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SAP's Bold Desires: Leadership In Cloud, Mobile, Big DataSAP has bold plans. One of the world's biggest software companies has been moving into mobile, the cloud, and big data through acquisition and organic product development, and company executives have committed to becoming the leader in each market.
PowerTrekk Fuel Cell: Water To Charge Your iPhoneRecharging a phone or camera in a remote location can now be done using water . . . and the PowerTrekk Fuel Cell, which is pricey, but probably worth it for adventurers out in the middle of nowhere.
nVolt Recharges Phone With A SpinnVolutions uses rotational inertia (kinetic energy) to charge a mobile phone. Although the product won't be available until the end of the year, the price will be just right: about $25.
iPhone 3D? Spatial View's 3DeeSlide Does ItSpatial View demonstrates its iPhone and laptop 3D lenses, as well as its 3DeeCentral content portal.
RIM BlackBerry OS 7.1 PreviewedResearch In Motion demonstrated the newest upgrade to its BlackBerry Operating System at CES this week. Key features include: BlackBerry Tag using NFC, a mobile hotspot feature and WiFi calling.
RIM's PlayBook 2.0 PreviewResearch In Motion was demonstrating the next release of its BlackBerry PlayBook operating system at CES. It includes native e-mail and calendar apps, an Android player and user interface improvements.
Viewsonic's Tablet Extravaganza: E70 and 10E (Android), 10pi (Windows)Viewsonic is a bit late for the tablet wars, but jumped in with three new offerings. The Android versions are priced aggressively, but the Windows unit . . . not so much.
HP's Envy 14 Spectre: The Ultimate Ultrabook?HP promises no dongles and no compromises with its latest ultrabook – a souped-up, ultra-thin laptop that looks amazingly like a MacBook Pro
Samsung's Galaxy Note & Galaxy Tablet 7.7Samsung's new LTE devices are bigger than existing smartphones but smaller than most tablets and will enable super-fast video and data connectivity 
Mobile 3D, Glasses-Free AND High QualityMasterImage 3D was demonstrating smartphone and tablet reference platforms at CES. The patented technology was as clear as any 3D we've seen in this form factor.
Solar-Powered Mobile Device Charging Goes SocialGerman startup Changers launches solar-powered charger for mobile phones and a community and marketplace for turning energy produced into tangible credit.
Sony Announces PSVita at Web 2.0 Summit!Jack Tretton, CEO of Sony America, announces the brand new PSVita at Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. A brand new gaming platform from Sony available 2/22/2012
Web 2.0 Summit: Mary Meeker goes over global internet trendsWhile at Web 2.0 Summit Mary Meeker discusses trends in the internet, globally. Ranging from data transfers, hours online by country, and the explosion of social networking throughout the globe.
Web 2.0 Summit: Self Expression through Social Media- Chris PooleChris Poole, founder of about.me and Canvas, describes the expression of the self through social networking. The ideal of individuality is fading with the globalization of social expression.
Amazon Kindle Touch, Fire Ignite Tablet Price WarsInformationWeek's Doug Henschen was on hand for Amazon's Kindle tablet announcements. Highlights include impressively cheap pricing, a few feature drawbacks, and many bundled Amazon services.
This Year In IT: More Comedy Than Tragedy InformationWeek's Fritz Nelson takes the InformationWeek 500 conference audience through some of the ups, downs, and downright flops that we saw from major tech vendors in 2011.
San Francisco Giants: Technology Winners TooThe 2010 World Series champion San Francisco Giants have become leaders in technology in the sports community. They were first to deploy dynamic pricing, and they have made social and mobile a core part of their fan experience.
iRig Mic Turns iPad, iPhone, iPod Into A Mobile StudioFor musicians, podcasters, voice over artists, the iRig Microphone is an excellent mobile recording companion for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad.
QuickOffice For Tablets Brings Documents, Clouds TogetherQuickOffice is now shipping on Android 3.0, using the application framework. It also runs on IOS 4.3. Both apps let users share documents between clouds (Dropbox, Box.net, Google Docs, SugarSync and more).
Fulton Innovation: Charge Your Devices WirelesslyFulton Innovation uses inductive coupling to allow you to charge your devices wirelessly. This uses the standards that come out of the wireless power consortium.
LG Optimus 3D: Android Smartphone, 3D Without GlassesLG's Optimus 3D will be available sometime in the third quarter on AT&T. It runs Android, and is able to capture and play 3D -- the latter without the need for 3D glasses. It uses TI's OMAP 4 dual core processor.
LG G-Slate: Dual Core Android Tablet, 3D CameraLG's G-Slate, coming later this Spring, features NVidia's Tegra 2 dual core processors, a 3D camera (requires 3D glasses) and Android 3.0 all in a slim, light 8.9-inch package.
Sprint and HTC Go EVO 3D and EVO View TabletSprint announced its 21st and 22nd 4G devices: the HTC EVO 3D, a 4.3-inch, stereoscopic display phone with dual core 1.2 GHz processors; and the HTC EVO View, a 7-inch tablet with a 1.5 GHz processor. Both offer hot spots that support 8 devices.
Samsung Announces Two Super Thin Galaxy TabletsAt CTIA, Samsung announced two new tablets in their Galaxy Tab lineup: the Galaxy Tab 10.1 and 8.9. These new tablets are a hair thinner than Apple's already slender iPad 2, and a few grams lighter. They ship later this Summer.
IPad2: Long Lines, High AnticipationPeople lined up at 7 am and settled in for a 10 hour wait. Some were waiting in line as a favor, many people were buying their first iPad, and all of them needed it RIGHT now!
Conduit Mobile: Build Native Apps From The Web QuicklyConduit Mobile allows publishers to take any data source from an HTML site and build a native app across platforms. It's really simple to do, as we see in this demo.
Nuance FlexT9 For Multi-Modal Mobile InputNuance, makers of Dragon (speech recognition) introduced FlexT9, which lets end users input information using the keypad, keypad trace, hand-writing and speech. It works in five languages.
Apple Delivers Steve Jobs and a Faster, Thinner iPad2Apple announced the iPad2. It's faster and slimmer. The dual core processor and faster graphics will speed it up, but it maintains the same battery life and price. Ipad fans will be thrilled. Best of all, Steve Jobs was on hand to show it all.
LogMeIn For Android, Plus iPad "File System"LogMeIn lets tablet & mobile devices remote control PCs & Macs. This is done for support, or for remote access to systems and resources. This is a demo of the Android version and the ability to create a file system, even for offline access on iPads.
Picochip Demos Streaming Video Over 4GFor some of the high end video services, like streaming, carriers need to deploy technology like Picocell in metro areas. Picochip is building chips that will make this a reality. Here's a quick video demonstration, showing what it all looks like.
NXP Takes NFC Demos To Watches, Cars, MoreNFC is one of the new mobile developments. As device makers explore putting NFC chips into phones, retailers and others are figuring out how to make NFC-enabled mobile payments a reality. This demonstration shows what's possible.
RIM and SAP Show Enterprise Apps On PlaybookRIM is known as a force within the enterprise, and it wants its Playbook tablet to be no exception. It is working hard with developers, and companies like SAP are embracing the platform. Here are a few examples of what you'll see when it ships.
MobiTV Brings Live and On Demand TV to Mobile DevicesAt Mobile World Congress, MobiTV introduced its MobiNow service on the iPad, which provides live and VOD content on that device. It also introduced its convergence product, which lets you view, pause and resume content across devices.
OoVoo: Multi-party Video Chat on Android, iOS, PC & MacOoVoo announced an iOS client for its multi-party video chat system. The software allows Android, iPad, PC and Mac clients as part of its system. The new client support will be available in April.
VMWare's Mobile Virtual OS for AndroidNow the enterprise can keep all personal data and apps running on native Android on a smartphone, while creating another virtual Android machine for corporate apps on the same device.
Vidyo's Cheap HD Videoconference Extends To TabletsVidyo has created an HD, multi-point videoconferencing system that competes with some of the bigger players (like Cisco and Polycom) for a fraction of the cost. It now runs on mobile devices, including tablets.
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