Hasta La Gadget!

Sure, you may be fast asleep in your warm comfy bed back stateside, but we’re here at Nokia World in London, gearing up for a Windows Phone-packed keynote with CEO Stephen Elop. The excitement begins at 9AM local time (translated to your time zone below), so tune in just before for the play-by-play.

Psst… and toss your own time zone / day in comments below!

10:00PM – Hawaii (October 25th)
01:00AM – Pacific (October 26th)
02:00AM – Mountain (October 26th)
03:00AM – Central (October 26th)
04:00AM – Eastern (October 26th)
09:00AM – London (October 26th)
10:00AM – Paris (October 26th)
12:00PM – Moscow (October 26th)
05:00PM – Tokyo (October 26th)

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The Q3 numbers for LG are in, showing its cellphone unit lost money for the sixth straight quarter, with profits coming from the home appliance and air conditioning units. On the home entertainment side, it shipped more flat panel TVs than ever before (6.8 million) and despite lower revenues managed to improve operating profit by selling more of its high end Cinema 3D and LED-lit HDTVs. Unfortunately for the mobile division, sales were down 8.5 percent from last year and the company recorded a $128.47 million operating loss. Making things worse, Reuters reports its rival Samsung is expected to report strong profit in mobiles on Friday, and pass Apple as the world’s biggest smartphone seller on the back of its Galaxy S line. We don’t know if LG will be able to turn things around anytime soon, but giving the Optimus LTE an Ice Cream Sandwich finish and shipping it sooner rather than later couldn’t hurt.

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This article was written on October 17, 2007 by CyberNet.

As a further indication that analog TV is on its way out and digital is in, Best Buy has announced that they have pulled all of the analog TVs they had left off of the store shelves.  Just about two months ago at my local Best Buy, they still had a small portion of one aisle dedicated to the analog TVs while flat panel and high definition screens took over aisle upon aisle of space. According to the AP, about a month ago all of the Best Buy stores were told to stop selling those TVs and to use the space for more of the flat panel screens.

The digital switchover already started around the world with Luxembourg being the first country to switch to digital broadcasting on September 1st, 2006. The Netherlands made the switch in December of 2006, while Finland recently made the switch on September 1st, 2007. As Richard points out in the CyberNet Forum, the digital switch over in the UK started yesterday. It’s happening everywhere, so when can we expect it to happen in the U.S.? Technically, the answer is “no later than February 17, 2009″ which is the date that has been ordered by the FCC, but that doesn’t mean it won’t change. Let me explain…

An article that I recently came across written by a columnist for MSNBC back on April 24,2005 read: “Television as we know it may end at exactly midnight Dec. 31, 2006. That’s the date congress targeted, a decade ago, for the end of analog television broadcasting and a full cut-over to a digital format.” Well, December 31st 2006 came and went, and we still have analog TV. Perhaps this was due in part to the 70 million TV sets at the time that were still using rabbit-ears or a roof-top antenna? If so, we still haven’t made much progress because the recent statistic tells us that more than 60 million TVs in the U.S. still rely on an analog method.

This time around, I’m thinking that the February 2009 date will be enforced. People have had sufficient time to do something about this, and for those who don’t want to/can’t afford to go out and buy a new TV, the government will be giving them coupons so that they can buy a converter box which Best Buy will start selling early in 2008. The FCC also recently ruled that cable operators must make the local broadcasts available to their subscribers, even if they have analog TV, until 2012. According to Wikipedia, the FCC will review the case at that point, and they could decide to extend that date even further.

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Yesterday Google announced something that will be hard for anybody to find fault with, simply because it is pretty beneficial to the masses. What they are doing is taking the time to team up with various newspaper publishers to get some of the old newspapers scanned in and available online. This means if there’s something you are interested in learning more about or researching from a date three, even four decades ago, you can.

On the Google Blog they explain that you’ll be able to do more than just search the papers. They say, “you’ll also be able to browse through them exactly as they were printed — photographs, headlines, articles, advertisements and all.” They had already started digitizing newspapers from the New York Times and the Washington Post back in 2006, but now there are many, many more publications involved. One newspaper involved has been around for over 244 years which is simply amazing and should give some great insight as to what life was like in 1764.

You can view these old news articles by visiting the Google News Archive which can be found here. All you do is enter in a search term and click either “Search Archives” or “Show Timeline” which is a nice feature as well.

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Continue reading Toyota introduces Touch Life smartphone mirroring system, your Prius and iPhone can become one

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