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Energizer has been working on zinc-air batteries for quite some time now (along with plenty of others), but it looks like its now finally set to deliver with a new “standard battery” that’s said to be on track for a launch sometime in the summer of next year. What’s more, while some of the company’s previous attempts at zinc-air batteries have only been able to manage average run times of between one and three months, Energizer says it’s recently been able to triple things in time for the batteries’ big debut. That will first come in the form of some AAAA batteries from Energizer itself, which will apparently be priced similarly to “special lithium batteries,” and will eventually be followed by zinc-air batteries in a range of different sizes. During the same time, we should also start to see some of the first products with integrated zinc-air batteries from some of the 30 odd OEMs now working with Energizer, who are working to put the batteries into everything from Bluetooth headsets to remote controls to portable audio players.
Energizer promises new and improved zinc-air battery for summer 2010 originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:32:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Ah, the tormented life of a Microsoft employee. You spend a few years of your life nurturing a product, teaching it some new tricks, and before you know it you have to release it into the wild and start all over again. Coincidentally, Microsoft also seems to do a lot of hiring during that tumultuous switchover period, and its latest round of job postings have offered a few clues as to what we can expect in Windows 8, and when the company plans to focus on it in earnest. That will apparently happen at the start of the company’s 2011 fiscal year, which translates to July, 2010 for everyone else. As for Windows 8 itself, it seems that Microsoft is particularly interested in finding a few folks to work on how Windows Update works in the latest iteration of the OS, including things third-party application updating, updating virtual machines when they’re turned off, and delivery of full applications — Windows 8 Server and a “new UX framework” also garnered a brief mention. Hit up the link below for some additional details, and links to the actual postings if you happen to be looking for a job.
Microsoft shifting internal focus to Windows 8 in July 2010 originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:50:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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It is official, Zooomr is Live! The launch of Zooomr 2.0 was set back a few days due to a DOS attack which we reported about on Saturday. They battled the attack and stated that they expected that “this attack will only make us better, stronger, and more evasive to attacks and ill-willed individuals.” With that behind them, they have launched Zooomr 2.0!
If you haven’t checked out Zooomr already, go take a peak. They describe it as a way to explore the information inside of photos. One example of exploring the info inside of a photo is their “Geo Tagged” feature. The geo tagged feature allows you to tag a photo with a very specific geographic location. There are lots of other great elements to Zooomr that gives users the chance to “Experieince The World Through Photos” as their motto states.
The guys over at Zooomr have done a great job of communicating and interacting with the blogging community. Each time we’ve written about Zooomr we’ve had a visit from Kristopher Tate leaving a comment. It’s obvious they’ve put a lot of work into this release and have done a good job keeping the public informed. Congrats to Zooomr!
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We told you we had a feeling this thing was happening — less than a day after GE consolidated ownership of NBC Universal in preparation to spin it off and sell a controlling stake to Comcast, CNBC is reporting that the deal is actually done and will be announced Thursday morning. As rumored from the start, Comcast will now own 51 percent of NBC to GE’s 49 percent, and the new company will fold in Comcast’s various content assets, which means the new NBC will rival Disney in size. That’s a big enchilada, and it should make the future of Comcast initiatives like TV Everywhere extremely interesting. Of course, all this still has to go through the FCC and FTC, and we wouldn’t expect anything to be approved and finalized for a year, but none of that takes away from the magnitude of this deal. We’ll obviously know more in a couple days, stay tuned.
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Entelligence is a column by technology strategist and author Michael Gartenberg, a man whose desire for a delicious cup of coffee and a quality New York bagel is dwarfed only by his passion for tech. In these articles, he’ll explore where our industry is and where it’s going — on both micro and macro levels — with the unique wit and insight only he can provide.
It’s the largest cell phone maker in the world, with the largest share of any smartphone vendor in the world. Yet I increasingly look at Nokia’s products and listen to its strategy wondering if the company can remain relevant in a mobile world that’s changed drastically over the last two years. I’m not talking about a Nokia deathwatch, or whether the company will remain in business — that’s foolish. Of course Nokia is going to stick around; it’s what it’s going to look like that concerns me. A future of selling low-end phones into emerging markets with some minor services might be profitable, but it’s not a direction that leads to industry relevance or influence.
First, I’m confused by Nokia’s platform strategy. There’s been a lot of chatter about Maemo being the future, and while it might be a strategic direction, it’s nowhere near ready for primetime now. Chris Ziegler suggested to me the other day that “Maemo 6 (or 7) in an X6 form factor with a more cohesive Ovi strategy could be killer.” Perhaps, but right now Maemo feels very immature and unfinished. In fact, it feels like what it is: an OS designed for Nokia’s Internet Tablet MIDs. On a phone like the N900 it’s just too kludgey for the mainstream market. That leaves Symbian-based S60, which was totally innovative in 2002 but now looks creaky and has fragmented into multiple versions, leaving a very confused developer market. Sure, Nokia supports Flash and Silverlight with Qt somehow tying all this diversity into some unified grand theory, but it’s enough complexity to make most developers look elsewhere — and that’s exactly what’s happened. Without a clear platform strategy, it’s going to be difficult for Nokia to get the developer mindshare required to stay relevant to the mass market.
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Dear Apple and AT&T: I have had enough of this. Tell me, why don’t we have videochat on the iPhone, you assclowns? Whatever excuse you may have, I’m here to destroy it.
This morning, the latest Fring update brought videochat to the iPhone. It only works in one direction, from a computer to your iPhone. It uses Wi-Fi instead of the 3G connection, even while 3G is capable of supporting videoconferencing (in fact, it was one of its major selling points, back in the day of its introduction). The only reason for not having bi-directional chat is simple: The iPhone doesn’t have a front camera.
The main thing is that it works. A third-party has created a videoconferencing app for the iPhone that communicates with desktop computers, just using Apple’s standard iPhone programming toolbox. The question now is: If it’s that easy, why don’t we have a camera and iChat AV on the iPhone?
Could it be because AT&T is fearing that videoconferencing on the iPhone would bring their already overloaded 3G network to a total collapse? That’s a valid reason. But if that’s the case, just enable the videoconferencing under Wi-Fi, and be done with it.
Maybe the iPhone doesn’t have enough processing power to do bidirectional videochat? Nonsense. The processor in the iPhone is plenty fast to handle simultaneous H.264 encoding and decoding for videoconferencing applications. In fact, the iPhone 3GS’ PowerVR SGX processor has dedicated pipes to encode and decode H.264 in real time. And even Apple highlights the use of H.264 for videoconferencing applications in other 3G mobile devices, most of them a lot less capable than the iPhone.
Perhaps the VGA camera required to capture the video is too expensive or too big? That doesn’t make any sense either. Not only do other phones have these cameras, but the latest generation is so tiny and inexpensive that I wouldn’t be surprised if they gave one away integrated in every Corn Flakes box soon.
If there’s no technical reason for not having videoconference in the iPhone, then why oh why Apple doesn’t give us an iChat AV client and an iPhone that doesn’t require an stupid contraption to use it? After all, they were the first company to push videoconferencing across their whole product line, and they keep working on it actively. The latest generation of iChat AV—rolled out with Snow Leopard—has more efficient codecs than the previous version.
My only guess: They just want to milk the hell out of their user base. They know their game, these Cupertino boys and girls. They know they have the market by the balls. They know they can keep churning out marginal upgrades because, like Tim Cook said: “frankly, I think people are still just trying to catch up with the first iPhone 2 years ago.” And people will keep sinking dollars in the marginal upgrades like there’s no tomorrow, as shown by the iPhone 3GS.
Why release an iPhone with AV conferencing now when they can hold it for a little longer, as they wait for the rest of the market to catch up? Exactly: There’s no need. And that’s why we will have to wait. Wait until they smell that Google is about to release a phone that supports Gtalk with videoconferencing. Or until whenever they have it planned in their roadmap. Yes, that private roadmap that already has three or four generations of this thing ready to launch.
In other words: Prepare to wait, and keep sucking hard on the Apple Kool-aid, because this is not happening until they feel a real threat from someone else.
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