[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