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		<title>LA to Give Every Student an iPad; $30M Order</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 20:32:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(NEW YORK) — Los Angeles&#8217; school system, the second largest in the country, is ordering iPads for all its students, handing Apple a major success in its quest to make the tablet computer a replacement for textbooks. The Los Angeles Board of Education on Tuesday approved the purchase of $30 million worth of iPads as the first part of a multi-year commitment. It found that the iPad was the least expensive option that met its specifications. Apple says the initial order is for more than 31,000 iPads. The Los Angeles Unified School District has more than 640,000 students in kindergarten through 12th grade. The textbooks will be delivered through an application from Pearson, a major publisher. MORE: How Apple Will Disrupt the TV Market<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=165102&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Official: Nook Tablets Are Now Ridiculously Cheap</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:43:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once upon a time, Amazon&#8217;s Kindles and Barnes &#38; Noble&#8217;s Nooks were very similar content-consumption tablets at very similar price points. No longer. In May, Barnes &#38; Noble rolled out a software update that allows Nook HD and HD+ users to use Google&#8217;s standard Android apps and buy new software and content from the Google Play store, knocking down the walled garden that forced you to buy books, magazines and other content from B&#38;N. And now the bookselling behemoth is extending a Father&#8217;s Day special — it&#8217;s still a &#8220;limited time&#8221; offer, though with no specified end — that leaves the Nook HD and HD+ with prices that are ridiculously cheap even for cheap tablets. The 7-inch Nook HD, normally $199, is now $129; the 9-inch Nook HD+ has plummeted from $269 to $149. By contrast, Amazon&#8217;s 7-inch Kindle Fire HD is $199 and its 8.9-inch model is $269. (It does have a basic model, the Kindle Fire, for $159.) These models are no longer exact counterparts to B&#38;N&#8217;s Nooks: for instance, the Nook HD+ is lighter than the Kindle Fire HD 8.9 inch, but doesn&#8217;t have a camera. But when it comes to raw bang for the buck, the Nooks trounce Amazon and everyone else. Why is Barnes &#38; Noble selling Nooks at prices that surely don&#8217;t leave room for a profit margin, and might involve a loss on every sale? Lots of folks are assuming that it has something to do with the rumors from February that the company might pull back on hardware in favor of selling content for other companies&#8217; gadgets, and therefore wonder if it&#8217;s holding a fire sale so it can exit the tablet market. Could be. But it&#8217;s also possible that B&#38;N is trying to clear out its stock because it has new models in the works. In either case, I don&#8217;t think people who buy a Nook HD or Nook HD+ are going to end up with a doorstop. Now that the tablets work with Google Play services, they&#8217;ll be useful no<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=164881&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Which Mobile Network Is Fastest? The Results from PCMag&#8217;s 30-City Speed Tests Are In</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:52:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PCMag has published the results from its annual test of mobile data speeds. Covering 30 cities around the country, PCMag used eight Samsung Galaxy Note II smartphones set to connect to the LTE and non-LTE signals of each of the four major networks (AT&#38;T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon). You can read more about the process here. The overall results from the tests seem to indicate that AT&#38;T logged the fastest LTE speeds in the most places, while Verizon held up well from a reliability standpoint and &#8220;aced every rural/suburban region&#8221; thanks to its nationwide LTE coverage. According to PCMag&#8217;s Sascha Segan: Overall, we found AT&#38;T&#8217;s LTE network to be the fastest of the group, but Verizon Wireless typically triumphed on our reliability gauges. T-Mobile&#8217;s new LTE network looked great in the few cities where we could find it, and it has the best backup in T-Mobile&#8217;s HSPA+ network. Sprint, just like in 2012, didn&#8217;t win any cities, but it&#8217;s on an upward trend by switching from obsolete WiMAX to a fresh LTE system. While results varied city by city, Segan concluded that all four carriers are &#8220;working hard and delivering better networks than they did last year,&#8221; adding, &#8220;There&#8217;s one thing clear, though: If you have an older 3G phone and you&#8217;re in an LTE coverage area, upgrade to an LTE phone right now. The difference in data performance is dramatic.&#8221; Fastest Mobile Networks 2013 [PCMag.com]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=164865&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why iOS 7 Looks Unfinished (Spoiler: It&#8217;s Because It&#8217;s Unfinished)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:44:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Among the many things that everybody knows about Apple which aren&#8217;t actually true is the notion that it only tells the world about products once they&#8217;re fully baked. In the case of operating systems&#8211;for Macs, iPhones and iPads&#8211;it always shows off new versions months before consumers can get their hands on them, when they&#8217;re still works in progress. That&#8217;s more by necessity than choice: The company needs to give third-party developers early access to upcoming upgrades so they can begin to get their apps ready. Usually, however, what Apple shows involves incremental change that&#8217;s easy to get your head around. It&#8217;s more of the same, only better, which is rarely a controversial proposition. Then there&#8217;s iOS 7, which Apple announced at last week&#8217;s WWDC keynote in San Francisco and plans to ship this fall. The seventh version of its mobile operating system is the first to depart&#8211;radically&#8211;from the general look and feel established by the first iPhone in 2007. It&#8217;s the most dramatic change to a piece of an Apple platform since OS X showed up to replace the Mac&#8217;s original operating system in 2000. With a stripped-down, layered interface spearheaded by Apple design god Jonathan Ive, iOS 7 practically demands that people form gut reactions about it, often before getting hands-on time. (The only people Apple is providing with a preview version are those who have signed up as iOS developers; they must sign a non-disclosure agreement that forbids them from publicly sharing their experiences with it.) And form gut reactions people have been doing&#8211;remarkably diverse ones. Here are a few sound bites from blog posts published within hours of the keynote&#8217;s end: John Gruber of Daring Fireball says iOS 7 is more impressive, in certain respects, than Steve Jobs-era iOS: This is the first product of the post-Jobs Apple. The result shows that in some ways Apple’s software design has gotten better, because it was Jobs (and Forstall) who had a penchant for exuberant textures and gimmickry. Frank Chimero thinks it looks like a rush job: Part of being<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=164539&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s Talk About iOS 7, OS X Mavericks and More</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/06/10/lets-talk-about-ios-7-os-x-mavericks-and-more/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2013 02:50:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TIME Tech&#8217;s Harry McCracken and Doug Aamoth talk about the software, products and services unveiled at Apple&#8217;s 2013 Worldwide Developers Conference keynote on June 10. More: Apple Unveils New Version of OS X, New Computers, iOS 7 and More Apple’s WWDC Sleeper Story: iWork for iCloud WWDC’s Software Announcements Are Apple’s Future Live Coverage of Apple’s WWDC 2013 Keynote<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=164419&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Apple Unveils New Version of OS X, New Computers, iOS 7 and More</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/06/10/apple-unveils-new-version-of-os-x-new-computers-and-ios-7/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 19:53:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apple opened up its 2013 Worldwide Developer Conference with a keynote address showcasing updates to the company&#8217;s OS X software, MacBook Air and Mac Pro hardware lines, and finished with a completely overhauled version of iOS, the software that runs on iPhones, iPads and iPod Touch portables. (VIDEO: Let’s Talk About iOS 7, OS X Mavericks and More) Here are the highlights: OS X Mavericks Apple has brought the tradition of naming its computer operating system after cats to an end. From now on, the California-based company will name its software after places in California. The latest version, OS X 10.9 is called Mavericks, named after a surfing area not too far from Apple&#8217;s headquarters. The software won&#8217;t be ready for the public until the fall, but a handful of features were shown off today, including: Finder tabs: Instead of having multiple Finder windows open, you can merge those windows into a single window with multiple tabs. The feature is similar to how certain tabbed Web browsers work. Tags: When saving a document, you can assign certain tags to it (Important, Draft, In Review, etc.) and pull up files that share the same tags. Multiple displays: When using a second display, you can access the menu bar and dock on the extra screen. You can have a full-screen app open on each screen and drag assets between the two. Connecting to an Apple TV box via Airplay will turn the TV set that the box is connected to into a third display as well. Battery life: Mavericks uses power-optimization features such as compressed memory, reduction of CPU utilization and &#8220;App Nap,&#8221; which manages how apps get access to system resources. Safari: The Safari Web browser has been updated with a sidebar containing your bookmarks, Reading List and a section called Shared Links that contains only updates from people you follow on Twitter and LinkedIn that contain links to various Web content. iCloud Keychain: iCloud Keychain securely stores all the passwords you use for different websites on whichever Apple devices you use and automatically<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=164375&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>WWDC&#8217;s Software Announcements Are Apple&#8217;s Future</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/06/10/wwdcs-software-announcements-are-apples-future/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 07:35:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a line quoted by countless people — including Steve Jobs — computer-science visionary Alan Kay once said people who are serious about software should build their own hardware. He was right, of course, but the reverse is also true: people who are serious about hardware should make their own software. That&#8217;s why lots of folks underestimate the importance of Apple’s WWDC, which begins in San Francisco on Monday with a keynote that I&#8217;ll be liveblogging beginning at 1 p.m. Eastern time / 10 a.m. Pacific time. Leading up to the conference, it&#8217;s traditional for folks to obsess over any tangible, physical objects that the company might unveil: iPhones, iPads, Macs, possibly even devices in all-new categories. This line of thinking is usually a recipe for disappointment: WWDC is a conference for software developers, about software, and usually doesn&#8217;t feature the year&#8217;s biggest hardware announcements. But Apple the software company is at least as interesting as Apple the hardware company. The news it does make at WWDC — which, this year, will include the next versions of the Mac&#8217;s OS X operating system and the iPhone and iPad&#8217;s iOS — provides a clearer idea of where the company is going than any particular gadget does. And while I don&#8217;t know anything specific about Apple&#8217;s plans for 2013, I do know that this is a particularly pivotal year for Apple operating systems. For one thing, this is the first year that Apple&#8217;s industrial-design honcho Jonathan Ive is in charge of the user experience on the software side as well as for hardware — a particularly literal example of a person who&#8217;s serious about hardware making software, and vice versa. Most of the scuttlebutt about Ive&#8217;s influence on software has related to a possible &#8220;flattening&#8221; of iOS&#8217;s interface into something simpler and less skeuomorphic. I&#8217;m not that intrigued with the influence Ive will have on software aesthetics; we know that he has good taste and favors minimalism, and that iOS and OS X will therefore end up looking tasteful and minimalistic. What I&#8217;m curious about<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=164329&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Google Keyboard App Now Available, No Nexus Required</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/06/06/google-keyboard-app-now-available-no-nexus-required/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2013 16:05:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google&#8217;s Android software includes one of the best smartphone keyboards around, but you might not know it if you own a phone from Samsung or HTC. Both companies, at least in their latest Android phones, have replaced the main Google keyboard with their own homemade offerings&#8211;and they&#8217;re not as good. I&#8217;m not crazy about the default keyboard on my HTC One, and Samsung&#8217;s been criticized by some reviewers for its own Galaxy S4 keyboard as well. Fortunately, Google is now offering a way for users running Android 4.0 and higher to install the company&#8217;s own software keyboard. Just head to Google Play, install the app, and follow the setup instructions. I like how simple and solid Google Keyboard is compared to other offerings. Individual keys have just the right amount of dark spacing between them, and just the right amount of vibration feedback when you press each letter. Gesture typing is supported, so you can drag a finger across each letter and the keyboard will predict the word you&#8217;re trying to write. By default, the keyboard uses names from your contact list for suggested words and corrections. It even tries to predict the next word as you type. None of this amounts to anything revolutionary. You can already find gesture typing and predictions in SwiftKey and Swype, which are also available through Google Play. But SwiftKey&#8217;s gesture typing doesn&#8217;t seem quite as accurate to me as the competition. As for Swype, I find that its non-gesture typing experience isn&#8217;t as solid as Google&#8217;s, and it requires you to use Dragon for voice dictation, rather than Google&#8217;s superior voice transcription. Google Keyboard is the best of both worlds, and it&#8217;s free. Previously, Google had only offered its own keyboard on phones running Android 4.2&#8211;the latest version of the software. It was possible to manually load the application onto an older Android phone, or to seek out an unauthorized version in Google Play, but neither of those solutions were ideal. By offering its own keyboard directly through Google Play, Google is continuing its<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=164160&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>FreedomPop&#8217;s Free Wireless Would Be Cool If It Wasn&#8217;t So Shady</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/06/05/freedompops-free-wireless-would-be-cool-if-it-wasnt-so-shady/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2013 21:22:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[FreedomPop, a company that sells wireless hotspot devices with free mobile data, is planning to offer a full-blown cellular service with free voice calls and text messages this summer. According to AllThingsD, FreedomPop has been amassing a pile of refurbished phones that once ran on Sprint&#8217;s 4G WiMax network, such as the Samsung Galaxy SII and HTC Evo 4G, and plans to sell them for under $200 with no contract. In exchange, FreedomPop subscribers will get 500 MB of data and 200 voice minutes (via VoIP) per month, plus unlimited text messages. FreedomPop hopes to make money by selling add-on services, such as unlimited calling, additional data and faster connection speeds. As AllThingsD&#8217;s Ina Fried points out, it&#8217;s a strategy reminiscent of dotcom-era companies like NetZero, which gave away basic dial-up Internet service for free. (Incidentally, NetZero rose from the dead recently with free wireless Internet service, but it only lasts for a year before customers must pay for subscriptions.) Is FreedomPop worth considering? Sure, but only if you&#8217;re keenly aware of its hidden costs and gotchas. And from what I&#8217;ve seen of FreedomPop&#8217;s existing free data service, the company seems to try its best to keep potential users in the dark. Here are a couple things to know about FreedomPop&#8217;s free data service, which is already available today: If you use less than 5 MB of data in a given month, you get charged a $0.99 &#8220;Active Status fee.&#8221; By default, when you reach your final 100 MB of data in a given month, FreedomPop automatically charges $10 to fill your plan back up. To avoid the automatic charge, you must change your billing settings on FreedomPop&#8217;s website. Finding the above stipulations on FreedomPop&#8217;s website isn&#8217;t easy. There&#8217;s no mention of them on the home page, nor on the terms of service page that&#8217;s linked from the home page. You&#8217;ll only find them on a separate &#8220;Service Plan, Equipment, and Payment Terms&#8221; page, which is linked from the main terms of service. Even then, the part about extra fees<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=164076&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft Office Included Free on Small Windows Tablets &#8212; But It Isn&#8217;t Really for Tablets</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/06/05/free-microsoft-office-for-small-windows-tablets-wont-really-be-for-tablets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2013 15:50:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If Acer&#8217;s $379 Iconia W3 is any indication, small Windows 8 slates will have a tough time competing on price with other cheap tablets. To compensate, Microsoft will include a free copy of Office Home and Student 2013 with &#8220;small screen&#8221; Windows 8 tablets. The Acer Iconia W3 is the first tablet to take advantage. Other small slates will likely follow later this year, when Microsoft releases Windows 8.1. Only tablets with screens smaller than 10 inches will qualify for the free version of Office, Engadget notes. While rumors had once hinted at a version of Office for iOS and Android, Microsoft now seems eager to use its productivity suite as an exclusive hook for Windows 8 and Windows RT. Microsoft&#8217;s own comparison of Windows tablets vs. Apple&#8217;s iPad touts Office as a key advantage, noting that the &#8220;only consumer Office app the iPad can run is OneNote.&#8221; There&#8217;s just one problem: Office 2013 isn&#8217;t really designed for tablets, let alone tablets with 7- to 8-inch displays, where screen real estate is limited. It only runs within the desktop, which isn&#8217;t really optimized for touch, and its smaller buttons are trickier to tap with a finger. (Ars Technica has a helpful post from last year showing exactly where touch becomes troublesome in Office 2013.) Although Office 2013 includes a &#8220;Touch Mode&#8221; that spreads out the spacing of buttons, it seems like a stopgap measure while Microsoft reportedly works on a proper modern-style version of its Office suite. At the moment, it&#8217;s unclear whether Office will become more tablet-friendly in time for Windows 8.1. That&#8217;s not to say Office 2013 will be of no value to small tablets. Compared to other mobile productivity suites, the full feature set and document compatibility of Office could make the desktop interface worth grappling with. It&#8217;s just not going to be a killer app until a true small-screen version comes along.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=164060&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sony&#8217;s Second-Generation Duo Is a Windows 8 Slider That Makes Sense</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/06/04/sonys-second-generation-duo-a-windows-8-slider-that-makes-sense/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2013 03:45:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Microsoft released Windows 8 last October, it unleashed a sudden burst of unbridled creativity among PC makers. Companies which had been making desktops and laptops in much the same form factors for decades started trying out fresh new ideas: notebooks that turned into tablets, tablets that turned into notebooks, all-in-one desktops which could be unplugged and used as portable tablet-top computers. The rampant experimenting was refreshing, but many of the machines felt like just that: experiments. Sony&#8217;s VAIO Duo 11, for example, was both a tablet and a notebook &#8212; you slid up the touch display to reveal a keyboard below. Intriguing! But doing the sliding was a cumbersome two-handed job. The system had an odd little pointing button instead of a touchpad. The battery life, at &#8220;up to&#8221; four hours and 45 minutes, couldn&#8217;t compete with an iPad. And at $1199 for an 11.6&#8243; display, the Duo felt pricey for a second computer and cramped for a primary one. Over at the Computex show in Taipei this week, PC makers are announcing scads of new computers &#8212; including ones that have learned lessons from the first wave of Windows 8 machines. One of them is the VAIO Duo 13, Sony&#8216;s second pass at the slider idea. The company recently gave me a sneak peek, and it looked like a markedly more practical take on the concept than the Duo 11. That practicality starts with the touchscreen. It still sports 1920-by-1080 resolution, but it&#8217;s now a markedly roomier 13&#8243;, which makes it feel like a full-sized portable computer rather than a miniaturized one. There&#8217;s a touchpad now instead of the previous model&#8217;s oddball pointer, letting you work with the Duo as if it were an utterly conventional PC. As before, you also get a pressure-sensitive pen for drawing and note-taking; a pop-out &#8220;inkwell&#8221; lets you temporarily stow it so it doesn&#8217;t get lost on your desk. Despite the bigger display and touchpad, the Duo&#8217;s footprint and weight (2.97 pounds) are only a skosh larger than that of the Duo<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=164006&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Intel: Don&#8217;t Worry, Many More Hybrids Are Coming</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/06/04/intel-dont-worry-many-more-hybrids-are-coming/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jun 2013 14:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just yesterday, I was lamenting how the perfect Windows 8 hybrid doesn&#8217;t exist yet. But in announcing the low-power version of its Haswell chipset, Intel says not to worry (emphasis mine): Speaking at Computex Taipei 2013, Executive Vice President Tom Kilroy said Intel has more than 50 different 2-in-1 designs in the pipeline across a range of price points, including premium Ultrabook 2-in-1s powered by the new Intel Core processors, and other designs powered by forthcoming processors based on the company&#8217;s 22nm Silvermont microarchitecture. Silvermont refers to a new low-power architecture that Intel will launch this holiday season, with Bay Trail being the name for the company&#8217;s quad-core tablet processors. Essentially, it&#8217;ll be a sequel to the existing Clover Trail chip found in hybrids like the HP Envy X2, but with big improvements in performance. What Intel didn&#8217;t specify, interestingly enough, is what operating system these &#8220;50 different 2-in-1 designs&#8221; will run on. Windows 8 and Windows RT will obviously have a presence, but Intel is keen on being a player in Android devices as well. The company has already said that it hopes to power some $200 Android notebooks later this year. Still, it seems like there will be plenty of opportunities for the right Windows 8 hybrid to come along. Now all we need is for PC makers to bring the hardware into existence.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=163972&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Still Waiting for the Perfect Windows 8 Hybrid</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/06/03/still-waiting-for-the-perfect-windows-8-hybrid/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2013 22:13:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite my early optimism for Windows 8 and its potential for interesting laptop-tablet hybrids, I must make a confession: I haven’t gotten around to buying one yet. It’s not because I lack the funds or the knowledge of what’s available. For the right machine, I’d be willing to spend $1,000 or more &#8211;it would serve the purpose of two devices, after all&#8211;and I’ve tested a handful of PCs that fall roughly within that range. But so far, none of them have hit all the right notes, and judging from what we’ve seen so far at the Computex trade show in Taiwan, it’s going to be a while until the perfect Windows 8 PC comes along. In theory, a good hybrid can be held like a tablet for casual uses such as web browsing and reading, but can also transform into a laptop for productivity. Although I mainly use my Nexus 7 for tablet computing now, it&#8217;d be nice to have a laptop that could double as a larger tablet as needed, so the hybrid concept is a good fit for me. Hybrids generally fall into two categories: Detachables like the Acer Iconia W510 let you separate the screen from the body, while convertibles like the Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga allow the keyboard and trackpad to fold out of the way. I’m open to either approach, but I’ve yet to see one of these machines meet all of the following criteria: 11-inch to 13-inch display Less than 0.8 inches thick (as a laptop) Weight around 3 pounds or less (as a laptop) At least 7 hours of real world battery life in tablet setting At least 4 GB of RAM Better screen resolution than 1366-by-768 Keyboard and trackpad that aren’t terrible. While these criteria were impossible to achieve together in the first generation of Windows 8 hybrids&#8211;with battery life being the biggest roadblock&#8211;new processors from Intel and AMD aim to bring major improvements to these devices. Intel&#8217;s Haswell processor, in particular, promises up to 50 percent more battery life with slightly better<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=163916&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why PCs Aren&#8217;t Dead&#8230;Yet</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/06/03/why-pcs-arent-dead-yet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2013 13:40:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Bajarin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve been following the business news lately, you&#8217;ve been hearing that demand for PCs is in decline. According to market researcher IDC, in the last quarter, PC shipments were down worldwide by 13.9%. And IDC forecasts that for all of 2013, PC shipments could be down about 7%. If you read the headlines, you might be led to think that the PC is dead and no longer of value. That is very far from the truth, though. Even with PCs being down 7% this year, we will still see over 340 million PCs and laptops sold around the world. While we will continue to see some erosion in PC demand each year going forward, PCs will continue to play an important role in business, education and even in the home. However, their usage model will be changing, which is inevitable given the fact that the PC is no longer the center of our digital universe. To get an understanding about the future role of PCs, tablets and smartphones, let’s look at how we at Creative Strategies think they will be used in homes, schools and business. For consumers, we see a real shift in the way they use digital technology. Most people’s lifestyles are very mobile. They go to work, go to school, go shopping, and go on social outings. Very few people are homebound, and digital technology needs to keep pace with people’s mobile lifestyles. So the tech world has given them powerful smartphones, tablets with bigger screens and laptops that are thin and light &#8212; and some with enough power to meet all of their digital needs. At the small-screen end, smartphones have become go-to devices for consumers and business users alike. Mary Meeker of Kleiner Perkins stated in a recent talk that “smartphone users reach for the phone 150 times a day, which includes 23 times for messaging, 22 times for voices calls, 18 times for checking time, along with multiple times when using it for social media, camera, alarms, music, playing games, looking at the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=163855&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Amazon Discounts Kindle Fire HD Tablets for Father&#8217;s Day</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/06/03/amazon-lops-20-off-kindle-fire-hd-tablets-for-fathers-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2013 12:32:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Starting today through June 8, Amazon is cutting $20 from its line of Kindle Fire HD tablets when you use the promo code DADSFIRE. The deal is good for the 7-inch, $199 Kindle Fire HD; the 8.9-inch, $269 Kindle Fire HD; and the 8.9-inch, $399 Kindle Fire HD with 4G LTE connection. The non-HD version of the 7-inch Kindle Fire is also available for $159, but there&#8217;s no discount. Also note that each model listed above includes &#8220;special offers&#8221; and &#8220;sponsored screensavers&#8221; that appear on the tablets&#8217; lock screens when they&#8217;re idle. You&#8217;ll need to pay an extra $15 to get rid of them. None of the Kindle Fire tablets come with wall chargers, either. Amazon sells a $20 wall plug, but you can plug the included Micro USB cord into a computer to charge the tablet instead.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=163886&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s Fact-Check Digitimes&#8217; Apple Reporting Once Again</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/06/03/lets-fact-check-digitimes-apple-reporting-once-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2013 12:10:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Business Insider&#8217;s Jay Yarow has a report on Digitimes, the Taipei-based tech news site which is famous above all for its Apple rumors &#8212; and the extremely spotty record thereof: Even though DigiTimes had the story on Apple first, no one really knew whether it was trustworthy. There&#8217;s a reason its iPad 4 prediction was laughed at. Despite a steady stream of scoops, nobody really trusts DigiTimes. In part, it&#8217;s because nobody has ever met a DigiTimes reporter. In part, it&#8217;s because DigiTimes has gotten a lot of stuff wrong. It appears to be getting better, and if it wanted, it could establish itself as a legitimate news source. The question that&#8217;s hard to answer, though: Is that what it wants? We emailed DigiTimes for an answer, and got no response. We&#8217;re not alone. The paper seems to rarely talk outside of its own pages. Yarow references an article I did a bit over a year ago in which I fact-checked 25 Digitimes stories about Apple. I found its record to be dismal: five of the pieces were correct or mostly correct, 16 were largely bogus and four involved future predictions I couldn&#8217;t judge at the time. Is Digitimes, as he says, getting more trustworthy? I&#8217;m not going to try and judge the year&#8217;s worth of Apple reporting it&#8217;s provided since my first article, in part because a lot more of its content resides behind its paywall today. But I can revisit the four stories from last year&#8217;s fact-check exercise that I couldn&#8217;t rate at the time. Let&#8217;s do that right now, shall we? Unsettled rumor #1: The Digitimes story: “Components for new 15-inch ultra-thin MacBook to start shipping in November,” 11/15/2011 The rumor: Apple will ship a new, thin laptop with a 15″ screen — which could be either a bigger MacBook Air or a svelter MacBook Pro — in either March or the second quarter of 2012 (the article seems to make both predictions). Looking back: Digitimes got it right. In June &#8212; the second quarter of 2012 &#8212; Apple<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=163869&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft&#8217;s Free Keyboard Cover Makes Surface RT Whole</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/31/microsofts-free-keyboard-cover-makes-surface-rt-whole/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 May 2013 21:33:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wanna buy one of Microsoft&#8217;s Surface RT tablets? Assuming you live in the U.S. or Canada, the company is now throwing in one of its Touch Cover or Type Cover keyboard add-ons at no extra charge. It&#8217;s a limited-time offer, although the company isn&#8217;t saying when it will end. Normally, you can get a Surface RT with a Touch Cover for $100 extra; that cover is $120 when purchased separately, and the Touch Cover Limited Edition and Type Cover are $130 apiece. So the free-cover offer is a deal. But the dollars and cents are less interesting than the fact that the offer turns Surface RT from a tablet with an optional keyboard cover into a tablet that comes with a keyboard cover. Both the Touch and Type covers are ingenious: they&#8217;re remarkably thin, draw power from the Surface and get out of the way when you don&#8217;t need them. They&#8217;re the most special thing about Surface, and the thing that Microsoft chooses to spotlight in Surface ads: The fact that the Surface&#8217;s most noteworthy feature was optional was always weird. Presumably, it was an artifact of Microsoft wanting to match the iPad&#8217;s $499 starting price without eating the cost of the keyboard covers. Now, as long as the special offer is in effect, it is eating that cost. (Surface Pro, which starts at $899, isn&#8217;t really a direct iPad competitor, and isn&#8217;t part of the special offer.) Seven months have passed since Surface RT&#8217;s debut. Despite all the attention it&#8217;s gotten and Microsoft&#8217;s advertising blitz, it barely seems to be a blip in the tablet market, saleswise. The product has faced multiple challenges: For the first part of its life, for instance, the only retail stores that sold it were those in its creator&#8217;s tiny Microsoft Store chain. It remains a Windows-branded computer that can&#8217;t run conventional Windows software, a fact which is difficult to explain to normal everyday folks who aren&#8217;t obsessed with technology. And it&#8217;s still tough for Microsoft or anyone else to make a case that<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=163822&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Apple Opening Up iOS: Four Ways It Might Happen</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/29/apple-opening-up-ios-four-ways-it-might-happen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2013 20:30:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apple CEO Tim Cook didn&#8217;t divulge any secrets during his question and answer session at the D11 conference on Tuesday, but he did reveal one interesting nugget about a change in the company&#8217;s thinking. In response to a question from AllThingsD&#8217;s Walt Mossberg about Apple&#8217;s tight control over iOS, Cook suggested that Apple may let apps do more on the iPhone and iPad than they&#8217;ve been allowed to in the past. &#8220;I think you will see us open up more in the future,” Cook said, &#8220;but not to the degree that we put the customer at risk of having a bad experience.” Cook did note that Apple walks a fine line, and doesn&#8217;t want to make customers dig deep into the settings. &#8220;The customer pays us to make certain choices on their behalf,&#8221; he said. &#8220;But will we open up more? Yes.&#8221; So what could Apple, realistically, open up on? Cook didn&#8217;t say, of course. But we can make a few educated guesses, based on Apple&#8217;s principle of trying to make the right decisions on the user&#8217;s behalf: Opening Up Siri Currently, Siri can interact with a small number of services handpicked by Apple. For example, you can have Siri purchase movie tickets through Fandango, or make restaurant reservations with OpenTable. But for now, the vast majority of apps cannot interact with Siri. You can&#8217;t ask Siri to play a song in Pandora, or dictate a note in Evernote without a workaround. Opening up Siri to all third-party apps might be tricky, but if Apple could pull it off, it would make the virtual assistant much more useful. Notification Center Widgets Although Apple doesn&#8217;t allow widgets on the home screen in iOS, it does have a few of its own widgets in Notification Center for stocks, weather and quick posts to Facebook and Twitter. Why not open up that capability to more apps? Users could open Notification Center to quickly glance at headlines in Flipboard or Pulse, or to keep an eye on sports scores from ESPN ScoreCenter. By now, users<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=163593&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hisense Sero Tablet Breaks the $100 Barrier, but Beware the Battery</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/24/hisense-sero-tablet-breaks-the-100-barrier-but-beware-the-battery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 16:48:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It never ceases to be surprising when the price of tablets drops to new lows. Take Hisense&#8217;s Sero 7 LT tablet, for example. The 7-in. (17.8 cm) Android tablet is on sale now through Walmart for a mere $99, undercutting bargain-tablet front runners like the Amazon Kindle Fire ($159), Barnes &#38; Noble Nook HD ($199), Google Nexus 7 ($199) and HP Slate 7 ($170). Despite the low price, the Sero 7 LT doesn&#8217;t seem terrible on paper. It runs Android 4.1 — not the newest version, but close — on a 1024-by-600-resolution display. It has a 1.6 GHz dual-core processor, 1 GB of RAM, 4 GB of storage and a 0.3-megapixel front-facing camera. A micro-HDMI slot allows the tablet to connect to external displays, and a microSD card slot allows expandable storage. But there&#8217;s one big caveat with the Sero 7 LT, not listed on Walmart&#8217;s product page: according to Engadget, TechRadar and others, this tablet will only last for about four hours on a charge. Most other tablets last at least twice as long. Even if you&#8217;re not planning on hours of consecutive use, a big battery allows you to keep your tablet lying around for days at a time, using it on and off throughout. With a four-hour battery, you&#8217;ll need to be extra mindful about plugging the tablet in when it&#8217;s not in use. Also, keep in mind that while the Sero 7 LT&#8217;s microSD slot compensates somewhat for the measly 4 GB of built-in storage, it&#8217;s not a cure-all. Some Android apps and widgets can&#8217;t be installed to a microSD card, and juggling two sources of storage can be a hassle. If the Sero 7 LT&#8217;s weaknesses amount to deal breakers, Hisense is also offering a $150 Sero 7 Pro model, with a 7-in. 1280-by-800-resolution display, a quad-core Nvidia Tegra 3 processor, 8 GB of storage and — best of all — a 10-hour battery, plus it runs Android 4.2. The specs are similar to Google&#8217;s Nexus 7, but with half the storage. On the plus side, the Sero has<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=163444&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mailbox: Still Beautiful, Still Clever, Now on the iPad</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 12:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lots of nifty new iPhone apps are instantly greeted by enthusiastic throngs of users, but when an e-mail app called Mailbox debuted in February, being excited over its arrival became a particular obsession in iPhone nation. Its creators put prospective users into a reservation queue that grew enormous, helping to reduce the strain on its servers while also stoking demand even further. I wasn&#8217;t startled by the rapturous reception: Mailbox is a beautifully-designed piece of software with clever tools intended to help you grind your inbox down to zero. But I didn&#8217;t use it all that much myself: I do 95% of my e-mail on my iPad, not my iPhone. And now I can, without forgoing Mailbox. The app, which was acquired by cloud-storage superstar Dropbox in March, is arriving on the App Store today in a version that brings all the iPhone edition&#8217;s goodness to the iPad&#8217;s larger screen. I was briefed on the news by Mailbox cofounder Gentry Underwood and have been living with the new version for a few days. As before, Mailbox works only with Gmail (for now), supports multiple accounts and lets you see them all combined into one inbox. Four gestures let you wrangle messages right from the inbox list with a quick flick of your finger: Swipe a message a little to the right, and it gets archived; Swipe it further to the right, and it&#8217;s deleted; Swipe it a little to the left, and you can postpone dealing with it by telling Mailbox to put it back at the top of your inbox at a certain point in the future, such as Later Today, Tomorrow, Next Week or a date you specify; Swipe it further to the right, you can add it to a list &#8212; Mailbox&#8217;s version of standard e-mail folders. And other than standard stuff like the ability to compose new messages and reply to incoming ones, that&#8217;s almost all the features Mailbox has. But the ones it does have work great and look great; this is one of the most<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=163325&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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