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by Faffe (#41292871) Attached to: Toys R Us Unveils Android Tablet For Kids
It certainly looks exactly like the Arnova Childpad, which i bought for about $130 a couple of months ago. It is now waiting for burial i the electronics graveyard, since it couldn't take a mild beating by a two year old. The screen has no marks, but is broken. I learned a few things about Android on the way though, since I've only had an iPhone and iPad previously (the Childpad was essentially bought so I could have the iPad to myself). "Tabeo store" means it's not Google certified, and thus will not run the Google Play store, and you won't have access to a lot of thing you'd normally take for granted, like Google maps, youtube, Gmail and the likes. The battery time also sucked, and the viewing angles were less than optimal. I won't be buying any Android devices not marked 'Nexus' in the future.
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How Neuros Built Their Nearly Silent HTPC 199

Posted by timothy from the more-power-than-my-best-machine dept.
JoeBorn writes "Neuros has a blog posting discussing how they created their latest 'thin' HTPC to be nearly silent. Instead of using a net-top architecture (Atom or the like) they used a full 2.7GHz CPU and put their effort into making that nearly silent. The article talks about their efforts on fan selection, placement, control, and vibration dampening. This route was chosen to 'give more headroom' for CPU-hungry apps (web and otherwise) including Adobe Flash. Their solution costs $279; is this an appropriate trade-off for a device powering your TV?"
Power

Largest Sodium Sulfur Battery Powers a Texas Town 301

Posted by kdawson from the where-were-you-when-the-lights-went-out dept.
separsons writes "The largest sodium sulfur battery in America, nicknamed 'BOB,' can provide enough electricity to power all of Presidio, Texas. Until now, the small town relied on a single 60-year-old transmission line to connect it to the grid, so the community frequently experienced power outages. BOB, which stands for 'Big-Old Battery,' began charging earlier this week. The house-sized battery can deliver four megawatts of power for up to eight hours. Utilities are looking into similar batteries to store power from solar and wind so that renewables can come online before the country implements a smart grid system."
Google

Google Hands Out Web Security Scanner 65

Posted by Soulskill from the like-giving-deodorant-to-your-special-friend dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Apparently feeling generous this week, Google has released for free another of their internally developed tools: this time, a nifty web security scanner dubbed skipfish. A vendor-sponsored study cited by InformationWeek discovered that 90% of all web applications are vulnerable to security attacks. Are Google's security people trying to change this?"
Google

Google Switching To EXT4 Filesystem 348

Posted by timothy from the make-money-with-open-source dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Google is in the process of upgrading their existing EXT2 filesystem to the new and improved EXT4 filesystem. Google has benchmarked three different filesystems — XFS, EXT4 and JFS. In their benchmarking, EXT4 and XFS performed equally well. However, in view of the easier upgrade path from EXT2 to EXT4, Google has decided to go ahead with EXT4."
Image

Norfolk Police Officers To Be Tagged To Improve Response Times 150

Posted by samzenpus from the car-54-I-know-exactly-where-you-are dept.
Police in Norfolk, England already have tracking units, The Automatic Vehicle Location System, installed in their cars that allow a control room to track their exact locations. Later this year a similar system will be attached to individual police radios to allow controllers to monitor the position of every frontline officer. Combined with equipment that can pinpoint the locations of 999 callers, the system will allow the force to home in on "shouts" to within yards. The system also lets operators filter a map showing the location of its vehicles and constables to reveal only those with the skills needed for a specific incident, like the closest officer with silver bullets during a werewolf attack.
Security

State of Colorado Calls Firefox Insecure, IE6 Safe 530

Posted by timothy from the sheeps'-bladders-may-be-used-to-prevent-earthquakes dept.
linuxkrn writes "The State of Colorado's Office of Technology (OIT) has set up a work skills website. The problem is that the site says 'DO NOT use FIREFOX or other Browsers besides IE. It has been decided that Mozilla based, non-IE browsers pose a security risk.' (Original emphasis from site.) If the leading IT agency for the State is making these uneducated claims, should the people worry about their other decisions?"

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