Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 9th Jan 2012 20:10 UTC
The news I've seen coming out of the Consumer Electronics Show this year isn't particularly breathtaking or awe-inspiring. Phones, tablets, faster, thinner, yes, yes, we've all been here before. There is one piece of news, however, that stands out from the crowd. The best-selling TV maker in the US, Vizio, is entering the PC market. Stunning designs for both laptop and all-in-one - and buried deep within the press release lies the creamy nougaty centre that makes me want to buy one even more: a Windows 7 install optimised by Microsoft, free of crapware.
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RE: actually i dont know much about vizio...
by earksiinni on Tue 10th Jan 2012 00:35
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http://www.vizio.com/xwr100-routercodes
"GPL Codes
The download on this page is unnecessary for almost all VIZIO users. The codes on this page may be needed if you do programming to alter the code."
Haha, love it!
RE[2]: actually i dont know much about vizio...
by Spoonman on Wed 11th Jan 2012 18:30
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/21/13 21:45 UTC
"There's a disconnect between how Apple CEO Tim Cook sees his company's tax strategies and how some members of the US Senate view it. That became clearer than ever today after Cook and two other Apple executives testified before Congress, explaining why they're holding most of their international income in Irish subsidiaries like Apple Operations International, which declare no tax residency anywhere in the world. AOI hasn't filed a tax return anywhere in the world for the last five years, yet it earned $30 billion in income from 2009 to 2012, according to a Senate report released yesterday." Just because something is legal, doesn't mean it's just. Apple, Google, Microsoft, and many more - these companies might not be breaking any laws, but it's obvious to anyone that what they are doing is scummy.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/21/13 15:53 UTC
The new WebKit Opera for Android has been released. "Opera 14 for Android is built on top of Chromium 26, with a total overhaul of the UI in native code, making it fit well with the latest Android design guidelines. Go get the build from Google Play or point your browser to m.opera.com, and give it a spin!"
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/20/13 22:43 UTC
The Verge pointed me to a blog post by Leap Motion - which reveals how their Kinect-like motion control works with Windows 8. "From the second you plug in your Leap Motion Controller, you'll be able to browse the web and interact with your computer just by moving your hands and fingers in the air. With Leap Motion technology and Windows, you can do everything that's possible with multi-touch inputs - without actually touching anything. This also means that existing applications in Windows 7 and 8 will respond to your natural hand and finger movements. Soon, we'll show you how Leap Motion will work with Mac OS X." Quite cool.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/20/13 21:50 UTC
PocketNow interviews Marc Dillon, and there's an interesting note about why Jolla is keeping the display properties under wraps: "We're leaving some of those details out because we do understand that there are a lot of really big players in the market and they tend to take certain components in the market and dominate them. We created the ability to actually be able to run Sailfish on multiple hardware displays and be able to swap components, so this is part of the demand and supply planning phase. We are committed to this industrial design which is a 4.5-inch display, an 8 megapixel camera on the back and a front-facing camera at the front, and the exact specs of the display we'll provide when we're close to delivery." Something you rarely hear anything about.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/19/13 23:15 UTC
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...as they are us based and usualy dont ship their products to europe, but i could not hold myself back from importing a vTab1008 android tablet built by vizio as the specs sounded ok and the price was apealing. However, i already kind of regret my desicion as the version of android that ships with the vTab is very limited interface wise, they built their own interface and cutting off major parts of the os. The launcher has only the functionality of what normally the app drawer is for and can not hold widgets, the desktop is replaced by a 'widget board' that can not hold any icons and comes up by doubleclicking the home button, the notification system is at least bugy, the grapics performance is very limited in 2d resulting in a choppy user expirience, memmory management is flaky and the drawbacks go on. I was able to root my device before the latest firmware update came out and disabled root, so i was able to disable the update service that would otherwise pop up every few minutes reminding me that a new update is available, which does not change anyhing other than disabling root.
Also to help comunity development i tried to get the kernel sources from vizio so we can build custom kernels and port cm7 to the vtab, but there is no contact option except the outsourced helpdesk, which prooved to have no idea what a kernel is ("you need a hardware driver?) and then, after i teached him what linux and gpl is, told me to ask google for the sources. However, he refused from providing a contact to vizio dev department which, as i found out later, does not even exist, but is outsourced as well.
So i think this device is at least for me and i think for many other buyers as well, will be the last piece of hardware i will ever buy from f...ng vizio.