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		<title>Apple iPhone 4 mania has started, people skipping work</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 23:52:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With throngs of people lining up all over the world, the Apple iPhone 4 has become an instant sensation. Throughout the world, Apple stores started selling out of the new iPhone in a matter of hours. Many workers are calling in &#8220;sick&#8221; just to get a hold of this coveted possession.  &#8220;Why aren&#8217;t you at [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://nowtnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/iphone4g.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-456" title="iphone4g" src="http://nowtnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/iphone4g.jpg" alt="iphone4g" width="240" height="160" /></a>With throngs of people lining up all over the world, the Apple iPhone 4 has become an instant sensation. Throughout the world, Apple stores started selling out of the new iPhone in a matter of hours. Many workers are calling in &#8220;sick&#8221; just to get a hold of this coveted possession.  &#8220;Why aren&#8217;t you at work?&#8221; we asked some who lined up at the Apple Store. Excuses ranged from &#8220;Yeah, I got a fever, Apple fever&#8221; to simply calling and making up some elaborate excuse.  One college student claimed that the Apple iPhone4 will help him get a girl. &#8220;That&#8217;s right, if there are two guys with similar looks and one has an iPhone 4, while the other does not, who do you think the girl will pick?&#8221;</p>
<p>So what will you get with the iPhone 4? Gorgeous design, multitasking, better camera, folders to organize apps, 5x digital zoom, and the much anticipated video call feature that lets you talk to someone while looking at their face on the phone. AT&amp;T has said it received 10 times as many pre-orders as the iPhone 3GS last year. </p>
<p>So what&#8217;s the drawback of the iPhone?  <strong>The very crappy AT&amp;T service that cuts your calls every minute.<br />
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Get your Apple iPhone at the Apple Store online, save yourself a trip&#8230; will you be getting an iPhone 4G? Tell us about it!</p>
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		<title>Sony making huge comebacks with 3-D TV and playstation move</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:22:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reinforcing market analysts’ speculation that Sony stands poised to stage a major comeback, the consumer electronics giant this week delivered two major announcements, putting the competition on notice that it will contend for market dominance.  On Tuesday, March 9, the company reported that it will begin sales of 3D televisions.  On Wednesday, March 10, Sony [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://nowtnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/playstation-move.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-225" title="playstation-move" src="http://nowtnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/playstation-move.jpg" alt="" width="182" height="159" /></a>Reinforcing market analysts’ speculation that Sony stands poised to stage a major comeback, the consumer electronics giant this week delivered two major announcements, putting the competition on notice that it will contend for market dominance.  On Tuesday, March 9, the company reported that it will begin sales of 3D televisions.  On Wednesday, March 10, Sony officials introduced “Playstation Move,” the company’s aggressive foray into the world of motion controllers. </p>
<p>Going head-to-head with television rival Samsung, Sony will send 3D televisions to market in June, and company officials said they expect 3D models will account for at least ten per cent of their sales in their current fiscal year.  Sony forecast total LCD-TV sales at just over 25 million.  Long-time Sony-watchers believe Sony envisions a multi-faceted entertainment operation, building on its gaming, music, and movie businesses, setting itself apart from upstarts LG and Samsung, which continue to produce only hardware.</p>
<p>Yoshihisa Ishida, a high-ranking Sony executive, told reporters Tuesday, “Sony will liberate 3D from the confines of movie theatres and make it something that people can enjoy at home.”  Other Sony executives, including CEO Howard Stringer, recently have told the press they expect 3D to boost not only television sales, but also Blu-ray DVD players, gaming stations, and digital cameras.</p>
<p>Right in step with the 3D announcement, Sony officials seized the opportunity at the San Francisco conference of Game Developers to strip the wraps off “Playstation Move,” which may enter some markets at the same time as 3D televisions and will go into widespread distribution in the fall of 2010.  They said Playstation Move will be sold both as a stand-alone product and in a bundle with the entire Playstation 3 system.</p>
<p>Giving voice to Sony’s high hopes, Peter Dille, the company’s senior vice-president in charge of marketing, told game developers the new motion controller is “fast, precise, and accurate.  We like to think this is the next generation of motion-gaming.”  More importantly, Dille added, “We’re really approaching this as a platform launch.”</p>
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		<title>The “green” Porsche 918 Spyder will be available in green.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:34:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For friends of Mother Earth who still feel a serious and compelling need for speed, designers and engineers at Porsche have just unveiled your ultimate dream machine—the 918 Spyder Concept.  Even if you do not feel all that concerned about the planet’s future, but you enjoy a genius piece of automotive engineering, the new Porsche [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For friends of Mother Earth who still feel a serious and compelling need for speed, designers and engineers at Porsche have just unveiled your ultimate dream machine—the 918 Spyder Concept.  Even if you do not feel all that concerned about the planet’s future, but you enjoy a genius piece of automotive engineering, the new Porsche will fire your fiercest fantasies.  Pulling the covers off their brand new supercar at the Geneva Auto Show, the guys from Stuttgart set drivers drooling around the world.  The 918 Spyder Concept features electric drive and hybrid technology, adapted and customized for maximum speed.</p>
<p> How speedy?  Faster than a Carrera GT, with a top-end speed officially posted at 198 mph—more than fast enough to blow-back your hair and make your cheeks a little floppy.</p>
<p> And just how green?  Spyder 918 Concept officially boasts a 78 mpg rating, and it emits only 70gm CO2 per kilometre—one of the auto industry’s lowest ratings. </p>
<p> In no way is this your mother’s hybrid Ford Escape.</p>
<p> <strong>Dazzling machinery, amazing specifications</strong></p>
<p>Speed freaks will appreciate the mid-mounted 3.4 litre V-8 engine’s 500 horse-power, and then they will feel awed when they learn that electric motors at the front and rear axles generously add another 200 horsepower,  With equal awe, speed lovers will learn that the engine winds-out to more than 9000 rpm before it hits the yellow line on the tachometer.  When the driver does shift gears, she moves the transmission through a seven-speed PDK gearbox.</p>
<p> Like its distant cousin the Carrera, the Spyder 918 requires variable air effects to manage its breathtaking top-end speeds.  The rear hoods, therefore, sport retractable air intakes which function as ram-air injectors.  918 Spyder’s design also suggests the car’s Carrera heritage—especially the front-end design strongly resembles all the 911’s which precede the new green beauty.  In a radical departure from tradition, however, Porsche engineers have fashioned their green marvel almost entirely from carbon-fibre-reinforced plastic, maximizing gas mileage by minimizing the car’s weight, and also reducing wear and tear on the body from high-speed vibration.</p>
<p> Porsche officials declined to set a date for 918 Spyder’s debut in showrooms, but they smiled that, yes, it probably will be available in metallic green.</p>
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		<title>Apple iPad debut set for April 3</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:48:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Friday, March 5, Apple Inc announced the revolutionary new iPad will debut in stores on April 3.  This new launch date represents a small delay for the netbook’s launch, but Apple officials sweetened the news with their announcement that they also will launch iPad in Canada, Australia, and much of Europe during April.  An [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">On Friday, March 5, Apple Inc announced the revolutionary new iPad will debut in stores on April 3.  This new launch date represents a small delay for the netbook’s launch, but Apple officials sweetened the news with their announcement that they also will launch iPad in Canada, Australia, and much of Europe during April.  An indication of the market’s eagerness and excitement about the new product, Apple shares rose 4% on the tech-heavy Nasdaq immediately after the announcements.  Market analysts had expressed concern that manufacturing difficulties were slowing the iPad’s debut.</span> </p>
<p><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Steve Jobs first showed-off Apple’s latest technological wonder in January, setting tech-lovers a-buzz and sending their expectations even higher than when Apple first introduced the iPhone in 2007.  At iPod’s coming-out, however, Jobs did not set a firm date for the netbook’s arrival in stores, and he said absolutely nothing about international distribution.  Friday’s announcement included some details about iPad’s late-April launch in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, and the UK.  Apple Inc also plans bravely to market iPad against its chief rivals in Japan.</span> </p>
<p><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Featuring a 9.7-inch touch screen and motion sensitivity similar to the iPhone’s, iPad promises users the ultimate communications tool developed specifically for use in a mobile environment.  In other words, iPad does not replace your laptop computer, but it easily will render other handheld devices obsolete, or at least mediocre by comparison.  The iPad combines powerful internet capability with the hundreds of iPhone apps, and it allows both full-featured gaming and the capacity to read digital books.  Industry analysts predict brisk sales among avid computer and internet gamers, who will appreciate iPad’s speed and responsiveness; and they predict similarly brisk sales among college students, especially students at online university’s, because iPad will make their studies completely portable.  iPad’s digital reader already attracts educators, who recognize the possibilities for netbooks in classroom use even in kindergarten, and Apple products always have been educators’ first choice.</span></p>
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		<title>Microsoft and HP Unveil Their New Slate PC</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:37:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The teaming up of HP and Microsoft to produce the slate like PC that is going to add a completely new meaning to touch screen computing has fulfilled its purpose. This move of Microsoft and HP is seen as a move to stay ahead of Apple’s version of the same technology that is supposedly to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The teaming up of HP and Microsoft to produce the slate like PC that is going to add a completely new meaning to touch screen computing has fulfilled its purpose. This move of Microsoft and HP is seen as a move to stay ahead of Apple’s version of the same technology that is supposedly to be unveiled later on. This slate PC or Tablet PC is a combination of both the smart phone and the Laptops.  The product that HP and Microsoft ha created runs on the Windows latest operating system, Windows 7. A Wall street Journal mentions that Apple is not very far behind with its very own tablet PC.</p>
<p>Both the devices, the tablet PC’s, from HP and Apple will be in the market for the regular consumers by March 2010. However, HP might make a move of making some slight modifications in its design and put it up for sale later this year. Although Microsoft and HP believes that this is a revolutionary step towards future technology many believe that the software that this touch screen pad has should have been something better then the normal windows software that consumers use in their regular PCs and Laptops. The idea of a new generation technique is to combine new forms of hardware as well as software to interest the user. This is not the case with this tablet PC.</p>
<p>However, where there are critics, there are fans as well. Some believe that having Windows 7 on a touch screen tablet PC is worth it and reading e-books and using other such software and features of the operating system is going to be a new and wonderful experience. The market is not so aware about this particular product for only one particular reason, the excitement and publicity limelight being showered completely upon the Apple’s speculative product, the iSlate.</p>
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		<title>Symbian Smart Phone OS becomes Open Source</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[With open source technology becoming the major cry in the software world, Symbian follows suit by becoming open source, which it had promised in 2008. This step comes as a blessing for many developers who can now work on this wonderful platform and make new and innovative contribution to this wonderful technology. Today, Symbian has [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>With open source technology becoming the major cry in the software world, Symbian follows suit by becoming open source, which it had promised in 2008. This step comes as a blessing for many developers who can now work on this wonderful platform and make new and innovative contribution to this wonderful technology. Today, Symbian has set a wonderful example for other successful technologies to go open source since the Symbian operating system was the world’s largest and most popular smart phone operating system.</p>
<p>With the power of open source in your hand, you can add or modify this wonderful smart phone operating system in any particular way you want. Moreover, this is not limited to individuals only, as cellular phone companies can now make the necessary modifications in their smart phones, which they were unable to make previously.</p>
<p>This journey to open source started in 2008, when Nokia, the Finnish cellular phone organization, bought this operating system and helped in creating the Symbian Foundation which itself was a non-profit foundation. This foundation helped in the transition and development of this software and eventually reaches its open source status today. Previously its source code was available only to its members but from now, you can simply download the code from the Symbian foundation’s website and add on your contribution to this wonderful operating system and its other components.</p>
<p>The Symbian foundation consists of renowned members including Vodafone, Texas Instruments, STMicroelectronics, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, LG, Motorola, AT&amp;T, NTT Docomo and of course Nokia. When asked as to move behind making Symbian an open source the foundation members explained that for individual developers navigating through the technology itself took too much time to develop or modify an application. This meant that the development process for this wonderful technology was facing a huge intellectual problem, thus not allowing it to reach its potential. However, now with open source all that seems a history now.</p>
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		<title>Cheating in Examinations Gets Hi-Tech</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:03:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[High-tech cheating has no doubt increased considerable and the proof that 4,400 people were caught cheating at the A-levels of GCES examinations last year, in Northern Ireland, Wales and England. At Oqfal, the figures themselves speak about the increase in the number of candidates cheating using high- tech methods, an average rise of six percent. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>High-tech cheating has no doubt increased considerable and the proof that 4,400 people were caught cheating at the A-levels of GCES examinations last year, in Northern Ireland, Wales and England. At Oqfal, the figures themselves speak about the increase in the number of candidates cheating using high- tech methods, an average rise of six percent. According to the invigilators and the officials, the candidates seek modern technology, which includes the use of cellular phone and other modern gadgets to cheat in the examinations.</p>
<p>To ensure that candidates are not able to use such high-tech gadgets in their examinations schools are equipping their rooms with scanners and other such tracing devices that will help them to find if any such devices are in use during an examination. However, this is just one side of the story of organizations making a living by selling hi-tech scanning devices. The other side of the story is that candidates too are lured by various websites into buying electronic gadgets that the websites promise will help them cheat and that they are untraceable by the modern scanners.</p>
<p>One of the biggest problems for invigilators is that with cellular phones getting more and more advanced and even the cheapest cellular phone today now providing internet access it is very difficult to check all forms of cheating. Thus, nowadays, examination centers do not allow students the use of cellular phones during the examinations and you will find warning posters requesting the students to switch off their mobile phones during an examination or else of they are found with one then their examination might get cancelled.</p>
<p>Other forms of electronic equipments too are banned nowadays as they too either provide internet access or they have enough storage and display features that might help a student to cheat. Wireless headsets, hidden earpieces, and other such devices have become the source for the candidates whereas the invigilators have to depend mainly on CCTV footages, scanners and mainly on the age-old method, instinct.</p>
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		<title>IMussolini iPhone App is withdrawn</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former Italian politician Benitor Mussolini’s speeches download is being banned. An iPhone application was created to download those speeches is withdrawn by its developing team after they got threatening from the legal authorities in Italy. The Italian government considered it as an illegal activity to launch such an application on the iPhones. The Jewish group [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Former Italian politician Benitor Mussolini’s speeches download is being banned. An iPhone application was created to download those speeches is withdrawn by its developing team after they got threatening from the legal authorities in Italy. The Italian government considered it as an illegal activity to launch such an application on the iPhones.</p>
<p>The Jewish group and the holocaust described such activity as an offense and express their strong protest against the programme. It was considered as an act to violate their political issues and emotions.</p>
<p>However, when viewed from the technological aspects this application is one of the most popular web application on phones in Italy. The IMussolini application has the highest download history in iPhones in the country. Even the newly launches video game based on the recently released movi avatar has been beaten by the IMussolini statistics.</p>
<p>The collection comprises some of the best speeches. It is 25 minutes long video clips that are available in the iPhones. An exclusive range of well-known speeches and quotes can now be heared on the phones. Thus, it propelled a huge crowd towards its unique launch and eventually it become popular like anything else.</p>
<p>A film institute claimed that these videos could have been used for a better purpose such as an educational attempt. The developer of the IMussolini application, Luigi Marino has however said that these clippings have been removed as a result of legal issues and will definitely put it back on the media platform once everything get sorted out.</p>
<p>A mixed opinion has been seen from the people of the Jewish group. Some of them showed high concerns about the launch of such an application. They said that this is the best way to bring forward the real idea of fascism to the people while the other group is saying something different. According to some people, this activity is quite unacceptable. Apple did not comment on this issue.</p>
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