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LightSquared gets desperate, seeks regulatory changes to satisfy GPS debacle

shaun — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 03:14:22 +0000

If we were the betting type — and hell, some of us really are — we’d wager a crisp ten spot that LightSquared isn’t going to assuage the FCC’s concerns over those pesky GPS interference issues in the next few weeks. After previously stating that the interference test reports were rigged by GPS insiders, the upstart LTE network is now getting political with its argument and is calling on the FCC to institute new standards for GPS equipment. LightSquared contends that current GPS devices on the market are poorly designed and purposefully encroach on the company’s licensed spectrum. Of course, this change would do little to remedy the millions of interference prone / (causing?) devices on the market, but LightSquared notes that, by the FCC’s own admission, GPS receivers must “reasonably discriminate against the reception of signals outside their allocated spectrum.” With the company’s latest argument flying high atop the flagpole, it begs the question, will anybody salute? You’ll find LightSquared’s statement in its entirety after the break.

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Pixable turns photo viewing into a daily addiction

shaun — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 03:16:14 +0000

Pixable, a photo viewing aggregation service, has won praise for the smart way it organizes photos and orders them by relevancy for users. Now, we’re seeing that users are catching on in a big way and have turned the iOS mobile app into a daily addiction.

The New York City company told me it recently eclipsed the 1 million download mark on iOS, with almost of all of the downloads happening in the last few months of last year. But while noteworthy, that’s something that a lot of apps are able to pull off. What’s really interesting to me is how sticky Pixable has become for users, who are engaging continuously at a pretty impressive rate.

Pixable says that its users are viewing 100 million photos a month and opening the app on average 11 times per month. Some 60 percent of those users are still active on the app since it launched in April while 60 percent of users also use the app on consecutive days.

The Pixable app primarily aggregates Facebook and Twitter pictures, with fuller support for Facebook right now. It organizes photos into various categories such as top of the day, week or month, new profile pics, most recent photos. Pixable also aggregates Instagram, Flickr, yFrog, Twitpic photos and YouTube and Vimeo videos within a user’s Twitter feeds.

Where Pixable shines is in how it uses machine learning and algorithms to process more than 70 signals, helping it to surface the most relevant pictures for users. It will try to measure the affinity between users and the strength of their relationships, taking into account things like common schools, or cities and how much they interact. It will also look at “likes” and comments to determine if it’s a picture that a user wouldn’t want to miss.

Inaki Berenguer, Pixable’s CEO and Co-Founder, said photos have changed from being a way for people to hold on to memories into a form of communication. It’s almost like email now, he said, with Pixable setting itself up as a smart mobile inbox for photos.

“Photos are about telling friends what you’re up to you or you see something funny or eat something and you take a picture. People are broadcasting all the time, but there’s too much noise. Pixable organizes all these photos and brings order to them and sense to chaos,” Berenguer told me.

Pixable, which raised .6 million in November, said it’s also introducing hashtags into the service, so users can tag photos to organize them for later viewing or they can use them like hashtags on Twitter, adding a layer of metadata to a picture. It has also added a mobile web version of the service.

In my earlier profile on Pixable, I wrote how I liked Pixable’s approach, helping people see the photos that matter to them. As we live more of our lives online and through social networks, we need ways to prioritize all this content and filter out a lot of the noise. Pixable still has more to do to more fully integrate pictures beyond Facebook and Twitter, but I like its initial start and so do its users.

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Samsung ‘Optical Sensor in Pixel’ LCDs rolling out, ready for Surface 2.0

shaun — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 01:14:21 +0000

With Samsung’s Microsoft Surface product, the SUR40, already available for pre-order, the company says its 1080p 40-inch “Optical Sensor in Pixel” LCD panels have gone into mass production. Those optical sensors help to more accurately interpret multi-touch input without interrupting display signals, offering a more fluid, interactive experience. Tempered glass overlaying the display supports 176 pounds of load and up to 50 touch points at once, which should be more than enough for a Pacific Giant Octopus or any jerk that leans on your K table. While the SUR40 is certainly a showcase device for these panels, it isn’t the only practical application — Samsung says it’s thin enough and light enough to wall-mount, and hopes to see it used by stock brokers, financial analysts and schools.

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Elgato EyeTV Mobile eyes-on (video)

shaun — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 19:14:30 +0000

Elgato’s been experimenting with live TV on the iPad for over a year now, but until now, that meant streaming programs that were already broadcast online anyway — a mighty large limitation, wouldn’t you say? This week, though, the company announced EyeTV Mobile, a TV tuner that plugs into the iPad 2′s 30-pin connector, allowing it to pull in broadcast television. We just happened to stumble on Elgato’s booth here at IFA and treated ourselves to a short TV break. The tuner, which fits easily in the palm of your hand when the antenna is collapsed, only allows you to draw in signals using the DVB-T standard, so make no mistake this is a product just for our European readers. (Although Elgato says it hopes to release something similar in Japan.) Even more than the hardware or the programming selection (fútbol, anyone?), we remain impressed by the free EyeTV iOS app, whose interface is pretty much the same as the HDHomeRun for iPad app, with the ability to swipe the screen to change channels and, in this case, save your location. It’ll be available across the pond for €99.95 / £99.95 at the end of this month. Until then (or if you’re just stuck in the states), check out our hands-on photos below and a video demo after the break.

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Apple adding DisplayPort to iOS devices?

shaun — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 15:14:19 +0000

Not content with just building offices in the shape of UFOs, Apple is on the hunt for a “Signal Integrity Manager.” That’s an engineer who balances the noise that chips and circuit boards emit — which, if left unchecked could overpower your iOS devices’ data signals. Apple is specifically looking for someone with DisplayPort experience (plus ten years general experience and two years leading a small team) to work on future chip development — like the A6. The move suggests that the standard could be coming in the future, but since the position is still listed, it seems unlikely that we’ll see DisplayPort included with the next iPhone / iPad at this point.

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Satellite Tv For Pc TV For PC – Tips On How To Watch Satellite Tv For Pc Tv On Your PC?

johntesh — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 12:39:45 +0000

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Cat Ears Pick Up on Brainwaves and Act as Furry Mood Rings For Those Around You [Video]

shaun — Thu, 05 May 2011 15:14:19 +0000

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