Video: Crimson Pi $ computer running Quake III

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You can remember Raspberry Pi, PC in emerging markets, which they hoped to sell for $ 25. When we wrote earlier this year, there wasn't a lot of demonstration: a few stills and video from the PCB founder David Braben, describing his plan for this device. But today we have a demo that captures the imagination and idiot proof device has legs: they got his start Quake III.

Not that it is some great achievement for the launch of the game, released in the last millennium, but it really is doing very well. The device uses 700 Mhz ARM processor and 128 MB of RAM allowed here, and there are no storage device, it runs OS (Debian CLI) and the game off the SD card.

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They could hit above, but wanted to show that 1920 × 1080 with 4xAA became possible. Naturally you could reduce this quite a bit and Max from the refresh frequency for your monitor; Q3A not exactly the most graphically rich game on the market.

The game not being a role model; in fact they are an open source version for Debian build. They plan on several network together and soon play deathmatch.

Now, isn't that the point of this now will have the opportunity to hone their skills FPSing disadvantaged children in Kazakhstan. It is rather proof of concept to show that (relatively) modern piece of software can be adapted for equipment they've put together: raspberry Pi really is completely on the computer. And while Micro ATX boards and systems out there (very useful of them actually), they don't come anywhere near the mark of $ 25. You still need to LCD, keyboard, SD card or USB drive and so on, but Fund FE Raspberry decline is all about the barrier and provide everything you need in the main computer for a low price as soon as possible.

Keep up with the project. They've still got a lot to be done before they make it a viable product, but things seemed to be moving fast.

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Video: Sense UI 3.5 shows new face of leaked HTC phones

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Eagle-Eyed readers may have noticed "with HTC sense, HTC Vigor to pass on the recently leaked from behind, and has not yet leaked may have revealed what to expect when it includes. Five-minute video tour of the HTC sense UI updated 3.5 only appeared and gives us a glimpse into the next big devices, HTC has in store for us.

Broadly speaking, it looks very much like feeling 3.0 skin as seen on devices like the HTC sense. This is not surprising, given the small version number bump, but the team HTC UI seems to be focused much of their work smoothing transitions and adding small details.

The biggest difference visually is the disappearance of the standard three button feeling run bar at the bottom of the homescreen. This seemingly replaced box and phone keys separate application. Also updated the HTC widgets and also played with the ability to add and remove homescreens.

HTC sense 3.0 looks cool, but extra bits of Polish that went in version 3.5 do devices feel more ... complete. The amount of material that may make sense normally means cluttered homescreens for most devices, but the meaning of 3.5 at first glance feels much cleaner and more open. In addition to Vigor sense UI 3.5 is also expected to appear on the notorious HTC Bliss, for girls only Verizon smartphones.

Android popularity comes from the ability to customize endlessly, but definitely in the market a wonderful experience out of the box. No word on start hitting 3.5 sense of mobile phones, but here's hoping that it won't take too much time.

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Taboola raises $ 9 million power recommendations of online video

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Taboola, a service that supports many video recommendation widgets, you will find on the Internet, has raised, 9 million series b round of financing. Round led by Crescent point, which is based in New York and Asia, as well as Evergreen VC, who participated in previous rounds.

This round brings total financing of Taboola to 15 million dollars (she had previously raised $ 4.5 million round in November 2008, and 1.5 million round in November 2007).

Taboola gives publishers a turnkey product for consideration and for recommendation of any video platform, they use (integrated with Brightcove, Ooyala & other services). It is actually easier said than done — surfacing related videos is hard enough and then there's the question of assessing whether they people really want to watch the video. Taboola is in and he landed a lot of notable clients, including the New York Times, USA Today, CNN and Bloomberg.

Service makes extensive analytics on the performance of each video, creating the scores for each called ' EngageRank ' (he is also trying to adapt the recommendations for each user).  And this often leads to more clicks, the company said the disks as in 2.5 times more video, watch at Bloomberg.

In addition to financing, the company announced a new milestone: now generates recommendations 250 million per day throughout its publisher partner sites.

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Next generation 911 would support the text, photos, video and data

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No one ever wants to be in a situation that requires emergency services, but when you think all "dial 911" it really helps. Kind of. In truth, our emergency response system is pretty outdated when we consider all the different forms of communication, which will be the core. But fortunately, FCC Charmain Julius Genachowski has been tapped by the recently announced that five step plan is in place to bring text, photo, video and data to support next-generation 911.

"It's hard to imagine that airlines can send text messages if your flight is delayed, but you cannot send a text message 911 in an emergency," said Genachowski has been tapped by. "Unfortunately it is true that our emergency response communication has not kept pace with commercial innovation — has not kept pace with now do what ordinary people every day with communication devices."

This is a very sweet News considering there are many situations in which the phone support just doesn't cut it. Let's say you're in a kind of bank robbery hostage situation (knock on wood). You can't just whip out the old Smartphone and yammer in police wearing masks. But the text will definitely help you, and anyone who is young, had a cell phone in the classroom with them knows that the hidden text message isn't terribly difficult.

Another hypothetical: you are convenient to store one night ice cream when perusing through the selection of a mugger pulls out a gun and captures all the money from the register. You know, he's going to run for it, but if you can just snap a pic or grab some videos, the police can actually find it. For several years, photos and videos sent in via next generation 911 service may be one of the best ways to catch criminals.

The service does not roll out for another five to ten years, but at the same time, a set of 911 will do just fine.

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TinyChat iPhone App allows you to video chat with up to 12 Facebook friends

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Video chat launch TinyChat released their first iOS TinyChat FB app, which allows you to transfer video chat with up to 12 Facebook friends from your Smartphone. TinyChat co-founder Dan Blake tells me that what sets TinyChat FB separately from other services like Fring or Tango or even Skype is the fact that end users do not need to have the service installed to participate in the chat. Facebook, which just launched video calling with Skype still does not have this functionality for mobile devices.

Users can connect to the app with Facebook after downloading, and he immediately show them a list of their friends. Clicking on user allows you to invite them to chat, send a link to a Facebook message I video chat on my iPhone, click on the link to the video chat with me. " To switch back to your friends list will allow you to invite other users to chat and you can delete users by clicking on their name on the users tab.

TinyChat FB works on the iPad, iPad, iTouch 2 4, iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4. Web Flash-based component.

My biggest problem with this is that I can't think of any reason why people like Facebook video chat with 12 people. Blake insists that people are doing, namely teenagers. "Tiny chat right now does not have a list of contacts and, where necessary," he said, "certainly Skype juggernaut. We are here to give you more creative use TinyChat via Skype.

He also said that this application is not all, end all mobile TinyChat, and that a full-featured client for the service in its path.

TinyChat makes more than 30 million minutes of video chat per day according to Blake, and 100 K new users per day. The App had raised $ 1.5 million in financing from the triumvirate of Ashton Kutcher, p. Diddy, Lady Gaga and others who think of it, will probably make a pretty interesting video chat.

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Video: Lockheed "samarai" drone spins as the seed Maple

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Anyone who lives near deciduous forest knows the joy of Maple seeds, or as we call them when we were kids, helicopters. Their one wing spins seeds, slowing his descent — so why not similarly developed Wing be spun quicker and actually fly up? Lockheed Martin has demonstrated a new platform for UAV, and not really air Nano machine, but still simple and light that does exactly that.

Looking at it, you would never think that the Samarai would fly. But fly he does and this amazingly well. Seems to be getting into the air wasn't the hard part; in the end if you move the wing quickly enough, it will raise, right? On the other hand, learn how to manage the single wing design is not exactly intuitive. Traditional aviation ideas do not apply when spinning the entire craft.

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The design was developed in the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory, Lockheed in New Jersey, and the idea is to make the UAV platform that can easily be transported soldiers and deployed just throwing it. The video shows the Samarai makes vertical takeoff and landing, so it sounds like the throw is not even necessary.

Payloads and dimensions are flexible, since obviously the design easy to scale using 3D printing methods. This is not the first project Maple seed: students at the University of Maryland demonstrated this stripped-down and Lockheed have looked for it in 2006 as platform potential nano air vehicle. I think it took them more than they expected.

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Google brings video Movie Rentals for Android phones

Google video app, official video player for Android market rolling film was updated to run on smartphones running Android. Earlier application is only supported on Android 3.0 (hundred), operating system, Android tablet.

Last update is not compatible with all Android phones, however, only those who use the two latest versions of Android for Smartphones: Android 2.2 (Froyo) and Android 2.3 (biscuit).

When the application is installed on the phone with Android, you'll have access to both its own products from Android market, as well as any personal videos stored on your phone. In my case as I don't currently have any rentals on my device, in the section "My Rent" includes a list of "Top Rentals" instead.

It seems that this application is designed to work with the updated version of the Android market. When you are in Google video, click on the icon a small market on the top right on the main screen automatically opens the movies section within a complete application, Android market, provided that you have installed the latest version. This version has not made it for all Android phones yet, we hear. (For what it's worth, I got the update via a separate APCS across some time ago Forum XDA developers. yet another reason why I love Android!).

If you don't already have an updated app market, and you don't want to dig around for the file, Chipmunk AIC, you just can rent videos from the online version of the Android market instead.

As he did on the tablets, the updated app allows Smartphone stream movies via Wi-Fi or "pin", which allows you to download the movie to your phone for offline viewing. Rent a movie is good for 30 days, but once you start playing, you only have 24 hours to finish it.

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Cold, cold, yes that is fm for video Turntable.

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Imagine innocently start application Facebook one night and waking up to this spam a bevy of letters saying that Mark Zuckerberg thinks that you built his precious platform. And let's say that your application as DJ interface for video as Turntable .FM for YouTube. And I mention that it also pivot for your startup (namesake), as well as Turntable .FM pivot from Stickybits.

Add investment offer from Michael Arrington and talk that Mark Zuckerberg and you get today in the life of cold founders Dan Gould and Brian Norgard, homeless former autopost to Facebook Platform Manager Dave Morin, Facebook Wall, were fired at the demand of consumers this morning that they had to close the gates to their product, which is currently just e-mail login page. Gould and Norgard plan on letting users slowly in the cold this time (you can register here), they learned their lesson the hard way.

Continuation of synchronous video, view the activity the founders see the aggregator namesake, Gould and Norgard, decided to build a cold product five weeks ago. Users sign up with Facebook Connect (No spammy message this time) and immediately given the opportunity to start or go to the already existing Lounge. Salons — equivalent to DJ rooms in vane.

Once upon a time in the Chill lounge you can find video add in your turn by searching Vimeo or YouTube or plopping in direct reference to the tab, find the video on your right. Once upon a time in the queue video will have to wait for their turn to other videos in a row, in order to get played. Again as a turntable, you big thumbs up and thumbs down video selection and communicate with other users. The function will be added eventually, so that the users room have some say in where the video get played or ignored.

Of course there are other places to watch the video with friends online; Socialcam allows you to do this with your friends on Facebook and Google plus if he ever will work, lets you share YouTube videos with randoms and people in your community.

But, while cold buggy and mostly direct analog records, this is the only app I have seen so far, offers Advanced and open a synchronous viewing experience, a social layer for video, watch where anyone can join and become a DJ. Room 15 minutes Alexiatown cold and I wanted to stay there all day, gorging on video as "the Cutest bear attacks never" and "2CHELLOS cover of Nirvana's classic ' smells like Teen spirit." I was actually impressed noises himself in our Office.

"We have created a culture around the exchange of links to YouTube videos. How many times have you been looking at videos on your laptop and turned around and said "Hey, you have to check it out?", "said Norgard, describing the appeal of the cold. The Act of sharing YouTube link on the merits, that the recipient has to go off during the 3-4 minutes to consume rights-protected content on their own. With a cold you have peanut gallery.

Norgard and Gould's future plans include fixing everything that does not work, as well as including the ability to build a private room. Norgard tells me that they were still trying to figure it out, the interesting thing about the consumer Internet space – that this happens so fast. You will only see errors when you are in the game. PIVOT can be used as a pejorative, but for us this keeps our heads on a swivel.

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Ooyala now powering ESPN's Billion-Plus video streams

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Today, on the basis of mountain view Ooyala, rapidly growing online video services provider, announced that it has landed a great content partner: the so-called "worldwide leader in sports, ESPN. These avid sports fans among us, you may have noticed some changes to the look and speed of the video at ESPN.com. Over the past few weeks start Ooyala video integration technology in ESPN's Web site and officially now supply all sports MEDIA behemoth streaming video content.

This is a major feather in the CAP and the confidence to run video 4 years as ESPN is one of the largest producers of online video content, with 400 unique visitors hitting play on ESPN Video every second (and serving more than 1 billion streams per month), in accordance with the Ooyala co-founder and President of Bismarck Lepe product. For Ooyala, Lepe said, this partnership with ESPN proof that he has achieved scale and in the overall picture shows that the online video industry at the point where the main building blocks available and can support a viable, healthy business.

ESPN Vice President, technology and product development Jason Gunther told TechCrunch that the company uses its own video system based on technology of Disney (ESPN is owned by Disney) and experimentation with several different video platforms and technologies. However, the company is at the point, He said, in which she really wants to start focusing on the content and the overall user experience of their digital platform, and not have to worry for the technology necessary to service billions of video streams or clarify its own video player.

Vice President of tech said that after checking a number of third-party platforms, Ooyala "landed a little higher" than its competitors, because it allows sports giant to reduce download times and take advantage of the video Bit rate, which can deliver HD up to 2.8 Mbit/s. ESPN's new Flash-based player, although users can use HTML5 version on their iPadsi provides dynamic video quality that configures the network connection for individual users, throughput, etc. in order to serve better the video quality in accordance with the possibilities of each spectator.

First of all, our video technology helps ESPN to deliver the best possible fan experience on the Internet. Ooyala-powered video incredibly fast download and have exceptional playback quality. As a result of ESPN can attract more fans and keep them look bigger.

For ESPN Ooyala not only speed up boot times and increase the quality of play, but video launch also allows sports broadcaster to make better use of domestic resources through the rationalization of the governance of their video and related data, in accordance with the statement made today by Ooyala blog. Ooyala also offers its customers real-time analytics engine, with detailed videos and individual users reporting on-demand and live video streaming, as well as integration with payment systems so that customers have the ability to run both paid and ad supported video business model.

ESPN typically lags behind its competitors of major media in terms of its use of social media, so that Ooyala visitors makes it easy to share videos through Facebook and Twitter from the player, a great social impetus for ESPN.

He told me that the scaling was the great challenge for ESPN.com, and the technical team is looking for ways to take advantage of new mobile channels, also retain the contents of consistently high quality on the Internet. Ooyala allows ESPN to serve effectively videos-steady quality platforms and scale. Moving forward, "he said, ESPN will look for innovation on the basis of its new video platform, as well as to explore ways of beef and promote its API.

In General, it's great to see ESPN finally offers a quality player with fast load times and more linear experience of demand, in which video and layouts feel akin to TV viewing experience – and can compete in ease of use videos from YouTube. And for Ooyala, who recently signed a contract with Yahoo! Japan and will soon account for more than 50 percent of all Japanese online video size, according to Lepe, is yet another sign that he reaches this elusive tipping point.

But don't worry, Ooyala has change is planned. You'll see what I mean below:

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Harvesting energy from the radio signals: Two new devices from Japan (video)

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Gleaning electricity from radio signals are not super efficient (or new concept), but it is possible technically. Two companies from Japan has recently come up with new devices that can do just that: a harvesting energy from the cell phone signals, another uses a rectifying antenna (Rectenna) for energy production.

Firstly the device [JP] recently announced Tokyo electronic device can pick up radio signals from cell phones between 800 Mhz and convert them into electricity (800 Mhz frequency is used in mobile phones in Japan). The company says that users can expect to get to 2.5 free milliamperes (stored in the small lithium ion battery).

Device gathers signals from other wireless gadgets, too, and it can provide a few minutes running time is built into tablets and laptops (that's better than nothing). Tokyo Electron markets as "green" product and collaborates with the American company Powercast in its development.

We do not have this device, but professional video shot of the next one, recently developed Rectenna from the Tokyo-based Nihon Dengyo Kosaku. Device (pictured above) itself has two main points of sale: he is thin (12 mm to collect signals from Wi-Fi and 30 mm for digital terrestrial broadcasting waves) and needs just 50 µW authorities begin.

Nihon Dengyo said that their Rectenna can get power in micro Watt range from Wi-Fi signals at a distance of about 10 cm, enough to power sensors, for example. The device can be used both inside and outside buildings.

Here's the video (shot by Diginfonews in Tokyo in English), which provides better:

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American Airlines and Gogo in-flight roll personal video streaming device 767 fleet

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As we heard earlier this spring, American Airlines became one of the first airlines in North America to begin testing the GoGo in-flight video streaming for personal devices for passengers. Today the company is announcing the wider roll out of new entertainment products for your entire fleet of 767 aircraft, mainly on routes between JFK New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco.

We also find out more information about entertainment products. The system will wirelessly stream content such as movies and TV shows from the library on board to select the types of Wi-Fi enabled laptops during flights. «Entertainment on demand "will be available for $ 0.99 in the TV show and $ 3.99 for the film. Customers do not need to buy on board Wi-Fi use on-demand entertainment may simply click on the banner of entertainment on demand on board Wi-Fi home page, select the movie or TV show, enter the payment form, and then click "remove".

American Airlines, said that the platform currently offers 100 movies and TV shows that will remain available for viewing after the client has landed (movies 24 hours) and TV shows for 72 hours. The goal, said the company is for the introduction of entertainment for all aircraft wi-fi enabled. American Airlines actually only received received FAA certification for this month.

In the coming months, in-flight wifi provider GoGo plans to make available for use with the product tablets and other devices. I can imagine many users want to be able to stream movies to their iPads in flight, as opposed to using laptop computers.

Here's a video explaining how to operate the service.

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Job listings in Skype mean video on Windows phone

Skype has been popping up in the headlines recently, mainly due to their "will they/them" iPad app release. While it is true that Apple's iOS is a huge priority for companies wishing to expand into the mobile space, let us not forget that Microsoft paid a cool $ 8.5 billion to pick up messages juggernaut last May. The big question then is, where is the love for Windows?

Skype move to Windows 7 phone seems to have been on the back burner for a while, but if the new position, popping up on Skype's career is any indication, they may finally get going.

Everyone knew that Skype will eventually make its way onto the market # 4 mobile OS even before the formal acquisition, but the company stayed mum about anything resembling the specific details. New lists, inter alia, to specify a specific emphasis on Windows platforms and Windows phone 7 is a software engineer their responsibilities include "is responsible for the construction and optimization engine Skype video solutions for Microsoft Windows and Windows Mobile platforms." this is a long time in development, but it's kind of Nice to see Microsoft finally getting some benefits from the horribly expensive purchase.

Readers love connecting dots you can see that Skype "Fall" release window occurs simultaneously with Microsoft (vague) Mango timeline. With Skype is now an official part of Microsoft, it would be logical to assume that the new Skype application that supports video calling released side-by-side with the software upgrade we have all been waiting for, but it is impossible to say at the moment. One thing this announcement simply confirms that the appearance of turning the front camera on new WinPho equipment, useful supplement, if not the most amazing.

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Japanese company develops sound absorption blinds (video)

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If you are sensitive to noise and looking for discreet way to solve this problem in your apartment or office building, for example, the so-called Feltone [JP] could do the trick for you. Based on the Japan Tokyo blinds, Jalousie, which is Feltone can absorb sound and push down the power of noise up to 60%.

Feltone, which as the name suggests is made of felt, looks like a normal blind and can be used on windows or walls – just like normal blinds without any special modifications. Tokyo blinds said that installation takes about two hours with their decision, worth up to 90% less than the acoustic panels, for example.

The company explains:

This sound absorbing the blind works because the sound is very good, if there is a layer of air back 50-200 mm thick, between blind slats and the wall when the blind is attached in the normal way. We used this phenomenon in order to achieve the effect as absorbs sound group, by adding the sound absorption of felt.

Feltone (which is only available in Japan at this time), not cheap: 2mx2m blind is worth $ 1500. In 2009, Tokyo has put blind blinds for the owners of the home theater company (conference rooms, server rooms, etc.), families with children, etc.

This video was shot in Tokyo provides Diginfonews deeper, (English):

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