Posts Tagged ‘technology’

Where is the Microsoft tablet?

Wednesday, March 9th, 2011

Steve BallmerLess than a year after deploying the original iPad tablet, Apple will make a second iteration available in stores at the end of this week: the sleeker, internally beefier iPad 2. Meanwhile, Google and its original equipment manufacturer partners will be flooding the tablet market this year with Honeycomb devices using the Android 3.0 operating system And Research In Motion will release the BlackBerry PlayBook in the next month or so and even Palm has been resurrected via Hewlett-Packard’s webOS TouchPad, coming this summer.

Who’s missing?

Most federal employees seem to be waiting for Microsoft to release a tablet to compete with Apple and Google. Feds trust Microsoft and they like the interoperability it can offer across the enterprise. In contrast, Apple is not focused on the business enterprise per se, and Android still represents the Wild West of mobile operating systems, a problem (for now) in risk-averse federal IT departments.

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Google Cloud Connect Brings MS Office Files to Google’s Cloud

Friday, February 25th, 2011

google-cloudGoogle launched their Cloud Connect product in a limited beta late last year, hoping to take advantage of the high cost of upgrades from Office 2007 to Office 2010. After all, Office 2007 was pretty good and who needs all those Microsoft collaboration features if they’re built into Google Docs, right?

Of course, if you’re an avid Office user, then you know that Office 2010 is absolutely worth the upgrade, especially when combined with their hosted or on-premise collaboration solutions. However, if you just create documents or bang away on spreadsheets or live for DBP (Death by PowerPoint), then all the nifty doodads in Office 2010 don’t mean much. For these users, Google is happy to help them automatically load standard Office documents into Google’s cloud and enable collaboration via Google Docs. On Thursday, Google announced that this feature was available in all Google Apps domains, giving legions of Office-using, fence-sitting, Google Apps-dabbling users Nicorette for their desktop applications.

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Apple to Launch Ipad 2 on 2 March

Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011

Apple supposedly will launch the Ipad 2 on 2 March.

Apple’s projected Ipad 2 launch date comes after blasphemous reports of delays by a Taiwanese brokerage firm that sent Apple shares diving almost three percent. Apple’s COO Tim Cook is expected to take the stage on 2 March and reveal the successor to the Ipad.

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The impending arrival of Apple’s second shiny mirror had been put into doubt yesterday, with a stockbroker’s note saying that Apple’s partners had encountered production issues that were taking time to resolve. Reuters now says that those comments were “simply not true”.

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Google “Street-View” on Art

Friday, February 4th, 2011

If you can afford to take a trip around the world to some of the world’s famous museums, no need to worry, Google has you covered.

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The search engine has announced a new art project where one can Google any piece of art in the world and experience it, as if they were actually in the museum.

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Apple iPad Newspaper, The Daily, To Launch Feb. 2

Friday, January 28th, 2011

Apple’s iPad will host a tablet-only newspaper created by News Corp starting Feb. 2, according to an invitation circulating among media.

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That digital publication, the Daily, will cost 99 cents per week. According to Reuters, the original Jan. 19 unveiling date was scrubbed “because of technical glitches.” News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch and Apple Vice President of Internet Services Eddy Cue will headline the new launch event, scheduled to take place in New York City.

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