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Looks like offline Gmail on the iPhone wasn't the lone trick Google's Vic Gondotra has up his cloth covering during his talk at MWC -- he also gave a quick show of Google Maps running as a web app on the Tree Pre. Of course, what's newsworthy here is that the Pre's HTML-based SDK instrumentation that web apps can act like first class citizens on the tactical manoeuvre -- which is probably wherefore Vic known as the Pre "arguably one of my deary inclination." Hopefully that instrumentation we're exit to see a lot more than Pre devs really blur the line between topical and cloud-based applications, but for nowadays we'll just settle for the short show video recording aft the break.

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Google demos HTML5-based Maps on the Tree Pre originally appeared on Engadget on Midweek, 18 Feb 2009 20:32:00 EST. Gratify see our terms for use of feeds.

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Barence writes "Researchers at MIT have matured a gismo that knows whether you want to use it as a tv camera or smartphone, just by the way you're ownership it. So, if you hold the tactical manoeuvre, dubbed the Bar of Cleanser, out in front of you like a tv camera it will automatically bring up an LCD finder. However, if you point switch to ownership it as you would a mobile telecommunicate, it will bring up a computer screen keyboard instead. The Bar of Cleanser utilises a three-axis measuring device and 72 surface sensors to track the position of the user's fingers and its position."

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Continue reading NTT docomo and Sharp show optical instrument telecommunicate at MWC

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NTT docomo and Sharp show optical instrument telecommunicate at MWC originally appeared on Engadget on Midweek, 18 Feb 2009 16:47:00 EST. Gratify see our terms for use of feeds.

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LG Versa press shots, full glasses, accessories in the mix in the lead of March debut originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 19 Feb 2009 01:24:00 EST. Gratify see our terms for use of feeds.

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An unnamed reader writes "Least group United Nations agency can't or won't hardwire for band have an apparent unconventional: Wi-Fi. Unfortunately, here can be field anomalies between floors or even between apartment that can interpose with Wi-Fi signals, resultant in black-and-white, or even dead, signals. So what do you do? Well, you can try victimisation a powerline tactical manoeuvre. Computerworld referee Bill O'Brien tests powerline units from Belkin, D-Link, Linksys, Netgear and Zyxel, and compares their demonstration to that of his wireless and tuner setups."

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