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The BBC is developing an app that allows mobile users to directly view and control television content.

Oct 8th, 2011 | By qaseemur- rahim | Category: Mobile applications

The BBC is developing an app that allows mobile users to directly view and control television content.
A breakthrough that expands apps’ abilities to interact with TV.
The app, created by Orchestrated Media, lets smartphone and tablet users jump to different scenes as they watch a recorded TV show during broadcast, thanks to a “symmetric sync” between [...]



BBC: Global iPlayer coming to iPhone and Apple TV

Jul 28th, 2011 | By qaseemur- rahim | Category: Mobile applications

The BBC has confirmed plans to bring its popular iPlayer TV service globally to Apple’s [AAPL] iPhone and Apple TV in a move sure to please international audiences and one which potentially suggests future support for apps on the set-top box.
The Corporation revealed late on Wednesday that the iPlayer’s long-awaited international expansionwill arrive exclusively via [...]



Facebook claimants vow to continue legal action

Apr 2nd, 2010 | By omar shaikh | Category: Various

The two Americans who were awarded millions of dollars after claiming they had come up with the idea for Facebook say their legal battle isn’t over.
Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss studied at Harvard University alongside Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, where they started a site called ConnectU.
In 2008 a protracted legal battle between the two sides ended [...]



Sensors turn skin into gadget control pad

Apr 2nd, 2010 | By omar shaikh | Category: Gadgets / Gizmos

Tapping your forearm or hand with a finger could soon be the way you interact with gadgets.
US researchers have found a way to work out where the tap touches and use that to control phones and music players.
Coupled with a tiny projector the system can use the skin as a surface on which to display [...]



Invisibility cloak created in 3-D

Mar 23rd, 2010 | By omar shaikh | Category: Omar Shaikh

The “nanostructure” of tiny rods bends light around a bump in the gold surface
he “cloak”, described in the journal Science, hid an object from detection using light of wavelengths close to those that are visible to humans.
Previous devices have been able to hide objects from light travelling in only one direction; viewed from any other [...]



CTIA is the Gathering of the Brightest in Wireless

Feb 22nd, 2010 | By omar shaikh | Category: Events, Featured

The mobile market is important in all 190 plus nations on Earth where the number of mobile subscribers increases at a phemonenally faster rate than fixed subscribers. But how many times have wireless operators heard the term “dumb pipes” applied to them in the last few months? What has happened in the last six months [...]