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Motorola CEO Blames Open Android Store For Phone Performance Ills 384

Posted by timothy on Thursday June 02, 2011 @09:39PM from the I-blame-samsung dept.

angry tapir writes "Motorola's CEO blamed the open Android app store for performance issues on some phones. Of all the Motorola Android devices that are returned, 70 percent come back because applications affect performance, Sanjay Jha, CEO of Motorola Mobility, said during a webcast presentation at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Global Technology conference."

Mono Comes To Android 257

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday April 06, 2011 @06:00PM from the here-have-some dept.

A reader writes "After releasing Monotouch for iPhone which allows c# development on iOS, Novell has announced the availability of Mono for Android. Will this give us the 'one language to rule them all' that Java failed to bring, or will the bad blood between the F/OSS groups and Microsoft make this a dead end?"

Comment Back to the failure (Score 1) 769

by rbgrn on Sunday March 13, 2011 @04:07PM (#35473844) Attached to: Japan Battles Partial Nuclear Meltdown

8 more people are now trapped in the modern day indefinitely as the 10 jiggawatts required to collectively power their time-travelling deloreans has been cut off at the plant.

Goodbye, HD Component Video 469

Posted by Soulskill on Friday February 18, 2011 @04:15PM from the pixels-are-a-privilege-not-a-right dept.

glogger writes "Jim Willcox, the video expert at Consumer Reports, bids farewell to our ability to get high-definition video via the analog component-video connections on Blu-ray players. Thanks to Hollywood pirate-paranoia, potentially millions of law-abiding viewers will have their choices restricted. Quoting: 'Hollywood studios now have the right to insert an ICT "flag" into a Blu-ray movie; if it detects that a player is using an analog connection that doesn't support HDCP, it downconverts the video's 1080p (1920 by 1080) native resolution to 960 by 540 (540p): better than DVD quality but only about one-quarter of full HD quality. This ensures that high-def video is available only through the copy-protected HDMI outputs.'"

DoE Develops Flexible Glass Stronger Than Steel 242

Posted by Soulskill on Monday January 17, 2011 @03:06PM from the whale-tested,-scotsman-approved dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Department of Energy Office of Science recently collaborated with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the California Institute of Technology to develop a resilient yet malleable new type of glass that is stronger than steel. The material can also be molded, and it bends when subjected to stress instead of shattering. The glass is actually a microalloy and features metallic elements such as palladium. This metal has a high 'bulk-to-shear' stiffness ratio that counteracts the intrinsic brittleness of glassy materials. The team that developed the material believes that by changing various ratios, they could make it even stronger."

How Allies Used Math Against German Tanks 330

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday October 26, 2010 @02:56PM from the tanks-for-the-memories dept.

Pepebuho writes "This an article about how the allies were able to estimate the number of German tanks produced in World War 2 based on the serial numbers of the tanks. Neat! Godwin does not apply."

Comment Moving to Graphene Valley (Score 1) 170

by rbgrn on Friday February 05, 2010 @01:28PM (#31036398) Attached to: Graphene Transistors 10x Faster Than Silicon

I'm moving to Graphene Valley before it gets overcrowded!

Submission + - Motorcycle accident results in bionic bottom. (telegraph.co.uk) 2

Submitted by Noishe on Saturday November 14, 2009 @05:11PM

Noishe writes: A man involved in a motorcycle accident in the UK has been given an alternative to the dreaded colostomy bag. He now carries around a remote control to activate his "bionic bottom" made out of muscles taken from above his knee. The muscles were wrapped around his sphincter and then attached to electrodes that are controlled by a remote control he now carries in his pocket.

Comment Re:Minnesota (Score 1) 364

by rbgrn on Thursday April 16, 2009 @12:23PM (#27599035) Attached to: Is Your Mood a Result of Where You Live?

Summers in Minnesota are among my favorite but the reason they feel so great is because winter was so awful! My long-term plan is to live 9 months out of the year in the SE or pacific NW and then spend as much time in minnesota as possible in the summer.

Comment Re:Umm... (Score 1) 480

by rbgrn on Saturday March 07, 2009 @05:59AM (#27103345) Attached to: Can SSDs Be Used For Software Development?

I'd say: "Programming is hard let's do Java"

"Java is hard. Let's do PHP."

Submission + - Nationwide domain name/yard sign conspiracy (rjmetrics.com) 1

Submitted by

robertjmoore

on Thursday November 06, 2008 @01:14PM

robertjmoore writes: "Everywhere I go lately, I see these lawn signs that say "Single?" and then give a URL with my town's name in it. Being a huge business intelligence geek with too much time on my hands, I decided to track down who was behind them and wound up uncovering ten thousand domain names, a massively coordinated and well-funded guerilla marketing machine, and the $45 Million revenue business hiding behind it all. Hot off the presses, these are my findings."

Submission + - Getting Started in Android Game Development (rbgrn.net)

Submitted by

rbgrn

on Thursday November 06, 2008 @01:06PM

rbgrn writes: "If you're interested in developing a game for the Android platform, there is a lot you need to know. If you have previous experience with game development, moving over to the Android platform won't be all that difficult. You will mostly just need to learn the architecture and API. If you're new to game development, Here is a list of must-knows for getting started in Android game development. This is a good starting point for developers seeking to write any type of mobile game."

Comment Am I a minority for actually enjoying vista? (Score 2, Informative) 776

by rbgrn on Thursday August 21, 2008 @06:28PM (#24696887) Attached to: Jerry Seinfeld Will Plug Vista

My Desktop OS History:

1985-1987 - CP/M
87-96 Various versions of DOS
93-present Linux, FreeBSD
96-98 Win95
98-2000 Win98
2000-2002 Win2000
2002-2008 WinXP
2008-present Vista SP1

Note the linux years there. I was running slackware before many knew linux existed. With that said, am I a minority for actually having a positive Vista experience? Yes, I have a powerful machine with lots of RAM, but so far I've found that I'm quicker to navigate and more productive in Vista than I ever was in XP. I run the 64 bit version and have had very few problems. I think many of the things they have done are a great improvement over previous versions of windows.

Does that make me evil?

Submission + - iCall brings seamless VoIP to iPhone users (techcrunch.com)

Submitted by

andrewmin

on Saturday June 07, 2008 @10:27AM

andrewmin writes: "iCall, a company well known for offering free VoIP calling for Windows users, has just announced the first iPhone app that offers free phone calls over WiFi. It's also one of the first legal (in other words, non-jailbroken) VoIP apps. I don't have an iPhone, but if I did, you can be assured that I'd be on this in a second."

Submission + - Product Review: Roku-Netflix Instant Movie Player (rbgrn.net) 1

Submitted by

Robert Green

on Saturday June 07, 2008 @02:42AM

Robert Green writes: "Following and complimenting the Netflix instant streaming video service for the PC, Roku has produced a Set-Top Box offering instant streaming of Netflix video to your home television set. The box costs only $99 and gives unlimited access to over ten thousand videos through subscriptions as low as $9/month. Set to compete with AppleTV (major announcement pending), it began shipping last week and here is one of the first reviews"

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