Wednesday, 28 April 2010 00:00 In an exciting development, Samsung Mobile will introduce its reputed global range of mobile phones in the Sri Lankan market in the upcoming days and weeks. Samsung Mobile intends to launch 30 GSM models, ranging from Entry Colour, Entry Colour FM range, multimedia series, touch phones, messaging series and business phones in the local market.
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Samsung Mobile introduces international handset range to Sri Lanka
At last, you can now poke and prod your touchscreen even while wearing gloves. And no, you won’t need a sausage to do so. Quirky recently unveiled Digits, a set of conductive pins that attach to gloves
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digits conductive pins: the missing link between gloves and touchscreens
A new red colour variant of the extremely popular Blackberry 8520 Curve is set to join the existing black, blue, purple, violet and white editions to further expand the colour range, the new Blackberry Curve red model packs in the same great features, design and technology found in the rest of the colour range but
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Red Blackberry Curve 8520 Release Date & Price
On the heels of PayPal launching its Mobile Payments Library to select developers, the company today announced it’s opening its new platform up to the entire iPhone development community. It seems like it’s been a long time coming, but PayPal’s new Mobile Payments Library is a quick and easy way to add checkout functionality for physical goods and services sold through apps on the iPhone, without having to worry about keeping customers’ personal financial information secure. The company announced the platform will be available for other mobile OS platforms in the future, but is already boasting some unique iPhone apps that have already built-in PayPal’s new mobile payment technology. For example, custom charms by Baublet , are available in the iPhone App Store, where users can buy & ship photo charms directly from their iPhone. With the integration of PayPal’s Mobile Payments Library, Baublet customers are able to quickly and easily purchase these charms with their PayPal accounts.
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PayPal Opens Up Mobile Payments To Developers
The German American Chamber of Commerce of the Midwest sponsored this conference German Green Building Innovation Delegation Conference You can access the presentations that were made & streaming video from the conference through the previously mentioned link. The event was abbreviated because 1/2 of the visiting delegation from Germany was stranded at home because of
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German green building conference
It was only last week that I was reading an article about how much garbage is currently orbiting space from the thousands of dead satellites and other space trash left behind from over the years. Well we can add another to the space landfill. Japan will be launching into space on May 18th, Ikaros a ’space yacht’ complete with sails. The flexible sails are thinner than a human hair and also contains a form of hybrid technology as it has solar cells to generate electricity. Costing 1.5 billion yen (16 million dollars), the point of this contraption is to set the durability and effectiveness of these Solar Sails.
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Japan Launches Solar Technology into Space with Ikaros
Yesterday Steve Jobs wrote a public post explaining why Apple doesn’t, and won’t, offer Flash support on its products. Adobe’s chief technology officer, Kevin Lynch, recently responded with his own post, in which he discussed Adobe’s continuing work to support other platforms including BlackBerry OS, Android, webOS, and Windows Phone 7. In the post, Lynch said that Adobe will show off the Android 10.1 Flash Player during a public preview at the Google I/O conference in May, and that there will be a general release of the software in June. Read the full story here.
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Adobe: Android Flash Player 10.1 set for June general release
Apple beat Microsoft a few days back to become the 2nd biggest corporation in the US in terms of market-capitalization and now Apple has become the biggest phone maker in the US. AppleInsider just covered this news, “Motorola announced sales of 8.5 million phones in its spring quarter, dropping it below Apple’s record sales of 8.8 million iPhones and vaulting the Mac maker into position as America’s top phone manufacturer.” Motorola sold 14.7 million phones in the year ago quarter, but this year its earnings were only down by 9%, due the fact that the company is now successfully working to sell more sophisticated smartphones rather than large numbers of cheap phones, according to a report published by Forbes
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Apple is now the biggest US phone maker – beats Motorola
:: 6.30pm for 7pm start, Mon 3rd May 2010 :: Kent Street Living Room, Level 1, The City Hotel ( www.cityhotel.com.au ) :: Entry on King Street corner Kent Street. It’s the start of Q2 2010…where did time go??? Here at Mobile Monday Sydney, we’re always on the look out for the latest innovations and news in the mobile space. So for the month of May we’ve got: Mobile Eye-tracking With a worldwide increase in the number of mobile devices, interest in eye‐tracking studies on these devices has also increased. Eye tracking can provide valuable information on a number of areas, such as how well a graphical interface works, where on a physical device the user looks for certain options (such as buttons) and how the user’s attention shifts between the different parts of the phone when interacting with it
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3rd May – Mobile Monday: Mobile Eye-tracking and Geo-Tagging!
When the original BlackBerry Pearl was announced back in 2006, it caused quite a stir. Until that point, BlackBerry handsets were rather large, and chunky, and very wide. But then came the Pearl, and suddenly Blackberry handsets were almost the size of a normal mobile device. The size issue with Blackberry handsets was caused by the inclusion of full QWERTY keyboards, and whilst handsets these days with full QWERTY are a much more manageable size, something like the Pearl still has a place in the pocket of some mobile users.
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BlackBerry Pearl 3G Review
By now, many may have heard about or read in full Steve Jobs’ “Thoughts on Flash” statement released yesterday. While much of what was written in the statement (and discussed around the Internet) was specific to Adobe and Flash, a statement by Jobs in the section entitled “Sixth, the most important reason” , can have a far broader effect on mobile device development – “We know from painful experience that letting a third party layer of software come between the platform and the developer ultimately results in sub-standard apps and hinders the enhancement and progress of the platform. If developers grow dependent on third party development libraries and tools, they can only take advantage of platform enhancements if and when the third party chooses to adopt the new features. We cannot be at the mercy of a third party deciding if and when they will make our enhancements available to our developers
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Is Steve Jobs Sending a Message To ALL Cross-Platform Development Vendors?
Yesterday we’ve reported about the HTC – Microsoft agreement according to which HTC has agreed to pay royalties to Microsoft , because it turned out that the Taiwanese company’s Android phones use some technology patented by the Redmond giant. While HTC and Microsoft have not disclosed the financial aspects of the agreement, it looks like HTC may have to pay serious cash to Microsoft. A Bloomberg article has it that analyst Rob Enderle estimates that HTC, as well as other unnamed phone makers, may have to pay Microsoft $20 to $40 for each Android handset sold. Of course, analyst predictions can be (and often are) wrong. $40 per phone is way too much
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Microsoft to get $20 to $40 from every HTC Android phone sold?
Today Samsung announced the first multi-chip package (MCP) with a Samsung 512 megabit PRAM, a new technology for handsets that’s backward compatible with 40 nanometer class NOR flash memory, but which offers three-times the data storage performance per word than NOR chips. PRAM is expected to be the successor to NOR flash in consumer electronics and is expected to be widely adopted next year. Read the full story here.
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Samsung announces first multi-chip package with PRAM
More than a third of all network devices attached to business nets are carrying at least one known security vulnerability, according to an annual report released by a global IT infrastructure company. Dimension Data, headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa, in its Network Barometer Report 2010 revealed that an analysis of data gathered from 235 organizations around the world showed that 38 percent of networking devices had vulnerabilities that had been publicly disclosed but remained unaddressed by their businesses. The data was obtained electronically through technology lifecycle management assessments performed by Dimension Data. The assessment technology discovers installed assets on a network, identifies their lifecycle status and determines their maintenance coverage
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More than third of network devices running known vulnerabilities
McAfee, one of the world’s most well-known antivirus software providers, announced the availability of McAfee VirusScan Mobile technology for Google’s Android platform. For some unknown reasons, the anti-malware Android solution from McAfee is currently available only in South Korea, only for the Motorola XT720 (pictured below), and only to SK Telecom subscribers. Users can download the software for free via SK’s TStore
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Anti-malware solution for Android announced by McAfee
An inherent problem with webcams is that hackers are aggressively finding ways to take control user’s PC through malware to peep into user’s homes. Other than putting tape over the webcam’s lens, Chinese camera specialist Gsou has this nifty USB webcam with a new new “anti-peep” technology. Their interesting approach is having a robotic arm that will automatically cover this camera lens of this one-eyed buddy as soon as a video conferencing session completes. This fella will put down his hands when it detects incoming Skype / MSN video calls. If you still fear the malware might still take control of the webcam’s arms, there’s an override function that allows you to use the unit’s physical button to uncover the lens only when needed
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Chinese "Anti-peep" USB Webcam with Robotic Arms for Complete Privacy
The new iPhone will be launched on June 7th 2010 as the WWDC by Apple kicks-off on the same date. As we know that the past WWDCs have witnessed the launch of the iPhone so this year’s one will also see the launch of iPhone 4G, some call it the iPhone HD. Check out the PR from Apple below. It does not mention if the iPhone will be launched but we know what will be in-store right!! Apple Worldwide Developers Conference Kicks Off June 7 in San Francisco CUPERTINO, Calif., April 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Apple® today announced that it will hold its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) June 7 through June 11 at San Francisco’s Moscone West
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Apple WWDC Kicks-Off on June 7th 2010..iPhone 4G Coming
I caught this article by Jessica Guynn in the Chicago Tribune Google faces censorship issues every day, around the world I don’t think there’s a lot of new news here, but because it’s google & global, I feel compelled to comment. Here’s the tool to which the author refers http://www.google.com/governmentrequests/ That other governments, in addition
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google’s global barriers
With a couple of App Store successes—like Ocarina and I am T-Pain—under their belt, Smule has partnered with FOX to unite Gleeks around the world with the new Glee app for iPhone and iPad. A melding of Rock Band style karaoke and auto tune technology, Glee (the app) lets users sing along in the vocal stylings of Glee (the TV show), share their songs and listen to the songs created by other users
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Glee for iPhone and iPad Unites Gleeks the World Over
HTC and Microsoft have been perfect for each other since a long time ago, and the result of this strong partnership can be easily seen if we look at HTC’s portfolio of Windows Mobile smartphones (more than 30 of them, launched almost all over the world, via many mobile carriers). However, since Google’s Android came into play in late 2008, it seems as though HTC has starting to neglect Windows Mobile more and more. In the light of this, it’s interesting how now – only now – Microsoft has unveiled that HTC’s Android smartphones are using technology patented by the Redmond giant.
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HTC Android phones use Microsoft technologies, Microsoft licenses patents to HTC
Huaqi Technology is now going after the companies who it believes to have infringed its “USB Plus” patent right. The so-called “USB Plus” is like a eSATA / USB 2.0 hybrid port that allows compatible devices to draw power from USB while enjoying SATA speed advantage from the same jack
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Chinese Company Suing HP, Toshiba over "USB Plus"