Color E-ink Display Pictured
March 19, 2010
Have we moved one step closer to color eBook readers? PVI, the company who makes the e-ink displays for Amazon’s Kindle, is now showing off its 6-inch and 9.7-inch color e-ink displays for eBook readers at a trade show in Shenzhen, China. The displays on demo are able to handle animated color clips, albeit the refresh rate of the display was far from good decent to handle video. PVI has already shown the screens to Amazon and Barnes & Noble, though there wasn’t any confirmation as to whether it will be used for future eBook readers. These color screens obviously consume more energy than the monochrome e-ink displays, but it’s still less than the energy consumption of LCD panels. PVI is predicting mass production of these displays to start in Q4 of 2010. Will the next generation of eBook readers sport color e-ink displays?
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Windows Phone 7 Series Video Advert Surfaces
March 18, 2010
You’ve seen those Windows Phone 7 Series phones on demo at SXSW, and now the first Windows Phone 7 Series video advertisement has presented! Check out the video after the jump. Who can resist Windows Phone 7 Series when you’ve got happy music playing in the video, eh?
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Windows Phone 7 Demo at SXSW
March 18, 2010
Editor's note about the Video: the demo was done on a vertical monitor, I shot it in portrait, you may have to turn you screen to watch it more comfortably.
[SXSW] Microsoft launched Windows Phone 7 at MWC in Barcelona and we saw the demo there, yesterday, the Microsoft representative at SXSW showed me a demo and I videotaped it, so, you can check it out. Windows Phone 7 is still in beta mode and the user interface is similar to the Zune HD's one is based on tiles that are visually appealing and friendly to the fingers. I like the design and the ease of use, the organization of the users' goods with tiles and "hubs" brings most of the user's notes access at the top level (the phone home page).
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Samsung Confirms WP7 Device Was Omnia HD, But OS Upgrades Aren’t Confirmed
March 17, 2010
Do you remember the Windows Phone 7 Series device that was shown off at Mix 2010 by Microsoft? Well, it turns out that initial suspicions were true, and the device is really an Omnia HD, albeit slightly modified. The phone was apparently upgraded to a multi-touch WVGA display with a 1GHz chip powering it for the demo. It’s worth noting that the original Omnia HD had the mandatory three buttons, but they were originally for calling, menu, and exit, while the labels were changed to Start, Search and Back during Microsoft’s presentation. That being said, there wasn’t any confirmation of the Omnia HD being able to be upgraded to Microsoft’s upcoming mobile OS, but considering that the device during the demo was a modified version of the Omnia HD, chances certainly seem slim that you’ll be able to upgrade your phone’s OS to Windows Phone 7 Series.
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Alcatel-Lucent New API Bundles for Developers
March 12, 2010
Picture: the Alcatel-Lucent Dashboard launched at MWC, picture with new features coming soon
[SXSW] Alcatel-Lucent today announced the packaged API (Application Programming Interfaces) bundles, and an associated revenue sharing model that eliminates upfront costs for developers and offers new revenue streams for service providers. Additionally, a new business and application modeling tool has been released; it allows developers to get the most out of their applications, according to the company. I am not a developer and I have not seen the bundles or the tool, whether you are a developer attending SXSW, go to the “Eleven API Lounge” of the Hilton Hotel, (directly across from the Austin Convention Center): Alcatel-Lucent will demo its new offering, which is part of its developer platform and program. More info about the new product after the jump.
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VirtuSphere On Demo At GDC
March 12, 2010
We’ve brought your attention to the VirtuSphere some instance ago, but that was before it was ready to be shown to the general public. Now you can actually check out the VirtuSphere as it was demoed at the GDC (Game Developers Conference). In case you’re wondering what all that is about, the VirtuSphere is a virtual reality control device, which allows the user inside it to control his game character by walking (literally) in the VirtuSphere. Since the user is plus wearing a visor that controls the camera’s view as the player looks around, you’ll feel even more immersed in the game you’re playing. A video (available after the jump) shows the VirtuSphere in action.
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Sobees For SXSW and MIX10
March 12, 2010
[SXSW] I saw Sobees for the first instance at DEMO 09, it is a social sites networks aggregator that looked pretty good when I saw the demo, it offered a monetization model via sort sponsorship. Today, the company launched Sobees for SXW and MIX10: the Sobees event applications aggregate Flickr photo stream, Google news, Twitter real day search, the official RSS feed from the event, the official Twitter messages from the event, your personal Twitter and Facebook accounts. Sobees partnered with Salsadev.com to supply the trending keywords within each conference, allowing to refine the search and finding news, photos and tweets related to the trending topics at SXSW and MIX10.
You can try the applications here (Silverlight 3 working on Macs and PCs for most browsers):
- <a href="http://sxsw.sobees.comhttp://sxsw.sobees.com</li>
- http://mix10.sobees.com
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