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		<title>Peak Battery: Why Smartphone Battery Life Still Stinks, and Will for Years</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 12:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the five years since Apple released its first iPhone, touch-screen smartphones have become thinner, lighter, faster and more capable. But through it all, battery life has mostly stayed the same. You can probably make it through the day on a single charge, but not without a degree of caution. You&#8217;ll want to keep Bluetooth turned off when it&#8217;s not in use, and avoid long stretches of data use over 4G. High-end games and streaming video are guaranteed to melt away battery life, and if you&#8217;re spending a few hours in a dead zone, you&#8217;re better off powering down instead of wasting precious juice searching for a signal. Because battery capacity hasn&#8217;t improved much over the years, the batteries themselves have gotten bigger, limiting how thin and light phones can be. Meanwhile, technologies like 1080p screens and wireless screen mirroring have been hamstrung by batteries that can&#8217;t keep up. Bad battery life can be an Achilles&#8217; heel for otherwise solid phones; by the time you realize your phone&#8217;s battery stinks, it might be too late to send it back to the store. The good news is that there&#8217;s plenty of interest within the tech industry to make smartphone battery life better, and there&#8217;s no shortage of emerging technologies to make it happen. The bad news is that any significant improvements to battery chemistry are at least a couple years away. Pushing Lithium-Ion&#8217;s Limits Virtually every smartphone today relies on lithium-ion batteries, which provide power by transferring electrons between the anode and cathode of a battery cell. The amount of lithium ions inside the battery directly affects how long your phone can last on a charge. The problem lies in the graphite that stores lithium ions in the anode of a battery. Graphite has a theoretical limit to how much lithium it can hold, and today&#8217;s batteries have pretty much reached it. While bigger batteries are always an option&#8211;as seen in Motorola&#8217;s Droid Razr Maxx&#8211;most people don&#8217;t want thicker, heavier phones, so phone makers sacrifice battery life in the name of<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=158551&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Logitech Builds Its Ultrathin iPad Keyboard into a Case</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/03/26/logitech-builds-its-ultrathin-ipad-keyboard-into-a-case/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2013 08:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I couldn&#8217;t live without an iPad Bluetooth keyboard &#8212; but there&#8217;s no one wireless iPad Bluetooth keyboard I can&#8217;t live without. Actually, I like to try as many of them as possible. And it looks like the next one I&#8217;ll be test driving is a new model from Logitech, the Keyboard Folio. The Folio uses a keyboard similar to the one in Logitech&#8217;s Ultrathin Keyboard Cover, but builds it into a case which protects both sides of the tablet. (It&#8217;s a different design than Logitech&#8217;s existing Solar Folio&#8211; a keyboard powered by the sun &#8212; and also presumably avoids one problem I&#8217;ve had with the Ultrathin, which is the tendency of its magnets to refuse to snap snugly enough to the iPad to keep the keyboard from plopping off.) Unfolded, it lets you prop up the iPad at two different viewing angles. Logitech A version of the Keyboard Folio for the full-sized iPad will ship in April for $99.99; a similar one for the iPad Mini (shown at right) will follow in May for $89.99. More thoughts once I&#8217;ve had the opportunity to touch one or both for myself. In case you&#8217;re curious: the iPad keyboard I&#8217;m currently using is Zagg&#8217;s ZAGGkeys PROfolio+. Like Logitech&#8217;s new Folio, it&#8217;s a protective case, and I&#8217;m pretty pleased with it overall. But the build quality seems iffy (the covering of mine is coming off in two spots) and while I like the fact that the keyboard is backlit, I wish it weren&#8217;t so very easy to accidentally switch on the light when I don&#8217;t need it (it&#8217;s done with a key to the immediate right of the space bar). It also has a tendency to collapse when I balance it on my lap at certain angles, something which doesn&#8217;t happen with Logitech&#8217;s Ultrathin. The search for the perfect iPad keyboard goes on.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=158898&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How an 83-Year-Old Inventor Beat the High Cost of 3D Printing</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/03/04/how-an-83-year-old-inventor-beat-the-high-cost-of-3d-printing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2013 13:50:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If there were an award for Emerging Gadget Most Likely to Change Everything, it might well go to the 3D printer. These devices, which turn digital blueprints into physical objects made out of plastic or other materials, are getting better, simpler and cheaper at such a dizzying pace that it&#8217;s not hard to imagine a future in which they&#8217;re as pervasive as PCs. Already, you can buy a basic desktop model for under $500. It&#8217;s dangerous, however, to get too hung up on the sticker prices of the 3D printers themselves. Just as most of the cost of conventional ink-jet printing comes in the form of those pricey ink cartridges, the spools of plastic filament which a 3D printer layers into an object have a huge impact on the long-term economics of 3D printing. The filament is far more costly than pellets made of exactly the same plastic: &#8220;It&#8217;s like a 10x difference,&#8221; says Zach Kaplan, the CEO of Inventables, an online store which supplies 3D printers and supplies along with other products for the do-it-yourself inventors who make up the thriving maker movement. Inventables A spool of plastic filament for 3D printing Kaplan and the Pocket Factory&#8216;s Bilal Ghalib, another member of the maker community, were at the Inventables office bemoaning the high cost of filament when Ghalib had a brainstorm: Why not challenge the community to create a low-cost, open-source machine which could convert pellets into filament? Smitten with the proposal, Kaplan took it to Lesa Mitchell, vice president of innovation and networks at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, a Kansas City-based institution created in 1966 by the founder of pharmaceutical company Marion Laboratories. The foundation focuses its efforts on entrepreneurship and education, and is already deeply involved in the maker community though activities such as participation in Maker Faires. It wants to bring 3D printing to everybody, so that everybody with an idea for a product can turn it into reality. Mitchell thought that cheap filament could help. When &#8220;we saw the launch of what I would call<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=157506&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>OptiShot Golf Simulator Review: Play Indoors with Your Own Clubs All Winter Long</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/02/13/optishot-golf-simulator-review-play-indoors-with-your-real-clubs-all-winter-long/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 13:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It snowed in Boston this past weekend – a lot. We got more snow than we&#8217;ve seen in years, said the weather people. They were grinning as they said it. All of them. They&#8217;re sadistic. I was too busy playing the Plantation Course at Kapalua to notice or care how much it was snowing in Boston, though. I hit a few good drives and my approach shots were pretty stellar, but my long irons and my putter got the best of me: I shot a 97. I wasn&#8217;t actually in Hawaii but by the end of the round, I was sweating as if Maui&#8217;s silky-warm air had found its way into my every pore. I was in my living room swinging my own golf clubs, hitting a foam practice ball off a high-tech mat connected to my computer. Dancin&#8217; Dogg&#8217;s $400 OptiShot Infrared Golf Simulator is priced just high enough that you expect it to be more than a gimmicky motion controller, but low enough that it&#8217;s easy to make your peace with its shortcomings. The system is made of a 14-inch-long by 10-inch-wide platform of artificial turf containing a tee area flanked by a row of infrared sensors on either end. The platform connects to your PC with a 10-foot USB cable and measures your club head speed, face angle and swing path in real time. You can hit the included foam practice balls, real golf balls or nothing at all. All the compute-y stuff makes the platform about an inch and a quarter thick, so you&#8217;ll want to stand on something close to that thickness to compensate. Dancin&#8217; Dogg sells optional mats, but they&#8217;re almost comically expensive – I stood on a thick rug and positioned the platform next to it on the hardwood floor, which worked fine. In my testing, I found hitting the foam balls to be far more enjoyable than swinging at nothing, as the trajectory and pop of the foam balls helps your brain register whether you&#8217;ve hit a shot squarely or not. I<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=156531&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Seagate Wireless Plus Review: A Terabyte for Your Tablet</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/02/08/seagate-wireless-plus-review-a-terabyte-for-your-tablet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2013 13:15:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I own an iPad with 64GB of storage. Until the recent arrival of the 128GB iPad, mine was the largest-capacity model available &#8212; but it&#8217;s not enough. At the moment, I have less than 6GB of free space; when that dwindles away, I&#8217;m going to be in trouble. That makes me exactly the sort of person Seagate has in mind as a prospective customer for its $199.99 Wireless Plus, the hard-disk kingpin&#8217;s second-generation drive aimed at owners of iPads and other mobile devices. (Its predecessor, which debuted in 2011, was originally known as the Seagate GoFlex Satellite.) The Wireless Plus is a portable, battery-powered drive with a terabyte of storage (twice that of the Satellite) and built-in wi-fi, which lets it connect with gadgets which don&#8217;t have a USB port, such as the iPad, iPhone and most Android devices. In fact, it can connect to eight devices at a time and can stream HD video to three of them simultaneously. Seagate provided me with a unit for review. At first blush, the Wireless Plus looks like a slightly chunkier fraternal twin of Seagate&#8217;s Backup Plus, the company&#8217;s standard-issue USB drive. The skosh of extra space inside makes room for a battery; Seagate says the drive can power itself for up to ten hours on a charge. It comes with a plug-in USB 3.0 adapter, which you can leave off if you only plan to use the drive in wireless mode &#8212; or you can swap in an optional adapter such as a $100 one for Thunderbolt, the fast connector used by Macs and a smattering of Windows PCs. As with Seagate&#8217;s earlier wireless drive, this one packs its own wi-fi network. You connect to it from your device, and then the device can see the drive. Wait, if you need to use your wi-fi connection to hook up with the Wireless Plus, does that mean you can&#8217;t get online at the same time? Nope &#8212; a new feature lets you tell the drive to connect to another available wi-fi network, then<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=155461&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Should Mobile Device Use Expand on Planes? FCC Tells FAA It&#8217;s Time (Because It Is)</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/12/10/should-mobile-device-use-expand-on-planes-fcc-tells-faa-its-time-because-it-is/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2012 13:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we used to say in my past life working for a railroad, &#8220;safety first.&#8221; But as you&#8217;ve probably heard &#8212; increasingly in recent years &#8212; scientific evidence supporting the way we currently regulate electronic devices on planes, whether at launch or in the air, is scant to nonexistent. So why are we still hearing the cabin crew on the comms just before launch, after the cabin doors close, asking us to disable our laptops, tablets and cellphones? Because the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rules prohibit use of electronic devices like cellphones and other wireless devices on &#8220;airborne aircraft,&#8221; claiming these devices could potentially interfere with wireless networks &#8220;on the ground.&#8221; The FCC actually began considerations to lift the ban in late 2004, but ended the process in 2007, after concluding the technical info provided by &#8220;interested parties&#8221; (read: device manufacturers) wasn&#8217;t good enough to make a determination. But behold: Last Thursday, reports The Hill, FCC chairman Julius Genachowski issued a letter to Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) acting chairman Michael Huerta calling on the FAA to &#8220;enable greater use of tablets, e-readers, and other portable devices&#8221; during flights. Huzzah? Perhaps. To be fair, the FAA already allows portable electronic devices to be used for the lion&#8217;s share of flight time, including enabling Wi-Fi after the plane&#8217;s in the air (all the commercial flights I&#8217;ve been on since 2010 have included inflight Wi-Fi service), thus it&#8217;s clear Genachowski&#8217;s talking about the periods during which these devices are currently restricted: takeoff or landing. This is kind of a big deal, I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ll agree, because those periods can range from all of a couple dozen minutes to hours, depending. (MORE: JetBlue to Launch Free Wi-Fi on Planes in Early 2013) Nowadays it works something like this (for all you who don&#8217;t fly): After the cabin doors close, as the pilots are spooling up the engines preparing to pull away from the walkway, a flight attendant takes to the cabin speaker system and reminds us it&#8217;s time to put our battery-powered toys away. Off go<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=153051&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Want to Keep Your Teens (or Employees) from Texting Behind the Wheel?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/12/05/want-to-keep-your-teens-or-employees-from-texting-behind-the-wheel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2012 14:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;ve probably heard of mobile phone jamming tech &#8212; blocking a cellphone from communicating with a signal tower. Active blocking is illegal in the U.S., though you&#8217;ve probably bumped into passive blocking, whether intentional or no, where, say, a building&#8217;s construction materials inhibit or completely deep six your cellphone&#8217;s signal (this usually happens to me in hospitals). But have you heard about texting-blocking? I hadn&#8217;t until this week, after a company called Access2Communications Inc. contacted about TextBuster, a small $179 piece of hardware you place in your vehicle, just under the dash, that thwarts texting. In fact it goes one further and sever&#8217;s the phones data connection entirely, shutting off email and any other sort of Internet functionality. The company says there&#8217;s no monthly fee for its product, and that you can use as many phones as you like with a single device. A quick overview of the problem the company&#8217;s hoping to mitigate: According to a National Safety Council report, in 2010, 21% of all crashes (1.1 million total) involved people talking on handheld or hands-free cellphones. On top of that, an additional 3% or more (at least 160,000) crashes involved texting. And the rates have gone up since: So far in 2012, the NSC estimates that a crash involving &#8220;drivers using cellphones and texting&#8221; occurs every 24 seconds, thus an estimated over 1.2 million have occurred as this story&#8217;s going live. Thus TextBuster, though it isn&#8217;t a jammer in the traditional sense &#8212; it doesn&#8217;t actually &#8220;jam&#8221; a phone within range. Instead, it uses a Bluetooth module to identify a pre-paired device running the TextBuster app, which in turn disables all the data functions, including text messaging, email and Internet access. You can still make or receive calls, of course, or use GPS for mapping purposes. I suspect an increasing number of people fiddle with GPS apps while driving, which &#8212; depending on the app and where the device is situated &#8212; poses its own distracted driving risks. When I asked Barta about GPS distraction, he said the company &#8220;felt taking away navigation<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=152820&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>eBay Now: The Promise and Pitfalls of Same-Day Delivery</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/12/04/ebay-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2012 14:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in the Web 1.0 era, a hot startup named Kozmo.com aimed to revolutionize e-commerce by delivering an array of products in less than an hour. It turned out that Kozmo would be most famous for failing: After raising $250 million and launching in eleven cities, it folded in 2001. Several competitors, such as Urbanfetch, also failed to figure out how to make ultra-fast delivery work. But on the web, no idea ever vanishes permanently. Now same-day delivery is back: Startups such as Postmates are giving it a try, and so are big companies such as Amazon and Walmart. And then there&#8217;s eBay Now. The e-commerce behemoth began testing same-day shopping in San Francisco in August. It officially launched the service there in October, and brought it to New York City in November. It&#8217;s still officially in beta-test form in both cities. That&#8217;s an appropriate label for it to carry. Just as in the Kozmo era, same-day delivery is a cool idea. But eBay Now has its share of rough spots. And even with eBay&#8217;s formidable resources, it&#8217;s not a given that the service is going to be around for the long haul. Kozmo and its rivals died so quickly at least in part because their business model was unsustainable: They opened their own warehouses and stocked them with stuff like DVDs and ice cream. But they charged about the same price you&#8217;d pay anywhere else, and didn&#8217;t tack on a huge delivery fee. That left little money to pay for the warehouses, let alone to eke out a profit. Without building any warehouses, eBay has access to a far broader range of products than Kozmo ever carried, stored in convenient repositories all over the locales it currently serves. When a customer orders a product, the company simply sends a courier &#8212; it calls them &#8220;valets,&#8221; to emphasize their helpfulness &#8212; to a nearby store, including big names such as Bed Bath &#38; Beyond, Best Buy, Home Depot, JCPenney, Macy&#8217;s, RadioShack and Target. The valet finds the item (or items), waits<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=152664&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Trouble with Windows Phone 8: It&#8217;s Not the Apps, It&#8217;s the Basics</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/11/29/the-trouble-with-windows-phone-8-its-not-the-apps-its-the-basics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2012 14:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are tech pundits lending a hand in crushing Windows Phone 8? PCMag&#8217;s Sascha Segan thinks so. Segan argues that Windows Phone 8 is a solid mobile operating system that has a chance to compete with the iPhone and Android. The problem, in Segan&#8217;s view, is that pundits are all too eager to point out Windows Phone 8 &#8216;s app deficiency compared to other platforms, and that their negativity is killing the zeitgeist and scaring developers away: Windows Phone has a lot going for it. For people who like Xbox, for people who use Microsoft office software, for people whose friends don&#8217;t all have iPhones or even just for people who like the cool interface of live tiles. Before we bury it, let&#8217;s give the darn thing a chance. I agree with a lot of Segan&#8217;s points, including the idea that the iPhone-Android duopoly could use fresh competition. I also agree that the Windows Phone app situation isn&#8217;t as bad as some pundits make it out to be. Many of my essentials are present, including Twitter, ESPN ScoreCenter and TripIt. Third-party alternatives fill the void for many other services, like YouTube and Pocket. The free mobile version of Microsoft Office is a huge perk that no other platform has. And like Segan, I couldn&#8217;t care less about LetterPress. Still, after two years of iteration by Microsoft, I can&#8217;t get into Windows Phone, and the paucity of apps&#8211;real or perceived&#8211;has nothing to do with it. My troubles come down to the little things that Windows Phone 8 doesn&#8217;t do as well as other platforms, the very things I rely on from a mobile device. Here are some examples: GPS navigation is still a mess. To get directions on an iPhone or Android phone, all you have to do is hold down a button and say &#8220;directions to,&#8221; or &#8220;navigate to,&#8221; followed by the place you want to go. No such equivalent exists on Windows Phone. The closest alternative is to hold down the home button, then say where you want to go, then<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=152188&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Best Buy Picks Its Windows 8 Tablets (and Why Its Stores Have So Few of Them)</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/11/28/how-best-buy-picks-its-windows-8-hybrids/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2012 15:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Walk around the PC section of a Best Buy right now, and it won&#8217;t look drastically different than it did before the launch of Windows 8. Sure, all the laptops are now running Microsoft&#8216;s new operating system. A few of them will have touch screens, and Lenovo&#8217;s IdeaPad Yoga convertible will sit on an endcap. But for the most part, the store&#8217;s shelves are still lined with the same old laptop designs we&#8217;ve been seeing for years, not the new categories of laptop-tablet hybrids and convertibles that Windows 8 has ushered in. That may change over the next six to nine months, as the nation&#8217;s largest electronics chain carries more devices and creates new sections for them, according to Jason Bonfig, Best Buy&#8217;s vice president of merchant computing. I recently spoke with Bonfig about why so many interesting Windows 8 tablets and hybrids are absent from the retailer&#8217;s stores right now, and he offered a couple of key reasons. One of them is that PC makers haven&#8217;t been able to deliver their tablets and hybrids in time for Windows 8&#8242;s launch due to issues with manufacturing. Many Windows 8 tablets use touchscreens larger than 10 inches, which has been the standard for Android tablets from companies like Samsung, Asus and Acer. Production is still ramping up for the larger screens, Bonfig said, and while the manufacturing process for 10-inch panels has been refined over several years, the process for larger panels is still more likely to produce defective units. The mechanical aspect of hybrid designs is also new, Bonfig said, so manufacturers are still trying to improve quality standards there as well. &#8220;The launch date in the October timeframe for Windows 8 was very limited,&#8221; Bonfig said, &#8220;and we needed to place our bets on a handful of exclusive products.&#8221; (A couple of reports have also claimed that Intel&#8216;s Clover Trail-based Atom chips were delayed in the lead-up to Windows 8, but Intel insists that it&#8217;s not to blame for the current bottleneck.) Supply issues aren&#8217;t the only reason for<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=152069&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Microsoft May (or May Not) Build Its Own Windows Phone</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/11/05/why-microsoft-may-or-may-not-build-its-own-windows-phone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2012 13:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The tech world always needs a good rumor to obsess over, and lately it&#8217;s been the idea of a Windows Phone made by Microsoft. A report from the Wall Street Journal claims that Microsoft is testing its own smartphone right now, in conjunction with component suppliers in Asia. In typical Journal fashion, the report cites &#8220;people familiar with the situation,&#8221; and is light on details. One source said the phone&#8217;s display will measure between four and five inches, which is just slightly more specific than saying &#8220;it will be a phone.&#8221; Whether the Microsoft Windows Phone will actually go into mass production remains uncertain. Other rumors have come before this one. The Verge has reported that Microsoft is considering its own phone as a &#8220;Plan B.&#8221; Boy Genius Report and WPCentral have also offered some scuttlebutt. (MORE: Windows Phone 8: This Time for Sure?) These reports give off a whiff of smoke from a probable fire, but perhaps the most solid hint of all comes from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, in a letter to company shareholders that laid out the company&#8217;s future: There will be times when we build specific devices for specific purposes, as we have chosen to do with Xbox and the recently announced Microsoft Surface. In all our work with partners and on our own devices, we will focus relentlessly on delivering delightful, seamless experiences across hardware, software and services. It&#8217;s not crazy to think that Microsoft would build a phone to go along with its tablets and game console, if the situation called for it. Rumor has it that Microsoft only decided to sell the Surface after seeing what PC makers were doing. That makes sense; Surface, with its built-in kickstand and clever keyboard covers, is quite different from all the other Windows 8 and Windows RT hybrids on the market now. Dockable tablets and swiveling Ultrabooks have their own perks, but they&#8217;re not the same as the Surface, whose laptop-like elements practically disappear when you don&#8217;t need them. It executes Microsoft&#8217;s vision for a &#8220;no compromises&#8221; tablet in a way that<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=150327&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Google Announces New Nexus Phone and Tablets</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/10/30/nexus-4-nexus-7-nexus-10/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2012 12:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although Hurricane Sandy wiped out Google&#8217;s big New York City press-event plans, the company went ahead and announced its new Nexus phone and tablets anyway. The lineup includes the Nexus 4 smart phone from LG, the Nexus 10 tablet from Samsung and updated Nexus 7 tablets from Asus with double the storage of the previous version and optional 3G. Google&#8217;s also adding new features to its Android operating system and beefing up its music, video and magazine services with more content. Here are the details on Google&#8217;s new hardware and software: LG&#8217;s Nexus 4 The Nexus 4 has a 4.7-in., 1,280-by-768-pixel resolution display, a quad-core Snapdragon S4 Pro processor from Qualcomm, 2 gigabytes of RAM, an 8-megapixel rear camera, a 1.3-megapixel front camera and either 8 or 16 gigabytes of storage. It also has NFC, a micro USB port and micro HDMI output. For bells and whistles, Google is touting built-in wireless charging (though you&#8217;ll need to supply your own compatible charging mat) and a Photo Sphere feature that can shoot 360-degree panorama photos. In terms of tech specs, the Nexus 4 is close to the high end for today&#8217;s smart phones, but it has one major drawback: it doesn&#8217;t support 4G LTE, only the slower HSPA+. As the Verge explains, Google wants to sell these phones unlocked and without wireless contracts, which isn&#8217;t possible with Verizon or Sprint without their permission. That leaves AT&#38;T, whose LTE frequencies are different than the rest of the world&#8217;s. Rather than make a separate, and more expensive, 4G LTE phone for AT&#38;T users, Google went with a single HSPA+ model that works everywhere. The result is a phone that&#8217;s inexpensive considering that it&#8217;s not tied to a contract — $299 for the 8-GB version and $349 for the 16-GB version — but whose data speeds are surpassed by the majority of smart phones on the U.S. market. Also, in the U.S., the unlocked version will work only with AT&#38;T or T-Mobile, but the latter carrier will sell a subsidized Nexus 4 for $200<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=149912&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Livescribe&#8217;s Smartpen Gets Wi-Fi, Embraces Evernote</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/10/29/livescribe-sky-smartpen-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2012 04:08:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Livescribe introduced its first unique smartpen back in 2007, its core feature &#8212; the ability to take notes on special paper, with synchronized audio, and then transfer everything onto a computer &#8212; was cool. And the fact that you did the syncing with a USB cable and special software (available at first only for Windows, and then the Mac) seemed only natural. That&#8217;s how you tended to get data off a gizmo in those days. But an awful lot has happened in five years. These days, busy people of the sort whom Livescribe targets don&#8217;t always spend as much time at a PC as they once did; they might want to get their notes and audio onto a phone or tablet instead. And we&#8217;ve come to expect that most gadgets can connect directly to the internet, without a computer as a mandatory middleman. Now Livescribe has a smartpen in tune with the times. It&#8217;s introducing a new flagship model, the Sky, and the major improvement to the hardware is that the pen now incorporates built-in wi-fi, eliminating the need to do transfers via USB. The Sky also introduces a software change which is just as significant: Instead of depending on its own proprietary software, it simply plunks everything into Evernote, the omnipresent note-taking app/service which Livescribe says a majority of its customers already use. If you&#8217;ve got a device that Evernote supports &#8212; and it supports just about everything &#8212; your Livescribe notes, sketches and recordings will just be there once the pen has synced, which it does without your intervention. The basic smartpen concept hasn&#8217;t changed. As before, the pen is a cigar-like ballpoint with an OLED screen on the side and a Micro USB port for charging. I found the review unit Livescribe provided to be comfortable enough to hold despite its bulk, but its odd cap is surprisingly tough to put on and take off. You use the Sky with paper printed with a fine grid of dots, which lets the pen capture and digitize what<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=149840&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is the 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro Really More Expensive than the Non-Retina Model?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/10/25/is-the-13-inch-retina-macbook-pro-really-more-expensive-than-the-non-retina-model/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2012 13:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techland.time.com/?p=149467</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;d assume the answer to my question would be &#8220;of course.&#8221; And in this case, you&#8217;d be right. But I had to ask, because a funny thing happened on the way to the 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro released in June: Apple was actually charging less for its new super-resolutionary darling than a similarly configured 15-inch MacBook Pro without the new Retina screen. I&#8217;m not exaggerating or making that up. And the company&#8217;s still doing so. The entry-level 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro with a 2.3GHz i7 processor, 8GB of memory and 256GB of flash storage runs $2,199. A 15-inch non-Retina MacBook Pro built to the same specs (the display notwithstanding) runs $2,399 &#8212; $2,499 if you bump the resolution up to 1680 x 1050. That&#8217;s a $200-$300 markup, all for a laptop with a boring old non-Retina screen. What madness is this? Maybe it&#8217;s because rolling-your-own MacBook Pro requires Apple to manually touch the system before passing it along. I don&#8217;t know. Maybe it&#8217;s Apple&#8217;s cost for a standalone 500GB flash drive. But $200-$300 markup? It seems Apple wants you to either (a) buy the default 15-inch non-Retina Pro, or (b) dive into full-on Retina glory. And those who do choose to build out a system, thinking they&#8217;re saving money by foregoing the Retina display and not paying careful attention could end up paying more for less, all around. You&#8217;ll be pleased to know Apple&#8217;s not doing this with the 13-inch Retina Pro. The entry-level 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro with a 2.5GHz i5 processor, 8GB of memory and 128GB of flash storage runs $1,699. A 13-inch non-Retina MacBook Pro built to the same specs (again, the display aside) runs $1,499. If, for whatever reason, you don&#8217;t need or want the Retina display or you don&#8217;t want to give up the integrated optical drive, you can still get the other bells and whistles while saving a bit of money (though, of course, you&#8217;ll forfeit the Retina model&#8217;s elegant new slimline, lightweight design). That doesn&#8217;t explain the ongoing price disparity in the 15-inch<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=149467&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Chromebooks Are Still Useful, Even in the Tablet Age</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/10/22/why-chromebooks-are-still-useful-even-in-the-tablet-age/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2012 13:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Poor Google. Every time it unveils a new Chromebook, like the $249 version announced on Thursday, the company gets confronted with critics who think the concept has no business existing. You can&#8217;t blame people for being skeptical. The new Samsung Chromebook, like all its predecessors, is little more than a Chrome web browser running on a laptop. It raises questions about why anyone wouldn&#8217;t prefer a more full-featured laptop instead, and one that isn&#8217;t as crippled without an Internet connection. I&#8217;ve made the case for the Chromebook once before, when I reviewed Samsung&#8217;s Series 5 550 in June. My argument was that Chromebooks strip away the baggage of other laptops, things like long start-up times, viruses and extraneous keyboard keys. Trimming the fat allowed the Series 5 550 to focus on things like slim design, a solid keyboard and trackpad at a low price. If you spend most of your time on the web, it was a fine choice for a secondary computing device. The problem with my argument then was that it didn&#8217;t address tablets. Devices like Apple&#8217;s iPad and Google&#8217;s Nexus 7 also ditch the baggage of traditional laptops. They are thinner, lighter and often cheaper. They&#8217;re mostly safe from viruses, and they resume from standby in a snap. With the cheapest Chromebook now less expensive than many tablets, the relevance of Google&#8217;s browser-based laptops is worth revisiting. I still think there&#8217;s value in the Chromebook, because unlike inexpensive tablets, it&#8217;s still capable of providing the experience of a desktop browser. I know, I know. Mobile is the future of everything, right? But in the present day, sometimes the mobile-optimized, appified version of what you&#8217;re trying to do just isn&#8217;t good enough. When that happens, you need a laptop browser, and you want it to be up and running right away. I can think of a few personal examples: Gmail is better on a laptop. You can see more messages at a time, use search filters and type faster on a real keyboard. Tab management is easier on<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=148914&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cloud Graphics: Could Your Next Smartphone or PC Use a Virtual GPU?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/10/19/cloud-graphics-could-your-next-smartphone-or-pc-use-a-virtual-gpu/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2012 13:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nvidia's throwing its silicon hat in the cloud computing ring with something it's calling a VGX or "virtualized graphics" card, the idea being to offload virtual desktop (VDI) graphics processing from CPUs to GPUs, something existing virtualization tools don't do well, if at all.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=148691&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Windows RT Is Having an Identity Crisis</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/10/19/windows-rt-is-having-an-identity-crisis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2012 12:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you don't keep a close eye on tech blogs--and, perhaps, even if you do--you'd be forgiven for not knowing that Microsoft will launch two new versions of Windows on October 26.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=148721&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Google Nexus Hardware: Here Comes the Wave?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/10/10/new-google-nexus-hardware-here-comes-the-wave/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2012 13:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the latest scuttlebutt, Google may be working with LG and HTC on new Nexus phones, and with Asus and Samsung on more Nexus tablets. It's all a bit shaky at the moment, but here's what the rumor mill has to say about Google's Nexus phone and tablet plans.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=147990&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lytro&#8217;s Light-Field Camera Gets Manual Settings</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/10/09/lytros-light-field-camera/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2012 15:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The innovative "living picture" camera now lets photographers control shutter speed, ISO and other settings for more creative control.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=147958&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>With Webtop Dead, It&#8217;s Time to Rethink Modular Computing</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/10/09/with-webtop-dead-its-time-to-rethink-modular-computing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2012 14:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Motorola announced Webtop in January 2011, I fell for the hype, hard. Nearly two years later, after producing follow-up versions of Webtop for other phones, Motorola confirmed to CNet that it's abandoning the concept.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=147882&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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