As I speak with parents (as I did two weeks ago when I spoke at St Mark’s Anglican Church on the topic of ’ How to keep our children safe online ‘), one thing continues to stand out – many parents have very little idea about what their children are doing online: both the opportunities and threats that the internet presents.
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Keeping Kids Safe Cannot Be Outsourced
Today for the 100th birthday of Hitachi creation, the company held some kind of little exhibition in Tokyo. Among many interesting product, we stumble upon the “Life Microscope” project, the next generation of pedometer. Well calling Hitachi “Life Microscope” a pedometer may not be fair to Hitatchi, but the concept is however relatively similar in its basic form.
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Hitachi Life Microscope Concept
My advice to her would be to take ANY job at any company she thinks she might like to work for. Holding out for something close to what she wants to do is a mistake. Be flexible! This market is too brutal to be holding out for exactly …
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Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Mish Mailbag: Job Seeking …
Calendars on the PC When it comes to Windows Phone 7 we have to look at what the people who got a developers device are saying ( at least till the Microsoft employees start to put WP7 on ebay ). Today we ( via windowsphonesecrets.com ) have some information to share with you guys about Calendars on Windows Phone 7. Lets get the basic things out of the way WP7 Calendars has got the ability to sync with multiple calendar accounts ( Exchange calendar, Google Calendar , Windows Live calendar ), you can color code each of these in any one of the available color. You can add appointments on the phone and that will get synced up to the calendar in the cloud. Tasks and subscribed calendars from a main calendar account are NOT supported ( at least not in the initial version )
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Windows Phone 7 Calendars : Appointment and Tasks
You can write your own tongue joke for this one: ageing rock dinosaur group KISS has added a KISS-branded Flip HD to its tour merchandise as it subjects the USA to just one more round of “Rock And Roll All Night” and “Detroit Rock City”. At $US199, that’s a lot more than the typical $US150 price for the Flip, but any suggestions that you could get much the same effect by printing some cheap knock-off stickers would probably not be well received by the KISS faithful. We look forward to the inevitable KISS Kinect
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KISS-Branded Flip HD Will Rock Your World, Wallet
Customers still love the HTC EVO 4G very much and the demand for this smartphone is still pretty high, but it seems that the next big Android phone that may take the world by storm is the HTC Desire HD. The new Desire HD is the apparent name upon release and is being worked on right now, there will be many features such as 8-megapixel camera, capable of recording HD video, 4GB internal memory, 4.3-inch touchscreen, 1GHz Snapdragon processor and will run Android 2.2.
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HTC Desire HD (aka ACE) Release Date and Specifications
Sometimes the naming conventions on phones unnerve me. And today’s review target, the LG Wine II, is definitely one of those. Seriously, who names a phone “Wine”? What’s next, the Samsung Jack and Coke? Wait…they already did the Samsung Jack …oh man, it’s really only a matter of time until we get the Sony Ericsson Gin and Tonic! Seriously, though–names aside, the phone is more than the sum of its name, so how does it operate? The answer, sadly, is not that great. In fact, the LG Wine II proves to be a vintage best left in the bottle. The LG Wine II is a folder-style phone with an FM radio, voice recorder, Bluetooth connectivity, a phone book capable of storing ninety-nine name and number records, mobile web, text messaging, a two megapixel camera, alarm clock, calendar, calculator, hearing aid compatibility, and a battery that offers three hours and ten minutes of talk time on a single charge. You can see there’s not much to this at all. It’s an extremely simple, extremely basic phone that doesn’t bring a whole lot of power to the table. The battery power is low, the camera’s resolution is low, and the total number of features isn’t much better. However, the phone is pretty easy to operate and the end result of a lack of features is a very simple phone. If you want simple, then the LG Wine II will definitely go down smooth. However, those looking for a complex phone that serves lots of functions, then this rotgut of a phone will never satisfy. The Good Very simple to operate The Bad Low end camera Low end battery Relatively low number of features Score 4 / 10 Related Posts LG UX280 Wine Cell Phone Review–Terrific Piece It’s not every day I get to say a lot of really nice things about a cell phone. Seems like most of..
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LG Wine II Cell Phone Review–A Lesser Vintage
At Digital Signage World in Sydney yesterday, Intel were not only showing off their augmented reality display , they were also showing a vending machine of the future. If this is the future of vending machines, I hope Australia starts using them like Japan. (more…)
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The Future Of Vending Machines Is Impressive
enTourage announced three major deals with publishers that will bring thousands of new book titles to its dual-screen eDGe ereader. Targeting the higher education market, the trio includes Cengage Learning which publishes a wide variety of educational content under brands such as Delmar, Heinle, and more, O’Reilly which offers over 1,ooo titles in technology and programming, and the University of Chicago Press which has over 1000 academic titles in the sciences, humanities, and social sciences. With these agreements, enTourage is making a play for the academic market and is hoping to succeed where Amazon and its Kindle DX failed. Anyone on the way to college interested in this electronic reading and note taking system? Read
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enTourage partners with Cengage Learning, O’Reilly, and the University of Chicago Press
Just to let you know that Panasonic will hold a press conference next week to announce a new 3D Camcorder, and of course… we will be there so stay tune! PS as for today we do not have any confirmation if whether this will be a prosumer oriented product or not
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Panasonic 3D Camcorder to be announce next week
Wireless power may still be on the drawing board, but wireless data is here today, and a UK defense contractor has figured out a way to pipe the latter through several inches of steel. Using a pair of piezoelectric transducers on either side of a watertight submarine compartment, BAE’s “Through Hull Data Link” sends and receives an acoustic wave capable of 15MHz data rates, enough to transmit video by essentially hammering ever-so-slightly on the walls. BAE impressed submarine commanders by streaming Das Boot right through their three-inch hulls, and while metadrama is obviously the killer app here, the company claims it will also save millions by replacing the worrisome wiring that’s physically routed via holes in a submarine’s frame. See the company’s full US patent application at our more coverage link.
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UK defense firm pumps data through solid submarine walls
Best Buy has unveiled the upcoming Samsung Intensity II, which will be released by Verizon Wireless. The entry-level phone will feature a full QWERTY sliding keyboard, a 2-megapixel camera, Bluetooth connectivity and a pretty cheap $1 price tag from Best Buy as long as you agree to a 2-year contract
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Samsung Intensity II Hits Verizon Wireless
Apple has reported another very strong quarterly performance and eased fears that its ‘Antennagate’ controversy around the iPhone 4 will hurt sales by giving an unusually upbeat Q4 revenue forecast. In the three months ended 26 June, Apple reported record revenue of US$15.7 billion, a 61 percent year-on-year rise and well ahead of Wall Street’s forecast for US$14.75 billion
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Strong Q3 results for Apple and forecasting an impressive Q4
Following Apple’s latest earnings report, CNN Money’s David Goldman wrote a post comparing Apple’s Market Cap and quarterly earnings to that of Microsoft. A few months back Apple surpassed Microsoft in Market Cap for the first time, and with Microsoft about to report its own quarterly earnings tomorrow, most analysts are suspecting Apple will actually
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Poll: Who should be Apple’s new enemy?
It’s time for another episode of Cooking in the Kitchen with Vader and Leia. Today’s special: Bantha over toast points with a side of JarJar. At least that’s what we think some of the delicacies should be in any kitchen where you wear one of these amusing new Star Wars aprons, fresh off the shelves of the Star Wars Shop . Leia can be found cooking in her Jabba the Hutt slave outfit, while Vader is making his grub in his standard black get-up
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darth vader and princess leia aprons: force cookin’
A team of Italian engineers is gearing up for a high-tech road rally that should impress even the outside-the-box dreamers over at DARPA: an 12,875km journey from Italy to China, with nobody behind the wheel. (more…)
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Two Driverless Cars Have Begun 12,875km Journey From Italy To China
For anyone hoping that the Standing Committee of Attorneys-Generals would be reviewing the need for an R18+ games classification this month, prepare for disappointment – David over at Kotaku brings us word that the discussion has been delayed yet again. (more…)
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Adult Games Classification Discussion Delayed Again
It’s funny to think, even after reviewing the device ( thrice , at this point ), that we still don’t have a US release date for Dell’s Streak . The company’s been uncharacteristically coy, but the stateside product page does offer this tantalizing tidbit: “available for purchase in late July.” That gives us a good 10-day window, so if you’ve been eyeballing that pre-sale button with intent to click, now might be the time jump on the list. Dell Streak available for purchase ‘in late July,’ says US product page originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 21 Jul 2010 22:00:00 EDT
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Dell Streak available for purchase ‘in late July,’ says US product page
Dell has announced via its website that its Streak Android powered smartphone, which features a huge 5-inch touchscreen display, will go on sale later this month. Those that sign up now can take advantage of a pre-sale event. Read the full story here.
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Dell Streak 5-inch display Android smartphone to be available in the U.S. this month
wp7_a_platter According to Charl Lee-Pearce , who is a Senior Marketing Manager Emerging Media at Microsoft , Microsoft employees to get a WP7 phone and this tweet was RT by Mary Jo Foley all now all tech blogs are posting about it. “ Woot. Every single Microsoft employee will get a windows phone 7 Remember how Ballmer went crazy when he learned that Microsoft employees loved their iPhones. Now he plans to convert his 93,000 employees to WP7 users
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[ RUMOR ] Microsoft employees to get a WP7 phone
It’s still a pretty big window, but Netflix CEO Reed Hastings has narrowed down the time until we can expect a disc-free streaming experience on our PS3s from ” later this year ” to some time before its next earning call, which should happen around October 21. Other notes from the Q2 highlights included a shoutout to Hulu Plus , where Netflix “plans to learn what customers like about Hulu Plus” and use that to enhance its service, as well as the upcoming launch of a streaming service in Canada , and how the lessons learned may be applied to other “pure streaming” offerings internationally in the future. Investors aren’t too happy the company missed earnings projections, but we’re figuring once they close the ETrade window and pick up a Shockaxis they’ll start to get over it. Netflix plans discless Watch Instantly on the PS3 by late October, more ‘pure streaming’ worldwide originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 21 Jul 2010 21:17:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds .
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Netflix plans discless Watch Instantly on the PS3 by late October, more ‘pure streaming’ worldwide