January 15, 2012

Convertcast
Episode 101
Sunday, January 15, 2012

MISC

• ICANN new domains – wtf?! Wasn’t .xxx bad enough? thick whois system ICANN
  wants to indroduce – so no private whois and one needs to identify to registrars etc.
• the US embassy and terror alerts in Bangkok
• Was yours one of the disappearing 4Square accounts this week?
• SOPA
• samsung’s bada OS to merge with intel tizen OS (samsung is biggest maker of smarpthones globally!)
  http://www.forbes.com/sites/elizabethwoyke/2012/01/13/samsung-merging-its-bada-os-with-intel-backed-tizen-project/

Android

CM lets you put ICS on HP Touchpad. Why would anyone do this other than just to do it?

Apple 

in China – chaos in Beijing

OnLive desktop/CloudOn

Edward saw Mission Impossible 4 movie: 99% of gadgets  in it from Apple: iphone 4, macbook air, ipad (!) and only in 1-2 scenes android sighted.

Microsoft 

dominated the videogame industry last year, with the Xbox capturing nearly half of all consumer spending from physical sales in 2011.

About $6.7 billion, or 40 percent of consumer retail spending, was spent on the Xbox, breaking down into two categories: $2.1 billion on consoles and $4.6 billion on games, according to NPD data released today.

- Allthingsd

2 main CES trends (apart from windows ultrabooks and android tablets) :

1. kinect-like control of TV sets,  2. voice control of TV sets

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2012/01/disruptive-power-gesture-voice-recognition.html

*** windows-phone-powered nokia lumia 900 coming to USA in March, announced at CES

*** windows phone supports only 1-core and 800×480 now but microsoft employees claim

nonsense that 2-core not needed, in meantime: Galaxy SII LTE from Samsung has dual-core 1.5GHz while many android phones have dual-core 1.2GHz.

Amazon 

has released a new ‘Send to Kindle’ feature for PC users. It’s a downloadable extension for Windows that adds a “Send to Kindle” option when right-clicking on a file in Windows Explorer or in the print dialog in any application.

Files sent with Send to Kindle go to the user’s Kindle Library, and they can be downloaded on the e-ink Kindle models as well as the iOS Kindle app. The last-read page, bookmarks, notes and highlights are synchronized automatically, except for PDFs. The Kindle Fire is not listed. Support for Mac is “coming soon.”

.    - ReadWriteWeb

Kindle Touch power user tip: type in search field this:

~ds

… which means “symbol of tilde, <~> disable screensaver” then screen saver wil not come

again but power off button not working as usual and only 20 seconds

holding down helps by resetting. no debug mode needed though!

LTE and NFC 

in smartphones – some have it but not ripe  yet?

NFC in many smartphones already: mobile payments by moving phone to Point Of Sale, gathering local information via NFC, Bluetooth headset that pairs by NFC/touchin device, NFC used to faster log-in to WiFi hotspots, NFC explodes!

mobile world congress next month! predictions: more LTE/4G phones probably

LTE in Europe now available for USB sticks and separate routers, not in phones yet, in USA in phones already

ipad 3 will have LTE (4G)? but what is the point if it has no internet connection sharing?

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