Archive for August, 2012
Thursday, August 30th, 2012
A cloud’s real carbon footprint
Is cloud storage really more power efficient? There is, however, an often-touted benefit of using the cloud for data storage and that is power savings. Broadcasters are only now becoming aware of the importance of controlling power costs. Moving forward, technical managers can expect federal, state and local government bureaucrats to increasingly drive companies to […]
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Monday, August 27th, 2012
Android Phones Will Power NASA’s Mini-Satellites
While most of the recent media attention on NASA has understandably focused on the Curiosity rover on Mars, that’s not the only experiment that the space and aeronautics research agency has in the works. A team at NASA’s Ames Research center in Moffett Field, California, is working on the future launch of miniature satellites constructed […]
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Thursday, August 23rd, 2012
Nikon coming up with Android-Powered Camera with WiFi
Nikon is releasing the CoolPix S800C in September. With the Android and WiFi powered, you will be able to use your favourite application (Whatsapp, Facebook, Ubuntu One, DropBox, etc.) to share photos easily. Here is the cool features of the CoolPix. 3.5-inch OLED touchscreen with 819,000-dot resolution, 10x optical zoom GPS, 1080p video capture at […]
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Friday, August 10th, 2012
Samsung Galaxy Note II vs Note
Samsung has announced the Note II, lets see how they compare:
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Thursday, August 9th, 2012
Android Jelly Bean Coming to Samsung Galaxy SII, SIII, Note and Note 2
From TheDroidGuy. According to Samsung, the Galaxy SIII Jelly Bean operating system tests have passed through the firmware tests and is currently awaiting a few things including a ‘public version of software agreement’ from Google. There have been no issues in the testing of the SII and Galaxy note Jelly bean so far but they […]
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Wednesday, August 1st, 2012
OpenStack could be the Linux of the cloud
OpenStack has the potential to become as widely used in cloud computing as Linux in servers, according to Rackspace’s chief executive Lanham Napier. Napier noted that OpenStack has more code contributors than Linux did when it started: it had 206 code contributors by its 84th week, whereas Linux took 615 weeks to get to that […]
