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5月22日 The World’s First Open Movie
Ton Roosendaal has once again relentlessly turned a vision into reality: the dream to prove the power of Open Source software by creating a movie that could match itself with any commercial product. Not only would the movie be made using Open Source software, but the contents themselves were to be Open as well: all of the digital assets and production files are released under a Creative Commons license, allowing everyone to see how the movie was made, make changes to it and create a new, derived movie. 11月5日 Three new Nseries smartphonesNokia has introduced three new Symbian OS-based phones to its Nseries range of high performance multimedia devices. The new Nokia N92, Nokia N80 and Nokia N71 deliver different mobile multimedia experiences to segmented consumer markets by combining the latest technologies with stylish design and ease of use. All these phones run on the latest version of Symbian OS v9 and the S60 3rd Edition.
To learn more please visit the Nokia Nseries home page. 9月14日 Plasma, LCDs race to conquer big-screen TV marketTOKYO - Until recently, buying a big, thin-screen television boiled down to choosing between a projection set, with its quality limitations, and a pricey plasma TV. But not anymore. Producers of liquid crystal displays (LCDs), armed with new technology and more efficient factories, have declared that they are ready to conquer the lucrative segment of televisions with 37- and 42-inch displays. "With the seventh-generation factory (which starts production in 2006) it's clear we can capture the 42-inch size," Bruce Berkoff, executive vice president for marketing at the world's biggest LCD maker, LG.Philips LCD ,said at the Reuters Asia Technology and Telecoms Summit in Tokyo. He pointed to the LCD makers' track record of lower prices with each new generation of the production process. "A few years ago, the whole industry said LCDs were good for 20 inches and below.... Last year, LCDs were good for 32 inches and below. Clearly, as we ramp our sixth-generation factory this year, we're ready to capture 37-inch TVs," Berkoff added. Plasma display makers, however, are more confident than ever that they can withstand the attack. They are cutting costs and moving to even bigger television sizes where LCD makers cannot follow. GOOD FOR CONSUMERS "We changed a lot of software and components at the back of the panel. This will lead to cost-competitiveness and reliability and a more stable product," Chris Kim, marketing and sales vice president at Samsung SDI , said at the summit. Samsung SDI, the world's top plasma display maker, makes one of every three plasma panels sold today. Kim cited data from research group DisplaySearch showing that by 2008 the manufacturing cost for a 40-inch LCD panel will be about $645, compared with just $454 for a 42-inch plasma display panel. The plasma-LCD rivalry is good news for consumers. A 42-inch thin TV set that cost $5,000 last year now sells for less than $4,000 and some models are even below $3,000, Kim said. The price of a 42-inch set is forecast to dip well below $2,000 by 2008, helping plasma TVs to more than quadruple their sales to 12.3 million units and grab half of the market for TV sets of 40 inches or more, compared with 40 percent now, DisplaySearch said. Japan's Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. , which owns the Panasonic brand and makes both plasma displays and the TV sets that use them, says it needs to cut the price per inch of a plasma TV screen to 5,000 yen by 2008, from 10,000 yen now, if it wants to protect its 70 percent share of the Japanese plasma TV market from rivals Pioneer Corp. and Fujitsu Ltd., as well as from LCD makers. Plasma display makers often stress that their screens offer better contrast than LCDs, because they do not use backlighting that is always illuminated, nor do they suffer from the motion blur, also known as smearing or ghosting, that is a problem with LCD TVs. DIRE PROJECTION Not to be outdone, the LCD camp offers its own technological advantages for large TVs. LCDs are the only flat screens that can offer full high definition-quality images at sizes of 37, 42 and 50 inches. Plasma technology simply does not allow a detailed resolution of 1,080 x 1,920 pixels on a display of less than 60 inches, Berkoff said. "They can never make the pixel size small enough to make a full high-definition 42-inch TV," he said. In addition, he said, new technologies will overcome LCDs' notorious weaknesses of ghosting, weak contrast and poor picture quality when viewed at an angle. He acknowledges, however, that even the latest LCD factories will not be able to produce LCD TVs that can compete with plasma in sizes of 50 inches or more, happily leaving that to plasma makers. "How many homes want a 70-inch TV anyway?" he said. In the horse race between the two display technologies for the next decade, there is one likely casualty: projection television. Many market researchers, LCD makers and plasma producers dismiss it as a niche display technology. They predict that projection TVs, while currently cheaper than thin displays, will be outpaced as electronics makers pour billions of dollars into developing and manufacturing LCDs and plasma panels with improved picture quality and lower cost. 9月5日 'Touch and feel' TV, courtesy JapanImagine watching a football match on a TV that not only shows the players in three dimensions but also lets you experience the smells of the stadium and maybe even pat a goalscorer on the back.
Japan plans to make this futuristic television a commercial reality by 2020 as part of a broad national project that will bring together researchers from the government, technology companies and academia. The targeted "virtual reality" television would allow people to view high-definition images in 3D from any angle, in addition to being able to touch and smell the objects being projected upwards from a screen parallel to the floor. Touch and smell "Can you imagine hovering over your TV to watch Japan versus Brazil in the finals of the World Cup as if you are really there?" asked Yoshiaki Takeuchi, director of research and development at Japan's Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. While companies, universities and research institutes around the world have made some progress on reproducing 3D images suitable for TV, developing the technologies to create the sensations of touch and smell could prove the most challenging, Takeuchi said in an interview with Reuters. Researchers are looking into ultrasound, electric stimulation and wind pressure as potential technologies for touch. Such a TV would have a wide range of potential uses. It could be used in home-shopping programmes, allowing viewers to "feel" a handbag before placing their order, or in the medical industry, enabling doctors to view or even perform simulated surgery on 3D images of someone's heart. Universal communication The future TV is part of a larger national project under which Japan intends to promote "universal communication", a concept whereby information is shared smoothly and intelligently regardless of location or language. Takeuchi said an open forum covering a broad range of technologies related to universal communication, such as language translation and advanced Web search techniques, could be established by the end of this year. Researchers from several top firms including Matsushita Electric Industrial Co Ltd and Sony Corp are members of a committee that published an interim report on the project last month. The ministry plans to request a budget of more than 1 billion yen ($9 million) to help fund the project in the next fiscal year starting in April 2006. 8月24日 Sony is now forced to add web browser for the psp!I have heard that there is alot of hacks for the psp like irc and web browser
and today i have read that sony have launched a web browser for it!
The game Wipeout Pure includes a built-in web browser that only allows you to access the Wipeout home page. However, a few enterprising folks have figured out what makes this browser tick, and have created sites of their own to spoof this home page and to allow any Website to be accessed. Riding the Clutch has info on how to set this up, in addition to a portal to allow you to access sites like Google and Slashdot.
and here is the news i heard today about this
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sony Corp. is adding Internet access to its Play Station Portable in a bid to increase the mobile gaming device's appeal as a handheld entertainment center, the company said on Wednesday. Sony Computer Entertainment America is offering PSP users a software upgrade that will allow wireless Internet access on the device, including a new Web browser to connect to news, entertainment content, online searches and e-mail. The software is also built to increase data security on the device and enhance digital photo-sharing and video playback capabilities, the company said. "The Internet browser and other added functionality ... will further enhance the user experience beyond the unprecedented portable entertainment already provided by PSP," said Andrew House, executive vice president of Sony Computer Entertainment America. Japan's Sony has sold nearly 2 million PSP units in North America since launching the product in March. 8月23日 Sony, Toshiba give up on unified DVD format -paperTOKYO - Groups headed by Toshiba Corp. and Sony Corp. offering competing technologies for next-generation DVDs have given up efforts to develop a unified format, the Yomiuri newspaper reported on Tuesday.
For three years, the two groups have pushed to have their respective standards adopted to gain dominance in the multibillion-dollar markets for DVD players, PC drives and optical discs. Toshiba, along with NEC Corp. and Sanyo Electric Co., has been promoting HD DVD, while Sony and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., the maker of Panasonic brand products, have been developing a technology known as Blu-ray. The two groups have held negotiations on unifying their formats to persuade consumers to shift to advanced discs and to promote growth in the industry. But negotiations fell through as neither side yielded, and time ran out to develop a format before the launch of new products from both groups, the paper said. "Late August is the practical time limit (to unify formats)," Yoshihide Fujii, Toshiba's corporate senior vice president, was quoted as saying in the paper. A Toshiba spokeswoman said Fujii just meant that the company needed to start developing software by late August for its HD DVD-based players. A senior Toshiba official told Reuters in London that shipments of HD-DVD products would start early next year. "As a product, in the first quarter of 2006," Toshiba's corporate vice president, Nobuhiro Yoshida, said when asked when Toshiba would ship HD-DVD items. A Sony spokesman said it had become harder to unify formats after a failure to reach an agreement in negotiations in May. Both companies agreed, however, that a unified format is still a possibility. They said a single format would be the best way, and added they would release their products as scheduled. Sony plans to put a Blu-ray disc drive in its new PlayStation game console next year. Sony's Blu-ray technology is also backed by Dell Inc. and South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co.. At the core of both formats are blue lasers, which have a shorter wavelength than the red lasers used in current DVD equipment, allowing discs to store data at higher densities needed for high-definition movies and television. Toshiba's then president, Tadashi Okamura, said in May that producers of next-generation optical discs would eventually use one format, although products based on the two competing standards may be around for a limited time. 6月11日 Nokia and Intel push to get WiMAX out this yearif u wanna know more about WIMAX u may visit this site which provides definition for WIMAX http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wimax AMSTERDAM - Mobile phone and network company Nokia and chip giant Intel said on Friday they would step up their efforts and collaboration to make WiMAX a new standard in mobile broadband Internet access. Intel has been the driving force behind WiMAX, touting it as the long-distance broadband Internet sibling of Wi-Fi which it turned into a success with its Centrino chipsets for laptops. The support of Nokia, which has not always been a WiMAX believer, shows that the world's biggest mobile phone maker and one of the leading wireless networks makers also sees a future. Interestingly, Nokia sees WiMAX demand from mobile telecoms operators, for which the Finnish firm is already building third generation mobile phone networks with, also, fast Web access. "There is interest from operators. It's still too early to tell who and what, but we (Intel and Nokia) are making sure it is working," said Tero Ojanpera, Nokia's chief strategy officer. "The key thing is to get the WiMAX standard ready," he said, adding that despite the additional research efforts from Nokia, it will be toward the end of the year before there is an open standard that can be used by all chip and mobile device makers. Instead of an overlap, Nokia now believes WiMAX may be complementary to its third generation mobile phone networks, and Nokia will make sure the WiMAX base stations can sit peacefully alongside the cell phone base stations in radio masts. "For instance in hot zones," Ojanpera said in a telephone interview, referring to congested areas where the cell phone network would be quickly overloaded if many users started downloading film clips and making video calls. In those areas, a dedicated Internet network such as WiMAX would be more efficient in dealing with such data services.
THE RIGHT CHIPS FOR THE RIGHT DEVICES
A South Korean woman shows the Intel Pentium 4 processor 660 supporting Hyper-Threading technology at its unveiling in Seoul in this February 22, 2005 file photo. Mobile phone and network company Nokia and chip giant Intel said on Friday they would step up their efforts and collaboration to make WiMAX a new standard in mobile broadband Internet access. Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters By coming together, the biggest chip maker and the biggest cell phone maker, want to accelerate the development of the right, energy efficient chips for both mobile devices as well as laptop computers, in addition to the base station chips. Intel, which makes more than four out of every five personal computer processors, has been struggling to break into the cell phone market. Nokia, like all of the other major handset vendors, is no customer of its key baseband chips. The WiMAX agreement may contribute to Nokia warming up to Intel. "To have innovators like Nokia working to bring WiMAX and other broadband wireless technologies to the masses is very encouraging," Sean Maloney, who leads Intel's Mobility Group, said in a statement. Nokia and Intel are members of the WiMAX forum, which is an industry-led non-profit corporation formed to promote and certify compatibility and interoperability of WiMAX. Nokia was a founding member, but left the forum temporarily when it appeared that WiMAX would only be a long-distance replacement for broadband Internet cables to fixed locations, such as rural villages which could not otherwise get broadband. It rejoined the forum last year when it emerged that a new variant of WiMAX, dubbed 802.16e, would give consumers the opportunity to move around. The specifications for this standard still need to be approved by the forum, expected late this year. The mobile version of WiMAX can be built into mobile devices such as those made by Nokia, alongside the cellphone chipsets. Intel, in any case, plans to build WiMAX chips into laptop chipsets, just like it started selling Wi-Fi chips as an integrated part of its Centrino chipsets two years ago 4月27日 Nokia N91 (Series 60) for a true mobile music experience(Really cOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoL)nokia is still fighting for surviving against other mobile phones they have made 3 new models which are n91,n90(look like a camera to me ) & n70(very small and might be used in i'll pay more atention to the n91 cuz it has amazing features here is it's specification: Storage for up to 3000 songs, plus smartphone functionality in an ultra-portable package: Nokia today introduced the Nokia N91, a device optimized for mobile music consumption. With room for up to 3000 songs on the integrated 4-gigabyte hard disk, the Nokia N91 delivers a premier music experience. In addition, the industry standard 3.5mm stereo headset jack and easy transfer of music files from your PC help make the Nokia N91 a connected mobile jukebox. Encased in stainless steel, the Nokia N91 has dedicated music keys on its face, which slide down to reveal the phone keypad. The Nokia N91 is a part of the new Nokia Nseries range, bringing you the latest multimedia technologies and smartphone functionalities.
4月14日 Hackers Add Web, Chat to PSP Video Game Player
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With the browsing experience accentuated by its huge high resolution color display (320 x 240 pixels, up to 262,144 colors), the Nokia N71 supports the new Nokia Web Browser with Mini Map. A pocketable entertainment system, the Nokia N71 keeps people entertained with digital music, videos and stereo FM radio and is the latest member of the Nokia XpressMusic family. The Nokia N71 has a slot for a miniSD card of up to 2 GB, which can store up to 1500 songs. Users can transfer their favorite music from a compatible PC simply by dragging and dropping onto the Nokia N71 using USB 2.0. Furthermore, with support for Visual Radio, listeners are offered a richly interactive information channel, including the song and artist currently playing.
Nokia N80 is the first ever handset to enable seamless home media networking between compatible TVs, audio systems and PCs. The Nokia N80 reflects and harmonizes work and personal life through leading on-the-go productivity tools, multimedia entertainment and mobile photography in a design that communicates success. Weighing only 134 grams, the compact yet feature-rich 3G multimedia device is packed with performance, providing fast internet access and convenient intuitive browsing as well as the possibility to send and receive emails at Wireless LAN (WLAN) speeds. Nokia N80 is the first quadband handset designed to work on 3G (WCDMA 1900 or 2100), WLAN, EDGE and four GSM bands (850/900/1800/1900), enabling broadband access from virtually anywhere on the planet. With simple to use yet advanced UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) technology, the Nokia N80 can be used to tap into the digital home network, acting almost as a remote control, enabling secure and convenient access to compatible PCs, audio equipment and TVs. Consequently, images and video stored on the Nokia N80 or a compatible PC can be viewed wirelessly on the living room TV, while listening to music stored on the device through the living room audio system. Printing is now faster too, as Nokia N80 users can print wirelessly to any compatible UPnP-enabled home printer or printing kiosk.
Nokia N92 is, the first integrated DVB-H mobile device in the Nokia Nseries range for watching broadcast TV programs. The Nokia N92 offers easy access to TV programs without having to sit in front of a television set. Users can set reminders to watch their favorite TV programs, create personal channel lists and subscribe to TV channel packages. The outstanding new form factor offers a highly ergonomic user-experience. The usability is further enhanced by the large 2.8" anti-glare QVGA screen with 16 million colors and the dedicated media keys that deliver a rich viewing experience. The Nokia N92 has four different modes for simple and easy usage. The new view mode is especially designed for watching TV and video. To start watching mobile TV, users simply need to open the Nokia N92 in view mode and press the Multimedia key. The Electronic Service Guide (ESG) contains information about the available TV channels, programs and services. Other mobile TV features include watching time of up to four hours, recording and 30 seconds replay. The Nokia N92 is also an XpressMusic device, with up to 2 GB memory card support, offering storage for up to 1500 songs delivered through the built-in stereo speakers or a stereo headset. The entertainment experience is further complimented by FM radio with Visual Radio support. Additional Nseries features include 2 megapixel camera for print-quality photos and email attachment support.
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