The future of television will be made available this coming week. Apple Inc. has announced that they will start shipping the much awaited Apple TV this week. The easy to use and fun gadget will wirelessly connect your Internet based videos and other content from your pc or mac to your television. Apple TV was priced at $299 and be made available in Mac stores and other authorized retailers this Thursday.
Seamlessly integrated to iTunes, Apple TV lets users choose from over 400 movies and 350 TV shows in near DVD quality, over four million songs; 5,000 music videos; 100,000 podcasts; and 20,000 audiobooks from the iTunes Store.
" Apple TV is like a DVD player for the Internet age-providing an easy and fun way to play all your favorite iTunes content from your PC or Mac on your widescreen TV. Apple TV allows you to wirelessly play your content from your PCs or Macs using your existing WiFi network as well as the newest and fastest version of WiFi-802.11n " - Phillip Schiller Apple Inc. Senior Vice President for Worldwide product Marketing
Apple TV has a 40GB hard drive that will let you store up to 50 hours of video, listen to 9,000 songs, view 25, 000 photos or a combination of each. It is capable of delivering high definition 720p output; a remote control that has a range of 30 feet; high-speed AirPort 802.11** wireless networking can auto-sync content from one computer or stream content from up to five additional computers right to your TV without any wires.
Apple TV requires iTunes 7.1 or later running on a Mac with Mac OS X version 10.3.9 or later, or a Windows PC with Windows XP Home/Professional (SP2).
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Blogger.com was recently attacked by hackers who posted fake blogs to spread malwares. Fortinet Inc. posted an advisory in their website warning people of a malicious computer script that redirect weblog readers to a phishing site called Pharmacy Express, a phishing site that has turned up in many spam emails distributed by the Stration worm.
According to the company, genuine looking blogs are now being created and infected to host a variety of script initiated malwares. the topics of this blogs ranges from starwars, cars to furniture. Fortinet also gives an example of this sites, including a supposed fan of Honda CR450 motor car. Readers of this site might be infected with Wonka TrojanVirus.
" These are not legitimate blogs that were compromised. They appear to be deliberately set up to promote phishing, which is against our terms of service. We are investigating, and blogs found to include malicious code or promote phishing will be deleted. " - Google in a statement to CNET
Frotinet assessed this threat in its fourth highest severity ranking in a five point scale, five being the highest.
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Keeping updated with the latest phone technology seems impossible. Phone manufacturers are in a constant battle in developing the most advance phone they could think of, integrating the latest technology they could get their hands on. Being a fan of mobile phone technology myself, i recently search for the latest and cool phone. In the process i stumbled upon this camera phone, K810i by Sony Ericson, its their latest Cyber-shot branded mobile phone. Sony Ericsson’s megapixel digital camera gives you crisp high resolution every time and added features more common to standalone cameras which fortunately be availble in the market in the next few months.
A cool phone with a 3.2 mega pixel camera and auto focus. You don't have to worry about poor lighting anymore with its xenon flash that is usually found in stand alone digital cameras. Have a magical dark room touch with its Photo fix feature, its BestPic feature will let you snap nine photos in a second. Keep the ones you like and share it via picture message or post it in your blogs.
Other features are:
- Push email - Instant email on your mobile phone, just like on your home computer. Messages are sent directly to your phone as soon as they arrive.
- 3 click music download - Audition and buy the Top Ten ring tones in three clicks. PlayNow™ is the fastest and easiest way to download a premium ring tone.
- Music recognition - What’s that sound? Just record a few seconds of music and TrackID™ (powered by Gracenote Mobile MusicID) returns the song name, artist and album to your phone within seconds.
- 3G - Quick and easy access to broadband Internet. Say hello to video calls, audio and video streaming, Internet surfing, multimedia messaging and email on the go.
- RSS Feeds -Use your phone to view up-to-the-minute news and other content from selected websites and blogs. Just subscribe to the feed and let it come to you.
- Web Wherever - Truly mobile Internet lets you enjoy browsing the Web and manage your email effectively with the convenience of your phone, wherever you are.
- Capturing the Action - Video clips are ideal for those unexpected great moments that happen when you're out there, enjoying life.
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Perfect Market Technologies Inc. operator of Snap.com the developer of Snap preview Anywhere announces its partnership with Xanga.com a popular weblog community and blog hosting provider. The move will allow Xanga members to enjoy the features of Snap preview Anywhere which currently is the fastest growing website enhancement service that delivers instant site previews. With Snap Preview Anywhere, visitors to a Xanga weblog now have access to instant previews of linked sites, adding to Xanga’s already highly-customizable, user-generated community.
" Our users have really embraced Snap Previews, the response has been tremendous less than 0.1% of our millions of users have opted-out of having Snap Previews on their Xanga sites. " - Bob Hiler VP of Advertising Xanga.com
Snap Preview Anywhere gives website owners, bloggers and web publishers the ability to leverage Snap.com’s award-winning visual search technology and massive library of webpage images for use on their own sites. By rolling over any link on a site that contains the Snap Preview Anywhere code, users instantly see a floating window with a visual preview of the corresponding webpage. This allows users to quickly decide if a site is worth visiting before actually clicking on the link.
" We’re thrilled that Xanga has chosen to provide their users with the visual benefits of Snap Preview Anywhere. We hear from many users daily who have become completely dependent on being able to roll over links to see site previews, adding another dimension to the web browsing experience. " - Tom McGovern CEO of Perfect Market Technologies
Since its introduction in November, Snap Preview Anywhere has seen rapid adoption, serving more than 350 million previews on more than 700,000 websites, and continues to grow exponentially every day.
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eSnips, the first global social sharing site that lets its users to share, publish, promote or sell their own creations online announced today that close to a dozen new user-generated online music communities have been created, including Electronic, Hindi, Reggae, Metal, Gothic/Industrial, Hip-Hop/Rap, Elvis, Jazz, and Blues, as well as new Music Widgets, Players and Playlists that allow users to upload their own music, distribute and promote it on other sites.
This new announcement follows the fast-growing DJ and Karaoke MicroPortal community launches in the last few months. In addition, eSnips is extending its FREE storage for existing and new users from 1 GB to 5 GB, which makes it a perfect one-stop site for music creators and lovers alike. With the use of eSnips widgets, musicians can now virally spread their music to sites and blogs other than their own, increasing the effectiveness of their distribution tenfold. Because music files are actually stored on eSnips, widgets can be created with only a few clicks from a variety of cool, genre-specific player and playlist styles without leaving the site.
" eSnips is about enabling people not only to share their passions but also to promote them. Our first step was to enable people to easily share their creations. The new music widgets will now provide people with an easy, viral, zero-cost way to promote their work across the web." - Yael Elish, CEO of eSnips
Another new feature that promotes music is eSnips customizable, animated email messages. Users can search for compelling music and send entire sets of songs and files they collect with one simple click. Not only do the new music widgets and playlists work together, but with email integrated as well, users can send their favorite songs to friends without the bandwidth issues of large email attachments.
This powerful combination of playlist and music creation makes hosting original music on eSnips incredibly appealing to musicians and those interested in hearing independent and user-generated music.Using widgets, YouTube and flickr enabled anyone to play video and share hosted photos on their sites and individual blogs.
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Microsoft Corp. announced that it has agreed to acquire Medstory a privately held medical search company based in Foster City California that develops intelligent web search technology specifically for health information.
" To us, providing intelligent search means supporting an understanding of both a user's intent behind a search and the results that are delivered. For a field like health and medicine, we believe that search engines should deliver more to users than just a list of Web pages. Our approach is to try to synthesize the meaning of every user search in the context of health and medicine, and then share this knowledge with the user to help refine and guide their search. " - Medstory
The company's employees will join with the recently formed Health Solutions Group of Microsoft that will manage product development and delivery. The amount of the acquisition was not disclosed by both companies as part of their agreement.
" At Microsoft, we are focused on enabling people to make the best decisions. We were impressed with the ability of Medstory’s unique technology to organize and surface the most relevant online health content, which empowers consumers who are trying to find the right information about an important life event " - Peter Neupert, Corporate Vice President for health strategy and leader of the Health Solutions Group.
Unlike results from most search engines, Medstory’s results are based on intuitive search technology, which provides pre qualified information to consumers and health professionals conducting health-related research. This unique approach provides users with intelligent guides to help refine and better target their searches. Users receive organized content that is more relevant to their search criteria and that enables better health-related decisions.
" Instead of trying to force people to think in terms of the way a computer searches, we’re enabling computers to more intuitively conduct searches in the way that people think. With Microsoft’s global reach and experience, I look forward to this soon becoming a standard for online searches in health and medicine. ” - Dr. Alain Rapport, M.D., Ph.D., CEO and founder of Medstory
Dr. Rappaport will assume the role of general manager of health search in the Health Solutions Group after the acquisition closes.
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Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the world leader in advanced memory technology and the leading producer of high-end graphics memory, announced yesterday that it has increased the data transfer speed of the world’s fastest graphics memory ? GDDR4 (series four of graphics double-data-rate memory) ? by? two-thirds. Graphics memory processes video images in desktop PCs, notebooks and workstations to move huge volumes of video simultaneously.
" Our new GDDR4 memory will add even more zip in video applications, making gaming, computer-aided design and video editing a lot faster than ever before. This will enable ultra-smooth movements in animation, making games incredibly realistic, resulting in a truly immersive experience. " - Mueez Deen, marketing director, graphics memory, Samsung Semiconductor, Inc
Using 80-nanometer production technology, the 4Gb/s (2.0GHz) is 66 percent faster than today’s fastest commercially available memory ? a 2.4Gb/s GDDR4. The new 4Gb/s graphics memory, offered in a 512Mb density, has a 32-bit data bus configuration.? GDDR4 uses JEDEC-approved standards for signal noise reduction to help attain the highest possible speed.Manufacturers of graphics processing units (GPUs) and video cards have expressed a high degree of interest in the new memory, which is ready for customer sampling this month.Analysts expect GDDR4 to significantly boost demand for the high-performance memory market segment over the next 12-18 months.
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