Making the iPhone a remote control for PS3?

Netblender | Wednesday April 30 2008 7:18 am | Comments (0)

Netblender The company aims to offer in the coming days a software development kit (SDK) that will be used to create interactions between an iPhone or iPod Touch and devices capable of playing Blu-ray as the PlayStation 3 Sony! With this SDK, it would be possible to imagine driving the PS3 or its Platinum Blu-ray directly from the iPhone, which would be changed by remote control touch.

Dubbed BD Touch, the SDK would use the faith of the WiFi connectivity of the iPhone or iPod Touch and layer BD Live interactive controls built into most Blu-ray room, PS3 included. The possibilities do not stop with a simple remote control, since Netblender evokes consulting movies directly from the iPhone, the ability to view online content associated with feature inserted into the drive, or even buy directly iTunes Store on the soundtrack of the film in question!

For studios that publish films on Blu-ray Netblender offers another development kit to design features specifically dedicated to the iPhone and iPod Touch. This technology is already the subject of a short video presentation, produced in the style of pubs iPhone from Apple.

Private Copying: iPhone taxed from 1 May

iPhone tax | Monday April 14 2008 7:14 am | Comments (0)

With a little delay on its original schedule, the Committee on private copying has finally been published in the Official Journal of the entry into force of the fee applied to phones with multimedia features, which should be applied from 1 May. If Orange and Apple decided to pass on the amount of the fee on the price of the iPhone, it will rise from 399 to about 408 euros.

Regularly contested by manufacturers of consumer electronics, the fee for private copying is designed to compensate artists and rightsholders for the uses made of their works in the family. By burning a music CD for my brother, I limit his chances to go buy it, and therefore causes a loss of revenue to the artist concerned. Are routinely taxed by Clubic “phones equipped with more memory than 128 MB which can reproduce the audio or video content and features with physical or software dedicated to these features of reading”.

From X on your iPhone with KeepSecret!

Iphone | Monday March 31 2008 7:11 am | Comments (0)

What would happen happened! After the sexy video of King of Capote, or iSteamy, the first application for jailbroken iPhone for viewing photos, naughty, now is the time of the subscription fee for the content of X directly accessible from the iPhone.

The site offers KeepSecret for 14.90 euros per month, a subscription provides unlimited access to a catalog of some 5,000 videos X. Originally designed for access from the computer, PC or Mac, the offer is now extended to allow viewing of video from an iPhone. To enjoy, simply register for a computer (and pay their subscription) in order to obtain his password subscriber, which must then be used when the connection from his iPhone.
Always ready to max out the new technology, the porn industry confirms once more the relevance which the iPhone ;-) Incidentally, it also confirms the usefulness of introducing a parental control within Mac OS X Mobile!

Societe Generale launches on iPhone

Mobile, iPhone 3G | Monday March 10 2008 7:10 am | Comments (0)

Societe Generale, which prides itself on being one of the first banks to make its online services accessible from a mobile phone through WAP, today announced the launch of a specially designed interface for the iPhone and l ‘iPod Touch, so that customers can view online, since their aircraft, their bank accounts or their portfolio securities.

Also they can help transfer money or manage their outstanding credit card, says it again.

“The Google Maps module will allow customers to access a map or an itinerary for travel to the agency or provider of their choice”, says even the Societe Generale, which seems to have been keen to develop services specific to the iPhone version of its site.

The iPhone 16GB is available in Orange

Iphone | Sunday February 24 2008 2:21 pm | Comments (0)

Announced last February 5 by Apple, the iPhone 16GB is now offered for sale by the operator Orange in exclusive for France, priced at 499 euros. The conditions of sale are the same as those applied to the iPhone 8GB: it is necessary to purchase a package iPhone operator, or pay extra to buy the device with a formula type Mobicarte at a price of 749 euros. For comparison, the 8GB iPhone is still sold 399 euros with two-year commitment, or 649 euros Mobicarte formula. 100 euros are needed for the immediate Réparation Déblocage iPhone from Orange.

Four packages are still available, ranging from 2 to 8 hours of communications per month for 49 to 119 euro a two-year commitment. They also integrate SMS (respectively 50, 100, 150 and 1000), access to WiFi hotspots Orange Unlimited Web data, but with limited data rates beyond 500 MB per month and the visual voice mail unlimited.

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