BlackBerry PlayBook with Verizon Wireless ?

During CES 2011, Sprint announced that they would exclusively offer the upcoming BlackBerry PlayBook on their 4G network. However, there was no official word from RIM regarding a possible Verizon Wireless iteration or how long the exclusive would last. Earlier today, one of our readers sent us a web page that offers in-depth specifications about a possible Verizon Wireless PlayBook.

The website appears is a now-closed registration portal to let people join a ”beta program” to trial a Verizon Wireless PlayBook before launch. I was initially skeptical whether this was real, but a little WHOIS look up revealed that Marketing Werks was the owner of the domain. Heading to the marketing agency’s website revealed that RIM and Verizon Wireless are clients, further hardening the evidence.

As for the hardware specifications, it features all the standards including a 1 GHz dual-core processor, 1 GB of RAM, a 7 inch multi-touch capacitive screen, WiFi a/b/g/n, a 3 mega pixel front-facing camera, and a 5 megapixel rear-facing camera. The document reveals support for 3G access through a BlackBerry smart phone, but there is no mention of support for Verizon’s new 4G LTE network.

No Honeycomb For Smartphone

Google's Android 3.0 or "Honeycomb" is a tablet-only OS for now, a Google spokesman said Wednesday.

Somewhat oddly, Google ended the launch of Honeycomb and its Web store without entertaining questions from journalists.

However, a company spokesman answered one question, and raised others. When asked if Android 3.0 would also appear on phones immediately, spokesman Andrew Kovacs said no. "Features will arrive on phones over time," he said.

"The version of Honeycomb we've shown is optimized for tablet form factors," Kovacs added, via a followup email. "All of the UI changes are the future of Android. Yesterday's event focused on tablet form factors, which is where you'll first see Honeycomb."

Kovacs didn't elaborate, but that might be because the design and layout of Android 3.0 is optimized for tablets. Although the interface is austere, the format takes advantage of the broad format of the tablet. Individual services - the browser, for example, has Incognito private-browsing windows and tabbed browsing, like Chrome - work in the tablet space, but wouldn't be as conducive to smartphones with smaller screens.

And, for now, of course, Google's some of developers are claiming that the Honeycomb performance on the Motorola Xoom far surpasses the Apple iPad.

Remote Car Starter Stopped Working

This time of the year rarely a week goes by that we don’t get a call from someone stating that their remote car starter stopped working. Nearly every call is the result of one of the situations below and is easily solved. While most of the situations below apply to any good remote car starter, we will be specifically discussing the causes and solutions for the Compustar brand.

Remote Starter is in Valet Mode

Symptoms: Lock and unlock buttons work as normal. Pressing start does not produce any response from the vehicle.

Causes: Accidentally pressed the combination of buttons to put car into valet mode, usually when in purse or pocket.

Any good remote car starter should have some form of valet mode. This is a condition that the remote car starter can be put into to prevent the vehicle from starting remotely while allowing keyless entry and certain other functions to work. You would do this when having service done to the vehicle. Most of our remote starters are put into valet mode by pressing a combination of 2 buttons on the remote control for 1/2 second. Look on the back of your remote for the proper buttons to press to enter and exit valet mode (Usually Lock+Trunk).

When you press these buttons, the parking lights should flash 2 times. Press the start button and your car should be warm and toasty!

Please note that certain other brands will have a “kill switch” under the dash that will accomplish this also. Many times customers will accidentally bump this switch during day to day driving, causing the remote starter to go into valet mode. This is easily corrected in most cases by simply flipping the switch in the other direction.

Please refer to your owners manual for instructions on how to get your particular starter in and out of valet mode.

Fifty years later, video game pioneer Steve Russell shows off Spacewar!

Back in 1961, Steve Russell was toying around with electronics at the Tech Model Railroad Club at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He created a game called Spacewar!, an early computer game that ignited interest in computer video games. Over time, Russell’s invention spawned copycat games such as Computer Space, Space War, and Asteroids. The latter was a huge hit in the arcades.

Russell wrote the first two versions of the game in Lisp for the IBM 704 computer. We caught up with him at the opening of the $19 million Revolution exhibit at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif. (The exhibit opens to the public on Thursday). Russell has a working version of the game running on a Digital Equipment Corp. PDP-1.

He noted that it took the contributions of just four people to come up with Spacewar! That’s far different from the modern age of video games, which often require teams of 100 or 200 people. Russell’s work preceded that of pioneers such as Nolan Bushnell and Al Alcorn, who made the first big commercial successes in video games.

In Spacewar!, you fly one of two space ships — the Needle and the Wedge — that attack each other as they orbit a sun. The ships feel the sun’s gravitational effect as they move near it. The missiles fired from the space ships don’t have a gravitational effect, for lack of memory. That’s why Russell decided that they were photon torpedoes, or light energy pulses, which aren’t subject to gravity. The game is just 2,000 lines of machine language. It uses about half of the available 18-bit words of the 4,000 words of memory in the Digital PDP-1 minicomputer that the game runs on. Here’s our video interview with Russell, who noted that he didn’t really cash in big on the whole video game phenomenon, which now generates $21 billion in sales per year in the U.S.

Froyo update for European HTC Legends now available

A few weeks ago HTC on his Facebook page that HTC Android unbranded 2.2 Legends would receive in the coming weeks, and that the support of the stamp issues of the unit would receive Froyo announced shortly after.

As promised, HTC has started to publish the upgrade for Froyo legend in Europe. Strangely, it seems that brands versions of the device is actually getting the right things first, in contrast to HTC in a statement. Vodafone users are first in line.

The update is mentioned on the air and has a size of 82.88MB and provides the complete Android HTC Sense 2.2 experience, ensuring that users Desire. Legend Has proud owners again got the update?

2. Ben Kirby Tennyson in Ben 10: Alien Force

Benjamin Kirby Tennyson is a fictional character from the animated series Ben 10, Ben 10 Alien Force and Ben 10: Alien Ultimate. In the original series, Ben was a normal boy who always teased in its first day of vacation, Ben comes across a strange watch called the Omnitrix, which is adhered to the wrist. In Ben 10 Alien Force, Ben is now 15 years and is a more mature and responsible boy. During the five-year gap between this series and the original, Ben, with the help of his grandfather, managed to extract the Omnitrix to lead a normal life.

This changes when, after returning from their game of football, he discovers a strange alien in the camper of his grandfather and, besides, this was missing. Ben, with his cousin Gwen, a hybrid human / Anodyte, and Kevin, who was released from the projector for the plumbers and had made peace with Ben, they must stop an imminent invasion of Highbreds, alien beings obsessed with racial pures, so how to beat both old enemies, such as D'Void (Dr. Animo with superpowers), Volkanus, a warlord detrovite and Vilgax, among other villains who are returning, as well as new ones like Darkstar or Ragnarok, the alien that killed the father of Kevin.

Google chrome for Your Favorite Browser

When we have an internet connection long time ago, you might think that the options for the browser is almost impossible. However, nowadays, you can choose the web browser that is suitable for you. the web browser is sometimes brings to much content. As a result, you can download it but the memory of your computer becomes full. Now, you have Google chrome. It has the latest technology that makes you to surf based on your needs. The browser can make you able to surf the information anywhere and everywhere. This kind of browser is really functional to every occupation. Moreover, the mobile version of the Google chrome has been launched for some smart phone so that you don’t have to type the search engine address. Just type what you want and you can get it for free. The download program of the Google chrome is really flexible as the browser can have much content without being loaded with many capacities. In short, those are the reasons why Google chrome becomes the most favorite one for the online people. You can visit how the Google makes the maintenance to its users. The maintenance can make the users are loyal to them.