Although Microsoft is just getting started with its 2012 Surface tablets (as shown above), the company plans to launch three new devices in the next year, according to a well-known source of leaks. . According to this source, Microsoft will release another ARM-based Surface tablet running Windows RT. But instead of the Tegra 3 chip in the existing Surface, it'll have a Qualcomm processor, and instead of a 10.6-inch touch screen, it'll have an 8.6-inch display. in the upcoming Surface.
It wouldn't be a mischaracterization to equate the industry to the wild, wild west. There is such a variety of vendors gunning at one another and the industry is young enough that true winners and losers have not yet been determined. Amazon has established itself as the early market leader, but big-name legacy IT companies are competing hard, especially on the enterprise side, and a budding crop of startups are looking to stake their claims, too. In its latest report, research firm Gartner lists 14 infrastructure as a service (IaaS) companies, but Network World looked at four of the biggest names to compare and contrast: Amazon Web Services, Rackspace (and OpenStack), Microsoft and Google. It's hard to find someone who doesn't agree that Amazon Web Services is the market leader in IaaS cloud computing. The company has one of the widest breadths of cloud services—including compute, storage, networking, databases, load balancers, since it debuted its cloud six years ago and fairly consistently fills whatever gaps it has in the size of virtual machine instances on its platform—the company recently rolled out new high-memory instances, for example.
Sony's Sound Forge Audio Studio 10 ($70, currently on promotion for $49, free feature-limited demo) may not be the most modern-looking of applications, but it's an audio editor with impeccable 2-channel chops. There's no support for 2.1, 5.1 or 7.1 multi-channel audio, nor piping to the Celemony Melodyne editor. But it supports just about every other audio editing feature, including the vast majority of VST effects plug-ins. SFAS imports a wide variety of stereo files including wave files up to 32-bits/192kHz, Windows and Apple lossless, FLAC, and Ogg. The only file type it wouldn't load was my APE file. Editing is extremely quick and facile, and there are numerous time-saving presets for diminuendos, dynamic swells, flanging, normalizing, etc. You may also save your own presets. The program includes Sony's Audio Enhancer, a very capable multi-purpose mastering tool. . The Izotope plug-in that comes with the program is much better but it's not included in the 15-day trial, which is otherwise fully functional. The other effects and processing are top-notch. .
Just because you’re on a smartphone or tablet doesn’t mean you can’t print. In a few easy steps, you can set up Google Cloud Print to print from just about any mobile device. The first thing you need to do is sit down at a desktop or laptop that’s already connected to a printer. Sign into your Chrome browser and go to to set up the printers and mobile devices so they match your preferences. Back on your Android device, go to Google Play and download .) Once you’re in Cloud Print, you can open something in Google Drive, Dropbox, Google Calendar, or even Mail and send it to the printer that’s linked to your desktop or laptop.
will cease publication December 15 after failing to find a large enough audience to support it. was a bold experiment in digital publishing and an amazing vehicle for innovation,” News Corp. Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch said in a statement. “Unfortunately, our experience was that we could not find a large enough audience quickly enough to convince us the business model was sustainable in the long-term.” future was to be reassessed after the U.S. presidential election on November 6. that took several weeks to work out, frustrating users and possibly pushing some readers away for good.
If you've heard that companies don't hire during the holiday season, don't believe it, says career expert and LinkedIn spokeswomen Lindsey Pollak. and avoid the looming fiscal cliff. . "I ignored that advice [that companies don't hire in December] back in 1999 when I interviewed for and was offered my dream job at a career-focused Internet start-up just a few weeks before Christmas," Pollak says. "The same can happen for you."
It's common for websites requiring registration to offer a social-sign-in option. That allows the consumer to use their credentials from a social networking site, such as Facebook or Twitter, at the new site, thus avoiding the need for creating yet another username and password to remember. On some sites, though, social-sign-in isn't an option but a requirement—a requirement that some of those sites have started reconsidering. followed suit last Friday. in October, it required registration to Facebook or Twitter to use it. That's no longer the case.
At the ripe old age of 20, text messaging is still a popular way to communicate, but there are signs that its best days are behind it. The on December 3, 20 years after Neil Papworth, an engineer for Sema Group in the United Kingdom, sent a “Merry Christmas” greeting from a personal computer to the oversized cellphone of Vodafone Director Richard Jarvis. Nowadays, cell phone users around the world send more than 7 trillion text messages per year. But in November, average text messaging per U.S. user , from 696 messages per month to 678 messages per month. This could be the first sign of shift away from the 160-character SMS, but certainly not its demise. The decline can be easily blamed on several factors: Web-based communications such as Facebook and Twitter provide an alternative to SMS, both through one-on-one messaging and through public or semi-private posts to large swaths of other users. E-mail is a major factor as well, given how easy it is to access on a smartphone.
Samsung remained the most popular phone maker in the U.S. in the third quarter, but Apple is slowly closing in, the latest report finds. With a couple of successful smartphones under its belt this year, such as the , Samsung ranked as the top smartphone manufacturer with more than 26 percent of the U.S. market, an increase of 0.7 percentage points. Apple is still a distant second at 17.8 percent after a 1.5 percent increase, which helped the company outrank LG by 0.2 percentage points as the number two phone maker. LG dropped almost 1 percent in the three months ending in October 2012.
Yahoo users in 2012 were most interested in their civic duty, but Apple gadgets, reality stars, swimsuit models, celebrities, and the British royal family were also important topics. That's according to the Web portal's top searches of 2012, released Monday along with a host of other top search lists for 2012 including the biggest obsessions, gadgets, memes, and scandals among Yahoo users. You can find all of the top lists on site, but here are some of the highlights. Yahoo users in 2012 were all about the U.S. Presidential horse race, with the search term “election” taking the top spot as the most searched topic. Following closely behind was the highly anticipated iPhone 5 from Apple; after that, Kim Kardashian—in the news over her ongoing divorce drama, among other things.
Acknowledging that it "grew too fast" Y Combinator chief Paul Graham says the high-profile startup factory is cutting the number of startups it accepts into its classes from a current 84 to "less than 50" for the Winter 2013 class.
John McAfee, the millionaire software executive turned semi-fugitive, was?falsely?reported captured over the weekend. Now, in a new post on his blog, he claims that he's left Belize for another country in the company of two Vice journalists and his longtime female companion, Sam. He also noted that Vice would be publishing a story today that ...
Over the weekend, a group of 3-D printing gunsmiths took a partially printed rifle out to test how long its plastic parts survived spewing bullets. The result? Six rounds until it snapped apart.
Thanks to their mobile phones and tablets, Americans spent way more time on social media in 2012.
The Pope officially joined Twitter on Monday, and the internet is already asking him the tough questions. Like who would win in a fight, Jesus or Wolverine?
Unused shipping containers from Amsterdam are to be recycled to create housing for homeless people in the English cities Brighton and Hove.The 36 containers were initially intended for a similar use in Amsterdam ? as studio apartments to deal with the city's housing crisis ? but have been relocated to Brighton after the Amsterdam project remained unfinanced.
In it's first analysis of Martian soil, NASA's Curiosity rover detected perchlorate salts and simple organic compounds but the probe's science team can not yet determine if the carbon in these materials is indigenous to Mars.
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Internet rumors have been swirling for several weeks of a secret venture backed by private entrepreneurs that would return people to the moon's surface. It seems that the veil will finally be lifted this week, during a press conference in Washington D.C. on Dec. 6.
Engineers working for the Assad regime in Syria have begun combining the two chemical precursors needed to weaponize sarin gas. International are now terrified that the Damascus government could use its nerve agent stockpile to slaughter its own people.
Mozilla's latest effort to bring the social web to Firefox taps the company's fledgling Social API to create a demo that puts real-time video calls, files sharing and chat right in the browser. It's one part Skype, one part Facebook and all parts open web.
Requiring content providers to establish bilateral relationships with all of the network operators that comprise the global Internet simply cannot be made to scale ? because every Internet user is a potential content provider.
Say goodbye to catenary wires. Utah State University has unveiled an electric bus that charges through induction, topping off its batteries whenever it stops to pick up passengers.
The rice paper shade on IKEA's Regolit floor lamp isn't the most durable material. When Samuel Bernier found an otherwise-working Regolit with a torn-up shade, he decided to replace it with a 3-D printed cover of his own design.
Volkswagen pimps the sweet new Jetta Hybrid with a fuel economy race from San Francisco to Los Angeles.
Re-designed and re-launched, the Jawbone Up is a rubbery thing you wear on your wrist that works in concert with a smartphone app to track your activity, sleeping habits and meals.
Snowboarding, surfing, childbirth, zombie apocalypse, DEA raid -- whatever the activity, you can be prepared to hit the road at a moment's notice if you keep a well-stocked satchel at the ready.
Raspberry Pi, the new and novel credit card-sized computer, has inspired the minds and workshops of an entire hacking community, not only developing software projects for it, but creating external interfaces with clever abandon. We've rounded up a few of our favorites to share with you here.
We?re not sure what we love most in these vintage public service announcements: the retro filming, the awkward dialogue, the sometimes bizarre celebrity combos (Gloria Steinem and Chuck Heston?), or the valuable information about NASA?s spin-off technologies.
The photography innovation you've been waiting for: light-field cameras that let you digitally adjust photos after the fact.
There's a lot of sky-is-falling doomsday predictions about the World Conference on International Telecommunications, which opens Monday in Dubai with some 190-plus nations discussing the global internet's future.
It's becoming the trademark move of failing regimes: silence your critics and cripple their communications by cutting off the internet. Libya did it. Egypt too. And last week, Syria pulled the plug on its own internet system. According to new research from network monitoring company Renesys, it could just as easily happen in many other countries too, including Greenland, Yemen, and Ethiopia.
[HTML1] WORLD'S MOST WIRED Photographer David Breashears There is a moment in Al Gore?s 2006 documentary An Inconvenient Truth when the former vice president brings out a cherry picker and extends his graph of climate change stats?literally off the chart and into the rafters of the lecture hall. Photographer David Breashears sees Gore?s cherry picker and raises ...
You might be sick of seeing Windows 8 and Surface ads, but they the aren't the worst of Microsoft's marketing efforts.
On the road with eBay Now, an experimental one-hour delivery service that eBay hopes will make it the company shoppers think of first as the place to get anything, anytime, anywhere.
Stealthy, brainy, deadly flying robots aren't just for Americans any more.
There's a largely covert war to the auto industry over the operating systems that will control the gadgets in and behind your dashboard. As in the smartphone biz, the battle line is between proprietary and open-source software.
Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.
Here are Wired's staff picks for the best toys to give and get this season.
The way to save the Devils Hole pupfish, says evolutionary biologist Andy Martin, is to introduce genes from its cousin, the Ash Meadows Amargosa pupfish, which is native to a spring just a few miles away. Martin wants to take one or two and drop them in with their endangered relatives. That simple act would have profound implications. It would protect the Devils Hole pupfish by rewriting its genome.