Thursday, 26 May 2011

Nokia Promises Symbian Updates Until 2016

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Although Nokia is switching platforms to the Windows Phone 7.5 Mango for its new lineup, it won’t completely ditch its Symbian followers. In a recent interview with Nokia Conversations blog, China Edition, Nokia CEO Stephen Elop not only reiterated that the company will continue to support Symbian for a period of time, but that it would do so until at least 2016.


“We are in a period where the investment in Symbian absolutely continues,” said Elop in the

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Flixster to offer cloud streaming for your DVD collection?

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Flixster could be about to get a whole lot more useful, if plans to allow users to upload their DVD collections so they can stream them from wherever they happen to be come off. The Time-Warner owned movie listings site aims to provide a kind of Google Music for movies service, using the cloud to store movies digitally. Time Warner CFO John Martin told investors that users will be able to "upload your existing physical DVDs, have the ability access them across multiple devices

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Lady Gaga, Polaroid Unleash GL10 Instant Mobile Printer

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Remember the partnership between Lady Gaga and Polaroid which yielded the bizarre “Grey Label” lineup back at CES? It included a pair of sunglasses that shoots and displays photos and videos, as well as an instant camera and the GL10 Instant Mobile Printer. Well, a part of that lineup is finally ready for sale today, and no, sorry, it’s not the video-capable sunglasses.


The GL10 Instant Mobile Printer is on sale now at the Bloomingdale’s 59th St. flagship

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Nvidia and YouTube team up for 3D HTML5 videos

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Nvidia and YouTube (with a little help from Firefox) have teamed up to offer a library of 3D content for users of Nvidia 3D Vision glasses technology.You need to have the latest version of Firefox for this to work, but it's great to see some big name companies looking at 3D on the web and HTML5 functionality."Starting with Firefox 4, WebM videos encoded with 3D data will be displayed in high-quality stereoscopic 3D using NVIDIA 3D Vision hardware," said Firefox's Erica Jostedt."3D

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Sony Confirms PlayStation 4 Is In Development

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In the wake of all the chaos Sony’s endured as of late along with negative earnings reports, the company may be trying to soften the blow by hinting at a next-generation PlayStation 4 console. The company has just reported a $3.1 billion annual loss, with factors ranging from the Japan earthquake to the $170 million loss from the PlayStation Network attack.


In a conference call with shareholders today, Sony CFO Masaru Kato explained away increased costs to research and

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Review: Canon IXUS 310 HS

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Canon's latest crop of IXUS compacts continues to target fashion-conscious photographers who don't want to compromise on features, with the new 12.1mp IXUS 310 HS replacing the 10mp 300 HS. While the latest model may not look all that different to its predecessor, it packs in a glut of upgraded features, including a higher resolution back-illuminated CMOS sensor, wider 24mm 4.4x optical zoom lens with Image Stabilisation, larger 3.2in LCD with a significantly higher resolution

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Google Wallet Objects to be the Backbone of the New NFC System, Partners Comment [Video]

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Access to Google Wallet will be free to all businesses. That’s what Google said on May 26th in New York. This system will be rolled out with a handful of partners including Citi Bank, who noted they were very proud to be the first big rollout partner for the NFC system for payments in the USA. Citi added that they’d be running at this program full tilt, making a real effort to make this program a reality for the entirety of the USA and around the world. MasterCard noted

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