Google Chairman Eric Schmidt said: “Android has been leading Apple iPhone”.

Google Cairman Eric Schmidt said today, in intelligent mobile phone market, Android has already been ahead of the Apple iPhone.

Google Cairman Eric Schmidt

Today Schmidt at the LeWeb meeting in Paris said: "Android is now ahead of the iPhone." After Schmidt published the speech, that room is filled with the iPhone, iPad and Mac. Having heard Schmidt's remark, the audience suddenly fell into silent for a moment. Maybe they doubt on Schmidt's speech.
Schmidt then gives his own criteria:" huge volume, high performance Android 4.0, lower price, as well as many mobile phone manufacturers’ support."

Industry insiders said, in the intelligent mobile phone market, Android is developing rapidly. But compared with Apple iOS, the obvious disadvantage is Android has not become the preferred platform for developers. Notebook application developer Evernote today only released a new application Hello for iPhone.

Social News reader Flipboard has already launched iPhone application. Flipboard CEO Mike McCue said:" We have been concerned about the iPhone. As with the Android version, we are still waiting."

Schmidt believed that, with the Android 4.0 and huge volume, Android will win. Schmidt said: "in the end, application developers will be affected by the volume, and Google's open strategy will promote the shipment growth. So many manufacturers promote Android mobile phones to the world, whether they like it or not, people will support this platform, even considering it as the preferred platform."

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How to Rip DVD to iPad 2 on Mac?

For Mac users, if you want to enjoy DVD movie on the iPad 2, you must need the help of DVD to iPad 2 Converter for Mac. This Mac DVD to iPad 2 Converter can help users rip/convert any DVD to MP4, H.264 , etc. videos supported by iPad 2. And this DVD to iPad 2 Converter for Mac also possesses powerful video editing functions to customize output video effect.

Step 1: Download and install Mac DVD to iPad 2 Converter

You can download the .dmg installation file from our website and install it on your Mac. After running it, you can see the interface as below.



Step 2: Choose audio track and subtitle

If the DVD movie contains several audio tracks and subtitles, you could choose your preferred one among them for the output video file.

Step 3: Edit video effect

Aiseesoft DVD to iPad 2 Converter for Mac owns strong video editing functions. You can click the "Effect", "Trim", or "Crop" button to enter the "Edit" interface. There you can trim video length, crop video playing area, watermarking video and adjusting video brightness, saturation and contrast.

Step 4: Profile and further settings

You can choose the output video format that you need from the drop-down "Profile" list. And you can also do some further settings, such as setting Video Encoder, Frame Rate, Video Bitrate, Resolution, Audio Encoder, Sample Rate, Channels, etc., by clicking the "Settings" button.

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The last step you need to do is to press the "Convert" button. And this DVD to iPad 2 Converter for Mac can finish the process of ripping DVD to iPad 2 on Mac.

Google Maps 6.0 for Android move into Malls and Airports

Google upgrades Maps version to 6.0 for Android, which lets Smartphone and Tablet users in the United States and Japan know where they are and what places they might want to check out while they are indoors.

Google Maps, the online location application, can help people navigate streets, landmarks, parks, and other outside locations all over the world, but Google's new updated maps application for Android will help you get around inside, too. "When you're inside an airport, shopping mall, or retail store, a common way to figure out where you are is to look for a freestanding map directory or ask an employee for help," Brian McClendon, Google's president of Engineering for Google Earth and Maps, wrote in a blog post. "Starting today, with the release of Google Maps 6.0 for Android, that directory is brought to the palm of your hands, helping you determine where you are, what floor you're on, and where to go indoors."

Google Maps 6.0 for Android will display detailed location when a user is looking at a map on the application and zooms on a building. Users’ approximate locations will be indicated with a blue dot icon within several meters. The newly added indoor maps don't quite offer the turn-by-turn navigation you've come to know and depend upon (that's outside-only for now), but the provided layouts should help usher you along to the nearest bathroom, clothing shop or elevator. There's no fancy equipment at use, either. All of your positioning information is culled from the same set of data (including GPS) used for "My Location," although here it's been optimized to detect movement along the z-axis. That’s to say, try a nifty feature called "Automatic Floor Detection" that'll keep track of your progress as you move about from escalator to escalator.

Indoor Maps was added to version 6.0 of the Google Maps application for Android, works with Android 2.2 or higher, and will presumably be added to additional mobile platforms in the future. Will Google Indoor Maps work on desktop Web browsers? Answer is that the new indoor maps feature of Google Maps is only available on Android mobile devices at this time. Microsoft, by the way, already has indoor mapping of major malls for Windows Phone and indoor mapping of airports and malls for the desktop.

Google has endeavoring to extend its indoor reach, opening up its mapping inventory with a self-service tool (currently in beta) that'll allow business owners to upload floor plans directly to Maps. Airports in Atlanta, Chicago, San Francisco, and Tokyo are among the first to receive the indoor mapping treatment, joined by the Mall of America in Minnesota, certain locations of IKEA, Home Depot, Macy's, Bloomingdale's, and others. While Google worked with these businesses to ensure a certain level of precision, the search company also set up a do-it-yourself site for other business owners to upload floor plans, blueprints, and directories and line them up with satellite images.

Best Way to Share Your iPod/iPhone Files

iPod/iPhone have become an irreplaceable assistant of our daily life. While I have to say, compared to other portable device, iPod/iPhone also have some inconvenience, such as
Can't directly backup your video/ audio files to computer to avoid your files lost;
Can't share music and videos with your friends and family at will;
Have to use iTunes to add music and videos into your iPod/iPhone. Etc
So, here I will share some several useful tools to solve all your problems in this article.

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First usage: Import video and audio files or folders from Computer to iPod without iTunes
Step 1: Run the software, and connect your iPod/iPhone to your computer via USB cable.
Step 2: Click "Button 1" to seek the files or folders that you want to import to iPod and click OK.The process of importing will be finished instantly.

Second usage: Backup your iPod/iPhone files to your computer.
Step 1: Run the software, and connect your iPod/iPhone to your computer via USB cable.
Step 2: Open the library/playlist that you want to export files, and then check the file(s) you want to export in the file list.
Step 3: Click "Button 2" to select the destination of the exporting files and start exporting files.

Third usage: Transfer files from one iPod to another iPod
Step 1: Run the software, and connect two iPod/iPhone to your computer via USB cable.
Step 2: Open the library/playlist that you want to export files. Pick the files that you need to transfer.
Step 3: Click "Button 3", it will show you the folder of another iPod that you want to transfer to. Click OK. The transfer can be finished automatically.
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Part Two: Just need backup video/ audio files to computer to avoid your files lost
You can have a look Aiseesoft iPod to Computer Transfer

It can backup iPod video/audio files to computer, you don’t need to worry about losing
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Step 1: Connect your iPod to your computer
Step 2: Choose files
Choose the songs, videos and other things that you want to backup at the top of the window
Step 3: Start to transfer
The most important and the last thing you need to do are to click the “export to pc” button .After
you click “export to pc” button a pop-up window will appear and with it you can choose where
you place your iPod songs and videos. Few seconds later you will have your iPod songs, videos
and other things on your computer.
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Part Three: If you are iPhone user, share two similar tools for you: Aiseesoft iPhone Transfer, which can import video and audio files on PC to iPhone directly without iTunes. Backup files from iPhone to local disk without loss. Transfer files between two different iPhone.
and Aiseesoft iPhone to Computer Transfer.

Aiseesoft iPad Software Pack for Mac Gets New Update

Aiseesoft, a top-ranking Windows and Mac DVD/video converting software provider, brings a major update to Aiseesoft iPad Software Pack for Mac, which is a versatile and wonderful iPad assistant application designed for Mac users. The updated Mac iPad Software Pack is re-developed with the Qt development framework, and it has a brand-new and intuitive interface. So customers can conveniently do any operation on this amazing software.

Aiseesoft iPad Software Pack for Mac is packed with four applications- iPad Video Converter for Mac, DVD to iPad Converter for Mac, iPad Manager for Mac, and iPhone Ringtone Maker for Mac. With this all-in-one software, users can rip DVD and convert all popular video files (3GP, AVI, FLV, MOD, MPEG, MKV, RM, TS, WMV, etc.) to iPad compatible video/audio formats on Mac. And it also possesses powerful video editing features, such as trimming video, cropping video frame, watermarking video, adjusting video effect, and so on.

Also this Mac iPad Software Pack can assist users to export iPad files to Mac and import files from Mac to iPad. And it can help users create unique iPhone ringtones with any source video/audio file. This software supports all versions of iPad, iPhone and iPod devices.

Plus, for iPhone 4S users, Aiseesoft has specially updated the DVD Ripper for Mac, which can rip/convert any DVD to popular video files on Mac, to support the new iPhone 4S.

System Requirements
OS Supported: Mac OS X v10.4 – v10.7
Hardware Requirements: 512MB RAM, Super VGA (800×600) resolution, 16-bit graphics card or higher.

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As a professional multimedia software provider, Aiseesoft Studio is dedicated to developing the best multimedia desktop applications to help the Windows and Mac users smoothly convert, edit and transfer various video/audio files. In order to meet users' various requirements, Aiseesoft Studio constantly brings in new ideas, technologies, etc.

The Competition of Indoor Navigation

I believe most of you have the same experience that I have. When you fist step in a new building, airport or school, you will feel loss and do not know what to do first and where to go. For example, you are in a hospital. It is difficult for you to find the place you want to go. Many hospital use a not that effective way to solve this problem, of course, it does not work at most of the time. They just set different kinds of sign post or just use different colors to guide people. However, now we have a really nice way to solve this problem, using intelligent map system in mobile phone. It makes it's easy to find some places in a building and other indoor places.

In the latest Android map, it includes US IKEA and Macy's and other 18 airport's detailed layout. Almost at the same time, Nokia announced they will release indoor map suing Bluetooth 4.0. Although use two totally different technology, we can smell that the war of indoor map is already begin.

For a long time, Bluetooth has a poor reputation. It maybe because that the headphone looks not like a human or something else. It makes people feel weird. However, Bluetooth is actually a really nice technology: powerful, simple, cheap. And it will be much more smart after the release of Bluetooth 4.0. Nokia's Location Extension Protocol uses the connection of locator transmitter on the ceiling and Bluetooth 4.0. And triangulation method that is similar to GPS. Through this way, your mobile phone can find the place you want to go accurately. It is said that the degree of precision is less than 8 inches.

Nokia has spent over one billion euros and hope this breakthrough technology will bring superority in the competiton of indoor map. They have also discovered the different application of this tech, from game to indoor navigation. Nokia is now trying their best to persuade Bluetooth SIG to make one uniform standard and hope this kind of mobile phone can come out into market in 2013.

Just like that if there is no specific map, GPS can not work, the indoor navigation system can not work without a detailed architectural and structural drawings. Now Google allows uses to upload or add architectural and structural drawings to Google Maps as they do the same to SketchUp. This is a simple process, users just need upload the picture of the floor's layout and then connect with satellite images of Google Maps. Through this way, Google not only gets many users' support, uploading indoor maps data day and night, they also uses the data for other users, such as services based on location and ads based on location.

What I have said above is not considering the crime, privacy and other safe question. People are now really sensitive to Google Street View. I believe this kind of indoor map data will bring bigger controversy. In conclusion, we need indoor navigation when we are in a strange building to find places fast. However, we need to use it carefully. Hope Google and Nokia will solve these problems and provide us indoor navigation one day.

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Convert AVCHD File to iPad 2

People are really excited that iPad 2 supports HD videos, however, iPad 2 users have to convert their HD video from their Sony and other camcorders before they put them on their iPad 2 to watch. Aiseesoft iPad 2 Video Converter is released for iPad 2 users to solve this problem. It can help people convert avchd to iPad 2 easily and fast. It provides both iPad 2 standard video output and high definition output.

Step 1. Add Video

Click "Add File" to find the video you want to convert and load it into AVCHD to iPad 2 Converter.

Step 2. Choose Output Video Format

Choose HD format for iPad 2 and specify your destination folder for output videos.

Follow: "Profile"> "iPad" > "iPad 2 H.264 720p Video(*.mp4)" to convert AVCHD files into HD MP4 format for iPad 2.

Step 3. Move the interlace from your AVCHD footage.

Click "Effect" and check "Deinterlacing"

Step 4. Convert

Click "Convert" to begin the conversion