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- Instructables: Edible Angry Birds – These Ain’t Peeps
- Samsung Replenish and Restore Promise Eco-Friendly Smartphone Action
- Networked Police – Facial Matching Glasses
- IPv4 Address, No More For Asia
- Origami and Phones, Together At Last
- HTC Mazaa – Windows Phone
- Arduino-Based Geiger Counter
- BlackBerry PlayBook Giveaway Warning – Only Three Days Left!
- Portal 2: Potato Sack – Help Release It Early
- Wii 2: What’ll it be? Roundup time!
- Philips Fidelio SoundSphere hands-on
- Vince on a Plane [and where our G2x Hands-On Video is]
- Hannspree SN10T1 tablet hands-on [Video]
- PCMark 7 benchmarking app gets official release date and price
- Samsung Smart TV live streaming to Galaxy Tab hands-on [Video]
- Duck Tape offers duct tape sheets perfect for DIY geeks
- Navigon updates iPhone app with new features
- Nintendo 3DS sold 400k units the first week
- Inhalers for asthmatics getting a GPS update
- Apple poaches Microsoft data center GM Kevin Timmons
- New HD Nintendo game console confirmed by sources
- Skype Android apps have personal information vulnerability
- Microsoft shows off specs for new WP7 chassis with cool new features
- IGDA fears Amazon Appstore policies for game devs
- Ford SYNC hits Europe in 2012 Focus
- FlipLive dead as Cisco pulls plug on Flip line
- Hannspree tweaks SN10T3 tablet specs over Honeycomb demands
- Samsung offering 3D Video On Demand in May
- T-Mobile’s G2x dual-core Android phone goes on sale
- Google Translate For Android Adds Speaking In Japanese, Arabic, And Korean
- Verizon Revamps FiOS TV With Enhanced Interactive Media Guide
- Xbox 360 Remains King in 2011
| Instructables: Edible Angry Birds – These Ain’t Peeps Posted: 15 Apr 2011 01:59 PM PDT Elizabeth Marek makes things out of fondant. She does it out of love and awesomeness. She also does it to make a living. She makes all kinds of pretty cakes for weddings, birthdays and other occasions. They are covered in this pretty sugary icing called fondant. Lately, she’s been making Angry Birds out of fondant. She even tells you how to make your own. I’m a little bit in love. One time I watched Ace of Cakes or whatever. I didn’t really pay much attention, there was a lot of yelling and then they put this big cake in the back of a car and almost crashed it and stuff. I guess those shows have created an explosion of creative cakery nationwide! Liz jumped on this tidal wave of awesome sweetness and started making all sorts of confectionary delights. I really could go on for way too long about all of the different things she makes. She makes cakes like car engines, cakes with Mario, Domo-kun, or Banjo-monstar as I first knew him. She makes cakes that are tall and cakes that are short. She makes a lot of cakes. You should just go look at her company’s page here. Now this is the neat part, she recently had some requests to make some cake toppers out of the visage of those rage filled avians. She’ll let you know exactly how she did it on this Instructable. Or if you break down into tears at anything resembling modeling clay because of terrible childhood memories, you can browse on over to her etsy where you will find a terrifying array of wrathful fowl available for sale. Don’t worry, they ship well. [via Instructables] Relevant Entries on SlashGear
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| Samsung Replenish and Restore Promise Eco-Friendly Smartphone Action Posted: 15 Apr 2011 01:29 PM PDT Today two phones have been revealed, one of them an Android phone, the other a feature phone, both of them from Samsung and claiming heavily that they’ll be the most eco-friendly handsets on the market. First is the Replenish, a QUERTY keyboard toting Android phone coming out May 8th, then the Samsung Restore, a feature phone that’ll be re-announcing itself on Virgin Mobile on April 18th. Both of these phones come in fabulous bright fruity color combinations. First again, the Replenish – it’s what they’re calling the world’s first eco-friendly Android phone, having been created partially with recycled plastics and recyclable packaging so that you can ALMOST just recycle the whole thing. This phone has a 2.8-inch QVGA main display, Android 2.2, a 2 megapixel camera on the back, gps, microSD card slot with the ability to hold up to 32 GB, and it has three color options: Onyx Black, Arctic Blue, and Rasberry Pink (this last color coming out in June.) But BEST of all, this phone is made to work with an accessory, (that you have to purchase separately,) that amounts to a solar panel for a back battery cover. Neat! Then there’s the Samsung Restore which is NOT an Android phone, has a nice little keyboard, access to the web, and Virgin Mobile’s unbelievably awesome $25 a month unlimited data plan. This device also boasts some large amount of material that can be recycled. Green! Have a peek at the full press release below as well as some photos of both handsets – that bright blue one doesn’t look half bad!
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| Networked Police – Facial Matching Glasses Posted: 15 Apr 2011 01:17 PM PDT Brazilian police have come up with a system to scan the faces of people in crowded areas, checking them against a central database to see if they’re wanted bad-duded. I love this. Truly, these are like the grandpappy of the wearable systems from Snow Crash. It’s a set of glasses with a camera fitted to them. The camera can grab 400 faces per second out of a crowd and send them all to a central database. If there’s a match, a notifier pops up on a screen and lets the officer know that there is a wanted criminal afoot. These systems are slated to be used for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. Police will begin testing them at concerts and football matches soon. Standardly, the system is set to scan faces in crowds up to 50 meters away, but has the capability to recognize faces as far as twelve miles away. Wow. Systems like this will leave it up to the computer to identify perpetrators instead of the officers needing to ask for or call in documentation. This makes it more discreet for law-abiding folks to just enjoy whatever event needs such protection. What consistently freaks me out about stuff like this is that this is the completely unclassified technology that is being talked about openly in the news. How much more is possible, or already happening? Creepy. [via The Telegraph] Relevant Entries on SlashGear
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| IPv4 Address, No More For Asia Posted: 15 Apr 2011 12:44 PM PDT The organization responsible for doling out internet addresses in asia, the APNIC, just released their last block of available IPv4 addresses. We’ve known for a long time that the available pool was going to run out sooner or later. It wasn’t until recently, with the explosion of mobile devices and individuals getting wired into the Net worldwide. The Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) announced in Feburary that they handed the last blocks of IPv4 to the regional registries. With the continued online growth in Asia, they’ve used up their share a bit earlier than expected. "Considering the ongoing demand for IP addresses, this date effectively represents IPv4 exhaustion for many of the current operators in the Asia Pacific region," Wilson, the director of APNIC, said. "From this day onwards, IPv6 is mandatory for building new Internet networks and services." This might to slow internet based economic development for a short time in Asia while companies deploy IPv6 solutions. But it’s not even a roadblock, barely a speedbump. Don’t panic. For most people, this isn’t really going to matter. All of these issues are taken care of on the backend. IPv6 is pretty cool though, instead of a boring IP address like 45.87.256.19 you’ll have all of the style and grace of hexadecimal notation, 2001:0db8:85a3:0000:0000:8a2e:0370:7334. [via ZDNet] Relevant Entries on SlashGear
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| Origami and Phones, Together At Last Posted: 15 Apr 2011 12:06 PM PDT My first thought upon gazing on this concept design was a resounding “wtf”, in a good way. Chengyuan Wei put together this little gadget that takes the ancient art of Origami and telephones and puts them into the same thing. How can this be? It’s all because of the magic of technology. First off, this isn’t a design that’s going to include touchscreens, buttons, or any of that fancy kind of stuff. Right now it’s just something that can work as an oldschool telephone handset, but it’s in a piece of cardboard. All you have to do to turn this flat thing into an ergonomic handset is squeeze the sides together gently. The breaks in the cardboard will bend and it’ll transform. This isn’t going to change your life or anything, but it does demonstrate how far we’ve really come in making the things we need smaller and more convenient. Cool. [via Yanko Design] Relevant Entries on SlashGear
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| Posted: 15 Apr 2011 11:35 AM PDT An anonymous tipster over at xda-devs posted the first leaked pics of HTC’s new Windows Phone, named Mazaa. They are surprisingly high resolution and look like someone just popped one down onto a scanner plate, front and back. Being the delightful folks we are here at Slashgear, we thought we’d let y’all in on the news. It’s what we do here. egzthunder1 also discussed some of the details leaked along with these shots. Read more for more! There isn’t really much information about this phone except for these shots. It looks like it’s about iPhone sized. So it’s going to have the standard 3.7″ screen instead of the larger 4.3″ we’re seeing on many smartphones. You can see a camera and what looks to be a single LED flash and/or flash-light with a single LED. Their source mentioned that it might be loaded with DDR2, double data rate synchronous dynamic random access memory interface. Faster RAM? Sweet! egzthunder1 of xda-developers mentioned that there is a IMEI number on the device itself. Which means standard GSM service for worldwide cellular connectivity. You should see this phone dropping through Sprint sometime in the next six months. [via xda-developers] Relevant Entries on SlashGear
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| Posted: 15 Apr 2011 10:58 AM PDT Geiger counter, it’s a word that most people have heard about. I’m sure everyone has seen at least one piece of media featuring the clicking box with a little dial that only tells you when you’re going to die a slow painful death from radiation poisoning. It’s not a very fun device. Actually, they’re pretty awesome. Who doesn’t want to be able to play with a gadget that can sense things that only manifest in humans as genetic decay? The duders over at cookinghacks put together an Arduino based geiger counter. It’s set up to click a speaker at every pulse for an immediate indication of radioactivity. And what’s a geiger counter without ominous clicking? The Arduino microcontroller counts the pulses per minute. Using this measurement the microcontroller calculates Sieverts per hour. This is the standard measurement for the energy that the body absorbs from radiation sources. They put together a kit that contains everything you need to put one of these babies together You can get it over this-a-way, at their store. They are marketing the device as a cheaper homebrew alternative to commercial radiation sensors. Oh yeah, it’s all open source, they released everything onto the web to make sure that our friends in Japan can check themselves before they wreck themselves on stray radioactivity. But for you, do you want your kid to win the next science fair? This’ll beat a paper mache volcano any day of the week. [via Dangerous Prototypes] Relevant Entries on SlashGear
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| BlackBerry PlayBook Giveaway Warning – Only Three Days Left! Posted: 15 Apr 2011 10:16 AM PDT We’ve got a freaking BlackBerry PlayBook just burning a hole in our desk (we’ve only got one desk, so what?) and we want to give it to YOU. That’s right! And all you’ve got to do is click a few times and POOF, you’ll be entered in the contest where a completely random selection drawing will take place and BAM, you’ll have a chance at winning this BlackBerry PlayBook for free! What lies beneath are the short version of the rules on how you should enter the contest. For the FULL rules, head back to the original contest post and read like a wild person. Learn your rules, you’ve got to learn your rules – if you don’t you’ll be eaten in your sleep! And you won’t have a PlayBook! So get to it! To stand a chance of winning the BlackBerry PlayBook, you must: 1. "Like" us on Facebook: facebook.com/slashgear.com Contest begins April 13, 2PM PST, and ends April 18, 2PM PST. The winner will be announced here in the main news feed and at our official Facebook page. WINNER will be given the opportunity to submit a review of their BlackBerry PlayBook and have it posted on the front page of SlashGear.com! *Reviews may be edited or modified before publication and are considered works for hire under the 1976 Copyright Act. Submissions will be ineligible for payment or remuneration. Relevant Entries on SlashGear
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| Portal 2: Potato Sack – Help Release It Early Posted: 15 Apr 2011 09:57 AM PDT Portal is the best game. Released alongside Half-Life 2, it surprised the world with it’s combination of black humor and innovative gameplay. With Portal 2 about to be released, the folks over at Valve are teasing us with a lot of craziness. What kind of craziness you ask? Read more to find out. GLaDOS needs your help! As part of a promotion for Portal 2′s release, Valve packaged some games that they’re calling the Potato Sack. It’s a collection of thirteen indie games. They’re selling these for 75% off of the normal price. The whole package is going for $38.72. 1….2….3…. KICK IT! (Drop That Beat Like an Ugly Baby) This happens relatively often on Steam these days. Valve will go ahead and package a number of games together and sell them to you at a reduced rate. So that’s cool. But the really fun part? Play any of the games in the Potato Sack and Valve will expedite the release of Portal 2. They will be tracking all of this over at the Aperture Science website. [via Steam] Relevant Entries on SlashGear
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| Wii 2: What’ll it be? Roundup time! Posted: 15 Apr 2011 09:45 AM PDT It’s been nearly five full years since Nintendo released the gaming system that busted a thousand television sets and set millions of hearts on fire with the desire to play video games with their arms instead of their thumbs. Now we’re well on our way to a second iteration of this massively successful gaming system, and it’s looking like it’s going to be landing by June! And what’ll it be? Certainly not glasses-free 3D, that’s for sure. The June bit comes from the big bossman over at EA who recently hinted that the console would be dropping at E3 this year (in June.) He noted that the Wii is a “legacy platform” and that the company will be “coming back with a second act.” They’d better! At least our resident outspoken tech analyst Don Reisinger certainly thinks so. What we’re hoping to see is bright lights and fantastic action of course, perhaps something along the lines of what an ingenuitive young man made happen a few months ago for Call of Duty – a Kinect hacked to work with Wii controllers for a fabulous first-person shooter extravaganza! Then there’s another Wiimote controlled masterpiece that again shows the controller to actually be the star here: Nokia Big Screen turns N8 into a Wiimote-controlled media center. Then again, perhaps its the price? Back in December of 2010, our friend the bossman at EA suggested that Nintendo needed to create a $99 Wii with 3rd-party gaming. Did he have some insight? One of the least likely outcomes, if I do say so myself, and this is my own opinion, is that the controller, it’s rumored, will have a six-inch touchscreen, a front-facing camera, D-Pad, two bumpers, two triggers, and “possibly more.” CVG mocked the following up based on that idea: There’s been rumors of helmets, full body suits, projectors, credit card scanners, and all manner of customizable options. What do you think? What are you hoping for? Relevant Entries on SlashGear
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| Philips Fidelio SoundSphere hands-on Posted: 15 Apr 2011 09:35 AM PDT As oddly-shaped speaker systems go, the Philips Fidelio SoundSphere pair should still stand out even in the most avant garde living room. In fact, unless your lounge looks like the egg room from the first Alien film, expect plenty of questions about the bulbous AirPlay-compatible set. On show at IFA 2011 today, the SoundSpheres dragged us in like a Facehugger’s tail around the neck. The premise is straightforward: you get an iPod/iPhone dock, into which your Apple PMP slots, recharges, and shoots over audio to the speakers. Alternatively, though, it can pick up audio streamed via AirPlay, Apple’s wireless system that works with the latest iOS devices and computers like the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro. As for the eye-catching speakers themselves, Philips reckons that by using a semi-spherical shape for the body and separating out the tweeters as the “eyes” suspended up above, the SoundSpheres reduce interference, make the top end more easily heard and add up to a more 360-degree audio experience. In practice, while the mids and bass certainly held up whether we were in front or at the sides of the speakers, the treble proved more directional. We could hear the top end far clearer stood directly in the line of the tweeters, and these are really still speakers you’ll want to place with an eye on where exactly you’ll be listening to them. Still, the AirPlay system works as expected. The final remaining question, naturally, is whether the Fidelio SoundSphere system will be worth its €799 ($1,154) price tag when it hits retail in May 2011. Considering that would get you a Sonos multi-room starter system we can see people being quickly drawn in by the SoundSpheres’ unusual appearance, and then equally quickly propelled away by the premium figure Philips has settled upon. Relevant Entries on SlashGear
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| Vince on a Plane [and where our G2x Hands-On Video is] Posted: 15 Apr 2011 07:30 AM PDT So you may be wondering, if you’re the sort of person who likes to see hands-on and unboxing videos at the first available source, why SlashGear doesn’t have ours up yet. As it turns out, our main man Vince does in fact have SlashGear’s unit in hand, but also happens to be on an airplane with no Wifi. He’s a busy dude! Therefor you can expect a full hands-on experience from SlashGear soon, but not right this moment. While we’re here, let’s talk about the G2x anyway! This device is T-Mobile’s LG debut of a dual-core experience on Android. Inside you’re going to find a fabulous NVIDIA Tegra 2 1GHz dual-core processor and a smooth, Vanilla flavoring of Android 2.2 Froyo. You’ll be able to use Adobe FlashPlayer, a slew of high-powered games available via NVIDIA’s Tegra Zone, and video chat! There’s a 1.3 megapixel camera on the front, and an 8 megapixel camera on the back for all your media collection needs. Then when you feel like showing off, or if you’d just like a bigger screen for games, you can connect this device via its HDMI output (cord not included.) This device weighs and unbelievably small 5 ounces and has a stripped-down feel in its hardware components. Its dimensions are 4.88″ x 2.48″ x .43″, its display is 4.0″ at 480 x 800 pixels, and its bright as heck with WVGA TFT going on in the face. Basically fabulous. The photo you see above is from Android Community, who will also be rolling through this device all day long. All day! Relevant Entries on SlashGear
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| Hannspree SN10T1 tablet hands-on [Video] Posted: 15 Apr 2011 05:33 AM PDT Hannspree‘s Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablet, the SN10T3, isn’t expected to hit the market until Q3 2011, but the company had the freshly-released SN10T1 on show here at IFA 2011 today. Based around a 10.1-inch 1024 x 600 touchscreen and NVIDIA’s Tegra 2 processor, the slate may run Android 2.2 Froyo but it’s well hidden under a custom UI. Still, that decision has left the SN10T1 missing a few key features which may take some of the shine off of its low price tag. Video demo after the cut Perhaps the biggest issue is the absence of Android Market support. The SN10T1 is preloaded with AndroidPIT‘s App Center, an alternative download store, but since the Hannspree doesn’t tick all of Google’s check-boxes for phone functionality it can’t have the official Android Market. Meanwhile, because it falls short of the 1280 x 800 display (and twin cameras) that Android 3.0 Honeycomb mandates, it can’t run the tablet-centric OS either. So, the experience falls short of what you get with, say, a Motorola XOOM, but instead you get a significantly lower price tag of around €349 ($505). Build is reasonably chunky and fairly high quality, all plastic and no metal, though the SN10T1 certainly falls well short when it comes to the current race to be the slimmest slate. Hannspree SN10T1 hands-on: TapTap’s custom UI actually does a solid job of reskinning Froyo for tablet use, with chunky icons, a completely reworked Settings UI, browser – with Flash Player support – that feels more like a desktop app, and a new split-layout keyboard. No 3G inside, but you do get WiFi and Bluetooth; unfortunately the connection wasn’t working so we couldn’t benchmark the slate. Those looking for the very latest – and most complete – Android experience will probably find a Honeycomb tablet more to their liking but, as we’ve seen with the Advent Vega, there’s plenty of interest in the budget section of the market if the price is right. Hannspree has already said it will be bringing the SN10T1 to the US, and that sort of broader availability will definitely work in the tablet’s favor. Relevant Entries on SlashGear
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| PCMark 7 benchmarking app gets official release date and price Posted: 15 Apr 2011 05:10 AM PDT
PCMark 7 will be offered in three versions. The Basic edition is free and offers unlimited runs of the main test suite and the ability to browse results and store one result online. It will launch on May 3. The Advanced edition is $39.95 and can be pre-ordered right now. It supports over 25 workloads and you can store unlimited results online. The Pro edition is also up for pre-order at $995. This is the version for commercial users and has all 7 PC tests and 25 workloads. All of the versions will launch on May 3 barring any delays. Futuremark is the same company that makes 3DMark. Relevant Entries on SlashGear
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| Samsung Smart TV live streaming to Galaxy Tab hands-on [Video] Posted: 15 Apr 2011 04:57 AM PDT Samsung may have had 3D video-on-demand to announce at IFA 2011 this morning, but the company was also demonstrating its smart TV streaming system that can squirt a live video feed from a D7000 or D8000 series HDTV to one of the company’s Android-based devices. We grabbed some hands-on time to see whether this is the setup to retire your SlingBox for; check out the video demo and more after the cut. Video demo after the cut Samsung had confirmed that the streaming functionality was on its way back in February, shortly after announcing the new Galaxy Tab 8.9 and Galaxy Tab 10.1. The system basically is Samsung AllShare – the company’s DLNA client – in reverse, with the HDTV transcoding its input and pushing it out over WiFi to a Galaxy Tab or a Galaxy-series Android smartphone. The app itself is a more advanced version of the remote control software currently available for download in the Samsung App Store, which turns your phone or tablet into a remote for your smart TV. What’s new is the “Watch TV” option; there’s a couple of seconds delay behind what’s on the HDTV and what’s on the tablet, but it does mean you can flip between inputs on the remote app and leave the main screen showing something different. Samsung Smart TV streaming demo: Samsung says the smart TV streaming app will be released in the Samsung App Store on the original 7-inch Galaxy Tab in anything from 2-5 weeks. The app will be preloaded on the upcoming Galaxy Tab 8.9 and Tab 10.1 models. Relevant Entries on SlashGear
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| Duck Tape offers duct tape sheets perfect for DIY geeks Posted: 15 Apr 2011 04:54 AM PDT There are a lot of geeks out there that are duct tape engineers. There are few things that you can’t fix with liberal amounts of duct tape and a bit of ingenuity. Not too long ago we saw a hack for disposable cameras that turned them into a 3D camera using duct tape. The Duck Tape brand has some new sheets of duct tape that are perfect for the DIY geeks out there. If you want to make your own duct tape wallet or duct tape iPhone case you can do it. If you want a robot held together with silicone adhesive and duct take you can do that too. The possibilities are endless. The sheets are 8.25″ x 10″ and are adhesive on the back. They come in a lot of different colors and designs too. The sheets have a backing that prevents them from sticking to things while you cut out the shape you need and get ready to apply. You can get the sheets in neon colors and prints. A six-pack of sheets in multiple colors sells for $9.99 with individual sheets at $1.99 each. [via Duck Brand] Relevant Entries on SlashGear
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| Navigon updates iPhone app with new features Posted: 15 Apr 2011 04:44 AM PDT Navigon has announced that it has updated its app for the iPhone with some new features. The navigation application now is at version 1.8 and offers new NAVTEQ Maps and Traffic Check function. The new update also adds a pair of new features that you buy via in-app purchases. The new features are an at-a-glance traffic gauge and a new NAVTEQ map. Both of the purchases the prices of the purchases reduced by up to $15 each until April 28. The 1.8 update brings to the existing app a new reality scanner that uses augmented reality to identify destinations up close. The user just points their iPhone at the building and icons will appear on the screen telling the user what the locations are. The update also adds safety camera locations with red light and speed cameras listed and a new traffic check function. The safety camera listing is also an in-app purchase for $4.99. The new updates sound interesting. Relevant Entries on SlashGear
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| Nintendo 3DS sold 400k units the first week Posted: 15 Apr 2011 04:24 AM PDT Nintendo launched its 3DS not too long ago and the console sold pretty well to start with. In Japan the PSP beat the 3DS one week in sales, but that was related to a new PSP game that was popular in Japan. New details on the 3DS sales figures have surfaced this week that show Nintendo had a good opening week of the new game console. The 3DS reportedly sold 400,000 units in the first week after its launch on March 27. That number comes directly from Nintendo’s Reggie Fils-Aime. He said, “We are very satisfied with this start and we look forward to the momentum that we will build on Nintendo 3DS with the launch of the E-Shop, the launch of the 3-D trailers for Hollywood movies and the launch of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time in mid-June, as well as the launch of Netflix later on in the summer.” The Nintendo exec also offers up some numbers on the other game systems it offers. The company moved 460K DS game consoles thanks to the new Pokemon games that sold 2.5 million copies combined. March also saw 290,000 Wii console sold adding up to 1.1 million game systems sold by Nintendo in March. [via USA Today] Relevant Entries on SlashGear
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| Inhalers for asthmatics getting a GPS update Posted: 15 Apr 2011 04:11 AM PDT
The inhaler has been around for years and while they all look basically the same, there are many different medications. What all inhalers do have in common is that they do not store any detail on when they are used. A company called Asthmapolis has a cool new inhaler that uses GPS. The point of adding a GPS device on the inhaler is that it can see when the user activates the inhaler and then map it and compare the data to the thousands of other asthmatics to see if attacks are commonly occurring in one place. The idea is that if the attacks are happening near some sort of industry the trigger of the asthma attacks can be identified and possibly stopped. The system would also allow the user to know more precisely, what their triggers are too. For instance if you have asthma and use your inhaler at 3:30 each day in the office you might correlate that with the time of the day you make copies and then realize the ozone and toner dust is a trigger. [via Economist] Relevant Entries on SlashGear
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| Apple poaches Microsoft data center GM Kevin Timmons Posted: 15 Apr 2011 03:57 AM PDT The evidence that Apple has something to do with a massive cloud-based push keeps mounting to the point that it’s nearly impossible to not think that something big is coming from Cupertino. I reported earlier in the week that Apple was rumored to be getting a new cloud video service and a TV or set top box ready for the big time. A day later another analyst came out and noted that his research had led to the same conclusion that Apple was getting a TV product ready. Another bit of evidence that the Apple cloud streaming video application is coming has surfaced with a new hire by Apple. Apple has hired Kevin Timmons away from Microsoft. Timmons was general manager of the Microsoft data centers that power the software faints global cloud computer operations. Timmons is reportedly taking a leadership position at Apple. The hire hints that the big data center I mentioned before in North Carolina isn't all Apple is eyeing. The rumors earlier in the week claimed that Apple was setting up data centers around the country and around the world. Microsoft noted that Timmons was leaving but didn't say where he was going. Timmons going to Apple comes from industry sources. [via Datacenterknowelge] Relevant Entries on SlashGear
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| New HD Nintendo game console confirmed by sources Posted: 15 Apr 2011 03:40 AM PDT I have to admit that after a month or so of having my Wii console when it first launched the novelty of the controls wore off and the graphics were so bad that it ended up gathering dust while my PS3 got all the playtime. Nintendo might have wanted to convince gamers they didn't want HD graphics, but we all did. There have been hints for a while now that a new HD resolution Nintendo Wii would be landing at E3 this summer and those hints have now been confirmed by multiple sources according to Gameinformer. The sources claim that Nintendo is already showing the HD console off to developers to gather interest and get the game development underway. The new console is expected to debut at E3 with a launch set for 2012. The sources didn't offer any details on specs so it’s not clear if the graphics will be on par with the Xbox 360and PS3 or still worse than what those consoles offer. If Nintendo really wants the thing to be popular they had better be on par or better if it wants my money. One source told Gameinformer, “Nintendo is doing this one right. [It's] not a gimmick like the Wii.” [via Gameinformer] Relevant Entries on SlashGear
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| Skype Android apps have personal information vulnerability Posted: 15 Apr 2011 03:27 AM PDT
The security flay was found in the new Video app and then an investigation of the normal Skype app revealed the same flaw that stems from improper permissions on key files. The files are open and accessible by a properly written app without having to root the device or get any special permission. The vulnerable files give the nefarious app access to harvest all of the important personal data of the users of the Skype app. The data that can be accessed includes account balance, full name, date of birth, city/state/country, home phone, office phone, cell phone, email addresses, user’s webpage, user’s bio, and more. Skype is reportedly investigating the flaw right now. [via Android Community] Relevant Entries on SlashGear
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| Microsoft shows off specs for new WP7 chassis with cool new features Posted: 15 Apr 2011 03:03 AM PDT The specifications for the latest chassis design for Microsoft WP7 smartphones has been unveiled. The new chassis looks pretty cool and has some new features that will make phones based on the specs perform better. Right now, all of the WP7 smartphones on the market are running the Qualcomm MSM8x50 Snapdragon processor. That processor is running at 1GHz and sports Adreno 200 graphics. The new spec for the WP7 chassis has the smartphone getting an upgrade to the new Qualcomm processor known as the MSM8x55. The new processor brings with it an upgrade in graphics performance with the Adreno 205 GPU. Those parts are already in play on the smartphone market in some notable handset like the HTC Thunderbolt and the Xperia Play. The new chassis can also be fitted with the MSM7X30 as an additional option with the same GPU. The new design has provision for an optional gyroscope too. [via Engadget] Relevant Entries on SlashGear
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| IGDA fears Amazon Appstore policies for game devs Posted: 15 Apr 2011 02:53 AM PDT If a developer wants to sell a game on the Amazon Appstore they have some pretty tough decision to make. The Amazon Appstore has a good reach with consumers even if it just launched this year. The problem is that according to the IGDA, a game industry body, Amazon can change how they pay the developer for their game without getting the developers permission. Amazon’s terms and conditions state that Amazon can choose to pay the dev 70% of the purchase price of the game or 20% of the developer’s list price, whichever is greater. That means that the developer could end up being paid only 20% of its minimum list price without having to be asked by Amazon each time according to the IGDA. Another potential issue according to the IGDA is that a game making it to the top 100 could have its price slashed as much as 75%. The rub is that games low on the list might now see enough sales volume to offset that slashed price. That could mean that the developer makes less money though the game is in the 100 most popular. [via Android Community] Relevant Entries on SlashGear
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| Ford SYNC hits Europe in 2012 Focus Posted: 15 Apr 2011 02:33 AM PDT A car company might not be what you’d expect to find at IFA 2011, but Ford is here to talk about its “Drive Smart” push to include SYNC in future vehicles. Already in 3m Fords on US roads, Ford is now bringing SYNC to Europe – first with the 2012 Ford Focus – with the expectation that it will be in 2m models by 2015. As in the US system, Ford SYNC supports voice control, text-to-speech for incoming SMS messages, WiFi hotspot functionality and Michelin Guide restaurant suggestions. The SYNC setup consists of an 8-inch LCD touchscreen in the dashboard, a GPS receiver, a Bluetooth link to your phone (for hands-free, SMS and tethered modem use), various simple steering wheel controls (with user-assignable shortcuts) and a Media Hub in the center console. This includes three RCA inputs (for video and L/R audio) so you can plug in an external video source (though only when the car is in park), two USB ports (which can accept a 3G/4G USB modem), an SD card slot and WiFi inside which creates a mobile hotspot for up to five users. Incoming SMS messages are read out – including emoticons – and drivers can respond either with a preset message or by calling back the sender. There’s also AppLink, hooking up to apps on your iPhone, Android device or BlackBerry, and doing things like piping streaming music services through the car’s speakers. Voice-recognition is used to control the apps, as well as to query the integrated Michelin database; say “I’m hungry” and SYNC shows nearby restaurants, their reviews, price guidelines and an easy way to contact to make a reservation. Should you crash, SYNC automatically contacts 112 emergency services if the airbag is deployed or if the fuel pump is shut off; it uses the car’s GPS and cell-tower triangulation to pass on your location. Navigation is provided by Telenav and NAVTEQ, while the standard audio system is a Sony setup with regular speakers and amplifiers so that owners can upgrade as they see fit. The audio out of the head unit is all analog, for broader compatibility. No word on European pricing, but in the US SYNC is offered as a $399 package on the Focus. Relevant Entries on SlashGear
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| FlipLive dead as Cisco pulls plug on Flip line Posted: 15 Apr 2011 02:32 AM PDT This week Cisco announced that it was killing off the Flip line of camcorders. You might recall that last July we first caught wind of a very cool sounding new Flip camcorder that was being developed that packed in WiFi to allow the camera to stream your video live. Sadly, the death of the Flip brand means that camera – the FlipLive – will never come to be. The New York Times’ David Pogue is talking a bit about the decision of Cisco to kill the brand. As he points out, it has only been two years since Cisco bought the brand. The purchase cost Cisco $590 million. Many people thought the smartphones we all carry around that can record HD video was the cause. Pogue reckons there is more to it that that with the relatively small portion of the country that actually uses a smartphone that can record video. Another strange fact about the death of the Flip brand is that Pogue says that only a month ago he was briefed on the next production in the line, which was set to land yesterday. So as of a month ago Cisco was still full steam ahead on the Flip brand. What could change so much in 30 days? It comes down to this for David Pogue; Cisco wanted the Flip tech more than it wanted the Flip brand. That really makes sense considering that Cisco has all sorts of video conferencing tech in its core networking business. That would explain in a very tidy package why Cisco killed the brand rather than selling it off. The tech was worth the $590 million they paid. [via NYT] Relevant Entries on SlashGear
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| Hannspree tweaks SN10T3 tablet specs over Honeycomb demands Posted: 15 Apr 2011 01:45 AM PDT Hannspree may be best known for its animal-themed TVs, but the company has brought along more details on its new SN10T3 tablet along to the IFA 2011 Global Press Conference. A 10.1-inch slate, the SN10T3 runs – like most of the Android models we’ve seen so far – on NVIDIA’s Tegra 2 dual-core chipset. It’ll also be the first model from Hannspree to run Android 3.0 Honeycomb, a milestone the company says is down to Google’s demands around panel resolution. The SN10T3 uses homegrown HannStar IPS LCD panels and Sintek touch modules (both companies are owned by Hanspree’s parent HSD). Unlike the specs shown on previous slides, Hannspree says the SN10T3′s display now runs at 1280 x 800; it also has 16GB of storage, WiFi and Bluetooth. That change in resolution is a response to Google’s limitations to the Honeycomb platform and its distribution; Hannspree says Google insists on a 1280 x 800 screen, which is why its initial SN10T1 tablet (which went on sale recently) and the imminent SN10T2, both of which have 1024 x 600 panels, run a reskinned Android 2.2. According to Hannspree, increasing the resolution basically doubles the panel cost, which would mean they couldn’t bring the SN10T1 and SN10T2 in at €349 ($505) and €299 ($433) respectively; the SN10T3, in contrast, will be €449 ($650). Instead of 3.0, those two initial models use a TapTap-created interface which brings Froyo somewhat up to speed with Honeycomb. Flash Player 10.1 support, a more capable browser and reworked settings and homescreen interfaces have all had attention. Interestingly, the SN10T1 and SN10T2 are also the first Android slates to support multiple users, allowing various people to access the slate with different settings, homescreen layouts and access to apps. Next month, they’ll both get an Office suite added, with document, spreadsheet and presentation support. What we’re unlikely to see any time soon is a 7-inch Hannspree tablet. The company says its plans have been “put on hold for the moment, we have some doubts with that segment.” Still, they’re more likely than anything bigger than the SN10Tx-range: “You might see in the future 7-inch devices; bigger than 10-inch, I don’t think so.” Hannspree expects tablets to be the company’s main focus over the next few years, rather than novelty TVs. Relevant Entries on SlashGear
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| Samsung offering 3D Video On Demand in May Posted: 15 Apr 2011 12:33 AM PDT SlashGear is at the IFA 2011 Global Press Conference – a taster session ahead of the full show later on in the year – and Samsung has kicked things off with some tasty smart TV and 3D goodness. The company has announced that, as of next month, Samsung will launch a 3D video-on-demand service with free streaming 3D content including IMAX movies previously only available on Blu-ray. At the heart of the company’s demo was a Samsung D8000 HDTV, one of the top end models from the flagship range, using AllShare DLNA to funnel content between it and a Samsung notebook, 1TB BluRay DVR and an SH100 WiFi camera. As well as being able to search content stored on those various peripherals, the D8000 also goes online and pulls in content shared on YouTube, mentioned on Facebook, or just generally available online in Google searches. The D-pad on the remote doubles as a pointer control in the browser. The 3D Video-on-Demand system will be available in Europe to those with Samsung’s Smart TV sets. The systems also support streaming between the smart TV and a Galaxy Tab tablet; we’ll have demo video of that later on today. Relevant Entries on SlashGear
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| T-Mobile’s G2x dual-core Android phone goes on sale Posted: 14 Apr 2011 11:35 PM PDT T-Mobile’s G2x, the carrier’s version of the dual-core LG Optimus 2X, has gone on sale via the T-Mobile webstore. The Tegra 2 smartphone is priced at $199.99, following a $50 mail-in rebate and assuming you’re content signing your life away to a two-year agreement. There’s the usual mandatory voice and data plans as we’re seeing on all smartphones, too. Specs include a 4.3-inch WVGA touchscreen, 8-megapixel rear camera, 1.3-megapixel front camera and “4G” HSPA+ connectivity, along with WiFi, GPS, Bluetooth and a microSD card slot. Since LG has used NVIDIA’s Tegra 2 chipset, the G2x will get access to the NVIDIA Tegra Zone of apps and reviews. In-store availability of the T-Mobile G2x will be on April 20. [via Android Community] Relevant Entries on SlashGear
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| Google Translate For Android Adds Speaking In Japanese, Arabic, And Korean Posted: 14 Apr 2011 04:45 PM PDT
The Google Translate app for Android can speak around 21 languages including Russian, Chinese, and Portuguese. And the text-to-speech feature of the app is perhaps its most popular. The quality of the feature in 15 of the languages has also been dramatically improved with very clear and natural sounding speech despite it being synthesized. With this update, the Google Translate app will now support translations between 58 different languages and can speak translations in 24 languages. The app is available for download at the Android Market and works on both phones and tablets running Android 2.1 and above. [via Google Mobile Blog] Relevant Entries on SlashGear
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| Verizon Revamps FiOS TV With Enhanced Interactive Media Guide Posted: 14 Apr 2011 04:25 PM PDT Verizon today unveiled its next-generation FiOS TV service. The revamp includes 25 new features in their Interactive Media Guide (IMG) that all aim to bring improved search capabilities, easier navigation, better customization, more DVR features, and 3D content detection. A smart search feature has been added that predicts and provides potential matches for what the customer is looking for and also has other sorting and filtering options. In the area of customization, new parental control options have been added along with a guide customization feature that gives you a variety of settings with a mini guide on the bottom of the screen, a half guide on the right side, and a full guide. Several DVR enhancements have been added which include a DVR chaptering function that lets you DVD-like capabilities to jump ahead or resume viewing at a specific moment of the recording by using onscreen thumbnails in 10-minute increments. A 3D content software has also been added that will automatically detect if customers are viewing a 3D program so that it will change to the appropriate TV settings for watching 3D content. This new version 1.9 of the IMG is their most significant upgrade since the guide was introduced back in 2007. So far, the update has been rolled out to FiOS TV customers in four markets—Harrisburg, PA as well as Syracuse, Albany, and Buffalo, NY. The remaining markets should see the new guide coming in May and June. [via PRNewsWire] Relevant Entries on SlashGear
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| Posted: 14 Apr 2011 04:00 PM PDT As of March 2011, Xbox 360 is and remains the number one selling console in the entirety of the United States. This is judged based on console and software sales as well as continued consumer demand for the accessory known as Kinect, aka the fastest selling consumer electronics device in 60 days in recorded history. Sounds pretty impressive, yes? Let’s go through a few highlights that’ll continue to make your brain melt all over the floor. What are we quoting here, you might ask, what’s our source? This information is presented to us by the NPD Group based on a study completed in March of 2011. The Kinect statistic, or record rather, is in the Guinness Book of World Records. This next factoid, also from the NPD group (as are the rest of the statistics in this post: ) Xbox 360 sold a total of 433,000 units in the month of March 2011, holding on strong to the number one console spot in the USA. Next, compared to last year, aka “year over year” compared to last year, Xbox 360 console sales increased 28 percent. This is the largest growth of any current generation console on the market today. Also amongst current generation consoles, Xbox holds the highest mark for total amount spent on a platform (hardware, software and accessories,) at $457 million. Finally, again in March, four of the top ten console games were for Xbox 360. These games included "Homefront," "Dragon Age II," "Crysis 2,"and "Call of Duty: Black Ops." Of course Microsoft will expect these figures to continue to impress as Kinect will have Netflix and Hulu Plus activated alongside a plethora of additional games, as always. I’m thinking of getting a Kinect to exercise – what do you think? Relevant Entries on SlashGear
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All the computer geeks out there will love this news. 
Years back before I became a full time geek I worked in the hospital for over a decade mostly with people that had breathing problems like asthma. The thing with asthma is that the triggers can vary greatly for many people and the first thing you need to do to control your asthma is to figure out what triggers your attacks and avoid it.
Apparently, someone over at Skype didn't do their homework well when they wrote the apps for the Android devices on the market. Skype for Android reportedly has about 10 million users and the personal information of all of those users is open and available for nefarious and malicious apps to steal. The vulnerability surfaced when the geeks over at Androidpolice took the new Skype Video app apart.
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