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HP Revives Its Tablet Strategy With a New Slate

PC makers keep churning out tablet devices in the hopes of imitating Apple and Amazon's success, with HP being the latest thanks to Monday's announcement of the new Slate 7. HP, however, has a checkered past with tablet devices. What's different this time? An audio feature targeting music lovers, and a low price point that may be music to the ears of cost-conscious consumers.

The device will be available in April for US$169.
The company's previous tries at tablet devices -- and mobile operating systems -- have landed with loud thuds in the marketplace. The Slate 7 is an attempt at erasing those memories by gaining a lot of momentum in a hurry.

"They're chasing the low price point, so, if you want a 7-inch tablet, they'll have the cheapest in the market," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. "It's a way to get volume and maybe to get a seat at the table, because right now none of the PC makers is doing well with tablets."
HP did not respond to our request to comment for this story.

The Slate 7's Specs

The Slate 7 weighs 13 ounces and has a stainless steel frame. It runs Android 4.1 Jelly Bean on a 1.6 GHz ARM Dual Core Cortex-A9 processor.
It has a 1024-by-600 pixel LCD screen. It also has what HP calls a "high-aperture-ratio" field fringe switching panel, which offers wide angles for better viewing of content on the device, indoors or outside.
The tablet has a 3 MP camera on the back and a VGA camera on the front. The device has a micro USB port and a microSD card slot.
The Slate 7 comes pre-loaded with the HP ePrint wireless printing application. It also has a native printing capability that HP claims will let owners print directly from most applications.
It supports 802.11n 2.4 GHz WiFi and Bluetooth 2.1. It will run any app on Google Play, and comes preloaded with the standard Google services -- Gmail, Google Search, Google Drive, YouTube -- that are found on any Android device. The Slate 7 will also carry a suite of applications from HP that range from exclusive games to productivity tools.
HP has included Beats Audio in the Slate 7 in a bid to target music lovers, making it the first tablet ever to have this capability. Beats Audio is "spectacular on the HTC phones," Enderle said.

Pros and Cons

The device is competing with the Kindle HD and Nexus 7, he added. However, at that price point, "they may get revenues, but profits will be hard to get."
Another potential problem is its name; HP already offers Windows-based tablets called the Slate 2 and Slate 500, and "confusion is a possibility, so HP will need to be careful in branding exercises," Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, told TechNewsWorld.
HP also offers a Windows 8 tablet for the enterprise called the HP ElitePad.
"I think HP's Slate and Chromebook simply demonstrate its recognition of the reality of the mobile market, where Microsoft's position is miniscule," King said. "If HP wants to play seriously here, Android, and to a lesser but still intriguing extent, Chrome, are the way to go."

Slate's Role in HP's Tablet Story

The Slate 7 "is just one piece of a larger strategy," King said. "It seems like a good first step but the road ahead is long."
If HP gets volume sales with the Slate 7 that "could give people the impression they're a player and with that belief they could get to create something else, so think of this as a process," Enderle said. "It could work."
Source : technewsworld.com
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Now Tweet In limitation to 117 Characters

If you’re tweeting out a URL, your tweets just got a bit shorter.

If you’re tweeting out a URL, your tweets just got a bit shorter.
Starting Wednesday, any tweet sent with a URL will be reduced to 118 characters, or 117 for https links.
First announced in December, the reduction is due to a change in Twitter’s t.co link wrapper. It extends the maximum length of t.co wrapped links from 20 to 22 characters for non-https URLs and from 21 to 23 characters for https URLs.
In short, the condensed links now take up a bit more space, leaving you with a little less space to add commentary with them. In total, the update represents a two-character drop per tweet.
Applications that use t.co wrapped lengths are required to accommodate the new lengths starting Wednesday.
Will Twitter's new t.co length reduction change how you tweet? Let us know in the comments, below.

By : mashable.com

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Apple Attacked By Facebook (FB) Hacker

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL : 446.52, -2.02) has been reportedly been attacked by hackers who infected the Macintosh computer of certain employees with malicious software, similar to the one that hit Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB : 27.34, -1.18) last week.

The malware had been designed to attack Mac computers by exploiting a flaw in a version of Oracle Corp.'s (NASDAQ: ORCL : 34.26, -0.76) Java software used as a plug-in on Web browsers, the company said in a statement provided to Reuters.

"We identified a small number of systems within Apple that were infected and isolated them from our network. There is no evidence that any data left Apple. We are working closely with law enforcement to find the source of the malware," Reuters reported quoting Apple's statement.

Apple intends to release a software on Tuesday, which it said customers can use to identify and repair Macs infected with the malware used in the attacks, the Reuters report quoted Apple as saying.

On Friday, Facebook disclosed that the social-networking site was also the victim of a malware attack last month many of which have been traced to China. It said the attack occured when its employees visited a mobile developer website that was infected.

"As soon as we discovered the presence of the malware, we remediated all infected machines, informed law enforcement, and began a significant investigation that continues to this day. We have no evidence that Facebook user data was compromised in this attack," Facebook said in its official blog.

AAPL closed 0.04% lower at $459.99 on Tuesday, while FB ended up 2.26% at $28.96.

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You’ve seen them everywhere, even on some state license plates.  But what does all those http’s and .com’s mean.  Here’s the website that I referenced for the following information: 

http://www.googleguide.com/web_address.html

Here is simplified explanation of what makes up a web address:

We take sample URL 1st :  http://www.crsd.org/buildings/nj/index.html

http:// stands for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol and that basically tells the computer that we are looking to “Transfer” “Hyper Text” (a webpage) from the internet to your computer.  When typing a web address into Internet Explorer you usually don’t even have to type the “http://” because the computer assumes it.
www stands for World Wide Web which is the body of software rules and protocols that make up what we know of as the internet.  Just about every webpage you’ll ever view is a part of the world wide web.
crsd in this example stands for Council Rock School District and it is technically the “second level domain name”

.org is a an example of a “top level domain name”  “.org” is primarily used by Non-profits, “.edu” is commonly used by schools and universities, “.gov” is used by the government, and the now famous “.com” is primarily for commercial websites.  Togethercrsd.org could be described as the school district’s “domain name”

/buildings/nj/ if you remember the old old days of DOS (before we had mice and folders on the screen) you might remember switching folder levels using the “/”.  If you don’t remember its OK, but you should know that “/buildings/nj/” tells the computer to go to a folder labeled “nj” that is inside a folder labeled “buildings”.
index.html this is the actual file name of this webpage.  More specifically, “index” is the name of the file and “.html” is the file extension which tells the computer what kind of file it is.  “.html” stands for Hyper Text Markup Language which is the language most web pages are written in.

Now you know what the different parts of a web address are.

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Know Anatomy of a Web Address:

You’ve seen them everywhere, even on some state license plates.  But what does all those http’s and .com’s mean.  Here’s the website that I referenced for the following information: 
http://www.googleguide.com/web_address.html
 

Here is simplified explanation of what makes up a web address:

We take sample URL 1st :  http://www.crsd.org/buildings/nj/index.html

http:// stands for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol and that basically tells the computer that we are looking to “Transfer” “Hyper Text” (a webpage) from the internet to your computer.  When typing a web address into Internet Explorer you usually don’t even have to type the “http://” because the computer assumes it.
www stands for World Wide Web which is the body of software rules and protocols that make up what we know of as the internet.  Just about every webpage you’ll ever view is a part of the world wide web.
crsd in this example stands for Council Rock School District and it is technically the “second level domain name”
.org is a an example of a “top level domain name”  “.org” is primarily used by Non-profits, “.edu” is commonly used by schools and universities, “.gov” is used by the government, and the now famous “.com” is primarily for commercial websites.  Togethercrsd.org could be described as the school district’s “domain name”

/buildings/nj/ if you remember the old old days of DOS (before we had mice and folders on the screen) you might remember switching folder levels using the “/”.  If you don’t remember its OK, but you should know that “/buildings/nj/” tells the computer to go to a folder labeled “nj” that is inside a folder labeled “buildings”.
index.html this is the actual file name of this webpage.  More specifically, “index” is the name of the file and “.html” is the file extension which tells the computer what kind of file it is.  “.html” stands for Hyper Text Markup Language which is the language most web pages are written in.

Now you know what the different parts of a web address are.

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The iOS keyboard is overdue for an upgrade

Apple broke ground with the iPhone's virtual keyboard in 2007, but it appears to be stuck in time. It turns out iOS has lots of keyboard options but Apple and third-party developers have been slow to implement them.

When the iPhone was announced in 2007, people loathed the on-screen keyboard. Blackberry users panned it and even I hated it at first. Then a week went by and I loved it. Many people can type faster on a virtual keyboard then they can on a tiny chiclet keyboard, and most would agree that more screen real estate is better value proposition that a physical keyboard that takes up half the surface of a device.
The problem is that the iOS keyboard hasn't changed much since the original iPhone debuted in 2007 -- and it drives me nuts. One of the advantages of virtual keyboards is that you can change them on-the-fly in software. Or so the theory goes.
As of iOS 6.1.2 Apple only slightly modifies the keyboard in its first-party apps:
•    In Mail, it replaces the spacebar with a smaller space bar and dedicated "@" and period keys when typing an email address.
•    In Safari, it replaces the spacebar with period, slash and ".com" keys when you're typing into the address bar field. But at the expense of the microphone/Siri button (I guess that Apple doesn't want us dictating URLs).

Lower-case
iOS provides zero feedback over which case I'm typing in. The iOS keys display upper-case characters whether I'm typing in upper-case or lower-case letters. It would be trivial for iOS to display lower-case characters when typing them, yet the iOS keyboard always shows upper-case characters. The Android keyboard has displayed the proper case for as long as I can remember. (Pictured above is a lower-case iOS keyboard -- only available on jailbroken devices running theShowcase app from Cydia.)

Dedicated Number Row
Apple should add a dedicated number row across the top of the iOS keyboard. The lack of a dedicated numbers row makes it difficult to enter strong passwords in iOS because you have to switch back and forth between the text and number keyboards. This could easily be a preference in the iOS keyboard settings. (Pictured above is 5-Row Keyboard, a jailbreak tweak only available in Cydia.)
But it's not just Apple that's been lazy in implementing extra iOS keyboards, developers have been slow to offer additional keyboard choices too. Luckily, some iOS developers use the UITextField, UITextView, and UIView objects in the iOS SDK to customize their keyboards.

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