The HTC Rhyme
The HTC Rhyme is something of a delicate matter, as it is HTC's firstphone that is said to have been designed with a female audience in mind. Yet it comes in dull colours and looks quite a lot like every other HTC handset we’ve seen so far.
PENTAX Q-REVIEW
Let’s get one thing straight from the start. The Pentax Q is quite an incredible camera to behold. It’s tiny. But not only is it tiny, it also looks great.
NIKON 1 V1
Nikon has announced two new compact system cameras: the Nikon 1 V1 and the Nikon 1 J1. We got our hands on both new cameras today, so until we can bring you our Nikon 1 V1 review
The ULTra Personal Rapid Transit System
"Think of it as a horizontal lift," says Fraser Brown, managing director of ULTra, the company that has built a new way to travel to Heathrow Terminal 5 from the business car park
THREE MIFI HSPA
Three has updated its MiFi range with the new Huawei E586 complete with HSPA+, and we have managed to get our hands on one to test out all its mobile internet goodness
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Users Complain iPhone 4 Secretly Taking Their Photo - The Consumerist
Some iPhone 4 users are complaining that their devices are secretly taking photos of themselves.
The issue pops up when they use FaceTime. Instead of seeing themselves back in the camera, they see a picture of themselves the phone randomly took of them earlier in the day. But don't worry that your phone might be tattling on you for double-dipping that chip, when the error happens, the other user just sees a black screen.
So if you always feel like somebody is watching you, and you have no privacy, whooooa, oh-oh, you're not just paranoid, you're exactly right.
Here's a video from a user who says the problem happened to him:
Topic : FaceTime shows random, old pictures when initiating a call [discussions.apple via Huffington Post]
From ConsumerReports.org:
via consumerist.com
After Agreeing To DOJ Settlement, Google Closes $700M Acquisition Of ITA Software
Last Friday, the DOJ cleared Google’s $700 million acquisition of travel software company ITA. The DOJ said that if Google complied with a proposed settlement, Google could in fact buy the company. It looks like Google has agreed to the DOJ’s terms, according to an update to Google’s blog post announcing that the deal was on its way to be cleared.
The DOJ said last week that if Google didn’t agree to the terms of the settlement, the search giant would be face an antitrust lawsuit. The DOJ requires that Google develop and license travel software, establish internal firewall procedures and to continue to fund software research and development in the industry.
And Google will be required to continue to license ITA’s airfare search software to airfare websites on commercially “reasonable terms” and continue to fund for that software at similar levels to what ITA has invested in recent years. Google is also mandated to further develop and offer ITA’s next generation InstaSearch product, which is currently in development, to travel websites, which will provide near instantaneous results to certain types of flexible airfare search queries.
Additionally, Google will be have to implement firewall restrictions within the company that prevent unauthorized use of competitively sensitive information and data gathered from ITA’s customers. Lastly, Google is also prohibited from entering into agreements with airlines that would inappropriately restrict the airlines’ right to share seat and booking class information with Google’s competitors. The settlement provides for a formal reporting mechanism for complainants if Google breaks any of these terms.
For Google, the closure of the deal must be a relief. The ongoing investigation must have been sapping legal resources. And the search giant can finally integrate airfare listings into its own search portal.
via techcrunch.com
