Sunday, June 30, 2013

Mobile Miscellany: week of June 24th, 2013

Mobile Miscellany week of June 24th, 2013

If you have not heard from sufficient mobility during the week, do not worry, because we opened the pipe for more hardcore. This week 4, the Galaxy S has been seen with the purple suit, a new Windows Phone revealed by AT & T and the United States officially welcomed budget ZTE cell phone in its ranks. These stories and more await you after the break. So buy the ticket and take the ride as we explore what is happening in the mobile world this week of June 24, 2013.


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Saturday, June 29, 2013

Sony hints at PS4 announcement in May


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Play Fruit Ninja on a touchscreen made of mist


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Apple shares dip below $500 following reports it cut iPhone 5 screen orders

scare investors after Wall Street Journal suggests movement indicates weakening demand

Apple shares fell below $ 500 on Monday as Wall Street was spooked by reports that he had cut parts ordering screen suppliers for the iPhone 5 - but others said was exaggerated reaction

Nikkei newspaper of Japan

reported Monday that Apple has reduced orders for LCD screens are used in the iPhone 5, released last September, and suggested that indicated weaker demand for telephones. A number of analysts have lowered their estimates for the number of iPhones sold, Apple is expected to announce its financial results, quarterly on January 23. Affected as investors panicked, because the iPhone is the biggest revenue generator for Apple populations.

"Apple has reduced orders for iPhone components due to lower than expected demand," the Wall Street Journal, citing "sources close to the situation." Their sources said that orders iPhone 5 screens have "dropped to almost half of what the company had planned before the order."

new hit Apple shares, which have fallen from a peak of $ 702.10 in September before the launch of the iPhone. They started in 2012 with $ 424, but after the long boom of the year have dropped sharply since the fall after two sets of disappointing quarterly data and management advice cautious on margins and revenues.

Carol Pepper, CEO of Pepper International in New York, told Reuters news agency: "This is the real estate speculation" Is this the end of Apple? "However, he added, is". It doesn 't have to grow at the pace that I had to do very well. There will be well-known companies in the United States and around the world. "

Apple did exactly the same motion to reduce parts orders in 2011 after the launch of the iPhone 4S, with a similar effect is interpreted as weak sales. The previous quarter saw Apple to sell 37m iPhones folder. With reports from other U.S. carriers AT & T, with the release earlier this year over 2011 iPhone in China, some analysts believe would sell between 48m and 55.6 million iPhones in the quarter ended 31 December.



Evans said: "2012 quarter was 13 weeks - compared to 2011, which was 14 weeks, so even in an Apple like-for-like basis show a 7% decrease in results. "
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How to Write an Invoice for Payment for Services Rendered

Oppo Find 5 gets January 29 retail date in China, likely soon after in US, Europe

Oppo Find 5 gets January 29 retail date in China, likely soon after elsewhere

Big

fans terminals (we will refrain from ph-word) will soon have another option in the Oppo Find 5 as it is ready to go for pre-order in China for 2,998 yuan ($ 485) January 15. This amount will be buyers out there the 16GB model (32 GB price in China has not been published), that Oppo will fall in the letter of 29 January 5 inches across its 1080p glory, quad-core. Previously, the company said it would try to put the model looking natty in North America, Europe and elsewhere, soon after, to U.S. $ 500 for the 16GB model and $ 570 for the 32GB version. Therefore, if other models of similar size do not meet their needs pixel density is first heated until the plastic.

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Cooler Master's CM Storm Havoc Gaming Mouse Features Ultra-Sensitive Laser

CM Storm Havoc

ready to wreak havoc on the battlefield.

Cooler Master

CM Storm division s'

just introduced a new mouse for gamers. This is called "Havoc" and it will help you wreak havoc on the virtual battlefield with Avago 9800 laser sensor that is adjustable from 100 DPI to 8200 DPI, suitable for snipers and rapid movements. It also has fly adjustment (switching between different levels of IPR in the middle of a shootout) and a little bling customizable.


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Gaming mice: we test the best

whether you need a gaming mouse? You? are not pushing paper around your virtual office youa bots Fragging and shooting zombies?. For the game, you need an extra-sensitive mouse that has a lot of buttons and, ideally, a programmable interface.

see how they work

work was brutal, but took six of these mice to test the game, with three types of games that mice are better drivers: FPS (Left for Dead 2, BioShock Infinite, and so on ), RTS (StarCraft II, Supreme Commander, and others), and RPGs (s Baldur? Door:? Enhanced Edition, Torchlight II). Observe each mouse?? S reactivity, the location of the buttons, functions, and (most important), comfort. If you don? mouse? Comfortable T, game becomes more of a chore than a pleasure.

Almost all mice in this summary can run macros (chains of commands such as keystrokes and mouse clicks) with the push of a button. Most mice have interfaces that allow you to create profiles to meet some games and store them on the mouse? programming? Memory S. Also have a high sensitivity to dots per inch accuracy and optimal speed. The sensitivity of high-end standard today is about 8200 dpi, and all gaming mouse allows you to adjust the settings of one of the many custom presets. In addition, each mouse game reviewed here is wired, since the mobile can be a touch latency??? A potentially fatal flaw if you?? Re in the crossfire.

Corsair Vengeance M65 FPS Laser Gaming Mouse

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David Gerrold Tries Kickstarting "Star Wolf" Novels to Television

Star Wolf

former columnist maximum activist becomes Kickstarter.

There are several ways in which you may be familiar with David Gerrold. We had the pleasure of working with him as a former columnist for Maximum PC magazine, where he wrote pieces of technology in the context of "

Future Tense

section ". He is also a screenwriter and novelist who writes scripts for episodes of Star Trek, and is the author of the Star Wolf series of books, is now trying to port television with the help of Kickstarter.

course, it is unusual to the typical meat Maximum PC, but hey, we like Gerrold, and would like to see the opportunity to get his novels on television. To do this, you will need to raise $ 650,000 to fund the first episode. Each additional beyond that $ 500,000 would fund an additional episode, albeit with less than $ 47,000 in pledges with only 17 days of arrival, the Kickstarter campaign going to need a serious blow in the pants.

Why use Kickstarter in the first place?


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Review: Metro: Last Light is the most fun you'll have in post-apocalyptic Russia


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Awesome Stuff: Time To Rethink Your Keyring

joked before about how Kickstarter seems to have a new type of portfolio launched every two days or more, but also seems to be trying to offer a reinvention of something that people have in their pockets: their key. Here are three projects that involve rethinking your keychain.
  • feels prices
  • little in the upper side what it is - and it kind of feels like the kind of thing someone could do for themselves, with good 3D printer. But the general idea is very good. There are about three weeks into the project, and raised just over a third of its goal, so it's probably right on the bubble if you will be able to achieve your goal. In fact, the prediction is that Kicktraq just squeak.
While this may not be what I need, more than 2,000 people clearly feel differently . How the project shooting, far, far, far beyond its goal of $ 6,000 and probably seaweed at least a couple of hundreds of thousands by the end of the project.




Well, if we step back from all this high-tech futuristic equipment, and back to basics. What kind of key you want for the Zombie Apocalypse? Probably something like the head - head keychain. There seems to be a key nonsense to be attached to the belt buckle and a bottle opener, but it's nothing special. Many things you have. It also has a bar ferrocerium integrated with a "fire scraping" so that it can start a fire very quickly. As previously stated, survivalists noted that when the company collapsed and you need to survive, the most important skill is to be able to fire. This key chain makes it easy. Can you say the same for your trousseau? Oh yeah, it also has a pencil
, because if you need immediate, probably carrying around a knife, and you probably want sharp. My favorite part, however, is that compared to a smartphone and call it a "smart key." I'm not sure they are very similar, but I have a funny video:
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Friday, June 28, 2013

Danish Company Creates Software That Will Stop You From Printing A Gun

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Who Would You Rather Trust: Bankers Or Regulators?


Cross-posted Dealbreaker
A simple model of banking regulation and, like, against-regulation is something like this:

regulators are cautious and silent, and want to protect bad banks risks, even at the cost of a good risk prevention, bankers are aggressive and intelligent, and you want to have a lot of good risks, even at the cost of assuming some bad risks, and Sometimes bankers can find the people you deal with your shit, and sometimes they can not.

"put up with her shit" is understood in the broadest sense - can defeat the Dodd-Frank bank? Brown-Vitter? Lloyd Blankfein is a hero or a villain? Jamie Dimon? Etc. - but an interesting question is that if you try to escape or elbow or optimize operations or other regulations, someone will do business with you? One could write a history of the recent finance with the answer to this question: In 2007, you could throw all its mortgage risk off-balance sheet securitization, in 2008 ... could not, and in 2013, if you are looking for someone to provide relief from regulatory capital all you have to do is call a capital reduction of the buffer fund. Six years from peak to peak, as the S & P.

could probably use words like "bubble" in the characterization of this cycle, but I prefer the approach taken in this new work by Guillermo Ordo?ez NBER Penn (free version here), both because mathematically formalizes this basic model of the regulation and against-regulation in an interesting way, and because it's pleasantly cynical. As he says, "banks can always find ways to avoid self-regulation where possible, and indeed it is more efficient to do so."
bankers

course,

always

think it would be effective for them to find ways to escape regulation. Only

so when they can find someone to negotiate with them.

The essence of formalization is that banks can invest in insurance "," approved regulatory assets in risky assets "superior", which have a higher than safe assets yield the same risk but are not blessed by regulators

risky assets or "inferior" to have a head taller, but more risks and risk assets are primarily a way for banks to apply moral hazard. Good banks to invest optimally and worry about the future, bad banks do not care about the future and maximize the type of moral hazard. How to invest depends on fundamental economic factors. If things are good, then invest optimally because it is not necessary to take excessive risks, and if things are terrible then want to take excessive risks

banks are limited by two things. The first is the reputation investors trust a bank with a good reputation - ie a history of making good risk observed - and funding through the unregulated shadow banking system. The other is that the economic fundamentals, investors may see: if the fundamentals are bad and everyone knows the banks to take excessive risks, everyone requires a guarantee deposit (and regulation):

Why

investors agree to participate in the shadow banking if they understand that the banks are trying to avoid regulation that provides a safety net against the excessive risk-taking? One possible answer is that, indeed, the regulatory capital requirements are unnecessary. However, if this were true, why investors will overshadow the traditional banks when they are concerned about the quality of the collateral?

argued that

concerns reputation

are at the heart of both the growth and the fragility of the shadow banking system. readers of the shadow banking system, while outside investors believe that capital requirements are not necessary to ensure the quality of bank assets such as reputation refers to banks self-discipline behavior. When bad news about the future arises because the reputation reputation concerns collapse becomes less valuable, and investors no longer believe in the self-discipline of banks shift their funds to a less efficient traditional bank, but safer.

As I said, I think this article very nice, but that's partly because I think some people will not. It is based in part on the assumption that bankers can see risk assets higher compared to low, and that regulators can not. It is fairly intuitive - bankers are paid (more!) for optimal investment decisions, regulators are paid (less!) to avoid risk investment decisions - and perhaps empirically supported - but you know, bankers sometimes wrong too. pleasure is also proposing a solution that meets Ordo?ez between the dangers of unregulated banking and regulation ineffective blunt instrument:

another ideal, but unattainable, is to simply give a strong support to all banks, regardless of the reputation ?, subject to repayment of loans [

is the conditional failure is not ] .... This naturally increases the cost of default for all banks and allows for greater self-regulation. This solution has the same effect as an exogenous increase in ? [

ie economic conditions expected

], but how you can finance these subsidies widely available?

  • Hahaha that is "the best way to safer banks to give these huge subsidies to survive and obtain grants is more attractive than the risk of failure and losing subsidies." This seems ... a political challenge
  • Ordo?ez
and have other proposals.




do not know, I stopped there. Hall Bank today -
against more regulatory requirements and higher capital reduces TBTF subsidies - seems pretty boring after that, right? The real challenge will be to convince the authorities that what is needed are the biggest and best grants for banks. I'm sure someone is working on it.

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Thursday, June 27, 2013

Sticky spy UAV turns things upside down with ability to land on walls and ceilings

Researchers have developed a quadcopter that can attach to walls and ceilings with a dry a...



micro drones have the ability to fit in tight spaces, including inside buildings, it will all military and research and rescue. To achieve its full potential, however, these drones will have to learn to land on rough areas do not always have a flat surface to land. A team of scientists has begun to take a big step towards achieving this through the development of a Quadcopter with a mechanism that allows it to be placed on walls or ceilings, stay for a while and then take off again ... Continue reading spy drone it turns things upside down, with the ability to land on the walls and ceilings


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Wednesday, June 26, 2013

3D-printed pistol survives test firing

The 3D printed single-shot Liberator pistol in test fire mount (Photo: Defense Distributed...



The potential of 3D printed weapons (unsurprisingly) has generated a lot of controversy, and the liberator is no exception. Named after the Second World War gun once, this 3D printed .380 caliber pistol is almost entirely plastic, and looks more like a water hose to the nozzle of a gun. The weapon has survived several shots with minimal damage, inspire enough confidence that the designer Cody Wilson tested the gun in his hand. .. Continue reading 3D printed survives test shots


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Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Hands-on with the Delta Six gaming gun controller (video)

Hands-on with the Delta Six gaming gun controller (video)


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Sunday, June 23, 2013

3D printed gun gets test fired, but is far from safe

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Epic Citadel: play an Unreal Engine 3 demo in your browser

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Saturday, June 22, 2013

Kitten Set on Fire, Abandoned in a Park

Friday, June 21, 2013

Adobe Photoshop CC and Adobe Premiere Pro CC Optimized for AMD

Thursday, June 20, 2013

Qualcomm grows Snapdragon 200 family with six new chips, targets emerging markets

Qualcomm grows Snapdragon 200 family with six new chips, targets emerging markets

The fact that Qualcomm was squared (aka reach the ridiculous speed) with 800 Snapdragon badge does not mean that the company was standing at the other end of the market. 200 Snapdragon family has received a boost with the introduction of six new chips to China and other emerging markets. Available with dual and quad core processors are manufactured using a 28nm process and integrate HSPA (21Mbps) and TD-SCDMA Radio. The new SoC is optimized to provide good multimedia performance and long battery life, with the support of two cameras (up to 8-megapixel front and rear 5MP), several SIM cards dual standby (standby, active and sorting), Izzat place loading and rapid technology 1.0. Qualcomm Adreno 302 GPU Specifications rounds, so these chips designed for devices with Android, Windows Phone OS and Firefox. The company will begin shipping the new processors (8x10 and 8x12) at the end of 2013. Full PR after the break.


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Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 vs. Amazon Kindle Fire HD 8.9

Gizmag compares the specs (and other features) of Samsung's Galaxy Note 8.0 and Amazon's K...



iPad still rules the tablet roost, with two versions easily surpassing all rivals. However, Apple, Amazon and Samsung two major competitors, not going anywhere. His latest tablets - the Galaxy Note 8.0 and Kindle Fire HD 8.9 "- are two plausible alternatives for the iPad and iPad mini 'will compare the characteristics (and other characteristics) of Note 8 and Fire ... 8.9 . Continue reading Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 vs. Amazon Kindle Fire HD 8.9


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Thursday, June 13, 2013

Review: BrowserTexting works fine for SMS in a browser, but so do free options

text messages from a web browser is easier than a phone show. The owners of Android phones have several options, as MobiTexter and MightyText. BrowserTexting ($ 10, free 30-day trial) is a two-part solution includes an application that is installed on your phone and a Web application running on your computer.
must first install the application on your Android phone, which is fast and simple. Then turn on your computer browser and head to BrowserTexting.com. The installation process also here was simple and streamlined: The website indicates that you scan the QR code to connect the phone to your browser.

BrowserTexting the flexible interface is not the worst sin. It costs $ 10 for the free services do just fine.
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Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Hands-on: Super Mario 3D World for Wii U

Gizmag goes hands-on with Nintendo's upcoming Super Mario 3D World


Nintendo Wii U has not exactly set the world on fire. But if there is a genre that can get his life support off, Mario is a 3D game. Nintendo told us some time ago that we were in the works, but today, the company took the cat out of the bag (in this case, literally). This is called
Super Mario 3D World
, and we had the chance to play today at E3 ... Continue reading Hands-on: Super Mario 3D World on Wii U


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Red Sox' David Ortiz Unleashes An Expletive During Televised Speech; FCC Says 'F**k It'


Sometimes no one is in a more enviable than the chairman of the FCC. When it comes to broader issues such as network neutrality and wireless competition is available to all members of a group of concerned citizens too feel the need to launch a campaign of letter writing each Once an insult strike waves.

Bono drew an f-bomb at the Grammys and Nicole Richie someone stops to get the most out of your what-am-I-to the glory giving a microphone and you can explain the difficulty removing cow shit a Prada bag is. The Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

twice

find FCC rules on so-called "fleeting expletives" as a violation of the First Amendment. This, of course, matter angry letter writers believe that somehow that encourages children to swear by celebrities mouth jar.

(as if all eight years of the age of the nation did not use those words now. Can not remember exactly when I started to curse, but I do remember the first Time I stopped for her fourth year This may seem early [or development challenge - YMMV], but it should be noted that Tim hit his first Geigner expletive sometime during the second quarter)

do good on the one hand, real people on the other. Between the two, the FCC stands as a bulwark against involuntary porous sweariness life. He can not help. I can not even hope to contain it. And when someone knocks on the radio during a ceremony celebrating after a horrible tragedy, more likely you are to express themselves freely. And "freedom", I mean they will use the kind of language that most Americans use when emotionally charged.

was, in five words, encapsulation of contempt of a city - low, but never broken. Not even close. Also became NSFW (Not Safe For Work). Or children. Or anyone in the district of Mr. Rogers.


was the statement made by the legendary Red Sox slugger David Ortiz in the pre-game ceremonies Saturday, which distributed nationally.






"f ------ This is our city, and nobody will dictate our freedom . "
Generally, this type of service is casual oath offender net network fined $ 1 million (later expelled by the court). Not this time. Instead, the FCC head Julius Genachowski took the new face of journalism - Twitter - and said his (and his office) solidarity with the people of Boston.

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Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Why The DOJ's Decision To Not Read Dzhokhar Tsarnaev His Miranda Rights Is A Terrible Idea

Friday, while hunting for Tsarnaev Dzhokhar Boston suspected bomber was still in progress (and after his annoyance, the other main suspect had been killed), Senator Lindsey Graham took to Twitter to argue that the U.S. government, if he is still alive picks, do not read his rights Dzokhar Miranda. As you already know, hopefully Miranda rights are the famous "you have the right to remain silent, anything you say can and will be used against you in court, and you have the right to a lawyer," etc. The requirement of a statement to that effect (and the name of the "Miranda rights") is a Miranda v. Arizona in 1960, and since then it has been considered an essential element of American due process for those arrested . And that's a good thing.



When Graham made this statement, many have taken up arms, and argued that Graham was not familiar with the Constitution. While I quite agree with the basics of this, much of the anger probably should have been directed against the Obama administration, which officially created an exception to the rules of Miranda (unilaterally and without the approval of court) a few years ago (apparently, in October 2010, but the news about it only released in March 2011).
  1. And indeed, after Dzhokhar was apprehended, the Ministry of Justice stated that he had not been informed of his Miranda rights because he invoked a "public safety exception" with the argument being that they had to get them to talk to ensure that the public was not in danger. As others have pointed out, it is a short-sighted decision can only turn against horribly.
  2. suspend basic rights and due process of fear, this is exactly the kind of thing that people who attack the United States
  3. want
  4. to see. Here's what we can not live up to our rights and the most basic principles in the face of a terrorist attack gives to those who hate us even more incentive to continue. This is not only a sign of weakness, but an encouragement to those who seek to undermine our society. In fact, it is a step in this direction very showing that the government is willing to throw the rules and principles when it's a little frightened by a teenager.

The slippery slope here is steep and extremely smooth. There are no rules about when the Ministry of sudden Justice can ignore Miranda. He must decide for himself. It is an organization with a long history of abusing his power, now allowed to clean one of the main protections for those who stop whenever he sees fit. The

whole point

the Miranda decision is that it should be up to law enforcement. The rights of a person their rights. The part that makes me really, if anything, it opens a line of really, really stupid Dzokhar Tsarnaev defense if he never faced a criminal trial. His lawyers are likely to argue that the arrest and interrogation was unconstitutional because of the lack of (or delay) the Miranda rights. Why even open the possibility of a defense for him?
The guy has lived in the U.S. for many years - it is likely that in fact know the fact that he the right to refuse to talk. So we are because violates our principles, our constitutional process due to base, opening a huge opening for a defense to avoid saying something, he probably knows already.

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