Techland gets a private session with Microsoft's upcoming camera "controller" for the Xbox 360, Natal. Besides making you flail around and look like some dork it does seem to work very well, although, we've only seen videos of this particular game in motion, so I'm holding my breath until I see a "real" game from an actual publisher running on it - Watch the Video HERE
A New York couple tied the knot late on Valentine's Day and Twitter has been on fire about it ever since. I thought I'd cut out the middle man and provide the heavily searched for video right on here. Apparently, it all started when the groom struck up a conversation with his now wife when she was in search of a new iPod and he just so happened to know every iRelated.
I think they should've waited until the iPad was released and read off their vows from it. I'm sure Apple wouldn't have minded the free publicity.
Over 9 million blogs are hosted by Wordpress, and when the entire network went down earlier yesterday, sites like TechCrunch and the rest of the 9 million were unaccessible, making people everywhere scratch their head and wonder, "what the heck caused it?"
The answer might surprise you:
“We are still gathering details, but it appears an unscheduled change to a core router by one of our datacenter providers messed up our network in a way we haven’t experienced before, and broke the site. It also broke all the mechanisms for failover between our locations in San Antonio and Chicago. All of your data was safe and secure, we just couldn’t serve it.
We need to dig deeper and find out exactly what happened, why, and how to failover more gracefully next time and isolate problems like this so they don’t affect our other locations.”
-Matt Mullenburg, founder of Wordpress
It's good to know that months, and even years, of hard work can all go down the drain in a mere second due to one bonehead mistake. People must've been glad to here it was only some downtime instead of something much worse, like massive data loss.
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Every year without fail the Mobile tech industry flocks to Barcelona to see what's on offer. Often enough giant conglomerates such as Microsoft, HTC, and Google steal the show - this year's show being no different. At this point I would like to thank websites such as Engadget and Slashgear, whom without, our coverage would have failed miserably. Compiled below is a complete list of stuff that we covered; if you missed any of it we highly suggest that you take a gander:
Windows Phone 7 Series:
Software announcements:
Handsets:
Often enough smartphone manufacturers design handsets that are never meant to enter into a western market; it can be a little dissapointing at times, however, enthusiasts will find a way to get their greasy mits on them anyway. With Motorola hell bent on dominating the mobile marketplace again, it can be expected that such a thing would happen; destined for China is one of their latest Android handsets, the MT710.
The Motorola MT710 is running an Android based Ophone OS, FWVGA resistive touchscreen (thats a resolution of 854 x 480). Replacing HSPA 3G for TD-SCDMA 3G (essentially the Chinese equivalent), all housed within a svelte metal case emphasised with streaks of red.
We all "love" the browsing experience on the iPhone, but there is a few things left to be desired, like speed, which is sort of important when it comes to checking your tweets.
Opera has been busy drinking coffee and bashing keyboards, building a better browser for the iPhone. Opera Mini is very, very fast on the iPhone, so fast in fact loading the New York Times was about 5x faster than loading the same page in the iPhone 3GS' stock browser. It has a few downnsides though, like no pinch-zoom support (double tap works though) but all in all, it is looking to be a much better browsing experience.
The insane performance gain has to do with how Opera Mini works behind the scenes. First of all, it's not doing any rendering, or loading of the pages or code processing locally, all of the web pages are processed by Opera's servers before sending just the results to the iPhone. This dosen't just speed up browsing speed overall, but far less data is sent to the iPhone, using less of your data plan, thus saving you money on your bill.
Since it seems that alot of the backend work is done through Opera's servers, it makes us wonder if there could be a way to implement off site Flash support, so in theory Opera could render the Flash stuff on their server, not on the iPhone. Hmmm...
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