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Google develops an alternative to Apple TV
It seem like Apple have always been concentrated on Macs and iPhones/iPods/iPads, so their Apple TV product may be considered more like a hobby. But the company’s main rival thinks of it as of another field to work on.
Intel, Sony and Google created a team to work on the device called GoogleTV. The latter already has its prototype. The New York Times says it consists of Intel’s Atom processor and Android OS with Chrome web-browser. The project has been under development for a few months and there is still a work to do, but preliminary the device will be introduced this summer. To test their set-top box Google cooperates with Dish Network.
The NYT’s source say:
“Google wants to be everywhere the Internet is so they can put ads there.”
It sounds plausible, because GoogleTV device is planned to allow users to browse the Internet, watch YouTube videos, check out Hulu content and even run Web apps and games.
4G Is Now Available With a Sprint Device
Here is a new commercial of Sprint that has recently offere iPhone users a new way to connect to their 4G network. As it is on its site:
“The Overdrive from Sprint can connect an iPhone to the Sprint 4G network to give it the advantages of 4G without switching carriers.”
Overdrive allows connecting up to 5 Wi-fi enabled devices at the same time with a single 4G connection 10 times faster than 3G.
iPad Humor Commercial
Here is a humorous look at the iPad’s capabilities produced for a Comm 340 class and posted on YouTube by Brian Johnson.
The video is an assignment for our Comm 340 class. The goal was to make a media product with the highest consumption as possible. We completed it March 2, 2010. Our professor is Dr. Warnick, and our group members are: Brian, Justin, Laura, Mike, and Rashel.
Take a look:
iPhone user made an alphabet from 500 apps
An iPhone user with a nickname Urikane have put together almost full alphabet using 500 apps. That obviously took a lot of time. Watch the video:
As you can see, there is no “W” letter, and the status bar is moving with apps, so Urikane was probably just browsing the photos, but still this work must have taken forever.
Rupert Murdoch talks about iPad
Last week Fox Business Chanell had an interesting interview with Rupert Murdoch. News Corporation Chairman talked much about the upcoming tablet devices that will reinvigorate the industry of advertising for new media. As the iPad was the only known tablet presented at the moment Rupert said:
“…all media will be coming to the iPad whether it be music, or books, or newspapers or movies”.
Murdoch also hopes there will be more iPads with even larger size.
iDongle – Jailbreak has never been so easy before
iDongle is a new device that lets you to jailbreak your iPhone/iPod Touch or reboot it on the go. It is very easy to use -- just plug it in and wait. The only problem is that it supports only iPod Touch 2G/3G and 3.1.2 iPhone 3GS.
At the moment there is only a dozen of this devices, but the developer says he collects money at the moment to build up a full-fledged production.
iPhone Pro: new concept of the next-generation iPhone
Designer Antonio De Rosa, the author of a beautiful iPhone 4G concept, offers us his new creation iPhone Pro. Here is a video demonstration and a full image gallery:
HP Presented Ads For Its Slate PC
HP confirmed that their slate PC can run Adobe flash and Air applications and emphasized it with a little bit provocative notes in their new ads:
- “Complete Internet -- including Flash”.
- “Access the full web and not jut part of it!”
The company representatives also ambiguously said:
“With this slate product, you’re getting a full Web browsing experience in the palm of your hand. No watered-down Internet, no sacrifices.”
For more information watch the new video ads above and below.
First iPad ad during the Oscars
Apple aired their first iPad commercial during the 82nd Annual Academy Awards. The commercial shows people using the iPad and going through the various features (iBooks, Videos, Maps, Email, Photos, Safari etc). The song is There Goes My Love by The Blue Van ().
Take a look at the commercial below:
The Apple iPad will launch on April 3rd with pre-orders starting on March 12th.
If Old Spice Created Ads for Apple
Neo-fight.tv created an adaptation of Old Spice Manmercial for Apple’s iPad. It is so funny no additional comments are needed.
Original Old Spice Commercial is under the cut.
Penguin’s Upcoming iPad books
Penguin, one of the biggest publishers, gave a very interesting presentation in London. Penguin CEO John Makinson spoke about eBooks, iPad Books and Apps.
Penguin is not using the ePub format for books, rather building the applications in html according to Makinson:
“We will be embedding audio, video and streaming in to everything we do. The .epub format, which is the standard for ebooks at the present, is designed to support traditional narrative text, but not this cool stuff that we’re now talking about”.
“So for the time being at least we’ll be creating a lot of our content as applications, for sale on app stores and HTML, rather than in ebooks. The definition of the book itself is up for grabs”.
“We don’t know whether a video introduction will be valuable to a consumer. We will only find answers to these questions by trial and error.”
Makinson sees ebooks hitting 10% of book sales next year (up from 4%). Take a look at the video:
The iPhone 4G Concept in 3D: version 2
Some time ago designer Antonio De Rosa created a beautiful concept of future iPhone 4G and even published a small video. Many users liked it and gave Antonio some feedback. Now we can see the updated version.
Apple From 1976 To 2010 in Video Footage
Company named Transparent House created a video tribute to an Apple. Its idea was to design some of the well-known innovative products that company has developed in their more than 30 years history.
All the animation took about 10 days to complete. The work was done using only 3Ds Max and V-Ray Render. Creators say it is not connected with Apple or any commercial company, and they hope it will be used only in educational purposes. Let’s watch!
Apple and HTC commented on the lawsuit situation
When HTC found out about Apple’s actions, the company told Gizmodo website they will defend their technologies:
“We only learned of Apple’s actions based on your stories and Apple’s press release. We have not been served any papers yet so we are in no position to comment on the claims. We respect and value patent rights but we are committed to defending our own innovations. We have been innovating and patenting our own technology for 13 years.”
Steve Jobs expressed his opinion in the official press release:
“We can sit by and watch competitors steal our patented inventions, or we can do something about it. We’ve decided to do something about it. We think competition is healthy, but competitors should create their own original technology, not steal ours.”
It is interesting, that 14 years ago it was Steve Jobs who said: “We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.”.
Wow! It looks like Steve Jobs totally changed his mind?
Adobe releases a new video where FlashPlayer does not drastically affect battery life
Flash might be quite power consumptive. Adobe posted a video through its blog where the new version 10.1 refutes all previous data.
The phone plays a video on YouTube for 17 minutes. After that the battery has fallen by 6%. So the battery provides several hours of video playback via the FlashPlayer and this new data is not bad.