Current news items regarding technology, tech companies, the Internet, the government, etc.
One of Google’s ‘secret’ projects that is just coming to light is their work on automated cars that drive themselves.
To date, their automated cars have driven over 140,000 miles. Of course, they’ve always been manned, but for the most part, the cars did the driving using a combination of video cameras, radar, laser range finders and detailed map data that they accessed from Google data centers. Impressive.
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Microsoft has launched its latest mobile OS incarnation, dubbed Windows Phone 7, with a flourish – a slew of new phones by different vendors on multiple carriers.
Europe and Asia get these handsets first on Oct 21, while the US will follow in Nov. There will be 9 new handsets from HTC, Dell, Samsung and LG that will end up on carriers like AT&T, T-Mobile, Vodafone and TELUS. Eventually, handsets will also make it to Sprint and Verizon in 2011 and over 60 carriers in 30 countries.
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Microsoft announces a boatload of Windows Phone 7 handsetsRead More »
Do you remember that nursery rhyme “Polly put the kettle on, Sukey took it off again”? The Verizon/iPhone saga reminds me of that. Well it’s back on again. This time there are multiple sources saying the iPhone is coming to Verizon in early 2011.
If you’re an AT&T iPhone user who is planning to jump over, keep at least 2 things in mind:
Although tablets existed before Apple introduced the iPad, they’ve certainly gone a long way to turning it into a full-fledged niche of its own and no longer simply a minor laptop variation. Of course, no electronics company wants to ‘miss out’ on the possibility to rake in some dough on the back of this hot new trend and to that end, dozens — yes dozens — of companies are releasing products this year.
Panasonic CTO highlighted some interesting stats at last week’s Advertising Week conference:
“With more than 5,000 3D cinema screens in the US, an estimated two million or more 3D HDTVs expected to be sold this year, and 12 3D HDTV television channels debuting in 2010, the 3D consumer market is well on the way to reaching critical mass.”
Start this post by watching the video above. Whenever such cool, amazing and dare we say revolutionary apps/technology like this comes along, we’re compelled to blog about them. And BlindType fits the bill.
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BlindType mobile virtual keyboard makes type^Hing ridiculously easyRead More »
Ah, finally, a nice way to compare all of those Android phones out there and from a reasonably authoritative source – Google. Google now has what they call the Google Phone Gallery that lists many of the most popular Android phones in the US, by carrier and by manufacturer. …
Google sorts and compares Android phones in the Phone GalleryRead More »
I think the word ‘intelligent’ is pushing it, but Britain’s Royal Mail service in conjunction with the Junaio app (iPhone or Android) has put out some stamps that can be used to trigger additional augmented reality-type info, this case in the form of videos.
Take your phone, open up the app and capture a photo of the stamp to launch the video (or other content). Here’s a video of it in action (skip ahead to 0:48 to skip the intro stuff). …
It may seem a little strange that the maker of Blackberrys (Research in Motion or RIM) is releasing a tablet, but that’s the strange world that Apple has generated. And so today, RIM announced their Blackberry PlayBook, a 7” LCD, 1024 x 600 touch screen tablet with full multi-touch and gesture support.
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Blackberry puts out a tablet, the PlayBook, to compete with AppleRead More »
Credit card and payments processor, Visa, has jumped into the online shopping industry at an indirect angle by creating an online visual bookmarking tool called Rightcliq.
The site works in conjunction with a plugin that works in either Firefox or IE which lets you snag an image and link to any item you run across while shopping online. You can then head back to the Rightcliq site any time to see your wishlist of items.
You can also bundle items into groups. For example, you may be shopping for a new computer and have your eye on a number of them, but also shopping for a birthday present for a friend.
Finally, you can enter your credit card and shipping info for quick entry when shopping.
