RIM: PlayBook is a ‘great standalone tablet,’ not ‘reliant on a BlackBerry’
January 17, 2011 No Comment
We’re sure RIM would still prefer that you own both a BlackBerry smartphone and a PlayBook , but it looks like it’s now going some way to address the potential misconception that you actually need a BlackBerry for the tablet to be of any use. Speaking with Forbes , RIM senior product manager Ryan Bidan insisted that “on its own, this is a great standalone tablet,” and that “this is not a device that is reliant on a BlackBerry.” As Forbes notes, however, it is true that the PlayBook needs to be tied to a BlackBerry for most PIM functions like contacts and calendar management, but Bidan says those features will come to the PlayBook separately “as the platform evolves” — he didn’t get much more specific than that, unfortunately. RIM: PlayBook is a ‘great standalone tablet,’ not ‘reliant on a BlackBerry’ originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 17 Jan 2011 18:22:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …In their effort to repeal health care reform, the GOP has produced “some numbers and charts to wave at the press”—but they’re not part of any “rational discussion,” writes Paul Krugman in the New York Times . Their figures are, in fact, part of the GOP’s “war on logic.” They…
Continue reading …Google has never been a big fan of privacy , and now it’s going so far as to challenge Spain’s privacy laws in court. A government organization claims that Spanish law requires Google to remove links from its search engine if those links go to information that could compromise a person’s…
Continue reading …iPad 2 Retina Display evidence mounts, this time a .png of wood is to blame
January 17, 2011 No Comment
So, we heard from our source that the iPad 2 would have a “super high resolution” Retina Display , we heard from AppleInsider that the iPad 2 is getting around 4X the graphics performance of the iPad, and of course there’s the fact that the iPhone 4′s Retina Display offered a pretty impressively painless upgrade path for developers — an iPad 2 with a 2048 x 1536 screen is starting to sound less and less like the crazy dream of naive fanboys. But wait, there’s more! A .png has been found in the iBooks 1.2 source files, dubbed Wood Tile@2x.png. It’s sized at 1536 x 800, while the old and busted Wood Tile.png in iBooks 1.1 was 768 x 400 — that’s 2X in each direction, or 4X the pixels, for anyone who’s counting. Incontrovertible evidence? No, but we want to believe. iPad 2 Retina Display evidence mounts, this time a .png of wood is to blame originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 17 Jan 2011 17:50:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Former Peace Corps director and vice-presidential nominee R. Sargent Shriver was in critical condition this morning after being admitted yesterday to a Maryland hospital, a family spokeswoman said. No other details about the 95-year-old’s ailment were released, but Shriver announced in 2003 that he had Alzheimer’s disease.
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An Egyptian man set himself on fire outside the country’s parliament on Monday, in an apparent protest emulating the self-immolation of an unemployed Tunisian man last month that helped trigger a popular uprising. (Jan. 17)
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ECOtality teamed up with Best Buy a few months back to expand its network of Blink EV chargers, and it’s now finally announced which company will actually be connecting that network. ECOtality will be relying on Sprint’s Command Center M2M solution, which will handle things like monitoring and electronic payments, and allow ECOtality to display digital content for advertising or other information, among a host of other network-related things. From an end-user perspective, that also means that folks will be able to keep watch on the Blink network from various devices, find chargers near them with GPS, and receive notifications of a charge interruption or completion. Head on past the break for the complete press release. Continue reading ECOtality teams with Sprint to connect Blink EV charging network ECOtality teams with Sprint to connect Blink EV charging network originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 17 Jan 2011 17:21:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Click here to view this media Divine inspiration from somewhere in the heartland. I’ll just let it speak for itself. And Sarah. Here are the lyrics: She’s a cold blast from Alaska Ingrained with common sense She’s not a Harvard lawyer But she knew what the Founders meant A cold blast from the north That freezes Congress in their tracks With God and the Tea Party She’s gonna take it back [Chorus] Sarah Palin, she won’t listen to their bunk Sarah Palin’s comin’ south to hunt some skunk Sarah Palin, she’ll throw them all in jail And when she gets to Washington It’ll be cold as hell Sarah has the wisdom To walk through an open door She is stomping out the wretches Where the evil lines are stored She will scrub the floors and sweep the riff raff into cracks With God and the Tea Party She’s gonna take it back [Chorus] [Spoken] Congress patted themselves on the back For some new bill they just passed I watch as my freedom slowly runs through an hourglass They think they spend our money better than we do But they can talk until they’re blue and old ‘Cause if they ever gave us anything They always wanted something in return Sarah knows. Sarah’s marching home YouTube version is here.
Continue reading …World Future Energy Summit 2011: Exploring Clean Power in a City Built on Oil
January 17, 2011 No Comment
Masdar City Paradoxes abound at the World Future Energy Summit , an annual conference held in the United Arab Emirates capital of Abu Dhabi. The summit draws heads of state, business leaders, and other influential figures to the tip of the Arabian peninsula to discuss global clean energy solutions to the ongoing climate crisis. The UAE is, of course, one of the largest oil exporters in the world, so it’s both ironic and remarkable that such an event is held here — a fact that few of the speakers fail to mention in their opening statem… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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