It\’s hard to believe nowadays, but in a simpler time, cellphones really were called \”cell phones,\” not dumbphones, smartphones, feature phones, or superphones. They bulged in your pocket — if they fit in your pocket at all, that is — and they made calls. That\’s it. None of this social networking, messaging, browsing, Instagramming, Flash […]
Arduino The Documentary, a short documentary by Rodrigo Calvo and Raúl Alaejos about theArduino open hardware project and community.
Over the last year or so, RIM — led by the crappy flagship BlackBerry Storm, remember that? — fell to 45% of Verizon\’s smartphone subscriber base in November, 2010, per comScore. That\’s down from 69% of Verizon\’s smartphone subs in November, 2009. Read the full story at  Android Hasn\’t Been Hurting The iPhone — It\’s […]
I just noticed that Bit Micro has a web page discussing the issues of SSD Longevity… In a recent article on write endurance published in STORAGEsearch.com, editor Zsolt Kerekes provided theoretical computations on the longevity of solid state flash drives deployed in enterprise server applications. His test solid state drive had the following specifications: total […]
Good news, everybody—you don’t have to wait for Apple to approve Intel’s new Sandy Bridge processors before you can run Mac OS X on the new CPUs. Intel’s Sandy Bridge CPUs and chipsets are barely out of the gate, but that hasn’t stopped some users from installing Mac OS X Snow Leopard on the new Sandy […]
What happens when you forget about your phone in your Jean pockets?  Well contract goblins decide to eat you for lunch, as Jon22 found out… Also, what\’s the right phone for him?  Well, after going through several phones, he\’ll tell you…
Well, I\’m not a USB protocol engineer but this document from the Intel EHCI USB Specification seems to suggest that the largest USB packet size that is allowable is 1024 bytes and the largest block of data that can be transferred in one go is 24576 bytes, as on page 35: Seven page pointers are […]