Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 launch yesterday saw a huge number of devices being promised for a wide range of countries, and we can’t blame you if you got overwhelmed. Happily Microsoft are helping us get back to basics with a typically-shouty Steve Ballmer and a video of the whole keynote launch, which you can see
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Windows Phone 7 video keynote now available
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Zip Repair – freeware helps you recover corrupted zip files
Autonomy is a software and infrastructure company that was a wide range of offerings including running a private cloud for storing information and other uses for its customers. The company has announced that its private cloud computing platform has hit an impressive milestone. The private cloud now manages more than 17 petabytes of information.
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Autonomy private cloud hits 17 petabytes
Sony and Global HID are coyly batting their eyelashes at each other over a memorandum of intent to jointly develop an embedded contactless smart card reader platform for laptops. The idea is to create a single reader compatible with Sony’s popular FeliCa solution in Japan as well as NFC, HID Global’s own iCLASS, and more. As a refresher, about 315 million FeliCa cards are in circulation worldwide with another 67 million FeliCa-capable mobile phones in Japan used for electronic payments, access, interactive advertising, and membership rewards systems. Hell, Sony’s even got a FeliCa reading remote control . The dark arts of Near Field Communication have been given a boost recently with support from Nokia and the US carriers AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile
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Sony and Global HID to unify FeliCa and NFC laptop reader technologies
If you’re looking for a cheap, second-hand phone, but are a little worried about any jibblyscruffins* hiding in the phone, waiting to grasp your throat and squeeze the life out of you**, then Sprint want to help. Sprint are now offering a limited selection of phones in second-hand “refurbished” condition at reduced prices — and just in case there are any jibblyscruffins* hiding in there, they are also giving you a 30-day return policy. But what phones are there
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Sprint now offering refurb phones for less
The tablet wars are here and we know that there are many new tablets coming to the market soon and many builders are relying on Android to power their tablets, despite the fact that Google keeps saying Android in its current form is not suitable for a tablet. We also know that some tablet plans
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Google Chrome OS launching Nov 11?
Kensington has a lock on the notebook security market to the point that every laptop I have ever seen has a Kensington lock port on the side to allow you to lock your laptop to the desk to prevent theft. The company has taken the laptop lock that is has sold for years and made
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Kensington unveils new easier to use ClickSafe notebook lock
So what if Microsoft’s nicest WP7 slate phones all went to Europe and the rest of the un-American world? At least we’ll have the HTC 7 Pro , the true Windows Phone 7 workhorse, with its tilt-sliding QWERTY keyboard and compact 3.6-inch size
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HTC 7 Pro arriving in UK and rest of Europe ‘early next year’
We’re still waiting to see a video demo of the new Eden multitasking system which Notion Ink has developed for their Adam tablet, but until then we’ll make do with some shots of tooling prototypes straight off the Chinese production line. The new hardware is functional – as you can see in the video after the
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Notion Ink Adam production prototypes spotted [Video]
If yesterday’s announcement (or months of leaks) sold you on Microsoft’s freshest mobile OS, and you’re planning on pre-ordering one of the many WinPho7 handsets (and you live in the US), then you should really listen up. Microsoft are running a little promo at the moment, whereas you give them your email address, pre-order a Windows Phone, and they’ll give you a 3-month Zune Pass.
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Get a free 3-month Zune Pass if you pre-order a WinPho7 handset
ASUS has officially announced their video card based on NVIDIA’s new GeForce GT 430 GPU, and it’s the rather extravagantly finned but unwieldily named ASUS ENGT430/DI/1GD3. A low-profile card with VGA, DVI and HDMI outputs, the new card has 1GB of DDR3 memory, a 700MHz engine clock and 128-bit memory interface, along with the GT
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ASUS ENGT430/DI/1GD3 video card packs GeForce GT 430 GPU
NVIDIA has officially outed their latest GPU, the NVIDIA GeForce GT 430, a Fermi chip targeted at HTPCs. The new GT 430 promises 1.5x the gaming performance of previous-gen chips, together with full 3D and 1080p HD video support, HDMI 1.4a connectivity and 24-bit multi-channel audio up to 192KHz (along with lossless DTS-HD Master Audio and
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NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 GPU for HTPCs gets official
In case a liveblog and a never-ending stream of Windows Phones weren’t enough for you yesterday, here’s a chance to relive Microsoft’s launch presentation of its grand OS redesign. It’s kicked off by the big dog himself, Steve Ballmer, followed by Ralph de la Vega and Joe Belfiore giving us the lowdown on carrier pricing and new features. It’s good, we promise
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Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 keynote video now available to watch… again and again
LEGO has released an official app for Android smartphones that allows users to remotely control their Mindstorm NXT robots by moving the handset. LEGO MINDroid is a free download for Android 2.1 phones or above, and creates a Bluetooth link between the handset and the NXT controller block. “Once a connection is established, you can
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Android LEGO MINDroid app: make your phone a robot remote
Chumby was made for hacking, and so we probably shouldn’t be too surprised to see one sprout legs and start its gradual path to world domination. Eric Gregori of EMG Robotics has developed a bipedal walking ChumbyBot by pairing the touchscreen Chumby One with a Freescale MMA7455l controller board
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ChumbyBot bipedal robot: when widgets take over the world [Video]
Nice going, Kensington — you just admitted to the world something we already knew. No one actually uses the lock slot / cable that’s issued to them on their first day on the job. It’s painful to envision the cash this company has made from mindless corporations who somehow think that employees are going to tie their laptops up each and every day, but now it has an alternative that it swears “your employees will actually use.” The new ClickSafe system essentially works as such: you insert a small locking nub into the lock slot that ships on (almost) every new laptop today, and then you clip the new locking cable on by hand. Once you’ve completed the first step, the cable connection is a simple motion each morning — in theory, at least. Peek the installation vid after the break if you’re still having your doubts, and feel free to blow $49.99 / $69.99 (depending on model) if you just know that this time it’ll be different.
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Kensington’s ClickSafe security lock: ‘so easy, your employees actually use it’
Walmart has confirmed that it will be offering Apple’s iPad tablet from Friday this week, the latest big-name retailer to carry the 9.7-inch slate after Best Buy and Target. The roll-out will cover several hundred Walmart stores initially, before being broadened to around 2,300 stores by mid-November. However, don’t go down there expecting a bargain
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iPad hits Walmart on Friday October 15
The iPhone/iOS hacking community has been busy over the past few days, dealing with a newly released exploit – Limera1n – by notorious modder Geohot that prompted the iPhone Dev Team to rethink their own strategy and not waste “a perfectly good bootrom hole” of their own. It seems that work has come to fruition,
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Greenpois0n Jailbreak tool gets Limera1n update
Phone Strap are no longer has hot as before in Japan, and if you look around you will quickly realize that only kids are still attaching straps to their phone.
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Elecom new iPhone 4 cases is “Strap” ready
If you’re still revved up on the hype surrounding the WinPho7 launch today, and keen to see some rendered HTC phones sliding around to some uninspired electronic music, then you could do worse than watch these teaser videos from HTC. We have three videos all up, one each for the HD7, the Trophy and the Mozart — each of which Greg had some hands-on time with earlier today
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Videos, videos, videos! HTC shows off their HD7, Trophy, and Mozart
NX10 owners rejoice, Samsung just unveiled the 1.20 firmware for this camera with i-Function lens compatibility. Thanks to i-Function will now be able to control your camera basic setting including ISO, Speed, Shutter Speed and Aperture… directly from the lens thanks to a dedicated button and then from the focus dial.
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Samsung releases NX10 1.20 firmware update with i-Function lens compatibility