Jan 27
Even as it unveils its next-generation gaming handheld, Sony announces that older PlayStation games will be able work as apps on certified Android devices.
Originally posted at Deep Tech
Jan 27
Navigon rolls out iPhone Car Kit for $50
Posted in: Apple, iPhone, nav, navigation, Today's Chili
The turn-by-turn navigation specialists at Navigon are pairing up their MobileNavigator iPhone app with an official Car Kit today, debuting at MacWorld out in San Francisco. As you might expect, said kit includes the usual array of car-mount necessities — a USB car charger, an Apple-approved 5-foot iPhone cable, and the suction-style mount itself, which the company describes as “a stylish example of German tech design” featuring a “barely there look” that won’t detract from your car’s sumptuous, indulgent interior. The Kit is available now for $49.99 — $44.99 through February 3rd. Follow the break for the full press release.
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Jan 27
Microsoft’s Surface becomes the world’s biggest remote control for the AR.Drone (video)
Posted in: hack, hacking, Microsoft, mod, modding, research, Software, Today's Chili, video
Whether it’s sheer boredom or the pursuit for something awesome, we really don’t care — the motivation behind writing software to allow Microsoft’s Surface to control Parrot’s AR.Drone is as immaterial as the wireless connection between the two devices. Jump past the break for video of this pair of much-loved niche machines getting their groove on.
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Jan 27
Qualcomm has best quarter ever, teases a host of Snapdragon tablets
Posted in: earnings, financial, financials, qualcomm, snapdragon, Today's Chili
If you’ve got a speedy Snapdragon in your smartphone, Qualcomm’s the one to thank — but considering the raw earnings figures shared yesterday, your dollars have applauded the firm enough already. Qualcomm reported record earnings of $3.35 billion for its first fiscal quarter of the year, up 25 percent since Q1 2010, and it raked in a nice fat $1.17 billion of that in profit, 39 percent more than last year. That’s thanks to shipping 118 million of those Mobile Station Modem (MSM) chips that power mobile devices, as well as other ventures, and the company expects revenues to continue their upward bent as 2011 progresses — thanks to new devices on the way.
Qualcomm EVP Steve Mollenkopf told investors that “we currently have more than 150 Snapdragon devices in development, including more than 20 tablets,” and that the dual-core 1.2GHz MSM8660 in particular was picking up steam, with over 60 devices slated to use the dual-mode chipset with HSPA+ and EV-DO Rev. B. What of a groundbreaking deal with Apple to power new iPhones and iPads? CEO Paul Jacobs wouldn’t say: “We’re happy to see the Verizon iPhone announcement since it’s been the subject of intense speculation, but we have no other comments on that topic.” Guess we’ll have to wait and see.
Qualcomm has best quarter ever, teases a host of Snapdragon tablets originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 27 Jan 2011 07:35:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Jan 27
Dorky Front-Pack Doubles as Wearable iPad Desk
Posted in: Accessories and Peripherals, ipad, Today's Chili
Some things are cool for a very short time, before becoming totally dorky. The aluminum, fold-up “adult” scooter, for example. This flash-fashion in the early oughts saw creative types in London’s Soho scooting from meeting to meeting along crowded sidewalks, bellies wobbling as they turned heads, and then heading down to the Met Bar for an after-work cocktail. And then, mere weeks later, you were a loser just for touching one.
The iPad’s cachet has already proved longer lived, but Assero seems hell-bent in changing that. The company’s Defender and Protector bags are backpacks that are worn backwards, sitting over your chest and belly. The iPad sits in a front pocket which can be opened up and hinged down, suspended at your chosen angle by two straps. Thus positioned, you can attack the screen with both hands, just like using a laptop.
These bags are clearly the iPad equivalent of the fanny-pack, itself something only worn by people who have given up on life and switched to elastic-waisted jeans and shoes that can fold up to be packed easily. Is the iPad so big and awkward that you need to have a desk for it suspended above your gut? Apparently so, according to the people Assero managed to extract quotes from:
My Apple iPad is heavier than I expected; and, to carry it with patient files and everything else was just not convenient.
So heavy… What about this one:
I thought the Apple iPad was going to revolutionize my industry, but while it’s convenient – it requires a desk which isn’t often available to me
A desk? Really?
The Apple iPad wasn’t an option to me because it is awkward to use while standing.
Well, that one’s true.
The Protector is the smaller of the two, and is pretty much a sleeve for the iPad. It costs $90. The Defender is more like a cross between a laptop bag and a backpack, with pockets for phones, pens and cables, and costs $130. Both can, of course, be worn as regular backpacks, but then you’re giving a pickpocket the same easy access to you iPad that you enjoyed when it was up front.
Assero Defender and Protector [Assero]
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Jan 27
Lenovo and NEC partner up to become Japan’s biggest PC vendor
Posted in: Japan, lenovo, official, partnership, Today's Chili
Lenovo’s insatiable ambition for growth has taken another boost today with the news that China’s best-known computer maker is partnering up with NEC for a “strategic alliance” in Japan, the world’s third biggest PC market. Under the terms of the deal, a new NEC Lenovo Japan Group will be formed, wherein Lenovo will benefit from 51 percent of the shares and NEC will own 49 percent plus the choice of first CEO, for which it’s selected its own Hideyo Takasu. Lenovo will also pad NEC’s pockets with $175 million of change and contractual formalities are expected to be completed by the end of June this year. Sadly, specifics on how this will benefit consumers are light on the ground — both companies will continue to sell products under their respective brands and there’s only general talk of collaboration, economies of scale, harnessing operational synergies, and leveraging each company’s strengths. At least you’ll know your computer’s been made in the spirit of fraternal cooperation. Full PR after the break.
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Jan 27
This article was written on July 15, 2006 by CyberNet.
Earthlink, which is probably most well known for affordable internet and phone services, has just joined in on two of the latest internet trends. RSS readers like Bloglines and Newsgator, and Social Bookmarking sites like del.icio.us and Yahoo MyWeb have become quite popular and a good way to stay organized with the news and web content that interest you the most! Earthlink has unveiled their versions of both a RSS reader and a Social Bookmarking Site.
Their goal with their RSS reader, myReader is to
‘expose the idea of reading feeds instead of web sites to many more people than know about it today, and do it in a way that doesn’t give anybody nightmares.’
They also note the fact that one size may not fit all in terms of an RSS reader. Different readers are going to have different features and a different user interface. One of their features is that it shows you only the new articles since your last visit versus showing you all of the unread articles. Another feature is that you’re able to easily add items directly from your reader to your social bookmarks.
Earthlinks’ Social Bookmarking, myFavorites is similar to del.icio.us and Yahoo MyWeb in that you are able to tag and share your favorites. The whole concept of Social Bookmarking is ingenious. The web is full of a lot of great sites, but keeping track of them can be difficult. Despite the fact that there are great social bookmarking sites available, Earthlink saw this
as a tool that could be helpful to a much wider set of users than even necessarily knows it exists right now.
Good idea Earthlink!
According to their blog, Earthling, these new additions to Earthlink are still a work in progress. They’re still working out some of the kinks. I think it’s a great addition and a way for the not so tech savvy to get involved in Web 2.0.
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Jan 27
Nokia smartphone market share shrinks to 31 percent, operating profit takes a beating too
Posted in: breaking news, BreakingNews, earnings, financial, financials, market share, marketshare, nokia, Today's Chili
Stephen Elop’s first quarterly results as Nokia CEO have just come out, and while the company’s still growing, others seem to be speeding ahead of it. Nokia’s reporting its converged mobile devices (smartphones, to you and us) reached volumes of 28.3 million during Q4 2010, which is a neat bump from 20.8 million at the same time last year and 26.5 million in the previous quarter. However, in the context of the broader smartphone marketplace, that figure now amounts to only a 31 percent share, according to Nokia’s own estimates, which is a major dip relative to its 40 percent slice in Q4 2009 and 38 percent in Q3 2010. Elop’s perspective on the matter is as follows:
“In Q4 we delivered solid performance across all three of our businesses, and generated outstanding cash flow. Additionally, growth trends in the mobile devices market continue to be encouraging. Yet, Nokia faces some significant challenges in our competitiveness and our execution. In short, the industry changed, and now it’s time for Nokia to change faster.”
When your operating profit goes from €1.47b (€950m net) a year ago to €1.09b (€745m net) this year, the response should indeed be to change and to change fast. Nokia’s still not disclosing sales figures of the N8, but given that this was the first full reporting period where the company’s Symbian flagship has been on sale, it doesn’t seem to have had quite the impact Espoo will have hoped for. Wanna try again with the N9?
Update: Nokia’s investor relations call has borne a few more interesting tidbits from the new man in charge. Elop is quoted as saying Nokia must “build or join a competitive ecosystem,” with the latter verb in that sentence sure to renew discussions of why the Finnish company should / shouldn’t switch to an OS such as Android or Windows Phone 7. We still think that’ll be the very last resort over in Espoo, but Elop apparently thinks Nokia has the brand recognition and operator relationships to make such a move if it wanted to. Which of course it doesn’t. Or does it? Let’s wait for Nokia’s Strategy and Financial Briefing in London on February 11th — Mr. Elop’s expected to be a lot more specific about his company’s roadmap going forward on that day.
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Jan 27
Do you remember how hard it was to learn to tell the time back in school? Not only did you have to deal with big and small hands, but you had to learn new concepts: Why are there two nine o’clocks? Wait, you’re telling me the day is divided into what, hours? What’s an hour?
It seems that today’s watch designers are either amnesiacs or sadists, as they insist we go through at least part of this pain, just to understand their fancy concepts. Exhibit A, the Solaris, from Olivier Demangel.
The Solaris is a beautiful watch, something like a Terminator skeleton crossed with the pulse-engine of a sci-fi space-fighter. It is also almost impossible to read, requiring an effort that even seasoned Tokyo Flash fans might be reluctant to put in.
The face is open, a circle with a cross in its center. Large purple LEDs around the edge indicate the hour. The same spots turn blue to show five minute intervals, and the single minutes are shown by lighting up the crossbars, one, two, three, four. In the very center is a solar panel to keep things ticking.
And speaking of Tokyo Flash, Demangel’s watch is up for voting on the TF blog. If enough people show interest, then this rather handsome timepiece will make it into stores. So if you like it, go over and comment now.
Solar Powered LED Watch Design [Tokyo Flash]
Olivier Demangel’s photos [Angel Art 3D / Flickr]
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Jan 27
HTC’s newest Android flagship phone revealed
Posted in: Android, HTC, in the wild, InTheWild, leak, mwc, mwc 2011, Mwc2011, Today's Chili
Why bother waiting for its official Mobile World Congress reveal in February when you can view the newest HTC flagship today? The touchscreen slate prototype (notice the serial number stamped along the bottom of the handset’s face) you’re looking at above matches the leaked Pocketnow render exactly including the arcing earpiece and isolated front-facing camera with chrome ring. It was just spotted by an eagle-eyed tipster while waiting for a Taipei metro system. Sorry Windows Phone 7 fans, this baby is Android through and through. And seeing it in the wild lends credence to all of the HTC devices pictured in that leak. A couple more snaps after the break.
Update: Seems our tipster might have taken these images (without attribution) from the same Mobile01 forum as the other leaked HTC.
[Thanks, LIMIX]
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