You have now successfully imagined the Mutewatch, a watch named (presumably) for the silence that will gush from friends and coworkers when you [...]
Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/08/the-minimal-multitouch-mutewatch/
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
The Minimal Multitouch Mutewatch
You know those silicone armbands that turn the touch-screen iPod Nano into an oversized watch? Imagine that you could have one of those, only without the Nano, and for ?200 instead of ?150.
You have now successfully imagined the Mutewatch, a watch named (presumably) for the silence that will gush from friends and coworkers when you [...]
You have now successfully imagined the Mutewatch, a watch named (presumably) for the silence that will gush from friends and coworkers when you [...]
Gizmodo Scoop Feels Dirty, but Home Search Crossed Line
News Analysis: Although Gizmodo editor Jason Chen may not have done the most ethical thing by paying $5,000 for an AWOL prototype of the next iPhone, the California task force that forced open his door in apparent violation of the terms of its search warrant (to say nothing of state law) just turned his case into a test of journalistic freedoms. - Legend has it that one of the first things taught in journalism school is
that an honest journalist never pays for a story. I suppose that's true, but
you see, I never went to j-school. Does that let me off the hook?
I can argue either side of whether checkbook journalism is ethical, or if
techn...
that an honest journalist never pays for a story. I suppose that's true, but
you see, I never went to j-school. Does that let me off the hook?
I can argue either side of whether checkbook journalism is ethical, or if
techn...
Source: http://feeds.ziffdavisenterprise.com/~r/RSS/eweekmac/~3/ilNR_Pf-umM/
Stretchable OLED Display Is Here; No Stretchable iPad Yet
The clever brains at the University of California, Los Angeles have developed a fully stretchable OLED display.
Source: http://feeds.pcworld.com/click.phdo?i=d259ca8edfe2ea056a1443a937d4a225
Microsoft releases sexy Bing app for iPad
Just as a regular search on bing.com will, the Bing app for iPad tailors the results it displays based on what you're searching for. There are loads of custom views, covering everything from movies and maps to weather and shopping. The app also offers a heads-up display of currently trending searches, complete with related images, which is an iPad-exclusive feature.
Navigation is a breeze thanks to multitouch controls, allowing users to flick or swipe through results. And while the development team refers to the app as "touch and decide," Bing Voice Search is also built in -- making it easy to start a query without using the iPad's on-screen keyboard.
The Bing app for iPad is available for download now from the App Store.
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Impermium Launches Social Spam Index; Finds That Up To 40 Percent Of Online IDs Are Fake
In June, we covered the launch of Impermium, a young startup aimed at zapping the Internet's social spam wherever it hides. Not only is the startup bringing the heat to user generated spam like spammy comments, hacked accounts, and fraudulent registrations, but the startup also happens to be founded by Mark Risher, Yahoo's former "Spam Czar", as well as former Yahoos Vish Ramarao and Naveen Jamal. These guys have significant experience fighting spam, part of the reason they've already signed on investors like Accel Partners, AOL Ventures, Charles River Ventures, Freestyle Capital, Greylock Discovery Fund and Morado Ventures. Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/y2YnWraHrww/
How Would the World be without the IBM PC?
Analysis: Nine questions about an alternate reality in which Big Blue steered clear of little computers.
Source: http://feeds.pcworld.com/click.phdo?i=0632af4276cdc07f431d99944b982884
Mobile Ads Could ?Theoretically? Absorb Online Display Spending This Year, But They Won?t
With more than 600,000 apps available for an estimated 350 million Apple and Android mobile devices, it's not difficult to see how mobile app advertising could soon eclipse online display advertising. In fact, app analytics company Flurry put this chart together to show how mobile app inventory is growing so fast that it could absorb all of the money spent on online display ads by the end of the year. Now, just because there is enough mobile app ad inventory to absorb that spending doesn't mean it will, but the chart does show the potential of mobile app advertising. How did Flurry come up with these numbers? Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/Akug7m6WUhA/
Give Your Lady The Gift Of Glowing Power With The iNecklace
It's iconic. That soft, pulsating light emanating from the button that controls life and death. Press it when it's glowing and creativity flows. Turn it off and a little bit of your inner child dies. The iNecklace allows the wearer to capture that sense of control and wear it around the neck as a status of power. There's nothing else like it. (this is where you, the commenter will jump to the comments and link to something identical)Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/W5tQC42RAEA/
Microsoft trumpets Windows Phone 7 numbers on first birthday
Microsoft is quick to take a couple shots at competitors' app stores, beating its chest about not re-counting tanslations of an app or "lite" apps, "increasing tonnage" by supporting apps from other mobile platforms, and not listing wallpapers as a category.
That's all fine and dandy, but we spend a lot of time sifting through WP7 app feeds -- and we're still not seeing a lot of awesome apps on the platform. We think a few marquee apps would've made a pretty nice first birthday present -- along with a much smoother update process for WP7 users.
Microsoft trumpets Windows Phone 7 numbers on first birthday originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 01 Apr 2011 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Primus PrimeTorch Flashlight Review
One thing you can never be without is a good flashlight, especially one that has a bright brilliant light. But for me a flashlight is just a flashlight. That is unless it has something about it that gives it a unique characteristic. And the PrimeTorch 1010 by Primus is one such flashlight. One thing I [...]
Source: http://the-gadgeteer.com/2011/08/30/primus-primetorch-flashlight-review/
Dodge is a space-shooter in which you have no weapons
Your vector-looking spacecraft is the fastest thing on the screen, most of the time. And as the header implies, you have absolutely no weapons; you can't get any, either. All you have is agility and maneuverability.
Your opponents shoot heat-seeking missiles at you; the missiles lock on and start tracking you. The trick is to dodge the missiles while putting them in the path of one of your enemies, thus letting them have a taste of their own medicine.
There are three types of enemies, at least in the first few levels: "simple" spaceships which fire slow projectiles, "tanks" which seem to be more serious and take more hits to destroy, and "circles." The circles simply explode, spewing twenty or thirty very fast projectiles. This sounds dangerous, but is actually great once you learn to use them; they are very destructive for tanks, and can even blow up other circles.
The soundtrack is very techno, but it meshes very well with this type of game. Intense fun!
Dodge is a space-shooter in which you have no weapons originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 01 Mar 2011 17:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Survival Lab is a fun pixelated game where dying doesn't matter
In most games, dying is a bad thing. You have to start all over again, or at least revert to the last save point and lose some progress. Not so in Survival Lab: in this pixelated gem you play as a lone individual pitted against ruthless weapons in a sealed chamber. You have to run, jump and duck, collecting little yellow things (I have no idea what they're called).
For each donut-like yellow thing you pick up, you gain a bit of experience. If you manage to collect several in a row without getting hit, this counts as a combo. You can see my mad combo skills in the screenshot, of course. Collecting combos is a good thing, because a ten-point combo gives you for more experience than just collecting ten dounts one by one (getting hit in-between).
Having experience is useful, because once you die, you get to a screen where you can upgrade your skills. You can learn to run faster, double-jump (and then double-jump higher), and duck. You can also gain more armour so that getting hit won't kill you so quickly.
What makes this simple game so addictive is that when you die, your experience doesn't reset. You just go back to the same level, or another level of your choosing, and keep accumulating more and more experience. Lots of fun, especially if you're into the whole retro-gaming thing.
For each donut-like yellow thing you pick up, you gain a bit of experience. If you manage to collect several in a row without getting hit, this counts as a combo. You can see my mad combo skills in the screenshot, of course. Collecting combos is a good thing, because a ten-point combo gives you for more experience than just collecting ten dounts one by one (getting hit in-between).
Having experience is useful, because once you die, you get to a screen where you can upgrade your skills. You can learn to run faster, double-jump (and then double-jump higher), and duck. You can also gain more armour so that getting hit won't kill you so quickly.
What makes this simple game so addictive is that when you die, your experience doesn't reset. You just go back to the same level, or another level of your choosing, and keep accumulating more and more experience. Lots of fun, especially if you're into the whole retro-gaming thing.
Survival Lab is a fun pixelated game where dying doesn't matter originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 28 Feb 2011 16:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Sony Shows Off Android Walkman Device At IFA
The Walkman brand has taken a beating over the last decade or so. The culprit, of course, is the iPod, and while other players do sell perfectly well all over the world (Apple's reach isn't always good enough), Sony, Creative, and iRiver just aren't the powerhouses they used to be in the portable audio sector. Sony's looking to get back into the game, and is demoing a prototype Android-based media player at IFA. While I'd love nothing more than real competition in the player space, I don't quite see this thing taking off.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/bnHq389p4aY/
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Linux Now Runs on iPad; Tuxedo Optional
You love the iPad's hardware, but you also love open-source, you say? This hack may be the best of both worlds.
Source: http://feeds.pcworld.com/click.phdo?i=8b26fb0823597c15fe2a1a495338c517
Firefox 4 rockets to 5% global usage share, IE9 wallows at 1.5%
Interestingly, we can see IE9 dipping between March 20 and 21, just before the 'Important' Windows Update rolled out. It's hard to say whether IE9 is only growing because of the installed-by-default Windows Update, but that small dip definitely sticks out -- did excitement peter out? Did people download IE9, try it out, and summarily uninstall it? Perhaps, given their close proximity, the stats show an attention shift from Microsoft to Mozilla?
Numbers-wise, if the bottom left corner of the graph shows 2.3 million downloads for IE9, we can guesstimate that that it has now been downloaded 5 million times. Firefox is clocking in at 37 million downloads after five days of public availability.
We wonder whether Microsoft knew its release schedule would coincide so closely with Firefox 4. Internet Explorer 9 -- a great browser by almost every metric -- was never going to do well against anything emanating from the maws of Mozilla. The main thing, though, is that Microsoft has now shown that it's serious when it comes to the Open Web. If Internet Explorer 10 is good, and 11 and 12, then we might finally see it compete with the zealous Mozillan horde.
Firefox 4 rockets to 5% global usage share, IE9 wallows at 1.5% originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 28 Mar 2011 05:31:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Environmental Watchdog Report Calls Apple To Task For Violations
The ever-volatile issue of the costs surrounding globalized manufacturing looks to be looming again as a harshly critical report on Apple's Chinese suppliers gains visibility. The report, by environmental NGO the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs (IPE), is the sequel to another they released in January entitled "The Other Side of Apple." With the ominous title it's clear what their intention is, and while there is a certain slant to the presentation, the facts highlighted are too salient to ignore. I have written about our conscious abdication of moral responsibility for our purchases (Our Great Sin), but the IPE report resurrects the question of corporate responsibility in an era of increasing transparency. Should we, and can we, hold Apple and others like it to account for the transgressions of those with whom it does business?Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/QFyXmBRGg0g/
Windows Home Server 2011 released to manufacturers
Built on the Windows Server 2008 R2 base, Home Server 2011 features a simpler dashboard, a better backup solution, dead simple remote access to your home computers, and Silverlight-powered remote media streaming. For a more detailed look at what's new in Windows Home Server 2011, you check out Microsoft's official breakdown.
Drive Extender, of course, didn't resurface for the final release of WHS 2011 and that's something a lot of power users are still pretty irked about. Even without Extender, Windows Home Server offers a boatload of useful functionality and might be a good fit for your home network. Manufacturers have already begun building hardware, so you should be able to pick up a device in the very near future.
An evaluation download for Windows Home Server 2011 will be made available in April -- we'll let you know when the links are ready.
Windows Home Server 2011 released to manufacturers originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 30 Mar 2011 08:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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How Microsoft Researchers Might Invent a Holodeck
Wired recently toured Microsoft's R&D buildings to see some of the work the firm's scientists and engineers are doing to invent the computer interfaces of the future.
Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/08/microsoft-research/
Google Talk Guru answers questions via your IM app
Bots -- like the kind which automate IRC rooms and Google Wave -- are a good thing to know about. There are plenty of useful bots worth knowing about, too, including the Google Talk Guru.Just add guru@googlelabs.com to your GTalk buddies, and you can start firing off questions. Lifehacker suggests that the same types of queries supported by Google SMS will work, though we didn't have any luck getting a response out of the Guru with phrases like "score detroit red wings" or "sushi R3N 1Y1."
Still, Guru does answer a good variety of questions and it works right within your favorite IM app. It's well worth adding to your friend list, especially for getting answers on the go on your mobile device of choice.
Google Talk Guru answers questions via your IM app originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 30 Mar 2011 09:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Words With Friends for Android updated, promises "smoother game experience"
You might be happy to hear that a couple of days ago Zynga released an update which promises to solve many of the Android-specific issues, such as notifications not popping up.
Sadly, installing the update is not a smooth experience; you have to manually uninstall the previous version, and then go to the Android Market and install it. What's nice is that it doesn't lose your saved games - this screenshot shows a game I've started before the update and continued after updating.
How's the new update working out for you? Let us know in the comments!
Words With Friends for Android updated, promises "smoother game experience" originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 04 Mar 2011 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Wide temperature range COM Express module offers soldered DDR3 RAM
Arbor announced a COM Express Type 2 module with an industrial temperature range of -40 to 185 deg. F. The COM-746E incorporates an Intel Atom N455 processor with 2GB of soldered DDR3 SDRAM, PCI Express and PCI expansion, plus SATA, gigabit Ethernet, serial, parallel, and USB connectivity, says the company....
Source: http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/Arbor-COM746E/?kc=rss
Sony Ericcson unveils Xperia Neo V, promises Gingerbread for other phones too
Sony Ericsson announced a mid-range, 3.7-inch Xperia Neo V phone -- equipped with a Facebook-enhanced Android 2.3.4 release that will also be rolled out to all its Xperia phones in October. Meanwhile, Verizon Wireless decided not to offer the Samsung Galaxy S II that's expected to be unveiled on AT T, Sprint, and T-Mobile on Aug. 29....
Source: http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/Sony-Ericsson-Xperia-Neo-V/?kc=rss
Samsung Galaxy S II Smartphone Makes U.S. Debut
Samsung announced the U.S. debut of its Galaxy S II smartphone, available on the Sprint, AT&T and T-Mobile networks (though, conspicuously, not Verizon’s).
The smartphone has been available in Europe and Asia for a while now, where it has sold over five million units. It currently holds the title of best-selling smartphone in the world, [...]
The smartphone has been available in Europe and Asia for a while now, where it has sold over five million units. It currently holds the title of best-selling smartphone in the world, [...]
Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/08/samsung-galaxy-s2-2/
Google bids $900 million for Nortel's patents to protect against litigation trolls
Nortel, once one of the biggest telecoms company in the world but now in the death throes of bankruptcy, has selected Google's $900 million bid for its patent portfolio as the stalking horse bid. This doesn't mean that Google will automatically win Nortel's massive array of telecoms patents, but it does mean that Google is the preferred buyer.Google, which has a history of lobbying for patent law reform, has been the target of many patent litigation suits. Google's relative infancy means that it has a lot less patents in the vault than big-hitters like Microsoft, Oracle and IBM, and buying Nortel's portfolio of 6,000 patents could provide better protection against patent litigation in the future. It's worth noting that both Apple and RIM have showed interested in the portfolio, too.
Mashable speculates that the patents -- which are nearly all telecoms-related -- will be used to defend against Oracle's attacks on Android's use of Java. We reckon that Google is simply looking to cover its future endeavors in the world of networking. In the absence of patent law reform, and continued threats to net neutrality, owning a bunch of telecoms patents sounds like a very sensible move.
Google bids $900 million for Nortel's patents to protect against litigation trolls originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 04 Apr 2011 13:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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