SanDisk has developed a chip that earns it membership in the exclusive 128-gigabit club . Not content with simply matching the Micron / Intel effort, SanDisk and its partner Toshiba claim their new memory uses 19- rather than 20-nanometer cells in the production process. Shrinking the size is one thing, but SanDisk’s new chips also use its X3 / three-bit technology.
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SanDisk makes 128-gigabit flash chip, crams three bits per cell, takes afternoon off
T-Mobile is urging federal regulators to block Verizon’s planned spectrum acquisition from SpectrumCo, a joint venture formed by Comcast, Time Warner and Bright House Networks. Verizon’s pending purchase could be worth $3.9 billion and would help the company build out its nationwide LTE network. In a filing late Tuesday, T-Mobile said the Federal Communications Commission should block the deal because it would place an “excessive concentration” of wireless spectrum in Verizon’s hands, reports the Associated Press
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T-Mobile asks FCC to block Verizon spectrum deal
Love staying connected and using excess paper? Adafruit’s got your back with its latest project. The Internet of Things (IoT) printer goes online via an Ethernet jack, printing up data on 2.5 inch wide receipt paper.
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Adafruit’s Internet of Things Printer combines your love of information, receipts
By now, I’m sure most CrackBerry readers have updated to PlayBook OS 2.0 and have already been through the ins and outs of it all but in case there is anyone out there who hasn’t updated yet — when you do, you will notice there will no longer be a “BlackBerry Bridge Browser” on your PlayBook .
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Where did my BlackBerry Bridge Browser icon go?
Remember the Board of Awesomeness we took for a spin back at CES? Well, the folks from Chaotic Moon went back to the lab to make it even better with a new control system, swapping out the Kinect sensor bar for an Emotiv EPOC headset and re-christened it the Board of Imagination. So, instead of using your hand to control the throttle, you simply visualize and focus on where you want to go, and the headset tells the board how fast to go to get there
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Chaotic Moon’s Board of Awesomeness gains mind controls, becomes Board of Imagination
The California Attorney General has struck a deal with the world’s major app store opperators that will see new privacy policy standards put in place. Apple, Google, Microsoft, HP, RIM and Amazon have all agreed to require any software that uses personal information to provide a privacy policy that can be viewed in the store before an app is downloaded. The agreement will bring the various markets in line with the California Online Privacy Protection Act, which requires developers provide such a policy.
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New privacy policy standards agreed to by world’s major app store owners
HTC and Huawei are both expected to bring their A-game to MWC . What exactly that entails remains a mystery, thanks to both companies keeping their lips sealed. And while we’re still not completely sure as to what secrets these devices still hold — or even their official names, for that matter — TmoNews picked up a leaked screenshot that shows off a list of upcoming accessories on T-Mobile , some of which are for the HTC Ville and Huawei Prism in April.
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Huawei Prism, HTC Ville may be heading to T-Mobile in April?
Many people with debilitating conditions rely on sip and puff technology to get around, which is relatively lo-fi by some standards . Now, a special retainer with magnetic sensors could bring mobility into the smartphone age. Developed at Georgia Tech, the Tongue Drive System uses a magnetic piercing to track lingual gestures.
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Magnetic retainer lets you operate machinery with your tongue, gives linguistics new meaning
Nokia on Tuesday released a teaser video showing off the remarkable camera included on a handset it plans to unveil next week at the annual Mobile World Congress trade Show in Barcelona, Spain. The device is thought to be a high-end Windows Phone with a 12-megapixel camera that has surfaced in a number of earlier reports.
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Nokia to unveil cheap Lumia 610 alongside high-end camera phone at MWC [video]
HTML5test.com is a great source for seeing how platforms are performing with their HTML5 implementations. What’s really amazing to see is that with PlayBook OS 2, RIM has blown the competition out the water and hit the number 1 spot for best performing implementation of HTML5 in the latest browser. The browser improvements is just one feature on many that we’ve been using in the latest version of the tablet OS and we can wait to see the next update
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PlayBook OS 2 Browser #1 for HTML5 Test Ahead of iOS, Android, WebOS and All Others