As a company most famous for its monitors, ViewSonic probably isn’t the first company that you’d expect to release an Android tablet. The company’s European arm today announced the ViewPad 7, a 7-inch tablet running Android 2.2, the version also known as Froyo. Then again, with its recent stabs at all-in-one computers and digital photo frames , perhaps a ViewSonic tablet isn’t that out of the ordinary. The ViewPad is also equipped with front and rear cameras (at VGA and 3-megapixel resolutions respectively) for video conferencing, and 3G capabilities with space for a SIM card. The device is actually a rebranded version of a tablet called the “OlivePad,” Engadget notes . It made news months ago as “India’s first 3.5G Pad”, and was notable for its lackluster hardware — which included a 600 megahertz processor and an 800-by-480 resolution display (the same as Android phones with smaller 4-inch screens)
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ViewSonic jumps into the Android tablet fray with the ViewPad 7
With the growing popularity of free-to-play games on the PC, a new study from game market analyst DFC Intelligence reports that the English language free-to-play industry is expected to grow from $250 million in 2009 to over $2 billion by 2015. The increasing willingness of consumers to buy digital content and improved payment options have been a considerable factor in the surge, says DFC.
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English-language “free-to-play” online games will rake in $2B by 2015
Fifteen years ago, Autodesk abandoned the Mac. Today, the maker of AutoCAD 3D engineering and design software is returning. It’s a sign of how far Apple has come in making a comeback with both its desktop and mobile devices
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Autodesk returns to the Mac with a native version of AutoCAD for Mac, iOS devices
Mobile Phones Nokia C3 has appears on Nokia Canada website as ‘Coming Soon’ and headed to Rogers mobile operator. There is still unknown on price yet. The Nokia messaging phone has customizable home screen
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Mobile Phones Sony Ericsson and AT&T just announced availability of Sony Ericsson Vivaz smartphone. The handset is coming in vibrant Galaxy Blue and limited time for Venus Ruby color themes. AT&T is offers Sony Ericsson Vivaz for price tag of $79.99 on a 2-year contract and after a $50 rebate. The Sony Ericsson Vivaz smartphone should be release on September 5th. It has feature AT&T Wi-Fi Hotspots and Multitask Effortlessly. Sony Ericsson Vivaz smartphone has brings a 3.2-inch nHD 16 million color touchscreen display with resolutions of 360 x 640 pixels, an 8.1 megapixel autofocus camera with HD video recording, GPS, Stereo Bluetooth, HSPA, and Wi-Fi connectivity.
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Here’s the latest action: Elevation investing in Pandora — Venture Capital firm Elevation Partners is about to sink some money into music discovery and application company Pandora, according to TechCrunch . Keith Rabois jumps into Square — The startup, which allows people to pay with credit cards via their mobile devices, has snapped up PayPal alum and Silicon Valley man about town Keith Rabois . NexTag on hiring spree — The comparison shopping site has just restocked its executive suite , hiring Bahman Koohestani as CTO, Shea Kelly as senior vice president of resources, and Scott Simmons as president in North America. SpaceCurve lands $1.1M — The Seattle-based database company has raised $1.1 million in equity from Elsevier Ventures and Divergent Ventures. MiaSole forges deal with Juwi – Thin-film solar company has struck a deal with German solar developer Juwi to serve up 8.5 megawatts worth of solar panels
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Roundup: Elevation funding Pandora, MiaSole scores solar supply deal, and more
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Motorola has acquired a new set of app development tools in the form of Y Combinator startup 280 North . A Motorola official confirmed to TechCrunch that Motorola acquired the web-app developer to “help facilitate the continued expansion of Motorola’s application ecosystem.” The deal was reportedly worth $20 million. 280 North developed the Objective-J and Cappuccino app development platforms, designed for those with more limited and focused programming experience. The platforms were showed off in the company’s 280 Slides app. These app development tools could be another way for Motorola to differentiate its devices from other Android phones. Device makers are already trying to do this by developing their own “flavors” of the basic Android operating system, including Motorola’s own MotoBlur.
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IT service provider 6fusion raised $3 million in its first round of venture capital funding led by Intersouth Partners. The funding is pegged to help develop 6fusion’s senior executive team, currently led by CEO John Cowan, a graduate of Queen’s University at Kingston and a Canadian citizen. Katrin Burt and Mitch Mumma of Intersouth will join 6fusion’s board of directors as part of the deal. Intersouth is also a partner of the Council for Entrepreneurial Development, a mentoring program of sorts for entrepreneurs in the Research Triangle. The company said it will work out of Intersouth’s office as it finalizes the location of its new headquarters, which will be somewhere in the Research Triangle region of North Carolina. 6fusion offers a tool called the Work Allocation Cube — or WAC — which tracks various elements of cloud-computing usage, like bandwidth and memory usage, and combiunes them into a single value that companies can use to simplify pricing models
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Cloud computing startup 6fusion raises $3M
Location-based ad and alert companies Placecast and Location Labs have teamed up to send shopping alerts to more than 180 million consumers across multiple cell phone networks. The companies are creating ShopAlerts, which are location-triggered text messages sent from brands to consumers who opt into the service
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Chinese solar equipment maker Suntech Power Holdings today reported a loss of $174.9 million despite a 95 percent increase in revenue to $625.1 million in the second quarter of 2010 . Still, the company says demand for its products is way up, boding well for the future. It attributed the loss it incurred to reorganization costs and write-downs. And, for the most part, the results exceeded analysts’ forecasts
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China’s Suntech on its way up despite Q2 loss