Mobile and Tech News

For those of you who opted for the Samsung Omnia rather than the HTC Touch Diamond, you’re probably wondering where to get those cool Motion Sensor games for the Samsung Omnia, similar to what the HTC Touch Diamond has. Well, Cellphone-Reviews has made a little discovery and posted it on their blog. It seems that some developers have made an emulator which would make G Sensor games of the HTC Diamond, compatible with the Samsung Omnia.

Well, it’s nice to know that the Samsung Omnia isn’t behind when it comes to developing applications for this device. Now if only Samsung would make an SDK tool so that people could start making custom widgets for this device.

Hartmut Neven, a German-born Physicist, has developed new software technology that was bought by Google. It is facial recognition software that is able to immediately identify faces. This new technology will no longer be going through thousands of computer file names and folders when looking for a particular person. Instead, it will be able to identify photos that you have uploaded to the web. Neven joined Google’s Picasa program and photo editing and management software to come up with the new facial recognition software. He spent 2 years developing this new technology.

The new software is now being used and as expected, getting rave reviews for its accuracy. Neven now works a lead technical manager at Google. The facial recognition software incorporates the Picasa Web Albums and Google online photo sharing service.

Google upgraded its Picas desktop photo-editing application so that it can upload pictures faster. The Face Recognition program uses the web.  After you upload the picture you want to the Web Album, you add the nametag. Your photos will be put into groups of people based on their faces.

All you have to do is match the right name with the right faces. After that you can open up groups of photos that have those particular faces connected to the names you are looking for. The new software takes measurements of where the eyes and nose are for example. This new software is expected to be very popular because more and more people are trying to organize their pictures and this will make it much easier. It is going to save the consumer a lot of time.

The new facial software may later become useful with government agencies for use in passports. This way when passengers go thru security in airports, they will be able to be recognized by computers instead of people and this should save time also.

  Mobile Broadband cards can be great things, I swear by them. It’s an Internet connection everywhere, in the house, in the car even camping or on a boat. I wouldn’t ever be without my card, but and yes there is the all-famous but.

   A few weeks ago my mobile broadband card started acting up, the connection speed would slow down to a point where it was impossible to go anyplace on the Internet.  So, I called the company and talked to their tech support. The person I spoke with was helpful and sent a packet to the card and thought that should help and told me they would call back on Wednesday. This was on Monday so for those two days I would know if this had done any good for my connection.

  No such luck the connection would still bog down and be so slow there was no going anyplace. The person I spoke with true to their word called me Wednesday and said what I needed was a new card and she was sending it out.

  Great a new card, no more connection problems! Then I received an email telling me my new broadband card had been shipped.

   All sounds good, not so. I had moved a few months before and for some reason when I confirmed my new home address they had it right, even the zip code. The bad thing is when the new broadband card was sent out it was sent to my old address 1650 miles away.

   Back to the phone, I did reach them and got the new card stopped and taken back to FedX where it was supposed to be re-routed to my new home address. That is where the three-week problem started, FedX decided to hold my card ransom. Yes, they really did, when I called to see if it was making its journey north two days after this, I was told that the person that had stopped it did not have the authority to change the address on it and someone that was on their authorized list would have to call them.

  On the phone again, this time to the broadband company, I explained the situation and after being placed on hold the agent came back on the phone and asked if I could authorize it. Well, the clear answer to me is no! How possibly could I tell them it was okay to send it changing the address.

   After another 30 minutes off and on hold I gave up and hung up because I am not sure I could have been nice at that point. Not to mention that is the day I had to pay their bill for a mobile broad band card that was not working right.

   I waited two days till I calmed down and called my company back, this time the agent understood what had gone on and checked it out. FedX gave up, they sent the card back to the company. So, to make a long story short this agent checked my address with me again, ordered a new one to be sent over night FedX. Three weeks later I have the new card.

 When the lock is on the iPhone it will still allow the user to make emergency calls and if the home button is double clicked it will open the iPhones favorite menu. This flaw that has been found means that anyone can use the iPhone to call anywhere and if email or websites are there the person can access them also. Apple has been made aware of it and is investigating this flaw is the latest information on Apple. One way to deal with this flaw for now is to remove the double click function on the iPhone for the home key.  The iPhone according to Apple and Steve Jobs was to be a secure cell phone until this flaw was found it seemed to be the most secure phone on the market.

In international news, the iPhone pay as go model will be made available in U.K. This will be an exciting month for those waiting for a different solution to the iPhone, the Apple iPhone 3G is going to go on the market in the U.K. pay as you go, it is planned to be available on September 16^th and the 8GB and the 16 GB iPhones will both be available. It is set up so that customers of the pay as you go plan will have all the advantages that other iPhone users have with two exceptions. The pay as you go iPhones will not have visual voicemail and call merging available.

 They will have unlimited 3G and Wi-Fi web browsing, this will last with these phones for 12 months. After the first 12 months the iPhone owners will have the choice to carry the plan for an extra fee.

   These pay as you go iPhones are planned to be sold in many locations making it easy for anyone in the U.K. to find the phones. Makers of the iPhone are excited about these pay as you go phones being available to consumers that might not get a cell phone without this advantage of 3G and Wi-Fi along with their phone. 

AMD is releasing what it touts as being the world’s fastest graphic card. Its latest ATI Radeon 4870×2 graphic processor has over 2 teraFLOPS of processing power. AMD put two GPUs on one single board that was connected by a wide pipe and has 2 GB of memory installed. The 2 teraFLOPS equals to 2.4 trillion floating points per second of operation.

 The combination of the two ATI RAdeion 4800 series of graphics processing units or GPUs is how they were able to boost up the power to lightening speed and not by using a more powerful chip. When they mixed in the 2 GB of memory they achieved the success they were looking for.

 In addition to the much faster and improved performance, this card was built for efficiency. Delivering four times the performance speed of AMD’s prior graphic card, this one is a winner hands down.

 Priced at $549, the card will be sure to enjoy a high demand.

Dell’s latest news just released is that they are coming out with seven new laptop designs all made to be lightweight and durable, and they kept business users in mind in their design. These are the fourth generation Latitudes. The new E6400 and E6500 measure 14.1 inches and 15.4 inches respectively. They will be starting at $1,139 and $1,169. For those who are more economy minded, the new Latitude E5400, measuring 14.1 inch, will start at $839. The new E5.5500 is 15.4 inches and will start at $869.

 A key new feature offered in these new latitudes is the enhanced ambient lighting in the keyboards. Back-lighted keyboards have now been added by Dell and will be more useful in low light or dark rooms as they now have lights that shine from underneath the keys on the keyboard. They have also added an ambient light detector so you can control the output of illumination on the keyboards and you can turn off the lighting if you want.

 These upwardly mobile, business class laptops come in five different colors that you do not usually find in the business workplace. Depending on which model you chose, you would have the choice of Mica-Brushed Metal, Regatta Blue, Regal Red and Quartz Pink (limited to the E4200 only). The E5400 and the E500 will be available in Matte Black also. Similiar mobile technology news articles can be found on Merlins Technology News Weblog. The new Latitude line has an extended battery life that will last up to 19 hours now and can be recharged up to 80 percent of it’s capacity in one hour. Senior Dell VP, Jeff Clark, commented that this new latitude line represents Dells largest development effort of a new product line in the history of Dell.k

   This is a little off topic, but here is some legal and injury news out of Denver: Police officers that handcuffed a man and made reports that the man had been violent, hitting and punching are as of now under investigation.

    The man who is identified as John Heaney stated that the police had a chokehold on him and were on top of him, that he could not breath and they also hit his head on the sidewalk several times breaking his teeth.

   Heaney who was riding a bicycle at the time of the incident in the vicinity of Coors Field in Denver was on his way to visit with his terminally ill mother at the time. The officers in question have stated that he rode the bicycle through a red light at 20^th and Blake Streets. This almost sounds like something personal?

   These same officers also claim that Heaney punched one of the officers Detective Michael Cordova in the nose. What the officers did not report or know at the time is that the incident was being filmed and photographed by reporters that were there for the Coors Field Colorado Rockies opening game in Denver. His lawyer should be able to recoup costs for his injury, I would think.

  According to TV producer Greg Prinkey the events of the arrest should not have occurred. Heaney was on the ground and handcuffed when Detectivev Cordova grabbed him by the hair and smashed his head to the sidewalk several times. He went on to state that Heaney was in no way trying to resist arrest at the time this occurred.

   Prinkey gave the video tape to channel 9 News stating that had they not been taping the arrest it would no one would know about the incident. Prinkey went to where the altercation was taking place in an effort to stop it and the police identified them selves as officers and told him to leave. By the way if you live in Denver and require a superlative  Denver personal injury lawyer then by all means take a look at the law Offices of Larry D. Lee. He is certainly one of the finest Denver personal injury lawyer in the Mile High city

   Another photographer who witnessed the arrest Nick Heckman for Mile High Sports Magazine took pictures of the arrest and stated that Heaney did not start the altercation. 

   Heaney was charged with second degree assault on a police officer and criminal mischief because one of the officers sunglasses were broken during the arrest.

   In court Heaney stated that he knocked Cordova’s hat off before he knew that they were undercover police officers. Cordova testified under oath that he did not know how Heaneys’ teeth had been broken and he also denied banging Heaneys’ head on the ground causing the personal injury.