Browse The Web In Hyper Speed With Miren Browser For Android [Downloads]

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• Browse The Web In Hyper Speed With Miren Browser For Android [Downloads]
• Comcast Hounded By Collections Agency
• What's Inside Those Peeps Candy You See in Easter Baskets? [Humor]
• HTC Flyer up for preorder for $499 at Best Buy on April 24th
• RIP Video Game Pioneer Gerald Lawson
• Digital Pioneer Who Established Sony Computer Entertainment Dies At 81 [Obituary]
• Picking The Best Shoe For Your Workout [Fitness]
• Rest In Peace, Former Sony Chairman Norio Ohga [Rip]
• EV Fast-Charging Standards In Flux
• PSA: T-Mobile G2x and LG Optimus 2X include two-button screencap function (video)

Browse The Web In Hyper Speed With Miren Browser For Android [Downloads] Posted: 23 Apr 2011 02:00 PM PDT Android: I was a bit reluctant to do an article on another Android web browser (since there are so many out there these days). Sometimes its hard to see past the big names like Firefox, Opera and Dolphin Browser, but in the end this is one of my favorites and is currently holding the top spot on both of my Android devices so I thought it might be worth sharing. More »

Comcast Hounded By Collections Agency Posted: 23 Apr 2011 02:00 PM PDT Bob the Super Hamste writes "According to the St. Paul Pioneer Press, Comcast is being taken to court for non-payment by a bill collection agency it used to collect past-due payments from customers. The suit alleges that Comcast agreed to pay $5 for each account it closed and that for each account the collection agency handled Comcast would pay 33% of the collected funds. The suit is seeking $314,210 for account cancellations and estimates Comcast owes them $50,000 for delinquent funds collected." Read more of this story at Slashdot.

What's Inside Those Peeps Candy You See in Easter Baskets? [Humor] Posted: 23 Apr 2011 02:00 PM PDT What are the little marshmallow peeps we see in Easter baskets actually made of? The Daily takes a humorous look. Empty calories, spray foam insulation, banana slugs and Warholian nullity sounds just about right. [The Daily] More »

HTC Flyer up for preorder for $499 at Best Buy on April 24th Posted: 23 Apr 2011 01:59 PM PDT Europeans have been able to preorder the HTC Flyer for months, and now curious Yanks are about to get their chance, too. The tablet will be available for preorder on April 24th (that's this Sunday) for $499 with Best Buy as the exclusive seller. Though our friends across the pond have been able to snag 3G versions, the one about to come stateside just has WiFi. The Flyer, as you'll remember, is the phone maker's first tablet, and has a 7-inch (1024 x 600) display, aluminum body, 1.5GHz Qualcomm chip, and a version of the company's Sense UI that was tweaked with slates in mind. Alas, It'll ship with Android 2.3 (Gingerbread), but HTC is promising an eventual upgrade to 3.0 (Honeycomb) and all of the bigger-screen goodies that come with it. Continue reading HTC Flyer up for preorder for $499 at Best Buy on April 24th HTC Flyer up for preorder for $499 at Best Buy on April 24th originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 23 Apr 2011 16:59:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink Droid-Life  |  Best Buy  | Email this | Comments

RIP Video Game Pioneer Gerald Lawson Posted: 23 Apr 2011 01:01 PM PDT Video game pioneer Gerald Lawson, co-inventor of the Channel F video game console, died this week from complications of diabetes. The LA Times wrote that his father was “a science-loving longshoreman” The obituary includes an except from a 2009 interview with Lawson in which his talks about the value of teachers and role models in shaping a young person’s destiny. “He loved to teach,” said Erhart. “If there was a young person around, he loved to slow down and talk to them at the level they could understand and try to get them engaged in science and technology.” The son of a science-loving longshoreman father and a mother who worked for the city of New York, Lawson was born in Brooklyn on Dec. 1, 1940, and grew up in Queens. His mother saw to it that he received a good education. “When she went to a school, she would interview the teachers, the principal, and if they didn’t pass her test, I didn’t go to that school,” he said in a 2009 interview with the website Vintage Computing and Gaming. A photo of black scientist and inventor George Washington Carver on the wall next to his desk in the first grade — and a comment by his teacher — made a lasting impact on young Lawson. “She said, ‘This could be you,’” he recalled in the 2009 interview. “Now, the point I’m getting at is, this kind of influence is what led me to feel, ‘I want to be a scientist. I want to be something.’” While growing up, he made and sold walkie-talkies, built an amateur radio station in the housing project his family lived in and repaired TVs at different shops. Gerald Lawson dies at 70; engineer brought cartridge-based video game consoles to life

Digital Pioneer Who Established Sony Computer Entertainment Dies At 81 [Obituary] Posted: 23 Apr 2011 01:00 PM PDT Norio Ohga, the former chairman of Sony who, in 1993, established Sony Computer Entertainment and paved the way for the PlayStation, died Saturday morning in Tokyo. He was 81. More »

Picking The Best Shoe For Your Workout [Fitness] Posted: 23 Apr 2011 01:00 PM PDT With spring already here and summer on its way, its time for people to shake off winter and get out and be more active. Whether that means picking up a sport, an outdoor hobby, or even working out at the gym, you need to make sure you've got the right shoes on your feet. More »

Rest In Peace, Former Sony Chairman Norio Ohga [Rip] Posted: 23 Apr 2011 01:00 PM PDT Norio Ohga, a former Sony CEO and Chairman who helped make Sony the company we know today, passed away in Tokyo yesterday as a result of multiple organ failure. He was 81. More »

EV Fast-Charging Standards In Flux Posted: 23 Apr 2011 12:48 PM PDT savuporo writes "With the first battery electric vehicles becoming available on markets worldwide, there is an increased push to establish standards for fast-charging plugs. Unfortunately, the story is far from simple. The US hopes to establish its own DC fast-charging standard by 2012, and Europe cannot come to an agreement about their version. Meanwhile, the CHAdeMO fast-charge standard developed and widely deployed in Japan, used on both the Nissan Leaf and Mitsubishi MiEV, is gaining momentum with deployments underway both in the US and Europe. CHAdeMO is limited to a 62kW charge rate, able to charge smaller battery packs to 80% SoC in 15-30 minutes." Read more of this story at Slashdot.

PSA: T-Mobile G2x and LG Optimus 2X include two-button screencap function (video) Posted: 23 Apr 2011 12:01 PM PDT Taking screenshots on Android has always been an ordeal akin to an emergency visit to the dentist -- you know you have to do it but you just don't want to. The convoluted process involves either installing the Android SDK on a computer, enabling USB debugging on the target device, and running ddms, or rooting the specimen and firing up one of the many existing (and potentially shady) screenshot apps. In contrast, taking screenshots on other platforms is often simply a matter of pressing the right key combination in the right order, like holding the sleep / wake button and then clicking the home button in iOS 4. Well it looks like the folks at LG have decided to grace both the T-Mobile G2x and its Optimus 2X sibling with a rather simple yet nifty bit of code that lets you take screenshots by simultaneously pressing both the power / lock and home buttons... Huzzah! Now let's just hope Google borrows this idea and makes it a standard feature in all future Android versions. Take a look at our demo video after the break. [Thanks, redman12] Continue reading PSA: T-Mobile G2x and LG Optimus 2X include two-button screencap function (video) PSA: T-Mobile G2x and LG Optimus 2X include two-button screencap function (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 23 Apr 2011 15:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink TmoNews  |  IntoMobile  | Email this | Comments

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