NASA has just released a beautiful image of Earth taken from the VIIRS  instrument aboard NASA's most recently launched Earth-observing satellite - Suomi NPP. Visit the link to see the original 8000x8000 image.

Facebook Sponsored Story Ads To Appear In The Web News Feed In 2012

Starting in January 2012, Facebook will gradually begin showing Sponsored Stories social ads in the main news feed of the web version of the site, a representative of the company tells us.

This is crap! I don't want my news feed to be filled with ads.

The ads will be marked “Sponsored” and a rate limit will ensure users see no more than 1 Sponsored Story in the news feed per day.

Yeah right! Still crap!

And there will be no way to opt out of those ads.

Here's a thought Facebook, let us, the users, pay for a version of facebook without any ads. Just our infos and friends. I will gladly pay a yearly amount to have a nice, clean facebook. And I don't think I will be the only one.

I think this is the first time since I first started using facebook that I really think of closing my account.

Ice Cream Sandwich – from source code release to software upgrade

A couple of weeks ago, the source code for Ice Cream Sandwich (Android™ 4.0) was released. This meant the start of an intensive period for the engineers at Sony Ericsson, in order to create a working, stable and certified software release of Ice Cream Sandwich for our 2011 Xperia™ phones.

In our pursuit for greater openness in the Android community, we would like to share some exclusive information of the different phases and activities of Sony Ericsson’s Android development, starting with the release of the Ice Cream Sandwich source code, and leading up to the release of a software upgrade for you to download on your phone. Find out more after the jump!

Great article on the whole process that takes place after a new version of Android is released by Google and phone manufacturers can begin the work of porting the version to their devices.