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Reactable Multitouch Table, Electronic Musical Instruments
July 22nd, 2010 | 
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To be able to make music, not forever we should sit at the Major Labels are to be followed by a series of operations and selection. Of course not everyone could get a chance to penetrate the music industry like that. Quite often also, ultimately more musicians are making music using the system of Home Recording. Using computers and certain musical instruments, music can be packaged in such a way that its quality may also not be lost compared with the results of Major recordings Label.
Several times the research has been conducted at Pompeu Fabra University, which eventually resulted Reactable Multitouch Table is that electronic musical instrument capable of combining the various types of touch and expresses them with a special noise. Read the rest of this entry »
MySpace Is Not For Sale
NewsCorp has revealed that MySpace does not put up for sale and will continue to develop new services in an effort to win back users. Niche social networking site with a music specialist has fallen from the site when most active, while Facebook reveals himself as the second most visited site in the western world although new figure shows the slowdown, MySpace itself has consistently lost members along with its identity.
Speaking to Reuters, Jonathan Miller of NewsCorp said there was a “fabrication” on the rumor and the company was clearly not in talks for the sale of MySpace. Instead there will be a re-launch of this site due to funding approximately $ 350 million incurred by NewsCorp to buy this social network back in 2005. Now the number is displayed to show there is a gap between MySpace and Facebook. In June, MySpace users are 5 million (according TechCruch) while Facebook reportedly has 26 million users. If the statistics were not enough, Facebook is also now the third largest referrer to MySpace.
Apple Admit to Stole 400 iTunes Users Account
Apple claims to have blocked the developer from Vietnam, Nguyen Thuat, in case of theft of a number of iTunes user accounts last weekend. According to Apple, Nguyen Thuat was identified to infiltrate approximately 400 iTunes user accounts and use the credit card to boost applications that he made.
In this case, 42 applications made by Thuat Nguyen entered the top 50 applications in bestseller category on iTunes. Apple has removed all the applications and the blocked developers of Vietnam from the list of iTunes.
“Upon the breach of the Program License Agreement including the pattern of fraudulent purchases, Apple has been deleted and application developers from the iTunes store,” Apple said as quoted by the BBC, Wednesday (07/07/2010).
The fraud case was made security level of iTunes came into the spotlight of a lot of people. As a result of fraud cases that happen, Apple said it has tightened its system to prevent similar things.
With the existence of this incident, iTunes users are asked to contact the bank immediately and change their password. iTunes also apply more layers of security by asking users to enter credit card security numbers multiple times during a transaction.
Thuat Nguyen possibility of data theft iTunes users with a way of phishing, namely providing a web page that looks like iTunes to trap important information, such as credit card data and passwords. However, Apple makes sure the attack was experienced only 400 people from 150 million iTunes users worldwide. There was no statement on whether Apple will also bear the losses that befell the victims.
Tweet-ing from BlackBerry
You can communicate with the people via Twitter on BlackBerry. The reason is because Twitter application is now available in public beta version which can be downloaded by BlackBerry users worldwide. Previously, the Twitter application for BlackBerry is limited as a preview.
In an instant, you can do everything you want on Twitter, among them are instantly receive messages, reply to Tweet and ReTweet, post a link from the BlackBerry browser, take and upload a unique picture, see the top ten list of topics that are trending on Twitter, as well as editing your profile or change the profile picture of the application.
There is a condition, though. Twitter for BlackBerry is only available for BlackBerry smart phones that use the BlackBerry 64 MB of available vacant memory 900 kilobytes, and available at least Device Software version 4.5 or higher in your BlackBerry. Then you can download the Twitter for your favorite BlackBerry smart phones or via the menu at Mobile.blackberry.com BlackBerry (r) or the BlackBerry Browser App World.
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Android 3.0 Gingerbread Leaks, To Be Released in October
Android Froyo just got out of the door, but attention has begun to the next Android version – version 3.0 with gingerbread code. According to the info, version 3.0 is the minimum hardware requirements will impose more stringent and higher, User Interface (UI) that is updated.
Android 3.0 Gingerbread, said Eldar Murtazin, editor-in-chief of the Mobile-review.com, it will be released for high-end device just because it suggests a minimum of hardware with 1GHz CPU and 512MB RAM minimum and then the screen over., 5 inches diagonal, even so, Android 2.1.
Eclair/2.2 Froyo will remain and the specification is targeted at mid-range and low-end phones.
With the version 3.0 of this will lead to separation into two Android platform. With so many complaints about the segmentation platform now, we can not imagine what will happen next.
Besides, gingerbread Android 3.0 will add support for a new resolution – 1280 × 760 (just over 720p) to display 4 “and larger (iPad screen has 1024 × 768 4:3). This can be useful for Android-based tablets, which had just begun to appear.
This new version also brings problems for third-party developers such as HTC’s UI (HTC Sense), Samsung (TouchWiz), Motorola (MotoBlur) and the remainder to be able to keep their modifications to the branch of Android 2.1/2.2.
New UI for Android 3.0 gingerbread is said to take inspiration from the App Nexus Gallery One – the feel, transitions and so forth. Gingerbread Android 3.0 is expected to be released mid-October – and possibly the first mobile device to get the Nexus One (this mobile phone meets the requirements) except if later, Nexus Two will emerge.