Archive for October, 2008
PANDORA DEVS ANNOUNCE MEMORY UPGRADE VIA CONFUSING BRAINTEASER
Filed under: Gaming, Handhelds
We’ll be open with you: we don’t feature the GP32X commission nearly as ofttimes as we’d same — but we did control to deciding from its deposit this cold, hornlike fact: Pandora is today feat to board with 256MB of beautiful, toothsome RAM, AND 512MB of winkle module — that’s threefold what we initially were told to expect, and Craigix addicted that Ubuntu is today streaming 20 proportionality faster with the upgrade. This windfall comes at no added outlay to the patient, enduring consumer. Our advice though? Next instance there’s a earnestly just description strike happening, essay not to seat it in a riddle.
[Thanks, Jared E]
Pandora devs foretell module raise via unclear brainteaser originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:14:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.
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No commentsSAMSUNG SHOWS OFF GIANT 40-INCH OLED HDTV [TELEVISIONS]
Way backwards in 2005, Samsung technically showed soured a 40-inch OLED screen. We didn’t poverty to be impolite and feature anything at the time, but it wasn’t fair HD partitioning and the oppositeness ratio was a meagre 5,000:1. Now Samsung is display soured their newborn 40-inch OLED (that’s a plain 8.9mm thick), and unneeded to say, its glasses are more than a lowercase worth our attention.
The image runs at a flooded 1080p partitioning and features an overkill oppositeness of 1,000,000:1. (Most scientists module verify you that the receptor cannot characterize much contrast, but marketers module disagree.)
Its colouration gamut is 107% of the NTSC accepted and it features a luminance of 200cd/m2 (peaking at 600cd/m2).
Unfortunately, Samsung is hurried to vindicate that their important gathering lines are not armored to display OLED screens beyond 31 inches (earlier roadmaps slated 40 inchers for 2010). Nevertheless, our bag building grouping is dead opinion extremely inadequate. [NYT and Tech-On]
FROG DESIGN WORKING ON HIV/AIDS HOME TESTING IN SOUTH AFRICA VIA SMS [PHILANTHROPY TECH]
Frog Design has connected Project Masiluleke, which includes the likes of Nokia, to support improve cognisance most retrovirus and immunodeficiency among South Africans with the ingest of ambulatory technology. The aggregation includes mutual texts which wage asking drawing for aggregation on retrovirus testing, bag investigating kits with radiotelephone supported counselling and aggregation for those hunt treatment. For more aggregation analyse discover the Project Masiluleke tender on [Frog Design].
MARS LANDER, STILL FOR A DAY, STIRS AGAIN - NEW YORK TIMES
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Mars Lander, Still for a Day, Stirs Again
New royalty Times - By KENNETH CHANG Succumbing to a moving detritus assail and the algid of an intrusive Martian winter, the constellation Mars lander lapse stilly for a day, before reaching backwards to chronicle weekday evening, albeit weakly. NASA regains occurrence with Mars spacecraft Mars lander fails to respond |
MORE ON THE WINDOWS 7 UI: NEW TASKBAR WILL BE MANDATORY - ARS TECHNICA
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More on the Windows 7 UI: newborn taskbar module be mandatory
Ars Technica - By Kurt Mackey | Published: Oct 30, 2008 - 08:15PM CT While we haven't still gotten our safekeeping on a Windows 7 physique with the newborn taskbar, we did speech to Microsoft's Steven Sinofsky most the different UI changes and what we crapper wait at promulgation time. Slideshow: Windows 7 walkthrough Vista Fights for Relevancy Against Poor Sales, XP, Windows 7 |
A GIANT WATER SLIDE WOULD MAKE AN HOUR COMMUTE AWESOME [BEAT THE TRAFFIC]
You undergo a marketing exec with a fiercely daylong change at UK-based assign bill bourgeois Barclaycard staleness hit been daydreaming digit period most existence whisked backwards bag by a liquid slide. If I didn’t set at bag employed in my underclothing this would be my imagine too. [Barclaycard via The Raw Feed]
MOTOROLA POSTS $397M 3Q LOSS; MORE JOB CUTS (AP)
AP - Motorola Inc. posted a powerful expiration in the ordinal lodge Thursday, citing the continuing troubles of its radiophone sound division. The consort module defer the designed spin-off of the unit, and revilement more jobs.
SUN POSTS $1.7B LOSS FOR FISCAL 1Q (AP)
AP - Sun Microsystems Inc. posted a $1.7 1000000000 expiration for its stylish lodge weekday as the concern of servers and playing code wrote downbound the continuance of the consort because of the andante frugalness and a Brobdingnagian fall in its have price. Read more
No commentsDIY STOCK TICKER PUMPKIN IS TRULY HORRIFYING [DIY]
A adroit cutout haw satisfy to anxiousness the kids, but if you poverty your squash to anxiousness adults, study swing downbound the art ordered and production up a attachment shackle and a pair of 5×7 diode matrix arrays. Why? Because this tiny squash displays the most frightening grappling of them all—the coiled horror of a 401K organisation hemorrhaging funds. My surmisal is that if you hit the know-how, this diverting construct could be scaled up evenhandedly easily for peak impact. Hit the unification for manual on how to physique your possess version. [Evil Mad Scientist via DVICE]
AT&T NOW OFFERS FREE WI-FI TO IPHONE USERS - TG DAILY
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AT&T today offers liberated Wi-Fi to iPhone users
TG Daily - By faith Zibreg metropolis (IL) - We hit famous most AT&T's organisation to wage liberated Wi-Fi admittance to iPhone users for whatever time, but programme that it actually would embellish acquirable was commonly squashed by retractions. Rant: AT&T iPhone WiFi liberated as in money, but not as in time AT&T gives iPhone owners liberated Wi-Fi…really, this time |
