Servers Archive

  • FreeBit’s ServersMan, The Largest-Ever Update, Now on Worldwide App Store and Android Market(TM)

    Posted on April 14, 2011 | No Comments
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  • Is the Android Market down for you? (update: it’s back)

    Is the Android Market down for you? (update: it’s back)

    Posted on June 23, 2010 | No Comments
    As I began the process of tearing into our brand new Droid X review unit, I ran through the nearly endless mental laundry list of all my favorite Android apps. “I’m totally going to install all of these“, I thought. Only one problem: The Android Market wasn’t showing any apps. None. No Yammers, no Yelps, [...]

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  • First iPhone 4 units being delivered

    First iPhone 4 units being delivered

    Posted on June 22, 2010 | No Comments
    Aw, suki suki now! Looks like we've got our first iPhone 4 delivery here in the US, a full 24 hours before the first batch is supposed to land. The best news isn't that throngs of pre-orderers are seeing their units "out for delivery" today, but that this Mac Rumors user was able to activate his unit already in seamless fashion. 'Course, we highly doubt it'll be so easy for everyone else crashing the servers tomorrow and Thursday, but there it is. So, anyone else seeing their iPhone 4 marked as "out for delivery?" Or better still, "in hand?" Give us a shout in comments below.

    [Thanks, Anonymous]

    Update: We've moved the FedEx image past the break, as one lucky Mac Rumors member already has his in hand. And so it begins. [Thanks, Adam]

    Update 2: A reader has sent us over the above picture of his own brand new iPhone 4, which has only just arrived. [Thanks, Mark!]

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    First iPhone 4 units being delivered originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 22 Jun 2010 14:06:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Video: AMD explains the explosive growth of the Cloud (there’s no stopping it!)

    Video: AMD explains the explosive growth of the Cloud (there’s no stopping it!)

    Posted on June 22, 2010 | No Comments
    From the good folks at AMD comes this, a video explaining the wonders and joys of moving all of our computing… to the Cloud! The soundtrack makes me feel like I’m in the movie Hackers. What a simultaneously great and terrible movie. Call me a cynical old man, but I’ve never been totally “down” with keeping [...]

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  • Android 2.2 build FRF72 for Nexus One finally leaks

    Android 2.2 build FRF72 for Nexus One finally leaks

    Posted on June 19, 2010 | No Comments
    Its existence has been an on-again, off-again rumor for over a week now, but it looks like a new build of Android 2.2 Froyo for the Nexus One -- FRF72 -- is very real. It finally leaked in the past few hours, we've tested it on a Nexus One of our own, and as far as we can tell, it's straight-up legit. Get it if you dare -- it's up on Google's official servers right now, but if it's pulled, we've no doubt it'll be floating around on a bunch of mirrors ad nauseam. G'luck to ya, folks!

    [Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

    Android 2.2 build FRF72 for Nexus One finally leaks originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 19 Jun 2010 11:52:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • HTC slaps phone firmware site with cease and desist letter

    HTC slaps phone firmware site with cease and desist letter

    Posted on June 17, 2010 | No Comments
    You might be familiar with firmware impresario Conflipper by now, a man who's earned a reputation tearing apart ROMs -- often for unreleased devices -- and pulling out the juicy bits for everyone to see. Turns out the dude runs a site called Shipped ROMs with... yes, you guessed it, a bunch of shipped ROMs for a wide variety of phones on it, and it seems HTC's legal cats in Taiwan have taken issue, saying they've got "very strong reasons to believe that the HTC Intellectual Property was illegally obtained by fraudulent means" in a strongly-worded cease and desist letter sent to him earlier today. We reached out to HTC's US branch for comment and got back the following:
    "While HTC tries to take a hands off [approach] about the modder / ROM chef community, this site's sole purpose [is] to make HTC's content available for download from a source other than HTC. That content is not just the open source parts and kernels of Android but all of the software that HTC itself has developed. This is a clear violation of our copyrights and HTC needs to defend itself in these cases."
    In other words, these guys are just really against hosting official ROMs on unofficial servers. Anyone can dump a ROM from a phone and flesh it out, so we can't imagine there's any competitive concern -- and no first-party site makes so many firmware builds available for so many devices in such a concise, well-organized way as Shipped ROMs is doing. Ultimately, it's HTC's property -- it seems like they're probably in the legal right here -- but the unsavory PR effect with some of the company's staunchest enthusiasts makes the endeavor more trouble than it's worth, we'd argue. Tread carefully, HTC.

    HTC slaps phone firmware site with cease and desist letter originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 17 Jun 2010 21:47:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Apple: Sorry about all the failed iPhone 4 pre-orders, but we definitely had a good day

    Apple: Sorry about all the failed iPhone 4 pre-orders, but we definitely had a good day

    Posted on June 16, 2010 | No Comments
    Apple just released a tiny little message about its 600,000 pre-orders. First, it crowed that it got 600,000 pre-orders and then it apologized for, um, sucking the life out of the economy while people at work kept pressing the “Continue” button over and over again in a Skinner-esque effort to make the damn site work. [...]

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  • iPhone 4 pre-orderers overwhelm servers, world on the brink of ending

    iPhone 4 pre-orderers overwhelm servers, world on the brink of ending

    Posted on June 15, 2010 | No Comments
    Look up at the sky -- is it falling? It sure seems as if that kind of doom is imminent, at least if this whole iPhone 4 pre-order situation is any indication of future tragedy. We've received hundreds of tips this morning from friends near and far that iPhone 4 pre-orders aren't going through, though a few of us here on staff were able to get a confirmation during the wee hours of the morning. From AT&T in the US to O2 over in the UK, it seems that just about everyone ambling to get their name on a future iPhone 4 is experiencing a great deal of frustration. AT&T's servers seem to be completely hosed here in America, and since Apple's own online order process has to ping those to check on your contract status, neither option is... um, working. Those who decided to line up at a local store are facing similar issues; employees aren't even able to fully process pre-orders in store due to systems being overwhelmed, and no one seems to exactly know when things will be back to normal. And you thought the most enraging part of this was the inability to select a white model. Let us know how your experience has been in the poll and comments below, won't you?

    Update: So, it sounds like Best Buy is taking pre-orders (even for white units), but chances are remarkably high that you're not actually getting in any line. Still, it's a working option for the moment. In other news, the Apple Store app is seeming to allow iPhone 4 orders, but it looks as if they're reserving off-contract phones (read: full price ones), so we'd only recommend this avenue if you enjoy things like "arguing about contract dates" and "yelling at brick walls." We're guessing you'll be doing both on the 24th.

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    iPhone 4 pre-orderers overwhelm servers, world on the brink of ending originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 15 Jun 2010 11:56:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Come join us in singing the iPhone 4 pre-order blues

    Come join us in singing the iPhone 4 pre-order blues

    Posted on June 15, 2010 | No Comments
    Tag your tweets #preorderblue and we’ll see who has fought most valiantly against AT&T’s activation servers. In honesty, however, I don’t envy those poor folks tasked with keeping up with this onslaught. Not to put too fine a point on it, but is there any other phone that engenders this sort of mania? What did [...]

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  • Apple iPhone 4 pre-orders are go, unlocked in UK!

    Apple iPhone 4 pre-orders are go, unlocked in UK!

    Posted on June 15, 2010 | No Comments
    You know what to do... unless you wanted the iPhone 4 in white which is unavailable for pre-order. Pricing for a SIM-free and unlocked iPhone 4 is set at £499 (16GB) or £599 (32GB) in the UK or €629 (16GB) and €739 (32GB) in France. Pre-orders are limited to two per customer.

    P.S. The 8GB iPhone 3GS is out for those of you looking to keep it old school at $99 on a two-year AT&T contract.

    Update: Looks like Apple's servers are struggling to keep up. For what it's worth, we hear that US pre-orderers are having more success with the AT&T link found in the source below.

    Apple iPhone 4 pre-orders are go, unlocked in UK! originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 15 Jun 2010 04:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • QIK admits Evo 4G launch problems after 20x increase on server load

    QIK admits Evo 4G launch problems after 20x increase on server load

    Posted on June 7, 2010 | No Comments
    While record sales are generally a desireable thing, that one-time spike in demand can leave service providers scrambling to cope on launch day. Evo 4G owners are well aware of this after noticing one of the handset's flagship features -- Qik video calling -- was unavailable in the Android Market on Friday. After correcting the issue, Qik then had to pull the app after users experienced intermittent service failures resulting from what Qik calls "an unprecedented 20x" workload increase on its servers. The Qik team is scrambling to provision more capacity and expects to have things under control "shortly."

    QIK admits Evo 4G launch problems after 20x increase on server load originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 07 Jun 2010 07:22:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Via Labs is showing off its 4-port USB 3.0 host controller at Computex

    Via Labs is showing off its 4-port USB 3.0 host controller at Computex

    Posted on May 26, 2010 | No Comments
    Via first showed off its USB 3.0 host controller at CES 2010 and it just broke cover at Computex. The VL800 series chip can handle four USB 3.0 devices simultaneously while providing data rates up to 5Gbps. Via aims to put this single chip solution into desktops, notebooks, servers, and everything else on God's green earth.

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  • Android 2.2 Froyo manual update found, now available for select Nexus One devices

    Android 2.2 Froyo manual update found, now available for select Nexus One devices

    Posted on May 22, 2010 | No Comments
    digg_url = 'http://digg.com/gadgets/Download_Android_2_2_Froyo_now'; It was only a matter of time. The direct link to download the Android 2.2 "Froyo" update from Google's servers has been found. According to XDA-Developers, it only works if you have a "non-rooted stock ERE27 system" Nexus One. Meet the requirements? Can't wait any longer? Download link below.

    Update: Want no pre-conditions? Here's another link, albeit less official so proceed at your own risk. [Thanks, Justin!]

    [Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

    Android 2.2 Froyo manual update found, now available for select Nexus One devices originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 22 May 2010 16:07:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • One more time, or the next installment in the Hero upgrade saga

    One more time, or the next installment in the Hero upgrade saga

    Posted on May 12, 2010 | No Comments
    Ok. I'm very nearly at the point where I don't want to keep posting on this, but I'm eternally optimistic, so here goes: An internal Best Buy Document has leaked all over Android Central's best shirt, claiming that the Android 2.1 upgrade date for the eternally neglected Sprint Hero will be the 21st of May.

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