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Motorola XOOM First Android 3.0 Honeycomb Tablet
January 6th, 2011 / No Comments » / by Faizan
Motorola Mobility and Verizon Wireless have unveiled the new innovative tablet Motorola XOOM™. That is the first device running on Google’s Android 3.0 Honeycomb Operating system that is specially built for Tablets. Android 3.0 was unveiled by Google earlier today at CES. Motorola XOOM features 10.1 inch wide screen display and Google’s new services for music, books, apps and videos, and Adobe Flash Player. Unlike current Android tablets like Samsung Galaxy Tab, Motorola XOOM could be the real rival of Apple’s iPad.
History of Apple iPod
January 2nd, 2011 / 1 Comment » / by AF8AB
iPod killed the video star. Here is an infographic on history of Apple’s revolutionary music player which changed the way world listened to music. I still have my old walkman laying around here somewhere though.
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Google Nexus S–What’s Inside
December 25th, 2010 / 1 Comment » / by AF8AB
Google released its second official phone in collaboration with Samsung, called Nexus S. Nexus S is an exceptional phone with many fancy features that separate it from other android phones like the Contour Display with curved glass screen (we found out truth when we saw it teared down). Here is an operation of Google Samsung Nexus S done by ifixit –
Read more for whole teardown process of Nexus S.
SAP : Monitoring System-wide Work Processes
December 18th, 2010 / No Comments » / by sT*rchi1Ð
Monitoring System wide Work Processes (SM66):
We can quickly investigate the potential cause of a system performance problem by checking the work process load and can use the global work process overview to:
• Monitor the work process load on all active instances across the system
• Identify locks in the database (lock waits).
Using the Global Work Process Overview screen, we can see at a glance:
• The status of each application server
• The reason why it is not running
• Whether it has been restarted
• The CPU and request run time
• The user who has logged on and the client that they logged on to
• The report that is running
We record only those processes which are showing problems and not having running status.
Content Sharing in Facebook Era – infographic
December 17th, 2010 / 1 Comment » / by AF8AB
This interesting Infographic shows how people share content around the web when hundreds of sharing options are available. Surprisingly the classic email is still on top with Facebook in a hot pursuit.
Facebook For Android 1.5 – Chat & Push Notifications
December 15th, 2010 / No Comments » / by Faizan
Facebook has updated their android app with long awaited features like Chat and Push notifications. however notifications for comments, likes and wall posts are still missing. Here is what they said on their Facebook page.
Facebook for Android v1.5 now available in the Android marketplace. New features include Chat featuring background mode (you can receive chat messages while using other applications) and push notifications (get notified sooner).
Push notifications are only supported for devices on Android 2.2+. If you are not seeing push notifications, your device may not be supported.
This update is available in Android Marketplace.
All About Android 2.3 Gingerbread
December 7th, 2010 / No Comments » / by Faizan
Google just released Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) fastest version of android yet, focusing on Gaming, media and brining new forms of communication into android platform.
In gingerbread they’ve introduced Concurrent Garbage Collection which minimizes application pauses, much smoother animations and responsiveness. Developers have direct access to Input and sensors Events, Audio, Open GL ES and Assets, Support for Gyroscope for motion processing in games.
They’ve also added support for VP8 and WebM that are new open video standards, AAC and AMR support is also added, they’ve also added support for audio effects that were missing in Android 2.2 Froyo. Watch following videos to get more idea about Android 2.3 Gingerbread.
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