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AMD have outed their latest video card, the ATI Radeon HD 5450, and while it’s packing DirectX 11 support it’s not really intended for the gamers.  Instead the fanless half-height card offers DisplayPort, HDMI and VGA connections, support for Eyefinity multi-monitor output and more for just $50. That means support for up to three displays simultaneously, as well as Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio bitstreaming.  In fact the HD 5450 seems almost tailor-made for an HTPC setup, even down to the frugal 20W power requirements. Over at Tom’s Hardware they’ve been putting the HD 5450 through its paces and, as expected, it’s “the least awe-inspiring Radeon HD 5000-series card”.

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AMD ATI Radeon HD 5450: DirectX 11 for HTPCs, not gamers

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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So What’s Up With Motorola’s Motoblur?

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

Pico-projector company AAXA have outed their latest model , and the L1 carves a niche for itself by using LCoS laser technology rather than the more usual DLP.  The AAXA L1 is capable of projecting up to a 20-lumens 50-inch picture at 800 x 600 resolution, and thanks to the lasers it’s all focus-free: no frustrating focus wheel to twiddle, just point and go.  In fact it can even project clearly onto curved surfaces. There’s also an onboard media player, with support for pictures, video and still images, either stored on the 160MB of internal storage or on a USB drive; AAXA throw a 2GB stick in the box

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AAXA L1 laser pico-projector: focus-free but madly expensive

Nokia is more than pleased with the take-up of the new Ovi Maps, announcing over 1 million downloads of the free sat-nav service in the first week. The five most popular phones to get the service are the Nokia N97, N97 Mini, Nokia E72, Nokia 5800 XpressMusic and the new Nokia 5230 – even more impressive considering the N97 was a latecomer to the upgrade party. Nokia’s Executive Vice President Anssi Vanjoki was suitably elated with the rapid take-up: ” This is great news for our 3rd party application developers. Within a matter of days there is an installed base of more than 1 million active users all potentially hungry for new and innovative location-aware apps. When we announced free walk & drive navigation we knew it would be a game-changer

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Ovi Maps Navigation Downloaded 1 Million Times In First Week

Already available in Europe, ACER America announced it to be available in the U.S, too. Thanks to the NVIDIA 3D Vision Technology, you can enjoy 3D content with this ACER monitor combined with a PC with compatible graphics card and special shutter glasses.

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ACER GD235HZ: 23.6”Full HD monitor is ready for 3D FUN now in the U.S.

When it comes to the bluetooth headset market, only until recently are companies realizing that style and color are becoming much more relevant and appreciated versus the traditional boring black headset with a boom mic.  Earloomz is one such company that goes even beyond color choices, for their bluetooth headsets by fusing fashion, and pop culture with technology. Earloomz has hundreds of graphics and licensed images to choose from such as Lady Gaga, Betty Boop, the Godfather, Star Trek and more.

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Earloomz Offers Up Licensed Lady Gaga and the Godfather Bluetooth Headsets

Monster has announced that they will be acquiring the “assets” of Yahoo HotJobs for $225 million in cash. I’m not going to scrape the press release, you can read it here. I wonder what will be left of Yahoo after all of their consolidations, partnerships and sales. Yahoo says today’s sale will allow them to focus on their core businesses and, “delivering exceptional experiences to users, partners and advertisers.” Here are the specific particulars regarding the agreement on top of the HotJobs acquisition, “Monster and Yahoo! have also entered into a three year commercial traffic agreement, to take effect upon the closing of the acquisition, in which Monster will become Yahoo!’s provider of career and job content on the Yahoo! homepage in the United States and Canada. The traffic agreement calls for performance based annual payments calculated by clicks and expressions of interest, subject to annual floors and ceilings

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Monster Acquires Yahoo Hot Jobs for $225 Million

Thanks to Fujifilm’s own” Image Intelligence Technology” and “3D Image Processing”, within just minutes you can print your photos with true-to-life quality using a PC to process the MPO file using Fujifilm’s aforementioned new image processing software. Besides, It promises not only faster but also less cost per print, according to Fujifilm.

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On–the-spot 3D photo prints with Fujifilm’s new 3D printer

HealthSport, Inc., the preeminent formulator and developer of edible, multi-layer film strips that deliver drug and dietary supplement actives through buccal and sublingual absorption as well as oral ingestion, announced today that the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property has approved HealthSport’s patent application relating to its bi-layer edible film strip technology.

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HealthSport’s bi-layer edible film strip technology related patent application receives Mexican approval (News-Medical-Net)

HDMI Licensing, LLC announced a few moments ago that the three-dimensional portion of HDMI 1.4 specifications is now available for public download at the official HDMI site.  With HDMI specs for 3D already out, we may see 3DTVs come to market even sooner than we may think. ”The HDMI Consortium recognizes the importance of standardized 3D formats for movies, gaming and broadcast content and the need for non-adopter companies and organizations to have access to that portion of the HDMI Specification,” said Steve Venuti, president of HDMI Licensing, LLC. “As the mainstream adoption of 3D is gaining momentum and content providers define and expand their 3D roadmaps, HDMI is ready to support this major market development.” HDMI has simplified my A/V/ lifestyle, combining multiple audio and video signals into one connection, I only require a single HDMI cable for each device hooked up to my receiver.  This move insures that 3D viewing technology will definitely be available to consumers in the near future. Relevant Entries on SlashGear HDMI hub – Big, expensive and ugly Windows Vista SP1 could hit public beta by middle of next month OLPC went on sale for public consumers – Give one get one Hack – Use a cheap HDMI cable on your Xbox 360 Premium Microsoft confirms HDMI port on Xbox 360 Premium

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3D portion of HDMI 1.4 specs available to public

Even though you don’t want to admit it, you probably still got a stash of floppy disks hidden around somewhere, just like you probably have a stash of cassette tapes hidden in a pile of old stuff. For some geeks, it’s hard to throw out old technology-related stuff, kind of like how some fashionistas have trouble throwing out old clothes. Heck, I probably have 4-6 old computers in storage at home. I don’t know why, but I still do.

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nick gentry’s floppy disk paintings offer recycled memories

The world’s most populous smartphone platform (330,000,000 shipped), Symbian, is now fully open source. Members of the foundation include Nokia, AT&T, LG, Motorola, NTT Docomo, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments and Vodafone. In 2008, Nokia bought the rest of Symbian for $410 million…. and then gave it away. In February 2009, Nokia received $630 million 5-year loan from the European Investment Bank to drive and support Symbian’s R&D

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World’s number one mobile OS, Symbian becomes fully Open Source [#symbiancountdown]

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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Indian mobile carriers scramble as illegal towers are shut down

In what seems like some sensible business strategics, the  New York Times has just reported that Amazon has acquired Toucho, a New-York University based startup specializing in touchscreen technology. Amazon is said to merge Toucho’s technology as well as staff into its Kindle division, based in Cupertino, CA (guessing Amazon thinks Silicon Valley doesn’t have much to offer in the way of touch tech at the moment). Touchco uses a technology called interpolating force-sensitive resistance, which it puts into displays that can be completely transparent and could cost as little as $10 a square foot. The capacitive touch screens used in the iPad and iPhone are considerably more expensive

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Amazon acquires touchscreen startup Touchco, will merge it with Kindle division

Even though the iPad was just announced, there are already plenty of concepts emerging that could take advantage of the device. This one is somewhat interesting, but dubious. It’s basically a huge display made from a bunch of refurbished/recycled iPads. (Once there are refurbished/recycled iPads to be had.) This concept is by Clarke Hopkins Clarke from Melbourne Australia

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the great wall of ipads

This is potentially very exciting: Amazon has purchased a startup company specializing in touchscreen technology . It plans to merge it with the Kindle hardware division, which leads one to believe that maybe the next generation Kindle will have a touchscreen. The company claims its technology can distinguish between a finger and a stylus, as well as support simultaneous touch points (oooh . .

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Touchscreen Technology May Come to the Kindle

Wuh-oh! Considering its popularity and the number of handsets floating around out there compared to the number of security exploits discovered thus far, I’d say Apple has done a pretty good job of keeping things locked down. As this just-discovered flaw proves, however, nobody’s perfect. You can read the full technical details of the exploit here , but to make one hell of a long story short: the iPhone allows settings configuration files to be installed over-the-air through Safari, primarily to help enterprise businesses setup a bunch of iPhones as quickly as possible. We’ve known this for a while – it’s a crucial part of easily enabling tethering on jailbroken iPhones . The user must must confirm the installation manually, and the iPhone tells you who it’s from and whether or not it’s a trusted source – which (we hope) most would be smart enough not to do in standard cases.

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We’ve been seeing a lot of an in-the-works device from RIM sporting both a full physical QWERTY keyboard and a clicking touchscreen, code-named the BlackBerry Magnum or Dakota . TD analyst Chris Umiatowski has it on good word that there will be a BlackBerry ( NSDQ: RIMM ) that has those features as well as an optical trackpad. At first, I thought having the two input mechanisms would be redundant, but a lot of Android handsets are pulling it off these days. The absence of any kind of directional navigation was the key characteristic of the previously leaked device (above), although it was said that it was a prototype that would never see production

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Upcoming BlackBerry Packing Both Trackpad and SurePress Screen?

Over the holidays I took some downtime to catch up on reading a book I should have read a long time ago, Thomas Friedman’s The World is Flat. Far be it for me to criticize a guy as smart as him, but I do think he missed a few things.  The book is essentially

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constructive criticism of Friedman’s The World is Flat

In what we’re hoping bodes well for future Kindle iterations, Amazon ’s pulled out its credit card and picked up New York-based startup Touchco, who specializes in — you guessed it — touchscreen technology. The company will be merged with Lab126, a.k.a. the Kindle hardware division. Here’s why we’re excited: the startup claims its interpolating force-sensitive resistance tech can be made completely transparent, works with color LCDs, and can detect “an unlimited number of simultaneous touch points” as well as distinguish between a finger and stylus.

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Amazon buys touchscreen startup Touchco, merging with Kindle division