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Visualizing the Issues behind Food Dependence: How to Feed the World?
Mar 11th
If you appreciated the depth and level of detail of the now classic infographically animated The Credit of Crisis – Visualized, you will probably also like the following! “How to Feed the World?” [dvanw.com] explains in more than 8 minutes the intrinsic issues involved with international food dependence and the existing regional differences of food intake, in both quantity as quality.
For instance, in Europe, people have access to a varied, large diet, while the available (affordable?) food in Africa does not cover the normal human needs, causing African people to die about 20 years younger on average. What are the reasons for this injustice? You can watch the answer in the movie below.
The movie even discusses the feasibility of some potential solutions, such as increasing the cultivated land area, increasing the yield of a given agricultural area, increasing the use of organic products, introducing innovative watering techniques, and so on, and finishes with a concrete recommendation of where you have the ability to make a difference.
Visualizing the Issues behind Food Dependence: How to Feed the World?
Mar 11th
If you appreciated the depth and level of detail of the now classic infographically animated The Credit of Crisis – Visualized, you will probably also like the following! “How to Feed the World?” [dvanw.com] explains in more than 8 minutes the intrinsic issues involved with international food dependence and the existing regional differences of food intake, in both quantity as quality.
For instance, in Europe, people have access to a varied, large diet, while the available (affordable?) food in Africa does not cover the normal human needs, causing African people to die about 20 years younger on average. What are the reasons for this injustice? You can watch the answer in the movie below.
The movie even discusses the feasibility of some potential solutions, such as increasing the cultivated land area, increasing the yield of a given agricultural area, increasing the use of organic products, introducing innovative watering techniques, and so on, and finishes with a concrete recommendation of where you have the ability to make a difference.
The DroidDog Daily 3/10/2010
Mar 11th
While we here at DroidDog strive to bring you all the latest Android news hot off the presses, sometimes that just isn’t possible. With that in mind, I bring to you the DroidDog Daily, a collection of all the news, leaks, and rumors we may have missed. Here’s what’s going on:
“Rogers Launches Samsung Galaxy Spica”
Congrats Rogers users, you can do it up Galaxy style. Via Phandroid
“Google’s Push for Better Games”
With the Game Developers Conference kicking off expect to see some cool games hitting Android before too long. Via Android Guys
“Android On Lockdown: AT&T Removes Best Parts of Android from Backflip”
I can’t believe what AT&T is doing to Android… Could it all be a part of a bigger plan? Via Android Guys
“G1 Powered ‘Truckbot’”
What do you get when you cross a G1, 30 dollars, and some robotic engineers? Awesome. Pure awesome. Via Android Guys
“On Sale Now: AT&T’s Motorola Backflip for $99″
This is old news, and yeah… If you were actually thinking about it… just look up a post or two. Via Android Guys
“Accepting Credit Cards on Your Anrdoid Phone”
Do you accept plastic? You Android phone does. Via Android Social Media
Well, there ya have it folks. How does it feel to be caught up to speed? Be sure to keep checking back here with us at DroidDog for everything Android we can get out hands on.
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More details on Motorola’s i1
Mar 11th
While we already know (or so we hope we know) quite a few specs on the i1, things keep coming out of the woodwork. Just a few days ago we found out that the name may be changing from the Opus One to the i1, and today we find out that it just may release with a 5MP camera, not 3MP, and ship with Opera Mini as the default browser. First off, who doesn’t want a better camera on their device. Second off, well… I don’t know what to say about Opera Mini being made the default browser. Confession alert, I have spent just about zero time using Opera Mini. I hear very good things, so this may be just the push I needed to give it a shot. There are plenty of handset manufacturers who choose not to use their own companies browser, and it hasn’t really steered them wrong yet. Android is starting to become a bridge for companies to exercise their freedom of choice within their OS. Just look at Swype. I guarantee this is only the beginning. Now that more info is floating to the surface, we expect to start seeing some solid specs anytime now. I bet you just can’t wait to hear “WHERE U AT?” ring out from an Android device in a grocery store near you, right?
Via Engadget
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Pershoot’s 2.6.32 Kernel (Tutorial)
Mar 11th
In this video, Carlos Graves shows how to flash a zip file while flashing Pershoot’s 2.6.32 Kernel.
Download this kernel at your own risk.
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Malware Found on HTC Android phone. Really? UPDATED
Mar 10th
Looks like an antivirus firm called Panda Security has found malware on a HTC Android phone that they recently received from Vodaphone. Now I know most of use are in the US and don’t purchase from Vodaphone, but I think this is still interesting and makes me a little curious on what the creators of the malware might have in store for the rest of us. Could this problem be a global problem soon? Could we soon all need to use antivirus software on our Android devices? Here’s some of what CNET has reported on the issue-
“Today one of our colleagues received a brand new Vodafone HTC Magic with Google’s Android OS,” researcher Pedro Bustamante wrote on the Panda Research Blog on Monday.
“The interesting thing is that when she plugged the phone to her PC via USB, her Panda Cloud Antivirus went off, detecting both an autorun.inf and autorun.exe as malicious,” he wrote. “A quick look into the phone quickly revealed it was infected and spreading the infection to any and all PCs that the phone would be plugged into.”
It has also been reported that the malware began “phoning home” for instructions. And I thought Android was safe from all this virus/malware stuff. I guess there is really no true brick wall security for anything these days. More on this at CNET
Do we need to start counter acting these viruses and malware more aggressively? Are the days of peace of mind over? Do we need to have to “update” our virus dictionaries every morning to stay on top of these kinds of things? Or is this a stunt creatively done by companies that provide antivirus/malware protection? What are your thoughts? Let the comments commence
Update: Android Central has reported that the malware has come from an sd card, not the HTC phone itself. Good news!
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Sony Ericsson unboxes the X10
Mar 10th
Sony Ericsson’s X10 looks almost too good to be true on paper – aside from the version of Android it ships with, 1.6. With a Gig of internal storage, 1 GHz Snapdragon processor, 4″ 480 x 854 screen, and SE’s Nexus UX (I hope they rename this), it is certainly set to hang with the top Androids on the market. However, when I got to play with one in a private meeting at CES, I was disappointed by a non-responsive screen that felt cheap and even plasticy. Then again, those were running 1.5 and the units out on the show floor, which I did not see, were running 1.6 and inspired a positive reaction from everyone I spoke with about them. Time will tell. I hope I’m wrong about the lackluster touch screen. Looks like I may have called one detail pretty early on though. Video after the break…
Via PhoneDog
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