Sony Ericsson Files Cross Platform Online Gaming Patent In India (2)
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Sony Ericsson has filed a rather interesting patent in India: for “a method and an apparatus” that allows gamers to switch between devices, without losing their place in the game. Essentially, this is an invention that makes the game platform agnostic. The player can pause the game, and switch from, say, a console to a mobile device, and similarly switch from the mobile device to the console. Given that much of mobile gaming is still ...
Dell Inspiron “Ubuntu” Mini 9 ships with Partition Error (1)
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If you own a Dell Inspiron Mini with Ubuntu and paid extra to upgrade your hard drive from the stock 4 GB to an 8 GB or 16 GB SSD drive, you better get sudo fdisk-ing and check your partition sizes. A savvy Inspiron Mini owner noticed his 16 GB SSD was only showing up as a 4 GB inside Ubuntu. A quick check of the bios revealed that the physical drive was indeed 16 ...
Dell's Inspiron Mini 9 pops official -- Ubuntu starts at $349 (Update: $99 with purchase of 2nd Dell) (1)
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Dell doesn't take its site down when it introduces product unlike some laptop peddlers. The result, however, is shots like this of early pre-release gear like the Inspiron Mini 9 netbook as Dell spins the product up for retail. $449 fully spec'd just like we heard with 8GB SSD, 1GB memory, Bluetooth 2.1, Windows XP, and a 1.3 megapixel webcam. We still expect to see a lesser spec'd $349 model running Ubuntu. Shipping on the ...
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Caz said:
Little more expensive than I thought it would be. I'm back on the fence with this one.
