Move over IPAD ..Dell announces Streak, a 5-inch Android-based iPad competitor
Dell’s entry into the tablet market was made official Tuesday with the Streak, previously shown at CES 2010 as a concept, now set to take on Apple’s iPad in the U.K. in early June, and in the U.S. later this summer.
The 5-inch touchscreen device, formerly known as the Mini 5, was formally announced by Dell on the company’s official blog. The 3G-enabled smartphone and tablet will be exclusive to the O2 network in the U.K. and will go on sale June 4. The tablet device is about half the size of Apple’s 9.7-inch iPad.
“I’ve been at Dell for 16 years, and I don’t think there’s ever been more buzz around a single Dell product than this,” wrote Lionel Menchaca, chief blogger for the Round Rock, Tex., company. “In my view, that’s for good reason. Hardware and design-wise, this thing impresses. Add the ever-increasing capability that Android brings to the equation, and you’ve got a mobile device that offers a ton of flexibility while looking cool in the process.”
Over-the-air upgrades will bring the latest software to the platform, including Adobe Flash 10.1 and Android 2.2 “later this year,” he wrote.
The device has a capacitive multitouch display with a 800×480 pixel resolution display, powered by a 1GHz Snapdragon ARM-based processor from Qualcomm. It also sports a 5 megapixel autofocus camera with dual LED flash, VGA front-facing camera for video chat functionality “down the road,” removable battery, 3.5mm headphone jack, integrated 3G, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth and a Micro SD slot offering up to 32GB.
The Dell Streak runs a customized version of Google’s Android mobile operating system, allowing multitouch gestures and adding “Dell user interface enhancements.” It also has access to the nearly 40,000 applications on the Android Marketplace, Microsoft Exchange connectivity, turn-by-turn navigation with Google Maps, and support for Google Voice.
Dell first showed off the device, akin to a large iPod touch, at the Consumer Electronics Show in January. The slate-style device was briefly flashed by executives from Dell, as many companies introduced their own tablets before Apple’s official unveiling of the iPad.
No U.S. carriers or partners have been announced, nor has Dell revealed any pricing on data plans or hardware. Menchaca simply noted that further information is forthcoming.
In a video showing off the hardware, Kevin Andrew, a member of the Dell Streak development team, said that the device could be used for consuming content on the go, including e-books, music and movies. Andrew said he’s also used it as his primary phone while testing the device.
“For me, this is a fantastic device because it combines the capability of the Android platform with a great industrial design and form factor that can go with me wherever I want,” he said.
As companies look to compete with Apple in the tablet space, many have turned to mobile operating systems like Android instead of traditional operating systems like Windows 7. Most recently, it was rumored that HP scrapped Windows for its forthcoming Slate PC that was shown off at CES with Microsoft. The company’s $1.2 billion acquisition of Palm is expected to pave the way for devices powered by WebOS, the mobile touchscreen operating system Palm created for its Pre smartphone
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Planet Earth Season 1, Ep1 From Pole to Pole (FREE)
Here is the link. Amazon is offering a free download of the first episone of Planet Eath
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Picture Organizing
I just want to take a moment to give you a tip about organizing pictures by size. Knowing this tip, it would have taken you less than 2 minutes to organize thousands of jpgs.
In windows (XP or Vista), goto a folder with pictures. Then change the view to ‘details’. Then, right-click on the header of one of the columns (name, size, type, etc). Here you can select which columns appear. Click on ‘more’ at the bottom which will allow you to choose from hundreds of available columns. Find the one called ‘Dimensions’ and put a check next to that. This will add the “resolution” column. Once that column is present, you can click on the column header to sort your pictures by their resolution. Then it’s very easy to select all the ones with common resolutions and move them to organized folders.
Cheers!
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T-shirt modded to let you know when you have new emails, won’t tell you why your friends are avoiding you
You probably don’t have enough reminders that you’re always a little behind, right? Well Chris and his wife Madeline decided to make one more for themselves: a t-shirt that lights up when you have new emails, and also tells you the number in your inbox. Using an Arduino Lilypad microcontroller, a few LEDs, conductive thread, and a Bluetooth dongle to communicate with an Android phone nearby (which has access to the inbox), Chris took a custom printed shirt and rigged up this badboy. It’s actually pretty good looking as far as these things go, but we still don’t know if we need this in our already alert-ridden lives. Regardless, the video’s after the break if you’re thinking about cobbling together your own.
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I actually thought this was untrue when I first read it…but it looks legit. It is for the rich only.
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Acrobatic thieves hit N.J. Best Buy avoiding cameras, motion sensors, alarms in daring heist
They never touched the floor — that would have set off an alarm.
They didn’t appear on store security cameras. They cut a hole in the roof and came in at a spot where the cameras were obscured by advertising banners.
And they left with some $26,000 in laptop computers, departing the same way they came in — down a 3-inch gas pipe that runs from the roof to the ground outside the store.
Police believe that’s how some brazen bandits managed to swipe 20 Apple notebooks early this morning at a Best Buy on Route 1 in South Brunswick without detection.
“High level of sophistication,” said Detective James Ryan, a police department spokesman. “They never set off any motion sensors. They never touched the floor. They rappelled in and rappelled out.”
Employees discovered the missing laptops, as well as a gaping hole in the ceiling, when they arrived to work around 6:30 this morning.
The thieves left boot prints on the gas pipe, which runs up the side of the building in Monmouth Junction, Ryan said.
On top of the building, they used a saw to cut through several inches of rubber and insulation, then sliced a 3-foot-wide square in the metal roof, he said.
Once inside, the burglars dropped 16 feet to 10-foot-tall racks — avoiding contact with the floor, where motion sensors would have set off an alarm. They snatched the notebooks from the racks, then went back out through the roof.
The effort was daring and unusual, said John Harris, an expert in security who has consulted on thousands of burglaries.
“I would say they were a professional crew,” said Harris, who is based in Atlanta, Ga., but does work throughout the nation. “At least I’ve never dealt with anything like this. From time to time, people break in, but not usually through the roof.”
It’s a first for South Brunswick police and Detective Ryan, who said he’s seen similar burglaries but never anything that required this much effort. The thieves knew the layout of the store and apparently knew the banners would block the view of security cameras, he said.
“The tools they had to bring, the alarms they had to circumvent — it certainly required a lot of high-level planning,” Ryan said.
Police think it may not be an isolated incident, and that the crew — which had to include at least 2 or 3 people — might have hit other locations before. The investigating officer, Detective John Penney, will share his notes with other law enforcement agencies around New Jersey.
The corporate offices of Best Buy declined to comment.
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Infrastructure Planning and Design Guide for Dynamic Data Center—Join the Beta Now!
The Solution Accelerator team is working on a new guide: Dynamic Data Center.
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Microsoft and Amazon.com Sign Patent Agreement
Microsoft today announced that it has signed a patent cross-license agreement with Amazon.com. The agreement provides each company with access to the other’s patent portfolio and covers a broad range of products and technology, including coverage for Amazon’s popular e-reading device, Kindle™, which employs both open source and Amazon’s proprietary software components, and Amazon’s use of Linux-based servers. Although specific terms of the agreement are confidential, Microsoft indicated that Amazon.com will pay Microsoft an undisclosed amount of money under the agreement.
“We are pleased to have entered into this patent license agreement with Amazon.com,” said Horacio Gutierrez, corporate vice president and deputy general counsel for Intellectual Property and Licensing at Microsoft. “Microsoft’s patent portfolio is the largest and strongest in the software industry, and this agreement demonstrates our mutual respect for intellectual property as well as our ability to reach pragmatic solutions to IP issues regardless of whether proprietary or open source software is involved.”
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How about a this day in tech? Have not done this in a while!
1473: Nicolaus Copernicus is born in Torun, Poland, of German parents, leading both countries to claim him as their own.
The astronomer was not so eagerly embraced by the Catholic Church, however, after becoming the most prominent advocate of the heliocentric theory that placed Earth in orbit around a stationary sun, an idea that stood in direct opposition to both conventional wisdom and Catholic dogma.
The heliocentric theory had existed for centuries but in largely fragmented form, buried by time and religious repression. In what is now known as the Copernican system, Copernicus outlined seven basic theoretical principles and presented them in his De revolutionibus orbium coelestium, or in English, On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres:
- There is no one center of all the celestial spheres [orbits].
- The Earth’s center is not the center of the universe.
- The center of the universe is near the sun.
- The distance of the Earth to the sun is imperceptible compared with the distance to the stars.
- The rotation of the Earth accounts for the apparent daily rotation of the stars.
- The apparent annual cycle of movements of the sun is caused by the Earth revolving around the sun.
- The apparent retrograde motion of the planets is caused by the motion of the Earth, from which one observes.
Unsurprisingly, Rome banned the book.
Copernican theory not only obliterated the universe as understood by Ptolemy and the ancients, it had a profound effect on other astronomers of the scientific age, including Galileo and Johannes Kepler. It is thus considered a defining moment in the history of science.
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