Samsung to drop Symbian for bada?

According to Samsung's senior vice president Don Joo Lee in an interview with Digitimes, the Korean company will be dropping the Symbian operating system for its own mobile platform bada in 2010. Aside from bada, smartphones from the company will come with either Microsoft's Windows Mobile or Google's Android operating systems.

Samsung announced bada yesterday in a press release and will be providing more details, including the availability of a software development kit (SDK) to developers in December. The last Symbian-based smartphone from the company was the i8910 HD which is capable of HD video capture, a first for mobile phones.

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Conquer the bowling alley with the remote control bowling ball

I suck at bowling and the only time I'll play this game is on the Wii in the comfort of my home without the guy in the next lane snickering at me. But it seems I can soon conquer my local bowling joint with this remote-controlled bowling ball.

The RC900 has an adjustable weight mechanism built within and it can shift around to swing the ball back to the right direction, and in my case, away from the gutter. But make sure you color the ball with some opaque paint, else everyone will know what your magic is.
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WiiWaa: Fun for kids while inducing coma in animal controller

Wiimote gone missing? You might want to check inside that orange and purple stuffed monster in your kid's room. If Bobby's been playing the interactive game WiiWaa, he had to shove the controller down the monster's throat. The player bounces and slingshots the little guy around as an onscreen version moves in kind across a colorful landscape of forests and bridges. It's a cute concept, but we feel kind of bad for the puppet who's forced to swallow a gadget and then get shaken into a stupor.
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Smartphone users, keep complaining

Want great software for your mobile phone? Keep up the complaints. That was the message at a Tuesday session of the BlackBerry Developer Conference here in San Francisco aimed at developers. But it's a dictum that applies to all smartphone owners.

In the symbiotic relationship between the application developer and the user, a well-placed critique is key to a good programmer improving their mobile application. The motto of the squeakiest wheel getting the most grease may seem obvious, but the importance of user feedback becomes even clearer when articulated in dollar signs and numbers.

A single-star rating for an application on a review site or storefront can severely limit its chances of getting downloaded, and therefore of making money.

"This is the curse of the one-star," said session speaker Stephen King (not that Stephen King), CEO of app testing company Mob4Hire.
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Xbox 360 Wi-Fi adapter gets speed boost

Microsoft has a whole host of features it plans on jamming into its fall Xbox Live dashboard update. The firmware revision will introduce to the Xbox 360's online platform such features as Twitter and Facebook integration, a Music Marketplace for listening to recommendation-radio service Last.fm (which is owned by CNET parent CBS Interactive), and a News section offering information from Microsoft and NBC Universal's joint venture, MSNBC.com.

The Xbox 360 update will also introduce 1080p high-definition video content through the Xbox Live Marketplace. To facilitate that new offering, Microsoft this week released the Wireless N Networking Adapter which it confirmed as existing in September following widespread rumors. Microsoft noted that the new wireless addon will improve the performance of other online functionality in games and content downloads.
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