On Feb. 19, Samsung’s much awaited Galaxy Note will be available in AT&T for $300 with a 2-year contract.

The 4G LTE mobile phone could be pre-ordered online or in the retailers starting Sunday. Delivery will be Feb. 17, according to the company.

The South Korea-based company have been promoting the Galaxy Note as being a new device classification aimed toward the creative-minded set, even though the majority of customers will more than likely find it as a combo of a tablet and smartphone.

The new smartphone features its large 5.3-inch touchscreen – one of the largest in line with other phones – and a stylus.

By using the stylus, which they also call the “S Pen”, the company says, “users can easily sketch drawings, jot down notes, or write emails and texts quickly and easily in free-form handwriting.”

“The Galaxy Note brings a new level of efficiency to busy customers who would normally rely on multiple devices,” according to Jeff Bradley, senior vp of devices for AT&T..

“This new breed of smartphone helps consumers accomplish more with a single device than ever before.” he also added.

In the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the company dedicated a large part of its floor area to featuring off the new Galaxy Note and even hired artists to utilize the smartphone to draw caricatures of the visitors.

Piracy just isn’t actually really do the bad that the record companies claims it to be, and may even often be a way for companies to draw in more consumers, according to Mikael Hed, Rovio Mobile chief executive .

Rovio Mobile, the firm powering the popular game Angry Birds, understands with regards to piracy. Not simply has the video game alone already been ripped off mercilessly, but it really has progressively turned into a target for false marketing. But Mikael Hed does not see this as being a problem. Actually, he sees appreciable advantages to piracy.

Mikael Hed said at the Midem conference in Cannes today that “we have some issues with piracy, not only in apps, but also especially in the consumer products. There is tons and tons of merchandise out there, especially in Asia, which is not officially licensed products.”

“Piracy may not be a bad thing. It can get us more business at the end of the day.” he also added.

Chief executive Hed’s picked remedy was to learn from the record companies in the way it look at customers.

“We took something from the music industry, which was to stop treating the customers as users, and start treating them as fans. We do that today. We talk about how many fans we have.” he said.

He even views the applications themselves as income instruments, therefore the greater these products are displayed, the better they could advertise.

Many users of the popular filesharing website Megaupload will have their data or files stored safe for about an additional 2 weeks.

A report came out yesterday that the files in the arrested web site may very well be removed in the end of the week. Having said that, the site’s legal representative, Ira Rothken, has affirmed that the files is going to be stored safe for around 2 weeks, reported by Torrentfreak.

It accounts that the specialists made some backup copies of the files as proof but Megaupload would like to secure each of its users’ information.
Even though the files continues to be momentarily saved from being removed, it’s impossible for users to get back any data. A great number of files are genuine backup copies of family videos, photos as well as other personal files.

The company’s legal representatives are in conflict that allowing hosting companies remove all of user files can certainly make it extremely hard to show that the site Megaupload is a genuine company featuring common services.
Should you check out the megaupload.com to try to retrieve your files back you will be simply welcomed with an FBI notice stating that the website name have been seized. The additional 2 weeks ought to give Megaupload as well as authorities time to come with an appropriate remedy.

Apple Inc. has encountered a loss in its patent lawsuit in opposition to Motorola. An administrative law judge (ALJ) together with the ITC or International Trade Commission released a first judgment late on Friday, stating that Motorola didn’t infringe three of Apple’s mobile phone patents. The judgement signs possible difficulties for Apple, although it still has to face the acceptance from the ITC panel.

Motorola and Apple are already involved in rounds of cases both in the ITC and with the Federal court since 2010, when Motorola first charged Apple of breaking an array of its patents covering up device synchronization, 802.11 technologies, antenna design, GPRS, 3G, and a few more. As it is common for these patent quarrels, Apple Inc. straight away answered with counter suits, proclaiming that Motorola’s Android-based mobile phones have been infringing Apple’s intellectual property.

Friday’s judgment is not yet the last statement from the ITC, and the six-person panel does not usually rule much the same way as the ALJ. However, the judgement is definitely a sign that Apple’s IP fight in opposition to Android might not be as simple as former Apple CEO Steve Jobs could have anticipated when he stated he wished to “go thermonuclear war” up against the platform.

Apple has not yet made a comment publicly about the initial ITC judgment, Motorola appeared to be quick to announce out a successful report for its early win.

Samsung’s DualView digital cameras currently had a great and convenient front-facing LCD screen for convenient self-portraits. For this year, the latest DualView digital camera gets a new feature: a built-in Wi-Fi.

Incorporating Wi-Fi to the Samsung’s DV300F allows the digital camera to upload pics and vids to YouTube, Flickr, Facebook, and Picasa. Furthermore, pictures can even be wirelessly moved to a home Computer and also to cloud storage services like Microsoft SkyDrive.

The digital camera itself features 5x optical zoom, 16-mp image resolution, and a 25mm wide-angle lens. Aside from the dual LCD screens, the camera comes with several picture layouts and image adjustment features.

Incorporating Wi-Fi is really a worth it comfort – one that narrows down the characteristics gap in between point-and-shoot camera such as the DV300F and smartphones, that have become the easy option for easy and quick photography for several people.

Hopefully, the DV300F can provide much better build quality and low-light photo efficiency compared to last DualView design 2011′s Samsung DualView TL205, which CNET evaluated.

The Samsung DualView DV300F is said to be availble in March 2012 starting at $199.

A picture apparently exhibiting ASUS‘ 7-inch Eee Pad tablet, allegedly set to launch at CES 2012 in a few days, has appeared, together with ideas that the scaled-down slate can borrow the removable battery-keyboard form-factor from the Transformer Prime. The picture, captured by NotebookItalia, reveals a machine quite definitely in step with the Prime’s aesthetic, and much different from what we have witnessed from the Eee Pad MeMo also anticipated within this month.

Nonetheless, it is uncertain whether ASUS promises to bring 2 units [the 7-inch tablet and 7-inch MeMo] to CES, or whether or not one of the designs have been cancelled completely. The Eee Pad MeMo was initially introduced as a glasses-free 3D slate, and then seemingly faced the axe right after setbacks, and lately was reported to be showing up, sans-3D, in the first quarter of 2012 handling Ice Cream Sandwich.

Whether or not this picture could be the final style and design, an imitation throughout the creative procedure is uncertain. The docking port at the base could possibly suggest that a netbook-style keyboard-dock may be out of the question – though ASUS could possibly have an even more standard dock just like Samsung offers, without having the folding joint and into which the 7-inch Eee Pad tablet docks vertically.

The choice of flat-panel TVs for years have been between lcd and plasma. Next year, there will be another option, well for all those willing to shell out big.

LG Electronics states it is preparing to promote a 55-inch set based upon pure OLEDS or light-emitting diodes. The company is set to exhibit it off in the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, which will start on Jan. 10.

LG’s Korean rival, Samsung Electronics Co., will likely expose a market-ready OLED TV in the exhibit, as outlined by 3 people who have information about the matter. They talked on condition of being anonymous due to the South Korean company has yet to come up with an announcement. CES announcements will be on Jan. 9, according to its website.

LG’s USA arm director Tim Alessi, stated its set will probably be available on sale in the 4th quarter. The firm is not unveiling the retail price yet.

Analyst Paul Gagnon from DisplaySearch, anticipates that OLED TV sets will begin over $5,000.

The gossip for Apple’s iPad 3 appears to be gathering pace, with the latest DigiTimes report that the firm will probably embrace IGZO or indium gallium zinc oxide flat panels for the new batch of tablets.

“Starting with the new iPads, Apple will utilize IGZO panels from Sharp in order to upgrade the display resolution of the new tablets to full HD level,” according to an unnamed source from Apple’s supply chain.

“To enter the supply chain of iPads, Sharp has switched some of its capacity for large-size panels to the production of small-size panels for smartphones and tablet PCs.”

Whether or not that report happens to be accurate-if the iPad have shown something in the last 2 years, it is that any kind of prerelease gossips must be taken along with a truck-load value of salt-rumors concerning the iPad have definitely picked up in current weeks.

DigiTimes reported on Dec. 29 that Apple would likely introduce 2 iPad designs in January. “Apple is set to unveil its next-generation iPad-which will come in two versions-at the [MacWorld/iWorld expo] scheduled for January 26, 2012,” according to the report, but no names mentioned.

“The new models will join the existing iPad 2 to demonstrate Apple’s complete iPad series targeting the entry-level, mid-range and high-end market segments.” the report also cited.

General Motors Co. is ordering a recall to particular Chevrolet Sonic subcompact units – 2012 model due to a number of them could possibly be lacking a front inner or maybe outer brake pad.

In the report submitted with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Generral Motors Co. stated it became aware about the issue a few weeks ago right after a client brought the car to a car dealership for service to fix brake sounds.
Mechanics discovered that a brake pad was lacking.

Due to this discovering, GM Co. stated it will certainly recall Sonics units produced June 2 through Nov. 21. The ordered recall involves a total of 4,296 units of vehicles.

The lacking pad might raise the probability of an accident by reducing functionality of the brakes.

General Motors stated it will certainly inform Sonic owners and intends to commence the recall by Jan. 14.

Sellers will check out the brakes to determine if pads are absent. If that’s the case, specialists is going to mount new inner and outer pads, a brand new brake caliper, plus a new brake rotor. The service is totally free.

I hope anyone haven’t grabbed Sony’s elegant Tablet S Android slate ahead of the holidays, simply because it is currentlya very nice $100 less expensive.

Beginning today, the Tablet S today starts at $399 for the 16gb model and $499 for the 32gb model, undercutting iPad 2 products with a full Benjamin. Sony is additionally hurling in 5 free PlayStation Classic titles, 180 days of the Music Unlimited service, along with ‘tokens’ and downloads free of charge from the Video Unlimited store.

The price cut, may very well be too little far too late for Sony’s tablet products – especially when it appears to have been intentionally moved into a position following the holiday shopping season. Evaluations have discovered the Tablet S being well-designed, yet in any other case a reasonably standard Android tablet. Months from now, Tablet S from and dual-screen Tablet P from Sony must deal with Apple’s iPad 3, along with latest Android tablets operating Android 4.0 or “Ice Cream Sandwich.”

According to Sony, the Tablet S will probably be enhanced to Ice Cream Sandwich OS at some time.

The Tablet S is 9.4-inch primary iPad rival, featuring a somewhat curved style that looks like a rolled magazine, and apparently makes it much simpler to carry using one hand.

The Tablet S is operated with a dual-core Tegra 2 CPU and features a 5mp rear camera.