Category: Gadget Shows
Steve Jobs to give Macworld a miss in 2009 – and forever after too
If you have apple-shaped tears, prepare to shed them now. Steve Jobs will not be hosting this year’s keynote at Macworld. Soz, and if that one hurt, this one could kill – this will be the last year Apple is going to bother with the San Francisco expo at all…
IFA 2008: Spy monitors and picture frames
Zara is still over in Berlin checking out the gadgets at IFA 2008. Check out the video above where she demonstrates an unusual hybrid device that combines digital photo frames and cameras that can be used as baby monitors or security cameras – ideal if you’re a big fan of surveillance society or destroying the civil liberties of your kids…
IFA 2008: Medion announce new home theatre tech
Not content with merely making tonnes of powerful desktop PCs, Medion is trying to muscle in on the tellies and home theatre market with a couple of new devices…
IFA 2008: Sony's Cyber-shot T500 – 10.1 megapixels and 720p movie clips
Susan here is impressing her friend with the new Cyber-shot T500, which Sony has just revealed at IFA 2008.
The minuscule snapper boasts a spec-sheet-pleasing 10.1 megapixels, plus the ability to record videos at official HD Ready 1280×720 resolution, in MPEG4 AVC/H.264 format, for proper HD playback on the widescreen TV of your choice…
WWDC08: Steve Jobs Keynote live blog
A keynote speech from Steve Jobs is always a hotly anticipated event, and today’s WWDC08 opener is no exception.
Top of the pile is the iPhone 3G, which we fully expect to be announced along with the new iPhone operating system and third-party applications store…
S60 Summit 2008: Experience
0818: The second day of the S60 Summit kicks off with Esa Eerola, who is the Head of S60 User Experience Marketing at Nokia, taking to the stage. He begins the day stating that “total user experience is a result of many factors”, including the software platform (of course), the ability to personalise the device, adding wallpapers, ringtones etc as well as applications and add-ons, and finally, having available form factors, whether that be a candybar, slider, clamshell, or smartphone.
0830: Eerola cries out that new requirements are needed for handsets, improving multitasking, making the navigation nicer to look at, calling upon the use of widgets for easy personalisation, and expanding the way to present system and event based notifications….
Live-blog will be updating continually
S60 Summit 2008: Innovate
1324: After a lengthy lunch and demo session, my laptop is fully charged again, ready for Lee Williams, who is the Senior Vice President for S60 Software at Nokia. Grabbing my attention, he claims that mobile internet is a ‘geek’s wet dream’. It helps the user with day-to-day activities.
1335: Williams describes Python, which allows you to innovate and design applications ‘out of the box’. Williams mentions their attempt at acquiring Trolltech, as they want to preserve these investments for the future. Web Run-Time is the most sophisticated mobile engine, he claims, although Microsoft’s Silverlight and Adobe Flash are also mentioned as being other companies Nokia has struck up relationships with. Nokia recognises the importance of what these companies are doing in the innovation space, and they hope to integrate them more so into their S60 platform…
S60 Summit 2008: Reach
1015: José Antonio Moujadami, who is the Head of Applications and Open OS Devices at Telefonica, takes to the stage. He believes that hybrid applications in mobile devices are even more important than in PCs, due to the higher diversity of platforms, amongst others. Mobile devices are always connected, in contrast to PCs, however issues such as limited memory and browsers need to be addressed in order for growth to appear.
1023: Hybrid applications, on the S60, Windows Mobile, and Linux operating systems include binary compatibility, web based UI such as html and flash, scripting and access to native capabilities. As an operator, Telefonica is aware of mash-ups, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube and other web 2.0 applications, and is started to provide APIs for future hybrid applications to deliver capabilities for mash-ups with telecom services and internet services…
LG showing off three new smartphones this week
There’s another one of those technology trade shows happening this week, so expect at least 50 consecutive updates about marginally different forms of mobile telephone. We will try our hardest to appear enthused, even when reporting on the budget models.
The three phones LG will be showing off are, from left to right, the LG CU920 (aka LG Vu), the VX9100 and the AX830 (aka LG Glimmer). And here they are, being demonstrated with enthusiasm – and a smile!
They – the phones, and possibly the ladies – will be on the showfloor at…
Apple announces WWDC08 dates: "a landmark event"
Apple yesterday sent out invitations to this year’s World Wide Developers Conference, claiming that it will be “A landmark event. In more ways than one”.
Now, despite this being a boring conference for developers, not consumers, Apple events always seem to get people speculating.
Are the two bridges separating or converging? Do they represent the Mac and the iPhone? Possibly, though there are three tracks being offered at the Conference…
