Is this the answer to the question we posed back in mid-June? Maybe. While we’re still unsure if Hewlett-Packard has a webOS-based tablet in its pipeline, those on-again / off-again Windows 7 rumors may finally be nearing an end. On the homepage of this year’s Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference — which kicks off in earnest today in Washington, D.C. — there’s a pane of Windows 7 slates that are on deck for this year. Er, a pane with vendors promising Win7 slates this year. Sure enough, HP’s logo is front and center, right alongside the likes of Sony, Dell, ASUS, Panasonic, Onkyo, Toshiba, MSI, Samsung, Lenovo and Fujitsu. We’ll be keeping an ear to the ground for more, but for now, feel free to let your imaginations run wild. It’s Monday, after all.
Update: During the event’s opening keynote, which was headed by none other than Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, the bigwig confirmed some of what’s pictured above: Windows 7 slates will be arriving this year. Interestingly, he never mentioned HP by name (despite teasing us gently at CES with an apparent mystery device), but he did note that devices would be available at various price points and in a variety of form factors — “with keyboards, touch only, dockable, able to handle digital ink, etc.” We already knew as much from being overwhelmed by prototypes at Computex, but it’s good to get the word straight from Ballmer himself. Now, to see if anyone’s actually interested in buying a desktop OS on a mobile form factor…
Update 2: Seems Ballmer’s drinking his own Kool-Aid in a serious way, and not just on the tablet front. He noted that Microsoft will be giving consumers “a set of Windows-based devices that people will be proud to carry at home and will fit the kinds of scenarios enterprise IT’s trying to make happen with the phone form factor,” and that Microsoft would be “working vigorously” to “drive enterprise IT and consumers.” Furthermore, Steve affirmed that the tablet sector is “terribly important” for his company, and that it’s “hardcore about this.” He didn’t shy away from calling the range of Windows 7-based tablets coming out “over the next several months” ones that would be “quite impressive,” but honestly — what else would you expect him to say?
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We’ve been working with our friends at Bonnier R&D exploring the future of digital magazines. Bonnier publish Popular Science and many other titles.
Magazines have articles you can curl up with and lose yourself in, and luscious photography that draws the eye. And they’re so easy and enjoyable to read. Can we marry what’s best about magazines with the always connected, portable tablet e-readers sure to arrive in 2010?
This video prototype shows the take of the Mag+ project.
You can see this same video bigger on Vimeo.
The articles run in scrolls, not pages, and are placed side-to-side in kind of mountain range (as we call it internally). Magazines still arrive in issues: people like the sense of completion at the end of each.
You flip through by shifting focus. Tap the pictures on the left of the screen to flip through the mag, tap text on the right to dive in.
It is, we hope, like stepping into a space for quiet reading. It’s pleasant to have an uncluttered space. Let the Web be the Web. But you can heat up the words and pics to share, comment, and to dig into supplementary material.
The design has an eye to how paper magazines can re-use their editorial work without having to drastically change their workflow or add new teams. Maybe if the form is clear enough then every mag, no matter how niche, can look gorgeous, be super easy to understand, and have a great reading experience. We hope so. That gets tested in the next stage, and rolled into everything learned from this, and feedback from the world at large! Join the discussion at the Bonnier R&D Beta Lab.
Recently there have been digital magazine prototypes by Sports Illustrated, and by Wired. It’s fascinating to see the best features of all of these.
Many teams at Bonnier have been involved in Mag+. This is a synthesis of so much work, research, and ideas. But I want to say in particular it’s a pleasure to collaborate with our friends at R&D. And here at BERG let me call out some specific credits: Jack Schulze, Matt Jones, Campbell Orme and Timo Arnall. Thanks all!
(See also Bonnier R&D’s Mag+ page, where you can leave comments and contact Bonnier, and the thoughts of Kicker Studio — who will be expanding the concept to robust prototype over the next few months in San Francisco! BERG’s attention has now moved to the social and wider services around Mag+ – we’ll be mapping those out and concepting – and we’re looking forward to working with all the teams into 2010. Awesome.)
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The ASP.NET Ajax Library Beta was released today! The five big things I’m going to talk about in this post are:
1. The ASP.NET Ajax Library is now in Beta
2. Contributing the ASP.NET Ajax Library to the CodePlex Foundation
3. Merging the Ajax Control Toolkit with the ASP.NET Ajax Library
4. Plans to provide support for the ASP.NET Ajax Library
5. ASP.NET Ajax Library features that provide:
* Powerful developer libraries and tooling support
* Performance – build high performance websites
* Interoperability – use it with any server platform and alongside jQuery
* Extensible – build on top of the library and inherit from controls like DataViewSince July last year the team has been cranking out new features in 6 previews, each with exciting innovations including powerful productivity benefits for developers, performance enhancements to make your website faster and making the library interoperable with multiple server platforms and other JavaScript libraries like jQuery.
My world has changed (and I get to share with you)
Twitter’s new list feature is one of those things that seems simple on the surface and is easily ignored.
But it has deeply changed how I get my news and how I interact with the tech community.
Click through these lists and you’ll see a different world than you would have thought possible on Twitter. This is the order I visit the lists in the morning:
Tech News Brands.
Here’s 500 tech news sources. Everything from the Wall Street Journal
to TechCrunch. Watch this list for a few minutes and you’ll be up to
date on what’s happening in tech right now. This is far more complete
than Techmeme or Google News and far faster too.Once I’ve gotten up to date on the news, I check out the people who write and produce the news.
Here you’ll find 491 journalists and bloggers and see what the back
channel is. Often this is more interesting than the tech news brands,
but it’s lots of fun to flip back and forth while some big news story
is breaking.Want to know what the news will be tomorrow? Well, the rich guys who
are funding companies often know what will be big and so I watch this list of 415 venture capitalists and angel investors to see what they are thinking about.The venture capitalists, though, are fun to contrast with 447 people who founded their own companies. Often these two lists have divergent points of view that are fun to flip back and forth between.
After all that I visit the tech pundits list. These are 451 folks who love to tell you what they think happened.
If you’re an entrepreneur I’ve built a list of weapons for you.
Everything from stationary companies to Yammer, for keeping your team
up to date. This is still a list in progress, so if you have a company
that has a weapon for entrepreneurs, let me know!What about tech company executives? I have a list of 283 who are CEOs, CTOs, CIOs, or VPs.
Lots of times news gets announced by these people. Marissa Mayer, for
instance, announced that Google had made a search deal with Twitter and
if you were following this list you would have seen that.Here’s a list of 376 tech companies and their official PR accounts (everyone from Google to startups). I find a lot of new products here and find out about updates, too.
Web Hosting and Cloud Hosting/Cloud Computing list.
500 people, news sources, hosting companies (not just Rackspace,
either). I’m trying to keep up to date on the hosting business and
Cloud Computing and this is how I do it. Find a more complete list
anywhere.Everyone should watch their coworkers. I do the same, with a list of 302 Rackspace employees and data sources. Have you made a list of your coworkers? Why not?
These are my core information lists that I check many times per day.
But I have a few specialized lists too:
TechStartups:
this is a list of 500 startups that most people won’t have heard of yet
(mostly early stage). I’ll work on this list more over the next few
weeks.Geolocation
(174 people and companies). I’m interested in developers and companies
that are building new kinds of apps that use GPS and location. Things
like Foursquare and Gowalla (both of those are on this list, along with
the founders).iPhone. 500 of the top iPhone app developers and companies and other influentials and programmers.
Twitter tools and devs
(353). Twitter has a growing ecosystem of companies and people who are
developing tools and services. This list has everyone I’ve been able to
find so far.Tech Event Organizers (239). These are people who run events and the events that they run. Everything from Emerging Tech to BarCamps.
Video or audio shows
(101 people and shows). These are podcasts and video shows, mostly tech
centric. Everything from Leo Laporte’s shows to Gillmor Gang.My favstar list
(500 people). These are the people I’ve clicked “Favorite” on the most.
Favstar.fm keeps track of who I favorite the most and puts them on this
list. It’s actually one of my favorite lists, but less focused than the
others.Web Innovators (79). If you’ve done something big for the Internet I put you on this list.
Programmers
(306). I’m not sure what I’ll do with this list in the future (Twitter
limits me to 500 people and obviously there’s more than 500 programmers
in the world). But, if you are looking for what programmers think this
is a good place to start.Most influential in tech
(225). This is my most followed list, but it’s also the most
subjective. What makes someone influential? Well, I study who has the
respect of their peers and who gets stuff done. Or, who has a bully
pulpit and can get things focused on.Anyway, if you are looking for other lists, I highly recommend using Listorious, which is a service that tracks lists (you have to add yours, if you haven’t you really should).
If you think you should be added to a list of mine, let me know in
the comments here or drop me a line at scobleizer@gmail.com. Thanks and
hope you get some value out of these. I know that these have
dramatically changed my world.A few other things: 1. you should check out my favorites list. Every day I put my favorite tweets on there. In about two months I’ve put 8,000 items on this list.
My favorite Twitter client is now Seesmic Web, which supports lists now (and other new Twitter features like Geolocation). The other day I interviewed the Seesmic team about these new features and the video is very telling.
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The first Android device from Sony Ericsson may have undergone an upgrade in the naming department, jumping from X3 all the way to XPERIA X10 (probably to avoid confusion with Nokia’s X3 handset), but what lies under the hood is reassuringly in line with what we’ve been hearing. That is to say, a 1GHz Snapdragon chip from Qualcomm, wide 4-inch capacitive touch display, 8.1 megapixel camera with LED flash, and a thoroughly tricked out Android skin named Rachael. Sony Ericsson stressed to us the symbiotic importance of both the new flagship device and “open OS” UI — the X10 was presented as the patriarch of a whole new family of handsets, which we can expect to see in the first half of 2010, all sporting the beauty of Rachael and perhaps helping to bridge the gap between featurephones and, well, more advanced featurephones. So don’t be shy, come along past the break to see our uncensored first impressions of both, along with hands-on video and pictures.The first Android device from Sony Ericsson may have undergone an upgrade in the naming department, jumping from X3 all the way to XPERIA X10 (probably to avoid confusion with Nokia’s X3 handset), but what lies under the hood is reassuringly in line with what we’ve been hearing. That is to say, a 1GHz Snapdragon chip from Qualcomm, wide 4-inch capacitive touch display, 8.1 megapixel camera with LED flash, and a thoroughly tricked out Android skin named Rachael. Sony Ericsson stressed to us the symbiotic importance of both the new flagship device and “open OS” UI — the X10 was presented as the patriarch of a whole new family of handsets, which we can expect to see in the first half of 2010, all sporting the beauty of Rachael and perhaps helping to bridge the gap between featurephones and, well, more advanced featurephones. So don’t be shy, come along past the break to see our uncensored first impressions of both, along with hands-on video and pictures.
Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 announced, we go hands-on
Courier: First Details of Microsoft’s Secret Tablet – Microsoft courier tablet – Gizmodo
It feels like the whole world is holding its breath for the Apple tablet. But maybe we’ve all been dreaming about the wrong device. This is Courier, Microsoft’s astonishing take on the tablet.
‘ Courier is a real device, and we’ve heard that it’s in the “late prototype” stage of development. It’s not a tablet, it’s a booklet. The dual 7-inch (or so) screens are multitouch, and designed for writing, flicking and drawing with a stylus, in addition to fingers. They’re connected by a hinge that holds a single iPhone-esque home button. Statuses, like wireless signal and battery life, are displayed along the rim of one of the screens. On the back cover is a camera, and it might charge through an inductive pad, like the Palm Touchstone charging dock for Pre.
Until recently, it was a skunkworks project deep inside Microsoft, only known to the few engineers and executives working on it—Microsoft’s brightest, like Entertainment & Devices tech chief and user-experience wizard J. Allard, who’s spearheading the project. Currently, Courier appears to be at a stage where Microsoft is developing the user experience and showing design concepts to outside agencies.
Microsoft has a history of collaborating with other firms, especially in the E&D division: Zune and Xbox have both gone through similar design processes. (And plans for the Microsoft Store leaked through a third-party agency were confirmed as genuine prototype layouts and concepts.) This video is branded Pioneer Studios, a Microsoft division within E&D that specializes in this kind of work, working with another agency that’s a long-time Microsoft collaborator on confidential projects.
The Courier user experience presented here is almost the exact opposite of what everyone expects the Apple tablet to be, a kung fu eagle claw to Apple’s tiger style. It’s complex: Two screens, a mashup of a pen-dominated interface with several types of multitouch finger gestures, and multiple graphically complex themes, modes and applications. (Our favorite UI bit? The hinge doubles as a “pocket” to hold items you want move from one page to another.) Microsoft’s tablet heritage is digital ink-oriented, and this interface, while unlike anything we’ve seen before, clearly draws from that, its work with the Surface touch computer and even the Zune HD.
Over the next couple days we’ll be diving much, much deeper into Courier, so stay tuned.
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Rumor: Apple May Be Working on XL Tablets Running Full Mac OS X – Apple – Gizmodo
This one caught us by surprise, but it comes from a source that has always been 100% reliable: Not only Apple may be working on a 10-inch tablet, but also in 13″ and 15″ models, one running Mac OS X.This source claims that the two touchscreen prototypes—made of aluminum, but on the shape of big iPhones—were in a factory in Shenzuen, China. One of them “was running Mac OS X 10.5.” When I asked, the source didn’t know if these were built for demonstration purposes, or if they were preproduction units. The company has a tight relation with Apple but “it’s not FoxConn.”
As I said before, with everyone focused on the 10-inch tablet with iPhone OS, this sighting is quite surprising. It is possible that Apple may be just exploring other form factors, and these two models may or may not end being future products.
According to rumors, Apple is in the final stages of developing the Apple wet dream, a 10-inch tablet allegedly running the iPhone OS. Several sources claim that Steve Jobs—back in Campus—is now personally driving this project. However, until now there has been no reliable rumors on 13″ and 15″ models, much less one running full Mac OS X.
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Intel acquires two software firms | Nanotech – The Circuits Blog – CNET News
Intel has quietly snapped up two software companies in the last 30 days with aim of boosting development of applications that take better advantage of chips with more than one processing core.
In a company blog, the chipmaker indicated the acquisition of Cilk at the end of last month and then Rapidmind earlier this week. Both are small companies that employ under 50 people. The acquisitions follow the purchase of software company Wind River Systems in June.
“Over the last few years, there has been a gradual emergence of multicore microprocessors. It’s put parallelism in more and more machines,” James Reinders, chief evangelist and director of marketing and sales at Intel, said in a phone interview Friday, explaining why Intel bought the two firms.
“If you look at traditional applications, ones that we use everyday, it’s fair to say that most are not exploiting parallelism–at least not to the full extent,” Reinders said.
A multicore processor is defined as any chip with more than one processing core. Today, almost all Intel chips that go into laptops, desktops, and servers have at least two cores. The challenge for Intel is to make sure that applications take advantage of all the cores–so-called parallelism. This has historically presented a challenge for software programmers.
“The operating system does stuff for applications in parallel,” Reinders said, referring to operating systems such as Windows. “But considering that we can produce more and more cores every year, to truly get the benefit of what the future holds, applications need to change. And most applications haven’t changed,” he said.
The goal is to facilitate the development of parallel programming. “How do we help software developers tackle parallel programming? Both companies had teams of experts that had been focused on this problem. So, they’re kindred spirits,” he said.
Writing about Cilk in a blog, Reinders said Intel sees “great opportunities for Cilk to integrate with our parallel tools…including Intel Parallel Studio.” The firm’s technology enables “mainstream programmers to develop multithreaded (or parallel) applications…Providing a smooth path to multicore for legacy (older) applications that otherwise cannot easily leverage the performance capabilities of multicore processors,” according to Cilk’s Web site. Original Cilk research was done at MIT.
Rapidmind was founded five years ago as Serious Hack and grew out of work at the University of Waterloo. It boasts advanced technology for helping software developers with data parallel programming for multicore processors and accelerators.
The cost of the two acquisitions was not disclosed.
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Acer’s Aspire Predator gaming rig gets even faster, stays just as orange
Just a few weeks too late for a Transformers 2 tie-in, Acer has announced a new revision of its Aspire G desktop, a.k.a. Predator. It shares the same case with the earlier edition that hit the US of A late last year, but naturally has some better specs this time ’round. The CPU is now one of Intel’s new Core i7 950’s running at 3.06GHz, up to 12GB of DDR3 RAM is on offer, while more permanent storage is offered by a 1TB HDD and a Blu-ray reader. A pair of NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 graphics cards keep the pixels flowing over four DVI-D ports, and dual Gigabit Ethernet is on offer for those about to rock shotgun network connections. All that clad in a brilliant orange case that looks like it rolled off the Lamborghini production line, though at ¥259,800 ($2,700ish) it’s a lot cheaper than the Murciélago LP 670-4 Superveloce you’ve been drooling over. No word on American availability, but since the last one took about four months to make it this way perhaps we’ll see this one by year’s end.
