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Sony Online Offers ID Theft Monitoring
Sony is going to be doing to help their customers protect themselves in the aftermath of the recent data breach on their servers, is by giving their customers access to 12 months of free identity theft protection and members will have access to Debix’s All Clear ID Protection Plan the offer will be made available to all PSN and Qriocity account members in the United States.Sony is currently working to make this available to other territories outside of the U.S and claims that users should be getting emails within the next few days with a promotional code for the service…………….
iPod 7th Generation Features
Apple patent application suggest iPod nano could become even more of a fashion accessory and he camera could be used to create a background that matches your shirt or jacket or the accelerometer could be used to make a screen saver react to your movements.The patent application also noticeably features Games as a menu option in some of the illustrations which would be new to the current variety of iPod nano……….
Apple’s Restriction on New iMacs Main hard drive cannot be Moved, Removed or Replaced
Apple put restrictions on Upgrade the Hard Drive in the New iMacs. The new iMacs have the super fast Thunderbolt port and Intel’s latest Sandy Bridge Core processors which makes them pretty powerful. Apple has made upgrading the hard drive on the new iMacs quite impossible. Apple has altered the SATA power connector from a [...]
Touchscreen Without Any Screen
ZeroTouch optical multi-touch force field makes a touchscreen out of just about anything and this is a seemingly empty picture frame that lets you turn any surface into an interactive touchscreen.ZeroTouch is packing a series of pulsing LEDs and infrared sensors that turn that blank space into a highly sensitive surface……….
Sprint’s Fight To Smear AT&T’s Proposed Takeover Of T-Mobile USA
Rival Sprint has officially on the race to smear AT&T’s current attempt to buy T-Mobile USA. They have already took another attempt to offer lucrative termination fee by publishing ad for the migration from T-Mobile to Sprint. Actually the corporate or business customers are the main targets now. Hope that they will come after the [...]
Rumor of Next Gen iPod Nano To Reinstate a Camera
Taiwanese site tw.apple.pro released a photo of a new alleged iPod nano prototype. That picture shows a camera on the device, which is approximately the same shape and size as the current sixth generation of Apple’s music player.
Visa Digital Wallet System
Visa is planning to launch a new type of digital wallet system that would let consumers pay for items online with just a single click and targets Amazon, PayPal with its own digital wallet.Visa’s offering could also let consumers wirelessly pay for items at retail outlets through a mobile device equipped with the digital wallet technology and is promising a number of benefits through its digital wallet……….
Google I/O 2011: Day Two Announcements
After Google's day one Android and Music beta announcements. Today keynote event was all about Google's Chrome and Chrome OS. Chromebooks available June 15th.
Sony May Have Thirf Attack By Hackers
Sony may have prevented another attack on the PSN, G4TV.com and CNET posted an article last week detailing a possible third attack on Sony’s servers overheard by a member of an IRC and the attack would have involved hackers gaining access to Sony servers to access data.The hackers allegedly already have access to some of Sony’s servers and plan to go public with the personal information they find in their attack, it is not clear from the report whether or not these hackers are part of the Anonymous group………
New Gestures For Touchscreen Developed By Microsoft
Hrvoje Benko, a researcher at Microsoft is working on methods of recognizing shapes formed by hands and equating those with spatially-consistent gestures and putting the side of your hand down like a wall forms a straight line that could be used for a boundary, cropping or pushing objects.It’s a very natural extension of how you interact with a surface and that’s how you interact with most surfaces………….
Music Beta by Google: New Cloud Based Streaming Music Service by Google
Google unveiled the their new cloud based music service called Music Beta by Google. Users can stream 20000 songs to be played on Android, tablet, computer.
Google’s Big Announcements at I/O 2011: Day One
Google had some major announcements at the keynote opening of Google I/O 2011. Major Android announcements, along with a cloud based music service top the list.
Microsoft To Acquire Skype
Microsoft’s acquisition of Skype for $8.5 billion becomes official and combined companies will benefit consumers, businesses and increase market opportunity.This purchase shouldn’t affect Skypers outside of the Microsoft ecosystem, as Steve Ballmer’s team promises to continue to invest in and support Skype clients on non-Microsoft platforms.Skype was first sold for a relative bargain at $2.5b to eBay in 2005, who in turn sold most of it off to Silver Lake in 2009 at an overall valuation of $2.75b and now Redmond is concluding proceedings by tripling those earlier prices and offering Skype a permanent home……………
NVIDIA To Acquire Icera
NVIDIA acquiring wireless chip manufacturer Icera, doubling-down on the post-PC era and the UK-based company you’ve probably never heard of has a line of 3G and 4G baseband processors used in wireless devices and USB modems chips that are said to be smaller, more flexible, and more efficient than the competition from Qualcomm and ST-Ericsson.Icera seems to have been focused heavily on LTE of late which puts NVIDIA in a good place to not only manage what happens to the data when its inside your next-gen phone or tablet……….
The Next Major Release Of Windows Phone
Microsoft’s next major release of Windows Phone will be previewed on May 24th and can circle the 24th of May as the date when Redmond will dish the full details of its next major software release, will likely upgrade its mobile nomenclature as well as feature set…………..




































