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Submission + - Intel gives up on TV (bloomberg.com)

Submitted by symbolset on Tuesday October 11, 2011 @10:05PM

symbolset writes: Bloomberg is reporting that Intel, on the cusp of having low-power embedded chips that can do true HD in a flatscreen, has given up on getting their chips embedded in TVs.

While many might say their efforts to date have been fruitless because of energy issues, Medfield might have had a chance on this field. Thoughts?

Submission + - Leaked: GM to Reveal its 1st Pure Electric Car (greencarreports.com)

Submitted by thecarchik on Tuesday October 11, 2011 @09:59PM

thecarchik writes: GM had hoped to announce its latest green vehicle tomorrow morning, at a nice, orderly, staged press event to celebrate Chevrolet's 100th birthday, but the cat is now out of the bag.

Based on conversations with a number of sources knowledgeable about the electric car industry:

The vehicle is the Chevrolet Spark EV that was spied testing in Michigan just last month (and which we predicted would be GM's first all-electric car sold in the U.S.).

The Spark EV was originally unveiled this past June, as the Chevrolet Beat EV, in India. It is an electric conversion of the upcoming 2013 Chevrolet Spark minicar (known in some markets as the Beat).

Submission + - Amazon's Kindle Fire 7-inch display Android Tablet (bloggerzcafe.com)

Submitted by

rohi46

on Sunday October 02, 2011 @03:18AM

rohi46 writes: "Amazon‘s Kindle Fire Android tablet is out for sale for a price tag of $199! Amazon’s 7-inch display Kindle Fire Android was the hot pick today at Amazon event in New York City. People present were eagerly waiting for the milk to spill as Amazon’s Jeff Bezos went on stage and unwrapped the new player and showed its movie playback capability and other media features. This was bound to happen at the Amazon event in NY.

As per initial rumors, the Amazon tab looks a little narrower. It would weigh upto 14.6 ounces, which would be pretty much the same as the BlackBerry PlayBook. For my taking Amazon has come up with few sacrifices especially with the price tag, though the reader doesn’t come up with the touchscreen feature both in the Kindle Touch and its recent Nook and Kobo devices."

Submission + - Kindle disassembled (blogkindle.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 02, 2011 @12:54AM

An anonymous reader writes: Kindle motherboard cut open — reveals ARM Cortex-A8 CPU, 128Mb of RAM (half that of Kindle 3) and supporting hardware

Submission + - 700 Peaceful Citizens Arrested In New York (youtube.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 02, 2011 @12:45AM

An anonymous reader writes: 700 Peaceful protesters were arrested today on the Brooklyn Bridge.

Submission + - Citigroup questions if US spectrum shortage exists (networkworld.com)

Submitted by alphadogg on Saturday October 01, 2011 @05:18PM

alphadogg writes: For more than two years, the U.S. mobile industry has warned of an upcoming spectrum shortage, but two analysts at Citigroup don't buy it. AT&T, trade group CTIA and even officials with the U.S. Federal Communications Commission have talked frequently about a coming spectrum crunch, as mobile customers move to data-sucking smartphones and tablets. Smartphones use 24 times the spectrum compared to standard mobile phones, and tablets use 120 times the spectrum, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said in a speech on Tuesday. But Citigroup analysts Jason Bazinet and Michael Rollins questioned what has become the convention wisdom in the mobile industry. The U.S. has plenty of spectrum for mobile broadband, but much of it is in the wrong hands, they said.

Submission + - Web Browser Grand Prix 7: Firefox 7, Chrome 14, Op (tomshardware.com) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 01, 2011 @04:15PM

An anonymous reader writes: Firefox 7 was released a couple days ago, and now the latest Web browser perfromance numbers are in. This article is the same series that ran benchmarks on Mac OS X Lion last month. This time around the new Mozilla release is going against Chrome 14 and Opera 11.51 in 40+ different tests on Windows 7. Testing comes from every category of Web browsing perfromance I can think of: startup time, page load time, JS, CSS, DOM, HTML5, Flash, hardware acceleration, WebGL, Java, Silverlight, reliable page loads, memory usage/management, and standards confromance. The article also has a little feature on the Futuremark Peacekeeper browser benchmark. An open beta of the next revision has just been made public. This new version adds HTML5, video codecs, and WebGL tests to the benchmark. It's also designed to run on any browser/OS/device combination — e.g. Windows desktop, iPad, Droid 2, MacBook, Linux flavors, etc. Another great read, a must for Web browser fanatics!

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