Google rolled out the Android Market Webstore to let consumers make application purchases and downloads via a Web browser from a dedicated Website. – Google Feb. 2 launched the Android Market Webstore, a Website dedicated to letting
application consumers purchase apps for their Android smartphones and tablets
from a Web browser.
To this point, users had to purchase Android apps through the Android Market
client from smartphones and tablets s…
Google has penciled in a big Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablet demonstration at its Googleplex in Mountain View, Calif., for Feb. 2. Expect the Motorola Xoom and other tablets. – Google Feb. 2 is taking the unusual step of offering a media preview of its
new Android 3.0 operating system, the next-generation build of its popular
mobile platform.
quot;Please join us for an in-depth look at Honeycomb, Android ecosystem news
and hands-on demos, quot; trumpets the invitati…
Las Vegas-Verizon’s keynote address for the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show Jan. 6 provided the playground for a sweet demonstration of Motorola’s forthcoming Xoom tablet, the Android 3.0 device with a 10.1-inch screen and dual-core processor. The Xoom, which will launch on Verizon Wireless’ network in February, will be 4G-ready when the carrier is ready to expand its 4G LTE coverage beyond its current 38 markets. Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg and Verizon President Lowell McAdam chatted a lot about 4G and its capability to bring data, apps and content to consumers across the country in the next few years. But the Xoom stole the show. Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha whipped his out and invited Google Android product manager Mike Cleron up for a fine demo of the Xoom’s 3D capabilities. The audience was wowed by the tablet’s 3D capabilities for Google eBooks, photos and Google Maps. The device also offers facile widget customization. Check out those apps, along with Gmail, YouTube and other tools in this eWEEK presentation. – …
Vizio will dash the theory that Google asked TV set makers to halt shipments of new Google TV appliances by introducing two new Google TV sets at the Consumer Electronics Show. – Rumors of Google TV delays by hardware partners may have
been exaggerated.
Vizio on Jan. 3 announced it would demonstrate TV sets
and Blu-ray players preloaded with the Web-meets-TV service at the 2011
Consumer Electronics Show.
Vizio said it will show off the VIA Plus 47-inch XVT3D476SV and 5…
Many email migration software provides like SysTools, give their products in free demo versions, wherein, users can obtain this trial version free of cost and use it on their machines to evaluate the efficiency of the tool.
Many email migration software provides like SysTools, give their products in free demo versions, wherein, users can obtain this trial version free of cost and use it on their machines to evaluate the efficiency of the tool.
Many email migration software provides like SysTools, give their products in free demo versions, wherein, users can obtain this trial version free of cost and use it on their machines to evaluate the efficiency of the tool.
Have you ever decided to skip the tech demo and just plow into using a new technology? If you’re anything like the majority of people out there, you have probably done just that. But why?
Google Sept. 8 introduced Google Instant, which is quite simply a speedier Google search that renders results as users type them into the search box. Google Instant attempts to guess or predict what users will search for, providing suggested search keywords in light gray as users type in their query. The technology should apply more pressure on Microsoft to innovate on its Bing search engine. Google Instant is rolling out to users of Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 Web browsers in the United States, France, Germany, Italy, Russia, Spain and the U.K. throughout the day. Google Instant will arrive for other geographies and platforms in the coming months. A version for smartphones and other mobile devices is coming later this year. Users who don’t want to use Instant can turn it off from the home page. Marissa Mayer, Google’s vice president for search products and user experience, and other executives demonstrated the new technology at MOMA in San Francisco. See Google Instant in action in screen captures taken from Google’s YouTube Webcast of the event. – …
General Motors May 18 said it is adding navigation features for its Chevrolet Volt application that helps users track their vehicles using cars on Google Maps and search for destinations on Android smartphones. The app will connect GM’s OnStar roadside assistance service with Android smartphones. OnStar will demonstrate these features at the Google I/O show May 19 and 20, but they won’t be available on the Volt mobile app at launch, GM said. – General Motors May 18 said it is adding navigation
features for its Chevrolet Volt application that help users track their vehicles
using cars on Google Maps and search for destinations on Android smartphones.
GM unveiled its Android smartphone mobile app for the
Chevy Volt at the 2010 Consumer …
Dell’s founder and CEO gives a minute-long sneak preview of the Streak mobile Internet device, which runs Google’s Android OS and uses Citrix’s virtual desktop software. – <p>SAN FRANCISCO Michael
Dell went onstage for his keynote speech May 13 at the Citrix Synergy conference
to certify once again that his company and virtualization software maker Citrix
Systems are the best of tech friends and intend to cultivate their relationship
for the good of the world.
Some 300 anti-nuclear demonstrators have been arrested in Belgium, trying to break into a military site they claim is home to a battery of U.S. atomic weapons. A spokesman for the Belgian group Action for Peace claimed 800 protestors had tried to storm the Kleine Brogel base in the north of the country close to the border with the Netherlands.
Novell is opening its Novell Pulse collaboration platform for preview March 21 to attendees of its BrainShare conference. Pulse is a Google Wave-like software platform that lets users create documents and co-edit them in real time. While Wave was initially consumer-focused, Pulse is geared for enterprises from the start, providing fine-grained rules for access control. Whereas Wave sessions were initially built as completely public, those who create a Pulse get to decide who uses it down to the person, department and company levels. eWEEK runs through Pulse in this slide show.
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Officials with Nortels VOIP business, which is in the process of being sold, will demonstrate their Hosted IP Communications solution at VoiceCon as the company looks to grow its customer base beyond service providers and into the enterprise space.
– Nortel Networks VOIP business, which is in the process of being bought
by Genband, will be showcasing its hosted communications offering at the
VoiceCon show in Orlando, Fla.,
March 22-25.
Nortel CVAS (Carrier VOIP
and Applications Solutions) groups Hosted IP Communications solution will make
…
With a new laptop featuring Intel® Wireless Display and powered by the all new 2010 Intel® Core™ processor family along with a Netgear adapter, you can sit back and experience your favorite videos, photos on your TV. Intel® Wireless Display lets you view and share content from your hard disk, home network or anywhere a browser will take you on the biggest screen in your home. Intel Wireless Display will be available on Jan. 17 at Best Buy on laptops from Dell, Sony and Toshiba. View For a video demo from CES and fnd out more.
Intel demonstrated a giant leap towards bringing 3D content to the home with Blu-ray Stereo 3D playback on the new 2010 Intel® Core™ i5 Processor with Intel® HD Graphics at the Consumer Electronics Show 2010. The new Blu-ray 3D specification, announced by the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) sets the stage for consumers to view Blu-ray 3D content on their Intel based PCs.
Polycom and IBM are teaming up to showcase a prototype home high-definition video conferencing product at CES. Video conferencing and telepresence products are seeing growing adoption in the business sector as a way of cutting travel expenses. Now vendors such as Polycom and Cisco Systems are looking to move their technology into the home, where they will compete with the likes of Skype.
– Polycom will be teaming up with IBM at
the Consumer Electronics Show to demonstrate a high-definition video conferencing
system aimed for the home.
Video conferencing and immersive telepresence technology is becoming
increasingly popular in the corporate world as businesses look for ways to trim…
Danish police tear-gassed and arrested Monday more than 150 demonstrators who had set alight barricades outside a giant Copenhagen squat, police said. Demonstrators threw petrol bombs at police who tried to move in and put out the fires, who responded by launching tear gas. Police with
Mellanox is rolling out what officials say is the industrys first 40 Gigabit Ethernet adapter card, designed to make it easier for data centers as they adapt to such technologies as multicore processors from Intel and AMD and virtualization from the likes of VMware, Microsoft and Citrix. The product comes as 10GbE begins to make inroads into data centers, and vendors such as Juniper and Alcatel-Lucent turn to 100GbE.
– Ten Gigabit Ethernet is finding its way into data centers, and
networking vendors are already talking about their plans for 100GbE capabilities.
On Monday, Mellanox is unveiling what officials there are
calling the industrys first 40GbE adapter card.
Mellanoxs ConnectX-3 EN 40G is aimed at enabl…
Rambus and Kingston have developed a prototype threaded memory module officials say will address key problems created by such technologies as multicore computing and virtualization. The new threaded memory module promises to increase bandwidth to main memory by as much as 50 percent and reduce power consumption by 20 percent. Its part of a larger main memory initiative Rambus kicked off in May to address what will be needed after DDR3 and as chip makers like AMD and Intel continue to add to the number of cores in their processors.
– Rambus officials are continuing their push to develop new memory
technologies that address the demands coming from multicore computing and
virtualized environments.
Rambus and memory product maker Kingston Technology announced Sept. 17 that
they had developed a prototype DDR3 memory
module that…
