Following on from the successful launch of the HTC One series, HTC, a global designer of smartphones, today unveiled its latest phone, the HTC Desire C. Featuring Beats Audio™ technology, this premium designed, yet affordable smartphone, allows you to hear your music just as the artist intended. The HTC Desire C also enables you to easily manage your professional and personal lives and share the moments that shape them.

Available in white and black, and coming with HTC Sense 4.0 integrated with Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich), the HTC Desire C is great as a first smartphone or for those upgrading from an existing one. Packing a powerful battery and offering access to thousands of apps, games, music and movies – available through Google Play – you will always be connected and entertained whether at work, home or on the move.

“Listening to music is one of the most popular things people use their phones for, so it’s more important than ever that we deliver the power and emotion artists capture in the studio,” said Jason Mackenzie, President, Global Sales and Marketing for HTC Corporation. “The HTC Desire C offers customers excellent design, easy access to content and fast connectivity – making it the perfect all round device.”

Authentic sound without compromise
The HTC Desire C features a powerful, yet rich studio-quality sound experience that is enabled through the combination of optimized Beats Audio and amazing hardware. This integration enables a rich, clear audio experience to customers no matter if they’re listening to music or playing a game.

Premium design taken to a new level
Combining a durable metal frame with precision engineering, the HTC Desire C is ideal for those who want a premium-designed phone. Boasting a micro-drilled earpiece for sharp in-call sound, hyper-viewing angle display and metal camera bezel, this compact smartphone offers an unrivalled level of design and user-experience for its class.

Designed for sharing
Packing the latest mobile technology into a neat, eye-catching design, HTC Desire C’s vibrant 3.5-inch HVGA screen makes it easy to browse the Web, view photos or connect with friends and family. If you like to share personal experiences with your social network, HTC Desire C’s 5 megapixel camera and instant sharing capabilities will allow you to post any moment, seconds after it was captured.

Through HTC Desire C’s deep integration of Dropbox and 25GB of free online space[i], you also have the freedom to securely back-up, browse and share thousands of photos, videos and documents, whether stored locally or in the cloud.

Ensuring that HTC Desire C keeps pace with new mobile services as they become available there is also an NFC variant of this model, allowing users to make payments or access information and offers.

Availability
HTC Desire C will be available from the following HTC partners: Vodafone, Orange, T-Mobile, Virgin Media, Three, O2, Phones4U, The Carphone Warehouse, and Tesco Mobile.

About HTC
Founded in 1997, HTC Corp. (HTC) is the creator of many award-winning mobile devices and industry firsts. By putting people at the center of everything it does, HTC pushes the boundaries of design and technology to create innovative and personal experiences for consumers around the globe. HTC’s portfolio includes smartphones and tablets powered by HTC Sense™, a multilayered graphical user interface that vastly improves user experience. HTC is listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TWSE: 2498). For more information, please visit www.htc.com.

This just made the team at Kijo laugh!

The FA has finally decided it’s worthwhile having a manager, so it’s time to start thinking about Euro 2012

England were agonisingly dumped out of World Cup 2010 due to the injustice of a lack of goal-line technology (and four high-class strikes from the superior German team, but let’s not talk about that). We’re determined not to let it happen again.

Paddy Power called up our team of scienticians. They’ve been busy fiddling with their diodes and eventually came up with this fan-pleasing solution. We reveal the snazzy high-tech equipment that will dramatically improve Roy Hodgson’s chances of guiding England to victory in Poland and Ukraine. We Hear You!

Conquer your grey mail with Hotmails new tool

 

Digital Signage Expo is the world’s largest international trade show dedicated to digital signage, interactive technology and out-of-home networks. Innovation drives these industries, and in turn, is the driving force behind DSE 2012. The 2012 show will bring:
More than 150 exhibitors
32 Educational Seminars
12 Pre- and Post-Show Workshops
40 Industry Vertical Discussion Groups
30+ Free On-Floor Presentations
…and More!

Visit http://www.multivu.com/players/English/52245-digital-signage-expo-2012/

Garden Games Croquet Set Review

Posted: 27th January 2012 by in Games

It might have been Winter but even with bad weather games can still take place in our house thanks to a huge wooden floor and hallway. As a kid we used to play a version of croquet with a little plastic set my brother and I have, admittedly it wasn’t proper croquet as there was always inappropriate hammer swinging and someone stealing the balls. But it is a garden game that gives a lot of fun and that people of all ages can join in with.

So when I was contacted by Garden Games asking if we would like to review one of their croquet sets. I thought we’d give it a go as it’ll be a great game for all the family to get involved in.

We were sent the ‘Lawn Croquet’ and were very impressed. The set consists of:

  • 4 Wooden children’s sized Croquet balls
  • 4 Painted wooden mallets with fabric grips
  • 6 Steel wickets
  • 1 Painted wooden Winning Post

Even with my daughter only being 3 she was able to pick up the mallets as they are relatively lightweight for her, if a little tall. Although like me at her age she didn’t appreciate the finer rules of the game having instructions included was a bonus. At least we will know how to play it when the grandparents come over.

The big bonus of this kit apart from it’s excellent quality is the storage and carry bag it comes in. This gives us a really great way of storing all the croquet bits and making sure nothing gets lots as well as having a bag to carry it between houses and holidays!

This will definitely be something I will be looking forward to using in the summer months and I might even have a Pimms to go with it in a proper garden party style!

 

If you're still rockin' an ancient iPhone or iPod Touch and are fed up with friends teasing you at every chance with their new-style multitasking and reminder features, we've got some good news for you. A new software, dubbed Whited00r, will let you install portions of iOS 5 on the first two generations of the iPod Touch, iPhone 3G and even your O.G. iPhone. Whited00r accomplishes this by simply acting as a custom firmware -- à la CyanogenMod 9 on Android handsets. There are, however, a few traits that devs haven't been able to mimic, which include core services like the App Store (though, you can install apps via iTunes on your home machine), Notification Center and iCloud. So, for those of you clinging to your outdated hardware while you wait for the "next big thing," you can at least freshen up its features (at your own risk) with a coat of whitewash at the source below.

Whited00r lets you install iOS 5 look-alike on old-gen iPhones and iPod Touches originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 20 Jan 2012 08:48:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apple’s iBooks Author hands-on

Posted: 19th January 2012 by Gadget Boy in Gadget News
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Inside every frustrated journalist is an even more frustrated author and self-publishing is an evil that many of us have succumbed to over the years. Still, much as we may want to resist it, we couldn't help ourselves when it came time to test Apple's iBooks Author app, designed for educators to push out textbooks to students for a fraction of the cost, time and energy it would traditionally take.

So, how does it feel when you're working inside the software, could you use it to prepare seminar materials for the class of 2015, and more importantly, can you use it to launch your own career as Stephanie Meyer's successor? Head past the break to find out!

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We're here at Apple's education-flavored event at the Guggenheim museum in New York City.
Phil Schiller has taken to the stage and announced that Apple's "reinventing the textbook" by launching iBooks 2. There are 1.5 million iPads currently in use in educational programs and 20,000 educational apps available for the platform, which prompted development of the new app.

Developing...

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The latest gaming mouse from Shogun Bros. doesn't double as a gamepad, but it does carry a heady list of extra features for sharpshooting gamers. These include independent X and Y DPi settings to stabilize targeting, thumb selector for speed shooting, 5,700 DPI accuracy and 11,570 frames per second movement tracking -- sidestepping those pesky jumps and stutters when moving that cursor in the midst of a melee. Indicators include X, Y and refresh rate, while you'll find 11 extra macro keys across the rubberized surface. There are 20 customized DPI settings for any game genre you'd care to mention -- oh and a desktop setting, yawn. Expect to shoot the wings off a CGI fly some time in Q2 2012.

Continue reading Shogun Bros. Ballista MK-1 Gaming Mouse totes new sniping system, looks like it'll hit the spot

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It's not been a great year for Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company: the chip foundry behind Qualcomm and nVidia's silicon (amongst others) saw profits slump by 22.5 percent in the last quarter of 2011. Like everything in this world, however, trouble is relative: the business still made a net profit of just over a billion US dollars. CEO Morris Chang pointed a wealthy digit toward customers clearing out old inventory and said that new orders for phone and tablet CPUs would arrive shortly -- thanks to a 28-nanometer factory that opened its doors around the same time. He then casually mentioned that a 20-nanometer facility will open its doors towards the end of this year, followed by a 14-nanometer block by 2014. We've got the report on the financials -- for those with a currency convertor and some spare time to hand -- after the break.

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