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Samsung sold 10 million Star S5230 phones

adi102 — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:27:51 +0000

Today, Samsung announced that the Star S5230 has become its sixth phone to be sold in more than 10 million units – after the Samsung T-100, Samsung E700, Samsung D500, Samsung J700 and Samsung E250.

The Star S5230 passed the 10 million mark after six months since its release (May), thus becoming the fastest-selling Samsung phone ever.

Samsung reported that 5 million Star handsets were sold until August. September and October both brought sales of over 2 million units, so theSource: Unwired View RSS Feed

Get cool new gestures for your Mac’s multitouch trackpad!

adi102 — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:27:40 +0000

When Apple introduced the new MacBook’s the multitouch trackpad received a lot of applause.

If you are like us and more often than not find yourself having opened many tabs in your favorite browser, you’ll very much like jitouch.

jitouch adds eight new gestures, with more to come according to the jitouch developers:

Switch your browser to the next and previous tab
Open a link in a new tab
Minimize window
Zoom
Move and resizeSource: The Next Web RSS Feed

Dragon Age: Origins And Moral Choices, A Redux

adi102 — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:32:12 +0000

Like many others, yesterday I cracked open my copy of Dragon Age: Origins, excited to finally get a chance to play a game that I’d looked forward to for a while. I’ve thought very highly of Bioware and Mass Effect was one of my favorite recent titles, so I’ve got very high expectations for this game. In a previous entry I talked about the way many games implement “moral choices” these days and how lackluster I generally find that implementation to be. While most games tend to make the playerSource: GayGamer.net RSS Feed

Sentiment Analysis: How Do People Feel About You On Twitter? [WebWorkerDaily]

adi102 — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:31:56 +0000

Do you know how people feel about you on Twitter? Are the tweets about you or your product mostly positive, negative or neutral? While things like feelings and sentiment can seem fuzzy and “touchy-feely,” there are sentiment analysis tools available for Twitter that attempt to classify tweets into either positive, negative or neutral categories automatically using algorithms and lists of keywords. For example, using words like “sucks,” “sad” and “hate” would be classified as Source: GigaOM Network RSS Feed

Snow Leopard Update Will Not Kill Hackintoshes

adi102 — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:18:14 +0000

We said that we would have to wait for a final release of Mac OS X 10.6.2 to be sure whether Apple had really killed off support for the Intel Atom processor, and we were right. Stellarolla, the hacker who first reported that a developers seed of the upcoming OS update would break compatibility with the netbook processor, has updated his original post.

A new seed (the name given to the successive updates given to developers before the final release) has re-enabled support for the Atom Source: Wired RSS Feed

App Store Hits 100K in 481 Days

adi102 — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:17:59 +0000

481 days. That’s how long it took the App Store to go from opening its virtual doors with 500 applications on July 11, 2008 to a catalog of more than 100,000 applications downloaded more than 2 billion times.

Not surprisingly, the folks at Apple are pleased.

“The App Store, now with over 100,000 applications available, is clearly a major differentiator for millions of iPhone and iPod touch customers around the world,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s seniorSource: The Apple Blog RSS Feed

Rumor: Gran Turismo 5 to feature track editor

adi102 — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:50:29 +0000

The site E4G reports that Gran Turismo 5 will include a very exciting option: The ability to create your own tracks or edit the existing tracks. Eurogamer checked in with Sony to confirm this new feature, and, while Sony refused to confirm the news, the company also refused to deny it, in a carefully worded statement that makes the news suddenly seem more plausible: “We haven’t confirmed this and aren’t offering any other comment at this time,” Sony told Eurogamer.
We contacted SCEASource: PS3 Fanboy RSS Feed

Real Time Race promises to let you race against the pros, in real time

adi102 — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:50:19 +0000

There’s certainly no shortage of impressive augmented reality games around these days, but it doesn’t look like the folks behind the so-called Real Time Race will have any trouble turning a few heads with theirs, at least if they can actually deliver as promised. Their basic idea is to make use of some Google Street View-like technology to create a virtual reproduction of an actual race track, and pair it with some real-time data as the race is happening to let anyone that wants to take partSource: Engadget RSS Feed

Motorola Milestone Available in Germany and Italy Soon

adi102 — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:57:30 +0000

Official specification of the GSM Motorola Milestone is now available on Motorola website, with the same features as its CDMA version Motorola Droid. As what we have already learnt from previous post, the Milestone will be offered by O2 Germany and Vodafone. It will also reach Italy soon together with the launch in Germany.

Although there is no different on the hardware specs and design, Mobile Review’s Eldar Murtazin has spotted some changes on the built in software. First theSource: SlashPhone RSS Feed

NEC NP610 Entry-Level Projector Announced

adi102 — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:57:22 +0000

NEC have announced a new projector named the NEC NP610. It falls in to the entry-level category but has a fairly bright projection of 3500 lumens making it work well in conference halls and class rooms.

For connectivity it supports DVI-I, VGA, 3 audio inputs and variable audio out. Connectivity over a network is also possible although network connectivity is simply for remote diagnostics rather than transmitting presentations over IP. The VGA connector is also able to carry controlSource: Gadget Venue RSS Feed