This is another one of those infamous "it sounds good in theory" ideas, much like recent ideas that we've come across where Google wants to have better Voice integration with carriers, and more Wallet adoption as well...
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Thorsten Heins again hints at licensing BlackBerry 10
Thorsten Heins again hints at licensing BlackBerry 10: This is another one of those infamous "it sounds good in theory" ideas, much like recent ideas that we've come across where Google wants to have better Voice integration with carriers, and more Wallet adoption as well...
This is another one of those infamous "it sounds good in theory" ideas, much like recent ideas that we've come across where Google wants to have better Voice integration with carriers, and more Wallet adoption as well...
Hitachi BZ-1 Short Throw Interactive Projector
Hitachi BZ-1 Short Throw Interactive Projector: The Hitachi BZ-1 is a particularly capable member of the interactive projector breed, with 1280x800 native resolution, excellent data image quality, and better video quality than most data projectors. It's also a near bargain for what it delivers.
Microsoft Talks Windows 8 Touch Experience on Windows 7 Tablets
Microsoft Talks Windows 8 Touch Experience on Windows 7 Tablets:
Microsoft's Jerry Koh and Jeff Piira gave some insight into the Windows 8 touch experience in yet another Building Windows 8 blog post yesterday. They talked specifically about the type of touch hardware that would be required for Windows 8-certified tablets - the touchscreens in Windows 8 and Windows on ARM tablets will need to recognize at least five simultaneous inputs, have good edge detection, and accurately register 95% of all touch input.
To ensure a decent experience on Windows 7 tablet hardware, the gestures needed for basic OS navigation require no more than two fingers, though tablets with limited multitouch capabilities may not be able to use apps or features that require more complex gestures. To compensate for tablet hardware with poor edge detection, Windows 8 can use a 20 pixel buffer around the screen that it uses to help register edge gestures, but the space used for the buffer cannot be used to register other touch input. Various sensitivity issues may also cause problems with individual taps, swipe to select, swipe and slide, and swipe from edge on Windows 7 tablets.
For more information, including specific Windows 7 tablets that Microsoft has used for internal testing, the full post is linked below.
Source: Building Windows 8 blog
To ensure a decent experience on Windows 7 tablet hardware, the gestures needed for basic OS navigation require no more than two fingers, though tablets with limited multitouch capabilities may not be able to use apps or features that require more complex gestures. To compensate for tablet hardware with poor edge detection, Windows 8 can use a 20 pixel buffer around the screen that it uses to help register edge gestures, but the space used for the buffer cannot be used to register other touch input. Various sensitivity issues may also cause problems with individual taps, swipe to select, swipe and slide, and swipe from edge on Windows 7 tablets.
For more information, including specific Windows 7 tablets that Microsoft has used for internal testing, the full post is linked below.
Source: Building Windows 8 blog
Epson puts an Android-powered 80-inch 3D display in a pair of glasses
Epson puts an Android-powered 80-inch 3D display in a pair of glasses:
Love your Galaxy Note but find yourself wishing you had access to a pocketable screen that was even larger than 5.3 inches? Why not head over to Epson’s website and order yourself the Moverio BT-100 Wearable Display? For about $700 (shipping is free) you’ll be able to slide on a pair of pico projectors that [...]
Love your Galaxy Note but find yourself wishing you had access to a pocketable screen that was even larger than 5.3 inches? Why not head over to Epson’s website and order yourself the Moverio BT-100 Wearable Display? For about $700 (shipping is free) you’ll be able to slide on a pair of pico projectors that [...]
RIM announces Q4 $125M loss; Jim Balsillie and others resign
RIM announces Q4 $125M loss; Jim Balsillie and others resign: 
RIM is in the middle of its quarterly earnings call and the word is already pretty bad. The company has been facing a troubling outlook for a while now, with the delay of BlackBerry 10 and the reduced number of BB10...
RIM is in the middle of its quarterly earnings call and the word is already pretty bad. The company has been facing a troubling outlook for a while now, with the delay of BlackBerry 10 and the reduced number of BB10...
Hon Hai’s $1.6B Sharp investment could point to Apple TV set
Hon Hai’s $1.6B Sharp investment could point to Apple TV set:
A seemingly curious investment of $1.6 billion in Sharp by Taiwan’s Hon Hai, which owns Apple-device manufacturer Foxconn, could be a huge indicator that an Apple TV set is on the way.
The deal was originally thought to be worth around $809 million in Sharp stock, or about 10 percent of the Japanese company. But Bloomberg today is reporting that Hon Hai and “related investment companies” will also buy 46.5 percent of Sharp Display Products, a joint venture with Sony, for around $800 million. Hon Hai will also take over 50 percent of LCD production at Sharp’s Sakai, Osako-based plant, where the Japanese firm recently halved its output.
There’s clearly a lot going on here, but according to BusinessWeek’s Bruce Einhorn, it looks like the groundwork is being laid for a future Apple television. He notes that the Sakai plant makes displays for TV sets 55 inches and larger, and that Hon Hai relied on Apple for 38 percent of its revenue last year (which could go up to 50 percent this year, according to Nomura Securities). The company definitely needs the capacity to build TV sets on a large scale if Apple goes that route.
It doesn’t make sense for Hon Hai to jump into bed with troubled Sharp, which expects to lose $3.5 billion for the fiscal year 2011, unless there’s a clear goal in sight. And by all accounts, it looks like that’s the rumored Apple TV set — something we’ve reported is on track for release later this year.
Hon Hai is also in a position to be freewheeling with its investments. The company reported record quarterly earnings today with net income of $1 billion on $35.8 billion in revenue. Executives pointed to Foxconn’s iPhone 4S contracts and its ability to produce more devices without defects. Clearly the controversy about Foxconn worker conditions didn’t hurt the company’s bottom line (though it has led to further investigations by Apple, and increased pay for workers).
Illustration: Sean Ludwig/VentureBeat
Filed under: media, VentureBeat
A seemingly curious investment of $1.6 billion in Sharp by Taiwan’s Hon Hai, which owns Apple-device manufacturer Foxconn, could be a huge indicator that an Apple TV set is on the way.
The deal was originally thought to be worth around $809 million in Sharp stock, or about 10 percent of the Japanese company. But Bloomberg today is reporting that Hon Hai and “related investment companies” will also buy 46.5 percent of Sharp Display Products, a joint venture with Sony, for around $800 million. Hon Hai will also take over 50 percent of LCD production at Sharp’s Sakai, Osako-based plant, where the Japanese firm recently halved its output.
There’s clearly a lot going on here, but according to BusinessWeek’s Bruce Einhorn, it looks like the groundwork is being laid for a future Apple television. He notes that the Sakai plant makes displays for TV sets 55 inches and larger, and that Hon Hai relied on Apple for 38 percent of its revenue last year (which could go up to 50 percent this year, according to Nomura Securities). The company definitely needs the capacity to build TV sets on a large scale if Apple goes that route.
It doesn’t make sense for Hon Hai to jump into bed with troubled Sharp, which expects to lose $3.5 billion for the fiscal year 2011, unless there’s a clear goal in sight. And by all accounts, it looks like that’s the rumored Apple TV set — something we’ve reported is on track for release later this year.
Hon Hai is also in a position to be freewheeling with its investments. The company reported record quarterly earnings today with net income of $1 billion on $35.8 billion in revenue. Executives pointed to Foxconn’s iPhone 4S contracts and its ability to produce more devices without defects. Clearly the controversy about Foxconn worker conditions didn’t hurt the company’s bottom line (though it has led to further investigations by Apple, and increased pay for workers).
Illustration: Sean Ludwig/VentureBeat
Filed under: media, VentureBeat
MeetingBurner brings its cheap, WebEx-crushing meetings to the iPad
MeetingBurner brings its cheap, WebEx-crushing meetings to the iPad:
Online-meeting startup MeetingBurner has updated its simple, clean iOS app to support the iPad, the company announced today.
MeetingBurner launched out of beta in early February with relatively inexpensive pricing. It faces steep competition in the online meeting space from Cisco’s WebEx, Adobe’s Connect, Citrix’s GoToMeeting, and AnyMeeting. With such fierce competitors, MeetingBurner needs all the tools it can get to help people attend its meetings. The iPad is an excellent tool for enterprise and is becoming surprisingly popular for sales teams and executives.
“The ability to attend a meeting or webinar remotely was extremely important to us,” MeetingBurner CMO Chris Van Dusen told VentureBeat via email. “Our hosts have the ability to attract more participants to their live meetings, and attendees are not locked to their computers. The iPad was a natural fit for MeetingBurner, offering high-speed streaming of both the audio and video, full chat capability and pinch to zoom functionality.”
MeetingBurner does not offer an Android app yet, but it says it is steadily working on one. Android users, for now, can view MeetingBurner meetings in their browsers as long as they support mobile Flash.
Ladera Ranch, Calif.-based MeetingBurner is a division of larger company Networx Online and has ten employees on its team.
You can see another screenshot of MeetingBurner for iPad below:
Filed under: cloud, mobile
Online-meeting startup MeetingBurner has updated its simple, clean iOS app to support the iPad, the company announced today.MeetingBurner launched out of beta in early February with relatively inexpensive pricing. It faces steep competition in the online meeting space from Cisco’s WebEx, Adobe’s Connect, Citrix’s GoToMeeting, and AnyMeeting. With such fierce competitors, MeetingBurner needs all the tools it can get to help people attend its meetings. The iPad is an excellent tool for enterprise and is becoming surprisingly popular for sales teams and executives.
“The ability to attend a meeting or webinar remotely was extremely important to us,” MeetingBurner CMO Chris Van Dusen told VentureBeat via email. “Our hosts have the ability to attract more participants to their live meetings, and attendees are not locked to their computers. The iPad was a natural fit for MeetingBurner, offering high-speed streaming of both the audio and video, full chat capability and pinch to zoom functionality.”
MeetingBurner does not offer an Android app yet, but it says it is steadily working on one. Android users, for now, can view MeetingBurner meetings in their browsers as long as they support mobile Flash.
Ladera Ranch, Calif.-based MeetingBurner is a division of larger company Networx Online and has ten employees on its team.
You can see another screenshot of MeetingBurner for iPad below:
Filed under: cloud, mobile
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