Hacking the campaign

TechPresident’s Joshua Levy does an excellent job showing that Barack Obama’s huge numbers on YouTube are likely gamed and inflated. And this makes me wonder whether his MySpace numbers are similarly manufactured. Add this to the anonymous anti-Hillary video made by a political operative and you get a disturbing, or at least unflattering, picture of some of Obama’s supporters. Some are trying to hack his campaign for him.

 talking with some people who know about these things and they thought the Obama’s numbers were bogus but didn’t yet know how to prove it. TechPresident’s Levy shows how the number of visitors and views just don’t match up. The clearest evidence of fishiness is all this is TechPresident’s own YouTube chart, which they acknowledge looks darned suspicious:

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Ocean the new king of Helio

All hail the new king of Helio’s lineup: “Ocean.” That ain’t really hyperbole, either; the Pantech-sourced device first seen in the FCC’s claws a few months back easily has enough tricks up its sleeve to put it atop Helio’s already impressive stable of featurephones. Most striking, of course, is the dual-slide design with QWERTY in one direction and numeric in the other — a first, as best we can tell — that gives users the best of both worlds without compromising much girth (21.8mm to be exact). Other unique goodies include a contact list with integrated “presence detection” showing contacts’ statuses on a variety of instant messaging services, Exchange Server integration (!) for the suits out there, and a click-free web search mechanism — users simply begin typing from their home screen to seek out sites. The Ocean will rock out to tunes for a claimed 15 hours (pretty frickin’ impressive if that figure holds up), offer 200MB of internal storage with microSD expansion, a 2 megapixel cam, and stereo Bluetooth support. Look for it to start showing up on shelves before summer sets in for $295.

The New PDA concept

How many people do you know that carry a dedicated PDA? Everyone seems to have switched over to phones that can do it all for them.

It synchronizes with the user’s PC to track inventory, communicating through RFID and Bluetooth.” It’s meant for for the IT crowd, but should HP ever decide to enter the rugged PDA/smartphone market, this design would certainly be a nice start. Especially since it just won CeBIT’s If Design Award 

It seems to have a nice rugged appearance to it, which is always great. It appears to be designed as more of a datacenter diagnostic device than a standard PDA. “It visualizes and communicates problems related to HP servers and data centers, and works as a fully-integrated system to streamline day-to-day tasks.”

Yahoo! launches its new mobile portal, oneSearch……!

Yahoo! has launched its new mobile portal, called oneSearch.It provides a mobile Search that works with single click.It is so simple and helpful at the same time.Yahoo! oneSearch is now available for internet—enabled phones. oneSearch results are delivered to you in a new, breakthrough format that redefines search for the mobile phone. It’s all about getting instant answers with just one click—no need to sift through a bunch of links to find exactly what you’re looking for.

Enter oneSearch, a new page (at m.yahoo.com on your handset) that aggregates a large number of Yahoo!’s features onto one easy-to-use page, including Y! Messenger, Y! Movies, and even a handy portable version of flickr.

Finally mobile search that works! Yahoo! oneSearch is now available for internet—enabled phones. oneSearch results are delivered to you in a new, breakthrough format that redefines search for the mobile phone. It’s all about getting instant answers with just one click—no need to sift through a bunch of links to find exactly what you’re looking for.

Looking for a new camera? oneSearch gives you what you need to make the best choice including product reviews, images of different models and where to buy. Tracking a hot stock? oneSearch gives you the important info you need to stay up to date including stock quotes, company news and the latest products.

oneSearch results are easy to read, scroll through, and expand when you want more information—like more images to view—with a single click. You don’t have to “feel lucky” to be lucky every time with oneSearch!

Get just Anything

Yahoo! oneSearch gets you the answers you seek for just about anything you need: driving directions, maps, movie showtimes, sports, upcoming events, news, weather, celebrities, images, shopping—you name it.And, oneSearch gives you results based on where you are. For instance, searching for a movie title will give you local theaters and showtimes. Searching for a city name will give you the latest weather, traffic reports, local news and more for that city.oneSearch also makes it easy to get to any website. Simply type in the name of a website you want to visit in the search box (like eBay), and oneSearch returns the website link. Simply click the link and you’re there!

Earthlink unveils WiFi phone beta in Anaheim, CA

Earthlink’s finally ready to publicly discuss the WiFi phone beta they’ve been running in Anaheim California — well, kind of. They didn’t exactly have much to say about the service because it’s in beta, but we know that officially exists, and that should be enough, right? We’d love a closer look at the Accton phone they’re using for this thing, but we know the type, and something tells us it’s not exactly going to have an ancillary HSDPA for 3G SIP or anything.

BenQ announces P860 8 megapixel, 6x zoom camera

BenQ recently announced a new 8 megapixel, 6x optical zoom lens point and shoot digital camera to replace the P500. Besides the impressive CCD and zoom lens, the P860 also comes with a roomy 2.5-inch LCD, and a manual mode for adjusting aperture and shutter settings, although things’ll take a turn for the worse when you notice its paltry 18 MB of integrated memory; the maximum ISO setting is only 1000 too, which is a fair bit under the 1600 ISO modes that are starting to creep into middle of the pack shooters. This little number runs off AAs — no rechargeables out of the box, boo — and can also shoot 30fps video at 640 x 480. So far BenQ has said that the P860 will only available in Italy, Spain, Russian, and China at the end of March, although we wouldn’t be surprised if that release gets an extension somewhere along the line.

Home Entertainment Buzz: Apple TV Meet TVMax+

 

The match made in heaven (an Apple TV media extender and TVMax+), although the Apple TV media extender is not released yet it is a great match for the TVMax+ from Miglia who are set in our opinion to sell tons of these devices thanks to the launch of the new Apple product.

Apple tend to always create a lot of buzz when they launch new products and the Apple TV media extender is no different.
If you wish to maximize your enjoyment of the video iPod or upcoming iPhone and Apple TV then you should seriously look into purchasing the TVMax+.

Key features include:
Analog TV receiver for Cable TV channels
Online EPG supporting both tvtv & TitanTV, decide what you view with ease
Capture VHS tapes to DVD fast
Records all video content ‘on the fly’ in real time for iPod & Apple TV
Fabulous quick content provider for your iPod, iPhone or Apple TV

The TVMax+ has the simple yet beautiful lines like Apple products and aims to become your home entertainment hub.
You can visit the product page to view more information and to see what you get for the £143 price tag.

Microsoft admits OneCare flaws

Microsoft has promised to try harder, after its new OneCare anti-virus software failed a benchmark test often considered indispensable by the industry.

“The recent detection numbers were not stellar,” Jimmy Kuo, a member of the Microsoft security research and response team, said in a company blog “We missed capturing a VB100 [Virus Bulletin 100] in the last test because we missed one virus. As a result, we have adopted new methodologies to … look more closely at families of viruses that have been found to be ‘in the wild,’ [those] found actively spreading among users.”

Early last month, Virus Bulletin, a U.K.-based publication whose VB100 tests are considered one of the antivirus industry’s benchmarks, put 15 Vista security programs up against January’s WildList, a master list of all viruses, worms, Trojans and other on-the-loose malware. Five titles failed the test, including Microsoft’s Windows Live OneCare 1.5.

“We will keep on working to acquire the VB100 Award each time we are tested by Virus Bulletin,” promised Kuo.

Although he didn’t specify all the steps Microsoft would take to remedy OneCare’s poor performance, Kuo said that the company’s developers would come up with virus signatures able to detect entire families of malware, something security-specific vendors have been doing for years. Kuo also said that Microsoft would put more resources into identifying what he called “truly important malware.”

Verizon’s V-Cast Mobile TV service is launched today. Verizon’s planning to have eight channels at launch—which is actually more than the number of of HD channels we get from Comcast—which will be both live and time-shifted.

The channels are “CBS, Comedy Central, ESPN, Fox, MTV, NBC Entertainment, NBC News, and Nickelodeon.” Pricing? $15 a month or $25 with a bundled V-Cast and Mobile Web package. Fantastic news for people who enjoy car accidents; terrible news for pedestrians who don’t enjoy getting hit by cars.