“Corning Lotus Glass has a high annealing point that delivers the thermal and dimensional stability our customers require to produce high-performance displays,” said Andrew Filson, worldwide commercial director, Display Technologies, and vice president, Corning Holding Japan GK. “Because of its intrinsic stability, it can withstand the thermal cycles of customer processing better than conventional LCD glass substrates. This enables tighter design rules in advanced backplanes for higher resolution and faster response time.”Corning Lotus Glass has been qualified for use and is already in production.
"Since WD has greater direct manufacturing exposure to the flooded areas, we believe the impact on our business in the short term will be greater than to other HDD manufacturers," Coyne said.
But the image used to show maps was ripped off of Maps application in iOS as you can see from the following image (courtesy, androidpolice):
- The Galaxy Player 50’s built-in GPS combined with its Wi-Fi connectivity will show your exact location as well as other points of interest, such as restaurants, parks, and hotels.
Customer support is working with the individuals reporting changes to their experience. We are investigating these reports to determine the root cause of any issues users are having.
For more detail on the interview, which is very interesting to read, head here
"We'd like to take Mini and put it into Mobile," Boilesen told CNET. "We call it Opera with Turbo for Android...That is something we are looking forward to launch at the beginning of next year."
"Our global network supports the communications needs of more than 70 million customers," said RIM Co-CEO Mike Lazaridis. "We truly appreciate and value our relationship with our customers. We've worked hard to earn their trust over the past 12 years, and we're committed to providing the high standard of reliability they expect, today and in the future."
"We are grateful to our loyal BlackBerry customers for their patience," added Lazaridis. "We have apologized to our customers and we will work tirelessly to restore their confidence. We are taking immediate and aggressive steps to help prevent something like this from happening again.
I was out for about three hours in Durham, NC. The other problem is that when I forced my Bionic to CDMA only mode, I still didn't get data. I think it was an eHRPD outage as well, because by chance my phone connected to standard EV-DO Rev. A around Burlington and I got data back. Then the phone said, "Ooh, eHRPD" and connected to that. And there went my data until around midnight Eastern Time.
VZW_insider, can you confirm an eHRPD outage?
Google is reportedly working with NSA and George Mason University to develop a highly secure kernel for Android 3.0. This move is to make Android devices useful for military personnel and operations and also for ERTs. The kernel development is already in progress and is in the final stages of testing. Michael McCarthy, operations director of the Army’s Brigade Modernization Command’s Mission Command Complex has revealed that the White House too is interested in this project as part of their work on creating a secure wireless network spanning across the country for ERTs.
Testing for Federal Information Processing Standard 104-2 certification is now in progress, after which there is formal paperwork that need to be finished. “That is a game-changer for the security business because it then sets the conditions so that in the second quarter [late March 2012] they can do the certification of the Secure Sockets Layer, which then gives us the ability to operate at the classified levels,” McCarthy said. He also thinks that Android devices, with this kernel can be far more secure than current Blackberry devices and can used by the executive branch (currently using Blacberry devices).
For more detailed information, head here.
On 19th of October, at 10am Hongkong time, Google and Samsung will unveil the next Android flagship device Nexus Prime. This event ws supposed to happen on 10th of this month but had to be postponed due to Steve Jobs death. Live stream of the event will be available on Android
Google has yesterday setup ICS statue at Googleplex which usually marks the release of a new version of Android.
Tony Bates, ex-CEO of Skyp and president of Skype division at Microsoft announced that the deal is now closed and that Skype is part of Microsoft now. Luckily not many Skype employees are effected by this acquisition and they will continue to work under Microsoft, atleast for the time being.
"By bringing together the best of Microsoft and the best of Skype, we are committed to empowering consumers and businesses around the globe to connect in new ways," Bates said. "Together, we will be able to accelerate Skype's goal to reach 1 billion users daily," Bates said.
"Skype is a phenomenal product and brand that is loved by hundreds of millions of people around the world," said Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. "We look forward to working with the Skype team to create new ways for people to stay connected to family, friends, clients and colleagues - anytime, anywhere."
The best way to know about this news is by listening to Vic (above video). The new features are pretty cool and are being rolled out to users of G+.
Opera has released Alpha build of Opera 12 for PCs and the feature set looks pretty impressive.
Head here for more information on this and you can try out the latest build from here
The famous CM7 custom android ROM for HP’s Touchpad tablet has reached Alpha development stage and the following video shows that it is indeed coming out pretty well:
The ROM is available for install but do note that it can be extremely buggy and you will cannot hold anyone (but yourself) responsible in case you brick your device. A detailed information on installation etc can be found here
Sharefile provides services similar to Dropbox but is targeted more at businesses where data security is everything. Citrix Systems has announced today that they have acquired ShareFile to strengthen it’s cloud strategy. The financial detail of the acquisition is not revealed yet.
“This is a highly strategic acquisition that enables Citrix to deliver all three of the critical components for the personal cloud – collaboration, apps and data – with amazing accessibility and productivity on any device. Our follow-me-data strategy means data will be shared (1) across people, (2) across apps, and (3) across devices. As customers and partners build on this platform, they will be able to easily add follow-me-data services to their software, leverage the data that other apps store there, and instantly inherit all the management, mobility and scalability that’s in the ShareFile infrastructure.”, says Mark Templeton, President and CEO, Citrix Systems, Inc.
More data on the acquisition can be found here
Google Wallet, application that turns your phone into a payment device has received a major upgrade. Do note that Google Wallet required 2.3.3 version of Android and here are the key features added in this version:
This is how the liquid cooling kit will look like for upcoming core i7 3000 series Sandybridge-E processors. Provided by Asetek (Intel branded), this will be the first time that Intel has offered liquid cooling kit for their processors. Users, though can opt not for CPUs without this liquid cooling kit. Intel will also sell this kit without the CPU and will be compatible with LGA1155, LGA1156, LGA1366, LGA2011. Pricing is not known yet.
Given the demise of netbook market, Acer has suffered severe negative growth (-23.2%) and is pushed to no.4. Lenovo has seen the biggest gain, thanks to it’s strong Thinkpad and Ideapad lineup. From 4th place with 11.1% of market share in Q3 2010, Lenovo shot up to second place with 13.5% marketshare in Q3 2011. That’s a 25.2% rise in shipments. HP stayed at the top of the table with a minute increase in shipment volume while Dell registered negative growth (though a minute one). The coming quarter should be better given the holiday season and it won’t be too long to see Lenovo starting to compete with HP for that to spot. Acer, on the other hand need to get the act right. Their advantaged lied in low cost netbook and budget notebook offerings but now they are facing severe competition from tablets and budget notebooks from bigger brands like HP and Lenovo which also offer better service and are more reliable.
Nuance Communications Inc has acquired the popular onscreen keypad maker, Swype Inc. for whopping 102.5 million $. Nuance, specialized in speech recognition (powers iOS’s Siri) and digital imaging will solidify it’s place in Android and Smartphone arena. 77.5 mn $ is already paid to Swype’s shareholders while the remaining amount will be paid after 18 months.
Notifications is one of the strongest areas in Android. What if you get a chance to spice up the notifications? Try out the new applications ‘Pops’ for Android devices. This application provides alerts for your mail, tweets, SMS etc and these alerts are turned beautiful using fully customizable on screen animations and videos. Here’s a short video of Pops:
You can get Pops from Android market for free.
“The explosion of big data and the new paradigm of cloud computing are converging, forcing IT to re-think storage investments that are cost-effective, manageable and scale for the future,” said Brian Stevens, CTO and vice president, Worldwide Engineering at Red Hat. “Our customers are looking for software-based storage solutions that manage their file-based data on-premise, in the cloud and bridging between the two. With unstructured data growth (such as log files, virtual machines, email, audio, video and documents), the 90′s paradigm of forcing everything into expensive, single-system DBMS residing on an internal corporate SAN has become unwieldy and impractical.”
"Adobe Creative Cloud reinvents creative expression by enabling a new generation of services for creativity and publishing, that embrace touch interaction to re-imagine how individuals interact with creative tools and build deeper social connections between creatives around the world,” said Kevin Lynch, chief technology officer at Adobe. "The move to the Creative Cloud is a major component in the transformation of Adobe.”
We therefore decided to assist a group of developers called “FreeXperia”. The overall open developer community is important to Sony Ericsson, and we hope to learn from it, and share knowledge ourselves. The FreeXperia group was supported with devices and technical know-how, and they are now in the process of creating custom ROMs based on the CyanogenMod for several of our latest Xperia™ phones, including Xperia™ PLAY and Xperia™ arc.For more information, you can head here
