Palm Centro hits the magical one million mark

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Palm's miniscule and wallet-friendly Centro has managed to reach one million units sold since its launch last September. It got its legs working as Sprint and AT&T's gateway smartphone at that fantastic $99 pricepoint, and now it's making a bid for world domination in major markets in Europe and Asia. The one million sales have it nipping at the heels of recent superstar smartphones, the two million plus HTC Touch and the four million plus iPhone, not bad company in the least.

 

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BUG+EDU educational discounts unveiled for little hackers

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets

Bug Labs announced in January that it'd be busting out a BUG+EDU program for getting units into the hands of impressionable youngsters, and now that they've sold out of the first crop of units they're getting those educational discounts off the ground. Students (with relevant ID) can now purchase modules at a 10% discount, while K-12 schools and secondary education institutions can buy Bug for 25% off. K-12 schools can also participate in Bug giveaways, while undergrad and postgrad programs can develop coursework in conjunction with Bug -- long story short, some kids out there are going to get themselves some fun edumicatin'.

 

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Mounting concern at Zimbabwe poll delays ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

“Concern is growing that long delays in issuing Zimbabwe’s election results hid attempts by President Robert Mugabe to cling to power by rigging.”

Please get rid of this evil little dwarf Mugabe. God, someone, anyone... it’s just a tragedy and the man is a megalomaniac. Throw him into the effluent where he deserves to be.

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Nato should get in vogue like Madonna, defence analyst says

“Her chart-topping talent for reinvention has inspired the makeovers of Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera and Kylie Minogue, and now Madonna has been proposed as an unlikely role model for Nato.”

Personally - I would rather have wisdom teeth removed than listen to Madonna or Britney Spears but the ability of a musical identity to remake their image can surely be about as closely related to NATO’s ability to restructure itself as is a lost puppy to a raging bull. The metaphor might work if it were not for the fact that the referents were so distantly related - NATO and Madonna. The particular academic in question may have been part of the secret LSD tests that most governments are said to have carried out at one time or another. How else could one come up with such a mind-numbing comparison ?

In any case - it is perhaps illustrative of the dearth of genuine and substantive ideas in the Defence academic community if a pop star’s makeovers are considered to represent a valid model for a strategic reconfiguration of an Alliance.

Anyway - I am sure Sir Elton John would have a lot to say (and offer) about the little shorts that troops train in and I am absolutely positive that Mariah Carey’s voice could be amplified and used as a directed energy weapon...

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General Dynamics UK touts near real-time 3D maps for soldiers

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It looks like soldiers could one day have their own tab key of sorts to call up detailed, 3D maps at will, at least if the folks at General Dynamics UK have their way. As Physorg reports, they've developed a "near real-time" 3D map system that makes use of an array of different technologies including LIDAR, thermal imaging and x-ray backscatter techniques to not only display buildings and streets, but objects and people inside buildings as well. The use of LIDAR also promises to provide measurements of doors, windows, and alleys with "millimeter accuracy." All that obviously makes the system, dubbed Masthead, slightly less than portable, however, although General Dynamics says it'd be able to be carried in the back of a military vehicle or civilian 4x4, or in a plane for that matter. Of course, like most such projects, General Dynamics isn't just setting its sights to military applications, with it also touting Masthead's potential benefits for police forces in planning security measures for large events, to name one example.

[Via Physorg]

 

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Humans causing new extinction event: academic ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Oh Happy Days...

“An Australian National University scientist says the planet is losing species at a similar rate to the period when the dinosaurs were wiped out.”

Click the link to go to this piece of fantastically heart warming environmental gloom and yes, let’s face it - the truth hurts and in this context, the truth kills. I knew things weren’t doing so well when I read an article in The Guardian where the scientist who coined the phrase “Gaia” (mother earth), James Lovelock,has stated that all of our individual environmental activities and recycling and so on are a mere “rearranging of the deckchairs on the Titanic”. Lovelock thinks that if we had started to act way back in 1967 we would maybe be OK. That’s two years before I was even born (- woohoo !). Further, he feels that we have maybe a good two decades before the poo really hits the fan... so get out your cocktail-dress or fancy clothes and get up to the shipboard nightclub - there’s going to be one hell of a party on the poop deck...

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Hitachi intros short-throw CPX3 WXGA projector

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Hitachi intros short-throw CPX3 WXGA projector

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Nokia WiMAX N810 appears in the wild

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The WiMAX version of Nokia's N810 internet tablet has already popped up on Nokia's European site, lending creedence to all those whispers about a CTIA debut tomorrow, and now we've got units showing up in the wild, which is probably a good sign. There were apparently some other shots of this bad boy on Flickr, but they've since been removed -- let's hope tomorrow brings us some official beauty shots, eh?

 

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LiMo Platform Release 1 gets loosed, R2 to come later this year

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Don't look now, but mid-2008 is almost here, and for those waiting intently for the release of a LiMo SDK, you're one step closer to having your dreams realized. Announced today, the LiMo Foundation has made available what it calls the "first globally competitive, Linux-based software platform for mobile devices." According to Morgan Gillis, executive director of LiMo Foundation, the consortium is hoping that R1 will "spur rapid innovation and contributions from all LiMo members," and it's restated that software development kits for Native, WebKit and Java operating environments are set to launch during the second half of this year. Not one to sit idly, the entity has also announced that Release 2 is currently "being specified and developed," and should escape testing and greet the real world in late 2008.

[Via PhoneScoop]

 

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