March 16, 2010 - 2:10 am
Tags: cellphones, handsets, microsoft, mix10, morning, phone, posts-tagged, the-handsets, windows phone, windows phone 7 samsung
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We’ve become acquainted with Windows Phone 7 handsets from Asus and LG , but during this morning’s demo , we saw a new one from Samsung. So, what do we know about this—or any—of the handsets we’ve seen so far? More
March 16, 2010 - 2:00 am
Tags: apple, appleipad, develop-apps, employers, greener, greener-pastures, his-sights, microsoft, remainders, team-members, things, windows, windowsphone7series
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In today’s Remainders: new beginnings. Tim Bray, co-founder of XML, starts a new job at Google (and has his sights set on Apple); several Windows Phone 7 team members are leaving…to develop apps for Windows Phone 7; and more.
March 16, 2010 - 1:00 am
Tags: app store, apps, interview, microsoft, one-lingering, possibly-catch, posts-tagged, windows, windows phone, windows phone 7, windowsphone7
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Microsoft’s already done a lot right with Windows Phone 7 , and it’s not even out until late this year. But after today’s announcements , there’s one lingering question: How can Windows Phone 7 possibly catch up, in terms of apps? More
March 16, 2010 - 12:20 am
Tags: military, none-solid, one-time-use, posts-tagged, robots, rum, underground, unmanned-ground, vehicle-having, weapons
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The US Defense Threat Reduction Agency wants a robot capable of navigating underground—drilling through soil and rock—to deliver an explosive load. A “one-time use, air-delivered, highly mobile vehicle having certain characteristics similar to an unmanned ground vehicle”.
March 16, 2010 - 12:00 am
Tags: family, game, microsoft, ps3 news forum, quietly-hoping, station-move, success-through, upcoming, wiimote-some
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An editorial at Eurogamer delves into what Sony and Microsoft hope to achieve with their upcoming console motion control systems, despite entering the market several years after Nintendo set the standard. “The cards Sony has placed on the table this week suggest one answer to that question. It sees PlayStation Move as being an upgrade path for Wii owners — an invitation to the tens of millions of consumers who have invested in Nintendo’s platform to swim upstream to the more powerful, HD-enabled system
Form, meet function. The 42-story Strata Building —also known by its much cooler nickname, ” The Razor “—will get 8% of its energy from three wind turbines built into its façade
March 15, 2010 - 9:33 pm
Tags: 100-million, clean energy, fcc, government, known-some, main-long-term, major, million-homes, mobile, national, national broadband plan, none-solid, posts-tagged
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We’ve known some of the major details about the FCC’s sweeping National Broadband Plan —namely 100Mbps broadband in 100 million homes —for a while now, but today they’ve made it official. It’s a sweeping proposal, with six main long-term goals: More
March 15, 2010 - 9:20 pm
Tags: account, account-setup, apple, from-the-iphone, googlesync, ipad, iphone, ipod touch, level-or-ninja, like-on-android, microsoft, tipb asks, unique, yahoo
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Gmail may only be the 3rd most popular email service on the planet (behind Yahoo! and Hotmail) but it ranks first in the hearts of geeks everywhere and can be used in a variety of ways on the iPhone: IMAP (or POP if you’re really old school) right from the iPhone Mail app.
March 15, 2010 - 9:10 pm
Tags: apps, briefly-thought, iphone, marketplace, microsoft, mix10, phone, platform, posts-tagged, windows phone, windows phone 7
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What many feared (or briefly thought about without much emotion either way) has turned out to be true: Microsoft PR has confirmed that Windows Marketplace for Mobile will be the only source for Windows Phone 7 apps, meaning that you can’t sideload apps, and that Microsoft will be the sole gatekeeper for all apps on the platform.
Computed axial tomography scan— CAT Scan —is a medical imaging method employing tomography created by computer processing. And cats’ groins. That’s what inventors thought at the beginning, anyway