Author: Ransler Dier

A confirmed tip from a source very close to Apple points towards a new version of Apple TV on the horizon. According to sources, this project will tie in much more closely with Apple’s mobile offerings. The new build of the TV solution will be based directly off of the iPhone 4 (no word on apps and the App Store making an appearance as of yet), meaning it will have the exact same internal components including the A4 CPU and limited amount of flash storage (16GB) and will be capable of 1080 HD. The device has been said to be very small (maybe the same size as the iPhone?) with very few ports (only a power socket…

Internet censorship still remains strong in Pakistan even after access to the popular video website YouTube is restored.  FaceBook along with 1,200 web pages still remain blocked after being deemed “blasphemous.” A contest on FaceBook calling for people to draw the prophet Mohammed in an attempt to promote freedom of expression sparked a major backlash in the largely Muslim country. On May 19, a Pakistani court ordered the block on FaceBook which is to last until May 31. This was implemented by the Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA), which was responsible for banning of YouTube,…

Business cards have always been just that: cards with business information on them. A new design threatens to shatter this mold and move us into the next generation of cards. This revolutionary design is a fully functional circuit board business card about the same size of a credit card; with your business information on the top side while the bottom is reserved for the circuits. The cool part of this card is that it has been carefully designed to hold 24 kb of information, enough to hold your entire resume, and can be inserted into a USB port once the two plastic tabs have been snapped off. They don’t…

OLED Screens have proven not to be the best type of screens to try and make transparent due to backlighting issues, but Samsung may have beat this with some cleverly hidden backlighting at the SID International Symposium. The company emphasized the transparency of their 46″ LCD Display panel by placing wine bottles behind it. Visitors were encouraged to touch the display to show information about that particular bottle of wine. The display uses the ambient light, and if it’s too dark the display will automatically switch its light source over to use LEDs located around the border of the LCD….

Apple’s iTunes music store controls a dominant share of the US digital music market with a 28 percent share of all music sold and 70 percent of all digital downloads. The NDP Group, a New York based market research firm, released its findings that iTunes’ share of retail digital download business in the US has increased by one percentage point since last year’s numbers to 70 percent. Both Walmart and Amazon hold the second place spot taking a 12 percent share of the total market for digital music and physical media sales. Amazon has increased its music market share by three percentage points,…

Steve Ballmer, the sweaty chief executive for Microsoft, may surprise us by playing a part in Apple’s keynote presentation at this year’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference. This, of course, is still all a rumor. But Trip Chowdhry, an analyst with Global Equities Research, insists that seven minutes of the June 7 keynote by Apple CEO Steve Jobs has been blocked off for rival Microsoft’s presentation on Visual Studio 2010. Chowdhry has reportedly stated that he believes Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer could give the presentation. And given his love for developers, it could be quite…

Mozilla is attempting to make inputting URLs on your iPhone a thing of the past with its new application, Firefox Home. The app was confirmed this morning on Mozilla’s Official blog. The group has confirmed that they have been working on an application for the iPhone, basing it on the Firefox Sync (formerly Weave Sync) technology. Firefox Home will give most iPhone users instant access to their Firefox history, bookmarks, and the tabs from their most recent browser session. Also, it will provide users with Firefox’s “Awesome Bar” capability, which will allow users to input their favorite…

There have been many rumors and leaks surfacing over the past few months leading up to the launch of the iPhone 4G. Well, there is another little snippet of info for fanboys, and this time it comes straight from the source. In an interview with Digitimes, Apple’s senior analyst Ming-Chi Kuo revealed that Apple has two next generation iPhones in development; one of these phones being the iPhone 4 prototype whose pictures were released prematurely on Gizmodo, the other being a less updated version to play backup to the latter. “Apple actually has another product codenamed N91 for the project,…

We have lift-off. After months of drooling over leaked prototype photos and speculating on what the new features will be, Boy Genius Report reported today that the new iPhone 4G will launch and be ready for purchase in early June. July was its expected arrival date prior to the announcement. Many iPhone hopefuls have been eagerly awaiting the Worldwide Developers Conference on June 7 to find out the dates for the launch and to find out more about iPhone 4. Early projections are showing that Apple is expected to shift 24 million units of the iPhone 4G before the end of the year. Source: 9to5Mac, BGR…

Sony has announced today that it has just developed a hyper-flexible color OLED display that can be wrapped around a cylinder as thin as a pencil. The display is thinner than a strand of hair at 80 μm-thick with a 4.1 inch, 121 ppi, and Organic Thin Film Transistor (OTFT) full color OLED display. To create this display Sony developed OTFTs with an original organic semiconductor material with eight times the current modulation of conventional OTFTs. Using these new technologies, Sony has successfully demonstrated the worlds first OLED panel which is capable of reproducing moving images while…