Nexus 7 Document Leaked [Rumor]

From Gizmodo:

[…] Google’s going to announce a 7-inch, Nexus-branded tablet called the Nexus 7. According to the leak, it’s built by Asus, with a 1.3Ghz quad-core Tegra 3 processor, GeForce 12-core GPU and 1GB of RAM with two different storage variants: 8GB and 16GB.

[…] The screen is an IPS display with a 178-degree viewing angle, running a resolution of 1280 by 800. The device will also sport a 1.2 megapixel front-facing camera. The battery will also give you 9 hours worth of operation.

[…] this could all prove to be an elaborate fake. We’ve seen them before and we’ll see them as long as there’s a rabid tech-loving public that will queue up around the block for value this good.

If true, this appears to be Google’s answer to Amazon’s Kindle Fire. If not, congrats to the those who caused tech reporters/bloggers to react excitedly.


Haiku OpenJDK Progress Update

The third Google Summer of Code Haiku contributor, hamish, posted his quarter term update on implementing OpenJDK:

Since my last blog entry I have mostly completed the implementation of the AWT/Java2D port. It is still in need of a lot of testing, but it is stable enough to run a lot of Swing apps out of the box.

Haiku OpenJDK

Haiku

Haiku is an attempt to recreate—from scratch—BeOS as an open source project. This will allow the continued support and enhancement that was lost when Be, Inc.—the original creators of BeOS—closed up shop in 2001.


Haiku cpuidle Progress Update

Another Google Summer of Code Haiku contributor, yongcong, posted his quarter term update on implementing cpuidle.

Haiku is an attempt to recreate—from scratch—BeOS as an open source project. This will allow the continued support and enhancement that was lost when Be, Inc.—the original creators of BeOS—closed up shop in 2001.


Haiku 64-bit Port Progress Update

Alex (xyzzy), a Google Summer of Code Haiku contributor, has posted a concise progress report about his efforts porting Haiku to the x86_64 architecture.

Haiku is an attempt to recreate—from scratch—BeOS as an open source project. This will allow the continued support and enhancement that was lost when Be, Inc.—the original creators of BeOS—closed up shop in 2001.


Google+ Marketing Effort Mistakingly Follows in Google Wallet’s Footsteps

Google has been gunning to compete with Facebook on the social-front, and their most recent attempt, Google+, appears to be their best effort so far. With over 40 million users to date, Google+ has been able to amass a large following in a short amount of time. Their recent launch of Google+ Pages—their version of Facebook for Business—is just another addition to their bag of social tricks.

Problem is, Facebook is approaching 1 billion users, 25-times that of Google+. To continue to grow their users, Google has taken a page from Facebook and has reached out to college students. From BGR:

As a new semester got underway at Ben Gurion University and Tel Aviv University in Israel, students were greeted by an unexpected surprise: a series of booths that served as recruiting stations for Google+. The manned booths offered passers-by a free gift bag packed with goodies if they were willing to sign up for the new social network on the spot, Ynet recently reported. Google’s hired hands helped users create their profiles on the spot, even offering to take playful profile pictures for the university students, which were also printed on stickers and given away for free.

This approach seems very similar to how Google Wallet has been marketed recently, and screams of desperation. As a Google+ user myself, I can think of many different aspects of the service that could convince new users to join, but giving out gift bags is not one of them. I wonder how many fake profiles are being created on campus just so the students can get the free goodies.

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