CES 2011: LG to show off Honeycomb tablet at CES

LG will launch a new Android tablet at CES 2011 according to Korean sources, as it attempts to keep up with neighbours Samsung.

The Korea Times is reporting that the new tablet will be a 8.9-inch offering and will be running Honeycomb/Android 3.0.

The paper is citing 'industry sources' for the leak, which would be impressive given we've heard very little of the new tablet for a while now.

The time is now

LG announced it would bring an Android 2.2 tablet in time for Christmas back in July, but it seems the company is waiting for a more tablet-friendly OS to drop before it releases its first tablet.

The company is apparently also going to show off auto-stereoscopic 3D mobile displays as well at the show which would allow even those moving at fast pace to watch 3D video - namely drivers looking at 3D-enabled billboards.

We've already seen the Motorola Everest running the next-gen Android interface, and that looks set to be debuted at CES 2011 too - so if LG and possibly Samsung step up as well, it could be a slate-filled Vegas trip for TechRadar this year.

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Skype Now Illegal in China: This Week in Online Tyranny

China outlaws Skype. VOIP phone and messaging systems have been outlawed in China with the exception of the state-owned China Unicom and China Telecom.

This is a pattern in China, where the two birds of repression and protectionism nest in the same bush. The combination of eliminating competition and controlling discourse made this act inevitable.

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South Korea to censor Twitter and Facebook. South Korea has reportedly issued a warning that South Koreans who post Facebook and Twitter messages and retweet messages that praise communist North Korea will face legal prosecution.

Leaked cables show deeper fear of bloggers than "activists" in Cuba. A number of U.S. diplomatic cables show how little the government of Cuba fear old-style dissidents and how concerned they are over bloggers, "a group that frustrates and scares the GOC like no other."

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It almost seems like the tinhorns took a week off over the holidays and rested up their electrode-affixin' hands. Almost.

Thanks to Carl Levinson for the pointer to the Telegraph article.

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Despite strong start, iPad magazines not faring well over time

There's good news and bad news on the iPad publication front. First of all, lots of iPad magazines seem to be having respectable launches -- Wired's first iPad edition did a full 100,000 downloads earlier this year, and other magazines have seen similarly large numbers at launch, as customers download the app or content just to see what it's like. But that content doesn't seem to be holding anyone's attention, as most publications are seeing major drops over the rest of the year. Magazines like GQ, Vanity Fair, and Glamour have seen about a 20 percent user drop off per month from September to November, at a time when there were more iPads available than ever.

Reports say publishers are still hopeful -- they believe that solid holiday sales of Apple's tablet device could bring customers back after the new year. But numbers like these won't get anyone excited in publishing more iPad content, unfortunately. By the time there are enough iPad customers out there to make a digital publication on that platform worth it, publishers may have lost interest.

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Despite strong start, iPad magazines not faring well over time

There's good news and bad news on the iPad publication front. First of all, lots of iPad magazines seem to be having respectable launches -- Wired's first iPad edition did a full 100,000 downloads earlier this year, and other magazines have seen similarly large numbers at launch, as customers download the app or content just to see what it's like. But that content doesn't seem to be holding anyone's attention, as most publications are seeing major drops over the rest of the year. Magazines like GQ, Vanity Fair, and Glamour have seen about a 20 percent user drop off per month from September to November, at a time when there were more iPads available than ever.

Reports say publishers are still hopeful -- they believe that solid holiday sales of Apple's tablet device could bring customers back after the new year. But numbers like these won't get anyone excited in publishing more iPad content, unfortunately. By the time there are enough iPad customers out there to make a digital publication on that platform worth it, publishers may have lost interest.

[via Engadget]

Despite strong start, iPad magazines not faring well over time originally appeared on TUAW on Wed, 29 Dec 2010 16:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Why No Apple T-Shirts?

Way back in 2004, long before I joined the magazine, I wrote a letter to MacFormat bemoaning the lack of Apple merchandise available to buy. Mac and Apple t-shirts sold for significant sums on eBay, and staff at Apple stores were regularly asked whether the snazzy, Apple-branded clothing they wore was available to buy (it wasn't). But genuine Apple merchandise was limited to the tops given away at Apple store openings.

Over half a decade later, nothing has changed. At the time of writing, a second-hand official Apple polo top is offered on eBay for �35, and there was a huge, t-shirt-hungry crowd at the opening of our local Apple store in Bath earlier in the year, including the brutally honest gentleman pictured here. But there's still no Apple merchandise in the shops.

I can't think why Apple doesn't capitalise on this demand, and get itself some free advertising for the brand into the bargain. Would you buy a suitably-stylish t-shirt that celebrated your favourite Mac or the current operating system? I certainly would. These things can look indescribably naff if done badly, but I'm sure we can trust Apple to get it right. For example, a top featuring the Snow Leopard Aurora desktop would look amazing, and those silhouette iPod ads are crying out to be printed on a t-shirt. And what about some posters? Vintage designs from the Think Different campaign a few years back are again highly sought after, so why not launch a new set? With Christmas coming, it could've made a killing at the tills.

So what does everyone think? If Apple sold Mac- and iOS-related merchandise alongside the computers and peripherals, would you buy them? Share your thoughts via the 'Add new comment' link below.

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Usher, ripping off Homer Simpson?

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Usher’s song, featuring will.i.am from the Black Eyed Peas, includes, “Honey got a booty like pow, pow, pow. Honey got some boobies like wow, oh wow”, says news.com.au.
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5 Enterprise Startups to Watch in 2011 # 4: SnapLogic

SnapLogic is a cloud integration platform. It offers an app store (called the SnapStore) of connectors (called snaps) for integrating services like Box, Netsuite, and Salesforce.com. Unlike Jive or Salesforce.com, which offer services in addition to an app store, SnapLogic is focused on being a platform for connecting other services. Customers can also build their own snaps through a visual programming interface.

SnapLogic rigorously vets submissions to its app store, and applications are sandboxed. SnapLogic Server has support for both Active Directory and LDAP, enabling enterprises to integrate services with their existing access controls.

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SnapLogic was co-founded by CEO Gaurav Dhillon, best known as the founder of Informatica. Earlier this month, the company closed an additional $10 million in funding and Ben Horowitz of Andreessen Horowitz joined the board. Horowitz explained why Andreessen Horowitz decided to invest in SnapLogic on his blog:

Ordinarily, we would automatically disqualify an entrepreneur with such a massive financial success from funding, so when he came into pitch us on his new company SnapLogic I was skeptical. At this point, you are probably thinking: "Ben, you are an idiot. Why are you against hiring successful people?" It is a long story, but in summary, one general rule of mine is don't hire or fund rich people. The reason? Building a technology company is hard. It's really frackin' hard. Many of the tasks that you do when building one are no fun. When things go wrong as they always do, it's no fun at all. Rich people tend to like to work on things that they enjoy, because if they don't enjoy it, well, they are already rich. When the going gets tough, the rich get going . . . to their vacation homes and their yachts.

As a result, much of the time that I spent evaluating Gaurav's new company, SnapLogic, was dedicated to analyzing Gaurav's personal motives. I wanted to know if there was some new force that could be stronger than the strong force of rich-people's laziness. John Reed, the former CEO of Citigroup once said to me: "Ben, the only reason to start a company is because you have an irrational desire to do so, because it's not worth the money." I had to find out if Gaurav was irrational enough to fund. After much investigation, I found Gaurav to be completely irrational--in a good way. Although, Informatica is considered a great success, it isn't a great success for Gaurav, because he deeply believes that both the idea and his ability to execute it exceed the outcome that he achieved. So much so that our diligence found him working round the clock, running a hyper-intense environment and looking very much like a 20 year old entrepreneur on a mission from God. When my partner Marc asked me whether we should be backing an entrepreneur who is already rich, I replied: "it depends on whether we should believe my beautiful theory or my lying eyes." He said, "let's go with your lying eyes."

We've covered Jive and Salesforce.com's transformation into platform companies, emphasizing the Sovos Group's Sameer Patel's analysis of the paradigm shift involved:

Here's what I sense: Those very CIOs that choose to buy all apps from one vendor (Oracle, SAP, etc.) do so for many reasons, but one of them is architectural convenience. They realized then that every application procured from said vendor is not going to be best in class. But when it comes to some applications, 'living with good enough' was a welcome tradeoff to integration headaches of a best of breed approach.

What Salesforce.com seems to be doing now is setting the foundation for a standardized cloud based operating systems and development environment, yet offering the convenience of picking from a plethora of application choices for each conceivable system-of-record category via force.com to fits each customers business needs. That might just be the ticket some CIOs need to get unsatisfied business users off their back: Standardize the platform element to prevent a hodge podge architecture but shift the risk functional selection out of IT and back to business owners who can now make the decision on which application to select.

SnapLogic's approach doesn't require that a company pay for specific services in order to gain access to a platform. SnapLogic is a bit more like an operating system for cloud services. On the other hand, it seems less well suited to the sort of casual app experimentation provided by platforms like Google Apps Marketplace and the forthcoming Jive Apps Market. That could change as more snaps are developed and submitted.

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Why No Apple T-Shirts?

Way back in 2004, long before I joined the magazine, I wrote a letter to MacFormat bemoaning the lack of Apple merchandise available to buy. Mac and Apple t-shirts sold for significant sums on eBay, and staff at Apple stores were regularly asked whether the snazzy, Apple-branded clothing they wore was available to buy (it wasn't). But genuine Apple merchandise was limited to the tops given away at Apple store openings.

Over half a decade later, nothing has changed. At the time of writing, a second-hand official Apple polo top is offered on eBay for �35, and there was a huge, t-shirt-hungry crowd at the opening of our local Apple store in Bath earlier in the year, including the brutally honest gentleman pictured here. But there's still no Apple merchandise in the shops.

I can't think why Apple doesn't capitalise on this demand, and get itself some free advertising for the brand into the bargain. Would you buy a suitably-stylish t-shirt that celebrated your favourite Mac or the current operating system? I certainly would. These things can look indescribably naff if done badly, but I'm sure we can trust Apple to get it right. For example, a top featuring the Snow Leopard Aurora desktop would look amazing, and those silhouette iPod ads are crying out to be printed on a t-shirt. And what about some posters? Vintage designs from the Think Different campaign a few years back are again highly sought after, so why not launch a new set? With Christmas coming, it could've made a killing at the tills.

So what does everyone think? If Apple sold Mac- and iOS-related merchandise alongside the computers and peripherals, would you buy them? Share your thoughts via the 'Add new comment' link below.

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Olympus XZ-1 and other pre-CES camera rumors from Sony and Panasonic

It's no secret that CES is the stage from which camera companies unleash more compact shooters than you can shake a tripod at -- and preceding those come a glut of rumors, naturally. 4/3 Rumors has heard Olympus will unveil the XZ-1 (pictured), which boasts the LX5's 10 megapixel sensor and a none-too-shabby 28-112mm f/1.8-2.5 lens. The site also heard that a few Panasonic model numbers that at this point really don't tell too grand a story: DMC-S1 and S3, DMC-TS3, FH2, and FH5. Meanwhile at Sony Alpha Rumors, the eponymous company will reportedly launch a number of compact cameras (go figure) including a Cybershot DSC-HX1 successor, some new Bloggies, and new 2D and 3D video recorders... and though no Alpha and no NEX models will be on the show floor, the site is also suggesting the future NEX-7 and Alpha A77 models have 1080p60 AVCHD and a 0.1-second autofocus. Latter tidbit notwithstanding, we'd wager by mid-January everything else here will be either confirmed or forgotten.

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4Chan User Poll Is Total Garbage, Says Moot - Here Are 5 More Fake Website Polls

Filed under: Humor, Websites, Art / Design, Science, Exclusives

A recent survey of 4chan, conducted by the user genkouhande, has been decried by 4chan founder Christopher "moot" Poole as "total garbage."

The poll - which even Moot agrees was really conducted, if not scientifically - covers things like demographics and sexual habits, and it does seem to confirm a lot of stereotypes about the site's audience. It says they're young, white and into pornography, and that they generally feel new users on 4chan are a bad thing. It also shows that 4chan users spend most of their time on the notorious "random" board, /b/, ignoring the site's 48 other boards.

Because this poll, total garbage or not, seems so spot-on when it comes to stereotyping 4chan users, we decided to conduct a few of our own extremely fake polls. We've made up our own results that reenforce what you already knew about popular websites like Yelp, Etsy and even YouPorn.

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Hacking team demos permanent PS3 jailbreak

A hacking team has been demonstrating a technique that will crack the PlayStation 3's loader at the recent Chaos Communication Congress event in Berlin.

The latest PS3 hack claims to give users complete control over their console, something that is bound to cause some ire amongst Sony Computer Entertainment's security specialists.

The team of hackers also demonstrated how they had got around Sony's PS3 security systems, to allow the hacking community to sign their own code.

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What all of this means is that Sony's current v3.55 firmware is now highly vulnerable. Plus, more importantly, it is going to be very difficult for Sony's security folk to make a permanent fix to these exploits.

The hackers promised the Chaos Communication Congress crowd that they will release the tools to take advantage of their PS3 crack next month.

Somebody, somewhere at Sony no doubt just received a rather harsh email from their superiors ordering them to get to work on fixing this?

Via http://twitter.com/fail0verflow

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New Intel Solid State Drive 310 is smallest yet

Intel has just released its latest solid state drive, boasting a considerably smaller form factor than past SSDs.

Intel's Solid State Drive 310 Series offers similar performance to the popular X25M SSD but is around an eighth of the size.

Embedded apps and dual-boot notebooks

Intel sees customers using this new SSD 310 Series for things like embedded apps (small, autonomous computers), as well as flagging a whole range of potential industrial and military uses.

As far as consumer tech goes, Lenovo has already selected this new SSD, with Tom Butler, director of ThinkPad product marketing noting:

"The Intel SSD 310 series will allow us to provide the advantages of a full-performance Intel SSD paired with the storage of a hard disk drive in a small, dual-drive system."

A dual-drive system will allow you to put all your system and apps on the SDD for fast boot and launch times, while also keeping your main files and data on the cheaper and 'old fashioned' 2.5-inch hard drives.

The SSD 310 series also matches the X18/25-M series' MTBF of 1.2 million hours and operating shock of 1,500G/0.5ms

The SSD 310 series is now shipping to manufacturing customers at a cost of $99 for 40GB and $179 for 80GB (though that's based on a minimum order of 1000).

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