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Apple, Google watch out! You too Microsoft. Holophone is my concoction, but it is a phone that render 3D objects using perhaps 'Holograms'. It is not just a 3D phone but a phone with a new twist. Do you need 3D glasses, the answer appears to be no as it is not the run of the mill 3D rendering. Well, Amazon can sell it cheap and it can be at your door steps in a matter of days starting June 18! If the price is marked right, it could pose serious challenges. Here are some pics from selected sites: Source:  Insideradius.com Source: Gadgets.ndtv.com   BusinessInsider.com Source: finanzen.freenet.de

Picture from earthtimes.org Most anticipated event opens with lots of technical meetings and unveiling of new stuff opens in CA. Key highlights iOS8 Apple's new mOS Only incremental changes in look and feel improvements to map application which was lacking new iTune features OS x10.10 pcOS The same guy who did a makeover to iOS7  has (?) worked on the new pcOS X. So, OS x1.10 will have minimalist look Flatter and better looking icons than OS X Mavericks Health book Application which can interact with FitBit and in future with iWatch. A separate iTune's Radio Application Hardware Additionally, Apple will have new hardware Set-top box Smart  watch Larger Phone Customers will be looking at bottom-line cost-wise Get into the thick of things with the Internet Of Things with i(Apple devices) connecting and controlling stuff in your Home, Sweet home with its iGizmos. Looks like it want to beat Google's Androids and send them them back wimpering to w...

I tried to transfer some pcitures from Nokia Icon running my windows Phone 8.1 and I got an update to my phone app on my desktop. Now sync between phone and laptop has become lot easier. Although my phone is a Nokia Lumia  Icon even the updated version shows Nokia Lumia 929. Here is the connected(with the usb connector) view of the PC and Phone. Here is the feature list: The Windows Phone app for Windows desktop makes it easy to: • Sync music, photos, movies, TV shows, and podcasts from your existing Apple iTunes library or your Windows Libraries to your Windows Phone 8.* • Automatically import pictures and videos you've taken with your phone to your PC. • See at a glance how much space you're using for each type of content, so it's easy to make sure you never run out of room on your phone. • Get your playlists on your phone. • Find songs that will work as ringtones and add them to your phone.

Surface Pro 3 has received a lot of god reviews and it should be available anytime soon. I was disappointed that a demo model was not available at Microsoft Store today (5/21/2014) at Ala Moana's Microsoft store in Honolulu. The staff on the floor could not tell me when they would have a demo model. Well, that's not good. If I am serious in selling I would have had one displayed last week! Surface Pro 3 is ways ahead of the previous model with lots of great features. The price tag is somewhat hefty compared to often compared models from other operating systems. The cheapest is around $799 and could go up depending on your memory needs. Of course the accessories are not free like mouse etc. Here is a copy of the technical specifications from Microsoft site: The 12" display is great. It has a fourth generation Intel processor and comes preloaded with Windows 8.1 Pro  and you can install the full Microsoft Office suite + 1000's of Windows Programs. It's...

In my previous post here: http://hodentek.blogspot.com/2014/05/windows-app-studio-project-on-emulator.html  I described some UI errors in projects created using Windows App Studio which is in beta. Notice the bleeding from the next section into the section in display. I had attributed those errors to my incorrect usage of the App Studio. However looking at sample the project (Windows Phone App Studio Sample App) I believe it is some errors not fixed in the beta. Notice the 'bleed' in the next screen shot. I went back and opened the project in Blend for Visual Studio 2013 and fixed the errors in my previous post. http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/wpapps/en-US/57b5f392-d5f8-46b8-9a5a-fa7b88aba398/app-studio-developed-app-has-display-errors?forum=wpappstudio Basically, the horizontal alignment was wrong and the section widths were not set correctly. After making these changes, the display was corrected as shown. Blend is very handy for fixing th...

Microsoft Mobile is a hardware manufacturing company located not in REDMOND but in Espoo, Finland. That Microsoft acquired Nokia's devices and services divison is knwn although details finalized this April 2014. Microsoft Mobile will: Design Develop Manufacture Distribute Mobile Phones Smart Phones Tablet Computers Accessories The 'Lumia' and the low end 'ASHA(Hope in Samskruta aka Sanskrit)' are owned by Microsoft. I am not sure if 'Asha' can compete with 'Akash' which traces its DNA to INDIA? http://hodentek.blogspot.com/search?q=akash In any case, I wish good luck to Microsoft Mobile. You can develop apps for Nokia ASHA either with Java or Web. You should read this article if you are into developing apps: http://developer.nokia.com/asha/platform-overview Watch this Nokia ASHA related video from Vietnam.  

Smart Phones are even more widespread then PCs because of their outstanding feature-mobility. Because of the combination of Phone plus computing abilities they are in thier own class pushing PCs to ever decreasing adoption. Microsoft entered late to this highly competitivee market. Windows Phones (presently Windows Phone 8 but soon to launch Windows Phone 8.1) are used worldwide and multilingual support is mandatory. The toolkit provides this much needed feature. The Mulitligual toolkit integrates with Microsoft Visual Studio Toolkit to provide translation support for Windows 8 Apps development and editor tools. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh465006.aspx The toolkit provides (from MSDN resources) the following: •Helps you manage resource changes and translation status during development. •Provides a UI for choosing languages based on configured translation providers. •Supports the localization industry-standard XLIFF file format. •Provides a pse...