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Nov 6, 2012

Obama tweets his most retweeted tweet ever as news networks call election for Democrats

President Obama looking stoic

Barack Obama and his campaign team took to Twitter Tuesday night to thank supporters for turning out to vote, with Obama tweeting his most retweeted tweet ever in the process.

Barack Obama has taken to Twitter to thank his supporters for turning out to vote and returning him (almost certainly) to office for another four years.

At the time of writing, all the major American news networks are calling the presidential election for Obama, with a number of key swing states projected to fall to the Democrats.

At around 11.15pm ET, Obama’s campaign team tweeted, “This happened because of you. Thank you.”

Another came a minute later: “We’re all in this together. That’s how we campaigned, and that’s who we are. Thank you. -bo” The inclusion of “-bo” The inclusion of -bo apparently indicates a personal tweet from Obama himself.

The campaign team then tweeted a photo (below) of Obama hugging wife Michelle, accompanied by the words, “Four more years.” Twitter has just reported that this has already become @BarackObama’s most tweeted retweet ever – at the time of writing this stands at 314,000 – not bad for a tweet posted 40 minutes ago. The account has 22.1 million followers.

However, Mitt Romney’s Twitter account has so far stayed silent, with the last tweet posted around 3pm ET. “With your help, we will turn our country around and get America back on the path to prosperity. Please vote today,” it said.

Earlier in the evening, Twitter announced that Election Day had already become the most tweeted about event in US political history.


Source : digitaltrends[dot]com

Nov 1, 2012

DT Daily: Facebook takes aim at Craigslist, Halo 4 reviews arrive

Facebook takes aim at Craigslist, Halo 4 reviews arrive, the U.S. government launches a stolen phone database, Kim Dotcom reveals more details about his new cloud storage service, and Walmart teams up with streaming video company Boxee.

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Oct 29, 2012

Hands on with HTC’s Windows Phone 8S

We take the Windows Phone 8S by HTC a test ride. Though it runs on lower-end specs, this T-Mobile phone appears to still pack a punch.

Though its often most fun to write about the fanciest and most expensive smartphones on the market, not everyone can afford them Luckily, there are a growing class of 2nd tier phones that still manage to provide a competitive experience. During my time with the Windows Phone 8S by HTC, it appears to be just such a device. The 8S has 4GB of internal storage, 512MB of RAM, and a 5-megapixel rear camera, but its 1GHz dual-core Snapdragon S4 processor is no slouch. I’m also a fan of its 4-inch 800 x 480 pixel screen. The resolution isn’t high and the RAM isn’t plentiful, but the phone appears to run Windows Phone 8 quite responsively. Overall, it should have a slight edge over many Windows Phone 7.5 devices on the market today. And hey, it comes in a number of pretty colors. T-Mobile will be carrying the 8S in the coming weeks.


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Oct 26, 2012

Procrastinators beware: Twitter map showing last million tweets will take up your time

Maptimize has launched the One Million Tweet Map showing the last million tweets posted around the world – the perfect distraction for procrastinators everywhere.

If you’re a professional procrastinator, you may or may not be delighted to hear about the One Million Tweet Map, giving you yet another opportunity to do something less important than the very important thing you really should be doing.

Powered by Maptimize, a geographical clustering engine for showing and analyzing geolocalized data on online maps, the Twitter map does pretty much what is says on the tin – show the locations of the last million geotagged tweets posted around the world using data pulled from the Twitter API.

Updated in real time, the map is constantly changing, with the latest 20 tweets added at the same time as the oldest 20 are dropped, keeping the tally at around a million.

One cool feature is the ability to zoom in on a cluster, which splits into smaller clusters until, once you’ve zoomed all the way in, you’re presented with a single tweet which you can click on and read. That way, you can explore your own neighborhood to see if anyone close by is tweeting about you, or visit some remote village in Tasmania to see what’s going on there.

But hold on, procrastinators, there’s more to play about with before you return to the (more important) job in hand. Besides the cluster view, you’re bound to want to spend a bit of time also exploring the heat-map view. You can also filter by keywords, hashtags and time. How about that?

OK, that’s all for now, I need to get back to the One Million Tweet Map for no good reason whatsoever.

[via Mashable]


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DT Daily: Microsoft launches Windows 8, Apple vs Pandora

Microsoft officially launches Windows 8, Apple guns for Pandora with its own streaming radio service, the U.S. government bans smartphone unlocking, Tim Cook slams Windows 8, and we take a look at this week's newest movies.

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Oct 4, 2012

DT Daily: Facebook hits 1 billion, TomTom heads to Android

Facebook hits 1 billion users, TomTom navigates its way to Android, Taken 2 hits theaters to terrible reviews, the Mars Curiosity rover joins Foursquare, and the first presidential debate sets a new Twitter record.

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Sep 24, 2012

DT Daily: iPhone 5 sales, Foxconn riot, Megaupload comeback

Apple sells 5 million iPhone 5s, a riot breaks out at a Foxconn plant in China, Megaupload prepares for a comeback, Toyota scraps plans for a wide release of electric cars, and Facebook comes under fire over its new advertising network.

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Sep 17, 2012

Sep 12, 2012

Eargonomic: Apple’s redesigned ‘EarPod’ headphones

In this video, Apple design guru Jonathan Ive explains the unique design challenges engineers faced when designing an earbud that would fit everyone's ears.

Apple rolled out its first earbuds about 10 years ago alongside the first-generation iPod. By the time the third and fourth generations of iPod surfaced, the little white headphones had become ubiquitous. Some people loved them, but others hated them with a passion, citing their poor design, crappy sound quality, and uncomfortable fit. Now, after 10 years of complaints, Apple has finally come up with a redesign. 

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The new earbuds are the result of some seriously rigorous R&D — according to Jonathan Ive, they analyzed the shape of hundreds of different ears before settling on a design that could comfortably fit them all. 

They definitely look cool, but their sound quality and level of comfort remain to be proven. Stay tuned for a review in the coming days when we have a chance to get our hands on them. 


Source : digitaltrends[dot]com

Sep 7, 2012

Apple approved: Paradigm’s CT 2.1 speaker system

The big news from Paradigm this year is that Apple likes its products and will soon feature Paradigm speakers and earphones in its stores.

We could tell something was going on as we approached Paradigm’s booth at CEDIA 2012. A little more than the usual amount of glimmer in the team’s eyes and some extra-wide smiles tipped us off that Paradigm was pleased with the news it had to share with us. Now we get it. 

It turns out that Paradigm has been courting Apple for the last few months. Paradigm developed a prototype speaker system, showed it to Apple, and the way we hear it, it took Apple about 20 seconds to let Paradigm know it loved what it heard. With its foot in Apple’s door, Paradigm got busy redesigning its Shift series of earphones, developing an Airplay speaker and finalizing the design of what you’ll see in this video, the Paradigm CT 2.1 system. 

With Paradigm’s products due to hit Apple’s online and brick and mortar stores in mere weeks, a whole new generation of listeners is about to become familiar with Paradigm’s products and signature sound. No wonder Paradigm is grinning.


Source : digitaltrends[dot]com

Yamaha’s new Digital Sound Projectors target your ears

Yamaha's latest Digital Sound Projectors may be expensive, but they deliver some pretty nifty features and impressive sound.

Yamaha has incorporated some genuinely useful, slick features into its recently announced Digital Sound Projectors — AKA sound bars — that successfully distinguish them from the ballooning sound bar market.

We especially liked the elevated design, which allows the sound bar to slide over most flat-panel TV stands, and we think Yamaha’s decision to revisit its targeted sound technology is a smart one. In this video from CEDIA 2012 show floor, Erika from Yamaha explains some of the finer points of the YSP-3300 (due in December for a suggested $1,600) and YSP-4300 (due in December for a suggested $1,900).

As usual, the show floor was too noisy to make a decent assessment of sound quality, but we can vouch for the subwoofer’s capability to get plenty loud and the almost unnerving ability for the sound bars to target sound in one particular direction with almost a 30db drop in volume outside its intended listening area. 


Source : digitaltrends[dot]com

Sep 6, 2012

Yamaha’s new Digital Sound Projectors target your ears

Yamaha's latest Digital Sound Projectors may be expensive, but they deliver some pretty nifty features and impressive sound.

Yamaha has incorporated some genuinely useful, slick features into its recently announced Digital Sound Projectors — AKA sound bars — that successfully distinguish them from the ballooning sound bar market.

We especially liked the elevated design, which allows the sound bar to slide over most flat-panel TV stands, and we think Yamaha’s decision to revisit its targeted sound technology is a smart one. In this video from CEDIA 2012 show floor, Erika from Yamaha explains some of the finer points of the YSP-3300 (due in December for a suggested $1,600) and YSP-4300 (due in December for a suggested $1,900).

As usual, the show floor was too noisy to make a decent assessment of sound quality, but we can vouch for the subwoofer’s capability to get plenty loud and the almost unnerving ability for the sound bars to target sound in one particular direction with almost a 30db drop in volume outside its intended listening area. 


Source : digitaltrends[dot]com

Boston Acoustics’ high-end M series features Euro style and sound

The new M-series speakers from Boston Acoustics take the American company in an entirely new direction with a new look and impressive sound quality.

While Boston Acoustics has always been a very accessible brand, most folks haven’t recognized it as a “high-end”  product. Over the past few years, we have seen the company depart from the vanilla speaker boxes to embrace a more modern look while maintaining palatable price points. Still, the sound quality — while quite good for the price; as evidenced in our review of the company’s A-series speakers — left us wanting for more. 

Today, we got a close look and listen to Boston Acoustics’ new M-series. These are a dramatic departure from the BA speakers of yesteryear, both in terms of their aesthetic design and sound engineering. The demo we heard today of the flagship M-series tower while driven by a $5,000 Marantz PM11-S3 integrated amp was impressive, to say the least. The high frequencies were much more relaxed than we’ve heard from Boston Acoustics before, yet detailed and revealing. The midrange and bass reproduction were pretty stunning as well.

In this video, we get a close look at the new M-series as Mitch Nollman, Vice President and General Manager at Boston Acoustics, explains what makes these new speakers different.


Source : digitaltrends[dot]com