[Break News] Apple discloses its part suppliers. The first time ever.

Access to the list by Apple.
http://images.apple.com/supplierresponsibility/pdf/Apple_Supplier_List_2011.pdf

Re-ordered Apple supplier list by savememory.blogspot.com
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B55LMZ0Zt__nNWM0MmNmODItZGE1Ni00YjA0LWI3MjQtNzZmNTAzZTMwZjUy

Samsung has a long way to go in voice controlled.

Samsung voice controlled TV full demonstration in CES 2012

Home automation by Creston + Siri

If you would like to experience voice recognition like Siri on your Samsung's Android smartphones, In CES, Samsung opened its dedicated voice recognition App, 'Dragon Go' by Nuance (www.nuance.com) who is a provider of Siri to Apple. In my experience, this 'Dragon Go' could be installed only in Samsung Galaxy.

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.nuance.dragon

Looks no reason to deny UV(UltraViolet) service

Reportedly, at the UV (www.uvvu.com) alliance conference in CES in Jan. 11th, Samsung announced that Samsung will adopt the interface with Amazon's UV studio in its blue-ray player. Bill Carr, executive VP of digital for Amazon, said that Amazon will open its UV contents studio which will be a retail market place for UV compatible DVD and digital contents. This hand shaking between two massive players seems to affect to cloud service, digital content, DVD eco system and UV's explosive potential comparing to Youtube and Netflix. In addition these mentions from both companies about UV service mean that Amazon will not be limited to access the its UV studio (market place) only for its tablet, Kindle Fire which is a unified window to access Amazon. There looks to be implicative nuance to be read in it. The Kindle Fire is an undeniable flagship tablet in cost effectiveness and Samsung has enough talent to attack to high-end market in hardware view. And Amazon would be the only rival of iTunes. In return to UV, according to its FAQ (http://www.uvvu.com/faqs.php), this seems to have quite tolerance and flexible on users at this beginning stage. For example, no hidden cost, 6 users are able to share their contents each other, max. 3 users can share the contents concurrently, it allows physical ripping to disc and so on. However, we can not find any similar present players like as Apple and Netflix in its alliance yet. That means this UV is threatening them now??

More presentation pictures
http://www.engadget.com/photos/amazon-rovi-flixster-and-samsung-highlight-ultraviolets-ces-press-event/

A coupon for DNLA Server, Mezzmo 2.5 & more

Just verified availability now, but I have no information about expiration date.

Promotion Code : CPN8536134140 ($8.99 off from Reg. price $29.95)

Access to http://www.conceiva.com/products/mezzmo/default.asp










If you have any Samsung SmartTV, then install AllShare server on your tablet or laptop.
http://www.samsung.com/global/allshare/pcsw/


For LG TV DLNA setup, refer to here.
http://lgknowledgebase.com/kb/index.php?View=entry&EntryID=6460

For any other alternatives, free DLNA Media Server Serviio. 
http://www.serviio.org/


For Android tablet & smarphone DNLA/uPnP App, Skifta by Qualcomm Atheros
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.skifta.android.app&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDEsImNvbS5za2lmdGEuYW5kcm9pZC5hcHAiXQ..

TIZEN smartphone from Samsung in this year

 TIZEN (www.tizen.org), the next generation opensource O/S for smart devices based on Linux, releases its first trial source code and SDK to developers and also official release will be opened within next 2 or 3 months. "The first version of Tizen is just for preview, not suitable for application producing yet, but we expect the official release should be hand on within several months", explained by the Linux Foundation (www.linuxfoundation.org). Reportedly, In rumor, Samsung will unveil its first Tizen smartphone in 3Q this year.

Known as TIZEN UI at Samsung I9500

Ranking by 2011 US patents

IFI (www.ificlaims.com) announced top global companies ranked by 2011 U.S. patents.

In 9th place, Hon Hai precision Industry Co. Ltd is mother company of Foxconn.
Access the complete top 50 ranking list. http://ificlaims.com/index.php?page=misc_Top_50_2011

In addition, IFI reported the exceptional gainers in 2011 top 50 companies as below.


·      Renesas (#19), +588%
·      Qualcomm(#26), +40%
·      Research in Motion(#40), +39%
·      Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson(#49), +36%
·      Toyota(#21), +24%
·      Broadcom(#17), +22%
·      Apple(#39), +20%
·      General Electric(#11), +18%
·      GM(#18), +16%
·      Brother(#27), +15%
·      Canon(#3), +11%
·      Toshiba(#5), +11%

To access 2010 U.S. patent ranking
http://www.lotempiolaw.com/2011/01/articles/patents/ibm-awarded-the-most-us-patents-in-2010/

LTE(4G) war spreads on speed competition in Korea

KT (www.kt.com), second largest carrier in Korea, has launched their 4G LTE service just few weeks ago in Korea and triggered speed issue of 4G service against two fast movers, SKT and LG U+. KT introduces its new technology named as 'LTE Warp' which enables network speed up than its competitors at the crowded cell spots. Simply the 'LTE Warp' hands over a part of subscribers from the crowed cell to near other cell virtually and this releases the bottle neck of network speed of the crowded cell.

LTE(4G) Speed comparison by KT

KT's funny LTE Warp commercial

Beautiful Zen style Vizio's brand new 10" tablet :: VTAB3010

Vizio's (www.vizio.com) brand new 10 inch Android tablet in CES 2012.

I hope this brand new gadget brings excellent hardware spec as much as its sleek design.

Presently upside justified rear camera has not fixed the position yet.

It looks stay at Android Gingerbread version yet.

>> More pictures here

[Relevant Post] http://savememory.blogspot.com/2011/12/tablet-comparison-ipad-galaxy-kindle.html

1960's Braun Products and Apple's

Nobody could say Jonathan Ive's design of Apple came from Braun, but we found the similarity in concept and silhouette between Dieter Rams's design in Braun and Ive's of Apple. For original copy is here http://gizmodo.com/343641/1960s-braun-products-hold-the-secrets-to-apples-future

Also, it's quite interest to read Dieter Ram's interview in which Ram's comments on Apple product.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/8555503/Dieter-Rams-Apple-has-achieved-something-I-never-did.html

Single Chip LTE(4G) smartphones are coming soon

Major smartphone makers in Korea are developing their brand new LTE(4G) smartphones, which employ single SoC for LTE from Qualcomm, and expect to launch in May or June this year. The present LTE phone integrates 3 chips at least for LTE, 3G(2G) and application processor independently and this architecture makes not only a reason for cost up but affects deeply power drain and physical dimension of LTE smartphone. The industry expects this next LTE smartphone with Single SoC might lead strong market demand toward LTE based on less price, enough battery life and more sleek design. "The 3 chips architecture was an cause that most present LTE smatphones have large display above 4.5 inch", a person from maker said.

[Relevant Post] http://savememory.blogspot.com/2011/12/samsung-galaxy-note-for-at-4g-lte.html

Nikon cheers with Sony's XQD card, is it a poisoned chalice or not?

Nikon have launched its flagship DSLR D4 with 11fps continuous shooting speed. However extra astonishing one as much as this continous speed is popping up brand new memory card, Sony's XQD card which has 1Gbps data transfer rate with PCIe interface.

XQD Card	125MB/sec
SDHC Class 10	10MB/sec
Compact Flash A	91MB/sec
Compact Flash B	71MB/sec

Like Sony has struggled to expand its proprietary card, memory stick, they are trying to make new standard in flash memory card field. Nikon D4 user should pay extra $129.99 at least for 16G XQD card. It looks enough to keep our eyes on this new card's future.

Everything about product code of iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch ::

It must be bookmarked. Incredible massive data related to product code and hardware specification and special dialing codes  of Apple's product, iPhone, iPad and IPod Touch.

http://www.edepot.com/iphone.html

iPad3 LCD panel will be shipped from Samsung, LG

Reportedly, Samsung and LG will provide LCD panel to upcoming iPAD3 is going to roll out in 1Q this year. Initially Sharp Japan was also considered as a provider but disqualified at this time. "The LCD panel for iPAD3 have started to provide from last month by Samsung and LG display is going to start to manufacture in this month", said by a related person. The resolution for iPAD3 is known as 4 times, XQGA(2048x1536) of iPAD2 and improved for readability and reduce 15% of thickness than iPad2.

[Relevant Post] http://savememory.blogspot.com/2011/12/parts-vendors-for-ipad3.html

What the heck do you bring in CES?

Just after their press conference, I felt what do they bring in this CES? Was I contaminated too much by prior leaked information. We had too much leaked information in advance to  be boring at this conference. I don't know well how worthy on us this CES in the future without Apple, Microsoft and Google. As we see, we are not inspired dramatically by only frame makers.