Polaroid, the renowned camera and film maker, has decided to launch a 10-inch Android tablet with glasses-free 3D display in Europe. As a new entrant in the tablet computer market, it will be difficult for Polaroid to gain a sizable market share. Because, tablet manufacturing giants like Asus, Sony, Samsung and Fujitsu already dominate the tablet market.
With the meteoric rise in the fortunes and fame of Apple and its products, its antique products have also seen a huge bump in their value. We posted earlier about a 1984 Macintosh 128k machine which was eventually sold for a whooping $3,519. And now, another Macintosh machine has surfaced on eBay, this time the extremely rate edition that came with a Twiggy disk drive. The seller has stated the starting price for bidding at $99,995.
This bit of news much be a somewhat for a shock for many. That is because the parent companies of both Paramount and Google Play, YouTube, namely Viacom and Google, have been locked in a fierce legal tussle. Viacom sued Google in 2007 alleging that its YouTube content to piracy of Viacom’s movies and shows. However, surprisingly, now both companies have agreed to offer Paramount movies on Google Play and YouTube.
iPhone 5 will be released in June. Because Foxconn recruiter said to the TV Tokyo – the company needs to hire about 18,000 people to manufacture the iPhone 5. It seems that provisionally the confusion about releasing time of iPhone 5 is gone. Every fans of iPhone’s were waiting to know about the releasing date of iPhone 5.
While we definitely do not expect Microsoft’s next gaming console, Xbox 720, to be unveiled any time this year, this hasn’t stopped the rumor mill from churning reports about it. Now, yet another rumor claims that Xbox 720, which has been codenamed ‘Durango’, will come with a Blu-Ray player and will require an internet connection all the time while you use it.
Graphics Properties Holdings is the same company which took over Silicon Graphics in 2009, just when the latter was on the verge of bankruptcy. With this acquisition, Graphics Properties was able to get 60 issued US patents. And ever since then, Graphics Properties has been trying to leverage these patents to sue smartphone vendors over their designs, without much success. Now, it has launched another spree of lawsuits against Apple, Samsung, Sony, RIM, HTC, LG and Sony.
Robotic pets are a kind of kid stuff. Sony launched the AIBO robotic dog few years ago. People couldn’t afford that because that was a little bit costly. But, Japan’s new robotic dog decides to reveal its outlook and activities through most popular iPhone. The world’s third largest toy manufacturer Bandai has implemented this innovative crazy idea through iPhone. The robot dog can show its face with over 100 different facial animations. It’s really entertaining.
For nearly a decade now, Hillcrest Labs has been the company which has been licensing its motion control software to a number of companies such as Sony, Roku and LG Electronics. That alone indicates the expertise of the company when it comes to creating motion control software. Now, in a press release, Hillcrest has announced that it will be bringing its motion control software to smartphones and tablets.