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    ‘Speed’ Dial with Socially Enabled Radar Detection

    Posted by Paula Parisi on January 9, 2011

    Cobra Electronics’ iRadar becomes GPS-enabled via a downloadable app that syncs to an iPhone. The app will be upgraded in spring to include a real-time data gathering component that collects information from all mobile users and distributes it live, via the cloud.


    Kryptos offers Encryption for Secure Mobile Calls

    Posted by Sarah Blake on January 9, 2011

    A new company called Kryptos is showing an app to provide secure, fully encrypted voice communications over mobile phones. Kryptos provides VoIP connectivity for secure calls over 3G, 4G, and Wi-Fi if users on both ends have downloaded the app. Might be an interesting solution for executives, teams working on sensitive projects, or paparazzi-dodging celebrities.


    Full-Motion Video on Qualcomm’s Mirasol Display

    Posted by admin on January 8, 2011

    Qualcomm’s full-motion Mirasol Display uses a microelectromechanical system (MEMS) to manipulate the amount of space between two conductive plates to reflect ambient light in full-color. This gives the screen many of the same benefits of E-Ink displays, including the ability to operate with extremely low-power consumption in full-sunlight.


    ooVoo Offers Personal Multipoint Videoconferencing and Chat

    Posted by Phil Lelyveld on January 8, 2011

    ooVoo offers up to six-way video calling via multiple open panels on the screen from cellphones, laptops, and PCs. Their software download runs over 3G, 4G, and Wi-Fi networks to Windows, Mac, iOS 4, and Android devices. This is a fast, simple, and economic tool for people on the go to run video chats among virtual teams.


    Samsung AllShare for the Home Network

    Posted by Bryan Gonzalez on January 8, 2011

    Aiming to make it easier for consumers, Samsung has introduced AllShare, their software platform that uses DLNA to move content around a user’s home network. AllShare will allow many of Samsung new products such as the Galaxy Tab, the Galaxy smartphone, Blu-ray players, TVs, and home router to move content around the network seamlessly.


    Pioneer Aims to Unify Services and Devices

    Posted by Bryan Gonzalez on January 8, 2011

    Pioneer has announced a new platform that is immediately available to developers, and hopefully in the near future to users. The Platform for the Aggregation of Internet Services (PAIS), will enable users to have a single login that can access all of a user’s social networking, music, video, contact, calendar accounts and much more from multiple content/service providers. The PAIS API allows users’ devices to seamlessly access and share information among a verity of services, allowing for a new level of interactivity among the various users’ accounts.


    Verizon and Panasonic Stream Full HD 3D

    Posted by Carolyn Giardina on January 8, 2011

    Verizon — partnered with Panasonic — is streaming Full HD 3D in a CES technology demo in the South Hall Blogger Lounge. Plans are to offer this capability through FiOS, which in the demo was used to stream at 18 Mpbs from its media server to a Panasonic Blu-ray player, which handled the decoding.


    RCA Android TV to Launch in 2011

    Posted by Adrian Pennington on January 8, 2011

    Technicolor brand RCA is showing something that is similar, but not quite, Google TV. The new RLC3291 TV is running Android 2.2 on a 32-inch HDTV. Version 3.1 of Android may be installed by the time the set launches later this year. Wi-Fi, Ethernet and DNLA capability is built in and the company says an Android mobile phone could be used as a remote control.


    Lean&Zoom Improves Computer Usability and Comfort

    Posted by Sarah Blake on January 8, 2011

    Lean & Zoom, a simple application aimed to reduce eye and posture problems caused by daily computer use, uses a computer’s built-in camera, to automatically magnify the screen in response to a user’s body movement. The demo felt surprisingly natural and almost obvious, like this should have been a part of computing all along.


    Samsung and Comcast Announce Partnership

    Posted by Carolyn Giardina on January 8, 2011

    Samsung and Comcast announced that Comcast’s Xfinity TV service would be available later this year on Samsung Smart TVs and the Android-powered Samsung Galaxy Tab. Xfinity TV is developed to enable customers to browse, discover and sort video content, and access that content across multiple devices.