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Nike has created a GPS enabled watch for runners that is not only simple to use but tracks your runs, and allows you to connect online and share your runs, it tracks where you go and the run times.. Great way to share great running routes with all your friends. One of the cool features is that once you take
Vidabox, one of the top-of-the-line Media Center manufacturers, put out a press release today about a new product they are calling the Liiv Controller. It will be officially shown for the first time at the Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) show which will be held from February 1-3 in Amsterdam, but we have a special early look. So what is the
This week the Department of Commerce issued a proposal to create an on line trusted identity system. According to the Commerce Department it would encourage a greater trust in providing information online to individuals by businesses and visa versa. There would be multiple partners in this program, they are as follows:The Individual--to be issued digital identities to complete transactions. The Non-Person Entity (NPE)‚such as organizations and services who would require authentication. The Identity Provider‚who is responsible for the processes involved in enrolling subjects (individuals and NPEs) in the system. The Attribute Provider‚who oversees the processes involved in creating, validating, and keeping up the attributes associated with identities, such as age. The Relying Party‚who makes transaction decisions based on the receipt of a subject's credentials. The Trustmark‚ some kind of image, logo, badge, or seal that authenticates participation in the Identity Ecosystem. And finally, the Governance Authority, which oversees and maintains the Ecosystem Framework.
Sophos has published its quarterly report into spam and the USA remains top of the league for spam-relaying, being responsible for nearly 19% of all spam messages. India follows with a little under 7% and then Brazil, Russia and the UK finishing the top 5 on 4.5%. The vast majority of spam does not come directly from spammers' servers, but
The UK's Guardian newspaper published a very interesting article on Monday about the iPad and media publishing. In short, the iPad is not generating the revenues that it was expected to and subscriptions are slumping. However, many publishers are hopeful for the long-term. The story quotes figures from the Audit Bureau of Circulations, which particularly cites Condé Nast's Wired. On
Spot has been a leader in satellite rescue and communication devices. With a Spot device you can send a rescue signal via satellite, for several years now you have also been able to send short text messages as well through Spot devices. Now your smartphone can interact with a new Spot device essentially turning your smartphone into a Satellite Communicator.
DriveNTalk won a Design and Innovation award for their new TALK SMART BHF-2000 this is a hands free device that is truly hands free. Simply by waving your hand you can answer your mobile phone while driving. Tap on the device and talk to it and it will execute a number of preset commands. DriveNTalk have been known for a
Mophie was displaying their latest chargers for the iPhone4 at CES 2011. Many of you may recall the trouble I had with the 3G version of Mophie charger where the charging connection was not as robust as it should be. In the iPhone4 design they have reworked the design and location of the charging connection. Talking with the representative that
Toyota demonstrated at CES 2011 their upcoming in car technology for higher end Toyota models. We were surprised to find Toyota at CES as they have not had a presence in years past and this is the first we had heard about them bringing Apps and Interactivity to their dashboards. As far as we can tell they are still in
Every year Vitrue announces the top 100 social brands to show which ones are grabbing mindshare. It does this by analysing online conversations across social networks, blogs, micro-blogs, photo and video sharing sites. Basically it captures what people are talking about on-line. It's a pretty good bellwether for the movers and shakers and unsurprisingly, consumer electronics come out very well.Of
We have just wrapped up over 40 hours of live content from CES 2011. We know have the task of posting a huge amount of post produced content into our media stream. With over 255 interviews to post produce their will be a huge amount of content to consumer over the coming weeks. I hope that you enjoyed the show,
CES 2011 has come to a close in Las Vegas, I have been following it on-line all week. I have watched it live through the Tech Podcast Network, CNET and Twit. Everyone is talking about 3D TV, tablets and smart TV's these are things that are current trends. There are some long-term trends that also showed up at CES 2011.
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