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BlackBerry PlayBook vs. Dell Streak 7 vs. Apple iPad vs. Motorola Xoom
Tablets absolutely stole the spotlight at CES 2011, making it an undoubtedly perfect time to compare the latest offerings. After some debate, we settled on these three upcoming tablets: the BlackBerry PlayBook, the Dell Streak 7, and the Motorola Xoom. For some perspective with a familiar face, we threw in the Apple iPad for reference. Even though the hardware is nearly a year old, it has butchered competition selling over 7.33 million units in just Q4 of 2010 making it the best-selling tablet on the market. Without any further ado, here it is:
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Microsoft takes over Halo with launch of upcoming Defiant Map Pack (With video)
The baton has been passed in the Halo video game franchise. Microsoft’s 343 Industries game studio has taken the reins from Bungie to develop future Halo games. This week, the company showed off the first result of that transition with the announcement of the Halo Reach Defiant Map Pack.
Please Help Me Understand the Android Releases
Here’s our best shot at deciphering the official statements made by Eric Schmidt at today’s Mobile World Congress, statements made here and there by Android workers, and less-than-official bits and pieces that help color in some of this rather crowded, abstract picture.
The Majority of Android Phones, Right Now, Are Running Android 2.2, “Froyo”
Shazam vs. SoundHound: Battle of the Mobile Song ID Services
That you can hold a phone up to music these days and identify it is amazing. But which smartphone song-finding app is more amazing? We researched and road-tested the two most popular song ID apps to see which was a better install.
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Both Shazam and SoundHound offer free song ID apps for Android and iPhone, with Shazam covering other platforms, too. Shazam’s free iPhone version is limited to five song IDs, or “tags,” per month, while SoundHound is an ad-supported but otherwise free service. Both show artist and song information when they can identify a song, with purchase and YouTube links and bookmark options. SoundHound has a bit more visual build-out, but Shazam has the simple, clean look down. Other than that, they both serve the same purpose: to name the songs you’re currently hearing.
Five Ways the Android-Powered Google Tablet Is Better than the iPad
The iPad is easily the best tablet you can buy right now, but that’s changing.
Google showed off their upcoming tablets today, casting a spotlight on the iPad’s
shortcomings. Here are the Android features we wish we had on our iPads.
A Helpful, Simple, and Non-Intrusive Notification System
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!
You Are Not Anonymous
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