Windows Phone 7 updates Bing to find music and barcodes, provide turn-by-turn directions and Bing Audio will act like a Shazam for recognizing music while Bing Vision will use your smartphone’s camera to read barcodes and do optical character recognition, plus potentially provide support for augmented reality apps………….
Amazon’s recently launched Cloud Player music storage service has received an update to make it significantly more usable on Apple’s mobile devices and it isn’t quite as nice as an actual app, it provides nearly all of the functionality that you could ask for.Sound quality is said to be great and the only part of it that is a little buggy seems to be the scrubbing capability……..
Sprint and Motorola unveil two Android devices for business: Motorola XPRT and Motorola Titanium and new Android smartphones target professionals with enhanced business-class experiences; Motorola XPRT offers enterprise-grade security and enhanced MOTOBLUR experience on an Android World Phone; and Motorola Titanium pairs best-in-class Nextel Direct Connect with Android.Sprint’s dubbing its version the XPRT, with the same 3.1-inch HVGA touchpanel, full QWERTY keyboard, 1GHz CPU and Android 2.2 loaded and it’ll go for $129.99 on a two-year contract starting June 5th, but giving that the Pro hit the bargain bin long ago…………
The well-known financial publication Forbes has launched its top 500, an annual top which includes the first 500 American companies that reported the biggest revenues. Apple has managed to climb 21 spots and now ranks 35 after they have reported revenues amounting to 65 billion dollars. This is a huge sum of money and equals the company’s financial reserve which has increased in recent years due to the iDcevices’ success. They have been the sales engine and pushed the company forward.
With Windows Phone 7 offering full Zune functionality and the new mobile OS has clearly created a surplus of lower-capacity Zune HD devices, causing Microsoft to respond with a rather significant price drop.Adiscount would indicate an imminent refresh and the 6GB Zune HD has shaved off $30 to $169.99 and also you can now grab the 32GB version for $199.99……….
Fujitsu announced that the new STYLISTIC Q550 Tablet PC will be shipping in June and is now available for Pre order through their web site and the tablet is offered in two base models, a $729 30GB model (Q550-30GB-01) and a $849 62GB model (Q550-62GB-02).The Q550 for that under $800 figure delivers one very attractive specifications offering and the ideal Windows 7 slate for a professional user is what the Q550 is being fashioned as by Fujitsu, features a 10.1-inch wide-angle LED backlit IPS display, Intel Oak Trail Atom processor, 32GB or 64GB SSD, dual cameras, USB port, removable quick-swap battery (up to 8 hours), SmartCard reader slot, fingerprint sensor, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, optional 3G module and of course Windows 7 operating system……………
Microsoft announced that Research In Motion is adopting the Bing search engine for its BlackBerry phones and devices will use Bing as the preferred search provider in the browser and also Bing will be the default search and map application for new devices presented to mobile operators, both in the US and internationally.The partnership underscores the increasing importance of mobile search, a field where Microsoft competes primarily with search giant Google and both companies compete with Apple and its iPhone and iPad, and Google’s Android operating system for smartphones and tablets…………
AMD debuts first embedded GPU with support for OpenCL and six displays, AMD Radeon E6760 GPU brings the latest desktop graphics performance and features to the medical, casino gaming, defense and aerospace markets.AMD also notes that the GPU can be paired with its upcoming Llano APU for some additional graphics and parallel computing power………..