Section: Communications, Cellular Providers, Smartphones, Mobile There have been several reports about people receiving their new year greetings text messages from the year 2016. Apparently, messages received after 1/1/2010 are being displayed as coming from the year 2016. Those who are affected were mostly using Windows Mobile phones, but there are instances where non-Windows Mobile phones are also affected. HTC and LG are reportedly aware of this problem, but they have yet to make an official announcement. Some users speculated that the bug may have stemmed from the coincidence that “16” is “10” in hexadecimal. There are also users reporting that T-Mobile users are not facing this problem, allowing the possibility that it may be a carrier-related problem. A temporary workaround has been found, where users facing the problem have to download a CAB file. This is not an official patch, but it works fine. Via [Ubergizmo] Via [WMExperts] Full Story » | Written by Cheng Hung for Gadgetell. | Comment on this Article »
 
Section: Video, DVD/DVR/Blu-ray Sony has recently revealed that you may be able to squeeze in as much as 33.4GB of data onto your blu-ray disc via a technology called i-MLSE (Maximum Likelihood Sequence Estimation). What’s good about this technology is that it is entirely software-based. This means that all your current hardware and settings remain unchanged. i-MLSE is a technology that estimates and compensates for the read error rate of a disc on the fly. i-MLSE involves complex calculations in order to determine error rates. With recent hardware advancements, Sony comments “It should be possible to process in real time, just like jitter.” From that statement, it looks like you need a pretty decent processor and other hardware that is capable of processing whatever information this technology involves. Sony is currently proposing the i-MLSE technology to the Blu-ray Disc Association. Read [Tech-On!] Via [Ubergizmo] Via [Engadget] Full Story » | Written by Cheng Hung for Gadgetell. | Comment on this Article »
 
Section: Web, Web Browsers, Google  Passing up Safari, Google’s Chrome internet browser has been named third most popular internet browser with a 4.63% share compared to Safari’s 4.46% according to California-based measurement firm Net Applications. This is the first time that Safari has been in fourth place but I doubt it will be there for long.
Only 16 months into its career, Chrome is becoming more and more prevalent on our computers. It increased 0.7% in December, most likely because of its recent release of beta version for Mac and Linux. December has been a big month for Chrome; those beta releases along with Chrome extensions have marked a big milestone in Google’s venture past search engines. I have personally been using Chrome for probably 13-14 months of its 16 month lifetime and find it to be a browser with great potential. Probably the biggest contributor to the growth of Chrome is the decline of Internet Explorer. IE has had an average decline of 0.94% for the past six months compared to the average of 0.36% in the six months before that. Things are not looking good for IE8 and it is not entirely their fault. A lot of the problem seems to be people’s reluctance to move from the eight year old IE6 to anything newer. IE6 still holds a 21% share which is larger than IE7’s 15.5% share and interestingly close to IE8’s 23.7% share. And this is the first month that IE8 was the most popular browser, most likely attributed to its compatibility view that allows users to view things in the IE6-7 way of things. Chrome is a great internet browser. The only downside I have ever found is that I just can’t seem to get it to read .pdf files directly in the browser. Otherwise, the ability to reopen tabs that I accidently closed, having my top six most viewed browsers on the home page, and just the overall smoothness of the browser make it the perfect one for me. Read [PCWorld] Full Story » | Written by Greg Billetdeaux for Gadgetell. | Comment on this Article »
 
Section: Communications, Cellphones, Cellular Providers, Smartphones, Mobile A picture of the silver Motorola Calgary/Droid Devour has surfaced on BGR. The reason silver is mentioned is because it was previously only seen in black, otherwise, not that big of a deal. BGR claims that the keyboard was “nice” and trackpad “killer”. It is also apparently easier to use than the Droid. They claim that it might be the Blur OS that simplifies things for some people but having never personally played with a Motorola Droid, I can’t say if it is hard to use or not. Though, those “Droid does” commercials make it seem like a robotic arm could use the phone pretty well if it ever needs to look up human. The phone has WiFi, a GPS, and a 1420mAh battery. But no SIM card slot since it is not a global device. An obvious thing if you look at the picture close enough, is that the phone is going to Verizon. Sadly, I have Sprint and nothing goes to Sprint. I carry around the Sprint Instinct which unfortunately never lived up to its claims as an iPhone killer or even competition to the iPhone. Read [BGR] Full Story » | Written by Greg Billetdeaux for Gadgetell. | Comment on this Article »
 
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