Update HP Touchpad webOS
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The HP Touchpad has had a curious life in the terminal market and global tablets. A few months of being on sale, available to users around the world, has returned to the workshop to a remodeled. Is that OS upgrades are never expect too much. In this case, the update has more to do with the ecosystem of applications and software content than anything else.
This is an agreement made with RoxioNow HP, where HP's tablet will feature an interesting access to films from around the world, music from various record companies, etc.. This means that users of the tablet in question have the ability to access multimedia content, primarily movies, as I said, but also can watch series that will be available for download or online viewing.
Keep in mind, however, that the last option is available only to U.S. users. For the rest, ie all of us will Viewster application, with which we can access movies or TV series but in this case the download is not available.
With this move the rudder, HP significantly improves user experience, showing that it is a company that cares about the constant improvement and progress of their products. Read more
2015: Unification of Microsoft platforms
Much has been written about the future of humanity.
Much saliva has been spent in discussing the alleged catastrophe hit the planet in 2012.
Predictions of all kinds, oracles are presented with a quasi-apodictic structure, among others, have generated a kind of hysteria a little less intense than that prevailing on the eve of the new millennium ten years ago.
But leaving aside these questions of futurology, we think about the future of operating systems beyond 2012. In this case we want to talk about Microsoft and its possible paths in the coming years. One of the rumors that every day is taking more and more truth value is the one who speaks of a trend towards the unification of opertivo system platforms most famous in the world.
According to experts, in 2015 Windows users will be able to use the operating system platforms as diverse as desktop PCs, tablets, smartphones, and even Xbox consoles. Clearly this would have a major impact on the subjectivities of Microsoft customers. Why? Because it would make it easier to transfer from one screen to another, without too much effort in the process of translation.
The legitimate question many are asking is: well, we have the same operating system for different media, now: what will happen to the interface? Read more
Metro Interface for Windows 8 tablets
Metro Interface
As many know, the D9 Conference which took place a few days ago has officially confirmed that the next Windows 8 will, in the case of tablets, with the interface Metro. This interface has been known for its friendly face and ease of use. But also for its aesthetic issues. Is that in terms of image design, the interface Metro features subdivide the screen into rectangular blocks of color. These blocks have a constantly updated information. This concept has been called "Live Tiles".
Our fingers will be responsible for interacting with these rectangles friendly, with the possibility of two or more applications open at once. This notion of simultaneity allows so smoothly, users can make use of different functions simultaneously without hindrance of any kind.
But what catches the attention of this novelty is not so much said here, but that these issues-designed for devices with touchscreen-functionality will also have regular PCs, where users must use mice and keyboards. This suggests that today is being a trend medial transgression of limits, where implemented in a new type of devices are translated without remainder in other devices.
This phenomenon of perfect translation leads to tablets to implement elements of smartphones, smartphones and desktop PCs.
This can be seen in both Microsoft and Mac
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Paradoxical Restrictions Windows 8
Windows 8
Although since Microsoft is not confirming any of the rumors circulating that come on the web in recent months, one would pay attention as a strategy of information to members who can not hold long news online. As have adopted the strategy of surprise to create greater acceptance by users in their expectation, everything said here will always be taken as conjecture.
Now it has released a novelty on the next Windows 8. That being said this new version no longer count on the "compatibility mode" necessary for users to make use of applications created in previous versions of Windows. This removal of the "backward compatibility" should be judged on what version of Windows 8're talking about: ARM or PCs
In the first case, which is that of the tablets, this deletion is not detrimental to users. Indeed, the tablets which will go towards the latter Windows 8 will be those called "slate" (no keyboard). Here the old applications, which the new restrictions would not work again, do not usually have the best performance. They were designed for computers with mouse and keyboard, so that its translation into ARM equimos always generates conflicts.
In the second case, things are not so simple. Since users actually find it very useful applications using "old". Thus, although the positive reading is said that this restriction will force developers to increase productivity exponentially, is limited to PC users illegitimately.
New Android 3.1 Honeycomb
Android 3.1 Honeycomb
With the start of the conference is eagerly awaited by fans of Google, the news has not been long in coming. In many specialized blogs we can find several comments, insights and judgments of approval. In a society where information flows unchecked, the news no longer the prey of journalists, and becomes food for laymen and initiates.
A "news" has transcended relatively interesting that the Google I / O 2011, was the release of Android 3.1 Honeycomb, an incremental update of the operating system for tablets.
As for updates to this relaunch, we can say that there is a big bet by Google in the dimension of the user interface: it has become much easier to look at and easier to use, intuitive and fast. It has improved, too, the display of internal storage.
Another point of color is that this new version of Android 3.1 Honeycomb is that it incorporates support for USB accessories. This comes as a corollary that users now can connect any device (from keyboards, mice through to any other object with USB connection).
It also has a flexible extension of the list of applications for better handling by users.
Finally, we have greatly improved support for Wi-Fi high speed. Read more
Controversy over the closure of Android 3.0 Honeycomb for tablets
Android 3.0 Honeycomb
The figure of the open source system has awakened from its inception, countless fantasies and desires of the users of cyberspace. Does the realization here and now of the liberal ideals of democracy? Is the possibility of giving subjects the coveted right to participation and creation? Is the universal gift of individual production? When Android was designed, there were not listening to these questions, and keep coming up today.
With the news that Google clausuraría the open source Android 3.0 Honeycomb to not experience the same on the outside of the platform that was originally thought (tablets), all these desires seem to collapse at the mere factuality of economic power . Google agents have justified the decision with the strange argument that the results of rampant experimentation with Android out of the tablets, for example: mobile-were "unpredictable."
Not the first time the inclusion of people into a right to participate freely in a content is then hidden by the detrimental effects that such inclusion would bring to the ultimate goals of any company. However, this phenomenon, which should not make a dramatic reading or fatalistic, it does tell us of a certain naivete that is distilled from the questions above. Read more
Will Windows 8 for tablets?
Will Windows 8 for tablets?
If we had to do with a summary of the presence and absence more noticeable in the last Mobile World Congress, Microsoft's case would be quite problematic. This type of analysis does not intend to become obsessed with one company, but rather to take stock of the most outstanding of these events, since in practice this balance to come to light key findings of the current state of the mobile market and mobile operating systems that affect them.
Do not tell anyone if we talk about the centrality of the figure of the tablet was in the latter conference dedicated to everything that has to do with the world of telecommunications, more specifically, it relates to mobile phones. For in this conference it became clear that the current business flows through the lanes of the tablets.
This has been understood very well the different companies. For example, Android has been linked with many brands for the purpose of boosting the supply of tablets. The same can be said of the latest Apple's iPhone, which seems to have a boom in users. Even Blackberry and HP have been doing their thing in matters of design and production of tablets. So the question everyone is doing at this conference is: well, what about Microsoft?
Well, for those expectant, we note here that Windows has plans to launch in mid-June this year an interface to Windows 8 tablets. Read more
News of the upcoming Windows
Windows .. ¿8?
Much has been made from "involuntary" filtering program roadmap purpose of developing a new version of Microsoft's operating system, Windows. Some have labeled him as a name and everything. No one would be more to Windows 7, if not, however, before a Windows 8. Others question whether this nuva desktop version, that is "normal" and say that what you are talking about is more a new version of the Microsoft operating system for tablets. The truth is that we have no assurance so far, and everything you say will be speculation.
Clearly we can not not be so naive and think that the leaks of information are "involuntary" to one who knows even a little Windows market strategies as a phenomenon that is occurring today will not find it strange at all , giving some credence and validity to the rumors and comments that "leak" through the web.
So try to make clear what are the basic lines of these rumors, and so far we have no statement "official".
In principle, the fundamental news is that it is quite possible that in the middle of this year (2011) Microsoft is introducing its new version of Windows. It is estimated that it could be in September, then it will be conducting the Professional Developers Conference. Read more
Android tablets
Android tablets
Within the market for electronic and informational engineering is known that the immediate future will witness a boom in so-called tablets in which both the companies responsible for developing operating systems such as those responsible in producing gadgets of all kinds will have to merge into one unit production in which everything is designed to enhance the usability of these products.
In this post we will make a brief and modest reference to the type of experience that enables Google's operating system designed for tablets in the present. This does not mean that there is no change in the future, on the contrary. But it is important to mark the peculiarities of using the Android trying to highlight the complications and difficulties involved.
At first Android is not a point of maturity too high in relation to tablets. As if he still had much to learn. And this is evident in the user's first contact with the OS. Today's version of Android tablets circulating in the world is 2.2. As noted in the specialized journalism and this version is just a test a proto-version, which is "both" the market and the kind of experience that raises the Android as part of a tablet. Read more
Windows 7 for tablets
windows 7 for tablets
The brief but intense history of Windows on the world of tablets is not without its own issues both tragic drama and the comedy. Perhaps the right word to understand what has happened to Windows in this connection is that of irony. For if at first seemed to be concerned about Microsoft's innovations in developing operating systems tablets, users now leave no direction to thank the coveted Apple iPhone. Against this the Windows 7 tablets have been spectators of a scene which can only watch but not participate. The irony is that probably without the impetus of advertising resources, economic, time, etc. Microsoft has addressed the development of operating systems for tablets, Apple's success-a large parasite might say would not have been possible.
But what is the reason that makes users more likely to choose Apple rather than Microsoft when it comes to purchasing a tablet?
We could answer this question by giving a single answer: Windows 7 falls short in its proposals. Well today is obvious that users have expectations that market relates to tablets which claim to have an experience equidistant from the smartphone and a netbook. However, while Windows 7 multitouch system is very interesting, brings basic problems dificiultan effective navigation by the user. Read more
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