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Sunday, February 27, 2011
HTC Desire, Desire HD and Desire Z 'getting Gingerbread in Q2'
HTC has confirmed that Gingerbread will be making its way to the Desire, Desire HD and Desire Z during the second quarter of the year, according to reports from SlashGear, which sources an HTC spokesperson. HTC also re-confirmed the Incredible S Gingerbread update, though this has been known since the phone was announced.
This is the first confirmation of a Gingerbread update for the Desire HD and Desire Z -- good news for owners of those phones, which are still under six months old. Reports started to surface last week suggesting a Gingerbread update for the original Desire, which is now approaching its first birthday.
The Q2 2011 release window for these Gingerbread updates will coincide with the launch of HTC's new Desire S and Wildfire S, both of which run Gingerbread out of the box. [SlashGear]
HTC Desire, Desire HD and Desire Z 'getting Gingerbread in Q2' posted originally by Android Central
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2011 WSBK Phillip Island QP1 Result: Checa Firmly In Control
Results of the first session of qualifying for the World Superbike class at Phillip Island:
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Blog Post: World's tallest stuff
How tall is tall? The Empire State Building looks pretty tall, especially when you’re standing on the observation deck looking down at Central Park. Still, it’s only 1,250 feet tall. It is significantly overshadowed by the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. As the world’s tallest building – for now -- the Burj towers over downtown Dubai at 2,700 feet and change.
Forever fascinated by all things colossal, we took a tour of some of the tallest things travelers will encounter around the world. Where’s the world’s tallest fountain? What about the tallest roller coaster? You’ll find those and many more in the new Bing Travel slide show, World’s Tallest Stuff.
Have you been to the Burj, or other tall sights? Tell us about it by adding a comment below.
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Ubuntu 11.04 Unity keyboard shortcuts have a distinct Windows 7 flavor
- The super key, which typically refers to the Windows key on most standard keyboards, invokes the Unity Launcher -- on Windows, this would call up the Start Menu
- Super + 1/2/3, etc. launches the app in that position on the Unity dockbar -- much like the Windows 7 feature
- Super + D minimizes and restores all windows -- a hotkey combo in Windows since XP
With WUBI making it so easy to install and dual-boot Ubuntu from within Windows and an easy profile data import tool offered during setup, Canonical is doing its best to entice defectors.
Ubuntu 11.04 Unity keyboard shortcuts have a distinct Windows 7 flavor originally appeared on Download Squad on Sat, 26 Feb 2011 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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IT industry must do more to be green, says Microsoft's environment chief
Rob Bernard wants to drive efficiency gains he has made at the world's biggest software firm through the wider IT sector
? Interview: The man driving Microsoft's green agenda
Businesses are not doing enough to become more energy efficient, Microsoft's chief environmental strategist has told the Guardian.
Rob Bernard wants to drive the efficiency gains he has made at the world's biggest software firm ? in everything from waste, transport emissions and greener buildings ? through the company's network of partners and the wider IT sector.
"A small percentage of the IT industry is doing really progressive, proactive things. But the problem is that over 80% of IT professionals still aren't really addressing this issue at the level they could. They don't actively monitor and drive energy reduction. The problem is behaviour change ? not technology."
Bernard says the perennial problem is that IT departments do not pay a company's energy bills. "The first thing to do is have a governance model which has the IT department, the real estate facilities department and the financial officers all working together."
While Microsoft has marked a change in corporate strategy which has seen it take on established players such as Google and Amazon in the domain of cloud computing, Bernard believes such providers could be more efficient.
"Anywhere access to your information is a key underpinning of where's the industry's heading. From my perspective, it's really about making sure that you're not being inefficient in the way that you're doing that, and I would argue that many companies are very inefficient in that area today."
Bernard says the IT industry needs to look at efficiency in data centres ? the "clouds" of gigantic computing facilities that store digital data.
"Most data centres are operating at a power utilisation efficiency of 2.0, which means that for every two electrons that come into a building only one goes to computation ? the other one goes to the air conditioning and the lights. We've already got our buildings down to 1.12. We've got to drive the whole industry way down on that 2.0," Bernard says.
Last November Microsoft commissioned a study which found that deploying its cloud computing solutions in large organisations could reduce energy use and carbon emissions by more than 30%, and more than 90% in smaller operations.
? Read the full interview with Rob Bernad and profile of Microsoft's environmental efforts
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Blog Post: Zimbio launches Celebrity Places, powered by Bing Maps
If you're suffering from the latest epidemic, known as Bieber Fever, you may want to check out Zimbio’s newest feature: Celebrity Places for the cure. Zimbio is an interactive magazine publisher with a focus on entertainment, style, current events and a bevy of other pop culture topics.
Their latest feature combines the accuracy and richness of Bing Maps with Zimbio’s high resolution photography of your favorite celebs. The idea is to synch a personality spotted in the wild with a location on the map, be it on the red carpet or grabbing a latte between shoots. There are over 10,000 geotagged photos on Zimbio.com in 1,000-plus cities and they are just getting started. Once you’ve found your celeb in the wild, you can find out more about them on Bing by clicking on the Bing logo and searching
Each celebrity has their own Places page, which will no doubt create an interesting destination for the Justin Bieber and Rihanna fans alike. The new feature is available today and is discoverable throughout the site.
The team at Zimbio did an amazing job integrating their high quality content with the Bing Maps v7 API. So, go to www.zimbio.com/places and check it out. The site was already stellar without the added geotagged content, so you will need to somehow substitute your Facebook browsing time with Zimbio Places...not enough hours in a day. Let us know what you think.
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