We know it’s a little tough to get excited about a chip, even if that chip is the hotly anticipated Samsung Orion . Still, bear with us, because this isn’t your average slab of cellphone silicon — the Orion’s got a dual-core 1GHz ARM Cortex-A9 CPU and a quad-core Mali 400 GPU on board. We spotted it at the ARM Technology Conference this week where it was pimping “Linaro” Linux middleware , as well as some stock Android 2.2. Unfortunately, the development boards still have a few kinks, so representatives couldn’t show it pumping all those pixels to nearby HDTVs — though we did get a butter-smooth demo of Futuremark’s old Cyber Samurai benchmark running on the smaller screen. There are still rumors of this chip hitting some products late this year, but next year is much more likely. Either way, we’re expecting some pretty impressive benchmarks from this thing when it inevitably winds up in the next Galaxy Tab or a flagship phone of some sort . Gallery: Samsung Orion 1GHz SoC with Mali 400 GPU Samsung Orion dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 chip spotted in the wild originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 11 Nov 2010 23:36:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Passengers from the Carnival Splendor praise the crew but describe their experience as a “nightmare” vacation. Half a dozen tugboats finally dragged the cruise ship into San Diego Bay after a fire in the engine room Monday left it adrift. (Nov. 11)
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NEW YORK – After more than six hours of talks with American officials yesterday, a member of Prime Minister Benjamin…
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At the grand re-opening of a Verizon Plus store in Tampa today, Big Red was demoing its latest FiOS TV feature, Flex View. As announced , this feature lets you take your video on demand content with you on your PC as well as various other Verizon Wireless devices — no iOS support though as Apple doesn’t license its FairPlay and the Microsoft PlayReady DRM used doesn’t work on Apple’s products either. There are about 2,000 movies available for rent now, with a subset of them available for purchase. Currently they are all SD with stereo sound, but HD and discrete surround sound are planed for later versions. Unlike the FiOS VOD, you can download these shows from any internet connection and play them back on the go or at home — resume between devices is also in the coming-soon category. Overall the user interface looked good, but we did see lots of blocking artifacts that we just hope were a result of the in-store demo and not an indication of what customers can actually expect. The content is linked to your Verizon FiOS user ID, which means that purchased content can still be viewed even if you cancel your FiOS TV service. No word on if Verizon’s free VOD selection will ever become available, but we have to say we really like the idea of watching content on the go no matter how good our network connection isn’t. Gallery: Hands-on with FiOS Flex View Hands-on with FiOS Flex View originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 11 Nov 2010 22:07:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Some 3000 active-duty servicemen and women are among the estimated 20000 participants marching up Fifth Avenue at the Veterans Day Parade in Manhattan. (Nov. 11)
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Potty training at the sloth orphanage from Amphibian Avenger on Vimeo . Sloths are perfectly designed for life in the trees , but even they need to come back down to earth every once in a while — especially when nature calls. For a group of baby sloths at Costa Rica’s Aviarios del Caribe wildlife sanctuary, however, learning to descend the trees to make their business doesn’t always come easy. But thanks to the patience and dedication of the sanctuary’s … Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Rachel Maddow Clings to Baathist Party Line That ‘Saddam Wasn’t Pursuing’ WMD
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Not to worry, Baghdad Bob, MSNBC's got your back. Criticizing former president George W. Bush's newly released memoir, “Decision Points,” Maddow said this on her cable show Monday night ( video below page break )
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By Narda Zacchino Veterans were honored all across America Thursday, while the most famous veteran of our ongoing wars continues to be dishonored. Related Entries November 11, 2010 Obama Blinks on Tax Cuts for the Rich November 11, 2010 Pentagon Survey: Dropping ‘DADT’ Wouldn’t Cause Wartime Strife
Continue reading …Exclusive: Samsung ‘flagship’ phone with Gingerbread and huge display coming in early 2011
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Okay, so you’re not feeling Samsung’s Nexus S . We’d say that’s a little premature, but still, we get it. We understand. How about this , then? Is this more to your liking? We’ve just been tipped with a few morsels on what should become Samsung’s flagship Android device early next year — February, to be specific, suggesting we could see an unveiling at MWC — and it’s looking promising. Different parts of the slide deck describe it as having either a 4.3- or 4.5-inch “sAMOLED2″ display, presumably standing for “Super AMOLED 2″ and implying that Sammy’s made some advancements over the screens we’ve been seeing on the Galaxy S series this year. It’ll naturally have Android Gingerbread and be equipped with an 8 megapixel camera capable of 1080p video capture, 14.4Mbps HSPA, Bluetooth 3.0, a 1.2GHz core of some sort, and 16GB of storage onboard. The deck describes it as having an “ultra sleek design,” and judging from the side shot, we’d tend to agree. So who’s holding out for this? Gallery: Samsung ‘flagship’ phone with Gingerbread and huge display coming in early 2011 Exclusive: Samsung ‘flagship’ phone with Gingerbread and huge display coming in early 2011 originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 11 Nov 2010 21:13:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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