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Apple is seeking a ban in the sales of Samsung galaxy Nexus in US and has requested for the same claiming that Apple’s four patents are being violated by Google’s profoundly flaunted Ice-cream Sandwich version Android Operating system.

According to a technology researcher, Apple brought an action for the preliminary sanction against the device with the district court of the US of the Northern District California. A public version of the filing was made available on Friday and the motion was filed along with that with new centralized proceedings.

The action is based on four types of patents: a ‘data tapping’ patent, a patent involving Siri and unified research, a patent for the feature of “slide to unlock’ and fourth patent was that of the word completion for the touch screen entry of the text.

The researcher reports that the word completion patent may cover the working involved in Google’s mobile search application while the unified search patent could pose a serious threat to Google’s core search business. The unified search patent involves voice assistant Siri’s way of searching the Internet.

The data tapping feature is something which let you to tap a phone number from a text message or an e-mail or any other data. This can put Google into trouble as the incident with the Market player HTC reminds of a similar incident. HTC which is an Android Tablet maker was in great quandary last year when the International Trade commission ruled that the company has violated Apple’s patent by using the feature of data tapping in their products and warned them to ban their products which use this feature. HTC quickly stepped back.

And, slide to unlock is currently the issue of a legal action undertaken by Apple against the Galaxy Nexus in Germany, where a decision is expected in March. The request of Apple to ban Galaxy Nexus in Germany was rejected earlier this month by a court there. Apple had also taken the motion against Samsung products for the issue that they bear similar designs like Apple products. But this time, Apple has focused on more complex and technical patents rather than those related to designs. Verizon FiOS promotional code can be availed to enjoy huge discounts on the latest gadgets (including that of the Apple company). All you need to do is search for it online.

Attention gadget shop owners and eBay electronic gadgets sellers! Do you have trouble keeping up to date with the latest gadgets and e-commerce developments and making your site ‘sticky’ enough to develop a loyal customer base?

RSS may be the answer. A web 2.0 format that is keeping netizens up to date with recent developments on the internet and helping webmasters everywhere develop an online community that is more loyal than has ever been possible.

It didn’t seem so long ago that keeping up to date with the latest hi tech gadgets and cool spy gadgets was no problem at all. There were only a handful of gadget sites out there and, with even fewer blogs to monitor; keeping up to date with gadget news was easy.

Keeping customers loyal was also not a problem as there was a good chance there were only a handful of similar sites on the internet offering similar products making it very easy to differentiate yourself from your competitors.

Unfortunately those days have changed.

As of May 2008 there were 3000 gadget blogs alone registered on popular blog aggregate Technorati with the website announcing it had indexed 100 million blogs in December 2007.

So what does that mean for you the gadget shop owner or eBay gadget reseller? What it means is that there’s more to sort through to get product ideas and more competitors for your customers’ attentions and disposable incomes.
This is where RSS will be invaluable for your business.

RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a format which webmasters and content creators use to create bulletin-like ‘feeds’ which are sent out to subscribers when the webmaster’s site is updated or a new story is added.

By subscribing to a RSS feeds you will save valuable time previously wasted visiting online gadget shops, computer gadgets blogs and strange gadgets blogs unnecessarily. You can also use it to keep your customers informed when you add the latest gadgets and new inventions to your inventory.

Setting up a RSS feed for your site and getting RSS feeds from a gadget shop or blog on hi tech gadgets, strange gadgets or spy gadgets couldn’t be easier with popular blog aggregator, Icerocket.com, offering a free RSS creation service.

Once you have set up the service it is important to remember that RSS feeds are short by nature and only contain text, or hyperlink text. So it is important to include an enticing title and make sure your first two or three sentences are something that will make people want to visit the page.

Receiving RSS feeds is also a relatively easy task to accomplish with a wide number of RSS feed readers being available. In fact all that needs to be done is to set up a RSS reader and subscribe to the RSS feeds you are interested in.

Some of the more free web-based readers are Google Reader, My Yahoo, Bloglines and Newsgator. They all are extremely easy to sign up to and mostly look and operate much like email accounts like Outlook, Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail.

The next step is to subscribe to feeds from gadget shops and blogs on gadgets and gizmos that are guaranteed to keep you ahead of your competitors with stock.

This can be done any number of ways depending on which feed reader and which internet browser you are using.

You can search on the readers themselves for relevant feeds. However this is likely to leave you with a large number of unusual gadgets and cool spy gadgets blogs to keep checking up on.

If the cool electronic gadgets website has a RSS subscription button on its news page designed for your chosen reader then you won’t have any problem subscribing. All you need to do is to click on the button and follow the steps.

You could also click on the RSS button and copy the URL from the page of code that opens (the URL will probably contain the code XML or feed). You should then paste it into the ‘add feed’ dialog box in your RSS reader.

Flock or Firefox browsers make adding RSS feeds extremely easy. All you need to do is to click on the RSS link at the top of the page beside the URL bar and another window will open, letting you set up a feed directly in your browser.

Make yourself into a more dominant force on the internet. Get a RSS reader and subscriptions and set up your own RSS feed and change your gadget shop into a sturdy, sticky site with more cool gadgets and hot gadget gifts than your competitors.

The word ‘Verbatim’ means ‘word for word, faithfully, precisely, literally, accurately and exactly’; and all these synonyms have proved true as in the case of Verbatim company as well. Verbatim has established a name for itself with its storage devices and chiefly, it is known for its CDs, DVDs and Blu ray discs. Verbatim, an auxiliary concern of Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation has its strengths in its precise ma manufacturing methods and is currently a big player among the companies offering new technologies and supporting devices for the computer industry. According to CD-R review blog from Verbatim’s website, when one purchases a product from verbatim, he purchases “innovation, security and reliability” as well.

Verbatim CD-R has a very long lasting life and they are very scratch resistant, as they are made from cutting edge technologies in CD manufacturing process. They follow a few technologies like AZO technology, which is patented by Verbatim and means that one can write data at very high speeds on its CD-R without losing any data. Another technology used by Verbatim is Double Layer which means one can record more on a single disk. A third technology used is BD-R LTH along with many others, which make sure that data entered into it is never lost.

With a tide of External Hard drives swooping the Tech market, here is yet another external drive from Western Digital with 1.5TB of storage enclosed in a very sturdy metal enclosure. The Elements External Hard drive 3.5” provides a radical solution to store all your videos, movies, music, data and files. Most important of all, the drive is very cheap for the whopping 1.5TB storage. The hard drive provides some promising specifications that will make it a competitor in the market.

Specifications

Features

Elements External Hard drive 1.5 TB 3.5” is a 1.5 Kg drive which provides you lots of space for all your data files. It although requires an external power source that might make it bulky for certain people.
Elements External Hard Drive is a sturdy black drive. It is enclosed by a very hard metallic enclosure that makes it suitable for every day use at home and office. The black color is aesthetically pleasing to use.
The external drive fancies a Hi-Speed USB 2.0 interface that provides rather average transfer speeds. You will find a socket to plug your AC power charger and USB 2.0 on the same side.
One sad disadvantage in this external hard drive is that it only has one transfer interface. With several triple and quad interfaces hard drives surfacing the Elements External 1.5 TB will look very inferior. The rotation speed of the drive is only 5400 rpm instead of 7200 rpm. With 1.5 TB storage space this very low rotational speed will make reading from and writing to the hard disk very slow.
Unlike certain external hard drives Elements External comes preformatted, so that you can just plug-in and use with your PC to back up data immediately. This eliminates the necessity for a software CD. The drive is compatible with both Windows and Mac operating systems. Well for use with Mac you will have to format it.
Western Digital has also incorporated Energy Conservation technology into the drive that reduces power consumption when not in use.

Cost

Elements External Hard drive 1.5 TB 3.5” is available for just $69 USD.

Review

Elements External 1.5 TB 3.5” is a rugged black external hard drive, with a compact and simple enclosure.
The preformatted drive enables plug and play feature, which is very welcoming. The energy conservation technology is credible.
As for the performance it is not on par at all with drives incorporating eSATA and FireWire ports for transfers. Transfer speeds are rather average and could have been provided eSATA interface.
On the whole it is seriously under priced for the huge 1.5TB space it provides and might as well be sufficient for everyday home and office use.

Steve Jobs today informed the Apple Board of Directors that he was resigning as Chief
Executive Officer effective at once and recommended to the board that Tim Cook,
Apple’s Chief Operating Office be named as has successor. According to an Apple
press release issued at the same time as Mr. Jobs letter, the Apple board not
only named Tim Cook as Apple CEO, but also named Steve Jobs as the new chairman
of the board of Apple.

In the letter, addressed not only to the Board of Directors but the “Apple Community”,
Mr Jobs stated:

I have always said if there ever came a daywhen I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s CEO, I would be the first to let you know.Unfortunately, that day has come.

I hereby resign as CEO
of Apple. I would like to serve, if the Board sees fit, as Chairman of the
Board, director and Apple employee.

No reason was given for Jobs stepping down. While there has been recurring rumors of
declining health since his transplant surgery in 2009, it is equally possible
that he has simply elected to leave the day to day operation to others. Not
only was Mr. Jobs a co-founder of Apple, but he also has led Apple from the shambles
the iconic co-founder found upon his return in 1997 to create perhaps the most dominant
tech company in the world today. Further, it seems clear that he will still be
playing an active role as Chairman.

Tim Cook has been with Apple for the last thirteen
years and stepped in to run day to day operations during Mr. Job’s prior leave
of absence when dealing with his illness. With his elevation to CEO, Mr. Cook
also will be joining the Apple board.

Apple has released a 2nd update of the MacBook Air in 9 months with the latest Intel Sandy Bridge processors, thunderbolt and backlit keyboards.

Intel are claiming that the new Core i5 and i& processors make the MacBook up to 2.5x faster than previous generations, it also comes with the Intel HD Graphics 3000 processor, which includes an on-chip engine for video encoding and decoding.

The new MacBook also has the new Thunderbolt port which Apple has been pushing a lot recently, this is a dual channel port running at 10 Gbps, that is twice as fast as the single channel USB 3m and over ten time faster than USB 2.0. Unlike USB technology, Thunderbolt provides native support for Mini DisplayPort displays. It also supports DisplayPort, DVI, HDMI and VGA displays through the use of existing adapters.

The 11.6-inch MacBook Air starts are £849.00 with a 1.6GHz dual-core Intel Core i5, 2GB memory and 64GB flash storage, and the 13 inch models starts at £1,099.00 including a 1.7GHz dual-core Intel Core i5, 4GB memory and 128GB flash storage.

Quick Search box

One of the major changes with the new Android update is a new ‘Quick Search’ box that essentially exposes all elements of the phone to find the file or whatever you need, meaning you can look for a contact, application, bookmark or extend the search out to the web.

Applications developed for Android 1.6 can also take advantage of this framework too, meaning you can look for elements within them in the future too, which will be handy when your menu list gets as long as your arm.

Some of you may think this is a little like Apple’s new Spotlight feature on the iPhone – you’d be right, as it’s pretty much identical. But Google = search, so it makes a lot of sense to put it on Android too.

Faster camera and improved gallery

Google is also improving the way you interact with your media in the Donut upgrade, as it’s pretty basic at the moment.

The main difference is starting up the camera (which currently takes an age) will be 39 per cent faster, with processing up to a quarter faster, meaning you can move on to the next snap much quicker.

And when you inevitably take oodles more rubbish photos you’ll be able to delete multiple pictures with the new upgrade, which will make life a lot easier.

Easier to get to the camcorder

One of the problems the Android OS faces is the fact it has a very limited camera interface, and that’s been slightly addressed in the 1.6 upgrade.

The camera screen now allows you to toggle between the camera and the video recorder with a little touchscreen button, meaning you don’t have to mess around in the menu system when you want to capture something funny your cat’s doing in real time.

Speech to text

Android’s picked up a new function thanks to a speech engine called Pico, making it possible to talk to your phone and make it do things.

The new speech synthesis engine will even be able to recognise accents within different languages, making those from the more obscure regions with odd dialects as audible as anyone else.

If you’re using legacy devices such as the G1 and the Magic, you’ll need to download a new element to bring the voices to the phone, but we assume Google will make this obvious when the time comes.

TomTom spares are often sought after when repairs are needed on the GPS navigator. Since there are many reliable GPS suppliers. One of the most helpful resources for finding these spare parts is Ebay, which is an online auction site. Halfords is another resource for finding spare parts or TomTom spares in general. The key to finding the right parts is to know what accessories are wanted or needed. Sometimes, there are multiple versions of the GPS navigator which means that not all the same parts will work with the same gadget. Finding the resources that will save the client money and time is very important, when looking for navigation device spare part. Repairs are often needed when a mount has been lost or broken. There is no need to purchase an entire new system when a person can save money and just buy a spare (that may have been used) for their repairs. There are ways to sift through auction sites such as Ebay or there are other methods, such as purchasing the mount directly, which should be able to fit your device. There is no need to waste money on a system when only a small piece needs to be fixed.

Chargers Which May Have a Shortage

Chargers may sometimes develop a shortage; this is quite common with GPS systems. The shortage can cause the device not to work or cause more damage. Consumers can get their charger to work for much less money by going to an online auction or buying from a second-hand store. No matter which type of charger is needed, the consumer will save money.