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Unreal on Palm is unreal, webOS gets Unreal Engine 3 games

"Palm and Epic Games demonstrated Unreal Engine 3 up and running on the Palm's webOS. It looks really awesome and the game developers have already a free access to it. Let the unreal games begin now! During the Game Developer Conference (GDC) Palm and Epic Games definitely succeeded in making an impression with the getting the Unreal Engine 3 running under Palm's webOS. As you can see from the video below, the graphics and special effects look fantastic and the sheer gaming potential looks aw...

Ricoh to develop 2 new GXR camera system units

Ricoh announces development of two new system units for the GXR interchangeable unit camera. The new P10 28-300 mm F3.5-5.6 VC features a back-illuminated CMOS sensor and high-zoom 10.7x (28-300 mm) optical wide-angle zoom and offers 120 frame/second high-speed continuous shooting. The new A12 28 mm F2.5 features a 23.6 mm x 15.7 mm (APS-C size) CMOS and a newly developed 28 mm fixed-focal-length GR lens. The availability of the P10 is planned for this summer, the A12 for the last quarter of th...

Symbian Is Now an Open Source Operating System

"The largest transition of proprietary code to open source in history has just been completed: all the source code for the Symbian OS is now available for free. Many Americans aren't familiar with this operating system, but it's very widely used around the world in phones from Nokia, Motorola, Sony Ericsson, and others. It has been at the heart of more than 330 million devices over the years. However, the Symbian has been facing increasing competition, and the companies who both use it a...

Ford Sync turns your car into mobile Internet hot-spot

Although somewhat off-topic, the next-generation SYNC system integrated in Ford's future in-car WiFi system is an interesting development. It can be powered by your USB mobile broadband modem, turning the entire car into hot spot. Standard WiFi Protected Access 2 security protocols will be in force, and only owner-permitted devices will be able to access the network, helping ensure secure, robust connectivity for the passengers, while preventing unauthorized users from "piggybacking" on the SYN...

Palm Unveils Ares, Web Based webOS Development Tool

"Palm has released the first public beta of its innovative new development tool for webOS. Called Project Ares, this new webOS development environment runs completely in a desktop browser. Its aim is to simplify and lower the entry barrier for developing webOS applications by allowing developers to code, debug and build webOS apps within a standard web browser.The web-hosted development environment features an array of developer tools including a drag-and-drop interface builder, code editor, vi...

WebOS 1.3.5 coming to CES Better performance and more app storage

"On today's investor conference call, CEO Jon Rubinstein just confirmed that webOS 1.3.5 is coming soon and will have a bevy of improvements, including: Allowing for installation of more apps Enhances WiFi and app performance Improved battery life Increased speed and responsiveness on the Palm Pixi We're still listening in and hearing good things about what's coming. Namely: Palm will showcase the Ares development platform and other developer initiatives at CES, they expect "thousands" ...

Palm webOS dev tolls online, IEEE works battery standard, Nexus One hands on

Palm has announced a new open beta development application called Ares. The dev app is completely browser based and allows the development of apps for web OS devices. The IEEE has started working on a new cell phone battery standard. The standard is called IEEE Std 1725 and the first meeting on the topic will be held in February. A geek known as tnkgrl has got hands on the new Google Nexus One smartphone and given up some details of the device. It’s thin, uses a 4GB microSD card, has a 1...

Intel releases beta version of the Atom Developer Program SDK

Hoping to capitalize on the incredible growth of the netbook platform, Intel has released the beta version of their Intel Atom Developer Program Software Development Kit (SDK) for both the Microsoft Windows and Moblin Operating Systems. With the SDK, independent software vendors (ISVs) and individual developers can design, develop, and submit applications for Intel-based netbooks to a future-planned App Store – similar to Apple’s App Store for the iPhone. The notion of an Application Store spe...

ZiiLABS Trinity dev platform, Samsung Diva, and Nokia sues

Samsung has unveiled a couple new handsets called the S7070 and the S5150 that are aimed directly at ladies. The handsets have a girly design with lights and a quilted looking cover. There is no word on pricing or availability at this time. ZiiLABS has unveiled the new Trinity smartphone development platform for Android and Plaszma operating systems. The handset features a 3.1-inch OLED screen and quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE along with Tri-band WCDMA and HSDPA capability and much more. Nokia has f...

First look at Sony Ericsson Kurara U5

"This model’s development commenced at around the same time with the Satio (or “IDOU”, its original codename). Over at Sony Ericsson they never thought they’d manage beat their competitors to the market, and they didn’t – the Samsung i8910 HD has been around for a while now and has seen some decent success already. So, what can Sony Ericsson bring to the table to beat Samsung technology-wise? Basically, nothing. The Kukara offers a similar display, yet with worse image quality, since it doesn’t...