VZW iPhone Slower Than AT&T iPhone
Wait what? Where’s America’s most reliable network now? Metrico did a study that cost $5k so we are getting our info from Wired. The VZW version performed slower than other VZW phones like the HTC Incredible even though the voice quality is better than the AT&T version but who uses their phone to call anyone? That’s what I tell myself whenever I drop a call, I’m going to go cry in a corner now.
Android Now Biggest-Selling Smartphone Platform In America
You wouldn’t tell it just looking at the FEZ staff – where we have two Android users versus two iPhone users with a Windows Phone guy in-between – but Android has now become the largest smartphone platform, surpassing Research In Motion’s Blackberry for the top spot in ComScore’s latest quarterly marketshare report.
Getting Closer to Launching Skynet
Boston Dynamics is building some robots to hunt people for the government. The first is the Cheetah that you see above. The Cheetah robot will have a flexible spine, an articulated head and neck, and maybe even a tail. It will be able to accelerate rapidly and make tight turns so it can “chase or evade,” Boston Dynamics said in a statement.
Google’s Self Driving Car
I’ve been hearing all about this magical car that Google has been testing but never got to see in it. Well the wait is over! In the video above you get to see it has a crazy keyboard with characters out of this world (I knew aliens helped them) and it driving up to 45 MPH while it zig-zags through an obstacle course. The tech inside isn’t really touched on, I’m guessing it’s still super duper top secret. All I know is that I really want to play with one of these things now. In 2007 BMW let Top Gear test their self driving car, I think someone at Google leaked it to BMW and that’s how they go the tech because I mean did you see GM’s self driving car? The thing had crazy gadgets and cameras mounted all over it. The BMW video is after the jump.
Ebooks Only Last 26 Reads Then They Self Destruct
Harper Collins, a huge book publisher, is telling libraries that they need to buy a new version of any ebook that is checked out 26 times. The reason behind this is because they say that printed books only last that long and so ebooks should follow the same rules. Say what? Read the rest of this article…
Map Of The Internets
It seems like more and more Middle Eastern governments are trying to regulate the internet by turning it off. Right now, people of Libya are fighting to take back their country from Gaddafi. Can you guess what that fugly of a guy ended up doing? Yep.
Which leads me to the question: Does turning off the internet in an entire country affect the rest of the interweb?
Even Microsoft Hates Internet Explorer 6
This is a little surprising to me. Microsoft has created the website IE6 Countdown which shows the stats of IE6 usage and pretty much is telling anyone that is still using IE6 to go die in a fire. We at FleshEatingZipper fully support not only upgrading from IE6 but to leave the Microsoft family for a better browser like Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox. It’s the future people c’mon now!
Using Your Phone To Call People? Huh?
What you see above is how Sprint views how I’ve used my phone in the past month. That half gig of data? Not scary. The texts? Nothin’. That talk time? That’s where they have to be shaking up. Seriously, who uses their phone to talk to people?
Best Buy Is Losing Its Edge
The electronics industry did a heckuva thing in the decade and change that I worked at Best Buy as a floor-level grunt. Music on compact discs peaked and vanished, a sea of other retailers bit the dust, but even the big blue box that survived it all became slightly more irrelevant in an era of internet commerce and discount outlets. Isn’t it then ironic that the world’s largest electronics retailer is looking more draconian in an era of Facebook and Foursquare?
Uh-oh: Sprint And Samsung Pull Froyo Update For Epic 4G Because Of Data Problems
Sprint giveth, Sprint taketh away. After the Epic’s 2.2/Froyo update started going out Over The Air (OTA) for Samsung’s Epic 4G, the nation’s third-largest carrier started getting an influx of calls from customers being unable to access content on their SD cards. The update has since been pulled to iron things out while those suffering with data issues are advised to do a hard reset (read: flashing the phone to a just-out-of-the-box state). As an Epic user, I haven’t had any issues since I grabbed the update directly from Samsung’s website and installed it via USB, but here’s hoping this doesn’t stymie further updates to the feature-beleaguered phone. Source: AndroidCentral
