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Survey: Weigh in on the Honeywell-Nest lawsuit

Posted by on Tuesday, 7 February, 2012

The news on Monday that thermostat giant Honeywell slapped startup Nest with a lawsuit for patent infringement throws an unexpected wrinkle in the landscape of the smart thermostat this year. These connected energy devices — often overlooked but finally getting some attention in 2012 — have been poised to be a gateway into the connected home, working with mobile phones, utility meters, and heating and cooling systems. Honeywell’s lawsuit, which you can read more about here, claims that “many features of the Nest Thermostat infringe Honeywell patents.”

How might this new lawsuit impact the growth of the overall smart thermostat market? We want you, GigaOM readers, to weigh in below, and we’ll release all the details of the survey in a research note.

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AMD Eyes ARM Alliance In War on Intel

Posted by on Friday, 3 February, 2012

Could the low-power-chip design that’s used in your iPhone someday show up inside the chips built by Intel-rival Advanced Micro Devices? Definitely maybe. Or as AMD’s brand new Chief Technology Officer Mark Papermaster put it to us: “The answer is not no.” Papermaster’s apparent openness to ARM makes sense. AMD has been competing with Intel since back in the 1970s, and it’s a natural ally to ARM — the British company whose chips designs typically wind up in coffee makers and mobile phones — as it finds itself increasingly fighting with Intel.



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Dropcam takes home video monitoring into the cloud

Posted by on Monday, 9 January, 2012

Home video surveillance is rarely fun or easy to deal with. High-end systems typically require heavy integration, and even consumer do-it-yourself camera setups can be frustrating to get going. But the latest HD video camera from Dropcam and its associated cloud-based DVR service and mobile apps are easy to set up and a joy to use.

Dropcam has been in operation since 2009, but the latest version or its home surveillance cameras are a big step forward in both form and functionality. Let’s start with the Dropcam HD Wi-Fi Video Monitoring Camera itself, which records 720p video and provides two-way audio functionality. Oh, and it looks good, too. Just as important, set up is a breeze. Users need only plug the camera into their computer, select their local Wi-Fi network, and personalize the name of the video feed.

The new Dropcam product has a pretty powerful night-vision camera, which automatically switches on whenever a room becomes dark. It also has two-way audio, enabling users to hear what’s happening in a room and actually respond if they want to. There’s a digital zoom function that can be used to pinpoint certain parts of a room to focus on. And Users don’t need to hook the camera into a computer or network-attached to record: All the video is uploaded via Wi-Fi into the cloud. The cloud-based DVR records up to 30 days worth of video, which users can log in and watch at any time.

In fact, the real beauty of Dropcam is its cloud-based DVR and mobile applications, which give its users constant access to video footage of their homes from nearly any mobile device on the go. In addition to browser-based web viewing, Dropcam has released mobile apps for iPhone and iPad, as well as Android mobile phones and tablets. Through those apps, Dropcam users can watch live or recorded video, or receive push notifications when motion or audio is detected by the camera.

If there’s one downside to Dropcam, it’s that the camera might be too sensitive to motion — frequently I received notifications from my empty apartment only to watch those events and find a whole lot of nothing going on. The whole thing, especially when combined with a pretty powerful night vision camera, led to a Paranormal Activity-type feeling that my tiny little studio was haunted.

The Dropcam HD Wi-Fi Video Monitoring Camera costs 9 and is now available for pre-order from www.dropcam.com, with shipment beginning later this month. For users that wish to record video, plans with moment-by-moment HD video capture start at .95 per month.

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T-Mobile Is Blowing Out Some Awesome Phones This Weekend [Dealzmodo]

Posted by on Tuesday, 3 January, 2012

Researcher’s Video Shows Secret Software on Millions of Phones Logging Everything

Posted by on Wednesday, 30 November, 2011

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The Android developer who raised the ire of a mobile-phone monitoring company last week is on the attack again, producing a video of how the Carrier IQ software secretly installed on millions of mobile phones reports most everything a user does on a phone.

Though the software is installed on most modern Android, BlackBerry and Nokia …



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By Mentioning Apple Mp3

Posted by on Sunday, 30 October, 2011

The Apple iphone continues to be with regards to the music scene for sometime. Customers belonging to the Apple iphone have published many reviews over time. ipod device reviews, mp3 hackings, in addition to free mp3 videos are published on multilple web sites.

ipod device customers enjoy the following to be able to of the Apple ipod touch:

1. The Apple ipod nano includes a hard disk that may hold upwards of 5,000 tunes. The amount of tunes that should be saved within the Apple ipod devices is sufficient that customers may get to hear a non-stop music experience by using the Apple mp3 player. This storage device includes a forty gb of space out there for the five,000 tunes. The free ipod touch videos are often incorporated.

2. The Apple ipod touch was made in a way the control buttons are incorporated into a sleek design that ergonomically provides easy movement towards the user. The ergonomic design is termed the press Wheel.

Utilizing the Click Wheel, Apple ipod devices customers are now allowed to easily search through a common free ipod touch videos. The Apple mp3 customers may either go forward, play, pause or stop, and control overturn. A single more plus certainly is the access of your menu past the Click Wheel.

3. The Apple iphone have sufficient battery existence that coudl permit non-stop playing of tunes reely mp3 videos. Apple mp3 player customers works with the setup to the playlist of tunes reely ipod touch videos relating to the Apple iphone.

4. Whilst shuffle intent being the Apple ipod touch, customers can make at random the free ipod device videos they would like to watch too MP3 tunes that they’ll would like to hear.

5. The Apple iphone isn’t just an important audio player along with a great player for a free mp3 player videos. Gadget menu inside the Apple ipod nano is super intuitive. The seem quality is world-class, The storage size will store more than just MP3 tunes but free mp3 videos. Lastly, the Apple ipod devices has a a number of add-ons readily available for use.

6. The Apple mp3 player was stated to own a poor publish sales service. One user belonging to the Apple iphone stated he only accessible to be watching free iphone videos in the event the LCD screen out of the blue went broke.

The service belonging to the Apple ipod touch, however, stated the service warranty through the Apple mp3 player doesn’t include abuse. Through this situation, it absolutely was made the decision previously it was abuse effectively Apple ipod nano was now beyond warranty.

7. The Apple mp3 also offers a obvious lineage coming from the warranty. Several customers out from the Apple iphone stated to learn strange things inside the apple ipods as soon as termination date through the warranty.

The following are the faulty occasions that user of Apple mp3s encounters:

a. The Apple mp3 player is stated being skip-free in playing free ipod devices videos, but when the warranty period, it began missing free ipod touch videos.

b. The Apple ipod touch is stated to get a lengthy existence battery, but following on from the warranty period, battery was constantly considering shortage in energy particularly playing free iphone videos.

c. The Apple mp3 is stated to possess a robust hard disk drive, but using the warranty period, the hard disk via the Apple ipod nano usually fails.

8. The Apple mp3 player seemed to be reported finally as getting program bug or design flaw. Music tracks reely iphone videos being performed are intended to be skip-free and flow continuously in 1 track or video to the next. The Apple ipod touch, based on some customers stalls for one moment between tracks.

9. The Apple mp3 is stated that will be the greatest in MP3 audio playing. Customers, however, pray that Apple would work to enhance the video playing capacity over the ipod device make certain that playing free mp3 player videos couldn’t survive an inconvenience. Making the playback quality player more perfect would probably raise the sales out from the Apple ipod devices.

10. The Apple mp3 player can also be stated to be prone to static. Some customers reported the Apple ipod nano could easily plagued by static when make the coat pocket. Static triggered the Apple ipod nano to change off in an instant sometimes. It has an impact to overall circuitry.