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Android tablet on the cheap: Acer Iconia A500 is the XOOM “Light”

Acer’s Iconia A500 tablet features the same exact hardware specifications as Motorola’s XOOM, but with half the flash storage and $150 cheaper. Back in early March, I proposed that Motorola create a new SKU for their XOOM tablet with a slightly reduced feature set, which I tentatively called the “XOOM Light”.     Microsoft MCTS […]

Once upon a time there was Ustream. Then came YouTube Live

YouTube has broadcast several live events in the past, but, as they noted on the official YouTube blog, they’ve all been “one-offs”. Internet users interested in streaming live video relied on Ustream and other similar services, while larger broadcasters streamed video independently. YouTube, as one of the most popular sites on the Internet, was essentially […]

Parish declares that Facebook and Christianity don’t mix

A Roman Catholic parish in Chicago is warning parishioners about the dangers of Facebook. St. John Cantius parish leaders wrote in the church bulletin this past Sunday that Facebook is against the Christian culture. Social networking sites in general apparently encourage vanity and dishonesty by providing an outlet for children to create their own electronic […]

TheStartupBuzz VC Showcase

The first of its kind event in India will bring venture capitalists, angel investors, start-up founders and entrepreneurs under one roof. TheStartupBuzz VC Showcase is going to be held at Capitol Hotel, Rajbhavan Road, Bengaluru on 31 October 2009. VC Showcase is the first of its kind event in India where venture capitalists and angel […]

IT’s About Securing The Information DNA, And More!

The conference will provide opportunities for industry leaders, corporate decision makers, academics and government officials to exchange ideas on technology trends and best practices. Microsoft MCTS Certification, MCITP Certification and over 2000+ Exams at Actualkey.com   Securitybyte and OWASP India, organisations committed on raising InfoSec awareness in the industry, are hosting an information security event […]

Dells new servers come preloaded with hundreds of virtual machines

Dell on Thursday served up a new choice for buying its servers: plug-and-play configurations that include up to 200 VMware virtual machines along with the networking and storage needed to run them. Dell is also offering a ready-made virtual desktop infrastructure in the same fashion, letting users buy servers pre-configured with hundreds to thousands virtual […]

The Best 3D TVs

For all the hype they’ve received in the past year, 3D TVs aren’t exactly flying off store shelves. The biggest problem is that there’s still very little 3D content available. Also, when they started hitting the market last year, 3D sets were priced much higher than their 2D counterparts. Now, however, prices have come down […]

Why Google’s tighter control over Android is a good thing

Limiting availability of Android 3.0 code and apparent tightening of Android smartphone standards means that Google finally gets it about the platform I’ve argued before that Android’s fragmentation, encouraged by its open source model, was a mistake. Google should drive the platform forward and ride herd on those who use it in their devices. If […]

Why Google’s tighter control over Android is a good thing

Limiting availability of Android 3.0 code and apparent tightening of Android smartphone standards means that Google finally gets it about the platform Last week, Google said it would not release the source for its Android 3.0 “Honeycomb” tablet to developers and would limit the OS to select hardware makers, at least initially. Now there are […]

Eight radical ways to cut data center power costs II

Radical energy savings method 2: Power down servers that aren’t in use Virtualization has revealed the energy saving advantages of spinning down unused processors, disks, and memory. So why not power off entire servers? Is the increased “business agility” of keeping servers ever ready worth the cost of the excess power they consume? If you […]

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