Everything was going great at Apple ( NSDQ: AAPL ), until today. The Macs are selling because Vista was a terrible operating system, and while Windows 7 is better, it’s still not considered “cool” to own an HP, Dell or Acer computer.
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With the iPad, Apple just jumped the shark
Apple have unveiled the iPad , their long-awaited and much-rumored tablet. A half-inch thick slate, the iPad has a 9.7-inch LCD IPS 1024 x 768 display with multitouch, , WiFi 802.11n and – optionally – integrated 3G, the iPad is based on a new 1GHz Apple A4 of the company’s own design. Onboard storage ranges from 16GB to 64GB, and the whole thing runs the iPhone OS with a new, custom UI. Best of all, pricing will start at $499 when the Apple iPad begins shipping in around 60 days time, with $130 on top for adding integrated 3G.
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Apple iPad official
Another year, another iPhone OS upgrade to get excited about. They’re not saying much about it just yet, but Apple has just announced that the new iPhone SDK (complete with support for the just announced iPad tablet ) will be available today
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New iPhone SDK with iPad support coming today, 100% compatibility with iPhone apps
In 1991, Apple introduced the first laptop. 20 years later, Steve Jobs brings us the iPad to bridge the gap between the MacBook and iPhone. Just like the iPhone, the iPad lets you browse the Internet, use the touchscreen to flick through your photos, get directions via maps, and access the iTunes Store to buy apps, and watch movies and TV shows in landscape mode. Using the touchscreen keyboard, you can send emails, chat, and use the iPad like a regular computer. Hear the first details, and see more images when you read more
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The iPad Has Landed!
Section: Video 1994 – Development on the movie Avatar began with an 80-page script by James Cameron. December 19th, 1997 – James Cameron’s Titanic was released in theatres everywhere. 1998 – Titanic becomes the highest grossing film of all time with 1.83 billion dollars worldwide. 1999 – Filming was supposed to begin on Avatar but James Cameron decided the technology just wasn’t there yet. 2005 – Work on the language and race of the Na’vi began.
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Avatar stomps its giant blue feet all over Titanic’s record
So, as we sit here, waiting for Apple ( NSDQ: AAPL ) to reveal their much ballyhooed tablet device to the world, we can’t help but imagine what kind of crazy technology Apple’s “next big thing” will feature. Well, we did a little digging through Apple recent patent applications, and we’ve come across one patent that could have some truly innovative implications for the imminent Apple Tablet/iSlate/iPad.
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New Apple patent could give Apple Tablet facial recognition
We at Mobile Marketing Watch will join the rest of the world today in anticipation of Apple’s big announcement of the worst kept secret in the tech-world, the yet-to-be unveiled tablet that has proven the biggest story in mobile and computer technology so far this year. While we will accompany every other major blog and media outlet in providing coverage of the tablet, there is no shortage of online hotspots to watch the event live today beginning at 1 p.m.
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Watch Apple Tablet Announcement Live
Nokia ( NYSE: NOK )’s Research Center in Helsinki has invented mobile radar. Yes, you’ve heard that right.
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Video: Nokia puts a radar detector in your pants, now you can measure the speed of your pump action
Softpedia ’s Filip Truta stumbled upon a gold mine of Apple Tablet info, the gold mine being Jason Calacanis’ Twitter posts about the overhyped gadget. Calacanis – co-founder of Weblogs, a network of blogs that includes the famous tech blog engadget – admitted to the world that he is one of the beta testers of the Apple Tablet; he says his unit was given to him 10 days ago. While he won’t show pics or even say what the gadget’s formal name will be, he swears by his revelations, almost all of which are quite specific. Here are some of Calacanis’ revelations: “The price will be 599, 699 and 799 (I think it’s safe to say the prices are in US $) depending on size and memory in apple tablet.
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So with Apple’s impending release announcement of the iPad/iSlate/iTablet – whatever it’s called, I thought I’d take a gamble on what I think are the highest likelihood features, specs and pricing we’ll see from Apple later today. While much of what I’ll lay out here is speculation on my part, it’s all grounded in various reports, leaks and industry insiders that I’ve been gathering over the last few weeks and months
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last minute apple tablet release predictions
MvixUSA have launched their latest PVR-capable media player, the ULTIO Pro MX-880HD. The new set-top box supports Full HD 1080p via HDMI, and can play back H.264, MKV, DivX HD, MPEG 2-TS, VC-1 and WMV video formats; inside there’s a 3.5-inch hard-drive bay happy with up to 2TB disks. That drive can be used for local playback, standalone Torrent downloading or time-shifting, though since there’s no onboard tuner you’ll need to hook the ULTIO Pro up to a cable or satellite box. Ports include ethernet, two USB host, one USB 2.0, a multi-format memory card slot, HDMI, component, composite and coaxial digital audio, and there’s an IR remote. DLNA network streaming, optional WiFi 802.11n support and UPnP round out the main network features, and of course there are photo and music player apps as well as video.
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MvixUSA ULTIO Pro MX-880HD home-theater box and PVR
Remember the “Help I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!” TV commercials from the 80’s? The advertised product was a personal emergency response system (PERS) for seniors that included a base station and a pendant that interfaced with an analog phone to dial out for help when the pendant’s button was pressed. MobileHelp is a more modern version of that device. It incorporates GSM and GPS features so the person using the product isn’t restricted to their home
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“I’ve Fallen and I Can’t Get Up” Goes GSM and GPS
We’ve heard of a few inventive ideas for detecting tsunamis, and it looks like a group of researchers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (or NOAA ) have now come up with another: put all those undersea internet cables to a second use. While they haven’t moved beyond computer models just yet, the group has apparently found that voltmeters attached to the end of an undersea cable are able to detect the small electric field stirred up by tsunamis, which measure around 500 millivolts. As New Scientist reports, however, the idea does have some considerable limitations, including that it wouldn’t be able to pinpoint the exact location or direction of a tsunami, and that any such system would first need to filter out noise caused by other natural events and even the cable itself. Other researchers also caution that it’s just as important to develop a system to quickly pass on a warning to potentially affected areas once a tsunami has been detected. Researchers propose using undersea internet cables to detect tsunamis originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:02:00 EST.
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Researchers propose using undersea internet cables to detect tsunamis
No, Lucas hasn’t officially announced a 3D version of Star Wars (although the release of Avatar might be the driving force that finally makes it happen), but there is a 3D chess board scheduled to come out next month. The image is grainy and there isn’t much info, but the board appears to include pieces with “beloved Star Wars characters” that use “the latest in motion printed technology.” Product Page (£18 or $29/Pre-Order for 2/28)
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Star Wars (Chess) In 3D!
Today, Nokia unveiled that it’s working on a “mobile radar” concept at its Nokia Research Center (NRC) in Helsinki. Nokia has implemented an active radar sensor into a phone, allowing it “to measure speed and the direction of movement of approaching objects, just like a traditional RADAR would.” The mobile radar technology could be used in controlling your phone’s functions with hand gestures, in personal safety, or in sport. It might be used in gaming, too – perhaps something similar to Nintendo’s Wii, but played on a phone. A video demonstration of the mobile radar (on a Nokia N95) can be watched below: Nokia didn’t say when (or if) we’ll be able to buy phones with mobile radars included. Via Nokia Conversations Similar Posts: Exercise with your Nokia 5500 Sport Phone Nokia patents a dedicated gaming console/phone idea Samsung Anycall 5200 Gaming Phone – With Windows mobile, Sony PSP and Nintendo Games! Ovi Maps Racing might be Nokia’s coolest game ever Nokia 5330 Mobile TV Edition features DVB-H, costs €155
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Nokia wants to turn mobile phones into mobile radars
Yesterday, Verizon Communications, Inc. reported a Q4 loss of $653 million, despite a strong showing from its wireless division. Verizon Wireless has the most retail customers of any U.S. carrier, and added 2.2 million new lines during Q4 — almost all of which were post-paid customers — bringing their total customer base to 91.4 million. Losses are being credited to a shrinking land-line customer base, as users move exclusively to cell phones, which was down 3.9% in Q4
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Even with wireless growth, Verizon posts Q4 loss of $653 million
By Evan Ackerman Have you ever tried to taste electricity? You can, you know… Go find a 9v battery and stick the contacts on your tongue.* Not pleasant, right? Sony has this problem (and it’s a serious, serious problem) totally licked with an RC car that runs on juice. The tasty kind of juice. You know, from fruits and stuff
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Tomy’s Toy Car Is Powered By Juice
Dhiram over at Newlaunches spotted this Intel video showing the company’s vision of a modern-day casino, one that can be managed remotely, has electronic card tables, Core2Duo-powered slot machines and even handheld gambling devices. It’s all fancy tech, but I don’t think the current gambling generation will be so impressed or welcoming of the improvements on their end. I mean, if you’ve been playing poker using good ol’ cards for decades, it won’t be that easy to switch to touchscreens won’t it? Click to View Embedded Video Clip Also, isn’t a Core2Duo slot machine just overkill? Will players be able to send instant messages or emails while playing?
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intel inside casinos: smarter ways of taking your money
Texas Instruments is the company behind the massively successful DLP technology that is found in all sorts of TVs and projectors in the electronics world. Today TI has announced a new product aimed at developers that are incorporating DLP technology into light processing applications. The new dev kit is called the DLP LightCommander
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Texas Instruments offers DLP LightCommander and Pico Projector Dev Kit v2
Light Blue Optics launched their Light Touch projected display technology back at CES 2010 , but the majority of the video demos we saw were performed in relatively low-light environments. Obviously the team are braver now, since they’ve taken their prototype – which uses a laser projector to create an image, and sensors to track finger-movement around that image – over to show to Robert Scoble. Video demo after the cut The prototype creates a roughly A3-sized display on any surface, and since laser pico-projectors don’t require manual focusing the image is always clear and crisp. An infrared light source is then used to track your fingers as they interact with on-screen icons and controls
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Light Touch projected touchscreen gets daylight demo [Video]
Unlike the iPhone, the Apple iPad “uses a display technology called IPS (in-plane switching) and has a wide, 178-degree viewing angle.” Plus, “the A4 chip inside iPad was custom-designed by Apple engineers to be extremely powerful, and yet extremely power efficient.” Click here for first picture in gallery. To maximize battery life, Apple engineers took the same lithium polymer battery technology they developed for our notebook computers and applied it to the iPad. As a result, you can use iPad for up to 10 hours while surfing the web on Wi-Fi, watching videos, or listening to music. [via Apple ]
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