You want to know how Nokias are better than iPhones?
The video above has me pining for an alternate universe, where the splitscreen is another path. One where Nokia conquered the iPhone tyrant and made high-tech handsets funner and more Euro in style, function and lifestyle. The video also is sign that Nokia isn't finished yet. For all the talk about how great is the iPhone 4 camera, the aging N8 has superior digital capture capabilities.
"Splitscreen: A Love Story" won the Nokia Shorts 2011 competition. JW Griffiths shot the short film using a pair of Nokia 8 smartphones. People were shooting short films and music videos on Nokias long before there ever was iPhone. Music video "Oceans" was shot with a Nokia N93 in 2006, for example.
LulzSec is gone, but #AntiSec antics live on with new hacks and data dump
Now operating under the #AntiSec banner, the LulzSec hackers are still busy causing trouble. The latest data dump posted to torrent sites goes after several governments worldwide as well as both Viacom and Universal Music Group.
"While the LulzBoat is still sailing with us (albeit not with the LulzSec flag), the objective of #AntiSec is different," the description of the torrent reads. "#AntiSec is more than Lulz and more than even Anonymous: It is our true belief that this movement has the capability to change the world. And should that fail, we will at least rock the world."
Cisco unveils Android app store just for enterprise tablets
On July 31, networking and communications company Cisco will launch its first Android tablet computer designed specifically for enterprise customers. The Cisco Cius is a 7" touchscreen tablet that will offer compatibility with Cisco TelePresence, Quad social software, WebEX meeting applications, Jabber messaging, and AnyConnect, and will include the ability to act as a thin client or HD video communications tool in addition to being a "standard" Android device. Its current estimated price is $750, but initial promotions will make it available at under $700 when it first launches.
But what will make businesses adopt the Cius over something like the iPad, or indeed any other Android tablet?
Internet Explorer 10 Platform Preview 2 is to die for
Internet Explorer has never been renowned for its standards support, and with good reason -- the browser has always trailed far behind the competition. Today's release of IE10 Platform Preview 2, though, showed that maybe, just maybe, things are beginning to change.
Major additions include support for web workers, an interesting technology that allows web applications to run complex JavaScripts in the background. And so lengthy tasks won't have to leave you hanging any more: the application's interface should still be able to respond to your clicks.
Specific Media acquires MySpace for $35 million
A day after rumors surfaced about News Corp's attempts to quickly sell off MySpace, a deal has been struck to let the site go for a rumored $35 million. Ad firm Specific Media announced the purchase on Wednesday, of which News Corp would retain a five percent stake.
At that price, MySpace is a staggering 94 percent discount over the estimated $580 million News Corp paid to acquire the site in 2006. The media conglomerate had hoped to make about $100 million from any sale, but as its fiscal end of year approached on Thursday, it became a matter of unloading the site quickly.
The Frugal Admin: Office 365 tempts me to give up Google Apps, and it will tempt you
There's no question that I like what I see in the demos of Office 365. A little research makes me want it even more. But I'm cheap, and so are a lot of the small businesses it supposedly targets. I think it can be competitive for small business and also end up selling a bunch of Windows phones. But can it compete with free?
Office 365 really does look better, richer, and cooler that Google Apps for Business, but it can be much more expensive. Many businesses will be willing to pay for the nice stuff, at least for a while, but most small businesses don't spend a lot more money than they need to on these things. I like to think of myself (and my domain which is both for my business and personal use) as one of those cheap small businesses.
Facebook Phone - the HTC Status - coming to AT&T, Telus this summer
Smartphone maker HTC on Wednesday finally announced AT&T and Telus will be the first two carrier partners for the long-rumored "Facebook Phone," known as the HTC Status.
Looking something like the Peek e-mail appliance or an Android-powered BlackBerry, the Status has a 2.6" (480 x 320) touchscreen, portrait QWERTY keyboard, 800Mhz processor, 512MB of RAM, a forward-facing 1.3 megapixel/VGA chatcam and a 5 Megapixel camera, and Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) with HTC's Sense user interface. Its wireless radios are Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900 and UMTS/HSDPA 850/1900.
Use your Android phone to control PC overclocking
Taiwanese motherboard and video card maker MSI will soon release a free Android app that lets users wirelessly control their Afterburner GPU overclocking utility from their smartphone.
"This is not meant to replace your overclocking software (Afterburner); it's meant to complement it," MSI's Facebook page said. "Think of running a game, and you are just curious as to what the temp readings are without having to Alt+Tab out of the game, or even running it in a window. You can even force fan speed changes on the fly if you see your GPU overheating in-game, without having to exit the program. Who wants to leave in the middle of a firefight?"
Yahoo Messenger 11 smiley friends Facebook
Yahoo Messenger 11 has finally left beta after seven months and been given a final release by Yahoo. Version 11 sees a number of new features, including support for Facebook, Twitter and other social media networks.
The use of instant messaging programs has declined somewhat due to the growth of social media platforms with larger networks. Yahoo has chosen to embrace this trend by placing social media at the heart of Yahoo Messenger 11. Not only is it designed to strike up conversations via text or audio/video, but now you can also play collaborative games and interact across your Facebook network too.
Windows Phone devs get access to 'Mango' today, beta 2 of SDK
Windows Phone 7 is just about one year old, and is about to receive its first major update with "Mango," also known as Windows Phone OS 7.1. In anticipation of the release of Mango, Microsoft has rolled out Beta 2 of the Windows Phone developer toolkit which takes advantage of the new features included in the soon-to-be-released Windows Phone 7.1.
Since there are purportedly more than 500 feature updates in Windows Phone Mango, there are naturally a huge number of new tools in the SDK that open up new capabilities in apps.
TRIM Support Enabler 1.2 bulks up for Mac OS X 10.6.8, supports non-Apple SSDs
TRIM Support Enabler, a tool for enabling TRIM support on non-Apple manufactured Solid State Drives, has been updated to version 1.2. The change is a minor one, designed to make the tool more compatible with OS X 10.6.8, which was released last week.
TRIM support is a technology designed to optimise SSD performance, which is affected over time as data is written to and deleted from the drive. TRIM Support Enabler successfully allows OS X Snow Leopard to recognize, and utilize, TRIM support on SSD drives that aren't manufactured by Apple.
IT demand for cloud services will generate $9.4B in new server sales
Spending on public and private clouds will generate $3.6 billion and $5.8 billion, respectively, in server spending by 2015, IDC forecasts. While there has been much written about public clouds, many IT organizations are setting up their own infrastructure to provide employees with access to their data anytime, anywhere and on anything.
No matter which cloud, many businesses today face huge security and privacy risks because of the volume of data taken outside on laptops, smartphones and other mobile devices. What's the point spending thousands, even millions of dollars, on network security, only to let crown jewels of information roam freely on mobile devices?
Is Google+ social done right?
It's the question I'm asking after watching the six videos embedded in this analysis and reading the blog post by Vic Gundotra, Google senior vice president of Engineering.
To be clear, I've read no other posts about Google+, not even the news story by colleague Tim Conneally (well, I did write the headline -- but that was all). That's typical of my writing. I prefer to have a fresh perspective, uninfluenced by others' opinions as much as possible. All observations I make here are solely my own.
Get Microsoft Office 2010 Service Pack 1 right here!
Coinciding with the launch of Office 365 on Tuesday, Microsoft rolled out the final stable version of Office 2010 Service Pack 1.
This is the update to the SP1 beta that was published last November, and it includes security, performance, and stability upgrages as well as a "roll up" of all the previous patches and fixes that were issued.
How do you know a platform has made it? Angry Birds
OK, exclusive Angry Birds -- and, in this case, they're good for the old platform, too.
Earlier today, Barnes & Noble announced availability of exclusive Angry Birds unlockables, including Mighty Eagle, free for Nook Color. Consumers need three things: The tablet, game app and to be physically present in a Barnes & Noble store.
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