Nokia Introduces Lumia 920 with PureMotion HD+ Display Technology

Nokia CEO Stephen Elop hit the stage in New York City on Wednesday morning in a joint event co-hosted with Microsoft to announce the next generation of Windows Phone devices.

Nokia has announced the next phase of its Windows Phone strategy during a media event held jointly with Microsoft on Wednesday morning in New York City. Following a recap by CEO Stephen Elop, Nokia vice president Jo Harlow took the stage to kick off the day's announcements.

As rumored in recent days, the Nokia Lumia 920 is indeed real, and Harlow calls it "the most innovative smartphone in the world." Including a PureView camera for taking the best pictures and videos with the advanced Nokia mapping experience, the Lumia 920 also introduces wireless charging to the product line.

Harlow spent a good deal of time touting the Lumia 920's PureView technology, which offers major improvements to how photos and video are shot, including shutter and stabilization enhancements. Nokia Maps, Transport and Drive are also being upgraded with offline maps as a key feature of the Lumia experience, adding Nokia City Lens to see the names of businesses just by pointing the smartphone camera at any location.

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Adobe Photoshop Touch 1.3 Adds Retina Display Support

While the Mac version of Photoshop is still waiting for Retina Display support, Adobe is making good on its promise to bring the same to the touch-enabled iPad app with a new version released on Wednesday.

Adobe has released Photoshop Touch 1.3, a new version of the company's $9.99 image editing app for the iPad. Available now from the App Store, the update brings full Retina Display support for the third-generation iPad and a host of other features.

In addition to Retina Display support for the new iPad, Adobe Photoshop Touch 1.3 now allows even higher-resolution images up to 12 megapixels -- a big improvement over the limitations of the original release.

Photoshop Touch is now localized in Russian and Brazilian Portuguese while including two new effects, Shred and Colorize. Adobe has made animation and scrolling in the organizer, tutorial browser and file picker smoother than previous versions as well.

Finally, Adobe Photoshop Touch includes a new gesture to toggle 100 percent view as well as three-finger tap for fit to screen, with new pixel nudging mode for precision movements and support for iCloud Photo Stream.

Adobe Photoshop Touch 1.3 is now available from the App Store for $9.99, and the update is free for existing users; the app requires and iPad 2 or higher running iOS 5.0 or later.

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Thursday Recap: CEO Chats, Adobe Retina Display Updates, Kindle Fire Sells Out

With a week to go before Amazon holds a media event, the e-tailer has announced its best-selling Kindle Fire is now sold out -- which certainly sounds more like "we stopped making them because a new model is coming" to us. While that seven-inch slate was quite nice a year ago, Google's Nexus 7 has pretty much made many of us forget all about the Kindle Fire, so Amazon is going to have to pull a real rabbit out of its hat to wow us once again. In the meantime, let's get caught up with the day's news for this Thursday, August 30, 2012.

Report: Google, Apple CEOs Holding Patent Talks

Reuters is reporting that Apple CEO Tim Cook and Google CEO Larry Page have been holding a series of "behind-the-scenes conversations about a range of intellectual property matters." According to sources in their inner circle, the two executive spoke by phone last week, presumably ahead of Friday's courtroom defeat for Google partner Samsung. Another source claims a new meeting was scheduled for this Friday but "delayed for reason that were unclear," but additional meetings will be held in the coming weeks. The move would certainly fit with Cook's own comments about wanting to settle patent issues outside of the courtroom, but we're a bit skeptical any such talks are actually taking place.

Adobe: Retina Support Coming This Fall for Key Creative Suite 6 Apps

There are still plenty of Mac apps yet to be updated for the MacBook Pro with Retina Display's high-resolution screen, and Adobe's Creative Suite 6 is definitely among them. But that will be changing this fall, as the company has officially announced Retina Display (i.e., HiDPI) support will be arriving in the next few months for a number of the company's key Creative Suite 6 and Creative Cloud software. The free updates will include Dreamweaver, Edge Animate, Illustrator, Lightroom, Photoshop Touch for iPad, Prelude, Premiere Pro, SpeedGrade and yes, Photoshop, which was demoed during the introduction of the new MacBook Pro with Retina Display back in June. According to the company's Photoshop.com Blog, Photoshop Elements "will not fully support HiDPI displays in the immediate future," but the team is hard at work determining what they need to do to make that happen.

Kindle Fire Now Sold Out, We Really Can't Imagine Why

Amazon issued a press release this morning to boast about selling out of the Kindle Fire, its number one best-selling product ever. Claiming the seven-inch tablet has already captured 22 percent of the U.S. tablet market, the news seems curiously timed considering the e-tailer is holding a media event next Thursday, which seems quite certain to debut a new Kindle Fire (and maybe a few other surprises). "Kindle Fire is sold out, but we have an exciting roadmap ahead," CEO Jeff Bezos says. "We will continue to offer our customers the best hardware, the best prices, the best customer service, the best cross-platform interoperability, and the best content ecosystem.

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How to Print and Display Instagram Photos at Home

We write a lot about Instagram because it's pretty amazing. It's a fast and easy way to share great looking photos from our iPhones. We've written about how to order prints and a number of other things using your Instagram photos, but they aren't always cheap. And, worst of all, they aren't very instant. There's nothing worse than having to wait for all those photos to show up at your door. So, here's the easiest way to put the "insta" back into your Instagrams and print your own photos at home.

We're choosing to make 4" x 4" prints in this guide because they're easy to frame and because you can fit four prints to a regular sized page, getting you the most bang for your buck.

What You'll Need

>> Glossy photo paper
>> Scissors
>> A printer with a fresh cartridge of color ink
>> Adobe Photoshop, or any other image editor that lets you resize images
>> Instagram, of course!

Choose Your Photos

Instagram, by default, holds images in the app itself, saves photos to camera roll, and lets you export photos to services like Flickr and Facebook. The only place you can get high resolution photos though is through your Camera Roll. So, you'll get the highest quality prints if you email your photos directly to yourself.

Unfortunately, Camera Roll limits the number of photos you can send to yourself via email. And, it might be hard to find the Instagrams you want while looking through all the pictures you've ever taken. If that's the case, the easiest source to save your pictures for printing is through an online Instagram viewer like Instagrid. It's easy to make an account, and you can quickly peruse your photos and save them to your hard drive for printing.

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Reeder, VLC for Mac Release Retina Display Updates

A pair of Mac apps received updates over the weekend, adding high resolution updates for the new MacBook Pro with Retina Display and in the case of the latter, a whole big list of other changes as well.

Developers are starting to roll out updates to their Mac apps aimed at supporting Apple's latest MacBook Pro with Retina Display, with two such welcome arrivals this past weekend alone.

Reeder for Mac 1.1.7 hit the Mac App Store on Saturday, updating its graphics for the Retina Display. As existing users can attest to, text looked quite blurry on the MacBook Pro with Retina Display, so the update likely made the weekend for them. The update also addressed a Twitter sharing issue that had cropped up with the previous version.

Meanwhile, open-source media player VLC hit version 2.0.2 which sounds like a minor update, but the developers note that the release "fixes a couple of hundred bugs" while also fixing "a lot of regressions of the 2.0.x branch" of the software.

Of course, Retina Display support is at the top of that list for MacBook Pro with Retina Display users, but VLC 2.0.2 "Twoflower" also improves the user interface to be on-par with the classic VLC many users remember, while offering better performance and removing the font cache that was causing slowdowns for many.

There's a seriously long list of fixes for VLC 2.0.2, so it's worth a peek at the release notes while downloading, but you can be assured there's pretty much something for everyone.

Both app updates are available now; Reeder for Mac is available from the Mac App Store as a free update for existing users ($4.99 for new customers), while VLC can be downloaded directly from the VideoLAN website.

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MacBook Pro with Retina Display Named Editors’ Choice

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Apple Introduces All-New MacBook Pro with Retina Display

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Spec Sheet Leaks for 13-Inch MacBook Pro, No Retina Display to be Found?

By this time next week, we’ll already know what Apple has up its sleeve for the WWDC 2012 keynote -- but in the meantime, all we have to go on are leaks such as the one pictured here, which is reportedly the spec label from a new 13-inch MacBook Pro.

The Verge is reporting that specs have been leaked from what’s assumed to be a spec label on the box of a forthcoming 13-inch MacBook Pro. The good news is that Intel’s Ivy Bridge processor and USB 3.0 ports are present and accounted for, but the bad news is there doesn’t seem to be a Retina Display in sight.

According to the Chinese website Weiphone which first posted the spec sheet, the next 13-inch MacBook Pro will come with

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Rumor: New 15-Inch MacBook Pro Features USB 3.0, Retina Display, Thin Design

Most of the recent rumors about a new MacBook Pro have been focused on it being as thin as a MacBook Air -- but that may be wishful thinking, according to trusted sources who are spilling the beans on the forthcoming 15-inch model.

9to5Mac has donned its tin hat again and filed an extensive report on what may be coming with this year’s 15-inch MacBook Pro. Those of you hoping for an ultra-thin design like the MacBook Air may be disappointed, but let’s face it: That was probably a pipe dream anyway.

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PositiveID's iglucose Monitor on Display at CTIA Conference

Six Things Hospitals Need to Know About Supporting the Adoption of Smartphones Pagers have been an essential part of healthcare communications for a long time due to their ability to provide reliable communications at a low cost. When pagers emerged on the healthcare scene, they fundamentally changed the way doctors, nurses, and administrators could be notified that... DOWNLOAD NOW

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EPSON Launches a New Innovative Android-based Display Technology

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Epson America has announced its latest innovation, an Android (News - Alert)-powered see-through wearable display that features built-in Wi-Fi, 6 hours of rechargeable battery life and comes with a microSDHC card slot that allows users to download content. The micro-projection technology displays a virtual 80-inch perceived screen and Epson hopes the “floating” display technology will allow users to enjoy a more seamless experience when watching videos, playing video games and browsing the Web.

Regarding this new and latest display,  Anna Jen, director of New Business Development at Epson America said, “As the world leader in visual imaging technology, Epson continually strives to set industry benchmarks for quality and innovation. The Moverio BT (News - Alert)-100 see-through display is poised to significantly impact not only the way people interact with content for personal enjoyment, but the development of content for future applications - from virtual training platforms to a new way to interact with 3D CAD environments to visualizing 3D design renderings.”

Other features that the new Enhanced Mobility and New Content Interaction Moverio BT-100, as it is called, will have include a removable built-in memory card that supports up to 32GB, ability to interact with apps online with a 1GB internal user storage, touch-enabled track pad navigation and support for surround sound. The new Maverio BT-100 is currently going for $699.99 on Epson online stores and other selected pre-seller locations like Amazon.

Epson is a global provider of imaging and innovation technology and aims to provide compact, high-precision and energy-saving technologies that range from their well-known printers to other enterprise and home devices. The new Maverio BT-100 is another addition to their innovations.

In other news, Epson recently unveiled a new printer series. The newly announced WorkForce Pro C Series is a next generation inkjet printer series that targets smaller work groups and comes with some unique features. Successor to the last years WorkForce Pro, the C Series builds on its predecessor and has been designed exclusively for the SMB section.

Edited by Jennifer Russell

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