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		<title>Maybe the Point of Chromebooks Isn&#8217;t Chromebooks</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/16/maybe-the-point-of-chromebooks-isnt-chromebooks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 20:40:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here at Google&#8217;s I/O conference, it&#8217;s safe to say that many attendees entered yesterday morning&#8217;s keynote expecting that it would involve the announcement of at least one or two major new gadgets. It didn&#8217;t, unless you count the pure-Android version of Samsung&#8217;s Galaxy S 4 that Google will begin selling on June 26. And the one gadget which was doled out to attendees, the Chromebook Pixel, wasn&#8217;t an I/O debutante: it was announced back in February. Some of the folks I chatted with after the keynote were disappointed by its lack of gadgetry. I wasn&#8217;t. As my colleague Jared Newman explains, this year&#8217;s keynote was mostly devoted to building out existing Google services and software &#8212; search, Android, Google Maps, Google+ and more &#8212; in ways which aim to make them more useful and appealing. The stuff the company has in store looks meaty and ambitious; add it all up, and it matters more than a new tablet or phone would have. And even though Google didn&#8217;t announce any new Chromebooks, I think I left the keynote with a better understanding of why Google thinks Chromebooks matter. Almost four years after Google unveiled Chrome OS, it&#8217;s had, at most, a modest impact. Chromebooks are hits on Amazon.com and have gained at least some traction at brick-and-mortar stores. There&#8217;s a market for these things, but they&#8217;re not going to drum conventional PCs out of business anytime soon. I wonder if Google might be perfectly fine with the possibility that Chromebooks will wind up occupying a niche rather than changing the world. When the company announced at the keynote that conference attendees were getting Chromebook Pixels, it said that the idea was to encourage development of great apps. But there really aren&#8217;t such things as Chromebook apps &#8212; that&#8217;s the whole point of a Chromebook, which offers a browser as its user interface and the Internet as its back end. If a developer uses a Chromebook to create something cool, it&#8217;ll be a web app &#8212; one which will also work in<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162924&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>HP SlateBook x2: What the Netbook Should Have Been</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 17:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Techlicious / Fox Van Allen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you remember netbook computers? They were all the rage for a couple years due, in part, to their inexpensive prices. But you got what you paid for – a portable, low-powered device designed to do the absolute bare minimum. These days, netbooks have largely been replaced by tablet computers. But Hewlett Packard is taking one more stab at the netbook market with the HP SlateBook x2, a tablet hybrid that doubles as a basic laptop computer. Powered by Android Jelly Bean, the device features a best-in-class 10.1-inch HD touchscreen, front- and rear-facing cameras, a quad-core NVIDIA Tegra 4 processor, 64 GB of storage, and an included. What&#8217;s special, though, is the included detachable magnetic keyboard, which has a built-in touchpad for laptop-like computer and a second battery built right in. It’s the evolution of the netbook. Is the SlateBook worth your money? It&#8217;s a bit early to say whether it merits inclusion in our list of the best 10-inch tablets, but HP&#8217;s new hybrid certainly does have a lot going for it. The tablet-esque device starts at $479.99, and it carries many of the features you should expect at that price point. But it does go above and beyond – after all, the detachable magnetic keyboard with touchpad comes included in the price, and that&#8217;s something other manufacturers charge $150 for. And the inclusion of a second battery means you can squeeze up to 8 hours of fun out of the device, which is simply hard to beat. It’s terrific for traveling with kids, especially considering Jelly Bean’s built-in parental controls. The SlateBook x2 starts at $479.99, and will be available for sale starting August 2013. For more information on choosing the right tablet computer, be sure check out Techlicious&#8217;s How to Buy a Tabletguide. This article was written by Fox Van Allen and first appeared on Techlicious. More from Techlicious: How to Buy a Tablet The Best Kid-Friendly Tablets The Best 10-inch Tablets<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162902&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ongoing Coverage of Google&#8217;s I/O Conference</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/14/google-io-coverage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 19:44:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday, May 15, Google is kicking off its I/O conference in San Francisco &#8212; the biggest three days of the year when it comes to news about Android, Chrome, Glass, search and other Googley matters. My colleague Jared Newman and I will be there for ongoing coverage, beginning at 12pm ET/9am PT on Wednesday, when the conference begins with a three-hour keynote. Join us then and throughout the week for our take on the show, its announcements and whatever new gadgets debut, all on this page.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162779&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Next-Generation PC: A Modest Proposal</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/12/the-next-generation-pc-a-modest-proposal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 03:56:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I keep linking to posts by Michael Mace of Mobile Opportunity for one simple reason: they&#8217;re all great. In his newest piece, Mace comes up with some specific suggestions for how the traditional PC can make a giant leap forward in the years to come, without merely mimicking the tablet: Although Windows and Macintosh are both showing their age, I think there is enormous opportunity for a renaissance in personal computing. (By personal computing, I mean the use of purpose-built computers for productivity tasks including the creation and management of information.) I’m not saying there will be a renaissance, because someone has to invest in making it happen. But there could be a renaissance, and I think it would be insanely great for everyone who depends on a computer for productivity. In this post I’ll describe the next-generation personal computing opportunity, and what could make it happen. I don&#8217;t instantly buy all of Mace&#8217;s ideas &#8212; for one thing, I&#8217;ve never seen a 3D display, at any price, with or without glasses, that doesn&#8217;t feel like an unsuccessful party trick &#8212; but they all make for excellent reading.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162614&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lenovo Sent Over a Tabletop PC, and Now I Want Gigantic Screens Everywhere</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/10/lenovo-sent-over-a-tabletop-pc-and-now-i-want-gigantic-screens-everywhere/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 12:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For better or worse, most nights at the Newman household wind down with screens in our faces. My wife checks e-mail or does a crossword on her laptop. I fiddle with a tablet. The TV plays Yankee baseball or a recent episode of The Daily Show/Colbert Report in the background. Last night was a little different. We played Connect Four, then Othello, then Monopoly &#8212; with a screen in our faces. Instead of playing the old-fashioned way, we were enjoying our board games on a 27-inch touch display, laid flat on the coffee table. The screen in question was a Lenovo IdeaCentre Horizon 27&#8243; Table PC, which the company sent over for review. For its size, it&#8217;s a reasonably thin all-in-one PC running Windows 8. Its built-in kickstand is quite stiff, so you can adjust the screen to any angle. It also has a built-in battery with about two hours of juice, so you can temporarily unplug it or relocate to another outlet without shutting the computer down. I&#8217;ll have more to say about the IdeaCentre Horizon in a few weeks, after I&#8217;ve spent more time with it. But it&#8217;s already convinced me of one thing: I want gigantic screens like this all over the house. I want them in the kitchen, the living room and even the bedroom in place of a television. Heck, let&#8217;s throw one in the bathroom too. I&#8217;m not saying I want huge computer screens in my face all the time &#8212; my wife would never approve, for one thing &#8212; but I&#8217;d love the option to have one wherever I happen to be. Smartphones and tablets only go so far. You have to hold them up close to see what you&#8217;re doing, and their size limits how much information they show on the screen. The smaller screen also makes it harder to have shared experiences with other people, like playing a board game or looking at photos. With a tablet, you must always crane your neck forward or hold the device up in your arms. You<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162483&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft: 100 Million Windows 8 Licenses Sold, Windows Blue This Year</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/07/microsoft-100-million-windows-8-licenses-sold-windows-blue-this-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 04:03:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With Windows &#8212; perhaps more than any other major tech product &#8212; it&#039;s difficult to come to definitive conclusions about how it&#039;s doing based on raw numbers. A gigantic number of new PCs are going to ship with the current version of Windows no matter what; sales figures don&#039;t tell you what people think of Windows 8 once they get it, and convey only so much about whether typical consumers see it as an inducement to buy a new computer, or an argument against doing so. That said, some numbers are better than no numbers &#8212; and in a new Q&#38;A blog post, Tami Reller, the Microsoft executive responsible for the business side of Windows, has disclosed some new ones, while failing to mention one meaningful metric. Reller says that Microsoft has sold more than 100 million copies of Windows 8 since the operating system shipped on October 26. That means that the new version has matched Windows 7&#039;s performance rather precisely: that version also sold 100 million licenses in the first six months. Again, it&#039;s tough to know what to make of this fact. You could argue that Windows 8 should be outpacing Windows 7 given that there are now more PCs in the world than there were in 2009, when Windows 7 debuted; then again, you could also make the case that stable Windows sales are an accomplishment given that PC sales have been plunging lately. Me, I&#039;ve said all along that Windows 8&#039;s sales during its first few months didn&#039;t matter much. If we end up looking back at Windows 8 as a success, it&#039;ll be because it turned out that its radical change helped Windows stay relevant in the post-PC era. If history judges it a failure, it&#039;ll be because the reinvention didn&#039;t work. Either way, this thing is so much of a departure that it&#039;ll take more than six months before we know. (Disclaimer: by &#8220;post-PC era,&#8221; I don&#039;t mean an era in which the PC doesn&#039;t matter. I just mean that it&#039;s no longer<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162202&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft&#8217;s Strategic Blunder With Windows 8</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/06/microsofts-strategic-blunder-with-windows-8/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 13:40:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Bajarin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Article updated at 3:13 p.m. EDT on May 6, 2013 to correct reference to Lamborghini paddles being used for steering. The paddles are used for shifting. Last fall, I had the opportunity to drive a Lamborghini at a corporate event that I attended in Monterey, Calif. This was a very cool experience since I have never driven such an expensive ($200,000-plus) car, let alone a serious racing car on a racecourse. When I was being prepped to drive it, the professional driver that was to be in the car with me went through the cockpit controls and showed me how they all worked. The dashboard controls looked like they were from an airplane, given the number of dials and complex features. The instructor pointed out that while the car had a steering wheel, it also had the racing paddles used for shifting gears, which made steering the car easier and smoother when going fast on a racetrack. These are amazingly sensitive paddles that make controlling the car easier at fast speeds with curves; they&#8217;re not for the untrained or faint of heart. When he was showing me these paddles, I became very concerned. I thought he was trying to teach me to use them too quickly before we were to take off. Thankfully, he said the paddles would be disengaged, and I would use the steering wheel for our drive. He also disabled a lot of other features a true race-car driver would use. As a result, I was basically sitting in a normal car with a normal steering wheel, brake, accelerator and speed gauges. The fact that I was going to get the car to 100-plus miles an hour on the straightaway still freaked me out, but the knowledge that I knew how to drive a normal car, even if this version was a race car, was ultimately comforting. The drive was truly exciting, but as I reflected on it, this race car was pretty much a normal, albeit highly expensive and very souped-up car. And because I knew how to drive<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162081&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>These New Acer Laptops Are Wild, Man</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/03/these-new-acer-laptops-are-wild-man/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 18:10:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Say what you will about Windows 8. If it&#8217;s done anything, it&#8217;s gotten hardware manufacturers to rethink the tried-and-true laptop design. Case in point: two new machines from Acer – the 15.6-inch Aspire R7 and the 11.6-inch Aspire P3. Let&#8217;s start with the Aspire R7, as it&#8217;s the wildest of the pair: Where in the name of all that&#8217;s sensible in this world is the trackpad? Ah, here it is behind the keyboard: Why, why, why? To make you touch the screen is why. The screen is &#8220;mounted on Acer&#8217;s &#8216;Ezel Hinge&#8217;,&#8221; according to the company, so it &#8220;can flip, reverse, lie flat or float.&#8221; Acer&#8217;s angle is that the closer the screen is to you, the less cumbersome it is to touch it while using it in laptop mode. As you can see in the above video, the screen can be flipped backward to show something to someone sitting across the table from you. Or you can fold it down flat to use the R7 like a tablet. The whole thing tips the scales at over five pounds, however, so this is a computer first and a tablet second. It&#8217;ll be available May 17 from Best Buy, with a suggested retail price of $1,000. Then there&#8217;s the Aspire P3. It&#8217;s a trackpad-less touchscreen Ultrabook wherein the 11.6-inch screen detaches from the included keyboard cover for use as a tablet: We&#8217;ve seen similar designs from the likes of the Microsoft Surface tablets, the Lenovo Helix getup we saw at CES, and a handful of Android tablet combos. This one&#8217;s got some decent oomph under the hood, Acer&#8217;s promising &#8220;up to six hours&#8221; of battery life, and when folded into its keyboard case, it looks like it&#8217;d be easy to tote around: Undocked as a tablet, the P3 weighs a wee bit over three pounds and measures a little over three-quarters of an inch thick. It&#8217;s available &#8220;immediately&#8221; for $800, according to Acer, though I&#8217;m not able to find a place to buy it quite yet. More info: Aspire R7 Product<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=161847&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>State of the Tablet Market: 3 Takeaways</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/03/state-of-the-tablet-market-3-takeaways/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 12:04:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By now, it&#8217;s clear that anyone who thought tablets were a fad is dead wrong. According to IDC, tablet makers shipped 49.2 million units during the first quarter of 2013, for an increase of 142 percent over the same period a year ago. PC sales, meanwhile, are down to 76.3 million units shipped. At this rate, it&#8217;s safe to assume tablets will overtake PCs by the end of the year. IDC&#8217;s figures aren&#8217;t gospel, because for the most part they aren&#8217;t based on official numbers from hardware vendors. But as a general sense of what&#8217;s going on, they provide us with a few interesting takeaways: Apple Isn&#8217;t In Tablet Trouble Percentage-wise, Apple&#8217;s tablet shipments aren&#8217;t growing as quickly as the competition. Samsung, for instance, enjoyed 283 percent year-over-year growth. Asus&#8217; shipments went up by 350 percent, while Amazon&#8217;s shipments went up by 157 percent. Apple&#8217;s growth? A mere 65 percent. The difference led CNet to wonder whether Apple is &#8220;losing its edge&#8221; to other tablet makers. No, it&#8217;s not. For one thing, the numbers for Apple represent sales to end users, rather than shipments, so it&#8217;s possible that the company has shipped many more units than IDC&#8217;s figures let on. Even if we ignore that discrepancy, iPad &#8220;shipments&#8221; increased by 7.7 million, compared to 10.6 million for the next four tablet makers combined. And most of those companies only boosted their market share by sacrificing profits and selling tablets for dirt-cheap&#8211;something Apple hasn&#8217;t done to nearly the same extent. Other tablet makers are addressing a part of the market that Apple hasn&#8217;t, but that doesn&#8217;t mean they&#8217;re eating Apple&#8217;s lunch. Amazon Isn&#8217;t Destroying Android Just like last year, Amazon&#8217;s tablet shipments dropped off big time after the holidays, with just 1.8 million Kindle Fires shipped, compared to 6 million in Q4 2012, but it&#8217;s not as bad as it looks. Shipments don&#8217;t equal sales to end-users, and as NPD analyst Stephen Baker pointed out a year ago, Amazon tends to ship lots of units during the holidays, and then sell them<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=161727&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Intel &#8216;Iris&#8217; Chips Boast Improved Graphics Performance for Gaming</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/02/intel-iris-paves-way-for-more-pc-gaming/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 17:52:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The rule of thumb for PC gaming used to be that if you wanted to play anything serious, you needed a dedicated graphics card. That&#8217;s not really true anymore. Modern PC chips have their own integrated graphics processors, and lately they&#8217;ve been getting better at handling modern games. Now, Intel is continuing the trend with &#8220;Iris,&#8221; a brand of graphics processors that will be built into next-generation Haswell chips. Integrated graphics have a three major benefits over dedicated graphics cards: they produce less heat, they consume less power and they don&#8217;t cost as much. That&#8217;s why most of today&#8217;s thin-and-light laptops, and pretty much all Windows 8 tablets, forgo dedicated graphics. (One notable exception is the Razer Edge, a powerful gaming tablet that has some serious drawbacks to battery life, thickness, heaviness and heat.) Despite their advantages, integrated graphics have a bad rap among PC gamers, many of whom wouldn&#8217;t consider a machine that lacked its own graphics processor. But Intel is making some big promises that could cause gamers to take a second look. The company says some Iris-equipped Ultrabook laptops could provide double the graphics performance over its current processors, and desktop PCs with Iris could offer triple the performance. As Anand Lai Shimpi points out, the Iris name is largely about branding. Intel needs to send a message that its products can compete with dedicated graphics cards like Nvidia&#8217;s GeForce and AMD&#8217;s Radeon. As such, Intel is only reserving the name for higher-voltage laptops and desktops. Intel&#8217;s low-voltage chips for tablets and certain laptops will retain the old &#8220;Intel HD&#8221; graphics moniker. In other words, Iris will be a name to look for when you want decent graphics performance out of your laptop. In reality, Iris may not sway hardcore gamers, at least not at first, and definitely not in desktops, where battery life, weight and heat are non-issues. The greater potential lies in people who might like to play a few games, but wouldn&#8217;t want to buy a laptop specifically for that purpose. With Iris, the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=161689&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What the PC Industry of Tomorrow Looks Like</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/29/what-the-pc-industry-of-tomorrow-looks-like/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Bajarin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are, without question, an industry in transition. The 500-lb. gorillas who once dominated the technology industry are undergoing major transitions and experiencing new types of growing pains. And for many, this is extremely painful. These titans will rise or fall based solely on their ability to manage this transition and these new types of growing pains. So what&#8217;s growing, exactly? Opportunity. From Business to Consumer For the past 30 years, the computing industry only appealed to a small group of people – namely the business community. Many companies such as Microsoft, IBM, Dell, HP, Intel, RIM and others got their start by creating products and solving problems for business users. What many of these companies are learning is that business users are as different from ordinary consumers as night and day. I specifically peg Apple’s turnaround to this observation. Apple has and always will be a consumer company, one that struggled until there was a true consumer market. Now Apple finds success where others have not, simply because the company has always had a vision of creating products for ordinary people. Apple had to wait more than two decades for its true market to emerge. Now, emerge it has and it is billions strong. A key point signaling this shift was the recent news about the PC’s decline in Q1 sales. Who usually bought PCs in bulk in the first half of the year? It wasn’t consumers. It was businesses. In years past, bulk purchases by enterprise and business buyers helped offset the lack of consumer spending for PCs in this buying cycle. With businesses shifting to BYOD, it’s doubtful the first half of the year will yield the volumes it once did. What we are witnessing in clamshell PC sales is not really massive declines. It is simply the new normal. The consumer market will dwarf the business-pro market by magnitudes. The PC industry of the past is not the PC industry of the future. The opportunity has shifted from business to consumer, and it is growing faster than many anticipated.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=161243&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kim Komando Explains PCs, Circa 1994</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/26/kim-komando-explains-pcs-circa-1994/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2013 00:18:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A video has been rocketing around the Internet &#8212; I came across it at Andrew Sullivan&#039;s Daily Dish &#8212; which compresses a whole lot of video of Kim Komando teaching very basic information about computers into two minutes and forty-seven seconds. Judging from the products shown, I think it dates from between 1993 and 1995. It&#039;s weirdly transfixing. Komando has to explain what a printer is, and keeps bringing up typewriters. She has a manner that reminds of Mister Rogers, if he were a blond lady carnival barker from New Jersey. And her primary goal is to reassure worried newbies that computers aren&#8217;t scary or impossible to understand. Here she is doing it&#8230; Here&#039;s a full-length video of Komando doing her thing from the same era. And a TV infomercial &#8212; hosted, inevitably, by an emotive man in a Cosby sweater &#8212; in which she hawked her VHS tapes. Kim Komando is still at it, and though the big hair and shoulderpads are gone, and she&#8217;s more polished, her approach hasn&#039;t changed much. In this fairly recent clip, she addresses the burning question &#8220;What is a browser?&#8221; I find these hugely entertaining, but I don&#039;t mock what Komando does, and I think the fact she&#039;s been successfully doing it for decades should tell us something. One of my favorite people in the world (hint: she gave birth to me) believes that her web browser is named &#8220;Google.&#8221; If there weren&#039;t a lot of folks in her boat, Kim Komando wouldn&#039;t have an enduring livelihood.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=161184&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Three Questions I Hope Google Answers Before Google Glass Is Released</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/23/three-questions-i-hope-google-answers-before-google-glass-is-released/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 19:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You wanted to know when you could finally lay hands on a pair of Google&#8217;s slender new cyber-glasses, and now we have&#8230;if not a precise release date, at least a more concrete timeframe: early next year, according to Google chairman and former CEO Eric Schmidt. Speaking to BBC News, Schmidt noted the company is now shipping pre-release versions of the glasses to developers (Schmidt added there&#8217;ll be thousands in the wild over the next few months). After developer feedback and some final tweaks, the glasses will go on sale. That&#8217;s a &#8220;year-ish&#8221; away, said Schmidt, indicating early- to mid-2014. That might seem like a while, given prior intimations from the company that we&#8217;d see these things by 2013&#8242;s close, and yet it&#8217;s hard to imagine it being enough time for the company to address some of the critical questions below. Should Google Glass be wearable/usable while operating motorized (or even non-motorized) vehicles? I wondered about this a few weeks ago, asking whether we ought to ban Google Glass while driving (as West Virginia preemptively &#8212; and I argued wrongheadedly &#8212; just did). This is a research question. What research? Exactly. Has anyone studied what happens if people wear interactive glasses while operating a motor (or non-motor, like a bike) vehicle? Not that I&#8217;m aware of. What does it do to reaction times if you tilt your view up slightly (from straight ahead) to scan whatever the glasses are displaying on that tiny, translucent, monocle-like screen? Are there different thresholds of operational safety between cyber-glasses and smartphones? Should Google Glass have an optional &#8220;Driving Mode&#8221; similar to a smartphone&#8217;s &#8220;Airplane Mode&#8221; that takes certain functions offline? What about augmented reality? Could certain applications make driving with Google Glass safer by enhancing what we&#8217;re seeing out the windshield? And if Google Glass doesn&#8217;t include usage profiles, how responsible should we expect the public to be in autonomously deciding which functions to invoke and which one&#8217;s not to while behind the wheel? It&#8217;s going to be a lot harder to tell what someone&#8217;s doing<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=160813&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Michael Mace on the PC Industry&#8217;s Woes</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/23/michael-mace-on-the-pc-industrys-woes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:21:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Mace of Mobile Opportunity has blogged at length about the proposed buyout(s) which would take PC behemoth Dell private. If, like me, you don&#8217;t care much about whether Dell is public or private, that might sound tedious. But it&#8217;s actually a wonderful, wonderfully insightful read, because Mace&#8217;s real topic is the future of the PC business &#8212; especially the Windows PC business &#8212; in general. Along the way, he also says something about business and punditry which we should all keep in mind every time we read anyone&#8217;s analysis of anything: The problem with analyzing a company’s motivations is that you tend to assume there’s a logical explanation for the things it did. Often there’s not. Company managers are frequently fearful or misinformed, and sometimes they just make dumb mistakes.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=160824&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Can the PC Industry Resurrect itself?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/22/can-the-pc-industry-resurrect-itself/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 09:45:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Bajarin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[IDC&#8217;s recent report stated that PC shipments declined 13.9% last quarter, the worst since IDC has been tracking PCs. It says a lot about the state of the PC industry. The role PCs are playing in people&#8217;s lives is changing, and the growing demand for tablets and smartphones has taken its toll on the PC market. Last week my son Ben, in his column for TIME Tech entitled &#8220;The iPad-Sized Nail in the PC&#8217;s Coffin&#8221; laid much of the blame on the iPad for deflating PC sales. Ben also made the point that people are either keeping their current PCs longer or if they buy a new PC or laptop, they buy cheaper models because they are &#8220;good enough&#8221; to use for any computing needs that can&#8217;t accomplished on a tablet. But is the PC really dead? And if not, how will PC vendors respond to this challenge from tablets and smartphones? It turns out that people have found they can do as much as 80% on a tablet that they used to do on a PC. However, they have also found out that tablets by themselves cannot meet all of their digital computing needs, especially for handling things like media management, extensive photo editing, making complex home movies, doing their taxes and other similar tasks. This suggests that if they only need a PC 20% of the time, the need to buy an expensive PC does not make sense for most people. For the past 10 years, a good part of PC sales were for laptops and PCs in the $799-$999 range &#8212; those which have higher-end processors, extended graphics capabilities and more on-board memory and hard drive space than laptops and PCs priced well below $699. We are hearing from consumers that if they only use a PC or laptop 20% of the time, the highest price they want to pay is $599, with most preferring price points of $399-$449. This is why Ultrabook sales have been very disappointing for the PC vendors who hoped that their touch-based<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=160733&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Windows 8 Needs More Apps Like TouchMail</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/18/windows-8-needs-more-apps-like-touchmail/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 21:27:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Opinion on Windows 8 may be all over the map, but here&#8217;s one thing we all should be able to agree on: the more apps that take full advantage of the Windows 8 interface, the better shape the operating system will be in. What it needs, and hasn&#8217;t had, is a profusion of killer apps. At yesterday&#8217;s DEMO Mobile conference in San Francisco, I saw one of the first third-party Windows 8 programs that got me excited: TouchMail. As its name indicates, it&#8217;s an e-mail client designed for touch input. More important, though, it&#8217;s an e-mail client that feels like it was born to work well on Windows 8. For instance, instead of a conventional inbox, you get tiles which show incoming messages and provide a longer-than usual snippet of text. (They can be color-coded, so you can spot messages from your boss or your spouse.) You can zoom out to see more and more messages; if you go far enough, the tiles turn into icons representing the messages&#8217; senders, and you can quickly slide back to a particular day, week or month. TouchMail looks like it could be a super-efficient way to blast through vast quantities of mail; its creators say it&#8217;s designed for folks who get at least a hundred messages a day. It&#8217;s a little premature to judge it, though: the version which is live on the Windows Store is a teaser rather thank a working e-mail program. In fact, you can&#8217;t use it to get your own mail yet, only to view some sample messages. At DEMO, TouchMail&#8217;s creators got questioned by a doubtful judge about why they chose to launch on Windows rather than other platforms. (I understood his reasoning, but I was still startled &#8212; even five years ago, I can&#8217;t imagine anyone thinking that Windows wasn&#8217;t the by far the most obvious operating system to launch a new product on.) It turns out that they do intend to bring their creation to other devices, beginning with the one I use most, the iPad.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=160556&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chromebooks Have a &#8216;Leap of Faith&#8217; Problem</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/18/chromebooks-have-a-leap-of-faith-problem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 12:52:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever since Google launched the first Chromebooks two years ago, the company&#8217;s vision for always-on, cloud-based computing has been a tough sell. Now, we have proof of how tough it&#8217;s been. As Ed Bott at ZDNet reports, Chromebooks only account for 0.023 percent of Web traffic, according to NetMarketShare. Those stats jibe with an earlier report by (the admittedly unreliable) DigiTimes, which claimed that only 500,000 Chromebooks have been sold to date. While Samsung&#8216;s $250 Chromebook has been living at the top of Amazon&#8217;s best-seller list for a half a year, overall usage doesn&#8217;t seem very high. In fact, Windows RT, which has been panned as a commercial disappointment, has a greater share of usage than Chrome OS according to Bott. He concludes that it&#8217;ll be at least a few years before either operating system has a chance at mainstream appeal. That seems like a reasonable assessment. Still, as someone who owns a Chromebook (Samsung&#8217;s $450 Series 5 550), and who has been enthusiastic about the concept, I want to think about why Google&#8217;s web-based operating system hasn&#8217;t taken off. The overly simple answer is the one I&#8217;ve heard over and over: No one wants to buy a computer that only runs a web browser, when you could buy one that runs real software for roughly the same price. The real answer, I think, is a bit more nuanced, and it has a lot to do with the current state of the PC market. PC sales are tanking because households aren&#8217;t replacing all their old laptops or desktops. As Gartner has pointed out, families are relying on a shared PC for productivity, and in the meantime, they&#8217;re buying tablets or using their smartphones for casual computing. Chromebooks can&#8217;t compete with tablets for that kind of use. The laptop design just doesn&#8217;t make as much sense when you&#8217;re on a couch or laying in bed, and the Chrome Web Store isn&#8217;t a suitable replacement for native apps. Chromebooks are better as productivity devices&#8211;for sending e-mails, typing documents and doing web-based research.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=160414&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Toshiba&#8217;s New KIRAbook Is an Ultra-Ultrabook</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/17/toshibas-new-kirabook-is-an-ultra-ultrabook/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 00:03:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the things I like about Intel&#8216;s Ultrabook concept is that it&#8217;s surprisingly elastic. As long as a PC maker builds a laptop that&#8217;s relatively thin, relatively light and relatively fast-booting, it has wiggle room to go off in its own direction. With the KIRAbook, which was announced today &#8212; I got a sneak peek in person last week &#8212; Toshiba has moved aggressively upscale. The company&#8217;s been making Ultrabooks all along, but this is by far its highest-end model to date. Actually, it may be the highest-end Ultrabook anyone&#8217;s made: even its cheapest version is $1599.99, a hefty starting pricetag for any computer, and $700 more than the cheapest MacBook Air. Then again, Toshiba hasn&#8217;t stinted on the specs and industrial design. The KIRAbook&#8217;s most impressive feature is its 13.3&#8243; displasy, with 2560-by-1440 resolution and 221 pixels-per-inch. It&#8217;s in the same league as Apple&#8216;s Retina-display MacBook Pros and Google&#8216;s ChromeBook Pixel; a resolution that high is something new for Ultrabooks and for Windows notebooks in general. Even Apple&#8217;s MacBook Air, from which the KIRAbook, like all Ultrabooks, draws inspiration, doesn&#8217;t have it. Toshiba says that it color-calibrates every KIRAbook by hand before it leaves the factory, then stores those settings at the BIOS level so they can&#8217;t be accidentally erased. One downside to the display, as reported by PCWorld&#8217;s Michael Brown: the system supports video output to an external screen at a relatively low maximum of 1920-by-1080 resolution via HDMI. In person, the KIRAbook doesn&#8217;t look quite as much like a MacBook clone as it does in the photograph above, though it&#8217;s certainly reminiscent of Apple&#8217;s design, down to the wedge shape. It&#8217;s made of AZ91 magnesium, not aluminum (Toshiba says it&#8217;s twice as strong) and at 2.6 pounds, it&#8217;s lighter than the Air. From what I saw, the build quality looked impeccably premium. The trimmings are upscale, too: the machine ships with full versions of Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements, two years&#8217; worth of Norton security services and a two-year warranty with 24/7 phone support based in<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=160497&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Intel Is Basically Trying to Revive the Netbook</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/17/intel-is-basically-trying-to-revive-the-netbook/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:19:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The netbook is dead. Or so says nearly every pundit, analyst and research firm that watches the PC market. But don&#8217;t tell that to Intel, whose next-generation processors will power a wave of dirt-cheap Windows laptops later this year. CNet reports: &#8220;If you look at touch-enabled Intel-based notebooks that are ultrathin using [Bay Trail] processors. Those prices are going to be down to as low as $200,&#8221; said Intel CEO Paul Otellini. The Bay Trail chip is a complete redesign of the Atom micro architecture and is expected to get Atom chips closer to mainstream Intel chips in performance. Okay, so no one at Intel actually says the word &#8220;netbook.&#8221; You can&#8217;t blame them, given the death sentence the product category has received. But all the signs are there: sub-$300 price tags (possibly spurred by discount Windows 8 licenses), Atom-based processors and small screens (we assume, given that Atom chips are nearly impossible to find in larger displays). It all seems so familiar. The only difference &#8212; aside from the non-netbook nomenclature &#8212; is that these laptops will have touchscreens. But will they suffer from all the ailments that afflicted the netbooks of old? I owned an MSI netbook about five years ago. It had a low-quality display, an uncomfortable trackpad and a cramped keyboard. It easily became bogged down by running too many programs or browser tabs at once. It had to be replaced a few months in when its hard drive failed. When it got stolen a year later, I never considered buying another one. The inferior experience didn&#8217;t justify the cost savings over a regular work laptop. And for casual computing, the iPad became a better alternative. I don&#8217;t want to judge the next wave of netbooks without seeing the actual products. It&#8217;s just amusing to see Intel tout a category of PCs that it used to insist people should not like. You know what they say about desperate times.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=160428&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is It the End for Handwriting? Are Tablets Doing Penmanship In?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 13:50:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is handwriting on the way out? Is scribbling with a pencil or ink pen on actual paper destined to become a cultural relic? The BBC wonders in a brief piece that presents the arguments in two columns, one that views (cursive) writing as critical &#8212; a matter of heritage and art, the other suggesting that we&#8217;re clinging to handwriting for mere nostalgic reasons. I don&#8217;t have the answer, but my penmanship has been in decline for years because I write almost never (just to sign checks or mortgage documents, and even then, it&#8217;s chicken scratch &#8212; were my signature an EKG chart, I&#8217;d be dead). A decade ago, finishing my graduate degree, I was filling spiral-bound notebooks with tiny, barely legible notes &#8212; for some goofy reason, I liked to cram two written lines between each 9/32 of an inch horizontal writing space. In the 2000s, I switched to a notebook computer for everything, because I can type and revise a lot faster than I can scribble something down or erase and rewrite it. I&#8217;ve since folded smartphones and tablets in, my notes automatically synchronized, easily accessible and readily available for copying, printing or emailing. I know many who&#8217;ll swear by legal pads and no. 2 pencils, who &#8212; even if they eventually have to type things out &#8212; prefer to write by hand. They argue that by actually writing things out, they&#8217;re slowing the creative process down, allowing themselves more time to consider what they have to say. Consider the hypothetical advantages if you know you&#8217;re going to revise what you&#8217;ve written anyway &#8212; as they say, most of writing well is revision. And yet Jeffrey Reaser, the North Carolina State University linguistics professor interviewed for the piece makes a powerful point: &#8220;The resources that schools are given, the most important resource probably is time. There&#8217;s only so many hours in the school year, we have to think about what really fits in there in terms of our priorities.&#8221; What do you think? Pen and paper are as much<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=160292&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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