Nokia’s big announcement isn’t until later today, but it looks like some of the surprise has now been spoiled by a leak out of Nokia World in London. As you can see in the image above obtained by WinRumors, Nokia is apparently set to announce the Lumia 800 and Lumia 710, both of which of course run Windows Phone, and each of which have turned up in some less-than-clear leaks before.
We just got a hold of a shot of the 800 earlier today ourselves (looking a lot like the company’s Meego-based N9), while the Lumia 710 has previously surfaced under the Sabre codename. If the rumors are to be believed, you can apparently look for both to hit European markets in November with a US launch slated for some time next year.
It’s no Ford F-150, but this toy tank earns our respect for its towing prowess nonetheless. That second-generation Toyota Land Cruiser Prado Model 90 weighs over two tons, but the not-so-little remote control tank seems to have no problem pulling it through a parking lot to the amusement of quite a few onlookers.
Like any YouTube video, we wonder what – if anything – we are not seeing. In the first shot, it does appear that the passenger door is open. Could someone be pushing to help the SUV overcome inertia? Click through the jump to see the tank towing video, plus a little bonus footage of that late-90′s Land Cruiser Prado.
Anonymous has submerged itself into the darknet and is going after the pedophiles and the hosts of child porn lurking in the depths of the Internet. Hactivist group Anonymous has reportedly set aside its political campaign for the moment and taken a moral approach in its latest attack. Instead of hacking banks, corporations and government facilities, the group has gone after websites serving up child porn.
The group is currently taking credit for knocking around 40 websites offline and posting the names and data of more than 1,500 alleged pedophiles using those sites. Now the group is threatening to go after the actual hosts, claiming that they are supporting child abuse.
Ten years ago, on October 25, 2001, Windows XP was released on retail shelves for sale.
Until September, Windows XP has still been the world’s most popular operating system and will be, according to StatCounter, surpassed in market share by Windows 7. Born as the sixth major generation of Windows, the software was introduced in 25 languages around the globe, but did not sell well initially. Within the first three days after launch, only 260,00 copies were sold in the U.S. Windows XP only gained traction when drivers became available and system vendors began offering computers with XP preinstalled.
By 2006, XP had reached a milestone of 400 million active copies, according to an IDC analyst. The successor Windows Vista was launched in January of 2006, but enthusiasts as well as the notebook segment held on to XP and widely rejected Vista. Microsoft announced the discontinuance of Windows XP several times, but delayed the end of retail sales until June 30, 2008. OEM distribution of XP ended on October 22, 2010. Extended support for XP users is still available until April 8, 2014.
Even if it is a decade old, Windows XP is far from being dead. StatCounter suggests that Windows XP lost its OS market share leadership position to Windows 7 this month. Windows 7 has 40.41 percent of the market, while XP has fallen to 38.51 percent. This is still far more than Vista ever reached; Vista peaked at 23.60 percent in October of 2009.
Just one week after the Sesame Street YouTube channel was targeted, Microsoft’s corporate channel seems to have fallen victim to some cyber tomfoolery.
Microsoft’s YouTube channel was left without content on Sunday after a third party gained access to the account and removed all of the company’s video. CNet reports that in their place were several short clips attempting to gather subscribers and a message that read “I DID NOTHING WRONG I SIMPLY SIGNED INTO MY ACCOUNT THAT I MADE IN 2006 :/” The Register reports that there were also some cartoon videos uploaded to the channel.
Microsoft later confirmed that it had lost control of the account for a period of time but was once again back at the helm and working to restore content.
“We have regained control of the Microsoft channel on YouTube, and we are working to restore all of the original content,” a company representative told CNet. “We will continue to work with YouTube to ensure safeguards are in place for the future.”
Things have been running smoothly since, and Microsoft’s videos are all back up and running on its channel. However, the mystery of who gained access to the account and why remains. There’s a certain amount of speculation from YouTube users commenting on Microsoft’s page that the channel was once owned by someone else entirely, someone who registered in 2006, but that the handle was passed over to Microsoft by YouTube staff at some point.
If this is the case, the credentials were obviously not properly changed, because the old user could still log in and out, upload and pull videos, and change settings such as the background. Neither Microsoft nor YouTube have commented on these rumors.
Thus far, evidence of the Nokia 800 has been the stuff of slow but reasonably steady leaks in the form of ads, product shots and dev stats. This latest one doesn’t do much to change the state of things, but its real world setting should help hold some of the Mango faithful over until the handset formerly known as Sea Ray gets officially official, most likely in the very near future. Looks very much like the beloved Nokia N9 doesn’t it? Hopefully it has the same build quality.
You may have noticed a trend recently — pairing slightly less powerful cores that sip power, with more robust ones that can chug through demanding applications. NVIDIA’s Tegra 3 will be packing an underclocked fifth core, while ARM’s big.LITTLE initiative matches a highly efficient 28nm A7 with the beefy A15. Now Freescale is planning to use the same trick, but you won’t find its asymmetrical CPUs in your next tablet or smartphone. Its platform, which marries a Cortex M4 to a Cortex A5, isn’t meant to compete with the latest Snapdragon. These chips will find homes in factories and in-dash infotainment systems which have increasingly sophisticated UIs, but don’t need to push thousands of polygons. Software development tools will land before this quarter is out and the first batch of silicon will be announced in Q1 of 2012. Looks like the era of “dual-core” meaning two identical cores has officially come to an end.
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