Sony Ericsson has just made its financial results for the fourth quarter of 2010 official and the highlight, at least for milestone lovers like us, is the figure of nine million Android-based Xperia handsets shipped since the family’s launch.
Now, the language used here is important, as Sony loves to report shipments to retailers instead of actual sales, but it’s still a pretty grand number of Xperia X10, X10 Mini, X10 Mini Pro, and X8 handsets out and about in our big wide world.
Hell, it’s even more impressive when you consider that those phones have spent most of their lives riding the ancient Android 1.6 as their operating system. Read the rest of this entry »
Cisco has continued its push to make home entertainment wire-free with its latest E-Series wireless router, the Linksys E4200. Cisco’s new dual-band 802.11n rig enters a high-end market segment currently occupied by the TRENDnet TEW-692GR.
Both routers utilize a 3×3 Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) configuration for a max throughput of 450Mbps on the 5GHz band, and while the E4200 only reaches speeds of 300Mbps at 2.4 GHz (as compared to the TEW-692GRs 450Mbps) it should still be quite the video streaming powerhouse.
As we’ve seen in previous Cisco offerings, the company’s latest has USB connectivity and UPnP media server capabilities to add network storage and share all of your movies and music. Additionally, the E4200 packs technology similar to that seen in other routers, which allows users to prioritize bandwidth for movies, voice, or music.
To keep everyone connected, it has 4 Gigabit Ethernet ports, six antennas, and several internal and external signal amplifiers to provide coverage for even the most palatial of estates. For those itching to pair a performance router with their new internet capable TV, the E4200 is priced at $179.99 and is currently available at Best Buy. Read the rest of this entry »
Amazon has just announced it has agreed terms to buy up all the remaining shares of Lovefilm it didn’t already own.
The British outfit operates a subscription-based movie rental and streaming service in its home market along with Germany, Denmark, Sweden and Norway, and should give Amazon a very solid base from which to build its presumably Netflix-besting ambitions.
Lovefilm has been just about the closest thing Europe has had to the ridiculously successful North American movie distributor and Amazon is arguably getting in just in time, given Netflix’s overtures toward expanding into the UK.
Customary closing conditions will need to be met before the final stamp of approval is applied, but the acquisition is expected to complete by the end of Q1 of this year. Amazon’s wading into yet more content distribution, who’d have thunk it? Read the rest of this entry »
Samsung’s got a reputation for building crazy awesome display technologies, and it just added another one to the stack — with the buyout of Philips-spinoff Liquavista this December, it’s gained quite the foothold in electrowetting.
In case you’re not familiar, electrowetting has been repeatedly pitched to us as pretty much the Holy Grail of displays: flexible, colorful, unbreakable, outdoor-readable e-paper screens with high refresh rates and low-power consumption that can be manufactured on existing assembly lines.
Update: Seems that The Digital Reader actually figured out about the deal yesterday — read the original scoop at our more coverage link!
Google’s Q4 financial results press release contains a bombshell: as of April 4, co-founder Larry Page (on the far right, above) will replace Eric Schmidt as CEO and assume responsibility for day-to-day operations and product development and strategy.
That doesn’t mean Schmidt is leaving — he’ll carry on as Executive Chairman and serve as an advisor to Page and co-founder Sergey Brin, focused on external things like “deals, partnerships, customers and broader business relationships, government outreach and technology thought leadership.”
As for Sergey, he’ll now “devote his energy to strategic projects, in particular working on new products,” with the simple title of Co-Founder.
Schmidt’s clarified and explained the change in a blog post, saying that the idea is to make leading Google as efficient as possible, and that “Larry, in my clear opinion, is ready to lead.” Read the rest of this entry »
Square gears. Oval gears. Friggin goldfish and squid gears. My brain says none of these should work, but my eyes beg to differ. It feels like I’m breaking the rules.
Every time Clayton Boyer whips out another one of these, I’m confident that it’s going to fail.
And yet! Here’s to living in a state of constant surprise and wonder. Now I just need a seashell gear-powered watch and I’ll be set.
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This is probably the coolest bit of iOS connectivity I’ve seen so far. KL Dartboard is an iPad app (for US$3.99) that serves as a virtual board for darts thrown by an app called KL Darts … for the iPhone.
So, the idea is that you buy the iPad app and set it up on the wall, and then you download the free iPhone app and connect the two using Bluetooth. Once the setup is complete, the position that you hold and shake the iPhone in determines where the darts land on the iPad’s board.
What a weird concept. Unfortunately, it’s probably a better idea than it actually is a game; the iPhone app requires OS 4, you’ve got to have both devices, and the reviews on the iPad app say it doesn’t really work that well. It’s impossible for the iPad to know “where” the iPhone is, so you don’t even need to face the screen to throw the darts correctly.
Pet Ball specially designed for pets who receive food without making too much effort and have a tendency to gain weight.
This ball has a small hole through which food comes, and this ball to be rolled out food. Certainly no pet will make any little bit sorry for eating his favorite move, on the contrary in this way keeps the tone and burn calories.
With this ball, your dog or cat will have fun and eat at the same time, and the afternoon will certainly have a very quiet sleep. Read the rest of this entry »
Pet Ball specially designed for pets who receive food without making too much effort and have a tendency to gain weight.
