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Yoono: the navigation bar for the digital social
life

post from Ubergizmo on 05 May 2008 03:05:09 AM. © Ubergizmo

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[Web 2.0] At Web 2.0, Pascal Josselin, CEO, showed me a demo of the revamped Yoono. Today, the beta is officially launching and you can test it for yourself.Like the previous version, Yoono?s toolbar suggest similar sites while you are browsing the web and enables you to meet new friends interested in the same topic. The coolest new feature is the access to most of your social networking sites in one place (Facebook, Friendfeed, Flickr, Last.fm, Piczo and Twitter). You can update your profiles from there and receive your friends updates in a well designed user interface, constantly visible in a left navigation bar integrated in your browser. This will save me a lot of time! Yoono toolbar allows also to post text and photos directly to a blog.

The Yoono chat offers also some nice features: the ability to drag and drop photos directly from the web and include them in a live chat session, bring together AIM, GTalk, MSN and Yahoo! For the moment you can upload photos only in Flickr, but Pascal told me that they plan to add more photo sites, if so, this could become a better service than Oosah, (also launched during Web 2.0).

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Microsoft walks away from Yahoo

post from Ubergizmo on 05 May 2008 03:01:51 AM. © Ubergizmo

Microsoft walks away from Yahoo

Microsoft and Yahoo could not come to terms with an agreement, and hence the former has walked away from the idea of purchasing the latter to end months' long speculation and drama amongst tech watchers. I think the biggest winner from all of this would be Google, as they will still see their two competitors as fragmented camps who won't have the fight in them to overhaul the Palo Alto startup in the long run. Show's over, folks, and everything remains to status quo until one of them folds up due to competitive pressures.

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Popcorn Hour A-100 up for Pre-Order

post from Ubergizmo on 05 May 2008 02:59:07 AM. © Ubergizmo

Popcorn Hour A-100 up for Pre-Order

The Popcorn Hour A-100 network media player can now be pre-ordered.

Popcorn Hour A-100 allows you to pull in digital video, audio and photos from various sources for your enjoyment on your HDTV or Home Theater setup. You can stream or playback your digital media content from a variety of sources, such as your PC, NAS, digital camera, USB mass storage devices (Flash drive, HDD, DVD drive) , internal HDD and even directly from the Internet via the Media Service Portal. It also serves as a NAS and a BitTorrent peer-to-peer downloader to eliminate the need to switch on a PC or other device for this purpose. The Popcorn Hour A-100 supports the latest high bitrate video formats (MPEG2 MP@HL, H.264 HP@L4.1, VC-1 AP@L3 in TS of at least 40Mbps) to give you up to 1080p high-definition videos. The A-100 firmware is upgradeable to support future media containers, codecs and features.

This nifty box will retail for $179, and it ought to be worth looking into if you're a home entertainment buff!

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Samsung Slash heads for Virgin Mobile

post from Ubergizmo on 05 May 2008 02:56:24 AM. © Ubergizmo

Samsung Slash heads for Virgin Mobile

Virgin Mobile will be offering the new Samsung Slash, bringing an extremely lightweight phone that weighs a mere 3 ounces while measuring 3.8" x 1.8" x 0.7". It will feature Bluetooth connectivity, a color display, voice dialing, Web access and a talk time of 3.5 hours at best. Other specifications are still kept under lock and key, including availability and pricing. As the age old adage goes - good things come to those who wait, so that's just about all we can do at the moment.

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HTC Touch Diamond set to Sparkle

post from Ubergizmo on 05 May 2008 02:53:28 AM. © Ubergizmo

HTC Touch Diamond set to Sparkle

You could say that the upcoming HTC Touch Diamond is the crown jewel from HTC's camp, featuring delicious specifications as shown below :-

2.8" VGA display
Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional
WiFi and Bluetooth 2.0 connectivity
GPS navigation
Integrated FM tuner
Quad-band HSDPA 7.2
4GB internal flash memory
microSD memory card slot
528MHz processor
3.2 megapixel camera with autofocus

No idea on whether it will come with a QWERTY keyboard or not, but this looks set to be another highly desirable piece of electronics to own. Sigh - if only I made more money.

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MvixUSA Launches MV-2500U Portable Media Player
Stateside

post from Gizmos for Geeks on 05 May 2008 02:50:06 AM. © Gizmos for Geeks

MvixUSA is launching the very portable MV-2500U media player in the US. The MV-2500U can hold a 2.5″ ATA hard drive (up to 250GB) and is about the size of a PDA. The MV-2500U has most of the features of the MX series (760 and 780) and even comes with an IR remote control.In case [...]

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A Weekend of Making

post from Jeremy Toeman's LIVEdigitally on 05 May 2008 02:41:47 AM. © Jeremy Toeman's LIVEdigitally

Overall (with one glaring exception, which I’ll write about tomorrow), it was a great weekend down in San Mateo for the 2008 Maker Faire. As far as events go, it’s almost the anti-CES. Instead of expensive, polished booths, most exhibits were on foldout tables. Instead of a team of well-trained booth staffs, the [...]

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Sidekick Aspen/Gekko Screenshot

I have a very strong feeling that the Sidekick Aspen/Gekko will be the same handset, but am not quite sure just which name will T-Mobile bank on (no pun intended) in order to rake in the dough as customers sign up. Gekko might be the better choice, considering its catchy sound and flirting with the ability of the device to change colors. This will probably be the follow up to the Sidekick iD which was released quite a fair bit back, and will feature a similar display and features to that of the LX. No iea on how much it will cost, but it will be cheaper compared to the Sidekick LX.

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Brother DCP 560-CN

post from GadgetSpeak - Member reviews, blogs and forums on 05 May 2008 02:21:00 AM. © GadgetSpeak - Member reviews, blogs and forums

This is a small All In One unit, meaning it can scan, copy and print. It has a small TFT screen so it is possible to print images direct from either of the two card slots or even from a USB stick.[...]

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Digital Foci Image Moments 8

Image Moments 8, as you can tell, is an 8" digital photo frame from Digital Foci that boasts advanced LED backlight technology which is better than standard TFT LCD displays, and a whopping 450MB of internal memory - now that's something you don't see everyday as most other manufacturers will just throw you memory card slots and that's that. Other features include :-

Auto-start for slideshows
8" SVGA (800 x 600) LCD display
500:1 contrast ratio
Adapter Ring design for custom framing options
450MB internal memory
Supports CF, SD/SDHC, MMC, Memory Stick, MS PRO, xD, and MS Duo/MS PRO Duo memory card formats

The Image Moments 8 will retail for $200 a pop.

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