IBM's 'Five in Five'

IBM has released a report outlining 'five innovations that will change our lives over the next five years.' The 'big five' concepts -- though not completely new -- are:

• We will be able to access healthcare remotely, from just about anywhere in the world
• Real-time speech translation-once a vision only in science fiction-will become the norm
• There will be a 3-D Internet
• Technologies the size of a few atoms will address areas of environmental importance
• Our mobile phones will come close to reading our minds

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You may know this; a week back Reuters gave information to many news sites about a Michican woman who is suing Microsoft for collecting location data without the user's permission. As Windows Phone always demands for permission, in case of any personal queries about the customers, this issue makes most of them feel more disgusting.

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The paperwork for Optimus 3D has shown up in FCC's system just a day after AT&T revealed that it will be bringing LG's Optimus 3D Android phone, which requires no glasses, to the US as Thrill 4G.

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htc smart phone El nombramiento de Thorsten Heins como nuevo director ejecutivo de RIM hace poco más una semana, vino acompañada de la filtración de la hoja de ruta a seguir por los de Waterloo para lo que resta de año 2012.

Un interesante documento en el que los terminales de la familia Curve, la gama más económica de smartphones BlackBerry, parecían tomar la iniciativa en la ya próxima actualización de la plataforma a BlackBerry OS 7.1 de la mano de los BlackBerry Curve 9320 y 9220, ahora revelados bajo los nombres clave Armstrong y Davis, respectivamente, y de los que anticipamos algunas líneas generales que, posiblemente, marquen la pauta a seguir por el resto de dispositivos en un futuro a corto plazo.

Por lo pronto, aquellos que estén esperando por estos nuevos modelos, al menos a lo que a los países del viejo continente respecta, tendrán que conformarse con diferentes versiones de los modelos ya existentes, presentados en una variada gama de colores. Todo apunta a que los BlackBerry Curve 9320 y 9220 en cuestión irán dirigidos a mercados emergentes del continente africano y del este asiático, estando el primero de ellos siendo sometido a evaluación por diferentes operadores con un nueva "build" de BlackBerry OS 7.1 con la que ya estaría equipado el terminal.

No ha trascendido especificación técnica alguna de cualquiera de los dos modelos, aunque no parecen introducir ninguna característica nueva nunca antes vista en un BlackBerry, con la excepción del botón dedicado a BlackBerry Messenger.

De forma similar a los pocos "Facebook Phone" actualmente comercializados, los canadienses darán cabida en el borde izquierdo de sus smartphones a un botón de acceso directo al cliente de mensajería instantánea propio de la marca, y que tanta popularidad ha proporcionado a la gama BlackBerry Curve entre los más jóvenes.

Una pequeña variación que da continuidad a la estrategia utilizada por RIM en los últimos tiempos, aportando un mayor valor a sus terminales a través de sus capacidades para la conexión entre personas y que, sin lugar a dudas, veremos en algún que otro modelo salido de sus factorías.

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samsung smart phones If the internal combustion engine is the technology environmentalists love to hate, the electric car is the technology everyone else hates to love. Electrics have long had the reputation for being underpowered, inefficient, and no more eco-friendly than any other type of car, as the electricity needed to run them normally comes from fossil fuels.

Enter Tesla Motors, a California-based startup that has developed the Tesla Roadster, a stylish, high-performance electric car that can reportedly go from 0 to 60 in 4 seconds and travel up to 250 miles between charges. The Roadster is still in the prototype stage, but just as important as the car itself is the way that Tesla proposes to fuel it. Tesla envisions a distributed network of charging stations that draw power from sustainable, environmentally friendly sources.

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Capcom Mobile, a leading developer and publisher of mobile games, and NEXTOY today announced the launch of the hit puzzle game KENKEN on the Apple App Store for the iPhone and iPod touch. KENKEN: Train Your Brain!, features stunning graphics, intuitive controls and 250 new puzzles to challenge puzzle masters and casual gamers alike.

KENKEN has become a certified phenomenon with more that 1.5 million puzzle books sold and regular puzzles appearing in The New York Times, Boston Globe, Detroit Free Press, Readers Digest and on NYTimes.com.

The brainchild of Japanese Math teacher Tetsuya Miyamoto and made famous by puzzle master Will Shortz, KENKEN requires simple arithmetic calculations and logic to decipher the ingenious puzzles. Translated as 'wisdom squared' in Japanese, KENKEN involves addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

With difficulty levels from beginner to advanced, KENKEN puzzles improve logical thinking, concentration and perseverance.

If you've never played KENKEN it is in the same category as Sudoku but with a different twist. You can try it out online here and see what you think, or you can watch a how to play video here.

KENKEN: Train Your Brain is available from iTunes for $4.99.

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smart phone comparison chart Two of the biggest mobile game developers in the world, Electronic Arts (NASDAQ: ERTS) and Glu Mobile (NASDAQ: GLUU) announced quarterly results this week.

While EA's overall business continues to struggle, mobile was a bright spot with the company reporting that their mobile revenues were up 24% year-over-year to $189 million. For the fiscal fourth quarter, EA Mobile recorded $48 million in revenues, up 14% year-over-year.

Glu reported revenues of $20.8 million, compared to $20.6 million in the first quarter of 2008 which represents less than a 1% increase year over year.

If I was a Glu shareholder I'd be pretty disappointed with Glu's results. Although EA is a bigger company , the mobile games business is growing fairly rapidly (see post coming soon) and Glu should be growing at a similar pace to EA.

If you read Glu's full release and if you've been following the company over the last year, a lot of their lack of growth is due to the fact that Glu was very late to the iPhone party. They've started to ramp up lately with a number of high quality releases on that platform including the very fun Glyder title, but it's clear that they've still got a lot of work to do to get their business to take off further.

EA, on the other hand, was early to the iPhone an their games have done very well. Just in the past couple weeks, EA announced five new iPhone titles and executives said they expect to introduce 30 games for the iPhone this year.

One Thing I Wouldn't Do for a Palm Pre

The much hyped Palm Pre is just days away from release and things are getting downright weird. Check out the picture of this nut who got a huge Palm Pre tattoo on his arm in order to win a free device.

PreCentral.net is running the campaign.

Personally, I'm going to wait until the next version of the Pre to get my tattoo.

Chile: Nokia Lumia 800 disponible a finales de febrero

Hace algún tiempo, cuando estuvimos en el Microsoft Tech Days realizado en Chile, conversamos con gente de la filial local de Nokia que nos contaba que el teléfono estrella de la finlandesa llegaría al mercado local a tiempo para el regreso a clases, con una mayor posibilidad de poder estar en condiciones de ir a comprarlo en algún momento indeterminado del comienzo de marzo.

Sin embargo, chequeando diversas fuentes hemos podido determinar que el teléfono estará disponible en puntos de venta de las tres operadoras más importantes del país dentro de la última semana de febrero. Por supuesto, esto será así si es que no existe ningún contratiempo, aunque no debería haber alguno pues los equipos ya se encuentran homologados en todas las telcos que compraron el unibody de Nokia.

El Lumia 800, presentado en el marco de Nokia World en octubre pasado, tiene un procesador de 1.4 GHz de sólo un núcleo, una pantalla AMOLED de 3.7 pulgadas, 16 GB de memoria interna, 512 MB de RAM, cámara de 8 MP con lente Carl Zeiss, conectividad HSPA+, radio FM, GPS, bluetooth, salida de video hacia TV y Wi-Fi. Todo esto alimentado por Windows Phone Mango.

Interesting iPhone Data from Nielsen

Consumer research firm, The Nielsen Company, released some interesting data on the iPhone this week. The study found:

- As of April 2009, there are 6.4 million active iPhone users in the U.S., up from 2.1 million a year prior.

- 37% watch video on their phone (6x as likely as the typical subscriber).

- There are roughly as many iPhone users 55 and older as there are 13-24. (see chart)

- 98% of iPhone users use the data features of their phone, services that should improve with the enhanced speed promised by the iPhone 3G S.

- 88% use the Internet (4x as likely as the typical subscriber).

- 75% download apps (5x as likely as the typical subscriber).

- 72% use location based services (7x as likely as the typical subscriber).

None of this data is overly surprising but it is good news for all of us in the mobile data market as more and more consumers will be buying iPhones (and other smartphones) so overall usage of applications, mobile web, mcommerce, etc. is about to explode.

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