Possibilities Archive

  • Privacy versus power: smart grids are the new battlefield

    Privacy versus power: smart grids are the new battlefield

    Posted on November 19, 2009 | No Comments
    I think we can all agree that protecting our own personal privacy is a generally good idea. There are an enormous number of ways that our privacy can be encroached in a given day. Some of them are "for our own good", or "just the cost of doing business" in the modern age. Some of the ways our privacy may be violated are extremely esoteric and not very likely (hard drive activity LEDs, for example! PDF: Information Leakage from Optical Emanations). Generally speaking, what I do in my own home is largely my own business, and not the business of anyone else. But the technology behind so-called "smart grids" for delivering electricity to appliances in a way that maximizes efficiency may leak a lot of personal information about you and your domestic habits.

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  • Sharp to go Android next year as first Japanese cell phone maker

    Sharp to go Android next year as first Japanese cell phone maker

    Posted on November 18, 2009 | No Comments
    Android is still in its infancy in Japan where most domestic makers still stick with their proprietary operating systems, with basically no one outside the geek community knowing what it is. But things are changing slowly. Last week, SoftBank (the country's third biggest cell phone carrier) announced an Android-powered phone for next year when the company announced their new models for the next months. And yesterday, Sharp announced at an event in Tokyo it will roll out a yet to be specified number of Android-based handsets as early as the first half of next year. Sharp commands the biggest market share of all eight cell phone makers in Japan so this is very good news for the Google OS in what is the most advanced mobile society in the world.

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  • LG to announce Snapdragon-boasting Android phone, Korea-bound in 2010

    LG to announce Snapdragon-boasting Android phone, Korea-bound in 2010

    Posted on November 6, 2009 | No Comments

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    It's looking like LG will be offering an Android phone boasting Qualcomm's hot Snapdragon chip -- which has recently squeezed its way into handsets such as the Xperia X10 and Acer's Liquid. The new LG mobile phone is expected for the Korean market in the second quarter of 2010. While the device is still unnamed and specs are still a mystery, LG is promising that the device will be "more mature" than the GW620 Eve, an Android device announced earlier this week for Rogers in Canada. There's no solid word on what availability of the device will be like, though LG says its considering possibilities outside of Korea.

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  • OWLE Launches Bubo; Ultimate iPhone Video Rig

    OWLE Launches Bubo; Ultimate iPhone Video Rig

    Posted on October 26, 2009 | No Comments
    With the iPhone 3GS, the possibilities are endless. In July 2009, Harold Smith and Graham Mcbain took the iPhone 3GS, and made the first prototype of the OWLE Bubo, which we covered on CrunchGear. Now, just four months later, the OWLE Bubo is ready to ship to the public. OWLE, which stands for Optical Widgets for Life Enhancement, is aiming to making mobile video much easier, by taking the parts you use on your camcorder, and enabling you to use them on the iPhone. The Bubo comes standard with a hotshoe mount on top for LED lights, four tripod mounts and standard 37mm lens threading so that you can put your own lenses on it, in addition to the lens that the Bubo comes with.

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  • Host a Wordpress site on your Windows Home Server (soon)

    Host a Wordpress site on your Windows Home Server (soon)

    Posted on October 2, 2009 | No Comments
    Everyone loves Wordpress and everyone loves Windows Home Server. Using Wordpress to host a site on your WHS just makes sense! But don’t go looking for the download link just yet, it doesn’t seem the add-in is available yet, but I like the possibilities it holds. With the add-on you’ll soon be able to quickly and [...]

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  • WinMo 6.5 powered HTC Imagio coming to Verizon Oct. 6?

    WinMo 6.5 powered HTC Imagio coming to Verizon Oct. 6?

    Posted on September 18, 2009 | No Comments
    Nothing like a hot rumor to get your Friday going. Word on the street is that a new WinMo 6.5 packin’, HTC smartie named Imagio is coming to Verizon on October 6. As this is the very same day WinMo 6.5 is officially hitting the mobilesphere, the speculation seems all that much more legitimate. According to [...]

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  • Activision mulling plug-and-play Guitar Hero TV games in the future

    Activision mulling plug-and-play Guitar Hero TV games in the future

    Posted on September 15, 2009 | No Comments
    If you really think about it, it makes sense that future installments of Guitar Hero and other games like that could basically come packaged like those Jakks Pacific plug-and-play TV games. It’d eliminate the need for a console altogether. Activision CEO Bobby Kotick realizes this, and says that his company is considering the possibilities.

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  • Poll: What will Apple announce tomorrow?

    Poll: What will Apple announce tomorrow?

    Posted on September 8, 2009 | No Comments
    Let’s keep this simple as you probably already know the back story on all these possible announcements already. But we’ve already weighed in with our thoughts, but we’re curious what you, the well-informed consumer, thinks will be announced by Apple tomorrow. And boy there is a lot of possibilities. What will Apple announce tomorrow? iPods with cameras Who [...]

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  • Programmable license plate cover finally affordable for the rest of us

    Programmable license plate cover finally affordable for the rest of us

    Posted on July 24, 2009 | No Comments
    ledLicense plate covers with scrolling LED messages used to be the playthings of kings, CEOs, and hotel owners! Now you, too, can get in on the fun for far less than you think. GraveyardMall.com is selling the "E-Plate Scrolling License Plate Frame" for just $14 plus shipping.

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  • On the apparent Apple suicide

    On the apparent Apple suicide

    Posted on July 22, 2009 | No Comments
    Every once in a while you get a story so strange and horrible that it takes a while to sink in. I’m talking about the suicide of a Foxconn employee who was caught doing something with an “iPhone prototype” and jumped out of the window. Matt wrote: So the story goes that a 25-year-old man at Foxconn [...]

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  • Foxconn employee interrogated over lost iPhone prototype, suicide ensues [Update]

    Foxconn employee interrogated over lost iPhone prototype, suicide ensues [Update]

    Posted on July 21, 2009 | No Comments
    So the story goes that a 25-year-old man at Foxconn - where iPhones are born - was to send 16 iPhone prototypes to Apple, but one was lost somewhere. The Foxconn security department then proceeded to illegally search the man's apartment and interrogated him. But that was too much for the man that might be responsible for leaking a prototype of the next iPhone. Update after the jump

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