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Samsung New Q1 Ultra Will Be a Fight For Asus Eee

Q1-Ultart

Samsung has said that it plans to fight the Asus eee “effect” by creating an education friendly version of its UMPC range.

Although the Q1 was first priced around the £2000 mark in the UK on launch, David Smith, IT director for Samsung in the UK has said that an education focused Q1 Ultra will sell for just £399 when it launches in the UK at the end of the month.

The move would mean users will get touch screen windows Vista device for just £100 more than the newly announced 9-inch Asus eee model.

However those looking for the newly announced Q1 Ultra Premium at CES might be disappointed with the spec sheet.

To reach the price point, the new model won’t have the dual camera, and it will also come with a smaller hard drive.

source:pocket-lint

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Acer With a New Concept Of Notebook PC

Acer Blue

Acer is hyping things up with a teaser page on their website for the unveiling of a new “notebook PC concept” to take place New York later today.

Clearly not with the concept of a world wide web, whatever is to be revealed, described by Acer as an “innovative, industry-first, laptop design” will not be shown in the UK until a press event on Thursday 20th March.

 

source:pocket-lint
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100,000+ iPhone Developers Have Downloaded SDK

Iphone

Apple has announced that more than 100,000 iPhone developers have downloaded the beta iPhone software development kit in the first four days since its launch last week.

“Also, over one million people have watched the launch video on Apple.com, further demonstrating the incredible interest developers have in creating applications for the iPhone.”

This milestone press release has been sent out as the iPhone Dev Team, a group of hackers, has announced that they have first jailbroken, and then unlocked, the 2.0 iPhone firmware before it has even been released.

source:pocket-lint

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Apple’s Beatles Rumours May Come True Soon

 Apple

The Beatles would go digital with their back catalogue in 2008. Cue a whole host of rumors, and, on Monday, his promise seemed to have come true with the story that the remaining Beatles had done a $400 million deal with Apple to put their entire back catalogue on iTunes.

But the very next day, one of the companies that owns the rights to a vast majority of the back catalogue denied the reports.

Sony/ATV Music Publishing, the joint venture owned by Sony and Michael Jackson, branded them “untrue”, adding that if a deal had been made, they would know about it.

And today, it’s Apple that has stepped up to deny the claims.

The computing giant has told Reuters that the story is “unsubstantiated speculation”, and added: “This is not news nor is it a scoop”.

 source:pocket-lint

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AMD’s ATI Catalyst 8.3 Latest Graphics Driver Release

AMD

AMD, at CeBIT 2008, has announced its latest graphics driver release to advance the Ultimate Visual Experience for PC gaming enthusiasts and casual gamers alike.

Expected to be available for download starting, ATI Catalyst 8.3 is a software update in delivering both CrossFireX for Windows Vista – the world’s first quad-GPU support, and scalable, cost-effective three GPU support – as well as ATI Hybrid Graphics Technology for casual gamers. These multi-GPU capabilities provide gamers a more realistic and immersive experience allowing them to play at high resolutions with demanding image quality settings.

ATI Catalyst 8.3 also introduces ATI Hybrid Graphics support for Windows Vista. The company maintains that up to 70 percent increases in performance are possible in some gaming scenarios based on PCs comprised of an AMD 780G motherboard and ATI Radeon HD 3400 Series graphics product in Windows Vista. ATI Hybrid Graphics also support up to four independent displays through the SurroudView feature.

ATI Catalyst 8.3 is available here. http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html.

source:tech2

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The new Need for Speed game

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At EA’s “Meet the Makers” event held in Singapore yesterday John Doyle from EA’s Black Box studios, Vancouver, Canada had talk with Tech2 fellow.

When asked about the new Need for Speed game (pardon the horrible Photoshop job); EA would be making a formal announcement in the next 3-4 months hinting at the fact that they may go back to the whole Most Wanted-ish sandbox style of gameplay (finally!)

Also expect a brand new game mechanic since Doyle claims that every NFS game out there brings something new to the table. Underground had the whole tuner scene happening, Most Wanted was just plain awesome, Carbon had Autoscultping and Canyon Duel. Doyle says
(a) it was very well received; and (b) there’s no way in hell EA’s letting a successful game get away that easily.

So yeah, I’m guessing we can expect a “formal announcement” in the near future.

source:tech2

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Silverlight be the next Microsoft technology to work on the iPhone?

Silverlight

Could Silverlight be the next Microsoft technology to work on the iPhone? Don’t bet on it anytime soon, said Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer.

Speaking in Las Vegas at the MIX 08 conference on Thursday, Ballmer said Microsoft wants to get its Silverlight technology, which allows developers to build and deliver multimedia applications on the Web, “everywhere,” and that putting it on the iPhone is certainly “interesting.”

“I can’t say there has been extensive discussion” with Apple CEO Steve Jobs about it, Ballmer said.

He said he was concerned about Apple’s plan, unveiled Thursday, to let developers sell applications for the iPhone on iTunes and take a 30 percent cut of revenues. Ballmer suggested that Apple might charge Microsoft similarly to get Silverlight on the iPhone, though there is so far no evidence to support this belief.

 

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BBC’s iPlayer is now available to iPhone and iPod Touch

iPlayer

BBC’s iPlayer is now available to iPhone and iPod Touch owners on the go.
It is the first time the software has been available on portable devices, and it will work over a Wi-Fi connection but not over the mobile network.

The BBC has launched a new version of its iPlayer video on demand service specifically for the Apple devices, which allows immediate streaming on iPlayer content.

And compatibility with other portable players is mooted – a BBC developer said that the corporation was currently working on other versions of the iPlayer for “many more” devices.

 source:BBC

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VoIP co Truphone today welcomed Apple’s launch of the SDK

Iphone

Injunction-happy VoIP co Truphone today welcomed Apple’s launch of the SDK for the iPhone.

Steve Jobs revealed that although VoIP apps would be approved for the iPhone if they worked over Wi-Fi, GSM-based solutions would be banned from the official App Store.

Truphone says its engineering department will be examining the SDK to see how it can help with the development of a Wi-Fi Truphone client for the iPhone.

source:pocket-lint

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Ceramic iPod speaker “Phonofone”, it uses no power!!!

Phonofone

The Phonofone is an unusual speaker for your iPod not just for its old-fashioned looks, only it uses no power.

Through passive amplification alone, these unique pieces instantly transform any personal music player + earbuds into a sculptural audio console. Without the use of external power or batteries, the Phonofone II inventively exploits the virtues of horn acoustics to boost the audio output of standard earphones to up to 55 decibels. Now let’s make this clear, 55 decibels is not going to entertain your party, but it’s fine for the office or next to the bed or or for a dinner party. Dimensions: 11″ x 9.5″ x 20″ (28 x 25 x 51 cm)

But honestly, if you want to get a great sounding set of speakers that you can crank up and rock out to, get a set of Bose.

source:charlesandmarie