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Verizon Hub (New Phone System) coming on 1 February

VerizonVerizon Wireless is changing the old kitchen home phone system by releasing the Verizon Hub on 1st February. Publicizing as an innovative home phone system, the Verizon Hub is a home phone system that connects to a broadband connection that allows families to use it as a home phone or an Internet communication system.

The Verizon Hub gives you the following new features:
  • Daily local traffic and weather conditions
  • Turn-by-turn navigational directions
  • Telephone numbers of establishments
  • Movie previews and movie ticketing service
You can get this information through the Verizon Hub’s touchscreen interface. Obviously, you get the usual calling features of a home phone system with voicemail, contact list management, & text messaging alerts. The Verizon Hub connects to broadband through Verizon FiOS or DSL or even other high-speed ISPs in the U.S.

The exciting feature is that it’ll enable you to access information & its other functionality even if you are away from the Hub itself. It actually offers some sort of “synchronization”, which allows you to update your home’s Verizon Hub wirelessly from the Verizon Hub website and your updates will be reflected on your Verizon Hub home account. In addition, the Verizon Hub will also allow you to connect your other Verizon devices to the Hub & gives you access to other popular Verizon Wireless services including VZ NavigatorSM, Chaperone, and V CAST contents.

So welcome the new hub…..
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Wish Apple on it's 25th Birthday

Mac LogoYesterday was Apple's Mac 25th birthday. The original Macintosh was released back on January 24th, 1984.

The first Macintosh usually called the Macintosh 128k, was an inauspicious beginning for one of the most exciting companies in the industry. It was expensive & underpowered for the time, and its novel mouse-driven interface was unpopular with techies. But the Mac is a survivor, developing and changing through the years, taking the first dip into the water of portability & later making waves with innovative design and remarkable success.

Mac has inarguably helped the industry as a whole even if you and I am not a Mac user. Personal computing wouldn't be where it is without it. So come with me and wish Mac belated Happy Bisthday!

Gizmodo
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No Grand Theft Auto "V" Rockstar Game In 2009

The most recent issue of Game Informer contains "loose talk" that Rockstar Games is readying a new Grand Theft Auto, a fully-fledged follow up to GTA IV for the holidays.
Grand Theft Auto Series Game SnapshotAfter checking in with the Rockstar folks this week to check out the first downloadable episode, The Lost and Damned, which is due to hit the Xbox 360 next month. A second episode for Grand Theft Auto IV owners is planned to arrive before October 31, 2009, according to parent company Take-2 Interactive, but there is "no truth" to reports that a wholly new retail game, one on par with the scope of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, will arrive before the holidays.

And as for the chances of the next Grand Theft Auto game taking place in Tokyo, as speculated by Game Informer's regular rumor column? Further requests for clarification on the subject went unanswered.

So, don't be surprised if the first two downloadable episodes already confirmed for Grand Theft Auto IV are just two of many. Rockstar vice president Dan Houser recently said to USA Today "We feel like we've only scratched the surface in terms of the depth and detail" of Liberty City.
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Samsung sexy projector phone

Samsung sexy projector phoneThe Samsung projector can be used to view media stored in phone memory, pull up mobile TV via Korea's T-DMB airwaves, or simply project light, a function luddites may know better as a "flashlight."

The Show's projector has 5 options: "File Viewer," which shows movies in a large-screen format; "Album," for photo slideshows, "Story Telling," which appears to project animated Korean children's stories, TV, and Flashlight, which is just a flashlight.

This phone will never, ever come to the US.
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Microsoft's 2009 Upcoming Winmobiles

Microsoft's marketing vice resident announced that for Windows Mobile there'll be a "major announcement" out of his camp at Mobile World Congress next month, which makes sense -- it's the biggest mobile trade show of the year, after all, and we've been expecting WinMo 6.5 for a little while. Most interesting thing is that they're looking to cut down on the total number of phones offered by its licensees in an effort to "be more focused" & do a better job tailoring the platform to the devices in the market.

Makes sense in a way, but on the flipside, one of Windows Mobile's solid advantages over the competition has always been its endless selection of styles & form factors. Taking that away means that WinMo's got to be better by leaps and bounds to keep going head-to-head with the Palms, Apples, RIMs, and Nokias of the world.
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$4.9 Billion Hits By 2013 on Mobile Adult Content

Adult mobile futureThe search research firm Juniper Research has lowered the prediction for adult mobile service revenues in 2008 to $2.2 billion i.e. 3.5% lower than the analyst had previously project.

The analyst predicts that the worldwide mobile adult market will hit $4.9 billion by 2013, with a large increase coming from video chat services which are predicted to surpass $1 billion in 2011, with low penetration being offset by high spending levels—in many markets averaging several hundred dollars per user per annum.

Some countries like Indonesia & Switzerland are tightening laws governing adult content, but in Europe and Latin America it’s becoming far more widespread.

Western Europe will remain the biggest market, followed by the Far East.
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China issues 3G licences

China issued long-awaited 3G mobile phone licenses Wednesday, a move that will pour billions of dollars into new networks as consumers buy video- and Internet-enabled handsets.

The Ministry of Industry & Information Technology issued licenses covering the three major standards in China, Europe and North America, ministry spokesman Wang Lijian told AFP.

Market leader China Mobile received a license for the Chinese-developed TD-SCDMA standard, he said.

China Unicom got a license for Europe's WCDMA standard while China Telecom will handle North America's CDMA 2000, Wang said. The two international standards require that operators pay royalties to foreign developers.

Third-generation, or 3G, networks enable faster data transmission and advanced services such as wide-area wireless calls, web surfing & video.

The licenses are of huge importance as China is the world's biggest mobile phone market, with more than 634 million subscribers by the end of November.

Analysts said that although it may be years before 3G services become popular in China, issuing the licenses will immediately benefit global equipment makers such as Siemens, Ericsson and Nokia, as well as local rivals.

"Domestic makers like Huawei Technologies and ZTE have been making noticeable progress both abroad & at home. They’re grabbing market shares and posing a challenge to foreign companies," Fang said.

Industry & Information Technology Minister Li Yizhong said last month the carriers were expected to invest about 41 billion dollars in 3G networks over the next 2 years, with at least 29 billion dollars to be spent in 2009.

Govt. has said the spending that will accompany the launch of 3G services is an important part of efforts to battle the slowdown caused by the global economic turmoil.

The companies were not expected to have to pay for the licenses themselves, analysts said, reflecting the government's desire to support the enterprises, which are all state-controlled.

Beijing has been preparing for the roll-out of 3G since the beginning of the decade.

The global 3G industry association, 3rd Generation Partnership Project, first approved China's TD-SCDMA in 2001 as one of the world's 3G standards, but there have been countless delays since.

Analysts have said the delays were partly because China needed more time to perfect its home-grown standard.
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