Samsung ATIV Smart PC dock hands-on
By Brian Heater posted Aug 29th 2012 2:05PM And hey, what’s a Windows 8 tablet without a docking station? Sure enough, Samsung was showing off a snazzy one tonight that turns your bright and beautiful ATIV Smart PC (which is a bit chunkier than its brother) into a notebook. The tablet slots into the top of the keyboard dock, with the Windows 8 button obscured slightly by the top of the dock. The device does look a fair amount...
Flipboard adds dedicated video channels, decides reading isn’t everything
By Jon Fingas posted Aug 29th 2012 2:15PM Flipboard supports video, but it’s always been focused on modernizing the reading experience. Until today, that is. The app is taking advantage of YouTube channels to give readers — sorry, viewers — a steady stream of video pattered along common themes. Basic feeds for concepts like cooking, music and news sit side-by-side with more esoteric sections for...
VMware joining OpenStack delayed, for now
The OpenStack Board of Directors met this week and on the agenda was a somewhat surprising action item: Vote on whether or not to accept VMware – once thought to be a competitor to the project – into the increasingly popular who’s-who club of cloud computing. VMware’s going to have to wait to see if they’ll join the party though. The OpenStack Board met Tuesday evening but didn’t get around to...
It Costs Just $1.36 a Year to Charge an iPad
NEW YORK (AP) — That coffee you’re drinking while gazing at your iPad? It cost more than all the electricity needed to run those games, emails, videos and news stories for a year.The annual cost to charge an iPad is just $1.36, according to the Electric Power Research Institute, a non-profit research and development group funded by electric utilities.By comparison, a 60-watt compact fluorescent bulb costs $1.61, a desktop PC...
Samsung says Jelly Bean update coming to Galaxy S III and Note 10.1 ‘very soon’
By Donald Melanson posted Aug 29th 2012 2:16PM It’s not as specific as we’re guessing some would like, but Samsung confirmed during its IFA 2012 keynote today that a Jelly Bean update is coming to both the Galaxy S III and Galaxy Note 10.1 “very soon.” That is at least a bit more encouraging than the “later this year” that we last heard for the Note 10.1, and follows a leak of an official GS3 Jelly...
