Both Samsung and Panasonic will begin selling 3D TVs this week.
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TiVo announced a loss of $10.2 million for the fourth quarter of its fiscal year.
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The Hollywood Reporter
Microsoft has unveiled some important elements for the Windows Phone 7 Series development platform. Most importantly, the software giant has confirmed what we’ve been expecting the company to announce for a while now. “For Microsoft, the cost of going from good to great is a clean break from the past,” a Microsoft spokesperson told Ars. “For example, previous Windows Phone content will not run on Windows Phone 7 Series.”
Charlie Kindel, Microsoft Partner Group Program Manager for the Windows Phone Application Platform & Developer Experience, went into a little bit more detail on his blog, Charlie Kindel on Windows Phone Development. “To enable the fantastic user experiences you’ve seen in the Windows Phone 7 Series demos so far we’ve had to break from the past,” Kindel writes. “To deliver what developers expect in the developer platform we’ve had to change how phone apps were written. One result of this is previous Windows mobile applications will not run on Windows Phone 7 Series. To be clear, we will continue to work with our partners to deliver new devices based on Windows Mobile 6.5 and will support those products for many years to come, so it’s not as though one line ends as soon as the other begins.”
March 05 2010
Sony plans new mobile initiative to take on Apple
Perhaps stirred by Apple’s claim of being one of the biggest mobile device companies in the world, Sony is planning a number of new devices and services to compete with Apple’s iTunes Store, iPhone, and iPad. That strategy will revolve around what’s currently being called Sony Online Service, along with smartphone and tablet-like devices meant to connect to it, according to a recent Wall Street Journal report.
Palm has released v1.1.0 of its webOS Facebook app. You can grab it via the update function for the time being.
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Engadget
Women use mobile devices about 10 percent more often than men when it comes to social networking. The 35-54 age group seem to be the most active.
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Nielsen
March 03 2010
Detached teens use Internet and TV more—or vice versa?
Parents of Internet- or TV-addicted teens finally have confirmation of something they have long suspected: the more screen exposure teenagers get, the more detached they are from those around them. Those are the findings of a paper set to be published in the March issue of the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, which examined the relationship between adolescent screen time and social involvement with parents and peers. Though the paper doesn’t quite say that Internet and TV are the cause of the detachment, it’s clear that the two are related.
Apple may finally bring HDMI to its Mac mini in a future product refresh, according to sources speaking to AppleInsider. Better yet, Apple should be introducing improved support for audio in a revision to the Mini DisplayPorts used throughout the company’s line of computers.
The unnamed sources said Apple currently has prototype Mac minis with HDMI built in, replacing the current model’s mini-DVI port. Such a change would be immediately beneficial to those that would like to use a Mac mini as a media center hooked up to a TV. Though adapters exist to connect the miniDP port to HDMI, Apple’s current implementation of miniDP doesn’t include carrying audio signals. That necessitates using multiple cables or special adapters that mix USB audio into an HDMI interface, a hassle that HDMI was meant to eliminate.
The Internet has surpassed newspapers as a primary way for Americans to get news, according to the Pew Internet and American Life Project. That makes the Internet the third most popular news platform overall, with many connected users taking advantage of nontraditional consumption methods such as social media postings, personalized news feeds, and getting their news on-the-go.
