Uploaded by AlJazeeraEnglish on 20 Jan 2012 - Throughout this week, Al Jazeera has presented a series of reports showcasing older technologies that are still going strong.
In the final instalment, five US children from today's high-tech generation attempt to identify older electronic devices that stopped being widely used before they were born.
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Friday, January 20, 2012
Samsung loses one of many patent cases with Apple.
Published on 20 Jan 2012 by Euronews : Samsung has suffered a setback in its tablet and smartphone battle with Apple.A German court has ruled against the South Korean company in a patent case, which is another leg in the lengthy legal struggle between the two technology giants.Samsung said the ruling covers one patent out of the three mobile technologies it claims Apple infringed.
Rulings on the other two will be made by the Mannheim court in the next couple of weeks. Samsung said it has yet to decide whether to appeal against this ruling.Samsung has suffered a setback in its tablet and smartphone battle with Apple.
A German court has ruled against the South Korean company in a patent case, which is another leg in the lengthy legal struggle between the two technology giants.
Samsung said the ruling covers one patent out of the three mobile technologies it claims Apple infringed.Rulings on the other two will be made by the Mannheim court in the next couple of weeks. Samsung said it has yet to decide whether to appeal against this ruling.
Saturday, December 10, 2011
Cool gadgets for Christmas.
Don't go fishing without it?
Published on 9 Dec 2011 by itnnews - Jamie Oliver listens to your instructions as he helps you cook this Christmas in a festive app. Report by Jeremy Barnes
Published on 9 Dec 2011 by itnnews - Jamie Oliver listens to your instructions as he helps you cook this Christmas in a festive app. Report by Jeremy Barnes
Thursday, May 5, 2011
User's review of the Canon XF100.
May 3, 2011 - This is a user's point-of-view on Canon's XF100 compact professional class camera. For detailed discussions on this camera and its family, I recommendhttp://www.dvinfo.net/forum/canon-xf-series-hd-camcorders/
Overall, this is an excellent camera for the video journalist -- reliable auto mode for run-and-gun situation while providing all the manual controls for the 'control-freak' :-)
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Video Review : Apple iPad 2 First Impressions
notebooks on Mar 6, 2011 - Our first impressions and analysis of the iPad 2 after having attended Steve Jobs' keynote in San Francisco, California, where we also had some brief hands-on time with the tablet. Please note that while we were able to gain extended hands-on time at the March 2nd keynote and launch event, we do not have an iPad 2 on-hand to review at the time this video was created; please check back on or after March 11th for our complete review when we obtain a device for the Notebooks.com lab.
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Friday, February 11, 2011
Nokia and Microsoft form partnership
Nokia has joined forces with Microsoft in an attempt to regain ground lost to the iPhone and Android-based devices.
The deal will see Nokia use the Windows phone operating system for its smartphones, the company said.
It means that Nokia's existing operating systems will be sidelined.
Speaking at the launch of the partnership, Nokia's chief executive Stephen Elop revealed that there would be "substantial" job losses as a result of the tie-up.
Nokia will remain "first and foremost...a Finnish company. Finland is our home and will remain our home," he said.
But job losses around the world, including in Finland, will be inevitable, he added.
Windows first
Speaking about the new partnership with Microsoft, Mr Elop said that "the game has changed from a battle of devices to a war of ecosystems".
"An ecosystem with Microsoft and Nokia has unrivalled scale around the globe," he said.
BBC News | 11 February 2011 - read full post
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Hewlett-Packard unveils Palm-powered tablets
HP is putting its the web operating system front and centre of new productsHewlett-Packard (HP), the world's biggest technology company, is making a major play for the multi-billion dollar mobile market with a slew of products based on its own operating system.
At an event in San Francisco, the company announced two new phones and a long-awaited tablet computer.
HP's new TouchPad tablet will compete against Apple's iPad, Google's Android-powered machines and RIM's Playbook.
The TouchPad is based on the webOS operating system.
This was developed by Palm and bought by HP last year for $1.2bn (£745m).
HP is hoping its investment will pay dividends with tablet sales expected to soar to over 50 million in the coming year.
HP said the mobile connected devices market is currently worth $160bn dollars.
The Silicon Valley company that started life in a small garage is clearly betting big that products powered by its own operating system will give it a foothold in the sector and make it a force to be reckoned with.
BBC | 9 Feb 2011 - read full report
Saturday, February 5, 2011
Google eyes Apple in tablet war
Motorola's Xoom tablet will be the first built around the honeycomb release of AndroidGoogle has unveiled an operating system for tablet computers aimed at ramping up the competition with Apple's iPad.
More than 15 million iPads have been sold since Apple launched the gadget in 2010.
The latest version of Google's Android OS is called Honeycomb and it has been specifically optimised for tablets.
The features include the ability to buy applications from a computer, buy features inside the app, video chat and improved graphics.
"This is a serious investment of years of design and engineering to really nail the experience for a larger screen," Hugo Barra, Google's director of products for mobile, told BBC News.
"This is not a large phone - we wanted tablets running Honeycomb to not just be bigger but also to be better."
Motorola will be the first to bring a product running Honeycomb to market. Its Xoom device is due to go on sale this month, although a release date and price have not yet been revealed.
"Honeycomb brings Google closer to parity with Apple and underlines the battle between these two titans," said Ben Parr, co-editor of technology news site Mashable.
"Google has its strengths especially in the cloud, with their open source platform and integration with other Google products like Gmail and Google docs," he said. "But Apple has the design edge and a vast number of apps as well as a new iPad expected in the next couple of months."
Google's announcement of a web-based version of the Android market is one that is seen as long overdue
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Progress on tablet computer for developing nations
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BBC reporter Maggie Shiels interviews OLPC's chief technology officer Ed McNierney.
Everybody is trying to grab a piece of the tablet action at the gadget geekfest known as the Consumer Electronics Show.
Among them, the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, whose mission is to bring low-powered, low-cost devices to the developing world.
They have just launched a hybrid computer that turns into a tablet, but plan to release a dedicated device by 2012.
The new $165 (about £106) XO-1.75 laptop will start shipping after the summer to countries around the world to bring school children into the computer age.
Its precursor cost around $199 (about £128) and OLPC says around two million have now been distributed.
The big challenge with the new laptop was to reduce power consumption.
OLPC chief technology officer Ed McNierney told BBC News they have slashed the wattage from five watts to two by using low powered ARM-based chips from Marvell technology.
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Cr-48 Chrome Notebook Already Showing Up On Doorsteps! Free limited Quantity.
Two Days After Unveiling,
Ben Kessler woke up to an unexpectedsurprise on the doorstep of his New York home this morning: a Cr-48. Yes, the just-unveiled Google Chrome Notebook is already rolling out to those who requested one.
MG Siegler| TechCrunch 9 Dec 2010
It was only two days ago that Googleunveiled that the Cr-48 would be the first computer featuring their new Chrome OS. Google was quick to note that the 12.1-inch machine would feature no branding and was simply meant to be a test machine for developers, students, and a few other demographics. They asked people to fill out a form here to request one of the limited-quantity Cr-48s.
MG Siegler| TechCrunch 9 Dec 2010
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Acer To Reveal 5, 7, And 10-Inch Tablets Tomorrow.
Which Ones Will Run Android?
According to multiple sources, Acer is planning a special event tomorrow in New York to announce three tablets – one 5-inch (not much is known about it), one 7-inch (is expected to run Android 2.2), and a 10-inch (is expected to run Windows 7). Acer showed off a tablet several months back with a front-facing keyboard with a 7-inch screen; there’s a good chance this is the same productbut with some revisions.
The 7-inch tablet looks somewhat like a Kindle, mostly because of the front-facing physical keyboard, and could possibly be launching sometime before Christmas. It was also rumored to be running on the Tegra 2 processor with Android 3.0, but its release has been hastened in order to compete with the Galaxy Tab.
According to mysterious sources cited by Digitimes:
Acer has two internal opinions about the debut of Android tablet PCs, one is to delay the debut until after Gingerbread (Android 2.3) and Honeycomb (Android 3.x) are launched, the other is that an early debut will help compete with Samsung Electronics’ and Toshiba’s Galaxy Tab and Folio 100.
It’d be nice to see an Android tablet with the Tegra 2 processor launch here in the States, but there’s no word on Android Market access, which has quickly become one of the important issues an Android tablet has to deal with. As for the 10-inch tablet, I would venture to guess that it will indeed run Windows 7, and the 5-inch "tablet" will likely see the same path as the Dell Streak (i.e., it’s a giant phone). But who knows, maybe Acer is prepping its own awesome, 10-inch Android tablet.
Courtesy : AndroidPolice
Friday, November 19, 2010
First Look At The Jolibook: Cloudy With A Chance Of Lightning Speed (Video)
France-based Jolicloud‘s Jolibook will reportedly hit the (UK) market starting today at a £279 price point (roughly $380). I’m one of the first to have received a review unit, which runs the all-new version of the company’s eponymous Linux-based cloud OS, Jolicloud 1.1.
Still, Jolicloud 1.1 is the reason I’d recommend some people – not everyone, and mainly people who travel a lot and have made the switch to Web-based applications for most of their work-related or personal activities already . . .
We already noted some of the hardware specs, but here’s the full rundown:
- Intel Atom N550 processor (1.5 GHz, dual-core)
- 250GB hard drive
- 10.1″ screen
- Memory: 1GB
- Three USB 2.0 ports
- Jacks for mic, headphones, LAN and an external monitor
- 3-in-1 card reader
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Monday, November 8, 2010
Monday, October 11, 2010
Tablet PC for developing nations
The tablet version of the XO computer should be ready by 2012The One Laptop Per Child organisation has been given a $5.6m (£3.5m) grant to develop a tablet version of its educational computer.
The cash comes from chip maker Marvell which became a supporter and sponsor of OLPC in early 2009.
The OLPC organisation said the grant meant it had all the development cash it needed to produce its next machine.
OLPC said it would show off the first development work on the new machine at the CES show in January 2011.
more news BBC News
more news BBC News
Friday, July 16, 2010
Skype: hero of Estonia's economy
france24english | July 15, 2010 - SKYPE - The internet-telephone company hero of Estonia's economy.
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