CNET reports that Apple CEO Steve Jobs opened the 2010 Worldwide Developers Conference yesterday by announcing the iPhone 4. As expected, the latest handset features a high-resolution display, a faster processor, and video calling, and also sports some unexpected additions like a new antenna and a gyroscope. It will be available exclusively with AT&T beginning
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Details of Apple's new iPhone leaked
Gizmodo has posted a batch of video clips and photos of Apple’s new iPhone 4G, which was nabbed through some rather questionable means. Apparently, a software engineer from Apple walked into a bar and left without the device. An editor at Gizmodo then claims to have paid $5000 to the guy who found it. You
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Cable customers to get free Wi-Fi throughout New York area
According to The Wall Street Journal, Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Cablevision have agreed to allow all of their Wi-Fi subscribers to use any of the three companies’ Wi-Fi networks in the New York metropolitan area. The agreement adds no extra fees for users, and gives customers the ability to roam freely throughout the New
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First iPad Game Summit coming to San Francisco in June
The first ever iPad Game Summit will be taking place on June 28, 2010 in San Francisco. The summit is for game companies eager to position their games to take advantage of the new Apple iPad platform. In 2009, $500 million worth of games were sold through the App Store in the U.S., up from
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Highlights of Macworld 2010
A successful Macworld 2010 closed today boasting more than 20,000 attendees, over 250 exhibitors who launched dozens of new products and innovations, and more than 150 conference sessions at the most comprehensive training program for the Mac platform, IDG World Expo, owner of Macworld 2010, announced today. “The release of SMART Slate for Mac and
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A new way to use my blog
I keep seeing cool things where ever I go, so I’m going to make more of an effort to use the mobile publishing capabilities available to WordPress… in between eating, having fun and just plain awe.
Features and comparison video on the new PlayStation 3 120GB Slim
Here’s a first look at the brand new Sony PlayStation 3 Slim. The feature-set is similar to the standard PlayStation 3, delivered in about a 33% slimmer and lighter profile. With the PlayStation 3 120GB system, you get free PlayStation Network membership, built-in Wi-Fi and 120GB of hard disk drive storage for games, music, videos
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Lego taps RealD 3D technology for Imagination Theatre
Legoland Windsor and RealD have partnered to upgrade the park’s Imagination Theatre with state-of-the-art RealD 3D technology. The theatre’s dual projector system has been replaced with a single digital projector and RealD’s award winning XL Cinema System. This marks RealD’s first installation in a European theme park and the second partnership between RealD and Legoland,
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Music artist promotion via the iPhone?
The Orchard, which specializes in music and video entertainment, announced yesterday that a comprehensive iPhone Apps program is being made available to its artist and label clients as a method of driving promotional strategy and increasing artist revenue. Orchard has tapped Fluidesign, the creative company behind a new developer program called Mobile Roadie, as its
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Macworld 2009 set to serve as launching pad for significant product announcements
IDG World Expo today announced that when Macworld Conference & Expo 2009 opens next week, many of the more than 450 companies exhibiting will premier the latest innovations for the Mac platform. Macworld runs from January 5-9, 2009 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Each year, Macworld becomes the epicenter of the Mac ecosystem,
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Blu-ray conference to examine future of high-def media
Home Media Magazine once again takes an in-depth look at the high-definition disc market with HD-3, the third annual High-Def Conference the magazine has produced on behalf of the home entertainment industry. This one-day event, which will be held November 11, 2008 in Los Angeles, is the first since the format war ended and Blu-ray
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Leonardo: 500 Years Into the Future at Tech Museum in San Jose
Leonardo: 500 Years into the Future, the world premiere and only U.S. showing of the largest, most comprehensive collection of the innovative art, science and engineering works of Leonardo da Vinci and his Renaissance contemporaries, is now on display at The Tech Museum of Innovation, 201 S. Market Street, in San Jose, California. The exhibition
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Tech Museum of Innovation offering freebie
In San Jose, California, considered the the Capital of Silicon Valley, The Tech Museum of Innovation, one of the nation’s premier science and technology museums, today announced ScholarShare Free Second Sundays, offering free admission to The Tech’s regular museum galleries on the second Sunday of each month beginning September 14, 2008. The program is co-sponsored
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Games Convention Asia happening this month
Games Convention Asia starts on September 18th, and runs through the 20th. Games Convention Asia is the first and only platform for the entire electronic game market in Singapore and the Asia-Pacific region. The organizer’s goal is to firmly establish what will be the Asia-Pacific region’s biggest convention devoted to digital media, computer games, entertainment
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Intel and Yahoo to bring internet to TV
ntel Corporation and Yahoo! Inc. today previewed plans for the Widget Channel, a television (TV) application framework optimized for TV and related consumer electronics (CE) devices that use the Intel Architecture. The Widget Channel will allow consumers to enjoy rich Internet applications designed for the TV while watching their favorite TV programs. The Widget Channel
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Envivio video encoders launch Beijing IPTV service in time for Olympics
Envivio, the leading technology provider of IP video convergence encoding solutions from mobile to HD, today announced that the new media platform of China’s largest television network, China Central Television (CCTV), has launched its IPTV service pilot in Beijing in time for the start of the Olympic Games using 80 Envivio 4Caster encoders. CCTV is
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Delivering Entertainment to Multiple Screens Makes Convergence Simple
NDS, a provider of technology solutions for digital pay-TV, recently announced its line-up of new technologies and solutions to be showcased at IBC 2008, all focused on delivering truly converged entertainment and information services for consumers. NDS will highlight a portfolio of solutions that enable operators, broadcasters and content providers to deliver premium content across
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Superdistribution software to change the game for digital entertainment
A breakthrough system of superdistribution to freely share copyrighted material over the Internet via digital containers is rolling out today, aiming to change the way content owners deliver and profit from distributing television, games, books, movies and music entertainment over the Internet. Santa Monica-based Digital Containers, a software company providing superdistribution of online content for
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Facial animation solution for film industry
Image Metrics, a leading provider of facial animation solutions to the entertainment industry, is offering visual effects and film studios access to a portion of its facial animation technology for the first time. The new performance transfer solution, now in beta, will enable select studios to incorporate the power of Image Metrics’ facial animation technology
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CrowdFire combines online and onsite event for first-ever crowdsourced digital concert experience
Federated Media, Microsoft Corp. and Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival recently announced CrowdFire, an online and onsite destination where music, culture and technology enthusiasts participate in a massive, crowdsourced act of digital media creation. The CrowdFire experience begins with an online community in which participants share their favorite images, video and text with each
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