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		<title>Intel&#8217;s Meego OS Shown on Multitouch Tablet</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 22:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Intel has posted a demonstration of its Linux-based Meego OS for tablet computers via a YouTube video that shows the OS's multitouch support, multitasking and integrated social networking. The video, which runs just over three minutes, is dated June 17, with the company offering a link to it in a Wednesday blog entry at its Intel Atom Developer Program site. The demonstration shows a pre-alpha version of Meego OS 1.1 using a multitouch tablet PC. It shows a dynamic UI with split panels so that users can view recent videos, photos and other content. The OS also has integrated social-networking tools so that users can view updates from sites like Facebook and Twitter in real time. The OS can run multiple applications at the same time -- in the demonstration, a background music application runs while an image is being edited in a photo application. Multitouch capabilities are used for resizing and reshaping the images. One application was capable of accepting input from five fingers simultaneously. "I can imaging [sic] some cool multiplayer tablet games allowing 5 people to control part of the screen and game play," wrote Bob Duffy, an Intel Atom Developer Community manager, in the Intel blog entry . It is possible some features shown in the pre-alpha demonstration will not wind up in the final version of the OS, Duffy wrote. "But you can definitely see what is going on here and imagine the kind of experience MeeGo will deliver," he wrote, adding that the OS is slated for a "fall" release. That points to between late September and late December. The Meego OS will likely vie for market share with a number of Linux-based tablet OSes such as Google's Android. Canonical in the past has said it would come out with a version of the Ubuntu OS that will work on tablets. Apple's iPad is driving the burgeoning popularity of tablets, research firm IDC has said. Tablet shipments could total 7 million by the end of this year and top 46 million by 2014, IDC said. The Meego OS is targeted at mobile and embedded devices and was first announced in February. Meego is a joint development effort between Intel and Nokia, though it is managed by The Linux Foundation. The Meego version for netbooks was released last month. ]]></description>
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		<title>Dell: Smartphones Will Never Kill the PC</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 May 2010 04:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Dell CEO Michael Dell contends that mobile devices will never kill the PC. Instead, he envisions a future where users own an increasing number and variety of devices, each capable of looking like the other via desktop virtualization, served by virtual networks and the cloud. "What's converging is the data, not the device," Dell told attendees of the Citrix Synergy user conference in San Francisco during a keynote speech last week. "It's not clear that one device replaces another." Also from Synergy: Citrix unveils bare-metal desktop hypervisor, ahead of VMware He believes that each user will have many devices, each geared for a specific task. "Some are better for carrying with you. Others are for consuming content, others are better for creating content." This runs counter to the idea that a smartphone or other mobile device will eventually become the multi-function computer of choice for work, communication, social networking and entertainment. Since 2008, users have purchased about a quarter of a billion smartphones , reports market research firm Strategy Analytics. Many of them use their smartphone for traditional PC work tasks, be it composing a document or sending e-mail. Yet, Dell said that the iPad confirms his view that users will want more devices, all accessing the same data (and even, perhaps the same virtual desktop). "There is an application infrastructure growing up significantly around devices like the iPad. Does this create new uses, new demand, or does it replace something else? Seem to me it creates new uses," Dell said. To a mixture of ahs and titters from attendees, he showed off a prototype of Dell's Android Streak smartphone . His Streak was equipped with a Citrix receiver that allowed him a choice of several desktop environments, as well as native Android apps and social media apps such as Facebook and Twitter. The Streak will be available next month in Europe from Telefónica O2 and from AT&#038;T in the summer in the United States. Some attendees loved the device. Others in the audience seemed to feel that an Android phone from Dell, Citrix equipped or not, is too little, too late to compete with the iPhone or BlackBerry. But Dell's smartphone is only the tip of the virtualized iceberg. Dell also announced that Citrix's XenClient technology introduced by Citrix on Wednesday will soon be certified and available for Dell Latitude laptops and OptiPlex desktop client systems. "When it comes to desktop virtualization, some people say, Dell, you're a PC guy, so you don't want this," Dell said. "But when something comes along that is very valuable for customers, if you stand in the way, you do so at your own peril. Server virtualization, client virtualization -- we embrace them." That statement may have been a thinly veiled reference to Microsoft . It's true that Microsoft and Citrix collaborate closely on virtualization. Microsoft even announced at the Citrix show that the next version of its System Center, due out in 2011, will manage Citrix's hypervisor, XenServer . Yet on the virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) side, Microsoft's licensing policies have made desktop virtualization for Windows machines more expensive for many organizations than buying a new Windows machine. Citrix offers per-user or per device licenses. A user with multiple devices can access a Citrix desktop on any of them. Microsoft requires a Windows license for each device, and doesn't offer user licensing. (However, Microsoft officials say that they have enterprises licenses that can more or less function like user licenses). Microsoft also recently softened its stance on Windows VDI licensing. Users with a Software Assurance contract can opt to move device licenses to virtualized machines . Microsoft joins Dell and Citrix in the vision that desktop virtualization will become increasingly attractive. As users adopt Windows 7, increasing numbers of them are looking at some form of desktop virtualization, says Brad Anderson, general manager of the Management and Solutions Division for Microsoft. In his world view, desktop virtualization can be accomplished a variety of ways, including full VDI, application virtualization and session virtualization . This means that a user's typical objections -- fear of losing connectivity via the WAN, security, poor performance, printer/driver issues -- can be more easily addressed. Dell said that new storage technologies are allowing a better ratio of virtual users to server, which drastically increases VDI's ROI. Today's typical spinning disk storage array might be capable of supporting 100 to 150 VDI images. But new array technologies, such as iSCSI solid state disks used, for instance, with Dell's newest EqualLogic arrays, will be able to support 300 or 350 to 1. "The ROI for VDI is higher as servers increase density of VDI on disks," Dell said. Others agree that the density of users to services has been one factor keeping VDI from adoption. Rand Morimoto , president of systems integrator CCO, says that when a company is serving the same desktop image to devices, ("session-based" remote desktops) via Citrix or Microsoft's Terminal Services, user-to-server density can be as high as 200 to 1. But as soon as IT tries to deliver unique, customized desktops to each user, the density ratio drops to 30 or 40 users to 1. He says that those who sell servers love to preach the merits of full VDI. In his experience, however, a hybrid approach is the most cost effective, because in many companies, most individual workers don't need a fully customizable virtual desktop. "When remote desktop services make sense in the organization, then VDI is for the 5% to 10% of the users that have unique client needs (i.e. accounting, HR)," he says. It is possible with Microsoft technologies today to provide a single entry point for all thin clients and then redirect users to a non-customizable session-based desktop, or a full VDI session, based on the individual user account policy. This would be done with Systems Center identity management tools, coupled with a Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack subscription. Microsoft last month released the beta of Windows Intune, a cloud-based tool that manages desktops for midsized businesses. With it, for the first time, the company is making its desktop virtulization tools, MDOP, available to customers that do not have a Software Assurance license.. Read more about data center in Network World's Data Center section. ]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook to Get More Social, McAfee Crashes PCs</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Apr 2010 02:20:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The travel industry wasn't the only one affected by the volcano that erupted in Iceland. Mobile-phone vendors and suppliers adjusted shipping methods to get handsets from Asia to Europe. Some McAfee corporate clients most likely cursed the company after a security update crashed the computers of hundreds of thousands of users. If you're a financial and technology wonk, then read on for highlights on this week's earnings reports from major IT vendors. Facebook's efforts to make the Web more social may result in some lost user privacy. But perhaps the site should bolster its security first. A hacker claims to have the log-in information to more than 1 million accounts, a security research company said. 1. Few answers after McAfee antivirus update hits Intel, others : A buggy antivirus update from security vendor McAfee caused corporate customers' Windows XP machines to endlessly crash and reboot. Hundreds of thousands of machines were affected, including those used by chip maker Intel, a U.K. IT outsourcing company, and local government and police forces in some U.S. states. McAfee on Thursday attributed the snafu to the update misidentifying a Windows file as a virus. 2. Facebook wants the Web's default to be social : Facebook used its developer conference to announce application development platform changes that either make the Web more social or decrease user privacy, depending on your perspective. Facebook and other Web sites will integrate user information and use this data to offer a more personalized Web experience. A person visiting a Facebook partner site would see content based on the preferences previously stated on Facebook. The social-networking site is also releasing iFrame plug-ins that will allow Web developers to place Facebook functions, such as the "Like" button, on their sites, allowing Facebook and its partners to know the type of content a user prefers. Analysts said Facebook could pull off this endeavor, but questioned if the measure would turn off some users over privacy concerns. 3. Phone manufacturers learn to cope with ash cloud : In addition to airlines, the ash cloud caused by an Icelandic volcano also affected the IT industry. Some cell phone manufacturers, which ship their products from Asia by plane, developed innovative routing methods after the ash cloud shut down European air space for several days. A Swedish phone retailer had the phones flown to countries with open airports and then used trucks to complete the shipment. A European mobile-phone service provider said the air cargo conundrum hindered the availability of two already popular handsets, while a Taiwanese phone maker said the volcano's overall impact depends on when planes can resume flying in Europe. 4. Wall Street Beat: Tech earnings shine : This week brought a plethora of quarterly earnings reports from several IT and telecommunications companies. Apple produced impressive numbers, boosting quarterly profit by 90 percent and increasing iPhone sales by 131 percent compared to last year's second quarter. Microsoft announced third-quarter revenue that increased by 6 percent from the same period last year, while IBM's 16 percent rise in its first-quarter revenue bodes well for the overall IT industry. Verizon Communications, eBay and AT&#038;T, among other businesses, also issued earnings information. 5. Adobe tosses in Flash towel after Apple limits iPhone dev : The prospect of running Flash applications on Apple's iPhone or iPad officially died this week when Adobe Systems, Flash's developer, said it is ceasing work on a tool that would bring the popular multimedia software to the devices. The companies have clashed over Flash for a while, but the situation intensified recently. Apple banned developers from using cross-platform compilers, tools that could be used to port the software for Apple's mobile devices. In a blog post, an Adobe employee responded to Apple's new developer terms with some choice words. Does the iTunes Store sell dirges? 6. Gov't regulators slam Google's privacy efforts : In a letter, government regulators from 10 countries, including France and Germany, warned Internet-based companies to respect privacy laws when introducing products or face fines and other punishments. Google received most of the privacy regulators' ire for the launch of its Buzz social-networking service, which users complained lacked adequate features that allowed them to control how their data was shared with other users. Facebook also received some flak. One official involved with the letter said Web companies should view the missive as a final warning before governments intervene to protect people's privacy. 7. Fate of network admin Terry Childs now in jury's hands : A jury will now decide if a former San Francisco city network administrator is guilty of breaching California hacking laws for refusing to hand over administrative passwords during a 2008 dispute. Closing arguments in the city's case against Terry Childs finished on Monday. The trial has lasted for almost six months and featured testimony from the city's mayor and Cisco Systems' chief security officer. If convicted for disrupting the city's computer systems, Childs faces five years in prison. 8. Microsoft, Oracle differ on cloud visions : Oracle and Microsoft discussed the prospects of cloud computing in the enterprise and, perhaps not unexpectedly, both software vendors advocated a hybrid model of cloud and in-house computing for the most effective results. While the companies agreed on using cloud computing as needed, they differed on execution. Microsoft talked up its public cloud products, like its Azure online OS, while Oracle plugged its offerings that allow businesses to build internal clouds. 9. 1.5 million stolen Facebook IDs up for sale : Security researchers revealed this week that they recently discovered a hacker who is selling the user names and passwords for 1.5 million Facebook accounts. Hackers use the compromised accounts to scam and spam the account holders' friends. Depending on the number of friends a person has, the hacker is selling the account information for the bargain price of US$25 to $45 for 1,000 accounts. The security firm couldn't confirm the legitimacy of the accounts, and Facebook didn't respond to a request for comment. But if the hacker's wares are valid, one out of every 300 Facebook users is vulnerable. 10. Apple's iPad selling well overseas ahead of official launch and Illegal satellite TV in China brings CNN to the masses : Asia's clandestine electronics market also proves interesting, and here are two items to back that claim. The iPad is proving popular with Taiwanese consumers although Apple has yet to launch the product internationally. One Taipei vendor claimed to order 300 of the tablet PCs from a U.S. retailer that specializes in obtaining hard-to-find merchandise for foreign vendors. Satellite television is booming in China, despite government efforts to control who has access to this service, which offers content that the state bans domestic broadcasters from airing. While this market is technically illegal, the country's growing middle class has adopted the technology. ]]></description>
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		<title>How Not to Shut Down Your Laptop, and Other Tips</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Imagine my horror the other day when I saw an otherwise sharp friend of mine shut down his laptop by holding down the power button until the system turned off. Why is that a really bad idea? I'll explain this week--and I'll also tell you about a Web service that could very well save your life. How Not to Shut Down Your PC "Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!" I cried. "Why'd you do that?" "What? I was just turning off my PC," he replied innocently. Sometimes I forget that some of the stuff I take for granted isn't common knowledge. So in case you've been committing this same heinous shutdown crime, allow me to enlighten you. That is not, repeat, not the proper way to shut down a PC. The proper way is to click Start, Shut down . (I know, it's ridiculous that after all these years Microsoft still forces you to use the Start button to end your computing session.) Alternately, you can press--and immediately release!--the power button, which will either shut down your PC or put it in sleep/hibernate mode, depending on how Windows is configured. The only time you should press and hold the power button is if your computer is locked up and otherwise unresponsive. A five-second press will usually force a "hard" power-off, after which you should wait another five seconds before turning the machine back on. But if you do this all the time, Windows won't be able to perform its necessary shut-down housekeeping stuff, and ultimately you'll muck up the OS. Learn Your Laptop's Power Settings My aunt recently told me about a problem with her new laptop: Whenever she'd step away from it for more than a few minutes, she'd close the lid. Upon returning, she'd open the lid, only to be faced with a blank screen and no response from the mouse or keyboard. Want to know why? The default lid-closing action for most laptops is to put the system in Sleep mode, and Windows is notoriously bad at waking up properly. That's why I advise most laptop users to use Hibernate mode instead, as it's much more reliable when it comes to waking up. You see, Sleep (aka Standby) puts your system into a low-power, off-like state, allowing you to pick up where you left off after just a few seconds--in theory, anyway. A PC in Standby mode continues to consume battery power, so it's not uncommon to return to a "sleeping" PC to find that it's just plain dead. Hibernate, however, saves your machine's current state to a temporary hard-drive file, then shuts down completely. When you start it up again, it loads that file and returns you to where you left off--no booting required. Both ends of the Hibernate process take a little longer than sleep mode (usually 10-20 seconds, in my experience), but you avoid any of the issues that can arise when Windows suddenly loses power. And as noted, Sleep mode is notoriously flaky. If your system refuses to wake up properly, you'll end up losing whatever documents and/or Web pages you had open. Consequently, I recommend using hibernate most of the time. Dial2Do: Hands-Free E-Mail, Texting, and More It's a proven fact: Texting while driving is insanely dangerous. Same goes for reading e-mail, updating your Facebook or Twitter status, and so on. Do yourself--and your fellow drivers--a favor and keep both hands on the wheel and both eyes on the road. Easier said than done, right? Actually, no: If you use Dial2Do , all the aforementioned activities are easily said and done. This amazing service lets you send text messages, listen to e-mail, add appointments to your calendar, and plenty more, all using just your voice. Start by signing up for a free trial account . Add the special Dial2Do number to your speed dial, then call it when you want to do something. If that something is, say, send a text message to Bill, wait for the prompt and say, "Send a text message to Bill." Wait for the next prompt, then say what you want to say. When you're done, Dial2Do will transcribe your words into text and send them on their SMS way. You can do likewise with e-mail, though in addition to composing messages, Dial2Do lets you listen to those you've received. It works with a variety of third-party services: You can dictate Facebook/Twitter updates, add appointments to your Google Calendar, send a note to Evernote, listen to local weather, and on and on. All this happens entirely hands-free. Besides safety, there's another perk: If your phone lacks a keyboard, you'll find that dictating text messages is a lot easier than pecking them out on a numeric keypad. If you haven't tried Dial2Do, you're missing out. The aforementioned free account limits you to creating personal reminders (which are delivered to you via e-mail), but it comes with a 30-day trial for a Pro account. That's what you'll need for all the really cool stuff. Dial2Do Pro costs $4 per month or $40 if you prepay for a year. I typically prefer free stuff, but this is one service worth paying for. Rick Broida writes the PCWorld Hassle-Free PC blog . Sign up to have Rick's newsletter e-mailed to you each week . ]]></description>
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		<title>Online Oscar Night Survival Guide</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Oscar parties are fun -- boozing it up with friends, gorging on seven-layer taco dip, shouting at the TV when your favorite Hollywood star mounts the stage -- but the show itself can be excruciating. Long sentimental speeches paired with the host's unfunny jokes could slip you into a coma. However, there's a workaround: the Internet, of course! From online polls to streaming coverage to iPhone apps , multimedia has a lockdown on the Oscars. The Prep First off, head over to Chiff.com for a printable tally sheet of nominees to organize your Academy Award picks. (click on the reproduction here for a close r look.) Chiff.com also has a bunch of suggestions for pimping out your party , like tacking up movie posters and prepping elaborate meals . Are you more inclined towards intoxication to help you through the night? Check out these Oscar-themed drinks at the site That's The Spirit. The Sites With so many Oscar-devoted Web sites out there, it's hard to narrow down the most useful and engaging. Obviously the official site, Oscars.org , features the most comprehensive examination -- but it's a bit bland. The science of movies ? Zzzzz. The Envelope , one of the LA Times' blogs and my personal favorite Oscar site, hosts a slew of snappily-written pieces that are sure to grab your attention, like an article explaining how the best picture is picked , and a great use of intelligent multimedia, like its video roundtable of directors including Quentin Tarantino and James Cameron . Want more snark? Keep an eye on sites like Gawker's Defamer blog (with its foul-mouthed guide to winning your Oscar pool ) who will live-blog the Oscars, and Perez Hilton (barf), who live-blogs everything, for instantaneous updates designed to tear apart celebrity souls. Fashion-minded individuals should stick with Fashionista for its live blogging. Moviefone's comprehensive site gives readers an exhaustive look into the movies and ceremony. It's almost too busy. With newsfeeds, videos, interactive polls, links, movie showtimes and more, you're apt to melt your brain combing through it all. Just a Tweet Away Twitter has been insanely busy since Friday, which was designated by the San Francisco Chronicle as Oscar Friday . Modeled after Follow Friday, wherein Twitterers publicly recommend other micro-bloggers to follow, Oscar Friday was a chance to build a meme and get followers by using the hashtags #OscarsFriday or #OF. You can also expect millions of Twitterers to use #Oscars during the awards. But curiously absent from the party is the Academy itself. Why doesn't it have a Twitter account? Have no fear: Adam Shankman, producer of the Oscars, has a Twitter account that's likely to be rife with interesting blurbs. E! Entertainment, paired with Google, will also be pulling an interesting stunt : real-time tweaks to E!'s Internet ad campaign. So if an actress happens to be wearing something fabulous (or fabulously horrendous), E!'s Web site will morph its Oscar-related ads in moments so chronic ad-clickers will know where to buy the dress, how to accessorize, and more. Given the amount of attention E! plasters on events such as these, it should be a remarkable experience watching advertisers try to steal your wallet in a new and innovative way. Live Streaming Coverage The Associated Press partnered with AT&#038;T and Livestream to create an embeddable video widget , accessible via the Internet, with live feeds, social media elements, on-demand clips, photos, and news. The Livestream widget can also be accessed via your BlackBerry, iPhone, or Android handset's Web browser, and will be posted on Facebook and AT&#038;T's entertainment site . Of course, there are a multitude of ways to watch the Oscars on the Net, and Technically Personal has put together a list of 15 ways to watch the 2010 Oscars online for free , including Hulu and TV.com . You might also keep tabs on the official Oscar 2010 YouTube channel . iPhone Apps Official Oscars App (Free) This useful -- and free! -- app from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts aggregates Oscar night essentials, including winner predictions, nominees lists and trailers. The best part is the social networking features: you can share and comment on your predictions through Facebook, Twitter, SMS and e-mail, plus real-time community results to compare your choices with other app owners. For more clutter on your phone, scope out TiPb's list of Oscar-related iPhone apps . With so many techie ways to enjoy this Sunday, you barely have an excuse not to tune in somehow. ]]></description>
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