Either romantic or schmaltzy depending on your current relationship status and attitude to romance, the ifallinlove app syncs to your lover’s iPhone and depending on how near you are to the object of your affections, the heart on the screen…
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Heart app syncs with your lover’s iPhone: an app for Valentine’s Day
The 32nm dual-core Clarkdale processors that recently made their debut are about to pave the way for Intel’s next performance crown chaser, the six-core Gulftown . You might’ve known that already, but Intel’s decided to furnish us with the above slide detailing the particular differences between the two dies, with the most notable being the whopping 1.17 billion transistors that the new CPU will be composed of. The major attraction of Clarkdale chips lies in their power efficiency and competent integrated GPU , but the Gulftown focus will be firmly on the high end
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Intel teases six-core Gulftown, discusses tera-scale computing
Motorola has been suing BlackBerry maker Research In Motion over a patent relegated to an email gateway; however, a high court judge has ruled that Research In Motion doesn’t infringe Motorola’s patent reports an article over on the Calgary Herald . Apparently the high court judge in London invalidated a Motorola patent saying that even if it had been valid, two RIM communications systems didn’t infringe said patent. From 2003 to 2007 Motorola and Research In Motion had a licence agreement in place and since then have been suing each other over patents when they both failed to reach a new agreement. The most recent action was Motorola asking the US International Trade Commission to halt Research In Motion products importing smartphones which they claim infringes five of their patents but as yet the ITC has not investigated.
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Motorola Patent Not Infringed by BlackBerry
Just yesterday, Motorola introduced the DEVOUR (yes, in all caps) to the cell-toting masses. It’s the first phone to be released running the unique Android-powered Motoblur technology. What’s Motoblur, you ask? Well, Motoblur syncs and feeds your personal and work emails, texts, Facebook, Myspace, and Twitter updates from you and those you follow to your phone’s home screen without having to log into different accounts, or open up any webpages or apps. It’s all right there on the main screen.
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If you’re Clearwire or Sprint right now, the last thing you want to hear is one of the world’s major suppliers of wireless infrastructure badmouthing the very technology that underpins your next-gen network — so we imagine there’s some groaning in the hallways and boardrooms of the world’s WiMAX carriers today. Why? Alcatel-Lucent’s COO of its wireless business, Patrick Plas, has pulled no punches in a statement this week that the firm is “not putting a lot of effort into [WiMAX] any longer” after noticing that there’s “a clear direction taken by the industry towards LTE .” Of course, it doesn’t take an analyst to notice that Europe, Asia, and virtually every carrier in the Americas have all taken on a decidedly pro-LTE slant in the past couple years, and these guys are just following the money — which in turn makes it harder (and more expensive) for the handful of WiMAX proponents with deployed networks to build out and stay technologically current
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Major infrastucture supplier calls it: LTE over WiMAX
Hey everybody, new ThinkPads ! Lenovo seems hellbent on crushing its reputation for pricey hardware — while presumably maintaining the related renown for rugged reliability — and today it’s snuck out a set of new i-appended variants of its flagship T series laptops . The T410i, T410si and T510i come equipped with the budget-friendly Core i3-330M CPU from Intel, which runs at 2.13GHz, alongside otherwise typical specs. Memory goes from 2GB to 8GB of DDR3, two megapixel webcams come as standard, and fingerprint sensors can be tacked on as well. Even more friendly to businesses on a shoestring is the option for Windows XP pre-installations on the T410i and T510i.
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Lenovo names T410i, T410si, and T510i ThinkPads in honor of Core i3-330M inside
It’s rare to see a rumor — hell, even a roadmap — pinpoint the timing of new releases quite so accurately, but our earlier report of ATI refreshing the middle and lower parts of its lineup turned out to be bang on. Following in the footsteps of the HD 5670 , we have the Radeon HD 5450, which drags the entry price for DirectX 11 and Eyefinity multi-monitor support all the way down to $50.
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ATI Radeon HD 5450 focuses on multimedia features, neglects gaming
BerryWeather is my favorite weather app, even more reliable than the local weather person. I know as quickly as the weather changes, I can see it in a glance. Thanks goes out to Ryan from themes4bb , who alerted me on this before I got the email. BerryWeather is now at version 2.1.40.
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Even after all this time Sony’s hand-held wand bent on bringing some of that interactive Wii game play to the PS3 still doesn’t have a name. Announced at E3 , Sony as recently as January 20th was still calling its PS3 Motion Controller, well, “Motion Controller” in its official communications with a footnote that the name was still tentative. Of course, we’ve heard whispers that it’ll be called Arc — and we’re not alone
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THQ CEO calls PS3 Motion Controller ‘Arc’ throughout investor call
PdaNet allows your computer can access internet by connecting to your blackberry phone through the cable, Bluetooth or InfraRed. PdaNet provides you with direct and full Internet access so all your email, instant message programs will work without any setting changes. PdaNet requires BlackBerry OS 4.6 or above on the phone. If your phone runs an older OS please check for updates at your carrier’s website. Download Installer for 32-bit Windows 7/XP/Vista Installer for 64-bit Windows 7/Vista
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PdaNet for BlackBerry 1.30
Apparently worried its On Demand Online project would suffer the shame of a silly name all by its lonely , Comcast has rebranded its cable TV, internet and phone services as Xfinity TV, Xfinity Internet and Xfinity Voice. Other than the name not much is changing (@ComcastCares will still be doing its thing on Twitter), although the rollout of the new branding (starting next week, the first 11 markets include Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington D.C., Chicago, Portland, Seattle, Hartford, Augusta, Chattanooga, parts of the Bay Area and San Francisco) should sync up with 50mbps or high speeds becoming available. Of course, if those slick flame colored letter started showing up on TV repair guy trucks at the same time as a truly revolutionary new DVR software package instead of the slightly spruced up version we’ll be getting over the next few months , then they could call it anything they want to. Comcast smears the XFINITY brand across all its services originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:42:00 EST.
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Comcast smears the XFINITY brand across all its services
Since the last time we mentioned it, the MyTether app for WebOS phones has gone up in price from a requested $10 donation to $14.95, but that’s still considerably cheaper than Verizon’s $40 per month Mobile Hotspot plan. We’re still leery about what usage/overusage could mean for your contract & bill, but a new beta version has been posted that officially supports the Pre Plus and according to the developer “makes use of the API calls behind MHS” to let it work more smoothly. Even with the Pre’s openness to hackery we had some issues getting the beta installer to operate on our Windows 7 machine but once it was installed it worked as promised, giving comparable speeds to a dedicated EV-DO card on the same network
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WebOS homebrew MyTether app updated, brings WiFi hotspots to Verizon Palms w/o the extra subscription
It seems Apple ( NSDQ: AAPL )’s change of heart in regards to letting VoIP iPhone apps work over 3G networks is having a halo effect on other VoIP services. Shape Services, makers of the popular IM+ chat client, has announced that it has updated the IM+ for Skype app for BlackBerry ( NSDQ: RIMM ) to offer free WiFi-based Skype calls. The update makes IM+ for Skype the only BlackBerry app that allows free Skype calls – even internationally
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Samsung, give them credit, loves to push that old industrial design envelope by making strange new control designs for their products. It’s only too bad that, most of the time, these industrial design features often wind up being little more than lipstick on a pig. And today’s polished turd will be the Samsung Alias 2. The Samsung Alias 2 is a convertible flip style cell phone that offers call timer, conference call ability, voice recorder, caller ID, Bluetooth connectivity, TTY compatibility, VZ Navigator, Chaperone parent/child, a sixteen gig microSD card slot, V CAST Music, Rhapsody, GPS, speakerphone, a phone book with capacity for a thousand names and numbers, mobile email, internet browser, a two megapixel digital camera, and a battery capable of generating five hours of talk time on one charge. The first thing you’ll notice about this phone is its bizarre and thoroughly outlandish controls. It will take quite a bit of getting used to to get this thing to work properly. And the worst part is that, though the controls are spectacularly unique, there’s not a whole lot here for the keypad to actually control in the first place. The Samsung Alias 2 is short on tools and long on weird. The end result is a phone much less than you actually could get elsewhere. The Good Gutsy and highly original design The Bad Short on features Huge learning curve Score 4/10 Related Posts Samsung Alias Cell Phone Along with the BlackBerry Curve 8330 and the LG enV2, Verizon is also releasing the new Samsung Alia..
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Samsung Alias 2 Cell Phone Review–Strange and Lacking
Apple might have finally released the iPad , but the rumor mill is already on to prognosticating about the next rev — and as usual, Apple’s patents and patent applications are everyone’s favorite place to start. (And for good reason, really — that very first design patent we inititally noticed way back in 2004 is exactly what the iPad looks like, down to the bezel and Dock connector.) The latest tidbit is a patent granted earlier this week on an intelligent touch-sensitive bezel, which would essentially extend the touchpanel beyoned the edges of the screen to create an entire border of context-specific soft buttons — the iPod app might have playback controls at the bottom, while Safari could put the navigation bar down there and Pages could do formatting stuff at the top. It’s sort of interesting — Palm similarly extends the touch area beyond the screen on the Pre and the Pixi, but not quite like this — but we can’t see how touching the bezel next to an on-screen label is much better than just pressing the screen. Of course, there’s no guaranteeing Apple’s actually going to use any of this in any future products whatsoever, but we’re sure that won’t stop some analyst from waving their magic analyst wand and saying their “supply checks” have indicated a major ODM is already producing these.
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Apple gets a patent on smart screen bezels
Oh, Symbian, you tease ! For an organization as committed to openness and sharing its roadmap (and its code) as the Symbian Foundation , it’s pretty unusual that they’d be counting down to a big unveiling of anything — but sure enough, they’ve been tweeting decreasing numbers with the hashtag “#symbiancountdown” starting back on January 26 with 108. Today we’re down to 12 (it’s hard to say what sort of jacked-up counting system they’re using here) with a note of “what will tomorrow bring?” so it looks like we can expect this all to go down in just a few short hours. One thought is that they could announce that Symbian^3 has gone Functionally Complete, a key milestone in getting it pushed to devices — but that’s a shot in the dark
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Symbian’s revealing something tomorrow, but what? (update: open source!)
Acer pulled closer to HP than ever in the third quarter of 2009, when it shipped 8.86 million laptops compared to HP’s 9.91 million, but it looks like things swung well back in the other direction during the fourth quarter. According to DigiTimes , HP shipped a whopping 11.38 million laptops worldwide in Q4, while Acer moved 9.5 million units during the same time period — an sizable increase in itself, but likely not enough to cause too much celebration at Acer HQ. As you might suspect, the holiday shopping season was largely responsible for the jump in sales from both companies, with strong sales in North America in particular said to be the main reason behind HP’s widening lead. HP increases lead over Acer in worldwide laptop shipments originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:16:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds
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This program is designed to read 2D barcodes with the help of integrated mobile phone’s camera. 3GVision i-nigma 2D barcode Reader reads the next data: text messages, phone number or text, Email address or the URL of the Internet site. Download People Who Liked This, Also Liked The Following: February 4, 2010 — Mobileways Gravity v1.30.6316 For Nokia 5800XM, N97, s60v5 (0) February 4, 2010 — GyPSii v5.0.4 S60v5 SymbianOS9.4 Signed {A NewWay To Share The Places InYour Life} (0) February 4, 2010 — Killermobile Advance SMS v2.0 For Nokia 5800XM, N97, s60v5 (0) February 4, 2010 — ThinkChange FingerPrint v2.60 For S60v5, Nokia 5800XM, N97 (0) February 4, 2010 — Syntonetic Playlist DJ v1.01(48) S60v5 SymbianOS9.4 Signed (0) February 4, 2010 — Smartphoneware Best TaskMan v2.4 For s60v3, s60v5 (0) February 4, 2010 — Smartphoneware Best Timer v2.00 For N97, 5800XM, s60v5 (0) February 4, 2010 — Aims Migital SMS Hider v2.0 S60v3, S60v5 SymbianOS9.x (0) February 4, 2010 — Aldea SafeStore Gold Edition v3.00 J2ME (0) February 2, 2010 — Quran Encyclopedia For Nokia s60v5 (0)
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Apparently the dizzying expansion of mobile coverage in India has proceeded a little quicker than the regulatory process there — Indian carriers are in a bit of a tizzy after authorities shut down 300 allegedly illegal towers in a suburb of New Delhi called Noida. The gub’mint says the towers are on private land that’s not approved for commercial use, but the carriers say the move is “arbitrary and uncalled for,” and even “inhuman” because the loss of service means people can’t make emergency calls. That’s a strong card to play — let’s hope this gets sorted out soon. Indian mobile carriers scramble as illegal towers are shut down originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds .
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That other tablet that was announced just a week ago sure doesn’t seem to be setting Fusion Garage’s Joojoo off course. Not only did it see an increase in orders after the iPad announcement, but Fusion Garage CEO Chandra Rathakrishna just told us that production of the 12-inch tablet has kicked off and that the product is on target to start shipping this month
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Joojoo tablet now in production, will support full Flash at launch
We just checked out Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies’ personal MiniPak fuel cell charger at CES last month, but the company’s already back with another product that promises to take fuel cells where you might not expect them: hobbyist R/C cars. That comes courtesy of the company’s new H-Cell 2.0 hydrogen fuel cell system, which is an add-on kit that’s designed to replicate the full-scale hydrogen systems now being used on actual cars. In fact, it can even be refueled using a model-scale hydrogen refueling station, which itself can be outfitted with solar panels or wind turbines for a completely carbon-free experience. No word on pricing just yet, but the kit will apparently be available on March 15th — head on past the break for a quick video demonstration. Continue reading Horizon debuts H-Cell 2.0 hydrogen fuel cell system for R/C cars Horizon debuts H-Cell 2.0 hydrogen fuel cell system for R/C cars originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:42:00 EST
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