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bkkz
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Here's how you can piss off someone that you hate. place a For Sale ad on craigslist, and mention an iPad 64Gb for $150 and put his phone number in it. He'll get endless phone calls and messages and the best part is he won't be able to delete the ad since he didn't post it. Well, he could flag it but there's no guarantee that it'll get deleted.
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Posted on: 6:05 am on Aug. 29, 2011
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PussyLover 69
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Report from AFP dated 14 September 2011 :-
Microsoft previews Windows 8, stresses tablets
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SAN FRANCISCO - Microsoft pulled back the curtain on new Windows computer operating software designed to power not only personal computers but also rivals to Apple's iPad.
Windows division president Steven Sinofsky stressed touchscreen tablets on Tuesday as he boasted of the diverse types of hardware that Windows 8 will run after its official release.
Sinofsky was part of a Microsoft team that provided an in-depth look at Windows 8 to software developers at a BUILD conference the US technology giant is holding this week in southern California.
"We re-imagined Windows," Sinofsky said. "From the chipset to the user experience, Windows 8 brings a new range of capabilities without compromise."
Windows 8 was crafted to allow all kinds of computers to be controlled with taps or swipes of screens, gestures familiar to owners of smartphones or tablet computers.
The operating system was also designed to let separate applications work together and to synchronize files across various Windows 8 devices.
Sinofsky demonstrated the point by having a picture taken on a camera-enabled desktop computer pop up on a tablet.
"Windows 8 works beautifully across a spectrum of devices, from 10-inch tablets and laptops to all-in-ones with 27-inch high-definition screens," Microsoft said.
Windows 8 was shaping up to be Microsoft's answer to criticism that it had ceded the tablet computer space to Google's Android platform and Apple, which has dominated a market it ignited with the release of the iPad.
"It is a blend, a hybrid, that attempts to give a person the advantages of an iPad and the advantages of a Macbook Air (Apple laptop) in a single device," said analyst Rob Enderle of Enderle Group in Silicon Valley.
"This is going to be interesting," he continued. "The hardware optimizing it will likely be some touch-enabled ultrabook."
Microsoft was so eager to get independent developers working on applications for Windows 8 that it gave tablet computer prototypes to each of the 5,000 BUILD attendees so they could begin tinkering with the software.
The week-long gathering will be crammed with sessions at which developers will be tutored in nuances of building applications for Windows 8.
"It's a lot about how developers can build applications that create this new touch-centric environment," said Wes Miller, research director at independent analyst firm Directions On Microsoft.
"Windows 8 is a redesign from the ground up," he continued while at the conference. "We are really hearing tablet size and up, all the way into supersized desktop computers."
Software savants unable to attend BUILD will be able to download developer copies of Windows 8 at dev.windows.com beginning at 0300 GMT on Wednesday.
Windows 8 has to hit several more milestones before a polished version will be released to hardware makers for installation in devices heading for market.
"This is a pre-release product," Sinofsky said. "You saw some little snafus today; there are going to be more of them."
Windows 8 will be refined with the help of feedback from developers. Microsoft declined to predict when a final version would be ready for release.
"We are going to be driven by the quality not the date and just be focused on building applications right now," Sinofsky said.
Windows 8 was also crafted to complement Live computer programs that Microsoft offers as online services as part of a strengthening trend toward using applications in the Internet "cloud."
About 542 million people each month sign into Windows Live services, the array of which includes Hotmail email, SkyDrive file storage, and Xbox gaming, according to Microsoft.
Windows 8 will give rise to unusual new hardware designs fusing features of tablets and laptops, Enderle predicted.
"Think of this as Microsoft taking all the cards that we know, love and trust and throwing them in the air," Enderle said. "After next year the line will get massively blurry between laptops and tablets."
The analyst expected Apple to react by combining its winning software and coveted devices in creative new designs.
"I think Apple is going to have to respond to this and will probably be more out-of-the-box than the makers of Windows hardware," Enderle said.
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Posted on: 10:45 pm on Sep. 13, 2011
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PussyLover 69
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Report from Reuters dated 29 September 2011 :-
Amazon ignites tablet war with Kindle Fire
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NEW YORK - Amazon.com took the wraps off its long-awaited "Kindle Fire" on Wednesday, tacking on a mass market-friendly US$199 (S$255) price tag that poses a serious threat to the dominance of Apple's two-year-old iPad.
The eagerly anticipated gadget, while lacking many of the high-tech bells and whistles common on tablets from cameras to 3G wireless connection, may sound the death knell for a raft of devices based on Google's Android. The software powers tablets made by Samsung, Motorola, Asustek, HTC and LG Electronics
Dotcom-entrepreneur and billionaire-CEO Jeff Bezos unveiled to a packed audience the gadget he hopes will wed Amazon's books, movies, music and other content with cloud or Internet-based storage and Web browsing.
"People have been waiting for a tablet for 200 bucks for a long time and this is the best one I've seen so far," Tim Stevens, editor-in-chief of gadget review website Engadget, told Reuters.
The Kindle Fire tablet has a 7-inch screen, free data storage over the Internet and a new browser called Amazon Silk.
Amazon expects shipments to start on Nov. 15 - hitting store shelves at Best Buy BBY.N and other chains just in time for the peak holiday shopping season.
By pricing the Fire at less than half the iPad - yet stripping out costlier components and features - the Internet retailer hopes to get the device into millions of consumers'hands, who in turn will buy Amazon content.
One key differentiator that might help the Fire stand out during the cut-throat holidays is Amazon's "EC2" cloud computing service, which supports Internet browsing and helps speed loading of websites. That was not available on rival tablets, Stevens noted.
'BLOOD BATH'
"Expect a blood bath as pricing will have to get extremely aggressive," said Mark Gerber, an analyst at Detwiler Fenton & Co. He expects Amazon to sell at least 3 million Kindle Fires this holiday season, taking the No. 2 spot in the tablet market.
The Fire was unveiled alongside several rock-bottom-priced versions of the basic Kindle reader, with the lowest at $79 - a clear challenge to Barnes & Noble Inc's Nook that will surely force the ailing bookstore chain to try and match.
Amazon shares closed 2.5 per cent higher, while Barnes & Noble dropped 7 per cent. Apple shares dipped 0.6 per cent.
"These are premium products at non-premium prices," Chief Executive Jeff Bezos said. "We are going to sell millions of these."
Analysts had expected Amazon's tablet to be priced around $250, roughly half the price of Apple's dominant iPad, which starts at $499. The Nook Color e-reader costs $249.
The Web retailer might be angling for a lower-end slice of the market that Apple - which maintains a careful grip over its higher-end branding and margins - has traditionally steered clear of.
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Posted on: 10:47 am on Sep. 29, 2011
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DaffyDuck
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Before any idiot jumps on the "iPad killer" bandwagon - the Amazon Kindle Fire is not an iPad killer, and it doesn't intend to be one.
If anything, it's a disruptive product to all other Android tablets, because those guys still haven't figured out any sort of market strategy, and it will seriously cause Android tablet makers to hemorrhage more loss of actual sales and subsequently money.
Basically, if you have $200 to spare/waste, you'd buy the Fire, and end up with a media consumption device that des email and web browsing, instead of spending $500-$700 on a 5" to 7" Android tablet... that does the same.
... or you'd buy an iPad that does a lot more.
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Thai Women : Meet Matured Thai Women
Posted on: 10:12 am on Oct. 3, 2011
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China Sailor
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So I can assume that you will not be buying the Fire then eh iDuck?
Well I would not either, a standard Kindle does fine enough...
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Attractive Thai Girls
Posted on: 4:47 pm on Oct. 3, 2011
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DaffyDuck
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Actually, I have a nook color and a nook Touch.
I like the nook product design far better, and I bought the color because it is extremely easy to mod and hack into a regular Android tablet, which is how I stay abreast of what Android is like.
The nook Touch, to me, is the perfect eInk reader - small, compact, touch only, and IMO more polished than Amazon's designs.
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Posted on: 12:19 am on Oct. 4, 2011
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China Sailor
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More polished iDuck, possibly but I was not concerned with that.... I like the fact that the Kindle free 3G cxn works in Singapore 
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Attractive Thai Girls
Posted on: 8:26 am on Oct. 4, 2011
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