Dell Chromebook 13 (2015) Product Overview
Get business class performance, powerful processing and fast cloud access with the beautifully designed 13 inch Chromebook. Work, share and collaborate safely in the cloud with this Full HD Chrome OS. Enjoy long battery life with fast and secure access to data from anywhere in the world. Built with worry-free computing in mind, the Dell Chromebook 13 is the complete solution for professionals. Published on Sep 16, 2015
Dell teams with Google for a pro-level Chromebook 13: Hands on: This high-design Chrome OS system can cost as much as a premium laptop, and takes aim at small businesses and big IT departments. Read the CNET review: http://cnet.co/1Pa9LU7 Published on Aug 13, 2015
See also: Meet Google's new super-powered Chromebook: "Google first introduced the Chromebook in 2011. It was seen as quirky at the time, but they found a niche, particularly in K-12 school systems. Chromebooks are among the fastest-growing segments of the laptop market, with sales soaring 38% in the second quarter of 2015, according to NPD. Windows laptop sales grew by just 6%."
Don't go looking for Windows 9--it doesn't exist--Microsoft officially unveiled the name of its next of Windows on Tuesday, and for some reason Microsoft decided to skip "9" and go straight to 10--"Windows 10." read more at: Windows 10 is the official name for Microsoft's next version of Windows | The Verge. And unfortunately for Microsoft, Windows 8 did a lot more damage than just kill the idea of Windows 9, it alienated millions of loyal customers who have since moved on to Google (Android and Chrome OS) and Apple (iOS and OS X). Here's the hard truth for Microsoft: with the advent of the Cloud and the ubiquity of connectivity, there's decreasing need for a Windows PC--a good Chromebook [tip: always get 4GB RAM] costs less, is more secure, and can satisfy all needs of over 90% of all users (consumers and knowledge workers), and Chromebooks can now work offline.
Slate Magazine Facebook Atlas ad platform: Your data will follow you across Web, apps, devices.: "... a new advertising platform called Atlas. ... they’ll be drawing on all of Facebook’s knowledge of you as an individual in order to target you. They’ll be able to do that even if you’re not logged into Facebook and have cookies turned off... Facebook [is now] in direct competition with Google’s DoubleClick service, offering advertisers the chance to target users and measure their ads’ reach on a potentially wide array of sites as well as mobile apps... Atlas won’t rely on browser cookies... they’re notoriously ineffectual on mobile devices. Google has been working to address this problem... If you’ve ever logged into Facebook on your phone, Facebook has linked your phone’s unique identification number to your Facebook account. So when you use another app or a different browser on the same device, Facebook’s computers still know it’s you..."
The New Yorker Does a Yahoo–AOL Merger Make Sense? The New Yorker In a profile of Yahoo C.E.O.'s, Marissa Mayer, from August of 2013, Vogue suggested that, since leaving Google to join Yahoo the previous year, ...
Reuters Google searches for right note in online music business Reuters Google's YouTube service has become a low-profile titan in streaming ... The new version will incorporate technology acquired by Google with the ... going to continue to see the big players like Apple and Google experiment,” ... E-commerce giant Amazon launched its music service in June, providing ...
Social Media Star: Here’s How You Can Be One: Video - Bloomberg: (Allow video to load after clicking play or go to link above) Social Media Star Andrea Russett and DigiTour CEO Meredith Valiando Rojas discuss social media stardom on “Market Makers.” (Source: Bloomberg - Sept 11, 2014)
Times of India Apple Pay Tips To New Era Of Fully Digitized Money Forbes The new Apple Apple Pay system though is quite interesting and it is too ... as financial institutions recognize that they face challenges from technology ... despite a strong attempt to pioneer digital wallets by Google Checkout. ... you could exchange them for dollars only within the Amazon marketplace.
Google lets college students borrow a Chromebook Jon Fingas If you brought a big, conventional laptop with you to college, you're probably regretting it right about now. It's not fun to lug a heavy machine and.
How Much Value Can Apple Watch Create? Nitin Gulati With its ambitious series of announcements earlier this week, Apple ... on these new applications of interactivetechnology, distinguished chiefly by a ...
Alibaba Profit Triples Ahead of IPO: Video - Bloomberg: (Allow video to load after clicking play or go to link above) Oberweiss Asset Management Senior Analyst Jeffrey Papp, Bloomberg’s Leslie Picker and Cory Johnson discuss Alibaba’s profit numbers. They speak on “Bloomberg West.” (Source: Bloomberg Aug27) Twitch hit by DDoS attack right after Amazon announced purchase - Pocket-lint: "This commercialisation of a platform that was built for gamers could be why it's now under attack. The thought of having to sit through lots of adverts or having items to buy thrown at you constantly might be too much for some." PC market in 2014 a bit less dire than previously thought | PCWorld: "PCs with the older Windows XP OS are being upgraded in larger numbers, IDC said. Chromebook shipments are also growing, particularly in the education sector, which has contributed to the improved outlook." Can Windows 9 Help Microsoft Win Back Lost Customers? - Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) | Seeking Alpha: "....those who work for a living don't want to be annoyed by apps that crave attention. They don't want to be WOWed by on-screen animations, or stare at screensavers on end. There may be some people who like these distractions. So, the company should give users a simple way to get rid of such annoyances. Another thing is the Windows app store. It's a mess in there. Microsoft's app store is infested with scam. Fake apps turn up frequently in popular searches. Microsoft will have to resolve these issues before people currently using Mac, Chrome or Ubuntu will even consider coming back." Amazon Muscles In On Google Ad Dollars Forbes Amazon's offering is expected to resemble AdWords, Google's engine that ... But Amazon is also reportedly developing a tool to enable advertising ... David Dorf, senior director of technology strategy at Oracle Oracle Retail, saw ... “Google and Facebook have different views of those shoppers based on ...
Time Warner internet outage affects millions of US broadband customers | Technology | theguardian.com: "The FCC is currently reviewing a deal for company to be purchased by Comcast – a cable and internet giant. The deal comes after Time Warner received a $60bn offer from smaller rival Charter Communications, but accepted Comcast’s offer of $45.2bn after Charter threatened to unseat the company’s board of directors." Why Apple's next iPhone will be bigger than people think: "It's a big year for the iPhone, literally. At a choreographed coming-out party on Sept. 9, the entire tech world expects Apple to show off a device with a 4.7-inch screen, and possibly one with a 5.5-inch screen...." Twitter Opens Its Analytics Dashboard To Everyone: ".... this page lurking in Twitter’s support base confirms it: the dashboard should now be open to every account that has been open for at least 14 days, isn’t restricted/protected/suspended, and (curiously) that primarily tweets in English, French, Japanese, or Spanish. You can find the newly unlocked analytics dashboard right here...."
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The Acer Chromebook 13 gives you more. Up to 13 hours of battery life keeps you powered from day to night. A faster wireless connection keeps you one step ahead. Full HD display (optional) and anti-glare technology (optional) deliver smooth graphics and enhance all of your favorite videos and photos. Acer Chromebook 13 – more to enjoy. (Battery life may vary depending on model and configuration.) Published on Aug 11, 2014
Hands-on: The Tegra K1-powered Acer Chromebook 13 - Hands-on: The Tegra K1-powered Acer Chromebook 13 ($279.99 - $379.99) "Take a look at the first ever Chromebook powered by the impossibly advanced Tegra K1 quad-core processor and its 192 GPU cores -- the Acer Chromebook 13. With up to 13 hours battery life, full 1080p display and multi-tasking capabilities that leave other Chromebooks in the dust, the Acer Chromebook 13 packs a high-end punch into a slick, modern design. Find out more on the NVIDIA Blog: http://nvda.ly/AcMHL Uploaded on Aug 11, 2014" (more info below*) Crunch time for lost Microsoft Surface: "... news services report the company [Microsoft] may pull the plug on its tablet. Gregg Keizer at Computerworld says Microsoft’s Surface has lost money every quarter since first appearing in 2012. To date, the total loss is close to US$2 billion. Keizer quotes Jackdaw Research analyst Jan Dawson, who says: “Continued losses will make it harder and harder for Microsoft to keep the Surface project going, so a good performance in the next quarter or two will be critical to justifying its continued existence”. Comments from Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella hint at his impatience with Surface. In July he said: “We are not in the hardware for hardware sake and the first-party device portfolio will be aligned to our strategic direction as the productivity and platform company”...." Google Chromebooks eating into US education market, says Gartner | Technology | theguardian.com: "Chromebook sales will hit 5.2m units this year, according to research company Gartner, as American schools in particular begin adopting them for their simple functionality and remote administration. Though the figure is small in the context of the overall PC market – which rival research firm IDC reckons will exceed 316m worldwide for 2014 – it illustrates the way in which traditional views of “computing” tasks are being carved up into separate ones that can be carried out better by dedicated devices, says Horace Dediu, who runs the independent Asymco consultancy." *Acer's new Chromebook 13 offers a high-resolution screen and all-day battery life | The Verge: "The new Acer Chromebook 13 is the first Chromebook to use Nvidia's Tegra K1 processor, a mobile chip that's already been employed in tablets and other portable devices. Its big selling point? Longer battery life than any other Chromebook on the market while still providing class-leading performance. The Chromebook 13 is available in two screen configurations..." School system CIOs are sold on Chromebooks - Computerworld: "Gartner on Monday said that sales of Chromebooks will reach 5.2 million units worldwide this year, with more than 80% of the demand in the U.S. That's an 80% increase in sales from 2013. But this demand was driven almost entirely by education last year, which accounted for nearly 85% of Chromebook sales, according to Gartner." Gartner: PC Is Dying, So Chromebook Sales Will Shoot Up - Business Insider: "Research firm Gartner says Chromebook sales will reach 14.4 million units by 2017, nearly tripling the current market size. And part of the reason for that growth is the slowing PC market. "Competition in the Chromebook market is intensifying as more vendors launch Chromebooks, with eight models in the market in 2014," Isabelle Durand, principal analyst at Gartner, wrote in a new report published Monday.... "
An App Like Yo Could Turn Out to Be Bigger Than Twitter - WSJ: "... Yo isn't what it has been widely misconstrued to be. It isn't a messaging app, and it definitely isn't a social network—on this point, Mr. Arbel is emphatic. It isn't even really a place to "Yo" your friends, though early adopters say they use it to let others know they are thinking of them. Yo, says Mr. Arbel, is a communications protocol. Other communications protocols you may have heard of are text messages, email and Twitter. At the risk of convincing the tech cognoscenti that I've lost my mind, I'm here to tell you that Yo—or a Yo-like service—is the next Twitter. It might even be bigger...." Exclusive: Apple prepares Healthkit rollout amid tangled regulatory web | Reuters: " "Apple is going into this space with a data play," said Forrester Research's health care analyst Skip Snow. "They want to be a hub of health data.""
How Attackers Could Gain Remote Control over Most Smartphones | MIT Technology Review: "A powerful remote-control system installed on most smartphones could be used by hackers to secretly take control of many devices, allowing theft of data or eavesdropping on communications. Wireless carriers install the mechanism, known as ODM, in phones, tablets, and even cars as a way to distribute software updates and make configuration changes. Researchers with the computer security company Accuvant uncovered a series of flaws with ODM that could be exploited to gain the same remote-control powers." Hackers Unveil Their Plan To Change Email Forever | TIME: ".... Dime’s creators hope that enough people will begin using the service on their own that a major email service provider, like Google, Yahoo or Microsoft–all of whom are already exploring ways to better encrypt users’ messages–adopts it and it snowballs from there. Ultimately, what the Dark Mail project is aiming for is nothing less than a complete transformation of the way email works on planet Earth. “It all has to be rebuilt,” Callas said." Why BuzzFeed Is Launching Its Own Hollywood Studio | Variety: "“We’re in the midst of a historic shift in the media industry where news is increasingly being distributed on social networks and consumed on mobile devices,” said Andreessen Horowitz general partner Chris Dixon, who led the investment in BuzzFeed and is joining the board. “We believe BuzzFeed can emerge from this shift as a preeminent media company.”"
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Why Google Is Integrating all Android Platforms: Video - Bloomberg: Google unveiled a new version of its Android software for smartphones and other devices as it battles Apple to be the foundation for mobile technology. Evernote CEO Phil Libin and Wired Deputy Editor Joe Brown speak on “Bloomberg West.” (Source: Bloomberg, June 25) Google unveils products, updates that tie everything together Los Angeles Times Google wants to be everywhere in your life, all the time. ... Broadly, it's similar to the message offered earlier this month by Apple at its own annual ...
Amazon: Fire Phone Is A Flop - Seeking Alpha: "Summary: Fire Phone is overpriced with lower specs than the iPhone 5s and Galaxy S5. Some features are gimmicky and some are useful but nothing compelling over other high-end phones. Restriction to one carrier, AT&T, and lack of Google core services will turn off potential customers. Sales volume slower than Apple TV...."
Google Fit service to compete with Apple Health SFGate In the race to dominate the fast-growing digital health industry, Google unveiled a service Wednesday that collects users' fitness data in one place.
Google Glass beta 'Explorer' edition goes on sale in the UK for £1000: Will you ... Tech Times Google Glass is available in the UK for the first time, with updates enabling to understand British English. The price for the product is set at £1,000. (Photo : Jeff Blackler). Google Glass is expanding outside the U.S. for the first time. The devices are now ...
Trio Of Supermassive Black Holes Found WallStreet OTC The galaxies we see in the present day Universe were built through the merger of smaller ones. Almost all of the galaxies contain supermassive black holes at their cores. Basic logic would suggest that the mergers would also have placed supermassive black ...
Balloon space flight company completes small-scale test flight Reuters (Reuters) - An Arizona start-up company says it has successfully completed its first small-scale test flight of a stratospheric balloon and capsule being developed to show tourists a space-like view of the Earth from 19 miles (30 km) above ground. Privately ...
Aereo's use of TV fare found to break copyright law Boston Globe The Internet streaming service Aereo is acting illegally when it retransmits television shows that its tiny antennas capture for free, the US Supreme Court ruled Wednesday — a major victory for broadcasters at a time when consumers are rapidly moving away ...
US And German Astronauts Play Soccer In Space Forbes U.S. and German astronauts playing a friendly game of soccer to prep for Thursday's match. (Credit: NASA). Like the gravitational pull of a black hole, the World Cup is so powerful that you can't escape it even if you're in orbit. When the astronauts haven't ...
Improved communication between experts and the public key in winning battle to ... The Independent Scientists need to become more humble and to completely re-think the way they communicate if the battle to curb climate change is to be won, one of the world's leading climate experts has warned. Lamenting what he calls a “mismatch” between the state of ...
New Chromebook features show up at Google I/O CNET At the Google I/O keynote in San Francisco, the company showed off new features for Chromebook laptops running the Chrome OS. Most notably, a phone running the new Android L mobile OS can unlock your Chromebook and even log you into Web ...
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(Allow video to load after clicking play) Bloomberg’s Jon Erlichman reports on Google’s new airport with Betty Liu on Bloomberg Television’s “In The Loop.” (Source: Bloomberg) How Many Wireless Accounts Are There in China?: Video - Bloomberg: "Today’s “BWest Byte” is 1.2 billion, for the number of wireless accounts in China. Jon Erlichman reports on Bloomberg Television’s “Bloomberg West.” (Source: Bloomberg)"
Smartphone innovation has stalled, but that's OK (CNN) -- Here's a short message to smartphone makers before you try to wow us with a bunch of glitzy features in your next device: Don't do it.....
Smartphone Thefts Nearly Double in 2013 PC Magazine As the debate over kill-switch technology heats up in the U.S., a new survey has revealed just how prevalent smartphone thefts have become.
Smartphone apps remind patients to take their meds Sioux City Journal To help combat the problem, many doctors are trying a more high-tech approach: They're recommending smartphone apps that send reminders to ...
Smartphone App to Diagnose Virus in Papayas on Oahu Big Island Now University of Hawaii scientists have developed an app for smartphones that allows the public to help them track what they believe is a decline in ...
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Dell Chromebook 11 review | The Verge: "....Almost every Windows laptop maker has a Chromebook or two in its lineup, and now Dell is entering the fray. Its Chromebook 11 (not to be confused with the HP Chromebook of the same name) is being targeted specifically to the education market, where Chromebooks seem like a natural fit. But anyone can order the Chromebook 11 for $299 from Dell’s website[4GB RAM] today — and get possibly the best Chromebook ever made...." Facebook Is Reportedly Near Approval For E-Money Service In Ireland - The Next Web By Kaylene Hong The Financial Times reports that Facebook is planning an e-money service, and is close to getting regulatory approval in Ireland. The Next Web
Twitter Gives a New Look to User Profiles - NYTimes.com - NYTimes.com: "...The redesign, which Twitter described in a blog post, is immediately available to new users and will be gradually rolled out to the rest of the social network’s users around the world. However, it only applies to the desktop version of Twitter, not the mobile version used by smartphones and tablets that is the principal way that people use the service...."
What Should You Do About Heartbleed? Excellent Question. | MIT Technology Review: "...Ordinary Web users really have no way of finding out how relatively safe or unsafe the websites they use are, or to know what, if anything, to do at this point...." more info: heartbleed.com and https://github.com/musalbas/heartbleed-masstest/blob/master/top10000.txt Blackberry plans Heartbleed patches as mobile threat scrutinized | Reuters: "...While there have been no public reports of successful attacks involving the Heartbleed vulnerability, researchers say that it has been around for several years. That means that hackers could have successfully been using it without being caught since attacks do not leave any traces." The decline of the mobile web | chris dixon's blog: "....1) Apps have a rich-get-richer dynamic that favors the status quo over new innovations. Popular apps get home screen placement, get used more, get ranked higher in app stores, make more money, can pay more for distribution, etc. The end state will probably be like cable TV – a few dominant channels/apps that sit on users’ home screens and everything else relegated to lower tiers or irrelevance. 2) Apps are heavily controlled by the dominant app stores owners, Apple and Google. Google and Apple control what apps are allowed to exist, how apps are built, what apps get promoted, and charge a 30% tax on revenues...." Microsoft Cortana: My First Week InformationWeek Microsoft released a developer preview of Windows Phone 8.1, which ... at translating speech to text as Apple's Siri or Google's Google Now -- at least, ...
Google May Push Sites to Use Encryption Wall Street Journal (blog) In a move that experts say could make it harder to spy on Web users, Google is considering giving a boost in its search-engine results to websites that ...
Google sees the light with Dublin Goes Dark project Irish Times “Google in Dublin recently ran an experiment to help them. It invited staff to check in their devices as they clocked off for the day, with the result that ...
Google's flat Android plan is not just about Apple Computerworld (blog) Google is going to pull an Apple and make the next version of Android ... but Microsoft and Google have also been working toward a cleaner look in ...
Facebook seeks help with Hack ZDNet When code bases get large, developer momentum slows and development becomes less safe. That was the challenge confronting Jay Parikh, VP of ...
Amazon may be developing 3D smartphone CBS News Amazon is preparing to announce the next generation of smartphones, the Wall Street Journal reports. The new phone will feature a 3D screen - and ...
Why isn't Apple suing Google? Fortune FORTUNE -- Watching Apple's (AAPL) patent infringement trial from afar -- today, it's from Prague -- I can't tell if the jury got as clear an explanation of ...
UN Climate Change Report Says Worst Scenarios Can Still Be Avoided Wall Street Journal The sun rises over an oil field over the Monterey Shale formation where gas and oil extraction using hydraulic fracturing is on the verge of a boom on March 24, 2014 near Lost Hills, Calif. Getty Images. A United Nations report suggests that governments can ...
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A very lame move -- a politico pollster type in charge of strategy at Microsoft? I guess that tells you everything you need to know about Microsoft's future decline -- Ex-Clinton Aide Is Named Microsoft’s Chief Strategy Officer - NYTimes.com: " . . .The change will give Mr. Penn, who has been an executive vice president at Microsoft overseeing advertising and strategy, a bigger hand in determining which markets Microsoft should be in and where it should be making further investments....Some of Mr. Penn’s work at Microsoft has been criticized by people within the company and in the tech industry, especially a negative advertising campaign aimed at Google. The “Scroogled” campaign, as it is known, has sought to raise privacy and other concerns about Google. While many pundits have derided the campaign as sour grapes..." Microsoft Is Said to Shake Up Staff With Penn's Appointment Businessweek Microsoft's investments in mobile haven't put a dent in Google and Apple Inc.'s control of the smartphone market, while cloud applications from competitors pose an increasing threat to Microsoft's flagship Windows business. Bates was among the leading ... Carl Icahn - OPEN LETTER TO EBAY SHAREHOLDERS: ".... Is eBay director Marc Andreessen so clueless about corporate governance and the duties that directors owe to corporations under Delaware law that he truly believes that entering into a confidentiality agreement with a third party which apparently limited his ability to share vital information with eBay’s board of directors is acceptable or an excuse for his actions?..." My Statement on eBay Director Role and Governance | Marc Andreessen: "... I dispute all accusations that I have violated any of my duties to eBay shareholders. Specifically: Throughout the eBay board’s process of divesting Skype, I fully disclosed my potential interest and recused myself from all deliberations on the transaction, including all discussions, negotiations, and decisions. I was uninvolved in eBay’s decision to spin off Skype and in eBay’s decision to choose to partner with the Silver Lake syndicate...." Android beat Apple in tablet sales last year -- Gartner CNET Apple's slice of the market fell amid increased demand for smaller, low-cost, name-brand tablets and cheap "white-box" products from off-brand manufacturers in emerging regions, Gartner said. Tablet sales for the whole industry grew by 145 percent ...
Samsung Chromebook 2 coming in April in two screen sizes, faux leather trim ... CNET Most of the first and second generation of Chromebook laptops look similar, offer similar features, and cost around the same. Growing sales numbers indicate Chromebooks are hitting netbook-like heights of popularity among budget laptop shoppers, but to ...
Microsoft reacts to XP upgrade critics with free file transfer tool Computerworld Computerworld - Reacting to criticism from customers that upgrading from Windows XP was "impossible," Microsoft today announced it would give away a limited migration tool to help people move to a newer operating system. The tool, PCmover Express for ...
Apple Rolls Out CarPlay Giving Drivers a Smarter, Safer & More Fun Way to Use ... Wall Street Journal Apple(R) today announced that leading auto manufacturers are rolling out CarPlay, the smarter, safer and more fun way to use iPhone(R) in the car. CarPlay gives iPhone users an incredibly intuitive way to make calls, use Maps, listen to music and ...
Microsoft to smarten up Office 365 with machine learning and social cues PCWorld Microsoft will add new software, developer tools and capabilities to Office 365 in an attempt to make the cloud applications suite a “smarter” product that is better at helping people interact at work. At its SharePoint Conference, which kicks off in ...
Apple Hiring Engineers in Asia to Speed Product Launches Wall Street Journal The hiring push reflects Apple's need for more engineers to work with Asian suppliers on developing components for coming iPhones and iPads as it plans for faster and more frequent product launches. Apple is also ramping up its number of supply-chain ...
Google, Samsung Said to Express Microsoft-Nokia Concern to China Bloomberg Microsoft and Nokia announced the deal in September after the Finnish company lost ground in the smartphone market to Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s iPhone and devices running Google's Android platform. Under the deal, Microsoft is buying the hardware business ...
Apple-Samsung silicon union still strong, chip expert says CNET Apple-Samsung silicon union still strong, chip expert says. For all the bad blood over smartphones, a coziness remains when it comes to Samsung-made chips, says the chief of VLSI Research. "Apple has been ... learned how to work that relationship.".
Apple CarPlay: Siri At The Wheel InformationWeek Apple didn't qualify what "messages" means, however, so it's not clear whether that refers only to the built-in SMS application, or if CarPlay will be able to access WhatsApp,Google Hangouts, Facebook Messenger, Skype, email, and other messaging ...
Google Glass updates slow down ahead of KitKat ... CNET Google's Teresa Zazenski announced the change on the private forum for owners of the electronic eyewear, according to Glass Almanac. Google didn't want to publish an update that "isn't ready for prime time," she said Friday, but what's coming next will ...
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Chromebook: How to create and share a document (more Google Chromebook videos here) Beginning next school year in the US, students in grades K-12 in most states will take tests administered by the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium and the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (standardized tests) that are designed to be taken on computers. Because of the new tests, schools are thinking about new technology purchases and Google Chromebooks are the best solution -- Google-Powered Chromebooks Take Microsoft, Apple to School - WSJ.com: "Chromebooks have come from nowhere to grab nearly a fifth of U.S. school purchases of mobile computers, posing problems for Microsoft and possibly even Apple. The inexpensive laptops, which run Google software but are mostly sold by other companies, accounted for 19% of the K-12 market for mobile computers in the U.S. in 2013, according to a preliminary estimate by Futuresource Consulting. In 2012, Chromebooks represented less than 1% of the market, according to the research firm, whose estimate includes both tablets and notebook PCs but excludes desktop computers. Mobile computers running Microsoft Windows slid from 47.5% of that market in 2012 to 28% in last year's third quarter, said Futuresource, which isn't yet providing comparisons for all of 2013. Data from IDC analyst Rajani Singh that includes purchases by U.S. colleges and universities as well as K-12 schools shows a similar pattern, as well as signs of stagnation for Apple's iPad in the education market." (read more at Wall Street Journal wsj.com link above) Google patents ad-powered taxi service that would offer free rides to shoppers | Ars Technica: "Advertisers would pay for your transportation in the hope that you buy something...." Mac's Tiny Graphical Screen Transformed Personal Computing 30 Years Ago
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NEWS ANALYSIS: When Apple first started selling the Macintosh, few people realized how it would change almost everything about personal computing. When I was introduced to the original Macintosh early in 1984, I looked at the device on the table in front ...
World chess champ beats Bill Gates in 80 seconds
New York Daily News
He is the second-richest man in the word and Bill Gates was certainly second best when it came to playing chess against the world's No. 1. The Microsoft founder was challenged to a game of chess by world champion Magnus Carlsen, a 23-year-old ...
Internet of Things: Advantages May Far Outweigh Its Drawbacks
Guardian Liberty Voice
People may not realize it but the Internet of Things is already gaining traction and slowly influencing how people live in this connected world. Right now, its perceived advantages may far outweigh its feared drawbacks. Some analysts even called the ...
Mysterious Sight of the Mantis Shrimp Closer to Being Solved?
Guardian Liberty Voice
The mantis shrimp (a.k.a. stomatopod) are colorful marine crustaceans, renowned for their ability to pack a punch. Found in tropical and sub-tropical marine habitats, the marine shrimp's powerful claws can deliver over 90 kilograms of force – an ability that has ...
Polar bears are modifying their diets to adapt to climate change
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Polar bears have shown that they will be able to survive the ice melting by changing their diet and adapting to the new climate. Polar bears are often thought as the animal that is most effected by global warming, but new research has shown that when the ...
Hawking, co-discoverer of black holes, now says there's no such thing
Geek
The scientific duo of Penrose and Hawking is not quite so legendary as other pairings, from Watson and Crick to Lewis and Clark. Their contributions to science have been just as monumental, however, redefining our ideas about the theoretical limits of the ...
Apple Developing New Mobile Payments Service [Report]
Ubergizmo
Customers can already use their iTunes account to purchase a plethora of content ranging from books to movies, music and apps, but apparently Apple is now looking into the mobile payments arena. It may even be planning to launch a new service, if the ...
Frogs' love calls attract predators
The Japan Times
WASHINGTON – A frog's evening serenade beckons his would-be suitors but also summons competition from rivals and attracts predators, making dating a dangerous endeavor, international researchers say. The tiny brown tungara frog, found in Central and ...
With the Windows 8 disaster, Windows XP users are increasingly looking to non-Microsoft solutions for their next computers-- The death of Windows XP: It's your permission to go Chromebook, tablet, Linux, whatever | ZDNet: "As Ovum principal analyst Roy Illsley puts it, companies have to decide what the desktop should look like. "That might help them because they might decide, 'Only 25 percent of our estate really needs to be desktop PCs, and that 25 percent of desktop PCs we can do the upgrade from XP to Windows 7 within 12 months. The other 75 percent could go mobile or to tablets or straight onto a new platform," he said." Five operating system alternatives to Windows 8 and XP | ZDNet: "On April 8, 2014, Microsoft will stop supporting XP, but most people are not moving to Windows 8. Indeed, according to a TechRepublic survey, enterprise XP users are especially reluctant to move to Windows 8, so what are you going to use for your desktop in 2014? Here are . . . five suggestions in the order I think you should consider them. . . ." T-Mobile's iPhone 5 ad is a low-budget revolution CNET T-Mobile decides it will present the case for its new iPhone 5 offer very simply. Yes, of course it uses the word "revolutionizing."Vive La Revolution. What's the ... Zuckerberg bores staff in new Facebook Home ad CNET In a quite stunning acting debut, Facebook's CEO shows the virtues of Home and the difficulties of being a CEO. His employees aren't impressed. Method acting? Huge attack on WordPress sites could spawn never-before-seen super botnet Ars Technica Security analysts have detected an ongoing attack that uses a huge number of computers from across the Internet to commandeer servers that run the WordPress blogging application. The unknown people behind the highly distributed attack are using more ... US spectrum sale must spur wireless competition - Justice Department Reuters By Alina Selyukh. WASHINGTON | Fri Apr 12, 2013 3:59pm EDT. 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