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Intel integrated graphics: finally good enough for the MacBook Air?
August 5th, 2011 
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Tags: apple, article, from-the-320m, graphics, intel, ivybridge, macbookpro, macmini, make-the-switch, news, read-the-rest, solely-on-intel, some-trade-offs 
Comments OffHands on: new Android Market app sells books and movie rentals
August 5th, 2011 admin Google has started rolling out a major update of the Android Market application for smartphones. It offers a more sophisticated layout, an improved visual style, and some significant new features—including support for renting movies and buying books. Virtually all of these features are already present in the Honeycomb version of the Android Market, but were not previously available in the smartphone version. The update brings feature parity and a unified look and feel between the phone and tablet variants of the market. Read the comments on this post
Posted in Tech News Tags: article, Gadgets, honeycomb, market, news, read-the-rest, smartphone, tablet-variants, the-smartphone, these-features Comments OffAT&T to begin throttling heaviest data users on October 1 (Updated)
August 5th, 2011 admin Move over, Verizon: AT&T may begin throttling the data speeds of its heaviest wireless users as soon as October of this year. The move remains unconfirmed as of yet, but sources speaking to 9to5Mac claim that AT&T will begin implementing a network congestion plan similar to other carriers in order to battle the 80x increase in data traffic it has seen since the introduction of the iPhone in 2007. According to the site’s sources, AT&T’s throttling plan will mirror that of Verizon’s, which was implemented in February just before the introduction of the Verizon iPhone. Under that system, Verizon reduces the data throughput speeds for the five percent of customers who “use an extraordinary amount of data.” The throttling typically lasts through the remainder of the current billing cycle and returns to normal at the beginning of the next one, though under some circumstances, it’s possible for the reduced speeds to spill over into the next billing cycle as well. Read the comments on this post
Posted in Tech News Tags: article, AT&T, Carriers, cycle-as-well, data, Gadgets, news, read-the-rest, rumor, throttle, users-as-soon, verizon, verizoniphone Comments OffApple, Samsung top smartphone sales as feature phones decline
August 5th, 2011 admin The touchscreen smartphone revolution continues to shake up the mobile phone industry, with Apple displacing Nokia as the top smartphone vendor in the world. In fact, Apple has also displaced longtime mobile industry players like Motorola, Sony Ericsson, and RIM to become the number four mobile phone vendor globally. But Apple’s rival Samsung, holding the number two spot in both mobile and smartphone market share, is poised to take both crowns if its massive sales growth can be maintained. The overall mobile phone market grew just over 11 percent year over year for the second quarter of 2011, for a total of 365 million units, according to market research firm IDC. Growth has been slower than expected, perhaps due to a 4 percent drop in feature phone shipments. That’s the first decline in feature phone sales since the third quarter of 2009. Read the comments on this post
Posted in Tech News Tags: article, Gadgets, ios, mobile, motorola, Nokia, overall-mobile, phone-industry, read-the-rest, second-quarter, since-the-third, smartphone, zte Comments OffHow one undergrad built the largest solar farm in Michigan
August 5th, 2011 admin Building a solar farm isn’t hard if you have the money; you just pay contractors to show up, install electrical service, build the solar panel support infrastructure, and truck in the panels. But if you want to do it cheap, you could buy some land from a friend and set up your own fabrication shop, spending an entire summer welding together 50,000 pounds of structural steel and pouring concrete around 20,000 pounds of rebar to save serious cash on the infrastructure. Connor Field, a Michigan resident who built the largest solar farm in the state this way in late 2009, said drily, “I would not do that again.” “Do you know how to weld?” I asked him when we met recently in Ann Arbor to discuss the project. “I do now.” Read the comments on this post
Posted in Tech News Tags: article, build-the-solar, connor-field, entire-summer, Gadgets, infrastructure, largest, largest-solar, michigan, money, news, project, read-the-rest, science Comments OffRetailers dropping prices on iPhone ahead of impending update
August 5th, 2011 admin Some retailers have begun marking down the price of the iPhone 4, suggesting stock clearing measures have begun in anticipation of an expected hardware update. While most recent rumors have suggested a September launch, however, some recent buzz indicates that the next iPhone might not emerge until October. Still, in light of the markdowns, September seems a more likely candidate. According to reports from Engadget and Phone Arena, both Radio Shack and Target
Posted in Tech News Tags: apple, article, down-the-price, markdowns, october-still, radio shack, radioshack, read-the-rest, running-through, target Comments OffGoogle publicly accuses Apple, Microsoft, Oracle of patent bullying
August 5th, 2011 admin Get out the fire extinguishers, because the patent fight between the tech titans is heating up. On Wednesday, Google publicly accused Apple and Microsoft of banding together to take down Android, using their winnings from recent Novell and Nortel patent auctions as ammunition. In a post to the Official Google Blog , Google Senior Vice President and Chief Legal Officer David Drummond said that Apple, Microsoft, Oracle, and others have waged “a hostile, organized campaign against Android” by snapping up patents from Novell and Nortel and asking Google for high licensing fees for every Android device. According to Drummond, the companies in question are attempting to “make it more expensive for phone manufacturers to license Android (which we provide free of charge) than Windows Mobile; and even suing Barnes & Noble, HTC, Motorola, and Samsung.” Read the comments on this post
Posted in Tech News Tags: apple, companies, Gadgets, google-senior, ios, oracle, patent, read-the-rest, tech, tech-policy, windows-mobile, windowsphone, winnings Comments Off
