Sonivo Easy Speaker

Credit: Sonivo

This speaker connects to your phone without wires, Bluetooth or WiFi.  All that is required is that your phone have an "external speaker".  Probably means a "built in speaker".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Shsh52gIOG0&feature=youtube_gdata_player

So how does it work?  A video, previously available on YouTube, claimed the speaker had "New Field Induction".  My guess: it uses induction from the built in speaker in your device.  Notice the iPhone in the video has to be placed directly on the speaker.  Can't imagine sound quality with such an arrangement can be very good.  I'd expect it to be inferior to Bluetooth.  And mono only. / near field communication NFC sound quality stereo wire cable connection battery internal rechargeable LiIon /

Really? Don't think so!

Multiple errors in this item.  Can you spot them all?

Self delusion counts too.

http://www.perthnow.com.au/entertainment/michael-douglas-oral-sex-caused-my-throat-cancer/story-fnhiy8bj-1226655871366 / MICHAEL Douglas throat cancer caused performing oral sex actor 68 The Guardian HPV transmitted condition nearly fatal diagnosed three years ago diagnose diagnosis smoking smoke cigarette carcinogen tobacco denial alcohol drinking caused cause of the disease Douglas human papillomavirus cunnilingus son son's incarceration help trigger STD sexually transmitted disease that causes cancer best cure oral discomfort specialist specialists missed tumour instead prescribed antibiotics eventually diagnosed with stage four cancer often terminal intensive eight-week course of chemotherapy radiation refused feeding tube palate being burnt treatment lost 20kg liquids-only diet liquid liquids only chemo weak cancer-clear cancer clear free check-ups check up every six months cervical anal cancer genital warts oral cancers Lea Rawlings Cancer Screening Advisor to Cancer Council Australia says Some high risk types HPV passed on through sexual activity, can contribute to the development of throat cancer. Most of the time the body clears HPV naturally and it is only in cases where HPV is persistent that cancer may occur important to note that consuming alcohol smoking contribute a much higher risk in the development of throat cancer HPV vaccine protects against 70% of cervical cancers provides some protection against other less common cancers including throat cancers Cancer Council Australia Government HPV vaccination program programme get vaccinated Mahesh Kumar, a consultant head and neck surgeon in London, confirmed that HPV type 16 was a contributory cause of oropharyngeal cancer but expressed scepticism that Douglas's cancer was caused solely by HPV, and surprise at the assertion that cunnilingus could also help cure the condition. boost his immune system medically doesn't make sense sentenced to five years in prison for drugs possession and dealing vaccination /

Patent wars: Apple, betrayed by its own law firm

If there was a betrayal here, it was by a lawyer who no longer works with the law firm in question.

It's somehow appropriate that the lawyer in question is now associated with a company called "FlatWorld".

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/06/apple-betrayed-by-its-own-law-firm/ / FlatWorld Interactives LLC filed suit patent troll lawsuit tech company business lawsuit lawsuits court documents unsealed owned named inventor atents Philadelphia design professor named Slavko Milekic 35 percent of the company been controlled attorney go-to law firms Morgan Lewis & Bockius e-mail email logs log attorney John McAleese wife planning wide-ranging patent attack Apple's touch screen touch-screen products January 2007 iPhone revealed world Jennifer McAleese troll patent companies Milekic excellent position against Apple sue emailed top patent lawyers at Google and Nokia competitors patent clashes Apple advised her husband lawyer access reams confidential Apple data McAleeses indirect and covert pipeline information pumped law firm Seattle-based Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro case Morgan Lewis firm handling sensitive patent matters venerable firm reaped huge rewards BigLaw memory hole bio page direct phone line now goes straight to an automated answer husband, an environmental law litigator specialize in patents /

Monkey Light Pro turns bicycle wheels into colorful, animated displays

Credit: MonkeyLectric/ Gizmag

http://www.gizmag.com/monkey-light-pro-bicycle-wheel-display/27700/

Video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QD7x55B4YoA&feature=youtube_gdata_player / deck out your bicycle MonkeyLectric Monkey Light Pro LED bars attach bicycle wheel programmed to play colorful animations Web based app /

Android spreads out

Into all-in-ones:


Credit: Acer/ Cnet

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-57586918-92/acer-all-in-one-will-run-android/

And $200 notebooks:


Credit: Samsung/ Cnet

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-57586918-92/acer-all-in-one-will-run-android/ / Intel Atom Arm processor Windows Android Acer Android PC PCs market Acer DA220HQL 21.5 inch multi-touch touch screen display 1,920x1,080 display Android 4.0 a Texas Instruments OMAP 4430 dual-core ARM Coretex-A9 processor CPU resellers Haswell 4430 processor 1GB memory 8GB internal storage front-facing camera built-in speakers Wi-Fi Micro-HDMI Micro USB 2.0 wireless keyboard mouse micro HDMI Intel CEO Paul Otellini touchscreen PCs prices $200 operating system products would run Dadi Perlmutter executive vice president chief product officer notebooks priced running mobile processor Windows 8 PCs hit price Microsoft good technology enables a very cost-effective price point," Perlmutter said. The price of Windows 8 laptops "depends on how Microsoft prices Windows 8 /

Go Google Go!

A programming language called "Go"? This could yield as many puns as the Forth programming language did. Perhaps the least objectionable of those was the, "Venturing Forth", programming manual.

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/05/my-favorite-programming-language-googles-go-has-some-coders-raving/ / Todd Kuehnl developer programmer programming programme program language Go programming language Google conversion  favorite programming language work experienced coders languages damous Ken Thompson creator Unix C B programming language back-end systems designs its own servers software OS  operating systems employees use engineers  engineering Beachfront Media new platform Beachfront.iO serves video ads mobile devices tablets development platform enables concurrency computations execute simultaneously interact running service millions  requests 5 to 10 thousand transactions per second reliable reliability reliably stack stacks benchmark benchmarks productive performant performance code written performs all the heavy lifting back-end load balancing choosing ads advertisement advertisements serve up server PHP Node.js single-threaded concurrent concurrency concurrently options Java memory overhead modern patterns static execution speed C C++" more compositional feel script high performance high-performance modern language video ad service Ubuntu Linux servers hosted Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud cloud-based virtual machines instance instances pain points website orders of magnitude faster legacy networks compiler fast interpreted language big speed boost Dart core infrastructure services cluster management large-scale distributed processing MapReduce tools software development popular language GitHub Google Trends companies BBC Bit.ly Canonical CloudFlare Disqus Mozilla Tumblr poor planning version control developer remote management system Raspberry Pi Ground Control Web server monitoring daemon /

Google password pill & tattoo research projects

Passwords have a number of problems, not least of which are bad choices made by users. 

A number of initiatives exist to replace the password, some of which have been reported on these pages.  

One of the most recent to appear are research projects initiated by Google to explore the possibility of using a computer readable pill which is swallowed to facilitate user authentication.  Presumably, the pill would have to be replaced after it exits the body.

More permanent, would be a computer readable tattoo.  Here the potential problem would be replacing the tattoo if its security is compromised.

http://bgr.com/2013/05/30/google-password-pills-tattoos/#more-631772 / password pills.” AllThingsD Regina Dugan former chief of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA head of Motorola special projects division ingested battery powered battery-powered stomach acid 18 bit 18-bit internal signal transforms swallower swallow whole body D11 conference Google Motorola partner partnering company MC10 design electronic tattoo authenticate user traditional seriously thinking outside the box eliminate passwords make accessing content Web easier permanent security hack hacker hacking /