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Archive for June, 2010
Microsoft Axes Kin Phones – Only Six Weeks After Launch
Jun 30th
What happened? Microsoft officially announced today that the brand-new Kin line of phones is now discontinued.
Kin, is a series of two phones aimed at the young teenage market. Some of the very interesting attributes include the innovative cloud-based backup service. One of the biggest problems plaguing the Kin is branding confusion and its uncertain place in the phone industry. It is hard to understand is the Kin a messaging phone, like the Sidekick but it requires full data plans like a smartphone. So maybe it is a smartphone but there again it doesn’t have apps to download or any sort More >
Could The iPhone 4 Have Problems?
Jun 24th
Blogs and forums are ablaze with Apple’s new iPhone problems, as if it is not expected when there is a major phone launch.
There are two main complaints. One is a reception issue and the other is that sporadic yellow spots and bars appear on the iPhone 4 screens.
Some customers stated that the yellow spots magically disappeared as the day wore on and they used their new phones more. One explanation for this phenomenon is that the yellowness comes from the glue used to attach the screen to the iPhone’s body. Since Apple produced and shipped the phones so quickly, the glue may have not had time to dry yet on some phones.
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Throw Out The Glasses – Microsoft’s 3-D Has A Better Idea
Jun 20th
3-D cinema has become extremely popular recently and the new 3-D capable TV set may be coming into your home soon.
The problem with 3-D media in the past was that you must wear special glasses for it ot work. Even though this is an old technology most 3-D technology today still relies on the 3-D glasses.
But guess what, Microsoft has come through again with the developement of a lens which could rectify the problem. With Microsoft’s new ability to track the position of viewers then send separate images directly to each eye, the new prototype display would eliminate the need for the awkward 3-D More >
IPhone Buyers Overwhelm Apple and AT&T
Jun 15th
Potential customers ready to buy Apple’s new iPhone 4 were dismayed by massive and widespread problems when attempting to pre-order Apple’s new smart phone the day it went on sale today.
If you tried to order the iPhone on Apple’s website you received an error message: “Your request couldn’t be processed. We’re sorry, but there was an error processing your request. Please try again later.” Even trying to preorder on AT&T’s website gave you similar error messages.
Calling AT&T’s customer service line gave a pre-recorded message saying ”the company was facing extremely heavy call volumes.” To make matters worse the new Apple app, launched Tuesday morning, that is supposed to allow existing Apple customers More >
Can You Really Power Devices Wirelessly?
Jun 10th
We already know that you can send electricity through the air wirelessly but could you really power gadges or devices using ambient radiation from existing broadcast?
If you have ever had your cell phone die from a lack of the battery being charged you might wish “wouldn’t be nice to be able to charge it up wirelessly?” You are not the first to have this idea.
Over a century ago an inventor named Nikola Tesla developed plans to do just that, transmit electrical power without wires. He experimented with electric lights that were illuminated through electrostatic induction. He connected the lights to More >
Did BP Really Have The Technology To Handle The Spill
Jun 4th
Federal regulators stated BP Exploration and Production had “proven equipment and technology” to deal with s deepwater spill like the one now filling the ocean with crude oil in the Gulf of Mexico.
Guess what it didn’t. Bad thing, the government’s Minerals Management Service took the company’s word for it.But BP isn’t the only company guilty of false assurances. Almost all of the three dozen companies continuing to drill in deep water in the Gulf of Mexico after the Deepwater Horizon rig sank received their government approvals based on their documents showing they could contain and cleanup spills, even huge More >
