Wie sieht die Welt durch die Google-Brille betrachtet aus? Unsere beiden Redakteurinnen Loie und Camila hatten bei der IFA das unerwartete Vergnügen, Google Glass auszuprobieren und fühlten sich gleich nach dem Aufsetzen ganz schön geeky.
The New York Times reports that Ronald Coase has died at the age of 102. Though you may never have heard of the Nobel Memorial Prize winning economist, his theories in the mid 20th century have a significant impact on your everyday life — assuming you're using a cellular phone.
In 1959, the FCC doled out wireless spectrum in a significantly different way than it does today. Companies licensed the radio waves for specific uses, more or less permanently, for small fees. Enter Coase, who had already written extensively and influentially on economic concepts like "transaction costs." Coase argued that the FCC should treat spectrum like property — auctioning it off to the highest bidder and allowing that bidder to use it however they...
Do you have a hankering for an elegant featurephone but disappointed by the lack of attention the market pays to your particular demographic? Nokia's here to rescue you with the 515, a candybar Series 40 handset which has a chassis crafted with anodized aluminum, a 2.4-inch QVGA LCD panel covered with Gorilla Glass 2 and a keypad that features a new type of polycarbonate resin. The device measures 11mm thick and offers a 5MP rear camera with LED flash, 256MB internal storage, microSD support up to 32GB, Bluetooth 3.0, HD Voice and USB tethering, and will begin its global rollout next month in Russia, Germany, Switzerland and Poland. It has dualband HSDPA (900 / 2100) and quadband GSM / EDGE and will come in both single and dual-SIM flavors. The suggested retail price for such a package? 115 EUR ($150), which makes it more expensive than most Asha phones and featurephones currently on the market. It's interesting to see Nokia push pricier models with a premium feel, but if there are plenty of places in which this kind of phone is wanted and encouraged, why deprive consumers?
One of the best ways to make sure you can play all of your TV shows and movies on any device, anywhere you go, is by making sure they're all in the same format and have the same containers. This week, we want to know which application you turn to make sure your video is neatly converted and organized.
