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This looks like a lot of fun. In all seriousness, we’d like to see a riding lawnmower mod version and reasonable priced app.  If a late 80’s Buick can take it, why not?

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Read a General Overview of the System

Prototyping

FIRST: Driving More Than Robots

Using Sensors with Compact RIO

Taking Wireless Measurements

Implementing a Motion System

Download our code – Driving a Car with an iPhone

The Blogs – Driving a Car with an iPhone

Digitimes, this weekend, released a timetable for Intel’s high-end mobile processor lineup over the next few quarters.  Possible MacBook Pro and MacBook Air processor successors include 35W 32nm dual-core Arrandale CPUs running at up to 2.26GHz (2.53GHz in single-core Turbo Boost).  Remember that even though the cycles/second are fewer in these chips, the speed improves dramatically, as seen in Apple’s new iMac lineup.

On Thursday, Intel plans to launch four 32nm dual-core Arrandale CPUs (Calpella platform), the Core i5-520M, Core i5-430M, Core i3-350M and Core i3-330M, in the first half of January 2010 for the mainstream notebook segment, according to sources from notebook players. The Intel Core i5-430M runs at a clock speed of 2.26GHz, but with Intel’s Turbo Boost technology, it can run up to 2.53GHz for a single core. The Intel Core i3-350M also runs at 2.26GHz, but does not support Turbo Boost technology; Intel Core i3-330M runs at 2.13GHz and also does not support Turbo Boost technology. Core i5 CPUs will feature a graphics clock that runs at a base speed of 500MHz but can also run at speeds up to 766MHz. The Core i3 also runs at 500MHz but can also run at speeds up to 667MHz. Both series support DDR3 memory up to 1066MHz and feature 3MB L3 Cache with a TDP of 35W. 

Digitimes also released an ultra-low power processor scorecard this week, with even lower power processors slated for 1H10.  These Core i7 640UM processors use only 18W of power, yet can clock up to 2.26GHz.  That is some serious performance/watt – which we know sjobs luvs.

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Psystar just suffered a major blow in the California case. Here’s the order [PDF]. Psystar’s first-sale defense went down in flames. Apple’s motion for summary judgment on copyright infringement and DMCA violation is granted. Apple prevailed also on its motion to seal….

Groklaw reports: “Psystar’s motion for summary judgment on trademark infringement and trade dress is denied. So is its illusory motion for copyright misuse.

“There are still issues remaining for trial, despite Psystar’s attempt to present everything now as being moot. Here’s what’s left to be decided at trial: Apple’s allegations of breach of contract; induced breach of contract, trademark infringement; trademark dilution; trade dress infringement; and state unfair competition under California Business and Professions Code

Mac users still on Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) systems should be aware that there are no further security or system patches planned for these systems.

Apple introduced security and system updates for Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6 last week, reflecting the company

via Poland (anyone got anglais?)

Apple issued a firmware update today for the 5th generation (current) iPod nano. Fixes include (but not limited to):

• fixed normal/slower/faster audio podcast playback
• Genius Mixes now work with Nike+iPod
• issue with headphone controls when using Voice Over

The update can be downloaded by Nano owners through iTunes.

As the Firefox browser prepares to celebrate its 5th birthday, NetApplications reveals quite an accomplishment for the Open Source Mozilla foundation.  A few years ago, Microsoft’s standards-defiant IE 6 held 95% of the browser market share, having destroyed Netscape by using what was later ruled as monopoly tactics. 

Firefox, however, has been gaining steadily since its introduction in 2005 but faces fierce competition, not only from Internet Explorer but from Webkit browsers like Safari and Google’s Chrome which are very popular in the exploding mobile browsing category as well as the desktop.

For the week of Nov. 1 through Nov. 7, Firefox accounted for 25.1% of all browsers, said Vizzaccaro. Internet Explorer (IE), meanwhile, led all rivals with 63.3%, while Apple’s Safari, Google’s Chrome and Opera Software’s Opera followed, in that order, with 4.4%, 3.9% and 2.3%, respectively.

Asa Dotzler, Mozilla’s community coordinator said, “When we reached 20%, we became the favored browser for anyone who understood what a browser was.”

It is also interesting to note that Internet Explorer continues to tumble to 63%.  Falling below 50% seems like a possibility in the coming years with not only Firefox growing but also Chrome (the fastest growing browser) and Safari exploding, especially in the mobile space which Microsoft has all but ceded.

At this point, it kind of goes without saying, but Bill Gates says it anyhow: Steve Jobs saved Apple.  More specifically, David Matthews of Columbia Executive Business school had this question for Bill Gates:

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QUESTION: If you could just comment and tell us what your thoughts are on the job Steve Jobs has done as the CEO of Apple? (Audience laughs as Gates smiles.)

GATES: Well, he’s done a fantastic job. Apple is in a bit of a different business where they make hardware and software together. But when Steve was coming back to Apple, which was actually through an acquisition of NeXT that he ran, Apple was in very tough shape. Steve Jobs Steve Jobs In fact, most likely it wasn’t going to survive. And he brought in a team, he brought in inspiration about great products and design that’s made Apple back into being an incredible force in doing good things. And it’s great to have competitors like that. We write software for Apple, Microsoft does. They compete with Apple. But he, of all the leaders in the industry that I’ve worked with, he showed more inspiration and he saved the company.

Bill, keeping it real.

Today, AT&T issued a response to Verizon’s ads which have been getting a lot of attention lately.  The ads show maps of 3G service, which Verizon covers more geographic area of the US.  AT&T thinks that consumers believe that those maps are of overall geographic coverage – which AT&T actually has more of than Verizon.

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AT&T is also suing Verizon over the claimed misrepresentation.  AT&T’s claim (which they never dispute the maps – but somehow call them “blatantly false and misleading”)  below:

While we wait for Apple to add HDMI outputs to the Mac mini, or shake things up with the new-breed of Apple TV, it may be worth taking a look at Dell

Techcrunch is reporting that the first releases of ChromeOS, the “mostly just a browser running on Linux OS” from Google is set to launch within a week.  The major work continues to be driver support which spreads out among PC makers’ many components and manufacturers.  The new OS will initially target netbooks with a particular aim to give Windows XP users something besides a crippled, expensive Windows 7 to upgrade.

From there, however, Chrome should would on just about any Intel hardware including Macs.  You’ll likely be able to test Chrome on Parallels or VMWare on Mac when it is released.

In other Google Chrome news, Google has released specifications to a new application protocol called SPDY that they say is up to 64% faster than the HTTP protocol.  New builds of Chromium are available to test this protocol, but there aren’t too many webservers out there using SPDY since Google hasn’t released that code yet.

Google is certainly ambitious, if not downright scary, in the scope of its footprint on the web.

The App Store rejection process continues to infuriate even long-term Apple developers, and something will have to change – today we see long time Mac developers, Rogue Amoeba, announce they will no longer develop apps for the iPhone following frustrating (and perplexing) treatment by the App Store team.

The company introduced its Airfoil Speakers Touch 1.0 app for the iPhone months ago, became aware of some issues (with audio sync that could be heard when audio was playing to multiple outputs) in the app and sent in an update. An update which took Apple three and a half months to approve – all because the company used Safari logos and Mac images as part of the User Interface.

(Airfoil, incidentally, is a great app that lets you send any audio from your Mac or PC out to the AirPort Express, Apple TV, other computers, and with Airfoil Speakers Touch, to your iPhone or iPod Touch. You can use it to send the audio from a YouTube clip you’re watching out through an iPhone-attached speaker system, for example.)

The developers submitted the updated App in July, only to see it refused because of its use of

Google has confirmed its intent to deliver a beta version of its Google Chrome browser for the Mac by the end of the year, and expects to deliver the software in December.

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Despite Apple

Apple has introduced iTunes Preview, a new way to share iTunes music information using a Web browser, and also announced the iTunes Best Album & Song 2009 (UK) shortlists.

The new iTunes Preview feature replaces the old behaviour of the service. In the past, whenever you sent a link to a song or album from the iTunes Store to another person, clicking that link would automatically open up iTunes – or generate a pester message urging the other party to install iTunes.

Now this doesn

Just in case you

OK, this is the last one unless someone in one of the apartments above drops something on the “glass ceiling”.  Gizmodo got the first inside pictures of the new Apple Store.  We’ve pasted the best below with Matt’s description:

I can’t tell you