Sandy knocks out HuffPo, BuzzFeed and Gawker

Sandy knocks out HuffPo, BuzzFeed and Gawker

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- A number of popular websites went down late Monday after Superstorm Sandy took out a major Internet service provider.

The Huffington Post, Gawker and many other sites were unreachable after Datagram, a New York-based provider of corporate Internet connections and servers, said it was battling flooding in its offices. The floods caused Datagram's fiber network to lose power, and the company said its backup generators were rendered useless because the diesel fuel pumps used to refuel generators were offline.

Datagram is located on 33 Whitehall Street in Battery Park -- a large area of reclaimed land at the southern tip of Manhattan that was in an evacuation zone. It was among the worst-hit areas in the city.

BuzzFeed, another Datagram customer, was able to get its site back up online and running Tuesday afternoon.

On its Tumblr page, the company said Datagram told its staff that its basement was flooded with five feet of water. A Datagram representative was unreachable for comment.

Many sites were updating their status on Twitter and publishing news stories on Tumblr accounts.

Gawker was completely unreachable Tuesday morning.

"Gawker is temporarily down because the 57th Street Crane just flooded our servers with sea foam, or something," the company posted on Twitter. "Back with you shortly."

The Huffington Post's site was down Tuesday morning, but it automatically redirected to a company blog. "We are working around the clock to get the site back to normal," the news organization, owned by AOL (AOL), noted. AOL's site was unaffected by the storm. The site came back online around noon ET.

Cloud storage company Internap, located just four blocks away from Datagram, also flooded and was unable to refuel its generators. The company issued an emergency notification to customers suggesting they back up their data and make contingency plans.

Two top Apple executives heading out door

Two top Apple executives heading out door

CUPERTINO, Calif., Oct. 30 (UPI) -- U.S. technology giant Apple says two key executives are departing, both of whom made high-profile blunders this year.

The company said Monday Scott Forstall is leaving after 15 years at Apple. He was considered a protege of Steve Jobs, the company's previous chief executive officer and founder who died of cancer last year, the Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday.

Forstall was in charge of the operating system that runs the iPhone and the iPad and oversaw the creation of Apple's mapping software that was full of humiliating mistakes, including simply misplacing many locations.

Apple also said John Browett, the company's retail chief, is leaving.

Browett, the former CEO of Dixons, a British retail chain, never quite fit in at Apple, the Times said.

In August, Browett apologized for a design for store staffing that he was forced to withdraw.

Analysts said the departures put more decision-making power in the hands of CEO Timothy Cook and the company's head industrial designer, Jonathan Ive.

"Tim Cook was always Steve Jobs' right-hand man. Jony Ive was his golden boy," said Gene Munster, an industry analyst at Piper Jaffray.

Other analysts applauded the shakeup, some because it was a sign that Cook would hold Apple to the same high standards that Jobs did.

"Tim Cook needs to make these kinds of changes occasionally to keep forward progress," said Colin Gillis at BGC Partners.

Craig Federighi, who is the head of the operating systems for Mac computers will also take on more responsibility, overseeing the operating software for mobile devices, which the company plans to integrate.

Other analysts considered that a good move, as well, since decision making for the operating systems would be handled by one executive, which is often more efficient than two.

Eddy Cue, the head of the company's online services, will take over the firm's maps and Siri software systems.

Dead air: Sandy takes out 1 in 4 cell towers, FCC says, and more could fail

Dead air: Sandy takes out 1 in 4 cell towers, FCC says, and more could fail

The landline phone network has held up better in the affected area, which stretches from Virginia to Massachusetts, the FCC said, but about a quarter of cable customers are also without service.

The FCC did not have an estimate for the number of people in the affected area.

Call centers for 911 service have held up relatively well, with only a few failures, according to FCC chairman Julius Genachowski. Calls to those centers are being rerouted, but operators may not be getting the automatic location information that 911 centers normally receive.

Sandy left widespread destruction, but the water welling into southern Manhattan drenched one of the world’s densest communications nodes, taking out popular websites and forcing telecom carriers to reroute international traffic.

As commercial power was cut to the southern tip of Manhattan on Mond ay, data centers and facilities of phone companies in the Wall Street area were forced to switch to diesel generators. Data centers that failed to keep running on backup power brought down news and gossip sites Gawker, Huffington Post and many popular New York-based blogs.

Gawker was still down Tuesday afternoon, but Huffington Post was back online. Their webhost, Datagram Inc., said power was out and flooding in their basement was preventing their backup generators from pumping fuel. Internet connectivity from three providers was also down.

Verizon Communications Inc., the biggest phone company in the region, had some of its facilities in downtown Manhattan flooded, shutting down phone and Internet service.

Further uptown, data centers hosted in a “telecom hotel” that spans a whole block and houses Google’s New York headquarters were reporting outages as well, apparently because backup power failed when commercial power was cut Monday evening.

Renesys Corp., which monitors the pathways of the Internet, said the storm caused major outages in New Jersey and New York. The city is a major transit point for international telecommunications traffic, and the firm said carriers were scrambling to route traffic around it.

Cablevision Systems Corp., which serves parts of Long Island, New York City and New Jersey, said it’s experiencing widespread outages due to the loss of power. The company said it doesn’t yet know the extent of outages in New Jersey, which bore the brunt of the storm.

Time Warner Cable Inc., the other big New York-area cable company, said it had no reports of significant damage to its network, but customers without power had no cable service.

ATT Inc. said there are “issues” in hard-hit areas, and it’s in the early stages of checking for damage and restoring service.

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Apple Is a Low-Volume Player on Every Market, Except Tablets, Says Chief Exec ... - X

Apple Is a Low-Volume Player on Every Market, Except Tablets, Says Chief Exec ... - X

Although Microsoft Corp. recently decided to embrace some of the business practices from its long-time rival Apple and intends to offer its own-brand hardware to take advantage of all the benefits its software can provide, its chief executive still does not really like Apple’s approach and claims it has too many limitations, which do not let Apple to grow.

It is not a secret that Microsoft Windows operating system is the dominating OS for personal computers on the planet and that is not going to change any time soon. However, Microsoft is not so lucky with its platforms for smartphones and tablets, mostly because both categories are evolving quicker than Microsoft can update its OS and hardware makers produce decent hardware with proper user experience to take advantage of that software.

To tackle poor user experience and bring it towards that of the Apple iPhone or Nokia, Microsoft imposes severe restrictions on what kind of system-on-chips and other components to use with its Windows Phone operating system-based devices. Furthermore, it has launched its own Surface tablets to set up a standard for all Windows RT-powered slates and promised to make more hardware when it makes sense.

Still, Microsoft prefers its own business model, under which it makes software and others create market share for that software through endless differentiation of their devices. By contrast, the head of Microsoft believes, Apple remains a minor player because it cannot serve everyone on the planet with limited amount of products.

“We like our model, as we are evolving it. In every category Apple competes, it is the low-volume player, except in tablets. In the PC market, obviously the advantage of diversity has mattered since 90-something percent of PCs that get sold are Windows PCs. We will see what winds up mattering in tablets,” said Steve Ballmer, chief executive of Microsoft, in an interview with the Wall Street Journal.

While Apple is barely too successful with its Macintosh PCs, set-top-boxes and some other products, the company is indeed the world’s No. 1 supplier of media tablets, is the world’s second largest maker of smartphones and is still the biggest seller of personal digital media players. Most importantly, Apple is a key player on the two rapidly evolving markets â€" smartphones and media tablets, where Microsoft has yet to establish its presence at all since so far Windows Phone and Windows 7 have not penetrated these markets any significantly.

The software giant itself believes that today it finally has what it takes to win in the new world of mobile and non-mobile devices: it has operating systems for PCs and tablets, it has Windows Phone 8 platform for smartphones, it has popular Skype communication program and it has ultimate entertainment platform called Xbox.

“You really do see all of Microsoft well integrated into Windows 8 and Windows Phone. This is really quite remarkable. You buy a Surface, it is all of Microsoft. You've got Office, Skype, it is all right there. We are focused on devices, with their integrated services, and we have got three of them primarily: [Windows] Phone, Xbox and Windows. Those are the vessels in which we should pour our value,” stressed Mr. Ballmer.

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iPad Mini, fourth-generation iPad reviews arrive

iPad Mini, fourth-generation iPad reviews arrive

(Credit: CNET)

Just a week after both devices were announced, the first crop of iPad Mini and fourth-generation iPad reviews are out of the gate.

Both devices go on sale this Friday. Those who pre-ordered the device online before initial stock sold out get it delivered to their homes.

Before going any further, you can get CNET's reviews of the iPad mini here, and here for the fourth-generation iPad.

We'll be updating this post with initial impressions and links as they come in, so be sure to refresh often.

iPad mini reviews

CNET

Bottom line: If you want a tiny tablet to do everything but make calls, the iPad Mini is worth the $130 premium. For an e-reader plus apps, choose a cheaper, higher-resolution 7-inch tablet.

All Things Digital:

I've been testing the iPad Mini for several days and found it does exactly what it promises: It brings the iPad experience to a smaller device. Every app that ran on my larger iPad ran perfectly on the Mini. I was able to use it one-handed and hold it for long periods of time without tiring. My only complaints were that it's a tad too wide to fit in most of my pockets, and the screen resolution is a big step backwards from the Retina display on the current large iPad.

USA Today:

Despite a few quibbles and strong competitors in the space, the Mini is a splendid choice for folks who held off buying an iPad because it was too large or too expensive.

Engadget:

This isn't just an Apple tablet made to a budget. This isn't just a shrunken-down iPad. This is, in many ways, Apple's best tablet yet, an incredibly thin, remarkably light, obviously well-constructed device that offers phenomenal battery life. No, the performance doesn't match Apple's latest and yes, that display is a little lacking in resolution, but nothing else here will leave you wanting. At $329, this has a lot to offer over even Apple's more expensive tablets.

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The Verge:

There's no tablet in this size range that's as beautifully constructed, works as flawlessly, or has such an incredible software selection. Would I prefer a higher-res display? Certainly. Would I trade it for the app selection or hardware design? For the consistency and smoothness of its software, or reliability of its battery? Absolutely not. And as someone who's been living with (and loving) Google's Nexus 7 tablet for a few months, I don't say that lightly.

The iPad mini hasn't wrapped up the "cheapest tablet" market by any stretch of the imagination. But the "best small tablet" market? Consider it captured.

TechCrunch:

The iPad mini isn't perfect -- for one reason in particular (more on that below) -- but it's damn close to my ideal device. In my review of the Nexus 7 (which I really liked, to the shock of many), I kept coming back to one thing: the form-factor. Mix this with iOS and Apple's app ecosystem and the intangibles I spoke about earlier and the iPad mini is an explosion of handheld joy.

The Telegraph:

...What will make some think twice about buying an iPad mini is the price. Starting at £269 for a WiFi only model, this is £100 dearer than the Kindle Fire HD or the Nexus 7, which is now available in a 16GB version for £159.

Whether it's worth it depends on how much of a premium you put on great design and a vast ecosystem of apps. Apple will sell a lot of these little beauties, that's for sure.

The Loop:

I was really surprised with how much I used the iPad mini in my daily routine -- more than the 10-inch iPad. There are a couple of things you have to remember with the iPad mini. First, it isn't just a smaller iPad, but rather it feels like its own device ... The second thing is that what seems like a little bit of extra screen real estate on the iPad mini makes a huge difference. Everything just works on the mini -- all of your old apps, iCloud, everything. It works.

Fox News:

After a few days I started to prefer the mini to my larger iPad despite its lack of a Retina screen. It even made my larger iPad look old fashioned. Awkwardly large. The mini is fast, impressively light -- weighing in at just over 10 ounces -- and easy to keep with me at all times. The only thing I don't enjoy as much with the mini is watching videos. It seems the crystal-clear Retina display in the newer (and larger) iPads has spoiled me.

Slashgear:

In the end, it's about an overall package, an experience which Apple is offering ... If the iPad with Retina display is the flagship of Apple's tablet range, then the iPad mini is the everyman model, and it's one that will deservedly sell very well.

The Guardian:

...There's no doubt that this is indeed a five-star device.

Apple is going to sell a lot of these - quite possibly more than the "large" iPad - in this quarter. The only way Apple could improve on this product would be (as some people are already agitating) to give it a retina screen and somehow make it lighter. That might happen at some point. You can wait if you like; other people, in the meantime, will be buying this one.

Time:

If your budget's got more wiggle room, the iPad Mini is the best compact-sized tablet on the market. Apple didn't build yet another bargain-basement special; it squeezed all of the big iPad's industrial-design panache, software polish and third-party apps, and most of its technology, into a smaller thinner, lighter, lower-priced model. The result may be a product in a category of one -- but I have a hunch it's going to be an awfully popular category.

Bloomberg:

... Apple has compromised the iPad experience. For the most part, it has simply shrunk it.

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I can tell you the iPad mini is the best small tablet you can buy. The question you'll have to answer for yourself is whether it's that much better.

Apple's fourth-generation iPad, which looks a lot like the third-generation iPad, which -- yes -- looks a lot like the second-generation iPad. Whew.

(Credit: CNET)

Fourth-generation iPad reviews

CNET:

The bottom line: The latest iPad adds several tweaks and improvements to secure its position at the top of the tablet heap. It's better all around, but third-gen owners need not apply.

The Verge:

The fourth-generation iPad is the very definition of an iterative change: Apple made important things better, but neither overhauled nor revolutionized anything... For now, if you're within your return window you should probably swap for the newest iPad, but if not? Rest assured you're not really missing that much. Not yet, at least.

TechCrunch (embedded in its iPad mini review):

I've been playing with this latest version of the iPad for the past week. Yes, it's faster. Apple claims 2x CPU and graphics performance thanks to the new A6X chip. That claim has been a little hard to test since no apps are yet optimized to take advantage of the new power -- and mainly because the previous iPad was already so fast -- but things do generally seem to launch and run a bit faster than they do on the third-generation iPad. I did get a chance to see a demo of a game that was optimized for the new chip (though it's not out yet) and that's clearly where this new iPad is going to shine.

Stuff:

The sneaky iPad 4 takes our tablet top spot almost by default. There are no cosmetic changes to swoon over but this is a seriously slick, turbo-charged version of our favourite slate, and all for the same price as the outgoing iPad 3.

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iPad 2 or iPad owners should also perhaps hold out on the upgrade. Maybe the slim, 308g iPad Mini, with its decent 7.9in display and extreme portability would suit you better? In six months time we may also be treated to an iPad 5 with a skinny bezel slimmer waistline anyway.

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First Look: Hue LED Bulbs Are Your Own Personal Light Show

First Look: Hue LED Bulbs Are Your Own Personal Light Show

Tread lightly. Photo: Alexandria Washburn/Wired

Philips has a new and interesting way to light your home. The hue lighting system uses LED lightbulbs with adjustable brightness and color-changing features. Want to listen to Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue in a blue room? All it takes is a quick flick of the companion app.

Each bulb contains 11 LEDs in three different colors, which Philips calls royal blue, red/orange and lime. The lights combine to create up to 16 million colors. (The lime LED controls the important white light.) Philips claims that users can even dial in the bulbs to mimic traditional incandescent lights â€" the holy grail of alternative light sources. That Thomas Edison was really on to something.

With an array of multiple bulbs, you can even assign each a different color to create your own little light show. The app even comes with a series of templates to help you out. These range from the boring â€" the Reading scene sets the lights to an easy-on-the-eyes white level â€" to the exciting, like the Energize template that will supposedly give you more energy. It’s like Red Bull seeping into your eyeballs.

hue app. Photo: Alexandria Washburn/Wired

You can also create your own templates. And any of them can be scheduled to turn on and off at pre-determined times. Scheduling includes the ability to fade the lights up or down over three or nine minutes. Fade up the lights as you wake in the morning; fade them down when you should be going to sleep.

Most of the Scenes were a bit bright for my eyes (full disclosure, I have sensitive eyes), but I was able to quickly tone down the brightness with the app. Each bulb has a default name, so I could quickly determine which one I was adjusting. The dimming and color adjusting doesn’t happen in real time. Depending on the latency of your home network, the adjustments can be as much as a second behind your finger. This can take a few minutes to get used to, especially if you have a wall dimmer that changes the brightness immediately.

Once you do adjust your expectations, you’re golden. You can even adjust colors by tilting the smartphone. Grab a marker that represents the light bulb and move it around the color picker until you find the perfect pink for your Pretty in Pink party.

Users will also be able to manipulate their lights while they’re away. This feature won’t be enabled for a few more days, so you’ll have to wait for my full review to see if I was able to blast my cats with bright red lights from my desk at work.

The light bulbs are roughly the same size as traditional bulbs and fit into any standard socket, but they look a bit like ice cream cones that have been smushed from the top. The only issue will be the lamp shades that sit directly on the bulbs. Those won’t work.

hue connection. Photo: Alexandria Washburn/Wired

The system runs through a hub that plugs into a router via an Ethernet cable. It’s based on the open source ZigBee LightLink wireless standard, which means the bulbs will work with other devices that adhere to the standard. The wireless standard also uses less energy than Wi-Fi. Setup involved screwing in bulbs, plugging in the hub and pushing a button. That’s it. No need to troll home automation sites for arcane how-tos.

It works well, and it’s simple and energy efficient (8.5 watts per bulb at full power). So whats the catch? Price. The starter system â€" three bulbs and a hub â€" will set you back $200 and will be available exclusively in the Apple Store. Additional light bulbs will cost $60 each.

Even standard LED bulbs cost about $20 each, however. The tech isn’t cheap. But the flip side is that the bulbs will last for about 15 years. That’s a lot of light shows.

 

Pre-ordered a Microsoft Surface? So SORRY it's late, have a voucher

Pre-ordered a Microsoft Surface? So SORRY it's late, have a voucher

Microsoft is dishing out vouchers to disgruntled Surface customers burned by delays and confusion over shipments of their pre-ordered fondletops.

The company has been handing over vouchers worth £50 to those whose Windows-RT tablets have not arrived despite pre-ordering before Thursday’s launch.

Surfaces went on sale on 25 October but were available for pre-order from 16 October.

It seems that customers who pre-ordered were promised delivery on 26 October, but they have not received their machines â€" and there’s also been no word on when they will arrive.

Further, some customers have received emails from Microsoft saying their 26 October delivery date had changed to November, with subsequent emails then putting back to the original.

The confusion and delays have hit customers in the UK and Canada only.

In a statement, Microsoft told The Reg customers in the UK and Canada will receive their Surface devices by the original dates given at the time of their orders, between 26 and 30 October.

Microsoft said: “We apologize for any confusion caused by emails stating an earlier or later arrival date. To make up for this inconvenience, we are giving impacted customers a single-use coupon for up to £50 (or $50 Canadian dollars) toward their next purchase from the Microsoft Online Store.”

There was no word on what had caused the delays and confusion, or how many vouchers had been issued. Orders are shipped using UPS.

Pocket Gamer wrote of the confusion on 21 October when it said it had received an updated order shipment date of 2 November for its Surface.

That date was then retracted, with Microsoft blaming an “internal processing issue” for the email and saying the shipping date hadn’t changed.

But on 26 October, PocketGamer hadn’t received the pre-ordered Surface.

Pocket Gamer has now received an apology from Microsoft for the “confusion” over the dates along with one of the £50 vouchers to spend at the Microsoft Store.

.NET consultant and Windows Phone developer Per Kastman, who lives in Stockholm, Sweden, tweeted this morning: “Can’t say I’m blown away with the pre-order experience @surface. No info from Microsoft and still no device.”

Three days after the official launch in New York, Kastman Tweeted: "Where’s my surface? Ordered from UK, but I get no updates anymore.”

Microsoft News wrote on 26 October that Microsoft had revised the language of the pre-orders to say delivery would be “from” the 26th, and devices could arrive as late as 30 October.

Readers of Microsoft News said they’d received conformations saying their orders would be delivered on 26 October. MobileJaw here, too, confirms the delivery date of 26 October. ®

Bootnote

Signed up for the Windows 8 Media Center Pack and still waiting for your activation key? You’re not alone, as eager upgraders are taking to the net to complain they’ve been waiting at least 24 hours for a key and still nothing’s arrived. Microsoft is giving away free upgrades to the Media Center Pack for free to customers who buy Windows 8 Pro between 26 October and 31 January, 2012. We're waiting to hear from Microsoft on reasons for the delay and when it will be fixed.

Meantime, one Microsoft MVP here, said the problem could be the fact that Windows 8 is new "so there will be many thousands of people trying to obtain both the software and the free Windows Media center product key." Exactly. It's not as if anybody knew this thing was coming, is it?

Thanks to Reg reader Sameer, who flagged this up.

Amazon Takes a Swing at the iPad Mini

Amazon Takes a Swing at the iPad Mini

By Matthew Lynley

Amazon has begun advertising the Kindle Fire HD, its 7-inch $199 tablet, on the home page and included blow-by-blow comparisons with Apple's more expensive 7.9-inch iPad Mini.

Apple’s executives have been critical of 7-inch tablets like the Kindle Fire HD. Apple CEO Tim Cook reiterated that on its most recent earnings call: “Let me be clear, we would not make a 7-inch tablet. We don’t think they’re good products.”

While Apple has touted the size of the iPad Mini as an advantage over the Kindle Fire HD and other smaller 7-inch tablets, the iPad Mini also sports a lower resolution than some of those tablets, coming in at 1,024 by 768 pixels, or 163 pixels per inch. The Kindle Fire HD has a sharper display, with about 216 pixels per inch.

Amazon’s tagline is, “much more for much less,” zeroing in on the difference between the price of its tablet and the $329 iPad Mini, and the screen comparison.

In a statement to AllThingsD, Amazon said “Wednesday was the $199 Kindle Fire HD’s biggest day of sales since launch and up 3x week over week.”

The major advantage Apple has over Amazon and other tablet-makers, however, is that the iPad Mini launches with 275,000 apps supporting it, because it has the same resolution as the iPad 2. Amazon’s tablet, and app ecosystem, is still much newer.

Verizon becomes sole home to Nokia Lumia 822

Verizon becomes sole home to Nokia Lumia 822

The Nokia Lumia 822

(Credit: Nokia)

Nokia and Verizon have teamed up on an upcoming product launch.

The companies announced today that Verizon will carry the Nokia Lumia 822. The Windows Phone 8-based handset comes with a 4.3-inch display and the Snapdragon S4 processor. According to Nokia, users will have 11.7 hours of talk time and 62.1 hours of music playback time.

The Lumia 822 will work on Verizon's 4G LTE network and come with Nokia's Drive+ for turn-by-turn navigation.

Neither Nokia nor Verizon said exactly when the handset might launch, but the companies did say that it would be part of the carrier's "fall portfolio." The Nokia Lumia 822's pricing was also not revealed.

There's a lot riding on Nokia's smartphones. The company has been watching its sales and product shipments fall considerably over the last couple of years, and just last week, research firm IDC revealed that for the first time ever, Nokia fell off its list of top-five smartphone makers during the third quarter. Samsung and Apple led the way with 31.3 percent and 15 percent market share, respectively. The fifth-place company, HTC, could only muster 4 percent share.

Nexus 7 32GB in stock at Walmart

Nexus 7 32GB in stock at Walmart

We already know what the 32GB version of the Nexus 7 will be priced at, thanks to an earlier report of the device showing up on Office Depot shelves. $250 will get the 32GB version, while the 16GB model will be $199. A second confirmation has just hit Walmart’s website, where the retailer is showing the 32GB Nexus 7 as “in stock.”

We thought maybe Office Depot accidentally released the new product a bit early at first, but the Walmart listings definitely prove that it’s no mistake. Walmart shows the two tablets in stock and ready to ship, and they can arrive on your doorstep as early as Wednesday if you choose rush shipping. Otherwise, standard shipping will have one at your house by November 6 (if you order it today).

Unfortunately, Google hasn’t yet recognized the release of the 32GB model or the price drop of the 16GB version. We’re guessing that they were going to officially announce it today during a planned Android event, but that was cancelled over the weekend due to the arrival of Hurricane Sandy.

Google was also expected to announce a larger Nexus tablet from Samsung, dubbed the Nexus 10, as well as the Nexus 4 smartphone from LG. We’re not sure when Google will have their Android event, but it will definitely stay postponed until Hurricane Sandy dies down. We’ll be posting a rundown later today that details all of the Android releases, rumors, and leaks from the past few days, so stay tuned.

[via Phandroid]