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Adobe Photoshop for tablets looms nearer

You can’t download Photoshop for your iPad yet, but the technology is getting close enough for Adobe Systems to begin showing what it’s got in mind. Yesterday, John Nack, the Adobe Systems program manager leading the effort, revealed some ideas of how Adobe envisions marrying its flagship image-editing software to tablet computers. Adobe displayed two [...]

Nov 8 2010 | Posted in Computing,Software,Tech News | Read More »

Dell hybrid tablet Duo ‘coming soon’

Dell’s hybrid Netbook-tablet is “coming soon,” according to a Dell promotional video. Will this give prospective iPad buyers pause? The Inspiron Duo, which debuted at Intel’s developer conference in September, converts in a novel way between a Windows 7 Netbook and Windows 7 tablet. To convert to a Netbook, for example, the user opens the [...]

Nov 5 2010 | Posted in Computing,Hardware,Personal Computers,Tech News | Read More »

Peel me an e-book

The secret to building an inexpensive flexible computer display is not in the core components of the displays themselves. It’s in the material those components are mounted on. The fundamental elements of e-ink and OLED displays are small enough that they won’t break if laid down on flexible backing. The problem, according to Janglin Chen [...]

Nov 5 2010 | Posted in Computing,Hardware,Tech News | Read More »

Google API Powers Global SCVNGR Hunt

The real-world location-based game SCVNGR is going global with the help of the Google Places application programming interface. Google Ventures has also dug up a second round of funding for the mobile game. Opening itself to a worldwide audience could give SCVNGR an edge over similar outfits like Foursquare and Gowalla.SCVNGR, a Boston-based company that [...]

Nov 3 2010 | Posted in Computing,Internet,Servers,Social Networking,Tech News | Read More »

GM: Without software, Chevy Volt is stuck in neutral

The Chevy Volt is as much a software engineering accomplishment as it was a mechanical engineering challenge, according to General Motors. General Motors today plans to bring the Chevy Volt to IBM’s Raleigh, N.C., offices to show off the electric car and celebrate its partnership with IBM’s software business in making the Volt. With the [...]

Nov 1 2010 | Posted in Computing,Green Tech,Software,Tech News,Technology | Read More »

Halo effect: Xbox success puts a glow on Microsoft’s killer quarter

The company’s blowout quarter came from nearly every division, but taking over the top spot in the video game world was its most surprising statement. Despite a corporate restructuring, criticism that it’s failing to innovate in certain sectors, the departure of Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie and analysts downgrading its stock, Microsoft (MSFT) trumpeted a [...]

Oct 31 2010 | Posted in Computing,Gaming,Software,Tech News,Technology | Read More »

Is China a supercomputer threat? (Q&A)

With China expected to officially take the supercomputer performance crown next month, I asked an expert about the state of supercomputing in the U.S. and whether China poses a long-term threat to the United States’ current preeminence in supercomputing. Nvidia announced yesterday that its chips are powering the “Tianhe-1A” Chinese supercomputer that achieved 2.507 petaflops, [...]

Oct 29 2010 | Posted in Computing,Hardware,Servers,Tech News | Read More »

Get Ready to Kiss IPv4 Goodbye: Q&A With ICSA Labs’ Guy Snyder, Part 1

Pressure to implement IPv6 is coming from both public and private sectors. “Based on these statistics, we can look out into the future and say pretty much for sure these are going to go away within the next 10 to 12 months, at least by the end of next year,” said Guy Snyder, secure communications [...]

Oct 28 2010 | Posted in Computing,Hardware,Tech News | Read More »

Google says its cars grabbed emails and passwords

Google Inc admitted for the first time its “Street View” cars around the world accidentally collected more personal data than previously disclosed — including complete emails and passwords — potentially breathing new life into probes in various countries. The disclosure comes just days after Canada’s privacy watchdog said Google had collected complete emails and accused [...]

Oct 25 2010 | Posted in Mobile Tech,Software,Tech News | Read More »

Week in Apple: small laptop edition

Before we get to the spate of MacBook Air stories, a quick guide to trolling Apple:: Are you a Windows user seeking ammo with which to rebut your Apple-loving friends? Search no longer: here’s our 21st century guide to trolling Apple and Mac OS X. Ahead of the Apple event we rounded up some rumors: [...]

Oct 24 2010 | Posted in Hardware,Software,Tech News | Read More »