“Were You Born on the Wrong Continent?” America’s misguided culture of overwork – Nonfiction – Salon.com

By greader | Published: September 1, 2010
Germany's workers have higher productivity, shorter hours and greater quality of life. How did we get it so wrong?
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Is Freescale Going From RIP to IPO? – BusinessWeek

By greader | Published: September 1, 2010
The chipmaker wants to go public to help pay off its $8 billion in debt.
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MIPS, ARM Wrestling In Wireless – Yahoo! Finance

By greader | Published: September 1, 2010
Interview with MIPS CEO, Sandeep Vij, on the competition with ARM.  'Vertical markets', 'compelling offering', 'aggressively engaging' - not convinced with the C class speak, hopefully their execution is better otherwise it'll continue to be a one horse race.
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Shanghai gets the nod as China’s most popular city – Independent

By greader | Published: September 1, 2010

Shanghai gets the nod as China's most popular city
Independent
Shanghai is currently hosting World Expo and has recently undergone a multi-billion dollar facelift - similar to that seen in Beijing just before it hosted ...
Shanghai Companies Cashing In On World ExpoForbes (blog)
Shanghai tops list highlighting soft powerXinhua
Shanghai Expo Imagines Better CitiesIEEE Spectrum (blog)
UPI.com -Sify -China Digital Times
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Diagram Showing The Relationships Of Car Makers To One Another (Looks Incestuous)

By greader | Published: September 1, 2010
car-families-small.jpg Note: Full resolution version available HERE for those of you without HD laser vision. Suckers! This is a diagram showing the incestuous relationships between the various car manufacturers. I found it pretty eye-opening. For example, did you know Honda is actually a wholly owned subsidiary of a Norwegian car manufacturer? Just kidding, I made that up because all the lines started hurting my eyes. Like when I catch a glimpse of myself in the mirror. Which -- anybody seen a grocery bag lying around here? It has a face drawn on one side. Who Owns Who: An Automaker Family Tree [jalopnik] Thanks to Chris, who doesn't care who owns who just as long as his tires don't fall off on the highway.
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T-Mobile G2 official shots break loose, corroborate rumors of wanton awesomeness

By Chris Ziegler | Published: September 1, 2010
The T-Mobile G2 -- which will likely be known as the HTC Desire Z outside the States -- is shaping up to be one of the more anticipated Android launches of 2010, and a handful of smaller-than-we'd-like official press shots that have just leaked over on Cell Phone Signal are doing nothing to make us believe otherwise. The site says it believes silver (pictured) will be the only color offered, and considering that we haven't seen any leaks in any other shades, that seems like a reasonable assumption. Then again, a white, red, or black version of this would be pretty neat, wouldn't it?

[Thanks, Nam]

Update: Turns out these images are chilling on T-Mobile's servers right now -- check the source links below. Whoops!

Update 2: And we've now got the clearest shot yet of a G2 in the wild, casually browsing Facebook as a laptop looks on with a mixture of curiosity and contempt; follow the break to check it out. Thanks, Sebastian!

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Philips GoGear Connect is a legitimate Android-based iPod touch competitor (updated)

By Thomas Ricker | Published: August 31, 2010
For all its success, the iPod touch has few dedicated media player competitors capable of matching its big-touchscreen, WiFi, and voluminous App Store. Until today. Philips just went official with its GoGear Connect featuring the full suite of Google Mobile applications pre-installed with access to the Android Market for pretty much everything else. Spec-wize we're looking at a 3.2-inch display, WiFi, sound isolating earphones, built-in camera, and microSD slot. Sorry, no mention of the Android OS version though we've seen it listed at retailers with 2.1. Syncing your music is done over Bluetooth or a USB tether to your PC with Philips' Songbird providing the software assist. The MP4 player also supports Maps and location-based services -- presumably accomplished with the help of Skyhook and not via a GPS radio (though the Philips post is tagged "GPS"). Look for the GoGear Connect to land in Western Europe, China, and yes, the US, starting in late October with the price pegged at €249 (about $315) for the 16GB model.

Update: Philips got back to us with additional specs: on-board GPS and compass; 480 x 320 pixel LCD display; and support for .mp3, .wma, .m4a (AAC), .ogg, and .flac audio; .wmv, .mp4 (MPEG4 and H264 up to 720p), .avi (MPEG4 up to 720p) video; and JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, TIFF images. Oh, and it's definitely Andriod 2.1.

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Tom’s Hardware’s Summer Guide: 17 SSDs Rounded Up

By greader | Published: August 31, 2010
Tom's Hardware's Summer Guide: 17 SSDs Rounded UpWhich SSD should you buy today? Seventeen flash-based drives battle across a benchmark suite that include throughput, I/O performance, consistency, power consumption, efficiency, and the best overall bang for the buck. The time is right to upgrade.

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Check out some unused pitch art from Ridley Scott’s new Alien prequel [Alien]

By Meredith Woerner | Published: August 31, 2010
Check out a little bit of art created on spec for Ridley Scott's new Alien prequel by Dan LuVisi. This art isn't being used in the film, but it's still neat to see one possible reimagining of the Xenomorphs. More »
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Nvidia’s Tegra 2 Obliterates The Competition In Speed Test [Android]

By Gary Cutlack | Published: August 30, 2010
That Toshiba AC100 Android-powered netbook may not be the most desirable combination of hardware and software out there, but it already has one big plus point—it's Nvidia Tegra 2 chipset destroys anything else in terms of raw speed. More »


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