Day: September 12, 2011

Intel reveals January 2012 Gingerbread arrival for the Atom E6xx (video)

Intel wants a piece of the smartphone market — bad. The company has made no bones about its attempts to break into that booming space. Despite big talk, however, it hasn’t really given smartphone manufacturers something they can work with. A new promotional video for its pint-sized Atom E6xx series, however, reveals that chipmaker may be taking a step in the right direction, highlighting a January 2012 date for bringing Android 2.3 to the processor. Keep in mind, of course, that this isn’t a smartphone chip that we’re talking about here — the primary applications as outlined by Intel are retail, fitness equipment, digital signage and in-vehicle systems. Still, perhaps it marks a next step in the company’s push toward your mobile devices, or moreover, a shift for Android into more non-mobile things.

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Amazing Underground Cities

We’ve all heard of underground societies, but rarely is the term used in such a literal manner as these amazing underground cities featured on Dornob.

Cities, empires and religions have risen and fallen around these unique underground havens once used by early Christians to hide from Roman armies, yet they remains occupied to this day – 100 square miles with 200+ underground villages and tunnel towns complete with hidden passages, secret rooms and ancient temples and a remarkably storied history of each new civilization building on the work of the last.

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Ford / Bug Labs partnership makes SYNC look like old news

It’s a big day for the forward-thinking folks at Ford. Over in Frankfurt, the American auto giant showcased electric bike and cloud car concepts, and several timezones away at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, the company talked up its new partnership with Bug Labs. The result is OpenXC, a platform that promises to deliver increased integration for third-party software and hardware, like new audio interfaces, safety products and environmental sensors, plugged into Bugs’ hardware and software modules. According to Ford, OpenXC makes developing for Ford vehicles far simpler than before, while lowering the cost and installation difficulty for car owners interested in adding on to their vehicles. More info in the press release after the break.

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When China Takes Over the World …

It’s probably just a matter of time before China becomes the largest
economy in the world. When it does claim the top spot, what sort of dragon
will it be? Will China be a benign hegemon?

The Economist pontificates:

If China does usurp America, what kind of hegemon will it be? Some
argue that it will be a “premature” superpower. Because
it will be big before it is rich, it will dwell on its domestic needs
to the neglect of its global duties. If so, the world may resemble the
headless global economy of the inter-war years, when Britain was unable,
and America unwilling, to lead. But Mr Subramanian prefers to describe
China as a precocious superpower. It will not be among the richest economies,
but it will not be poor either. Its standard of living will be about
half America’s in 2030, and a little higher than the European
Union’s today.

With luck China will combine its precocity in economic development
with a plodding conservatism in economic diplomacy. It should remain
committed to preserving an open world economy. Indeed, its commitment
may run deeper than America’s, because its ratio of trade to GDP
is far higher.

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You Can’t Be Fired for Complaining About Your Boss on Facebook [In Brief]

You can't be fired for complaining about your workplace on social networks like Facebook—that's according to a judge's ruling and the National Labor Relations Act, which Forbes (and the judge) says gives employees “the right to converse among themselves about workplace conditions.” So the law’s on your side when it comes to complaining about work on the internet. Keep in mind though that there are a whole host of other serious consequences you may want to consider before you take that as a sign that now’s a good time to vent every frustration you have about your job. [Forbes] More