Raspberry Pi Begins Accepting Preorders

The Raspberry Pi foundation has begun accepting preorders for their Raspberry Pi product. They have also announced that instead of doing their manufacturing in-house, they're contracting several licensed factories. This, they say, will allow them to produce more units.

Currently, they're only accepting preorders for the "B" version of the hardware, which includes 2 USB ports (up from 1) and an ethernet port (up from none).

10 Second News: AOSP 4.0.1

It has been announced on Google Groups that Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich, is now available on the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) git servers. There is currently the caution that the version on the servers is not complete, so hang on before you download the whole thing. The code also (finally) includes the source for Honeycomb, though I can't think of any reason to use that over Ice Cream Sandwich.

Enjoy!

UPDATE: Source is fully synced with the repos! Download to your heart's content.

Source: Google Groups

Verizon LTE Data Cap Doubling

Starting tomorrow, and for a limited time, all new data plans will be double their original data cap, but the same price. Existing Verizon users can manually change to the larger data plan using My Verizon.

"Beginning tomorrow, Verizon Wireless will introduce a limited time promotion that offers customers the opportunity to receive double the amount of data for the same monthly fee for all Verizon Wireless 4G smartphones. For example, a customer who purchases the 2 GB plan for $30 will receive 4 GB for $30. The plans is available for new and existing customers. Existing customers need to request the change via customer service or through their My Verizon accounts --- the free portal where customers can view and pay their bill, make changes to their account and purchase new devices." (Source: Engadget)


For those of us not willing to pay more than $30 for a reasonable amount of data, this should be a great way to make your buck stretch a little further. Certainly won't hurt, in any case!