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Ericsson AB of Sweden revealed its efforts in the mobile broadband market at a press conference Nov 6, 2008.

In the area of mobile communications, innovative technologies such as “HSPA evolution,” which is the successor to HSPA, and “LTE (long term evolution),” which features high-speed communications of more than 100Mbps, are drawing interest. For both of these technologies, Ericsson intends to proactively develop and market embedded modules, base station facilities and other products.

During the conference, Ericsson mentioned its concept of a future mobile terminal as “a mobile device in 2012.” According to the concept, high-function terminals, in the future, will be equipped with a 12- to 20-Mpixel camera and support full HD video shooting capability.

“We have an image of a mobile terminal equipped with digital camera and camcorder capabilities of the future,” said Jonas Lundstedt, Ericsson’s Director Portfolio Management, Product and Portfolio Management.

The terminal’s display will have XGA resolution. And the operating frequency of the application processor will reach 1GHz, he said. As for its telecommunications functionality, Ericsson expects the device to support 100Mbps or faster LTE.

The company considers that the market shift toward such a future mobile terminal is gradual. Current HSPA technology has a maximum transmission speed of 7.2Mbps, and 59 commercial networks are already operating around the world (38 of which are using Ericsson’s system), it said. According to Ericsson, 805 kinds of HSPA-compatible terminals have been released from 129 manufacturers thus far.

“HSPA evolution,” an extended version of HSPA, will emerge in late 2008 or later, with the maximum data transmission speed expected to rise to 21Mbps.

“W-CDMA, which has a maximum speed of 384Kbps, emerged in about 2002,” Lundstedt said. “The capacity of data transmission will have grown 60 times larger in the six years since then.”

On the other hand, he considers that the degree of the introduction of LTE is different depending on the region. The early shift to LTE is scheduled in some regions including Japan, whereas HSPA and HSPA evolution are likely to remain the mainstream for some time to come in other regions, he said.

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LinkedIn Groups and LinkedIn Answers cater to two of the three most important activities professionals engage in to further their career and starting today, we’re launching the third and most important piece of that puzzle – LinkedIn Events.

Now all LinkedIn users should be able to find events and conferences that are most suitable for your career based a combination of your professional network and information culled from your LinkedIn profile. Given below are the key touch points for LinkedIn Events starting on your homepage:

1. Receive Event Recommendations

The first time you encounter LinkedIn events on your homepage, you will be shown conferences and other professional events that match your specific business needs based on the information you’ve added to your LinkedIn profile; such as criteria Job Title, Industry, etc. These are carefully selected from our database of eight thousand plus event listings provided by sources that range from Techweb to Eventbrite.

2. Search for Events by Industry, Date, Location

I’m sure many professionals would also be interested in perusing our database of events to find ones that they’d like to follow or attend based on speakers, topics, conference organizer… This can be done on your Events browse page. And, furthermore, if you search, your results can be filtered by other criteria such as industry, date and how close events are being held to your location.

3. See Attendees going to specific Events

The power of LinkedIn Events is magnified when you’re able to prune your list of events by finding those events your professional network plan to attend. This allows you to focus just on the events that matter to you, and make the connections that are so important to all our careers.

4. Indicate your participation status

Don’t forget to let your network know if you are participating in an event — it’s part of your professional reputation.  On LinkedIn Events, you  can tell everyone you that are (i) Attending, (ii) Presenting, or (iii) Exhibiting. Updating your event status not only  broadcasts to your professional network, but will also be added to your digital resume on your profile.

5. Event Updates and History

As with all other activities on LinkedIn, you can also see network updates on events from your professional network both on the LinkedIn Events page as well as a history of all the events that you’ve either attended or plan on attending.

In addition, we have at launch over eight thousand events, including events from high profile organizers such as:

• Techweb Live Events (Web 2.0 Expo, Enterprise 2.0 Expo, CSI, and more)
• Deutsche Messe/Hannover Fairs USA (CeBit, DOMOTEX, ISIS, and more)
• HSM Global (World Innovation Forum, World Business Forum, and more)

LinkedIn has also partnered with Eventbrite, a leading provider of online event management and ticketing services, to provide LinkedIn with information about events related to their users.

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This is pretty funny.

Mark Papermaster, the 26-year IBM (IBM) veteran being sued by his employer for taking a job at Apple (AAPL), is convinced Big Blue’s suit is entirely without merit. Why? Apple doesn’t compete with IBM and never has.

“I do not recall a single instance of Apple being described as a competitor of IBM during my entire tenure at IBM,” Papermaster said in a court filing.

Now, I know Apple’s famous “1984? ad (see embed below) is a few decades old now and and memories of the company’s 1984 Annual Shareholders meeting are well faded, even at Apple. But surely someone, somewhere in Cupertino must recall CEO Steve Jobs’s comments at that meeting.

The early 1980s. 1981 – Apple II has become the world’s most popular computer, and Apple has grown to a 300 million dollar corporation, becoming the fastest growing company in American business history. With over fifty companies vying for a share, IBM enters the personal computer market in November of 1981, with the IBM PC.

1983. Apple and IBM emerge as the industry’s strongest competitors, with each selling approximately one billion dollars worth of personal computers in 1983. The shakeout is in full swing. The first major personal computer firm goes bankrupt, with others teetering on the brink. Total industry losses for 1983 overshadow even the combined profits of Apple and IBM.

It is now 1984. It appears that IBM wants it all. Apple is perceived to be the only hope to offer IBM a run for its money. Dealers, after initially welcoming IBM with open arms, now fear an IBM dominated and controlled future and are turning back to Apple as the only force who can ensure their future freedom.

IBM wants it all, and is aiming its guns at its last obstacle to industry control, Apple. Will Big Blue dominate the entire computer industry? The entire information age? Was George Orwell right?

I’d say that qualifies as an instance of Apple being described as a competitor of IBM, wouldn’t you?

Apple legal must be on a class trip or something …

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Finding cool Photosynth’s just got a heck of a lot easier. We’ve just introduced a new way to explore Photosynth’s as a part of our Collection Explorer feature on Live Search Maps.

2 things – (1) how do you find Photosynths and (2) how did they get there??

Alright, so in order to find Photosynths in Live Search Maps you’ll search for a location – Woodinville, WA, for example. In the welcome pane, you’ll see a link for “Explore Collections” which you click and begin seeing all kinds of collections. You can then improve your search using a helpful toolbar based on tags, collections with photos, collections with 3D models, collections with MapCruncher layers, and collections with Photosynths! Additionally, you can sort these by relevance (if you input a search term), distance from the center of the map, date added and last updated.

Click the Photosynth button and you’ll see a search result list of Photosynth collections. There are two places to launch the Photosynth viewer for a collection item from Live Search Maps – in the search results and in the rollover for each pushpin. These links will send you over to Photosynth.com to view the Synth.

Ok, second question, how did they get there? Remember when we launched Photosynth and Photosynther availability to the public and I wrote “Photosynth Released – Now, Let’s Mash it with Virtual Earth?” Well, in that blog I mentioned that if you would geo-annotate a synth it would be indexed into Live Search Maps in the future. Done.

If you’ve made any Photosynth’s you can go back to Photosynth.com, login with your Window’s Live ID and give the Synth a placement on the map. This will index into Live Search Maps and people will find your synths just like I found the Columbia Winery Synth I uploaded some time ago.

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Microsoft program manager Alec Berntson shows how Windows 7 allows programs to take advantage of location-based information, in this case the operating system’s weather gadget.

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LOS ANGELES–Windows 7 has a new programming interface designed to make it a whole lot easier for software to figure out where in the world a PC and its user are located.

That should make it easier for a whole new range of location-based services from finding nearby friends to LoJack-like PC tracking programs. Even search could be a whole lot better if the search engine knew where you were. Indeed, searchers often enter their city with their location to try and get just that benefit.

“There’s so many times you have to enter in where you are at,” said Microsoft program manager Alec Berntson.

At the same time, broader use of location-based services could also open up a range of privacy concerns.

Those issues–and how to handle them–was the subject of a discussion this week at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) here.

Microsoft does give a range of control options, such as turning off location services by default, as well as the ability to limit such services only to specific users or only to applications, as opposed to services that run in the background. However, the operating system doesn’t allow users the option of letting only certain applications access your location. So, for example, if you turn it on for a mapping program, any other Windows application running could also access that information.

The reason, Microsoft officials say, is that Windows doesn’t have a reliable means of determining that an application is what it says it is, so any attempt to limit the location to a specific application would be easily spoofable, Berntson said during the WinHEC discussion.

“We only promise the control that we can realistically give to them, rather than trying to promise more than we can deliver,” Berntson said.

That said, application-based control, “would be great to have and it is certainly on our Christmas list for future stuff,” he said.

But, not everyone felt that Windows 7 was doing all it could on the privacy front. One attendee suggested, for example, that Microsoft at least notify users when an application requests location information.

Although technically possible, Berntson said that’s not currently on Microsoft’s roadmap for Windows 7.

In fairness, location-based services are actually more secure in Windows 7 than in the past. That’s because in past versions of Windows, there was really no way to reliably turn off location information.

“The old way of doing it–there was no warning, there was no switch, there was nothing,” said Microsoft lead product manager Daniel Polivy. That said, it was so cumbersome that few people have enabled such location-based information or built services on top of them.

A pair of APIs
So just what is it that Microsoft is doing in Windows 7?

Well, at a low level, Microsoft has a new application programming interface (API) for sensors and a second API for location. It uses any of a number of things to actually get the location, depending on what’s available. Obviously there’s GPS, but it also supports Wi-Fi and cellular triangulation. At a minimum. Users can type in their location if they really want location-based services and don’t have any of those other sensors.

Applications can then use that longitude and latitude information to provide any number of services to the customer, of which mapping is only the tip of the iceberg. Most of those applications will be up to developers, though. The only location-based service in the current Windows 7 OS itself is the fact that the weather gadget will use your location, assuming you have such services available and turned on.

Masafumi Kuboyama, a senior manager in Sony’s Vaio PC unit in Japan, said he wants to know what’s going on in his system and would appreciate knowing what the location-based services were up to. Most computer users, though, don’t want to be bothered, he said.

“My relatives never understand what’s going on in a PC,” he said. “Everybody says, ‘Please do (it) automatically.’”

He also said he’s interested in the possibilities opened up by location-based services. “I’m looking forward to seeing more convenient applications for the Netbook.”

Tim Zinsky, a software architect at Hewlett-Packard, said he wasn’t all that disappointed that Microsoft isn’t providing all the pieces with its location API.

Zinsky, who stressed he was speaking for himself and not HP, said he isn’t convinced that there isn’t a way to track which applications are using the location information.

“They are underestimating the capability there,” he said. “I think they could do it.”

But that’s OK with him. “I don’t want it all to come from Microsoft,” he said. “If they can’t do it, maybe somebody else or another company can do it.”

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LinkedIn Opens Applications Platform with Google, Amazon

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The US Army is ramping up the development of technology right out of the X-Files, “making science fiction into reality” as Dr. John Parmentola—Director of their Research and Laboratory Management—puts it. The list of things currently in the works is amazing: Regenerating body parts on “nano-scaffolding”, telepathy through electronic impulses in the scalp, and self-aware virtual photorealistic soldiers that can be deployed in the battlefield through “quantum ghost imaging”. To test these they want to use them into a massively multi-player online games like World of Warcraft or Eve online:

We want to use the massively multi-player online game as an experimental laboratory to see if they’re good enough to convince humans that they’re actually human, that can think on their own, have emotions and talk in local slang. I actually interact with virtual humans in terms of asking them questions and they’re responding.

Once they have them perfected, they want to “deploy” these soldiers using something called “quantum ghost imaging”. This will allow to create photorealistic, non-cheesy-fake-CNN-looking holograms out of thin air by “pairing photons that do no reflect or bounce off an object, but off other photons,” whatever that means. Parmentola explains it as ““like having a tracing tool … that goes over the image and that’s connected to another one on a piece of paper that exactly imitates what it is that you are tracing with the other pen” which leaves me scratching my head as well. He hinted that this is closer than we can imagine.

The rest of their projects are equally mindblowing. Although this used to be the subject of much rumorology and speculation, the Parmentola confirmed that they are working in:

• A project to erase bad memories, which will be critical in helping soldiers with psychological damage.
• Devices that will translate one solider’s thoughts into electrical signals that can be beamed to other soliders, to help in stealth operations.
• Growing back body parts, both internal organs and limbs (Parmentola said researchers are not far away from this), using molecular-sized particles that act as nano-scaffolding for the human cells to grow, dissolving after the organ has regenerated.

Let’s hope it’s no all smoke and mirrors, because this research has the potential to benefit countless others outside the battlefield. [DoD Buzz]

Read More: Air Force Wants Bat-Senses In Micro Spy Drones For “Urban Combat”, Death and Taxes Shows Fascinating, Terrible View on Military Tech Spending, The Future is Coming to a Robot Near You (Or Behind, Rather), DARPA Documents Reveal Plans For Advanced Video Spying Tech

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Sony Ericsson takes mobile music into 2009 with the W705 Walkman™ phone and Wireless Home Audio System MBS-900

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Later in the interview, Doerr had 12 tips for entrepreneurs to cope with the current economy, which are well worth noting down…

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Ed Note : I stole these two graphics because i wanted to record the launch of these two services – i believe that NOBODY evangelises like Microsoft and they deserve some respect on my blog, as expressed below

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Here we are sitting in the PC Magazine Labs, and it occurs to us: We’ve got a shiny new Macbook Pro and an early build of Windows 7 on disc, so why not attempt to use one to run the other?

Check out photos, video, and a run down of the process, after the jump.

Using Bootcamp, we did a clean install of the new OS over Vista, which was already running on the system. We couldn’t just upgrade because the Macbook wasn’t running SP1.

It should be noted, of course, that this build (6801) still looks an awful lot like Vista. Far from being a final version of the operating system, Build 6801 is simply built on top of Vista.

All in all, the installation process went fairly smoothly. The computer restarted itself a few times (unfortunately, we had the system configured to start up to OS X, so we had to manually switch back to finish the process).

After installation, we installed the drivers via the Apple OS X startup disc, hoping that Windows 7 might have an easier time communicating with the hardware.

The disc didn’t do much, sadly. The system was unable to get online, and various other Windows 7 features, such as the mouseover preview, were disabled.

Windows 7 still retained some of its key functionality, however: The new Paint and Wordpad were intact. We could “toss” windows to the top of the screen. The translucent glass windows were there, as well.

We were hoping that we might be able to take advantage of some of that touchscreen functionality via the MacBook’s new multi-touch trackpad, but that too, sadly, wasn’t working the way we’d hoped

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THE MAKING OF ABOVE VIDEO :

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