Country of Malaysia files patent suit against Apple’s iPad? Say What?

Huh? According to the report, both Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak and Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng of Malaysia have filed a joint suit by the Federal government and the Penang state administration against Apple for the iPad. The suit claims that the ideas for the iPad were first registered by the Malaysian government agencies.

Hit the link for more on this story.

Both branches of the government are claiming that the iPad is infringing on the 1 Malaysia and Middle Malaysia concepts, because of  its position as a product which places it directly in between the iPhone and the MacBook.

When asked for a comment regarding the suit, the Information and Culture Minister stated, “this is Malaysian culture and we cannot allow others to steal it, just like how Indonesia stole our batik and Singapore, our Ampang Yong Tau Fu.” Earlier today in a press conference, Lim insisted that “we have painstakingly worked with lawyers and marketing firms to come up with an idea that was original and convincing, and now Apple has simply come in and stolen it.”

In an excerpt from the Malaysian Insider “He added that disallowing Apple from using his idea was not acting like a “dictator, chauvinist or communist” but that Apple CEO Steve Jobs was “burning bridges” with the people of Penang and Malaysia, implying that Penang’s relationship with one of its most important foreign investors Intel, who are also Apple’s main chip producer, may have been jeopardized.

Technology expert iVan eNg believes that if Malaysia wins the suit, it could be worth RM2 billion as “despite its obviously stupid, menstrually-linked name, we all know that people will still buy something from Apple even if it is Steve Jobs’ shit in a bag, so long as Apple puts an ‘i’ in front of it or ‘book’ at the end of it.”

We’ll just have to tune in and see how this all turns out.

[via The Malaysian Insider]

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borrowed_heaven

surga yang dipinjam(kan)? kenapa harus borrowed_heaven? jadi…saiah selalu menamakan barang2 kesukaan saiah. contohnya, sony ericsson w830i kebanggaan saiah, dinamakan black beauty. karena bodinya yang berkelir hitam dan besar, terlihat kokoh dan kuat.

kali ini, borrowed_heaven. hape nokia n73 ini “hibahan” dari adek gue. baek banget yach . ngga’…ini karena perjanjian lama kita dulu. kita sempet mengadakan obrolan bilateral kalo suatu saat itu hape bisa gue pake. tapi…gue ngga’ terlalu ngarep koq. sampe akhirnya waktu itu tiba.

dengan mengucap bismillah, gue pake dah itu hape. dan kenapa borrowed_heaven? karena kalo dibandingin sama black beauty, hape ini menawarkan…sebetulnya…cuman tampilan layar yang lebih luas dan penyimpanan data yang lebih gede . ditambah, kartu memorinya juga gampang diperluas dan lebih murah dibanding kartu memorinya black beauty. jadi gue bisa tambahin koleksi lagu lebih banyak dibanding waktu pake black beauty. tapi kalo ngebandingin fasilitas hapenya, gue sendiri ngerasa black beauty dah bisa memenuhi kebutuhan gue.

lanjut, sekarang lagi pengen tambahin ini itu di borrowed_heaven. lalu membiasakan diri dengan papan kuncinya yang…gue rasa terlalu imut buat jari2 tangan gue yang…gede (kalo ngga’ mau dibilang bengkak ). beberapa kali suka ketelingsut mencetnya. belom lagi tombol menu yang penempatannya…butuh waktu buwat gue untuk membiasakan diri.

huff…tetap semangat! antara saiah dan…borrowed_heaven .

*gambar diambil dari sini

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PocketMac Announces The World's First Digital Life Saver...

San Diego, CA–January 12, 2010–PocketMac, the originators of several groundbreaking smartphone software tools, announces a new service that helps smartphone users save their digital life. Until now, when a smartphone was dropped in the toilet or was otherwise damaged, users' data was presumed to be lost forever. However, PocketMac's new service, RecoverMySmartphone.com, recovers that data from damaged smartphones and clones it to new ones.This saves countless hours reconstructing this information. Specifically, the service will rescue the following types of data from smartphones: (*) Contacts (*) Photos (*) Calendars (*) Text Messages (*) Email Messages (*) Music (*) Software (*) Notes (*) And More… Damaged smartphones are a much larger problem that is generally assumed. According to Gizmodo, 855,000 mobile phones are dropped in the toilet every year in the UK alone. That's one and a half percent of their population that either accidentally flushes or otherwise damages their phone. Additionally, Gizmodo says, 58,500 UK phones are damaged by dogs every year. And that's not to mention the 116,000 phones damaged in the laundry. The numbers grow even bigger when you consider that the United States has a population 5 times greater than the UK. This translates to over 4,275,000 US phones damaged in the toilet, 292,500 US phones damaged by dogs and 580,000 phones damaged in the laundry. This is what prompted PocketMac to create this new service. "We've spent over 8 years and 32,000 man-hours dissecting smartphones to see how they work," said Tim Goggin, VP Of Sales & Marketing. "We're now applying that wealth of knowledge to salvage the data from users' smartphones. Before RecoverMySmartphone.com, every time a phone was dropped into water or smashed in some accident, the data was likely lost forever." This service works very simply. Users with broken or malfunctioning phones ship their devices to RecoverMySmartphone's lab.As long as the device powers up, within 5-7 business days, the user's phone and recovered data will be shipped back to them. Optionally, RecoverMySmartphone's lab can clone the data to a new phone. Over 500 makes and models of phone are supported. Goggin continued, "Most of us don't have even one phone number memorized anymore. RecoverMySmartphone.com rescues your life from your damaged phone." The service supports salvaging the data from the following smartphones and PDAs: (*) BlackBerrys (*) Handspring PDAs (*) iPhones (*) iPods (*) Motorola Phones (*) Nokia (*) Palm Phones & PDAs (*) Panasonic Phones & PDAs (*) Sendo Phones (*) Siemens Phones (*) Sony Ericsson Phones (*) Windows Mobile Phones (*) And More Phones Added Everyday While certain consultants can charge as much as $1900 for this type of data recovery, RecoverMySmartphone.coms rates are structured to be more reasonable: Simple data recovery is a flat, introductory rate of $199.97 while cloning data from a broken device to a new one is a flat rate of $249.97. Return shipment is included in the cost of the service. Rush service can be added for $50.00 flat. Recovered data can be used on either a Windows-based PC or Macintosh. A YouTube video preview of how RecoverMySmartphone.com works can be found at:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGN-CTRSp2YMore information about both products can be found at: http://www.RecoverMySmartphone.com/ and http://twitter.com/pocketmac

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MyNokiaBlog reaches 1 million views, breaks 170,000 views in January and wins a Golden Retrevo Award!

With the title as long as a title could be, first I’d just like to thank you for coming to MyNokiaBlog.com and reading our posts!

• Today we’ve hit 1 Million views!
• I’ve also just realised we’ve somehow broken 170,000 views in January 2010!
• We also won a Golden Retrevo award!

I would have been very proud to make each one a separate post, but they’ve all come at once so I’ll group them all into one post!

170,000 views last month!

I’ve said it before, but although this view count is probably a drop in the ocean compared to the other blogs about Nokia, for me I’m genuinely impressed considering that 9 months ago, we’d get the same views in a month that MyNokiaBlog now gets in a day. To give another perspective, you guys helped MyNokiaBlog get more views in January 2010, than the combined whole year of 2008 + Sept to December 07.

In September last year we passed the 100,000 and that was only due to random traffic spikes. Thanks to all your support, for sticking around, reading our posts, subscribing to our RSS, retweeting our tweets and linking back to mynokiablog! We really wouldn’t have reached this if it wasn’t for you taking the time to visit us and read our posts ^_^

1 Million!

MyNokiaBlog started up in September 2007.  There were occasional posts. A few a week. Then maybe a few a month. Until one every few months. It was just (and still is) just a hobby blog (like surprisingly a lot of the mobile/nokia bloggers). It’s one of a few other things I have to juggle whilst being a Uni Student, keeping up with extra curricular responsibilities (proactive geek, ha!) balancing it all so it doesn’t affect my social life/grades/and of course, sleepz!

In our 28 months online, 65% of our views was made in the last 5 months. We started growing after an April Fools Joke on Nokia buying Palm, which Palm picked up and tweeted. From then, I gradually started blogging on a more regular basis. A few times a month….a few times a week….to now, about once a day.

I’m in my final year (and possibly going to do post graduate training) so in a few weeks, Uni work is going to be taking more focus. Hopefully I’ll keep improving in my juggling skills if I’m to keep up with everything Big thanks to Hiren, aka llaadd, who joined MyNokiaBlog in December. He’s been absolutely instrumental in MyNokiaBlog’s continued growth.

Of course, huge thanks to WOMWorld/Nokia for their continued support in lending trial handsets/accessories and event invites! We wouldn’t have been able to bring out as much new content if it wasn’t for them.

Whatever I can keep doing on this blog, ultimately, the intention will always be just a platform to document and voice my feedback and the feedback of communities on Nokia activities/services/products. It’s always cool to see Nokia picking up that feedback, be it simply just a fw feature suggestion.

Golden Retrevo Award! [Mobile Gadgets Category]

I’ve never heard about this before, I thought it was SPAM. I ignored the repeat emails saying we were nominated, and that I should promote my blog to get some votes.

Congratulations, MyNokiaBlog has been nominated for the first annual Golden Retrevo Awards. These awards honor the best and brightest independent bloggers of the gadget blogosphere. Nominations come from gadget enthusiast as well as Retrevo’s own panel of gadget experts.

Today, we had apparently won a Golden Retrevo award which made me think it was definitely SPAM. I wondered when the emails asking for my bank details would come next so I can receive my prize from a wealthy Nigerian prince.

But an email from Jennifer Jacobson of Retrevo said they saw my tweet and that they weren’t spam.

“Hi Jay,

I just saw your Tweet about The Golden Retrevo Award and wanted to clarify; it is not spam, and there is nothing you need to do. It looks like one of your readers nominated your blog a while back, for the awards. This is the first year for the Golden Retrevo Awards, so you wouldn’t have heard of it before. Retrevo is one of the top three consumer electronics shopping and review sites (with CNET and PC World).

We started the awards as a way to recognize outstanding achievements in the independent gadget blogosphere. The full page with winners is here: http://bit.ly/9TSWzO Please let me know if you have any other questions. Again, congratulations!”

Thanks again who ever nominated MyNokiaBlog and also who ever voted! Yay! We got an award! What’s even more cool is that we’re in the same list as those other properly popular blogs…especially DailyMobile! Now that is one heck of an impressive blog achievement.

I told  this to Taimas when I met him in October: I remember reading his Phattrance’s profile when he first began (I think it’s actually a touch younger than MyNokiaBlog) blogging and it mentioned that he was a full time blogger. I was like “how can you blog full time? There are so many blogs out there, you can’t just start off blogging mobile news. JUSTAMP was already doing that.

Now in such a short space, Daily Mobile is now one of the most popular hubs and aggregators of mobile news, with a new iPhone sister site too. Daily Mobile, is now at about 9 million views…a month!! So to be even put in the same list for whatever reason as DailyMobile, MobileWhack, iPhoneinCanada and CellFanatic, was for me, possibly as awesome as the Retrevo award itself.

So to all you,

THANK YOU!

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"dealtree-techstore" EBAY review

So, for Christmas I bought myself a used Nokia N85 from Ebay.  Specifically, I bought it from a seller called “dealtree-techstore”.  Here is the description they had on the auction page:

Nokia N85 Smartphone Unlocked GSM Cell Phone – Black

Overall Condition: Tested Working
Cosmetic Condition: Some scratches and/or signs of use
Testing Notes: This item is working. This item is in the original box.
This item has been tested and appears to be in good working order.

Items Included:
nokia n85 cell phone
battery
battery cover
usb cable
headset
sd micro memory card
manual
software
original box

Items NOT Included:
ac adapter
dc adapter
av cable

Well, let’s just say that they got the “items not included” correct, but they messed up on a couple of other things.  The shipping time was decent.

However, they clearly stated that the phone was “black”, but in fact it was the copper model.  This is not just a stylistic difference, as the actual black model was supposed to have a better built body since it was a updated version of the N85.  Strike 1.

Second, they did not include a memory card.  None.  Strike 2.

Lastly, they did mention that there were “scratches and/or signs of use”, but it would have been nice to know that there was a significantly sized scratch on the screen.  I don’t mind the scratches on the back, but that’s a little more annoying.  Putting a screen protector on it helped alleviate that scratch…at least a little.

CONCLUSION:

Unfortunately, “dealtree-techstore” is not the most honest seller out there.  Maybe some details slipped through the cracks, but you’d think that they would at least get the color of the phone right.  I have a feeling that they do not elaborate on details (such as the crack) because it would result in a lower sell price.  Unfortunately for them, I asked for $50 off what I paid because of the errors on their part.  They ended up agreeing with a $30 refund, which is fine, because I wasn’t really expecting them to give me $50 back.  They do have a return policy, but I needed to have a phone so that’s why I kept it.

Buyers, beware of dealtree-techstore.

p.s. Please let me know if this blog helped you or if you have any questions.

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Ask a winner updates: Answers

Not too long ago we asked our readers what they would like to hear about from the PUSH N900 winners and their hacks. We got some silly questions, and some serious, we asked both and now the PUSH teams have answered.

Todays team interview is KAPing with the N900. They’re N900 hack is the high flying Kite Aerial Photography. Check out what they have to say after the break. And be sure to keep up on their blog – they’ve released their first test video just a few days ago.

>Thank you for taking the time to answer some questions for HackaDay. We love when a hacker is willing to share their work with us.

Hi there, I’m [Ricardo Mendonça Ferreira], from the “KAPing with the N900″
project.

First of all, I’m a big fan of Hack-a-Day (even if I was not able to
read it for quite some time), so I’m happy to answer your questions.

>How did you and your team get together? Any fun backstory you care to share?

My other teammate is my wife. Lot’s of fun stories, but none related to
this project (yet).

Hmm… on second thought, here’s one: my wife’s stepfather was helping
us out when we were filming for the project. I asked him to assemble our
largest kite (a Maxi-Dopero, a bit larger than 4m x 2m) in the
background while I was giving an interview. We couldn’t stop laughing
when we saw the footage: he appeared scratching his had all the time, as
if he had no idea of what he was doing! Because, in fact, he didn’t!

>Have you and your team worked on any other projects? Cellular related projects? N900 projects?

We have never worked on anything like this before. We never had or used
an N900 or Arduino before this project.

>What was your main inspiration for your team’s project?

I’ve been practicing KAP (Kite Aerial Photography) since 2005, and I
always wanted a powerful yet simple to use KAP controller, so my
inspiration was my necessity. I already had planned to use an N900 for
this even before the launch of the Push N900 project. When I found out
about it, I did a bit of research and just submitted our project.

>How do you think people will react when you finish/release?

I hope more people will get to know about KAP, the N900, and use our
software and guidelines to develop their own KAP systems.

>Do you have any future plans with your team? Continued N900 development? Update your current projects?

This project is addictive! So the answer is yes, I plan to keep
updating my system and also develop other hardware and software
solutions for the N900.

>What do you think of the other winners?

They all have great and interesting projects, each one tackling
different problems and facing different challenges. I’m looking forward
to meet them and their creations in London!

>Questions from our commentators.
>
>What are you thoughts on Arduino? Do you intend to use one in your project?

I never used one before, but decided to use an Arduino Duemilanove after
reading the “PUSH N900 Hacker’s guide”. It will control two servo motors
with commands received from the N900 via Bluetooth.

>How is working with the N900 hardware and software?

Awesome! It’s like programming a desktop system. Since I’m a software
engineer with Unix experience, I felt at home with the device right from
the start.

>What do you think about the movement of cell phones towards open source software, such as the Maemo? Do you plan to, or have you ever tried Android?

I’m a big fan of both Nokia and Google for this. You can feel you really
“own” your device if it has one of these systems.

I always admired both Maemo and Android, but when I was looking for my
next gadget, I elected the N900 because Maemo seemed more mature and
with much better support for applications written in C / compiled into
native code. Of course, this opens more opportunities for processor
intensive applications than Android’s Dalvik Java virtual machine.

(Obs.: I know you can write native code for the Android, but AFAIK, it’s
not as simple as is on the Maemo, which supports it on the official SDK.)

>(If you use a secondary power source, example – to run motors) What kind of battery life is expected for your project?

This will depend *a lot* on the settings and how the system is used, but
my guess is that both motors and phone batteries will be good for
sessions longer than an hour. This is usually more than sufficient for a
good KAP session.

>Can we get a list of what you’re using in your project? (example – bluetooth sets, motors, dedicated sensors, etc)

Here’s my ingredients list:
- two N900 devices
- one Arduino Duemilanove
- one BlueSMiRF Gold Bluetooth modem
- two servo motors
- one Picavet suspension
- one rig to hold the motors and one N900
- one Rokkaku kite
- one pair of gloves
- one winder
- a lot of line

>And yes, we actually had a reader (Joe) ask the following (feel free to omit)
>How often do you change your underwear?

Please see my answer below. Should take just a couple of seconds for
some people do understand what this really is.

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Thank you!

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Vaaliban Mp3 Songs (First On Net)

Song Name : Nan Unnai Love Pannuran
Music : Yuvan Shankar Raja
Singer : Simbu

DOWNLOAD

Song Lyrics By Young Super Star Simbu

Nan Unnai Love Pannuran
Ni Ennai Love Pannuriya
Appidindu Nanum Unnai Kekka Maddan

Ehna?

Neeyum Love Pannale Endu Sonna
Nanumthan Thanga Maddan

Nee Ennai Kaddippiya
En Pillaiye Pethuppiya
Appidindu Nanum Unnai Kekka Maddan

Ehna?

Neeyum Pethukka Madde Endu Sonna
Nan Thanga Maddan

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