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Info Tech - Lenovo has provided the ICS 4.0 update statement for the ThinkPad Tablet. The Update is expected to start distributed to users in second quarter of this year 2012. The Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet was first introduced in July 2011, and not even a year after its release. This news will certainly be welcomed by the users of Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet.

Until now the only tablet that has been running ICS 4.0 is the Asus Transformer Prime but still find a lot of bugs and problems on the quad-core tablet is made by Asus. It is expected to launch ICS 4.0 for ThinkPad Tablet can run smoothly without a lot of annoying bugs.

via Pocketnow

Info Tech - Nokia seems to be immediately provide the latest software update them thoroughly, Belle, who since a while ago no longer uses the Symbian Belle name. This is indicated by the Nokia official page in Vietnam on Facebook which specifically says that Belle has been available for the Nokia 603, 700, and 701. Actually update Belle has also been comes for the Nokia C6-01, C7, E7, and N8 to users in Asia and Europe.

This update is said to carry a lot of improvement, nearly as many as 100 kinds of changes that will be enjoyed by the user. One of the changes that are brought by the presence of increased performance from your web browser, social applications, calendar, photos, and messages. Virtual keyboards on the Belle will also be able to work in portrait mode, and certainly not behind the increase in Nokia Maps which became one of the reliable Nokia mobile phones as compared with competitor's phones.

via Electronista

Info Tech - A report on the results of benchmarking by NenaMark for Samsung Galaxy Nexus. The report is different than usual and seems to have the numbers above the average of Galaxy Nexus smartphone pre-existing. The Galaxy Nexus currently has outstanding specs TI OMAP 4460 SoC, PowerVR SGX540 GPU, while the powerful Galaxy Nexus is claimed to have PowerVR SGX544 GPU specifications.

The existence of these differences that make GPU benchmarking figures to be different and make the Galaxy Nexus is more powerful than ever before. The possibility of a new production of Galaxy Nexus already using the new GPU and has a more powerful performance. According to sources likely Sprint will release the Samsung Galaxy Nexus with new GPU in the near future.

Is it true that Samsung are not satisfied with the performance of existing Galaxy Nexus? or is this just a special order of some operators only?

via NenaMark

Info Tech - Apple seems to have a variety of incidents related to the 4S iPhone sales in China because many brokers and the riots that occurred due to lack of supply to meet the demand of potential buyers. Overcoming these events, Apple tried a new tactic to try to buy their latest smartphone. If you want to buy an iPhone in Hong Kong, you must enter your details to Apple's site for inclusion in the lottery.

Buyers can only enter the data they are in between the hours of 9 am to 12 noon along with their ID card, then if the buyer is selected, Apple will send an email at 9 pm and will notify when the buyer can take the iPhone 4S in the next day. This is arguably a very strict system, is not known whether Apple will implement this system throughout China, for now the system is valid only in Hong Kong.

via TheVerge

Info Tech - The presence of Windows Phone 8 can’t be denied, but still many users who would doubt the next version of the Windows Phone 7. This is because changes in the core of the operating system, there are many doubts about the suitability of application problems. A tweet from the directors of the Microsoft Developer Experience in the field confirm that the existing application now will still be executed in WP8.

Brandon Watson is a director in the Developer Experience, so his words can be trusted. Speak technically, is not yet clear how Microsoft plans to make the application compatible. If Windows Phone 8 uses a higher resolution it will be strange if the WP7 appn is run in WP8, and it remains unclear whether the zoom process can still be used or not. Perhaps this is the problem for developers of Windows Phone 7 applications.

On the positive side, the transition of the application may not be too difficult, because they are using Microsoft Silverlight. Theoretically means that the application can be moved very quickly. What is known about the today Windows Phone 8 is the only code-named Apollo. Today versions of Windows Phone is Mango and is scheduled to receive Tango updates.

via Neowin

Info Tech - Looking at the income report in Quarter 4 2011 are less encouraging, Canon has predicted slower growth in 2012. Although compared to the same quarter the previous year operating profit rose 14 percent, but profits declined over the previous year.

Canon hopes to earn 390 billion yen this year, only slightly higher than in 2011 is 378.1 billion yen, while Canon disrupted by the earthquake and tsunami in Tohoku, flooding in Thailand and increase the value of the yen. But analysts by Reuters expect Canon will be able to reach up to 470 billion yen profit this year, because they will launch several key products such as G1x PowerShot, EOS and EOS 1DX C300.

With this, Canon president Uchida Tsuneji resigned and was replaced by chairman and CEO Fujio Mitarai, who six years ago was replaced by Uchida as president of the Canon. Uchida addition to serving as president also served as COO, but he had also resigned and took to the position of adviser to begin March 29. Mitarai will be accompanied by two vice presidents, Minoru Tanaka and Toshiaki Ikoma, as part of Canon's management plan which will be headed young people.

via The Verge

Info Tech - One of the popular first person shooter games of all time has created modified versions to run on Android device. Modification of Half-Life games are made by fans of the game who want to continue the popularity of this game on the latest portable devices. Just like the original version, this game will have two teams facing each other is counter-terrorist and terrorist with a mission to put a bomb and blow up or turn off the bomb before your team is defeated.

As known, the original version of this game runs on Windows platform, and mildew until there is a browser-based version and a modified version countless. The latest version consists of two kinds. The first series are series-5 is intended for Android 2.0 device and above and a second series of series-6 is intended to run on Android Gingerbread device upwards.

You Not only will get the same gameplay as the original version, but there are also some classic maps including de-dust2, which is the best map ever made for first person shooter game. Half-Life version of this modification is in the refinement stage and not yet fully released.

via slashgear

Info Tech - Last year the BlackBerry smartphone capable of beating the iPhone in terms of sales in the UK and became the best selling smartphone in the UK. In 2010, the Blackberry is able to master 28.2% smartphone market share could even reach 36% when the Christmas holidays in 2010 and with sales of more than 500,000 units.

In 2011 which ended recently, it turns out the BlackBerry is still number one in the UK. December sales of the devices made by Research in Motion has reached 26.7 percent share of the mobile market, while for the whole year 2011 its market share reached 27.7 percent. A study conducted in October 2011 even showed that 69.9 percent of BlackBerry users prefer to buy a new BlackBerry than to try another vendor.

Recent bad news about RIM and BlackBerry pretty much, and they just replace the CEO. So it can be said to be a refreshing news for RIM and CEO Thorsten Heins.

via CrackBerry

Info Tech - Based on the latest research from Flurry, Amazon Kindle Fire has become the most popular Android tablet today. Popularity of Android tablets that came later was even through the Samsung Galaxy Tab which has been the Android tablet market leader. The Kindle Fire currently has a share of 35.7%, slightly above the Galaxy Tab which has a share of 35.6%.

To calculate the share of each tablet, the Flurry application using session numbers used an Android tablet, with a comparison of the use in November and January. In November, the Kindle Fire only has share of 3% and skyrocketed during the year-end.

The Amazon tablet is reported to date has sold nearly 6 million units. According to Strategy Analytics, the Kindle Fire with Samsung Galaxy Tab Android tablet mastered share with total sales reaching 10.5 million units.

One other interesting fact is the different usage patterns of the Kindle Fire and the Galaxy Tab. According to Flurry, the Kindle Fire users tend to be 2.5 times more likely to download paid applications available on the Android app market.

via Phone Arena

Info Tech - In a web retailers in Sweden, has emerged the latest LG mobile phones that will soon join the Optimus family. Called the LG E400 Optimus L3, this smartphone has been able to pre-order at a price of $190.

The LG E400 Optimus L3 specs include: Android 2.3 Gingerbread, 3.2-inch screen with QVGA resolution of 240x320 pixels, 3 megapixel rear camera. The processor is not mentioned but it certainly will not be too amazing considering this is an entry level Android smartphone. With HSPA network to 3.6 mbps, this phone also has WiFi.

Not yet known whether the Optimus L3 will be sold in other countries, but chances are we'll find out at Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona next month.

Info Tech - Motorola RAZR (or Droid RAZR in the United States) is a new smartphone from Motorola, the phone has a high specification and are able to compete with other high-end Android smartphones. Not only has a high specification, the Motorola RAZR also has an interesting shape, especially with the thinness of 7.1 mm, Gorilla Glass, and the back cover made of Kevlar. One drawback of the RAZR is locked bootloader, a circumstance which caused the developers can not develop freely RAZR.

But now, Motorola has announced a new step, by announcing the Motorola RAZR Developer Edition for the European region. The RAZR Developer Edition did not differ from normal RAZR in terms of specifications and shapes. Only, the RAZR Developer Edition is released with the bootloader is not locked. This is a major goal of Motorola, where the RAZR Developer Edition is intended for developers who have been unable to develop a RAZR (applications, ROM, etc.) freely.

Currently RAZR Developer Edition in the stage of pre-orders in Europe, the Motorola RAZR will soon release a Developer Edition in the U.S..

via MotorolaBlog

Info Tech - The Samsung Galaxy Note has been released lately, phone (or tablet) that is equipped with S-Pen are quite interesting Android users, especially for users who want to use the device with capabilities like tablets and mobile phones. S-Pen is also a value-added of the Samsung Galaxy Note, S-Pen proved very useful for the user, even a cartoonist from Turkey also broke the world record with the Galaxy Note.

Apparently Samsung never stops to attract more buyers of the Galaxy Note, in one of the official store in South Korea, Samsung even offer buyers to carve his name on the back of the Galaxy Note. Engraving is done just above the Galaxy Note battery cover, users can freely choose what text will be engraved on the back, including font type and size.

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Info Tech - A few days ago, according to DG SDPPI site, the name Xperia S and Xperia U (kumquats) written in the list of application testing tools / telecommunications equipment. This time, turn of the Xperia P contained in a similar list.

The Xperia P is a smartphone that has been called with the codename Nypon. In the list, the Xperia P has the same code with Nypon, namely LT22i. Can be concluded, that later the Nypon would be called Xperia P when sold in the market.

According to news circulating, the Nypon is a smartphone with a high specification, among others, is equipped with dual-core 1 GHz ST-Ericsson NovaThor processor, GPU ARM Mali 400MP, QHD resolution (960x540), and Android Gingerbread 2.3.7.

If the estimates are not missed, then the Xperia P will be introduced during the MWC 2012 in February next, with the Xperia U (kumquats).

Info Tech - The team from CrackBerry is holding a contest to create the concept of a BlackBerry device with the theme DreamBerry. Today one of their members have posted a picture of the BlackBerry Playbook 3.0 concept which looks very sleek and sophisticated as you can see in the picture above.

The following product description from the creator of the concept of the BlackBerry Playbook 3.0:

"Member CrackBerry ummie4 here. I want to show the design for a DreamBerry! This is my idea for the next generation of BlackBerry Playbook 3.0. To take full advantage of multitasking Playbook, Playbook I want to have dual screens, so you can do video chat on one screen while you view a Powerpoint presentation on the other side of the screen.


I like the Bold 9900 keyboard so I took the same design style, making them bigger and split them in half. I think the table with the keyboard layout like this would be really sweet. You can hold tablet with both hands and your thumb will easily reach the keypad to type and easier. Above the keyboard there is a double trackpad for navigation.


I still think the trackpad is useful even on the touchscreen device. I think having two trackpad might make the game control more attractive than what other tablets offer until this moment. Playbook I have scrubbed the armored panels (like 9900). Playbook will have a flip design or can be folded to avoid you take tablets that are too big."

Very interesting is not it? How do you think? Is this the future of the tablet on your mind?



via CrackBerry

Info Tech - The smartphone application market for mobile healthcare apps will reach US$ 1.3 billion in 2012 – up from US$ 718 million in 2011. Despite this substantial growth, the mHealth market is still in an embryonic state – especially in comparison to the US$ 6 trillion of the overall global healthcare market. Several factors (esp. smartphone penetration), will continue, however, to drive mHealth market growth over the next couple of years. These findings are part of our new Mobile Health Market Report 2011-2016 report.

The increase of revenue stems from downloads, in-app advertisements, mHealth services, direct transactions and sensor sales. As a number of big healthcare companies published mHealth apps in 2011 that go far beyond a simple allergy tracker or pill reminder (e.g. Sanofi Aventis’ sensor-based iBGStar Diabetis monitoring app) sensors are a growing part of the landscape.

In 2012 the number of mHealth application users – mobile users who downloaded a smartphone mHealth application at least once – will reach 247 million. Compared to the 124 million users who downloaded mHealth smarthphone applications in 2011, this is a near doubling.

The technical aspects of the healthcare landscape are changing rapidly and fundamentally. Healthcare data, the number of healthcare apps and their usage on mobile phones is growing. It is all evolving around smartphones and sensors attached to the phone.

via research2guidance

Info Tech - According to a report from ExtremeTech.com, Mozilla already has plans to release the Firefox 12 version which will have new features that have long requested by users, like those in Google Chrome browser.

One is the new tab page that displays the user's frequently visited pages in a format of three times three. Users can also set the position of the pages are the same as hide or pin a particular website on the page.

Another new feature is the Firefox home tab. The article states that the Firefox version will be released in two stages. The first phase, Firefox's home page will contain a launcher button at the bottom of web browsers for various features such as bookmarks, downloads, settings, and others. The second phase will change the home page of Firefox so far as to display the recent web site, one-click access to users and other favorite app.

Firefox 12 trial is scheduled to present to the Aurora at the end of this January and the final version should be released to the public in April.

via Neowin

Info Tech - After a number of products in the line of Galaxy S does not make a stop for the Samsung mobile phones to innovate in the product line. Known to have attended a mobile phone pictures and videos present on YouTube, Samsung Galaxy S Advance, which has not even been officially announced by the South Korean vendor.

The Samsung Galaxy S Advance which has the code name of the GT-I9070 is said to have specifications similar to other i9000 lines, among others, is a 4-inch AMOLED screen with WVGA resolution, 5MP camera that can record 720p video with 1.500mAh battery capacity. The possibility also will have a 1GHz dual-core processors, with the presence of a 3.5mm audio jack on the bottom of the phone that makes it look similar to the Galaxy Nexus, but it also looks curved design of the phone.

The Samsung Galaxy S Advance smartphone will run on Android 2.3.6 Gingerbread likely to be released at MWC next month. Phones that will run on Android 2.3.6 Gingerbread likely to be released at the MWC next month. For more details about the new samsung smartphone, please check the following video:



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Info Tech - Team Google's open source software company that sells antivirus criticized, with claims that the Android, iOS, and the BlackBerry operating system does not need antivirus software.

Chris Dibona, Program Manager of Google's open-source reacts to the news about the fragility of open-source software such as Android and Apple's iOS creations. He clarified so beware of vendors trying to sell something that it says could protect the Android, BlackBerry, or iOS, because maybe it was just a hoax.

As reported by Device Magazine, Sunday (01/29/2012), although he did not mention any antivirus vendor company, the comments could be directed at Symantec, McAfee F-Secure, and Kaspersky.

Mobile operating system is not totally safe from attack, but rather than a PC, the system is still more secure.

Dibona went on to say that no phone is suffering from a virus problem as experienced Windows and some Mac software. Security breach that occurred was not too far because of the use of the sandbox model and the nature of the underlying kernel.

Info Tech - Nintendo has invested in the Wii U connectivity capabilities, to build an online service called Nintendo Network. In such networks, users can compete to access online content.

Nintendo President Satoru Iwata said Nintendo Network will offer competition and communication between users, and access to digital content, add-ons and full game downloads. The network is expected to begin later this year.

As reported by the Hardware site, Saturday (01/28/2012), Nintendo built a network that is similar to the PSN (PlayStation Network) owned by Sony, and Microsoft's Xbox Live creations. Through Nintendo Network, seems Nintentdo intend to unite the mobile platform with the console, and build an online framework that has been found in the Nintendo 3DS.

The Wii U owners will get a personal account in hopes of creating content that is downloaded more attached to him than the gamer to the console. While there is no new thing in the aspects of technology, the company's highlight is an urge toward the contemporary, to reveal that the Wii U is equipped with NFC functionality.

"NFC is what I mean here is not a non-contact NFC standards compatible with MIFARE and FeliCa contactless technologies, and is expected to be widely used around the world in the near future," said Iwata.

"By installing this function, users can create cards and figures which can read and write data electronically, via NFC non-contac. In addition, to extend the new format of the game in the world of video games. Adoption of this function will allow a variety of other possibilities, such as use it as a tool to make micropayments, "he added.

Info Tech - For fans of the Angry Birds game may be interested to hear that the developers of Angry Birds, Rovio reportedly is in talks with NVIDIA at the moment. The news comes because the mobile content vice president NVIDIA, Neil Trevett inadvertently revealed that NVIDIA and Rovio is in talks at the Mobile Games Forum 2012.

From the information obtained, the possibility the Angry Birds game get a better graphical display is better than before. Currently Angry Birds game using 2D engine, and fans of this game did not object to it. But Neil Trevett highlights that might prove the 3D engine will make a better level of accuracy and provide a more accessible gameplay in this case the camera controls.

The public will be many speculate that the Angry Birds 3D game may be in development stage, but it sounds interesting if it turns Rovio make the Angry Birds game more complex than just 3D graphics display.

via Ubergizmo

Info Tech - As has been reported by Microsoft that Windows 8 will support multiple types of sensors such as ambient light sensor and accelerometer, compass, and gyroscope which is where all the sensors that will be made one by sensor fusion from Microsoft to enhance the capabilities of these sensors.

Microsoft get the inspiration for this sensor fusion from applications that use the motion and orientation of the handset. One test of test they do is create a kind of virtual reality application that allows you to look around the room by using a tablet.

According to Microsoft, using the accelerometer and compass sensors alone are not enough to do this so that they also include gyroscope sensors. Even after the addition of the sensor is still not enough because there are a lot of noise and laggy so that eventually all the three sensors are combined to provide better data.

Actually, nothing is too nice of a sensor that is used by Microsoft because the three sensors are already on smartphones and tablet before, but the incorporation and use of these sensors may be the one who ultimately make a difference. You can see an example in the following video:

Info Tech - Not long ago, the Grand Theft Auto II game made its debut on Android as part of a tour of 10-year celebration. This game is quite impressive, especially with the mods capabilities so players can modify the game as they pleased.

Unfortunately this game is only on a few handsets support only, and required updates in order to run on the Galaxy Nexus and Android Ice Cream Sandwich handsets. For this latest update may not add more compatibility. But for the Asus Transformer Prime users tablet this update is a very good news, because they can play this game on their tablets.

In addition, this game has given a better compatibility to the existing gamepad including gamepad on the Xperia Play. The game is also now supports Immersion Haptic Vibration Feedback, where if there was an explosion or car crash in the game will give an interesting effect to the handset.

Finally, GTA III now has added new options to change the visual settings for better performance, and the option to install this game to the SD card, which is suitable for the handsets that have limited internal memory. If you want to play the GTA III game you can visit the Android Market at a cost for $4.99.

Info Tech - When you provide a service for free then the users will come by itself. Ever since Apple introduced iCloud for free, its users has increased dramatically. iCloud services can help users in performing backup contacts, email, calendars and documents and then can be synced across all your Apple devices.

Currently iCloud users has reached 85 million people and is increasing sharply, especially in the last 3 months. The user is the union of the owners of Mac, iPod, iPhone and the iPad. As information only, iCloud service formerly managed by MobileMe with a subscription fee of $ 99 per year.

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Info Tech - According to the latest news from SammyHub quoted from Korean Samsung site, the representative of the Samsung confirm that the Exynos 5250 processor will begin to produced in the 2nd quarter (April, May, June) 2012. The Samsung also added that the Exynos 5250 will be integrated on their smartphones and tablet device

The Exynos 5250 is a processor (or more precisely the System on Chip) dual-core Cortex-A15 with a speed of 2GHz. SoC supports WQXGA resolution (2560x1600) and claimed to have a graphic quality four times larger than the Cortex-A9 based SoC.

Here is a technical specification of Exynos 5250 processor:
- Dual Cortex A15 @ 2GHz
- 32nm low-power High-K Metal Gate
- Panel Self Refresh feature
- SoC's memory bandwidth of 12.8GB/s (dual 32-bit first-gen LPDDR3 @ 800MHz / 1600MT/s)

via SammyHub

Info Tech - At a meeting at Apple Town Hall yesterday, Apple CEO Tim Cook reported that he will give special discount for every purchase of Apple products by the employee as remuneration for their hard work and success has been achieved.

The Apple employees usually will get a discount of 25% of each of the hardware they buy, but this time for every purchase of a Mac computer they will get a discount of $ 500 and $ 250 for iPad. The specials discount will come into force in June and will be provided to employees who have worked at least a month (30 days) and this discount may only take three years.

via 9to5mac

Info Tech - Development of Windows 8 is much awaited by fans of Microsoft and PC developers are now in a more advanced stage. The beta version / preview of the OS is rumored to be release in late February and has recently winunleaked.tk has got leaked last build number of Windows 8, which is believed to be the final version before entering the beta stage.

Microsoft is scheduled to show the preview of Windows 8 internally on January 30. Based on information from the roadmap, public beta for Windows 8 will be labeled winmain_win8b1. Be prepared to taste Windows 8 in a few weeks away.

via Neowin

Info Tech - At Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2012 that will take place next month, reportedly LG will present their second 3D smartphone. In addition they will focus on LTE phones.

Tech Digest proclaimed on Thursday (01/26/2012), the successor of the Optimus 3D is rumored to be appearing with a more slender body with a 1.2 GHz TI processor.

Nova Technology at Optimus Black will also be adopted by this 3D smartphone. For matters of appearance, this smartphone using a 4.3-inch 3D display, with a resolution of 800x480 megapixels.

It seems the LG Optimus 3D 2 will glide at MWC this year, with a row of LTE Phone from LG. When met on the sidelines for your LG Media Gathering, Jakarta, Kim Weon Dae, President Director of LG Electronics Indonesia said, "At Mobile World Congress we will focus to LTE Phone."

As for the confirmation of the presence of the Optimus 3D at the event, he said, "There is a possibility we will release it at the event."

Info Tech - Based on a new research from Strategy Analytics, Apple currently dominates the tablet market. However, the iPad share dominance is slowly starting subverted by various models of Android tablets that came on the market.

Apple has mastered the 57.6 percent share of the tablet in the fourth quarter of 2011, down from a 68.2% share earned a year earlier. Meanwhile, according to this research, Android tablets currently able to achieve a share of almost 40% in the fourth quarter of 2011 throughout the world by the number of tablets sent 28.6 million in the quarter or as many as 66.9 million units in one year.

Meanwhile, the tablet with Windows 7 OS is only gain 1.5% in market share globally in the last quarter. Microsoft hopes that this share will change in late 2012 when they released Windows 8 OS is more suitable for use in tablet with touch screen.

The Increase share of the tablet with Google Android OS is also still leaves a problem. In addition to the fragmentation of the operating system version, the share of Android tablet is still supported by the Kindle Fire, the Amazon tablets using customized Android OS which has the function less flexible and less reflect a desirable Android tablet by Google as a whole.

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Info Tech - Exposure to financial statements Nokia today also revealed an interesting fact. Microsoft is said to have paid Nokia $250 million to use Windows Phone.

Prior to these two companies disclose the exact figure has never issued an investment of Microsoft to Nokia. But with the latest expression looks a little picture that is expected to make the Nokia receive Microsoft subsidies up to billions dollars.

Nokia said in its exposure to financial results that strategic agreement Nokia and Microsoft are widely incorporate elements of subsidy and royalty payments. Microsoft provides a platform support costs while Nokia to pay royalties to Microsoft software. The Nokia also revealed that the company has a royalty structure is highly competitive software. This includes a commitment of minimum royalty payments.

The Nokia and Microsoft deal is like to suggest that Nokia pays Windows Phone royalties is much cheaper than the license granted to other vendors such as HTC and Samsung. ZTE also previously hinted that the company is paying about 27 dollars for every Windows Phone product it makes.

Not yet known whether the value of royalties from the licensing of Windows Phone provides a value that is greater than royalty licensing patents that are used by more than half of Android handset makers who have worked closely with Microsoft.

via Slashgear

Info Tech - Samsung reportedly is considering to equip their upcoming Android tablet with S-Pen. The use of S-Pen on the Samsung Galaxy Note enough to attract attention, and is believed to be very easy for users to interact with the screen more quickly, like to draw, write notes and more.

This plan was indeed true and responded by Ryan Biden, Product Manager of Samsung maketing is also one of the manager who had worked at RIM.

"I think the pen interface can continue to be used in a number of screen sizes larger tablet. It seems my statement is specific enough without having to announce a product".

S-Pen in the Galaxy Note using Wacom Active Digitizer technology to conduct a much more accurate input on a capacitive screen. For that the device, Samsung should add a Wacom Digitizer technology that will surely come inflate the price of the tablet device.

via Pocketnow

Info Tech - If the United States has e-Book Reader Android-based called Amazon Kindle Fire, Japan now has a similar device called the Toshiba BookPlace DB50.

Like the Kindle Fire, although based on Android, the e-Book Reader has been overhauled so that it looks different from other Android device display. In addition, the Toshiba BookPlace DB50 was integrated with Toshiba's BookPlace Store which provides about 50000 books and magazines.

The Toshiba BookPlace DB50 specs including 1GHz i.MX535 processor, LED-backlight LCD screen with WSVGA resolution (600x1024), 8GB Internal Memory, Wi-Fi b / g / n, Bluetooth, USB 2.0, and MicroSD slot. The device, weighing 330g and the thinness of 11mm is claimed to be able to survive for 7 Hours 30 Minutes when used. The BookPlace BD50 will go on sale in February.

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Info Tech - A few weeks ago, Microsoft has announced there will be the best games that required to be owned by Windows Phone device. The 5 best games for windows phone include Need For Speed - Hot Pursuit, BulletAsylum, Chickens Can’t Fly, Tom Calancy's Splinter Cell Conviction and Toy Soldiers. The Latest news preached those games will be available in February next, and expected a title to be released on a weekly basis.

The following release schedule of the 5 best game for Windows Phone:
- Need for Speed - Hot Pursuit: February 1 ($ 4.99)
- BulletAsylum: February 8 ($ 2.99)
- Chickens Can’t Fly: February 15 ($ 2.99)
- Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Conviction: February 22 ($ 4.99)
- Toy Soldiers - Boot Camp: February 29 ($ 2.99)

The release schedule of these games was quite timely with the presence of Nokia Lumia 710 and 800 globally in various countries. Previously, Electronic Arts (EA) also has announced it will bring 20 of their best games for Windows Phone platform.

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Info Tech - The presence of the newly launched iPhone 4S and crowded the issue of the presence of the iPad 3, making rumors about the iPhone 5 running slow. Well, now there are new rumors that mention the iPhone 5 will come with a bigger screen and new designs.

The news is sourced from 9 to 5 Mac site who got it from a trusted person in the Foxconn company, factory assemblers appointed by Apple's iPhone, which is based in China.

"The new Apple's iPhone will be called the iPhone 5. Now in the process of production," wrote Seth Weintraub of 9 to 5 Mac, citing sources who declined to be named on Thursday (01/26/2012).

Weintraub said, some specs will be similar to the previous iPhone. However, changes will occur fairly extreme, where the iPhone 5 will have a different body shape than the previous iPhone.

In addition, this new device will have a bigger screen, and brought the screen up to 4-inch, the iPhone 5 will look wider than other iPhone before using a 3.5-inch screen size.

As usual, what the source was a prototype. This means there is still a big possibility that changes will occur in such a phenomenal device. More than that, there are no other specifications that successfully dismantled.

Info Tech - For those of you who are often involved a battery problem, now is the time the problem is no longer haunt you. Because it is now officially available a mobile phone from Motorola, Droid RAZR MAXX, which has a capacity of 3300 mAh battery. Currently the Droid RAZR Maxx is already available through Verizon is priced at $ 300 with a contract for 2 years.

The Latest Android phone is claimed to be able to accompany and assist your activities, almost for 21 hours (talk time) within a time period of charging the battery. Much the more, despite having almost 2x as much battery capacity of Droid RAZR, the Motorola Droid RAZR MAXX also looks sleek with a thickness of only 8.99 mm levels are certainly still very interesting if it competed with other 4G LTE mobile designs.

If you are interested to have the Motorola Droid RAZR MAXX, you can go to this link.

via phandroid

Info Tech - The latest generation of Apple's iPhone or iPhone 5 reportedly is ready to be produced. According to sources from within of Foxconn some designs already available. Rumored the Apple's new iPhone will have a screen on top of 4-inch and has a unique design or different at all with the iPhone 4 / 4S.

Although there is no sure how to form a prototype iPhone 5 actually, but sources say that the iPhone 5 will likely be ready to be introduced in the middle of this year. We wait for further developments regarding this new generation iPhone.

via BGR

Info Tech - A few months after HP makes WebOS system into open source, today they announced the new OS will be released in September under the name Open WebOS 1.0. Enyo application framework code has been released to developers starting today.

In this stage of development, HP plans to release updates did the Open WebOS each month for 6-7 months until eventually the system will be ready to be released in September. According to The Verge, the biggest change is in the Open WebOS is totally using the standard Linux kernel that makes this system will be able to be used in a lot of hardware.

WebOS will use Apache 2.0 license which according to HP provides a legal framework that balances innovation and user experience that can be relied upon. The early versions of the Open WebOS will be available to developers who are using the HP Touchpad in the coming months, while users can begin to taste the Open WebOS along with its official release.

Regarding compatibility with Open WebOS older products, HP said that they would make the Open WebOS could be applied on all devices based on WebOS.

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Info Tech - HTC and IBM claims to have collaborated to try to bring the Android-based handset specific for enterprise business sector. The presence of this smartphone for overthrew the dominance of the BlackBerry and Apple, which is strong in that segment.

IBM is known as premium vendor in corporate class, will develop smart business applications that will be embedded on HTC devices like smartphones and tablets. This is of course beneficial for Android fans, because theoretically they are very profitable cooperation.

Targeting the enterprise market is a new for HTC, the Taiwanese manufacturer is quite have the capital to get into that segment. Especially look at the HTC was able to sell 100 million devices worldwide. As reported by Tech Radar, Thursday (01/26/2012).

If in the smartphones sector, BlackBerry is still a strong part as a business phone, the iPad is the device most widely used as a device to work. The HTC Android tablet is quite optimistic if specific to an enterprise, it still provides a 'cake' which is very large.

Moreover, in the future HTC will allow companies to create their own applications, with the help of third party developers. For HTC devices, the company will be equipped with a variety of business tools that already appears on the device.

This will provide a more personalized business experience and allow the tablet to be adjusted to the needs of the company.

Info Tech - A few moments ago, Facebook down and some parties speculate whether this is the beginning of anonymous attacks. Previously a YouTube video, posted by the party which claims to be anonymous, will 'turn off' Facebook on January 28.

Responding Facebook is down for a moment, Cnet immediately contact the company. A spokesman for Facebook said, "We too aggressively push the code at some time between 5 pm to 6 pm. Now everything is fine," he said, as reported by Cnet, Thursday (01/26/2012).

As is known, interference with the Facebook is indeed no influence throughout the world, but only in some specific countries only.

In addition, almost simultaneously with the statement by a spokesman for Facebook, a tweet on Twitter coming back from anonymous. Accounts @YourAnonNews said, "Facebook down. Controlled #Anonymous."

But the main Twitter account used by anonymous, stated the opposite. @AnonOps said that it was not they who did attacks against Facebook.

Previous videos are uploaded to YouTube, claiming as the network hacker, saying, "An online war has begun between the anonymous, the people and government of the United States (U.S.). While the SOPA and PIPA postponed voting in Congress, but this does not guarantee that our internet rights will be upheld, "he conveyed in the video.

Info Tech - Currently reported, some Facebook users reported that the social networking is down. Following up the report, the company is tracking API errors and slow loading time of web developers.

Even so, but it appears that the disorder does not occur in the whole world. The problem is affecting only some users in certain countries only, given the Facebook servers distributed around the world.

While Facebook down, anonymous Twitter account, as reported by Neowin, Thursday (01/26/2012), seem to respond by saying, "It looks like Facebook is having a little problem."

Although the account @YourAnonNews say this, but the main Twitter account used by the group claimed that it was not they who did attacks against Facebook.

So it is not certain whether this is done by Anonymous, who launched the attack early. As is known, previously reported Anonymous plans to target Facebook in an attack on January 28. It was mentioned in the video on YouTube.

Video uploaded to YouTube, claiming the network hackers. "An online war has begun between the anonymous, the people and government of the United States (U.S.). While the SOPA and PIPA can be delayed in Congress, but this does not guarantee that the rights of the Internet we will uphold it," remarked in the video.

Info Tech - According to a recent report from LG, one of the newest devices, Optimus LTE has touched the figure of 1 million for the sale of units. The statement was made by LG's CEO, Dr. Jong-Seok Park today (January 25) in Seoul.

The Optimus LTE went on sale in October 2011, mostly sold in the territory of South Kore. For South Korean territory, the LG Optimus LTE successfully sold over 600,000 units in just the first 3 months, and another 400,000 units sold in the territory of Japan, Canada and the United States.

Just a reminder, the LG Optimus LTE specifications have qualified, among other things:

- IPS 4.5-inch screen, HD resolution (720p)
- 1.5GHz processor Dual-core, GPU Adreno 220
- 4GB Internal Memory, 1GB RAM
- 8 MP camera, Bluetooth 3.0
- 1830 mAh Battery
- LTE, DLNA.

Info Tech - In the United Kingdom, the Sony Tablet S become the most favorites Android tablet in market share reached 26% of overall sales of Android-based tablet by beating its rivals such as the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, Asus Transformer Prime, and Kindle Fire. Remarkably Android tablet market control is successful in accomplish in just one month since it was first launched last month.

At the end of last year, sales of the Sony Tablet S is actually defeated by the Blackberry Playbook is the choice for a gift because it has got a massive discount. Together with the Sony Xperia and the Sony Tablet P, Sony Tablet S planned to receive ICS updates in the next two quarters.

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Info Tech - According to a tweet from Asus's official account, the first quad-core tablet “Transformer Prime” will get the bootloader unlocking in February. Although no details of the date given, but apparently will not wait long, the longest end of February we already can see the tool.

In the last month there are question marks about the Asus Transformer Prime WiFi shipped with bootloader unlocked, especially because its predecessor was not locked and is a favorite among developers tablets. According to Asus, the tablet is shipped with a bootloader locked aims to protect and run the DRM content such as movie downloads from Market can run smoothly.

With the certainty will release the bootloader unlocking by Asus, will make the users and potential users, including developers will feel more happy, because all the modifications and tweaks can be done to optimize the performance and appearance of the Asus Transformer Prime tablet.

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Info Tech - Did you ever see Android or Apple device dressed up with a display resembling the display belongs to another platform? Especially for users of Android will be a lot of customization that can change the look of your smartphone or tablet to be better and your taste. There are so many wallpapers, launcher and icon pack which you can attach it to your Android device.

In the next few months you may even consider Skydroid launcher for Android devices inspired for Windows 8. Skydroid has promised to give the appearance of an approaching launcher Wndows device 8 originals, ranging from wallpapers, icons and so forth. Skydroid not only change the outward appearance, but also have to customize the display in applications such as: Dialer, SMS, Contacts, Email, Browser, Camera, Gallery, Calendar, Calculator, Player, Converter, Alarm, and many others.

So if you like the look of your Android device resembles Windows 8 wait Skydroid presence that will be present soon, and you'll get the performance are equipped with Android-style minimalist look of Windows 8.

You can also monitor the progress of making Skydroid through XDA, please click here.

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Info Tech - Anonymous plans to target Facebook in an attack on January 28th. It was mentioned in a video on YouTube, this Monday.

Video uploaded to YouTube, claiming the network hackers. "An online war has begun between the anonymous, the people and government of the United States (U.S.). While the SOPA and PIPA can be delayed in Congress, but this does not guarantee that the rights of the Internet we will uphold it," remarked in the video.

Previously Anonymous also have attacked the U.S. Justice Department website, after the U.S. government shut down file sharing sites, Megaupload.

Reported by Mashable, Wednesday (01/25/2012), in a YouTube video on Monday, appealed to the American people to participate in activities such hack, by downloading the Low Orbit Ion Cannon (LOIC), which is a tool that has been successfully used to target the Department of Justice . LOIC to crash a website by sending thousands of packets of information to their servers.

The plan, attack on Facebook will be conducted at 12:00 AM, on January 28th. Even so, there is no mention about the time zone of action of the attack.

It seems that hackers are finding it difficult to attact Facebook. As we all know, Facebook as one of the largest sites in the world, operating through thousands of servers located around the world.

"Although Facebook has at least 60 thousand servers, it is still possible to 'turn it off'. Anonymous require help from the people," says Anonymous.

Meanwhile, on the reasons why Anonymous targeting Facebook enough to attract attention, given that social networking is one of the opponents of SOPA and PIPA. CNet revealed, that the possibility of Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, too long voiced its opposition, thus making its social networking became one of the potential targets.

Info Tech - Until now the iOS and Android mobile operating system are two of the most compelling application developers. Many of those who not only develop applications for one of its platforms but for the second time, except of course for Symbian, Windows Phone, Blackberry, and others.

According to Adam Leach of research firm Ovum, the current development momentum among application developers in Windows Phone. Momentum exists because Microsoft is said to have managed to convince the developer about investing in the platform will be profitable, and now Microsoft needs to convince customers to buy handsets Windows Phone.

Ovum study also found the fact that developers have started to abandon traditional application development system that uses Java and Flash, and start focusing on the development of the HTML5 standard that makes it easy to create applications for multiple platforms.

''Success or failure of a mobile platform is not only determined the number of users or partner vendors and operators, but also from their advantage to be gained by a third party application developers,''said Adam Leach from Ovum.

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Info Tech - Eldar Murtazin, Russia's leading bloggers, again issued a plan related to major rumors of the Samsung Galaxy S III release date. According to him, Samsung will announce the Galaxy S III at MWC next month and will start selling in April.

Murtazin also implies that he has held product by mentioning some of the specs of the Samsung Galaxy S III includes HD resolution screen, 12MP camera, tweaks software and Android 4. He said that he is very love the new smartphone and really want to see the official announcement in Barcelona (at the upcoming MWC).

The rumors are consistent with release schedule of the Galaxy S II a year earlier. The device was also announced at the MWC and was introduced in late April in Europe. Other specifications also makes sense and has been discussed previously. What is interesting here is the quad-core processors are used because according to Murtazin the Samsung Galaxy S III to use 1.5GHz-1.6GHz quad-core chip.

Furthermore, he also said that this device is pretty fast with good battery and he thinks Samsung has done a good job in this smartphone device.

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Info Tech - While other vendors are aggressively introducing new variants-incessant, Ultrabook, HP seems to remain loyal to prioritize variants of Netbook. Known on Monday, HP's first netbook in 2012 revealed, the Mini 1104 which has a screen size of 10-inch. According to HP, Netbook is more intended to help schools and business activity, with 1.6GHz Atom N2600 Cedar Trail for graphics and better performance.

In addition, the HP Mini 1104 netbook is also complete with Computrace Pro and TPM security chip to detect the presence of a netbook when it disappeared. Specifications and features of the Mini 1104, among others, has a weight of 1.4kg with battery life up to 9 hours, 2GB of RAM, 320GB of storage, run on Windows 7 Starter, Home Premium, or Professional, HSPA + 3G, and Bluetooth 3.0. The HP Mini 1104 priced at $399.

Info Tech - Scientists from Korea sought to develop the concept of smartphones that can be used to check health. This concept can be realized through the touch screen feature that will detect the condition of the body.

A group of scientists from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science of Technology (KAIST), reveals that the touch-screen technology can be used to detect biomolecules substances, as is done in the medical test.

"This stems from the idea that the touch screen works by recognizing an electronic signal at the touch of a finger, and so is the presence of certain proteins and DNA should be recognized," said Park Hyun-gyu yagn together with Byong-yeon led the research.

As reported by Reuters on Tuesday (01/24/2012), the touch screen on a smartphone, PDA or other electronic devices work by sensing the electrical waves that come out of its consumer body. While the body's biochemical substances such as proteins and DNA molecules also issued a typical electric waves.

"We have confirmed that the touch screen can recognize the DNA molecule, with accuracy rates approaching 100 percent. It is similar to conventional medical equipment and the ability to recognize a protein, we believe it can achieve similar results," said Park.

The research team added that currently they are developing a kind of film with reactive materials that can recognize specific biochemical substances. But to confirm that the touch screen can recognize biomolecular substances, is the first step.

Because no one is going to shed blood or urine on the touch screen, the sample can be placed in a field which will then be inserted into a smartphone or a module that is connected to it.

"The location and content of the sample will be known in a way similar to a touch screen recognize your finger," added Park.

However, no details about the design of time to turn smartphones into the diagnosis tool.