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Following several delays, the CyanogenMod project released version 7.1 of its custom Android firmware, the world learned that Dennis Ritchie, creator of the C programming language and co-creator of the UNIX operating system, had passed away, and the time zone reference database used by all versions of Unix and Linux was taken offline due to a copyright claim. The
Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt took a lot of flak from the media for a comment he made at an event at the Newseum in Washington, D.C., last October.
Schmidt, responding to a question about the possibility of Google developing some kind of neurological implant, replied: “Google’s policy is to get right up to the creepy line and not cross it.”
If that comment seemed sketchy then, it’s downright damning now, taken out of context and repurposed by Google’s detractors, as FairSearch.org did ahead of the Senate’s antitrust hearing versus the company Sept. 21.
Google isn’t the only one to toe the creepy line. Facebook, with its new Timeline user interface, has joined the creepy-line party.
The UK has been ranked fourth globally for fixed-line broadband internet access speeds, out of a list of 38 countries.
According to a report from the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the ICT arm of the United Nations, the UK is also in the top 10 of 152 countries to have seen improved internet and broadband access between 2008 and 2010.
The news may come as a surprise to some, with a recent Ofcom broadband speed map revealing that large sections of the UK remain seriously behind in broadband speeds and connectivity.
Product Round-up Tablets, eh? A nice idea but a shame about the price. From the iPad to the Xoom, the PlayBook to the TouchPad prices starting at or near £400 are a little on the steep side for many folk. Well, the TouchPad maybe an exception these days but only very recently.
You’ll pay a premium to buy into fondleslabs from Apple, HP or RIM, but Android users have another option, a cheap tablet. These can be picked up for anything between £100 and £230 and sometimes less if you are in the right place at the right time.
Across the board cheap Android tablets are nowhere near as ghastly as they were just a year ago. Of course, there are sacrifices. You
Starting Rehearsals and Making Script Changes with an iPad
27 Jul
Posted by Kate Moffitt as Hardware News
Today started a 2 week crazy period where Im running back and forth between Wayside Theatre where I work full time and Totem Pole Playhouse where the musical play I co-authored, Southern Crossroads, is being produced. Im also directing the show there as well. This morning I realized we needed to make a few script changes before we had our first read-thru with the cast, so I sat down for breakfast at a local diner, The Pink Flamingo, and pulled out the iPad 2 and did the edits and rewrites in no time flat on the iPad using QuickOffice.
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