Entries tagged with umpc - Channel 10

High Tech Hiking in South America

Tina — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:27:00 GMT

Brian Keller and Mike Iem are avid hikers and just happen to be Microsoft employees. They are heading out on a three week hike to South America in a few weeks and stopped by the Channel 10 Studios to show off the latest gadgets they're taking with them.

SteriPEN
GeoSetter
SPOT
Live Maps
Solar chargers
Ultra-Mobile PC Canon point-and-shoot hacking

Vídeo: Entendendo o Live Mesh como Plataforma

Galileu — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:23:00 GMT

Locutor de rádio eu não sou, mas vale a pena ver o vídeo de 5 minutos onde narro uma demonstração real da capacidade do Live Mesh como plataforma. A demonstração mostra como algumas fotos podem ser geradas de diferentes dispositivos e mesmo assim estarem presentes em todos os dispositivos (e a Web) que fazem parte da Mesh (lembrem que Mesh é rede em inglês). Ah, essa demonstração conta com a ilustre presença de:
Live Mesh (Web), Windows Vista, Facebook, Mac OSX e seu Photobooth, HTC Touch, Windows Media Center e um Samsung UMPC.

O vídeo na sua íntegra está no Channel 9, nosso site irmão, aqui nesse link. O vídeo é altamente recomendado para os que entendem de programação.

Para quem não viu o anúncio, leia aqui sobre o Live Mesh.

CeBIT ushers in fabulous Windows-powered handhelds

Jesse — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 18:35:00 GMT

New and shiny gadgets crop up all the time, but this morning there are a couple of particularly attractive ones from CeBIT that happen to be packing Windows under their coats.

First up is the Samsung Q1 Ultra UMPC (no direct link here, you’ve got to enter “Q1” into their tag search). This time around your handheld touch-sensitive computing device is a bit smaller and a bit lighter, all while packing a 1024x600 pixel display, HSDPA data, and a new integrated thumb-board. The Origami category is clearly entering v2 here, and it’s looking glorious.

Also on the interwebs today a new and gorgeous toy in the form of E-Ten’s Glofiish X800. Evolving beyond the X500 (what was already the most potent Windows Mobile device without a keyboard), the X800 packs HSDPA and a video call camera in a fabulously glossy skin. Sure it’ll cost close the same amount as your little sister’s portable computer, but that’s why you save money by skipping things like protein and laundry.

[Glofiish and Q1 Ultra via Engadget]

Big PCs, Medium PCs, Little PCs

Larry — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 06:15:00 GMT

Nadine Kano invited us over to show us some of the new computers that will be on the market this year. It included everything from the smallest functional PC in the world (according to Guinness) by OQO up to an AMD quad monster by Vigor.

The UMPC Media Experience takes one fat leap forward!

Jesse — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 02:29:50 GMT

The application launcher that came with the first UMPCs last year was quick and easy to use, but once you made your choice the user interface became decidedly less, “fat-finger-friendly.” Thankfully people like Jeremy White and Emily Rimas on the UMPC development team have been hard at work at extending the comfort of using your fingers to move around the device.

The media experience on a UMPC has improved dramatically. Listening to music, displaying photo slideshows, and watching videos are all now extremely fat-finger-friendly. The scroll bars, window buttons, and general navigation are also easier to manipulate sans stylus. In addition, the team worked with the kids who build Microsoft Reader in order to make reading digital books easier. Not only is the UMPC grown into a more capable media device, but now it runs Vista too!

MIX-ing it up.

Laura — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 17:00:00 GMT

So somebody let me loose in Vegas to cover MIX 06. I came back with 33 cents, a killer hangover and a husband. Just Kidding! I came back with some badass info on the gadgets you're gonna want. Check it out.

Links: Electric Red, Elvis Chapel, MIX06, Windows Mobile

Today in Tech

Adam — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 17:00:00 GMT

Technology News as presented by Laura and Tina, news desk, blazers, smart-looking glasses and all. Ok, well maybe not the blazers or the news desk...or even the smart-looking glasses. But the news, yes, we've got news.

Links: CeBIT, Enceladus, High tech wine glasses, LaLa, Neverwinter Nights Journalism