http://www.focusoft.biz All About Gadgets, Electronics & Technology Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:10:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Burn music, pictures, videos, and more to CD or DVD Burning files to CD or DVD is a great way to store and share them. But it can be a little intimidating because there are so many different types of CDs and DVDs and different ways to burn ... http://www.focusoft.biz/2009/12/01/disc-burning-tips-for-windows-7 Something really, really bad went down at high flying startup Canopy Financial. This is one of the high flying startups that had a lot of buzz the last couple of years. They’ve raised at least $85 million in venture capital with the help of an investment bank, Financial Technology Partners. Their ... http://www.focusoft.biz/2009/11/24/canopy-financial-accused-of-serious-financial-fraud-investors-burned Yes, ladies and gentlemen, that most epic triumph of human engineering and physics research has finally taken place, and strangely enough our planet's still in one piece too. The search for the Higgs boson particle resumed yesterday, somewhere under the Franco-Swiss border, with the CERN research team successfully executing what ... http://www.focusoft.biz/2009/11/24/large-hadron-collider-reboots-makes-first-protonic-bang Creative’s latest point-and-shoot camcorder has emerged, and though the feature list isn’t exactly overwhelming it’s a decent update over the second-gen version.  The new Creative Vado HD still grabs 720p high-definition footage but now the company are claiming improved low-light and bright-light performance together with out-of-the-box compatibility with both PCs ... http://www.focusoft.biz/2009/11/24/creative-vado-hd-camcorder-boosts-low-light-performance Nokia UK have finally announced launch and pricing details for the Nokia X6, the company’s new Comes With Music flagship media phone.  Packing a 3.2-inch capacitive touchscreen, 32GB of integrated storage and a 5-megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, the Nokia X6 will arrive at UK retailer Phones4U on Friday ... http://www.focusoft.biz/2009/11/24/nokia-x6-arrives-in-uk-this-friday Nokia have outed two new budget sliders with a strong emphasis on media sharing, the Nokia 6700 Slide and the Nokia 7230.  The 6700 Slide packs a 5-megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, together with onboard editing software, while the 7230 gets a more modest 3.2-megapixel camera. Both have 3G for ... http://www.focusoft.biz/2009/11/24/nokia-6700-slide-and-7230-budget-cameraphones-outed HP reported their quarterly earnings today, and managed to beat expectations across the board, almost half a billion dollars above analyst predictions. Due to the positive news they've ramped up expectation for 2010 by $1-2 billion. Suck it, recession! [ZDNet] Excerpt from: HP Reports Q4 Profits, Raises Expectations ... http://www.focusoft.biz/2009/11/24/hp-reports-q4-profits-raises-expectations-for-2010-finance Google has obviously tired of waiting for handset manufacturers to push out Android 2.0 to existing handsets before users can play with the Google Maps Navigation beta, and as such has released the turn-by-turn software for Android 1.6 devices.  Available now in the Android Market, Google Maps Navigation for Android ... http://www.focusoft.biz/2009/11/24/android-1-6-phones-get-google-maps-navigation-beta Even though Broadcom, Atheros, and Qualcomm have all been sampling phone-ready draft 802.11n chipsets for some time now, you're still not seeing the tech swiftly overtake 802.11g in the mobile arena -- in fact, we dare you to find a single phone in your carrier's store that can do it. ... http://www.focusoft.biz/2009/11/24/htc-hd2-can-be-coaxed-into-doing-802-11n-if-you-know-how-to-sweet-talk-it If you like your software homebrewed with just a hint of alpha then boy do we have an app for you. The WebOS homebrew community just released Precorder; an app that lets your Palm Pre record audio and 30fps 480x320 pixel video in H.264/AVC format -- you can can even ... http://www.focusoft.biz/2009/11/24/palm-precorder-brings-video-recording-homebrew-to-the-pre