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Facebook API bug deletes contact info on users’ phones
In the majority of cases, those who allowed their Blackberry, Android, iOS6 beta and Windows Phone 8 beta phones to sync their contacts with Facebook, have had the originally stored email addresses overwritten. The lucky ones had their contacts duplicated – with the new ones containing the @facebook email addresses.
via Facebook API bug deletes contact info on users’ phones.
At least it was the user’s choice allowing Facebook to write stuff onto their devices.
HP Gives Thin-client Treatment to Passport Internet Monitor
Hewlett-Packard has given a twist to the traditional all-in-one PC design with a new thin client it calls an “Internet monitor” that started shipping on Thursday and is designed to access services on the Internet.
via HP Gives Thin-client Treatment to Passport Internet Monitor | PCWorld Business Center.
The Passport has no internal storage or high-end processor, limiting its use to Internet access. The Linux-based operating system is locked down, so users cannot upload or install programs. The device has a Texas Instruments OMAP4430 smartphone chip, five USB ports, a media card reader and an Ethernet port. The monitor displays images at a 1366-by-768-pixel resolution.
It’s priced at $259.
Google I/O Day Two
Today’s first big theme: Chrome. Tim reports: “Brian Rakowski VP for (and inventor of) Chrome, shows device transferability among devices of tabs, bookmarks, with a multi-part contrived story, looking at his opened tabs from home and work, etc. from a phone running Chrome. Not only can open tabs from there, but (and this is cool), ‘we’ve made sure the back button works as well.’ So you can open a page from a different computer, and have the browsing history of that tab as well. This Chrome syncing affects settings, bookmarks, etc. Also, for those transferred tab pages, pre-loading! So when you click on a tab, it’s been loading and now should be read, BAM.” As before we’ll be updating the story live (below the fold) with his updates as they stream in.
Imagination Technologies
Over the past two weeks, Imagination Technologies has announced new, higher-end versions of its Power VR Series 6 GPU, claiming that the new Power VR G6230 and G6430 go “‘all out’, adding incremental extra area for maximum performance whilst minimising power consumption.” There’s a new ray-tracing SDK out and a post discussing how PowerVR is utilizing GPU Compute and OpenCL to offload and accelerate CPU-centric tasks.
Via: PowerVR Plans To Make Mobile Graphics, GPU Compute a Three-Way Race — Again
Steam for Linux will launch in 2012
Steam becoming available for Linux is quite significant for the future of gaming on the OS. Steam holds a lot of sway with developers and publishers, and they will be more inclined to support Linux as a platform if they intend to launch a game through Steam. So this is great news for any gamers who don’t run a machine on Windows or Mac.
via Steam for Linux will launch in 2012 – Video Games Reviews, Cheats | Geek.com.
ARM expects 20-nanometer processors by late next year
ARM doesn’t manufacture the chips itself. It licenses its designs to companies such as Qualcomm, Texas Instruments and Nvidia, who in turn outsource manufacture of the chips to foundry companies like Taiwan’s TSMC.
This year’s Computex should be a big event for ARM. Microsoft has developed the first version of its Windows PC OS that runs on ARM-based processors, called Windows RT, and vendors are expected to show the first ARM-based tablets running the new software.
APC
$49 Android PC System
APC was not built like an ordinary PC. For openers, we started with an awareness that the purpose of a computer is to connect to the Internet. It is the Internet that now defines computing. When you begin here, magic happens.
Expensive, overpowered CPUs and bloated software are no longer relevant. With this awareness, we were able to drop power consumption to the point of making an energy-saving light-bulb jealous.
via APC.
Google Changes Tack on Android
Google plans to give multiple mobile-device makers early access to new releases of Android and to sell those devices directly to consumers, said people familiar with the matter. That is a shift from Google’s previous practice, when it joined with with only one hardware maker at a time to produce “lead devices,” before releasing the software to other device makers. …
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