Cheap tablet PC–and it’s an Android

Posted on November 15, 2011 - Filed Under Business | Leave a Comment

This was an interesting experiment.. And even better, it was successful  I wanted to see if it was possible to hack a cheap eReader and make it into an Android tablet. A friend had a PanDigital Novel 7 inch eReader that had some Android capabilities–a browser, etc. But no Google market capability. You could load apps, [...]

Will this help bring the mainframe back?

Posted on November 9, 2011 - Filed Under Mainframe | Leave a Comment

Word on a mainframe–who would have thought? Hey, we already have Linux available–bring it on. http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Infrastructure/IBM-Brings-Windows-to-the-Mainframe-298629/?kc=EWKNLEAU11082011STR2

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