Archive for July, 2010 - Page 9

Mobile Video Communications System To Allow Eye Contact By Videoconference

Tokyo's University of Electro-Communications Develops Way To Make Eye Contact By Videoconference
Filed by on Thursday, 29. July 2010

There’s something to be said about the power of eye contact, or so the public speaking gurus say. It conveys emotion like nothing else, and instills trust and consensus, among a whole bunch of other things that most any business student has probably already heard at some point. So enter [...]

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Google Unveils Location Extensions For Mobile Devices

Google Announces Location-Aware Mobile Ads, Dubs Them "Location Extensions"
Filed by on Thursday, 29. July 2010

Google as announced that moving forward, iPhone and Android users may soon be seeing geo-targetted advertisements. Well, truth be told those user will be seeing the ads, just not yet. According to the announcement, this “will be fully available in the coming weeks, with some advertisers having access to the [...]

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Porsche 918 Spyder Goes To Production

Kind of Confirmed Back In March, The Green Light on the Porsche 918 Spyder Is Now Officially On
Filed by on Thursday, 29. July 2010

Back in March, we first passingly mentioned that the Porsche 918 Spyder concept may possibly go to production. You can now officially pull out the may and possibly, because it’s a fact. A concept car is going full production, and even better, it’s a hybrid.

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Apple's Magic Trackpad Gets Torn Down, Innards Put On Display

iFixit Tears Down The Brand New Apple Magic Trackpad, Not Much Magic About It
Filed by on Thursday, 29. July 2010

On the outside, most of today’s most highly hyped devices are very beautiful. Take Apple’s products for example, on the outside all we see is some aluminum, maybe a port or two but the overall design is quite stunning. Even Apple haters have been known to give the company credit [...]

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Evatran Plugless Power Station Like A Powermat For Cars

The Evatran Plugless Power Station Allows Wireless Transmission of Electricity to Your Electric Car
Filed by on Thursday, 29. July 2010

Wonder if these guys are on the Qi standard? No, it’s entirely too high voltage for that. But the Evatran Plugless Power Station wants to make it as easy as possible to recharge your electric wheels. How easy? Try just parking on it.

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BlackBerry 9780 Spotted Running BlackBerry OS 6

Unannounced BlackBerry Bold 9780 Shown Running BlackBerry OS 6, Gets WebKit Based Web Browser Demoed
Filed by on Thursday, 29. July 2010

Research in Motion is really making a push towards releasing the next best thing. With Android and iOS, that push couldn’t have come any sooner. In fact, RIM will be holding a joint press conference with AT&T next Tuesday to give us a sneak peak at what they having cooking over in their labs. [...]

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Viper SmartStart App Comes To Android

Viper SmartStart Mobile Platform Support Grows, Now Android Users Can Remotely Control & Start Their Cars
Filed by on Thursday, 29. July 2010

The Viper SmartStart system has been available for the iPhone and BlackBerry for a little while now. And more recently we saw an update roll out for the iPhone app in terms of push notification alerts. That was good news for iPhone users, but now another mobile operating system is [...]

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Motorola Droid 2 Leaks Continue, Complete User Guide Now Available For Download

Droid 2 User Manual Leaks, Confirms MotoBlur Skin & Android 2.2
Filed by on Thursday, 29. July 2010

At this point it has become just a matter of when. When is Motorola and/or Verizon going to officially let the cat out of the bag. After all, the Droid 2 can hardly be considered a secret at this point. So far we have seen plenty of details including in [...]

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Best Buy Connect Announce Plans For 4G Service Offerings As Best Buy & Clearwire Announce Partnership

Best Buy Connect Mobile Broadband Service To Get A Speed Bump Courtesy Of Clearwire Partnership
Filed by on Thursday, 29. July 2010

Best Buy launched their Connect mobile broadband service a few weeks back. And as of now they are offering mobile broadband in the form of 3G access. But if you remember back to the early leaks and rumors — it was originally expected to be 3G and 4G.

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Motorola Rambler & Motorola Bali Phones Announced For Boost Mobile

Boost Mobile Announce Motorola Rambler & Motorola Bali, Will Be Available August 11th for $99.99 & $149.99
Filed by on Thursday, 29. July 2010

Boost Mobile has announced two new additions to their available device lineup. The phones are the Rambler and Bali, both of which come by way of Motorola. As for pricing and availability, they will both be ready for purchase on August 11th and sell for $99.99 and $149.99 respectively.

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