"Also, while the phone is compliant with Session Initiation Protocol or SIP, the tablet packs in features such as Wi-Fi 802.11b/g, a 7 inch 800�480 resolution display, a USB port, a 0.3 megapixel CMOS camera, as well as a micro SDHC slot that tops at 32 GB.
The convenience of the entire set up is that when receiving a call, users can either pick up the receiver or operate it hands free by pushing a button on the tablet or pick up the tablet itself and talk via its mic."
Monday, January 31, 2011
A tablet with a phone from Nakayo | Good E-Reader Blog - Electronic Reader and Tablet PC News
A tablet with a phone from Nakayo | Good E-Reader Blog - Electronic Reader and Tablet PC News:
Graeme's Fantasy Book Review: ‘The Age of Odin’ – James Lovegrove (Solaris)
Graeme's Fantasy Book Review: ‘The Age of Odin’ – James Lovegrove (Solaris):
I so want to read this book now.
"‘The Age of Odin’ is one of those funny books where you have a lot of fun reading it but when you come back to it, a couple of days later, you find that you cannot remember a lot about it. It’s very much the ‘book equivalent’ of watching one of the Transformers movies, loads of sound and action but maybe not quite so much in the way of story..."
I so want to read this book now.
Sharper Image Literati on clearance at BB&B – $40 | The Digital Reader
Sharper Image Literati on clearance at BB&B – $40 | The Digital Reader:
"Bed Bath & Beyond have marked the white Sharper Image Literati down to $39.99. It’s not a very good e-reader, and I wouldn’t give one to my worst enemy. But that’s a frigging cheap price for an e-reader!"
Sunday, January 30, 2011
The Wertzone: Inception
The Wertzone: Inception:
"The film falters occasionally. Like The Dark Knight the film occasionally feels weighed down by maybe one or two too many subplots (though vastly less of a problem than on The Dark Knight, which sometimes loses focus as a result of this). Whilst the film has a strong emotional core with regards to Cobb's relationship with his deceased wife and his desire to be reunited with his children, in other areas the film is less emotionally engaging. In particular, the key relationship between Fisher and his father (the late Pete Postlethwaite) never really grabs hold of the imagination."
Notion ink Adam Tips and Tricks | Good E-Reader Blog - Electronic Reader and Tablet PC News
Notion ink Adam Tips and Tricks | Good E-Reader Blog - Electronic Reader and Tablet PC News:
"Many people who are early adapters of the Notion Ink Adam have been sending us emails, commenting on various forums and petitioning on our Youtube channel for many answers to common questions. We will endeavor in this article to explain some of the most common problems you will have and solutions to them."
Saturday, January 29, 2011
rejectamentalist manifesto - China Mieville’s web comic: London Intrusion
rejectamentalist manifesto
Multiple award winning novelist can also draw!
Multiple award winning novelist can also draw!
OPENMESH Is Seeking Alternatives To Egypt-Style Internet Blackouts - Charles Stross's Unwirer is the vision
OPENMESH Is Seeking Alternatives To Egypt-Style Internet Blackouts:
Should read Charles Stross's Unwirer:
Strangehorizons.com
"Galvanized by the unprecedented Internet shutdown in Egypt, angel investor Shervin Pishevar has launched OPENMESH a forum for people who want to discuss ways of preventing governments from blocking communications networks. The site (which is admittedly sparse at the moment) was up within hours of Pishevar tweeting out his ideas, designed and built by followers @Laksman and @garyjaybrooks."
Should read Charles Stross's Unwirer:
Strangehorizons.com
Perhaps the most surprising of Stross's looks backward is "Unwirer," which Stross cowrote with Cory Doctorow, in an "experiment in weblog mediated collaborative fiction." The premise is that preposterously tight telecommunications regulation in the United States created a situation in which "open Internet access is as illegal as cannabis." In exploring the theme "Unwirer" harkens back to '80s-style cyberpunk in its feel, invoking the contact between high-tech and low life as it was often imagined before the Internet became mundane, an affectation that can now appear as quaintly historical as steampunk. (While certainly reflecting one of Stross's major concerns—the encroachment of the surveillance state, a subject which he frequently and articulately tackles on his blog, Charlie's Diary—I have to say that the prose itself made me think more of Doctorow tales like "When SysAdmins Ruled the Earth.")
Cory Doctorow, Francis Ford Coppola, Balzac - copyfighters
Francis Ford Coppola, copyfighter - Boing Boing:
Its gonna be a long fight, but its likely that the pendulum is going to swing back towards a patronage model. Fun to watch.
"You have to remember that it's only a few hundred years, if that much, that artists are working with money. Artists never got money. Artists had a patron, either the leader of the state or the duke of Weimar or somewhere, or the church, the pope. Or they had another job. I have another job. I make films. No one tells me what to do. But I make the money in the wine industry. You work another job and get up at five in the morning and write your script.
This idea of Metallica or some rock n' roll singer being rich, that's not necessarily going to happen anymore. Because, as we enter into a new age, maybe art will be free. Maybe the students are right. They should be able to download music and movies. I'm going to be shot for saying this. But who said art has to cost money? And therefore, who says artists have to make money?"
Its gonna be a long fight, but its likely that the pendulum is going to swing back towards a patronage model. Fun to watch.
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