px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">During the past three months <b>Samsung</b> shipped about 35 million smartphones, a 25% increase over the previous quarter and a new record for the company. The strong performance of the <b>Galaxy</b> lineup is the key to this success and Samsung expects to see more of the same in future.</div><div style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-seirf; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; line-height: 18px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">In fact the <b>Samsung handset</b> division is now the conglomerate's biggest earner.</div><div style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-seirf; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; line-height: 18px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">The Koreans expect to solidify their position as the world's number 1 <b>smartphone</b> maker in 2012 as they expects that Apple won't be able to maintain its level of innovation and will start to fall back.</div><div style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-seirf; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; line-height: 18px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">What's even more, <b>Samsung</b> expects to end the first quarter of 2012 with about the same operating profit as the last quarter of 2011. Typically, electronic companies experience a dip in sales and profits after the holiday season, but this time the profit will remain at a similar level.</div><div style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-seirf; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; line-height: 18px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">We are yet to see what Samsung has in store for us in the first few months of the New Year. The company already unveiled the <b>Galaxy Ace Plus</b> (which we already welcomed to the office) and <b>Galaxy M Style</b> and things will certainly get even more interesting at <b>CES</b> next week and the MWC next month.</div><div style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-seirf; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; line-height: 18px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-seirf; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; line-height: 18px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/06/samsung-idUSL3E8C5KC820120106" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #666666; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Source</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6706532526106065199-3291099420936708001?l=revutech.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>...noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706532526106065199.post-55095245095147947242012-01-06T05:17:00.000-08:002012-01-06T05:17:27.503-08:00Galaxy Nexus coming to Telus, Rogers in Canada, Sprint in US<div style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-seirf; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; line-height: 18px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">The<b> Galaxy Nexus</b> has been available on Canadian networks <b>Bell </b>and <b>Virgin Mobile</b> but now it is arriving on <b>Telus</b> and <b>Rogers</b> networks as well on January 13. Unfortunately, there is no information available regarding pricing and tariffs at the moment.</div><div style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-seirf; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; line-height: 18px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">If you're reading this in the US and feeling a bit jealous that you only have one carrier offering the <b>Galaxy Nexus</b> then don't worry because soon <b>Sprint</b> will be offering the Galaxy Nexus as well. This information actually comes from an Internet ad found on the web page of <i>CNET</i> and noticed by the eagles eyes of<i>The Verge</i>.</div><center style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-seirf; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img height="340" src="http://st.gsmarena.com/vv/newsimg/12/01/nexus-telus-rogers-sprint/gsmarena_001.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="400" /><br /></center><div style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-seirf; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; line-height: 18px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-seirf; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; line-height: 18px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">The ad has since been pulled as clearly it went online well before it was intended to but it did offer some valuable information while it was available. For starters, the phone will be running on Sprint's upcoming 4G LTE network and in fact will be the first LTE phone on <b>Sprint</b>'s network. Secondly, the Sprint's <b>Galaxy Nexus</b> will actually have a 1.5GHz processor, as compared to the 1.2GHz processor on the GSM and Verizon CDMA version. Rest of the specifications seem to be identical.</div><div style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-seirf; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; line-height: 18px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">Hopefully we'll hear more from <b>Sprint</b> regarding this soon.</div><div style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-seirf; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; line-height: 18px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-seirf; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; line-height: 18px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.gsmarena.com/galaxy_nexus_coming_to_telus_rogers_in_canada_sprint_in_us-news-3621.php">Source</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6706532526106065199-5509524509514794724?l=revutech.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>...noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706532526106065199.post-33612080068236058762012-01-06T05:13:00.000-08:002012-01-06T05:13:01.807-08:00RIM to showcase BlackBerry OS 10 at MWC this year<div style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-seirf; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; line-height: 18px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>RIM</b> will be showcasing their next generation <b>BlackBerry OS 10</b> (earlier known as <b>BBX</b>) at <b>Mobile World Congress</b> in February.</div><center style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-seirf; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img height="400" src="http://st.gsmarena.com/vv/newsimg/12/01/bb10-feb/gsmarena_001.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="396" /><br /></center><div style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-seirf; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; line-height: 18px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Unfortunately, the company has no plans to actually launch any smartphones running <b>BB 10</b> at <b>MWC</b>, and they still plan to do that later in 2012. All that we will see at <b>MWC</b> is a demonstration of the <b>BB10 OS</b> along with their current <b>BB 7</b> <b>handsets</b>, with the focus being on the NFC and BBM connected apps.</div><div style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-seirf; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; line-height: 18px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In other news, it seems that<b> RIM</b> has dropped plans for launching the <b>BlackBerry Colt</b>, along with the Milan. It now seems that the first phone to ship with <b>BB 10</b> is going to be the BlackBerry London(pictured above) that was recently leaked and is expected to come out in Q3 this year.</div><div style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-seirf; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; line-height: 18px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-seirf; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; line-height: 18px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.gsmarena.com/rim_to_showcase_blackberry_os_10_at_mwc_this_year-news-3620.php">Source</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6706532526106065199-3361208006823605876?l=revutech.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>...noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706532526106065199.post-7601365018849382982012-01-06T04:49:00.000-08:002012-01-06T04:49:08.797-08:00Logitech Cube doubles as a mouse and presentation device<div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">With<b> CES</b> just around the bend, electronics makers are making a concerted effort to pique the interest of gadget lovers with unique products. <b>Logitech</b> is no exception, announcing a new <b>portable mouse</b> that doubles as a presentation device. The rectangular rodent is small enough to fit in a pocket and offers mouse-like functionality -- albeit with less ergonomics. There's a sensor on the bottom of the device to move a cursor and the top panel has a <b>multitouch</b> surface that registers input.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">Unfortunately, the company isn't clear about what the touch panel does. Common sense dictates that it can register right and left clicks -- bare minimum -- but the <b>Cube</b>'s product page doesn't mention anything of the sort. Instead, it only speaks of the ability to scroll by swiping your finger along the main panel. This is said to be especially fluid courtesy of Logitech's "<b>Flow Scroll</b>" software, which adds smooth scrolling to Web browsers including IE 8 and 9, Firefox 6 and Chrome 14 or higher.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: center;"><img height="271" src="http://static.techspot.com/images2/news/bigimage/2012-01-05-image-5.jpg" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" width="400" /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">We've emailed Logitech for more info and we'll update this post if we receive a reply. What we do know is that if you lift the Cube off a table, it automatically transforms into a presentation tool that lets you easily navigate slides. The device connects to your machine through a <b>Logitech Unifying receiver</b> and it offers a reliable wireless connection at up to 25 meters. It has a USB-rechargeable Li-ion battery, though we haven't seen any details about its lifespan. Preorders are already open for $69.99.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.techspot.com/news/46921-logitech-cube-doubles-as-a-mouse-and-presentation-device.html">Source</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6706532526106065199-760136501884938298?l=revutech.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>...noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706532526106065199.post-88726068323485524452012-01-06T04:45:00.000-08:002012-01-06T04:45:30.334-08:00Google makes unmodified Android theme compatibility requirement<div class="fronticons" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; float: right; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 20px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 6px;"><img alt="google, android, android market, app store, ice cream sandwich, programming, ics, apps, android 4.0, holo, developers" height="320" src="http://static.techspot.com/images/teaser/android%20ice%20cream%20sandwich.jpg" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" width="264" /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">In an effort to create a consistent experience for its users, <b>Google</b> is requiring manufacturers who ship their devices with<b> Ice Cream Sandwich</b> (4.0) to include <b>Holo,</b> its default theme intended for a "pure" <b>Android</b> experience. Google will still allow manufacturers to modify android with their own custom interfaces, widgets and skins, but an unmodified Holo theme must be present. </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">If a future of impersonal, monolithic <b>Android</b> phones and tablets frightens you, don't worry just yet. The company claims, "We have no desire to restrict manufacturers from building their own themed experience across their devices." <b>Google</b> also mentions it is actually easier to theme the platform than ever before.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">Holo first appeared in <b>Honeycomb</b> (3.0) but the requirement to include it only extends to Ice Cream Sandwich. Devices which are required to comply with this guideline must also utilize the <b>Android Market</b>. Although the overwhelming majority do, not all Android devices have access to Google's official market place. This would excuse devices like the Kindle Fire which uses Amazon's own curated <b>app store</b>, ignoring fact it runs an older version of Android to begin with. By the way, despite this limitation on the Kindle Fire, there is a way around it.</div><blockquote style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 5px; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px; margin-top: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; padding-top: 15px;"><div style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">In Android 4.0, <b>Holo</b> is different. We’ve made the inclusion of the unmodified Holo theme family a compatibility requirement for devices running <b>Android 4.0</b> and forward. If the device has Android Market it will have the Holo themes as they were originally designed.</div></blockquote><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">As a result of the changes found in <b>Ice Cream Sandwich</b>, developers may now explicitly call upon the plain old vanilla theme for their apps. This may actually help relieve the tension created by trying to give apps a consistent look and feel amidst a plethora of custom UIs found on millions of Android devices.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">According to <b>Google</b>, improvements made to the theming system should also allow manufacturers to upgrade their devices to major platform versions more quickly and with less effort. Presumably, this is because companies will have less to mull over in terms of maintaining their custom UIs across versions. Perhaps this will encourage companies to adopt and update future versions of <b>Android</b> more quickly.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.techspot.com/news/46919-google-makes-unmodified-android-theme-compatibility-requirement.html">Source</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6706532526106065199-8872606832348552445?l=revutech.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>...noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706532526106065199.post-6574891796002930122012-01-06T04:40:00.000-08:002012-01-06T04:40:17.390-08:0073 million tablets sold in 2011, 300 PPI displays to catch on<div class="fronticons" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; float: right; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 20px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 6px;"><img alt="android, ios, tablet, npd, netbooks, sales, mobile pcs, displaysearch, analysis, ppi" height="210" src="http://static.techspot.com/images/teaser/2011-2017%20mobile%20pc%20shipments.jpg" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" width="320" /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">According to DisplaySearch, an arm of the analytics firm NPD, netbooks will fade away while <b>tablets</b> and<b> laptops</b> shall continue to gain mobile PC market share until 2017. Tablets, in particular, are expected to continue their rapid growth.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">The firm's analysis of the "<b>mobile PC</b>" market does not include smartphones.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">DisplaySearch estimates that 72.8 million tablets landed in consumers' hands last year. This number accounts for nearly a quarter of all mobile PCs shipped. Sales are expected to increase more than 250% in 2012 while, despite diminishing growth, will continue to remain strong for the next several years. By 2017, DisplaySearch predicts the yearly sales total for tablets will weigh in at 383.3 million units, representing nearly half of the mobile PC market.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"> The report notes that slow growth in <b>notebook PC</b> sales will improve as prices drop, Windows 8 hits the shelves and targeted form factors (eg. Ultrabooks) gain popularity. Meanwhile, netbooks or "mini-notes" are expected to dissolve into the technology abyss.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">Higher <b>tablet</b> demand is anticipated to be driven by the ever-increasing maturity of available tablets and their operating systems. Complaints of tablets being too slow are quickly becoming a thing of the past as the glass and plastic slabs sport multi-core CPUs, increased memory and continually refined software.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">The firm's crystal ball also envisions high pixel density screens becoming commonplace this year, accounting for nearly a quarter of new tablets. These types of panels, such as Apple's "Retina" display in their iPhone 4 and 4S, cram more pixels into a screen which improves resolution and picture clarity. However, the cost for such displays increases greatly with size, traditionally making the technology cost prohibitive.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.techspot.com/news/46916-73-million-tablets-sold-in-2011-300-ppi-displays-to-catch-on.html">Source</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6706532526106065199-657489179600293012?l=revutech.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>...noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706532526106065199.post-86509056986027446032012-01-05T07:42:00.000-08:002012-01-05T07:42:51.174-08:00New Windows Phone update fixes disappearing keyboard and more<div style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-seirf; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; line-height: 18px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">It certainly took longer than usual, but what matters is that the iPhone 4S untethered jailbreak solution is finally nearing completion. The popular developer pod2g confirmed through his Twitter account that he has made huge progress towards getting full access to the iPhone 4S operating system.</div><div style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-seirf; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; line-height: 18px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">According to pod2g, if we are lucky enough, we will get the untethered jailbreaking tool for the iPhone 4S and the iPad2 running iOS 5.0.1 in just a week's time.</div><center style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-seirf; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; text-align: center;"><img height="154" src="http://st.gsmarena.com/vv/newsimg/12/01/iphone-4s-jb/gsmarena_001.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="400" /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-seirf; line-height: 16px;"><br /></span></div></center><div style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-seirf; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; line-height: 18px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">Those that had older iDevices - iPhone 4, 3GS and the original iPad got their untethered jailbreak in the final days of last year, but the A5 chipset proved much tougher to break. Fortunately, its defenses are now finally breached and you'll be able to enjoy absolute control over your shiny new Apple iGadgets.</div><div style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-seirf; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; line-height: 18px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-seirf; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; line-height: 18px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.gsmarena.com/untethered_jailbreak_for_the_iphone_4s_coming_up_next_week-news-3610.php">Source</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6706532526106065199-8650905698602744603?l=revutech.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>...noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706532526106065199.post-4477726654340787752012-01-05T07:36:00.000-08:002012-01-05T07:36:43.975-08:00Angry Moto owners start a petition over locked bootloaders<img align="left" height="200" id="news-img" src="http://st.gsmarena.com/vv/newsimg/12/01/motorola-opmosh/big.jpg" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-seirf; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="106" /><br /><div style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-seirf; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; line-height: 18px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Unlocked bootloaders are a hot topic in the Android community and Motorola is yet another company to come under heavy fire from fans who really like the freedom to do with their phones as they please.</div><div style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-seirf; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; line-height: 18px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It's not the first and it probably won't be the last company (ASUS announced that it will be <a href="http://blog.gsmarena.com/transformer-prime-ics-update-will-come-on-january-12-unlocked-bootloader-to-follow-gps-is-no-good/" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #666666; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">unlocking</a> the bootloader on the Transformer Prime). What seems to making users particularly cross with Motorola is that in early 2011 Moto promised to unlock the bootloaders of its smartphones and while it did unlock a few left the majority locked.</div><div style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-seirf; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; line-height: 18px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A forum thread over at XDA-Developers has started <i>Operaition: Make Ourselves Heard</i> (a.k.a. #OPMOSH), which calls for a onslaught on all possible channels - FCC complaints, emails to Motorola Mobility's leaders, Twitter and Facebook and an online petition too.</div><div style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-seirf; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; line-height: 18px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Such organized outcries by the users have had <a href="http://www.gsmarena.com/you_can_unlock_the_sony_ericsson_xperias_bootloader_this_spring-news-2459.php" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #666666; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">an effect</a> quite often, but then <a href="http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_drops_plans_to_release_value_pack_for_galaxy_s-news-3607.php" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #666666; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">not all</a> succeed.</div><div style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-seirf; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; line-height: 18px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-seirf; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; line-height: 18px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.gsmarena.com/moto_owners_angry_over_locked_bootloaders_start_a_petition-news-3616.php">Source</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6706532526106065199-447772665434078775?l=revutech.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>...noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706532526106065199.post-17405146087623778012012-01-05T07:32:00.000-08:002012-01-05T07:32:51.151-08:00Upcoming Windows 8 refresh and reset options detailed<div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">Microsoft has been steadily releasing information about its upcoming operating system on its MSDN Building Windows 8 blog, providing those interested with snippets of new functionality as we draw ever closer to its release. The latest news from the company's blog involve the refresh and reset PC functions on Windows 8.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">"We’ve built two new features in Windows 8 that can help you get your PCs back to a "good state" when they’re not working their best, or back to the "factory state" when you’re about to give them to someone else or decommission them," Desmond Lee said in his post on the MSDN blog.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: center;"><img height="225" src="http://static.techspot.com/images2/news/bigimage/2012-01-05-image-4.jpg" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" width="400" /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">It will enable users of the OS to reset their computer in much the same way other devices like smartphones can be reset without the need for any discs or third party utilities. The new option will be available from the control panel, the pre-boot recovery environment and via a bootable USB drive, which should cover any state of repair that your computer might be experiencing.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">Microsoft has thought of users storing sensitive data as well, with Windows 8 introducing the option to securely erase the hard disk. It strikes a balance between security and the time it takes to wipe the disk. It usually takes hours/days to scrub a disk with multiple passes, which is often overkill for those using a computer for social purposes.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: center;"><img height="225" src="http://static.techspot.com/images2/news/bigimage/2012-01-05-image-3.jpg" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" width="400" /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">"Instead of just formatting the drive, choosing the "thorough" option will write random patterns to every sector of the drive, overwriting any existing data visible to the operating system. Even if someone removes the drive from your PC, your data will still not be easily recoverable without the use of special equipment that is prohibitively expensive for most people," Lee wrote.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">The refresh feature is another step in the right direction. It will enable users of the OS to restore the computer back to its original installed state. Essentially, it will keep all personal files and personalization settings intact, but remove all applications installed via CDs or the internet as well as changing most settings back to the original, newly installed state.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">Wireless settings, mobile broadband connections, BitLocker and personalization settings as well as each user's files will all remain intact during a refresh. As will account login settings and metro applications. Other settings like firewall permissions and file type associations will be removed, as these are commonly the cause of computer issues. The exact list will be tweaked over time according to Lee.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: center;"><img height="225" src="http://static.techspot.com/images2/news/bigimage/2012-01-05-image-2.jpg" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" width="400" /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">It would usually be a last resort, but the capability to restore the OS back to good working state with settings and data intact without the use of any discs or having to enter product keys will certainly make life easier for users. They would no longer need to perform a backup before refreshing Windows.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">Microsoft has also considered those of you that prefer to install your applications or add and remove Windows features and then make a system image to use at a later time. It will be possible to create your own custom refresh image using a new command-line tool.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: center;"><img height="105" src="http://static.techspot.com/images2/news/bigimage/2012-01-05-image-1.png" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" width="400" /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">The detailed recovery times are impressive as well. In most cases, it will take less than nine minutes to refresh a computer back to its "good working" state whilst maintaining personalization settings and data. That is without question a saving of several hours for those of you (like me) with a lot of software to load on a fresh install of Windows, if you take advantage of the custom image tool.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">The reset times are equally impressive, with a thorough reset of the computer taking just under 24 minutes to achieve. A quick reset will have you back up and running in under seven minutes, a feature that users and system administrators will all certainly be relieved to see.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">With CES fast approaching it will be interesting to see if any more information is revealed. </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.techspot.com/news/46908-upcoming-windows-8-refresh-and-reset-options-detailed.html">Source</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6706532526106065199-1740514608762377801?l=revutech.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>...noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706532526106065199.post-52312429720730835832012-01-05T07:27:00.000-08:002012-01-05T07:27:19.075-08:00Notebook maker Quanta accuses AMD of hawking faulty chips<div class="fronticons" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; float: right; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 20px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 6px; text-align: justify;"><img alt="amd, lawsuit, ati, integrated graphics, quanta, ati rs600me, igp" height="247" src="http://static.techspot.com/images2/news/thumbs/2012-01-04-teaser3.jpg" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" width="320" /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">AMD has been sued by Quanta Computer, the world's largest contract laptop manufacturer, for allegedly selling defective chips. In its San Jose, Calif. federal court filing, Quanta claims that it purchased AMD chips that failed to meet certain heat tolerances, thereby making them unfit for use. The complaint specifically names the ATI RS600ME integrated graphics solution, which made its way into various low-end machines.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">Unaware of the situation, Quanta used the chips in notebooks built for NEC and they reportedly caused the systems to malfunction. Because of that, the laptop maker claims to have suffered "significant injury to prospective revenue and profits." AMD is accused of negligent misrepresentation, civil fraud, breach of warranty and interference with a contract. Quanta seeks a jury trial and damages, though we haven't seen any figures.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">We haven't found a list of affected machines or any consumer complaints, but NEC mainly sells devices in Japan and that could be why we haven't heard anything until now. It seems AMD hasn't either, as the company didn't hesitate to call shenanigans. "AMD disputes the allegations in Quanta's complaint and believes they are without merit," spokesman Michael Silverman told Bloomberg today.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">"AMD is aware of no other customer reports of the alleged issues with the AMD chip that Quanta used, which AMD no longer sells. In fact, Quanta has itself acknowledged to AMD that it used the identical chip in large volumes in a different computer platform that it manufactured for NEC without such issues." It should be interesting to see if other notebook manufacturers step forward to back Quanta.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.techspot.com/news/46906-notebook-maker-quanta-accuses-amd-of-hawking-faulty-chips.html">Source</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6706532526106065199-5231242972073083583?l=revutech.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>...noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706532526106065199.post-18954847194992880242012-01-05T07:24:00.000-08:002012-01-05T07:24:43.669-08:00Roku announces thumb-sized set-top 'Streaming Stick'<div class="fronticons" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; float: right; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 20px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 6px;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /><img alt="roku, boxee, htpc, google tv, apple tv, streaming stick, set-top box, media streaming" height="302" src="http://static.techspot.com/images/teaser/roku%20streaming%20stick.jpg" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" width="320" /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">Roku is celebrating the new year by unveiling miniature set-top solution. Dubbed the "Roku Streaming Stick," it's approximately the same size as a USB flash drive but packs most of the functionality you'd find in a standard set-top box, such as integrated Wi-Fi connectivity and flash storage. The device plugs into your television's HDMI port and uses the new Mobile High-Definition Link (MHL) spec to provide access to the company's software platform, which includes an array of Web service applications.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">Naturally, this form factor offers many benefits. The Streaming Stick is more portable, requires less effort to set up and doesn't need an external power source. Despite those advantages, the device seems to serve a very niche role. MHL still lacks widespread support among current-generation HDTVs, so Roku is waiting on next-gen models to come with technology. However, a sizable portion of those devices will be "Smart TVs" with integrated access to popular streaming and social networking services.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">In other words, the Streaming Stick will charge people for features their TVs already have. Roku has reportedly partnered with Best Buy to bundle its device with the retailer's Insignia TVs. Speaking with Gigaom, the company said it sees plenty of potential in lower-end TVs that don't bother adding streaming software. But again, we're not sure how many budget TVs will go the extra mile to add MHL if they skip other Smart TV-like features. For now, we'll have to assume Roku knows something we don't.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: center;"><img height="193" src="http://static.techspot.com/images2/news/bigimage/2012-01-04-image-4.jpg" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" width="400" /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">Without railing on the device too hard, it does offer least one other discernible benefit. Unlike other consumer electronics, people tend to use their TVs for six to eight years before replacing them. It's highly unlikely that the manufacturer of your TV will keep its software updated for that long. Not only will Roku offer support for lengthier durations, it's a lot cheaper to replace the Streaming Stick with a new model than it would be to chuck your entire TV because it lacks the desired software functionality.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">The company plans to offer several models, including one that will let you play games using Roku's motion controller. The device is set to launch toward the second half of 2012 with pricing set between $50 and $100. The market should see plenty of competition over the coming 12 months. Boxee is said to be preparing new products, Apple will continue to elbow its way into the space and, undiscouraged by last year's failure, Google is expected to make another push with Google TV devices.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.techspot.com/news/46904-roku-announces-thumb-sized-set-top-streaming-stick.html">Source</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6706532526106065199-1895484719499288024?l=revutech.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>...noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706532526106065199.post-56393421340239829842012-01-05T07:20:00.000-08:002012-01-05T07:20:32.627-08:00Internet Explorer 6 laid to rest after 10 years of service<div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">Mourning the passing of a trusted companion can be tough to cope with but for Microsoft, there’s reason to celebrate. To mark the demise of Internet Explorer 6, Microsoft baked a cake and popped open the proverbial champagne as IE6 usage in the US has dipped below 1 percent.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">The sixth major revision of Internet Explorer, IE6 was initially released in August 2001 right around the time that work on Windows XP was being wrapped up. The browser lived a long and prosperous life but Father Time eventually caught up to IE6 and it became the butt of jokes worldwide.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: center;"><img height="267" src="http://static.techspot.com/images2/news/bigimage/2012-01-04-image-3.jpg" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" width="400" /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">In a recent blog post, director of Internet Explorer marketing Roger Capriotti admits that Microsoft has been as eager as anyone else to see IE6 fade away. In fact, Redmond even launched an IE6 Countdown site last March to help accelerate the process. The site has generated over 2.7 million visitors and 5.6 million page views in less than a year. That day has finally come as the US joins Austria, Poland, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Norway in dropping below 1 percent usage of IE6.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">Capriotti hopes that the trend continues in other parts of the world where developers and IT professionals can consider the product a low priority and stop wasting time supporting such an outdated browser. Naturally, he goes on to urge these users to move to a more modern browser like IE8 or IE9.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.techspot.com/news/46897-internet-explorer-6-laid-to-rest-after-10-years-of-service.html">Source</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6706532526106065199-5639342134023982984?l=revutech.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>...noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706532526106065199.post-44069544323102544942012-01-05T07:15:00.000-08:002012-01-05T07:15:10.480-08:00Microsoft sues UK retailer Comet over fake Windows discs<div class="story_content html_only" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 10px;"><div class="fronticons" style="float: right; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 20px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 6px;"><br /><img alt="microsoft, windows, comet, kesa electricals" height="320" src="http://static.techspot.com/images/teaser/comet_store.jpg" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" width="280" /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">Software giant Microsoft is suing UK electronics retailer Comet after it became apparent the store chain allegedly created, then sold 94,000 unauthorized "recovery" CDs to customers for Windows XP and Vista operating systems, between March 2008 and December 2009.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">According to the Guardian newspaper, Comet disputes the claims saying it acted in the best interests of its customers. The fiasco happened after Microsoft stopped supplying recovery discs with new computers. They say the CDs were sold to existing customers so they had a means to recover their Windows operating system in the case of hard disk failure.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">"As detailed in the complaint filed today, Comet produced and sold thousands of counterfeit Windows CDs to unsuspecting customers in the United Kingdom," said Microsoft lawyer David Finn, in a statement to the newspaper. "Comet's actions were unfair to customers. We expect better from retailers of Microsoft products — and our customers deserve better, too."</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">Microsoft has advised anyone who has purchased the discs from Comet to check their "How to Tell" page if they are concerned whether the disc is genuine or not. The webpage offers advice and steps required to verify the media is genuine.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">Comet admits producing the CDs at a factory in Hampshire and then selling them across its entire chain of stores. The retailer believes that those actions did not infringe on Microsoft's intellectual property. "Comet firmly believes that it acted in the very best interests of its customers," a spokesperson said in a statement.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">"It believes its customers had been adversely affected by the decision to stop supplying recovery discs with each new Microsoft operating system based computer." They believe they have a solid defence and will vigorously oppose the lawsuit.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.techspot.com/news/46891-microsoft-sues-uk-retailer-comet-over-fake-windows-discs.html">Source</a></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6706532526106065199-4406954432310254494?l=revutech.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>...noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706532526106065199.post-4855903001369738212012-01-05T07:12:00.000-08:002012-01-05T07:12:37.118-08:00Yahoo taps PayPal's Scott Thompson as its new CEO<div class="story_content html_only" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 10px;"><div class="fronticons" style="float: right; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 20px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 6px;"><br /><img alt="yahoo, ceo, paypal, scott thompson" height="320" src="http://static.techspot.com/images/teaser/scott-thompson.jpg" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" width="271" /></div><div style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">Yahoo has officially named PayPal President Scott Thompson as its new chief executive officer, ending a four-month long search to replace the famously outspoken Carol Bartz, who was fired in September after the company's board grew impatient with her attempts to turn around the company during her two and a half years on the job.</div><div style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">He will take command on January 9, also joining as part of the board, which is reviewing the company's future strategy. According to recent reports, Yahoo has considered shedding some of its valuable stakes in Asian Internet companies and potentially sell a minority stake in Yahoo to private-equity investors. Tim Morse, who had been serving as interim CEO since Batz's ouster, will return to his post as CFO.</div><div style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">Scott Thompson has served as president of PayPal, eBay's online payment service and the company's fastest growing division, since January 2008. He previously served as PayPal's senior vice president and chief technology officer. In announcing the news Yahoo noted:</div><blockquote style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f6f6f6; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 5px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px; margin-top: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; padding-top: 15px;"><div style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">"Under his leadership, PayPal solidified its lead as the global online payment service, expanding its user base from 50 million to more than 104 million active users in 190 countries worldwide, increasing the number of merchant partners to more than 8 million globally, and growing revenues from $1.8 billion to $4+ billion in 2011."</div></blockquote><div style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">Turning Yahoo around will be anything but an easy task, though. The company has been losing ground in the Internet advertising business to Google and Facebook for a few years now. They famously turned down a $46 billion acquisition offer form Microsoft in 2008 -- at a 62% premium, mind you -- and have floundered ever since. Today the company is valued well under half of what Microsoft was willing to pay in 2008.</div><div style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">Carol Bartz was hired in 2009 to replace co-founder Jerry Yang after being severely criticized by investors for his handling of the Microsoft bid. She shifted the company from traditional search results to more personalized content and later agreed to an advertising and search partnership with Microsoft.</div><div style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 17px;"><a href="http://www.techspot.com/news/46893-yahoo-taps-paypals-scott-thompson-as-its-new-ceo.html">Source</a></span></span></div><div id="jump" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6706532526106065199-485590300136973821?l=revutech.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>...noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706532526106065199.post-35376622933990287692012-01-05T07:08:00.000-08:002012-01-05T07:08:57.105-08:00Apple designer 'Jony' Ive gets knighthood in honors list<div class="fronticons" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; float: right; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 20px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 6px;"><img alt="apple, knighthood, jonathan ive, design, kbe, cbe, award" height="376" src="http://static.techspot.com/images2/news/thumbs/2012-01-04-teaser1.png" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" width="330" /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">Jonathan Ive, senior vice president of industrial design for Apple, has been recognised by the Queen for services to design and enterprise in the Queen's New Years honors list (PDF). He receives the prestigious title of Knight Commander of the British Empire (KBE).</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">When asked, he said he was "humbled and sincerely grateful" for the award. "I am keenly aware that I benefit from a wonderful tradition in the UK of designing and making," he said when speaking to the BBC. "I discovered at an early age that all I have ever wanted to do is design."</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">Ive was born in Chingford, Essex in 1967. His father was a silversmith, and he spent the majority of his youth taking things apart in a bid to fuel his fascination into how it all worked. He went on to study industrial design at Newcastle Polytechnic University (now Northumbria University).</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">Several years later, with a degree in his hand he found employment in the field of commercial design. He then went on to found a design agency called Tangerine with three friends, where he eventually submitted a prototype notebook design to Apple in 1992.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">The Cupertino-based company was so impressed they hired him, and he has worked for them ever since. He has been instrumental in the design of Apple's products since starting his employment and was often referred to by the late Steve Jobs as being his "spiritual partner."</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">"What's made him so outstandingly successful is the relationship he's had with Steve Jobs and Apple," said Deyan Sudjic, director of The Design Museum, when speaking to the BBC. "He's been working there for 19 years and has built up the kind of relationship that's very rare."</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">The KBE will be awarded at an official ceremony at a later date, in which the Queen will "tap" him on the shoulders using a ceremonial sword. After which he will rise as Sir Jonathan Ive. In 2005, he was awarded the title Commander of the British Empire (CBE), also for the design and enterprise.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.techspot.com/news/46888-apple-designer-jony-ive-gets-knighthood-in-honors-list.html">Source</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6706532526106065199-3537662293399028769?l=revutech.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>...noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706532526106065199.post-8468309702666716782012-01-04T08:18:00.000-08:002012-01-04T08:23:42.453-08:00Steve Jobs action figure is eerily realistic and unlicensed<div class="meta" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; overflow-x: auto; overflow-y: auto;"><span style="font-size: 1px;"><br /></span></div><div class="story_content html_only" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 10px;"><div class="fronticons" style="float: right; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 20px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 6px;"><img alt="apple, china, steve jobs, lawsuit, legal, court, action figures, in icons, intellectual property" height="400" src="http://static.techspot.com/images/teaser/steve%20jobs%20action%20figure.jpg" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" width="300" /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Chinese toy manufacturer, In Icons, has unveiled a remarkably striking "action" figure which will both pay homage to and attempt to cash-in on the legendary Apple CEO. According to In Icons, their goal is to "honor the American icon and great visionary Steve Jobs". Now you can re-enact all of those heart stopping keynote moments from the comfort of your own home.</div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><div style="text-align: justify;">So detailed it is creepy, the 1:6 replica of Jobs sports blue jeans complete with black leather belt, New Balance shoes and an oddly familiar black turtle neck. Also included are two pairs of glasses, an apple, three pairs of hands and socks. Sorry folks: iMac, iPad and iPhone miniatures sold separately.</div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><div style="text-align: justify;">If that were not enough, bundled with the figurine is a backdrop lovingly printed with the iconic phrase "One more thing..." Simply seat Jobs onto the included stool and stage an poignant discussion with the tech visionary any time you please. </div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Despite this particular plastic homage displaying the most uncanny semblance of Jobs to date, previous unsanctioned action figures bearing his likeness have been mercilessly crushed by Apple. This one may meet a similar fate as the doll appears to also be unlicensed. There is no question that both Apple and the Jobs Estate remain very protective of the iconic CEO's image, even posthumously.</div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><div style="text-align: justify;">While the Chinese government has cooperated with Western companies many times to stamp out past intellectual property violations, their resolve is not always judicious. Also, despite periodic crack downs on pirated software and products in China, it continues to be a well-known hot bed for such gray-market goods.</div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><div style="text-align: justify;">The action figure is set to be released in February.</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=site:inicons.com&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi" style="color: #05408f; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="" height="261" src="http://www.techspot.com/fileshost/newspics3/2010/steve%20jobs%20action%20figure%20collage-1.jpg" style="border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 5px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" width="400" /></a></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><a href="http://www.techspot.com/news/46879-steve-jobs-action-figure-is-eerily-realistic-and-unlicensed.html">Source</a></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: center;"></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6706532526106065199-846830970266671678?l=revutech.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>...noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706532526106065199.post-30545227501786929642012-01-04T08:11:00.000-08:002012-01-04T08:11:19.030-08:00ICS coming to Transformer Prime January 12, unlocked bootloader soon<div class="fronticons" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; float: right; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 20px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 6px;"><img alt="google, gps, bootloader, ice cream sandwich, ics, transformer prime, root" height="284" src="http://static.techspot.com/images2/news/thumbs/2011-11-09-teaser3.jpg" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" width="330" /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">ASUS has announced that they will be delivering Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich to Transformer Prime tablet owners on January 12. The company released an incremental over-the-air update yesterday that improves focus issues with the tablet’s camera and provides better touchscreen response and GPS performance.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">ASUS took to Facebook to announce the pending update, thank customers for their support and address some of the growing issues that the Transformer Prime is facing. The first issue on the docket has to do with the aforementioned GPS performance problem.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">As ASUS explains in the post, the Transformer Prime is made from a metallic unibody design meaning that the material may affect the performance of the GPS when receiving signals from satellites. The company reminds users that the tablet isn’t a professional-grade GPS device and that signal strength can be influenced by a number of additional factors. To avoid any further confusion, ASUS has removed the GPS function from their specification sheet and marketing materials.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">Regarding the locked bootloader, ASUS was required to lock it due to content providers’ requirement for DRM client devices to be as secure as possible. Specifically, the locked bootloader is necessary to access content from Google’s video market. They are well aware that this doesn’t sit well with the modding community, however, and announced that an unlock tool is being developed for those that choose to use it. Note that your warranty will be void and Google video rental will be unavailable should you choose to root the Prime.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.techspot.com/news/46883-ics-coming-to-transformer-prime-january-12-unlocked-bootloader-soon.html">Source</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6706532526106065199-3054522750178692964?l=revutech.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>...noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706532526106065199.post-29882218403581699132012-01-04T08:07:00.000-08:002012-01-04T08:07:22.140-08:00Google+ earns 49 million visits in December, up 55 percent from November<div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">Unofficial estimates indicate that Google+ experienced its best traffic month ever in December 2011. The site garnered more than 49 million visitors in the US, according to web analytics firm Experian Hitwise in a recent Tweet.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">The Tweet and accompanying chart indicate that not only was December the best month ever for the budding social network but traffic was up 55 percent from the previous month.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: center;"><img src="http://static.techspot.com/images2/news/bigimage/2012-01-03-image-4.jpg" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">Experian Hitwise isn’t the only one singing praise for Google+. Last week we reported that Ancestory.com co-founder and self-proclaimed Google+ unofficial statistician Paul Allen believed that the company had topped 62 million users at a pace of around 625,000 new members each day.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">Google.com ranked as the top overall web destination for US surfers in 2011 while their social network finished in 8th place in the top 10 US social networks and blogs category with an average of 8.2 million unique visitors per month. Of course these stats are highly skewed as Google+ didn’t launch until late June 2011.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">There’s no doubt that the holiday season and the number of new Android device activations helped funnel traffic to the social network and it remains to be seen if that traffic will slowly die off as we look back at December in the rear-view mirror. Additionally, Google has been integrating + with several of their other properties including Piscasa Web Albums, Gmail, Reader and search to cross-promote their product lines.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">At its current rate, Google+ could reach 100 million users before the end of February and double that by August.</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6706532526106065199-2988221840358169913?l=revutech.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>...noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706532526106065199.post-61965355283137840312012-01-03T10:05:00.000-08:002012-01-03T10:05:39.406-08:00Asus readies 7-inch Android tablet(s) for CES 2012<div class="meta" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; overflow-x: auto; overflow-y: auto; text-indent: -1000px;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></div><div class="story_content html_only" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 10px;"><div class="fronticons" style="float: right; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 20px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 6px;"><img alt="android, asus, tablet, slate, transformer prime, ces 2012, eee pad memo" height="334" src="http://static.techspot.com/images/teaser/asus%20seven%20inch%20ces%202012.jpg" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" width="344" /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">A leaked picture has lent credence to rumors about an upcoming mini counterpart to Asus' 10-inch Transformer Prime. It's still unclear whether there will be one or two 7-inch devices with speculation surrounding both a 7-inch Transformer Prime and a refresh to last year's Eee Pad Memo. Regardless, the grapevine is convinced at least one or perhaps an amalgamation of the two will debut during this year's Consumer Electronics Show.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">Published by Notebook Italia, the picture reveals a tablet with similar aesthetics to the Transformer Prime and less so of the Memo, which has a bulkier bezel. That particular site is convinced the mini Transformer will be a separate device, though it doesn't have any specifications besides those dictated by common sense: a hardware keyboard attachment, Android (presumably Ice Cream Sandwich), and an affordable price ($299ish).</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">Notebook Italia believes the revamped Eee Pad Memo will carry a 1280x800 capacitive display, a 1.2GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, 16GB to 64GB of integrated flash memory, Wi-Fi and 3G connectivity, as well as Ice Cream Sandwich being a distinct possibility at launch. Additional details are sparse, but considering its name, it's probably safe to assume the device will support pen input accompanied by handwriting software.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">Asus' products will compete with countless other second-gen units in the 7 and 10-inch form factors. Unfortunately, it seems little has changed from last year's landscape. The market should be slightly less cluttered with some PC makers focusing on Ultrabooks instead of tablets, but the first half of 2012 is bound to be dominated by Apple's iPad and Amazon's Kindle Fire with an array of marginally successful Android devices.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.techspot.com/news/46864-asus-readies-7-inch-android-tablets-for-ces-2012.html">Source</a></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6706532526106065199-6196535528313784031?l=revutech.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>...noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706532526106065199.post-86762559830607958802012-01-03T09:58:00.000-08:002012-01-03T09:58:28.301-08:00RIM: BlackBerry PlayBook now priced at $299 for all models<div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">Following up from what can only be described as a lousy year for RIM, the Canadian firm has kicked off 2012 with a new round of BlackBerry PlayBook discounts. From now until February 4, or until inventory runs out, all models of the beleaguered tablet <a href="https://store.shopblackberry.com/Product/BlackBerry-PlayBook/PRD-38548-001" style="color: #05408f; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-decoration: none;">will cost $299 in the U.S</a>. Previous prices were $499 for 16GB, $599 for 32GB and $699 for 64GB so you'd be getting up to $400 off if you can get a hold of the larger model.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">We should note that while this is the lowest price the company has ever sold the 32GB and 64GB versions of the device for, holiday sales saw the 16GB PlayBook fall to <a href="http://www.techspot.com/news/46346-rim-drops-blackberry-playbook-to-199-in-time-for-the-holidays.html" style="color: #05408f; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-decoration: none;">as low as $199</a>.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: center;"><img src="http://static.techspot.com/images2/news/bigimage/2012-01-03-image-1.jpg" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">The company had high expectations for the PlayBook but it just wasn’t meant to be. RIM reportedly shipped 500,000 tablets in the first quarter it was available, 250,000 more the following quarter and only 150,000 in the next. That is a far cry from the 1 million units the company had estimated to ship in January. The latest move comes as the company attempts to offset a recent <a href="http://www.techspot.com/news/46512-rim-charging-off-485-million-in-unsold-playbook-inventory.html" style="color: #05408f; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-decoration: none;">$485 million charge against revenues</a> on unsold stock.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">But even at the new price point the BlackBerry maker may face some hurdles in getting the PlayBook into the hands of consumers. Not only are a flood of new tablet announcements expected at CES by the end of this week, but Amazon's Kindle Fire has proven to be a sales hit at $200, and despite being a less technically powerful device it provides access to a wider range of Amazon content and apps.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><a href="http://www.techspot.com/news/46870-rim-blackberry-playbook-now-priced-at-299-for-all-models.html">Source</a> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6706532526106065199-8676255983060795880?l=revutech.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>...noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706532526106065199.post-38029298757998480412012-01-03T09:54:00.000-08:002012-01-03T09:54:19.159-08:00The beauty of high-speed cameras<div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">High-speed photography offers an amazing glimpse at what can be produced when you simply slow down the world. Natural motion, such as frogs jumping, can look captivatingly beautiful when shot at thousands of frames per second, and can make nature shows amazing to view. Destruction also looks superb when slowed down, with shows such as <em style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">Mythbusters </em>frequently making use of ths technique.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: center;"><img src="http://static.techspot.com/fileshost/newspics3/2010/464px-High_speed_photography.jpg" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: center;"><em style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">Coffee being blown out of a straw as captured by a high-speed camera</em></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">The actual technology behind high-speed photography and cameras is quite amazing. A normal everyday-Joe camera usually records at 30 or perhaps 60 frames per second (FPS), meaning that the shutter must activate 30-60 times every second. However with a high-speed camera, the shutter must move much faster to achieve speeds of over 1,000 frames per second; a fairly common frame rate for slow-motion videos.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">Cameras don’t stop just at 1,000 frames per second though, they can continue upwards into <em style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">millions and millions of frames per second</em> at lowered resolutions. In fact, the supposedly <a href="http://advance.uri.edu/pacer/september2000/story9.htm" style="color: #05408f; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-decoration: none;">“fastest” high-speed camera</a> in the world can record at 200,000,000 (200 million) frames per second, making “even the fastest moving objects look like they are standing still.” Of course the image quality from this camera would not be very good, even though it demanded a $457,000 price tag.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><a href="http://www.techspot.com/news/46869-trivia-tuesday-the-beauty-of-high-speed-cameras.html">Source</a> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6706532526106065199-3802929875799848041?l=revutech.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>...noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706532526106065199.post-4121248299798264882011-10-06T12:47:00.000-07:002011-10-06T12:47:58.160-07:00Rainbow seen over Steve Jobs' Pixar studios following his death<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, verdana, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;"></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.windsorstar.com/technology/steve-jobs/Rainbow+seen+over+Steve+Jobs+Pixar+studios+following+death/5512601/story.html" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; color: #035a91; font-family: arial; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Shared photos of a rainbow above Palo Alto that appeared on the day the Steve Jobs' death was announced." border="0" class="thumbnail" id="storyphoto" src="http://www.windsorstar.com/technology/steve-jobs/5512768.bin" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; width: 460px;" title="Shared photos of a rainbow above Palo Alto that appeared on the day the Steve Jobs' death was announced." /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, verdana, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Moments after <b>Steve Jobs </b>died, a rainbow sprung up out of <b>Pixar</b> studios in Emeryville, California.<br /><br />At least, that was the message, which became a buzz, which turned into a social media roar.<br />Who can say for sure? And if it did, what does that mean?<br /><br />What we do know for sure is that moments after the death of the <b>Apple</b> co-founder and Silicon Valley legend, photos of the event began popping up on photo sharing sites across the web, uploaded and viewed — without a doubt — on many of Jobs' gadgets.<br /><br />One picture, snapped by Maryann (a.k.a. gromitgirl) of San Francisco, appeared on Flickr. It showed a rainbow pouring over Jobs' former brainchild — a multi-coloured campus in the picturesque Bay area.<br /><br />"Moments after news broke about<b> Steve Jobs</b>' death, a rainbow popped out of the <b>Pixar </b>campus (taken with my <b>iPhone 4</b>)," gromitgirl wrote in the caption. "Rest in peace, Steve, and thank you."<br /><br />The photo had been viewed more than 48,200 times by 9 a.m. pacific time on Thursday.<br />By then, social media was already chasing the pot of gold.<br /><br />"Somewhere Over the Rainbow is number two on iTunes. Is this for Steve Jobs?" tweeted someone called a-simlar.<br /><br />Someone by the name of Ned Hayes shared this: "Rainbow over Silicon Valley today — the original <b>Apple </b>colors — <b>Apple</b> rainbow for <b>Steve Jobs</b>."<br /><br />That was quickly followed by "Incredible! This rainbow appeared in the heart of Silicon Valley w/in 1 hour of Apple announcing Steve Jobs passed away," from someone called Tony Deifell. Those notes were followed countless other colourful messages.<br /><br />In 1986, Jobs purchased the graphics division of Lucasfilm ltd. for $10 million, renaming his new acquisition Pixar, according to the company's website.<br /><br />The studio's first short, Luxo Jr. would premiere at Siggraph later that year, representing the first step in what has become a digital animation power house, and but one, of the many feathers in Jobs' technological cap.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, verdana, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"><span></span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6706532526106065199-412124829979826488?l=revutech.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>...noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706532526106065199.post-16602686138519645282011-10-05T17:14:00.001-07:002011-10-05T17:25:10.590-07:00Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple, has passed away at 56<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BpRPzpYkU_s/TozyxdHACzI/AAAAAAAAGXA/FIhexRGenUM/s1600/steve+jobs+is+dead.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="322" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BpRPzpYkU_s/TozyxdHACzI/AAAAAAAAGXA/FIhexRGenUM/s400/steve+jobs+is+dead.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">We just got some very, very sad news. Steve Jobs has passed away. As confirmed on Apple's site, Mr. Jobs has died at the age of 56 after recently stepping down from the position of CEO and naming Tim Cook his successor. Steve has had a profound effect on the world of technology, both at Apple and through his many other endeavors. Our thoughts go out to his family.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"><br /></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">- Engadget</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"><br /></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"><br /></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"><strong>Update:</strong> <em>All Things D</em> has posted a memo sent out by Tim Cook to Apple employees stating that there will be an internal celebration to honor Steve's life soon. His words can be found after the break.</span><br /><blockquote style="color: #6e6e6e; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 20px; padding-right: 20px; padding-top: 20px;"><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.45em; min-height: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"><em>Team,</em></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.45em; min-height: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"><em>I have some very sad news to share with all of you. Steve passed away earlier today.</em></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.45em; min-height: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"><em>Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being. Those of us who have been fortunate enough to know and work with Steve have lost a dear friend and an inspiring mentor. Steve leaves behind a company that only he could have built, and his spirit will forever be the foundation of Apple.</em></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.45em; min-height: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"><em><span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">We are planning a celebration of Steve's extraordinary life for Apple employees that will take place soon. If you would like to share your thoughts, memories and condolences in the interim, you can simply email <a class="linkclass" href="mailto:rememberingsteve@apple.com" style="color: #0087bb; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-decoration: none;">rememberingsteve@apple.com</a>.</span><br />No words can adequately express our sadness at Steve's death or our gratitude for the opportunity to work with him. We will honor his memory by dedicating ourselves to continuing the work he loved so much.</em></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; min-height: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"><em>Tim</em></span></div></blockquote><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6706532526106065199-1660268613851964528?l=revutech.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>...noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706532526106065199.post-54798591889001673642011-08-31T13:17:00.000-07:002011-08-31T13:17:26.672-07:00HP addresses TouchPad questions<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"></span><br /><div class="fronticons" style="float: right; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 20px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 6px;"><img alt="touchpad, webos, hp" height="273" src="http://static.techspot.com/images2/news/thumbs/2011-08-08-teaser4.jpg" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" width="320" /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">Less than two weeks ago <b>HP</b> dropped a bombshell by announcing they would be halting their<b> WebOS</b> division and effectively slashed prices on the HP TouchPad to $99 and $149 for the 16GB and 32GB models, respectively. Since then, demand for HP’s tablet has been phenomenal and finding one at that price has been next to impossible for most.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><b>HP</b> is surprised at the enthusiastic response from the price drop and as a result, has been flooded with questions from users and potential customers alike. The company took to their blog yesterday to answer some of the more pressing questions regarding availability, pricing and ordering.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">The most common question from the public is when will HP get more<b> TouchPads</b>. HP says that they will have more information available in the next few days about whether or not they will have more available and if so, what the details are on the situation.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">Regarding those who have signed up for alerts about replenished stock, emails will be going out to everyone on that list at the same time so each person has a fair shot at scoring the tablet. Due to high demand, no further email signup notifications are being accepted at this time.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">Potential customers have also expressed dissatisfaction about people buying multiple TouchPads and reselling them for a profit online. HP says that if more stock becomes available, they'll implement an order limit to help curb this behavior.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">If you purchased your <b>TouchPad</b> at a higher price before the liquidation sale started, you are urged to check with your retailer regarding their price match policy. A full list of questions and answers can be found on <a href="http://h20435.www2.hp.com/t5/The-Next-Bench-Blog/Answering-Your-Questions-Part-2/ba-p/68749" style="color: #05408f; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-decoration: none;">HP’s blog</a>.</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6706532526106065199-5479859188900167364?l=revutech.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>...noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706532526106065199.post-42198376917138761562011-08-30T05:52:00.000-07:002011-08-30T05:52:21.617-07:00Asus readying five to seven ultrabooks, starting at $799<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"></span><br /><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Ultrabooks</b> are coming and, as expected, <b>Asus</b> will be among those leading the charge. According to a report by the Financial Times, the company is expected to release "five to seven" models later this year with prices between $799 and $1,999. That's notably higher than Intel’s target price of $999 and under, but we can't really say we're surprised given OEM's component pricing concerns and the manufacturing challenge that the thinner form factor represents.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Asus' chief executive <b>Jerry Shen</b> also commented on Intel's ambition for ultrabooks to make up 40% of the consumer notebook market by the end of 2012, saying this is a very aggressive target that would be difficult to meet before 2013. The company expects its<b> ‘U’ series</b> of ultrabooks to account for 20% of its notebook sales next year.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img alt="" height="200" src="http://static.techspot.com/images2/news/bigimage/2011-05-31-image-1.jpg" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" width="400" /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Besides the technical difficulties involved in designing and manufacturing ultrabooks, <b>Asus</b> claims that there's limited capacity in the supply chain and at best it could handle producing around 200,000 units per month for now. As a reference, Asus shipped 3.1 million notebooks in the second quarter, or roughly 1 million notebooks a month.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Increased production and lower prices will eventually come, but not without any additional supply chain investments.<b> Intel</b> has already said it is setting apart $300 million to push the category over the next 3 to 4 years, though it remains to be seen if more notebook manufacturers decide to get on board. For now only<b> Asus</b> and <b>Acer</b> have talked about their upcoming <b>ultrabook</b> offerings, while <b>Lenovo</b> suggested that it would achieve mainstream prices in 2012.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We should note that <b>Apple</b> and <b>Samsung</b> are already selling systems that meet all of the criteria of an <b>ultrabook</b> -- including pricing -- with the 11.6-inch Samsung Series 9 and 11-inch Apple MacBook Air both starting at $999.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.techspot.com/news/45257-asus-readying-five-to-seven-ultrabooks-starting-at-799.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Source</span></a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6706532526106065199-4219837691713876156?l=revutech.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>...noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706532526106065199.post-71329784448735947982011-08-30T05:43:00.000-07:002011-08-30T05:43:11.667-07:00Samsung to release free, multi-platform messaging<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"></span><br /><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><b>Samsung</b> is planning to introduce a free text messaging application called <b>ChatON</b> at<b> IFA</b> later this week. In addition to supporting Samsung’s <b>Bada OS</b>, the cross-platform app will run on <b>Android, BlackBerry</b> and <b>iOS </b>devices as well. ChatON will provide basic one-on-one conversations, group chat, group messaging and multimedia sharing across all platforms.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">There will be two versions of ChatON available at launch. The first is a basic app for feature phones that provides texting and the ability to share images, calendars and contacts. A more advanced smartphone version allows for Interaction Rank, which shows you how active a user is on the service and <b>AMS (Animation Message Service)</b>. AMS allows you to draw basic animations over images that the recipient can view.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="345" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/EMPEm147BPo?hd=1" style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" width="560"></iframe></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><b>ChatON </b>will be free to download and should start rolling out in September in over 120 countries in 62 languages. A web-based version is also being planned that would allow PC users to interact with mobile devices.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">This is just the latest program designed to circumvent carrier-based SMS, as third party software developers and mobile OS providers are aiming to lure customers with the promise of free text messaging.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">In July, <b>RIM</b> released <b>BlackBerry Messenger 6</b>, an update to their popular Messenger service that enables the app to interact with other applications. Apple will be launching <b>iMessage</b> with iOS 5. iMessage will work over 3G and Wi-Fi and will serve as an alternative to traditional text messaging. Besides the typical SMS/MMS functionality, iMessage will offer delivery receipts, read receipts and user typing indications.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.techspot.com/news/45251-samsung-to-release-free-multi-platform-messaging-app.html">Source</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6706532526106065199-7132978444873594798?l=revutech.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>...noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706532526106065199.post-81379927384822920422011-08-30T05:37:00.000-07:002011-08-30T05:37:28.367-07:00HP is giving away select TouchPad apps<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"></span><br /><div class="story_content html_only" style="line-height: 1.5; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 10px;"><div class="fronticons" style="float: right; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 20px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 6px;"><br /><img alt="touchpad, hp, free apps" height="320" src="http://static.techspot.com/images2/news/thumbs/2011-08-26-teaser1.jpg" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" width="240" /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><b>HP</b> is offering <b>TouchPad</b> users six paid apps absolutely free for a limited time. The promotion comes shortly after HP discontinued the <b>WebOS tablet</b> after less than two months on the market and sparked a fire liquidation sale.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">The offer was announced on the official <b>HP Palm</b> blog yesterday. The apps in question range from games to a bird watching guide and vary in price from $0.99 to $14.99. As of writing, only customers in the US can score these apps for free but <b>HP</b> plans to expand the offer to other countries soon.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">To score the free apps, simply click on the links below on your TouchPad then enter in the promo code. You will need a credit card tied to your account for verification purposes but it won’t be charged.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><b>Glimpse</b> ($5): Amp up your TouchPad multitasking to 11 using this customizable and addictive split-screen interface. Use promo code: injoj55410gavxv</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><b>Kung Fu Panda 2 Storybook</b> ($2.99): Enjoy images and voices from Kung Fu Panda 2 right on your TouchPad. Use promo code: eotss76676jjzqr</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><b>Big Boss</b> ($1.99): Design your “Boss” – a gigantic monster – and attempt to defeat the brave heroes and powerful wizards of WackyLands. Use promo code: vfimk09918lngoz</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><b>Sparkle HD</b> ($4.99): Save Crowberry Woods in this TouchPad version of the popular desktop game. Use promo code: pweuq32135vrbhx</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><b>Camera for TouchPad</b> ($0.99): Start snapping away, with options for managing your photos and using them with other TouchPad apps. Use promo code: rijon62171nhvtu</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><b>Audubon Birds</b> ($14.99): This searchable digital field guide to North American birds offers stunning photography and thrilling (trilling?) bird songs. Use promo code: jjiox66488ddnik</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">Promo codes are valid until August 31, or for as long as inventory is available. If none of these freebies appeal to you, HP is planning to release another 6-pack of apps in early September.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><a href="http://www.techspot.com/news/45247-hp-is-giving-away-select-touchpad-apps.html">Source</a></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6706532526106065199-8137992738482292042?l=revutech.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>...noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706532526106065199.post-89873438466841933722011-08-30T05:28:00.000-07:002011-08-30T05:28:21.240-07:00LG intros two new Sandy Bridge notebooks with "crystalline finish"<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"></span><br /><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><b>LG</b> has introduced a pair of brightly colored <b>Sandy Bridge</b> notebooks -- the S430 and S530 -- to its <b>Aurora</b> family. Both machines have been treated with a "<b>crystalline finish</b>," which LG describes as an "innovative" coating process that utilizes NCVM (Non-Conductive Vapor Metallization) technology to produce a glossy metallic veneer that protects the lid from dings. While it may aid against scratches, there's no word about how the crystalline finish withstands fingerprints.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">Besides their unusual finish, the new <b>Aurora notebooks</b> are standard fare among today's mass market multimedia laptops. The S430 carries a 14.1-inch 1366x768 display while the S530 is upgraded to a 15.6-inch 1600x900 panel, and both will be offered with an Intel Pentium, Core i3 or Core i5 processor, up to 8GB of RAM, as much as 750GB of mechanical storage, and a DVD burner. Select models will have their integrated Intel graphics augmented by a Radeon HD 6470M.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: center;"><img height="252" src="http://static.techspot.com/images2/news/bigimage/2011-08-26-image-5.jpg" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" width="400" /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">Other features include Gigabit Ethernet, 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 3.0, USB 2.0 ports, a 7-in-1 card reader, a 1-megapixel webcam, presumably HDMI or some other video output interface, and a six-cell battery (no mention of battery life). Fully loaded, the smaller machine weighs about 2.6kg (5.7lbs) but that can be reduced to 2.45kg by removing the optical drive. The systems are set to hit shelves in the Middle East, Africa and Asia next month. Pricing is unknown.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><a href="http://www.techspot.com/news/45243-lg-intros-two-new-sandy-bridge-notebooks-with-crystalline-finish.html">Source</a></div><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6706532526106065199-8987343846684193372?l=revutech.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>...noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706532526106065199.post-56491875916632005282011-08-26T07:47:00.000-07:002011-08-26T07:47:35.752-07:00Student hacker charged for his involvement with Anonymous<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><div class="fronticons" style="float: right; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 20px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 6px; text-align: justify;"><img alt="anonymous, legal, hacking, united kingdom" height="266" src="http://static.techspot.com/images/teaser/anonymous_assange.jpg" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" width="320" /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><b>Peter Gibson</b>, a 22-year old student from Hartlepool, England has been charged by British Police for his involvement in the Distributed Denial of Service attacks on payment companies back in December 2010, after they withdrew support for donations being made to Wikileaks.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><b>Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS)</b> attacks are favored by <b>Anonymous</b>. It works by flooding the servers with traffic, overloading them, and subsequently causing the servers to crash, or become otherwise unreachable.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">Gibson, who was arrested back in April 2011, has been charged under the Computer Misuse Act for his part in the attacks on <b>Mastercard, Visa and PayPal</b> last December, after they froze donations being made to <b>Wikileaks</b>, in part due to continued pressure from the United States government regarding their defiant release of sensitive US communications.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">At the time, <b>Amazon and Bank of America</b> were also targeted, but it’s not clear if these two attacks are related to Gibson's involvement. He is the first person to be charged during the Criminal investigations into the attacks by the Metropolitan Police Central e-Crimes Unit.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">In January four other people were arrested, though they were released on bail. A fifth person was also arrested, but later released without charge. Gibson is the first British person involved in the attacks to be charged.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><b>Anonymous</b> believe the attacks are nothing more than civil disobedience, but the British Courts are likely to view the charges more seriously. Gibson could face a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison if found guilty under the British Computer Misuse Act.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.techspot.com/news/45234-student-hacker-charged-for-his-involvement-with-anonymous.html">Source</a></div></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6706532526106065199-5649187591663200528?l=revutech.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>...noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706532526106065199.post-73194112142964289442011-08-26T07:41:00.000-07:002011-08-26T07:41:36.509-07:00Acer announces thin bezel TravelMate Timeline 8481T<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"></span><br /><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Acer</b> has unveiled a new <b>notebook</b> that aims squarely at the corporate and business crowd with a mix of design, power and portability. The<b> TravelMate Timeline 8481T</b> weighs just 3.7 pounds, boasts a slim 0.87-inch profile, and packs a 14-inch (1,366 by 768-pixel) display into a chassis that would normally house a 13.3-inch screen.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The company launched another thin screen, thin bezel notebook under its Gateway brand last month, so we assume they're both based on the same LG Shuriken display and we're eager to see the technology spread to other models.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In terms of specs, Acer's new system is powered by a second-gen Intel Core i5 processor with integrated graphics, 4GB of RAM (expandable to 8GB), and a 320GB SATA hard drive (7200RPM) with Disk Anti-Shock Protection technology. Other features include Intel's Wireless Display (WiDi) technology, Gigabit Ethernet, 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, an HD webcam, USB 3.0, and several security features to entice business users, including Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 1.2 to encrypt files and folders as well as Acer ProShield Security with BioProtection Fingerprint protection.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img height="290" src="http://static.techspot.com/images2/news/bigimage/2011-08-25-image-2.jpg" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" width="320" /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Battery life is said to be up to 13 hours with the included 8-cell lithium ion battery and the wireless signal on, though your mileage will vary depending on your computer settings, features and open applications.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The <b>TravelMate Timeline 8481T</b> is expected to start shipping in "early September" starting at a penny under $1,000.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.techspot.com/news/45228-acer-announces-thin-bezel-travelmate-timeline-8481t.html">Source</a></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6706532526106065199-7319411214296428944?l=revutech.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>...noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706532526106065199.post-69858422053068084592011-08-25T08:17:00.000-07:002011-08-25T08:17:20.086-07:00Samsung denies plans to acquire HP's PC business<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"></span><br /><div class="fronticons" style="float: right; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 20px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 6px;"><img alt="samsung, hp" height="239" src="http://static.techspot.com/images2/news/thumbs/2011-08-24-teaser3.jpg" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" width="320" /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">We've seen a few rumblings from the far east this week that Samsung might be preparing to acquire <b>HP</b>'s <b>PC business</b>. On Monday, DigiTimes speculated that of HP's rival vendors, <b>Samsung</b> was the most likely candidate for a buyout. The site argued that most other firms simply lack the funds and flexibility to undertake an operation the size of <b>HP'</b>s <b>PC</b> unit.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">At least one estimate suggests that HP's PC business is worth $8 billion. We're not sure if that figure is accurate, but we can assure you it wouldn't fetch chump change. As a side note, Shaw Wu, the Sterne Agee analyst who offered that price, also concluded that Samsung was the most likely buyer as it's been trying to build a PC business since the 90s.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">DigiTimes' analysis was followed by a second report yesterday that claimed <b>Samsung</b> recently contacted Taiwanese notebook makers<b> Pegatron Technology, Quanta Computer,</b> and C<b>ompal Electronics</b> to evaluate the possibility of outsourcing <b>notebook</b> orders. DigiTimes' sources believe that inquiry highlights Samsung's interest in expanding its footprint.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;">All of <b>Samsung</b>'s notebooks are assembled at its Chinese facilties, but if it undertook HP's operations, it would require some outside help and Taiwan's notebook production efficiency is "unmatched." Quanta chimed in to say that Samsung would have a difficult time producing 50-60 million <b>laptops</b> annually (Samsung moves over 10 million while HP ships 40 million).</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><b>Samsung</b> has responded to the market speculation today, claiming that it has "no intention of taking over [HP's] personal computer business." Furthermore, it's worth noting that <b>HP</b> hasn't exactly confirmed plans to exit the PC market yet. Invetec, another electronics maker, believes the company is simply extending a feeler and will respond accordingly.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><a href="http://www.techspot.com/news/45214-samsung-denies-plans-to-acquire-hps-pc-business.html">Source</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6706532526106065199-6985842205306808459?l=revutech.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>...noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706532526106065199.post-15868891621359492182011-08-25T08:12:00.000-07:002011-08-25T08:12:37.999-07:00LG's new LSM-100 mouse doubles as a scanner<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"></span><br /><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>LG</b> has announced a clever little <b>mouse</b> that doubles as a <b>scanner</b> and saves you precious desk space. The new LSM-100 is pretty basic as a pointing device, featuring two buttons and a scroll wheel, but what makes it special is the ability to scan documents by just passing the device back and forth over them -- as illustrated in the embedded video.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The mouse can handle documents up to A3 size, or 11.69 × 16.54 inches, which is more than what most portable scanners are capable of due to their size constraint. You’ll be able to save the resulting image in PNG, JPEG, TIFF, BMP, and PDF formats, or use the built-in <b>OCR technology</b> to create fully editable DOC and XLS files. Scans can be easily shared online via social networks or email thanks to the bundled Smart Share software from LG.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="345" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/sWyEYG9nMqY" style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" width="560"></iframe></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Besides its scanning abilities, the mouse itself doesn't seem like a big deal but LG claims it's stylish, comfortable and accurate. LG's new <b>scanner-mouse</b> was first shown at CES, and it will be properly introduced at this year's IFA trade show in Berlin. Though no details about pricing for the <b>LSM-100</b> have been revealed yet, the company has said that it intends to release the product for sale in the U.S., Europe and other major foreign markets in September.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.techspot.com/news/45210-lgs-new-lsm-100-mouse-doubles-as-a-scanner.html">Source</a></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6706532526106065199-1586889162135949218?l=revutech.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>...noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706532526106065199.post-85208663216970245102011-08-25T08:05:00.000-07:002011-08-25T08:05:27.558-07:00Samsung: Stanley Kubrick invented the tablet in "2001: A Space Odyssey"<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"></span><br /><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In one of the more interesting turn of events in the ongoing <b>Apple</b> versus <b>Samsung</b> patent infringement battle, Samsung’s defense team has introduced what they consider prior art that could have been used to inspire the design of the iPad. That prior art in question comes from Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 sci-fi film “2001: <b>A Space Odyssey</b>.”</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Foss Patents initially reported on the findings in Samsung’s opposition brief to Apple’s motion for a preliminary injunction in the US.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In one of the exhibits filed with the US District Court for the Northern District of California, <b>Samsung</b> points to a clip from the movie showing two astronauts eating a meal while looking at tablet computers lying on the table next to them.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="345" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/JQ8pQVDyaLo" style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" width="560"></iframe></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The declaration explains the clip as such:</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Attached hereto as Exhibit D is a true and correct copy of a still image taken from<b> Stanley Kubrick</b>'s 1968 film “2001: A Space Odyssey.” In a clip from that film lasting about one minute, two astronauts are eating and at the same time using personal tablet computers. The clip can be downloaded online athttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ8pQVDyaLo. As with the design claimed by the D’889 Patent, the<b> tablet</b> disclosed in the clip has an overall rectangular shape with a dominant display screen, narrow borders, a predominately flat front surface, a flat back surface (which is evident because the tablets are lying flat on the table's surface), and a thin form factor.”</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Prior art is described as information that has been disclosed to the public in any form about an invention before a given date that might be relevant to the patent's claim of originality.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Admittedly, this is a rather unusual defense but then again, the two tablets in the clip could very well qualify as previous art that Apple based the iPad design off of. Foss Patents believes that the court would likely disagree with Samsung that this constitutes prior art for the <b>iPad</b> design patent, however.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The saga between Apple and Samsung has been playing out in courts across the globe for some time now. Earlier this month Apple successfully blocked Samsung from releasing the <b>Galaxy Tab</b> 10.1 in Australia. Apple recently won a similiar temporary injunction against Samsung in the European Union.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.techspot.com/news/45209-samsung-stanley-kubrick-invented-the-tablet-in-2001-a-space-odyssey.html">Source</a></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6706532526106065199-8520866321697024510?l=revutech.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>...noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706532526106065199.post-7041396568953003692011-08-24T17:46:00.000-07:002011-08-24T17:59:25.176-07:00Steve Jobs Resigns as CEO of Apple<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/steve-jobs1.jpeg?w=229" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/steve-jobs1.jpeg?w=229" /></a></div><h2 class="subtitle" style="color: #76797c; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Tim Cook Named CEO and Jobs Elected Chairman of the Board </h2>CUPERTINO, California—August 24, 2011—Apple’s Board of Directors today announced that <b>Steve Job</b>s has resigned as <b>Chief Executive Officer</b>, and the Board has named <b>Tim Cook</b>, previously Apple’s Chief Operating Officer, as the company’s new<b> CEO</b>. Jobs has been elected Chairman of the Board and Cook will join the Board, effective immediately.<br /><br />“Steve’s extraordinary vision and leadership saved Apple and guided it to its position as the world’s most innovative and valuable technology company,” said Art Levinson, Chairman of Genentech, on behalf of Apple's Board. “Steve has made countless contributions to Apple’s success, and he has attracted and inspired Apple’s immensely creative employees and world class executive team. In his new role as Chairman of the Board, Steve will continue to serve Apple with his unique insights, creativity and inspiration.”<br /><br />“The Board has complete confidence that Tim is the right person to be our next CEO,” added Levinson. “Tim’s 13 years of service to <b>Apple</b> have been marked by outstanding performance, and he has demonstrated remarkable talent and sound judgment in everything he does.”<br /><br />Jobs submitted his resignation to the Board today and strongly recommended that the Board implement its succession plan and name <b>Tim Cook</b> as <b>CEO</b>.<br /><br />As COO, Cook was previously responsible for all of the company’s worldwide sales and operations, including end-to-end management of Apple’s supply chain, sales activities, and service and support in all markets and countries. He also headed Apple’s Macintosh division and played a key role in the continued development of strategic reseller and supplier relationships, ensuring flexibility in response to an increasingly demanding marketplace.<br /><br /><b>Apple</b> designs Macs, the best personal computers in the world, along with OS X, iLife, iWork and professional software. Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store. Apple has reinvented the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and has recently introduced iPad 2 which is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices.<br /><br />His resignation letter:<br /><br /><blockquote><i><br /></i><br /><i>“To the Apple Board of Directors and the Apple Community:</i><br /><i>I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s C.E.O., I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come.</i><br /><i>I hereby resign as C.E.O. of Apple. I would like to serve, if the Board sees fit, as Chairman of the Board, director and Apple employee.</i><br /><i>As far as my successor goes, I strongly recommend that we execute our succession plan and name Tim Cook as C.E.O. of Apple.</i><br /><i>I believe Apple’s brightest and most innovative days are ahead of it. And I look forward to watching and contributing to its success in a new role.</i><br /><i>I have made some of the best friends of my life at Apple, and I thank you all for the many years of being able to work alongside you.</i></blockquote><br /><blockquote> <i>Steve”</i></blockquote><br /><br /><a href="http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2011/08/24Steve-Jobs-Resigns-as-CEO-of-Apple.html">Source</a><br /><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6706532526106065199-704139656895300369?l=revutech.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>...noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706532526106065199.post-54632116543600085662011-08-24T10:14:00.000-07:002011-08-24T10:14:49.418-07:00Lenovo Thinkpad Tablet launches in the U.S., starts at $500<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"></span><br /><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As promised, <b>Lenovo's ThinkPad Tablet</b> is now available in the U.S. sporting Android 3.1 and prices starting at $499 -- $20 more than we heard last month. The business-oriented device is powered by <b>Nvidia's Tegra 2</b> dual-core processor operating at 1GHz and 1GB of system memory, while its 10.1-inch IPS display features a resolution of 1280 x 800 coated with <b>Corning Gorilla glass.</b></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In terms of features it includes the now standard front- and rear-facing cameras, <b>Wi-F</b>i, a mini-<b>HDMI </b>output, a full-sized SD card slot for removable media, and a full-sized USB port for storage and other peripherals. What sets the ThinkPad apart, however, are the enterprise-oriented tools like remote administration, including the ability to wipe the device in case it gets lost, support for Cisco VPN, and full device encryption that extends to the SD card. There's also an optional $30 'digitizer pen', and for an extra $100, you can get a keyboard folio case that has an optical Trackpoint.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img alt="" height="310" src="http://static.techspot.com/images2/news/bigimage/2011-08-01-image-1.jpg" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" width="320" /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Lenovo</b> is preloading the tablet with 25 applications meant to provide a well-rounded out-of-the-box experience. Some of them include Documents to Go, <b>Oovoo</b> for video conferencing, Netflix, and Kindle for Android.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet is available in 16GB ($499), 32GB ($569), and 64GB ($669) configurations and should begin shipping on Monday. No 3G mobile broadband options will be available until October.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.techspot.com/news/45202-lenovo-thinkpad-tablet-launches-in-the-us-starts-at-500.html">Source</a></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6706532526106065199-5463211654360008566?l=revutech.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>...noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706532526106065199.post-33148687603534349602011-08-24T10:08:00.000-07:002011-08-24T10:08:47.109-07:00China overtakes the US to become the largest PC market<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><br /><div class="story_content html_only" style="line-height: 1.5; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 10px;"><div class="fronticons" style="float: right; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 20px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 6px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /><img alt="china, united states, stats" height="262" src="http://static.techspot.com/images/teaser/dell-china.jpg" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" width="320" /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For the first time<b> China </b>has surpassed the<b> United States</b> in terms of total <b>PC</b> shipments during the second quarter of 2011. The final results from the <b>IDC Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker</b> show that 18.5 million PCs were sold in China during the last quarter, overtaking the U.S. market where approximately 17.7 million units were sold in the same period.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">China accounted for 22% of the PCs sold worldwide, with an impressive 14 percent quarter on quarter growth. The opposite happened in the<b> U.S</b>. where <b>PC</b> sales fell 4.2 percent in part due to the weak economy.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">According to projections ran by the<b> IDC</b>, they don't expect China to overtake the U.S. in annual sales this year due to back to school shopping and holiday sales that will likely boost U.S. sales figures. The switch is expected to take place as soon as 2012 when the difference will become far wider between the two countries. The forecast indicates that a staggering 85.2 million PCs will be sold in China next year versus 76.6 million units in the U.S.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"China's lead in the PC market is a huge shift that reflects the rising fortunes of emerging markets as well as the relative stagnation of more mature regions," said Loren Loverde, Program Vice President, Worldwide PC Tracker. "While the immediate economic circumstances in the US and other markets had a significant impact on the timing of China's move to the lead, they have not changed the trend, but accelerated it."</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Although this trend had become clear a long time ago, the timing of the report coincides with <b>HP</b>'s announcement about leaving the PC market, further reminding us of <b>Lenovo</b>'s acquisition of <b>IBM</b>'s PC Division in 2005. The investment is paying dividends as the Chinese manufacturer recently surpassed Acer to become the third-largest PC maker with 12% market share worldwide.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">IDC's PC Tracker counts as PCs all d<b>esktops, laptops</b> and <b>netbooks</b> sold. It doesn't account for smartphones, servers, or tablets like the Apple iPad.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.techspot.com/news/45200-china-overtakes-the-us-to-become-the-largest-pc-market.html">Source</a></span></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6706532526106065199-3314868760353434960?l=revutech.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>...noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706532526106065199.post-54513335090730117972011-08-24T10:03:00.000-07:002011-08-24T10:03:33.751-07:00Microsoft asks for ban of Motorola's smartphones<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;"></span><br /><div class="story_content html_only" style="line-height: 1.5; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 10px;"><div class="fronticons" style="float: right; font-size: 13px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 20px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 6px;"><br /><img alt="google, microsoft, motorola, smartphones" height="320" src="http://static.techspot.com/images2/news/thumbs/2011-08-23-teaser1.jpg" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" width="251" /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Microsoft</b> is presenting a case before the International Trade Commission (ITC) in which they claim <b>Motorola Mobility</b> is using technology in their A<b>ndroid-based smartphones</b> that was derived from Microsoft products. The world’s largest software maker is asking the ITC to halt imports of certain Motorola phones.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bloomberg reports that the trial began on Monday in Washington and that Microsoft claims Motorola infringed on seven patents. Microsoft singled out the <b>Droid 2, Droid X, Cliq XT, Devour, Backflip and Charm </b>handsets among those guilty of infringement. The ITC does have the ability to halt imports if they feel a product violates US patent rights.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“We have a responsibility to our employees, customers, partners and shareholders to safeguard our intellectual property,” David Howard, Microsoft’s corporate vice president and deputy general counsel for litigation, said in an e-mail. “Motorola is infringing our patents and we are confident that the ITC will rule in our favor.”</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Motorola is defending themselves against the patent suit and a company spokeswoman said they have also brought legal actions of their own against Microsoft in the US and Europe for the same reasons.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is the first of what is likely to be many more lawsuits brought upon Motorola Mobility since Google agreed to buy the company for $12.5 billion last week. The main reason <b>Google</b> made the purchase was to acquire a wealth of patents from Motorola Mobility to protect themselves as well as the <b>Android</b> platform. Interestingly enough, Google isn’t named in the complaint.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The judge in the case is scheduled to make a decision on November 4 and the ITC has until March 5, 2012 to complete their investigation.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.techspot.com/news/45191-microsoft-asks-for-ban-of-motorolas-smartphones.html">Source</a></span></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6706532526106065199-5451333509073011797?l=revutech.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>