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."

This Article is reproduced from DVD to iPad Converter Club.

Newly-upgraded Aiseesoft DVD Ripper - Speed up Conversion

Nowadays, with the appearance of video converters, you can enjoy your favorite videos, including DVDs with DVD Ripper products on multiple players, such as PSP, iPod, iPhone, iPad (iPad 2), Zune, BlackBerry, Creative Zen, Apple TV, Xbox, NDS, Mobile Phone, etc. However, there is another annoying problem – it can take a long time to convert a video to your preferable format. In order to solve this problem, Aiseesoft upgraded the DVD Ripper software recently. Now, this Best DVD Ripper can bring much faster converting speed with AMD APP and NVIDIA® CUDA™ GPU Processing acceleration technology.

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Aiseesoft DVD Ripper is now priced at $ 35.00

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System Requirements

OS Supported: Windows NT4/2000/2003/XP and Windows Vista, Windows 7
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iPod Converter Reviews: how to convert video for iPod, iPhone,iPhone Ringtone

As a crazy fan of iPod and iPhone, many friends come and ask me about how to enjoy movies and videos on their iPod and also they want unique ringtone for their iPhone. Too many people asking those questions, so I spend some time to make this article to show my dear friends that how to enjoy movies on iPod and iPhone and also how to make your own iPhone ringtone.

There are 3 parts in my article:
Part 1: How to put movie and videos on your iPod.
Part 2: How to put movie and videos on your iPhone
Part 3: How to make your own iPhone ringtone

Part 1: How to put movie and videos on your iPod.
If you want to put movie/video on your iPod, you must know what kind of video/movies can be played on your iPod. Look the following:

H.264
File formats: .m4v, .mp4, and .mov
Video: Up to 768 kbits/sec, 320 x 240, 30 frames per second (fps), Baseline Profile up to Level 1.3.
Audio: AAC-LC up to 160 kbits/sec, 48 Khz, and stereo audio.

MPEG-4
File formats: .m4v, .mp4, and .mov
Video: Up to 2.5 Mbits/sec, 480 x 480, 30 fps, Simple Profile.
Audio: AAC-LC up to 160 kbits/sec, 48 Khz, stereo audio.

Wow, that looks really complicated, right? Actually it is really easy to make such video/movie for you iPod. You just need Aiseesoft
iPod Movie Converter.

Ok, let's begin.

Step 1. Load Video
Click “Add File” to load the video/movie that you want to put on your iPod.

Step 2. Choose Profile and Settings
You can choose your output profile on a drop-down list.
Click “Settings” button you can adjust the details of your output video/movie

Step 3. Conversion
Everything is ready and you just need to click “Start” button to begin the conversion.

Tips:
This powerful video convert for iPod allows you to do many video editing works to make your iPod video/movie more colorful.

1. Effect:
You can adjust your movie's effect, such as “Brightness”, “Contrast” and “Saturation”, and you can just check the output effect on the output preview window.
This powerful video converter allows you to choose “deinterlacing”.

2. Trim:
With trim function you can pick up any part of the video/movie to convert and put on your iPod.
There are 3 ways that you can trim your video.
a. You can drag the buttons to set the start and end time
b. You can preview the video first and when you want to start trim click the left one of the pair buttons when you want to end click the right one.
c. You can set the exact start and end time on the right side of the pop-up window.

3. Crop
Crop function allows you to pick up any play area to convert:
There are 2 ways that you can crop your video.
a. You can set your own mode on the bottom of the pop-up window
b. You can drag frame to set your own crop mode

In the Crop window, you can also choose your output “aspect ratio”.
Here it provides you 4 mode to choose: “keep original”, “full screen”, “16:9”, “4:3”

Part 2: How to put video/movie to iPhone
Actually, iPhone is much easier to deal with than iPod, because there are so many generations of iPod.
Put video/movie on iPhone, I use Aiseesoft iPhone Movie Converter.

Step 1. Load Video
Click “Add File” to load the video/movie that you want to put on your iPhone.

Step 2. Choose Profile and Settings
You can choose your output profile on a drop-down list.
Click “Settings” button you can adjust the details of your output video/movie

Step 3. Conversion
Everything is ready and you just need to click “Start” button to begin the conversion.

Aiseesoft iPhone Movie Converter can also do video editing works, such as adjust the effect, pick up any part of the movie, choose play area. The operation is the same as Part 1.

Part 3: How to make your own iPhone ringtone
This time you need Aiseesoft iPhone Ringotne Maker

Step 1: Click “Browse” on the right side of "Input File" to import the file that you want to make ringtone from it.

Step 2: Play it and listen the music to find the segment that you want to use it as ringtone. Then drag and click the start & end slider to set your wanted segment, or type the start & end time in the corresponding text box directly to get the exact segment. You also can pre-listen the converted audio before generate.

Step 3: Click “Browse” on the right side of "Local Output Folder" to choose the output destination.

Step 4: Check "Export to iPhone" option, the converted ringtone will be load to your iPhone directly.

Step 5: After all the settings are finished, click “Generate” to begin making your own iPhone ringtone.

Key function
● Convert any video to iPhone ringtone M4R
● Create iPhone ringtone from any audio files
● Get any clips from video and audio
● Edit Added iPhone ringtones
Using Aiseesoft iPhone Ringtone Maker, you are free to edit the added iPhone ringtone by removing it or renaming it directly.

DVD to iPad Converter -- Make your iPad a Portable DVD Player

DVDs have completely revolutionized the way we watch movies. The days of VHS tapes causing the top of the screen to curl and bend are long gone. We finally have a high quality format which satisfies even the most hardcore entertainment enthusiast. Now, Aiseesoft DVD to iPad Converter is also changing the way that we use iPad -- it makes our iPad like a portable DVD player.

Aiseesoft DVD to iPad Converter, as the name implies, is a tool to rip and convert DVD files to iPad. Exactly speaking, this Best DVD to iPad Converter can help you convert DVD to iPad and other mainstream video formats, such as AVI, MPEG, WMV, DivX, RM, MOV, 3GP, 3GP2, MP4, H.264, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, AVI, DivX, XviD, WMV, HD H.264, HD DivX, HD WMV, HD XviD, etc. In addition, it can also extract audio from DVD and convert it to your iPad.

For Mac users, Aiseesoft DVD to iPad Converter for Mac is a good assistant. It provides iPad fans an all-in-one solution to convert DVD movies to iPad compatible formats and other mainstream video/audio formats, including MPEG-4, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, MOV, M4V, MP3, M4A etc. To meet more Mac users' needs, this best Mac DVD to iPad Converter is perfectly compatible with Mac OS X Leopard, Tiger, Snow Leopard and even the latest OS X Lion.

What's more, Aiseesoft DVD to iPad Converter software allows Windows and Mac users to create personalized video effects. You can rip DVD to iPad with different resolution, select subtitle and audio track, trim DVD clips, crop video size, add text/ image watermarks on video and so forth.

Freely download Aiseesoft DVD to iPad Converter and use your iPad as a Portable DVD Player right now!

Price and Availability

iPad Converter Suite is now priced at $29.00

System Requirements

OS Supported: Windows NT4/2000/2003/XP and Windows Vista, Windows 7
Hardware Requirements: 800MHz Intel or AMD CPU, or above; 512MB RAM or more

Aiseesoft Updates iPad Transfer Platinum to Help Users Get Ready for the Christmas Shopping Season

Now retailers are kicking off the Christmas shopping season. According to the Consumer Electronics Association's study this year, tablets are the most desired gadget present for Christmas, and trail only clothing as the most wanted gift. Without question, iPad will appear on the Christmas shopping lists of many customers. To help both the old and new iPad users conveniently enjoy the iPad, Aiseesoft newly updated the professional iPad Transfer Platinum to support the latest iOS 5.

Now this brand-new iPad transfer software can work perfectly with all iOS 5 devices, including iPad (iPad 2), iPhone (iPhone 4S), and iPod touch. It also supports the iPod nano, iPod shuffle, and iPod classics. With this software, users can also make the best of the new iPhone 4S.

Aiseesoft iPad Transfer Platinum possesses powerful file transferring functions to transfer iPad files. It can export iPad music, movie, pictures, TV shows, podcast, iTunes U, eBooks, camera roll, voice memos, camera shot, etc. files to computer. Then users can conveniently enjoy these files on PC or share them with friends and family. Also this software supports importing song, video, ePub, PDF, image files from computer to iPad. To share iPad files among friends, users could make use of this software to transfer files from iPad to other iPad/iPhone/iPod devices directly.

This iPad Transfer Platinum can also assist users to convert DVD and video files to iPad compatible video/audio formats. The powerful video editing features also allow users to customize output video effect while converting media files. For instance, users can trim video length, crop video frame, watermark video, and so on.

Aiseesoft iPad Transfer Platinum is definitely one of the best iPad assistant software products to help customers convert DVD/video to iPad and transfer files between iPad and PC.

For customers who just want to rip DVD to iPad videos, Aiseesoft also prepares the professional DVD to iPad Converter. With this amazing software, iPad users can enjoy all popular DVD movies on iPad conveniently.

System Requirements for Windows Version

OS Supported: Windows NT4/2000/2003/XP and Windows Vista, Windows 7
Hardware Requirements: 800MHz Intel or AMD CPU, or above; 512MB RAM or more

About Aiseesoft Studio

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.

iPod to Mac | DVD to iPad

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.