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New iPad: a Million More Pixels Than HDTV
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Apple’s iPad could be described as a personal display through which you see and manipulate text, graphics, photos and videos often delivered via the Internet. So, how has the company chosen to improve its wildly popular tablet? By making that display dramatically better and making the delivery of content dramatically...
Newvem Raises $4M From Greylock, Eric Schmidt To Help AWS Customers Spend Less Money
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EXCLUSIVE-Startup Newvem, which offers a SaaS based service for Amazon/AWS customers that aims to help businesses spend less money and gain more value from Amazon’s cloud infrastructure, has raised $4 million in funding from Greylock Partners with participation from Index Ventures and Eric Schmidt’s Innovation Endeavors, as well as angel...
Feature: Hands-on: getting work done with Google's new Aura interface for Chrome OS
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Google attempted to introduce a new approach to computing when it first launched Chrome OS in 2010. The operating system consists of little more than a fullscreen Web browser perched atop a rigorously-hardened Linux environment. The platform makes some unusual trade-offs, eschewing conventional native applications in exchange for bulletproof...
Skyhook offers devs battery-friendly persistent location
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For all the talk of persistant location apps like Highlight, Glancee, Banjo and others changing the way we live, many consumers haven’t jumped on board, in part because the battery hit to using these apps has been too great. Location data provider Skyhook said it now has an update to...
Next-gen iPads with LTE and an 8" version in testing? Magic WSJ-ball says "yes"
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The Wall Street Journal has gone ahead and called it on LTE support being included in the next iPad, claiming both AT&T and Verizon will carry the 4G-capable device. The publication cites its usual "people familiar with the matter," noting once again that the next-gen iPad—currently dubbed the "iPad...
Lumia 900: Redefining the smartphone?
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After almost five years of manic one-upmanship following the initial release of the iPhone, one OEM has finally realized that the future of smartphones lays in the arms of everyday consumers. The Nokia Lumia 900, available today and priced at $450 off-contract (or between $0 and $99 on-contract), is the...
Apple CEO Tim Cook on PCs, tablets and avoiding the ‘baggage from the past’
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Microsoft is pitching its upcoming Windows 8 as a “no compromise” experience — working across desktop PCs, notebooks, tablets and hybrid devices — but Apple CEO Tim Cook remains unconvinced that such an approach will be effective. Speaking at AllThingsD’s D10 conference in California last night, Cook expanded on the recent...
Will Apple merge the MacBook Pro and Air lineups?
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Right now if you want a 15-inch or larger notebook from Apple, you have to go MacBook Pro — the thinner, lighter MacBook Air notebooks come only in 11-inch and 13-inch sizes. But that could change in the next few months. It’s been rumored before, but on Wednesday a new...
10 Mac Geeks Help You Organize Your Menu Bar
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Mac users sometimes have to make trade-offs between usefulness and simplicity. The angst around this challenge often focuses on the menu bar, the most persistent part of OS X, usually reserved for critical information. Fortunately, we've got 10 Mac geeks here who can help you keep your menu bar apps...
Why you’ll want a 1080p screen on your smartphone
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LG announced its latest mobile display earlier this week: A 5-inch, full HD screen with 1920 x 1080 resolution. The new display will be shown off at next week’s SID 2012 Display Week in Boston and expected to be available in devices during the second half of this year. As our...
Cook: Tablets Shouldn't Be Burdened by PC Legacy
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Asa Mathat / AllThingsD.com Apple has dominated the tablet market since it first debuted the iPad, fending off all attempts to unseat it. Soon the company will face a new rival, Microsoft. But the company is taking a very different approach to the market than Apple — putting a single...
Kickstarter project ‘Brydge’ makes iPad like MacBook Air — no toaster required
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Apple CEO Tim Cook took a thinly veiled jab at Microsoft and Windows PC makers yesterday, saying that the notion of a hybrid tablet/notebook requires so many trade-offs that no one ends up being happy in the end. “You can converge a toaster and a refrigerator, but those things are...
The Smartphone: Great Emancipator or "A Terrorist in Your Pocket"?
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For all the good that smartphones can do, they can also cause us to be disconnected workaholics incapable of living in the moment. Photo: Michael Wagner / (c) FocusOnWagner.de “Somebody called the smartphone in your pocket ‘the terrorist in your pocket,’” German Labor Minister Ursula Von Der Leyen said during...
Kickstarter rolls out redesigned project pages, with bigger videos and key information now easier to find
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Kickstarter needs little introduction in many circles. The US-based crowdfunding platform has hit the headlines on a number of occasions in recent times, for some of the quirky and cool projects that have gained funding through it. And it recently announced it was going global, and heading to the UK...
Kickstarter rolls out redesigned project pages, with bigger videos and key information now easier to find
What Now: Freemium or Paid?
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Your company SpiderNet is in the final stages of defining the go-to-market model and pricing for the product. The company has spent a great deal of time debating the benefits of doing a freemium model versus paid. The product has the capability to be split along a free/paid feature set,...
Samsung Focus 2 Brings Another Affordable Windows Phone to AT&T
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AT&T’s foray into the home-security business might seem a curious move, but one area where the carrier is no stranger is Windows Phone devices. Of the four major U.S. wireless providers, AT&T offers the biggest selection of Windows Phone handsets, and its collection continues to grow with today’s introduction of...
Apple: Mixing tablet, notebook like merging toaster, fridge
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The Lenovo "Yoga" convertible notebook/tablet running Windows 8, shown at Consumer Electronics Show this year. Microsoft will be blurring the lines between traditional computers and tablets with the upcoming release of Windows 8, offering a tile-based interface designed to work across a variety of devices — including convertible machines that...
7 hard truths about the NoSQL revolution
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Forgoing features for speed has its trade-offs as these NoSQL data store shortcomings show...
ASUS Transformer Pad TF300 review
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ASUS outs lower-end Transformer Pad 300 tablet ASUS Transformer Pad 300 hands-on ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime review It doesn't feel like a year has passed since we reviewed the original ASUS Transformer and its innovative keyboard dock, but indeed time flies, and quite a bit has happened since...
Researchers tout efficiency breakthrough with new 'inexact' chip
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Accuracy is generally an important consideration in computer chips, but a team of researchers led by Rice University are touting a new "inexact" chip (dubbed PCMOS) that they say could lead to as much as a fifteen-fold increase in efficiency. Their latest work, which won a best paper award...
iPhone 5 design still not finalized, still no big screen, still no metal back, still on track for October release
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Despite some rumors to the contrary, according to our sources Apple still hasn't finalized the design of the next generation iPhone 5 (or whatever Apple ends up calling iPhone 5,1). No giant screen. No 16:9 aspect ratio. No metal back. Apple typically makes extensive use of the prototyping process,...
iPhone 5 design still not finalized, still no big screen, still no metal back, still on track for October release
Nintendo president: 3DS XL isn't big enough for a second analog stick
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We spent a good chunk of time getting to know Nintendo's 3DS XL, which sidesteps the notion of a second analog stick -- despite peripherals adding one to the older model. Now Nintendo president, Satoru Iwata, has weighed in on the game maker's decision, saying that trade-offs were made...
KLM's New Social Media-Based Seating Is Awesome (and Also: Awful)
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The good news: Social media can connect us in ways that were never before possible. The bad news: Social media can connect us in ways that were never before possible. Facebook and its fellow networks always offer trade-offs -- between privacy and publicness, between the comforts of anonymity and the...
Who’s driving your broadband bus?
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Want to control your broadband as a community? Then you you have to own the process that determines how the technology is used. An article in Friday’s Kansas City Star puts a fine point on that assertion by showing how the public interest could fall by the wayside when a...
Huawei Activa 4G Launches at MetroPCS for $149
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MetroPCS added a new 4G LTE smartphone to its lineup today with the launch of the Huawei Activa 4G. It’s Huawei’s first 4G smartphone in the U.S. and the most affordable one in the carrier’s portfolio, at $149.99 (after a $50 mail-in rebate) without contract. There are some trade-offs for...
Tim Cook: Here's Why Microsoft's Plan For Windows 8 To Work On PCs And Tablets Is Insane (MSFT, AAPL)
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On Apple's earnings call CEO Tim Cook addressed the forthcoming tablets from Microsoft. In short, he's a skeptic. Microsoft's plan is to release an operating system that works on traditional PCs as well as tablet computers. Cook thinks that's crazy. He said anything can be forced to converge. But the...
Tim Cook: Here's Why Microsoft's Plan For Windows 8 To Work On PCs And Tablets Is Insane (MSFT, AAPL)
Five Reasons to Host Your Own Email
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Email is still an important means of communication in business. In recent years, an increasing number of businesses are outsourcing their email to web-based services like Google Apps for Business. In a tight economic time, the money saved by moving to the cloud can be hard to ignore. There are...
Hands-on: getting work done with Google's new Aura interface for Chrome OS
arstechnica.com
Google attempted to introduce a new approach to computing when it first launched Chrome OS in 2010. The operating system consists of little more than a fullscreen Web browser perched atop a rigorously-hardened Linux environment. The platform makes some unusual trade-offs, eschewing conventional native applications in exchange for bulletproof...
Memory Matters
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Being a study of trade-offs in the design of mobile devices, with a view to avoiding dystopias and promoting creativity. The current tempest-in-a-teapot about background apps (Androids do, Apples don’t) is instructive. Robert Love’s Why the iPad and iPhone don’t Support Multitasking is useful in explaining why this is...
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