The Windows Phone-running LG Quantum smartphone is one step closer to arriving in stores, now that it’s cleared the FCC. The LG Optimus One, a rugged Sonim phone, and a Huawei device that reminds us of a BlackBerry Bold also got the green light this week.
Originally posted at Dialed In
With cold and flu season upon us, research shows that a cell phone has 18 times the amount of germs enjoyed by a toilet handle.
Originally posted at Technically Incorrect
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PowerToys are probably some of the most popular add-ons to Windows, especially the Tweak-UI PowerToy that Microsoft has available. It allows you to customize various aspects of your Windows interface so that everything works just the way you want it to. Best of all is that these PowerToys are offered at no additional cost to existing Windows users and, surprisingly, don’t require you to forego a WGA validation before downloading or installation.
Microsoft’s next flagship operating system, Windows Vista, will be no different because there will also be PowerToys available for people to download and use. Hopefully some great ones will emerge after the consumer release of Windows Vista (January 30th), but in the mean time we can find out what it takes to make a Windows Vista PowerToy!
The Shell blog (run by Microsoft employees) has started the ball rolling with the first post in the series that walks you through the making of a Windows Vista PowerToy. Actually, it is really a Sidebar Gadget for Vista but it is looking pretty cool nonetheless. You can see in the screenshot above that Brandon, the creator of the gadget, started by making an expandable search indexing configurator. With it you could customize how the search indexer (that’s built-into Vista) went about indexing your hard drive, or you could completely pause it.
The first gadget I thought looked awesome with the way it expanded and offered the listing of how many items were indexed…not to mention the nice use of transparency around the border. After word got around internally that he started working on this people wanted to use it first-hand. After sending it to some people he started to receive recommendations for improvements, and each of the transitions can be seen above with the final result outlined in red.
Brandon has done a really nice job at making a compact, yet usable interface that Vista users will surely appreciate. He will continue the series in the next few days where he’ll give some insight as to how he built the indexer status and control functionality using JavaScript along with the Windows Search API’s that are available. I’m into programming so I can’t wait to see how hard (or easy) doing this was.
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June was a lifetime ago, we’ll give you that, but surely you can’t forget those 16 Optimus-based laptops that NVIDIA teased us with at Computex, right? Right. At any rate, MSI has just come clean with a delightful pair of them, the FX700 and FR700. Both of these beasts boast 17.3-inch widescreen displays, the company’s own anti-scratch, anti-smudge coating and a design that actually looks fairly attractive given the hugeness. The former also includes up to 8GB of DDR3 memory, a Core i5 processor, NVIDIA’s GeForce GT 425M (1GB), HDMI / VGA outputs, 320/500/640GB hard drives, a DVD SuperMulti drive, four USB ports (two of the SuperSpeed variety), a 5-in-1 card reader, inbuilt webcam, WiFi, Bluetooth 2.1+EDR, gigabit Ethernet and a 6-cell Li-ion that’ll probably exhaust itself long before you’d like it to. The FR700 includes most of the same specifications, but opts for integrated Intel graphics for those who aren’t planning to dabble too long in Crysis. Per usual, MSI’s keeping quiet when it comes to pricing and release details, but we’d be shocked if they didn’t find their way onto retail shelves pre-Christmas.
MSI gets official with 17.3-inch FX700 and FR700 multimedia laptops originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 15 Oct 2010 18:32:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Religion tolerance is a powerful force–so is the lure of fabulous prizes. A car dealer in New Jersey made controversial Florida pastor Terry Jones an offer he apparently couldn’t refuse. In a radio spot for his dealership, Brad Benson offered Jones a new car if he went back on his plans to burn a Quran on the anniversary of the September 11th attack.
After much protest, Jones eventually canceled his controversial protest, stating, “We will definitely not burn the Quran… Not today, not ever.”
And now he wants his car.
A representative for the church called a surprised Benson, asking after the vehicle. “They said unless I was doing false advertising, they would like to arrange to pick up the car,” Benson to the Associated Press. Benson chalked the whole thing up to a joke, asking Jones to fax a copy of his license.
It wasn’t a joke.
Jones, it seems, actually had some fairly noble plans for the 2011 Hyundai Accent. “We are not trying to profit from this. We are not keeping the car for ourselves,” the pastor said in an interview. Instead, he plans to donate to a charity benefiting abused Muslim women.
Jones will ultimately have to go to the South Brunswick dealership to pick up the $14,200 car–he’ll have to sign all of the appropriate paperwork first.
Though the number of games may be a bit underwhelming compared with holiday seasons past, this year holds a few gems that we think are worth checking out.
The iPad is the hottest holiday gift this season but one group of companies are unhappy about it. Chip makers Intel and AMD are feeling the pain from iPad sales as the tablet eats into consumer demand for notebooks.
“In the last quarter or two the tablet has represented a disruption in the notebook market,” Dirk Meyer, president and CEO of AMD told financial analysts Thursday. “If you ask five people in the industry you’ll get five different answers as to what degree there’s been cannibalization by tablets of either netbooks or notebooks.”
But the bottomline is that the iPad has cannibalized even the sales of laptops.
AMD is not alone in viewing the iPad as disruptive to the traditional laptop business. Earlier this week Intel CEO Paul Otellini told analysts that the iPad will “probably” hurt PC notebook sales. In the long term, though, Otellini believes the iPad will help expand the category of consumer electronics–much like what netbooks did.
But there’s one major difference. So far, the two major tablets–the iPad and the upcoming Samsung Galaxy Tab and Research In Motion’s PlayBook–don’t use chips from the traditional PC chipmakers.
“Intel is starting to manage expectations better, admitting that iPad would cannibalize PC growth, but it has made the case that it is well positioned in other tablets,” Mark Lipacis, an analyst with Morgan Stanley wrote in a research note. “We remain challenged to find Intel-based non-Apple tablets which can drive meaningful revenues for Intel.”
Since Apple launched the iPad in April, the company has sold more than 3 million devices and has given the category a second lease on life. Other companies such as Dell, Samsung and BlackBerry maker RIM have announced new tablets but the iPad remains the market leader for now. Meanwhile, the halo effect from the iPad has spurred PC sales for Apple. Apple overtook Acer to become the number three PC maker in the U.S. in the last quarter, according to IDC.
“Apple’s influence on the PC market continues to grow, particularly in the U.S., as the company’s iPad has had some negative impact on the mini notebook market,” says Bob O’Donnell, IDC vice president for clients and displays. “But, the halo effect of the device also helped propel Mac sales and moved the company into the number three position in the U.S. market.”
For AMD and Intel, that can’t be good news. Unlike the netbook category, whose rise helped propel sales of chips for these companies, the explosive growth of tablets could help reduce their influence–unless they jump on to the trend.
And that’s exactly what Intel is hoping to do with its MeeGo operating system. MeeGo is a Linux-based operating system for mobile devices that Intel has developed along with Nokia. A key executive departure and news that smartphones running the operating system won’t be available until sometime next year has left Intel and Nokia fighting to stay on course with Meego.
But already a German company WeTab is offering a MeeGo based tablet.
Intel says more tablets based on MeeGo will hit the market next year. Ultimately, tablets will become “additive to the bottom line, and not take away from it,” Otellini told analysts.
But unless some Intel-chip based tablets come to market soon that may be in danger of becoming just wishful thinking.
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The next MacBook Air will be smaller, faster and cheaper than its predecessor, and we could hear about it as soon as next week, according to a rumor posted by AppleInsider.
Sources told blog AppleInsider that Apple is preparing to launch a redesigned MacBook Air with an 11.6-inch display — down from the current 13.3-inch model — equipped with a miniature solid state drive “card” that resembles a stick of RAM rather than a traditional hard drive.
AppleInsider speculates that the usage of flash storage will enable extremely fast boot times and “instant-on” capabilities while driving down production costs.
Apple introduced the MacBook Air in January 2008 during a Macworld Expo event. The ultrathin subnotebook cost $1,800 at launch; Apple in 2009 dropped the price to $1,500.
AppleInsider’s report comes in line with claims previously made by DigiTimes, which said Apple was manufacturing 11.6-inch MacBooks in late September.
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If you’re hoping for a Verizon iPhone, CNET tells you what you can expect if the device ever becomes a reality.
Originally posted at iPhone Atlas
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