Acer Iconia Tab A500 and ASUS Eee Pad Transformer getting Android 3.1 updates in June
May 17, 2011 No Comment
Well, that was fast. Almost immediately after Google unveiled Android 3.1, Motorola was first out of the gate with an update, and now, not even a week later, Acer and ASUS are following suit with plans to freshen up their respective tablets with the newly minted software . To recap, 3.1′s benefits include resizeable widgets, support for USB peripherals, and new Movies and Books apps, among other perks. Acer confirmed to us that it aims to start selling the Iconia Tab A500 with 3.1 next month, as well as upgrade existing units running Android 3.0. ASUS, meanwhile, has been touting the impending update for the Eee Pad Transformer on its Italian Facebook page. To which we say, grazie ! Acer Iconia Tab A500 and ASUS Eee Pad Transformer getting Android 3.1 updates in June originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 17 May 2011 15:41:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal said Monday that the flooding threat is changing, after the Army Corps of Engineers lowered its projections for the Mississippi River. (May 17)
Continue reading …Study finds Netflix is the largest source of internet traffic in North America
May 17, 2011 No Comment
In your daily Netflix news, the latest report on Global Internet Phenomena for spring 2011 from Sandvine has called out the movie service as the largest single consumer of bandwidth on the internet in North America. The last report in October suggested it made up around twenty percent of internet traffic during prime time, but this time around the stats say it accounts for 30% of traffic during prime time, and 22.2% of daily internet traffic. Sandvine gets the data from ISPs using its broadband technology and now foresees “Real-Time Entertainment” (which includes Netflix) shooting up over 55% of peak internet traffic by the end of this year. It also reports on net traffic from other regions, noting social networking outpaces YouTube traffic in Latin America, while European subscribers use twice as much data as North Americans. We’ll have to wait and see if these stats are waved in our faces to justify the next round of bandwidth caps or throttling, in the meantime you can click through for more stats or hear about it from Sandvine CEO Dave Caputo discuss them in a video embedded after the break. Continue reading Study finds Netflix is the largest source of internet traffic in North America Study finds Netflix is the largest source of internet traffic in North America originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 17 May 2011 14:43:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Napoleon Dynamite Gets ANIMATED! Cartoon Series Coming to Fox! Fox announces 2011-12 schedule, with a Bones spin off, new J.J. … Fox announces 2011-12 schedule, with a Bones spin off, new J.J. Abrams series and animated Napoleon Dynamite series Here’s how long some trends can take to. ' Napoleon Dynamite' Series ' Trailer Released,… | Gather The trailer for the Napoleon Dynamite animated series has been released by Fox. For a long time fans of the movie were wondering if the animated series… Napoleon Dynamite Series » Napoleon Dynamite Series . Last May it was announced that 20th Century Fox was developing an animated television series based on the 2004 Fox Searchlight film Napoleon Dynamite. A year later, Fox has released the first trailer for the … VIVID NEWS: Trailers for New Napoleon Dynamite Series » Vivid Scribe Last year Fox announced they had signed up for 6 episodes of Napoleon Dynamite, an animated comedy based on the popular 2004 film of the same name. Today, the first peak of the new show was released. Watch it here! Napoleon Dynamite Gets Animated | Dont Party Screen shot 2011 05 17 at 10.10.19 AM 150
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Paramount Pictures has released the first teaser trailer for the Peter Jackson-produced Steven Spielberg-directed performance capture animated adaptation of The Adventures of Tintin. I think its interesting that it doesn’t become obvious that this is a computer animated film until about 30 seconds in. Its also interesting that the “Secret of the Unicorn” subtitle has been removed, but I guess The Adventures… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : /Film Discovery Date : 17/05/2011 09:46 Number of articles : 4
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Hundreds of prostitutes and pimps rallied Tuesday near a red-light district in Seoul to protest a police crackdown on brothels, with some unsuccessfully attempting to set themselves on fire. (May 17)
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Queen Elizabeth began a historic four-day trip to Ireland Tuesday. The long-planned visit was the first time a British monarch had ever set foot in the Republic. (May 17)
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SETI’s search for intelligent life in outer space may be on ice for the time being, but the search for alien planets that may possibly support life of some sort is now being bolstered by a number of new efforts . One of the latest is the so-called ExoPlanetSat nanosatellite developed by MIT and Draper Laboratory, which recently got the go-ahead from NASA’s Cubesat Launch Initiative and is now set to hitch a ride into space sometime in 2012. While not quite as “nano” as the SIM card-sized satellites that launched with the Shuttle Endeavor , the smaller-than-a-breadbox ExoPlanetSat is still pretty tiny by satellite standards, yet it packs all the necessary optics and technology required for what’s known as transit observation — that is, monitoring a star for decreases in brightness, which could indicate a planet passing in front of it. What’s more, while the launch of a single satellite is plenty to get excited about, the researchers hope that it lead the way for a whole fleet of similar nanosatellites that could greatly speed up the search for planets. ExoPlanetSat nanosatellite to begin search for alien worlds next year originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 17 May 2011 11:33:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Harmon Killebrew, the Minnesota Twins slugger known for his tape-measure home runs, has died at his home in Scottsdale, Ariz. He was 74.
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