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Motorola Moving to Android, Windows Mobile for Smartphones 136

Posted by Soulskill on Friday October 31, 2008 @10:14PM from the changing-horses dept.

nerdyH writes "Motorola will ditch its MotoMAGX Linux stack and UIQ Symbian stack in favor of Google's Android Linux/Java stack and Windows Mobile 6.5 and 7, it announced today. The news comes after five years selling millions of Linux phones in Asia, and after a year during which many of Motorola's top US phones used the homegrown Linux stack. Motorola's current Linux phones in the US include the RAZR2 v8, E8, EM30, U9, ZN4, and ZN5." This also comes alongside news that Motorola's financial hardships are causing them to cut 3,000 jobs. It also puts into perspective their recent plans to hire hundreds of Android developers.

Magnetic Portals Connect Sun and Earth 235

Posted by Soulskill on Friday October 31, 2008 @08:17PM from the no-cake-jokes-allowed dept.

MaxwellEdison writes "Scientists have discovered evidence of magnetic portals connecting the Earth and the Sun every 8 minutes. 'Several speakers at the Workshop have outlined how FTEs form: On the dayside of Earth (the side closest to the sun), Earth's magnetic field presses against the sun's magnetic field. Approximately every eight minutes, the two fields briefly merge or "reconnect," forming a portal through which particles can flow. The portal takes the form of a magnetic cylinder about as wide as Earth. The European Space Agency's fleet of four Cluster spacecraft and NASA's five THEMIS probes have flown through and surrounded these cylinders, measuring their dimensions and sensing the particles that shoot through.'"

Comment Humanscale Liberty Chair (Score 1) 742

by wesleywong on Thursday June 12, 2008 @04:25PM (#23769767) Attached to: Best Chair For Desktop Coding?

I've been using this chair for a couple of years now and love it. I first got it for work, but then ended up buying a couple for my parents. Like the Humanscale Freedom, the Liberty adjusts to your weight, applying the right amount of tension to your back and letting you shift into different positions with the right support. However, unlike the Freedom the Liberty has a mesh back which is cool and still supportive. And unlike most mesh-backed chairs (e.g. the Aeron), the Liberty back is made up of multiple pieces of mesh sown together to form a nice 3D shape (similar to how a suit obtains its 3D form from multiple flat pieces of fabric), so it does not need a separate lumbar support. Anyway, it's a great chair! Very sweet present, by the way. Good luck!

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