Windows Phone and BlackBerry Mobiles struggle to attract the developers attention. It applies to only the users of cross-platform Appcelerator Titanium development entertainment, but it appears what Windows Phone 7 is facing an increasingly uphill battle for mobile mind-share. Only 29 percent of devs responded to the companys quarterly survey they were very interested in putting their waves on WP7, a fall of 7 points from last quarter and far less than market leaders Android and iOS. News is even worse for RIM, it saw a fall of 11 points in developers interest for BlackBerry, and now trails the folks from Redmond. The survey is based on only 2,760 developers using a particular product. As you see the charts, you can see the struggle of both WP7 and RIM.
Origins EON 17-S gaming notebook, though a $3,000 dent in your wallet could severly compromise your purchasing power for the next few months. That is the starting price for this gaming laptop, with a 2.5GHz Intel Core i7-2920XM Quad-core Processor factory overclocked to 4.5GHz, and max the system out with 32GB of RAM, dual 480GB SSDs and a 2GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 485M GPU will send the price tag north of $10,000. We had rather us the money as a down payment on a Tesla Roadster, but if helping to rebuild the economy with the best, brightest, and heaviest computing monster on your lap is just what you need. For more details read the press release
The official announcement has come; Casios macho GzOne Commando is coming to Verizon on April 28th for the price of $200 on-contract. In addition to meeting 810G military specifications for water, dust, shock, vibration, salt fog, solar radiation, and temperature extremes, it runs Android 2.2(Froyo) and features 3.6-inch (480*800) display, 5MP camera with autofocus, microSD slot, Wi-Fi, Stereo Bluetooth, and a hotspot for sharing 3G with up to five devices. It got bundles of apps for outdoorsy types, compass, pedometer, star gazer and thermometer. For more details read the press release.
When Google unveiled its WebM open source media format and declared it to be the one codec to rule all others, there were those who decried its usefulness and felt that H.264 should inherit the earth. WebMs power converted some of those, and rally to more to the VP8 / Vorbis cause, 17 companies have now formed the WebM community Cross License (CCL) initiative by inter-mingling their WebM-related IP resources. The passion for streamlining web standards and a willingness to spread the word about WebM couldnt hurt.
The US had to wait for its Eee Pad Transformer launch little longer than rest of the world, but its finally got its wish today. Amazons order page for the $400 Honeycomb tablet appears to have gone from in stock to out of stock within mere minutes, while target the supplier fulfilling orders on behalf of Amazon also lists the Transformer as presently unavailable. ASUSs own Where To Buy page lead us to a bunch of dead ends as well, while Best Buy being the only retailer we can currently find with stock in US. If you want yours click on the source links down and get it.
Carnegie Mellon Robotics Club has birthed vibration, a Robotic Vibraphone. Vibratrons Ardunio Mega controls 30 solenoid gates that drop steel balls onto the vibration keys, producing a note; an Archimedes screw recycles the bearings, turning them once more into sweet, sweet music. We should also note the vibration doesnt put decent salt-of-the-earth vibraphonists out of work. Dont forget to check the video.
Sonys hosts a press event in Tokyo, their its announcement is a pair of Android Tablets, two Honeycomb slates, first one is 9.4-inch S1 media tablet with curved top much like folded magazine and both front and rear facing cameras. Some of the S1 specs are Tegra 2 SoC and customized Quick and Smooth touch panel UI with Swift web browser. It can also be used as remote for Sony gear.
According to Wrap, Googles YouTube has finally locked up all the studio deals to get itself fully into the online movie rental game. It indicates that YouTube could launch this as soon as this week with movies from majors including Sony, Warner and Universal, as well smaller entities like Lionsgate, Kino Lorber and other independents.
The Leica i9 concept pairs an iPhone4 with a fixed lens rangefinder camera, and the result is extraordinary. Your iPhone4 into the back of the i9 brings the camera to life, activating the compact optical zoom, dedicated aperture and shutter dials, flash, and light meter. Images are instantly viewed in iPhone; its safe to assume they are stored as well. The camera back doubles as a case, but you are probably going to use it with a smartphone, unless you like talking to a camera. For more details read the press release
The reports from 9 to 5 Mac says that iMac orders are being delayed until May 2nd, despite fact that they are still listed as shipping within 24 hours on Apples website, and a separate conformation from trusted source of the site, says that Apple will stop shipping iMacs to retailers this week in advance of next weeks supposed release. The report from Mac Rumors says that Apple will be changing promotional materials in its retail stores for a launch on Tuesday May 3rd.
IntoNow launched its iPhone app that can identify what TV show you are watching by audio Shazam-style and then share it with others over Facebook or Twitter, pull in additional information or add the DVD to your Netfilx queue. Yahoo has purchased the company now. It wants to integrate its SoundPrint tech with its existing services including connected TV platform. As NewTeeVee suggests, this can tie in nicely with its existing plans to use audio watermarks to identify advertisements and display additional info on screen or work with a companion app. For more details read the press release.
This is my next reports that in PC-maker has a 7-inch Honeycomb slate features a high resolution1280*800 display and ARM dual-core processor. The slides also indicate the presence of Lenovo Family UI, likely means Le OS. Release is likely to be in Q4, but given the presence of a placeholder image and fact that these slides are at least a month old, most of this may change. Lenovo takes its own time to make customizations on Honeycomb, since its differentiating touches makes all the difference in burgeoning sea of screen centric devices.
Mozilla Firefox 4.0 has reached 100 million downloads, Mozillas community coordinator for Firefox marketing revealed it on his personal blog last weekend. While this is quite a achievement , a web analytics company showed that Firefox 4 has done nothing to boost Mozillas overall share of the browser market. Most of the 100 million downloads are done by existing users to upgrade their older Firefox versions. It is to be noted that Firefox 4 was well received by critics and users.
As we reported earlier the rumor about the successor to Nintendos Wii Gaming Console has become true. Nintendo has confirmed its plan to introduce the successor to its gaming console next year. Also Nintendo will reveal this model in the upcoming E3 gaming expo to be held in Los Angeles on June 7th. Still there is no official details about the console and the controllers. But we can hope for a solid improvement in terms of graphics department allowing us to play games at HD. Also we can imagine that Nintendo will come with a improved controller for the new games. Earlier this month Nintendo has lowered the price of Wii by $30 and and started selling them for around $170.
NVidia’s new Optimus Graphics Technology which is available only to notebooks till now, will be launched for desktops at the COMPUTEX 2011 convention in Taipei, Taiwan starting May 31. For those who are new to the term Optimus Graphics Technology of NVidia will allow automatic switching between integrated GPU and discrete GPU as required for optimal performance. This technology offers great graphics performance and better battery life for notebooks.
Regular defragmentation keeps the system performance consistent. But you cannot sit at your PC through this entire process.
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