May 17

Official: Acer will not launch Chrome OS devices at Computex

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Oh, what’s this? Acer officially saying it will not launch a Chrome OS device at Computex or in the “short term,” just like our sources told us a few days ago? Unfortunately, that’s exactly what’s going on. Like we said last week, Google’s other operating system just doesn’t look like it’s ready for prime time yet, and it’s a little premature to expect devices running Chrome OS to “launch” in just two weeks — although we’re sure we’ll see someone throw an early Chromium build on a new tablet or netbook, and show it off at the upcoming Taipei computer show. Of course, we are expecting Android tablets and smartbooks to be in full force at the show, and we’ll be there hunting down the best ones. Hit the break for Acer’s official Chrome comment.

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May 17

Roku to Stream Ultimate Fighting Championship Content

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Roku is teaming up with the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) to offer all major UFC events on its streaming set-top Roku box. The first event will be UFC 114: Rampage vs. Evans, live from the MGM Grand Garden Arena on May 29.

“We are always looking at the latest technology and the newest ways to bring the UFC experience to our fans,” Dana White, UFC president, said in a statement.

“The Roku player is capable of delivering amazing live events, in HD, on the TV. We are excited to be UFC’s lead partner in bringing the total UFC experience – from live events and classic fights to insider previews, countdowns, and training coverage – to fans everywhere, whenever they want it,” said Anthony Wood, founder and CEO of Roku.

Roku will also provide users with access to the UFC Vault, a collection of archived fights, as well as access to UFC pre-fight events like weigh-ins and press conferences.

The Roku player debuted in 2008, originally billed as Netflix player. Pricing starts at $79.99 for the standard model and goes up to $99.99 for the HD version.

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May 17

Seagate Confirms 3TB Drive, Possible 32-Bit OS Issue

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Not that it should come as a huge surprise that a major hard disk manufacturer is working on ever-larger storage capacities, but a Seagate senior product manager has confirmed to Thinq that the company is planning to unveil a 3TB hard disk later this year.
Barbara Craig, the product manager, said that the move to 3TB involves a heck of a lot more work than upping the areal density this time around. “The root of the problem is the original LBA (logical block addressing) standard, which can’t assign addresses to capacities in excess of 2.1TB,” the report said–a problem that’s been lying in wait since Microsoft and IBM developed the original DOS standard in 1980.
The potential ramifications of this so far appear to be what OSes will be compatible with 3TB drives. 
Craig said that Seagate plans to extend the standard to Long LBA addressing, which would work in 64-bit Windows 7 and Vista as well as Linux, but wouldn’t work in 32-bit Vista or any version of Windows XP, the report said. In fact, it’s possible that XP may not even see the first 2.1TB portion of a larger drive, either. This brings back memories, doesn’t it?
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May 17

Giz Explains: Why Using Your Phone In Another Country Costs So Damn Much [Giz Explains]

Posted in: cdma, cellphones, feature, Phones, Today's Chili, top, Travel

The worst part of any vacation is coming home. Not just because your fleeting glimpse of freedom is finished, but because you’ve got to pay the absurd phone bill you racked up while you were gone. Ugh. Why? More »

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May 17

Skullcandy debuts Jay-Z-approved Roc Nation Aviator headphones

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While they may not exactly look like it, these new Roc Nation Aviator headphones are fairly understated compared to some of Skullcandy’s other offerings, and it looks like you have Roc Nation co-founder Jay-Z to thank for that. Available in your choice of three different colors, the Aviators sport a foldable design and an “optics-inspired” polycarbonate speaker housing, along with a pair of 40mm full-range mylar drivers with neodymium magnets, and a tangle-free nylon cable complete with an in-line mic and controls. Still no word on a price just yet, but Skullcandy says the headphones will be available sometime in June. Oh, and envy had absolutely nothing to do with the creation of these.

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May 17

T-Mobile announces new prepaid plans

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T-Mobile announces Unlimited Text and Unlimited Talk Text prepaid plans. pOriginally posted at a href=”http://www.cnet.com/8301-17918_1-20005159-85.html” class=”origPostedBlog”Dialed In/a/p

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May 17

CERN Kicks LHC Network Into High Gear

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Scientists at CERN have powered up the Large Hadron Collider‘s high-speed network and downstream data storage, in an effort to begin recording and analyzing streams of data from experiments averaging over a gigabyte per second, according to the UK’s Inquirer.
The LHC Computing Grid, a high-speed network of computer clusters at scientific institutions around the globe, consists of 100,000 processors across 130 organizations in 34 countries. The grid is organized into four tiers, and distributes data over private fiber-optic cable as well as portions of the Internet to researchers, the article said.
A separate BBC News article is reporting that the LHC could begin probing unexplored domains in particle physics by the end of the summer. The machine has already seen half a billion particle collisions since it first crossed the beams in November 2009, Egon. (Image credit: CERN/LHC Atlas)
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May 17

Google Themes for your Personalized Homepage Change with Time and Weather

Posted in: Google, Today's Chili

This article was written on March 20, 2007 by CyberNet.

Google has decided to offer its users a different element of customization by allowing them to select a theme for their Google Personalized Homepage. Prior to this, the only option was the typical Google logo on a white background.

You’ll have six different options for a theme including the beach, bus stop, city scape, sweet dreams, tea house, and seasonal scape. After selecting your option, it will ask you for your location because the themes will dramatically change to match your time of day and weather. I changed my location three different times to get an idea of what the same theme looks like at different times. Below is the beach theme showing sunrise, day time, and night time.

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Also, keep your eye out for “Easter Eggs” that will appear at certain times, and that will open up with a click. According to the AP, “they will delight high-tech geeks with a sense of humor.” If you don’t have a personalized homepage, you can set one up at www.google.com/ig.

On the same topic, last week Google added a Google Talk Gadget specifically designed for your Personalized homepage that enables you to chat with your friends and see who is online.  While it is a nice addition, the biggest complaint I’ve heard so far is that there’s no way to notify you when there’s a new message if you’ve already started a conversation, but you’re not on the Google Personalized Homepage.

For example, I started a conversation and then opened a new tab in Firefox to browse the web.  When I received a new message from the conversation that I had already started, there was no indication to let me know to go back like blinking text or sound.  Hopefully this is something that Google can change, because I know I’m not the only one who’s had issues with it.

Thanks for the tip Eric, Nimrodguy, and CoryC!

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May 17

OmniVision Delivers Smallest 1080p HD Sensor

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You’d better comb that hair, because you could soon be videochatting with a much sharper picture. OmniVision Technologies of Santa Clara, California, has introduced the OV2720, a 1/6-inch native 1080p high-definition CMOS image sensor, the first of its kind to provide 1080p HD. The sensor could soon find its way into notebooks, netbooks, webcams, and video conferencing applications. The OV2720 uses a proprietary sensor technology to improve image quality.

This sensor offers 1080p video in a size small enough to meet the module and height requirements of today’s thin notebook designs. OmniVision is currently testing the sensor with its tier-one customers. It should go into mass production in June.

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May 17

How to use the iPad’s Picture Frame mode

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If you’ve got an iPad stand or dock, you’ve got everything you need to turn that big, beautiful screen into an animated photo frame. pOriginally posted at a href=”http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-31747_7-20005137-243.html” class=”origPostedBlog”iPad Atlas/a/p

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