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By Adrian Cajili on June 1st, 2010

Pokemon Black and White: Legendaries

The Japanese Pokemon Website has revealed the fifth generation Pokemon or Pokemon Black and White Legendaries, Reshiram and Zekrom.
The cover of the Pokemon Black version will feature the Legendary Pokemon Reshiram, and the White version cover will feature the Legendary Pokemon Zekrom.

Pokemon Black Version Pokemon White Version

Reshiram is white in colour with blue eyes, possessing big wings and claws. Reshiram somewhat has familiar features such as Palkia’s feet and Darkrai’s head and tail? It also has a weirdly shaped body and tail, and it looks quite powerful and elegant.
Zekrom, on the other hand, is colour black with glowing red eyes.

By Terence Huynh on May 18th, 2010

Microsoft reveals new Hotmail

Hotmail is going to get some improvements soon as part of a major overhaul of Windows Live (dubbed Wave 4), including some brand new features in an attempt to compete better with rivals Yahoo and Google.

A new feature is the ability to share photos and documents using web applications right in the email. Services like SmugMug, Flickr, YouTube and Hulu will be able to be seen with one click without opening to a new tab or window, while document editing is integrated with Office Web Apps on SkyDrive, similar to Google’s Gmail and Docs arrangement.

By Terence Huynh on May 4th, 2010

Apple faces antitrust review on coding restrictions

Apple might be in trouble with its restrictions after all, and it took them this long? Reports coming from the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission are looking in beginning who will be taking on Apple on an antitrust complaint on developing applications for the iPhone – the main question, however, is who will it be?

After the launch of the SDK for iPhone OS 4, it made restrictions on what programming language to make the applications, including Objective C and Javascript. Apple claims that this is to keep the quality of applications, but it also seemed to be a hit on Adobe’s Creative Suite 5 software.

By Terence Huynh on April 20th, 2010

Ping makes clothing the new Foursquare for your friends/stalkers

Never thought we would cover clothing, but we are now – for this article.

This is the Ping – and it’s apparently a “social networking garment”, and it does what it is supposed to do, let you stay connected to Facebook friends or Twitter stalkers by updating them… with every move you make like lifting up your hood, zipping up the garment or even moving around and bending your arms. No, we are not kidding. What’s even more interesting is that you can also customise the settings and assign different messages based on where you are located, who are you replying or even your mood.

By Terence Huynh on March 23rd, 2010

Google redirects China domain to Hong Kong

Google has acted on its threat of shutting down Google.cn by redirecting all traffic from that domain to its Hong Kong localised version, which effectively means that all Chinese results will be uncensored – unlike the mainland version because of strict laws regarding censorship.

Previously, searches for Falun Gong and the Taiwanese independence were controversial topics that were often censored by localised versions. Like Google, Bing China and Yahoo China opt in a similar practise.

China has quickly responded, via the Xinhua state-run News Agency, by saying the decision is “wrong”.

By Terence Huynh on March 21st, 2010

Interview: More questions from Nokia’s Purnima Kochikar

We sent some more questions before we published our interview with Nokia’s Purnima Kochikar, Vice President of Forum Nokia; but we didn’t get them answered before today. So, here is (what we deem) Part Two of the e-mail interview with her.

Q. The Qt UI framework makes it easier for applications to be built for both mobile and desktop computers. What do you see are the benefits of this, and do you think or see applications for desktops using Qt porting their products for mobile devices?

As Qt on top of MeeGo will run on multiple device types, people can keep their favorite apps whenever they change device or upgrade; they are not locked in to one kind of device or manufacturer.For developers, they not only get the cross-platform benefit with Qt across Symbian and Maemo, but in the future also to wide range of devices built using this new merged software platform.

By Terence Huynh on February 23rd, 2010

Robot teachers coming to South Korea in 2012

Is this the start of robot domination? South Korea will now be going ahead of having robot teaching assistants, known as the R-Learning, and having them in at least 500 preschools in 2010 at a cost of 1 billion won, and an additional 40 billion won by 2012. By 2013, it would be present in 8000 preschools – so expect robots to be teaching your kids the alphabet (and possibly in binary).

By Terence Huynh on February 17th, 2010

Microsoft wants you to be social… on Outlook

Despite Google Buzz becoming an abysmal failure, Microsoft has decided to release a plugin for Outlook 2010 Beta that will allow you to view what you and your friends are doing on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn or on its Sharepoint service (because that is apparently going to bring in social networking features to the workplace). It’s pretty much going to tell you what your friends are doing in real time (which has been overused so many times), and there’s going to be a gallery to see your upcoming meetings – wow (sarcasm)!!

By Terence Huynh on February 15th, 2010

Intel and Nokia to merge mobile OS to create MeeGo

Intel and Nokia have decided to announce during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona that they will be merging their not-yet-finished, Linux-based mobile OSs into one – and they have called it the MeeGo. While we don’t know which parts of Intel’s Moblin and Nokia’s Maemo will be dropped or present in MeeGo, expect this to be (according to the press release anyways) a variety of devices, “including pocketable mobile computers, netbooks, tablets, mediaphones, connected TVs and in-vehicle information systems”.

“Through open innovation, MeeGo will create an ecosystem that is second to none, drawing in players from different industries. It will support a range of business models across the value chain, building on the experience and expertise of Nokia, Intel and all those who will join us. Simply put, MeeGo heralds a new era of mobile computing,” CEO for Nokia Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo said in a statement.

“This is a foundational step in our evolving relationship with Nokia. The merging of these two important assets into an open source platform is critical toward providing a terrific experience across a variety of devices and gaining cross- industry support,” CEO and President of Intel Paul Otellini said.

Expect to see Nokia’s Ovi store on phones; while the AppUpSM Center from Intel won’t be disappearing – it will just be present on devices using Intel’s Atom Processor. And, if you are still worried about this no longer going to be open sourced – it still will be.

Full PR is after the jump.

By James Wilson on October 15th, 2009

WiFi a/b/g/n and introducing WiFi Direct

There it is folks – a new Wi-Fi type that will be officially support by the Wi-Fi Alliance and is aimed to do one thing – create a devices-to-deivces network without a base station or ad-hoc nonsense.
From the Wi-Fi Alliance website press release:

By Terence Huynh on June 4th, 2009

NEC’s 43-inch monitor to go on sale in July

Image converted using ifftoany

NEC is set to bring out its new, 2800×900 pixel resolution, 43-inch monitor in July. So, if you have US$7,999 left in your bank, and waiting to be spent – well, this should be the main thing you should buy. While this may put a dent into your family budget, but hey, as Sunrise says – “Reject the Recession”.

The monitor has a HDMI 1.3 and DVI-D connector, has a contrast ratio of 10,000:1 and has a 0.02ms rapid response. There is more images below.