Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveils to public the latest innovation of Apple, the iPhone 4. The unveiling was made at the Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco. Jobs called the iPhone 4 the “thinnest smartphone on the planet.”
The iPhone 4, as rumored, is indeed featured a front-facing video camera, allowing people of make video calls to other iPhone users or to its sister Mac computers. Apple called this feature as FaceTime app, which requires a Wi-Fi connection.
iPhone 4 will be available for pre-ordering starting June 15. It will available to AT & T customers who avail of a two-year contract for the subsidized prices of $199 (16GB) and $299 (32GB). iPhone 4 will be initially be launched in U.S., U.K, Japan, France, and Germany.
Apart from the new features, the Apple CEO also unveiled as iOS 4.0 as the new name of the iPhone OS that powers the Apple handheld gadget like iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad.
The funny thing during the unveiling of the “thinnest smartphone on the planet,” and while Steve Jobs was again flaunting the beauty of his latest gadget and basking in the glow of the world’s attention, he encounters some technical difficulty during the iPhone demo.
Will the iPhone 4 can fend off Google’s Android, which has been gaining market share and winning the loyalty of consumers and developers?
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by admin, on Tue, Jun 8 2010 | 2 CommentsMicrosoft will pay VirnetX 200 million dollars to settle patent case
by admin, on Mon, May 17 2010 | No Comments
Microsoft is willing to pay VirnetX Holding Corp. 200 million dollars to settle patent infringement cases brought against the US software giant, the companies that was announced on Monday.
The settlement comes two months after a Texas jury awarded 105.75 million dollars to VirnetX after finding Microsoft guilty of infringing two patents held by the Scotts Valley, California-based company.
A joint statement said that as part of the settlement, Microsoft will obtain a license to the VirnetX patents for Microsoft’s products and the pending lawsuits will be dismissed.
VirnetX describes itself as a “secure real-time communications and collaboration technology company” with a patent portfolio “derived from a Central Intelligence Agency security project.”
Its products include software that provides a secure environment for real-time communications such as instant messaging.
“This successful resolution of our litigation with Microsoft will allow us to focus on the upcoming pilot system that will showcase VirnetX’s automatic Virtual Private Network technology,” VirnetX chief executive Kendall Larsen said.
Hugo Chavez: The Blogging President
by admin, on Wed, Mar 24 2010 | 1 Comment
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced his intent on spreading his ideology worldwide through the blogging. Chavez is also known for imposing socialist “revolution” on national radio and television.
On his weekly TV talk show “Alo Presidente,” he informed his nation that he will counter his ideology detractors through blogging. Pres. Chavez accused his detractors of disseminating lies about his government on their own web pages and Twitter accounts.
The Venezuelan President said: “Maybe I’ll reach millions, not only in Venezuela but in the world,”
“I am going to dig my own trench on the Internet,” he said, adding that the amount of information he intended to send out of the web would be a “bombardment” against his critics.
If and when the presidential blog is set up, it will add to the near-daily communications Chavez already makes over the airwaves and in print to his country of 27 million people.
The announcement deepened the unease of critics, who are concerned that Chavez’s recent moves to close opposition radio and television stations could broaden to an attempt to crack down on anti-Chavez posts on the Internet.
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Google Bought Picnik.com
by admin, on Mon, Mar 1 2010 | 1 Comment
The big Daddy of all dotcoms, Google.com announced that they had bought the Picnik.com. Picnik is a website that allows users to edit and store photos online. The site allows users to import photos from other services such as Picasa, Flickr, and Facebook.
In a blog post Picnik said it had 20 employees and receives millions of visitors a month. The financial details of the transaction were not disclosed.
Brian Axe, Google product management director, said in a blog post “Until recently, you had to edit your photos using client software on your computer. Today, we’re excited to announce that Google has acquired Picnik, one of the first sites to bring photo editing to the cloud.”
Brian Axe said Google would not be “announcing any significant changes to Picnik today, though we’ll be working hard on integration and new features.”
Furthermore, on the blog post of Picnik it says, “Under the Google roof we’ll reach more people than ever before, impacting more lives and making more photos more awesome.”
“Google processes petabytes of data every day, and with their worldwide infrastructure and world-class team, it is truly the best home we could have found,” Picnik said.
Google’s purchase of Picnik comes about three weeks after the Internet giant bought Aardvark, a “social search” service that relies on a user’s contacts to provide answers to questions.
Google chief executive Eric Schmidt said in a conference call with analysts in January that the Mountain View, California, company planned to acquire about one company a month this year.
You are Invited to Ask Question to NASA Astronauts via Twitter
by admin, on Sun, Feb 7 2010 | 1 Comment
Astronauts from outer space can now send steady stream of “tweets,” and NASA is inviting the public to ask questions to astronaut who are now in space via popular micro-blogging service the Twitter.
The US space agency said astronaut Mike Massimino at Mission Control in Houston, Texas, will relay questions submitted over the next few days to the crew of Endeavor.
They will be answered during a live 20-minute question-and-answer session beginning at 3:24 am (0824 GMT) on February 11 which will also be shown on the Web and on NASA Television, NASA said.
You can send your questions to astronaut Mike Massimino’s Twitter feed at @astro_Mike.
The Endeavor and its crew is scheduled to be off Sunday on a mission to the International Space Station, where two other astronauts, Timothy “TJ” Creamer, a NASA flight engineer, and Japan’s Soichi Noguchi, have been “tweeting” regularly.
The twitter accounts of two astronauts are @Astro_TJ for JJ Creamer’s and @Astro_Soichi for astronaut Soichi Noguchi.
Besides from the regular 140-character-or-less “tweets”, Noguchi has been using Twitpic to send spectacular pictures of Earth as seen from space, including views of Mount Kilimanjaro, Mount Fuji and other landmarks.
If remembered, TJ Creamer sent the first live “tweet” from space two weeks ago after getting a personal Web connection on the International Space Station.
Previous “tweets” from space were actually sent via email to the ground and support personnel posted them to Twitter accounts.
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