Bleeding Edge TV 348: Monster DiddyBeats in-ear headphones
Monster announced the DiddyBeats back at CES 2010, and the in-ear fashion headphones have finally started shipping just recently. We were able to get our hands on the DiddyBeats, which as you can see in this episode, are made to invoke a feeling of high fashion. We got the black pair, which is accented with chrome and black leather, definitely a unique look for a pair of earbuds, but really, what would you expect from the Beats by Dr
Apple releases updated MacBook: 10 hour battery life
Hot on the heels of another leak out of Taiwan, Apple has made public their newly updated MacBook , highlighted by a built-in 10-hour battery. The design hasn’t changed—it’s the same unibody white polycarbonate enclosure, but on the inside it now has a 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor and an NVIDIA GeForce 320M graphics chip. The other major features are unchanged, like the 2GB DDR3 RAM and 250GB hard drive
Freebies from Microsoft; Early Users Like Kin Phones
The buzz online among the young people the Kin phone is targeting is that they like it. A lot. Plus, there’s an interesting tidbit that the Kin and Windows Phone 7 platforms will merge in the future. In addition to Kin news, this week I’ll point you to a couple of Microsoft’s latest freebies for your phone
Troubleshooting Public Folder Replication Problems
Administration of a server or of an enterprise of servers will often require the installation of updates to keep a system patched with the latest fixes. But at some point an upgrade or a migration will be needed. Email administrators, or any administrator of a system for that matter, will sooner or later encounter a situation where the most recent migration has not gone well. Sometimes it is necessary to rollback to a previous working version to keep the users and the managers happy.
To generate an attractive picture, usually an image should be processed in such a way with a fairly complicated process. However, good news for you that a symbian user. Because, there are applications with the functions of Photoshop, for the mobile version. Photoshop Mobile makes you have a photo gallery in your pocket without spending the available memory on your phone
iPhone Pro to get 960×640 IPS display, 512MB RAM, 1GHz processor
The folks over at DigiTimes are reporting a bunch of specs for the yet-to-be-announced iPhone Pro (iPhone HD?), which should be available sometime next month. Current word on the street is that the phone will boast a 960×640 high-resolution IPS display with fringe field switching. If this turns out to be the case, then the 3.4-inch display will pretty much be one of the most impressive screens seen on a phone, and things like direct sunlight will be less of an issue—definitely one advantage over OLED. The actual display is said to be about 33% thinner than what you’d find in previous generation iPhones, including the current iPhone 3GS, which leaves more room internally for a larger battery. The phone should also rock a 512MB memory module from Samsung, which is double what you’d find in the 3GS right now.
LG Optimus Q Android smartphone with 1GHz Snapdragon processor launching in Korea this month
Today LG announced the Optimus Q, an Android smartphone with a full QWERTY keyboard and a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor. The device will land in Korea at the end of the month, although pricing has not yet beena nnounced.
Just as smokers are advised to select and work towards a quit date, the Web site QuitFacebookDay is encouraging frustrated Facebook users to cut the chord with the powerful social networking site on May 31. Founded by technologist Joseph Dee and systems designer Matthew Milan, QuitFacebookDay is asking prospective ex-account-holders to sign their email or Twitter ID to a pledge list. Monday morning, there were 2,635 “committed Facebook quitters,” according to the website, up about 70% from the May 15 count of 780. For a lot of people, quitting Facebook revolves around privacy
I recently wrote up about the #NokiaNav challenge which was taking place and the fact I would be taking part in some of the shenanigans. Last Friday my mission was to meet up with @WomWorldNokia and do some challenges. Upon arrival we were given our first task; image courtesy of JonChoo Using the provided Nokia E72 handsets using Ovi Maps to navigate to a location nearby. Upon arrival we were greeted with these motorised bicycles. Where we received our next challenge
Samsung Bada and Galaxy S Officially Coming to Vodafone
Samsung Bada and Galaxy S Officially Coming to Vodafone Looks like Vodafone is trying to keep up the whole ‘we’ve got good phones’ thing, and they’re doing a pretty good job of it, too.
Microsoft released some security patches last month without revealing them to the public. Some of the fixes affected software in mission critical Exchange mail servers. The patches were hidden in one of Microsoft’s periodic updates issued April 13, namely “Microsoft Security Bulletin MS10-024 – Important: Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange and Windows SMTP Service Could Allow Denial of Service (981832).” “This security update resolves one publicly disclosed vulnerability and one privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Exchange and Windows SMTP Service,” Microsoft said in the security bulletin’s executive summary. “The more severe of these vulnerabilities could allow denial of service if an attacker sent a specially crafted DNS response to a computer running the SMTP service,” it continued
TeleNav went public yesterday with shares going public at about $8 and climbing to about $10 by day’s end. The maker of the Shotgun connected GPS, and various other mobile phone programs, like the AT&T Navigator for the iPhone is looking to expand its capabilities and its reach in the competitive navigation market.
The worst possible time to define your uptime and availability requirements for an Exchange environment is when that environment is unavailable. No email administrator wants to hear “We need this working within 2 hours” when they are looking at a dead server that is going to take all night to recover. Uptime and availability should be defined within an SLA, or Service Level Agreement. An Exchange Server SLA should exist in all organizations, even those that provide their own internal IT services. The SLA is between the IT supplier or IT department and the rest of the business, and clearly defines what is an acceptable downtime or outage of the Exchange environment
Three recently released In-car WiFi , which is a great way to stay online on the move. It’s a great way to connect many WiFi capable devices to share an internet connection for many reasons such as; streaming music, social status updates, e-mails and even watching streaming video.
Acer Aspire 5553G comes with AMD’s quad-core Phenom II N930
The good news comes from Bulgaria on Laptop.bg. They have a prototype of the upcoming laptop from Acer, Aspire 5553G. This laptop’s case comes in that usual Timeline design along with fingerpoint glossy lid and island keyboard. Aspire 5553G comes with AMD’s quad-core Phenom II N930. It sports Mobility Radeon HD 4250 GPU
App Store Rankings–Distribution Strategies for iPhone and Mobile Apps
The following is a short extract from chapter 11 on ‘Distributing your Application’ within Part III ‘Creating Winning LBS Businesses’ in my forthcoming book, Location Based Services (written with co-author Murat Atkihanoglu), available for pre-order here . “There is a certain shroud of mystery surrounding exactly how App Stores work, with the various players involved guarding most of their cards close to their chest. And while there may have been 3 billion reported downloads from Apple’s iTunes store, it is anyone’s guess how many of the apps downloaded were later removed from the device. First, the bad news: getting your c onsumer to discover or find your app within an App Store is difficult
WomWorldNokia are working with some bloggers and car enthusisats to showcase the power of Ovi maps, the initiative is being pushed pretty strongly from what I can see. Some very lucky folk have been given cars and Nokia navigation accessories to use and navigate their way using clues. You can follow the latest ongoings by clicking onto the #NokiaNav hashtag on Twitter. The story so far; five bloggers have been given some awesome cars to drive around for a week, doing various challenges: @TheProdigalFool – Porsche 911 – TheProdigalGuide @Nechbi – Maserati QuattroPorte – MyPocketOS @ItsNoel – Audi TT-S – VAGOC @Macintosh – BMW M3 – MostlyThis @StobbsC – Aston Martin DB9 Volante – NomadsNirvana The whole point is to demonstrate the power of Ovi Maps, a service which Nokia has made available free for most Nokia devices.
Glitch allowed users to ‘force’ other users to follow By Helen A.S. Popkin updated 47 minutes ago The Twitpocolypse is upon us! Earlier today, as the microblogging site attempted to fix an embarrassing bug, follower lists suddenly disappeared. As the Twitterverse panicked and “Follower 0″ rose to the top of it’s trending list, Twitter assured its users via the company’s own Twitter feed that the issue would be rapidly remedied. “Follow count display is set to 0 and follow/unfollow is temporarily offline while we fix a bug,” Twitter’s own Twitter account reported at 1:02 p.m., confirming that everyone, from Ashton Kutcher to Justin Bieber bloggers, was affected. Earlier Monday, the microblogging network was beset by a bug that allowed anyone to force other Twitter users to follow his or her account
Exchange 2010 gaining momentum in large businesses
Microsoft Exchange's share of the installed base of message servers will continue to grow through 2011. More than four out of 10 large businesses will be moving to Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 in the next 18 months, according to a survey released in April by a market research firm. “Exchange 2010 has even more momentum now than Exchange 2007 had at a similar time in its lifecycle approximately three years ago,” asserted Osterman Research in its report “Embracing Exchange 2010: Momentum, Migration and Growth in the New World of Messaging.” “In two years, Exchange 2007 and 2010 will dominate, with more users expected on Exchange 2010 than 2007,” predicted the report, which was sponsored by Azaleos, a manager of hosted data services. During that time period, the surveyors continued, the migration to Exchange 2007 and 2010 will reduce Exchange 2003’s share of the server universe to six percent from its current 45 percent of the software’s installed base. The surveyors, who examined data from Exchange-enabled organizations of at least 1,000 employees or email users, cited a number of reasons driving rapid migration to the new software
sobees for Facebook is the one iPad application that youve been waiting for! Developed in collaboration with Easybox Technologies, sobees for Facebook is a rich, full-featured and easy-to-use application which retrieves all your important Facebook information in a gorgeous interface. Weve been working hard on the design to provide you with a neat and trendy application. And the result is cutting-edge: you can now get all your Facebook information in a newspaper-like home page! This application lets you: * View friends status updates, wall posts, pictures, videos and links * See all of your friends pictures on one page and browse by profile picture, like a real face book * Access and view friends profiles and walls * View your friends recent photo albums * Manage events and birthdays simply in a month calendar view * Update your own status, and post comments and/or like your friends’ Visit www.sobees.com/iPad for more information.
Nokia N8 Review – Price, Features & Tech Specs! A Detailed review of the Nokia N8 Symbian^3 smartphone. N8 comes with a 12MP auto focus camera (1/1.183 sensor ratio camera & f/2.8 based aperture length!) with resolutions up to 4000×3000 pixels. Includes HDMI, HD Video, Hardware Accelerated 3D graphics, 680Mhz CPU, 256 MB RAM, 512 MB ROM, A-GPS, WiFi, 16 GB space, 3G, Xenon Flash etc