Your new pad is ace. All it needs now is cable. Easy! You’ll be all set in no time; just take a vacation day and wait for some dude to show up and run a line to a box. What? More »
I actually managed to capture this shot while in a moving vehicle, but it took about six tries to get one that worked out. The power lines are bumming me out, but I’m happy with it overall, since the Droid X doesn’t do so well in low-light conditions.
We all know the Internet was created for cat videos. Finally, “I am Maru,” a fictional biography of YouTube superstar Maru, is set for release.
That whole iPhone location tracking kerfuffle hasn’t been making that many headlines here in the States as of late, but things are a bit different over in South Korea. Back in July, Kim Hyung-suk was awarded one million won ($932) from Apple Korea. Fresh from the win, the lawyer naturally got to work on a new suit. The suit now counts among its ranks 26,691 plaintiffs — plus 921 minors who still need parental permission to join in — all seeking the same one million won payout, for a total of around $26 million in damages. Apple, for its part, has yet to comment on the suit.
South Korean Apple tracking suit is 27,000 plaintiffs strong originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 17 Aug 2011 12:45:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
The recently announced Grid 10 Tablet aims to redeem Fusion Garage after their very much failed JooJoo tablet. The Grid 10 (and its phone-buddy the Grid 4) arrived with much hype and hyperbole. More »
The company, so far, says that the device will be available in Europe. For now, Nintendo says it won’t launch in the U.S.
Originally posted at The Digital Home
Welcome to Engadget’s Back to School guide! We know that this time of year can be pretty annoying and stressful for everyone, so we’re here to help out with the heartbreaking process of gadget buying for the school-aged crowd. Today, we’re settling down with desktops — and you can head to the Back to School hub to see the rest of the product guides as they’re added throughout the month. Be sure to keep checking back — at the end of the month we’ll be giving away a ton of the gear featured in our guides — and hit up the hub page right here!
Truth be told, if you only have the money to swing one computer, it should probably be a laptop. Better, we think, to have the option of relocating to the library when your hallmates launch an impromptu game of beer pong as you’re trying to wrap up that 10-pager on Othello. And yet, we can still appreciate why some of you might want to kick it old-school and opt for a desktop instead. Maybe you’re planning on using a netbook or tablet as your day computer, and can afford to leave a desktop parked in the dorm. Or perhaps you’re a gamer, and have long since sworn off mobile GPUs. Whatever your reasons for bucking the trend, we found a selection of towers and all-in-ones aimed at game fanatics, power users and folks trying their darndest to save money and space. Oh, and you haven’t forgotten about all of the other gear you need for the semester, have you? We’re giving away $3,000 worth of stuff to 15 lucky readers, and you can enter to win simply by leaving a comment below. So what are you waiting for, folks? Follow us past the break and see what made the cut.
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To celebrate and promote the release of the Blu-ray of ‘The Big Lebowski’ cast members Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Steve Buscemi, John Turturro, and Julianne Moore reunited on August 16 in New York City.
Earlier this year, NVIDIA teased us all with the promise of its forthcoming Kal-El SoC, indicating an August debut. Well, we’re currently in the thick of that hot and hazy month with no clear sign of an incoming quad-core tablet, but certainly more release gossip. According to Fudzilla, multiple sources have confirmed ASUS’ next Eee Pad Transformer will indeed be first in line to pack four cores, lending credence to Chairman Jonney Shih’s claims the tab would be “impressive.” Concrete launch details for the slate have yet to be announced, but if Shih’s pre-CES timeline pans out, you’ll only have four long months to wait for a Glow Ball hands-on.
ASUS’ next gen Eee Pad Transformer to be first Kal-El device? originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 17 Aug 2011 11:40:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
This article was written on April 03, 2007 by CyberNet.
You may remember about a service called Pingdom that I mentioned late last year who was giving away a free 1–year subscription for their downtime monitor. I jumped on the chance to have a free website monitor that had the features they offered because it was at no cost to me (typically $120 value).
They apparently decided to monitor the top 20 sites according to Alexa just for fun, and the result is actually quite amazing. In their post they order them from 1 to 20 in order of how Alexa ranks them. I, however, decided to reorder the list in terms of the amount of downtime:
1 yahoo.com 0m
2 aol.com 3m
3 comcast.net 3m
4 ebay.com 6m
5 google.com 7m
6 go.com 8m
7 microsoft.com 13m
8 amazon.com 21m
9 cnn.com 22m
10 facebook.com 25m
11 imdb.com 29m
12 flickr.com 30m
13 myspace.com 1h 0m
14 craigslist.org 1h 9m
15 photobucket.com 1h 23m
16 live.com 1h 48m
17 wikipedia.org 2h 23m
18 msn.com 2h 45m
19 youtube.com 4h 44m
20 blogger.com 4h 47m
These stats are for the entire year of 2007 up until now. That means Google had a 99.9947% uptime and YouTube had a 99.7833% uptime. The downtime looks pretty bad on the site list, but as you can tell the actual percentages are really not that bad.At least all of them are still over 99%.
What really caught my attention was the eBay stats which show that the service was down for 6–minutes. Most of the services listed, such as Google, only mean that users cannot do a search or see their photos when the site is inaccessible. However, eBay constantly has auctions ending every minute so that would not be good if one of your auctions was ending in the 6–minutes that it was down. That would result in a losing the last-minute bidders you would have normally had…unless eBay realizes when their servers go down and automatically extend the auctions the appropriate amount of time?
Source: 901AM
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