Now your phone is your key. Clarion Hotel Stockholm (Sweden) is testing a pilot project to replace key rooms of the hotel with mobile phone.
Now your phone is your key. Clarion Hotel Stockholm (Sweden) is testing a pilot project to replace key rooms of the hotel with mobile phone.
At the “International Flat Panel Display Consumer Technology Expo“ held in Japan, a number of manufactures from across globe showcased their latest Flat Panel Displays (LCD, OLED, PDP etc) as well as next generation technologies (E-Paper, 3D Displays etc).
The Chronic Dev team has made newer version of Greenpois0n available which now supports iPod Touch 2G. Greenpois0n RC4 is available for Windows and Mac OS X. The Linux version is coming.
Apple has now made 3rd Beta version of iOS 4.2 SDK as well as iTunes 10.1 Beta 2 available for developers.
The newest release of Yahoo Messenger app enables Users to make free 3G voice and Video calls from there iPhones to any Yahoo Messenger account.
The App offers multitasking on the iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4, 3G / WiFi video calling (iPhone to iPhone, iPhone to Android or iPhone to PC/Mac) as well as receive instant notifications.
According to Patently Apple, Apple might be thinking of bringing it’s MagSafe charger technology into future portables devices such as the iPhone or iPad. The patent, first filed by Apple in June of this year and published on October 7th 2010 by the US Patent and Trademark Office, shows a device similar to Apple’s iPad with a new type of Power Port, which Patently Apple alleges resembles MagSafe connector.
MagSafe is a technology first introduced by Apple back in 2006 in Macbooks. Technically speaking, Magsafe is not a Port. The Power cable is connected with the device through Magnets.
Mozilla has just released Firefox 4 beta 5 for download. It comes with Graphics acceleration feature along with some other features. Firefox 4 Beta is based on the Gecko 2.0 Web platform.
The obvious difference that you will notice, when compared with Beta 4, is the redesign of the reduced menu. It seems similar to Chrome and is not using graphical elements for copy, cut, and paste, this is apparently made to simplify the use of the browser on touch screens (keeping in mind the growing trend of Tablets).
Once again guys at iFixit did what they do best, preying on Gadgets (new and old), tearing them apart and exposing their inner guts. Their latest victim was Apple’s new Fourth generation iPod shuffle. This $49 device comes equipped with 2 GB of Storage and some 15 Hours of Playback Time. That's pretty much all that this tiny device has to offer.
As stated on ifixit site, it’s not easy to dissect one of these devices and you might end up damaging the body.(it took them half an hour of prying and heat-gunning to open this thing).
Here we have a new Windows Phone 7 Advertisement that was shown before the Secret Cinema screening of 'Lawrence of Arabia'. The video is available for viewing on the official Youtube channel of WindowsPhoneUK.
The 1 min video shows a Windows Phone 7 approaching from a distance which, at first, seems as if someone is riding a horse towards the Screen. Then it says “The Revolution is coming…”.
There is no doubt, Apple is really good at making elegant devices but when it comes to editing pictures they aren’t that professional. As noted by Engadget, the edited photos of iPod Touch on Apple’s website shows iPhone apps which aren’t suppose to run on iPod Touch.
iPhone's Phone app at the bottom left corner