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 What's superior to a shiny new Snapdragon, blazing all sorts of benchmarking trails in your next tablet and / or smartphone? Why, a Snapdragon with a pinch of IP from GestureTek, of course! Qualcomm has today announced its intentions to acquire "certain assets" from GestureTek, a long-standing developer of gesture recognition technology. We've seen the aforementioned outfit touch the mobile (and not-so-mobile) realm before, but now it looks like it'll be more aggressively touching devices with Qualcomm silicon. It's a strange move, indeed, but it could be one that signals a shift in the way chip makers are looking out for themselves. OEMs have long tried to skin their Android devices in a way that'll breed loyalty to a brand (rather than an OS), but loyalty to a CPU? According to Qually (yeah, what of it?), the buy will give it access to "key engineering resources," and while GestureTek will maintain "other assets in continuation of its gesture-controlled public display and digital signage business," we suspect the consumer-facing aspects will soon have a new master. We're told that the tech will be woven into current and next-gen Snapdragon processors, but only time will tell what sort of seamless wizardry will result. Hope your digits are ready. Continue reading Qualcomm acquires gesture recognition IP from GestureTek, aims for Snapdragon integration Qualcomm acquires gesture recognition IP from GestureTek, aims for Snapdragon integration originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 25 Jul 2011 10:21:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink  Phone Scoop |  Qualcomm | Email this | Comments 
 Source: http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/PJHzbggYg4Y/ NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS NOVELLUS SYSTEMS NOVELL NETWORK APPLIANCE NETGEAR Facebook's labyrinthine privacy controls have sprung another leak. This time it's their Videos feature, which lets users share brief clips with their friends and family (Videos launched back in 2007 and Facebook now serves billions of views each month). Of course, videos are often sensitive ? even more so than photos ? but Facebook's privacy controls let you restrict who has access to each clip that you've uploaded. Unfortunately, those controls haven't been working as they should: for the last week it's been possible to see a full listing of your friends' Facebook videos, including the name, thumbnail, description, and people tagged in each clip ? regardless of whether or not you were supposed to have access to the videos.  Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/i-7HwXSaFwk/ JDS UNIPHASE JDA SOFTWARE GROUP JACK HENRY and ASSOCIATES IXYS ITRON You may have heard of LegalZoom, which is basically an online service that helps people create their own legal documents. The site makes its relatively easy to do simple legal functions such as writing a last will, incorporating a business, trademark a name or creating a real estate lease. The fact is that paying a lawyer to draw up these documents can be expensive and LegalZoom wants to democratize legal document creation. Investors are betting big on the service as well. A few months ago, LegalZoom announced that it had raised funding from Kleiner Perkins and Institutional Venture Partners. At the time, the company declined to reveal how much it has raised. And now the company is willing to talk numbers?Kleiner and IVP put a whopping $66 million into LegalZoom. That brings the company's total funding to over $100 million.  Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/C_aEUlIH9D0/ MICRON TECHNOLOGY MICROCHIP TECHNOLOGY METHODE ELECTRONICS MENTOR GRAPHICS IMS HEALTH 
It's high time we talk about the way we act and represent ourselves, both here at Android Central and across the intertubes. Cruise through any smartphone forums or blog comments, and you'll soon see a common theme. We like to argue, sometimes to the point of acting the fool. I'll admit -- I can get a bit snarky, and have probably caused an admin or two more trouble than I should, so I'm not pointing fingers at anyone in particular. But I can bet that anytime I'm reading a story about LTE, I'll see people digging about price or downtime. Or if it's about the EVO 3D, I'll read how Sprint's coverage "sucks." I won't even get started on what a T-Mobile- or AT&T-based story turns into. Well, here's a hint: We're all wrong. We love to interact with you guys (yet sometimes we're so busy we don't have time to), and we get the same questions quite a bit -- is X phone better than Y, or should I switch to carrier Z? Well, there is no answer to that. What works best for me, isn't going to work best for you. If that were true, Google would be selling 400,000 copies of the Nexus S per day, and T-Mobile's tiny network would assplode. Yes, I know it has no SD card slot, it's not HSPA+, has no notification light, and is made of "cheap feeling" plastic. But I don't care -- it's what I like. Just like you enjoy your Evo 4G on Sprint. Or your Thunderbolt on Verizon, or your Atrix 4G on AT&T. Different strokes for different folks and all that. We're lucky here because we get to play with a lot of new Android phones, and we have all learned just why there are so many different makes and models. Choice. There's something for everyone, and none of the choices are wrong. In fact, maybe none of the Android choices are for you, and that's OK. My point is, I can't decide what works best for you -- whether it be the best network, the best phone, or the best tablet. We're here to guide as best we can with device reviews, talk about apps, and even news about bugs and problems, but in the end you'll figure out what seems best for you, and that's what counts. So rock that Backflip or Droid Charge with pride, it's all good. read more 
 Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/androidcentral/~3/lZmxbONTF9o/editorial-my-dogs-better-your-dog-only-me IKON OFFICE SOLUTIONS IDT IBASIS HYPERCOM HEWLETT PACKARD CO Are you ready to meet your next regift? This is the Pix-Star FotoConnect HD, a 10.4-inch, 800 x 600 digital photo frame with a WiFi radio inside. This little display can pull in pics from Picasa, Facebook, Smugmug, Shutterfly, Flickr, and MobileMe amongst others, and show off images sent straight to a special e-mail address. It may seem like every other digiframe, but it does have one unique feature -- support for UPnP and DLNA. That means any pictures stored on your home network can easily be beamed to it as well. If you want to be the original gifter, instead of the regifter, you can pick one up now for $189 at Pix-Star.com and Amazon. You'll find the full PR and an additional pic after the break. Continue reading Pix-Star FotoConnect HD is a 10-inch digiframe ripe for regifting Pix-Star FotoConnect HD is a 10-inch digiframe ripe for regifting originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 23 Jul 2011 09:15:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | | Email this | Comments 
 Source: http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/p-HBBHWjnRs/ SHAW COMMUNICATIONS MCAFEE MAXIMUS MANTECH INTERNATIONAL MANHATTAN ASSOCIATES  iSites -- a zero-code cloud-based 'app creator' -- can now generate HTML5 apps that work on iOS devices. With this new feature, dubbed 'InstantApp', you can now design a single app in your browser and publish it natively on Android and iOS, and as an HTML5 iPhone app. We haven't looked at iSites before, but it shot to fame last year when it launched with native iOS and Android support. Self-publishing Android apps wasn't a problem because Google does very little moderation of the Market, but iSites ran into trouble with its iOS apps. Thousands of people signed up for the service after it was featured on Mashable and TechCrunch, and you can imagine Apple's chagrin as thousands of cookie cutter apps flooded its approval queue. Genwi, the developer behind iSites, realized something had to be done -- it had to circumvent the App Store approval process. Genwi, of course, turned to HTML5 Web apps -- which can be pinned to the iPhone home screen and which can be shoehorned into almost behaving like native apps. Read on for our experiences with iSites' new InstantApp HTML5 iOS app creator. Continue reading iSites overhauled, now lets you publish cloud-based HTML5 iPhone apps in minutes iSites overhauled, now lets you publish cloud-based HTML5 iPhone apps in minutes originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 30 Mar 2011 12:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | Email this | Comments Source: http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2011/03/30/isites-overhauled-now-lets-you-publish-cloud-based-html5-iphone/ YAHOO YAHOO XILINX WESTERN DIGITAL VOLT INFORMATION SCIENCES Later today, Firefox will undergo its biggest developmental upheaval ever. Mozilla-central, the source of nightly builds, will be renumbered to version 5 -- and at long last, after years of wallowing around version 1, Mozilla's rendering and layout engine, Gecko, will also have its version number updated to match Firefox. Shortly thereafter, Firefox's new channel system will be implemented. Firefox 5a2 will be introduced as the first Aurora build, and we should also see a Firefox 6 Nightly build. While we we're not sure where they came from, one Sören Hentzschel seems to have unearthed the new Nightly and Aurora logos (see above), along with new About Firefox dialogs (after the break). In other news, if you want to take a sneak peek at the new 'channel changing' technology that will be introduced in upcoming Firefox builds, head to about:config and create a new string called app.update.desiredChannel -- the value doesn't matter. Then open Help > About Firefox and you'll be able to switch channel, but it doesn't do anything just yet (image after the break). Here's hoping that Firefox channel switching is smoother than Chrome. Continue reading New Firefox Nightly and Aurora logos unearthed, and how to enable channel switching New Firefox Nightly and Aurora logos unearthed, and how to enable channel switching originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 11 Apr 2011 07:35:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | Email this | Comments Source: http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2011/04/11/new-firefox-nightly-and-aurora-logos-unearthed-and-how-to-enabl/ INFOCUS ZORAN ZIONS BAN YAHOO YAHOO Bing's new HTML5-and-CSS3-enhanced search interface, which was first demonstrated back in September 2010 to showcase the power of IE9, has started to roll out. The most notable addition to the new interface is is smooth page transitions -- the fade in and out -- and navigation tabs (maps, images, videos, etc.) now persistently float at the top of the page. WinRumors is also reporting that a feature reminiscent of Google Instant search is being added to Bing, with page elements smoothly transitioning in and out as you type in your search query. If you want to try out the new Bing UI, your best bet is to set your locale to United States - English and pray that you're part of the initial roll out. Alternatively, just wait a few days until MIX 2011, Microsoft's Web developer conference, which is when the new Bing UI should be officially launched. Bing begins roll out of HTML5-enhanced search interface originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 08 Apr 2011 06:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | Email this | Comments Source: http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2011/04/08/bing-begins-roll-out-of-html5-enhanced-search-interface/ RED HAT RADISYS RACKABLE SYSTEMS QUEST SOFTWARE QUANTUM |
