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26-04-2012 02:19 Learn Android 1.40- MediaControllers controls MediaPlayers Video, Video, and more Videos is what this tutorial is all about. Well in this tutorial we will add a mediacontroller to our video, so we will be able to have some control on that crazy beast of a video. MediaController can also control MediaPlayer objects as well as VideoView (as such in this tutorial) Also here is the link to the android dev page: If you are stuck or have any questions, please check out the forum at Also follow us on twitter, and like us on facebook.

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NASHUA,N.H.and WASHINGTON, April 26, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- VGo Communications, the leader in robotic telepresence, and United Cerebral Palsy (UCP)an international advocate, educating and providing support services for children and adults with a spectrum of disabilitiestoday announced a partnership to collaborate and work together to define and deliver accessibility enhancements to VGo's robotic telepresence solution. A demonstration of prototype voice activated remote robotic telepresence driving controls will be seen by attendees of the 2012 UCP Annual Conference, Transitioning to Tomorrow, in Washington, DC.

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"We saw what VGo was doing for homebound students and realized that with some usability enhancements, VGo could be a dramatic life altering tool for many people with disabilities," said Stephen Bennett, UCP President and CEO. "Imagine the opportunities and quality of life improvements for people who currently cannot go places because their disability prevents access or makes it too expensive. UCP is excited to be working with VGo to make this technology available to people with disabilities so they can live life without limits."

"We're very excited about jointly developing specific usability enhancements for people served by United Cerebral Palsy," said Peter N. Vicars, CEO of VGo. "Our users today find controlling a VGo with their computer mouse or keyboard keys very easy, but indeed not everyone can use a computer in a traditional way. We know how impactful VGo has been for students that are homebound and can't go to school. Soon VGo can be available to other disabled people so they can move around in a distant place without first having to get themselves there."

For more information about UCP, visit http://www.ucp.org.

For more information about VGo, visit http://www.vgocom.com.

About United Cerebral Palsy

United Cerebral Palsy (UCP) educates, advocates and provides support services to ensure a life without limits for people with a spectrum of disabilities. Together with nearly 100 affiliates, UCP has a mission to advance the independence, productivity and full citizenship of people with a spectrum of disabilities by providing services and support to more than 176,000 children and adults every dayone person at a time, one family at a time. UCP works to enact real changeto revolutionize care, raise standards of living and create opportunitiesimpacting the lives of millions living with disabilities. For more than 60 years, UCP has worked to ensure the inclusion of individuals with disabilities in every facet of society. Together, with parents and caregivers, UCP will continue to push for the social, legal and technological changes that increase accessibility and independence, allowing people with disabilities to dream their own dreams, for the next 60 years, and beyond. For more information, visit http://www.ucp.org.

About VGo

VGo Communications, Inc. develops and markets visual communications solutions for the workplace. The company was founded in 2007 by experienced successful veterans of the visual communications and robotics industries. VGo has leveraged the recent trends of widespread wireless high speed networks, lower specialized component costs and the universal acceptance of video as a communications medium to become the Robotic Telepresence market leader.

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VGo and United Cerebral Palsy Demo Advanced Assistive Control Solutions for Robotic Telepresence

MOUNT VERNON, N.Y., April 26, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Key Digital is excited to announce that it will be holding an exclusive press event on May 7th, 2012 for Compass Control(R). Compass Control(R) represents the first fully integrated major control system built from the ground up to use Apple's iOS 5 devices -- iPad(R), iPhone(R), and iPod touch(R) -- as its backbone.

The press event will begin at 10:30 AM with a tour of Key Digital's facilities at their Mount Vernon, NY headquarters. The formal press introduction to Compass Control(R) will begin at 11:00 AM and will end at 12:30 with a lunch for members of the media. Directions to Key Digital's headquarters can be found by clicking on this text. Members of the press wishing to attend the Compass Control(R) release event can click here.

Key Digital(R) in conjunction with Compass Control's Compass Alliance Partners (CAP) has created a fully integrated control system with driver support for hardware from the following brands: Aprilaire, Boston Acoustics(R), ClearOne(R), Denon, Furman, ICRealtime Security Solutions(R), iPort(R), Key Digital, LG, Lutron(R), Luxul, Marantz(R), MechoSystems, Onkyo(R), Panamax, Primeview, Russound(R), SurgeX, and Wolfvision(R). Combining the knowledge and expertise from the different CAP brands has allowed Compass Control(R) to develop into a complete turnkey residential or commercial control solution.

Compass Control(R) has the ability to control devices via RS-232, IR, or via TCP/IP. This new control system provides installers with bi-directional IR, two-way RS-232 with feedback, and two-way TCP/IP control for unlimited flexibility and maximum compatibility with new or existing devices. Compass Control(R) also provides control via relays and sensors demonstrating its nature as a powerful integration tool. When programming the system via the Compass Navigator(R) PC editor software, installers are given three separate database managers to make programming faster than traditional control systems. Compass Navigator(R) also enables installers to edit command code sets which allows Compass Control(R) to be tailored to each and every system installation.

Come see today why Key Digital(R) and CAP are the Experts in Digital Video Technology and Solutions. For more information please visit or http://www.keydigital.com. For more information on Compass Control(R) please visit http://keydigital.com/compass. The official press launch for Compass Control(R) will be held at Key Digital's Mount Vernon, NY headquarters on May 7th, 2012 -- for more information click here. Key Digital(R) will be displaying Compass Control(R) at InfoComm 2012 -- for more information click here or visit us at Booth #C5438. Also please download the Compass Control(R) demo app by clicking here.

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W hat is a social network? If you look up the definition of network, you will find it is a group of interconnected people or things. And that is exactly where we are now.

Let me back up. When we first discovered electricity, it opened limitless opportunities for communication. Starting from the phone, and on and on. Today we live in a world where anything we want posted or watched can be seen by millions in a matter of seconds. Now think of the sheer power we all hold.

For example, remember the show TRL? The MTV show was the best way in the early 2000s for artists to promote their music and get in touch with their fans. Then MySpace, Facebook and Twitter came and rendered the show useless because people can promote their stuff through computers.

Those are some of the positives of this network, but is it really social? What I mean is, doesnt it feel that with all this accessibility to one another we still seem isolated from one another?

When people didnt have phones and they wanted to talk to someone, they got up and walked to the persons house. Now when people want to do something, they call the person or text a message. It takes away a bit of the social part of the so-called social network.

So is it just a network that gives people the illusion of communication when its really just more isolation (I know tone it down over-thinker, but thats just an extreme viewpoint I wanted to through out there). What the network is going to evolve to next I have no idea (hopefully teleportation machines that beam us where we want to go like an email), but who knows? If youre still reading and havent moved on to the next page (thanks), you might have noticed I just showed the negative effects of the social network. Everyone knows the positives because we use it every day. You have to look at it from both sides.

So next time youre on Facebook, Twitter or whatever else is included in the social network, think about where its going and if it will benefit us? Or will it set us back?

Max Fisher is a junior at Leonardo DaVinci High School.

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ISTANBUL--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

Wrapp, the first company to make gift cards a social networking experience that drives in-store and online sales for retailers, is now in the final stages of pre-launch activities with some of Turkeys most popular merchants.

Wrapp makes it fun and easy for consumers to give, receive and redeem gift cards using mobile devices or the Web, and allows their Facebook friends to contribute to the presents.

For merchants, Wrapp is a proven customer acquisition and retention platform for conducting discount-free performance-based campaigns. With Wrapp, retailers use friend-to-friend marketing to drive highly targeted in-store and on-line sales, and get real-time access to aggregated campaign and customer demographic data.

On your birthday or important events, family and your closest friends used to call or they sent a text, said Cem Kemal Mimarolu, Wrapps country manager for Turkey. Now you get hundreds of notes on your wall or timeline from well wishers, because Facebook reminds us, and has made it really simple to celebrate our friends. Wrapp is here to make it just as simple to give a gift of real value.

Wrapp began its unique form of social gifting in Sweden in last November. In January this year Wrapp received $10.5 million in Series A funding from Greylock Partners and Atomico resulting in LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and Skype co-founder Niklas Zennstrm joining Wrapps board of directors. In March Wrapp took its service to Norway and the U.K., and earlier this month opened offices in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Taiwan, Japan, and Australia.

Consumers love Wrapp because it lets you keep gift cards in your phone, so theyre always handy when you see something they really want buy, said Hjalmar Winbladh, Wrapps CEO. And retailers love Wrapp because were giving them a new and innovative way to leverage the power and trust that exists between friends what we call friend-to-friend marketing and for a fraction of the cost of traditional and online advertising, promotion or customer acquisition. Wrapp is classic win-win.

During the last four months more than 170,000 Wrapp active users have given their Facebook friends over 1.4 million free gift cards that could be redeemed in stores operated by nearly 60 top retailers in Europe.

Participating merchants report that each sale averages four to six times the value of the free gift card they let Wrapp users give to their friends.

Wrapp was founded last year by Winbladh and a small team of entrepreneurs, including Andreas Ehn, Spotifys first chief technology officer; Magnus Hult, who played a key role in building Spotifys original technology and platform; Aage Reerslev, founder of mobile browser maker Squace; Leo Giertz, founder of Barefoot Hackers, one of Swedens most acclaimed iPhone development shops; Carl Fritjofsson, strategy advisor to Groupon.se; and Fabian Mnsson, former CEO of H&M and Eddie Bauer, who now serves as Wrapps chairman.Winbladh co-founded Sendit, the first mobile Internet company, where he served as CEO, and took it public in 1997, before being acquired by Microsoft. In 2006 Winbladh co-founded Rebtel, now the world's largest independent mobile VoIP company, where he continues as chairman.

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