Archive for ‘August, 2010’

…And Hackintosh for All

…And Hackintosh for All

Hey now! Axon Logic is touting an $800 tablet slate. Yes, that does seem a tad expensive, right? But what if you could run OS X on it?
Well, we suspect that just might change everything.
Sure, Club Cupertino’s stringent EULA prohibits the unauthorized installation of OS X on a non-Apple-branded computer.
Fortunately, the unfazed [...]

Tablets jumpstart WWAN chipsets

Tablets jumpstart WWAN chipsets

Is that a Wireless Wide Area Network (WWAN) chipset inside your Android tablet?
Why yes, yes it is.
Of course, the popular chipset isn’t expected to remain confined to handsets and tablets forever.
No, WWAN components are tapped to power a wide variety of next-gen mobile wireless devices.
Indeed, iSuppli principal analyst Francis Sideco projects that at least 20.7 [...]

Google rides the Wave until the end

Google rides the Wave until the end

Google has officially ended development of its nascent web-based Wave application due to a lack of user adoption.
“Last year at Google I/O, when we launched our developer preview of Wave – a web app for real time communication and collaboration – it set a high bar for what was possible in a web browser,” explained [...]

200,000 Android smartphones activated per day

200,000 Android smartphones activated per day

Did you know that at least 200,000 Android smartphones are activated on a daily basis?
The new figure represents a staggering 25% increase from just 7 weeks ago, when Google pegged Android’s frenetic activation rate at an impressive 160,000 units per day.
“It looks like Android is not just phenomenal but an incredibly phenomenal success in its [...]

MintyBoost Cracks the Secrets of Apple’s Charging Methods

MintyBoost Cracks the Secrets of Apple’s Charging Methods

MintyBoost was a terrifically handy DIY USB charger, housed in an Altoids gum tin. It worked great, until Apple changed the way it charged devices, gimping third-party chargers. But have no fear! The MintyBoost team is on the case. What they found, and what’s enumerated in detail in the video below, is that Apple puts [...]

Pulse News Reader for iPad update makes you a news editor

Pulse News Reader for iPad update makes you a news editor

A new update to Pulse News Reader for iPad now lets you mash up your own mix of news for others to subscribe to. The update to version 1.1.4, which went live last evening, provides each user with their own “pulse” if they so desire.
What’s a pulse? It’s actually a Posterous blog (with a pulsememe.com [...]

China is now the world’s second largest economy

China is now the world’s second largest economy

The People’s Republic of China – also known as Zhōngguó – has eclipsed Japan and is now the world’s second largest economy.
According to World Bank projections cited by Reuters, China remains on course to overtake the United States and assume the role of the world’s number one economic superpower by the year 2025.
However, China’s per-capita [...]

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