Jamie Iannone, president of digital products at Nook Media (the spinoff of Barnes & Noble¡¯s digital and college businesses, which was completed in October and includes investments from Microsoft and Pearson), said in a statement that the two-for-one deal lets customers ¡°fully experience all that the expansive Nook Store of more than 3 million titles has to offer.¡± The idea is that tablet users who are coming to the Nook HD+ for its ¡°movies, apps, magazines and more¡± ¡ª though it¡¯s unclear how many people actually want these things from Nook, especially following the launch of the iPad Mini) ¡ª might stick around and buy some ebooks if they have a device to do so. (Of course, they can also read ebooks on a Nook Tablet.) The deal might just be intended to get rid of Nook e-readers ¡ª it¡¯s possible that Barnes & Noble wants to focus on the Nook Simple Touch with GlowLight going forward. It may also be Barnes & Noble¡¯s effort to compete with Amazon, which recently slashed the price of the 8.9-inch Kindle Fire HD, bringing the WiFi versions price in line with the Nook HD+.For more information, please visit 9 inch tablet
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Friday, March 29th, 2013Cheap Android Tablets Announce Low Prices & Quality Service on All Models 3147
Thursday, March 28th, 2013In the press conference held at one of the most prominent hotels in the city yesterday, the founder of cheap android tablets declared that their company aimed at offering cheap android tablets to make sure that everyone owns an Android. Their website, Cheap Android Tablets had an array of android tablets at comparatively low prices for people to select. He also responded that the android tablets they offer are of high quality and durable in nature. Though the androids they offer are at low process, he said that the company wants to make sure that there is no compromise in terms of When responding to a question asked by the member of press regarding the authenticity of the android phones, the founder replied that each of the android phones sold by them possessed a quality certificate to ensure only the best phone reaches the hands of their customers. He further added that the customers can buy cheap android tablets with great assurance as their phones were of top quality than the rest sold in the market. This way he felt that the buyers would be satisfied as they would be proud owners of much cheaper tablets while it has the features of an expensive counterpart. He also added that android lovers can have a great time visiting their website as the site is loaded with lots of information about the android phones and various features related to it. He also said that this is to ensure that if a person is buying an android phone for the very first time, he should be aware of the various features in an android and the uses of it. Also the person will have access to a long list of specifications for each model which he can compare and contrast before choosing a particular model. This feature he said, offers the scope for the buyer to get a good phone with many advanced features while buying new android tablets. When asked about the terms for repair and replacement for the cheap android phones, he immediately responded that their company had a very flexible option for full refund. He added that if the buyer needs to return the android within 7 days, then he can send it back to the company and the full amount would be restored immediately. And if there are a few problems faced by the buyers with the tablet, then they can notify the company within 30 days and it will be replaced immediately in exchange of the ones with the problem. He also added that all the goods while in transit are insured and the shipping facilities were made available are standard and express methods. luoqiyin666
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Bill would let police track cellphones 0030
Saturday, March 23rd, 2013PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Cellphone providers would have to provide data about the location of a missing person’s cellphone if police determine the person is in danger under legislation introduced in Rhode Island’s General Assembly.
One of the bill’s sponsors, state Sen. James Doyle, says the legislation could save lives by ensuring that police can quickly track a person’s phone if they believe they are in danger. He says that now, cellphone providers are often reluctant to offer up the information for fear of a lawsuit. Doyle’s bill was announced on Tuesday.
The proposal is modeled after a law in Kansas that was passed following the 2007 disappearance and murder of an 18-year-old woman. Her cellphone provider initially refused to provide information on her phone’s location, information that ultimately led authorPartner Communications, which operates in Israel under the Orange brand name, has reached a settlement with a customer who claims he contracted cancer after using one of their devices.
The customer, who is in his 50s, sued Partner in May, claiming that intensive use of the device resulted in an aggressive lymphoma near his left ear. Partner agreed to pay NIS 400,000 in an out-of-court compromise settlement.
The customer is an attorney who had converted the secure room ¨C a reinforced room that doubles as a bomb shelter and is common in most new Israeli homes ¨C into an office. He claimed that he conducted a great deal of phone calls and business from the room, where cellular reception was low. In places without good phone reception, such as elevators and secure rooms, the electromagnetic radiation from cellular phones is higher than usual.
Partner’s settlement is a rare act. The company says they opted to pay the customer as a humanitarian gesture, saying in a statement, “The company is very meticulous about adhering to the guidelines of the World Health Organization, the Health Ministry, the Communications Ministry and all the relevant bodies. No scientific or medical basis was found to the claim and it was rejected by the court. Beyond the letter of the law, in light of [the man’s] personal story, the company decided on an exceptional humanitarian gesture. We wish him good health.”
Regardless of their statement, the customer’s lawsuit included a medical opinion linking mobile phone use and his disease, which raises questions about Partner. Was it concerned the opinion would be legally validated if the case when to court? Was it worried about a precedent? Did it prefer to sign the compromise agreement to save face in the media?
Israel’s other cellular companies have less to fear from lawsuits because their rules are relatively strict when held up alongside international standards. Every device comes with a brochure detailing safety precautions, which include using an earpiece and refraining from taking in locations with poor reception.
Israelis are among the heaviest cell phone users in the world. According to a Partner report issued last week, its customers speak for 450 minutes a month on average. Customers with unlimited packages speak for about 700 minutes a month.luoqiyin666
The debate about radiation damages has been around since the establishment of the cellular companies. Until now most of the battle has been over radiation from antennas. The present compromise is unusual because it focuses on radiation from the cellular device itself. Two months ago a survey found increasing evidence of the link between the use of cell phones and brain tumors.
This particular settlement by Partner is liable to have an effect on cell phone companies and open the floodgates to a barrage of individual and class-action lawsuits, providing plenty of work for lawyers specializing in the field. Following a ruling in the United States requiring tobacco companies to pay damages for cancer patients who had smoked, lawsuits poured in and the value of tobacco companies plummeted as a result.ities to her body. cheap smartphones for sale
FCC Pledges Cell Phone Unlocking Investigation 0075
Friday, March 22nd, 2013In January this year a law was passed that made the practice of cell phone unlocking illegal for users on a hardware subsidizing contract. Cell phone unlocking is the removal of restrictions placed on the device by a cell phone carrier. It is opposed to jailbreaking, which is the removal of restrictions placed on devices by manufacturers. The ruling caused widespread dismay, and led to a protest movement. The FCC said it will investigate the law, in order to ascertain whether or not it negatively affects competitiveness. The story was originally reported by TechCrunch. According to that site, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said the ¡°ban raises competition concerns; it raises innovation concerns.¡±
The ban on unlocking smartphones means it is illegal for users to switch their cell phone carrier on a subsidized phone. The law appears designed to protect cell carriers who pay out of pocket for hardware in the hope that they will reap a profit on monthly contracts. The ban was implemented under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, or DMCA.
For six years the Library of Congress, which is charged with specifying the regulations of the DMCA, did not include cell phone unlocking under the act. That all changed in January, however. The FCC will now investigate that ruling and see if there¡¯s anything that it can do to change it.
The FCC chairman said ¡°It¡¯s something that we will look at at [sic] the FCC to see if we can and should enable consumers to use cheap smart phone.¡± According to Gregory Ferenstein, who originally reported the story at TechCrunch, Genachowski¡¯s tone made him out to appear anxious to do something about the law.
It is unclear whether or not the FCC has any authority on the issue of cell phone unlocking, and the first thing the regulator is likely to do is make the case for the legitimacy of this action. If it manages to make that case convincingly, users might once gain be allowed to unlock their phones without fearing retribution from the authorities.luoqiyin666
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Thursday, March 21st, 2013Mobile phone handsets from foreign manufacturers that cost more than 2,000 rupees ($37) will become more expensive after India¡¯s finance minister proposed increasing the import tax on them to 6% from 1%.
The move will make dual sim smart phones and feature phones (handsets that have some smartphone features but are generally cheaper) made by companies such as Apple Inc. Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd Nokia Corp. and BlackBerry more expensive as most of their models cost more than 2,000 rupees. Sunil Dutt, BlackBerry India¡¯s managing director, said the proposed move could hurt the smartphone market in India, which is currently growing at about 80% a year.
¡°It could have a negative impact on the purchase decision of many consumers who aspire to own smartphones. In turn this will also impact some of the services consumption which carriers are trying to take to the customers along the lines of health care, mobile governance, and so on,¡± he said. P. Balaji, managing director at Nokia India, added that the 6% import tax would make it difficult to compete with gray market supply, while the vice president of Samsung India¡¯s mobile unit said the proposed move would lead to higher prices for consumers.
Apple¡¯s India unit wasn¡¯t immediately available for comment.
The technology research unit of Cyber Media (India) Ltd. says about 224 million handsets will be shipped to India in calendar year 2013 compared to 202 million in January to November last year.
The decision to increase the import tax could encourage companies to make cheaper phones, said T. M. Ramakrishnan, chief executive at local handset maker S Mobility Ltd. ¡°This decision will surely impact the industry¡¯s focus on making smartphones more affordable,¡± he said. Smartphone and feature phones sales are on the rise in India as telecom operators are providing high-speed Internet and other communications services. They are also encouraging users to use data services on their handsets as margins are higher than traditional voice telephone services. Mohammad Chowdhury, head of telecom at PricewaterhouseCoopers India, also warned that the proposed tax would ¡°impact negatively the uptake of data services in India and in all likelihood slow it down, just at a time when it has begun to gain momentum.¡±
In his budget presentation Thursday, Finance Minister P.Chidambaram said about 70% of imported mobile phones and 60% of domestically made mobile phones cost 2,000 rupees or less.luoqiyin666
Deliver Quad-HD Video Over HDMI Cables 0061
Wednesday, March 20th, 2013The High Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) 1.4 specification supports cinema-quality video resolution of 2160p (3840 by 2160 pixels), also known as Quad HD, ¡°4Kx2K,¡± or just ¡°4K.¡± It also can support true 1080p 3D video at a 60-Hz refresh rate. The 2160p format allows for four times as many screen pixels as the ubiquitous 1080p TV format and runs at a data rate of 2.97 Gbits/s (also known as 3Gbps). Until recently, integrated silicon solutions for systems engineers to design 2160p and 1080p 3D 60-Hz video systems have not been available.
Applications for 3Gbps HDMI solutions include audio/video receiver (AVR) boxes, video wall displays, switchers, extenders, 4K projectors, and 1080p60 3D video generation. As the insatiable demand for video resolution continues to increase, more 3Gbps applications will come to market. 3Gbps HDMI interface solutions provide new features to the video space that were not previously available in past versions of the HDMI specification.
The hdmi to usb cable Even with the best silicon solutions, smart layouts and attention to printed-circuit board (PCB) challenges are needed to prevent bit errors in a 3Gbps video system. The fast data rate requirements of the latest video resolutions are pushing the limits of physics on the standard FR4 PCB material. Although higher-performance board trace materials are available, they may not be practical in a consumer electronics application due to their higher cost compared to FR4. But with careful attention to layout detail, a 3Gpbs HDMI system solution using FR4 can still be attained.
Three important board layout issues could arise with a 3Gbps HDMI signal resulting in system failure. The first is poor transition-minimized differential signaling (TMDS) intra-pair matching and poor termination (see ¡°What Is TDMS?¡± below). Next is the capability to recover HDMI data in spite of attenuation loss on cables and FR4 board material. Finally, crosstalk with other noisy signals can cause inter-symbol interference (ISI). Any one or all of these issues could degrade the video signal enough to be inoperable in the system.
With a data period of only 336.7 ps, the timing skew relation between all of the HDMI signal paths must be closely watched during system board design. Each TMDS signal pair should be routed as close together as possible to keep the trace lengths within the pair matched and to maintain 100-¦¸ differential impedance along the entire transmission line. In addition, each of the three pairs of traces should be kept the same length to minimize the inter-channel mismatch at the HDMI receiver chip.
Care should be taken to avoid routing the TMDS data signals adjacent to or over other digital communications and clocks, such as the Display Data Channel (DDC) interface or the Consumer Electronics Control (CEC) control lines. Such routing could induce unwanted crosstalk to couple onto the TMDS signals, causing bit errors.luoqiyin666
Due to the permittivity of commonly used FR4 material of 0.45 to 0.48, ¨C1-dB signal attenuation can be seen for approximately every 8 inches of total trace length within the HDMI transmission line. All other passive electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection devices and connectors will further increase the attenuation of the signals and further distort the impedance matching. Although higher-performance PCB materials are available to the designer, they may be cost prohibitive for high-volume consumer electronics applications. To pass HDMI physical-layer (PHY) compliance testing at 3Gbps, the attenuation on the TMDS signals must be minimized to meet both Tx and Rx system requirements.
The HDMI cable typically acts as the largest component of signal attenuation within a video system. The magnitude of attenuation over an HDMI cable largely will depend upon its length and the quality of the wire gauge used. For example, a 30-meter 24 American Wire Gauge (24AWG) cable will attenuate a 2.97-Gbit/s (1485-MHz) signal significantly (Fig. 1). The signal at the far end of the 30-meter cable will be seen as ¨C28 dB relative to the power at the beginning of the cable.
Karl Lagerfeld Watches 00116
Tuesday, March 19th, 2013So the joke is that no one will an excuse to be late for a Chanel runway show anymore (bazinga). Karl Lagerfeld, who, as you know, heads up Chanel, Fendi, his namesake brand, and is involved with a huge number of collaborations (ranging from books, table wear, music and so on in that in order) has officially lunched his own self titled watch collection hitting stores¡.nowish. How on earth does he find the time??? Back in early fall 2011, Fossil Inc. committed to a ¡°strategic partnership¡± with Lagerfeld to design, develop and distribute men¡¯s and women¡¯s timepieces. Paolo Righi, president at Karl Lagerfeld: ¡°It is essential for us to work with the best license partners in each segment¡ªthat is why we are happy to partner up with Fossil.¡± Mark Quick, vice chairman at Fossil, said: ¡°We look forward to working with Karl Lagerfeld. It is a pleasure to work with such an inspiring fashion visionary.¡± ¨C WWD Following with his ¡°accessible¡± fashion brand, the watches are pretty inline with the Karl vibe: Sleek, contemporary, playing off some fun triangular design and an elongated bezel that is reminiscent of a classic Chanel watch. Personally I kind of love¡¯em, it isn¡¯t often you find a fashionable watch for such a steal of a deal. ¡°You cannot buy time but you can get a beautiful watch to measure time without spending a fortune¡±-Karl Lagerfeld Here¡¯s a look: The Karl 7 and Karl Zip watches; Photos Courtesy of Karl Lagerfeld for Fossil Lagerfeld¡¯s fave is the ¡°Karl Zip¡± which features an exposed zipper that¡¯s both functional and eye catching ($535). Inspired by his lucky number, the ¡°Karl 7,¡± which features a unique and modern design ($335). The middle time piece is this fashion bloggers favorite, it¡¯s just so KL.luoqiyin666
Here¡¯s a good chunk of the collection with prices ranging from $150 up to $595. There¡¯s one for every outfit: cheap watches for men