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-digital Phones - TAT Collaborates with Nokia Thailand to Launch Mobile Application on Windows Phone - (5/20/2012)

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Bangkok, May 18, 2012 – mr Suraphon Svetasreni, Governor of the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT), presided over the press conference ‘Promoting Thai Tourism on Digital Platforms and Mobile Applications’ at the Enigma Theatre, Siam Paragon, affirming official cooperation between the organisation and Nokia Thailand. the host of the event also included mr Jirapat Janjerdsak, Nokia’s head ecosystem developer. the conference introduced ‘The New amazing Thailand’ mobile application and a new game ‘Thailand Racing by Smile Land’ for Nokia smartphones that run the Windows Phone operating system, following its success on other mobile platforms.

“I’m truly glad that TAT finally has the chance to work with Nokia on an innovation that will help promote Thailand’s tourism using Nokia smartphones running Windows Phone. after our huge success on the iPhone, iPad, Android phones, Blackberry and Nokia smartphones, TAT decided to embrace the Windows Phone mobiles so that we would cover all the smartphones in the market. Therefore, to celebrate our achievement, we are presenting ‘The New amazing Thailand’ mobile application now available for every mobile operating system, renovated with new astonishing designs and packed with comprehensive contents plus special travel offers from numerous online agencies in Thailand. TAT has expected that the total downloads of the app should double from its previous release, which has been downloaded for more than 300,000 times so far by smartphone users around the world. now we are confident to consider a mobile application as an absolutely potential channel for promoting Thai tourism to people on the other side of the world. It is such a productive collaboration we have with Nokia, and we are looking forward to welcoming any other innovations that would help promote Thailand to the world and encourage tourism activities in our country like the amazing Thailand app does,” said mr Suraphon.

The highlights of ‘The New amazing Thailand’ mobile app are its new functionalities that seem to resonate with most travellers. for example, the Augmented Reality (AR) feature allows travellers to instantly access details and information of things and places around them. the QR code scanning capability offers tourists an ability to get travel info quickly. the Interactive Map provides tourists with travelling routes to a number of interesting destinations. the Search and Filter options let users find tourist info that best suit their interests. Aware of the social network sensation today, the app is equipped with Check-in functionality allowing users to share their experience in Thailand on the go via their Facebook. ‘The New amazing Thailand’ application is expected to trigger a greater exploitation of digital platform usage for the purpose of Thai tourism promotion, and accelerate use frequency of other mobile applications from TAT.

Mr Jirapat Janjerdsak, Nokia’s head ecosystem developer, said that the company was delighted to have cooperated with the Tourism Authority of Thailand in order to encourage the Thai tourism industry and the country’s wireless communications environment. not only does the application meet the needs of tourists, but as well urge Thai developers to strive for better application development.

‘The New amazing Thailand’ mobile application is now available on Nokia Lumia 900, 800, 710, and 610, which have already been distributed to various stores in Thailand. the impeccable and user-friendly smartphones meeting with the perfect application will obviously offer consumers the best using experience.

In addition to ‘The New amazing Thailand’, Nokia has also been working with TAT on the new game named ‘Thailand Racing by Smile Land’, to be launched specifically on the Windows Phone mobile operating system. the game presents Thailand’s amazing attractions by using them as racing scenes which are brought from the numerous settings in the Smile Land game on Facebook. It also features a unique racing experience depending on the locations throughout Thailand; such as, car racing, boat racing, bike racing, and even animal racing where players get to ride on a buffalo or an elephant while racing.  Special items and scores on the game can also be accumulated with the players’ Smile Land accounts on Facebook. Nokia presumes that both ‘The New amazing Thailand’ and ‘Thailand Racing by Smile Land’ game, prospectively owned by a tremendous number of Nokia Lumia users around the world, will greatly improve the image of Thailand and its tourism industry.

Moreover, at the TAT Digital Organization booth in the upcoming Thailand Tourism Festival 2012, which will be held on June 6 – 10, 2012, at Challenger Hall 1 – 3, Impact Arena Muang Thong Thani, Nokia Thailand will join TAT to assist with the promotion of ‘The New amazing Thailand’ application and arrange an activity to introduce ‘Thailand Racing by Smile Land’ through Nokia Lumia smartphones running Windows Phone.

Learn more about ‘The New amazing Thailand’ mobile application at mobile.tourismthailand.org.

Learn more about ‘Thailand Racing by Smile Land’ at smilelandgame.com.

Learn more about Nokia Thailand at nokia.co.th.

For more information, please contact:

TAT:Marketing Information Technology Group, Tourism Authority of Thailand

1600 Phetchaburi Rd., Makkasan, Ratchathewi, Bangkok 10400, Thailand

Tel. 66 2 250-5500 ext. 2832-38, tatnewsthai.org

-digital Phones - What Do You Need in Conference Call Phones? - (5/20/2012)

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It’s obvious that conference call phones offer great convenience. moreover, they also help you save on the cost of travel and accommodation. With just a push of a few buttons you can talk to a group of people without having to ask them to come over. whether you use phones like these for personal or business reasons, you are at a definite advantage.

There are a variety of phone models to choose from. if you have to choose one, it would be a good idea to ask your phone carrier first if they have certain recommendations and limitations. Setting things straight with your carrier can help you immediately eliminate conference call phones that do not match your carrier’s services and system.

In general though, most carriers do allow conference calling. most phone manufacturers too make models that are appropriate for this mode of communication. To make sure though that a model can give you what you need, you have to find out what your exact requirements are. you would have to specify for example if you need a unit that is also compatible with digital connections for optional internet conferencing. you would also have to check how many participants will most often be included in conferences to get a model that has the maximum allowable number.

People also usually choose conference call phones based on special features. A unit that can provide clear audio while canceling out background noise is always a good buy. Wireless units with Bluetooth connectivity are now also popular options.

Cell Phone Scanner – A Good Look Into Cell Phone Scanners and How They Work

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People who are associated with law enforcement should be familiar with cell phone scanners. These essentially work as tapping devices, allowing the user to monitor phone calls made and received by people who are under surveillance. They intercept phone calls and normally use information from the scanner to further investigate on a suspect.

The mobile phone scanner is a device that is typically used for surveillance by authorities. The use or mere possession of this device by an unauthorized individual is punishable by law so you need to be very careful should you even consider getting one for yourself.

Interceptors and tapping services

The interceptor is a type of cell phone scanner that can pick up cellular frequencies so the user can listen in on calls that are made within a predetermined range. This device can easily be obtained via mail order. You just need to order the product from a reputable seller in Canada or England.

For cell phone scanners to work, they need a third-party company to provide them with the service. This will enable the devices to record conversations from a particular phone line, including mobile handsets at a given place and time. Scanner services are usually available as call cards that range from 250 to 500 minutes. Retrieving a recorded conversation is simply a matter of logging onto the internet and getting into the records through the access number. Scanner services and mobile phone scanners are useful for recording important calls such as conference calls with business contacts.

Before you purchase cell phone scanners for whatever purpose you might have, you need to verify the legality of even owning one in your state. This will ensure that you’re not getting yourself into trouble. Product-wise, you want to go with a scanner that can record and play conversations back clearly.

-digital Phones - 4 Easy Steps to Taking Professional Looking Pictures with Your iPhone 4s - (5/17/2012)

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the iPhone 4s is one of the most popular phones ever made, and one of the reasons for its popularity is the 8 megapixel camera that is housed inside of it. the camera on the iPhone 4s is second to none, and it is capable of producing breathtaking pictures, but how do you get the most out of this fantastic smartphone camera? This guide will show you how to produce pictures that any photographer would be proud of.

Learn how to use the HDR feature

the camera on the iPhone 4s has a great feature called HDR, but what does it do? HDR stands for High Dynamic Range. HDR is a feature that will help create an image that has a better representation of light and dark areas in your pictures.

when turned on, the HDR feature on the iPhone 4s takes three separate pictures and then merges them into one. one of the pictures will be over exposed, one will be under exposed, and the third is taken with optimal setting. when the pictures are merged, low light areas, and areas with too much light are represented properly.

one thing to remember is that HDR will not improve every picture you take. HDR is best suited for times when you have strong back lighting, when you are taking pictures of landscapes, and anytime you have to deal with strong sunlight. On the flip side of the coin do not use HDR if your subject is prone to moving, if you want better contrast, or if your want the camera to produce more vivid colors.

Tap to focus and focus lock

By default the camera on the iPhone will focus on the subject that is located in the center of the display, but if you tap elsewhere in the frame the camera will shift its focus to the point where you tapped. after you tap, a small square will appear over the area that is now being brought into focus.

the focus lock feature is another way to ensure that your pictures turn out the way you want them too. By pressing and holding your finger on the object you want your iPhone to focus on, the camera will lock its focus onto that object.

Once you’ve decided on the subject that you want to be in focus and properly exposed, just tap and hold the image until a blue focus box flashes on the screen. the words AE/AF Lock will appear to let you know that the settings are locked in. To disable this feature, just tap anywhere on the screen.

Release to snap and the volume shutter button

the iPhone’s camera does not take a picture when you press the shutter button, instead it takes the picture when you release it. This is a fantastic feature as it can help decrease blurry photos caused by pressing the screen to take a picture. To use simply hold down the camera button until everything is in focus, then release the button to snap.

the volume up button on the side of the iPhone can also be used to take pictures. Simply press the volume up button on the side of the iPhone, or the volume up button on your iPhone headset (if it is plugged in) and the camera will snap the picture. This can also reduce blurry images as you do not have to touch the screen.

The Grid feature

There’s another feature in the iPhone’s options menu: Grid. when you turn this feature on a grid will be overlaid on screen. the grid breaks the image up into nine equally sized squares. This feature will help you compose your pictures. Proper picture composition is the easiest way to create stunning pictures that tell a story. By utilizing the above features you can easily create amazing photos with your iPhone 4s. Learn how to use them properly and the camera on this phone will rival any digital point and shoot camera on the market today.

Panasonic To Move Lithium Battery Production To Suzhou – ChinaTechNews.com – The Technology Source for the Latest Chinese News on Internet, Computers, Digital, Science, Electronics, Law, Security, Software, Web 2.0, Telecom, and Wireless Industries

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Japanese electronic products manufacturer Panasonic Corporation reportedly plans to close its lithium battery plant in Kaizuka, Osaka, during the financial year 2012, and move the related production to Suzhou, near Shanghai, China.

The company said that they hope to lower the manufacturing costs by using the cheaper labor in China, so as to enhance their competition against South Korean manufacturers, which benefit from the depreciation of South Korea’s Won. the company also said that the 350 employees in Kaizuka plant will be transferred to its other factories in Japan.

The market demand for lithium batteries used on mobile phones and laptops is growing and most of Panasonic’s lithium batteries are currently made in Japan. however, the company is relocating the manufacturing from Kaizuka to its new lithium battery plant beside its existing plant in Suzhou. By 2015, the company is expected to increase the ratio of lithium batteries made in China to 50%.

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-digital Phones - Google’s Galaxy Nexus: Unlocked and Contract-Free for $399 - (5/3/2012)

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The Galaxy Nexus by Samsung is one of the best Android phones out right now, and starting today, Google is selling it unlocked and contract-free for $399.

Considering that most wireless carriers charge upwards of $600 for contract-free phones, the unlocked Galaxy Nexus is a good deal if you plan to switch carriers at will, swap SIM cards when traveling overseas or upgrade to a new phone in less than two years.

You must be in the United States to get the unlocked version, and it only works with GSM carriers such as AT&T and T-Mobile. Verizon and Sprint sell their own versions of the Galaxy Nexus with two-year contracts.

The Galaxy Nexus runs the latest version of Android, and has not been modified by wireless carriers or by Samsung. That improves users’ chances of getting updates in a timely manner, and it also means the phone includes Google Wallet, which lets users pay with their phones instead of credit cards at select retailers.

Google hasn’t sold smartphones directly since it launched the Nexus One in January 2010. although the phone mostly received positive reviews, it didn’t sell well, and Google wasn’t adequately prepared to deal with customer service requests. later that year, Google said it was finished selling phones online, and would leave the job to wireless carriers and retail stores.

The company has apparently changed its mind, and now says it has better customer service in place, including phone support.

The unlocked Galaxy Nexus will be sold through the Google Play Store, under a new “Devices” section. “we want to give you a place to purchase Nexus devices that work really well with your digital entertainment,” Android boss Andy Rubin said in a blog post.

Rubin’s use of the plural “Nexus devices” hints of more Google hardware in the works. Might we see that cheap Nexus tablet soon?

-digital Phones - WorkZone: Boorishness usually starts at top - (4/30/2012)

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April 29, 2012 12:00 am by Ann Belser / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

The Power Point is done — the statistics are accurate, the chart points the way it is supposed to — for that big presentation your boss ordered.

So what is the top dog doing while you are talking? Sending text messages or answering email.

The boorish behavior of business generally starts at the top.

Dan Post Senning, the great-great-grandson of Emily Post and a spokesman for the Emily Post Institute in Burlington, Vt., sees it all the time.

He has even found statistics that while most people think it is the young techie who is texting at the conference table, the biggest offenders are usually the top managers in the room.

“Disrespectful behavior is most likely to come from a supervisor or boss or an employee with a valued talent,” he said.

Even when he is presenting business seminars on etiquette, seminars that have been arranged by the employer, the employees are sitting and listening while the badly mannered boss is in the back tapping away on a laptop or smartphone.

Those phones are hard to put down. They are amazing little machines with more processing power than the computers used in the Apollo rocket launches.

They are with us more than our keys or wallets, and they provide instant access to friends, family and business associates — all of which is both good and bad.

In the early days of cell phones, letters to the Emily Post Institute tended to focus on the manners regarding talking on the phone, be it at dinner with friends or even whether it was polite in a restaurant at all. Those questions now seem to be pretty much resolved: it is not polite to talk on the phone in those circumstances.

But reading and writing emails and text messages has replaced talking on the devices as the divisive issue of the digital era.

Mr. Senning said sending text messages used to be seen as the polite alternative and still is in places such as airports and on buses when talking would be obnoxious to the people around you, but, since you are not there to spend time with them, typing is fine.

This is not true in a social situation.

“When you are with someone, your attention should be on them,” he said.

But that third realm of human interaction, when you are not socializing with someone or alone in a crowd, is the business meeting, and for that people have to make new rules.

In the rare instance, and the operative word is rare, someone may need to be available by phone or text or email in case he has a huge business deal hanging in the balance or perhaps is waiting for an organ transplant.

In that case, he said, it is best to state the need to be available up front by maybe saying “I am waiting for an important call or email and may be distracted.”

In some businesses, it is common for everyone to have their laptops out, and if that is the common culture, it is fine.

“It's a question of creating expectations and fulfilling them,” mr. Senning said. the rules of acceptable behavior do change from place to place.

The key is to make the acceptable standards clear and to give someone your full attention when they are making a presentation.

But there are always going to be questions about appropriate behavior, which is a good thing for mr. Senning.

“It would be phenomenal if everyone behaved well all the time,” he said. “But then there would be no need for the Emily Post Institute.”

-digital Phones - WBOY.com: Clarksburg, Morgantown: News, Sports, WeatherShentel Announces Completion of Upgraded Services for Salem Customers - (4/28/2012)

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Shenandoah Telecommunications Company (Shentel) announced Wednesday that it has completed upgrades in the Salem area, according to a news release from Shentel.

Shentel subscribers in the Salem area can now receive faster high-speed Internet, home phone service and improved digital TV with a variety of channels, according to the news release.

Customers can choose from the following Shentel services beginning April 25:

  • Faster Internet, at speeds up to 25 mbps.
  • Premium Home Phone with two calling plans to choose from – unlimited local calling and unlimited nationwide long-distance.
  • Enhanced cable TV with more than 190 channels – up to 43 available in high-definition –and digital video recording (DVR) capabilities.
  • “Triple Play” option for combining Shentel's services into one, convenient bill that fits any customer's needs and budget.

“Making an ongoing effort to bring the latest in Internet, phone and television technology to our service areas is a vital part of Shentel's commitment to our customers,” said Willy Pirtle, Vice President of sales and marketing at Shentel. “We are pleased to announce that subscribers in the Salem area will now be able to surf the Internet at faster speeds, enjoy new cable TV channels, and experience digital voice phone calls for the first time.”

Salem area customers are invited to the Salem Depot on may 11 for a celebration hosted by Shentel that will feature bounce houses, hot dogs and snow cones, bluegrass music and a live radio remote, Pirtle said.

For more information about the latest cable offerings from Shentel, visit shentel.com or call 1-800-743-6835.

-digital Phones - Big Brands and Hyperlocal Sites: A Matchmaker Gives the Lowdown - (4/28/2012)

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Size matters when national advertisers look at hyperlocal sites, but not that much.

That’s what I got from a phone talk with Bryan Quinn, vice president of publisher strategy & operations at Cox Digital Solutions. CDS — the combination of Cox acquisition Adify and Cox Cross Media in January 2011 – is the middleman between advertisers as big as Walmart and Target and their agencies and local digital sites of all varieties. Its goal is to help advertisers find the “passionate local user whoever that might be.”

Quinn works with old-media (local digital sites created by newspapers and TV and radio stations) and new media (news and entertainment pure plays created by entrepreneurial independents and corporate networks). while he’d like a site, whatever its species, to be able to deliver a minimum of half a million ad impressions, he stresses: “We have 3,000 sites we have relationships with. for our criteria, editorial is very important. does it engage the user? We can’t read every article, but we do look at a site and determine if it’s ‘brand safe’” – no pornography or radical political messages. “Beyond that, what can the site do to help us execute a particular campaign?”

In urban areas, the number of pageviews and unique visitors is more important. “If someone comes to us with a million ad impressions, that’s the kind of partner we want,” Quinn says. “We have a bunch of relationships at different size levels. a half million ad impressions does limit relationships.” but he said smaller sites — say, those with about 10,000 UVs a month — could be part of the pools of sites he helps put together for national advertisers, especially those who are targeting specific groups of consumers (e.g., demographically, behaviorally).

“We’re sitting down with the Obama and Romney camps,” he says. “They tell us which areas they want to go in in these [battleground states], so we want to be sure we have relationships there.”

Right now, Quinn says Cox Digital Solutions is looking at placing political ads in communities in battleground states: “We’re sitting down with the Obama and Romney camps,” he says. “They tell us which areas they want to go in in these [battleground states], so we want to be sure we have relationships there.”

While independent sites in some markets have formed networks to offer stronger reach and more ad impressions, Quinn says: “We go both ways – with networks and independents with strong content. in smaller markets, the expectations for reach are not as high.”

CDS works closely with well-established old-media companies which own newspapers and radio and TV stations in top 50 markets that have gone digital in the local space. Those companies include Cox Enterprises – which owns CDS – and Belo. still, Quinn said, “we’re working with independent sites in Los Angeles, new York, San Francisco and other major markets.”

Regarding editorial, he said “a high-quality product with user engagement allows the site to grow its audience faster and to attract advertisers.” but, he stressed, the challenge is “creating enough quality content that can be scaled.”

How does a site go about seeking to work with Cox Digital Solutions? “It’s a two-way street,” he said. “A site can come to us or we can go to them.”

Like leaders at ad networks and agencies (here and here) Quinn says there’s an unmistakable migration of national advertisers to local digital space. at CDS, he said, “We’re seeing more and more demand.”

Cox Digital Solutions also contracts with sites to build technology platforms that handle “ad serving, campaign targeting, optimization, tracking and reporting. We enable advanced targeting, including contextual, behavioral, demographic and geographic.”  Adify — which became part of Cox Digital Solutions — built the technology platform used by Sacramento Press and the Sacramento Local Online Ad Network (SLOAN) that SacPress co-founded. SacPress COO Ben Ilfeld has described the technology platform as “best in class.”

A hyperlocal site seeking national ads too avidly could wind up in a wrong-end-of-the-telescope search for revenue. but there are matches to be made, and matchmaker Bryan Quinn shows how they can be made.

Tom Grubisich authors The new News column for Street Fight. he is editorial director of LocalAmerica, which is developing a Web site to rank communities on their livability across 20-plus categories. The rankings will be dynamic, going up and down daily as they are updated through a combination of open data, journalism and feedback from local experts and users of the site.

Now is the time to reserve your tickets for Street Fight Summit West. Join the top minds in hyperlocal in San Francisco on June 5th.

-digital Phones - Intel Atom processor powered Lava smart phone XOLO X900 priced Rs. 22,000 - (4/27/2012)

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  Date: 19th Apr 2012

Intel Atom processor powered Lava smart phone XOLO X900 priced Rs. 22,000

India looks to be important and bigger market for Intel than any other region in the world to enter smart-phone market. One of the India’s leading local phone company Lava is Intel’s partner to launch its Atom processor powered smart phone in India called XOLO X900. the news is the new phone XOLO X900 is available in the Indian shops from Apr 23 at a street price of Rupees 22000 and is powered by Android OS Gingerbread. Lava is having arrangements with mobile and digital gadget store-chain Croma to make XOLO X900 available in all Croma shops.

Intel has packed graphic processor and hyper thread technology in the 1.6 GHz speed Atom processor to deliver rich and fast graphics supporting HD Video, gaming and video watching and any such mobile phone entertainment apps.

We got to see how fast the phone would switch from application to application in the hands of gaming frenzy and apps frenzy user.

At a price of Rs. 22000, this phone is in the category of Rs.20K+ priced phones such as iPhone from Apple and Galaxy from Samsung, Lumia from Nokia and such phones. these days, it’s easy to figure out the performance and features of the phone by plain comparison. Based on the minimum data available on XOLO X900, it has no visible significant advantage over the present phone in its price range.

Another leading Indian phone maker Micromax has average to more-than-average performing decent smartphones in the price range of Rs. 5000 to 10,000.

For semiconductor companies to phone-makers, India is becoming new turf to unveil technology. its more so expected in the tablet computer domain, where at-least more than 10 low cost tablets have come out including Aakash tablet.

Other brief specification of XOLO X900: Display: 4.03-inch high-resolution LCD touch screen Operating System: begin with Android Gingerbread and over-the -air software upgrade to Android’s Ice Cream Sandwich shortly. Battery life: Up to 5 hours of 3G browsing, 45 hours of audio and 8 hours of talk time.