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May 25, 2011
The reason Netflix for Android is only supported on a handful of devices
There is another aspect of Android fragmentation that I have not seen covered. As many Android users may have noticed, the Netflix Android app is only supported on a handful of devices. The reason for this is that Google shipped a new media framework in Android 2.2 called Stagefright. The main feature of Stagefright is [...]
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September 26, 2007
What’s Eating Your Computer’s Resources? Don’t Blame MS Quite Yet
Everyone is always looking for ways to make their computer faster. Whether it’s linux, OSX or the ubiquitous Windows, no matter how many times you upgrade, how much more RAM you add, whatever, computing, for all its increases in speed in the past years, is still not fast enough.
It’s all crap. There are bigger things [...]