ContourHD helmet-camcorder; GM kills Pontiac; wind power for NYC

April 28, 2009

IN THIS ISSUE You may have heard the uproar last week directed at Apple: A completely hideous app somehow made it past the company's supposedly stringent vetting process and into the App Store (not for long, though). Well, if you're wondering what it takes to get an, um, questionable app through, Brian Heater investigated. Check out his post below. ContourHD: The HD Camcorder You Can Wear Getting Around Apple's App Store Vetting Process GM Kills Off Pontiac - Can Buick Be Far Behind? Project Plans Offshore Wind Power Project in New York Luidia Rolls Out Digital Ready Interactive Whiteboard Technology Advertisement ContourHD: The HD Camcorder You Can Wear It's a problem sports and outdoor enthusiasts (and maybe some of the rest of us) know all too well: You desperately want to shoot high-quality video of something, but you don't always have the free hands available to hold your hardware. (Bikes, oars, and skis don't keep themselves moving, you know.) The Seattle-based VholdR has come up with a way to change all that: ContourHD, the first wearable HD camcorder. Getting Around Apple's App Store Vetting Process The recent outrage over Apple's questionable vetting process, which censored one app over the word "boobs" and let in another revolving around the murder of crying infants, is likely to make the company take a closer look over which programs make it through the doors of its App Store. In the meantime, however, a company called Alkali Media has seen fit to further test the limits of what skirts the company's guidelines. GM Kills Off Pontiac - Can Buick Be Far Behind? GM took Pontiac off life-support Monday. Odds are this is just a waystation to an even smaller General Motors. The General Motors we'll likely see, whether in 2010 or in 2015, may be GM's two extremes: Chevrolet in the mass market, Cadillac at the high end. Everything else is a goner. Project Plans Offshore Wind Power Project in New York Offshore wind turbines have been planned for various locations across the globe, but the United States is still waiting for its first one, with a few proposals lining up to be green list in numerous states. This recent Earth Day, the New York Power Authority announced that there's a public-private initiative for an offshore wind power project in Lake Erie and Lake Ontario in the state. Luidia Rolls Out Digital Ready Interactive Whiteboard Technology Luidia, Inc., developer of eBeam interactive whiteboard technology for classrooms and conference rooms, today introduced its patent-pending Digital Ready whiteboard technology, which provides flexibility to instantly upgrade traditional whiteboards post-purchase with a wide range of interactive tools and capabilities. SUBSCRIBE TO PC MAGAZINE DIGITAL TODAY! Subscribe to PC Magazine Digital today for as little as $.62 a copy and enjoy the convenience and immediate delivery of digital.       PC Magazine is America’s #1 technology magazine, delivering authoritative, lab-based comparative reviews of technology products and services. FEATURED OFFERS Free utility finds the fragmentation that’s crippling your network! New Disk Performance Analyzer for Networks 2.0 takes the guesswork out of tracking networked system performance. This revolutionary utility scans networked systems’ performance from one single access point. It equips administrators with an arsenal of performance data, so they can zero in on systems’ fragmentation and slows. Don’t let low-functioning systems go unnoticed. Get Disk Performance Analyzer for Networks 2.0 free now! Counter Threats in Database Security in this Free White Paper 70 percent of all database breaches arise internally with no Internet connection required. Read more about the growing significance of database security in this free white paper. Download today! eNewsletter Information You are subscribed to Gearlog Update with the email address austinames2008.pcmag@blogger.com. Click here to unsubscribe from this newsletter. To subscribe to other e-mail newsletters from Ziff Davis, change your delivery format from HTML to text, or change your e-mail address, click here. Copyright © 2009 Ziff Davis Media, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Ziff Davis Media Inc., 28 East 28th Street, New York, NY 10016

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