Click To Enlarge In celebration of today’s officially unofficial Star Wars Day, Tom Tom has released the first in a series of Star Wars -themed voices for its GPS devices. Darth Vader kicks things off, but expect C-3PO in June, Yoda in July and Han Solo in August
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Darth Vader GPS Helps You Find The Turn To The Dark Side
Once again, here is something for the “Cloned in China” category. I really should get around to making one of those. Today it is from a company known as Zenithink, and it has a 1 gigahertz ARM Cortex-A8 processor, 512M RAM, a 1024 x 600 display, 16 gigabytes of flash memory, but it runs Android 2.1 instead of Apple’s OS. I don’t have a price, but this should be out by June. Source Related Posts Meizu creates an iPad clone Meizu is a Chinese manufacturer that is known for cloning the iPhone clones, and it would appear tha…
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Zenithink clones the iPad in China
Placecast, who’s been piling up the awards for its innovative use of digital marketing to drive consumers to physical environments, has been named a Webby Award Official Honoree for 2010 in the “Best Use of GPS or Location Technology” category. In creating the concept of “geo-fence marketing,” with its unique ShopAlerts location-based advertising solution, Placecast has won numerous awards already this year, including the top prize for innovation given by the National Retail Federation, the 2010 RACie award and “The BIG Minute of Innovation” award, led by the San Francisco Bay Area Interactive Group (SFBIG). ShopAlerts is built on a proprietary location-based platform that allows advertisers to target consumers based on where they’re at and where they’re going, while maintaining the ability to reach those consumers across any connected device- the Web, email, mobile and WiFi. Utilizing the geo-fence concept, combined with innovative mobile marketing solutions, has positioned Placecast to become a clear leader in location-based mobile marketing- and the growing number of awards under its belt is testament to its success. “Retailers are looking for innovative ways to use emerging forms of technology to drive in-store traffic.
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Placecast’s ShopAlerts Becomes Official Honoree Of 2010 Webby Awards For Best Use Of GPS Or Location
In the past, we’ve seen robots remove brain tumors and even transplant a kidney or two, and now a cardiologist has completed the world’s first remote heart operation at Glenfield Hospital in Leicester, UK. Using the Remote Catheter Manipulation System built by New Jersey’s Catheter Robotics, Dr. Andre Ng was able to insert electrodes attached to catheters into the heart through blood vessels in the groin. One of the challenges surgeons traditionally face with this kind of procedure is prolonged exposure to the X-Rays used to monitor the patient. By operating remotely, doctors can avoid fatigue and cumulative radiation exposure — not to mention those bulky lead aprons.
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World’s first remote heart surgery completed in Leicester, UK
Lange hat man von RIM und Blackberry nichts mehr gehört, doch irgendwie scheint das Apple iPad auch den sonst nur für Smartphones bekannten Hersteller aus seiner Höhle zu locken. Wie nun unter anderem iClarified berichtet, scheint RIM für das Jahr 2011 ein Blackberry Tablet zu planen, welches eventuell BlackPad heißen könnte. In meinen Augen sehr weit hergeholte Gerüchte, vor allem da es für mich persönlich nicht logisch erscheint, ein auf dem BlackBerry OS basierendes Tablet auf den Markt zu werfen , aber nun gut. We’ve received word from a connect that RIM is in fact working on a tablet.
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iPad Konkurrenz wächst: RIM Blackberry Tablet “BlackPad” in 2011?
Viravis is an advanced method for designing online database applications that deals with almost all your projects right from the beginning to the end, with all the required tools to develop their skills, share technical ideas and expand …
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Online Database Application Platform, Create and Design Online …
Having long reigned as the king of the browser world, Internet Explorer continued its downward slide in April as its market share fell to a ten-year low. Market share for the Windows-based browser dropped 0.7 percent in April. to 59.95%.
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Internet Explorer falters in the browser market, Chrome on the upswing
Wie auf razorianfly.com derzeit zu lesen ist, hat Apple offenbar damit begonnen, einen neuen Service zu testen: iTravel . Dieser ist für das mobile Betriebssystem iPhone OS und damit für iPhone, iPod Touch und iPad gedacht. Um was es dabei geht, dürfte der Name des Service iTravel eigentlich schon verraten: um das Reisen .
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Apple: macht iTravel fürs iPhone OS künftig das Reisen einfacher?
By Ian Chiu MS Arc Keyboard seems to have something for everyone. Whether you need a miniature wireless input device for your HTPC or an easy-to-carry laptop keyboard replacement, the Arc looks like it can serve these roles just well enough to get by
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MS Arc Keyboard Reviewed. Verdict: Aesthetically Pleasing as it is Versatile
The Legends are coming! The Legends are coming! I’ve always had a bit of a soft spot for the HTC Legend. Sure, it’s not the most powerful piece of kit in HTC’s armory – but it’s made of friggin’ metal. You could give this phone to a bear for a few hours and have it come back mostly functioning. Can you imagine a world where bears have cell phones of their very own
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Surprise! The HTC Legend preps for landing on AT&T by way of the FCC
A 17-year-old Madison boy was arrested Monday after he allegedly took personal belongings from employees at an east side store on Sunday that were in an area where he was allowed in to to fill out a job application.
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Teen allegedly takes personal belongings and car instead of job application
( The Video is in a Silverlight player, if you dont have silverlight installed you wont be able to play it ) Windows Phone 7 provides developers with two main frameworks in which to work: Silverlight and XNA Framework. Regardless of the framework you chose, you will end up with a Windows Phone application that must be deployed to the Windows Phone market place and from there installed on a Windows Phone device, and provisioned and managed by the user. See the video for an overview of the Windows Phone Application life cycle, explaining the internal architecture of Windows Phone and how application get installed and executed on the Windows Phone 7 device.
Stephen Hawking , best known for once beating me in a battle of the brains by an incredibly narrow margin (I dominated him in an arm-wrestling rematch), has taken to explaining how humans might be able to time travel into the future.
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Let’s Do This Thing!: Stephen Hawking Explains How Time Travel Is Possible
Interesting dissection of a sphere from Thingiverse user VeryWetPaint . This “hemi-demi-sphere” is also cleverly designed to present the best-finished surface from the printer on the outside of the assembled sphere. More: Math Monday: Tetraxis puzzle Hinged transformation of triangle to square Precision puzzlemaking (or something like that) @ Maker Faire Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in 3D printing | Digg this!
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3D-printable 4-part sphere model on Thingiverse
Accurate fertiliser application is critical to produce good yields and quality grass silage this season, according the Silage Advisory Centre.
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Accurate fertiliser application is key to quality grass silage
We’d heard a somewhat sketchy report from the New York Post yesterday that the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission were considering launching an antitrust inquiry into Apple and its various iPhone-related practices, and now it’s being confirmed by Reuters and the Wall Street Journal , who say the inquiry was triggered by complaints from Apple’s competitors and app developers — specifically Adobe, according to Bloomberg . The DOJ and FTC are currently deciding which agency will take the lead in any inquiry, but if and when it gets underway there are a few issues at play: the first is obviously Apple’s decision to block Flash and other middleware from app development, and the second is Apple’s new iAd platform, which comes with its own changes to the iPhone developer agreement that could potentially lock out third-party ad and analytics services like AdMob — itself under regulatory scrutiny due to the Google acquisition — and Flurry. We’d also imagine regulators will take a close look at Apple’s App Store policies in general, but from a distance looks like the focus is on mobile advertising: both Apple and Google have made aggressive moves into the space in recent months, and both have come under regulatory scrutiny. We’ll just have to wait and see how this one plays out — there’s still no official word from either agency on what’s happening, and the timeline of any potential investigation and lawsuit will be measured in months and years. Apple under preliminary antitrust investigation over iPhone, triggered by complaint from Adobe originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 04 May 2010 11:53:00 EST.
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Apple under preliminary antitrust investigation over iPhone, triggered by complaint from Adobe
The Wall Street Journal today has expanded details on the possible preliminary antitrust investigation against Apple Inc. The Journal reports that the company may face an investigation into its iAd mobile advertising service, citing an unnamed wireless-advertising executive who …
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Apple’s iAd Also the Subject of Investigation
I know that Instapaper is mega popular, and I may well give the web-to-text service another shot someday, but for now, I’m really enjoying Read it Later . I’m currently using the free app to aggregate all the interesting links from my Twitter and Google Reader accounts
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Quick iPhone Tip: use Read it Later to save Twitter and RSS links in one place
Two of this year’s most expected smartphones, the Nokia N8 and the iPhone 4G , have already been cloned in China, months ahead of their official release. The Nokia N8 clone looks pretty much exactly like the original. Of course, when it comes to specs, the fake N8 doesn’t deliver what the real handset does. The clone features a 3.2 inch touchscreen display with 240 x 400 pixels, Bluetooth, Music player, FM radio, a camera on the back and one on the front.
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Nokia N8 and iPhone 4G got cloned ahead of launch (video)
One of the big differences with HTC phones is the inclusion of the Sense UI. I first encountered it with the Droid Eris and really liked it. You can read my earlier post on the topic for more details. The downside of the Sense UI is that it can delay getting an update to the latest Android OS.
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A Week with the HTC Incredible – Sense UI
GrooveMobileAlpha SciLor’s GrooveMobile Alpha 10 is a windows mobile GrooveShark app. With local playlists and an option to dump your online playlists.
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SciLor’s GrooveMobile Alpha 10 – windows mobile GrooveShark app