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Submission + - Chumby Industries out of business (chumby.com)

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kriston

on Thursday June 14, 2012 @02:37AM

kriston writes: "Chumby Industries informally announces via Facebook and their blog that they re out of business.

Duane has taken possession of remaining stock and is selling it off.

Very sad."

Submission + - Microsoft invests $300 million in B&N Nook (cnn.com)

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kriston

on Monday April 30, 2012 @09:59AM

kriston writes: "CNNMoney is reporting that Microsoft has invested a 17.6% stake in Barnes & Noble's Nook business unit, valuing the e-book business at $1.7 billion which is twice the value of the entire Barnes & Noble company itself."

Submission + - Amazon issues 9-day credit for AWS outage (amazon.com)

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kriston

on Friday April 29, 2011 @09:08AM

kriston writes: "Dear AWS Customer,

Starting at 12:47AM PDT on April 21st, there was a service disruption (for a period of a few hours up to a few days) for Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS that primarily involved a subset of the Amazon Elastic Block Store (“EBS”) volumes in a single Availability Zone within our US East Region. You can read our detailed summary of the event here:
http://aws.amazon.com/message/65648

We’ve identified that you had an attached EBS volume or a running RDS database instance in the affected Availability Zone at the time of the disruption. Regardless of whether your resources and application were impacted, we are going to provide a 10 day credit (for the
period 4/18-4/27) equal to 100% of your usage of EBS Volumes, EC2 Instances and RDS database instances that were running in the affected Availability Zone. This credit will be automatically applied to your April bill, and you don’t need to do anything to receive it.
You can see your service credit by logging into your AWS Account Activity page after you receive your upcoming billing statement.

Last, but certainly not least, we want to apologize. We know how critical the services we provide are to our customers’ businesses and we will do everything we can to learn from this event and use it to drive improvement across our services.

Sincerely,
The Amazon Web Services Team

This message was produced and distributed by Amazon Web Services, LLC, 410 Terry Avenue
North, Seattle, Washington 98109-5210"

Submission + - Cherrypal mini-laptop now runs Android (cherrypal.com) 1

Submitted by kriston on Thursday May 13, 2010 @10:22PM

kriston writes: The Cherrypal Asia laptop at http://www.cherrypal.com/ is now shipping with Google Android installed. This replaces the older Cherrypal Asia mini laptops that were running Windows CE and Linux based. Both laptops run the ARM9-based VIA 8505 SoIC platform at 533 MHz with 256 megabytes of RAM and 2 gigabytes of NAND flash. The $148 version has a 1024x600 screen while the sub-$100 model runs 800x480. I'm looking forward to seeing how Android can squeeze more throughput out of the VIA 8505 since Windows CE didn't do such a great job on the original Cherrypal Asia.

Submission + - Toyota Recall Might Be Caused by Cosmic Rays (livescience.com)

Submitted by kriston on Sunday March 28, 2010 @11:58AM

kriston writes: Like servers running non-ECC memory, Toyota's recall problems could be caused by cosmic rays creating memory errors according to this article from LiveScience.com.

Submission + - Why do some devices refuse to charge via USB? (no)

Submitted by kriston on Saturday November 14, 2009 @01:32PM

kriston writes: I have lots of MP3 players, mobile phones, video devices, and game controllers. All of them can plug into USB sockets, but a curious few simply refuse to charge. The chief offenders are Motorola phones, Creative MP3 players, and most annoyingly, the Sony PlayStation 3 controllerss. Simply putting +5V at 500 mA on the port is not getting these things to charge. What is the magic secret ingredient these chargers have that make these USB devices start charging?

Submission + - What desktop search engine for a shared volume? 1

Submitted by kriston on Monday October 19, 2009 @03:02PM

kriston writes: Searching data on a shared volume is tedious. If I try to use a Windows desktop search engine on a volume with hundreds of gigabytes the indexing process takes days and the search results are slow and unsatisfying. I'm thinking of an agent that runs on the server that regularly indexes and talks to the desktop machines running the search interface. How do you integrate your desktop search application with your remote file server without forcing each desktop to index the hundred gigabyte volume on its own?

Submission + - FCC approves satellite radio merger in 3-2 vote (yahoo.com)

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kriston

on Friday July 25, 2008 @10:20PM

kriston writes: "FCC approves the Sirius takeover of XM Satellite Radio in a 3-2 vote Friday night. They won't be required to include HD Radio but they must pay $19 million in fines for repeater anomalies, set aside 8% of their channels for public interests and minorities, and maintain a price cap for three years. The final vote was from Deborah Taylor Tate and she cast it when the companies agreed to the fines."

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