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<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 07:11:12 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Sony: Android and Nvidia go together]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 07:11:12 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Sony's adoption of Nvidia silicon for its upcomingAndroid tablets makes the graphics chip supplier--at least for the time being--the hardware standard for the Android tablet world, as a Sony vice president articulated in an interview in Japan on Wednesday. &quot;For the tablet platform, we're standardizing on Android 3.0 and Nvidia's Tegra 2,&quot; said Kunimasa Suzuki, a senior vice president at Sony in an interview with Japan-based Impress Watch. Suzuki's comments come after Sony unveiled two Android 3.0 &quot;Honeycomb&quot; tablets on Tuesday. One has a 9.4-inch (1280-by-800) display and front and rear cameras, while the other is &quot;foldable&quot; and uses two 5.5-inch displays. Both tablets, due in the fall, will run Android 3.0 on top of Nvidia's Tegra 2 processor. Sony &amp;39'S1&amp;39' tablet. Like Motorola&amp;39's and Toshiba&amp;39's Honeycomb tablets, it uses an Nvidia Tegra chip. (Credit:Sony)Sony's tablet, in this respect, will mimic Motorola and its Xoom tablet, which also sports Honeycomb and an Nvidia Tegra 2 processor. And others, including Toshiba, have similar Honeycomb-Nvidia tablets on the way. Will Strauss, president of wireless chip market research firm Forward Concepts, said that companies like Sony and Motorola are using Nvidia because of the strength of its graphics performance. &quot;In talking to people [in the industry] that's what I'm hearing,&quot; Strauss said. But Google's endorsement of--and standardization on--Nvidia's Tegra technology early on before Android 3.0 was finalized for the Motorola Xoom has probably been the biggest factor in making Nvidia's chip, practically speaking, the only choice right now for Honeycomb. That said, Nvidia is not Intel. And this is not the PC industry where there is one dominant player. Large chip companies like Texas Instruments and Qualcomm also make processors based on the ARM architecture. Those chips can--and do--run Android. And add LG Electronics, which this week signed a new license agreement with ARM, to that list too. &quot;In some cases, it's I'm Catholic and they're Catholic so let's use that,&quot; Strauss said. &quot;Some people would prefer to use [Texas Instruments'] OMAP 4 processor because they like that graphics better,&quot; he added. Until that happens on a commercial Honeycomb tablet, however, Nvidia is the de-facto standard. So much so that Sony's Suzuki is aware that the adoption of Android and Nvidia threatens the perception of a &quot;uniquely Sony&quot; tablet, he said in the interview. He spelled four areas where the Japanese company intends to distinguish itself, including &quot;optimizing&quot; the combination of hardware and software and focusing on &quot;networked entertainment&quot; in which Sony tablets can communicate with a variety of consumer devices. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[EEG headset makes surfing brain's waves easier]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2011 08:10:44 +0000</pubDate>
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<category>Technology</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Don&amp;39't stare--she&amp;39's just recording her brain activity.(Credit:IMEC)A prototype wireless electroencephalogram (EEG) headset debuts this week at the Medical Device and Manufacturing conference and exhibition in Anaheim, Calif., and European developers IMEC and Holst Centre say it could lead to not just neuro-feedback but improved safety (no more sleeping behind the wheel) and entertainment (real-time video game adjustments based on the user's mood).Currently, recording the brain's electrical activity involves having subjects sit in a lab or hospital room and perform activities over 20 or so minutes with electrodes placed via gel all over their scalp.So as strange as this prototype headgear may look, the advantages are numerous: ultralow power electronics, dry electrodes, wireless real-time transmission of high-quality EEG signals to a receiver within 10 meters, and the ability to record activity in real-life scenarios.Side effects may include, but are not limited to, people staring and asking unsolicited questions, which may or may not interfere with EEG results.The EEG system is 22x35x5 millimeters, so it could be embedded in helmets, headsets, and so on. With power usage at just 3.3mW for continuous recording and transmitting of one channel (i.e., a waveform representing the difference between two adjacent electrodes) and 9.3mW for eight channels, the device can run on a small 100mAh Li-ion battery for up to four days.The European developers admit in their news release that this EEG system is still in development: &quot;Industry can get access to this technology by joining the Human++ program as research partner or by licensing agreements for further product development.&quot;In late 2009, IMEC and Holst Centre unveiled a creative ECG monitor whose heartbeat detection algorithm was embedded in a processor worn like a necklace around the user's neck. Whether an EEG system can ever be so well disguised remains to be seen, but at least this initial design is nice and shiny.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Japan gets free wi-fi from FON until quake emergency ends]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<category>Latest News</category>
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<description><![CDATA[FON, a company that manages a large network of wi-fi hotspots, is opening up its 500,000 some-odd hotspots in Japan to web surfers for free until the country&amp;'s state of emergency following a massive earthquake and tsunami comes to an end.The wi-fi networks will open up for everyone in order to help Japanese residents displaced or affected by the earthquake communicate more effectively. That includes the use of social media sites like Facebook and Twitter, which have become critical during national emergencies as tools for communication a4&quot; such as when protesters swarmed Egypt, calling for the country&amp;'s top leader to resign. Twitter also became one of the most widely used tools for protesters during Iran&amp;'s 2009 national election.Japan was rocked by an 8.9-magnitude earthquake on the Richter scale a4&quot; which is a logarithmic scale, meaning that an extra 1 point on the scale means the quake is about 32 times more powerful. The earthquake rocked the northeastern portion of the coast and generated a tsunami warning across the country a4&quot; which also reached portions of the United States, including Hawaii.The quake was the strongest to hit Japan in at least a century and generated a tsunami as high as 33 feet that flooded northern towns. The quake was followed by a 7.1-magnitude aftershockFON&amp;'s humanitarian offering could also prove to be a fantastic way to generate some positive buzz for the hot-spot service.The free wireless should be really helpful for Japanese citizens, seeing as a number of the country&amp;'s cloud-based services a4&quot; where programs and services are run on remote servers a4&quot; were disrupted following the quake. Residents are posting videos of the quake on the CitizenTube channel on YouTube and using the service to reach out to friends and families across the world. Google Person Finder is also available to help people get information about loved ones.There are two types of FON users a4&quot; members and non-members. Members sign up and receive a FON hotspot that broadcasts their home wireless signal to a wireless network for other FON members and non-members. Those members can tap into any other FON hotspot for free. Non-members pay a subscription fee to access any of the FON hotspots across the country.The Madrid, Spain-based company was founded in 2005 and has more than 3 million wi-fi hotspots globally. FON is backed by Google, Skype, Index Ventures and Sequoia Capital.Next Story: What you need to know about Tesla&amp;'s future Previous Story: Flexible solar panel maker SoloPower raises $13.5MPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: earthquake, hotspot, Japan, japan earthquake, tsunami, Wi-FiCompanies: Fon          Tags: earthquake, hotspot, Japan, japan earthquake, tsunami, Wi-FiCompanies: FonMatthew Lynley is VentureBeat's enterprise writer. He graduated from the University of North Carolina, where he studied math and physics, in May 2010. He has reported for Reuters. He currently lives in San Francisco, California. You can reach him at mattl@venturebeat.com (all story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com), and on Twitter at @logicalmoron. Have news to share Launching a startup Email: tips@venturebeat.comVentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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