Comment Not the first 4G phone released (Score 1) 182
The Evo is not the first 4G phone to be ever released. HTC released a WiMAX phone for Russian market back in 2008. http://www.htc.com/www/product/max4g/specification.html
Comment Microsoft's remorse (Score 2, Funny) 539
I believe Microsoft might actually have a problem with this. Seriously, why are they working 15 hours when they could as well work 18?
Submission + - Wikileaks Releases Murder Video (collateralmurder.com)
linguizic writes: Today Wikileaks released the video of US military firing large caliber weapons into a crowd that included two children as well as a photojournalist and a driver for Reuters. Wikileaks maintains that this video was covered up by the US Military when Reuters asked for an official investigation. This is the same video that supposedly has made the editors of Wikileaks a target of the State Department and/or the CIA as was discussed on Slashdot here: http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/03/24/1321224/Wikileaks-Receiving-Gestapo-Treatment.
Comment I have one of these (Score 1) 158
As a long-term customer of vodafone I never experienced or even expected this level of incompetence from them before. I also bought a HTC Magic from them and feel like suing them right now.
Latvian "Robin Hood" Hacker Leaks Bank Details 170
eldavojohn writes "Move over Russell Crowe, an anonymous hacker in Latvia is being hailed as a real life modern Robin Hood. The hacker refers to himself as 'Neo,' claims allegiance with the Fourth Awakening People's Army, and is outing banks that are capitalizing off of the horrible economic status Latvia is currently suffering from. No word on how he is acquiring the information but it is slowly being leaked to TV sources via Twitter and the common people love him. The hacker is thought to be based in Britain but a TV reporter pointed out the fine line Neo is walking, 'On the one hand of course he has stolen confidential data ... and he actually has committed a crime. But at the same time there is value for the public in the sense that now a lot of information gets disclosed and the whole system maybe becomes a little more transparent.' An example of a juicy tidbit he revealed is that managers of a Latvian bank did not take the salary cuts they promised they would after the government bailed them out of economic trouble. You can imagine that taxpayers were upset and thankful they knew this information."
Comment Sex offenders (Score 1) 312
The school board is watching you masturbate.
Nokia, Intel Merge Maemo, Moblin Into MeeGo 162
AVee writes "Intel and Nokia just announced a new project called MeeGo. MeeGo is supposed to be the result of merging Maemo and Moblin, bringing together the best pieces of those (already quite similar platforms). Interestingly this means that Intel will be sponsoring a mobile Linux distro which will run on ARM."
Comment Not that bad. (Score 2, Informative) 56
Initial ETF for iPhone 3G in my country (Latvia) is what would be around $570
Comment Silly tags (Score 1) 569
Penis mightier?
Comment Nokia moving to Open Source? (Score 2, Interesting) 189
It seems that Nokia is positively moving towards oss lately. I certainly did not expect Nokia to be first to ship smartphones with a very compatible Linux distribution and root access out of the box.
Submission + - Google deducing wireless location data (bnet.com)
bizwriter writes: When it comes to knowing where wireless users are, the carriers have had a lock on the data. But a patent application shows that Google is trying to deduce the information based on packet headers and estimated transmission rates. This would let it walk right around carriers and become another source of location data to advertisers.
Submission + - Carrier forcing firmware update on Android Users (howardforums.com)
Wolfier writes: It seems that "Customer Safety" only becomes a concern after months of negligence. An Android firmware bug that prevented users from making 911 calls under certain situations were fixed and informed to the only GSM carrier in Canada — Rogers Wireless — months ago by a customer (there's a link to a recording of the call on the forum), but they're only doing something now — by cutting data access of paying customers until they update to a mandatory firmware by Rogers — that doesn't only have the feature fixed, but also contains those "extra" features that prevents users from ever gaining root access of their phones — even non-subsidized ones. Did I mention that some phones are also bricked by this "official" update?
Conclusion: we really need opening up the competition here up North.
Conclusion: we really need opening up the competition here up North.
Comment A great idea (Score 1) 1
I am in Latvia and my ISP is already offering a similar service for traffic trough Google, Yahoo and Microsoft owned domains on ISP level.
An Open Source Compiler From CUDA To X86-Multicore 71
Gregory Diamos writes "An open source project, Ocelot, has recently released a just-in-time compiler for CUDA, allowing the same programs to be run on NVIDIA GPUs or x86 CPUs and providing an alternative to OpenCL. A description of the compiler was recently posted on the NVIDIA forums. The compiler works by translating GPU instructions to LLVM and then generating native code for any LLVM target. It has been validated against over 100 CUDA applications. All of the code is available under the New BSD license."
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