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Garmin FR70 Fitness Watch Keeps You Motivated
Garmin has unveiled its latest wrist-worn Non-GPS marvel for those who don’t treat exercise as a dirty word, the Garmin FR70 Fitness Watch and the FR70 uses ANT+ to talk to other exercise equipment, such as the bundled heart rate monitor. The fitness watch can track the time you’ve been working out, along with your heart rate and how many calories you’ve burned and it can track your speed and distance while walking, jogging or running. The pair will be available in the UK, starting in November for £129 / €139 ($197) and pairing the watch with a wireless foot pod will clue you in on speed, distance and cadence during your training sessions………………
FCC Created Connect America Fund
FCC created Connect America Fund to help extend high-speed internet to 18 million unserved Americans for creating jobs and increased consumer benefits. Agency delivers bipartisan vote to modernize America’s communications infrastructure and expand broadband throughout the nation, in fact, encourages perverse schemes by carriers to stimulate certain kinds of phone traffic. The plan includes changes in how companies pay each other for carrying phone calls and the change could lead to a 50-cent or higher monthly increase on consumers’ phone bills……………..
Medco Presented Archon Genomics X Prize
The X Prize Foundation, which offers monetary awards for solutions to pressing scientific challenges, has tackled space travel, moon missions and oil spill cleanups and a $10-million award is offered for a team that significantly boosts the speed and accuracy of DNA sequencing, which could open new horizons in medicine, this is challenging teams to accurately sequence the DNA of 100 centenarians within 30 days at $1,000 or less per genome. The competition opens to teams on January 3rd of next year and the data gathered will be opened up to researchers………………..
Google TV 2.0 Update To Arrive Next Week
When the launch of Google TV was announced there was a great optimism from Technorati and no one knows what went wrong that this did not make in the market as big as this was expected following the grand success of Android. Despite launching Google TV with Logitech and Sony as key partners, they did not have the take off as expected and Google announced that early next week it will launch a major software update intended to significantly improve the functionality of the Google TV software. Google admits that Google TV has had its problems, but with this update they hope to address some of them and owners of Sony’s Google TV-equipped televisions will see the update as early as next week, Logitech Revue owners will have to wait until soon thereafter…………………
Jolicloud Joli OS Gets Open-Sourced
Jolicloud heads to the actual cloud, Joli OS gets open-sourced and announces latest beta version of JoliOS, which will allow for access from your iPhone, Android and other devices. At present the Jolicloud service is in Beta phase only and they will soon be launching an Android and an iOS based application for both smartphones and tablets, though this mobile applications users will be able to access the Jolicloud service anywhere using both Wi-Fi and mobile GPRS. Joli OS has been open sourced and is now available to the community, if you’re interested in finding out more about the whole ordeal, sign up for the private beta…………………
Ford Explorer Lane Keeping Technology
Ford is trying to make up for some lost time and revenue here and they are not the first to do this kind of technology, they are pushing their own stay in your own lane package starting with the Explorer. The Driver Alert System is slated to launch in 2012 and it will include new lane keeping tech, part of the system will detect drowsy drivers and also the goal is to keep sleepyheaded drivers from destroying lives. In this alert system a camera setup will monitor one’s lane position and if they drift too far away from the straight and narrow, their steering wheel will vibrate…………………
ARM Detailed ARMv8 Architecture
ARM this week disclosed technical details of its new ARMv8 architecture, the first ARM architecture to include a 64-bit instruction set and ARMv8 broadens the ARM architecture to embrace 64-bit processing and extends virtual addressing, building on the rich heritage of the 32-bit ARMv7 architecture upon, which market leading cores such as the Cortex-A9 and Cortex-A15 processors are built. The ARMv8 architecture specifications are available now to partners under license with the company planning to disclose processors based on ARMv8 during 2012 with consumer and enterprise prototype systems expected in 2014……………
Apple To Launch Siri-Powered Television By 2013
Apple has reportedly been at work on a full-fledged high-definition television set for years, but the company’s recent launch of Siri for the iPhone 4S is believed to be one of the final puzzle pieces necessary for Apple to launch its own TV and Jobs had reportedly been pushing engineers at Apple for years to develop a new interface for living room TVs. In new report Nick Bilton from The New York Times says that Apple is indeed working on a television product that could be publicly announced in late 2012, which released in early 2013 and Apple has quite a bit of work to do before the set is ready for prime time…………….
Demo Video Of iPad 2 Jailbreak On iOS 5
The iPhone Dev-Team’s MuscleNerd posted a screenshot to Twitter hat showed Cydia running on a jailbroken iPhone 4S and now MuscleNerd then posted a video to YouTube that shows an iPad 2 running both iOS 5 and Cydia. Apple has patched the exploitation holes used to hack previous devices, which explains why the new hardware (iPhone 4S and iPad 2) jailbreak is still delayed and in case you want to jailbreak the iPhone 4S and the iPad 2, then all you have to do is wait a while longer, not that we’d ever advise you to go for such procedures……………….
LightSquared And PCTEL Make Partnership For Fix GPS Interference Issue
LightSquared announced in cooperating with PCTEL, it has developed a new antenna that will help resolve concerns over high precision GPS receivers and the Coalition, which represents manufacturers and users of GPS (Global Positioning System), has been among the most vocal critics of LightSquared’s plan to operate a national LTE network on 40,000 terrestrial base stations, using frequencies near to those used for GPS and tests conducted earlier this year showed the network would knock out GPS for many devices, which scan a wide band of frequencies for weak signals from GPS satellites.LightSquared has said it already committed millions of dollars to changes to its own technology and will contribute up to $50 million to fix gear owned by federal agencies, the new solution will soon undergo testing with the National Telecommunications and Information Administration as well as with the Federal Communications Commission…………..
BYD e6 Pure-Electric Vehicle Available In China
The Chinese BYD e6 is somewhat a staple of Shenzhen taxi companies, racking up a combined 3.8 million miles since its introduction and there is now an electric e6 with a range of 190 miles, which recently started selling in China. The car is a five-passenger tall wagon and is on track to increase electric vehicle sales in China from 33,000 last year to 554,000 by 2015 and BYD is working with China Southern Grid, a utility company, to distribute home-based vehicle charging stations. The current line of electric e6s cost about $57 grand, but due to government subsidies, a growing Chinese middle class will be able to purchase the cars for around $38,000 and BYD hopes that an early profit loss this year will be solved in part by the US launch and the e6 and also BYD is set to far eclipse Japanese car makers in the EV business for the Asia Pacific region………………….
New High-Precision Eye Surgery Robot
A researcher at Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands has developed an eye-surgery robot that filters out hand tremors to allow ophthalmologists to operate on the retina and the vitreous humor of the eye with greater precision and for longer into their careers. Its design is similar to the da Vinci Surgical System except that Meenink’s uses two sets of control modules–a master and this slave unit helps to filter out a surgeon’s hand tremors and prevent accidental damage to the eye. Another notable feature is the robot’s ability to switch between tools quickly and if this whole doctor thing doesn’t work out, it’ll at least have a job at Hibachi waiting…………………
Samsung Become World’s Top Smartphone Manufacturer
Samsung has now become the world’s largest smartphone manufacturer, leaping past Apple, which held the title for just one quarter and Samsung shipped 27.8 million smartphones last quarter, accounting for 23.8 percent of the smartphone market, compared to Apple’s 17.1 million units shipped. Even though Nokia has been in a heavy transition period they managed to hold onto 3rd place with 16.8 million smartphones shipped, claiming 14.4% market share and RIM, LG, Sony Ericsson, Motorola all make up the others category. While Apple is expecting all-time record iPhone sales during the current quarter as the iPhone 4S rolls out around the world and it still may not be enough to overcome Samsung’s significant lead and strong growth…………………
Samsung Q3 2011 Results
Samsung Electronics announces third quarter 2011 results consolidated operating profit reaches 4.25 trillion won on revenues of 41.27 trillion won and this overall profit falls despite incredible phone sales. Samsung’s bread-and-butter chip business saw its profit more than halve to 1.59 trillion won from a year earlier, but it held up well as its relatively high exposure to lucrative mobile chips helped the firm offset a sharp plunge in prices of commodity computer memory chips and Samsung was the sole profitable firm among major global DRAM chip makers in the third quarter……………..
AUO Integrates Flexible E-paper
AUO’s flexible e-paper to take on Stretch Armstrong in battle of the bendiest and AU Optronics hopes to facilitate with its 6-inch Rollable Organic TFT E-paper. AUO has finally delivered a working prototype that is completely solar powered and elastic enough to make even Gumby jealous and the SVGA e-paper has an amorphous silicon PV battery, which turns natural or indoor light into solar energy without requiring a power plug…………………..
