iOS To Merge With Mac OS X By 2012 Claims Analyst

post from Most Popular Gadget Blog on 03 August 2011 09:05:50 PM. © Most Popular Gadget Blog

Apple may be mulling plans for a single operating system as early as next year according to Peter Misek, an analyst for Jeffries and Co. In a note to clients, he says that the merger of iOS and Mac OS X would lead to synergies which according to Tiernan Ray from Barrons, could mean better gross margins and easier content licensing (ed : and lower cost of development). Misek writes “Users want to be able to pick up any iPhone, … Read Full Article

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Google, A Patent Attack Victim. Really

post from Ubergizmo on 03 August 2011 08:16:11 PM. © Ubergizmo

David Drummond, the Senior Vice President and Chief Legal Officer of Google has gone on the record and addressed the patent litigation situation that Google’s Android finds itself into, with foes like Microsoft and Apple, among others, on the other side of the fight.

Here’s the context: Android is arguably a formidable mobile platform, and it is gathering success and it is accelerating with no end in sight. Microsoft and Apple have sued Google partners like HTC and Samsung with some degree of success to hinder, or “bank on” Android’s success. For instance, HTC is currently paying royalties to Microsoft for every Android handset it produces. Ironically, Microsoft makes more money from the Android royalties than they do with Windows Phone 7.

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RIM Announces BlackBerry 7 Smartphones

post from Most Popular Gadget Blog on 03 August 2011 08:06:03 PM. © Most Popular Gadget Blog

Investigation In Motion (RIM) has introduced five new smartphones based mostly on the BlackBerry 7 OS. Two of them belong to the Bold collection, whilst 3 are from the Torch sequence of enterprise phones. The Daring 9900 and 9930 will attribute a touchscreen and keyboard, considerably like the Nokia E6. Each units will be 10.5 mm skinny, and NFC (Close to Subject Communications) capable. The Torch 9850 and 9860 will have a touch-only interface, aided by a relatively huge three.7″ … Read Full Article

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Cushi pads add instant cushioning and color to
your phone

post from Popgadget: Personal Tech for Women on 03 August 2011 06:05:46 PM. © Popgadget: Personal Tech for Women

I often wonder why some phone case manufacturers make such bulky accessories when phones are being designed to be as slim and streamlined as possible. id America's Cushi pads aim to protect your phone without all of that unnecessary...

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“Cowboys and Aliens” Spoiler Free
Movie Review

post from GadgetMadness on 03 August 2011 05:06:37 PM. © GadgetMadness

What’s It About?

A mysterious and dangerous stranger with no memory and a wicked alien-tech arm blaster rolls into the mining town of Absolution – alien mayhem shortly follows.

The Single BIGGEST THING Wrong with this Movie

Visualize the cool western personalities from “Young Guns” or even “The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly” and then go re-watch those movies instead. “Cowboys and Aliens” suffers greatly from a distinctive lack of personality in both its human and CG aliens – no bad-ass sharp shooters or fast draw gunslingers here. This movie also takes itself far too seriously; by the very title one expects B-movie sci-fi action greatness and not heartfelt soliloquy’s as wounded characters die. Brief moments where secondary characters freak out in a way that could be humorous fall flat where main characters remind them this is a serious film, and to stop acting so silly.

The Single BIGGEST THING “Right” with this Movie

Jake Lonergan’s arm blaster. Seriously, even though the aliens had no idea how to use them effectively, we want one.

Should You See It?

This reviewer spent the last ten years watching this movie go through script changes and new directors hoping for a cool film where the Old West had to use ingenuity and teamwork to defeat a superior alien army. As much as we love some of Jon Favreau’s other films we just can’t recommend anyone else sit through this one.

Is There Stuff After the Credits?

You’d expect there to be something after the credits, right? How the future would be changed by the introduction of alien tech to the Old West, or cowboys and Indians living together in peace having united against a common extraterrestrial enemy? Sadly, after the main character “rides off into the sunset” that’s the end.

Conclusion

“Cowboys and Aliens” is to cowboys and alien as “Reign of Fire” is to dragons and tanks. You wanted to see massive dragon versus post-apocalyptic hardware battles in “Reign of Fire” didn’t you? I did, and sadly that movie disappointed in much the same way “Cowboys and Aliens” does. Yes, “Cowboys and Aliens” has spaceships, aliens, a beautiful girl (with no nudity) as well as a mysterious stranger with a missing memory but by the time Jake Longergan pieces together his lost past this reviewer no longer cared. I didn’t hate this movie but was disappointed in the missed potential and overall dullness and predictability of the characters and story. (For the direct to DVD sequel may we suggest something with a sense of humor and over-the-top-action like “Clowns and Dinosaurs?”) Even though “Cowboys and Aliens” the movie disappoints, at least the limited edition Hipstamatic Matty ALN and Libatique 73 lens packs are cool.

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Tiny glass lens can be used to turn smartphones
into projectors

post from Ubergizmo on 03 August 2011 04:51:37 PM. © Ubergizmo

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It is an understood trend, that as technology progresses; the sizes of gadgets and devices get smaller as well. Do you remember how large projectors used to be? Look at the pico projectors that we have now: talk about massive shrinkage. Well, in the future it looks like we might be able to have projectors that are the size of our smartphones ? because the projectors will be inside the smartphone itself.

Tiny glass lens can be used to turn smartphones into projectors, By Ubergizmo. Top Stories : Xperia Play Review, Droid X2 Review,

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Scientists create the smallest battery

post from Popgadget: Personal Tech for Women on 03 August 2011 04:05:16 PM. © Popgadget: Personal Tech for Women

Researchers have managed to construct the world's smallest battery and when I say small I mean tiny. The device is allegedly six times smaller than a bacterium and an incredible 60,000 times smaller than a standard AAA battery! The...

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Bite Counter intends to aid your digestion

post from Ubergizmo on 03 August 2011 03:54:46 PM. © Ubergizmo

The rule of thumb tends to be this – chew your food for at least 40 times before swallowing in order to help your stomach digest whatever you’ve munched faster, not to mention preventing you from being a glutton. Professors from various faculties at Clemson University in South Carolina have come together to work on what they call the Bite Counter – this is a device that you wear around your wrist, fooling most folks into thinking that this is a timepiece. It will be able to track wrist-roll motion as part of its effort to count just how many bites the wearer makes before swallowing that morsel.

Bite Counter intends to aid your digestion, By Ubergizmo. Top Stories : Xperia Play Review, Droid X2 Review,

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Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 delayed in Australia

Is it, or is it not? First of all, we heard that Apple’s lawsuit managed to convince Australian courts to halt the sales of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, and a day after that we have Samsung stepping forward to say they will go ahead with the Galaxy Tab 10.1′s release, although it will be a slightly different model from the one that Apple fought so hard to prevent from hitting the market. Well, another shocker has occurred today – it seems that the South Korean company has done a 180-degree turn, officially delaying the Galaxy Tab 10.1′s launch because of the above mentioned legal dispute with Apple.

Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 delayed in Australia, By Ubergizmo. Top Stories : Xperia Play Review, Samsung Infuse 4G Review,

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Vivitar 690 HD Underwater Pocket Video Camera

Vivitar 690 HD

Vivitar 690 HD Unerwater camcorder

Vivitar is introducing the 690 HD, a waterproof pocket HD camcorder (up to 10 feet) that features a 4x digital zoom. For only $59.99, you will be able to shoot 720p AVI (M-JPEG) movies at 25 fps and store it on the SD card, you will need 1 GB for each 6 minutes of recording. The 690 HD can capture VGA(640×480) and QVGA(320×240) video at 30 fps as well, and it comes in many different colors including black (photo).

Other features include a 2.0? TFT LCD display, a built-in microphone and speaker, a LED light, a TV-out connector (but no HDMI), a built-in lithium-ion battery and a USB 2.0 connector for easy upload to Facebook, Myspace, Flickr, Picasa Albums, Photobucket, Youtube and more?

The M-JPEG (Motion JPEG) video format offers slightly better quality than M-PEG 4 but requires more storage space on the SD card, for this reason it is currently rarely used by camera manufacturers. The format is supported by Youtube.

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