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HTC launches new phone

2011-09-01T13:36:00.000-07:00

Now new latest HTC trophy began with a sutable price and many functions. HTC Trophy is based on the operating system Windows Mobile 6.5. HTC Trophy price and 3.8 inches of the trophy, 800 x 480 screen pixels is pleasantly and bright, either flicker photos or browse the web. Although the screen is slightly smaller than the 4 amazing 2 inch screen, it has the same resolution.We had mixed feelings about the loudspeaker of the trophy. While Miles Davis "Springsville" in the quiet and weak, Jay-Z and Bruce Springsteen tunes were high enough for us to listen to a few metres away.

Features:

Audio, Video PlaybackMP3, MP4 PlayerWAV tones, memo from jackVoice Vibration3.5mm, GamesPocket Officespeaker headset phone camera: 5.0 Mega pixel resolution, 2560 × 1920 pixels, Video screen Autofocus.Screen, 3.0-inch, 640 × 480 pixels.Color: TFT resistive touchscreen with 65 K colors.

Price:

Expected price Rs. 18000 India /- and will be available in all major stores

Of Karbonn new K1515

2011-09-01T09:11:00.000-07:00

karbonn k1515 sports a 3.2-inch full HVGA touchscreen and account with two Sim (GSM+GSM), 2 megapixel camera, FM Radio, memory internal 512 MB + 1 GB, up to 8 GB player video/Audio and expandable memory. karbonn k1515 connectivity options include Bluetooth, synchronization of PC, WAP/GPRS, social networks and works with one battery 1150mAh Li-ion battery that gives time talk about 6 hours.

Features:

GSM 900 / 1800 MHzWAP/GPRS3.2?HVGA, 262 K TFT TouchScreenCamera: 2.0 Mpinternal memory: 512 MB DDR + 1 GB Nand flashUp to 8 GB MemoryPhonebook memory: 1000SMS memory: 500Audio Player: YesVideo player: YesBluetoothMp3 RingtonesLi-Ion 1150mAh BatteryTalk time: up to 6 HrsStandby time: up to 240HrsDimension: 108 x 54 x 14. 5mmweight: 112 gm

Price:

It will be announced soon.

FIFA 12 Videos of Gamescom 2011 game

2011-09-01T04:33:00.000-07:00

There are few game of fifa 12 videos uploaded on youtube of Gamescom 2011 in Germany. Here you can see them in india365 at a time. Now, before seeing the video, I just give a small preview of what I think about the game. Launching, FIFA 12 option screen looks quite different compared to fifa 11. Horizontal tabs were introduced for the first time (I guess) in series of football from EA and it looks quite good also. Selection of menu and the selection of team kit options are also quite impressive. The game of attack looks quite similar to fifa 11 but it seems to me that the defence has changed a bit this year.

Check out this latest material uploaded on youtube of Gamescom 2011 game.

Buy Battlefield 3 Original for PS3 and PC

2011-09-01T00:01:00.000-07:00

Battlefield 3 is one of those highly anticipated games this year. One of the main attraction of the gamescom this year with 12 EA FIFA. In the series to buy last week we published links where could presale fifa 12. Now, its time we share one more a link from where you can buy the original dvd of battlefield 3 for PC and PS3.

The game is only available for PS3, XBOX 360 and PC and you can check the following to buy 3 field of battle. Note that currently only version PS3 and PC the game can be purchased. We will update the post once we get the links for the xbox version.

Prior to the order / purchase battlefield 3 for PC

Prior to the order / purchase battlefield 3 for PS3

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Karbonn new dynamite

2011-08-31T21:00:00.000-07:00

Karbonn mobile has introduced a new Dual Sim GSM Mobile, Karbonn KD100 in the India. Karbonn KD100 sports an account with Dual Sim GSM and 2-inch TFT screen.The new karbonn kd100 is a phone mobile phone with Dual SIM GSM style. Karbonn Disney Mobile series is a Disney.Que designed user interface sporting is embedded with Swarovski Crystal in central menu button and has fully custom accessories and designer of battery covers. Sports a dual memory card slot for sharing data easy and more storage capacity store your favourite music and video files (comes pre-installed with Hannah Montana content).

Features:

GSM 900 / 1800 MHzWAP / GPRS2. 0? ScreenCamera inch TFT screen: 2.0 Mpinternal memory: 256 MB + 64MBUp to 32 GB MemoryPhonebook memory: 1000SMS memory: 500Audio Player: YesVideo player: YesBluetoothMp3 RingtonesLi-Ion 1050mAh BatteryTalk time: up to 8 HrsStandby time: up to 96HrsDimension: 112 x 46. 5 × 13 mm

Price:

The price of this phone and she has not yet been announced.

Dell launches new range of laptops

2011-08-31T16:27:00.000-07:00

Dell has just announced a new addition to the line-up, the 13.3-inch Vostro131, and while it is not different from the last-genV130, which offers all the potholes specifications that can be expected of a laptop announced in mid-2011. With this generation obtains Sandy Bridge Core i3 and options of processor i5, two USB 3.0 ports and a six cell battery replaceable by the user that promises up to 9.5 hours of juice.

Features:

2 processors for generation Intel Core i3/i5 and graphicsIntel technology of cooling hyperbaric: maintains the microphones of matrix of cool and quietDigital of system and SRS Premium Voice Pro softwareDesigned to work virtually anywhere, anytimeup 9 hours of battery lifeOptional with backlight keyboardGenuine Windows 7 Home Premium, 64-bitLa inch Core i3-2310M processor (2.1 GHz) graphics of high-definition Intel 30004GB RAM13.3 LED display of HD (1366 x 768) with anti-glare320GB (7200) hard drive (rpm) Intel Centrino Wireless-N 1030Bluetooth 3.0Integrated HD WebcamFingerprint reader with DigitalPersona softwareMemory card reader, USB 3.06 cells Lithium Ion BatteryWeight main: 1.64 Kg

Price:

Starts from Rs. 30,000 /-dependent on the configuration.

FIFA 12 game Video Trailer was at Gamescom 2011

2011-08-31T12:51:00.000-07:00

Hey people, your time here at India365 fifa. If they are following our articles in the fifa series, then it must be aware that EA will have 12 ads to fifa at gamescom 2011 in Germany. The game company has released fifa 12 video game says our source. Do not look at the trailer but as I'm traveling right now, but we will make sure to post it soon.

UPDATE:
This is the video game recently released by EA at gamescom 2011. The video says that the FIFA 12 demonstration would be on September 13, 2011.

New Omega HTC

2011-08-31T09:16:00.000-07:00

HTC will launch its new HTC Omega, comes pre-installed with Windows Phone 7 OS 'mango', sporting a 3.8-inch S-LCD touchscreen, a processor of MSM 8255 single core 1.5 GHz with 512 MB of RAM.It comes equipped with a 8 megapixel camera with LED flash, Bluetooth, GPS/aGPS connectivity out 802.11 Wi-Fi, FM radio, headphone jack 3.5 mm, 16 GB of onboard storage, powered by a battery ion lithium, accelerometer, Sensor G and a set of Mango and the services of the company.

Features:

3.8 "inch (480 x 800 pixels) multi-touch Display8 megapixels, HD Video Recording512MB RAM16GB internal memoryGSM/GPRS/EDGE + 3 GHSPA/HSDPAWi-Fi 802." 11n + BluetoothA-GPS with loaded with mapsPre XBOX Live, Bing Bing search and Zune Microsoft AppsTwitter services Jack headset Facebook IntegratedWindows phone 7.1 (Mango update) stereo FM Radio3.5mm

Price:

The price of this phone will be announced soon.

It launches new phone of spices

2011-08-31T05:06:00.000-07:00

Spice mobile has introduced a new Dual sim GSM QWERTY Mobile, Spice QT 53 in the India. Spice QT 53 sports a TFT screen of 2-inch screen resolution of 176 x 220 pixels and has QWERTY keyboard.Spice QT 53 has 0.3 megapixel camera, FM Radio apparatus with recording, up to 8 GB of expandable memory, Multi format video/Audio Player and MP3 ringtones.Spice QT 53 connectivity options include Bluetooth, WAP/GPRS, USB and it works with a battery of Li-ion battery that provides talk time up to 7.5 hours of 800 mAH.

Features:

2-inch TFT Display176 x 220 pixels screen resolutionQWERTY keypad0.3-cameraWireless megapixel FM Radio with RecordingUp 8 GB expandable MemoryMulti Video/Audio PlayerMP3 format RingtonesBluetoothWAP/GPRSUSB800 mAH Li-ion BatteryTalk time: up to 7.5 HoursStandby time: up 360 HoursWeight: 94 gms

Price:

The price of this phone and she has not yet been announced and will announced soon.

New Samsung phone S3770

2011-08-31T01:02:00.000-07:00

Samsung has launched a new low cost 3 G mobile phone, Samsung S3770. Samsung S3770 sports a full TFT touchscreen of 2.8 screen inches with screen resolution of 240 x 320 pixels and Samsung TouchWiz Lite User Interface.Samsung S3770 has 2 megapixels, Player Audio and video encoders, FM Radio with RDS, jack audio 3.5 mm, internal memory and up to 16 GB external memory.
Jack, internal memory and up to 16 external GB S3770 Memory.Samsung connectivity options include Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, 3 G HSDPA up to 7.2 Mbps, micro USB, IM, WAP, Push email, social networks, and is powered by a battery of 1000 mAh speaks of what gives time up to 6 hours.

Features:

display240 full TFT touchscreen of 2.8 in. x 320 pixels of screen resolutionSamsung TouchWiz Lite user Interface2 megapixel cameraMulti-format video/Audio playerFM Radio with RDS3.5mm audio jackInternal memoryUpto 16 GB external MemoryWi FiBluetooth3G HSDPA up to 7.2 Mbpsmicro USBIM, WAP, Push emailSocial networkingBattery: 1000 mAhTalk time: up to 6 hoursStand by time: up to 350 hours

Price:

The new Samsung S3770 price is not revealed yet and will be revealed soon.

Dolly station opens first European Datacenter, Online back-up for Apple's Time Machine to Mac users across Europe

2011-08-30T20:37:00.000-07:00

By Dave Gales on August 16, 2011 Dolly station opens first European Datacenter, Online back-up for Apple's Time Machine to Mac users across Europe

Cloud service provider Cirrus thinking announces the launch of the first European Datacenter Drive for Dolly, the online backup and local Disaster Recovery solution for Mac users. The C3 military-grade storage facility is the first of Dolly station planned network of international data centers that are for faster first uploads and incremental backup capabilities for thousands of Dolly station customers throughout Europe. It is an important milestone for first year, Cirrus cloud services company thinking, creators of Dolly station.

"We had such a huge response from Mac users in Europe as a whole that immediately one of our top priorities was the establishment of a data center on the other side of the Atlantic," said Anthony Palermo, CEO of Dolly drive. "We have taken 6,000 miles of travel data from the comparison make Dolly station as quickly and efficiently for thousands of European users as it is for those across America".

Current Dolly station customers in Europe will be contacted individually to have their data is migrated to the European data center. New customers get an option to choose their primary data center during the logon process.

Dolly Drive is a subscription software and online storage service designed for Apple's Time Machine. In addition to providing Mac users offsite cloud storage program directly through the Time Machine, provide the application users to create a bootable clone of your Mac to an external hard drive for local disaster recovery. It works with the lion and the Snow Leopard Apple's platforms. Launched in January, Dolly station was named MacLife magazine's Best of Show and best Software at MacWorld 2011. http://www.gadgetsandtechnologynews.com/goto/http_www_dollydrive_com/15109/5

NextWindow ™ introduces ProfileTouch 2S touchscreen

2011-08-30T16:12:00.000-07:00

NextWindow, a wholly owned subsidiary of SMART Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: SMA) (TSX: SMT), announces the NextWindow ProfileTouch-2S, a new touchscreen designed for high-volume original equipment manufacturers (OEM), applications for large format hardware, such as those found corporate, retail and education environments. The ProfileTouch-2S requires no software and drivers, plug-and-play capabilities making it easy for system integrators and Oems to integrate the touchscreen in a wide range of products offer. The NextWindow ProfileTouch-2S touch-screen is now available worldwide.

NextWindow ™ introduces ProfileTouch 2S touchscreen

The ProfileTouch-2S is offered in a range of sizes of 32 (both cm) to 72.5? (182.88 cm). The larger screen size touchscreen makes it ideal for both business travellers and commercial venues, including conference rooms, shopping centers, restaurants and tourist destinations. The ProfileTouch-2S offers thin edges and a low profile, allowing easy integration into a wide range of applications for hardware. The new touch-screen supports Microsoft ® Windows ® 7, Mac OS X and Linux ® operating systems and recognize common multitouch gestures, such as zoom, rotate, press and press-and-tap. The ProfileTouch-2S is available as a fully assembled touchscreen, including glass, or as a kit of components. The Touch screen component kit is ready to be mounted on a glass substrate and optical sensors, a controller board and a passive border, which is available in standard sizes that can be cut to custom views. As the component kit includes no glass, customers can both transport costs and reduce inventory risk. For more information about the NextWindow ProfileTouch-2S, http://www.nextwindow.com/products/2s.htmlvisit.

The use of large multitouch screens in business, consumer and education environments is becoming more popular all over the world, "says Anthony Uhrick, Vice President, large format displays, NextWindow. "We are pleased to further development in touch screen innovation with the ProfileTouch-2S, with which we can customers who need fully assembled products while also meeting the needs of system integrators and Oems as they build applications for their customers to promote better service."

Aura link adds HD Video on the solution of the Go

2011-08-30T11:34:00.000-07:00

Aura link adds HD Video on the solution of the Go

Cenero today announced the addition of VidyoMobile ™ Vidyo it as a service platform known as Aura link. VidyoMobile is a groundbreaking solution so that mobile users of the company on the iPhone, iPad or Android-based smart phones or tablets to multipoint video conferencing with desktops and HD room system participants.

"This is a dramatic 30 days for the Aura link solution," said Michael Cosgrave, Aura link Product Manager. "Last month we introduced recording and broadcast opportunities and this month Aura link customers can now take HD video wherever they go. Vidyo a game changing solution has created and we are happy to make it a part of the solution Aura link. "

VidyoMobile of Aura link is an important step forward in mobile communication because this is the only natural experience by making use of Vidyo of Adaptive Video layering (AVL) architecture that is dynamically the video quality and resolution for each participant environment optimizes. Aura link the VidyoMobile users can participate in low-latency, high-definition, video meetings with up to 720 p HD decode and encode to VGA resolution. Users can also work together and shared applications using their 3 G/4 G wireless network or WiFi, make itself universally available, all at affordable price points.

"Adding mobile HD video changes how Cenero makes use of technical expertise," said Rob Gilfillan, President of Cenero. "Our expert technicians support our clients AV constant connection can now work together with our techs field while they are on the site. It's like being in two places at once. "

iOS Aura link customers can immediately benefit from the new service by downloading the application VidyoMobile from the iTunes App Store and log on to the platform using the data of their existing Aura link account.

For more information about the solution of the Aura link VidyoMobile, or to try Aura link free for two weeks, http://www.auralink.com visit or call 1 (610) 344-7007.

Text message ordering is now a reality for Restaurants, shops, thanks to new Web startup

2011-08-30T07:02:00.000-07:00

As a business owner or manager, setting up a system of full text message ordering would be extremely expensive and unreliable, right? Wrong. Thanks to this innovative new startup, create a text message ordering system for your restaurant or specialty shop minutes and just could not get any easier.

Text message ordering is now a reality for Restaurants, shops, thanks to new Web startup

This innovative new startup is a perfect solution for the upper hand on the competition, and it is almost a steal. A phone number costs $ 2 per month and owner of the company can choose from tens of thousands of available songs, local or not. Each phone number is an order system; If the user TextOrder only to a single location is used, they just need one phone number. Of course, if the user wants a system text ordering for their chain of 30 locations, they must 30 phone numbers!

For the customer is easy. They ordering text hand-picked phone number of the location and instantly receive a welcome text if it is their first time ordering. If the location allows delivery as an option, the customer is asked to reply with their address and it has direct auto-format and stored in the profile of that customer. They can then text MENU for the menu, and then they're ready to order, the customer texts "order" followed by the sequence; for example, "order 2 large pepperoni pizza, 1 2 liter diet coke and a sequence of hot wings".

For the employees of the establishment, they are immediately informed of this new order through their "Live order page". Here, they can view the orders; exactly how long ago they were placed, the fulfillment status, delivery or pick-up, customer address and order history, private notes about the customer and more. If the employee is a question about an order, they can instantly send a text message to the customer and the view that the replies in a chat-like interface. Alternatively, they can click "Call" to direct a browser to phone conversation to that customer by using your computer microphone; not only that, but each incoming calls to the number of the phone live can be answered. In addition, employees a text with the personalized "check in" code can send to ordering phone number "check in" and receive a text message when an order is placed (they can also register directly with the code "check-out").

SMS ordering going to the restaurant industry to a whole new level, and TextOrder seems to be the key to making this happen. For more information about this amazing new company, check out their site. You can also login to a full demo to see exactly how the text message ordering works from the perspective of companies by clicking here.

Try Before You Buy: Skybot Software Releases Live Demo of enterprise Job Scheduler

2011-08-30T04:01:00.000-07:00

skybot Software, a Help systems, LLC company, announces the release of their free Live Demo for Skybot Scheduler, the easy-to-use, Web-based enterprise job scheduling and workload automation solution for Windows, UNIX (Solaris, AIX, HP-UX), and Linux servers.

Try Before You Buy: Skybot Software Releases Live Demo of enterprise Job Scheduler

The Skybot Scheduler Live Demo let customers try the software without installing it on their systems. According to Pat Cameron, Director of automation technology, "the Live Demo a variety of task schedules and dependencies, and then click Run. Users will be able to see the flexibility and functionality of Skybot Scheduler. "

Once logged in, users can view and modify job streams them by establishing requirements, such as Agent events. Pat explains: "The Agent event monitors should give users a sense of Skybot Scheduler powerful control and planning opportunities."

For those concerned with security and control release the Live Demo also set user security roles and view the audit log, job Flow Charts and other reports.

Skybot Software designed the Live Demo for each operator or system administrator to independently explore Skybot Scheduler interface and automation features. However, users have access to customer support at any time via the Live Chat on the website of the company.

To try the Skybot Scheduler Live Demo, visit the Skybot Scheduler- http://www.skybotsoftware.com/live-demoWeb site.

Apptoyz appBlaster AR rifle for iPhone-Gadget of the day

2011-08-29T23:28:00.000-07:00

By Dave Gales on August 16, 2011 Revolutionary iPhone/iTouch gaming equipmentComes with free compatible "Alien Invasion" app.Combine brings virtual reality to your own virtual strangers on homeShoot via your iPhone lensVoted No. 2 in The Gadget Show Top 5 toys in 2011

This appBlaster AR rifle for iPhone is the pioneering technology that, by combining with a free downloadable "Alien Invasion" app, normal expectations and immerses you in a realistic gaming experience anytime, anywhere! Duck, diving and weaving from room to room in your own home or a sniping position on the garden trampoline: Go trigger happy with the appBlaster-gun, the aliens come for you and you can't hide!

Apptoyz appBlaster AR rifle for iPhone-Gadget of the day

Your iPhone/iTouch credit in the appBlaster provides a screen that, using the camera, where you want the gun in a warpath from "Alien Invasion" game app point changes. So you can never really be able to get away from the aliens, but simply a favourable pop your iPhone/iTouch in and out of the appBlaster Gun and immediately join or let the fantastic augmented reality from "Alien Invasion". You've always wanted to play the hero? What are you waiting for!

CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THIS GADGET!

VIVOTEK launches new 3-megapixel vandal proof Fisheye Camera offers 360-degree Surround display with zero blind spots

2011-08-29T19:52:00.000-07:00

VIVOTEK USA Inc. (TAIEX: 3454), an industry leader in HD and megapixel IP camera technology, today announced the availability of the new FE8171V 3-megapixel day/night dome camera on the market. The is the first FE8171V VIVOTEK camera is equipped with a fisheye lens for a 360-degree surround display covering a wide field of vision without blind spots from a ceiling or wall mount can catch. With high image quality in 3-megapixel resolution, the camera also features an outside IP 66 rated housing, removable IR cut filter, h.264 compression and compliance with EN50155 making it an ideal solution for applications including airports, shopping centres, shops, transport, and much more.

VIVOTEK launches new 3-megapixel vandal proof Fisheye Camera offers 360-degree Surround display with zero blind spots

The VIVOTEK FE8171V is integrated with the latest image processing technology for clear and useful monitoring video. Software is used to dewarp the distorted images of a fisheye lens and displays them with multiple layout options, including surround view, 180-degrees (wall mount)/360-degrees (ceiling mount) panoramic views, and regional "quad" view to supervise various requirements. The panoramic and regional view modes in particular allow for ePTZ functionality that allows a user digital to focus on multiple areas of interest can zoom in. The software development kit for the FE8171V is available for leading third-party CMS platforms, via an open Platform support for the camera and increasing the flexibility of use for installers.

"VIVOTEK is once again pushing the envelope by the market to provide cutting edge solutions that customers are looking for," said Harry Hu, Director of Sales at VIVOTEK USA. "With the new FE8171V, only one camera is needed to check an entire area with zero blind spots, and it will be fully integrated with leading software partners. We expect the camera to be quickly embraced by security officials for a wide range of applications. "

VIVOTEK new FE8171V supports triple-codec compressions, including h.264, MPEG-4 and MJPEG video streams, which are sent in one of these layouts for versatile applications. The streams can also be individually configured to meet various restrictions for further reduction of the bandwidth and storage space requirements. Users can receive multiple streams at the same time in different resolutions and frame rates graphic qualities for display on different platforms, including mobile applications.

In addition to the already rich feature set, FE8171V is equipped with 802 .3af compliant PoE and two-way audio with built-in microphone weatherproof.

For more details, visit FE8171V the VIVOTEK product page at:
http://VIVOTEK.com/products/model.php?network_camera=fe8171v

The IdentyMe virtual business card Creator

2011-08-29T16:17:00.000-07:00

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Technology in the digital age has superseded paper in a number of ways. People now communicate by email far more than by writing letters. Ebook sales are rising year on year, and millions of people now send e-cards to their families and friends rather than traditional cards in the mail. The most recent adoption of digital technology, and one of the most useful, is in the creation of virtual business cards.

The IdentyMe Virtual Business Card Creator

A virtual business card is created and distributed online. As with traditional business cards, they are used in social networking to build relationships. They are far more versatile than traditional business cards in terms of the amount of information which they can contain, and due to the fact that they exist online they can be viewed by a far greater number of people.

The website IdentyMe is the perfect place to create a virtual business card, or vCard. Members who use their service can firstly create their own vCard using one or a range of different professionally designed templates as the basic theme. The themes are fully customizable using a built in theme editor, meaning that each individual user can create a unique design for their vCard based on their own tastes.

The amount of information which can be included on an IdentyMe vCard is impressive. Each member is given their own mini site with a unique web address. Users can even use their own domain name if they wish, which can be useful as part of a branding strategy. This single page is incredibly quick and easy to set up, and once established users can start building their content.

That content can include high resolution photographs as part of IdentyMe's portfolio feature. This is a particularly useful feature for any photographers, artists, or graphic designers, as it provides a platform for them to be able to showcase their work. Users can also upload their resume as a text file or directly onto their vCard. This can be a fantastic way for users to make potential employers aware of their skills and qualities.

The IdentyMe virtual business card is designed to facilitate networking and the building of professional relationships. Therefore one of its most impressive and useful features is the integration of over one hundred different social networking and social media platforms. Twitter, Facebook, Skype, Tumblr, Linkedin, and many others are represented. IdentyMe conveniently keeps all social profiles in one place, where they can be shared with others for maximum networking potential.

IdentyMe also allows current contacts to be imported directly from a mobile phone or email address book. This saves a huge amount of time in establishing a user's mini site as the hub for all of their communications. IdentyMe features an extremely useful instant messaging service to allow effective communication between friends, colleagues and business partners.

The IdentyMe vCard. is a fantastic way to establish and maintain business relationships. It looks professional and stylishly designed, and can be shared with a multitude of people. Users can save money by not requiring business cards to be printed, as well as reducing their carbon footprint by using this to paperless

JVC launches new Audio systems for iPad, iPhone and iPod

2011-08-29T12:07:00.000-07:00

By Ewa Grzybek on 17 August 2011 JVC launches new Audio systems for iPad, iPhone and iPod

A sleek new series of audio docks for Apple's iPad ®, iPhone ® and iPod ® is hit the shelves in August JVCthanks. Available from authorized JVC retailers for $ 329 (RRP) and $ 369 (RRP) respectively the UX-VJ3 and UX-VJ5 are stylish and slim systems out there look fantastic in every home. They can consist of a vertical central unit and a few speakers and connect and charge of an iPad and iPhone or iPod, side-by-side.

The VJ series make a smart place for holding an iPad, iPhone or iPod at home – an all-in-one Center for listening, viewing, reading and charging. The VJ series of JVC is the perfect combination of iPod, iPhone and iPad accessories for all your Apple devices. The units come with a remote control for complete relaxation and when connected via the video output while playing movies, the surround sound effect brings the action on your TV screen in the lounge room.

When not in use, is the docking mechanism outside the Visual field leaving a pleasing wall unit, streamlined look. Even better, can an iPhone/iPod be docked horizontally to some video capture. Soft lighting at the foot of the unit gives a great floating illusion. The UX-VJ5 also offers a CD Player for listening pleasure without restrictions and USB record music.

The slim center unit keeps a USB Host, PC input and an FM/AM Tuner. The systems include a video output for connecting your iPad, iPhone/iPod on a larger screen and an audio input for other sources. For more personal preference to your interior, the UX-VJ5 comes in white or black and the UX-VJ3 is available in white.

Prices and availability
UX-VJ3-W (white)
RRP: $ 329

UX-VJ5-W (white)
UX-VJ5-B (black)
RRP: $ 369

The UX-VJ3 and UX-VJ5 are available from August of JVC authorized retailers (see PDF attachment for specifications/features).

iPhone users now have their own Sticky Password App

2011-08-29T08:03:00.000-07:00

By Ewa Grzybek on August 17, 2011

Sticky password for iPhone launched today by lamantine Software. The new Sticky Password application for managing passwords is now available for iPhone. iPhone users are sure to appreciate the new app, which has a great interface and comes as a free bonus for all users of trial or paid versions of Sticky password for desktops.

iPhone users now have their own Sticky Password App

Sticky password for iPhone provides secure, fast and easy access to password-protected websites.

"We are excited about the new Sticky password for iPhone app our customers were letting us know that this was something they needed and we delivered. It is the first of many steps we plan in terms of expansion to new platforms, "says CEO at Lamantine Software, Petr Bilek.

Via the iTunes interface, iPhone users to sync their PC safe passwords and memos to their iPhones. Sticky password for iPhone is compatible with iOS4 on iPhone 3 devices and higher. An iPad version is also planned.

Call of duty: modern warfare 3 heads to DS Nintendo Wii

2011-08-29T03:38:00.000-07:00

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Out of all the games we're excited, modern warfare 3 near the top of the list, probably it won't just be limited to home consoles or PC. According to Activision, modern warfare 3 also be heading to Nintendo DS, allowing gamers to play in motion.

Games like call duty: modern warfare 3 perfect platforms such as Xbox 360, Sony PS3, PC, but we also love it when our favorite games are released on handheld devices such as the Nintendo DS or Sony PSP.

Game experience may be diluted slightly – in terms of less-mobile games graphics but still can be any bit of fun. Therefore we are happy to hear that modern warfare 3 also be heading to Nintendo DS not too distant future.

No sign of version 3 DS, n-space with developers whose work version DS of MW3. Even the title heading to the Nintendo Wii.

Would buy 3 modern warfare for Wii or DS? Or you think it is more powerful, more capable terminal? Leave a comment and let us know.

Top 5 Xbox 360 games chart

2011-08-28T23:13:00.000-07:00

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It was a pretty solid month for Xbox 360, games chart with not much going on up to ten. No host glossy new games on the way, but — like the latest battlefield 3 call of duty, so there's now doing good better enjoy their success, as we cannot imagine them holding onto the top points. Read on to see the top five.

We get you like shooters this month, as games don't get truly look inside Xbox 360 top. In fact, the only one completely avoid violence is Toy Story 3, which is now down to number eight.

Mafia 2 2 Mafia were the top spot for a little while now, with this Jurassic prove popular. As you can guess, it gives an extensive insight and dark world of the mafia, and it's completely addictive.

Kane and dog Linz 2 game already top ten since his release, Kane and Linz might have slipped off the top spot, but still does better than any other titles now at.

Sniper ghost Warrior another first person shooter, sniper ghost Warrior takes third place in the games. Brutal game that allows you to role of sniper, you will need to be stay vigilant to stay undetected.

Red dead redemption you may have slipped a popular title, red dead redemption mbhalk top of the ratings below, but still doing well.

Practice 2 those of you hoping to find a game without violence in five top disappointment, as practice 2 has knocked the battlefield bad company 2 off fifth place, makes his way up the chart.

Intel offering cash Ultrabook beating Apple MacBook Air

2011-08-28T18:13:00.000-07:00

Show gadget Thursday 11 August 2011

Intel has stashed away 300 million Foundation that offers it to invest in companies that you want to use its Ultrabook chassis. The company hopes this will help publishers take and Super Skinny Apple MacBook Air.

Ultrabook is Intel's idea of ultraportable in sub-layout. It's official-the practical reality and is actually "like MacBook Air, just the computer. To qualify, your PC must Ultrabook use Intel processors and have a set of criteria and specifications.

The cost of Intel components (around $710, according to some sources) was a source of criticism, especially as Intel wants Utrabooks be less $ 1000 each. Investment fund this may be a way of encouraging companies to join the party Ultrabook while still being able to keep their costs.

Intel's motives whatever, it could be the start of the computers and light and some seriously hit the market – outstanding plus if like the idea of air, but are not keen on the ' MacBook '.

Can you buy a Ultrabook? Leave your comment and tell us what you think.

Fujifilm announced FinePix F600 EXR with tagging, enhances the reality

2011-08-28T15:01:00.000-07:00

Show gadget Thursday 11 August 2011

Fujifilm has added another compact camera FinePix range, it looks a bit different. F600 EXR has all the usual features that you can watch in its size, plus some pretty extraordinary Add-ons. Read on to find out more.

Lets get the bits out of the first camera-F600 EXR has 16-Megapixel sensor that provides pictures and historical data, there is an impressive optical zoom x 15 and digital zoom 30 x loads Flash have autofocus motion sensor includes pics of moving objects that improve.

You might not expect is built GPS functions. They can geotag your photos just like your phone can, but the camera also uses for GPS Navigator feature landmarks ' extended reality. This figure out where you are, the search of the landmarks that he thinks you're getting a good picture, and then show you the direction you need indicator that lists how to travel, how you should go.

Can't wait to see the new tech, and we find out if the action is taking photographs really improves. Does it offer the sort of features that you want to compact camera? Leave a comment and let us know.

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2011-08-28T10:57:00.000-07:00

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Sony PSP budget shock with E-1000: one step too far?

2011-08-28T07:28:00.000-07:00

Show gadget Wednesday 31 August 2011

With the dubious State of global economy, this year's GamesCom is all about simplicity so far, with budget for Nintendo Wii and cuts an enormous price for Sony PS3 already revealed. Sony PSP is the latest to join the budget line, with new PSP E-1000 set to take on the Nintendo 3DS recently at an affordable price.

Sony PSP game console E-1000 the last head of GamesCom, it looks suspiciously like the old Sony PSP 3000. In the same shape, same format, only a new black matte to distinguish it.

Internally, Sony has made a huge change to help him fall below mark 100 euros, the company hopes it will be enough to help it compete with the Nintendo 3DS until Vita PS launched in 2012.

Unfortunately, the change is the omission of the Wi-Fi, and can also be startled enough to most people. This means you won't be able to bring online some of the latest titles, for a start, an Internet connection also means that even you can download the latest headlines straight from your PSP.

Still be able to download games but it involves a computer, a USB cable and a lot of faffing around.

One step too far? Or would you consider buying the PSP now it is set to be much cheaper? Leave a comment and let us know.

March HTC set to offer high-spec still

2011-08-28T02:30:00.000-07:00

Show gadget Friday 12 August 2011

Although other smartphone manufacturers release the phones large screens, light, sometimes even more unpleasant than 4 Apple iPhone, Apple still in Pattaya for the pixel density. Not for much longer if his HTC typically have with Smartphone HTC's latest offering a resolution March 1280 x 720 pixel.

March rumoured HTC will retain its name when it becomes the United Kingdom remains, but we hope certainly is maintains the specifications. Looking through them, they read more like a laptop specifications and light than a smartphone.

There are 1280 × 720 pixel screen for start-this solution offers the most netbooks hochpsh, and it was correct for most industrial sub laptops size 14 until a few years before. Collapsed to 4.3 inches, we cannot imagine you have to ?????? all pixel mark, Web sites, pics should look amazing.

Dual-core processor 1.5 GHz, 1 GB of RAM also go one better than most netbooks, smart phones really proving that can compete for power. 2.3.4 running Android, however, we are terrible to think what life would be like. Other rumors claim March feature similar formatting and Thunderbolt thunder of HTC, and it looks like being the first handset to showcase a new partnership with HTC's hit audio – the company has also worked with the HP envy laptop before.

Is rumoured HTC specifications for March will be enough to get you to where your iPhone? Or you think that iphone 5 will go one better? Leave a comment and let us know.

Personal trainer: UFC ultimate fitness system review

2011-08-27T22:06:00.000-07:00

Friday August 12

Join Fitness games parade, personal trainer: UFC ultimate fitness system is a serious calories credentials packaging. Designed by the National Academy of sports medicine, certified by the UFC fighters, personal coach provides real results, UFC, one of the most effective fitness games yet. But it is not without flaws. Stephen Everett 've fought it with the latest Microsoft Kinect.

Thanks to motion-controlled games, a growing number of games they find their way into shops. UFC personal trainer is very recent. It comes with a full backup of the UFC organization designed to help health plans, users build muscle, lose weight. Her living through self-billing her as "the ultimate fitness system"?

Best

Fitness for beginners, the first steps to work may be confusing clueless. Personal trainer advance features UFC 30 and 60 day routines to make it easier to start with, and move the full-body workouts, with sessions spread over each week, guided by one lmamanim personal game.

Exercisers experienced the ability to avoid the default routines and workouts to some regions instead of the target body, such as the arms, shoulders, legs or stomach muscles.

Activities such as hit shelves, which are fighting with your coach, added a welcome routines available. Players also have the option to combine their routine with weights to make your workouts.

To repeat the Player keeps even lets you know how you have already done, with a peak of calories burnt, and the length spent completing routines. Take it seriously, you'll notice a small progress as two weeks, as you can see statistics for your fitness and reduce cost statistics negative. Put your effort, you will see results.

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Space required for requisite game suitable only bedrooms, the largest, with a minimum of two metres of space needed between the player and television. Because of this, Microsoft Kinect regularly fails to write routines such as sit-ups requiring players to lie on the floor, encouraging players to cheat or give up and watch the timer tick of the countdown to next routine.

Personal lmamanim themselves do little to stimulate enthusiasm – endlessly repeating phrases motivates him. However, the game's biggest problem, is it correct poor form, leaving the players tend to hyper-extend the joint prone to injury. Gym and personal trainer, he has to tell you if you are doing something wrong. Personal Trainer offers no such advice UFC, making the game a little better than those with a suitable exercise experience.

The bottom line

Personal trainer has its flaws, the UFC, but even they did not stop him being the best fitness game around. Not enough fitness alternative, but to put the required effort, and you'll get the results look like. Make sure you have a room big enough to see it.

Acer dual-screen laptop Iconia: your comments!

2011-08-27T18:39:00.000-07:00

Sunday 10 August

Earlier this week, our own John Bentley took a look at the new Acer notebook of Iconia dual screen. With the view that we normally expect to find keyboard, is a new type of gadget. And we wondered what your thoughts on the laptop screen double Iconia were, however, and was not disappointed, with comments over 70. Read on to find out more.

The idea of a dual-screen laptop is not new, but the latest Acer to try with Iconia. With the second monitor instead of a keyboard, it ensures tasking easy, but it comes at the cost of usability?

Check out this John Bentley laptop dual-screen Acer Iconia

Carl Orsborn concerned about battery life with Acer, logically and points to the "laptop batteries could hardly handle the one screen, and two". If nothing else, however, diarrhea Simon think it looks better, claiming that "it looks cool, but in reality not think capture".

Reads John Taylor believe tactile feedback also has an on-screen keyboard will cause problems, stating that "my last two phones that slide out keyboards. Its not always used but much faster to type when you pop it. And feel the buttons. Why do you think most keyboards have a bit in the Middle? "

Some toolbars are now dual screen Nintendo DS Iconia, we can see why. Chris Gibson likes the idea, pointing out that "the two screens are better than one, it is quite clear." Steven is another concerned about battery life, however, that the : "see it. Use it. Battery life, people! "

It seems that Acer's laptop dual-screen gadget Iconia is divisive then! We would be happy to hear your thoughts, however, so please check out the video, leave a comment below, check out our discussion Facebook page of the gadget show.

Panasonic, Sony, Samsung unite for 3D specifications

2011-08-27T13:49:00.000-07:00

Show gadget Tuesday 09 August 2011

Choosing the right 3D glasses for your 3D TV can be a problematic choice-particularly that there is still no one main winner war standards. Thank God, then, for three of the greatest players of the industry who have joined forces to agree on a new standard for 3D glasses.

"Full HD-3D glasses initiative" is a set of features and standards that Samsung, Panasonic, Sony to think up an ideal specifications active shutter.

Radio frequencies correspond to multiple infrared polling and protocols they have agreed to ensure that a pair of glasses and showed 3D full HD wont be compatible with any 3D TV that supports it. 3 companies working with the manufacturer of 3D glasses 3D riddles.

"This initiative strengthens the commitment of the consumer electronics industry the highest quality 3D and provides consumers with simple solution technology theater but powerful challenge of interoperability," said riddles 3D Maria Costeria.

Riddles are carrying the first batch of glasses for September release. Glasses should be backward compatible with some existing televisions, fully compatible TV series will go on sale next year.

Check out Samsung's offering 3D TV

Vodafone now offers the Samsung Galaxy S Plus

2011-08-27T08:50:00.000-07:00

Show gadget Wednesday 31 August 2011

Vodafone now offers its customers the opportunity to own a Samsung Galaxy S Plus free contract. A host of additional specifications above s outgoing Galaxy, is a tempting prospect.

Samsung Galaxy S Plus is an update of the popular Samsung smartphone Android, s. Galaxy update is faster-running processor 1.4 GHz Super fast compared to 1 GHz in the original Galaxy s.

S Plus enough evolutionary jump from s Galaxy – that honor to the s and the second Galaxy in Vodafone and fish Kettle whole – but really, is not intended to be. This is a replacement for full Galaxy s that increases significantly the specifications, to give more speed, power, an increase of 24% claimed battery life to boot.

Vodafone offers the Galaxy S Plus free contract of £ 20/month or more, over 2 600 minutes boat ticket, 500 MB of data and texts. Enough to tempt you? Let us know.

Olympus pen EP-3

2011-08-27T04:39:00.000-07:00

Olympus pen EP-3 micro four thirds camera, the latest, is one of the most stylish gadgets on the market. Amazingly compact, packed with well made, this is the perfect stage features up for a DSLR without functionality.

Out of all the things we love most about Olympus pen EP-3, design and build quality stand out at the top of the list. A small camera is spectacular, with a retro cool and the ability to switch lenses whenever you need. The quality is high, with the use of aluminum in all body. Feels great, and it is also strong.

The display on the back of pen EP-3 has an OLED technology, assistance, last for longer battery life and vivid colors. It is easier to view outside and Olympus also has added functionality of touchscreen. We love the ability to focus by pressing a specific area of the display.

There are 12.3-megapixel sensor in the EP-3, it helps provide exceptional image quality with 14-42 mm kit lens Olympus. It may not count megapixels highest we have seen, but this is definitely a good thing, providing easy images sharp enough without compromising noise levels.

Olympus pen EP-3 great little camera, but it's also expensive. You can get a decent price, DSLR so you really want a more compact design. Lack of bainit also put serious photographers.

We love really Olympus pen EP-3. It looks fantastic, amazing also made offers many fine features. It also provides when it comes to image quality, so if the price isn't an issue, is an excellent choice for these compact camera upgrade.

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Specifications of Asus Eee Pad slider revealed the launch in September?

2011-08-27T00:00:00.000-07:00

Show gadget Monday 15 August, 2011

Asus Eee Pad and unusual appearance and first slider along with his brother, months ago, Eee Pad transformer. Lately has made it to the shop floor, and he became one of our favorite tablets, still no sign slider with slider QWERTY keyboard. Fortunately, it appears that the wait may be almost over.

Our eyes, Eee Pad transformer is one of the highest tablets currently available, offering the usability of a laptop without compromising size or weight. Couldn't set for some serious competition in the form of Eee Pad slider, however, that offers more implies huge smartphone design.

With smartphones like E7 Nokia, Eee Pad slider includes a keyboard that slides out from under the screen for when you want to type longer messages or emails. It doesn't look quite comfortable – no transformer without backrest, for example, but it seems even more portable laptops thinner and lighter.

Features slider include kernel nVidia 1 GHz, 1 GB of RAM and a choice of 16 or 32 GB of storage. It sets reasonable prices on from 480 € 600, can be with us soon in September.

You must select the slider above the Eee Pad transformer? That laptops thinner and lighter, but you will get another battery of transformer keys, you can always leave it in when necessary. Leave a comment and let us know which you prefer. Or do you still prefer iPad 2?

Get to know yourself with transformer EeePad

He was released the survival mode caravans Spec Ops of modern warfare 3!

2011-08-26T19:20:00.000-07:00

Show gadget Wednesday 10 August, 2011

Another day and 3 modern warfare are ramping up again, with the release of a new mode of watch a trailer for survival of the Ops Spec full game itself be ... hit the stores in November, but we are happy to get our hands on all content in the meantime. Join us after the break for more information.

Caravans in a survival Spec Ops sees a horde style games, with a rough and very popular action save you on your toes. With waves of enemies, you can universally with other players to fight them, the Spec Ops is set to be run in any multiplayer maps of 3 modern warfare.

It certainly looks impressive to us. Not just take our word for it, to caravans survival of Spec Ops 3 modern warfare the.

What do you think about all the movie trailers for modern warfare 3 you've seen so far? Is design to live game to your expectations? Leave a comment and let us know.

Let's up: series 10 episode 1

2011-08-26T15:47:00.000-07:00

Oatey451915 August 2011 HD not??? Why? It just looks so bad. I watch a lot of garbage in HD, but not a gadget. Expect strange Friday placed in view report as inappropriate

Samsung Galaxy GT-Pro B7510

2011-08-26T12:16:00.000-07:00

Samsung Galaxy Pro GT-B7510 is a smart style of BlackBerry, with a large QWERTY below near the square screen. Looks a bit old, but like most Goblet a highly of other smartphones have seen recently there and runs Android.

While touchscreens have big difference when it comes to navigating menus and pages, they are still not so great when it comes to write long emails or edit documents. Pro keyboard Samsung's Galaxy features a touchscreen display below corresponding, and selling point of this handset.

Unfortunately there are not enough good as we hoped--that still better than touchscreen, but we found it much less compared to the best phones offer Miriam.

Specifications on a fairly nondescript Galaxy Pro-800 MHz and memory variable of Android Froyo. He is also a lot of such fast enough for everyday use, but it does not have the latest features found in bread ginger.

2.8-inch screen is big enough for the chassis, nice and colorful, but it just isn't sharp enough, does not offer enough real estate.

After the success of Apple iPhone 4, with a vlibrliim screen contrast, we saw big changes to the manufacturers the resolution of their smartphones. As such, the display 320 x 240 pixels in Samsung Galaxy Pro GT-B7510 is a huge disappointment. This is fine for simple usage – such as text messages and email shorter-but he's as good as most rivals when it comes to viewing Web pages or watching media.

3-megapixel camera in Pro of Galaxy put off some users – although it par course this price range, is not likely to be a major deal breaker – but not much real reason to buy this smart.

Samsung Galaxy Pro GT-B7510 trying to take market BlackBerry directly, we have no success. If you want Android and keyboard properly, phones with sliding QWERTY keyboards do the job better. Otherwise, if the calls, send and edit documents is still a key factor, we still tempted by RIM's BlackBerry bold.

Pocket Edition was released for the Xperia Minecraft Sony Ericsson

2011-08-26T07:58:00.000-07:00

Show gadget Tuesday 14 August 2011

Launch Xperia may not have the success that sony Ericsson was hoping for, but there is no doubt that it is a bit of hardware. All it takes is some games. Suggestion to resolve this, the developers released a Pocket Edition Mojang Minecraft. Enough to make the play Xperia buy? Read on to find out more.

OK, Pocket Edition Minecraft only one game, and it will take much more than that to make it a success, but the Xperia at least start. Pocket Edition costs only £ Minecraft 4.26 also, which is significantly less of the determination of the Sony PSP.

According to the developers, there are over 11 million registered users of the full version of Minecraft, with more than 50,000 new users joining every day.

Pocket Edition seems to be one of the popular games Minecraft on the play the Xperia. This will be enough to make you consider buying one as your next phone though? Leave a comment and let us know.

Sony VAIO C series

2011-08-26T03:43:00.000-07:00

Although laptops are to expand a little in recent years, silver or black is still pretty much the default color for most machines. Sony VAIO c series marks a change then, familiarity with several brightly searingly market. Read on to find out if England c series is good to anyone.

There is no doubt about it, some colors in the c series splits his opinion, but this is one of the things we love about this computer. Orange and green to come close to models glowing in the dark they are clear, they definitely stand out from the audience.

Besides the Orange, green, lime, c series is also available in light red, blue, particularly strong. Together with curvy, build quality is also decent, with a comfortable keyboard and responsive.

On 14-inch, c series is a reasonable size. Almost small enough to take ten regularly, but is also easily large enough to be used on your primary computer.

14-inch screen is also very light cracker, very lively and full of life. Although more average 1366 x 768 pixels resolution is the entry-level model, you can specify a 1600 x 900-pixel.

Power comes from a choice of Intel Core i5 Core i7 processors. C series features include HDMI and VGA ports, three USB ports, SD card reader memory stick., you can add Blu-ray option.

The biggest problem with C series VAIO battery life is disappointing. In under three hours from a single charge, does not take advantage of compact design, it falls a long way behind seven, eight or nine hours we expect the best laptop computers.

If battery life is not a problem, however, there are a lot like a Sony VAIO C series. May good, well designed, light laptops really make these pleasant change.

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The first perspective of Sims. Social revolution?

2011-08-26T00:07:00.000-07:00

Monday, August 15

After his release while on another platform — including handheld games consoles and telephones even casual games, increasing social networks like Facebook has made developers EA to create social of Sims. How is it, however? We are already trying it out – join us after the break for more information.

Typically, Jason gets the pleasure of testing of the latest games games blog. Sims social is different, however, as it is aimed at everyday users Facebook – where these are likely to buy a game console. As such, we decided to try it ourselves and see just how good.

One annoying thing about social Sims is that for the first time you run it, you have to play through a series of scenarios, letting you get to know with the controls and gameplay. Although it helps you discover what you are doing, is frustrating, not just play, find your own way.

The second thing to notice is that it can be very, very – wander off-and-cook-dinner-while-you-wait-slow. This is because social Sims depend on your Internet connection, whenever that lagging or losing connection, you'll discover timers whirring, nothing happens.

Also we found – at least at this early stage-that social workers also crashed a lot, to tell us to restart the browser. So far, … Not so good. Not all bad though. When you get your game up and running, it looks pretty good for a game in the browser, and you'll get a lot of similar functions, such as selecting your Sim character, personality, lifestyle arrangements – as you would a normal game.

So what is different? Start, there are members on Facebook. As with Facebook games, your friends can see when you run a social of Sims, and join you online.

So your friends can head Sims round your new home to check everything out, your Sim will be able to make friends, enemies or even fall in love, and it is all jolly jolly jolly jolly fun. Or at least, that idea. Our version of the Sims now's social takes so long to load that has not been reached after setting up the stage, Wikipedia just infuriatingly – we're still shown how to play the game.

We will be keeping a social & Sims though and is it a game to Facebook users regular gamers addicted! We would be happy to hear what you think. Have you tried out social Sims? There you can play this morning, noon and evening, or are you leaving it well? Leave a comment and let us know.

Nintendo signs free Wi-Fi, deal with the cloud

2011-08-25T20:11:00.000-07:00

Show gadget Tuesday 09 August 2011

Nintendo 3DS who now enjoy a faster Wi-Fi connections away from home, thanks to new deal among wireless network hotspot provider cloud of Nintendo. Read on to find out more.

The cloud offers wireless access points around 22,000 over 7,000 locations in 12 countries in Europe. In the UK alone there are 5,000 places that you can use to connect to the Internet.

Nintendo has signed a deal with the cloud to allow all its 3DS with free Internet access via a cloud-service Nintendo calling SpotPass. Today, your 3DS just connects to the nearest access point, you can surf the Web, as well as access to exclusive video and other content through SpotPass and download games from eShop Nintendo.

All free, you should not do anything to your 3DS to get it to work for your Web browser already.

Free wireless Internet access will make the difference to how your use of the Nintendo 3DS? Leave a comment and let us know.

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Five of the weekend: i ' mWatch to Xperia mini Peru!

2011-08-25T16:00:00.000-07:00

Friday August 12

Although it was a crazy week here in the UK, still saw some gadgets for several days. Lots of new toys hit the stores, you can also advance duty-free some gadgets. Read on to see the best products of the last few days.

Sony Ericsson Xperia mini Peru Sony Ericsson Xperia mini Pro stands out from most of the Android smartphones, thanks to the compact touch screen monitor. Small screen doesn't affect usability, however, as Sony Ericsson has also uses a proper QWERTY. More than that, it is available from only £ 20 per month.

FinePix F600 Fiji most advanced stlis we saw when it comes to features, F600 makes a stand against all smartphone cameras you just saw a big impact on the traditional camera sales. You will find a huge zoom, including tagging of flashy design and features, augmented reality.

I mWatch a smartphone via Bluetooth, i ' mWatch lets discuss mates, read messages, catch up with social messaging without taking the phone in your pocket. It is not available to buy just yet, but you will be able to advance duty-free immediately.

BlackBerry bold 9900 bold 9900 of the BlackBerry is now available to order through Vodafone. It includes processor 1.2 GHz, 768 MB of RAM, and thus the fastest BlackBerry to date, and also the first to get the new BlackBerry OS 6.

Meet iPad Pro engineering IPad is a device, but if you plan on watching it even better with a stand. Pro engineering includes construction metal, imitating the design of the iMac's stand. It's functional, looks brilliant. We want one!

Sony Ericsson Xperia mini Pro hits the shops of £ 20 per month

2011-08-25T12:54:00.000-07:00

Show gadget Wednesday 10 August, 2011

Out of all the Android smart phones we have seen recently, Sony Ericsson Xperia mini Pro remains one of the most fascinating. It is much smaller smartphones with touch screen and 3-inch compact, yet he also accepts full QWERTY slider. Pro mini Xperia finally hit the stores, and is available from £ 20 per month.

Smart phones such as Rainbow Phoenix neo Xperia Xperia marked the true from the ashes of Sony Ericsson. Before the arc and neo, Sony Ericsson handsets were wrestled with laggy, respond, couldn't compete with the best in class.

Pressing is now one of the top smartphones in the market, however, with neo proving as can equally. Both are packed with features, well designed and easy to use. Following this round on their capital, we look forward to getting our hands on the Xperia mini Pro then, is the latest smart phone at Sony Ericsson.

With screen 3 inches is less than most of its rivals, but unlike the similar-sized species of Xperia is also includes a QWERTY slider. Despite the tiny screen, there is space for processor 1 GHz, 2.3 Android, and tech Sony Bravia it by pressing.

Pro mini now Carphone Warehouse, a CD and is available for only £ 20 per month, orange. We shall be reviewing the Pro mini coming weeks, so be sure to check back soon.

ID software releases new video preview rage

2011-08-25T08:22:00.000-07:00

Show gadget Friday 12 August 2011

ID software has released a new behind the scenes video showing off the work that went into the sound effects and his art a new free-roaming shooter rage. Join us after the break for more information.

Appropriately named "sound and the fury:" shows some stunning visuals of the game takes you from the sketch, storyboards right until finish 3D processor. The result looks amazing.

You also get to find out about how to recognize intended sound effects to enhance the Visual elements and see the Big Lebowski, Roseanne star John Goodman's character Dan Hagar recording, your mentor early portion of the game.

Latest game rage mstodio who brought us Doom Quake, while it is not too far away from the shooters that made them famous, Rage seems to be more free-roaming, roles, feel as well as some amazing components, Visual vlkibolt out. The game is due for release on 7 October on PC, PS3 and Xbox 360.

Check out rage: art and sound.

What do you think? You can buy rage? Leave your comment and tell us!

Orange teases with pre's support page 3 but no phone

2011-08-25T04:19:00.000-07:00

Show gadget Monday 15 August, 2011

Orange has jumped the gun, page setup help and support for new smartphone HP pre 3, although the actual phone still won't be available for purchase. With the phenomenal pace progress smartphones, we can help but feel a little left, an arrival HP but at least now you can browse through the formal specification online.

3 pre is the latest device to run webOS – first innovative operating system, Palm btrom was something inspiring for BlackBerry Playbook.

Is one good thing about support page it confirms final phone specifications-processor-core 1.2 GHz (slightly slower than we expected, but still competitive) 512 MB of RAM, running webOS 1.4. 3 pre will also display in 3.6 running 800 x 480 resolution and reasonable.

3 pre also feature video calls, Mobile HotSpot Wi-Fi, a desktop speaker. Do not sign release date, but at least we know it is also supported when it finally show his face. Fingers crossed he soon, however, before the rivals move the game again.

You can buy 3 pre? Or have you noticed the smartphones like the Galaxy S II or iPhone 4 Meanwhile? Leave a comment and let us know.

What next-generation console is the best?

2011-08-25T00:35:00.000-07:00

Tuesday, August 16

We are nearly there yet? The first of the next generation of games consoles just came out with two way and two more still in speculation. What can we expect a new wonderful world of games, which one is worth your cash? Read on to find out.

Nintendo 3DS Nintendo 3DS, is the first of the eighth generation (like reading next generation II cognoscenti) games consoles, is distinguished by the fact that it is only one common Act.

3 DS has a number of innovations compared to previous models of the DS includes a sensor, sensor can react to movement, incline, analog controller is of course the 3D effect of the adjustable depth. Own all of these is fairly nondescript – available to other consoles or gadgets like mobile phones or via the TV. Together, they combine to create something that is very comprehensive, flexible enough to create some awesome new games

Sony PlayStation Vita Vita PlayStation is another convergence of technologies was formed-a capacitive OLED touchscreen dual-analog sticks, Internet connectivity. Vita USP is backward compatibility with existing ones from the PSP, PS1 Classics (as seen on your Playstation 3) and other content downloadable PlayStation Network, as well as its own games, spread the new design of NVG Flash memory.

Vita is a very powerful compared to other portable consoles, with core processor ARM Cortex-A9 cores and SGX543MP4 + graphics processing unit, which should lead to some games, the tension with some of today's console efforts. Built-in camera is intended for use at extended reality, in which has only been lightly patrolled.

Wii U Wii remote change everything when launched with its unique WiiMote controllers, now could set the Wii U doing it again with his Wii remote controller U, which is more like a tablet computer is less than the game controller. Built-in touch screen can be used to cast independent games, as well as offering quality controls on certain types of game unsuited motion sensors WiiMote or D-Pad.

Console Nintendo Wii u first 1080p HD graphics, Nintendo have promised the new terminal will take advantage of powerful multi-core processor – unlike the Wii, which was rather under-powered hub compared its rivalry terminals.

Xbox 720 and PS4 right now, both these consoles are in imagination like most gamers are concerned. Sources within Microsoft and Sony reportedly said the next generation PlayStation and Xbox developed, but for now the two companies that they intend to press your drops of juice games Xbox 360 and PS3.

Two terminals without doubt integrates 3D technology quite heavily (one rumours suggesting ' avatar ' graphics for Xbox 360), we would expect Kinect Microsoft motion tracking technology feature too, along with some equivalent of PlayStation.

For other features, with no expected Terminal until 2014 at the earliest, we don't like to gamble what new innovations or visit the comprehensive graphics Tech will come between now and then.

But which one is best? Xbox consoles with new vpliistiishn not even turn off the drawing board still does not seem fair to include them. The remaining three, Vita appears similar some PSP bar whereas 3DS proved rather less impressive practice with 3D effect causes us no end of tired eyes and not really much.

Our money, Yes, come. Wii's still unreleased may surprise us and lemon deeds, but the combination of reputation of Nintendo with increased processing power, new kinds of game I opened the Wii remote controller U we have intrigued enough as launch day.

Vuzix wrap launches 1200 video glasses

2011-08-24T19:41:00.000-07:00

Show gadget Friday 12 August 2011

Vuzix could start chshatanoaa of people walking into doors, lamp posts as launches new video specs 1200 wrapping. These look like a pair of shades and but actually hide away virtual screen size 75. Perfect for watching the big screen in your home, so good to look cool when about ten.

Below the cover lenses are wrapping a tiny pair of 1200 LCD screens this project directly on eyes. This creates an optical illusion of a television screen floating in space 10 75 feet down.

This screen has an aspect ratio of 16: 9, you can view movies 24-bit color resolution to 480 × 852. Rechargeable batteries will keep you watching to seven consecutive hours, don't forget to download them to prevent accidents.

We love the idea of glasses – especially for use on long haul flights or other periods which we are usually limited to watching movies in our laptops. Chances are you can find daft appearing to wear sunglasses when it's already dark or your in a while!

What do you think about Vuzix specifications? Can you buy one?

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2011-08-24T16:35:00.000-07:00

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FIFA launched 12, things look for enable Xperia bright!

2011-08-24T11:50:00.000-07:00

Show gadget Tuesday 14 August 2011

Following hot on the heels of a Pocket Edition of Minecraft, Sony Ericsson has announced the latest edition of the FIFA game Xperia today afternoon. Called FIFA 12 (somewhat predictably), it offers better graphics, better games and all the latest teams.

With a limited market of games available for the Xperia, welcomed everyone new with enthusiasm! FIFA latest 12, we can easily imagine it to be one of the best if previous versions of FIFA are anything to go by.

Head of market development of Sony Ericsson, Dominique Neal Dwyer, "FIFA 10 will be one of the most popular games for this year's launch Xperia consumers will be able to master it before other Android users". This means that to other Android devices heading as well at some point, although some graphics or games will remain.

Announced in conjunction with EA key mobile, Sony Ericsson also pointed out "the dedicated graphics processing unit, an optimized memory bandwidth and 60 fps game processing improve the gaming experience on the Xperia of soccer. Audio enhanced with hymns also enhanced commentary and audience ". With the teams, players also thrown into the mix, this should be a cracker.

You have "holiday" every (once meaning), and still be happy.

Sony RDP-M15iP

2011-08-24T06:54:00.000-07:00

Front, M15iP RDP Sony iPod dock looks like the others. This is a long, slender, with a cradle in the center of the Apple iPod or iPhone. Unlike many docks, however, he also has a long battery life is surprisingly, folds cradle smaller for better mobility.

RDP features Sony-M15iP is where the style, design points in front, can you repeat it back to make it smaller and easier to carry in a bag. Front-engine cradle for iPod could back up and flushed with speaker Grill, stand on the back also retracts. The result is a seamless, slimline, snag on something in your rucksack.

Although I M15iP RDP Sony is going to be portable, letting you take advantage of a slimline enclosure. Has a rechargeable battery, we comfortably five hours of run time of a single change.

The buttons on the dock itself limited, interrogators and part design, but there is also a remote control for better access to the music collection on your iPod.

We found M15iP RDP Sony can perfectly when volume, with loud music, no sign of distortion. There are also lots of bass, is a bonus given the small design.

There is no separate screen to display the menus on your iPod or iPhone, but then again it is likely to reduce a lot of user experience. Only easily display the collections of music on the device itself, and also display a lack of battery life.

Although heard loudly and without distortion, iPod docks we better when it comes to sound quality. Unfortunately, M15iP RDP Sony really struggles to separate different frequencies, with the music tends to sound like heavy noise – instead of offering individual instruments or sounds.

If is continuous Mobile you, M15iP Sony worth using RDP. Battery life makes it great for frequent or mountainous music got louder when will not have access to power. Unfortunately, this comes at a price, with the missing audio quality somewhat.

Which Windows phone applications, MeeGo, BlackBerry needs compete with Android iOS?

2011-08-24T03:09:00.000-07:00

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With k742 2003 Nokia set to certain countries, as well as a new host-based smart phones and mangos Windows phone set for release in the near future, we already thought about the importance of smartphone applications, whether you can still be successful without them. Read on to find out more.

One of the main reasons for the Apple iPhone is so popular is because of tens of thousands of apps offer. The same is true of the Android operating system, which is the most used smartphone platform for now. IOS and Android apps offer more reasonable than ever you need, along with thousands of garbage instead.

But what of the other operating systems? Nokia has struggled to compete with Symbian ^ 3, and it seems to be down to apps. Developers was slow to release the latest applications and games, more choice is always available with best selling phones. K742 2003 Nokia looks to struggle, and the Windows phone, BlackBerry lag well behind the eco systems iOS, Android.

We're not so sure that it should make such big difference, however. Sure, there are more applications available for Android than perhaps you can count, but how many actually use more than once?

On a daily basis, which we used to use weather, travel, banking, shopping and, along with your favorite games and apps for entertainment such as golf, but that's about it. All apps innovation get used once and then deleted or forgotten.

So we want to know what you think. If manufacturers Nokia, BlackBerry and Windows Mobile to concentrate on developing say 100 apps developer, 50 great games, whether it was enough to make you consider replacing? Of course markets develop over time, but just how large an application pool should be to make it successful?

Leave a comment, we will be happy to hear your thoughts.

Sony mkccth the prices of its PS3 at GamesCom

2011-08-23T22:34:00.000-07:00

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With a host of new games consoles in the pipeline, there has been a ’ s never a better time to buy the Sony PS3, with the Japanese giant slashing prices at GamesCom. The price cut is effective immediately, and turns the PS3 into something.bak approaching a bargain.

Prior to this year's GamesCom ’, there was already loads to like about the Sony PS3. The fact it was more powerful than any other games console, for instance, or the ability to play back Blu-ray movies without having to invest in a rental Blu-ray player.

Now there's more, ’ as Sony has slashed prices of the PS3. The Japanese company has cut prices to 250 Euros and 250-in Europe and the US, respectively. At the same time, the retailer Amazon prices slashed to just £192 for the 160 GB PS3.

Have a look at what you could be bargaining for

Is that enough to tempt you into PS3 ownership? Leave a comment and let us know.

Budget Nintendo Wii hit the shops before Christmas!

2011-08-23T17:50:00.000-07:00

Show gadget Wednesday 31 August 2011

GamesCom-the world's largest exhibition for games – only goes a few hours so far, but there were some pretty big announcements. Between the top of the list were Nintendo Wii new and set it to start before Christmas.

U Wii Nintendo's is one next generation consoles, we look forward to not too distant future, but despite the impending arrival, Nintendo hasn't given up on an existing technology. This means that you could find yourself with blag, a Nintendo Wii new, cheaper to go on sale.

New model is set to receive a minor facelift, designed, compact, modern look, and you also probably point to the existing model. There are also set to run in both the party and on Wii Wii sport included, along with the Wii remote controller with a Nunchuk. A bargain!

Latest Wii Remote is set to hit the shops before Christmas. Check back here soon images of the latest console, and stay tuned for more updates from GamesCom.

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2012 football coach with the new features will

2011-08-23T14:00:00.000-07:00

Show gadget Tuesday 14 August 2011

Published the first details of Sports Interactive's football manager sim, a recent (and us) fans salivate and begin a cancellation time booking in advance of the release of the game before Christmas.

2012 Football Manager from previous co. are (you can probably guess what it was called) and adds a host of new features, including a management sim TM to help new players get on board what is a fairly complex game, not to the heart.

Improvements made to the system overseas Dominion, usiing real overseas Dominion reports for the first time. Transfers and contracts also became more realistic, with bonuses for better simulation fidelity of amateur and youth contracts, as well as enhanced negotiation.

A revamped match better 3D, new camera angles (including the ' direction ' camera), more stadiums, better weather and crowd management. Team calls have been shaking a and select the tone use – right to calm a nuclear conflict until collected of Alex Ferguson-style.

As well as a new tutorial has tips for existing players as well as vlkibolt during the game how system which should be required in this complex.

Samsung's range of euro 10.1 tab for Galaxy

2011-08-23T10:55:00.000-07:00

Show gadget Wednesday 10 August, 2011

Samsung responded to TSO, won by arch rivals Apple, effectively Canada – minor wanted 10.1 the Galaxy sale everywhere in Europe. Apple claims the new tablet ??? Android infringes on its intellectual property rights in relation to technology and design features of the iPad 2.

A court in Dusseldorf gave a preliminary order as 10.1 no Galaxy tab was sold in the European Union, of the Netherlands.

Director of PR of Samsung, Kim Titus responded to the decision of the Court, noting that the company does not want to affect other legal proceedings involving the company.

"Samsung disappointed of the Court, we are going to act immediately to protect our intellectual property rights through ongoing legal proceedings in Germany and will continue to defend these rights actively throughout the world," said Titus.

"Request for an order is notified to Samsung, an order without hearing or presentation of evidence than Samsung.

"We take all necessary measures to ensure that innovative devices of Samsung mobile communications available to clients in Europe and around the world."

Nintendo 3DS games should be £ 15 says analyst

2011-08-23T06:30:00.000-07:00

Show gadget Wednesday 10 August, 2011

It was only a few days since declared Nintendo it its prices slashing console games Nintendo 3DS, but now also releasing games for 3DS, according to the games industry analyst.

Nintendo will be a little difficult recently, grant's recently release the price of its 3DS handheld console to try to pull hand gamers new. Good start, says industry analyst Billy Pidgeon, but it might be not enough. Pidgeon suggests that Nintendo take more extreme step and drop its price around US $ 25 games 3DS or around £ 15.

Lower prices of hardware 3DS handle only part of the problem. It is more important than selling additional software like packaged goods paid digital downloads each customer buys hardware unit, "said Pidgeon reports for M2.

As games now begin on 3DS £ 39.99 it was a fairly significant drop, but it seems Mr. Pidgeon think that increased sales will make up for the bottom margin. What do you think? Does the price of the main motives from lifting of arrest you 3DS? Leave a comment and let us know.

Some lucky preview counter strike: General offensive

2011-08-23T01:52:00.000-07:00

Show gadget Monday 15 August, 2011

Valve has to give a set of lucky gamers to try the counter strike counter strike-new title: General offensive. Some players have checkers pro CS saw most who know the original team that shoots indoors.

The game based on classic counter strike: source game engine but adds improved, many new features and what different feeling enough testers say. The global attack keeps many of the classic maps from a source, does not add new game modes, one reviewer says.

Game reports based on portal and keeps the engine 2 strike count to almost perfect games physics vrializm. The new engine gave the game maps are graphical, reconditioned models player of the game is said to look "pretty" with smoother animations, rendered environments.

Although the same basic game, valve said to change the number of weapons available, adding new types of grenade (includes a petrol bomb dummy grenade designed to fake the sound of firing), there are re-balancing weapons so players will not only focus on integrated Desert Eagle, AK-47/M4A1.

Counter strike: damage is a destination outside of the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 early next year.

I mWatch watch Android allows you to play James Bond

2011-08-22T21:20:00.000-07:00

Show gadget Tuesday 09 August 2011

We have a little clock phones now, although it does not offer the functionality of some, i ' mWatch looks like a prospect still interesting. Install Android on this compact phone actually connects via Bluetooth – instead of having its own connection – but it all and more for it, stylish. Read on to find out more about i ' mWatch.

We actually points the i mWatch a little while back, but he is currently at the pre-order, and available in different colors number ends. I ' mWatch running Android-with most smart phones – but is also compatible with other Bluetooth-enabled handsets.

Has a touch screen size 1.54 on the front of the gadget, and 64 MB memory to help force OS Android. No sounds like a lot, it can be used to help apps simply run – instead of 3D games on Smartphones with Android is actually so should be fine for most.

I ' mWatch provides 4 GB of storage, so you can listen to your music directly from the clock, providing even more than the ability to ring or read text messages without removing the phone in your pocket. You can also access Facebook updates from i mWatch, along with other widgets are including functions weather, calendar.

You can choose from a variety of colors, including red, yellow, pink, green, blue, white and black, and i mWatch also available ???????? variants can be expensive. Standard, it seems i mWatch set cost Euro 250, with the clock set shipping in November 2011.

Can you buy the i mWatch? Or the idea of chatting to your watch still leave you cold? Leave a comment and let us know.

«K742 2003 Nokia Kazakhstan, we want one too!

2011-08-22T18:19:00.000-07:00

Show gadget Tuesday 14 August 2011

Although originally we hoped to see Nokia battle it out across the world with k742 Nokia MeeGo-based Finnish company tried, hide the new handset, with Sweden and Switzerland have countries so far to get the smart phone has almost. Now you can add Kazakkstan to the list, and it looks like more proof that Nokia really does not want to take players and created with the latest gadget.

Check out our hands-Nokia k742 2003 on

A shame, too, as k742 2003 of Nokia is good. Stylish, features one of the nicest screens we have seen so far on a smartphone, and MeeGo OS really is a modern, responsive, easy to use. In fact, the only thing giving her lack of apps – this also held some of us.

Unfortunately, this problem is not likely to be away so long as his guns, Nokia has launched the Nokia k742 2003 relative locations such as vague and Kazakhstan.

As we said before, you can still get hold of k742 2003 Nokia through online retailers such as Expansys, but I paid the price, lack of support for applications and makes it difficult to stomach.

Still, if you have a holiday planned all Kazakhstan soon … Timezone

Dell pulls the plug on tablet/phone sequence 5

2011-08-22T13:46:00.000-07:00

Show gadget Friday 12 August 2011

5 Dell sequence itself since the market was launched, proving too much for convenient smartphone, and too small to be used. Let's finally have some competition in the form of smart Iconia, Dell, Acer is pulling the plug of the same smart-let's-Board.

5 sequence is like anything else currently available-or smartphone with a large screen than any rivals for that, or is less-resistant and portable way than any other Panel.

Unfortunately, this also makes it easy for compromised role, and it is simply not popular enough. Dell currently killing off 5 sequence, focusing on larger models in a range instead.

Since the launch of 5 Dell sequence, Dell has added models 7 and 10 on the range, both usable is much more when it comes to Web surfing or watching movies.

So this peace 5 then sequence. We would be happy to hear what you think though. Bought 5 Dell sequence? Do you think that this was the best compromise between your phone and the Clipboard? Leave a comment and let us know.

Nintendo 3DS titles not good enough in a session

2011-08-22T10:10:00.000-07:00

Show gadget Thursday 11 August 2011

Nintendo has already experienced difficult things recently, having to slash prices on its 3DS early adopters, while apologising for cuts price at the same time. The company has now admitted that this launch of 3DS wrong that it should offer better games, e-shop already from the beginning.

We see several cases in which the vendors has released an amazing game industry hardware, but simply did not have the software to back it up. 3DS may be the name of the console's most advanced technology, but 3D screen definitely sets him apart from his opponents. Nintendo now realized this was not enough, however.

Together with the hardware price cuts and calls for cheaper software, Nintendo has now acknowledged that the games should have been better at the launch of the 3DS.

Nintendo America boss Reggie Fils-Aime stated: "certainly, we need to have stronger support on the first-party perspective, maybe some of these first-party titles – the first key in the session to get stronger at the beginning of the system are known, ongoing drive momentum."

Still, you might not be too late for the 3DS, with cuts price taking down to console only £ 135 on some of the retailers, and reasonable way.

If you bought the Nintendo 3DS vbotil if the order of the games was better? Or you can hold for Vita PS of Sony? Leave a comment and let us know.

Giant Acer smart Iconia available in September

2011-08-22T06:35:00.000-07:00

Show gadget Thursday 11 August 2011

Smartphones come in all sorts of shapes and sizes, but recently we found devices like the Samsung Galaxy s second Sony Ericsson Xperia arc be ideal. With giant screens, yet Super Skinny designs, they offer very useful without prove too large. Acer is really pushing the boundaries with wise its 4.8 inch Iconia giant, however, and it has hit the stores in September.

Although they usually offer fantastic screens, we found that most smart phones with displays that measure more than 4 inches tend to be clumsy, anything near the 5-inch tablet is closer to the territory. That never stopped Acer from ploughing ahead with smart-its Iconia and set it to hit Europe with a price tag €499.

Acer smart Iconia closest we saw his rival for the Dell 5-inch sequence, it has a massive screen size 4.8. Other features include gingerbread Snapdragon processor, but you cannot help but we think that the screen turns or smart breaks Iconia.

It is simply too large 4.8 inches? You can find out next month, when smart Iconia hits the shops.

What Smartphone now have, do you wish it was a little bigger? Leave a comment and let us know.

We would like to see technologies 5 shared between devices

2011-08-22T02:25:00.000-07:00

Show gadget Wednesday 31 August 2011

We have seen some tech new fantastic years some, Microsoft motion-sensitive Wii remote, the Kinect, touchscreens giant smartphones. It would be even better if some of this technology became more widespread, many features of your console games really smart or you can use other gadgets. Read on to see five ?????? we would like to cut features on other devices.

Voice activated TV the latest Android phones voice search is anything short of amazing shoes and bringing apps like Dragon Dictation on iOS are natural language recognition on our hands in which seemed impossible a few years ago.

What we want to know, why not put this charming work in tech? TV with voice commands should be easy to implement-tech modern sound doesn't need to be trained how to do this it should in theory work each House. You can use the TV I listen to you for everyday tasks like changing channels, but connect a converter, PVR too could read program titles, actors, moods and even let AI classify you something to watch.

Kitchen-controlled Kinect Kinect Microsoft proven waving arms around TV is a great way to control the game. What about waving your hands in front of a microwave?

When you're cooking or cleaning the kitchen with wet or dirty hands may find yourself trying to light a light with the nose or rochshot with oven controls with elbow to avoid making more mess or touch live electricals with shelves damp. Motion sensing touch Kinect style could be just the thing to help you control your kitchen without getting bean juice up the walls.

Location-aware control we don't mean GPS (satellite hire is even a bit much for most dedicated ????????? addict) but think how mobile phones can assess their location by triangulating the distance between cell towers. Stick a few transmitters around the House was a decisive like TV remotes or car keys with RFID tags and objects have special current location displayed on the floorplan via your PC or even on your set-top box. Simply not to lose the set-top box remote control also.

Bluetooth light switches let your phone Bluetooth radio act as an identifier for you as you move around the House. Excursions into the room lights could identify that you are (or at least your phone) Dim or clarify accordingly. Couldn't add the tricks like heating or air conditioning or even music that mixes of your favorite systems will have room to room.

Touch screen car windows all who went from iPhone to iPad you might say, wanting to find a larger glass surfaces to run your fingers against hoping things magical happen. The windscreen of the vehicle is one can be adapted to run as a touchscreen.

Of course we don't want a game bird is angry that your view in advance (unless otherwise you are parked, anyway), but maybe heads-up light monitor can work with several vowels may be useful. What we really want to see no view at all, but. Imagine that-if you're a dirty windshield from outside – you can just rub your finger over it from the inside, a spray washing machine-controlled, windshield wipers go work at some point in this ... Yes, so what?

You agree with our list? Or you prefer to see other features use more prominently? Leave a comment and let us know.

BlackBerry bold 9900 for sale after only one week of pre orders

2011-08-21T22:21:00.000-07:00

Show gadget Monday 15 August, 2011

It wasn't even a week since the bold BlackBerry 9900 of RIM's and order with Vodafone, handset topping the company's range is now available to buy in the UK. If the keyboard that is important to you, you don't want to download thousands of apps, it was clearly visible.

2.8-inch screen is almost square, a large QWERTY of BlackBerry 9900 bold looks like most of the previous iterations of BlackBerry. There is a difference when it comes to specifications, however, with 1.2 GHz, 768 MB memory of the new RIM BlackBerry OS operating system 7.

9900 receives also display touch screen, letting you navigate through the operating system and Web pages without any optical surface.

Now, you can get your hands on the BlackBerry's bold 9900, which also includes 3 g, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, with prices from £ 39 for handset "free". Pay £ 99 initial price falls £ 36 per month. If you want the cheapest £ 15 tariff of Vodafone, however, you will have to pay the hcharotiam £ 399.

HTC lanza nuevo teléfono vacaciones

2011-08-21T17:56:00.000-07:00

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HTC es plantear un nuevo Andriod Smartphone, HTC vacaciones. HTC vacaciones contará con una pantalla qHD de 4,5 pulgadas con una resolución de 860 x 540 píxeles. HTC vacaciones será impulsado por un doble núcleo 1,2 GHz Snapdragon procesador y se ejecuta en OS Android 2.3.4 de pan de jengibre. La fiesta de HTC, el nuevo teléfono AT&T, ha generado un gran interés entre los amantes del teléfono y expertos. Ahora, los informes sugieren que las características de este teléfono se han filtrado. Además, los informes sugieren que se está construyendo HTC vacaciones de AT&T para competir con el Samsung Infuse 4 G.

Características:

Marca: HTC MobilesModel: HolidayForm Factor: Tabletred: GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 / HSDPA / Mhz4.5 LTE pulgada de método de entrada de TouchscreenMulti-touch capacitiva, HTC sentido UI8.0 MP cámara (3264 x 2448 Pixels) con enfoque automático y cámara frontal de Geo-tagging1.3 MP (1280 × 1024 píxeles)Android OS, v2.3 (pan de jengibre) 1,2 GHz procesador de doble núcleo, Broadcom BCM4330 chipsetInternal memoria: 1 GB memoria RAMExternal: hasta 32GBGPRS y EdgeBluetoothWi-Fi 802.11 b/g/nPunto de Wi-Fi DLNA,3 G: HSDPA, 21 Mbps; HSUPA, 5,76 MbpsGPS con A-GPS supportMicro USB 2.0

Precio:

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New range of laptops from SONY

2011-08-21T13:46:00.000-07:00

Sony has launched its series of Sony VAIO in the range of colors and a more modern design. Notebook Sony VAIO with processor AMD Dual core and Intel Core processor of second generation. The screen size varies from 11.6 inches to 15.5 inches. This laptop is powered by the processor of 380 million of core i3 intel (2.53 GHz). Sony Vaio model VPCEB42EG comes with HDD 320 GB, 2 GB of DDR3 SDRAM, graphics Intel HD cards and preloaded with Windows 7 Home Basic 64-bit edition.

Features:

Windows 7 Starter/Basic/Premium/Professional OSAvailable in-11.6 inch widescreen at 15.5 inches wide screenAMD Dual core / Core Intel's second-generation Processor2GB SDRAM at 8 GB HDD SDRAM320GB to 640 GB HDDAmd Radeon/NVIDIA GeForce graphics card

Price:

Price of the India Sony VAIO Laptops are in the range of Rs.24, Rs.79 990, 990 and is available in the shops of all leaders.

The new Motorola challenge

2011-08-21T09:42:00.000-07:00

Motorola Defy is one of the clearest Android smartphones, we reviewed; It is a bit broad, but has a screen edge to edge, an elegant rubber back and edges curved make it comfortable to use. Apart from bolts of industrial aspect around the side of the case, seems to Defy the regular Android smartphone, which is why Motorola really deserves much credit for its design.

Motorola has stressed that the Defy is not "waterproof" per, but described as water resistant and can handle is submerged in up to a meter of water. It must ensure that the flap of plastic that covers both headphones and microUSB port are closed before attempting to drown the phone; both are a little annoying to open, but effectively seal the ports of water leaks when it was closed properly.

Features:

-3.7 inch TFT capacitive touch screen with 480 x 854 pixels and 16 million colors
-IU MOTOBLUR widgets Live
-Sensor accelerometer for Auto-rotate user interface
-Alert tones MP3 and vibration
-Gorilla glass screen
-The phone book entries virtually unlimited
-2 GB of internal storage with 512 MB of RAM memory
-up to 32 GB of expandable memory
-3.5 mm connector
- 3 G HSDPA internet speed up to 7.2 Mbps and HSUPA 2 Mbps
-Virtually unlimited call recording
-Photo call
-Touch controls
-12 GPRS:Class internet speed up to 32-48 kbps and EDGE: class 12
-Sensor proximity to automatic shutdown
-microUSB version 2.0
-Speaker
-Wireless LAN Wi-Fi with DLNA and Wi-Fi hotspot
-Downloadable games
-Multi-touch input method
-Flash Lite
-Active noise cancellation with dedicated microphone

Price:

The price of the phone, not yet announced and will be announced soon.

Steps to install MIUI ROM Galaxy S II (2.3.4 Android)

2011-08-21T05:17:00.000-07:00

Samsung Galaxy S II proved the goodness of MIUI ROM. Yes, we have the confirmation of a version of aplha port MIUI of work for the Galaxy S II. This was made possible by the bmarko82 from XDA-Developers Forum member and will have many excited Galaxy S II users. Read on for more information about the ROM and install on your device!

Requirements:

Rooted Galaxy S II. See our guide on how the Galaxy S II of root.ClockworkMod installed recovery. (Installed via ROM Manager).1.6.17 MIUI ROM: Alpha.

How to install MIUI on Galaxy S II (Android 2.3.4)

Step 1: Download MIUI 1.7.29 for its GSII from here.

Step 2: Connect your smartphone to your computer with a USB cable and copy the .zip file downloaded in step 1 to the root of the card SD of the phone, i.e. home directory of the SD card of the phone said. Once copied, disconnect the phone from the PC.

Step 3: Download and install the ROM Manager [market Link] on its GSII.

Step 4: Start ROM Manager. Now click on Flash ClockworkMod Recovery and choose Samsung Galaxy S II of the list of smart phones. The phone will reboot.

Step 5: Once restarted, reopen until ROM Manager and tap restart recovery.

Step 6: Your phone will restart once more, this time in a special mode called ClockworkMod Recovery. You will see different options in this way; using your phone volume keys, scroll to backup and restore and make a backup of your smartphoneon the current status.

Step 7: Make backups takes time. On completion of the process, go to wipe data/factory reset. In the same way, scroll down to advanced using the volume button keys/home and delete cache Dalvík.

Step 8: Now this is where us flash ROM: scroll down to install zip from sdcard > choose zip sdcard > MIUI-1.7.29-SGS2-beta32.zip. MIUI will now be flashed to his GSII.

Buy t-shirts 2011-2012 football latest Kits

2011-08-21T02:16:00.000-07:00

His last over 2 years since I started our journey online. We write lots of articles and reviews in the past years and hope that continue doing us the same in the coming years. Because it crossed the mark of 2 years, (of presence online on August 10, 2011) we are now looking at ways & means to carry it to the next level. This is only one minor update and trust me, you will feel no difference with the content of sites in all.

Now, as part of this update we are launching a campaign to help people find and buy the best and most recent football club Jersey. On the other hand we are talking about people who can help us to search for the right jerseys of different teams in the world only as Barcelona jersey for 2011-2012. You can see the screen shots of home jersey of Barcelona (2011-2012) most recently here. But before that, leave us a comment if you are looking for a sweater. You can also in contact with us here to learn more.

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12 FIFA: Withdrawal last FIFA 12 bands sound

2011-08-20T21:43:00.000-07:00

Hey people, its time for some fifa stuff here in india365. We have been covering lots of 12 fifa News that you will possibly find on the internet and now its time to remove some of the soundtracks of fifa 12 . EA revealed these soundtracks in his latest podcast and we are pleased to find everything on a youtube channel.

The game company has revealed 3 soundtracks for now. They are removed immediately. Note: The best tracks are played the first.

FIFA 12 2 soundtrack: humanity: breaking the spell

FIFA 12 soundtrack # 1 - pint shot Riot - twisted soul

FIFA 12 soundtrack # 3: entrepreneurs: Sabor Tropical

Madden NFL 12 and Need For Speed Shift in a package for PSP

2011-08-20T18:07:00.000-07:00

Sony launches a package for the PSP struggling to include devices that contain copies of EA Madden NFL 12 and Need For Speed Shift more later this month. This package retails for $159.99 and they also contain 2 GB memory stick.
But that no one will buy? The DS still dominates the market for handheld, smartphone and tablet pc gaming continues to grow and the Vita is expected to hit us in 2012 (and Japan at the end of this year).

In June sony sold 70 million of psp worldwide since its launch in Japan in 2004 and launched in us in early 2005. Nintend has sold DS double hand 146 million compared with 2004, according to internal numbers sony.since.

You will need to write the date of August 30 on his agenda is due the day Madden NFL 12 to reach the shelves. To celebrate this momentous occasion EA and Sony have teamed up and creating a package for the psp handheld console (in black), including Madden NFL 12, Need For Speed: Shift and a 2 GB Memory Stick Pro Duo in a very good price $159.99. You can find in stores across the country.

Is a good idea for Sony launch a package for the PSP this holiday season, too

The history of Call of Duty

2011-08-20T14:32:00.000-07:00

This game was developed by activision. Activision is still not interested in a social game, pointing out that a title such as Call of Duty is much more popular than any game on Facebook. Last month, EA bought game studio for $ 750million. Many game companies continue to spend dollars higher in the social game, Activision is not one of them.

In the 13th annual Pacific Crest Technology Leadership Forum, Activision Publishing CEO Eric Hirshberg made it clear that casual game won't damage your company in the near future. He pointed out that a title such as Call of Duty remains much more popular than any game on Facebook. Call of duty is more interested in facebook and popular game. Players can pay-2-play the game on facebook. The percentage of players who play every day is greater than top three games on facebook.

Activision refused to accept the facebook gaming market, but it is important to online marketing. Hirshberg also indicates where he saw the game industry today: "despite all the hand drain in our industry right now, people are not games less," said. "In fact, it is games ever more." "They only do so with fewer games and he is spending more time playing these games than ever before."

Micromax launches new phone X 40

2011-08-20T10:22:00.000-07:00

Micromax has released a phone Dual SIM projector, Micromax X 40. Micromax X 40 projector would watch videos on the big screen. You can also share the presentation with your help as it supports almost all MS Office applications such as Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel spreadsheet and Powerpoint.Micromax X 40 has a 2.4-inch support at 320 × 240 screen resolution pixels, 2MP camera, FM Radio, eBook Reader, Bluetooth, support of expandable memory up to 4 GB and Socail Netwroking prepared with FacebookSnaptu and preinstalled Nimbuzz.

Features:

Network: GSMSIM Quad band support: Dual SIM GSMDimensions: 117 × 51 x 17 mmWeight: 148 GramsDisplay: 2.4 inch, 240 x 320 pixels resolutionCamera: 2.0 MP with Video RecordingVideo-player: 3GPMusic PlayerFM RadioBluetooth v2.0Internal memory: memory 80MBExpandable: up 4GBBrowser: Opera Widgets: eBook, Mobile Tracker, ProjectorSocial networks: Facebook, Snaptu, Nimbuzz.

Price:

The price in the India is 4799 Rs and will be available in stores mobile of any leader.

New Samsung phone Chat

2011-08-20T06:18:00.000-07:00

Samsung Chat 527 comes with a screen of 2.4 inches with resolution of 320 x 240 pixels, 2 megapixel camera, video recording, optical trackpad, 80 MB of internal memory that can be extended with the help of slot for microSD cards up to 32 GB. Samsung Chat 527 supports dual band 3 G, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, GPS, mini USB, Java, multi format player video, FM Radio, music player, web browser and 3.5 mm audio connector.

Samsung Chat 527 has QWERTY keyboard, 2 megapixel camera, internal 80 MB memory, expandable memory up to 32 GB, FM Radio with RDS, Wi-fi, Bluetooth, 3.5 mm Audio connector and powered by a standard battery, with a time of 3 hours of conversation.

Features:

2.4 inch LCD Display240 × 320 pixels of screen resolutionQWERTY Keypad2 megapixel Camera80MB MemoryExpandable internal memory up to 32GBFM RDSWi-fi, Audio Bluetooth3.5mm Radio jackSocial AppsStandard BatteryTalk network time: up to 3 hoursStand - by time: up to 288 hours

Price:

New Samsung Chat 527 price in India still not available and will be available soon.

Mexico: The Indian Huichol bead-dazzled Volkswagen Beetle

2011-08-20T01:53:00.000-07:00

People consider a 1990s Volkswagen Beetle, named "vochol" at an exhibition on the culture of Huichol Museum in Puebla, near Mexico City August 10, 2011. The name "vochol", has designed a combination of "vocho", a popular term for Volkswagen beetles to the Mexico and "huichol", a Mexican indigenous group. The car was decorated by Aboriginal artisans living in the States of Nayarit Huichol community and Jalisco, traditional fabric and beads. According to local media, the work will be put up for auction after its exhibition in Paris and Berlin next year, with funds and profits for the Huicholes.

(Photo taken on August 10, 2011.) (REUTERS/Imelda Mediana)

Science fiction video clip on a woman with speakers in its skin

2011-08-19T21:28:00.000-07:00

The video for the song of the seasons "of our discontent" (of the winter, $5 on Bandcamp indie album) is the touching and odd little science fiction story of a woman with speakers in its skin:

for the shimmering of the psychedelic indie rock on "...""Of our discontent," seasons and Director Christopher j. Ewing follow a day in the life of Vera (Mahaley Manning, "Easy A"), a young girl with speakers in its skin and no volume button to control its consistently clear music.

Season: "...""Of our discontent" (via JWZ)

Vegetarianism, religion and law compete in New Jersey skirmish of Samosas

2011-08-19T17:17:00.000-07:00

(Image: golden brown (Samosas), an image of the Creative Commons Attribution Non commercial (2.0) of the jakerome photostream)

A legal case in New Jersey, in which a group of Hindu religious vegetarians were served Meat Samosas became an interesting test of religious rights and responsibility. For what it worth, I know that some vegetarian atheists who would continue if this happened to them, too! Of Nick Farr legal abnormaluse blog:

Recently, in Gupta v. Asha Enterprises, no. . A-3059 - 09 T 2 (N.J. Ct. app. July 18, 2011), the Court of appeal of the Superior Court of New Jersey was affirmed in part and reversed in part by grant from the Court of first instance of summary for an Edison judgment, restaurant in New Jersey who have served filled with meat samosas sixteen vegetarian Hindus. In a celebration of the day of the India in 2009, the applicants placed an order in the Indo-Pak restaurant for vegetarian samosas, informing the restaurant food is purchased for a group of strict vegetarians. The restaurant filled the order and the plaintiffs assured that foods contain meat. After having consumed among samosas, returned applicants remaining samosas in the restaurant and was informed that the food was, in fact, filled with meat. Accordingly, the applicants claimed spiritual damage and submits a number of causes of action against the restaurant, including the responsibility of the product and the breach of the express warranty. The Court found evidence prima facie case of a guarantee Express by restaurant employees and reverse the grant of a summary judgment with respect to this claim. However, the Court affirmed summary judgment on the claim of responsibility produced, holding that, while the applicants have provided the wrong product, the food was safe, edible and fit for human consumption. Unfortunately, responsibility religion and remain divided.

The plaintiffs the practice of the Swaminarayan Hinduism and believe that eating meat, they "engage in the cycle of sin of pain, injuries and deaths on the creatures of God, and that it affects the karma and dharma or the purity of the soul." They seek compensation for "distress emotional and economic damage in relation to a purification ritual, they must undergo now cleanse themselves."

In related news, samosas are delicious, and I want to eat a potato filled now.

(thanks, Susannah breslin)

Video of music under license CC seeks music, after orphaned rendered by the Group

2011-08-19T14:11:00.000-07:00

Brandon sez, "earlier this year a friend and I made a music video self-financing for a song that we loved, with the permission of the band." After several months of work, we have posted to online video, where he attracted viewers for a week before we received unexpectedly a notice of removal of the band, who were to reconsider the use of rights for this song. Wishing all our work to disappear, we decided to transform this setback in a creative opportunity and created They Call Us/animals. We have published visuals of the film, without music, available for download under Creative Commons licence for musicians, designers sound and remixers retailer, use and share, in the hope that these collaborations may produce even better than our original video works. I also have an explanatory video for the project, with music courtesy of Creative Commons album Ghosts I - IV of NIN. »

They animals call us. COM (thanks, Brandon!)

Riots UK: Manchester police "adopt" social media-"we said that we come to you!

2011-08-19T09:39:00.000-07:00

[Video link: "operation worth arrest," a video uploaded on YouTube by the police of Manchester UK division.]

Fiona McCann, on Storyful:

Manchester Police have been using social networking to help them in their repression against looters and rioters and publication of the results through the media of same. Tweeting "we said that we come to you!", the Manchester Police more linked to the video above, which shows the Deputy police chief Garry Shewan leads a team of officers to arrest operation worth, "the Greater Manchester Police operation to bring those responsible for the recent trouble on a large scale in the region."", to justice."

Below, one of the many videos uploaded by eyewitnesses of looting and chaos earlier this week in Manchester. This video was recorded Tuesday, and the disturbances lasted four days and three nights, with some 2,000 young people reported in the Centre of Manchester at the height of the disturbances.

(via the Mark little)

Statement by BART on killing of wireless stations on 11 August, in anticipation of civil unrest

2011-08-19T05:36:00.000-07:00

(Image has contributed to the pool at Flickr BB by Bhautik Joshi)

Finally, here is explanation sorry Bart why they stop services wireless in the Bay area stations on August 11,.

BART temporarily interrupted select service stations BART as one of many tactics to ensure the safety of everyone on the platform.
Cell phone service was interrupted not outside the BART stations. In addition, many BART Police officers and other staff of BART with radio was present at the event provided, and train intercom systems and white courtesy phones are available for customers seeking assistance or to report any suspicious activity.

Good thing, Bay Area subway system managers take a benchmark of Hosni Mubarak! Because, you know, if a real riot had occurred, it is not as anyone affected would have no need to contact for help or anything.

"Personal BART or contractors close power nodes and alerted the cell carriers."
James Allison, Deputy Chief of BART said CNET communications officer.

Elinor Mills of CNET reports that "the original statement of BART said Metro had asked wireless telecommunications to suspend the service in the stations, but Allison said more later BART himself pulled the plug and notified suppliers after the fact."

Said cellular service BART did not disrupt outside stations: the evidence, please?

Update: coverage in the Washington Post and Al jazeera, MSC. Christopher Soghoian and Jacob Appelbaum security researchers filed a request to the FOIA (PDF link). Those so inspired can file a complaint with the FCC (PDF link). Here's an EFF post on the subject.

Leakage of merger at & T: it comes to prices and reduction in competition

2011-08-19T01:52:00.000-07:00

A member of AT & T legal staff inadvertently (and briefly) has posted an internal document damning for the folder from the FCC for the of AT & T/T-Mobile merger pending. The document clearly indicates that "AT & T is giving Deutsche Telekom 39 billion, mainly to reduce competition in the market" and that the claims of the company of the largest network expansions and increased employment are totally fictional.

Yet again, the reality seems that AT & T is giving Deutsche Telekom 39 billion, mainly to reduce competition in the market. This price tag eliminates T-Mobile full - and makes Sprint (and by proxy new LTE partner LightSquared and current partner Clearwire) more sensitive to the failure to the dominance of the market AT & T/Verizon 80%. How do you dominance of broadband wireless market applies to AT & T for the next decade? After all, AT & T will be first of all say you there is a "tsunami" coming, with AT & T and Verizon on the shore of billing with impatient users up to $10 per gigabyte of wireless data.
Regardless of the motivation behind rejecting the deployment of LTE 97%, the letter is from AT & T is claim they need to T-Mobile to improve coverage of 80-97% LTE simply not true. It is a huge problem for AT & T, since almost every politician and non-profit has expressed to the merger has therefore largely based on that possible promise. It is also a problem when it comes to the review of the Department of justice, since the evidence that the AT & T could complete their build LTE for much less that the cost of this transaction means the transaction does not meet standard of the MJ of fusion-specific benefits.

Leak AT & T letter demolishes cases of merger of T-Mobile (via /.)

AOL hacked

2011-08-18T20:58:00.000-07:00

Postmaster.AOL.com, at the time of writing, is infringed. Several hours! Perhaps a little DNS can only be fixed by disabling the server?

The British: Tell Parliament to keep his hands off the coast of social media

2011-08-18T17:52:00.000-07:00

Jim of the UK Open Rights Group sez, "David Cameron tries to acquire new powers to close social media and mobile messaging when there is"disorder": he is also thinking about new snooping powers.". "We need to stop these plans before they go forward."

The Government focuses on entirely the wrong problem by trying to increase their powers to ban, block or monitor people's communications. Social networks like Twitter are used for a wide range of positive purposes such as warnings of danger and organization of clean projects. Measures of general surveillance of private communications or the increased powers to the users of the mine would be against the freedom of the people to communicate in a manner very damaging and would in no way address the problems at hand. The laws hastily, with a limited analysis and information, to resolve an outstanding issue is likely to create unbalanced laws and our rights abuses.

Save our social media! Stop cut offs and close downs (thanks, Jim!)

(Image: riot Police, a Creative Commons Attribution share-alike (2.0) of the zoonabar photostream)

The apocalypse annotated: anthropologists to tackle 2012

2011-08-18T13:07:00.000-07:00

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It's August of 2011, do you know when your Apocalypse is?

There are 1000s of people who think that something important—if not the end or the world, then something—will happen on December 21, 2012. These speculations spring from a well-seasoned cultural melting pot, but a key ingredient is the writings and beliefs of both ancient and modern Maya people. In fact, the folks promoting the 2012 movement often frame themselves as experts in Maya traditions.

Here's the thing, though: There are actual experts in ancient Maya traditions, and actual experts who study the culture and religion of modern Maya living today. These archaeologists and anthropologists have, inadvertently, created some of the pop culture legends that spawned the 2012 movement. But, until very recently, they've largely ignored that movement. This is starting to change, however. Last January, archaeo-astronomers held a symposium on the 2012 phenomenon and those papers were recently published in The Proceedings of the International Astronomy Union. Meanwhile, a new scholarly book, collecting essays on the 2012 phenomenon by Mayanist researchers, is set to be published soon.

One of the researchers featured in that book is John Hoopes, an archaeologist and one of my former professors when I was an anthropology student at The University of Kansas.

Hoopes does field research, digging at archaeological sites in Costa Rica and other parts of Central and South America. But, as a side project, he's also developed some expertise in the way archaeology—and, particularly, pseudo-archaeology—influences pop culture in the United States and Europe. I spoke with him about where 2012 myths come from, why scientists need to study and address pseudo-science movements, and why he thinks the 2012 phenomenon owes as much to H.P. Lovecraft and Aldous Huxley as it does to the ancient Maya.

Maggie Koerth-Baker: I know that you are an archaeologist, but you also have this very meta offshoot of your research that I sort of think of as the cultural anthropology of archeo-mythology. How did you get into that?

John Hoopes: That’s one way to put it. I usually think about it as the ethnography of contemporary culture. It goes a long way back. I was an avid consumer of pseudo-archaeology in high school. I was a sci-fi and fantasy fan. My very first research paper, in 10th grade, was a critical evaluation of the Lost Continent of Atlantis.

MKB: Tell me a little bit about the real science that forms the backbone of this 2012 mythology. When people talk about this stuff, what artifacts and research are they building off of?

JH:The real stuff behind it, it comes in several flavors. The main real stuff are prophecies in The Books of Chilam Balam, the Books of the Jaguar Priest. That's really a set of different manuscripts from colonial Yucatan and it was published in the 1700s. But they recount stories that were collected much earlier, including ones from the time of Spanish arrival. Chilam Balam is a legendary prophet who made various pronouncements that are collected in these books. That's what's referred to as "Mayan prophecies." The scholarly discussion of them goes back to the 1930s.

Then, beginning in the 1970s you also have discussion of a monument called Tortuguero Monument #6. It appears in Linda Schele's work in 1982 [Schele was one of the key researchers in the story of how modern scientists learned to decipher ancient Maya hieroglyphics—MKB] and discussed at the Maya Workshops in late 1990s. As we got closer to 2012, David Stuart published the new translation. [Stuart is a student of Schele's and another key figure in the translation of Mayan writing.—MKB]

It's the only monument known to have the date 13.0.0.0.0—the Mayan date that corresponds to December 21, 2012—on it. The monument is damaged. So it's hard to read and it takes a lot of cleverness to decipher what the text actually says. The preliminary translation came out in the late 1990s. However, the inscription isn't at all clear. There's some discussion about whether it's even a prophecy, but I think it is. It refers to celebration of a god called Bolon Yok'te K'uh. This deity seems to be associated with warfare and with the king of Tortuguero. The most recent translation suggests that whatever they said would happen then was really just the dressing and honoring of this deity, nothing more.

The date 13.0.0.0.0 is a logical extrapolation of how the Mayan Long Count Calendar works. The first published mention of that date was in the 1800s, came from the work of Joseph Goodman. But it wasn't actually written anywhere other than the Tortuguero monument, which was discovered in the 1970s.

MKB: When did you start noticing the 2012 movement as a phenomenon? Did it grow out of something else that you were already following, or kind of appear on its own?

JH: It had been something on the edge of my consciousness for a while. The Mayan Factor by Jose Arguelles is a book was part of the New Age Harmonic Convergence of 1987. That came out right as I finished my dissertation. I didn’t pay much attention at the time because everybody had just written it off. By that point, people were joking about New Age and not taking it seriously. But at that time, Arquelles was writing about December 21, 2012. And it just grew from there. I didn’t pay much attention until 1995, which is when I noticed two things.

First, that was the year that the first interactive, graphic Maya calendar orientation program came out on the web and it gave December 21, 2012 as the date that corresponded to the Mayan date of 13.0.0.0.0. Then I got an email from Daniel Pinchbeck. We had a common interest in Burning Man and he contacted me saying that he was writing about Jose Arquelles and 2012 for Rolling Stone. That’s when I realized that this had taken on a life of its own. But I hadn’t really realized until early 2003 that it was something people were still paying any attention to.

MKB: One of the things I found very interesting is the role that legitimate archaeologists have played in creating this 2012 myth. One of those people is Michael Coe, a very well-respected researcher who wrote some of the books I read as an undergrad. Tell me a little about his role in this. Has he ever talked much about it?

JH: He’s made informal statements in email and in conversation with colleagues. And he did write an introduction to a book that's coming out soon, which I have contributed to, called 2012: Decoding the Counterculture Apocalypse. In that, he discusses his inadvertent role in fostering this myth.

It really started with his 1966 book, The Maya. He did two things. First, he was the first Maya specialist to correlate a long count date to a date in the future, rather than in the past. He was trying to figure out what that 13.0.0.0.0 date would be, and he turned out to be wrong. He thought December 24, 2011 and that was later corrected. But he was also the first person to link that date—13.0.0.0.0—to the concept of Armageddon and say that the Maya would have associated that date with the end of the world. I’ve been in pretty regular communication with him over the last several years, and he’s repeated that paragraph in all 8 editions of The Maya. He really thinks the ancient Maya would have thought about it that way. But that’s not everyone’s interpretation. And it’s not mine. That’s just what he thinks.

MKB: Is his story something that has made today's Mayanists more careful about the way they talk to the public about their theories?

JH: I think that people are beginning to think that way, but it’s not how they thought before. I don’t think any of the Mayanists saw this coming. They’re taken aback by it. They’re surprised that the statements they make are taken as seriously as this and treated as real beliefs, absolute fact. What they’re really doing is throwing out ideas to make the books interesting. I don’t think Coe was asserting a scientific discovery about Maya prophecies. He was just talking in an informal way about what he thought the ancient Maya might have thought. In the past, those books were intended for academic audiences that understood that, but with the web new audiences have read these books and interpreted them in different ways.

MKB: How do you address this with your students? Do you address it?

JH: Oh, absolutely. I have a class called Archaeological Myths and Realities and we devote a whole semester to looking at myths that have come out of archaeology and how those play out in popular culture. We also discuss the phenomenon of how people learn about the past. I think a lot of the current generation of high school and college kids learn about archaeology through video gaming. They learn about it through Civilization and Tomb Raider. There are lots and lots of allusions in games to ancient cultures and civilizations, and through science fiction movies. Many people learn about the past through pop culture. And pop culture has popularized some really spurious theories. Think about the History Channel and their series on ancient aliens, for example.

MKB: We’re starting to see anthropologists publishing research on the 2012 movement. Why is the movement something important to study on its own, separate from the traditional archaeology that seeks to understand what ancient Mayans believed?

JH: Mainly because I think it gives us an opportunity to see how religious movements begin.

There’s a lot in that mythology that people are referring to as if it is real or as something they want to believe in. It’s been tied together with the Age of Aquarius, the legitimacy of prophecy, and visionary experiences. There’s a lot there that’s similar to the beginnings of other religious traditions. Christianity, for instance, began in the context of messianic prophecies. The LDS church began in the context of speculation about Native Americans and concerns about the end of the world. And the Millerite movement of the 1840s is another one. That gave rise to today’s Seventh Day Adventists and Jehovah’s Witnesses. William Miller prophesied the second coming for October 1844. And even though it didn’t happen, it still had a lasting legacy because so many people believed. Publications started by Millerites are still the publications of the Jehovah’s Witnesses today. I really think there will be some religious or spiritual movements that come out of the 2012 mythology. If you go into Barnes and Noble and look in the metaphysics or spirituality sections, you’ll find tons of books about 2012. It’s not treated as historical or scientific, but as spiritual.

MKB: How many scholarly articles have been written about this now, and what issues are they looking at?

JH: There’s only three books that represent scholarly critiques, and two scholarly articles. Anthony Aveni is an archeo-astronomer interested in the intersection of astronomy and culture. In his book, The End of Time: The Maya Mystery of 2012, he’s talking about what the real science behind this is. There’s also another book, 2012: Science and Prophecy of the Ancient Maya, by Mark Van Stone, which looks at what the hieroglyphic texts do and don’t say about 2012.

Like I told you, there’s actually only one text that even mentions it. And it’s not complete and not easily interpreted. All the prophecies don’t come from the pre-Columbian texts, but from post-contact documents that are heavily influenced by Christianity. There’s another paper about that contact period that has focused on the role of missionaries in the Yucatan shortly after Spanish conquest. Basically, it’s framing Millenarianism in the context of that post-contact era. Many of those people came to Mexico precisely because they were on the extreme end of ideology and were obsessed with the end of the world. And we know that one of the first things they said to the Indians they found was that the world is ending soon and Jesus is coming. It was a very important part of Spanish colonization. When we hear end of the world prophecies, what they are is synchronistic prophecies where Mayan beliefs and Catholic Millenarian beliefs combined.

MKB: Why has there been so little scholarly attention paid to the 2012 movement until now?

JH: I think that scholars in general are very uncomfortable with contemporary belief systems. They’re laden with a lot of emotional baggage. It’s not the purpose of science to generate or support ideology, and so scientists are reasonably cautious and don’t want to contribute to that growth. They’re also just not familiar with it. They won’t touch fringe literature with a 10 foot pole and so they’re completely unaware of how big this phenomenon is. A student of mine has just written an article called “2012 by 2012.” He’s been keeping tabs on the number of books published about this topic and he thinks there will be more than 2000 books out by the time 2012 comes around. It’s been a huge publishing phenomenon.

MKB: In some ways, it seems that this has given people like Mayanists and archaeo-astronomers a role in modern culture that they don't normally have. You talk about Anthony Aveni having an email conversation with a teenager and trying to debunk the myths and reassure this kid that the world wasn’t really going to end. And, I mean, it's typical for a biologist to have to have conversations with the public like that, or a climate scientist, but it's not really something you expect to do a lot of when you study dead things. What has that been like for you? Is that role of public explainer something archaeologists are well prepared to take on?

JH: I think that they’re prepared to take it on in terms of the knowledge that they have. But they’re not well prepared in terms of how it is that we talk to people who are interested in the spiritual aspects of this. I think that actually polarizes the dialogue sometimes. Scientists and academics end up being seen as the bad guys. A lot of this mythology falls into anti-authoritarian mythology. “What the official sources tell you isn’t true. There’s a conspiracy to hide the truth.” The trailer for the 2012 movie said something along the lines of, “If governments knew about a world wide catastrophe, would they tell you?” It raises suspicion of authority. And I don’t think many academics are prepared to deal with people who are hostile to authority and who have made up their minds that scholars are lying or are part of the conspiracy.

MKB: So what do you do when that comes up?

JH: I try to be fairly diplomatic about it. I try to realize that these myths play a very important role in people’s lives. They make them feel comfortable, help them feel better. I try to help people develop critical thinking skills, and help them understand that you can’t educate yourself simply by reading the web and watching the History Channel. That it requires a lot of scholarship and reading, and you have to look at the original academic literature. You can’t rely on popular magazines. You have to evaluate the primary information itself. Lots of people can’t afford the academic training they want and so they try to do it themselves and wind up with an autodidactic education that includes a lot of bizarre and totally wrong speculative literature. In fact, a lot of people writing about this are self taught in the same way.

MKB: Are there cultural anthropologists who make a point of studying pseudoscience movements? Because some of the pseudoscience you talk about seems fascinatingly detailed and complicated, but at the same time, completely speculative. That's an interesting combination to me. Is it interesting to researchers?

JH: I think it is, but I don’t know of any cultural anthropologists who pursue it. There’s a lot of excellent religious studies work on new religious movements, though. One of my favorite books is The Invention of Sacred Tradition. What they talk about is how people will invent things that they then say have been happening forever. I think it helps us understand the production of culture, how culture is generated. There’s a lot of richness out there that we can see in the creation of new mythologies.

Jesus Potter Harry Christ is another book you should look at. It’s a detailed comparison of Christian myth and the Harry Potter stories, and it comes to the conclusion that, except for the fact that Christian myth has been sanctioned for 2000 years, there’s no difference. Essentially, one could base a whole theology on Harry Potter. And, in fact, I suspect that in the future somebody will. That’s how culture gets created. Myth cycles become the way that people teach morality, values, and behavior. That’s what the Bible does, but Star Trek has that function, too.

MKB: What other influences do you see on the 2012 movement, besides New Age ideology and Mayan mythology?

JH: Something else covered in that 2012 book I’m in that hasn’t really been talked about in mainstream media … the reality is that this mythology came out of the psychedelic subculture. You can’t ignore that influence. I was talking about this with a TV presenter and her reaction was that they couldn’t say that because they do family programming. A lot of people won’t talk about it because it’s a taboo topic. But we do discuss that in this book. If some of the 2012 theories seem like they were made up by people on drugs, it’s because they were. There’s this huge psychedelic subculture that still exists and that the media doesn’t really report on except to demonize it. But it’s important.

Also, the most recent research I’ve been doing, and I haven’t published on this yet, but I’m finding links between the work of H.P. Lovecraft and influence of that on 2012. Michael Coe was a huge Lovecraft fan, even. I’m working on a manuscript on that right now. But Lovecraft is at the root of a lot of the ideas here, like the cycles of destruction, for instance. That’s not Mayan, that’s Lovecraft. Lovecraft himself had a lot of skepticism and felt that spiritualism was appropriate for fiction but didn’t believe any of it in everyday reality, and he kind of used his fiction as a way to mock those beliefs a little. But now that’s being used as reality.

MKB: What about the modern Maya? Has anyone gotten good documentation on what they think about this cultural phenomenon that's tied to their culture, but is also separate from it?

JH: I hope that that work is happening. In fact, I’ve encouraged some of my students who work with modern Maya to be doing just that. Because what’s happening now is a very active synchretism of the religions of living Maya groups with New Age thought.

Mayan belief has long been synchronistic. In the pre-Columbian era they were influenced by the cultures and beliefs of Teotihuacan, the Toltecs, the Olmecs, and then you get the Spanish and Catholicism, then evangelical Protestantism, and since the 1970s there’s been this influence of the New Age and that’s really intensified now with the 2012 thing.

Essentially, some very enthusiastic hippies have gone into remote Maya villages, bringing their ideas about the New Age, Buddhism, and theosophy. They are introducing them to the Maya themselves, who are in turn producing a new synchretism. I think there are a lot of places that are reinterpreting shamanism along the lines of what Western academics think shamanism to be. That makes it really hard to understand what those people originally believed. The religous studies scholars call it “The Pizza Effect,” it refers to what happens when a culture reflects back to a foreign influence as though it had always been there. The Hare Krishnas, for instance, were an American interpretation of Hinduism and were exported to India, where it became a religious movement in India that hadn’t been there all along.

The name comes from the history of the pizza, which is that the pizza was invented by Italian immigrants in New England creating a quick lunch. But as American tourists went to Italy in search of authentic pizza the restaurateurs were happy to oblige by inventing a history of the pizza in Italy. And now you have this “authentic” Italian pizza coming back to the U.S. I think that’s happening with 2012 as well. You have modern Maya talking about New Age secrets as if those were original parts of Maya culture, but those were things that were learned in the 60s and 70s.

It is authentic. Synchretic beliefs are absolutely authentic. You know, the authenticity argument is really one of, “Do these people authentically believe this,” and the reality is that many, many Maya are authentically evangelical Protestants. Yes, it’s recent. But it doesn’t mean it’s any less authentic. But there’s a difference between authenticity and tradition. And the arbiters of truth and what is tradition are changing. Ironically, this is happening at a point where we know more than we ever did before about ancient texts because we can actually read them so much better. And there’s nothing in there about aliens.

Image: Apocalypse, a Creative Commons Attribution No-Derivative-Works (2.0) image from torek's photostream

Proposal for a net-censorship of David Cameron wins kudos in Chinese State media

2011-08-18T08:11:00.000-07:00

Premier British David Cameron (which is reported have exhibited himself and fled police University) has proposed a scheme of State censorship for social media keep people from passing on messages inciting violence. This proposal was warmly received by the Chinese State media and bureaucrats, who are happy to see that Western Governments are finally their management style.

Distrust of the British Government of the Internet and the Blackberry Messenger - symbols of freedom of speech - is a forced reaction which could upset the Western world. During this time, the open discussion of the containment of the Internet in Britain gave rise to a new opportunity for the world. The United States media and Britain used to criticize the developing countries to limit freedom of expression. New attitude of Britain will contribute to appease feuding between East and West the future management of the Internet.
As for China, advocates of an unlimited development of the Internet should think twice about their original ideas.
On the Internet, there is no lack of posts and articles inciting public violence. They cause considerable damage once they are tweeted without control. At this time, all Governments have no choice but to close these Web sites and stop these agitators.

Riots lead to rethinking freedom of the Internet (Thanks, Juha!)

(Image: General Chu Teh, an image of the Creative Commons Attribution (2.0) of photostream and David Cameron - World Economic Forum annual meeting 2011, an image Creative Commons Attribution share-alike (2.0) of the thomasfisherlibrary worldeconomicforum photostream)

GNOME of combat.

2011-08-18T04:26:00.000-07:00

The underlying connection was closed: A connection that was expected to be kept alive was closed by the server.

"I don't know what it was that finally prompted the gnomes to take up arms." Maybe it was one too many gopher invasions. Perhaps it was the overwhelming gaudiness of neighboring plastic pink flamingos encroaching on their ancestral homeland. Or maybe they just finally got tired of the media portraying them as traveling morons. "either way, they've had enough and they re out for blood." [Shawn Thorsson's Etsy store via @greatdismal]

Critical review of anti-carb book, good Calories, Bad Calories of Gary Taubes of Stephan Guyenet

2011-08-17T23:51:00.000-07:00

Stephan Guyenet, neurobiologist who studied the Neurobiology of the regulation of body fat, wrote a critic long, detailed Gary Taubes book, Good Calories, Bad Calories on his wonderful blog, Any Source of health.

A few weeks on Gweek, I examined follow-up to Taubes book, Why get us Fat: And What to Do About It, which is a slimmed down version easier to fill of good Calories, Bad Calories. I hope meets Taubes this interesting criticism. But it was not posted on his blog since April.

What I want to discuss, it is a hypothesis. This is the idea, advocated by Gary Taubes, carbohydrates (especially refined carbohydrates) causes obesity by elevation of insulin, causing increased fat storage in fat cells. To demonstrate that I represent this hypothesis with accuracy, here is an excerpt from his book Calories, bad Calories:
This alternative hypothesis of obesity is three separate proposals. First, as I have said, is the basic proposal that obesity is caused by a lack of regulation in metabolism of fat, and thus a defect in the distribution of energy, rather than an imbalance of energy intake and expenditure. The second is that insulin plays a key role in this process of fattening and compensatory behaviors of hunger and lethargy. The third is that carbohydrates and particularly refined carbohydrates - and perhaps the fructose and content, and hence the amount of sugar consumed - probably are the prime suspects in the chronic elevation of insulin; Therefore, they are the ultimate cause of common obesity.
There are three parts to this idea. I will deal with each of them separately. I know that many people expect (in the hope of?) a bitter withdrawal of Gary Taubes, but this is not what will happen. I am not bitter, but I do not think that some scientific wrongs must be straightened for the ancestral health community as a whole. I also agree that there is a lot of useful information in the books of Taubes.
Part i: a defect in metabolism of fat?
The first part of this hypothesis says that the energy balance is not the ultimate cause of material gain fat, it is the proximal cause. Taubes is not in disagreement with the first law of thermodynamics: he understands that fat accumulation depends on how much energy is entered into the body leaving vs. However, it considers that all of the industrialized world is a not only wake one morning and decide to eat more calories, so something must be driving increased calories consumption.
He cited the research of Dr. Jules Hirsch and Rudy Leibel, various underfeeding and overfeeding of studies, studies of lipectomy and evidence of rodents genetically obese, to demonstrate that body fatness is biologically regulated rather than the passive result of consumer behaviour and voluntary food exercise. Then, he advanced the idea that this is a change in fatty regulatory system of the body behind obesity. This may seem familiar because I have written about this several times on this blog. So far so good.
This is where he should have mentioned leptin signaling, which would have taken the book [in] scientifically exact direction. Leptin is the system that the Dr. Jules Hirsch and Rudy Leibel showed in carefully controlled human studies is responsible for the metabolic defect it is (1). It is also the system which is mutated in rodents genetically obese, he discusses (2, 3). It is still no mention in the book. It is a crossroads, where Taubes ignores a plausible hypothesis in an indefensible.

The hypothesis of carbohydrates of obesity: a critical examination

village African-American 19th-c. unburied in what is now the NYC Central Park

2011-08-17T19:07:00.000-07:00

A few months ago, anthropologists and historians finally received permission from the city of New York to begin digging in an area of Central Park (near 85th Street and Central Park West): a step critical in a quest for decades to reveal the story of an African-American community destroyed in the 1850s by the creation of Central Park. Leave a New York Times article (published a few weeks ago):

While the perforations in the past has produced a few artifacts, searches [ended July 29, 2011 - XJ], generated 250 bags of material which should keep scholars occupied for months, even years. Work on the single Wednesday gave a handful of brush teeth fashioned from bone and the lid of a jar of sandstone.
About two-thirds of the inhabitants of the Village of Seneca were African-American, while others were European, especially Irish in origin. The community was established in the 1820s, a few years before the abolition of slavery in New York. Despite the old news reports that the village was a squatter camp, it was, in fact, composed of landowners of middle class and working.

In the NYTand the Village of Seneca Project Web site. They have more pictures and panoramas of the excavation.

A statement made by the co-directors of project Nan Rothschild (Barnard College, Columbia University) and Diana Wall City College of New York (CUNY) on the bags of more than 250 artifacts that are now washed and analyzed in laboratories:

Better yet, many of these artifacts can be associated with two specific households. We have found the foundation walls and many objects of William Godfrey Wilson House, a sexton for Church all the Angels' who lived in a 3-storey house near the Church with his wife and eight children, and we have searched the backyard of the House of Nancy Moore (later occupied by the Webster family just to the Southeast.)
In the second we found the buried surface dating from the period of the Village, the soil on which the villagers walked and on which they excluded several shards of broken plates and glass, pieces of pipe smoking and young animal bones (apparently mostly beef) which suggests that someone in the vicinity of the Village was able to slaughter. In this region, we hope to be able to retrieve information on the environment, including the plants that were originally from the Village and those who represent the foods that were consumed it. After laboratory analysis is complete, we will be able to provide information on the life of the inhabitants of this community, which at the present time and make them a part of the history of the city of New York.

(via Ed foreign on G +)

Shepard Fairey beaten in Copenhagen: by rogue and the local media

2011-08-17T15:17:00.000-07:00

Artist Shepard Fairey has been ambushed and attacked physically in Copenhagen. The attack was triggered by false statements in the local press, that he was hired by the city to produce what amounts to the "propaganda".

Long-time friend date that Sean Bonner wrote, "the paper knew that this was not the case, but the story spread and loaded off the coast of some activists who have made their anger with the city to Shepard and he jumped outside the gallery where was his show." Fairey he is mad that he jumped, it is crazy that the media spread a story false and try to ensure that its version gets heard too. »

Indiana State Fair stage collapses

2011-08-17T12:12:00.000-07:00

Five are dead and dozen injured after a stage at the Indiana State Fair fell the itself Saturday. The collapse was captured video, embedded above, which shows a sudden winds would be liable. More from the AP: witnesses

said a wall of dirt, dust and rain quickly jump like a bowl of dust and a gust of wind toppled the rigging. People ran screaming and shouting, desperate get road. Subsequently, hundreds of concerts-spectators rushed amidst the chaos to treat the wounded, many attempts to raise heavy beams, lights and other appliances which ripped through the crowd. Witnesses said that many wounded were in the section VIP most close to the scene, known as the "trough of sugar". Teams of emergency implemented a triage center in a tunnel under the rostrum of honour at the Indianapolis fairgrounds.

Strong storm collapses on stage in Indiana, killing 4 [AP]

Cory at the Edinburgh Festival this evening, Reno World Science Fiction Convention this week.

2011-08-17T07:47:00.000-07:00

I am about to fly to Edinburgh for a concert at the Edinburgh Festival, this evening at 20 H 30. There are still a few tickets left.

From there, I am directly led to the renovation, the World Science Fiction Convention in Reno, where I do a ton of things:

Wednesday, August 17
11: 00-11 h 45 am - copyright in the library, Sierra view Library (off-site), 4001 s. Virginia St, located in Reno at the Reno Sparks Convention Center Mall - reading, signing and q and a with the library community, from host city: Christine Johnson

2-00-3, 00 pm - reading room of Reno Sparks Convention Center A05

Thursday, August 18
8, 55-10: 00 am-walk with the stars, (off site) meet to stroll the meeting point (of the Walgreen parking, 3495 S Virginia St, approximately 5 minutes walk north of Atlantis), walk to Reno Sparks Convention Center, with Stu Segal, Bill Willingham, Julie Bell, Boris Vallejo, Lawrence M. Schoen, Lauren Beukes and Ellen Datlow

11 h 00-12 h 00 pm - Panel of the psychogeography of ideals, Convention Center A04, with Renee Sieber, cake of David and Ian McDonald

4-00-5, 00 pm - Panel futuristic fashion and Wearable Art, form, with Lauren Beukes and Gail Carriger Convention Center room

Friday, August 19
11 h 00-12: 00 pm - social media for writers, A03 Panel, Tee Morris, Tom Negrino, Rose Fox and Brenda Cooper Hall Convention Center

15 h 00-future media signature, Tachyon Publications table in the dealer room

5-00-6, 00 pm - Panel of the future of cities, Convention Center A01 + 6 room, with Ian McDonald, Gary Ehrlich, Lauren Beukes and Kim Stanley Robinson

Saturday, August 20
11 h 00-12: 00 pm - signing, Hall 2 autograph (Convention Center)

1, 00-2. 00 pm - KaffeeKlatsch, KK1 (Convention Center)

Sunday, August 21
1, 00-2. 00 pm - war of the computer and Cyber Forensics: Stuxnet - Cyberwar and Cyber terrorism? Panel, Convention Center A03 room with Brad Templeton, David Cake, Howard Davidson and Helen. UMBERGER

Hope see you there!

Jersey custom of R2D2

2011-08-17T03:09:00.000-07:00

Etsy seller EricaKnit will be custom-make you jump of R2D2 (there is a correspondence toque, too). carry out the week of 4 to 6 times, so get your fall plans in gear.

CUSTOM made to order - Star Wars R2D2 t-shirt (via craft)

Bed peace: John and Yoko

2011-08-16T19:36:00.000-07:00

Moved by the recent disturbances in London, Yoko Ono, artist and wife of the late John Lennon, decided to share the 1969 film "peace bed" (directed by Yoko and John and filmed by Nic Knowland), online.

[The film] is a document of the events in Montreal and features John & Yoko in conversation with, among others, the World Press, satirist Al Capp, activist Dick Gregory, comedian Tommy Smothers, demonstrators at Park popular Berkeley, Rabbi Abraham l. Feinberg, artisan Christine Kemp, psychologists Timothy Leary & Rosemary Leary, CFOX DJs Charles P. Rodney Chandler & Roger Scott, producer Andre Perry, journalist Ritchie YorkDJ & sponsor Murray the Kfilmmaker Jonas Mekas, publicist Derek Taylor & personal assistant Anthony Fawcett.
Featured songs are give PEACE A CHANCE & INSTANT KARMA of Plastic Ono Band, acoustic version REMEMBER LOVE who saw the wind & John of Yoko.

Watch the film to imaginepeace.com. It seems that the film will be offered it as a YouTube for this weekend only.

Last updated: Yoko Ono (and of Yoko Ono, itself in the Boing Boing comments on this post), word that "" peace bed will now be available until midnight Sunday, August 21."" No commercial release is planned, although some old VHS tapes are still available online through different vendors. "Yoko wants to just encourage people to be recalled and to discuss peace, especially after the recent events in the United Kingdom,", says a rep.

(Image courtesy Yoko Ono)

Anonymous hacks BART after the wireless; events scheduled for Monday

2011-08-16T15:03:00.000-07:00

Anonymous delivered prior to the BART hack threat after the San Francisco Bay Area transit entity ""fired a Mubarak"." Wireless data service was killed in some stations, last week, after supervisors BART received word that protesters were planning demonstrations in the train system. These demonstrations were to protest the recent killing of a man homeless by an agent of BART and 2009 fatal shooting by another officer of BART to a non-armed passenger.

Anonymous hack today included the release of the names, passwords and other personal data stored for users of the site marketing MyBart.org. And the flight of the database. I post the link because some Boing Boing readers are no doubt regular users of the system and may want to know if their information was compromised. Infosec BART critics are asking why these data were stored in plain text format on the servers to the public in the first place.

Californiaavoid.org, a site DUI, has also been damaged (screengrab above).

Anonymous has announced plans for a new demonstration Monday at 5: 00 pm at the Civic Center in San Francisco station, as well as attacks online. Account Twitter this seems to be one of the most reliable sources for the plans. During this time, BART has called in the Federal Government.

I have read on the web of coverage: CNET, sf gate, SF examiner, CNN, Oaklandlocal.com, TheNextWeb, BayCitizen.org. San Francisco affiliate of ABC News has an interview with a person identified as anonymous member.

In the comment threads previous Boing Boing posts on disorders of BART (and by "disorders", I mean BART officers of shooting and killing two passengers), some readers asked if the entity was governmental or private. It is a point-gov, a special government agency created by the State of California.

Important news for baby-monkey-riding-a-pig

2011-08-16T11:27:00.000-07:00

[Video link: "Baby monkey (go back on a pig) Art Show!"]

Boing Boing pal andrea James said,

It seems that the video that you posted on Boing Boing the baby monkey a riding backward baby pigs has inspired much of fan art, including many variants with baby on unicorns monkeys... now set to music by Parry Gripp.

What is it? Someone he gamified?

Here is the original below [video link].

Caturday: Edition of Ninja

2011-08-16T07:52:00.000-07:00

Sorry, I couldn't read the periods contained this page.

Long Beach Police Chief: hold us photographers and I have not all guidelines for that policy, photography is classified with attempts to acquire weaponized smallpox

2011-08-16T03:42:00.000-07:00

The Long Beach Police Chief confirmed that his Department policy is to have photographers that nothing more to take photographs in public places, and that he has no plans to implement, all the guidelines for the detentions. He classes photography with another "suspicious activity" such as "attempts to acquire illegal or illicit biological agents (anthrax, ricin, Eboli, smallpox, etc.)" and "in his possession, or use, explosives (for illegal purposes)". ""

"If one sees someone taking pictures of something like a refinery," says McDonnell, "" the onus to the agent to make contact with the person."" McDonnell went to say that if such contact becomes detention depends on the circumstances that the agent.
McDonnell, said that, while there is no specific police training to determine whether the subject of the photographer has "apparent aesthetic value", officers make these judgments "based on their overall training and experience" and will generally join the photographers do not engage in "regular tourist behaviour."
This policy is apparently falls under the rubric of compile suspicious activity reports (SAR) as described in order special No. 11 of Los Angeles Police Department, a statement March 2008 "policy of LAPD... to strive with precision and properly collect, record and analyse information, criminal or non-criminal, which could indicate activity or intentions related to terrorism, domestic or foreign".

The Chief of police confirmed detaining photographers in departmental policy

(Image: Perfection, an image of the Creative Commons Attribution (2.0) of the omaromar photostream)

Native Compton rapper "the game" takes Twitter joke on the Compton Sheriff's station. Sheriff: not amused.

2011-08-15T23:38:00.000-07:00

"The Game" tweets the Sheriff station phone number in the telephone calls of Compton, CA. native of number of followers of Twitter 580 000 flood the station, crowding "launches a legitimate appeal on a missing person, an incident of domestic violence, two robberies and a stolen vehicle." The tweet has since been deleted, but he invited fans interested to apply for a course of music with the Office of the application of the law. Compton Sheriff's Office feels not the lulz and may prosecute.

The Angel making Jacob struck himself

2011-08-15T19:13:00.000-07:00

Anyone know that the original author of this remix by jacob spiffing The Angel Making hit himself, engraving by Gustave Doré 1855? Last updated: married to the sea!

12 FIFA: EA SPORTS FIFA welcomes Barclays Premier League

2011-08-15T14:48:00.000-07:00

EA has released a new capture welcoming the Barclays Premier League. We realized the screenshot on the page of EA SPORTS FIFA facebook fan and can prove it right here on India 365 in a moment. The screen capture features Manchester United home front Wayne Rooney hit the ball and John Terry, trying to defend to Rooney. The image also has p cech rushing forward to stop the ball.

The first game of this season starts tomorrow (IE) Sat 13 August 2011. Now, its time to remove the screenshot.

12 FIFA: EA reveals FIFA 13 12 brand ambassadors

2011-08-15T11:12:00.000-07:00

EA SPORTS has revealed the names of 13 international players who will participate in the commercial activity of the 12 games of FIFA. You will find all the names at a time. The names include stricker star Machester United Wayne Rooney, Real Madrids star KAKA and Benzema. EA also said the participation of real players in the promotion of game depending on the country and in the way the campaign is designed.

Here is the complete list of names recently announced by EA.

Wayne Rooney, Manchester United
Kaka: Real Madrid
Jack Wilshere: Arsenal
Philippe Mexès-AC Milan
Karim Benzema: Real Madrid
Giampaolo Pazzini: Inter Milan
Gerard pique: FC Barcelona
Xabi Alonso: Real Madrid
Mats Hummels: Borussia Dortmund
Tim Cahill – Everton
Valentin Stocker: FC Basel
Vasili Berezutski-CSKA Moscow
Balázs Dzsudzsák - Anzhi Makhachkala

All these players play EA SPORTS FIFA in real life, says our source softpedia.