Isaiah's Tech

Looks like Samsung's Android phones will be delayed. Enough to the point where their Android phones will not be showcased at this year's MWC. But it's okay, there's still the i8910 Acme and the S8300, right? Samsung is new to the Android OS, but it's still kind of surprising that the phone had to be delayed this much. Hopefully, it will be worth the wait. Maybe, an Omnia successor?

Activision-Blizzard has just hinted that the Starcraft II beta will begin in the "months ahead." Obviously, this is not a direct hint, since it was kind of obvious that it is coming soon. "Furthermore, the beta will include an early look at the new & improved Battle.net architecture that will ship with the game." I simply can't wait for this. It's gonna be amazing.

In response to Facebook Connect and OpenID's alliance, Google has responded by adding a social bar to their Google Friend Connect. I don't think that this addition will bring them closer to trumping Facebook Connect, but it's a start. "Google's new Social Web Blog introduces us to the social bar, a new gadget that 'concentrates many of the basic social functions into a small strip at the top or bottom of your webpage.'" The social bar will contain information, such as: your site's activity feed, comment wall and your member list.

Gmail has slightly altered how you organize your contacts. There are now 4 new options that relate to your contacts: contact merging, all contacts, removing contacts, and searching your contacts. First off, contact merging will combine those 3 accounts that your friend has into one. Secondly, "instead of Suggested Contacts, you'll now see a group called All Contacts which, as the name would suggest, is where all of your contacts live and thus a good view for merging duplicate contacts." Third on the list is removing your contacts. Yes, "you can finally move contacts out of the My Contacts group." This is probably something that should have been implemented before, but you do have it now. Last, but not least is searching through all of your contacts. This new Gmail feature will strengthen the search feature. Instead of being restricted to searching for email addresses and names, you now get the feature to search using "phone numbers, notes fields, and mailing addresses as well." Thank you Google, for all of these improvements.

As of right now Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is scheduled to hit consumers by this year's holiday season. Write this down on your Christmas list.

Samsung Delays Android Phones (and picture): http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/11/samsungs-android-phones-delayed-wont-show-up-at-mwc/
Starcraft 2 Beta: http://g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/693202/StarCraft-II-Beta-in-Months-Ahead-Will-Include-New-Battlenet.html?utm_source=g4tv&utm_medium=rssfeeds&utm_campaign=TheFeed
Google Friend Connect's Social Bar (and picture): http://mashable.com/2009/02/11/friend-connect-social-bar/
Gmail Contacts: http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/four-changes-to-gmail-contacts.html
Gmail picture: http://www.breakitdownblog.com/working-around-gmail-contact-importing-oops-an-unknown-error-occured-while-importing-your-contacts/comment-page-1/
CoD: Modern Warfare 2: http://ps3.qj.net/Activision-Blizzard-CoD4-Modern-Warfare-2-out-by-Holidays/pg/49/aid/128834