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Dual-Screen, Keyboarded Android Tablets Coming To Japan From NEC [VIDEO]


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We got a few minutes to tour a couple brand new products from NEC that are destined to hit the shores of Japan for too long. The first Android tablet you see demoed has dual-screens with special multi-tasking features built-in while the second device is essentially an Android netbook/laptop. The latter will be out this week while the former is coming in the next couple months – both in Japan.

NEC hopes to gain popularity with these tablets and offer them in Europe and the United States, but I have to question that possibility. After seeing the XOOM, Optimus Pad, and Galaxy S2, I simply dont see the point in buying any type of Android Tablet that is running 2.X.

Android 3.0 is optimized for tablets and you can tell – most of the Android 2.X tablets are buggy, glitchy, underpowered, and the next generation is already arriving. Manufacturers would be smart to shelve any tablets they’ve got running Android 2.X and immediately begin working on launching products with Android 3.0 if they want to seriously compete.

And of course, the idea is to get AHEAD of the curve, so perhaps focusing on Android 3.0 isn’t enough. Maybe they should be working on Android 3.X and beyond… and in that case it’s a matter of getting enough access.



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Review: Blurts Pro – SMS from your PC


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Have you ever found yourself sitting in a meeting, conference, class, or at home with your computer when your BlackBerry goes off but you can’t pick it up even when the urge is so strong it can’t be controlled? Wouldn’t it be great if you could screen your incoming texts and emails without leaving the comfort of your chair and still feed your BlackBerry addiction? Now you can with Blurts Pro.

As a regional winner of the BlackBerry Super Apps challenge, Blurts Pro by MLH Software is a device and windows application that displays pop-up alerts via luetooth for phone calls (Caller-ID), SMS, PIN messages, and emails on your desktop. It comes in a free Caller-ID version and a paid for Pro version which not only allows you to view alerts but place phone calls, capture screen images, and copy your clipboard to and from your BlackBerry and PC. 

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Get your Valentine’s Day groove on with some love song stations from Slacker Radio


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Valentine’s Day is rapidly approaching and what a better way to get you into the mood than by listening to some sweet sweet love tunes on Slacker Radio. So when you’re ready to get your groove thing on, fire up the Slacker Radio app on your BlackBerry and check out these stations:

If you’re not sure what Slacker Radio is, or if you’d just like a refresher on what it has to offer and how it works, check out this Slacker Radio review.

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From the Lab: How we test hard drives


From the Lab: How we test hard drives We at Macworld are always looking to improve and streamline our product testing, and as hard drives boast bigger storage capacity and increasingly faster transfer times, our editors and interns at Macworld are updating the way we test these devices in our labs




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Aeternum from BBThemes – A beautiful and simple theme for your BlackBerry, on sale now!


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Aeternum is a gorgeous new BlackBerry theme from BBThemes. This classy blend of grey icons with black underlays and purple backgrounds and highlights have a very rich feel and instantly make your BlackBerry feel luxurious. Aeternum utilizes the standard layout of your device, with either a ZEN layout for OS5 devices and below, or the BlackBerry 6 layout for devices running BlackBerry 6. I really love the new message indicator (it’s a star!) and the profiles icon is awesome too, resembling an equalizer. Aeternum is compatible with quite a few BlackBerry smartphones on OS 4.6-6.0. Normally priced at $3.99, you can pick it up this month for just $1.99 at the link below!

Compatible devices

  • 9800 OS6
  • 9780 OS6
  • 9700 OS5 and OS6
  • 9670 OS6
  • 9650 OS5 and OS6
  • 9630 OS4.7 and OS5
  • 9300 / 9330 OS5 and OS6
  • 9100 / 9105 OS5 and OS6
  • 8900 OS4.6 and OS5
  • 8520 / 8530 OS5
  • 8520 OS4.6

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System Dump from HTC Inspire 4G Made Available


Nothing gets the developer community hopping more than the system dump of a new, high-profile phone. Well, fans of the HTC Inspire 4G will be happy to know that its system dump has just been made available. The new version of HTC Sense is included in this, and the report is that there’s not a lot of the AT&T “bloatware” that is so common with so many phones. Developers, or anyone planning to purchase an Inspire and do any hacking, should really look into grabbing this download from Android Central.

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FedEx Office Print and Go now available – Print documents from your BlackBerry


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A while back we told you that FedEx would be partnering with HP to create a mobile printing solution whereby anyone could print at public locations Worldwide from their BlackBerry smartphone using cloud-based technology. Well the wait is finally over. FedEx just announced that FedEx Office Print & Go is now live at over 1,600 participating locations with more to come later this year. This will allow BlackBerry users to print PowerPoint, Word, Adobe pdf files, etc. directly from their BlackBerry with a press of a button.

To get started, all you need to do is install the HP ePrint application to your device. It adds a nice little Print option to your BlackBerry menu that be accessed from your email, docs2go, or when viewing an image. Next, follow these simple steps: Click print, locate the nearest participating print center (using your device’s GPS), send the document, get your retrieval code and input into the print and go machine, approve and print. It’s just that easy to do. This is definitely a must have application for anyone travelling or working remotely without access to a printer.

Are you constantly on the go and need to print in a hurry? If so, let us know what you think of this announcement in the comments below. The HP ePrint application is available for free for all BlackBerry devices running OS 4.5 and higher. Keep reading for the full press release. Thanks Dave!

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LG Weather Widget from Optimus 2X Extracted, Available for Download


The weather widget in the new LG Optimus 2X is pretty slick. It has gotten a lot of attention, but sadly was tied specifically into that one phone, and LG never made it available for public consumption. However, XDA-Developers member Sony_Ericsson_X10 has found a way to pull the correct .apk file out of the Optimus 2X system dump files to make it work on any Android phone. The only caveat, as he mentions, is that default behavior is to take up the entire homescreen, so it’ll take a custom launcher like LauncherPro to resize the widget to take up only half — as seen in the picture above. If you’re looking for a new (pretty!) weather widget, head over to XDA and give it a try. Let us know your thoughts!

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Honeycomb Easter Egg: a Bee From Tron?


Remember the weird zombie painting that was hidden away in Gingerbread? Turns out the Android team has hidden a similar Easter Egg in Honeycomb, and it’s already been found by folks digging around in the SDK preview released today. If you have the means to get 3.0 running in the emulator, you can find the image you see above by going to the About Phone settings and repeatedly hitting Android Version.

Presumably the same will hold true once you get your hands on a real Honeycomb-powered tablet. In the mean time, if you’re like me, this will become your phone’s wallpaper right away.

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BlackBerry Curve 3G 9330 and Bold 9650 OTA update available from Verizon?


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*Update: Looks like this may be the case for Bold 9650 users as well. Make sure you’re running the last official OS from Verizon and see if the update is available to you.

A few users have been reporting in today and it looks like OS 6 may be on the way down the pipeline from Verizon. Justin snagged us this screencap of his 9330 where it looks like OS 6.0.0.431 is available for an OTA update. Still no sign of OS 6 on Verizon’s download site, but it’s not unlike them to make the wireless update option available ahead of time. If you have a 9330 and are running an official OS, head to the wireless update option and let us know if it’s showing for you. Thanks Justin!

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Official OS 6.0.0.431 DM files now available for the BlackBerry Curve 3G 9330 and Blackberry Bold 9650 from Verizon


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As expected, Verizon has now posted up the Desktop Manager install files for those of you with either a BlackBerry Bold 9650 or a BlackBerry Curve 3G 9330. You can head on over to to the Verizon Wireless website and grab the downloads if you never got the OTA install. Of course, if you’re running a previously leaked version then you can simply pass this one over.

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Correction from Motorola: No Plans for MOTOBLUR on the XOOM


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After word that the Motorola XOOM tablet might be getting MotoBlur hit the internet to the dismay of Google Experience fans everywhere, Motorola has reached out to us to set the record straight. The XOOM was developed alongside Google to optimize the tablet and Honeycomb’s working relationship. Motorola is calling it a “Google Experience Device” and says there are no plans for MOTOBLUR to find its way to the tablet.

We aren’t sure what that European rep was referencing when he said a future update might bring the custom UI to the XOOM, but thankfully there isn’t a lick of truth to it.



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Trapster Suffers from Hacker Attack, Your Info Might Be in Danger


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Trapster is a free app that alerts you as you approach speed traps, red lights, and speed cameras as well as other user submitted content. Boasting more then 9 million active subscribers, it helps to keep us all informed of what’s going on on our roadways. It is a very useful service, especially if you live in a larger city.

Sadly, the ever present destructive hacker community has managed to get into their system and flub-ix everything up. Trapster has announced that all user e-mails and Trapster passwords may have been compromised. Here is the official statement from Trapster:

“The Trapster team has recently learned that our website has been the target /> of a hacking attempt, and it is possible that your email address and password were compromised.  We have taken, and continue to take, preventative measures to avoid future incidents but we are recommending that you change your Trapster password.  As always, Trapster recommends that you use distinctive passwords for each site you visit, but if you use the same password on Trapster that you use on other services, we recommend that you change your password on those services as well.”

If you happen to be a loyal Trapster subscriber , you better take the precautionary approach and get that password changed immediately. If you had Trapster at some point, I would also recommend changing your e-mail password. Often times people stick to the same password for everything and this move could be detrimental to your e-mail account or any other service they could hack into.

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Kongregate Arcade pulled from the Android Market


Yesterday we reported that the Kongregate Arcade, an app that brings over 300 gaming titles to your Android phone straight from the developers websites, was available on the Android Market. Well, today we are reporting that Google has removed the app from the Android Market.

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Kongregate Pulled from the Market One Day after Release For Violation of Developer Distribution Agreement


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We hear almost regularly of Google pulling certain Android apps from the Market. Though they generally are pirated wares and malicious programs, every once in a blue moon a big name app will get the axe, as was the case with Kongregate. Kongregate, if you recall, just reached the Market yesterday along with 300+ Flash-based games in tow. As the Android Developers Distribution agreement doesn’t allow for the distribution of apps that link to downloads of other apps — and as someone working on the Kongregate app either overlooked or ignored — it has been yanked right out from under our collective nose.

All is not lost, however. Just because the app isn’t allowed to be moved through the Android Market doesn’t mean it isn’t perfectly fine to distribute through other channels. The app can still be downloaded from Kongregate’s website and installed on your phone manually, so all is not lost this time.

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Acer: Moving from Laptops to Tablets?


Taiwanese computer maker Acer is phasing out its netbooks with new Android tablets, due in the first half of 2011. According to a Computerworld report they will use Intel’s new Sandy Bridge processors and run the Android OS. The largest will have a 10-inch screen, according to Acer’s Taiwan sales manager, Lu Bing-hsian.

Acer will keep making netbooks, but it will stick to simple models and manufacture fewer, as tablets gain popularity, he said. The tablets will run faster than Windows laptops and use a four-core Intel processor. The new tablets will be aimed for “common users” with the same kind of computing needs once serve by netbooks. The company has not revealed any other product details.

Sprint’s Wi-Fi BlackBerry PlayBook tablet is expected in March, with Sprint launching a WiMAX version later this year. AT&T is also prepping a 3G version of the PlayBook to launch in late March or early April, with an LTE variant available sometime after AT&T starts building it out — in the 2nd half of 2011.

Chinese manufacturer Quanta Computers will ship around 1 million Blackberry Playbook tablets for RIM and 700,000 to 800,000 Motorola XOOM Tablets in the first quarter of 2011, says DigiTimes. Most vendors plan to ship more than 700,000 tablets every quarter, says Digitimes. Compal Electronics expects to ship 3.8 million tablet PCs in 2011, according to company president and CEO Ray Chen, adding global tablet PC sales in 2011 will reach 60 million units, 70-75% of which will be iPads.

Gartner lowered its projection for worldwide PC shipments in 2010 to 352.4 million units, a 14.3 percent increase from last year. Gartner previously projected shipments to grow by 17.9 percent. The emergence of new devices such as tablets and the weak economic outlook contributed to Gartner’s decision to revise its forecasts. Tablets could displace around 10 percent of PC units by 2014, according to Gartner.

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TweetCaster 2.6 brings Zip-it feature – gets rid of unwanted tweets from follows


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Sometimes it’s very difficult to get the news or information you want out of Twitter, especially when you’re following hundreds of people or groups. Really, that much information just makes you want to skim, missing alot of content that you may, or may not find interesting. So how do you get rid of the “junk” you know you don’t care about without having to “unfollow” someone or groups?

TweetCaster has thought of that as well. The new feature of TweetCaster (version 2.6) now allows you to mute user, trend (#hashtag) or keyword. This can drastically reduce the amount of “junk” you may get in your feeds and timelines, thus making it easier to digest all that information coming to you from your follows.

Here’s a list of other features currently in TweetCaster for Android;

  • Zip It – zip annoying tweeters or trends from your timeline without unfollowing
  • Instapaper support – Save long stories to Instapaper to read later
  • Color code tweets – Choose a custom color for your tweets and @replies
  • Simultaneously post to Twitter and Facebook
  • Multiple Twitter account support
  • Multiple widgets
  • Retweet with or without comment
  • Twitlonger service
  • Conversation thread view
  • Twitter lists
  • Customized Twitter notifications

There is a Free version and a “pro” version for $3.99. the only difference is that the paid version has no ads. Take that for what you find it worth. Regardless, the “Zip-it” feature now in 2.6 is worth a try on your Android device. Scan the QR below, or click here for more information from our Apps database.

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OverDrive Lets You Download eBooks and Audiobooks From Your Local Library and More


OverDrive, a distributor of popular ebooks and audiobooks has released their media console application for Android devices.  The app allows you to download digital content to your device from over 30,000 libraries, schools and universities, including local libraries near you.  OverDrive also states that they are currently working on a version of their app for tablets.  Currently, the  application is on version 2.0 and supports the following features:

  • Read Adobe® EPUB eBooks.
  • Find libraries using the new ‘Get Books’ feature.
  • Listen to MP3 Audiobooks.

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Cleveland, OH, Jan. 4, 2011 – OverDrive (www.overdrive.com ), the leading global distributor of eBooks, audiobooks, and digital content to libraries and schools, has released apps for iPhone® and Android™ that enable users to download library eBooks and audiobooks directly to their devices for the first time. The free apps include a “Get Books” feature that guides users to their local library’s digital catalog of best-selling and new release titles, allowing them to easily browse, check out, and download with just their device. More than 13,000 public libraries, schools, colleges, and universities now offer eBook and audiobook downloads via OverDrive, including institutions in the US, UK, Australia, Canada, and nine other countries. Read More…

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Google Dropping H-264 from Chrome


Google’s Chromium Blog states they are changing Chrome’s HTML5 <video> support to make it consistent with the codecs already supported by the open Chromium project.

Most Web video today uses Adobe’s Flash plug-in, which uses H.264 or other codecs. HTML5 has built-in support for video. Google is supporting the “open” WebM (VP8) and Theora video codecs, and will consider adding support for other high-quality open codecs in the future.

Though H.264 plays an important role in video, as our goal is to enable open innovation, support for the codec will be removed and our resources directed towards completely open codec technologies. These changes will occur in the next couple months but we are announcing them now to give content publishers and developers using HTML <video> an opportunity to make any necessary changes to their sites.


TechCrunch wonders how Google get away with dropping support for H-264 under the guise of “open” when baked into their browser is Flash, an un-open plug-in?

The only time Chrome ever fails or has performance issues is due to Flash. And because they bake it in, you have no choice but to live with it or manually disable it (which most users have no idea how to do, obviously). Anyway, Google’s stance is essentially that they bake it in for security and performance purposes.

Flash is a huge security risk in web browsers because flaws are not only found often but the patches take a lot time to matriculate to users — if they ever do. That’s because users are forced to install updates. Of course, that’s one big problem with being a plug-in in the first place rather than a standard part of the browser itself. So Google thought they could solve this problem just auto-updating Flash within Chrome

How can Google justify dropping support for H.264, but not Flash (which also uses H.264 for video)? Simple, Adobe is also one of the WebM partners and will support WebM technologies inside Flash. Yup, Flash is siding with Google on this one.

One of the big backers of H.264 is Google’s ever-growing rival, Apple. More specifically, the technology is front and center to much of what iOS has to offer.

The key point is that it’s fine if Google wants to take this stand for open. But to do so, they need to do it across the board. And that includes dropping Flash from Chrome just like they’re dropping H.264.


H.264/AVC is widely supported in video cameras, Blu-ray players, and many other devices. But it comes with significant royalty licensing fees, explains C/Net. MPEG LA made H.264 free to use for video that’s streamed for free, but other fees exist for those using the technology in products.

Trend Micro Chairman Steve Chang says “open” is less secure. Speaking to Bloomberg yesterday he said, “Android is open-source, which means the hacker can also understand the underlying architecture and source code.” Apple, he said, has been “very careful about it. It’s impossible for certain types of viruses” to run on the company’s iPhone.

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Google Dropping H.264 Codec from Chrome Browser [Updated]


Google has rather nonchalantly dropped a bombshell on the web — future versions of the Chrome browser will no longer support the popular H.264 video codec. Instead Google is throwing its hat in with Firefox and Opera, choosing to support the open, royalty-free WebM codec.

Google says the move is meant to “enable open innovation” on the web by ensuring that web video remains royalty-free. While H.264 is widely supported and free for consumers, sites encoding videos — like YouTube — must pay licensing fees to the MPEG Licensing Association, which holds patents on AVC/H.264

Prior to Google’s announcement, the web video codec battle was evenly split — Firefox and Opera supported the open Ogg and WebM codecs, while Safari and Internet Explorer supported H.264. Google took the egalitarian path and supported all three codecs.

Google’s move away from H.264 makes sense given that Google is already heavily invested in WebM. In fact, the only reason the WebM codec exists is because Google purchased On2, the creators of the VP8 codec. Once Google acquired the underlying code it turned around and released VP8 as the open source WebM project.

There’s been considerable outcry from developers concerned that they now need to support two video codecs to get HTML5 video working on their sites. However, given that Firefox — which has a significantly greater market share than Google’s Chrome browser — was never planning to support the H.264 codec, developers were always going to need to support both codes for their sites to work across browsers.

Google’s decision to drop H.264 from Chrome does raise some questions though. For instance, Android also ships with H.264 and so far Google hasn’t made any announcement regarding the future of H.264 on the Android platform. One of the reasons H.264 has become so popular is that the codec enjoys robust hardware support across devices — whether it’s desktop PCs, mobile devices or set top boxes. While WebM has made some strides in hardware acceleration since it was originally released, it still lags well behind H.264. At least for now it seems that Android most likely needs to continue supporting H.264.

The move also raises questions about YouTube, still the largest video site on the web. Currently the site serves H.264 videos to most browsers, whether through the HTML5 version of the site or using the Flash Player. It seems obvious that Google must be hard at work converting the site to use WebM, but will it continue to support H.264 for those browsers and devices that don’t support the WebM codec? So far Google hasn’t made any announcements regarding YouTube and H.264.

Critics of Google’s decision to drop H.264 support in Chrome point out that Chrome ships with Flash, which, like H.264, is not really an open web technology. Indeed it would seem hypocritical for Google to dump some closed tools while keeping others, but, in Chrome’s defense, Flash is well entrenched in the web and ditching it really isn’t practical. Rather Google’s decision seems to be pragmatic — the company is in a position to take a stand on video codecs and it is doing so before H.264 becomes as entrenched as Flash.

[Google did not respond to a request for comment on this article. A Google Spokesperson tells Webmonkey that the announcement is related to "Chrome only and does not affect Android or YouTube." Presumably both will continue to offer H.264 support. As for Flash, the Spokeperson says, the Chrome announcement "is about the importance we place on open technologies being the foundation of the emerging web platform moving forward." In other words, dropping Flash support isn't practical.]

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Videos of Google TV Bypassing network blocks, installing apps from the side and the Android Market


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Everyone has been patiently waiting for Google to work out their issues with the TV and online media networks and provide updates that will give us access to the Android Market so we can all experience the full potential of the Google TV platform.  That hasn’t been good enough for a group of users over at GTVHacker.com who have been working day and night to try and break into the Logitech Revue box and gain root to work around the current limitations.  A few days ago they posted that they had managed to root the Logitech Revue box by soldering a few wires and attaching a serial device.

While the solution they found is not something that the everyday user is able to achieve, and we certainly caution anyone who wants to try this at home, they have rooted the device, found a way to bypass the blocks the online media sites have imposed and also side loaded the Android Market application.

The hack is known a the BreakVue hack and they are currently working on a release package to go along with the hack that will significantly increase the functionality of any Logitech Revue Google TV box.

Will all this trickery going on, they have recorded some videos of the device doing much more than it’s supposed to and shared this with everyone on YouTube.

The first video shows a few of the applications they have installed, including the Android Market which is still not working correctly in this video:


 

The next video shows the bypass system they have been working on to give access to the sites that are currently blocking access to any Google TV devices.  The site they are demonstrating is Hulu.

 

 

The final video is more of an overview of all the functionality they have managed to achieve so far with some pretty annoying overlay music:

 

 

If you enjoyed these videos, be sure to check out GTVHacker.com to find out the latest status, issues and guides for getting the most of your hacked Google TV box.

Now lets just hope someone gets going on the Sony products and gives us the same functioality as these guys have done with the Logitech Revue with Google TV.

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Win and Energizer Energi to Go USB Charger from Streamly.TV


As our live coverage from the CES floor continues with our partners at Streamly.TV, we want to give some love back to the viewers who have been tuning in every day faithfully to watch our live stream!  Today Streamly.tv is going to be giving away an Energizer Energi To Go USB emergency cell phone charger!

Winning is simple, just watch the live CES stream on our site here at Android Guys.  Some time during the broadcast, the Streamly team is going to be giving you a phrase to tweet out with a mention to @streamlytv, from there they will pick a winner from people who tweet the phrase out!

The stream is live at various points all day today, make sure to to tune in to win!

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WHDI: Wireless TV Connection from Tablets


WHDI, the organization responsible for managing the Wireless Home Digital Interface standard, announced today that, together with technology supplier AMIMON, they will demonstrate new wireless products for PC-to-TV, Wireless HDTV, tablet, and mobile devicwes.

The WHDI standard delivers wireless 1080p 60Hz video (in a 40MHz channel in the 5GHz unlicensed band). The in-home wireless standard is designed for connecting HDTVs, and has a range of 100 feet (30 meters). It can even penetrate walls, enabling multi-room connections.

That’s something that the competing Wireless Gigabit Alliance (WiGig), cannot do as effectively since it uses the higher 60 GHz band.

At CES, Amimon will exhibit tablet designs from Gemtek, FIC and Malata, and will demonstrate mobile capabilities with a smartphone sleeve product from 35.com.

WHDI technology is said to enable wireless viewing on the TV of all PC content including Blu-Ray movies and DRM protected content and has multicast capabilities. In June 2010, WHDI announced an update to WHDI 1.0 which allows support for stereoscopic 3D.

Competing 60 GHz standards such as WirelessHD, 802.11ad, and 802.15.3c, and their possible coexistence, are analized in a new research paper by ABI Research.

  • WirelessHD is currently available in products using the unlicensed 60 GHz frequency band. Forty companies are promoters and adopters, including SiBeam and Broadcom. Its initial use-case is for streaming of HDTV signals within the home.
  • 802.11ad is the official IEEE standard in the 60 GHz band. It’s designed to ensure co-existence with legacy and future systems.
  • 802.15.3c is for Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPAN).
  • Quantenna’s Full-11n technology is said to deliver full HD video quality across distances of 100 feet or more, regardless of signal interferences and dead zones that exist in most residential environments. It uses the 5 GHz band.
  • The WHDI Consortium also uses the 5 GHz band. The company claims it can transmit HDTV about 100 feet at an effective 3 gigabits per second using a novel “compression” scheme. It claims it does not compress HDTV signals but uses a novel error compression scheme, not image compression.

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Video Quick Look: Google Nexus One Gingerbread ROM Ver.16 from MicroMod777


MicroMod777 Gingerbread ROM for Google Nexus One

MicroMod777 Gingerbread ROM for Google Nexus One

While I was browsing through the Google Nexus One XDA development section today looking for the latest Gingerbread ROMs to see what was available, the latest release from MicroMod777 caught my eye, the reason being the frequency at which he is releasing updates. It’s all very well having ROMs built on the latest and greatest Android OS release, but if it doesn’t get supported and worked on, it can get frustrating. This is even more true when we’re talking about cutting edge early releases such as Gingerbread or Android 2.3.  There are other Gingerbread ROMs available so be sure to go and check out all the forums for your phones and make sure you read the threads thoroughly before flashing these early release ROMs.  Cyanogen’s CM7 will be the next one for me to test.

MicroMod777 has been making updates and posting new releases almost on a daily basis, and from what I’ve seen, it seems to work very well. It appears that this ROM is based on the Gingerbread AOSP compiled by Chris Soyars with parts from the CyanogenMOD source.

This is by no means a full review of the ROM, but I hope it gives you a quick look at Gingerbread and a fully working version of Gingerbread for the Google Nexus One while we wait for the official OTA update to hit.

Are you running Gingerbread yet?  What do you think?

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