pamtozier8: May 2013

Friday, May 31, 2013

Verizon iPhone 4 doesn't represent a huge advance over AT&T's

A funny thing happened Thursday: Verizon finally started selling the iPhone, and mass hysteria did not erupt. After years of yearning and months of hype, there was not a mass rush to Apple's and Verizon's stores.

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ParStream And Panopticon Partner To Provide Analytics And Data

ParStream And Panopticon are partnering to offer data analytics and data visualization by integrating their respective platforms. ParStream offers an in-memory analtytics technology that it markets as offering sub-second response. Panapticon is known for its visual analytics and in-memory engine that can push out graphics in an event stream.

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The 1960s Office Desk of the Future Was More NASA Than Mad Men

With its hovering videophone, modern dictation machine and space pod design, this 1961 executive desk of tomorrow would fit in better on the ISS than at Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce.

The February 5, 1961 edition of Arthur Radebaugh's "Closer Than We Think" gave millions of people reading the Sunday comics a peek at the office desk of the future — complete with a console that looks like it belongs on that Hollywood set where they filmed the moon landing. Or at least Flight of the Navigator.

From the February 5, 1961 Chicago Tribune:

Advanced styling and electronic automation forecast new miracles in office procedures.

The industrial design concept of an office of tomorrow focuses on a round desk which, when opened, will give its owner far more space and convenience than is possible today. Folded shut, the unit encloses a matching chair.

Interoffice television screens will provide immediate face-to-face links with other business command posts. Rotary files will be keyed electronically for rapid reference. The switchboard — as you see at the left — will employ miniaturized connections to handle many more extension lines in less space than are provided by today's already-advanced centrals.

A telephone switchboard in the office of the future? I suppose it doesn't get more hilariously anachronistic than that.

Source: http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/the-1960s-office-desk-of-the-future-was-more-nasa-than-510658591

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The 25 Worst High-Tech Habits (and How to Fix Them)

Good citizens of technological America, this story is not for you.

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The Transit App Nabs 35K Downloads In 72 Hours, Blows Past Google Maps In Canadian App Store After Going Free

The Transit App, the app that provides real-time transit information on iOS, enjoyed a boost back when Apple cut transit out of its own Maps app during the switch from Google to its own in-house navigation and mapping service. Earlier this week, the app went completely free and offered some great updates, including real-time estimates of wait times at stops for select markets, and now it's seeing another big spike in demand.

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Intel shifting Celeron, Pentium chips to Atom architecture

Intel's upcoming Atom tablet chip code-named Bay Trail will be repurposed for use in the company's Celeron and Pentium chips for entry-level laptops, desktops and all-in-ones, Intel said on Friday.

Intel's Bay Trail chip is based on the Atom architecture, which is in low-power smartphones, tablets, and netbooks. Beyond the tablet chip, Intel will release Bay Trail-M (mobile) and Bay Trail-D (desktop) parts, which will be available under the Celeron and Pentium brands, Intel spokeswoman Kathy Gill said in an e-mail.

Pentium and Celeron chips are used in low-cost PCs, and the move represents an architectural shift for those brands. It also represents Intel's wider reliance on Atom architecture for entry-level computing. Bay Trail is based on the Silvermont architecture, which Intel claims will be up to three times faster and five times more power efficient than older Atom cores.

Intel chip based on Silvermont — Intel's Raejeanne Skillern holding Atom processors.

Silvermont will now power Intel Inside devices including entry-level PCs, tablets, smartphones and low-power servers. Intel is using Silvermont in its upcoming smartphone chips code-named Merrifield, which are due to ship early next year. Intel previously announced it would use Bay Trail in PCs, but did not announce branding for the new chips.

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Source: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2040401/intel-shifting-celeron-pentium-chips-to-atom-architecture.html#tk.rss_all

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Radiation Makes a Manned Trip to Mars Impossible with Current Tech

Though Curiosity the rover can explore and see Mars up close, curious men and women of Earth will have to wait a bit longer. NASA reports that a manned trip to Mars is likely impossible with current technology because of radiation.

'Comment Crew' Back in Action Against US Cybertargets, Says Mandiant

China and Iran were accused last week of renewing their cyberattacks on U.S. computer systems after a brief hiatus. A gang of Chinese hackers allegedly affiliated with the country's People's Liberation Army has resumed infiltrating U.S. computer systems after making a strategic withdrawal earlier this year, according to cybersecurity firm Mandiant.

Source: http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/78140.html

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Thursday, May 30, 2013

The Sculptor Who'll Represent America in the Art World's Battle Royale

The Venice Biennale is kind of like the Olympics of art. Every other year, each country picks a single artist to represent it on the international stage—a weird but interesting way to quantify success in the art world. So who’s the most interesting artist in America right now?

Gmail’s New Inbox Sorts Emails Into Tabbed Categories

Google introduces a new look for its Gmail inbox designed to automatically organize some of that email chaos.

Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2013/05/gmail-update/

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How Adzerk Made It Big (With Reddit's Help)

When James Avery of Adzerk met Alexis Ohanian in New York at an online advertising conference last year, he was ready. He had been angling to work with Reddit, the popular sharing site Ohanian had co-founded, for two years. After a brief exchange, Ohanian introduced Avery to the programming team in a few short months the deal was done.

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Touchscreen notebooks snag 10 percent of the laptop market, report claims

Windows 8 was rebuilt from the ground up with a finger-friendly focus. That proved to be a problem during the operating system's early days. In the months immediately after launch, touchscreen Windows devices cost an arm and a leg, and that's if you could even find one; during the 2012 holiday season shoppers were hard-pressed to find a touch-based laptop.

Now, however, Microsoft’s touchy-feely thrust is starting to shake up the laptop market, according to a recent report. Nearly 10 percent of all laptops shipped worldwide during the first three months of 2013 were touch enabled, according to IHS DisplayBank (and as reported by DigiTimes).

Even though a push into Windows 8 touch devices was expected, DisplayBank’s numbers are surprising. Other research firms were expecting a much slower adoption rate.

For example, NPD’s DisplaySearch said in April that it expected touch-enabled touchscreen notebooks to surpass 12 percent by the end of 2013. If DisplayBank’s numbers are accurate, notebook touchscreen shipments could be on their way to beating early projections of 15 percent for all of 2013, IDC research director David Daoud told PCWorld. (IDC and PCWorld are both owned by International Data Group.)

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Source: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2039372/touchscreen-notebooks-snag-10-percent-of-the-laptop-market-report-claims.html#tk.rss_laptopcomputers

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Sony Xperia Tablet Z review: the company's best Android tablet yet

It wasn't all that long ago that every month offered up yet another Android tablet for review. While Samsung is still producing plenty, the output of Google-powered slabs has generally slowed, replaced by a steady stream of Windows 8 / RT hardware often from the very same manufacturers that were once all about Android. Sony continues to be pretty discriminating with its launches, however: until now it's released only three Google-powered tablets. The first was the Tablet S, followed by the clamshell Tablet P and the Xperia Tablet S, which improved on the original with a thinner build and improved specifications.

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Then there's this, the Xperia Tablet Z. It arrives with a completely new design, although it should be familiar to anyone who's already seen Sony's Xperia Z smartphone. It features the same "OmniBalance" look, uniform thickness and straight edges. The display's resolution has been bumped up to 1,900 x 1,200, while the tablet runs Android 4.1.2 on a quad-core 1.5GHz Snapdragon S4 Pro, with 2GB and 16GB of built-in storage -- all the while weighing in below 18 ounces (1.13 pounds). Like the Sony Xperia Z smartphone, there's also water and dust protection, which makes it a relatively unique property in the tablet market. But priced at $499 and up against the iPad and the pin-sharp Nexus 10, is there enough here to protect itself against the tablet competition? Join us after the break to find out.

Gallery: Sony Xperia Tablet Z review

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For computer shoppers, the usual suspects: Mac vs. PC, desktops vs. laptops

The humble desktop or laptop computer hasn't yet sunk to the status of commodity product, but it's getting close. On one hand, processing power, memory and storage keep getting cheaper and more plentiful; on the other, competing manufacturers have been settling on the same set of features.

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