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So, there’s a new kind of Android device in the world. The world still isn’t sure just where it is that tablets are the right tool for the job. That granted, this is a nifty product. And I’m…
September 3 2010, 5:00am | Comments
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New Silicon-Based Memory 5X Denser Than NAND Flash
Lucas123 writes "Researchers at Rice University said today they have been able to create a new non-volatile memory using nanocrystal wires as small as 5 nanometers wide that can make chips five times more dense than the 27…
September 1 2010, 1:29pm | Comments
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I travel quite a bit, and I have found that the “tethering & portable hotspot” facility in Android 2.2 is just absolutely wonderful. It has saved me considerable money and got me reasonably-good connectivity in places I wouldn’t…
August 29 2010, 5:00am | Comments
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Two of them in the last couple of days, both courtesy of having the Internet in my pocket. SFO Win I was traveling home Wednesday evening and at 7PM found myself in the United lounge at San Francisco…
August 13 2010, 5:00am | Comments
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I’ve been having this same conversation with a variety of programmers in recent days, and so I ought to share it with the world. I think it would be nice if you could build Android apps in other…
July 29 2010, 5:00am | Comments
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I owe a whole lot to Perl. So does the practice of computing in general, and the construction of the Web in particular. Perl’s situation is not terribly happy; I wouldn’t go so far as to say “desperate”,…
July 22 2010, 5:00am | Comments
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Scaling To a Million Cores and Beyond
mattaw writes "In my blog post I describe a system designed to test a route to the potential future of computing. What do we do when we have computers with 1 million cores? What about a billion? How…
June 30 2010, 4:13pm | Comments
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I thought maybe the most interesting single thing about the new iPhone 4 was its display, not so much the 960 vertical dots but the 326DPI, in the cleverly-named Retina Display. Which leads me to wonder, how much…
June 8 2010, 5:00am | Comments
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Compatibility and Fragmentation
Over on the Android Developers’ Blog, we just published On Android Compatibility by Dan Morrill, who manages both the Open-Source and Compatibility work here. It’s like this: The source code is the technology. The Compatibility Definition Document is…
June 2 2010, 5:00am | Comments
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