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Sony Ericsson XPERIA X8 and Eco-Friendly Cedar Shipping Now!

Posted on 10th October 2010 by admin in , android, car, eco-friendly, efficiency, feature, green, hp, phone, pixel, us, usa, video, x10 | Tags: bigger-screens, car, feature, green, jacket-support, larger-screen, modu jackets, modu t, usa, video, xperia x8 launch, xperia x8 specifications

Sony Ericsson has just announced two new products that will be shipping in the next days: the XPERIA X8 and eco-friendly Cedar model. The XPERIA X8 is somewhere in between the X10 mini and the X10 as far as size is concerned.

Sony Ericsson has just announced two new products that will be shipping in the next days: the XPERIA X8 and eco-friendly Cedar model. The XPERIA X8 is somewhere in between the X10 mini and the X10 as far as size is concerned. The screen on it is bigger than the one on the X10 mini, but the camera is dumbed down a bit.

This is possibly the most affordable Android phone ever and if you’re wondering about the specs, here they are:

Dimensions: 99 x 54 x 15mm
Display: 3 inch, 320 x 480 pixels
Memory: 128MB storage, 168MB RAM, microSD card slot (2GB card included)
Connectivity: GPRS/EDGE/3G, WiFi 802.11 b/g, Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP
Camera: 3.15MP, geotagging, VGA capture @30 fps
OS: Android 1.6 (2.1 coming soon)
CPU: Qualcomm MSM7227 600 MHz

Cedar is an eco-friendly handset, part of the GreenHeart family and we learn that it’s built on top of its very own OS, like the W995, Elm and Hazel models. It supports social networking features and it provides the following “green” features: high efficiency charger, phone made out of recycles plastics, e-manual to get rid of paper usage, eco-friendly apps.

Here are the hardware specs for Cedar:

Dimensions: 111 x 49 x 15.5mm
Weight: 84 grams
Display: 2.2 inches, 240 x 320 pixels
Memory: 280MB internal memory, microSD card slot (up to 16GB)
Connectivity: GPRS/EDGE/3G, Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP
Camera: 2MP, geotagging, VGA 30 fps video capture

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It Ain’t Easy Being Green: Dev Team, GeoHot Go To The Mattresses Over iOS 4 Jailbreak

Posted on 10th October 2010 by admin in , apple, car, green, hack, hp, iphone, phone, us | Tags: apple, guide, heard-the-2012, hexadecimal, ios4, ipad jailbreak, jailbreaking, limera1n, promptly-cried, shatter, the-hexadecimal, uses-the-same

So today (October 10, 2010) was SUPPOSED to be the day that the Dev Team would release GreenPois0n , their SNEAKERS -like iOS4 jailbreak exploit that was resistant to any Apple fixes short of a complete hardware upgrade. (And just WHY did they choose today to Pois0n the iDevice world? Well, you’ve probably heard the 2012 conspirators mumbling about the significance of 10/10/10 — but for old computer hackers and/or sci-fi nerds, 101010 is the hexadecimal representation of 42

So today (October 10, 2010) was SUPPOSED to be the day that the Dev Team would release GreenPois0n, their SNEAKERS-like iOS4 jailbreak exploit that was resistant to any Apple fixes short of a complete hardware upgrade.

(And just WHY did they choose today to Pois0n the iDevice world? Well, you’ve probably heard the 2012 conspirators mumbling about the significance of 10/10/10 — but for old computer hackers and/or sci-fi nerds, 101010 is the hexadecimal representation of 42. Which (as any reader of THE HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY can tell you), is the answer to life, the universe, and everything!

Well, the Pineapple boys did say the release date was tentative (or in pro-wrestling terms, “Card Subject To Change”), and lo and behold 10/10/10 will come and go with no GreenPois0n. How come?

Turns out George “geohot” Hotz — the rival iPhone hacker most recently known for trying (and failing) to jailbreak the PlayStation 3 — released his own exploit, “limera1n,” which uses the same SHAtter exploit as GreenPois0n but promises to work on both iOS 4.0 and 4.1. The Dev-Team promptly cried foul, claiming that Hotz had been given SHAtter with the express understanding he wouldn’t release limera1n first. So Dev Team reluctantly postponed the GreenPois0n release until they could successfully merge geohot’s code with their own.

If G4 television ever created a soap opera for and based on the computer geek community, this is what it might look like…

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It Ain’t Easy Being Green: Dev Team, GeoHot Go To The Mattresses Over iOS 4 Jailbreak

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Geohot vs the Chronic Dev-Team the Jailbreak Drama Unfolds

Posted on 10th October 2010 by admin in , fm, green, hack, hd, hp, iphone, ipod touch, phone, us | Tags: green, greenpois0n, hack, implementation, jailbreak, shot-2010-10-09

It’s on. Chronic Dev-Team’s GreenPois0n jailbreak, which was due to be released tomorrow, has been pushed back. This announcement comes after news that hacker Geohot (known for his PlayStation 3 and iPhone jailbreaks), released limera1n, which is said to jb 4.0 and 4.1 across the iPhone 4, 3GS, iPad, iPod Touch 4G and iPod Touch 3G

It’s on. Chronic Dev-Team’s GreenPois0n jailbreak, which was due to be released tomorrow, has been pushed back. This announcement comes after news that hacker Geohot (known for his PlayStation 3 and iPhone jailbreaks), released limera1n, which is said to jb 4.0 and 4.1 across the iPhone 4, 3GS, iPad, iPod Touch 4G and iPod Touch 3G. The kicker?

Geohot was provided the code for SHAtter under the understanding that he would not release his tool using his limera1n exploit. Turns out, he went ahead with it anyway.

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SHAtter is now being held back as GreenPois0n is being worked on to retool their jailbreak to use Geohot’s exploit:

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This is to keep from exposing two exploits at once. However, we have read that limera1n causes problems, and isn’t quite up to par, even on devices that it’s compatible with.

The Dev-Team says, “cleaning the mess he [Geohot] made.”

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As the iPhone Dev-Team’s Muscle Nerd says, this is not the worst possible scenario, adding that “SHAtter may even be improved”:

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Still, it seems that Geohot is catching some heat:

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Still, in the end it seems that things got sorted out as Comex, who wrote some of the implementation code and shared it with Geohot, Tweeted the following:

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Currently, Geohot’s jailbreak has been reported as buggy, but he has been continually improving on it since the initial release.We wouldn’t recommend it yet, not until we know that compatibilities and bugs have been fixed. In addition, it is currently Windows-only (as of the time of this writing) with a Mac and Linux version on the way. Still, we aren’t running a tutorial yet.

What Geohot has effectively done, however, aside from releasing his jailbreak first and beating them by a day, he has forced them to hold back their release until they can retool it.

This is all sort of a testament to both approaches; Dev-team takes a more conservative approach, they find hacks and hold them to give them a longer shelf life. Geohot, on the other hand, is more along the lines of “this is what we do, we hack, so release the hacks” and the truth is that both approaches have their good sides. Dev-team’s take is more about community and long-term support for their tools.

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An Energy Monitoring Brain Makes This Building the World’s First Zero Carbon Convention Center [Architecture]

Posted on 8th October 2010 by admin in , car, efficiency, energy, green, hd, pixel, us | Tags: architecture, brain, brain-makes, building-the-world, conventioncentredublin, energy, energy-monitoring, first-zero, zerocarbon

It’s not often (ever?) that a convention center is anything worth being excited about, but Ireland’s new Convention Centre Dublin uses ingenius engineering and an omniscient mother brain to monitor and adjust itself. The result