Asus Transformer Prime: the first 5-core Android tablet?
Taiwanese consumer electronics company Asus has been heavily teasing the impending release of its second-generation Transformer Android tablet, known as Transformer Prime. On Tuesday, it pushed out the teaser video we've embedded above, and last night at the AsiaD conference, the company's president Jonney Shih brought the tablet on stage for another quick look before its official November 9th debut.
The Transformer Prime has a 10" screen, an 8.33mm thick chassis, and a laptop dock comparable to its predecessor; but of the features that we know so far, it will have one that makes it different from all the other tablets out there: a quad-core Nvidia Tegra processor.
Unemployed? Facebook might find you work
With unemployment remaining above nine percent, the government is getting more creative in getting people back to work. One of these initiatives is the "Social Jobs Partnership," a joint effort between the Department of Labor, several labor associations and Facebook.
Finding a job is proving to be hard in the months following one of the worst recessions in the country's history outside of the Great Depression. There's about three million job openings, but 14 million are unemployed.
Los Angeles wants refund for Google Apps
Google may need to act quickly to salvage its $7.25 million deal to migrate the city of Los Angeles to its Google Apps platform, following news that the delayed rollout is still not completed. The city approved the deal two years ago, but in July 2010 it was disclosed that delays had prevented full implementation.
The issue surrounds the Los Angeles Police Department: officials there are not satisfied with Google Apps' security for some sensitive police data. Instead of the original planned 30,000 person rollout, only about 17,000 have been transitioned.
Want a one-night stand with Windows Phone and a good band?
Then stop reading this post and hop on over to the Windows Phone Facebook fan page. Tickets are going fast.
As part of a smart marketing campaign to promote Windows Phone, Microsoft will hold events in five cities -- New York, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles and San Francisco in order of occurrence, starting November 7. Performers: Matt & Kim, The Drums, Young The Giant, MutheMouth and Best Coast. Wow, it's a great lineup. I've got music from most of these groups in my digital collection. Ah, if only there was one of these in San Diego. Hey, Microsoft, why not Boston, with its quarter-million population of students this time of year? Surely you won't be run out by iPhone idolaters, if the right group plays there.
Take control of your time with GeeTeeDee
We could all be more organized. Some people find organization easy and manage to naturally live in a world of clipboards, charts and tick boxes. For the rest of us it’s not always a breeze to impose some semblance of order onto our lives and getting stuff done is usually a bit of a struggle.
If you need all the help you can get to stay on track, then you may find the approach suggested by David Allen of GTD (getting things done) helpful. This is a set of guiding principles that help you to manage the mess of personal and work tasks that occupy most of our lives and many geeks have embraced it, and can be embraced through your PC in the form of open-source freebie, GeeTeeDee, which runs in Windows and Linux.
Avaya acquires audio and video data mining company Aurix
IT communications and collaboration leader Avaya announced on Wednesday that it has acquired UK-based speech recognition and analysis company Aurix. The acquisition will add Aurix's audio and video identification, search and data mining technology to Avaya's communications products, giving the company a better way to catalog interactions.
Avaya said on Wednesday that Aurix's speech technologies will be incorporated into all of its biggest offerings, including its Contact Centers CRM product, as well as the Unified Communications and Aura communications and collaboration platforms.
AT&T activates 1M iPhone 4S handsets, as Android army advances
AT&T's third quarter earnings are out, and the big news is iPhone vs everything else. Either iPhone 4S is a huge success or Android, depending on how the numbers are cut -- and really both. Either way, AT&T's churn rate was just 1.1 percent -- on par with the year-ago-quarter -- and signed subscribers are staying despite all that customer grumbling about dropped calls.
The nation's second-largest carrier sold 4.8 million smartphones during Q3 -- or about two-thirds of all "post-paid" handsets. Now more than half -- 52.6 percent -- of AT&T's 68.6 million post-paid subscribers have smartphones -- that's up from 39.1 percent a year ago.
Cisco buys BNI Video
Cisco announced on Thursday that it intends to acquire Massachusetts-based video services company BNI Video, a company in which the United States' two largest cable providers, Comcast and Time Warner Cable, have already invested.
BNI's video back office and CDN analytics capabilities will be incorporated into Cisco's service provider-facing Videoscape TV platform, which was announced at the beginning of 2011.
Need more from Windows Live SkyDrive? Try SDExplorer Advanced 3.5
CloudStorageExplorer.com has released a major update of its paid-for Windows Live SkyDrive Explorer extension, SD Explorer Advanced. The tool allows users to access their SkyDrive accounts via a drive in Windows Explorer.
SD Explorer Advanced 3.5 introduces a new Background Uploader Module, which simplifies the task of uploading large batches of files to SkyDrive accounts. It also includes a new Tune Up Tool for advanced users wishing to tweak hidden program settings, and an improved MUI (Multilingual User Interface).
What apps are running services on your Windows PC? Service Manager can tell you
Whether you’re looking to optimize your PC, troubleshoot problems or check up on its security, taking a closer look at your system’s services and drivers can often help.
The standard Windows Services applet is a little on the basic side, though, so for the best results you should install the compact, free and far more powerful Service Manager.
Lookout Mobile Security -- now available for iOS
For many people, their cell phone is one of the most expensive items they own, it is certainly the most valuable possession most people have on them at any given time. Losing a phone does not just mean taking a financial hit, though, it also means that the data you had stored on the device -- phone numbers, personal files and more could well fall into the wrong hands. There are various tools available that can be used to track down a misplaced device, and the latest contender to enter the arena is Lookout Mobile Security.
This is a free app that has been available for Android devices for a little while, but it has just been released for iPhone and iPad. At its heart, this is an app that has been designed to reunite you with a lost iPhone or iPad -- and this could mean a device that you have left lying around the house, lost while out and about, or even had stolen. With Location Services enabled and an account created with Lookout, you can log into your online account and check the location of your iOS device on a map.
Microsoft rolls out early preview of "Project Roslyn" compiler for VB and C#
Microsoft on Wednesday released the community technology preview of Project Roslyn, a new type of compiler (considered a "Compiler-as-a-Service") that was first debuted at BUILD earlier this year.
Based on the Mono Project, Roslyn is designed to be a more open compiler (and not just "a black box," as Microsoft says) that lets developers access and utilize the data that it is generating on the Visual Basic and C# code it is compiling.
FCC says tablets are speeding up the impending spectrum crisis [infographic]
For the last two years, the FCC has warned that our consumption of wireless broadband bandwidth is far outstripping its growth, and that if more of the wireless spectrum isn't allocated to broadband services, we're all in for a massive slowdown.
But that message hasn't really stuck.
AOL Radio cuts commercials by half
Aiming to better compete with services like Pandora, AOL relaunched its radio app on Wednesday. The new service is powered by Slacker, and cuts the amount of commercials in half.
Pandora inserts about 45 seconds worth of commercials per hour, according to recent statements by the company. AOL Radio will now broadcast three minutes of commercials every hour versus six, aiming to respond to the most common complaint about its service: the number of commercials.
Do you need to defrag? Ask O&O SpeedCheck 2.0
Defragmenting data is a lot like eating bran. We know that we should do it to keep our systems regular, but it always seems like a lot of hassle for the limited potential benefits. It’s not easy to know how much a defrag will really help. Even when you’ve done one you could be excused for wondering if it’s made any difference at all.
With this in mind, take a look at a brand new tool from German-based O&O Software. O&O SpeedCheck 2.0 is a free stand-alone program that enables you to test your system to find out how it performs with highly fragmented data compared to defragmented files. It simulates reading from disk without affecting any of your existing files.
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