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Submission + - Google Talk Enables Video Chat On Android Phones (hothardware.com)

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MojoKid
MojoKid writes: "Google recently launched Google Talk with video and voice chat for Android phones. With the service, users will be able to video or voice chat with their friends and family directly from an Android phone. Calls can be placed over 3G, 4G and Wi-Fi connections. According to Google, the new features will first roll out to the Nexus S phones over the next few weeks as part of the Android 2.3.4 over-the-air update. Google Talk with video and voice chat will launch on other Android 2.3 and higher devices in the future as well. The video demo here shows it in action."
Android

Submission + - Basic4android - New IDE for Android development (basic4ppc.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Basic4android is a complete development environment that makes Android programming simple. Basic4android applications are regular native Android applications. Basic4android also includes a powerful GUI designer.
Android

Submission + - Developing Android Apps Visually (drdobbs.com)

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An anonymous reader writes: Dr. Dobb's has a three part blog (all three parts are up; this is part 1) about using App Inventor. The focus isn't so much on the technology but rather the discussion of "can visual development let anyone program?" If so, is App Inventor really visual development? And should we be teaching real programmers about visual development. Most of the conclusions are in part 3. As a byproduct, they show you how to put App Inventor output on the Market and there are two games on the market (free) that resulted from the articles.
Hardware

Submission + - Worlds first community funded CPU ASIC (opencores.org) 1

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An anonymous reader writes: The 32 bit OpenRISC CPU has been available for many FPGAs and was turned into a commercial ASIC in 2003 http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/03/12/08/2326236/Open-Source-Finally-Hits-Real-Silicon. Now, the OpenCores community is asking for donations to create a new ASIC with the openrisc cpu, ethernet, PCI, UART, USB and other peripherals. The goal is to be able to sell these ASICs at a low price to anyone who wants to build a cheap embedded system built completely on open source. The OpenRISC currently runs on linux 2.6.37 and has ports of gcc 4.5.1 among other things.
Hardware

Submission + - Cheap Asian Logic Analyzers or Open Source? (drdobbs.com)

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An anonymous reader writes: Dr. Dobb's muses on inexpensive logic analyzer tools including a peek at a new open source choice which offers impressive capabilities for under $50.
Education

Submission + - Getting kids involved in engineering, robotics (dobbscodetalk.com)

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An anonymous reader writes: Al Williams writes in Dr. Dobb's about a fun exercise to do with kids at schools, scout meetings, or any place where you want to get them involved and thinking about what engineers do, how computers work, and what does it take to make a robot. With so many studies showing that the US is falling behind in math and science, this would be a good way to energize kids to think about staying in school and getting engineering degrees.
Hardware

Submission + - Leveraging C Compilers for Cross Assembly (drdobbs.com)

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An anonymous reader writes: It is very common for microcontroller developers to use a cross assembler — a tool that runs on a PC that converts assembly language into binary code ready to program on the microcontroller. But what if you build your own microcontroller? Usually that means writing your own cross assembler or adapting an existing one. In this article, the author shows how he can quickly build almost any cross assembler by defining macros and including a special prebuilt library. The macros "teach" gcc how to compile the assembly language program into a PC program that then emits the correct binary code. The advantages are speed and leveraging the compilation power of gcc which gives the "assembler" a very rich compile-time computation capability and powerful macros.
The Internet

Submission + - FCC proposes 100Mbps minimum home broadband speed

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oxide7 writes: The U.S. Federal Communications Commission unveiled a plan on Tuesday that would require Internet providers to offer minimum home connection speeds by 2020, a proposal that some telecommunications companies panned as unrealistic. The FCC wants service providers to offer home Internet data transmission speeds of 100 megabits per second (Mbps) to 100 million homes by a decade from now, Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski said.
Linux

Submission + - Open-Source 3D NVIDIA Driver Is Ready In Fedora 13 (phoronix.com)

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An anonymous reader writes: Red Hat has already been using the Nouveau X.Org driver in Fedora for providing display and 2D support, but with their next release (Fedora 13) they will be making open-source 3D acceleration readily available to those using NVIDIA graphics cards. Red Hat has packaged the Nouveau 3D driver in Fedora 13 and what makes it more interesting than just being an open-source 3D driver that was written by the community with reverse engineering their closed-source driver is that it's one of the first drivers to use the Gallium3D driver interface. Phoronix has tested out this Gallium3D driver for NVIDIA GPUs in a Fedora 13 daily build and found it to run with a variety of OpenGL games, with benchmarks being included that compare it to NVIDIA's official driver. The performance is far from being on the same stage as NVIDIA's official Unix driver.

Comment Private yes, but... (Score 1) 433

by wd5gnr (#31131210) Attached to: Obama's Space Plan — a Conservative Argument
I am all for the government helping "pave the road to space" like they helped the transcontinental railroad (which was a success in its day). BUT, the two things that bother me is that Constellation has already made a sizable investment that will be lost (just like the investment in the original station) AND it is going to decimate many, many high tech jobs. I am all for transition to private industry but to just fire literally thousands of scientists and engineers. They want to make jobs, not destroy them but I hear estimates of over 5,000 jobs in Houston alone and probably more than that in Huntsville.

NASA and its contractors do a TERRIBLE job of promoting success and good work to the public. Instead all you hear is bad news. The press helped when it was fun but they've left. Don't believe me? How many of you can draw a reasonably accurate diagram of Apollo? Now how many of you can sketch a reasonably accurate floor plan for ISS? How many modules are in it? Does it have one truss, two, or none?

If you want to see what they have REALLY been up to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2IQVZmHnJQ

Comment Constellation was doing something (Score 1) 340

by wd5gnr (#31131150) Attached to: State of Alabama Fighting NASA's New Plan
I was bummed out when the giant company I work for did NOT win the constellation business we wanted. But NASA and its contractors do a TERRIBLE job of promoting success and good work to the public. Instead all you hear is bad news. The press helped when it was fun but they've left. Don't believe me? How many of you can draw a reasonably accurate diagram of Apollo? Now how many of you can sketch a reasonably accurate floor plan for ISS? How many modules are in it? Does it have one truss, two, or none?

If you want to see what they have REALLY been up to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2IQVZmHnJQ

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