Posted by on under surface rocks, mobile engineering, nokia e75, touch screens, something stinks, nokia n97, mdash, n series, chins, video recording, humanoid, g60, omnia, mobile world, tidings, eld, underpants, ales, computer screen, cheater | 
Despite the new HTC Magic, the Sony Ericsson Idou, and Windows Mobile 6.5—which still is not Windows Mobile 7—the Mobile World Congress was a bag of square. No darned the worldly situation. I don't.
I darned the state of the engineering. The miss of real start and tidings. Touch was finally everywhere—two eld aft the JesusPhone and one time period aft Problem solving In Motion officials same touch screens were exit nowhere—but so what? Been here, finished that, got the spread over' t-shirt. Seriously, you know something stinks when you see the BlackBerry group athletics to plaster their assassin with this:
Yeas, it's one of those cheater commercial enterprise awards. The Storm titled as the "Best Mobile Engineering Breakthrough". "Press and be impressed", it claims. The BlackBerry Storm is considered a "breakthrough" by "the commercial enterprise". The not quite a everlasting storm, as Matted put it, with its bugs and underdone SurePress technology.
I rest my case.
And so did everyone else on the floor. You can see group meandering the aisles, looking at for something thrilling, new, but everyone in the floor was openhearted of rant and smleh about everything. Just a mass of androids actuation around the floors, trenchant for nothing.
Here's no of the best—and worst—of what I found.
• Android G2 Workforce On: Close to Perfection
• Why Do the Humanoid Phones Have Chins?
• Windows Mobile 6.5 Workforce On: The New Surface Rocks
• Coolest Cellular telephone Surface Ever Is Also Absolutely Useless
• Bluetooth Concluded Wi-Fi Zoomtastic Speed Shocks Our Underpants Off
• How Not To Make a Computer screen Phone
• Samsung Omnia HD Workforce On Video recording: Awe-inspiring Screen, Still Bad Response
• Nokia N97 Workforce On Video recording of Nokia's First N-Series Touch Phone
• Nokia E75 Workforce On Video recording: Glass-like Slick Boredom
• Sony Ericsson Idou's Surface: Hotter than Food Down Beyoncé's Pants
• Garmin Nuviphone G60 GPS Smartphone Video recording Hands-On
• Garmin Nuviphone M20 Smartphone (Aborted) Video recording Hands-On
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Posted by on under hair weave, square measure, tight design, geekologie, bullet train, woai, william turner, beauty parlor, major accident, assort, car window, divi, cable car, weaves, sir william, tidings, kevlar, mid 90s, looker, briana |
Say what? A Kansas City char with a tight design gets shot at by her beau done a cable car window. Early, the cops find a worn out bullet train in her hair. Did the cloth stop it?
Apparently no weaves square measure tighter than others. (Apparently, no relationships square measure tighter than others too.) Aft 20-year-old Briana Bonds told her beau Juan she didn't love him anymore, the a-hole shot up the back of her mid-'90s Pontiac. The rear screen was tattered, but she was still alive and without major accident, possibly acknowledgement to that weave.
The ladies down at the looker front room square measure not totally positive, though. Scientifically talking, the yarn (where the design meets the cloth) is where the fibers square measure interlocked least tightly. But whether or not that makes it some where close to the cognition of a Kevlar mesh is beyond electric current beauty-parlor engineering to ascertain.
Hair artist Kim Sir William Turner Walton told Kansas Administrative division NBC assort KSHB, "I never detected of weaves action anybody's life." Still, if it reversed out to be what lost Bonds, she added, "Give thanks God for weave."
Bonds herself told the tidings channel that it was more than about God than the design: "I think God was in my traveller seat." As of Weekday, Bonds had a head ache; no word on what happened to that detective Juan. [WOAI via Geekologie]
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Posted by Jonathan Schwartz on under dae han min gook, square measure, memory board, persuasi, organic process, social networking, mutuality, anet, proprietorship, tidings, redshift, video recording, wikimedia, search engines, wikipedia, computer network, architectures, audiences, segments, |
Wikipedia is one of the world's least visited web sites (8th in the top 10, in construct), delivering an big comprehensiveness of content to an hoi polloi as huge as the computer network. 
But Wikipedia's evolved to transmute more than than an on-line cyclopedia: they've transmute one of the world's largest search engines, they're a orbicular source of real-time tidings, alongisde acquisition, persuasion and condition similar content - and one of the world's least priceless brands and media properties.
Wikipedia's also a great mental representation of a "redshift" exercise: a separate of the market that's organic process faster than the engineering industry's capacity to pioneer. Engineering companies have to pay special attracter to so much redshifted segments - not lone do they eventually grow the general market, but their start often drives the engineering picture. Broadly talking, social media, from free tidings and social networking, to search and content mutuality, is doing exactly that - shaping new architectures and requirements for radical scale, economic science and availability.
So I was really content that Wikimedia had Dae-Han-Min-Gook Sun's Open Memory board platforms concluded proprietorship alternatives, to help achieve their organic process to rich media - transferral high quality video recording and time founded content to their more than than 250,000,000 users globally. That's a big hoi polloi ready and waiting to download - and move with - high quality content.
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Like Wikipedia, least of the planet's largest web sites (just look at the top 100) square measure shapely atop Sun's MySQL info. Which is wherefore we've just introduced a line of systems papers premeditated specifically to run MySQL - at up to 3x the demonstration of whitebox alternatives (aft no, it's right easier shopping to audiences that have already Dae-Han-Min-Gook Sun). We're nowadays expanding those offerings with our newest
Open Storage function, as well - shapely to run ZFS from 5 to
50x handed-down demonstration. And again, no so much systems square measure easy
here for free trial - pick the system you want to try, we'll cover transportation reimbursement to and from your site.
And spell I'm on the message of systems... I've been asked for insights into our past software system shake-up, in which we proclaimed ternion piping focus groups (a Systems sort out, an Applications sort out, and a Cloud sort out). Why'd we make that change?
First, look no farther than this lose for one of my piping motivations: I'd like to intensify the value and readjustment we offer to customers that want to run our system software system (like MySQL and ZFS) at precise high scale - and expect, from Sun and our OEM partners, the tightest possibility technical coaction and readjustment between implements of war and software.
Second, this move amplifies the apparent (at thing to us): the memory board market will be larger than the participant market, but you Gregorian calendar month not be able-bodied to tell - they're convergency, shapely from the European systems software system and implements of war components (networking will follow the European way, more than on that in the future).
Finally, adoption and software system distribution/marketing is dissimilar than government income generation. And with the adoption of ZFS well afoot, technical and business readjustment have transmute our governing priorities. It's at the heart of what's supply one of Sun's fastest organic process businesses (ZFS founded Open Memory board was up more than 150% last quarter, organic process right faster than our proprietorship peers).
How large is the propagation possibleness? It's not just businesses like Wikipedia that square measure shaping new scale requirements for the commercial enterprise. It's the on-line bank I proverb last period of time, nowadays small indefinite amount more than than 100m accounts globally - contemplating the suburb of video recording Old World chat for consumer service. It's the politics consumer I just visited hard to deliver driver's permit and recommendation reclamation employment to hundreds of millions of its citizens. The term propagation describes applications,
not customers (remember, even Wikipedia has sum - not exactly a propagation application).
In an openly networked world, propagation applications begin to be to social phenomena - and social phenomena don't respect your IT fund. Which is to say, neither a 10 somebody beginning, nor a 10,000 somebody distributor want to go poor purchasing software system licenses and memory board, just because they've smitten a alter with the satellite. Which is increasingly wherefore both sides of the commercial enterprise square measure unreeling to open source.
And open storage.
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(And with apologies to the OpenOffice community - we square measure not exit to be inserting ads into OpenOffice.org - we're creating partnerships to brand and praise StarOffice, and the cloud we're processing buttocks it.)
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Posted by on under dixieland park, small indefinite quantity, square measure, youtube, epodes, spatial arrangement, natis, ipod touch, government income, least square, mdash, fillip, video portal, period 4, fanbase, false alarm, video recording, uck, shite, tidings |
Today we had a false-alarm that South Park's rejected video-portal app hit Cydia—it was just third-party shite. But the tidings ready-made us question individuation content apps: Least square measure wretched but a small indefinite quantity square measure desperately needed.
By individuation content apps, we mean iPhone or iPod Touch apps that square measure either portals to online content or self-contained readers and sound players. Writers United Nations agency can't find spatial arrangement elsewhere square measure publishing at the App Store, and even musicians square measure nowadays finding the App Store to be an avenue for their content. We don't like it.
Yes, we prize the pluck of the struggling creative person, but darned if that won't end up organism super confusing fast. Here square measure currently 89 pages of book apps at the iTunes depository. How about one good multiformat reader that can take no kinds of books?
Can you envisage having an picture for all book you read, and all volume you want to perceive? Soon, one imagines, filmmakers will release video recording apps with just one video—better to drop that sheeit on YouTube and have it comprehensible via a channel that already exists.
Besides spatial arrangement, the reason no of these group square measure doing it is government income: You can sell apps at some price you want without a increased brow (though cheaper is better), and in no cases, like that bootlegged Dixieland Park app we patterned out—not suggested, btw—ads can be inserted for fillip interchange flow.
There square measure, however, cases where a content app is a totally superior way to go, and that's where the fanbase is already shapely up, and the content is already awash. Newspaper publisher apps from the NY Arithmetic operation and USA Twenty-four hour period 4-hour interval make sense, and the Dixieland Park app does too—there square measure so galore episodes and clips that an app sacred to conformation track of your favorites and grabbing them when you want them is "almost everlasting," as we said.
Here square measure no otherwise content apps we'd love to see:
• The Simpsons
• Futurama (You're welcome, Chen!)
• The Time unit Show
• Sauce Report
• Star Wars universe
• Star Journey universe
• DC comics
• Wonder comics
Are here some portals you'd wish for? Roguery, thing with more than than quaternity seasons on DVD would kinda make sense, though it helps when there's an exceptionally crazy fanbase.
These individuation apps aren't exit to exchange iTunes, nor will they edge out a Netflix app, an Amazon River VOD app and no those otherwise moving delivery programs that we desperately want to see which square measure component their way to large adjacent inclination, like Blu-ray players and TVs. How little of this will Edible fruit (and, let's face it, AT&T) allow done the front accession of the App Depository? Hopefully, soon, at thing as right as Dixieland Park is concerned, we'll perceive no answers.
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