As of today Sky TV have launched Europe’s first 3D channel and for those who already have Sky World HD subscriptions, get this great new channel for free! (Of course providing they have a 3D ready TV set that is). [Read more…]
Archives for October 2010
Sky 3D Now Available
October 1, 2010 by Leave a Comment
ACER Aspire AZ3100-U3072 All-In-One Announced
October 1, 2010 by 1 Comment
The Acer Aspire All-In-One range has just added a new device to the list. The new model is the AZ3100-U3072.
This particular model has a 21.5 inch display that supports full HD at 1080p (1920 x 1080 pixels).
Powering the AIO is a 2.0GHz AMD Athlon II 170u processor. 3GB of RAM can be found inside and for storage it has a 500GB harddrive as standard. [Read more…]
Android Market Opens Up to More Countries
October 1, 2010 by 1 Comment
Google has announced that support for paid application sales is expanding and that developers in 29 countries can now take part. As well as expansion with the developers side of things, paid apps in the Android Market are now available to people in 32 countries.
For developers, there are changes that might need to be made to your apps. If you have made them available in “all locations” then no further action is required on your part. However, if you have restricted the countries then you might want to log in and change the settings if you want users in the countries to be able to grab the apps. [Read more…]
Windows Phone 7 Smartphones Could Arrive in US on November 8
October 1, 2010 by Leave a Comment
In less than two weeks time, Microsoft [MSFT] will be officially announcing the launch of the Windows Phone 7 platform. Shortly after, it is expected that manufacturers will start shipping handsets.
The launch in the UK is expected to be on or around October 21. We now hear that for those on the AT&T network in the US, they can expect to start picking up the new OS on smartphones on November 8.
The reason that only AT&T has been mentioned is that in the past, we heard that they have exclusivity on the handsets till early next year. [Read more…]
Google URL Shortner Now Makes QR Codes
October 1, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Google [GOOG] has formally launched its URL shortening service called Goo.gl. What this does is allows you to shorten a long URL down to just a few characters to make it easier to share a URL on social networking sites like Twitter.
A handy “Easter Egg” style feature has also been included with the new shortener. What the new feature allows you to do is automatically create a QR code for the shortened URL by simply adding .qr on to the end of any shortened URL. [Read more…]
Samsung Galaxy Tab UK Launch Date – November 1
October 1, 2010 by 1 Comment
Samsung has announced that the Samsung Galaxy Tab will be launching in the UK on November 1. All major networks will get the Galaxt Tab on launch day although Samsung have still yet to reveal the price tag.
We know that Amazon, Expansys and others will sell a SIM free Tab for £600 – £700, but as for carrier pricing, we really have no idea what plans are just yet. When carriers do announce pricing it will be the usual subsidised price tags that decrease as you are willing to commit to a higher plan. [Read more…]
Touchscreen iMac Being Tested?
October 1, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Digitimes is reporting that Apple [AAPL] is currently testing out touchscreen technology for a future generation iMac. We have heard these rumours before although as of yet, nothing has surfaced just yet.
The touchscreens being used in testing are supposedly capacitive panels supplied by Sinek Photronics. [Read more…]
MacBook Could get 3G in the Future
October 1, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Apple [AAPL] has been granted a patent for a MacBook that has built in multiband cellular technology.
Apple’s Patent Abstract: Antenna window structures and antennas are provided for electronic devices. The electronic devices may be laptop computers or other devices that have conductive housings. Antenna windows can be formed from dielectric members. The dielectric members can have elastomeric properties. An antenna may be mounted inside a conductive housing beneath a dielectric member. The antenna could be formed from a parallel plate waveguide structure. The parallel plate waveguide structure may have a ground plate and a radiator plate and may have dielectric material between the ground and radiator plates. The ground plate can have a primary ground plate portion and a ground strip. The ground strip may reflect radio-frequency signals so that they travel through the dielectric member. The antenna may handle radio-frequency antenna signals in one or more communications bands. The radio-frequency antenna signals pass through the dielectric member.
Facebook Rolling Out High Res Photo Uploads
October 1, 2010 by Leave a Comment
When uploading photos to Facebook to share with friends, Facebook compresses the images and makes them smaller in size so that they download quicker for users, and take up less resources in regards to server processor, storage and bandwidth usage.
This is changing though as Facebook is about to allow larger images to be uploaded and displayed. Over the next few weeks the service will roll out to users and once active, you’ll be able to upload images with a resolution of 2048 pixels on the largest edge. [Read more…]
Google Street View Visits Antartica – Works on iOS Maps
October 1, 2010 by Leave a Comment
The Street View service from Google is expanding around the globe. The next place to get it is Antartica.
From what we can see, it looks like a camera is being carried around rather than driven around and has captured scenery around Antartica of an expedition happening.
Image quality is good and overall its very interesting to see what happens down that way. [Read more…]
Google Offers WebP For Faster Internet
October 1, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Google [GOOG] is launching a new image format called WebP. What WebP does is squashes down the file size of images to make them smaller, hence, a quicker download for users.
The aim of Google is to make the web faster and this is just another step to make this happen. Typically, the webP format can reduce the file size of a JPEG image by about 40% making images a lot smaller in file size. However, with this format, not much changes in image quality with it not really even being noticable. It’s a bonus in both ways for the end user (and webmaster who pays out for bandwidth usage on his hosting account).
Another interesting thing to note is that 65 percent of traffic on the internet is image traffic according to Google. Cut image sizes down by 40% on average and you have a lot of bandwidth savings. [Read more…]
Kinect won’t work for the messier gamer, well not very well at least
October 1, 2010 by 1 Comment
Back when I was a teenager living at home, I had my own room, if you could call it a “room” more like a space to store my belongings. These included old slices of pizza, half eaten boxes of bakewell tarts, aged sausage rolls and clothes all over the floor. Yep, typical teenagers room, though nowadays I’m a little better. [Read more…]
