Author: Nancy Raskauskas, Senior Editor

Breaking: Yes, Virginia, there really is a Microsoft Tablet.

Breaking: Yes, Virginia, there really is a Microsoft Tablet.

Posted by | Aug 10, 2010 | |

Who knew that, while we were kvetching about Microsoft abandoning the Courier and the HP tablet and drooling and ogling over the ipad,there were several Windows 7 Tablets being born (such as Australian Pioneer Computers and Motion Computing F5 Tablet PC). And out comes this video of the Hanvon (never heard of them) Windows 7 Tablet vs. the iPad. And, by the way, the Hanvon, as you can see, kills the ipad with many functions. it also has a camera, usb port, and SD card reader,a trackpad(even thought it has a touch screen) and…drumroll… Flash! Some of the only...

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Breaking: Google And Verizon Announce Joint Policy

Breaking: Google And Verizon Announce Joint Policy

Posted by | Aug 10, 2010 | , , |

Yesterday, after all the speculation had come to a head, Goole and Verizon, who had last month announced that they would be meeting in private to “discuss” Open Internet Policy, thus eschewing the FCC, came out with a rather startling, to many, announcement of their “Joint Policy for an Open Internet”. Here is a statement posted on the Washington Post. There is additional information from Google’s Public Policy Blog . And perhaps you might like to read another lengthy commentary on PC World which ends with a short statement from the FCC on this issue of Google and Verizon...

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Here at Last-The New Mac Pro Line

Here at Last-The New Mac Pro Line

Posted by | Aug 10, 2010 | |

The Mac Pro Line was definitely long overdue for an upgrade from Apple. The new Mac Pro is here for you at last, if you can afford it. The new Mac Pro features Intel’s latest quad-core and 6-core Xeon processors, actually giving you up to 12 cores and offering 50 percent greater performance over the preceding Mac Pro. Clock speeds on the quad-core model are up to 2.8 GHz, while the 8-core model gets bumped to 2.4 GHz for each processor. The Mac Pro also features new ATI graphics delivered via ATI Radeon HD 5770 or HD 5870 graphics...

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Free At Last :Typography Web Pages

Free At Last :Typography Web Pages

Posted by | Jul 29, 2010 | , |

When I went to one of the most anticipated sites, font-face.com, which soon promised (for a price) to finally free designers to use actual fonts that could be viewed on their webpage, I was greeted with this epitaph: Our Google Announcement Google have recently announced that they are also entering the web-font market – with the same free, hosted model as ours. Although we have put 100’s of hours into the design, development and readying of 150+ fonts (x4 formats = 600!), with only weeks before font-face.com was ready to go live, we have decided to bow out now. A...

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New WiFi Kindle- $139

New WiFi Kindle- $139

Posted by | Jul 29, 2010 | |

Amazon will soon release it’s competition for Barnes and Noble’s  Nook WiFi version. The newest Kindle costs only $139 ($10 less than the Noook WiFi) and is an appeal to those who do  casual reading. Rather than accessing books through a cellphone network like Kindles do the Kindle Wi-Fi will use the less expensive wireless internet to download books and magazines and blogs. I assume that, like the nook, you can still hook up to various hotspots to download books when away from home. According to engadget, who of course, actually got their hands on a model: The new...

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