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Nokia is expanding its lineup of Windows phones and introducing its first tablet computer, all sporting the powerful camera technology found in its flagship Lumia 1020 smartphone. The struggling cellphone maker is turning to the camera to differentiate its phones from rivals. The Lumia 1020 has a 41-megapixel camera with technology designed to produce better low-light shots and offer greater manual controls than most smartphones. The new devices will use Microsoft's Windows system and come as Microsoft aims to complete its 5.44 billion euros ($7.4 billion) deal to buy Nokia's phone business and patent rights. The deal is expected to close early next year. The Finnish company has seen its cellphone business unravel since Apple revolutionized the way people use handsets with the 2007 introduction of the !Phone. Microsoft, meanwhile,…

Apple seems to have fooled many of the prognosticators with the new !Pad and !Pad Mini. Only a few of the expected changes were put into play, and there were a few new changes instituted as well that weren't expected. Is any of it enough to get the Apple community excited? iPAD AIR Just as Apple surprised everyone by abandoning the Mac OS naming system following big cats and switched up to California locales, they surprised everyone again by abandoning the numbering system for !Pad names. Ater starting with the iPad, the next generation was called !Pad 2. They followed this with not the !Pad 3, but the "New !Pad/' although everyone still insisted on calling it the !Pad 3. The next iteration of the tablet was the !Pad with…

Belkin, a trusted leader of technology solutions for office, classroom, IT infrastructure, and mobile environments, today announced the latest version of the Stage App. The Belkin Stage App was rated by Apple as a Best New App in its first week of release. Belkin's Stage App combines the convenience of a document camera with the power of an interactive whiteboard to bring lessons to life and boost student success. It enables educators to sketch and annotate over live video for engaging tutorials, and displays objects using the !Pad camera with the ability to sketch, write, label or laser point to objects in real time. With a simple connection to a projector or second screen, !Pad creations can be easily shared and viewed with an entire classroom. Stage App provides users…

Another day, another Apple keynote - and it's a fair comment that while Apple is very far from being on the rocks, it's had some interesting challenges to contemplate in recent times. Yet it never stops battling as the company brings us yet another highprofile product launch. While Apple's iconic mobile phone was the focus the last time we had a major Apple product launch, Apple has never just been about the !Phone, with its Macs having been stalwarts of the company long before it crossed the late Steve Jobs' mind to enter the smartphone market. It's befitting, then, that the most recent keynote on Tuesday, October 22, saw the limelight switched to an "all new" Mac Pro, as well as an updated MacBook Pro with retina display - oh,…

Wonder Technology Solutions (WTS), a Swedishbased technology startup, has launched Trax: GPS Tracker for Children & Pets, a brilliant new smart device and application that lets users locate their children and pets at anytime and from anywhere. Trax combines advanced GPS and sensor fusion technology to provide indoor navigation capabilities and more precise, real-time outdoor tracking. Designed for smartphones, mobile devices, and computer, Trax enables parents and pet owners to stay connected with loved ones at playgrounds, malls, schools, amusement parks, walking trails, and just about any other place. Trax is fitted with a durable and waterproof silicone case that withstands drops, laundry machines, water, mud, snow and other environmental factors. It also includes smart technology that sends push alerts when a child or pet leaves a designated area, the…

Google continued to lead tech firms in lobbying expenses during the third quarter, spending $3.4 million on its effort to buy influence with federal legislators and policymakers, according to disclosure forms just filed with the Clerk of the House of Representatives. Facebook's spending soared 47 percent to $1.4 million from $980,000 in the comparable 2012 period. Internet giant Google actually cut its spending 21 percent from $4.2 million in the third quarter of 2012. During 2012 Google was fighting an antitrust investigation of its business practices by the Federal Trade Commission. Microsoft spent $2.2 million, a 20 percent increase from $1.9 million in 2012. "Once again the lobbying disclosures demonstrate the sad truth about the state of our democracy," said John M. Simpson, Consumer Watchdog's Privacy Project director. "When the…

In a play on famous words memorized from "The Wizard of Oz," Apple computer users like me are now saying, "Lions and mountain lions and snow leopards, good-bye." Indeed, these now retired versions of the OS X operating system have been replaced by a new and mighty beast: The OS X 10.9 Mavericks. This news came early into the most recent Apple event held outside San Francisco in California's Silicon Valley. The word came during a meeting that every tech type has been anticipating especially as it's only weeks after the September launch of the !Phone 5s and the !Phone 5c. And, as is appropriate when an announcement of this nature is imparted, a huge roar of delight erupted from the crowd when Craig Federighi made his biggest claim. In…

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Before Midnight This romance picks up nine years after one of its predecessors, Before Sunset, has ended. Its other predecessor is Before Sunrise. In this latest film, Jesse and Celine are the parents to twins, while Jesse is looking for success in his relationship with his son Hank, as well as his career as a novelist. Celine is between rjobs. They're looking for a romantic evening together but end up going over their past, present, and future together. Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy star. FIVE FACTS: 1. Just like with Before Sunset, Hawke and Delpy again share screenwriting credit with director Richard Linklater. 2. Linklater, Hawke, and Delpy's efforts picked up the Screenwriter of the Year Award at the Hollywood Film Awards. 3. Delpy enjoyed filming the fight scene "even…

D-Link 11AC Wi-Fi Routers Equipped with USB Port Combined with mydlink SharePortR App for Private Cloud Storage without Added Monthly Fees With an estimated 10 billion wireless devices currently in usel, consumers depend on cloud services for streaming media or sharing files on a smartphone or tablet. D-Link now offers an alternative solution for private cloud storage with its latest mydlink SharePort app, turning any USB storage device connected to a compatible D-Link 11AC Wireless Router into a private cloud, accessible anywhere in the world on an !Phone, !Pad, or Android device via the free app. "Combined with D-Link's award-winning 11AC routers with next-generation Wi-Fi speeds, the mydlink SharePort app offers an easy way to view and share content, creating a private and personal cloud that instantly adds storage to…

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Brandon Lojewski's mad-scientist routine began quietly in a college engineering lab in Orlando. Four years later, the 25-year-old's project at the University of Central Florida has morphed into a high-tech startup that could play a key role in rewing up battery power in everything from !Phones to Teslas. Lojewski founded Mesdi Systems Inc., which is developing miniature-spray equipment to douse microbatteries and other tech components with protective coatings that would extend battery life. As a teenager growing up in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Lojewski invented new skateboards and model rockets; in college, he built rocket designs for NASA-sponsored contests. He hit his stride at UCF. "I fell in love with the idea of taking this new spray technology and putting it into manufacturing apps for renewable energy," he said. "I had…

HTC and Microsoft, two companies that have been struggling to keep up with their rivals in the smartphone race, are reportedly working on nextgeneration wearable technology. Reports this week say the two tech companies are working on wearable gadgets similar to ones already announced by some of their rivals. This includes smartwatches and smartglasses. According to the Wall Street Journal, Microsoft is testing out prototypes for smartglasses that would rival Glass, a product Google announced last year and began releasing in a limited format in early 2013. The Journal report cites unnamed sources. Previously, Microsoft has also been reported as working on a smartwatch that would rival current gadgets on the market, like the Sony SmartWatch 2, as well as those rumored to be in development, like Apple's rumored "!Watch."…

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See You Tonight McCreery American Idol winner Scotty McCreery releases his third studio album, the second being a Christmas album. His first album, Clear as Day, reached number one on the Billboard 200. The burning question will be if he can still maintain a number one album or even a buying audience among country music fans two years after his win. The first single released from this album is the title track. FIVE FACTS: 1. McCreery shares writing credit on five of the tracks on the album. 2. The only other American Idols to hit number one with an album other than McCreery are Kelly Clarkson, Ruben Studdard, Clay Aiken, Carrie Underwood, Chris Daughtry, and Adam Lambert. 3. McCreery has won an American Country Award, an Academy of Country Music…

HEIR NECESSITIES Search committee mulls making approaches to A-list execs outside traditional technology circles. The need to get a system upgrade right isn't lost on a software giant like Microsoft, which is facing a similar challenge in its own executive suite. The company is looking for CEO 3.0, but replacing Steve Ballmer is not proving easy. Sources familiar with the discussions say there's little consensus in the early going as to what qualities a suitable job candidate should embody. What began as an unenviably tough task for John Thompson, the Microsoft board member leading the search process, could very well end with the highly regarded executive being picked himself to succeed Ballmer. There's also a remote possibility that another familiar face at Microsoft could be tapped: CEO 1.0 Bill Gates…

Hoping to get a jump on its rivals, Nokia announced early Tuesday that it will be rolling out a tablet running the Windows operating system and two smartphones with whopping 6-inch screens. The Finnish phone maker also said that popular apps Instagram and Vine will be arriving on the Windows Phone operating system. Nokia introduced the Lumia 2520, a 10.1-inch tablet running Windows RT 8.1 software, just hours ahead of Microsoft's Surface 2 tablets going on sale in stores and Apple's press event in which new !Pad tablets are expected to be announced. The Nokia tablet features a 1080p HD screen and a 6.7-megapixel rear camera and uses a 2.2-GHz quad-core Qualcomm I Snapdragon 800 processor. The new tablet will be 4G LTE compatible and come in red, white, cyan…

More than two years after Steve Jobs announced plans for Apple Campus 2, the city of Cupertino is on the verge of approving the construction of an iconic new headquarters. The City Council will meet at 5 p.m. Tuesday to hold a formal vote that is largely expected to go in Apple's favor. The council must vote a second time in November to make the decision official, but that is largely considered a formality. Over the last two weeks, the city completed a lengthy review process and held two public hearings. Although there were some critics, speakers were overwhelmingly in favor of the project. And the city's planning department has given its blessing, saying Apple has made enough adjustments to satisfy concerns about traffic and environmental impact. Apple says the…