Technology and Gadgets

Last Thursday we come to the headquarters of Samsung, South Korea where he taught us the news of its new platform for connected TVs online services, an invention called the Samsung Smart TV.

Basically, Smart TV is an interesting push by Samsung to equip their TVs with a platform of internet connection that goes beyond the sad widgets to which we are accustomed to. Samsung Smart Hub is the entry point to this gallery services including free navigation, applications, access to social networks and interoperability between devices wirelessly. Let’s see them.

Samsung Hub, a portal to access all

As already mentioned, Smart Hub is the entry point to all online services. The software that supports it will only be available in this 2011 television market , so we fear that the only way to access, if you have an old computer or another company, is to become a Samsung Blu-Ray new.

Known this, Smart Hub offers a fairly complete menu that remembers enough to Google TV on one thing: everything revolves around the search engine. A number of options to enable and disable filters to limit searches. The system allows you to search all the sources of local or online video, social networks, the catalog of Samsung Movies or a tool called Your Video.

Clearly, Your Video is not able to track torrents or file hosting services like Rapidshare, Megaupload, but the results seem quite broad and promise a few hours of entertainment.

Free navigation applications
One of the most welcome of Samsung Smart TV is the inclusion of an open web browser , in fact, is an adapted version of Google Chrome . Although it is not compatible with HTML5, it is fully capable of running Flash , which gives us a wide range of streaming sites from which to dive.

Apart from the browser, Samsung Smart Hub integrates a specific version of the app store Samsung Apps . As we have said Samsung, the SDK Apps Samsung is not free as may be to Boxee Box . In other words, the last word on what applications and what is coming from Samsung.

At the time we spent messing with Samsung Apps could find some applications for immediate access to information points such as web brand. Samsung Apps is also the place to find all the widgets that allow us access to Facebook, Twitter, Skype or GoogleTalk .

Social networks and Android mobile TV

Social networks are precisely one of the strengths of Samsung Smart TV . An application called Social T V allows us to open a column to the right of the screen to view our Facebook and Twitter timeline as we watch TV, or whatever we are seeing at the moment.

Online communications are completed with full access to Google Talk chat and Skype. Samsung will start selling webcams for their TVs this year and experience Skype on your TV is very nice and easy to use.

All these applications require a keyboard almost necessarily. Instead of making specific keyboards, Samsung has opted for a clever maneuver. Throwing a Smart TV application supports all Android phones.

With this application installed on a tablet with WiFi phone can synchronize the terminal with the TV and turn it into a touchscreen remote control with an extensive range of options. The application does not stop there. We can also see the contents of the mobile TV, watch another channel other than the one we have on TV, and use the onscreen keyboard as a method to search Smart TV or writing status updates.

The truth is that Samsung Smart TV we liked. The platform is an internet access to full-fledged and can only hope that Samsung app store feed more content to Smart TV is becoming an exciting plus to consider when choosing a new TV.

Samsung has introduced its latest technology Smart TV (television wise). The new systems will allow access to different content and applications easily through the brand new devices.
The new television concept that the Korean brand wants to develop this year is based on three pillars: Smart Hub, Smart Experiences and Smart Connections . Or what is the same, more, higher quality and the ability to interconnect devices.

Smart Hub is a platform of access to all content and applications from Samsung also has various tools to facilitate their use. It has a web browser to stroll through the web while watching television, a content recommendation system that is guided by personal preferences and recommendations of third parties, an application store with over 300 apps and Social TV, a content sharing, chat, comment, … while watching TV. It also includes Samsung Movies, a sort of online video store for all media (television, smartphone, tablet or laptop).

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The Finnish mobile phone manufacturer announced that the seal Ovi disappear next July and will be replaced by ” Nokia Services “, a name more suited to compete by leveraging the brand equity of the company.

Since the announcement of the alliance between Microsoft and Nokia, the changes do not stop happening in the Finnish manufacturer, recently announced if the transfer of all development activities and services of the operating system Symbian to consultancy Accenture, he now is the turn of the brand Ovi.

In a note posted on its official blog, Nokia announces the arrival of the platform “Nokia Services “to” centralize services under a single label, reinforcing our core brand and unify our architecture.”

The transition of all its products to ” Nokia Services “will begin in July and expect to complete before the end of 2012. All devices are purchased from the new flag incorporated in June, while the former will wait for a software update.

The process, “just a name change,” aims to achieve a new position to compete with successful App Store of Apple and Android Market for Google .

Much has been said about the possibilities for sites that offer streaming TV online for free. They do not pay copyright owners say network television but the fact is that with the expansion of Internet information through these channels are increasingly benefiting from it.

Pages tvgratis.tv are part of a cluster of excellent technical resources provide users with a variety of information services.

These sites are altruistic in their actions and create fun in exchange for advertising revenue

Today, thanks to the connection speed that is growing daily (in some places more and some less) and we enjoy growing watch TV or movies online completely free of charge . That’s a big plus for many people because we can choose to have a good Internet connection, set aside or cable TV digital and therefore able to save our money.

As mentioned in several previous post, the Internet provides us with facilities that today are becoming more and so much so that in future digital television will surely and all its derivatives are intended to be viewed on the computer. In consequence of all this, and there are several sites where we can watch television shows or movies online for free way.

This time we bring you a site where you can watch your favorite shows for free. This is quite convenient if you have a good Internet connection and you can barely see the series have been issued in the United States, a fact that causes great satisfaction for those fans who can not wait 2 or 3 weeks to be issued in their respective countries.

The site is called TvTubex and have available the most popular series now completely free. If you want better quality, you will have the possibility for a small fee to see them in high quality.

Vodafone Spain brings an innovative television concept this time linked to one of the main pillars of the operator, ADSL , which will now be more attractive to remind us services products such as Google TV.

Vodafone Internet TV is a team that integrates our Internet TV and multimedia content throughout the home to be controlled from the remote control. It only works connected to the router ADSL from Vodafone via WiFi (or ethernet cable) and is available for existing and new customers to ADSL nationwide coverage without restrictions.

The decoder has several features that make the market more complete as we can:

View the DTV channels that are broadcast including High Definition (HD).
Record any television content directly from the Program Guide EPG (no need to schedule time) on a USB hard drive or USB to be connected to the computer.
TimeShift that records the channel you have tuned if we stop to continue seeing him later or to go back if you missed something. (more…)

You can enjoy your favorite programs on Microsoft’s console
Since 2007, Microsoft promised that IPTV would the Xbox 360. However, the players have had to settle for U-verse service, AT & T, you need a DVR player to tune in online programming.

According to reports the site ZDNet, Microsoft is working on the project Orapa , which combine elements of Xbox Live with Microsoft Mediaroom. The service will be compatible with Kinect and it appears that the Xbox avatars will have an important role in the interface.

Various sources indicate that Orapa come this year, possibly within the update that Microsoft released in late autumn. It is unknown whether the service will be free for Xbox Live Gold subscribers, or may be purchased using Microsoft Points. There is also the possibility that the application is available through cable television companies.

If you can not wait, it is now possible to see entertainment and sports with the most recent update to Xbox Live, provided you have a Gold membership.