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Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam says that his company is working closely with Google on a tablet computer. The tablet will be based on the Android operating system.

While neither Verizon or Google would confirm the hardware partner, McAdam mentioned Google in an interview with the Wall Street Journal. “We’re working on tablets together, for example,” he said. “We’re looking at all the things Google has in its archives that we could put on a tablet to make it a great experience.”

By “archives”, we guess that McAdam means Google’s rather long list of products and services. Between Google’s books, map, email, chat, latitude and other products, it would be pretty easy to stock a tablet with all that it needs initially.

McAdam hinted that the Verizon tablet would come about in a similar way to the Droid phone, with Google’s OS, third-party hardware and Verizon’s data network. Don’t expect it too soon, either. Admitting that Verizon has been “handicapped” by its CDMA network, McAdam said new devices would be available to run on the company’s new LTE 4G network early next year.

Another tidbit from the interview: It looks like Verizon will be shutting down unlimited, per-device data plans in favor of a “bucket of megabytes.” These data-capped plans would be shared between devices — a tablet, a cellphone and an e-reader, for example.

This is exciting stuff. It looks like Apple will be facing stiffer competition in the tablet market than it ever did in the iPod market. With Android tablets now confirmed, and an HP/Palm tablet all but certain, hopefully consumers will see the benefit of all-out tablet war.

Verizon, Google Developing iPad Rival [Wall Street Journal]

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See Also:

• NYT: Google Android Tablet Imminent
• Mock-ups Show a Google Chrome OS Tablet
• How to Make an iPad-Beating Tablet
• Adobe Demonstrates Flash on Android Tablet

This isn’t the first keyboard assembly snafu we’ve seen and it certainly won’t be the last. But once again it’s time to point and laugh at Apple after its new Core i7-equipped MacBook Pro was accidentally fitted with three command keys in Japan. Funny, knowing Steve Jobs you’d think he’d opt for more ctrl.

MacBook Pro i7 in a ‘command’ performance originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 12 May 2010 05:44:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Here is another lost iPhone 4. The photos show it turned on—with some kind of console screen titled Inferno. The photos and video also show some new interesting details. Update 2: Processor is an A4 including Samsung DRAM. More »

So these three operating systems walk into a bar one night … alright, we’ll behave. With all the Steamy conversation about gaming on non-Windows desktop platforms going on, we thought you might care to peek at a little OpenGL performance comparison review. As the chief cross-platform API, it’s the only way we’re going to be seeing the latest games running natively on Mac OS and Linux, but how will that experience compare to the market leader? As it turned out, Windows maintains superiority in this field, with frame rates that were habitually above those on the latest Ubuntu and well ahead of what you might get on Mac OS 10.6.3. It’s still early days — after all, Steam’s non-DirectX cupboard is pretty bare right now — but at this point in time, OpenGL gaming is a crown that Microsoft retains with relative ease. Hit the source for all the line graph evidence, and let’s hope things improve for the rest of us in rapid fashion.

Windows 7, Mac OS X, and Ubuntu 10.04 meet up for an OpenGL benchmarking session originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 12 May 2010 04:09:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This article was written on April 07, 2007 by CyberNet.

When Viacom pulled the plug on YouTube, it seemed like a pretty big deal.  With big name shows pulled from the video selection list, some people speculated that YouTube would lose a lot of their traffic.  The Colbert Report, and the Daily Show fans definitely weren’t happy about the removal of their favorite shows.

Taking a look at Alexa ratings (as always ,take it for what it’s worth), YouTube traffic has been steady, even after Viacom forced the removal of content.  It hasn’t affected them quite like people assumed it would.

Further, while YouTube was forced to remove 100,000 clips from their website that belonged to Viacom, in actuality, according to vidmeter.com, Viacom videos were only 2% of YouTube videos.  Further, videos that have been pulled from “Big Media” sources made up only 6% of total views.

A new study shows that YouTube relies much more on the non-copyrighted material than they do material from big media. I for one didn’t realize just how important the non-copyrighted material was in the big scheme of things. 

Perhaps YouTube doesn’t need to negotiate deals with big media for their content? If they don’t rely on that content to maintain their audience, is there a need to pursue it?

Source: The New York Times – Thanks for the tip Curtiss!

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