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URBAN SHELF, a handy storage device designed to hold your essentials on a stable yet easily foldable platform - all smartly held in place w/ a mattress, sofa or futon. Creates the perfect spot for keeping phones, remotes, keys, small H20 bottle, eyeglasses, books & more while in bed. Integrated cord holders ensure gadgets are charged when you wake - eliminates the need to reach on the ground for charger tips. An edge lip keeps items like pocket change/lip balm/mints from falling. The ability to
Samsung's second-quarter smartphone shipments hit 76 million last quarter - up 56 percent from the prior year, and giving the company a 33 percent share of the global market.
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Apple, meanwhile, shipped 31.2 million iPhones, a 20 percent year-over-year rise, and good for second place worldwide. However, that trailed the overall smartphone industry, and meant that Apple's market share fell to 14 percent - its lowest level since the second quarter of 2010, according to market research firm Strategy Analytics.
"The current iPhone portfolio is under-performing and Apple is at risk of being trapped in a pincer movement between rival 3-inch Android models at the low-end and 5-inch Android models at the high-end," Strategy Analytics' Neil Mawston said in a statement.
Overall, smartphone shipments hit 230 million for the second quarter, up 47 percent from a year earlier, and representing 59 percent of all mobile phones sold.
"The smartphone industry's shipment growth rate, which is higher today than a year ago, is being driven by surging demand for 4G models in developed regions like the US and 3G models in emerging markets such as India," Neil Shah, senior analyst at Strategy Analytics, said in a statement.
Korea's LG doubled shipments from a year earlier to 12.1 million units, enough to give it five percent global market share and the No. 3 spot, just ahead of China's ZTE and Huawei, each of which shipped more than 11 million smartphones.
Activision Blizzard Inc. said it has reached an agreement to buy back nearly $6 billion worth of Vivendi SA's holding in the company, ending months of negotiations over the fate of the videogame giant.
Santa Monica, Calif.-based Activision said Thursday it will buy 429 million shares for about $13.60 per share, reducing Paris-based conglomerate Vivendi from being majority shareholder. Activision said it would fund the purchase with $1.2 billion in cash on hand from its domestic accounts and approximately $4.6 billion in debt financing from banks including J.P. Morgan and Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
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According to Harris Interactive's 2013 EquiTrend survey, which polls some 38,000 U.S. consumers about their brand preferences, Apple dominated not only the tablet segment, but the mobile phone and computer segments, as well.
Quite the hat trick, and one Apple has pulled off for two years running now, beating out some serious competition. In the computer category, Apple bested Hewlett-Packard, Dell and Sony; in the tablet category, it surpassed Amazon, Google and Samsung; and in the mobile phone segment, it beat HTC, Samsung and LG.
Said Harris Interactive senior VP Manny Flores, "... What really stands out is that in all three of the categories Apple brands are measured - Computer, Tablet and Mobile Phone - its Brand Momentum scores are in the top 30 of all 1,500 brands evaluated in the study."
And that's worth noting. Harris Interactive's Brand Momentum category measures - among other things - ubiquity, future outlook, leadership and popularity. In the eyes of U.S. consumers, Apple clearly meets its brand promise.
Here you go - if you live in the U.K.: Satellite TV service BSkyB has rolled out a Web TV box for 9.99.
That works out to about $15, and what that gets you is essentially a rebranded Roku HD box - BSkyB invested in Roku last year, and once again this spring - tailored to support BSkyB's Now TV streaming subscription service. That also means that the box won't support BSkyB rivals Netflix and Amazon/Lovefilm.
You can see more specs and details here, but the big picture is that this shows yet another approach to distributing Web-to-TV hardware: Rather than have consumers buy the gadgets directly from the manufacturer, a programmer/distributor sells the box and subsidizes the cost.
Expect to see more of this in the future. For starters, note that Roku's other investors include 21st Century Fox, Dish Network and Hearst, which owns both TV stations and stakes in TV networks including ESPN.
Meanwhile, Apple is in talks with Time Warner Cable about an Apple TV tie-up; for now, that deal doesn't call for the cable operator to sell Apple's boxes, but you could certainly imagine a pact where it does.
And remember that Amazon, which tried to buy Roku last year, has its own TV box in the works, which will be optimized for Amazon's own video offerings.
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Google has quietly rolled out yet another feature of its Google+ social network, letting users click Share from any YouTube video, revealing an icon that suggests watching the video with friends in a Google+ hangout.
Google didn't formally announce this new feature, instead revealing it via product manager Brian Glick on - where else - Google+, where he casually mentioned it like so:
You can now start a Google+ Hangout with a YouTube video, directly from YouTube. Watch with your friends.
Just click on "Share" underneath any video, and then click on "Start a Google+ Hangout" in the bottom right-hand corner.
A few weeks ago, YouTube Live product manager Brandon Badge quietly mentioned the upcoming ability to enable hangouts from YouTube with live streaming video, and this must be the first stage of that initiative.
As we mentioned then, it's been possible to watch videos with friends since the beginning of Google+, through a more complicated manual process that must be initiated in Google+. But this new button allowing you to initiate hangouts from YouTube with a couple of clicks makes it considerably easier.
We do know that Mozilla has just released Firefox 6, but here we are with Firefox 7 Beta - and this particular version (also, we did cover whispers of Mozilla mulling over whether to do away with version numbers) is said to be the first to implement Memshrink. Just what does Memshrink bring to the table? It will be able to reduce Firefox's memory usage by get this - nearly 50%. Now that is certainly something worth looking into, and if such low memory usage levels can be achieved even in a beta, imagine what the full version will be able to do.
You will be able to download the new Firefox 7 Beta for Windows, Mac and Linux platforms, and as for those who have been running the Firefox beta, they need not worry since their version(s) will be updated automatically. On a slightly different note, Mozilla has also rolled out a beta version of Firefox for Android. It must be noted that Firefox 7 s memory usage will remain constant even if you decide to leave the computer and browser running overnight, where it will free up even more memory whenever you close more tabs.
For those who have made the upgrade, how do you find it? Are there any bouquets or brickbats that you want to share with us?
Tipping the scales at just 96 grams while measuring a mere 110mm x 50.7mm x 9.7mm, the Nokia 700 does not sacrifice performance for size - in fact, it also has a 1GHz processor to keep up with the times, coupled with GPS navigation ability, an integrated FM radio, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connectivity, a 5-megapixel full focus camera with an LED flash, 2GB of internal memory and a microSD memory card slot for expansion purposes.
As for the display, you get a 3.2 ClearBlack AMOLED display with Corning Gorilla Glass adorning the top for added toughness, while built-in NFC lets you simply share images via touch - or use the smartphone in conjunction with other NFC-enabled accessories including the Nokia Play 360 amongst others.
Have a heart for the environment? The Nokia 700 won't disappoint you, being Nokia's greenest smartphone to date, being free of pollutants like PVC, RFR and BFR. Not only that, it goes further by relying on materials such as bio-plastics, recycled plastics and recycled metals in its construction. Once you're done, the Nokia 700 is fully recyclable - now how about that? The only problem is, I don't know whether to dump this inside the glass, paper or plastic can.
Expect the Nokia 700 to retail for around 270 Euros as it hits the market in Q3 2011. [Press Release]
I never really thought that phones would have evolved to being this smart today - and the color screen on ordinary cellphones at the turn of the century was just a start. The Nokia 701 shows just how far the humble phone has come, where we will look at the specifications in greater detail first.
Running on a 1GHz processor, the Nokia 701 is also accompanied by HSUPA 3G, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity, NFC support, GPS navigation and an integrated FM radio. The Symbian Belle operating system (the latest, which succeeds Symbian Anna by the way) will run in tandem with a 1GHz processor.
What makes the Nokia 701 outstanding would be its 3.5 IPS LCD touchscreen display with ClearBlack technology, where your eyes will be greeted by a combination of excellent brightness and contrast. In fact, it is touted to be the brightest smartphone display to date where Nits are concerned, and you need not worry about its toughness as it will boast Corning's Gorilla Glass.
Underneath that would be a new graphics co-processor that churns out better looking visuals than before, as this graphics co-processor has a speedier clock and four times the graphics memory of previous Symbian smartphones.
Capable of shooting 8-megapixel images with its full focus camera with a dual-LED flash at the back, you can also carry out video calls thanks to a front-facing camera. Q3 2011 is when you can pick up the Nokia 701 for around 290 Euros in steel dark, silver light, amethyst violet, and white shades. [Press Release]
120 petabytes, 120 million gigabytes, 24 billion MP3s, 1 trillion files. That's how much IBM's new storage array holds-nearly an order of magnitude more data than the largest current system, making it the biggest hard drive array ever built.
The array is composed of 200,000 traditional hard drives working together. To avoid bottle-necks when reading or writing data, this array employs a proprietary file system known as GPFS to increase the speed at which the computer accesses data. It spreads a file across multiple drives, enabling the computer to read or write multiple parts of the file simultaneously. That also drastically cuts down on the amount of time spent indexing-allowing the system to blow through 10 billion files in just 43 minutes, four times faster than the previous three-hour record. And, to keep from losing data when a drive fails, the system automatically migrates files from the dead drive to its replacement, minimizing downtime and providing a fail-proof backup without affecting performance.
While IBM built this specific array for an unnamed client, the technology could one day allow for detailed weather system simulations, seismic activity monitoring, cloud storage infrastructure and other data-intensive projects.
BGR has exclusively learned from a close source of ours that Verizon Wireless has passed on offering the Samsung GALAXY S II in favor of something even better. We reported last week that Verizon isn't going to sell the GALAXY S II, and we have now been told why. Apparently, "Verizon doesn't think the Samsung GALAXY S II will be competitive with the iPhone 5 when it launches." Instead, not only is Verizon launching the Samsung DROID Prime, a device that is sure to be the new flagship Android phone ahead of the holidays, but the company will have the handset as an exclusive. The DROID Prime is expected to be the first smartphone to launch with Android 4.0 "Ice Cream Sandwich," and we have been told the model number is SCH-i515. According to our source, the phone should launch sometime in October. Verizon Wireless did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Today's society has a deficit of real communication between people.Most young people prefer to spend their time and communicate with friends in sociale networks rather then being with them physically.This phenomenon restricts the movement of people in real life and promotes an unhealthy lifestyle.The FindeR Communication System was designed by Oscar Santamaria to decide this problem. This concept uses the current notions of online social networking to bring people together in real life.
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3Dconnexion has updated its lineup of 3D mice aimed at the professionals working with sophisticated software. Its aim is to provide more natural and intuitive way to interact with digital 3D content. The new arrival is equipped with six-degrees-of-freedom sensor for manipulating 3D objects, 15 programmable keys and an on-screen display. The SpaceMouse Pro comes with a patented 3D knob with six degrees of freedom, that allows to pan, zoom and rotate the on-screen contents, for instance a 3D model, or camera view, by twisting or tilting the controller cap. SpaceMouse Pro has an on-screen display to remind you which features are currently assigned to Intelligent Function Keys.
Programmable buttons located at user's fingertips include five QuickView keys that provide access to 12 view combinations, four customizable Intelligent Function Keys (numbered from one to four), while another four Keyboard Modifiers offer mouse-hand access to Control, Shift, Alt and Esc keys. There's also the Virtual NumPad that pops-up on the screen if you prefer to enter numerical data using mouse instead of keyboard. Supported operating systems include Windows 7, Vista and XP, Mac OS 10.4.6 or later, Sun Solaris 8 (SPARC), Sun Solaris 10 (x86/x64), as well as Linux (Redhat Enterprise Linux WS 4, SuSE 9.3 or later). The SpaceMouse Pro features an ergonomic soft-coated hand rest, weighs in at 665g and measures 8 x 5.6 x 2.3 in. 3Dconnexion SpaceMouse Pro priced at US$299.
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What would happen if your wife finds out your ex-girlfriend's messages on your iPhone? I don't even like imagining this...
Does this mean iPhone data recovery isn't a good idea?
Like other DRTs (Data Recovery Tools) we also have an iPhone data recovery stick that can recover your deleted iPhone data. Commonly there is a lot of data on iPhone which we delete after usage. From images and videos to messages and contact details, you have your secrets which that get rid off by deleting them. However, these elements can be recovered using tools, one of which is iPhone data recovery stick.
This technology for Smartphone, especially iPhone data recovery can be beneficial if used within ethical boundaries. From a strict legal aspect, the rightful owner of the iPhone can be identified using iPhone data recovery tools. Similarly deleted messages, images, and videos or in short PDC (personal digital content) can be restored to inspect incidents, criminal acts and various evidences. Depending upon the power of the iPhone data recovery tools, one might be able to uncover the past life of spouse, employee, and of course girlfriends.
Introduction of such spying technologies always have an ethical concern. Using iPhone data recovery tools can definitely disturb social relations and put many people out of their comfort zones. Therefore, to ensure user privacy (up to certain extent) Apple would have to play its role more aggressively.
Also, iPhone geeks would be coming up with ideas to make your iPhone data un-recoverable. Furthermore, the software capabilities aren't assumed to be cent accurate. However, the overall idea of iPhone data recovery isn't that much bad either.
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The next thing Apple has its eyes on is iWallet. The concept is very simple; an iWallet will be a Smartphone replacing your credit card for online transactions.
The iWallet hypothesis seems valid as we see two major things going in Apple's way. New hiring and patent publications for mobile commerce related device makes it easier to believe in the iWallet phenomenon. Benjamin Vigier would be Apple's product manager for mobile commerce, while NFC (Near Field Communication) technology will be used in iWallet.
The NFC technology makes it possible to wave your card or iWallet in front of the sensor without any physical contact for transaction. Apple's recent patent reveals that the iWallet apps focused on mobile payments for concerts, airline tickets and others. However, Apple hasn't made any official comment on that. Chances are that iWallet wouldn't be any separate entity and it will only be an iPhone 5.
It is hard to say about the feasibility of iWallet yet. However, it is estimated to reduce the merchant transaction cost up to 3%. The critical success factor will be the number of people adopting the new technology. The biggest concern remains of the security which needs to be tested thoroughly
Wire transactions from the same hot spot will definitely attract hackers. Most companies, therefore, use dedicated networks but they are still unable to achieve optimum security results. In case of iPhone 5 or iWallet the whole story depends upon 3G network. If there are no signals, resulting in the denial of service, than this can further be exploited for notorious purposes. Along with all the concerns, it will be worth watching how Apple makes its place in mobile commerce.
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The best thing about this iPhone game app is that it's absolutely free. Secondly, there are a lot of new activities and adventures out there which gathers for a thrilling gaming experience. The app also lets you launch the official website from within the game, and you can watch latest updates regarding movie, trailers, show times and many more.
Getting hold of the Woody means you are up for the ultimate adventure. This iPhone game app brings closer the real movie story line with you being the Woody on the heroic mission in the Woody's Wild Ride to settle the score with evil Dr. Pork-chop. Apart from the main story, the app also offers Woody's greetings. These are personal greeting messages from Woody. All you have to do is to choose from a list of a name and answer a series of questions to describe yourself. You can also make your greeting tones and ringtones based on Toy Story 3 theme.
This iPhone game app also supports toy story pins. You can collect virtual pins by unlocking and earning achievements during the game. The next best thing is Toy Story 3 community, which lets you share your leader board, achievements, pins and many other things. If you are looking for one free iPhone game app Toy Story 3 is the best one for you.
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The PowerDock 2 is basically a charging dock that lets you and your family members charge their iPhones or even iPods. This amazing dock is a single base unit that includes two built-in Apple Universal Docks. Additionally, this PowerDock 2 comes along a compilation of Universal Dock with inserted adapters that let you ensure to get nearly every iPod a place on a singular table.
This amazing accessory features two charging bays, base plug-ins of standard 120 VAC wall outlets. The accessory is designed with heavy metallic nature surface that shines brightly and brushed with metallic lust. The accessory effectively and efficiently charges any models of the iPod and iPhone.
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Enclosed in the box are:
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At each level AMD have at least doubled the VRAM, added 40% more stream processors. The W8100 and W9100 have wider memory buses (so more information can be transferred for each command) and many more transistors.As for when updated Mac Pro models might arrive, that remains unclear, but the good news is that the pieces supporting a potential upgrade are starting to fall into place. While Intel's new processors are reportedly scheduled to arrive next month, it is unlikely a Mac Pro upgrade is that close given Apple's usual iPhone focus for that month. But it seems possible an upgrade could be in the works by late this year or early next year depending on how Apple decides to space out its product launches and at what point it views the Mac Pro as in need of a boost.
Although Apple can specify any number of stream processors, clock speeds or VRAM, these more recent cards show what AMD considers is the low-, medium- and high-end when it comes to PCs. For Mac owners perspective, they show how much card for a similar amount of money AMD can now make compared with the cards in the Mac Pro and 2012.
Apple is considering using sapphire screens in more-expensive models of the two new, larger iPhones it plans to debut this fall, if it can get enough of the material, people familiar with the matter say. Some analysts expect Apple to charge more for the phones than previous new models, because of increased component costs.Multiple iPhone 6 rumors have speculated that sapphire could be constrained to either the larger 5.5-inch iPhone 6 or the higher-end models due to cost and production issues, but The Wall Street Journal is the first mainstream publication to confirm those rumors.
