I’ve heard that there may be a great convergence, where we would purchase a movie, and be able to watch it from any platform like our television, mobile phone, or PMP. This could happen if Ultraviolet has their way. Right now, Ultraviolet has several members like NBC Universal, for example. However, I don’t think that Apple and iTunes will play nice with it. Especially with the Hulu iPad service and Hulu Plus
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Ultraviolet could signal the great convergence
It’s been reported recently that Baidu — the Chinese search company with an estimated 70% market share — is working on its own open source mobile OS to combat the competition from Android. Most interesting about the development is that it’s being led by ex-Googlers. During the censorship controversy between the Chinese government and Google, many Googlers left the company to join Baidu, and it looks like they’re already being put to good use. Details on the mobile OS are scant, but reports indicate that it will definitely be open source and emulate Android in many ways.
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Baidu Working On An Open Source Mobile OS Of Its Own, Lead By Ex-Googlers
Skype (Free) now supports fast app switching and (supposedly) background VoIP, but I still hate it forever. You see, despite Skype’s reputation for connecting people over long distances, it’s done a pretty horrific job at connecting me with family members in the same household. There have been numerous times when Skype has told me I have no friends online, even when I was sitting beside a friend and they were very clearly logged in
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Skype 2.1 for iPhone: iOS 4 fast app switching and background VoIP
Motorola has filed a lawsuit against Chinese electronics maker Huawei, claiming that the company stole trade secrets. Motorola alleges that former Motorola employees left for Huawei and provided the company with information on Motorola’s cell phone technology. The company ..
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Motorola Dials Up Lawsuit Against Huawei
Want to tether your computer to your iPhone? Pay up. A certain 15-year-old decided that he didn’t want to pay the $20 monthly fee, and created an app for it. He got approval because it was a simple flashlight app known as Handy Light.
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Handy Flashlight app could have turned your iPhone into a mobile hotspot, if Apple hadn’t pulled it
Pulse ($2.99 – review ) just got a lot sexier for iPhone 4 users, and faster for everyone. I haven’t had a chance to test a big refresh yet (this update came out last night — official post here ), but I have noted a significant increase in scrolling speed, especially while the app is refreshing. However, I’d argue that it’s an undocumented change that has made the biggest difference in v1.0.2.
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Pulse News Mini 1.0.2 for iPhone: Retina Display update, speed increase, Bump sharing support
We have covered Android powered devices doing Rubik’s cubes before, and we found one that could do a normal one in 24 seconds . This particular one is a 7 x 7 cube and it takes about 38:53 seconds. Watch the video to see it in action
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Android Device solves 7×7 Rubik’s cube in about 39 seconds
MSI has recently added a new laptop to its F Series which is codenamed MSI FX600 and boasts a 15,6-inch screen. At the moment the MSI FX600 is available for purchase online at Newegg and there are two options: – MSI FX600-002US that comes with an Intel Core i5 450M processor and a DVD burner; – MSI FX600-003US that features an Intel Core i3 350M processor and a Blu-ray drive; Both laptop models have a nVidia GeForce GT325M as the graphics card, as well as 4GB of DDR3 RAM memory and a hard-drive with 500GB. The usual extras include WiFi, a 6-cell battery, a 4-in-1 media card reader, and an Express Card Slot
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MSI presents FX600 laptop
South Gate Restaurant, Bar and Lounge has launched the first iPad wine tablets in New York City. South Gate created custom wireless iPad wine tablets exclusively designed to navigate its extensive wine list of over 650 bottles. Image: South Gate The South Gate iPad wine tablet not only provides detailed information about the major wine regions and varietals, but also automatically updates the wine list as labels sell out, to ensure that inventory is always accurate
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Choose Your Wine From the iPad
In addition to Textn’Drive and Foursquare v1.9 there is a new application made for BlackBerry devices which is called Pocket Yoga. As the name suggests, Pocket Yoga is suppose to teach you Yoga lessons directly from the smartphone and besides the easy-to-use UI it comes preloaded with exercises to improve balance and flexibility among other capacities. Another good detail is that each yoga pose features a small description as well as the name and physical + mental benefits. Related Posts Socket Pocket Holds and Charges Your Portable Devices Perfect Curve (no, it’s not what you’re thinking) unveiled its newest offering, the Socket Pocket, a… DYMO CardScan app for BlackBerry devices DYMO CardScan is a new application made for BlackBerry devices which makes it easy to scan one or on..
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Pocket Yoga application for BlackBerry devices
We have already mentioned some past upgrades of the Foursquare application for BlackBerry and the good news is that there is a new version – 1.9.0. The Foursquare version 1.9.0 brings an interesting pack of features with the special one being the upload of a profile photo directly via your BlackBerry. Other features of the new version include sorting check-ins by time or distance; checking specials nearby; integration with BlackBerryMaps and an improved battery life. Related Posts Foursquare updated to version 1.5.5 Last Sunday we talked about a cool application named Foursquare, which has the basic feature of shar… Foursquare application: tell your location to friends Foursquare is an application that works as a social-network but at the same time involves some real ..
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Foursquare version 1.9.0 for BlackBerry
This is a case for the iPad keyboard , which I normally don’t see. There are about four models of these keyboard cases. The cheapest is about $15 for the Keyboard Socket Sleeve and $50 for the Travel case. Source Related Posts iLuv Cases for your iPad The iPad accessories are pouring in and now we have some graphic-based sleeves from iLuv. These iLuv..
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Waterfield cases for iPad keyboards
Remember the App Wall that Apple has had on display for the last couple of years at their WWDC conference? Very impressive stuff – and now you can have a sort of cut-down (very cut down) version of it as a Mac screensaver. It has options to show top free or paid apps. It takes a little bit to load but it’s very cool to look at.
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Cool Things: AppWall Screensaver for Mac
An interesting mobile partnership to watch could be the freshly announced pairing of Crisp Wireless and Verve Wireless The joint venture aims to help deliver “rich media ad options” to local media outlets, like newspapers. Illustrating yet again the massive influx of mobile advertising efforts to the local level, regional advertisers and publishers will now have the chance to leverage the media mobile ads that Crisp Wireless has been powering for national mobile sites and apps. Verve Wireless, of course, can push the Crisp Mobile Ad Platform within the company’s massive international network of better than 700 newspaper publishers, which include such heavyweights as the Evening Post, Examiner.com, Freedom, McClatchy and Media General. According to the joint statement from both companies, the ads will be interactive and serve up nifty attributes like location awareness and click-to-call – all of which will be customized for use on smartphones and other portable devices running either Android or Apple’s iOS (like the iPad)
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Crisp Wireless Reveals Venture with Verve Wireless
As the Windows Phone 7 technical preview device makes the rounds of the blogs, I must admit I am becoming more hopeful as I listen to what Microsoft is saying and they way they are behaving. They have been making very clear that the software version that people are reviewing now is not the final version and that they are still taking feedback, carefully reading all reviews and working 26 hour days to improve the software.
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Windows Phone 7: Five+ Devices and Realistic Expectations
Samsung has released two more of their DualView cameras which sport a small color LCD on the front and big LCD on the back. Both cameras feature a 14.2″ megapixel sensor, 5X optical zoom, a 3.5″ back touchscreen, 720p video recording, and both have been upgraded with 1.8″ LCDs on the front – up from the original 1.5″.
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Samsung Releases DualView ST600 and ST100 Digicams in Pink and Purple
If you can remember all the way back to the dim and distant pre-iPad era, you will recall there was a great deal of speculation as to what Apple was going to call their upcoming “giant iPod” device. The initial frontrunner was the iTablet, which was surpassed by the iSlate when some Apple that term while trying to describe what was to come.
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What’s With All The Padding? Wake up, Palm!
T-Mobile recently said that it plans to introduce its first HSPA+ capable handset at some point this summer. T-Mobile said the device in question will be a smartphone, and that more details will become available in the coming weeks.
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T-Mobile to Launch HSPA+ Handset Later this Summer
Verizon Wireless has indicated via its support pages that a software update is being distributed to the LG Ally Android phone. Firmware version VS740ZV8 helps improve the QWERTY keyboard’s performance; improves alerts; speeds the camera and message apps; adds …
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Verizon Wireless Pushing Software Update to LG Ally
It’s hard to keep away from Apple these days, as the iPhone continues to hog headlines for all sorts of reasons. But looking at facts and figures, it would seem that whilst the iPhone 4 antenna has been the focus of many over the last few weeks, it hasn’t had much of an impact on the overall success of device, in terms of sales. Overall sales of the iPhone, in all its variations, came to 8.4 million, an amazing 61% increase in year on year numbers. The iPhone 4 accounted for over 3 million of these, and most manufacturers can only dream of producing a handset that sells in such high numbers in such a short space of time. Without doubt the negative views in recent days will have had an impact on recent sales figures, and we can only wonder at how many more sales there would have been had the whole AntennaGate issue not erupted
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Despite AntennaGate, Business Booms for Apple
Overclock HTC We told you guys about LeoCpuSpeed to overclock the HTC HD2, now the devs behind the app have released Msm7kCpuSpeed a windows phone app to over clock older devices. Saw this app on windowsphonehacker.com . The developer could successfully over clock his Raphael from 57MHz up to 710MHz. And he claims the app can clock it even further, but it depends on the quality of the processor in your device.
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Msm7kCpuSpeed – over clock your older HTC devices