I was expecting this based on the recent statements given by both the parties. Google wasn’t willing to comply with the Chinese requirement to filter search results for inappropriate material. China said that they had no problems with the Californians providing their search engine services as long as they agree with the Chinese law.

The shutdown process will not begin immediately and the leaving party will be taking time to formally go through with the shutdown and also ensure that their local employees are safeguarded from the likely authorities retaliation.

It is worth noting here that Google will only be shutting down its search engine service and will continue its other operations in China.  I wonder what impact will this decision will have on Google’s financial position. Any thoughts? Do share with us.

In case you forgot, the Infiniboard is a mod for jailbroken iPhone that allows you to vertically scroll your valuable home screens and add an infinite number of icons on each page.

The other things that have been introduced in this update include:

• Support for OverBoard. Page moving support is broken, but that can’t be fixed on Chpwn’s end.
• Added setting to enable/disable icons behind dock
• Fixed CategoriesSB
• Fixed 6/7-row SB

Have you given this hack a try? How did you find it?

For jailbreaking guides and related apps, check out our Jailbreak section.

The man himself says or should I say tweets that the game is coming soon to the App Store.

In the PR world, this is considered “going rogue,” but I’m too excited to contain it. This is real & dropping soon.

What will be the experience like once the skateboarding game makes its way to the iPhone platform? More importantly, how would you feel about it and will you download it?

[Thanks to RoryPiper for the tip, iEvolution]

Ovi Player 2.1 features

• Improved Music download functionality: This feature has been made more reliable. You can now pause and restart downloads from the Nokia and Ovi Music stores. Ovi Player will automatically retry any failed downloads and will also preserve uncompleted downloads on application restart.
• Import iTunes music library: Automatically import your music library from iTunes and all the manual playlists that you created in iTunes (however, iTunes DRM files and smart playlists will not be imported).
• Smart Play Control: A new ‘Play’ control is placed above column headers in detailed view. Simply click this button and all the containing tracks will be added to the Player Queue and played sequentially.
• New Tooltips for Playlists Track: New tooltips have been introduced for tracks in the Playlists and Player Queue. These tooltips are visible when hovering over a track and will show you Artist, Album and Artwork for the track.
• Increased Efficiency: You will find this version to be more robust and memory efficient when compared to the previous version.
• Localized Region selection made easy: We’ve made it easier to select the Music Store for your region (note that you will need a credit card for that region to purchase any tracks) and change the Proxy settings. Just hit F4 key and all this pops up in the Options dialogue window.
• Hide Startup-screen: This enables you to continue  using other applications without being interfered by the Nokia Ovi Player.

Download Nokia Ovi Player 2.1

The mechanism that most of the sources are using to track this is by recording the order number. There is no doubt that all the order numbers are not specific to iPad, some of them might be for other products of Apple. However, the probability of Apple getting iPad orders around the 2x,xxx mark per hour is  pretty high since it has had the whole world buzzing with excitement.

Various Sources calculations are based around the hourly 20,000 order mark.

Members at Investor Village’s AAPL Sanity Board have begun entering the order numbers associated with their purchases into a Google spreadsheet.

By 11:05am EST the group had received 15 confirmations with order numbers reaching 74,000. The iPad went up for pre-order at 08:30 EST.

“51,000 orders in two hours,” announced Victor Castroll an analyst with Valcent Financial Group. His estimate takes into account roughly 15,000 non-iPad orders that come in every day.

Silicon Alley Insider posted a similar 20,000-per-hour figure based on two sales made 30 minutes apart whose order numbers differed by 10,000

According to the spreadsheet, 25% pre-ordered Wi-Fi + 3G models and 25% ordered the largest, 64 GB model. A quarter of them also ordered two iPads.

Have you placed your pre-order? If Yes, then how many iPads have your ordered?

[via iPadinCanada]

Here is the official response from the Apple PR

Customers can pre-order online at apple.com at 5:30am Pacific time on Friday, March 12.

If you want to know the exact time in your part of the world, then check out the global clock to have the precise timing. So apple.com is the page you should set as a bookmark. More importantly, what are the factors / use cases that have given you the urge to purchase the Apple Tablet? Do share.

]]> http://www.geekword.net/ipad-pre-order-timings/feed/ 1 http://www.geekword.net/ipl-on-youtube/ http://www.geekword.net/ipl-on-youtube/#comments Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:03:07 +0000 Muhammad Ali http://www.geekword.net/?p=12435 Cricket die hard fans all over the globe will be waiting impatiently for the IPL to kick off in a few hours time. Here is something to add to their excitement. YouTube will be streaming ball by ball action live. Yes, the whole Internet audience will be able to view the Twenty Twenty format based Indian Premier League. Just tune into IPL channel on YouTube because this is where all the fireworks and fun can be witnessed.

Not only you will be able to watch live matches, you will also have the freedom to watch the action you missed, see your favorite players giving interviews.

The IPL Channel has three tabs namely:

• Today’s Matches: This is where you can watch streamed matches as they happen. (Note that the stream will be delayed by a few minutes.) Click through at any time to see the match scorecard.
• Recent Matches: Catch up any time on the full action of matches that have already happened.
• Highlights: If you’re short on time, check in here for short videos of player interviews, match highlights, greatest plays, and more.

Which team are you supporting? More importantly who will win today’s match?

[via YouTube]

While watching the video I noticed the following points of the ported OS:

• Hardware Keys functionality.
• Fully functioning call system.
• Send/Receive SMS.
• Data exchange.
• Smooth performance.
• Notifications.
• App Tray.
• Customize Homescreen.
• Browser lags randomly.
• Functional Android Market.
• GPS not working.
• Working Accelerometer which lags just a bit.

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The video discusses the following aspects of the upcoming UI

• Multiple Homescreens with customization support.
• Improved Graphical performance.
• More transparent multitasking.
• Multitouch screens.

The notable features of Safari 4.0.5 include

• Performance improvements for Top Sites.
• Stability improvements for 3rd-party plug-ins.
• Stability improvements for websites with online forms and Scalable Vector Graphics.
• Fixes an issue that prevented Safari from changing settings on some Linksys routers.
• Fixes an issue that prevented some iWork.com users from commenting on documents.

In order to get the latest update, select Software Update from the Apple menu located at the top left of the screen.

[via iClarified]