Mar 23
DigiTimes reports that Motorola Mobility will halt orders of the tablet at the end of June and potentially unveil a successor. Motorola denies the claim.
Originally posted at The Digital Home
Mar 23
Lady Gaga Visits Google
Posted in: Google, Miscellaneous Tech, Today's Chili, YouTube
Alliteration seems to have been the driving force behind yesterday’s Google Goes Gaga event, which saw the pop superstar once known as Stefani Germanotta stopping by the software company’s Mountain View headquarters. Lady Gaga took the stage in front of a packed house of Googlers, for an interview with the company’s VP of consumer products, Marrissa Mayer. The singer told the crowd her plans to direct the video for the song “Judas” for her forthcoming record, Born This Way.
Of course, Gaga and Google have a special bound (aside from similar sounding names)–the pop star was the first person to reach one billion video views on Google-owned YouTube, back in October (a mark soon matched by Web darling, Justin Bieber).
On her way out, Gaga tweeted, “Just left Google, what a genius team,” posted the above image with co-founder and soon-to-be CEO, Larry Page. Video of the Gaga interview after the jump.
Mar 23
One of the much talked about options to replace traditional gasoline is biofuel. But not all biofuels are created equally and, in fact, some may actually be even more harmful to the environment when it comes to production.
In particular, fuel made from the jatropha curcas plant. A recent study showed that producing fuel from the jatropha actually creates up to six times more greenhouse gases compared to traditional fossil fuels.
Italy-based Kenya Jatropha Energy Ltd is currently looking to create a 10,000 hectare plantation in Kenya to use exclusively for growing Jatropha for biofuel use. However, locals are contesting the arrangement claiming that the plantation will not only force people to move their homes, but will also be damaging to the environment as well.
Via the BBC
Mar 23
What’s happening right now in Fukushima is terrible, for sure. But how does it rank in the pantheon of nuclear disasters? We humans have had an awful lot of atomic foulups; here are the ones that have caused the most widespread contamination and destruction. More »
Mar 23
Toshiba’s Portable USB Monitor Cheap Enough to Be Useful
Posted in: Displays, Today's Chili, Toshiba, usb
Toshiba’s mobile monitor is cheap, portable and works via USB
If you own some kind of tablet, you can make it do double-duty as a wireless, external add-on screen for your computer, if you don’t mind laggy, pixelated graphics and are happy with just ten inches of extra space. It’s handy for maxing out a laptop in emergencies, but hardly ideal.
Toshiba’s USB Mobile LCD monitor, though, looks a whole lot better. First, it has a nice big 14 inch display. Second, it sends both power and pictures over a USB cable. Third, it costs just $200, clearly showing the downward pressure tablets like the iPad have put onto screen-only products (remember when a digital photo-frame would cost hundreds of dollars?).
The LCD screen has a 1366 x 768 resolution for HD movie watching, and weighs in at 2.8 pounds including the supplied case (which also acts as a neat stand).
This is a specialist product, to be sure, but it’s both portable and cheap enough to be worth a look. Would you want to lug an extra couple of pounds around a trade show like CES? Probably not, but if you’re editing photos or some kind of mobile spreadsheet jockey, $200 is a bargain.
Mobile Mobile product page [Toshiba]
See Also:
- 10 Stellar ipad Apps That Will Blow You Away
- Use Your Android Tablet as a Second Computer Display
- App Turns iPad into Second Monitor for Mac
Mar 23
Cricket ties up with LightSquared for LTE roaming agreement
Posted in: 4G, deal, lte, partnership, Today's Chili
Throwing a little caution to the wind over brewing GPS interference concerns, Cricket — the CDMA budget carrier that specializes in contract-free plans — has hooked up with LightSquared to deliver additional LTE service through a roaming agreement that’ll supplement its own rollout “over the next few years. ” All told, the moves should bring it up to technological speed with archrival MetroPCS, which deployed LTE last year (beating Verizon to market, actually) and currently has a pair of Samsung-sourced handsets on the market to take advantage of it. For LightSquared’s part, this is exactly the type of deal they’ve been looking to ink: the company has expressed no interest in lighting up a retail-facing carrier of its own, instead offering wholesale LTE deals to other carriers — like, say, Cricket — who don’t necessarily have the spectrum, the time, or the budget to roll out 4G in earnest. Follow the break for LightSquared’s press release.
[Thanks, Mark]
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Mar 23
Motorola Xoom 2 on the Way?
Posted in: Apple, ipad, motorola, Today's Chili, xoom
According to Digitimes, everyone’s favorite source of parts manufacturer and shipping rumors, Motorola is getting ready to cut shipments on the Xoom in a major way, later this year. Motorola apparently shipped 700,000 to 800,000 units in the first quarter of the year. The total for March is expected to be around 400,000 to 5000,000 units. From there the numbers dip, however, with both April and May getting around 300,000 units. At the end of June things just cut off.
The dip has led to speculation that Motorola is already readying a follow up for the Honeycomb tablet, which was unveiled at CES in January. Of course, these numbers could also just confirm what we’ve known all along–the Motorola Xoom isn’t really selling. The tablet was the target of massive buzz at CES, but user complaints and the introduction of the iPad 2 have taken a good amount of wind out of the device’s sails.
Mar 23
The Samsung Galaxy Indulge picks up its second carrier, Cricket Wireless. Look for the Android 2.2 Froyo handset in stores in May or June.
Originally posted at CTIA 2011
Mar 23
Alienware M11x R3 specs leaked, brings Sandy Bridge to your next LAN party?
Posted in: CoreI5, CoreI7, gaming, intel, rumor, rumors, sandy bridge, SandyBridge, Today's Chili
Alienware’s laptops first hopped on the Sandy Bridge bandwagon when the company’s top-of-the-line M17x got Intel’s second-gen Core processors, and now it appears the more budget-conscious M11x may get some Sandy Bridge love too. According to Dell News and more — who correctly foretold the 3D screen on the M17x R3 before its January debut, among other things — the littlest alien laptop is getting your choice of Core i5-2537M, Core i7-2617M, and Core i7-2657M chips ranging in speeds from 1.4GHz to 2.7GHz. Accompanying the new silicon is an optional 750GB HDD (up from 640GB) and an upgrade from 800MHz to speedy 1333MHz RAM. And, to keep you gaming wherever you please, the company will offer optional 3g, LTE, and WiMAX radios as well. Unfortunately, one minor detail didn’t make it out — how much will the extra goodies cost?
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Mar 23
Microsoft may have gotten a head start with its latest browser, but after less than a day of availability, the new offering from Mozilla already has more downloads–all of this according to the latest numbers from Web analytics site, StatCounter.
According to the numbers, Firefox 4 has an impressive (well, relatively) 1.95 percent share of the global browser market, having surpassed Opera 11, Firefox 3, Chrome 9, and, most notably, the most recent version of Internet Explorer. IE 9, which was released to the world on March 14th, has taken 0.85 percent of the global market.
Of course, overall, Internet Explorer is still in the lead, thanks to strong showings by IE 8, 7, and even 6. And, as TechCrunch points out, IE isn’t Windows XP compatible, which no doubt took a sizable chunk out of its potential downloaded base–the outdated operating system still has a pretty large install base.
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