Fresh from its acquistion by RIM back in December, The Astonishing Tribe (TaT) has started to detail some of the applications and features they have been involved with for BlackBerry devices. At this years Mobile World Congress, the BlackBerry Blog team caught up with the guys at TaT to look at what its designers had Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : The Next Web Discovery Date : 16/02/2011 14:09 Number of articles : 4
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Images via Greendix I have to admit, I love this concept. Most solar chargers are pretty boring. Yes, the more functional and compact-but-efficient, the better. But this whimsical design by Greendix looks really fun and useful. It is geared toward iPhones and so is of course a white apple, but with lovely solar-powered leaves. I can easily see it resting in the sunny window of every fanboy apartment. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Think for a second, what major consumer electronics company doesn’t have a tablet to show? Right, Sony. In fact, the rumor womb has been conspicuously barren of salacious Sony tablet tattle ever since Apple’s iPad was announced back in 2010. Oh sure, Sony’s owned-up to the development of prototypes that fill a ” very important position ” somewhere in between its own Vaio PC lineup and the Xperia Play byproduct of its Ericsson commingling. But beyond that: zilch, nada… until today. We have a couple of tablets we’d like to tell you about, starting with a 9.4-inch honeypot of an Android 3.0 tablet. Details of which have been confirmed by two highly trusted and independent sources. Known by its “S1″ codename internally, Sony is busy customizing Matias Duarte’s Honeycomb interface to its own specification. Although, we’re skeptical of Sony’s software capabilities, we’ve been assured that Sony’s work is cutting edge stuff created by a talented engineering team spanning Sony’s VAIO, Reader , PlayStation, and Sony Ericsson product groups. The team is lead by the VAIO organization but will probably launch as a Sony product without VAIO branding, according to one source. Sony’s custom-built transitions and UI elements have created a user experience that rivals and at times improves upon the iPad’s renowned experience. The tablet itself, we’re told, is 100 percent focused on Qriocity , Sony’s music, games, ebooks, and videos on demand service that’s just been launched in Europe. It comes preloaded with Sony PS One games, a Bravia Media Remote , and yes, PlayStation integration — though it’s unclear if that’ll be limited to Remote Play or if the Android tablet will be PlayStation Suite certified . One source speculates that it could very well get the PlayStation gaming seal of approval by the time it ships — but that’s just an educated guess. So what about that curvaceous mockup above? A design described to us as “beautiful, the best thing” one source has ever seen from Sony. Click through the break and we’ll explain. Continue reading Exclusive: Sony ‘S1′ brings Qriocity to 9.4-inch Honeycomb tablet Exclusive: Sony ‘S1′ brings Qriocity to 9.4-inch Honeycomb tablet originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 16 Feb 2011 08:59:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …It’s not exactly the most surprising news of the day: Borders is filing for bankruptcy protection and will shutter about 30% of its stores—or about 200 locations—over the next few weeks. The 40-year-old company, which has struggled in the face of competition from Amazon, the Kindle, and deep-discounters…
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[MWC 2011 - SAMSUNG Mobile] Enhanced Mobile Enterprise Solutions Demonstration ARM at MWC 2011 – HTC Acer Iconia Smart at MWC 2011 MWC 2011 : Asus Windows Phone 7 Device Still Under Consideration … MWC 2011 : Asus Windows Phone 7 Device Still Under Consideration; Carrier to be the. In an interview at the MWC, Asus corporate vice president Benson Lin has made it clear that since Asus was skeptical about the success of WP7 device due … MWC 2011 Update: GSMA-Neustar, NAVTEQ, RCS, IVONA, Gfk NIS, SPB TV … The GSMA and Neustar, a company that provides carriers and enterprises with solutions for sending calls, messages, and content across networks worldwide, MWC 2011 : VMware and LG Demonstrated Virtualized Android OS [Video] At Mobile World Congress 2011, VMware and LG’s virtualized Android OS demo. The speed of the transition from the owner’s OS to the virtualized OS is nothing short of amazing considering it’s all running from the device’s SD card. MWC 2011 : Nokia Plan B Proposed Amid CEO's MWC Announcement of … A few disgruntled Nokia shareholders and former employees are challenging the latest partnership with Microsoft, saying that Nokia might turn into just another OEM delivering low-margin products. Instead, it wants to revamp the board of … MWC 2011 :Orange Roll Out Contactless Payments In UK, Spain, France … Orange will be implementing NFC payments and releasing NFC-enabled handsets throughout 2011. SheldonW says: RT @t3dotcom : #mwc2011 has been as much about tablets as phones. Check out the best new arrivals: http://bit.ly/BestTabletsMWC2011
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US Army ignores rapes within the military and makes it difficult for victims to seek justice US Army-heroes Raping their own Coast Guard destroy Somali pirate vessel Coast Guard Helicopter | Flickr – Photo Sharing! Coast Guard Helicopter. … This photo belongs to. San Diego Shooter’s photostream (16273) · IMG_9797 · Guy plunges off a Sea Knight into the water · Coast Guard Helicopter · IMG_9557 · IMG_9785 … Russian coast guard denies shooting at Japanese fishing boat near … Last year on January 29, two Japanese fishing vessels entered Russia’s territorial waters off Kunashir Island and ignored warning shots from a Russian coast guard helicopter. As a result, the guards had to open direct fire at the … Coast Guard rescue | Flickr – Photo Sharing! Coast Guard rescue. … This photo belongs to. San Diego Shooter’s photostream (16273). Newest photo →; Tip to tip · Coast Guard rescue · E-2 Hawkeye · IMG_9596. This photo also appears in. Parade of Flight – Coronado, San… (Set) … Coast Guard conducts medevac off St. Paul | Coast Guard News JUNEAU, Alaska – A Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak based MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew forward-deployed on St. Paul Island conducted a medevac of a 43-year-old male from the 124-foot fishing vessel Lilli Ann 120 miles southeast of St. … DHS agencies interdict 18 suspected migrants off Dana Point … SAN DIEGO – The coordinated efforts of the San Diego Maritime Unified Command (MUC) resulted in the apprehension of 18 suspected illegal migrants early Tuesday morning off the coast of Dana Point, Calif. The Coast Guard Cutter Haddock … Elizabeth_City says: Fair and 28 F at Elizabeth City Coast Guard Air Sta, NC Winds are Calm. The pressure is 1031.8 mb and the humidity is 9 http://s1z.us/sc.htm
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BUTNER, N.C. – Bernard Madoff said he never thought the collapse of his Ponzi scheme would cause the sort of destruction that has befallen his family. In his first interview for publication since his arrest in December 2008, Madoff maintained that family members knew nothing about his crimes. But during a private two-hour interview in a prison visitor room here yesterday, and in earlier e-mail exchanges, he asserted that unidentified banks and hedge funds were somehow “complicit” in his elaborate fraud, an about-face from earlier claims that he was…
Continue reading …The stylus isn’t dead: more pen-based tablets and apps coming this year
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HTC may have unleashed a completely unique Android tablet with an active digitizer and stylus yesterday, but more are on the way. At least that’s the word from N-Trig , the company responsible for the screen and pen technology in HTC’s Flyer as well as other convertible tablet PCs. According to the company’s VP of Business Development Lenny Englehardt, 7-, 9.7-, and 10-inch pen-equipped Android slates are coming in the next year from major manufacturers (sadly, he couldn’t share which ones). We went over a bit of the hardware technology yesterday and dug a bit into HTC’s pen-optimized Scribe software , but the big question on our mind has been third party Android applications that take advantage of the stylus. Well, it turns out there are quite a few of them in the works from the likes of Adobe and others. And yes, one of them includes handwriting conversion! We got a look at three of those forthcoming apps on N-Trig’s Tegra 2 development kit, which has the same screen / pen hardware as the Flyer — hit the break for our impressions and a video demo. Gallery: Android pen-based apps Continue reading The stylus isn’t dead: more pen-based tablets and apps coming this year The stylus isn’t dead: more pen-based tablets and apps coming this year originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 16 Feb 2011 08:33:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Baby Gorilla ‘Tiny’ Takes First Wobbly Steps and Stumbles at the London Zoo (Video)
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“Tiny” and his mother, Mjukuu, at the London Zoo. Image: The Telegraph . Staff and visitors at the London Zoo got a special Valentine’s Day treat that they’ve shared with the public in an awwww-inducing video: Witnessing the first steps (and frequent stumbles and face-flops) of a three-month-old gorilla, the first born at the zoo in 20 years…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …CBS correspondent Lara Logan, who was beaten and sexually assaulted by a mob in Cairo last Friday, is recovering and could leave the hospital to be reunited with her two young children as soon as today, sources tell the Daily Beast. Logan, who had been arrested and interrogated by the…
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