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Palm Pre Developer Starved, Killed by Sprint
Once released by Sprint with much fanfare, the Palm Pre heralded what Palm thought would be their best effort to unseat iPhone as preeminent smartphone—but now it has fallen so far behind that Sprint is axing the line and removing it from their stores. Speculation as to the reason why the device eventually failed surmise ...
AT&T Windows Phone 7 Devices Require Special MicroSD Cards
In a statement Friday, AT&T warned users that the Windows Phone 7 devices are not compatible with ordinary market microSDHC cards. They must instead by specialized Microsoft certified microSDHC cards, otherwise they will cause the devices to run unacceptably slow and build up data corruption. An article from the Inquisitr gives us the scoop, According ...
A Tutorial for Hadoop and Map Reduce in Java
Hadoop has become an extremely big name here at SiliconANGLE, being one of the premiere open source cloud-storage and -computing projects. If you’re a Java developer and you haven’t had a chance to take a test drive with it, there’s a very easy tutorial up by Carlo Scarioni covering Hadoop basics. Hadoop is an open ...
Ubisoft Comes to Market with Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood
The first Assassin’s Creed came to the unsuspecting gaming public in 2007 and it hasn’t left the gamer consciousness since. This November, in the wake of the recent release of Call of Duty: Black Ops, Ubisoft is going to come to market with the most recent full-game in this series. An interesting move especially because ...
Comcast Xfinity TV App for iPad, Feds to Rule on NBC Acquisition
Looks like Comcast is making a lot of news today with the announced release of their Xfinity TV app for the iPad also the company continues nail-biting as they wait for the FCC and the Justice Department to finish reviewing their purchase of NBC Universal. Finally, the merger and the release of the iPad app, ...
Amazon Leveraging Nvidia GPUs for High-Performance Cloud Computing
Back in July, Amazon Web Services unleashed virtual HPC clusters for cloud computing and virtualization. Now they’re also clustering in GPU co-processors to bolster CPU setups, but also for clustering GPUs. Graphical Processor Units grew out of the need for sheer numeric processing capability to render and display computer graphics. GPUs make excellent foundations for ...
Microsoft Mixes Casual, Social Gaming with Windows Live Messenger & Bing
A recent upgrade to MSN Games brings together all of the elements that make casual gaming and social gaming great. Microsoft is working with CrowdStar to weld multiple search and social products together with social games produced by multiple developers. Players can find games using Bing, log into Windows Live Messenger and chat with their ...
Venture Capital Firm Sequoia Offers a Hand to Tumblr
In this still-developing story, Tumblr—mini-blogging platform and all around interesting place to read—has received an extremely competitive sum from Sequoia Capital, according to SFGate. The NYC-based blogging startup’s founder David Karp and president John Maloney went out to the Valley looking for money last month, and it sounds like they came back winners. “I will ...
Google Strikes Back: Oracle Redacted or Deleted from Presented Evidence
As the drama of the Oracle vs Google lawsuit continues, which Google has already called “legally deficient” in October, the most recent round has Google claiming that Oracle isn’t playing fair. The patent lawsuit came out over patent violations in Google’s Android platform—but the code presented doesn’t seem to be up to spec. According to ...
Mac OS X Joins OpenJDK, Gets Flash Fixed
This has been a big week for Mac OS X. Oracle and Apple have come to an agreement about how to implement Java SE 7. This news comes out after things between Oracle and Apple appeared to have chilled since October, but now they’re back, raring for more. In an article at The Register, Kelly ...