For those eager to hear what Tim Cook has to announce later on, good news: today’s Apple event will be streamed live, direct to Apple TVs. More »
For those eager to hear what Tim Cook has to announce later on, good news: today’s Apple event will be streamed live, direct to Apple TVs. More »
If you haven’t already bookmarked our liveblog (you should get right on that), Apple‘s revealed that it will resume broadcasting its events –starting today. Appearing alongside a new events channel on Apple TV, we get a brief mention of today’s conference in San Jose. But until it kicks off at 10AM PT, you can kill some time by watching Apple’s back-catalog of events, which are ready to view on the new channel.
Update: Better still, you can also hit up Apple’s events site to stream it in your browser of choice Safari on OS X 10.6 or later.
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New Apple TV Events channel will stream the special event later today (update: and on your Mac) originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 23 Oct 2012 07:02:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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If you’re serious about your mobile gaming, odds are you would love to find a high quality and easy-to-use controller to replace the onscreen controls for your favorite games. PowerA has an interesting mobile gaming controller called the Moga that is now in stores and available for purchase. The control reminds more than a little of an aftermarket Xbox 360 controller.
The controller portion has dual analog sticks, shoulder triggers, and four action buttons. It also has a flip up arm designed to secure your Android 2.3 or higher smartphone to the controller for gaming on the go. The device is available in over 7000 stores around the country, including Best Buy, Walmart, Toys “R” Us, Amazon, and Gamestop among others.
The company notes that it has hands-on demo stations at Toys “R” Us and in select Best Buy stores allowing users to try the controller out before they purchase. The device also promises to work with some Android tablets. There are already 45 games on the market that support the Moga controller.
Some of the high-end games that support the controller include The Dark Knight Rises HD, N.O.V.A. 3, Sonic CD, Death Rally, and Dungeon Hunter 3. The controller connects to the smartphone or tablet using Bluetooth technology, and the company produces a SDK for mobile game developers to build compatibility into their apps. The controller is available online for $49.99.
PowerA Moga Mobile Gaming System now in stores is written by Shane McGlaun & originally posted on SlashGear.
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The US Patent and Trademark Office may have just thrown a wrench into Apple’s recent courtroom triumph over Samsung by invalidating one of the patents at the heart of the victory: rubber-banding. We noted at the time that Apple hit a “home run” with that particular IP, as jurors declared that all 21 disputed Samsung devices infringed it, no doubt resulting in a large part of the $1 billion (and counting) owed by the Korean maker. “Claim 19” of patent 7469381, which covers that feature, was invalidated by the USPTO on two counts, both of which were cases of prior art that allegedly existed before Cupertino claimed them. Either one could be enough reason to throw out that part of the patent, according to FOSS Patents, provided that the USPTO’s ruling stands up. Either way, Samsung has already brought the new information to Judge Koh’s attention — which might bring about some new action very soon.
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USPTO has ‘tentatively’ invalidated Apple’s key rubber-banding patent originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 23 Oct 2012 06:57:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Today is a big day for Apple fans with a new special media event being held by Apple. While we still don’t know for sure exactly what Apple will be showing us at the event, it’s safe to say that this is going to be the official unveiling of the new in smaller iPad mini. If you have an Apple TV set-top box, an interesting icon has turned up today on the device.
Reports indicate that a new icon titled “Apple Events” is available on the Apple TV set-top box. When you click the new icon, there is an icon inside for an “Apple Special Event- Live.” The instructions for the event tell viewers to tune in at 10 AM on October 23 to watch live video from the California Theater in San Jose California.
Apple will be broadcasting the iPad mini unveiling live. At this point, there’s no indication that the live video stream will be available through Apple.com or other means. If you don’t have an Apple TV, and you want to know what’s going on at the event in real time, be sure to tune in later this morning for our liveblog.
That liveblog will start at 10 AM Pacific time or 1 PM Eastern time. The live streaming of the iPad mini event today will be the first time in several years that Apple has offered live video streams of special events. The last event Apple streamed live was in 2010 and that event was called “Back to the Mac.”
[via MacRumors]
Apple TV users can view live video from iPad mini event today is written by Shane McGlaun & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Foss Patents is reporting that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has tentatively invalidated Apple’s bounce scroll—sometimes referred to as “rubber banding”—patent possibly affecting the recent ruling in the Apple v. Samsung trial. More »
Nokia has announced its lowest priced Windows Phone to date: the WP7.5 Nokia Lumia 510 replaces the Lumia 610 as the entry level WP handset — with an estimated retail price of $199 (excluding taxes and subsidies). India and China are the initial target markets, starting in November, “followed closely” by other Asia-Pac countries and South America.
The announcement by Nokia of a new device running Microsoft’s older OS, WP7.5 — rather than the high end, forthcoming WP8 platform — is the clearest sign yet Nokia is committed to trying to use Windows Phone as a low-end smartphone platform, either alongside its Series 40 Asha line of devices or perhaps as a future replacement OS. If Nokia does choose to focus its low-end efforts solely on WP7.5, Gartner analyst Roberta Cozza believes that could help Microsoft gain significant smartphone market share in future — predicting WP could gain a fifth of the market by 2016.
The Lumia 510 is still double the price of Nokia’s cheapest full-touchscreen Ashas — which carry a $99 price-tag. Non-touchscreen Asha are cheaper still so WP7.5 has a long way to go to achieve the same deep low end reach as Series 40. But every little bit helps to compete against Android’s sprawling mid-tier.
Gartner’s Cozza told TechCrunch: “It is critical for Nokia at this stage to drive volumes and fill the void quickly they have in their low to mid tier smartphone portfolio and so they need to broaden further the Lumia range. This should enable Nokia to better fend off competitive pressure coming from low-cost Android offerings which are increasing at a very rapid pace in emerging markets. In these markets Nokia has market reach and still a desirable brand, and can offer differentiated and value services.”
Comment on the Lumia 510 launch in a statement, Jo Harlow, executive vice president of Nokia Smart Devices, said: “With the Nokia Lumia 510 we continue to meet our commitment to bring Windows Phone to new, lower price points. People who use Windows Phone quickly realize how much more intuitive it is than other smartphone platforms, and Nokia Lumia is the best embodiment of the Windows Phone experience. With the Nokia Lumia 510 we’re looking forward to welcoming more people into the Windows Phone experience.”
The Lumia 510 has a 4 inch capacitive touchscreen, with a resolution of 800×480 pixels. The phone is powered by a Snapdragon S1 chip, has 256MB of RAM, and 4GB of user accessible memory plus 7GB of free SkyDrive storage (Microsoft’s cloud storage service) — however there’s no Micro SD card slot to expand on-board storage further. On the back is a five megapixel camera. The battery is rated at 1,300mAh.
To bulk out the Lumia 510′s software offerings, Nokia has included a Camera Extras app — to add changeable, digital lens/filters to the camera — plus its Nokia Maps, Nokia Drive and Nokia Transport apps, which are also found on high end Lumias.
Toys “R” Us officially unveiled its kid-friendly tabeo Android tablet in early September. The tablet went up for pre-order at $149.99. That tablet is now available in Toys “R” Us retail locations around the country and online at toysrus.com.
That makes the tablet available just in time for early holiday shopping. If you missed this tablet first time around, it’s not exactly the most powerful tablet on the market. It runs a 1 GHz Cortex A8 processor with 1 GB of RAM and 4 GB of internal storage. The tablet does feature a microSD card slot for storage expansion.
The tablet has a seven-inch multitouch screen with a resolution of 800 x 480. Other features include a micro-HDMI output, micro USB 2.0 port, and integrated Wi-Fi. The tablet also has an integrated microphone and speaker along with a front facing camera. The tablet promises seven hours of runtime during video playback.
Toys “R” Us has also announced a full line of accessories to go with the tabeo tablet. The tablet accessories range from $5.99 to $39.99. There’s a huge variety of accessories available, including HDMI adapter cables, screen protectors, folio case stands, a stylus pack, earbuds, an AC power adapter, and a number of cases to protect the tablet from damage.
Toys “R” Us tabeo kid-friendly tablet now available in stores is written by Shane McGlaun & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Sony recently teased its high-end CineAlta brand and ‘TheNewF,’ implying a high-end PMW-F3-like camcorder could be coming at an October 30th event. It’s now taken some of the suspense out of the announcement on Facebook, saying the upcoming camera will have 4k resolution, broadcast-level 50Mbps data rate, 4:2:2 color space and high frame-rates. That means it’ll likely be a professional product on par with the last F-model, but we’ll have to wait and see if it’ll retain features like the PL lens mount and $16k price tag. We’ll be there on the 30th for the full scoop, so stay tuned.
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Sony teases ‘4K, HFR’ F-series pro camcorder for October 30th event originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 23 Oct 2012 06:27:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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