During the Cold War, Hungary was one of the westernmost allies of the Soviet Union. As a member of the Warsaw Pact, Hungary had to station a significant number of Soviet troops and military equipment on its territory. Now we’ve gone inside one of their most classified bases, and taken pictures.
A couple of days ago, we reported that the Saygus V2 would be available for pre-order today. Unfortunately it seems that for some reason, the company has decided to delay those pre-orders and has since pushed the pre-orders to begin on the 2nd of February, which is next Monday.
However this means that customers will still have some time to pre-register their interest in the handset, but why pre-register when you can pre-order, you ask? It seems that if you were to pre-register, you would be able to nab yourselves some freebies which includes a free extra battery and a customized glass screen protector, although this will be limited to 10 per customer.
The Saygus V2 was launched at CES 2015 and what caught our attention was the fact that the phone manages to pack 320GB of storage under the hood, although this comes in the form of a default of 64GB of storage followed by 2 extra microSD card slots that could allow up to 256GB of additional storage.
For those who are interested in getting their hands on the device, it will be priced at $550 during the pre-order period, but once pre-orders are over, the phone is expected to see a slight increase in price where it will be set at $600. More information can be found over on Saygus’ website.
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Say you’re at home alone and you’re trying to write a song, so maybe you write the guitar part first, but you’re curious as to how it might sound like with a full band with the drums and bass accompanying it. There are a couple of ways around it, one of which is to create your own backing drums and bass tracks which can be time consuming, or you could rely on ready made tracks which might not necessarily be in line with what you had in mind, or you could put together a jam session with your bandmates.
However given that not everyone might be as free or available as you, this could be problematic as well, which is why the folks at DigiTech have come up with the DigiTech TRIO. For those who have played guitar for a while now or have dabbled in music production, the DigiTech brand is probably one that is familiar to you. The TRIO was recently announced at NAMM and is basically marketed as a band in a pedal.
The device will be able to “listen” to what you’re playing, analyze it, and then create a backing drum and bass tracks that they think will best suit what you have been playing. Now granted it won’t be able to see into your mind and understand the vision that you’re pursuing with your music, but from what we can see in the demonstration in the video above, it does work pretty well to give you the feeling of a completed piece of music.
The TRIO will be able to adapt itself to a variety of styles of music and will be able to switch between 3/4 and 4/4 time signatures, so unless you’re going for some kind of Dream Theater style of music with fast shifting and weird time signatures, we reckon you should be covered. DigiTech has yet to confirm how much it will cost or when it will be released. [Product page]
DigiTech’s TRIO Is Like A Band In A Pedal , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
We’ve all heard the stories of batteries exploding and setting fire to things around them, so it is safe to say that the companies who manufacture battery packs are pretty wary and are usually on the lookout for incidents that could put them in the headlines for the wrong reasons. Now if you have purchased Elgato’s Smart Power battery pack, it seems that the company is looking to recall them.
The company has recently issued a notice informing their users that there is an overheating problem that is affecting the Smart Power 6,000mAh battery pack, so if you’re the owner of that device, you might want to take note of this. Elgato’s notice has been issued through their accompanying app, and if you pop into the iTunes App Store, you will notice that Elgato has also issued a notice under the app’s update notes.
So far it seems that there have been no incidents with the battery, but perhaps Elgato would rather be safe than sorry as overheating could lead to disastrous consequences. The company claims that the affected products are the ones sold between September 2014 and January 2015, although you can check if your model is affected by going to their website.
Interestingly enough it seems that instead of offering replacement hardware which is usually the case, it has been reported that Elgato will be issuing a refund instead. The company has also halted the sale of the Smart Power 6000 lineup of battery packs until the issue has been resolved.
Elgato Issues Recall For Smart Power 6,000mAh Battery Packs , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
In the early years of the battle between iOS and Android, Apple had the bragging rights in terms of the number of apps available in the iTunes App Store as Apple held the lead for quite a while. However over the years and with Android becoming more prevalent, the Google Play Store has caught up.
In fact recently in a report from analytics firm App Annie (via Re/code), it seems that in terms of downloads, Google Play managed to outpace Apple’s App Store by as much as 60%! That is significantly more downloads than Apple’s App Store, but if you’re wondering why developers are still choosing to develop for iOS, it is because in terms of monetization, Apple is still leading the way.
App Annie notes that the App Store made 70% more in revenue when compared to Google Play last year. In fact a prime example would be the game Monument Valley in which its developers reported that a whopping 81.7% of their close-to $6 million in revenue came from iOS devices, while the remainder came from Google Play and Amazon.
This seems to be in line with an earlier report in which it stated that Apple is still leading the way in terms of profits for gaming apps, although that report also pointed out that Android games are starting to become just as profitable. App Annie also notes that countries such as Japan, South Korea, and the US generated more app revenue than the rest of the markets combined.
Google Play Beats Out iTunes In App Downloads, But iTunes Still Leading In Monetization , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
While using pirate software is wrong and illegal, we guess it is understandable that for individual users, paying hundreds if not thousands of dollars for a single piece of software does seem a bit expensive, but for companies to use pirated software? That might be a slightly different story and unfortunately when you do get caught, the consequences can be pretty severe.
Such is the case with clothing store Forever 21 who has recently been hit with a lawsuit by Adobe who alleges that the company had been using pirated copies of their software. The lawsuit claims that Forever 21 had installed pirated copies of Adobe Photoshop, Acrobat, and Illustrator, and it seems that they’re not alone.
Autodesk and Corel are also taking part in the lawsuit alleging that the company have installed pirated copies of Autodesk, WinZip, and PaintShopPro, and apparently “continued their infringing activities even after being contacted by Adobe regarding the infringement.” It is unclear as to how Adobe or the other companies learnt about this infringement, but chances are it could have been manually reported by an employee or former employee at the company, as is usually the case in these types of situations.
It is unclear as to how much Adobe, Corel, and Autodesk are asking for in terms of damages, but according to the lawsuit, “It would be difficult to ascertain the amount of money damages that would afford Plaintiffs adequate relief at law for Defendants’ continuing acts and omissions complained of herein, and a multiplicity of judicial proceedings would be required.”
Forever 21 Hit With Lawsuit Over Pirated Software From Adobe, Corel, Autodesk , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
Back in 2012, Google took the wraps off their Google Glass wearable. For a moment there it looked like it be the next big thing, but unfortunately the product took too long to reach the market, not to mention its asking price to be part of the Explorer program was too prohibitive for most people, which is why it didn’t exactly come as a shock to see Google shutting the Explorer program down.
However with the shutdown, many were wondering about the fate of the wearable which has since been transferred over to a new division run by Nest’s Tony Fadell, and in Google’s recent earnings call for Q4 2014, Google’s CFO Patrick Pichette finally offered a bit of insight as to what’s going on with their Google Glass program.
According to Pichette, it seems that Glass did not have the kind of impact that Google was looking for, which ultimately forced them to put the project on hold and to reset their strategy. “When teams aren’t able to [leap] hurdles, but we think there’s still a lot of promise, we might ask them to take a pause and take the time to reset their strategy, as we recently did in the case of Glass. [A]nd in those situations where projects don’t have the impact we hope for, we do take the tough calls, we make the decision to cancel them, and you’ve seen us do this time and time again.”
Of course it remains to be seen what Google will eventually do with their Glass program, but as TechCrunch points out, it is likely that when the project does resurface, it could take a completely new form that none of us would have recognized or predicted.
Google Glass Did Not Have The Impact Google Was Hoping For , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
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