Earlier this month it was announced that Apple and HTC reached a patent settlement which would see the Taiwanese phone manufacturer enter into a 10-year licensing agreement. Now, HTC has firmly rumored figures which suggested they’d pony up $8 to Cook and co for every Android handset it sold. More »
It all started when one of Google‘s engineers carpooled with a Cherokee Nation member. After talking, the idea was formed of adding Cherokee language support to Gmail, an idea that has ultimately been implemented. This is Gmail’s 57th language, and is accompanied by a virtual keyboard that allows typing in the Cherokee alphabet.
Google also offers Web search in Cherokee. The Gmail team collaborated with the Cherokee Nation, as well as college students and Durbin Feeling, who authored the Cherokee-English Dictionary. By doing so, modern words such as “inbox” have also been added, making the resource very thorough.
Users can enable Cherokee language support under “Settings.” It’s listed under the “Gmail Display Language” drop-down menu under the General tab. Alternatively, if you want to use Gmail in both English and Cherokee, or want to write emails in Cherokee while using the system in English, you can add the Cherokee language input tools via the language drop-down menu on the right side of the screen.
By selecting “Input Tools,” a menu will appear. Select “Cherokee” and add it to the list of tools you want available. Select the language from the menu before typing an email, then begin typing the language phonetically to pull up the language’s alphabet. Disable the input tool keyboard when you want to type in English.
[via Gmail Blog]
Gmail adds Cherokee language support and virtual keyboard is written by Brittany Hillen & originally posted on SlashGear.
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So you might have taken one look at the title and went, "LED lights? What does that have to do with me?" Well, if you’re well aware of what it can do and what people around you have been doing with it, then you’ll agree that it has a lot to do with you.
If you’ve been keeping up with the news of Nokia’s cross-platform mapping service, then you’ll know it’s designed to offer access to all of that Finnish cartographic expertise even if you’re holding something other than a Windows Phone or Symbian device. To that end, the iPhone and iPad version of Nokia Here has finally landed at the App Store, promising to make you “feel like a local anywhere you go,” through traffic and public transport overlays, voice-guided in-car and on-foot navigation and community-based updates. It also integrates with Nokia’s other new service, Collections, which lets you save your favorite places to a personal account. Crucially, the app allows you to download one geographical area of your choice as an offline map — although a 10MB cap means that the more square miles you try to grab, the less detail you’ll see.
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Usually when we see old Mac computers appear in our news feed, it’s because someone had discovered they had one lying around in their basement and decided to put it up for sale for rather exorbitant prices, which we guess many collectors out there wouldn’t mind paying just to own a piece of history. Rarely, however, have we seen a vintage Mac product that is still running, let alone running on OS X! Alright so maybe that isn’t entirely true, but on first glance we could have been fooled because thanks to a hacker/modder, a Macintosh Portable can be seen running OS X Lion.
Basically what they did was remove the innards of the original Macintosh Portable, leaving its chassis intact, and replacing its internal components with the innards of a Toshiba NB100 inside. After some tweaking and adjusting, what we have is a Macintosh Portable running on OS X Lion, although in all honesty we guess that’s just how it looks on the surface, but still pretty cool nonetheless, right? You can check it out in action in the video above.
By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Macintosh Portable Runs On OS X, Apple’s new iMacs could still be on track for a November-December release,
Microsoft’s Windows 8 was released not too long ago with a brand new UI, but have you ever wondered what Microsoft’s design team did before finally arriving on that design that we see in our tablets and computers these days? Well in a UX Week 2012 presentation by Microsoft’s Jensen Harris, some of Windows 8’s earlier designs and mockups were revealed. According to Fast Company, Microsoft began working on Windows 8 mockups as early as 2010 which is only a year after Windows 7 hit the market and according to Jensen, the mockups were created in an attempt to unify the vision of all the designs on the Windows team as part of their “vision day”. In any case if you were curious about how some of the earlier mockups of Windows 8 looked like, you can check out some of it in the gallery below. Rather interestingly it seems that Microsoft did not deviate too far from 2010 to 2012 as far as the design was concerned.
By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Microsoft’s Data Sense Revealed: It’s a, Uh, Map of Wifi Hotspots, What If Windows 8 Was Mounted Like The Original Surface?,
When it comes to our Android smartphones, Philips is hardly a brand that comes to mind. Perhaps when it comes to home appliances such as light bulbs then perhaps Philips would be an obvious choice, but it looks like this hasn’t stopped the company from releasing a smartphone of their own. Philips has recently announced the W832 Xenium, a dual-core Android smartphone that will support dual-SIMs, allowing the user to swap between SIM cards effortlessly. We’re not sure where or when the Philips Xenium will launch, but given its specs we don’t expect it to break the bank.
So what kind of specs are we looking at? For starters would-be customers can look forward to a 4.5” qHD display with a 1GHz dual-core MTK chipset under the hood. It will also feature an 8MP camera, 4GB of internal storage, WiFi, GPS, Bluetooth and a microSD card slot for memory expansion, and it is also expected to run on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. Like we said, it’s not the most impressive smartphone we’ve seen to date but it should be good enough to get the job done for those looking for an inexpensive smartphone.
By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Philips Xenium X510 Dual-SIM Phone, Philips Xenium K700 clone,
If you’re a user of a Nokia Lumia smartphone running Windows Phone 8, such as the Lumia 920, Nokia has added a new video game to its free Nokia Collection that you can download. The free video game is also available for devices such as the entry-level Nokia Lumia 610 that runs Windows Phone 7.5.
EA is the publisher of Mirror’s Edge, which is a game that has been around for a long time now. The game launched in July and was selling for £2.29. You can now add that game to your collection at no cost courtesy of Nokia.
If you somehow missed this game, players will play as Faith who is a runner in the future who delivers messages by hand while avoiding government agents trying to kill her. The game is very large at 132 MB and requires a Wi-Fi connection for downloading. Mirror’s Edge was also recently updated to version 1.1.3 1.0.
No change log noting what the update adds is available at this point. It’s unclear how long Nokia will be offering the game as a free download. If you like this game on other platforms or just want to download a free premium title, you should do it as soon as possible.
[via Noknok.tv]
Nokia adds Mirror’s Edge game to Nokia Collection at no cost is written by Shane McGlaun & originally posted on SlashGear.
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The world’s oldest working digital computer, often referred to as “The Witch”, has been given a new lease of life. A team of computer scientists has restored it to its former glory—and now it’s on display for all to see. More »
HTC CEO Peter Chou has blasted “outrageous” estimates at the per-device settlement fee rumored to be required in its cross-licensing patent agreement with Apple, instead describing the deal as “a good ending.” Questioned as to whether a $6-$8 charge per Android phone was indeed the settlement amount during a press event in Tokyo, Chou refused to name a specific number, Reuters reports, but said those figures were both “baseless” and “very, very wrong.”
Neither Apple nor HTC made public the terms of their agreement, though the deal brought to a close several years of lawsuits. At the time, Chou said that the settlement would allow HTC to “focus on innovation instead of litigation,” but its announcement was swiftly followed by speculation as to exactly which concessions each company made.
“I think that these estimates are baseless and very, very wrong. It is a outrageous number, but I’m not going to comment anything on a specific number. I believe we have a very, very happy settlement and a good ending” Peter Chou, CEO, HTC
Despite their best efforts to play things quietly, however, the overspill from the “ending” look unlikely to dissipate any time soon. Samsung has already requested a copy of the settlement, arguing that – depending on which of its patents Apple has included – it could have a significant impact on ongoing court actions between it and its Cupertino rival.
“The issue of Apple’s willingness to license its patents was briefed in Samsung’s opposition to Apple’s motion for permanent injunction” Samsung legal rep Robert Becher said in a statement about the request. ”This license has direct bearing on the question of irreparable harm and whether monetary remedies are adequate.”
HTC CEO: Apple Android tax estimates are “outrageous” is written by Chris Davies & originally posted on SlashGear.
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