GadgetFood.com is a blog dedicated to technology and gadgets. Our news stories are aggregated news stories from all around the web. Archiving the stories along with the original writers and publishers as well as time stamps. The need for a site like GadgetFood.com isn’t yet vocally apparent. But the concept has come to be reality. Whether it be a new up and coming mobile device that has a dual core processor, touch screen technology and the ability to connect up to 5 other devices to the world wide web via wifi and bluetooth capability, or the latest on “Intel’s Turbo Boost 2.0” technology, which is built-into today’s most modern desktop and laptop computers and across another spectrum, allowing the user the ability to receive a payment for an eBay item via mobile phone while on a hiking trip in a remote location, somewhere in the northern hemisphere with virtual money and a fading cell signal. We’ve come a long, long way in terms of technology. I don’t know how many of you remember the first computer you ever used. But I remember in the late 80′s having an old Apple computer. You know! The huge one with the 3.5″ floppy drive, state of the art screen resolution (for the period), and tons of one dimensional games (usually aerial view in the 1st person). These were the good old days. We were on the brink of a technological revolution. Followed up closely by the information revolution where we all became linked together in a world wide web (hence the name). One that is invisibly strung throughout the world, connecting each continent, each country and each computer with a standard internet connection (ISP) to a global highway of rapidly changing information. Technology will always change. Advancements will always be made. Sometimes these great advancements come from China or Japan. Maybe sometimes Russia. Who knows? The bottom line is that when technological leaps are made, it fuels the continuous perpetual engine in the minds of entrepreneurs world wide who dream of making their mark in this life. A simple idea can revolutionize the way you not only think, but the way you act and do business when it is rendered into a physical product that not only makes life a little easier or faster for millions of people, but also feeds the hungry economy, which creates jobs and even more inspiration and aspiration to achieve greatness. I spend a large portion of my time online covering stories from all over the world in the area of electronic technology. GadgetFood.com has grown rapidly in popularity over time for providing the world with the top gadget and technology related news stories that are aggregated from all over the internet, from all over the globe. I currently staff 2 writers who work diligently to not only provide the world’s top technology related news stories, resources and information, but to also provide an extensive library of the worlds top free smartphone apps for both Android based phones as well as the Apple iPad. To name just a few. You’ll also find open debates via reader engagement on our blog. People from all over the world sharing their personal experiences with Android or iPhone apps for example, which is useful for users looking for a specific app to accomplish a specific goal. Reader engagement is everywhere on our technology blog and we encourage it. We are rapidly becoming one of the most shared and one of the most bookmarked websites online in the area of technology and gadgets. Stop by and give us a read! I believe you’ll find our website serves it’s primary purpose very well as it’s earned it’s name respectively. “Technology News Archives“. How Does Technology Affect The World? I believe that the ambition of some of the worlds top researchers and inventors who contribute to the technology community, embrace possibility and chance, which fuels their drive that can eventually render huge advancements in the area of technology. Whether it be to develop a smarter car, or to develop the lightest and fastest, most feature rich gadgets like laptops, tablets and smartphones, or to produce medical equipment to aid in healing or diagnosing patients struck with horrific illness or injury across the globe. I think technology is a byproduct of a need. A necessity that is fed through devotion and passion by the worlds top contributors. It doesn’t just affect my life, it affects the live of everyone living on this planet, to include people who aren’t yet born. For the most part, I believe that the advancements made in technology have a positive affect on the daily lives of billions of people. Thus making their lives and their daily tasks and activities easier, faster and more manageable.
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WiFi Usage In Smartphones Increase While Tablets Trump TV Smartphone owners may be getting ready for all carriers to switch to tiered data plans like Verizon, as the June report from Millenial Media indicates. Wi-Fi usage on smartphones showed an 8 percent growth over the previous month for getting online while mobile. A new study segment that tracks how tablet usage impacts existing activities for owners shows that a full 19 percent of tablet owners report they watch less TV than before getting the tablet. Apple is still the number one smartphone in Millenial Media’s report with over 30 percent of the impression share and Samsung retains the second position with 14.94 percent of impressions served to phones from that vendor. RIM is number three and HTC owns the number four spot. The only surprising number in this month’s reports is that Samsung’s Nexus S moved into the fourth position on the top 20 list, taking the second most popular spot on the list of Android handsets. This month’s report from Millenial includes a new segment that follows tablet owners and how buying one impacts behavior. Analysts have been claiming that tablet purchases impact PC purchases, so this study of tablet owners is particularly interesting. Nearly a third of tablet owners admit that they have shifted some common online activities from other devices to the tablet. They also admit that in addition to replacing an eReader, for 19 percent of them the tablet sees them watching less TV than they did before getting the tablet. These slates may be having a greater impact on user behavior than previously thought.
Cyber Attacks Could Prompt Military Strike “Recent cyber attacks against the US could prompt a war effort against the attackers” The Pentagon has confirmed that a cyber attack against computer networks in the United States could prompt a retaliatory military strike. “It would be irresponsible, and a failure of the Defense Department’s mission, to leave the nation vulnerable to a known threat,” Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynn explained during a recent briefing about the DoD’s new cyber strategy. “[As such], the United States reserves the right, under the laws of armed conflict, to respond to serious cyber attacks with a proportional and justified military response at the time and place of our choosing.” However, Lynn said the DoD’s cyber strategy ultimately emphasized “denying the benefit of [an] attack.” “If an attack will not have its intended effect, those who wish us harm will have less reason to target us in the first place,” Lynn said. He noted that any response to a cyber offensive would be “dictated by the effect,” rather than location. Concurrently, the president would “consider all the tools he has” if the attack caused significant damage – such as human casualties and massive economic losses. Meanwhile, James Lewis, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategy and International Studies, told Politico it’s the president “who gets to decide” if the cyber strike is a war or “something else.” “The standard is ambiguous. Deciding when something is an act of war is not automatic. It’s always a judgment,” he added.
Police Depts Deploying iPhone-Based Iris, Face Scanning Tech – Police State Technology Ever Think Of America As A Police State? Now You Can! Congrats To Technology License, registration, and iris scan? Police departments have fingerprinting and in many cases, DNA, to help them identify or track down criminal suspects, but usually that requires a trip down to the station. On the streets, more and more police departments are deploying a smartphone-based iris- and facial-scanning technology that slides over an iPhone. Massachusetts-based BI2 Technologies is now producing MORIS, a handheld biometric device that can recognize people based on iris, face, or fingerprints. The Brockton, Mass. police department was the first to try out the technology during a 2010 trial, and it is now expanding to departments like Arizona’s Pinal County Sheriff’s Office and the Rhode Island Department of Corrections. The technology can be used at the station, but for officers on the move, MORIS slides over an iPhone and allows them to use the device’s camera and run photos through iris-scanning and facial-recognition software. A fingerprint option is on the back of the somewhat bulky device, but the department apparently had mixed results with that. If there’s a match—based on the BI2-managed database of criminal records—the officer can see the person’s full criminal history on the iPhone. As the Wall Street Journal noted, deputies are using the tech to identify people without ID, accident victims, or the homeless. Legally, they can do so without permission, but in Pinellas County, Fla., at least, it’s department policy to ask for consent, county systems analyst Scott McCallum told the Journal. The devices cost $3,000 each and weigh 12.5 ounces once added to the iPhone, the Journal said. In Brockton, the devices were funded by a Department of Justice and National Sheriff’s Association grant to the Massachusetts Sheriff’s Association. Welcome To America – The Police State So the next time you are pulled over and interrogated by a local police officer for running a stop sign and you get treated like a common criminal, thank George Bush! This post Patriot Act America is nothing more than a Police State. And it disgusts me.
Brand New Android App Market Launched Google Launches It’s New Android App Market For Android Users. After its own storefront for finding Android apps has fallen by the wayside, Google is fighting back. The online giant has just released a new version of the Android Market, the digital marketplace within Android phones that lets users search through the more than 100,000 apps and games available for the platform. “You’ll be delighted to find we’ve overhauled Android Market to make it faster, easier, and more fun to discover great apps, movies, and books. We’ve created more space to feature some of the most interesting content of the week on the home page. We’ve added more top charts, with newer, more relevant items, and we’ve made it easy to swipe through these charts as you browse the store. We’ve also introduced new collections of great content, like staff picks and Editors’ Choice apps,” explained Google in an official blog post. This comes after users have continuously expressed dissatisfaction with the presentation of previous versions of the Android Market. Despite being the leader in online search, Google had created a surprisingly clunky interface in which to search for Android apps, leading third-party app stores to swoop in and take away some of the glory. For example, Amazon has its own digital storefront for Android apps called the Amazon Appstore. In addition to using the same intuitive search algorithms and recommendations as the rest of Amazon.com, the retailer has managed to convince numerous mobile publishers to release their apps exclusively through the Amazon Appstore, bypassing the Android Market entirely. So Google has a lot of catching up to do to remain relevant in its own mobile platform, but this completely redesigned Android Market app – available for Android 2.2 and later – may be up for the task. Check Out The Video: Brand New Android App Market Launched
Netflix Rate Hike Sparks Outrage – Users Resort To Social Media To Voice Opinions Netflix continues to take a pummeling from subscribers who are so enraged by the company’s unilateral decision to separate its DVD and streaming plans − and increase prices as a result − that they’re threatening not only to cancel the service, but also showing up by the tens of thousands to blast it on Facebook. Users Threaten To Drop Netflix After Massive Netflix Rate Hike Yesterday, we reported on the initial reaction to the Netflix Rate Hike changes, and by last night we’d seen more than 9,000 comments on the Netflix Facebook page, which has 1.5 million fans. (There are 23 million Netflix members in the U.S. and Canada.) By this morning, nearly 30,000 had registered the summer of their discontent with the rental service that used to ride high on the loyalty of customers who loved not having to pay late fees and receiving their discs in their mailbox. The red envelope was something of a little treat at the end of a long day. But now, customers are seeing a different kind of red. For many, Netflix’s streaming selection, while growing and improving since it became a perk about four years ago, still can’t get anywhere near its vast volume of DVDs. And because of that, folks supplemented their streaming plans with at least the one DVD out at any given time option, for about $10. But with the announcement that the same service would cost almost $16 — about 60 percent more than what they’re paying now — people snapped. In these tough economic times, this little bit of entertainment counted for a lot. And now, subscribers are demanding to be heard. We want to hear from you, too. Take our poll and let us know if you’re going to follow through with threats to leave Netflix, or if you’ve decided against it. We’re wondering if people have followed through on cancelling, if Netflix will increase its instant selection to make up for those who will cut DVDs from their plans and if Netflix will cave to the torrent of negative reaction and restore its merged plans. We also want to know if Netflix deleted comments from its Facebook page, as some have indicated on the site. Some complained that they didn’t even get the courtesy of an email and only found out through sites like ours, or on their Facebook.
So you are wondering how to activate your new Apple iPad or iPad 2? Like the 1st generation iPad, the iPad 2 will need to be activated using the same simple process. This can be done in just a few minutes and you’ll need an Apple iTunes account to get the job done with either of the iPads. Steps To Take 1.) Create an Apple iTunes Account 2.) Connect the Apple iPad to your PC 3.) Once you add your iTunes account information along with your name and device serial number, you’ll be activated. NOTE: If you are upgrading from the 1st iPad to the iPad 2, you just need to connect your old iPad to your PC first. Then do a full backup (data sync) of your 1st generation iPad (do the backup before you activate your new iPad). When your backup is complete, just connect your new iPad 2 to your PC and then do a backup restore after activation. Now all of your data is transferred to your iPad 2 from your old one. Your done!
Android Software Sought After By Microsoft In the hunt for the next billion-dollar business, Microsoft may have discovered one in mobile software. It costs Microsoft nothing to produce and sell, and it’s not Windows Phone. It’s Android, the wildly popular — and free — mobile-phone software made by competitor Google. In the past nine months, Microsoft has gone after a handful of companies that make Android phones and tablets. It has either sued or persuaded the companies to pay it license fees for some technologies found in certain Android features. Microsoft contends it has patents on those technologies. Four companies in the past two weeks said they will pay licensing fees to Microsoft for selling tablets and phones that run on Android. HTC, a major Taiwanese smartphone maker, entered into a licensing agreement in April to pay Microsoft a reported $5 per Android phone
Modern Warfare 3 Release Date nears. Learn what’s inside the latest version. In a small, dark room hidden away in the Los Angeles Convention Center, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 executive producer Mark Rubin pilots a SEAL delivery vehicle through a web of sunken cars and floating corpses. A massive enemy submarine passes overhead. This is his target. He slowly approaches the craft, plants an explosive and retreats to a safe distance. Boom. Rubin rises alongside the ailing sub, surfacing to see a New York City skyline under assault. This is the beginning of “Hunter Killer,” a Modern Warfare 3 campaign level shown behind closed doors at the E3 Expo earlier this month. The presentation started out with some unique moments — in 2009’s Modern Warfare 2, such underwater segments weren’t player-controlled — but quickly reverted to familiar territory. The 20-minute demo was full of high-octane gunplay and flashy explosions, but there was no hiding the fact that Modern Warfare 3 is the same old Call of Duty wrapped up with a shiny new bow. Modern Warfare 3 development began at Infinity Ward, but after much of the company’s creative talent jumped ship to Respawn Entertainment, Activision brought on internal development group Sledgehammer Games as backup. With such an upheaval in the development process, it seems the two teams have decided to play it safe rather than roll the dice on any risky new concepts. Nearly every moment in the demo was ripped straight out of an earlier Call of Duty title: Progress through highly linear environments, watch a scripted event, kill a few bad guys. Later in the level, after blowing up the submarine’s command center door with a few pounds of C4, players engage in a slow-motion firefight with the guards. You may remember these action sequences from Modern Warfare 2. They play precisely the same here.
Apples iCloud Service Expects 150 Million Users Apples iCloud service expecting a huge following right out of the gate. Apples iCloud service could sign up as many as 150 million iPhone users to its new iCloud service, according to projections based on a survey from RBC Capital Markets. In a report released today, RBC found that 76 percent of the 1,500 iPhone users polled from June 7 to 14 intend to use the iCloud service. Unveiled at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference earlier this month, iCloud will allow iOS device users to store, access, and sync their iTunes content online. iMessage also should be a hot item, according to RBC. The survey found 73 percent of iPhone users plan to use Apple’s upcoming new text messaging service, which RBC projects might mean 150 million iMessage users in total. The iMessage service, a feature in iOS 5, could boost loyalty among existing iPhone users and convince the 60 million iPod Touch users to pick the iPhone over Android or other competing phones if they upgrade, according to the report. Finally, iTunes Match proved enticing to 30 percent of those surveyed, who said they’d be likely to spend $24.99 per year for the new service. Part of iCloud, iTunes Match lets users store any music not purchased or available through iTunes in the cloud. Based on the survey, RBC is projecting that iTunes Match could add another $1.5 billion a year to Apple’s annual revenue. Looking down the road, RBC believes Apple will add additional services through iCloud, including audio and video streaming, photo and video sharing, hosted Time Machine backups, and document management and storage. The iCloud service will be accessible from all iOS devices and possibly even entry-level items like the iPod Nano and Shuffle, the report said.
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