| Touch Interaction - Multi-Touch: An Evolution |
| Apple has drastically revolutionised the way in which people interact with machines, starting with the iPhone. Of course touch technology did not just appear out of thin air. Its roots go as far back as the 1940s |
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| Think the Brighter Side to Piracy |
| Sometimes the doorway is opened up for the content creators themselves. There are instances in which piracy was actually beneficial, and I draw this point to a particular incident involving an independently produced movie named "Ink". |
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| These Companies Would Still Be Here In 5 Years |
| Microsoft The company does not have an impressive strategy of how it wants to shape the permanently dwindling meaning of operating system in conjunction with Cloud Computing and thus also the risk of office products. |
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| Build Up Your Dream House with PC (Part 4) |
| Software as Sketchup is not a shortcut for 7 years studying about architecture, or paying someone who has that training. However, for those who want to build, expand or renovate their home, it allows them to participate in the design process. |
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| Build Up Your Dream House with PC (Part 3) |
| When you are ready to hone ideas, software can be very helpful. Any illustration package, including free Serif DrawPlus Starter Edition, will help you to draw rectangles and other geometric shapes and sizes which are easily quantified. |
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| Build Up Your Dream House with PC (Part 2) |
| The expansion of current home can be easier to perform, because in most cases you will not need to find a building permission. However, you should find out what you can and cannot do before starting to do anything. |
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| Build Up Your Dream House with PC (Part 1) |
| Architectural design is always a two-way path between an architect and a client, but the tools today makes the dialogue become smoother than ever. So if you have already been gifted with architecture ability since the time you played Lego, it is time to stimulate your imagination - and PC - and start designing. |
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| 2012 - The Year to Come (Part 4) |
| The end of browser plug-ins is coming closer in 2012. With HTML5, which is the new version of description language for websites, have audio, video and graphic elements directly integrated into it. This would make plug-ins like the Adobe Flash Player obsolete. |
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| 2012 - The Year to Come (Part 3) |
| The 3D buzzword will also hit processors in 2012 as Intel will be delivering the first Ivy Bridge chips with three-dimensional transistors, known as Tri-Gate. The reason for the seemingly strange name is a component of the transistors, the channel, which will now protrude out from the otherwise flat layer. |
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| 2012 - The Year to Come (Part 2) |
| In 2012, 3D would not be the only focus for TV-panel developers. 2D presentation will undergo a significant progression. 4K Resolution, or Quad-full-HD, will see its way to succession. The 4K panels display can achieve 4,096 x 2,160 pixels, which is four times more than regular full HD resolution (1,920 x 1,080 pixels). |
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| 2012 - The Year to Come (Part 1) |
| This year, you may be able to fold your smartphone’s display in any way you want. Light-field cameras will be able to turn your blurry images sharp, even after taking it. The forerunners of some other trends are already here: the first Ultrabook notebooks – thin as tablets and costing less than $980 – is already available in the market last Christmas. |
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| Fallen IT Giants |
| The brutal IT market does not allow the computer industry a single breath of relief. Wrong decisions at significant places or a slight hesitation at the wrong time could lead to the downfall of even the largest multi-billion dollar IT giants |
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| The new iPad - Should you buy it now? |
| There are a certain lot of people out there who buy every single Apple product released. Yet the majority of them are more discerning. They’re feeding their necessities or desires. |
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| IT faces the mobile device test |
| The analysts and data center management at the Consumer IT Technology in the enterprise (CITE) meeting of the IDG Enterprise in San Francisco last week mainly advises companies to capture and control consumer devices rather than against using them in the workplace. |
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| Wall Street’s “Technology Bubble” 2.0 |
| The Information Technology Bubble, or Dot Corn Bubble, began in earnest with the rapid popularity of the internet as a means of communicating, trading information and doing business. |
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| Standarlize Desktop Computer (Part 2) |
| For small companies, standard desktop computer is easier to develop, and processes are often easier to manage. But for big companies, all changes for standard images and key apps become confused so fast. |
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| Standarlize Desktop Computer (Part 1) |
| An impulsive influence behind the effort to standardize is worry of security. IT can cause situation that bag apps can disrupt network, or old apps have bugs that hackers can exploit. |
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| Apple may soon have a new competitor |
| What makes this an interesting move is it would help address the hardware fragmentation problem among PC garners. This would also attract more developers to PC gaming and create a system that serves as the go-to entertainment center past just gaming. |
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| Apple, Google to meet with Schumer over privacy concerns |
| A week ago, The New York Times published news reports stating that the location sharing app on smartphones and tablet-PCs were surreptitiously stealing personal content from users and using it for generating targeted advertising. |
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| A brief history of transforming robots (Part 2) |
| An animated movie was released, which resulted in a large change to the toy line as well. Not only did the movie kill off many of the original characters, it also introduced new toys that were created specifically for the movie. |
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| A brief history of transforming robots (Part 1) |
| Japan has long held a fasciantion with transforming robots. As early as 1934, Tank Tankuro, a little robot samurai starring in his own comic strip was pulling weapons out of his rotund body, and extending wings and propellers to fly. |
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| Computing Dictionary (April – 2012) |
| Silicon Valley has long been notorious for churning out jargon along with its electronics, and it isn't showing any signs of slowing. With the rise of each new trend, more tech terms find their way into our day-to-day vocabulary. Right now, social media is the chief jargon offender. |
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| The giant of Cambridgeshire (Part 4) - Processor and cores |
| To most technically-minded PC users, a processor is the large component that sits on the motherboard, and which forms the heart of the PC. A core, on the other hand, of which there might be two, four, six or eight, is a part of a processor that’s responsible for executing instructions. |
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| The giant of Cambridgeshire (Part 2) - The RISC philosophy |
| Having used the term RISC to describe the ARM chip that powered the Archimedes, and because the same tag can be applied to today’s ARM technology, it makes sense to start by investigating this approach to the design of a microprocessor. |
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| The giant of Cambridgeshire (Part 1) |
| For as long as most of us care to remember, the battle for the mainstream processor market has been fought between two main protagonists, Intel and AMD, while semiconductor manufactures like Sun and IBM traditionally concentrated on more specialist Unix server and workstation ma. |
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| UK tech skills crisis |
| Schools in the UK arc failing to equip young people with the skills they need to succeed in high-tech industries according to Ofsted and NESTA (the National Endowment for Technology and the Arts). |
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| Graham Barlow: the Apple view |
| Apart from walking past him while he was surrounded by a gaggle of security men on the show floor a couple of times, the closest I got to Steve was when he made a surprise appearance in the Regent Street Apple Store at the UK launch of the original iPhone in 2007. |
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| Graham Morrison: The advocate |
| Even suggesting that there’s too much choice is controversial, as I’ve found out in the past, and Miguel has brewed a small storm with his statements. But there are two elements in his argument that change the angle, and I think set a new challenge for both Linux and Windows for the next 10 years. |
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| Automated cities : App development & Urban OS in the UK |
| Urban Plan IT is developing a bank of PlaceApps for Urban OS, but the company plans to publish its API so everyone from partners like Microsoft to self-taught bedroom coders can try their hand at PlaceApp development and even sell their creations in a virtual store. |
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| Searching for Google’s future (Part4) - Smarter search |
| The Google algorithm is regularly tweaked to make spammers’ and scammers’ lives more difficult, but it has much bigger plans. in the near future, expect Google to offer autonomous search - results that appear before you knew you might be interested in them. |
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| Searching for Google’s future (Part 3) - Gene genie |
| As one of the planet’s biggest computer users, Google has long worried about its environmental footprint (not to mention its electricity bill), and has designed its data centres to use as little energy as Possible. |
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| Searching for Google’s future (Part 1) - Taking the tablets |
| Despite its success on phones, Android isn’t doing so well in tablets, where even the most generous estimates admit that Apple is giving everyone else a kicking — and in 2012, Windows 8 will bring Microsoft’s considerable muscle to the market. |
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| Small Business Development Centers - Assistance For Entrepreneurs |
| Starting and running your own business is tough, but fortunately for prospective and current small business owners, SBDCs (Small Business Development Centers; asbdc-us.org) dispense with the cliches and offer training, counseling, and other assistance to help you craft your vision into a real-world success. |
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| VIRTUALIZATION SOFTWARE |
| VMware declared that Fusion 4.1 is 2.5 times faster than its predecessors in 3D Graphics are. When running Fear at Max detail level on MacBook Pro 2.4GHz, we reached 22fps of speed. Comparatively, Fusion 3.0 only reached 16fps in Windows XP. There is some love for other operating systems than Windows in the form of ready-made Linux/Unix virtual machine (VM) images, which is downloadable from VMware. |
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