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Samsung Ventures America has made a $4 million funding in a wireless charging startup called PowerbyProxi. The system that this company has developed allows multiple devices to be placed on a single charger for wireless charging. The system also allows more flexibility on how the devices are positioned on the single charger. Senior investment manager at Samsung Ventures America, Michael Pachos, will now be joining PowerbyProxi’s board as both companies are also forming a strategic partnership. Recently PowerbyProxi announced that it had become an ally of the Wireless Power Consortium, a group that backs the popular Qi wireless charging standard.

The investment from Samsung comes as part of the wireless charging company’s ongoing Series C funding round. PowerbyProxi’s CEO Greg Cross has said that the fact that they have received this investment from “the world’s leading consumer electronic brand,” is in itself an endorsement of the company’s wireless power IP portfolio. Samsung Ventures’ Michael Pachos says that wireless power transfer is going to “significantly change the way consumers use and interact with their devices.” It remains to be seen what fruits the strategic partnership both companies have formed will bear, nevertheless, $4 million for a wireless charging startup is definitely going to be welcome injection.

Samsung Makes $4 Million Investment In Wireless Charging Company original content from Ubergizmo.

This article was written on August 24, 2007 by CyberNet.

Wow, that didn’t take long. The iPhone launched June 30th, it’s now August 24th, less than two months later and the iPhone has been unlocked from the AT&T Network. Engadget has reported that a team called iPhoneSIMfree.com has created software that takes the exclusivity away from AT&T. Engadget says, “We can confirm with “100% certainty that iPhoneSIMfree.com’s software solution completely SIM unlocks the iPhone, is restore-resistant, and should make the iPhone fully functional for users outside of the US.” They also mentioned the fact that they don’t have a copy of the software, so don’t even ask. 🙂

The team that created the software to unlock the iPhone has set up a website and says they welcome publications from around the world to “apply to receive their iPhone unlocked FREE of charge” to silence any doubters. They also say that they’ll be selling licenses to the software starting next week, and will also offer the purchase of bulk licenses (500 and above). The unlocked iPhone will work on other networks and around the world!

So now that leaves me curious how much they’ll end up charging for the software. Whatever the cost, I’m sure that these people are going to end up with a hefty profit, particularly from those overseas purchasing the software.  And because Apple doesn’t ship iPhones Internationally, I can see many more iPhones being listed and sold on eBay, and shipped Worldwide.

Engadget tested their iPhone with an active T-Mobile SIM, and they had no problems. One of the only downsides with the unlocked iPhone is the that visual voicemail will not work because that’s something special to AT&T’s network. Other than that, everything is “confirmed as working on a non-AT&T network: SMS send/receive, Internet – including Safari, Mail, Google maps, etc. Here’s a video Engadget put together that shows a phone call being made using the iPhone on a T-Mobile network:

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Intel might not be jumping into the wearable technology market any time soon, but it is putting its weight, and chequebook, behind an established contender. The company announced today that Intel Investments, the Santa Clara based chip maker’s investment arm, has made a “significant” investment in Recon Instruments. It recently launched Recon Jet glasses, which were originally unveiled back at Google I/O 2013. While Recon Jet glasses might look a lot like Google Glass, they’re actually quite different.

With a dualcore processor, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, movement sensors, GPS, HD camera and components from Android OS, Recon Jet allows users to film and track their movements as well as upload the data online. Its actually called the world’s first consumer Heads-up Display for sports. The company claims that up till now it has sold more than 50,000 HUD units around the world. Intel’s investment in Recon will help fund its product development, global sales expansion and marketing. Recon will also benefit from Intel Capital’s “expertise” in manufacturing, operations and technology. Both Recon and Intel Capital are tight-lipped on the amount of this investment, no estimate has been rumored. Intel has already made a similar investment in Thalmic Labs, a company that’s working on wearable technology as well.

Intel Makes ‘Significant’ Investment In Google Glass Rival original content from Ubergizmo.

NASA’s Curiosity rover has been having quite the time on Mars over the past year. Just last September, Curiosity found evidence of water on the red planet, and this summer, traces of “drinkable water” was found on Mars. Considering how important water is for life on Earth to survive, these were pretty big discoveries, but Curiosity’s recent discovery trumps them in comparison. (more…)

NASA’s Curiosity Rover Discovers Mars’ Soil Is 2% Water original content from Ubergizmo.

The folks over in Japan do come up with some of the more stunning inventions from time to time. In fact, it was just earlier this morning that we talked about a robot which was specially programmed to pick ripe strawberries, allowing farmers to take a break and let the robot do the job – and it has even been touted to offer up to a 67% higher level of efficiency, now how about that? This time around, we have word that a music hall does not need to take years to build, but rather, it can be inflated. This is what the Ark Nova classical music concert hall is all about.

With a seating capacity of approximately 500, this particular inflatable structure can be erected just about anywhere (as long as the plot of land is suitable enough, of course) in a jiffy. Specially designed by Japanese architect Arata Isozaki who worked alongside the British designer Anish Kapoor, the Ark Nova is set to make its debut in Matsushima this coming September 27 (which is today in Japan by the way) with a concert that will be conducted by classical superstar Gustavo Dudamel. Additional concerts will also see a number of other artists who will range from Claudio Abbado to Ryuchi Sakamoto.

Ark Nova Music Concert Hall Is An Inflatable Building original content from Ubergizmo.