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2012-02-13T06:39:00.000-08:00

Today I was surprised when i open google and write the word "dj pendhek". In the first column is written as what is in the picture. Then I tried to get into the url and it turns out it is a site that does not use advertising payments. Then I signed up on the site, and do you know?

People don't like online ads, are not interested in ads and do not click on ads.
According to the Pew Project for American Journalism annual report for 2010, the vast majority of Internet users, 79%, say they never or rarely had clicked on an online advertisement. They don't mind them. They simply ignore them.
Do you know why? The reason is simple: Readers come for editorial content, not for the ads. I want you to try thinking of yourself. When you go online, do you go for advertisements or for editorial content? Do you click on ads or on editorial links?
Then why online marketers continue to use ads as the main way to reach their target audience, and why publishers continue to use ads as the main way to monetize their content? It's because online marketers and publishers copied the way offline newspapers monetize content - ads.

natural therapies

2012-02-11T05:08:00.000-08:00

naturaltherapyforall is a health website in the field of therapy. This site is very reliable because it has a therapist who is very reliable and trustworthy in the uk. therapy other than that used on the site is very different from existing therapies on the site - other sites. Do not forget to visit naturaltherapyforall and what if you want to try hypnotherapy, you can visit hypnotherapy in manchester . if you interested acupuncture you can visit acupuncture in london

ARM Chips to Power Exascale Supercomputer Built by European Consortium

2011-10-27T03:25:00.000-07:00

A consortium comprised of leading computing companies in Europe and research institutes, has just announced that it plans to develop a new type of computer architecture based on ARM processors that will be able to deliver exascale performance while using 15 to 30 times less energy than today's systems.

This new project, called Mont-Blanc, is coordinated by the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) and has a budget of over 14 million Euros, including over 8 million Euros funded by the European Commission.

Its main goals are to develop a fully functional energy-efficient HPC prototype using low-power ARM cores already available in today's embedded devices and to overcome the limitations identified in this prototype machine, as well as to built the exascale applications required to take advantage of this system.

Energy efficiency is a key aspect of the system, as this is expected to be able to deliver 1000 PF (1 Exaflops/s) in 2020 with a power budget of 20MW.

“First, we must take into account that not all energy is used for computing within the cores. In current systems the processors consume the lion's share of the energy, often 40% or more,” says Alex Ramirez, leader of the Mont-Blanc project.

“The remaining energy is used to power up the memory, interconnection network, and storage system.

“Furthermore, a significant fraction is wasted in power supply overheads, and in thermal dissipation (cooling), which do not contribute to performance at all,” concluded Mr. Ramirez.

The Mont-Blanc project brings hardware companies such as Bull, a major HPC system vendor, ARM, a company well known for its energy-efficient processors, and Gnodal, which will develop the interconnect used in the exasclae machine.

Besides the technology providers, Mont-Blanc unites supercomputing centres from the four Tier-0 hosting partners in PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe) who have roles in system software and exascale application development.

In order to assess the different hardware and software components made available during the project, an incremental approach will be used, working on both the porting and the optimization of small kernels, and then on end-users scientific applications

Apple Store Down - 26/10/2011

2011-10-26T01:31:00.000-07:00

The online Apple Store is down in several territories around the world, including the United States, where the yellow sticky sign is up with the message “we’ll be back soon”.

The giant computer company headquartered at 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, California has posted its famous message saying “We are busy updating the store for you and will be back shortly” which generally signals that something new is up.

And while we’re generally left guessing what that something is, this time around we may have a clue.

It has been revealed this week that Apple plans to roll out a new service that allows customers to order stuff online and pick it up personally from their local Apple Store.

Kicking off in the San Francisco area first, the program also accepts returns of products ordered online.

People familiar with the situation say the initiative will eventually expand to all stores across the United States. Clients will be able to pick up Macintosh computers that were purchased as build-to-order options, as well as gift-wrapped items or engraved devices

The third-party accessories generally found throughout Apple stores also fall under the new initiative.

Apple will require an online receipt and ID to allow the customer to complete his / her in-store pickup. Clients, for their part, can let someone else do the picking up for them, as long as that person comes in-store carrying the aforementioned proof-of-purchase.

While I expect this change to be the main reason behind Apple’s move to take down the online store to make the necessary interface adjustments, we can always hope Apple will surprise us with a new product announcement or upgrade.

Granted, that’s not very likely as Apple just recently updated the MacBook Pro line, and there are no signs of any new upgrades on the horizon for the near term.

how to explore your skill at the art class

2011-10-25T02:51:00.000-07:00

okey, to day i'll share u to be good student at the art class.
first u must be serious with ur self, u must have to explore u skill.about skill u must be confidence with ur self,if u want, u can be another person, but u must be ur self at ur home.
u can be another person like famous people, then u can explore ur skill, okey thank

Microsoft Roslyn CTP Walkthroughs Available

2011-10-25T02:32:00.000-07:00

Microsoft is providing a collection of free resources designed to simplify testing of the Roslyn Community Technology Preview for developers.

Early adopters looking for a tad of help with the recently released Roslyn CTP can head over to the Microsoft Download Center and grab a set of walkthroughs available free of charge, just as the CTP.

With Roslyn, the software giant is working to provide developers with a complier as service. This is valid for both C# and Visual Basic.

Essentially, what the Redmond company has done is to rewrite the C# and Visual Basic compilers with Roslyn, from scratch, in order to open up the technologies.

Developers that test the Roslyn CTP will find that Microsoft has moved beyond C++, and that the company implemented the C# compiler in C# and the Visual Basic compiler in Visual Basic, respectively.

In this regard, Roslyn enables devs to take advantage of a range of new APIs (application programming interfaces) designed to expose various stages of the complier as a service.

The Microsoft "Roslyn" CTP walkthroughs provide insight on a number of topics, including semantic analysis, syntax analysis, syntax transformation, etc. for both C# and VB.

“Developers haven’t been privy to the intermediate knowledge that the compiler itself generates as part of the compilation process, and yet such rich data is incredibly valuable for building the kinds of higher-level services and tools we’ve come to expect in modern day development environments like Visual Studio,” revealed S. Somasegar, the corporate vice president of the Developer Division at Microsoft.

“With these compiler rewrites, the Roslyn compilers become services exposed for general consumption, with all of that internal compiler-discovered knowledge made available for developers and their tools to harness. The stages of the compiler for parsing, for doing semantic analysis, for binding, and for IL emitting are all exposed to developers via rich managed APIs.”

The Roslyn Project CTP is available for download here.

AMD Develops New Platforms for Ultrabook-Like Laptops

2011-10-24T22:01:00.000-07:00

While Intel most certainly gets all the credit for coming up with the Ultrabook concept and marketing it in the notebook market, AMD is by no means going to overlook this sector and in 2012 and 2013 will introduce a series of APUs that are destined to power its own Ultrabook-like laptops.

AMD hopes that in this way it will be able to improve its position in the notebook market, where it currently holds about a 10% share.

According to DigiTimes, the Sunnyvale-based chip maker plans to introduce two platforms for this type of ultra-thin products, the first coming in June of 2012 and going by the name of Deccan, while the latter will be released in 2013 and is known under the code-name of Kerala.

Most of you are already accustomed with Deccan as we detailed this platform in series of previous reports, but I will still go through a quick refresher for those of you that aren't all that familiar with the subject.

Deccan is comprised out of the Wichita-based APUs and of the Yuca FCH, and the former will include up to four processing cores, a built-in graphics core as well as some of the I/O functionality usually found in the FCH controller.

As far as the 2013 Kerala platform is concerned, information is scarce at this point in time, but it will most probably use a system-on-a-chip (SoC) design, just as is the case with Wichita.

We also know from previous leaks to reached the Web that the Kabini APU used for this platform will be based on the AMD Jaguar CPU core architecture with support for DDR3 memory.

Both of these platforms will have to go ahead against some strong opposition as it seems that March 2012 will mark the introduction of Intel's Ivy Bridge processors, while in 2013 AMD will have to compete with Haswell.

The two Intel processor architectures will bring an impressive series of improvements to the table, including much lower power consumption, so AMD will really have to step up its game if it wants to make it in the Ultrabook space.

Intel Opens 'Green' Energy and Sustainability Lab in Ireland

2011-10-15T23:14:00.000-07:00

Intel has recently announced the creation of a new laboratory at the company's Leixlip campus near Dublin, Ireland, that will be dedicated to the research of new ways to apply Intel's technology to a low-carbon emission economy.

The Intel Energy and Sustainability Lab (ESL) was announced by Intel Chief Technology Officer Justin Rattner and Taoiseach Enda Kenny together with European Union Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science, Máire Geoghegan Quinn.

“Energy and Sustainability are two of the biggest challenges in our world today – we are delighted to be leading the research to solve these major challenges from Europe,” said Martin Curley who is Director of Intel Labs Europe.

“We have helped create a new nascent ecosystem for accelerating our collective progress towards achieving a goal of a much more sustainable and energy efficient society,” concluded the company's rep.

One of the focus areas of the Energy and Sustainability Lab is the ‘Personal Energy Management’ research program which drives research into energy management solutions for future smart grids.

Together with the announcement of the new lab, Intel also showcased a number of research projects that were run in this field.

These included studies regarding the integration and optimization of electric vehicles into Ireland’s energy system, and an easy to use Wireless Energy Sensing Technology (WEST) devices that monitors energy usage in the home and provides users with the said information.

These were accompanied by the Personal Office Energy Manager (POEM) device, which provides office users with a holistic, visual and numeric representation of the amount of energy an individual is consuming, which will enter a pilot program in November with a large French utility company.

When ESL will begin its activity it will add to the more than two dozen R&D locations held by Intel throughout Europe, and to the 1,500 researchers working in these facilities. (via EETimes)

BitDefender Internet Security 2012 Review

2011-10-15T23:10:00.000-07:00

Internet Security 2012 suite is marked as BitDefender’s most popular product, and the list of features sure seems to back this up. The bundle is versatile and integrates not only defense against all types of malware, but also spam filtering, firewall protection, parental controls and firewall protection.

Priced at $49.95 (€30) 1 year/1 PC, the suite features an easier install procedure that requires little input from the user. You don’t have to go through complicated configuration wizards and the initial scan takes place before the actual installation of the product begins.

The method takes advantage of cloud-scanning technology included in the installer file, which also doubles as a downloader. The result is simultaneous verification of the system and downloading of the application files. You can see the progress for both activities and monitor the advancement of the installation.

If you have Opera, Thunderbird or Firefox running you’ll be prompted to close them for the entire procedure to complete. On clean systems no restart is required, but if malware is encountered you have to reboot the computer in order to clean up the threats.

The interface is extremely attractive and handling of all protection layers has been drastically simplified up to the point that even a beginner user can deal with most of the options.

With Auto Pilot turned on by default you won’t be bothered by any popups as the application automatically fixes critical issues for you. It may not take the best of decisions at all times, as we’ve seen during our tests, but it will definitely block anything acting suspicious on your system.

Should something not work right, you can correct the problem by simply finding it in the events list, in the main application window. From this panel you can allow the blocked actions for specific programs or restore false positive, if it’s the case, and in our case it was the case several times.

The suite comes with a versatile scan module, which offers all regular checks (quick scan, full scan, custom and vulnerability scan) and something on the side, called Rescue Mode. This is a powerful option as it can verify your system offline, before Windows kicks in, without the need to create a boot rescue disc.



During our on-demand tests BitDefender showed similar detection rate as in the case of Kaspersky and Panda equivalents, but lower than what the double-engine powering Emsisoft Anti-Malware managed to uncover.

We used the larger sample base, which included 371 threats. After the scan and the cleaning routine, BitDefender left standing a number of 27 items. However, its work was not done, yet, because it reported threats it could not eliminate on the spot and required a system restart to carry out the job.

After the reboot the total amount of malware still available on our disks was 19, 9 less than what it had left initially. All this adds up to a pretty good detection rate, of 95.1%, second highest in our testing until now.

The firewall was not as great as the antivirus engine, but it did a good job when faced against our leak tests. It prevented modification of the physical memory and injecting malicious DLLs as well as modification of the default browser in order to connect to the Internet.

On the other hand, it failed to block injection attempts, which is not too bad since behavior-based detection would report the threats. More elaborate methods like modifying an operating system object in memory, however, could not be stopped.

Tweaking up this module is accessible to beginner users by setting different sprotection levels for the Intrusion Detection System, as well as experts through the advanced configuration panel.



Users falling in the latter category are able to define rules for applications and restrict connections based on protocol, local and remote address, type of event or IP version. Network adapter rules can also be enforced.

Anti-spam module does not present a challenge as far as configuration is concerned, either. You have three sensitivity levels and on/off knobs for heuristic filtering, link filtering and blocking emails written in Asian and Cyrillic characters.

Spam filtering relies on detection in the cloud for speedy processing and low impact on performance. Our recommendation is to keep this setting enabled. Also, you can choose to submit spam samples to BitDefender cloud for a closer analysis and improved filtering in the future.

It integrates in Outlook, Windows Mail and Thunderbird, the result being a toolbar pinned in these applications’ interface. The toolbar allows you to mark messages as spam or legitimate email as well as create a list of spammers and friends.

During our tests on a batch of over 1000 emails we noticed that the filtering is accurate enough not to mistreat legitimate email. This does not mean you don’t have to deal with spam anymore, since it did let some of it into our inbox. However, this is better than having to fish them out of the trash folder.

The package comes with pretty good parental controls. The module is highly intuitive and does not require too much effort or time to configure. It comes with predefined profiles, each having restrictions imposed according to the age of the user.

You have the possibility to create your own list of websites that should be allowed or blocked as well as impose restrictions to application usage. Keyword control is also available in the module allowing you to block inappropriate words.

A very important part of this layer is the Categories section, where you can impose restrictions to websites with a certain specific: gambling, online shopping, social networks (Facebook and Twitter), news and even search engines (the popular ones as long as it is not an encrypted connection (https://, as well less popular ones such as Yandex).



Internet access can also be subject to restrictions, so you can set up a schedule and impose time limits. Unfortunately, the interface may give you trouble with the selection of days and hours as deselecting the boxes is not done as smoothly as in other suites featuring this component.

Prevention leakage of personal information is included in the Privacy Control module of the suite. This includes protection against phishing, which is one of the best we’ve seen. Additionally, you can safeguard data such as email addresses, PINs, SSNs, passwords, phone numbers and anything else you wish; it will not be delivered outside your computer via HTTP, SMTP or IM traffic.

BitDefender toolbar is among the top features of this module, as it integrates in the browser and keeps an eye on the traffic and also lets you start a virtualized instance of the web browser. It is responsible to uncover phishing attempts, block pages that contain malware and offer warnings about shady results in the search engines.

We spotted it placed comfortably in all four major browsers, IE, Chrome, Firefox and Opera. However, in the case of the latter integration is not one of the best. It took several attempts to start a virtualized session of Opera, whereas with the other everything worked fine most times. You’ll notice you running the application in the sandbox because the app is enclosed in a black and white border.

Still on the downside, you may not see it tucked in the upper part of the screen on websites featuring dark colored bands like the navigation bar in Google.



The Good

Great detection rate combined with a pretty good firewall and the possibility to sandbox your default browser make from this security a wise choice. Rescue Mode allows you to run scans before booting into Windows, without burning a bootable disc.

Also, it comes with Safego utility, which is designed to keep your Facebook social life safe from online threats. The intuitive interface makes every module easy to handle and configure.

When in Auto Pilot mode you will not be bothered by messages or alerts. All events are handled automatically based on the current settings and actions are recorded; you also have the possibility to correct misclassification of files and actions.

The Bad

BitDefender Toolbar gave us trouble with the latest Opera and failed to launch a sandboxed instance of the browser on multiple terms. Also, there is no virtualization for running suspicious programs.

Setting up web access schedule in Parental Control module could be done in an easier fashion.

The Truth

BitDefender Internet Security 2012 has everything a user needs to keep the computer safe from malware. It is designed with the home user in mind but does not neglect the needs of a savvy computer user, either.

In terms of features there is little it falls short of compared to other security suite on the market, but compensates through ease of use and the Auto Pilot which takes good decisions automatically.

Samsung GT-i9250T / GT-i9250M (Nexus Prime) Receive WiFi Certification

2011-10-15T23:02:00.000-07:00

Samsung and Google are expected to bring to the market in the near future a new smartphone that would run under Android, one that should become the next Google Phone, namely the Nexus Prime.

Apparently, there are various versions of this device that will arrive on shelves soon, and which have already started to receive the necessary approvals that will enable Samsung start selling them.

The Samsung GT-i9250T / GT-i9250M flavors, for example, have both received the WiFi certification recently, and both offer WiFi 802.11 a/b/g/n connectivity.

Apparently, the GT-i9250M model is expected to arrive on shelves in Canada, while the GT-i9250T variant might arrive on the market in Australia at Telstra.

For the time being, no specific info on this emerged, but the device should become official as soon as next week, so stay tuned to learn more details on the matter.

AMD Could Turn to TSMC for Upcoming Bulldozer CPUs

2011-10-15T02:13:00.000-07:00

All the manufacturing issues that have affected Globalfoundries' 32 nm HKMG chip fabrication process seem to have made AMD to reconsider its feature strategy since the company is now rumored to be considering TSMC for the manufacturing of its upcoming Bulldozer processors.

This information comes from the Turkish Donanim Haber website, which states that it has found out from some unnamed sources that AMD is seeking to expand its ties with TSMC.

The chip maker is reportedly interested on turning to TSMC for manufacturing its upcoming processors based on the Bulldozer architecture, as it has come to be dissatisfied with the performance achieved by Globalfoundries with its 32nm HKMG fabrication process.

Right now, the Taiwanese foundry produces accelerated processing units from AMD's C- and E-Series, but this would be the first time that the chip maker would rely on TSMC for building a chip as complex as Bulldozer.

We first heard about AMD's troubles with the Globalfoundries at the end of September when Thomas Seifert, CFO and former interim CEO of AMD, said the outfit he works for is disappointed with the 32nm production performance achieved by foundry.

Since then, we have seen AMD having to adjust its projections for Q3 revenue in order to make up for the poor yields achieved in the production of the Llano APUs.

These yield issues also led AMD to revise its chip fabrication deal with Globalfoundries in April of this year in order to pay only for the good chips that are manufactured by GloFlo and not for the wafers coming out of production.

Considering the recent issues faced by the Globalfoundries it would make a lot of sense for AMD to search for another partner for the fabrication of its CPUs, but there are a few things that make TSMC an unlikely candidate.

The first one is that even if the foundry has managed to deploy the HKMG (high-K metal gate transistor) technology in production this is only in its infancy, and, even more importantly, TSMC doesn't have a 32nm bulk node, as this was scrapped in favor of 28nm.

Redesigning a chip for 28nm manufacturing is a price and lengthy process, so I doubt that AMD has the resources required for such a transition at this point in time.

AVG Report: Digital Currency Is a New Target for Cybercriminals

2011-10-15T02:09:00.000-07:00

AVG released its Q3 report in which they highlight the new monetization ways deployed by criminal masterminds that look for a quick profit using minimal resources, a thing that can be achieved easily thanks to the latest technological advancements.

Apart from the Zynga coins or Facebook credits, which are the new craze among hackers, it looks as Facebook clipjacking and Blackhole attacks are also taking off, in March 2011, 8 million incidents being detected.

The numbers from the study show that rogue AVs are the main threat recorded in the third quarter of 2011, closely followed by Blackhole exploit kits (17%) and, our favorite, social engineering (13%). Pharmacy spam sites, even though relatively old, still haven't died out yet, occupying the forth position in the chart.

AutoRun (11%) and Downadup (5%) don't seem to affect only Romania, the global graph showing they take on first and third positions, our friends Sality and Fake Alert proudly completing the poll.

Out of all the malware in the world, Trojans seem to be the most prevalent, taking up almost half the chart, Spyware, Downloaders, and Adwares being far behind.

Surprisingly, Blackhole is not the leader of the exploit kits anymore as Fragus is the new ruler, being spotted in 42% of the hits.

Com.noshufu.android.su clearly wins the battle of Android malicious applications, identified by AVG threat labs with 45%, followed by com.z4mod.z4root with only 7%.

When it comes to spam sources, the US is still well in the lead and speaking of America, Hotmail is the number one domain utilized in spam messages while English remains the preferred language.

Blackhole attacks have a whole chapter to themselves in the report, underground research revealing that a kit lent from Russia can cost about $1500 (1000 EUR) per year. It's powered by PHP and MySQL and it can easily target Windows systems by exploiting vulnerabilities in Java, Adobe products and Internet Explorer.

Huawei U2801 and U8350 ‘Boulder’ Headed to WIND Mobile

2011-10-15T02:04:00.000-07:00

It looks like WIND Mobile plans to release two new Huawei budget-friendly handsets in the coming weeks.

According to a “webinar” for both phones, leaked courtesy to the folks over at HowardForums, Huawei U2801 and Huawei U8350 will soon be introduced by WIND Mobile.

Unfortunately, neither offer impressive features, so customers who want a cheap device without any fancy functions can give one of these phones a chance.

Little is known about the Huawei U2801, but it appears this is just a basic feature-phone that will replace the U1250, which is still available for purchase via WIND Mobile.

On the other hand, the second device, Huawei U8350, also known as Boulder (not Bolder), is a cheap Android smartphone.

According to Huawei, the Boulder is equipped with a disappointing 528 MHz MSM7225 manufactured by Qualcomm.

In addition, Huawei U8350 is powered by Google's Android 2.2 Froyo operating system and comes with a 2.6-inch capacitive touchscreen with 262k colors and 320 x 240 pixels resolution.

The phone has a Blackberry-esque form factor and comes with a full portrait QWERTY keyboard that will probably make heavy texters very happy.

It also packs 512 MB of ROM, 256 MB of RAM, as well as microSD card slot for memory expansion (up to 32GB).

There's also a 3.2-megapixel photo snapper on the back with video recording capabilities and geo-tagging.

The Boulder is sleek at only 9.9 mm thickness and weighs just 105g (battery included).

Other highlights of the phone include: Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Wi-Fi hotspot, HSDPA support, Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP support and built-in GPS receiver.

The Boulder was officially announced back in June, but only made it to the market this month.

There are no details about the phone's price options, but WIND Mobile should not retail this one for more than $200 (about 145 EUR).

BlackBerry Bold 9790 and Curve 9380 Unveiled

2011-10-15T01:58:00.000-07:00

Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion is getting ready for the release of new devices running under the BlackBerry 7 OS, and the company has just unveiled some info on them, even if it did not make an official announcement on these smartphones.

We're referring here to the BlackBerry Bold 9790 and Curve 9380 smartphone that should become official soon, and which have just got simulators available for developers to test their applications on.

Boasting a 480 x 360 pixels resolution, the handset will arrive on shelves with touch support, as well as with the popular QWERTY keyboard that other Bold handsets include.

As for the Curve 9380 smartphone, is should land on shelves with a 3.2-inch touchscreen display that boasts the same resolution as the Bold 9790. The smartphone will offer support for BlackBerry Torch 9800 smartphone applications.

“New BlackBerry 7 OS smartphones are getting ready to launch, and to assist our developer community in preparing for this, we are posting device information, simulators, and opening up the BlackBerry App World storefront for submissions,” RIM notes in a blog post.

The first handsets based on the BlackBerry 7 OS platform were launched only recently, and they already started to arrive on the market. RIM also launched the BlackBerry 7 SDK for offering developers the possibility to come up with software for the new devices.

“To enable developers to start testing and optimizing their BlackBerry applications for two upcoming smartphones, we are now releasing a beta of the new BlackBerry simulators,” the mobile phone maker notes.

“In addition, we have opened up BlackBerry App World to enable vendors to start posting their applications for sale in time to be included for consideration in launch activities for both of these upcoming devices.”

More information on the matter can be found in the BlackBerry Developer Zone.

Motorola XOOM 4G Software Update Details

2011-10-13T19:53:00.000-07:00

Although Verizon and Motorola promised that the XOOM will receive its 4G upgrade earlier this spring, the upgrading process was delayed until September.

Verizon customers who own Motorola XOOM tablet started to receive emails about the upcoming upgrading process several weeks ago.

The emails were pretty explanatory and advised XOOM users to back up their data before sending the tablets to Verizon for the upgrade.

However, Verizon Motorola XOOM received more than just a new piece of hardware, but the carrier did not disclosed any details regarding the software changes that the tablets will receive, at that time.

Two weeks after the upgrading process has started Verizon decided to go public with the software changed that will be added to all XOOM 4G tablets.

In this regard, software update HLK75D for Motorola XOOM 4G brings the following improvements and bug fixes:

Device Features

- Android Market has been updated;
- When toggling between Airplane Mode, you will no longer receive the following error message: “Wrong Operator: SIM card is from an unknown source;”
- After performing an over-the-air (OTA) update, the Android Market shortcut on the homescreen works correctly;
- Android Books app has been upgraded;
- Android Market Terms and Condition text is now easier to read against background color;
- Android Market app now updates on its own.

Web Browsing

- Improvements in browser security help to block rogue certificates;
- Enhancements to the 3G/4G data connection help prevent data stalls.

Even though the new 4G LTE radio is the main improvement of Motorola XOOM 4G, it's nice that several connectivity bugs were also addressed and the new version of Android Market received the ability to automatically upgrade to the latest iteration.

More details about the latest software update for Motorola XOOM 4G can be found on Verizon's support site.

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2011-10-13T19:24:00.000-07:00

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CyanogenMod Brings Android to HP TouchPad

2011-10-13T03:08:00.000-07:00

HP might have announced that they planned on killing off the HP TouchPad business, but enthusiasts would just not leave the tablet PC die.

An Android port for the device is now under development, and should soon offer users the possibility to run Google's mobile operating system on it.

The TouchPad was designed with the webOS platform on it, but it seems that it would be able to run the Android OS pretty nicely too.

Coming from CyanogenMod, the first port for the TouchPad brought along the Android 2.3.5 mobile operating system on the device, though it appears that there are some issues that still need to be solved.

According to some of the first reports on the matter, the touchscreen driver is one of the issues at the moment, but it should not be too long before a solution is found for it.

Some more info on how things look at the moment can be found on the video below, though there is no telling on how fast things will evolve towards a release of this port.

For the time being, the team says that they are focused on solving issues that prevent the Android port from being completely usable on the device, such as the aforementioned touchscreen driver.

CyanogenMod warned that it might take a long while before they manage to accomplish their goal, so enthusiasts will have to put their patience to the test for the time being.

As stated above, the port is based on Android 2.3.5, the platform version that was aimed mainly at smartphones, and not tablet PCs.

Without a source code for the Honeycomb OS flavor, it will take even longer before the TouchPad sees an Android 3.0 port, though things might become reality in this area as well.

For the time being, those who might have been dreaming of loading Android on their TouchPad devices should have a look at the video below to learn more on what it is all about at the moment. Stay tuned for more info on the matter

TouchPads Ship with Android, HP Doesn't Know Why

2011-10-13T03:05:00.002-07:00

The TouchPad is dead in HP's books, but it seems that it still continues to live, and that Google's Android operating system has already provided it with a helping hand.

To be more precise, some of the devices that have recently started to arrive in users’ hands, following the huge price cut that HP operated to it, came with Android on board, and not with the usual webOS platform.

As one can easily imagine, customers were surprised to find their devices being powered by a different mobile platform than the one they should have been running under, yet it seems that HP has no idea on why or how this happened.

As soon as they received the TouchPad with Android on board, some developers emailed HP and asked the company to provide the kernel source for the OS flavor that shipped with the device.

However, HP’s Phil Rob, director of the company’s open-source program, responded stating that the company did not authorize the loading of Android on these devices, and that they will not send the source code.

"Regarding your specific request for source code below, I must decline at the present time. HP has never authorized the distribution of any binaries for Android in association with the HP Touchpad,” he reportedly stated.

“Therefore, HP is not under any license obligation to provide any corresponding Android source code to you.

“We presently believe that some person or persons unknown may have facilitated the delivery of these Android-based units strictly against the policy and authorization of HP.”

To add fuel to the fire, the same developers spotted the Qualcomm logo at device start up, and asked some explanations on the matter, but the chip maker says that they have no connection with the TouchPad.

One thing that is certain is that strange things are happening with HP lately, with all the changes in strategy and a new CEO, yet more light on this should be shed soon, so keep an eye on this space for more.

TouchPads Ship with Android, HP Doesn't Know Why

2011-10-13T03:05:00.000-07:00

97.2% of All Tablet Internet Traffic Comes from iPads

2011-10-11T23:34:00.000-07:00

ComScore has released figures that show just how popular Apple’s iPad is compared to competing tablets, revealing that Apple’s slate-shaped computer accounts for 97.2 percent of US-based internet traffic generated by tablet devices.

The figures confirm that Apple’s iPad is kicking Android butt even harder than anticipated, and may even suggest that owners of an Android tablet don’t use their device on the web all that much.

Regardless, comScore has also calculated that the iPad now accounts for more US internet traffic even than the iPhone.

Some 46.8 percent of iOS device traffic comes exclusively from iPads, while 42.6 percent comes from iPhones.

iOS devices make for 43.1 percent of all mobile devices in the US. Android accounts for 34.1 percent. They also found that nearly 3 out of 5 tablet owners consume news on their tablets.

ComScore said that “58 percent of tablet owners consumed world, national or local news on their devices, with 1 in 4 consuming this content on a near-daily basis on their tablets.”

Tablets also facilitate real-time social networking, ComScore said, with nearly 3 in 5 tablet owners updating their social networking status or commenting on others’ via their device during September.

With Facebook now on the iPad, you can expect things to go even further for the Apple camp.  

“The popularization of smartphones and the introduction of tablets and other web-enabled devices – collectively termed ‘connected devices’ – have contributed to an explosion in digital media consumption. As these devices gain adoption, we have also seen the rise of the ‘digital omnivores’ – consumers who access content through several touchpoints during the course of their daily digital lives.” said Mark Donovan, comScore senior vice president of mobile.

“In order to meet the needs of these consumers, advertisers and publishers must learn to navigate this new landscape so they develop cross-platform strategies to effectively engage their audiences,” added Donovan.

AMD Postpones the Radeon HD 7000 Launch to 2012 Says Rumor Mill

2011-10-11T23:31:00.000-07:00

AMD may be forced to postpone the launch of the next-generation Radeon HD 7000 graphics cards to 2012, says a series of rumors that have recently hit the Web and which blame the problems TSMC has with its 28nm chip fabrication node.

AMD has promised time and time again that the Radeon HD 7000 series will arrive by the end of this year, but rumors regarding the delay of these GPUs started circulating since mid-September.

Much like this latest Hardcore Hardware report, the previous rumors also blamed TSMC's low 28nm yields for the delay, as well as the foundry's limited wafer production capacity for this node.

The large die size and complex design of the HD 7000-series GPUs is also a problem for TSMC, so it had focused its attention on building less complex 28nm chips.

In addition to detailing the troubles faced by AMD with the production of the Radeon HD 7000 graphics cores, the report also comes to dismiss previous claims that suggested the Sunnyvale-based chip maker wanted to pair these GPUs with XDR2 memory developed by Rambus.

Instead, AMD has decided to stick with GDDR5, but this time it will go for a 384-bit wide memory bus in order to improve the bandwidth available to the GPU.

No other information about AMD's next-generation graphics card series is available at this point in time, but from the previous leaks that found their way to the Web, we now know that AMD's Radeon HD 7000 product family will use two different architectures.

The first solutions to arrive will use the VLIW4 shader arrangement introduced with the Radeon HD 6900 series, and these will be known under the code names of Lombok and Thames.

Later in 2012, AMD will also introduce the company's first graphics cards based on the Next Generation Core (NCG) architecture, which was detailed at the Fusion Developer Summit.

This architecture will be used in the Tahiti GPU, that will also spawn a Radeon HD 6990 replacement known under the code name of New Zealand.

Google Pays for Most of Firefox's Development and This Won't Change Soon

2011-10-11T23:28:00.000-07:00

It's not much of a secret to anyone that's been interested in it, but Mozilla makes most of its money, 98 percent of it last year, from the search deals it has with search engines and a couple of ecommerce websites.

It's perhaps a bit ironic that Google is funding the development of its main rival in the browser market, but the arrangement makes sense for both parties and will likely continue as is for many years to come.

Mozilla revealed in its yearly State of Mozilla report that it made $123 million, EUR 136 million, in 2010 about 18 percent more than in the previous year.

"The majority of Mozilla’s revenue is generated from search functionality included in our Firefox product through all major search partners," it said in the report.

Mozilla reveals these numbers in fall of each year for the year before that, so they may be a bit old. But they're relevant nonetheless.

Of 2010's revenue, the vast majority, 98.45 percent, came from royalty payments, aka money from the search providers included in the Firefox search box.

Mozilla gets a small amount of money every time a user starts a search via the Firefox search box or the Awesomebar. The search engines that are included by default all pay for each user that Firefox sends their way.

In most countries, Google is the default option, while other choices are Yahoo, Bing, Amazon and eBay. Very recently, as of Firefox 7, Twitter is also included as a built-in search option. The financial nature of the Twitter deal, if any, is unknown.

In Russia and Russian-speaking countries Yandex is the default option instead of Google and in some places in Asia, Yahoo is preferred. The choice is based only on the respective search engine's standings in a country.

With a few hundred million users, Mozilla manages to bring in quite a tidy sum and funds Firefox but also projects such as Thunderbird and broader web initiatives, such as BrowserID.

Mozilla is dependent on search money, most of which come from Google. So, for the longest time, a favorite doomsday scenario for those that enjoy engaging in these things has been, what if Google stopped paying Mozilla.

"We currently have partnerships with a number of search providers that differ by market. Our largest contract, with Google, comes up for renewal in November," Mozilla revealed.

"We have every confidence that search partnerships will remain a solid generator of revenue for Mozilla for the foreseeable future," it said.

Google Chrome's success makes this scenario seem more plausible, but it doesn't stand up to scrutiny.

The fact is, Google benefits from the many billions of searches that Firefox sends its way. Some studies determined that Google's search volume which originated from the Firefox search box, was bigger than both Bing's and Yahoo's total volume.

Google would not have anything to gain by stopping to pay for these searches and it would not help Google Chrome gain any more market share either.

BlackBerry Network Outage Hits Day 3 - 10/12/2011

2011-10-11T23:24:00.000-07:00

Starting Monday when BlackBerry owners were unable to access their emails, BBM services or any other application that requires data connectivity, BlackBerry network was up and down in most regions of the world.

Even though at first the outage affected only Europe, Middle East and Africa, as of yesterday it moved to South America, Canada and the United States.

Services were temporarily restored in some countries on October 11, but then BlackBerry services have started to drop in countries that were not affected initially.

Research in Motion issued a few official statements apologizing for the issue and confirmed that its services were fully restored in the EMEA region.

However, as the problems persist, RIM issued a third statement that gives some insight into the matter:

The messaging and browsing delays being experienced by BlackBerry users in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, India, Brazil, Chile and Argentina were caused by a core switch failure within RIM’s infrastructure.Although the system is designed to failover to a back-up switch, the failover did not function as previously tested. As a result, a large backlog of data was generated and we are now working to clear that backlog and restore normal service as quickly as possible. We apologize for any inconvenience and we will continue to keep you informed.

If you're affected, let us know in the comments and make sure you state your location.

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2011-10-11T22:58:00.000-07:00

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No Android 3.2 Honeycomb for T-Mobile's Dell Streak 7

2011-10-11T00:06:00.001-07:00

Dell will not offer an official update to the Android 3.2 Honeycomb operating system for the Streak 7 tablet PCs available for purchase in the United States via wireless carrier T-Mobile, the company has just confirmed.

Apparently, the company plans on leaving the T-Mobile-branded devices with the Froyo OS flavor on board, although they will be delivering the Honeycomb platform to tablets on other areas of the world.

All unlocked Streak 7 units, as well as WiFi-only devices, will taste the software update, but T-Mobile's units will not be as lucky, it seems.

“Dell will not be offering the update for customers locked to T-Mobile in the U.S. With each software update, the requirements for offering the update vary by carrier, region and device, and Dell has decided to not offer this update to T-Mobile customers in the United States,” the company reportedly announced.