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Windows Phone Permanently Modifies MicroSD Cards, Warns Samsung 426

Posted by timothy on Sunday November 14, 2010 @02:33PM from the oh-didn't-we-mention-that dept.

dotancohen writes "Don't put your MicroSD cards into Windows Phones. According to Samsung, doing so is a 'permanent modification' to the card, and it can no longer be used in other devices."

Submission + - Google's Chiller-Less Data Center (datacenterknowledge.com)

Submitted by

1sockchuck

on Wednesday July 15, 2009 @01:20PM

1sockchuck writes: "Google has begun operating a data center in Belgium that has no chillers to support its cooling systems, which will improve energy efficiency but make weather forecasting a larger factor in its network management. With power use climbing, many data centers are using free cooling to reduce their reliance on power-hungry chillers. By foregoing chillers entirely, Google will need to reroute workloads if the weather in Belgium gets too warm. The facility also has its own water treatment plant so it doesn't need to use potable water from a local utility."

Submission + - Asus Launches Eee PC T91 Touch Screen Tablet PC (hothardware.com) 1

Submitted by

MojoKid

on Wednesday July 15, 2009 @10:21AM

MojoKid writes: "Asus today launched yet another addition to their Eee PC netbook product offering. The Eee PC T91 is unlike any Eee PC we've seen before, namely because the screen can be spun around and flipped down tablet PC style. This so-called "netvertible" sector is still in its earliest stages, making the T91 one of the first netbooks available that also doubles as a full-fledged Tablet PC. Unlike the Eee PC "Seashell" line, which is largely just a sleeker take on the tried-and-true Eee PC Netbook, the T91 takes a completely different approach to computing. Its 8.9" resistive touchscreen literally puts a new spin on the netbook and enables a new usage model versus a standard netbook."

Comment Re:Once upon a time (Score 1) 618

by MDaponte on Friday May 01, 2009 @11:17PM (#27795479) Attached to: A $99 Graphics Card Might Be All You Need

Amen!

Submission + - iPhone App Refund Policies Could Bankrupt Devs

Submitted by CBRcrash on Thursday March 26, 2009 @04:27PM

CBRcrash writes: Apparently, if iPhone users decide that they want a refund for an app (users can get a refund within 90 days, according to Apple policy), Apple requires that developers give back the money they received from the sale. But here's the kicker--Apple will refund the full amount to the user and says that it has the right to keep its commission. So the developer not only has to return the money for the sale, but also has to reimburse Apple for its commission.

Jurassic Web 430

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday February 25, 2009 @11:18AM from the set-the-wayback-machine dept.

theodp writes "It wasn't so long ago, but Slate's Farhad Manjoo notes that The Internet of 1996 is almost unrecognizable compared with what we have today. No YouTube, Digg, Huffington Post, Gawker, Google, Twitter, Facebook, or Wikipedia. In 1996, Americans with Internet access spent fewer than 30 minutes a month surfing the Web and were paying for the Internet by the hour. Today, Nielsen says we spend about 27 hours a month online (present company excepted, of course!)." I thought in 1996 all we did was idle in IRC channels while we wrote code in other terminals.

Sugar-Coated Drug-Dealing Game Approved For iPhone 73

Posted by timothy on Wednesday January 21, 2009 @04:11PM from the just-try-calling-your-suitcase-a-bomb-at-the-airport dept.

Pocket Gamer writes "Of course, Apple wouldn't allow such a salacious games as Dope Wars on the hallowed corridors of the App Store. What Catamount's done is sugarcoat its game (quite literally) and turned it into Prohibition 3: Candy Wars — a reskinned version of the exact same game."

Ubuntu Download Speeds Beat Windows XP's 515

Posted by timothy on Thursday January 15, 2009 @05:52PM from the aggregated-circumstances dept.

narramissic writes "Doing a download speed test of his Time Warner cable connection, James Gaskin discovered something odd, something that he is quick to note isn't a rigorous benchmarked lab test. The discovery: His Ubuntu machine 'returned a rating from the Bandwidth.com test of 22-25mbps over several tests' while the same test done from a Windows XP PC returned a rating of 12-14mbps. The two computers used in the test are 'almost identical: both off-lease Compaq small form factor D515s, part of the very popular corporate desktop D500 family. Both have Pentium 4 processors running at 2GHz. The Ubuntu machine has 768MB of RAM, while the XP box has only 512MB of RAM. Both run Firefox 3 as their browser.' Gaskin's question: Can a little extra RAM make that much difference in Internet download speeds or does Ubuntu handles networking that much faster than Windows XP?"

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