SanDisk Corporation today announced it has begun production shipments of flash memory cards based on the company’s advanced X4 flash memory technology. This innovative new technology holds four bits of data in each memory cell, twice as many as the cells in conventional multi-level cell (MLC) NAND (2-bits-per-cell) memory chips.
The new browser firefox with new Device api supports accelermeter in Mac books.The browser change it oreintation according to the accelerometer .The new FireFox 3.6 will be coming out with this feature.It is Originally intended for mobile platforms only
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When Google first announced the upcoming Chrome OS, mobile enthusiasts got excited. While many were hoping to see Android-equipped netbooks, the prospect of a similar platform designed specifically for larger screens made more sense. Throw in the fact that Chrome OS will be produced for non-x86 processors, and you have the recipe for something new. The notebook industry in China has never shied away from new technology and cheap systems, and the word that netbooks with Chrome OS may be appearing soon is business as usual in China.
Google plans on releasing the full version of Chrome OS next year, but they intend to roll out a preview edition this year. Sources in China are already saying that notebook makers will be releasing devices running the Chrome OS as early as next month. This would be a preview version, but that won’t stop the companies in China.
The same source is also reporting that notebooks will be released with Chrome OS running on the Loongson 2F process, a MIPS-based chipset. These could be produced much cheaper than netbooks with the typical Atom processor, and since Chrome OS is definitely going to support the ARM process, a MIPS variant is not out of the question. One thing is certain, these variant netbooks will make the netbook scene exciting.
Just want to give everyone a quick heads up that latest firmware update for Nokia N86 8MP is now available for most of the generic product codes as FOTA update ‘Firmware Over The Air’ update as well as through the Nokia Software Updater.
There is no detailed change log but According to numerous reports this firmware update is mostly focused on improving the imaging aspects of the phone by extending the camera software with some really exciting features such as face recognition and an improved focus point indication.
This release also brings numerous bug fixes and includes improved RealPlayer, OVI Maps, N-Gage client and Nokia Messaging application. Other improvements include automatic VoIP re-registration, Ovi Store client and much more so it definitely worth upgrading.
Nokia N86 8MP has theUDP but it is anyway highly suggestible to back up your phone memory before performing a firmware update just as precaution measure in case something goes wrong.
To automatically receive the latest application and firmware update suggestions directly to your Nokia N86 Over The Air, just go to Applications > Software Update. This software release is also available for updating with a PC and the Nokia Software Updater: www.nokia.com/softwareupdates.
The Texas Instruments Zoom OMAP34x-II MDP, the powerful OMAP 3 powered software development platform, is a hardware configuration used for designing applications to run on the latest smartphones and mobile devices. It is on the wish list of most mobile software developers, and for obvious reason. It has every piece of hardware you could want on a mobile phone, from a touchscreen and a QWERTY keypad to WiFi, bluetooth, and FM radios, plus GPS.
Used for software development on most of today’s mobile OSes, including our beloved Symbian, it will soon allow developers to get a swing at the newest features of Symbian^3. Texas Instruments will be releasing binaries and/or source code for its adaptation and baseport software, commonly referred to as ZoomSW, to the developer community. It’ll be under the R&D license, which means you can then modify, improve and/or develop for the Symbian^3 platform on an actual hardware device instead of an emulator.
This is a total departure from how Symbian development worked in the past. Now the ZoomSW will be distributed under the Evaluation License Agreement, meaning members now can integrate specific Symbian^3 features as they are delivered. So no more waiting for new software packages. They’ll be distributed as they are completed, saving the Foundation valueable time and allowing new features to be implemented earlier.
Right now, the ZoomSW is only available for Foundation members and those able to download the Symbian^3 PDK. Once the feature set has been hardened, it will move from members only to public licensing. All just small steps in getting Symbian to full open source status.
Zplits recently posted about the new Transformers movie and even put up images of the Autobots and Decepticons characters.
As I was scrolling through the photos memories of watching Transformers in Ukraine came back. I used to be obsessed with the series, though I haven’t seen it in years and forgot about it for the most part until the first movie came out. But when the photo of Starscream came up on the page I remembered just how much I love Starscream. I had completely forgotten his whiny, girly voice in the cartoon days and imagined him as this big bad deep-voiced hardcore macho robot (thanks, Dex, for pointing the voice out to me. Way to kill the dream…and you’re right, as you just mentioned. The Ukrainian translation probably featured a deeper voice, that’s why I couldn’t remember the girly voice).
Seriously – I thought of him as the typical bad boy who turns into an awesome jet (an F-15 Eagle for those who are curious). What more could you want (again, maybe a deeper voice would have been nice, but I’m not thinking about that. In Ukrainian, the voice was probably deep, that’s how I remember it)? The Decepticons are by far the sexiest robots alive (if you’re into that kind of thing). As I said in my comment on that post a few minutes later, if I could turn into a robot and have deep-voiced Starscream’s babies I totally would.
Although I then looked up images of him on Google and Wikipedia and remembered that in the cartoon series and comic book he was all…colorful. He is much better in gray.
Another character that caught my eye on the page was Ravage. The Decepticon who transformes into a jaguar. Not nearly as cool as Starscream, but still pretty darn awesome. And if his voice turns out to be a bit less girly than Starscream’s he may just take the cake after I see him in Transformers 2.
My friend and I got into a friendly argument about what’s more important – a stable service or excellent customer support.
I was on the stable service side. As a customer for a major hosting company, for example, I would rather not have the need to contact customer support at all. If my website is suddenly down it does not matter how friendly or helpful customer service representatives are, nor that they are available 24/7. Uptime is money and I just lost some.
My friend was on the side of excellent customer support. He says that because good customer support is so difficult to find nowadays, consumers are really left with that good feeling when they get their problem sorted out by an actual helpful CSR. He even used me as an example for his argument. I was once changing my primary domain with my host and I technically was able to go through the process myself after their job of re-setting my account was done. I would have to go into my Wordpress database and modify a whole bunch of fields. I was at the time unsure exactly what changes needed to be made and due to my host’s 24/7 support I was able to go to them for help even though I didn’t actually have a problem with the host.
I admit, he makes a good point. I’ve used my host’s live support chat system many-a-time. But while not all of those times involved actual problems with the host itself as opposed to a question about using one of the host’s features, a lot of them were. If my website didn’t go down that one time or my web mail wasn’t unreachable that other time I wouldn’t have needed to bug support more than half the time that I actually did. Besides, the issues that aren’t problems are also not urgent, so immediate live support – while very nice and helpful – was not a requirement for me.
What do you think is more important to consumers? Stable service or great customer support?
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