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IMAX and Barco Announce Partnership
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Barco is a worldwide leader in the digital cinema industry. Today, the company was happy to announce that they have been selected by IMAX as their exclusive, technology partner for the next 7 years. Barco will provide some of their top ranking projectors as well as their brightest projector and current Guinness World Record holder, the DP2K-32B. This device is capable of displaying a 2000:1 contrast ratio, 2K HD (2048 x 1080) resolution, and 33000 ANSI lumens. “Being selected by IMAX as the exclusive supplier for the world’s most immersive cinema experience is a strong endorsement of our leadership in the Digital Cinema projection business,” explains Wim Buyens, Senior Vice President of Barc...
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Panasonic’s New Projector is Available Now
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The PT-LZ370U is Panasonic’s newest entry to the projector market. It offers 3,000 lumens brightness and a 1080p resolution, along with a 10,000:1 contrast ratio. The Dynamic Iris Pro system analyzes each image and adjusts lamp power, iris and the gamma curve to give you the best possible picture.
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Google begins building out 1Gbps Internet to two U.S. cities
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As promised, Google is beginning to build out Google Fiber in two cities: Kansas City, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri. When completed, the new city-wide networks will tether citizens to a fiber-optic backbone capable of delivering 1Gbps Internet to tens of thousands -- if not hundreds of thousands -- of people.
Google says it has measured utility poles, studied maps, surveyed neighborhoods and eaten way too much barbecue -- but the company has since completed its planning phase and is now stringing thousands of miles of fiber-optic cabling along telephone poles.
There is no word how much a Google Fiber subscription will run, but the company claims it will be offered at a "competitive price...
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Virgin Media 100Mbps rollout to be completed ahead of mid-2012 deadline
Like UnlikeThe rollout of Virgin Media’s super fast broadband service across the UK first started in October 2010 and was initially expected to be completed by mid-2012, offering its millions of customers connection speeds up to 120Mbps across the country.
The Internet provider has now confirmed it is ahead of schedule with the service already available in over ten million homes, according to the Guardian. "Reaching today’s milestone puts us ahead of schedule as we help propel the UK up the global broadband rankings. Broadband is coming of age as more people give up on slow DSL in favor of superfast fiber-optic speeds," said Jon James, executive director of broadband at Virgin Media.
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Siri now source for quarter of all Wolfram Alpha queries
Like UnlikeSiri now represents about a quarter of all the queries submitted to Wolfram Alpha, says the New York Times. The Siri technology is an integral feature of the iPhone 4S firmware, and aside from direct voice commands, allows asking plain-language questions about various facts and figures. A Wolfram Alpha widget primarily answers questions related to math and numerical facts, such as the distance to the moon.
The Times mentions that Wolfram Alpha staff now number about 200 The site first launched in May 2009, and was initially aimed purely at math and science, but can now handle more general requests such as movie showtimes. On Wednesday the company is launching a new version, Alpha Pro, capabl...
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Canon welcomes ELPH 530 HS / 320 HS, SX260 HS and D20 to PowerShot lineup
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Alongside the new additions to Canon's A-Series of digital cameras, the company is also giving more demanding consumers a similar outpouring of love with four additional shooters in the PowerShot family, which sport a diverse array of features such as WiFi connectivity, 20x optical zoom and rugged designs. Leading the charge for the ELPH lineup is the 530 HS. Along with the 320 HS, it features the ability to wirelessly upload images to Canon's online portal, where users may then post their latest captures to Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. The ELPH 530 HS features a 12x optical zoom lens paired with a 10 megapixel sensor and is expected to retail for $349 in April. Meanwhile, the 320 HS deliv...
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Apple's Vice President of iPhone and iPod engineering leaves
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David Tupman, another Apple employee who not many people know about, has just left the company. His last title at Apple before resigning was “Vice President of iPhone and iPod engineering”, he has over 70 patents in his name, and he spent over a decade at what is now considered the world’s biggest smartphone vendor. Now people leave companies for various reasons, so we don’t want to suggest that he got bored of Apple or didn’t agree with the where the company was going with the iPhone, but unless this guy wanted a vacation … why would you leave Apple when the company is as hot as it is today? The folks at 9to5Mac did some investigating to figure out where David now works, and while they didn...
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Motorola Droid 4 sliding onto Verizon shelves February 10th for $200
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We've been speculating that Verizon's latest Droid would be arriving on February 10th, but we lacked any official word from the carrier to back it up. Not to worry anymore, as Big Red has finally made the phone's release official for the predicted date. The Droid 4, an LTE device with a full slide-out QWERTY that was announced at CES, will go for $200 with a two-year commitment. Take a gander at the full press release below for all the details.
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Siri now serves 25% of Wolfram Alpha's traffic, could it threaten Google?
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The Apple effect is well known in Asian countries where massive amounts of workers and factories could get hired virtually overnight to fulfil an order, but now almost the same effect has hit Wolfram Alpha. The knowledge engine that offers not simply search results, but aims to put them into context, now has 25% of its traffic coming from Siri queries.
Apple’s humble intelligent voice assistants is smart partly exactly because of Wolfram Alpha that will do funky things like calculate the distance to the moon as well as solve and graph mathematical problems.
“Siri accounts for about a quarter of the queries fielded by Wolfram Alpha, whose staff has grown to 200,” a New York Times report said.
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Nokia to unveil a new high-end smartphone during MWC
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Nokia will unveil at least one new high-end smartphone during the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona later this month, Forbes said Tuesday. The Finnish company announced the Lumia 900, a Windows Phone device destined for AT&T, during the Consumer Electronics Show in early January but consumers are still waiting to hear what the company will launch as a follow-up to the Lumia 800 in Europe. Early rumors suggested that Nokia was planning to announce a Lumia 910 device with HSPA+ connectivity and a 12-megapixel camera, but Nokia recently shot down rumors of the camera upgrade. BGR will be reporting live from Mobile World Congress later this month so be we’ll be sure to bring you all ...
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First impressions of Chrome Beta for Android - Looks to be worth the wait
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We’ve been tinkering around with the new Chrome Beta for a couple of hours now and we’re definitely impressed to see that Google has provided a slick browser that’s also easy on the eyes. Even in beta form, we can imagine that most people who try Chrome for Android will probably stick with it. We’re glad that Google realized that functionality can look good.
The introduction of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich was the first time we saw Google really hone in on the user experience for its mobile operating system and it’s taken that focus to Chrome. The browser is snappy, simple, and rather beautiful, given that it’s just a portal for viewing web content. If you use Chrome on your desktop, the b...
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LightSquared gets desperate, seeks regulatory changes to satisfy GPS debacle
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If we were the betting type -- and hell, some of us really are -- we'd wager a crisp ten spot that LightSquared isn't going to assuage the FCC's concerns over those pesky GPS interference issues in the next few weeks. After previously stating that the interference test reports were rigged by GPS insiders, the upstart LTE network is now getting political with its argument and is calling on the FCC to institute new standards for GPS equipment. LightSquared contends that current GPS devices on the market are poorly designed and purposefully encroach on the company's licensed spectrum. Of course, this change would do little to remedy the millions of interference prone / (causing?) devices on the...
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Ain't she tweet! Verizon's Valentine's Day Twitter contest offers up Motorola DROID RAZR as prize
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With Valentine's Day coming next Tuesday, you want to get your significant other a brand new Motorola DROID RAZR. Even if you are short of the long green needed to make a purchase of the "impossibly thin" LTE enabled device, there still is a way to make this come true. It seems that Verizon is running a Twitter contest for Valentine's Day and the prize is a colored Motorola DROID RAZR! All you need to do is to tweet the most creative confession (not the letter you sent to Penthouse Forum) to hashtag #TweetHeart sometime on February 13th and 14th
You can send poems, pictures or write about whatever romantic moment you feel the need to confess to. And there is nothing wrong in keeping your ey...
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CyanogenMod team releases another CM9 progress report
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Long-time users of CyanogenMod are used to seeing a new version released shortly after the code is deposited to AOSP. That usually places CM users on the latest version of Android weeks, if not months, ahead of all non-Nexus Android phones. This time has turned out to be a bit different, and the CM team posted an explanation on their website today.
The biggest factor seems to be the huge jump in the code base between Gingerbread (Android 2.3) and Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0). The CM team indicates that they more or less started from scratch with the ICS build of CyanogenMod (CM9), and have been porting their CM7 customized tools to the ICS code.
While this process takes longer, it’s also...
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Samsung used low cost chip for Samsung GALAXY Nexus
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A breakdown of the Samsung GALAXY Nexus by ABI Research revealed that the Korean based manufacturer used a low cost LTE chip in Verizon's variant of the phone. The newer chip offers the same high-data performance as the older one, but at half the $23 cost according to ABI Research. It is smart purchasing like this that has enabled a company like Pantech to offer an LTE enabled phone like the Pantech Burst, for under $50 with a signed 2-year contract. And by making phones that support LTE cheaper, it helps spread the use of the technology globally.
ABI Research says that the Samsung GALAXY Nexus modem is constructed with the combination of a Via Telecom CDMA/EVDO Rev. A integrated circuit an...
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