Hummingbird vs. Snapdragon vs. OMAP vs. Tegra 2: ARM Chips Explained
Nvidia seems to finally be getting some traction in the mobile CPU game. The Tegra 2 chip will be in several phones and tablets in the next few months, and is the first dual-core mobile processor available. In response Texas Instruments, maker of the popular OMAP mobile chips, is talking up their own upcoming OMAP4 cores. With all this talk of clock speeds, some important details of mobile processing get lost in the shuffle. When we talk about OMAP, Snapdragon, Tegra, or Hummingbird, we’re really talking about a system-on-a-chip (SoC). There’s more to it than just the clock speed.
How to Foil a Nationwide Internet Shutdown
The Egyptian government cut internet connections across their country to silence protests, leaving nearly all of its citizens without online access. But they weren’t entirely successful. When governments shut down broadband and mobile connections, here’s what to do.
How Egypt Turned Off the Internet
Yesterday, something unprecedented happened: Egypt turned off the internet. A nation of 80,000,000 instantly disconnected. So how’d they do it?
Phone Calls
There was no giant lever or big red button involved, but in reality it was almost as easy: the Egyptian Government simply issued an order for ISPs to shut down service.
“Under Egyptian legislation the authorities have the right to issue such an order and we are obliged to comply with it,” Vodafone Egypt explained in a statement shortly after. Along with Vodafone, Egypt’s other three major ISPs, Link Egypt, Telecom Egypt, and Etisalat Misr, all stopped service. Jim Cowie, the co-founder and CTO of internet monitoring firm Renesys, told the WSJ:
My Blackberry Is Not Working!
This is awesome, hope you feel the same
My Blackberry Is Not Working! – The One Ronnie, Preview – BBC One
T-Mobile Question and Answer Session Press Event CES 2011
T-Mobile CEO Philip Humm, Cole Brodman and Neville Ray answer questions from the press
T-Mobile CEO Philip Humm, CTO Neville Ray and CMO Cole Brodman. These are amongst the three most important people in the T-Mobile USA organization so when they speak, we should listen. This video contains all kinds of fun stuff like…you know, you just better watch!
Largest RC Chopper
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You Are Not Anonymous
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