by Sascha Segan 06.24.09
The first great Android phone may have finally arrived. The HTC Hero, announced Wednesday, breaks free of the dull Google-centric Android interface to deliver a fresh, smooth, sleek new way of staying in touch with people. HTC cribbed many of their competitors' best ideas and added some of their own, making the Hero a phone that may provide strong competition to the iPhone 3G S and Palm Pre. The Hero provides "a mobile experience that basically doesn't feel like you have to think, and is second nature," HTC America vice president Jason Mackenzie said. HTC rewrote almost all of the built-in Android apps around a new philosophy called Sense, which seems to be an expansion of the "people-centric" tack the company took at the Mobile World Congress back in February. Sense means a lot of personalization (you can choose between 10 clock designs for your phone), a heavy focus on contact integration (flipping easily between contact cards and all the e-mails you've received from a person, for instance) and the occasional cute, unexpected touch. When you open up the Weather app and it's raining, raindrops appear on your screen and are then wiped away by a virtual windshield wiper.
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UPDATE: Also Read this --> HTC Hero's Teflon Coating Makes the iPhone Feel Like Junk
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
New Memory Can Store Data Safely for 1,000 Years
By Jason Mick - June 24, 2009
Memory longevity is a touchy subject that most businesses, researchers, and consumers purposefully ignore. Magnetic drives, in theory, are thought to be corrupted in about 40 years due to the Earth's magnetic field, though this has not been fully observed yet (hard drives have only seen widespread since the 80s). Optical discs, such as CDs and DVDs are expected to become corrupt in about 30-100 years, if not kept out of contact with moisture and oxygen. So if we wanted to store something for more than a century, there are few good current solutions. Until now, that is; Japanese researchers have come up with a new form of ultra-long term memory that they say can last over 1,000 years. They dub their memory the Digital Rosetta Stone, or DRS memory for short.
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Memory longevity is a touchy subject that most businesses, researchers, and consumers purposefully ignore. Magnetic drives, in theory, are thought to be corrupted in about 40 years due to the Earth's magnetic field, though this has not been fully observed yet (hard drives have only seen widespread since the 80s). Optical discs, such as CDs and DVDs are expected to become corrupt in about 30-100 years, if not kept out of contact with moisture and oxygen. So if we wanted to store something for more than a century, there are few good current solutions. Until now, that is; Japanese researchers have come up with a new form of ultra-long term memory that they say can last over 1,000 years. They dub their memory the Digital Rosetta Stone, or DRS memory for short.
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Bill Gates wants a better beer keg
By Todd Bishop on June 24, 2009
Gee, what were Bill Gates and Nathan Myhrvold doing when they dreamed this one up? Microsoft's chairman and its former chief technology officer are among the inventors listed on a series of patent applications for "temperature-stabilized storage containers" -- super-high-tech devices intended for use in the storage and transport of "water or flavored water, dairy product or fruit juice, carbonated soda, wine, beer or distilled spirits, for example." OK, so they threw a bunch of other beverages in there, too, but why else would a bunch of geeks imagine a temperature-controlled liquid container if not for the noble purpose of keeping beer cold? As one of their patent filings explains, such a container "may store a beverage such as beer, for example, at a temperature appropriate for serving depending upon the type of beer." In addition, the filings says, the container "may be used to store wine at an optimal storage temperature range, generally 50 to 55 degrees."
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Gee, what were Bill Gates and Nathan Myhrvold doing when they dreamed this one up? Microsoft's chairman and its former chief technology officer are among the inventors listed on a series of patent applications for "temperature-stabilized storage containers" -- super-high-tech devices intended for use in the storage and transport of "water or flavored water, dairy product or fruit juice, carbonated soda, wine, beer or distilled spirits, for example." OK, so they threw a bunch of other beverages in there, too, but why else would a bunch of geeks imagine a temperature-controlled liquid container if not for the noble purpose of keeping beer cold? As one of their patent filings explains, such a container "may store a beverage such as beer, for example, at a temperature appropriate for serving depending upon the type of beer." In addition, the filings says, the container "may be used to store wine at an optimal storage temperature range, generally 50 to 55 degrees."
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Mobile Flash 10 Coming to Smart Phones in October, Except For IPhone
Still no support for the iPhone coming
By Shane McGlaun - June 23, 2009
Apple single handedly reinvigorated the smartphone industry and spawned a plethora of touch capable devices when it launched the iPhone. Since the original iPhone debuted, Apple has offered two more updated models of the device with the 3GS hitting the market last week. One of the major missing pieces in the iPhone for many users is the ability to run Adobe Flash technology. iPhone owners have been crying for Flash support since the iPhone launched and still there is no version of Flash for the iPhone. Adobe's CEO Shantanu Naraye announced at an investors conference that the next version of Flash will be Flash 10 beta and it will hit in early October. The new beta version will support almost every smartphone platform out there including Android, webOS, Windows Mobile, and Symbian. Notice the lack of iPhone support. The availability of the beta coincides with the Adobe Max conference. The news is important for the newer Android and webOS devices that have lacked a good Flash player so far. Symbian and Windows mobile have been able to play Flash content for a while. Adobe doesn't mention Flash support for the iPhone at all.
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By Shane McGlaun - June 23, 2009
Apple single handedly reinvigorated the smartphone industry and spawned a plethora of touch capable devices when it launched the iPhone. Since the original iPhone debuted, Apple has offered two more updated models of the device with the 3GS hitting the market last week. One of the major missing pieces in the iPhone for many users is the ability to run Adobe Flash technology. iPhone owners have been crying for Flash support since the iPhone launched and still there is no version of Flash for the iPhone. Adobe's CEO Shantanu Naraye announced at an investors conference that the next version of Flash will be Flash 10 beta and it will hit in early October. The new beta version will support almost every smartphone platform out there including Android, webOS, Windows Mobile, and Symbian. Notice the lack of iPhone support. The availability of the beta coincides with the Adobe Max conference. The news is important for the newer Android and webOS devices that have lacked a good Flash player so far. Symbian and Windows mobile have been able to play Flash content for a while. Adobe doesn't mention Flash support for the iPhone at all.
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