Android 3.1, Ice Cream Sandwich Take Center Stage at Google I/O

Google's Android 3.1 "Honeycomb" build will begin rolling out May 10, according to company officials here at Google I/O. Officials also described Ice Cream Sandwich, which borrows features from Honeycomb. - SAN FRANCISCO Google May 10 introduced a new version of Android 3.1 quot;Honeycomb, quot; an incremental upgrade of its tablet-optimized operating system, at its Google I/O developers' conference here. The upgrade, rolling out today to owners of the Motorola Xoom on Verizon's 3G network, impro...


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10 Android Apps Perfect for Preschool-Age Kids

A lot of smartphone users I know have young children like I do. While every kid is unique, one consistent theme is that the little buggers are constantly asking to play a game or watch a movie or something. And sometimes, that’s OK, such as when their only alternative activity is shrieking in a restaurant, [...]

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magicJack PLUS Review

I’ve long been a proponent of Voice over IP (VoIP), having dumped the phone company over 7 years ago.  During this period I’ve used 2 major vendors and only  switched to the latest one because my former VOIP supplier was getting greedy.  The price performance has been outstanding and the quality has been more than acceptable.  I’ve [...]

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Netflix: 75 Percent Of New Customers Signing Up For Streaming-Only Plan

In its first quarterly earnings since it announced plans to hike prices for DVD subscribers who also stream videos, Netflix tried to put the best face on its new decision. In a shareholder letter (PDF) accompanying earnings, CEO Reed Hastings and CFO David Wells report that during "the quarter, the streaming only plan continued to gain in popularity, with nearly 75% of our new subscribers signing up for it." Nevertheless, net domestic subscribers increased by only 1.8 million versus 3.8 million new subscribers last quarter. (Netflix now has a total of 24.6 million subscribers in the U.S. and about another 1 million abroad). The big impact of the price change, of course, will come next quarter, when the company expects total subscribers to stay at around 25 million, with 22 million getting streaming video in some fashion, 15 million still getting DVDs, and a overlap of about 12 million getting both.

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OpenStack wants to be your data center OS

Why do you need a private cloud? What could possibly induce you to go to the time and expense of transforming a big chunk of your data center into an environment resembling that of a cloud service provider?

Well, for one thing, you're probably partway there already. According to most surveys, roughly half of the x86 servers operated by enterprises have been virtualized -- and virtualization is the key foundational element of the private cloud.

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Smith & Wesson Tactical Survival Pen can do more than write

We’ve seen multi-tools before, but how about a multi-tool that happens to be in the form of a pen? The Smith & Wesson Tactical Survival Pen not only writes like a normal ink pen, but it can break glass and start fires. It’s made of Aircraft Aluminum with a screw off top that exposes a [...]

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