In line with the slight car technology theme over this weekend, Volvo has announced that their cars can be fitted with a cycle auto braking system. If it detects a cyclist wobbling near the car, then the brakes are applied automatically, along with red warning lights on the dash.
Sounds ideal for city areas.
Lots of noise in the press regarding Samsung and its use of plastic. Well the latest rumour is the S4 is not made of plastic but some futuristic material that similar to rubber in feel.
It will have a slight cushion feel to it making it less likely to get damage if dropped, run over or sat on.
At Carphone Warehouse the price on the entry-level Kindle Fire has been lowered tojust £89, and the 16GB Kindle Fire HD has been reduced down to £139. But remember this is not the traditional Android tablet experience. However, the Kindle Fire is still a great casual tablet and media consumption device.
Once again it seems the only way android type tablets can compete with Apple is buying selling them cheap and cheerful. The iPad reigns once again.
One of the features of the new Sony Xperia Z is its water resistance. How best to demonstrate that is to stick a few showers inside a mobile phone store and have some attractive models texting away with the shower on.
Sounds far fetched by that’s what T-Mobile in Prague are doing. It’s has certainly been drawing the crowds and bumping sales of the Xperia Z upwards.
From small beginnings Apple’s AppStore has grown from strength to strength. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Apple is on the verge of hitting a staggering $25bn in app sales. That is a huge number.
That means $17.5bn has been paid to developers. Impressive.
Just to prove a point at how good their maps are Google has updated their UK Maps with improved Street View imagery in several major UK cities, while adding areas previously unchartered by its cameras.
The cities London, Cardiff, Manchester and Glasgow have been re-traced. Impressive. In addition landscape in parts of East Anglia, South Wales and the Scottish Coastline have been photographed the first time.
Bulgaria for the first time has been added and 200 new towns and cities in Russia are also included.
Google Maps is so far ahead of everyone else.
The £225,000 Rolls-Royce Wraith, set to be a star attraction at the Geneva motor show, can read areas that haven’t even come into the driver’s vision yet.
Using GPS mapping it chooses the right gear, even when faced with obstacles including roundabouts and motorway junctions.
Now I think the use of GPS technology in this manner is excellent, just one small sticking point, I haven’t got £225,000 spare at present nor will I likely ever have. However, if you each donate £100 I will have enough to buy one. Then there is the issue of refilling it with fuel. For that I will create a monthly subscription 🙂
I like the concept though and the car.
(Reuters) – Google Inc’s Motorola Mobility unit will cut 1,200 jobs or 10 percent of its workforce as the smartphone maker tries to return to profitability, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing a company email.
The layoffs come on top of 4,000 jobs Google eliminated at Motorola Mobility in August as the Internet search giant seeks to make more smartphones and fewer simple handsets.
It really is terrible news for families and communities that will be impacted. Lets hope we see great handsets as a result and those that lose their jobs find alternative work.
Yesterday I had the pleasure of going a day without a power source to plug my iPhone 5. It didn’t make it through the day and even though jail breaking adds some great features having the best stability and battery life on my main driver is more important.
With the iPad Mini it’s always near a power source, its doesn’t matter if I have slight issues with it and it doesn’t need to be running the latest iOS version. Hence why that will stay jail broken.
My iPhone 5 is now back to running the official iOS. Shame as I really enjoyed the tweaks provided by jail breaking even though what I added wasn’t that much it still made a big difference.
The CEO of Swatch has aired his opinion on the rumour of Apple releasing a watch.
“Personally, I don’t believe it’s the next revolution,” the chief of the largest Swiss watchmaker said at a press conference on annual results in Grenchen, Switzerland. “Replacing an iPhone with an interactive terminal on your wrist is difficult. You can’t have an immense display
Is somebody worried about Apple potential launch into the watch market!
