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Thursday, January 17th, 2013
Asus 7″ Tablet for US$149
Right after CES, Asus has announced a 7″ Tablet for US$ 150 called MemoPad. Here are the features. 1 GHz Single core processor: Wondermedia WM8950 (VIA) 1 GB RAM 7″ Screen with 1024×600 screen 16 GB memory with SD card slot MicroUSB WiFi Only [amazon_enhanced asin=”B007P4YAPK” container=”” container_class=”” price=”All” background_color=”FFFFFF” link_color=”000000″ text_color=”0000FF” /]
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Wednesday, January 16th, 2013
Rooting any phone from another phone
Root Transmission: the ONLY app that allows you to root other phones straight from your own device! Inspired by Kos’s p2p-adb hacking toolkit (http://hak5.org/episodes/hak5-1205), this app is a pleasant, easy way to root other phones while away from your computer! Just two buttons, Root and Unroot! Connect the cable and root away! It couldn’t be […]
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Tuesday, January 15th, 2013
Hackable Lego Robot Runs Linux
The Lego Mindstorms EV3 is the first major revamp of the Lego Group’s programmable robot kit since 2006, and the first to run embedded Linux. Unveiled at the CES Show in Las Vegas yesterday, with the first public demos starting today at the Kids Play Summit at the Venetian Hotel, the $350 robot is built […]
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Monday, January 14th, 2013
Netflix shows off how it does Hadoop in the cloud
Netflix is at it again, this time showing off its homemade architecture for running Hadoop workloads in the Amazon Web Services cloud. It’s all about the flexibility of being able to run, manage and access multiple clusters while eliminating as many barriers as possible. Read More [amazon_enhanced asin=”1449311520″ /].
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Saturday, January 12th, 2013
8 Core ARM processor may power the Samsung Galaxy S4
Samsung announced an 8 core! yes an 8 core ARM processor which may power the Samsung Galaxy S4 Rather than a single eight-core chip, it has two quad-cores inside – one being a quad-core ARM Cortex A15 and the other a quad-core Cortex A7. The Cortex A15 deals with the tough stuff but passes off […]
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Friday, January 11th, 2013
Chromebook opens a new category
Just when you thought, notebooks were dead and tablets where the future. Samsung has released the Chromebook, which may appeal to a new category of users. This product was the best sell on Amazon for Christmas. I have been looking at light mobile devices which I can carry instead of a full fledged laptop, and […]
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Monday, December 17th, 2012
Samba 4 brings comlete replacement for Active Directory
The team behind the Samba file, print, and authentication server suite for Microsoft Windows clients announced the release of Samba version 4 yesterday. This version includes significant new capabilities that offer an open source replacement for many enterprise infrastructure roles currently delivered exclusively by Microsoft software, including acting as a domain controller, providing SMB2.1 protocol […]
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Saturday, December 15th, 2012
Linux 3.7 brings a single kernel to ARM
While ARM is gaining a lot of momentum, the challenge with ARM until now was that every architecture is very different from different vendors and requires a separate kernel and entire OS stack. With Linux Kernel 3.7, this has changed for the better. ARM’s problem was that, unlike the x86 architecture, where one Linux kernel […]
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Friday, November 30th, 2012
10 reasons to choose Ubuntu 12.10 over Windows 8
From PC World. Ubuntu is a widely popular open-source Linux distribution with eight years of maturity under its belt, and more than 20 million users. Of the roughly 5 percent of desktop OSs accounted for by Linux, at least one survey suggests that about half are Ubuntu. (Windows, meanwhile, accounts for about 84 percent.) The […]
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Monday, November 26th, 2012
Linux brings over €10 million savings for Munich
Over €10 million (approximately £8 million or $12.8 million) has been saved by the city of Munich, thanks to its development and use of the city’s own Linux platform. The calculation of savings follows a question by the city council’s independent Free Voters (Freie Wähler) group, Read More. Urge your city to save money from taxes, its […]
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Monday, November 12th, 2012
Apple may use the ARM processor for its MacBook
Apple may be considering switching from Intel processors to ARM chips used in iPhones and iPads for its range of Mac personal computers, said a media report. Published in Bloomberg, the report cited three anonymous sources who said Apple believes that the processors used in its mobile devices will be robust enough to power its […]
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Sunday, November 11th, 2012
Disabling reverse (natural) scrolling in Ubuntu 12.10
After installing Ubuntu 12.10, the first thing I wanted to do, was to disable reverse scrolling – you scroll down and it scrolls up! This is also called natural scrolling by Apple. Don’t know what is natural about it 🙂 but may be natural for Apple users. Open the terminal and edit this file using […]
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Friday, November 9th, 2012
Netflix open sources their cloud monitoring tool
At Netflix we need to be able to quickly query and analyze our AWS resources with widely varying search criteria. For instance, if we see a host with an EC2 hostname that is causing problems on one of our API servers then we need to find out what that host is and what team is […]
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Tuesday, November 6th, 2012
HTC One X upgraded to One X+
HTC has upgraded the One X with One X+ It now has a 1.7 GHZ quad-core processor 64 GB Memory 2100 mAh battery to give you upto 50% more usage If you are using HTC One X, then there is not much for you. If you are planning on buying the HTC One X, you […]
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Monday, November 5th, 2012
Samsung Nexus 10 tablet beats iPad4
Google Nexus range has announced the Nexus 10 which beats the iPad 4 in display resolution, where is what is cool: Dual Core 1.7 GHz processor vs iPads 1.4 GHz Dual Core 2GB RAM vs 1GB on ipad 4 Display resolution: 2560X1600 300 PPI vs 264PPI of iPad 10″ Display vs iPad’s 9.7″ Weight 603gms […]
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Thursday, October 18th, 2012
Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) is now available for download
Ubuntu 12.10 is here. With this release there is no CD image only DVD image which is 800 MB in size. Torrent is preferred method for me. Ubuntu 12.10 Torrent Links Direct Downloads Ubuntu Desktop 64-Bit Edition Torrent Main Server Ubuntu Desktop 32-Bit Edition Torrent Main Server Ubuntu Server Edition 64-Bit Torrent Main Server Ubuntu […]
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Monday, October 15th, 2012
LG Nexus expected on October 29
Quad-core 1.5GHz Snapdragon S4 CPU 2GB of RAM 4.7″ Display Sealed battery which can’t be changed or replaced. 8GB or 16 GB of internal storage (which won’t be expandable as no microSD slot) Price of US$ 399 (no contract or locked) [amazon_enhanced asin=”B005ZEF01A” container=”” container_class=”” price=”All” background_color=”FFFFFF” link_color=”000000″ text_color=”0000FF” /]
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Thursday, October 4th, 2012
Marvell Plug gets a SMILE
Developed in conjunction with the Stanford Mobile Inquiry-based Learning Environment (SMILE) program, the SMILE Plug is a cloud computing server that supports a wide array of SMILE learning applications. the SMILE Plug creates a micro-cloud within a classroom that is controlled by the instructor, creating a secure, private, and robust classroom connection for up to […]
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Wednesday, October 3rd, 2012
Oops. OpenStack board member says letting VMware into project was a mistake
Boris Renski is co-founder of OpenStack integration consultancy Mirantis and he says every enterprise he’s worked with so far has been interested in OpenStack because they view it as an alternative to VMware. The board’s vote earlier this month has now muddled the differences, he says. “If OpenStack isn’t an alternative to VMware, then what […]
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Tuesday, October 2nd, 2012
Did the Ultrabooks make it ?
An IHS report has estimated that 10.3 million Ultrabooks shipped (not sold) worldwide in 2012, a considerably change from their original forecast of 22 million sold this year. 2013 should be OK, though, right? Wrong. IHS is expecting sales of 44 million in 2013, down from a forecast of 61 million. Read More.
