Goodbye Nokia 600, we hardly knew ye
iOS 5.0.1 seeded to developers, battery life fixes and multitasking gestures in tow
Update: According to 9to5Mac, the iPad 2's Smart Cover passcode vulnerability has also been fixed.
Karumas PlayBase tablet doesnt mind doing it for the kids
Singapore, 1 November 2011 – Singapore-based consumer product developer and manufacturer, Karuma, officially announces the launch of their upcoming, upgradable Android Tablet, PlayBase®, today.
Designed and engineered in Singapore, PlayBase® is a sleek, durable and tough tablet for adults, built with kids in mind. Weighing in at just 325grams and at a thickness of 9.7mm, you'll want to slip it into your pocket and take it everywhere you go. It features a 7" capacitive multi-touch display, formed metal rear covers as well as interfaces for micro USB and a headphone jack, all housed in a sleek, kid-friendly and lightweight design for ultra portability.
Powered by Android,PlayBase® is more than just a well-built, multimedia device. Specifically designed to address the growing demand for kid-friendly tablets, it emphasizes on style and value while providing the latest technology and exceptional features users want, at very attractive price point. "Low cost does not mean having to compromise on quality. The idea of kid-proofing PlayBase® came from my personal experience (and many others!), with my 2-year-old nephew who broke my tablet's screen, after dropping it on the ground. PlayCovers will offer extra grip for little hands and butter fingers and keep it safe from drops, knocks and bumps", says Ashley Sayed, Managing Director.
Its sleek, stylish Dura-Body® features 5 main attributes that distinguishes it from other Android devices:
PlayBase® PlayCover®
PlayBase® introduces its innovativePlayCover®, a shock-absorbent silicone cover that wraps around the device and prevents damage from drops
Google Maps to charge for usage
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Virgin Media and Spotify pair up
New customers shopping for Virgin's 30Mbps or sooner broadband package deal in the UK will obtain six months of free entry to Spotify's premium service.
Current subscribers will get the identical provide when they renew their contracts.
Specialists imagine the bundle will help Spotify compete against Apple's iTunes music retailer, and different streaming services equivalent to Deezer.
Spotify Premium usually costs
Minecraft wins gaming arts award
The prize was announced at the finale of the GameCity videogame culture competition in Nottingham.
The title is the work of an impartial Swedish company, Mojang. Players must build objects out of blocks in an open environment.
The sport was chosen over releases from huge identify publishers, together with Digital Arts' Portal 2, developed by Valve, and Microsoft's Ilomilo.
"It is a terrific honour to be in comparison with those video games," stated Markus Persson, Mojang's founder.
"Winning this award helps us to try to make Minecraft the perfect recreation it can be."
Practically 4 million individuals have already purchased the title online, despite the actual fact it is nonetheless in beta. It is scheduled for a formal release next month.
"It just wasn't like anything else... it felt like it had an expanding lifetime of its own. It had an natural nature," one of the judges, Ed Hall, advised the BBC.
Continue reading the main story“Begin QuoteI assume that technology is an actual red herring.... Otherwise we would not cry at Bambi. It's not about photorealism.”
Finish QuoteIain SimonsDirector, GameCity "It's simplistic and addictive, and there is an element of magnificence in what you're doing."
Culturally confident
GameCity's director, Iain Simons, stated he was "delighted" by the choice.
His festival is now in its sixth year. Over that time he says he has seen a rise in the average age of avid gamers, and extra women interested in the activity.
"There's a a lot broader constituency of individuals enjoying video games," he said.
"They have become more normalised, they have been extra culturally assured and this prize, and the competition, could be very a lot about exploring that confidence."
Part of the phenomenon is linked to the rise of smartphones. At the moment's handsets helped popularise the form of sophisticated video games that was once restricted to devoted cell games machines, and larger residence consoles.
BT accelerates UK broadband rollout
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The target is a 12 months forward of its original plan.
The agency says its most important product will supply most obtain speeds about 10 instances sooner than at present, at 70-100Mbps on average.
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BT says it is using an extra 520 engineers and bringing ahead
BMW three Series gets 'full-coloration' heads-up show
If you've been hankering for some HUD action in your next auto, you'll have one more choice come next spring: the all-new 2012 BMW 3 Series. The launch will mark the first time a heads-up display has made it into Bavaria's volume seller, after debuting as an optional extra eons ago on its 5 Series. Since then, HUDs of limited hues have permeated München's high-end, splaying speed and navigation directions in the line of sight of road-going elites everywhere. However, this iteration is "full-color," which besides pleasing ROY G. BIV fans, makes it "more intuitive," as the company reasons it'll aid drivers in recognizing crucial alerts faster. That, or we're really just a generation away from über cool AR wizardry and movies on our windscreens. Of course, no word on when the 3's brethren will get the technicolor treatment, but we're betting it won't be long, given that's the dash of a 6 Series you see above. PR, per usual, is after the break. Show full PR textBMW Head-Up Display: Precision as featured in a fighter jet. This system was initially developed for aviation and is now making a decisive contribution towards driving safety.
28.10.2011
Munich. Low-flying over hilly terrain at a pace of almost 800 kilometres per hour within the cockpit of a Eurofighter jet is a challenge to even probably the most hardened of military pilots. "Whenever you're flying at tree-high top at around 220 metres a second, solely extremely correct head-up display know-how is able to present the required ease of mind," comments Wing Commander Robert Hierl, check pilot on the Technical and Airworthiness Centre for Aircraft.
By the use of a front panel projector, all flight-relevant data provided by the flight administration system in addition to data and indicators crucial to a mission are displayed on a second, vertically positioned panel located within the cockpit. As a way to stop the pilot from being distracted, all information is displayed in virtual form at eye level throughout the direct visual view, thus guaranteeing the very best degree of focus, supremacy and security for each the pilot and the machine.
BMW was the primary European car builder to adapt head-up show expertise - a system initially deployed in aviation and constantly further developed over a number of decades - for use in quantity-manufacturing vehicles. Since January 2004, this innovative driver assistance system has been an integral a part of BMW ConnectedDrive provided for the BMW 5 Series. Constantly further developed and optimised, it is now a full-color head-up show and optionally available for almost all series.
When it comes to graphic illustration, functionality and adaptability, the unique new Head-Up Show characteristic makes a big contribution towards active security by displaying driver-relevant data in excessive-high quality resolution throughout the driver's direct field of vision, so that he or she doesn't have to take their eyes off the road. An important gain in safety as researchers know: A traditional driver takes a whole second to learn the velocity indicator in the instrument panel or to glance on the navigation device. While the driving force is distracted, that's with out his or her eyes on the street, the automobile covers a distance of round 14 metres when travelling in urban areas at a velocity of fifty km/h - nearly a "blind flight".
With Head-Up Display, the time required by the driving force to assimilate data is decreased by more than a half, the system making a decisive contribution in direction of concentrated and centered driving. The virtual picture projected onto the windscreen is perceived as "hovering" at eye degree above the bonnet and is seen solely to the driver. Moreover, this form of display is less tiring, as the attention does not must constantly change between shut-vary and distant vision. Additionally, the brightness of the image adjusts perfectly to the surroundings, in order that the eye does not have to readapt every time.
The reproduction of information is effected by means of an intense gentle source, which is positioned inside the instrument panel and shines by a translucent TFT (Skinny Film Transistor) show, the image being transferred to the windscreen through specifically shaped mirrors. Owing to the convex form and the physical properties of glass, using the windscreen as a reflector is an extremely advanced process. In a windscreen, the sunshine path is generally refracted, leading to double images.
In the case of the Eurofighter, this drawback is solved by means of an additional panel positioned straight within the pilot's field of vision. BMW tackles this bodily phenomenon with the aid of a wafer-skinny foil, which is integrated into the windscreen, guaranteeing the superimposition of the projected images and, in consequence, flawless, undistorted representation. Full-colour Head-Up Show offers the motive force an incredible enhance in reading comfort. The entire color spectrum facilitates a sensible and thus extra intuitive show of pictures and symbols. These communicate for themselves, are perceived even sooner and wouldn't have to be decoded or interpreted. Even Eurofighter test pilot Robert Hierl is very impressed: "Our monochrome head-up display know-how is unable to offer such a brilliant show quality."
28.10.2011
Munich. Low-flying over hilly terrain at a pace of almost 800 kilometres per hour within the cockpit of a Eurofighter jet is a challenge to even probably the most hardened of military pilots. "Whenever you're flying at tree-high top at around 220 metres a second, solely extremely correct head-up display know-how is able to present the required ease of mind," comments Wing Commander Robert Hierl, check pilot on the Technical and Airworthiness Centre for Aircraft.
By the use of a front panel projector, all flight-relevant data provided by the flight administration system in addition to data and indicators crucial to a mission are displayed on a second, vertically positioned panel located within the cockpit. As a way to stop the pilot from being distracted, all information is displayed in virtual form at eye level throughout the direct visual view, thus guaranteeing the very best degree of focus, supremacy and security for each the pilot and the machine.
BMW was the primary European car builder to adapt head-up show expertise - a system initially deployed in aviation and constantly further developed over a number of decades - for use in quantity-manufacturing vehicles. Since January 2004, this innovative driver assistance system has been an integral a part of BMW ConnectedDrive provided for the BMW 5 Series. Constantly further developed and optimised, it is now a full-color head-up show and optionally available for almost all series.
When it comes to graphic illustration, functionality and adaptability, the unique new Head-Up Show characteristic makes a big contribution towards active security by displaying driver-relevant data in excessive-high quality resolution throughout the driver's direct field of vision, so that he or she doesn't have to take their eyes off the road. An important gain in safety as researchers know: A traditional driver takes a whole second to learn the velocity indicator in the instrument panel or to glance on the navigation device. While the driving force is distracted, that's with out his or her eyes on the street, the automobile covers a distance of round 14 metres when travelling in urban areas at a velocity of fifty km/h - nearly a "blind flight".
With Head-Up Display, the time required by the driving force to assimilate data is decreased by more than a half, the system making a decisive contribution in direction of concentrated and centered driving. The virtual picture projected onto the windscreen is perceived as "hovering" at eye degree above the bonnet and is seen solely to the driver. Moreover, this form of display is less tiring, as the attention does not must constantly change between shut-vary and distant vision. Additionally, the brightness of the image adjusts perfectly to the surroundings, in order that the eye does not have to readapt every time.
The reproduction of information is effected by means of an intense gentle source, which is positioned inside the instrument panel and shines by a translucent TFT (Skinny Film Transistor) show, the image being transferred to the windscreen through specifically shaped mirrors. Owing to the convex form and the physical properties of glass, using the windscreen as a reflector is an extremely advanced process. In a windscreen, the sunshine path is generally refracted, leading to double images.
In the case of the Eurofighter, this drawback is solved by means of an additional panel positioned straight within the pilot's field of vision. BMW tackles this bodily phenomenon with the aid of a wafer-skinny foil, which is integrated into the windscreen, guaranteeing the superimposition of the projected images and, in consequence, flawless, undistorted representation. Full-colour Head-Up Show offers the motive force an incredible enhance in reading comfort. The entire color spectrum facilitates a sensible and thus extra intuitive show of pictures and symbols. These communicate for themselves, are perceived even sooner and wouldn't have to be decoded or interpreted. Even Eurofighter test pilot Robert Hierl is very impressed: "Our monochrome head-up display know-how is unable to offer such a brilliant show quality."
