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Written on August 26th, 2010 by PricesTechno shouts
CoolerMaster has announced a neat new laptop power adaptor the USNA95r, offering a slim and light alternative to the bulky standard adaptor and the added bonus of an extra USB charging port. Having a slimmer and lighter power adaptor is a bit of a no-brainer, with the USNA95 offering nine different charger tips for the various major laptop manufacturers. But the addition of an extra US charger – which can operate concurrently with the laptop charger, looks to be a nice addition. Tired, stressed..? “Tired of carrying that bulky notebook power adapter?” asks CoolerMaster’s release.
Written on August 17th, 2010 by PricesTechone shout
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Written on August 13th, 2010 by PricesTechno shouts
Like many projects in Silicon Valley (see: Twitter ), Chrome To Phone started as a mere side project at Google . Dave Burke, Google’s Engineering Manager for Mobile and the chief architect for Chrome To Phone, was just tinkering around with Google’s third party developer tools in his free time. Fascinated by the divide between mobile and desktop, he stumbled upon Chrome To Phone. “I created an early version that I sent around internally, and then I started getting sort of notes and e-mails from people going ‘Wow, this is really useful, thanks for creating it!’ And over time people started using it more and more because it really just addresses a need today and I guess it just generated some momentum after that,” Burke says. On Thursday, Google officially launched Chrome to Phone to the public , it’s a useful extension that allows you to push information, like web pages, phone numbers and maps directly from your Chrome browser to your Android phone. Burke says this is just the beginning, he has a laundry list of functions he plans to build. Next up? An update that will reverse the path, to Phone To Chrome. And yes, he’s already working on it. “We get quite a few suggestions for enhancements so the first one that came out was: “Chrome to Phone is great when can i have Phone To Chrome. So this is the reverse case, you’re on your phone, you see an interesting article, and you want to take it to your desktop,” Burke says. High on his to-do list is also a feature that will let you access the history of your actions, so you can quickly pull up an old link or map on your phone. There has also been chatter on the web, as to whether Chrome To Phone could evolve into a TV remote type of device— especially given the impending launch of Google TV. For example, with a “Chrome to TV” extension, you could pull up a video on your laptop’s/iPad’s browser and then push it to your Google TV, essentially turning your computing device into a very large remote. After our video interview, I asked Burke about the concept, he said Google isn’t working on it yet but it does make a lot of sense. See above for our full interview with Burke above. Below is a 2-minute demo video.
Written on August 12th, 2010 by PricesTechno shouts
According to a survey of UK iPad owners put forth by Cooper Murphy Webb , people who own iPads are now using them as their preferred device for reading newspapers, magazines and books. Of the 1,034 iPad owners polled via telephone between July 28th and August 10th, 43% use the iPad for more than 10 hours per week, with most of those usage hours taking place in home. While the iPad dominates among users for text based activities like perusing magazines and books, the laptop still holds strong as a primary entertainment device — perhaps due to the iPad’s lack of Flash support. I know that I have been discouraged from readily picking up an iPad to watch online video from the Pavlovian effect of those disappointing little blue legos . Giving ammunition to the “ iPad Will Save Reading ” camp, 31% of iPad users prefer their iPad to their laptop, mobile phone, e-reader and print media for reading newspapers and magazines, perhaps due to the innovative presentation of news put forward by aggregator iPad apps like Flipboard and Pulse. And moreover 41% of iPad owners prefer the iPad for reading books, which bodes well for iPad apps like iBooks, Kindle for iPad, and Barnes and Noble. As a side note to and probably as a byproduct of text consumption, the iPad is also preferred for Internet browsing among UK owners at 38% and gaming at 37% respectively. iPad owners may be a skewed sample in terms of consumption habits — six times more likely to be “wealthy, well-educated, power-hungry, over-achieving, sophisticated” according to one survey — and UK owners even more so. But at over 3.27 million iPads officially sold at the end of Quarter 3 (our educated guess is around 5 million so far), Job’s magical and revolutionary product is gaining inroads in the way people at least say they partake in the written word, if they happen to be in the ever increasing class of people that own one. Photo: Cliph CrunchBase Information Apple iPad Information provided by CrunchBase
Written on August 6th, 2010 by PricesTechno shouts
Today at the Techonomy conference in Lake Tahoe, CA, CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo sat down with a panel including Bill Joy, Kevin Kelly, Nicholas Negroponte, and
Willie Smits. The topic was basically the future of technology. And Negroponte had the most interesting (or at least the most controversial) thing to say. The physical book is dead, according to Negroponte. He said he realizes that’s going to be hard for a lot of people to accept. But you just have to think about film and music. In the 1980s, the writing was on the wall that physical film was going to die, even though companies like Kodak were in denial. He then asked people to think about their youth with music. It was all physical then. Now everything has changed. By “dead,” he of course doesn’t mean completely dead. But he means that digital books are going to replace physical books as the dominant form. His argument is related to his One Laptop per Child Foundation . On those laptops, he can include hundreds or thousands of books. If you think about trying to ship that many physical books to the emerging world for each child, it would be impossible, he reasons. “ People will say ‘no, no, no’ — of course you like your libraries ,” Negroponte said. But he cited the report that sales of books for the Kindle recently surpassed sales of hardcover books . “ It’s happening. It not happening in 10 years. It’s happening in 5 years, ” he said. Naturally, I love these type of predictions . CrunchBase Information One Laptop Per Child Information provided by CrunchBase
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