March 20, 2010

Review: HP Flexible Display Rolls Out Onto the Scene

Well, well, well. Look what we have here. It’s been awhile since the last time you saw HP’s flexible screen, and we have to admit, is way too long. It looks even better than it was back in the day, when the company and Arizona State University worked together to demonstrate that it was the first time. Yes, our teams were already made in this matter, or even our tablets, but for now we will have to live with the screenshots and maybe a video from time to time, to celebrate with us again.

We will capture Hardware.info screen, but definitely the strong job of capturing the video below. We hope that HP was planning to put its flexible displays in some sort of flexible team (yes, we can dream), but apparently the only material that could survive a half dozen roll-ups. That’s not good enough for something that people use every day, at least one year. Therefore, no image appears flexible real, even if the material has been created for it. What we get out of the design, is thinner and lighter displays, which also is a good thing.

March 20, 2010

Hot News: Vodafone Spain Admits to Having 3,000 Malware Infected HTC Magics

There’s no hiding the fact that when something new, the first thing I do is open the box, pop in the battery (if you need a battery), and then turn that thing off and start walking your business. I do not want, which is to activate the device, and knowing you have some information-jacking botnet malware program running on it. That’s a bad day. That’s exactly what happened to several thousand people who recently took a HTC Vodafone Spain Magic, the wireless service provider has recently admitted.

Mariposa’s agent officially infected botnet somewhere in the stadium of 3,000 handsets, the company told the Spanish press on Thursday. The company had met its Iberian branch, along with representatives from Panda Software, which really caught the infringement of malware from the beginning. Vodafone Spain has a magic HTC a company representative to test and that when this whole problem started, back in early March. While Butterfly is the big name to be launched at any time, it seems that other malware strains were also found in many of the Magics HTC. How was the theft of information from the program to find its way into phones? Using SD cards. A second infection was also confirmed by the announcement earlier this week when a phone made its way to a security consultant S21sec.

March 20, 2010

Hot Info: Apple iPad Now Accepting Applications for April 3rd Launch

While the iPhone SDK 3.2 beta has been out since the official announcement from Apple iPad, the developers have not been able to submit their applications anywhere. Apple has given them plenty of time to make the best applications that can, for the specific reason they do not want to spoil the launch of their defective software Tablet legendary device. This is a good strategy, but now the floodgates are open and officially developers can submit their applications to the App Store.

The kicker is, is that if you want your application to be ready for launch on April 3, you need your application to be submitted to the App Store on March 27. That’s not a big difference from the official launch, so Apple should be taking steps in the process of approval of the application, as well as vetting applications that are launching really worth it. We hope we see a number of applications ready for launch iPad, because as much as we like to play with the 150,000 applications, we wanted to see what the iPad is capable of. (Even if it takes a while to actually see.)

March 20, 2010

Review: Dumbing down, the price of a good UX?

Microsoft has captured some pain last week during the last phase of the debacle of copying and pasting, a meme that began when Apple missed the functionality of the iPhone (and took two years to add in) and was raised to the admission that Windows Series 7 Phone not included with the ability to cut text from one application and paste into another. In fact, copy and paste is just one example of Microsoft lock your smartphone experience new, cutting a lot of OEM and customization for the user in the process. They are not the only company to do so, however, only the latter seems to decide that users want delineated – perhaps even prescriptive – experiences instead of flexibility.

Poster-child, indeed, for these reins firmly UX is the iPhone, and we can only imagine that there are some giggling going on in Cupertino on changing his rival of this approach. Mobile Windows used to be the go-to type of flexibility in smartphones: Yes, there appeared to be hot in his home state, but if you beat an application that access – or just wanted to play with – the core elements of the Microsoft device little effort was made to be on your way. It has become a hotbed of ROM and modify everything yourself, to change patterns of blinking LED to completely revise that based only streamline all aspects of the phone, the kind of thing Android modders are doing now, their counterparts in for Windows Mobile were doing years before.

March 20, 2010

Review: Tendril Vision home energy monitor predicts the future

Do people use energy more careful if they can control it through a device known? That is what is energy management technology provider of Tendril count, but has borrowed the style of the inspiration of a digital clock to control the power of his vision, not only can display real-time use, but predict future employers.

That means you can expect to put in the dryer, even a low power period was predicted, or the vision could highlight where the cheapest energy rates is activated. There is also a web page that shows that accompanies most comprehensive data that allow it, with “planning to use personal energy” believed, and surely then educate the subway to make better predictions.

March 12, 2010

Review: Fusion Garage’s Joo Joo Hits FCC, Reveals Plenty

Remember the Joo Joo? Of course you do; we just covered it, after all. Letting you know that the future tablet from Fusion Garage got a bit of an upgrade in the User Interface department, before it’s ultimate release later this month. But, you know what’s better than knowing your latest gadget won’t have a bland, boring desktop? Getting to look at its insides, thanks to some documents found in the FCC’s databanks. And, believe it or not, the Joo Joo has some good things going for it.

First and foremost, we’ve got the NVIDIA Ion combined with Intel’s Atom N270. Second, despite the fact we’ve heard from Fusion Garage themselves that the Joo Joo won’t be shipping at the end of March with 3G on board, the FCC reveals that there is indeed a 3G card in there, so maybe something is changing. However, while we love the combination of Ion and the Atom N270, we have to admit that we’re not really sure the battery life is going to be anything to write home about. While the Joo Joo’s main competition is primed at a 10 hour battery life, there’s some speculation going around that the Joo Joo will barely make 5.