Will Ultrabooks Survive in a Tablet World?
Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ) has unleashed a line of ultrabooks with the starting price of $999.99. The computer giant also has plans to reveal a number of ultra-like models priced from $600-700 in Shanghai, China.Don’t Miss: Will Apple’s New Mac Line be Stronger, Faster, Thinner?In order to produce low-price ultra-like models, HP compromised on hardware specifications, including [...]
Apple MacBook Pro Release Date 2012: ‘Heavily Redesigned’ Mac Laptops Coming With Ivy Bridge, New Thunderbolt [SPECS]
“Mountain Lion” is the newest Mac operating system and the eighth edition of the OS X family. Announced in February but set to release “this summer,” Mac OS 10.8 Mountain Lion will add a handful of useful features that iOS users love, including a proper notes application, deep integration with Twitter, Airplay Mirroring, Reminders, and [...]
Microsoft SoundWave: It’s like Kinect, but skips the cameras
A look at SoundWave in action.(Credit:Screen Capture by Don Reisinger/CNET)Microsoft has already come up with a neat way to interpret motion by way of a camera. now it’s using sound to accomplish the same goal.The SoundWave technology recently unveiled by Microsoft Research allows users to control the software on their computers with only the movement [...]
Wal-Mart to Expand Disc-to-cloud Movie Service to 30 Countries
Leveraging the power of 5000 stores, Wal-Mart plans to expand its Vudu cloud video service from U.S. shores to as many as 30 countries beginning in June, including European, Asian, and Central and South American nations, according to reports.The new cloud movie service, officially launched earlier this month, is expected to give Netflix a run [...]
A Billion-Dollar Turning Point for Mobile Apps
April 11, 2012 1:00 pm By JENNA WORTHAM / The new York Times The path for Internet start-ups used to be quite clear: establish a presence on the Web first, then come up with a version of your service for mobile devices. Now, at a time when the mobile start-up Instagram can command $1 billion in a [...]
Critical Microsoft Patch Fixes Windows, Office, and IE
Microsoft last week said it will issue six security updates next week, four of them critical, to patch 11 bugs in Windows, Internet Explorer, Office, SQL Server and its virtual private networking platform.One of the updates, labeled Bulletin 4, looks like the one that should top the to-do list next Tuesday when Microsoft ships its [...]
Netflix Tech Support Site Uses Silverlight as Problem Poster Child
Streaming video and DVD rental site Netflix has launched a new support site for its service, providing an official place for users to find information about technical problems. Funny enough, the official blog post uses glitches with Microsoft’s Silverlight app framework as a poster child for issues that its users might be looking for answers [...]
What I want in OS X
I’d like to see an OS-level interface for managing my flow of work and information. Desktop computing centers around the experience of maintaining multiple windows across several discrete apps. that worked fine in the ’80s, when we were lucky to keep three apps running at the same time and we had barely enough storage for [...]
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CES Preview: Mobile Technology Will Dominate Everything
At this year’s CES, tablets will get cheaper, laptops will get thinner, and cameras will become more like phones. Apps will be everywhere, including in cars. And Microsoft’s phone-inspired Windows 8 will edge closer to release.Beneath all of the specifics, though, mobile technology will be driving many of the trends on display at CES 2012 [...]
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