Over the weekend, Google and Twitter’s two year agreement which included ‘tweets’ in search results expired. The deal that originated in 2009 stipulated that each would display real-time Twitter results in Google searches never seemed to gain too much notoriety. Google and Twitter aren’t saying much about the end of this working relationship, but Google seems to be concentrating on their recently launched social network product, Google+. As the partnership between Google and Twitter expires, Google has ‘temporarily’ disabled Google.com/realtime. Google plans to explore options in ways to incorporate Google+ into the functionality of google.com/realtime.
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At the launch event of the SONY VAIO S and Z series, the attention was drawn away from the two laser thin notebooks. Instead all media attention seems to be on the yet to be available SONY tablet.
One of them is S1 and the other is S2. Both tablet looks sleek and information is sketchy. Below are some screen shots of it and a video of it in display at the event held at Handy Road, Singapore.
From the web, we can find some sketchy information about this two upcoming products.
The Sony S1 and S2 are both based on Android 3.0 Honeycomb with customised UI.
The Sony S1 has a 9.4 screen with 1280800 resolution.
Samsung Korea has announced its new LTE Router on the South Korea Market called the SHV-E100L. The new SHV-E100L supports EVDO Rev. HSDPA networks which enables the user to browse the web at fast speed that will deliver up to 100 Mp3 music files in only 40 seconds. It features an compact ultra-mini design that will fit securely in your pocket while-on-go, it supports WiFi with a hotspot feature that will connect up to 10 WiFi-enabled devices simultaneously.
The Samsung SHV-E100L 4G LTE Router also offers Web Manager through a Wi-Fi Settings, Password management for network security.
Remember when Ethernet networks were invented? Probably not: it was over 30 years ago, after all, and you are probably too young.
Even if you are not, you have probably dismissed from memory the woefully inadequate 10 meg of bandwidth on offer at the time – less than you get with most broadband services these days.
Still, the world struggled on with 10Mbps for well over a decade before first Fast (100Mbps), then Gigabit Ethernet became available.
Now we are firmly into 10Gig territory, with even faster 40Gig products starting to appear and 100Gig likely to make it into the mainstream next year.
Do we really need technology about 100 times quicker than Gigabit Ethernet or, to put it into perspective, 10,000 times faster than the original Ethernet standard?
There is no easy answer, unless you are talking about the desktop, where 100Gig is way beyond what anyone needs right now, or maybe ever – although perhaps we should never say ever.
Speed freaks
Similar pontifications were heard when Gigabit Ethernet was introduced and now, just a few years later, it is standard on most desktop and notebook PCs. The
What happens when you mix technology with the strategic board game of Risk? For those unfamiliar with the game, the basis is world domination. Players roll dice and place tiny plastic soldiers and armies onto countries until they have taken over the world. Risk was originally titled La Conquête du Monde (“The Conquest of the World”), but a new game has been created that only has you conquering New York City, borough by borough. At a