As of a fresh firmware upgrade, the light-field camera is much friendlier to demanding shooters.
Both features came from user requests and both update to all Pogoplugs worldwide via an automatic firmware upgrade today.
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The iRiver H10 was recognized by Napster to Go right off the bat with no need for a firmware upgrade.
To use the microP2 card adaptor, a firmware upgrade of current P2 hardware is required and a fee will be charged.
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We first tried the service with a Creative Zen Micro player, only to find out the device wasn't compatible without a firmware upgrade.
The PTV3000 also supports Intel's WiDi standard, and actually brought Miracast support in an earlier beta firmware upgrade, though testers saw significant bugginess at the time.
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Now the new firmware upgrade for the Nokia 701, 700, 602 and Pureview 808 is out for realsies, with the latter star of the lineup getting the lion's share of new trinkets.
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Sadly, the one thing it can't be used for at the moment is an actual USB joystick, although Portmanteau hopes to add that feature before it ships, or roll out a firmware upgrade later failing that.
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Keep in mind we are not implying that you should upgrade to this firmware but some people are reporting success by doing so, but if it were our HD DVD player, we would wait till the official firmware update is released.
As you might expect, however, that's not quite as simple as a firmware upgrade, and currently requires a 34-node network to keep watch on a standard living room, which is apparently enough to pin down moving objects within a meter or so.
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As it turned out, the firmware upgrade we performed ended up crashing in the middle of the process, after which the player was unrecognizeable by either the Creative software, the operating system, or any version of the firmware updater we threw at it.
Now that the new standard is ratified, Wi-Fi equipment makers, such as Cisco Systems , Netgear , Apple Computer and others will incorporate the new security features into new Wi-Fi products, and in some cases, may be able to update them with a simple firmware upgrade available from a Web site.
The thing is that this can only be done when your Bluetooth is on AND your device is set to discoverable mode, though there are two Nokia handsets (the 6310 and 8910) which are vulnerable even when they are not in discoverable mode, and if you have one of these you need to get a firmware upgrade to prevent the attack.
Well-known HTC phone modder Football doesn't want us to get comfy: he claims to have both obtained a leaked version of Sense 4.1's ROM Upgrade Utility (RUU) and folded it into the 2.2 update to his Maximus firmware for the international One X.
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