Platforms live or die by the content available on them

A threat to attack a crucial part of Ray ban sunglasses the Internet on Saturday by members of the mercurial, leaderless hacker collective called Anonymous appears to have had no discernible impact so far.

By Saturday in the Eastern United States, there were no major signs of an attack, said several people monitoring the Domain Name System. Some Anonymous hackers had threatened six weeks ago to attack that system, which converts domain names like google.com into numeric addresses that computers use. It led to a quiet global multimillion-dollar effort to strengthen the Domain Name System in recent weeks.

“This is kind of anticlimactic,” said Bill Woodcock, whose nonprofit Packet Clearing House has been part of that campaign. “That Oakley sunglasses was kind of the goal.”

One person monitoring traffic over one of the 13 root servers that are part of the Domain Name System said there was only a five-minute spike in traffic at midnight Friday Greenwich Mean Time after which network traffic seemed to have subsided; the person spoke on condition of anonymity because of the delicate nature of his job to maintain Internet infrastructure.

The effects of a sustained attack on the Domain Name System can be felt only after several days, when parts of the system would be impaired by very heavy flow of network data.

On Twitter, which is what the hackers affiliated with Anonymous use as a soapbox to spread their message, there was little chatter Saturday about the prospective attack. Instead, Anonymous called on burberry handbags its student supporters to put on masks and register their protest against restrictions on freedom of speech.

“Anonymous challenges you to gather your friends and to show your support by wearing a mask, educating your friends about their rights and showing your teachers that school is a place of learning and expression,” it announced on one of its blogs.

Android tablets have failed. Plain and simple. By just about any measure you can come up with, Google (NAS: GOOG) has been unsuccessful so far in burberry watches translating its Android successes in the smartphone market to the tablet market.

The clear tablet king is Apple's (NAS: AAPL) iPad, which is selling like none other. While market researcher IDC thinks Android will eventually dethrone the iPad, I don't see how that can happen at this rate. The hardest part for Google to swallow is that it's not entirely its fault.

What else do you need?
Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich is a well-polished mobile operating system that is leagues ahead of its predecessor, 3.0 Honeycomb. Even Big G considered that version an "emergency landing" just to "get burberry ties tablet support out there."

The company proliferates Android through a slew of hardware partners. Some of these inevitably produce pure junk, but other OEMs are crafting some very respectable devices with some powerful specs.

I found myself in a big-box retailer the other day playing with one of the best Android tablets out there: the Asus Transformer Prime. The tablet carries NVIDIA's (NAS: NVDA) quad-core Tegra 3 and an 8-megapixel OmniVision Technologies (NAS: OVTI) second-generation backside-illuminated image sensor -- one much better Burberry keychain than the newest iPad's.

Less than meets the eye
The Transformer Prime is a solid offering that can give the iPad a run for its money in the spec department. It was the first time I'd handled one, and I was legitimately impressed.

An interesting tidbit that's come out of Hasbro's trademark infringement suit against Asus is that court filings show Asus had just 2,000 preorders for the device a month ago, with 80,000 more set for retail distribution around the world. Meanwhile, Apple just sold 3 million iPads in a weekend earlier this month.Juicy Couture sunglasses, cheap Juicy Couture glasses sale.

So one of the best high-end Android tablets that money can buy is garnering sales on par with what amounts to a rounding error in iPad sales.

It has a competitive OS and nosebleed hardware, so why doesn't anyone want it?

Is there an app for that?
Platforms live or die by the content available on them. A TV is pretty useless if there's nothing to watch, and a high-end tablet similarly does you little good if there aren't quality apps to interact with. The louis vuitton mens shoes sale problem with Android tablets is that developers haven't been optimizing their apps for the larger screens, so there's a lack of compelling content.

Apple CEO Tim Cook even discussed this during the new iPad unveiling. Most current Android tablet apps are simply smartphone apps that have been crudely scaled up to larger screen sizes but aren't designed specifically to take advantage of the extra real estate. He used the Yelp app as an example and compared it running on a Samsung Android tablet to the iPad.