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fatih on Sabtu, 31 Desember 2011
A promotional video for an unannounced Lenovo netbook has hit YouTube. The netbook in question is the IdeaPad S110. While the promotional video doesn’t show what processor the computer has, word is that it will sport an Intel Atom N2600 Cedar Trail processor.
According to the video, the netbook has got a nearly full-sized keyboard. It measures 0.6 inches in thickness and weighs 2.5 pounds. The
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Acer will launch at least two new tablets in early 2012. Of these, the Iconia Tab A200 has already gone up for pre-order in the UK. The second tablet – the Iconia Tab A700 – will reportedly have a 1080p HD display.
According to the folks at the Russian site NoMobile.ru, the Iconia Tab A700 has a 10.1 inch, 1920 x 1200 pixels display. It will be powered by a 1.3GHz NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad-core
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An unknown Taiwanese company called BungBungame has announced a tablet for business customers. The device was spotted at the FCC website last week, but few details were available then. Now that BungBungame has officially announced the tablet we have got all the details that we need.
The BungBungame Photon 100 tablet is aimed at the enterprise market. Needless to say it runs Windows 7. It has
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fatih on Jumat, 30 Desember 2011
Amazon is not known for giving precise sales figures of the Kindle devices. The company has always maintained that Kindle tops its list of best sellers. But exactly how many Kindles have been sold so far? Well, we don’t know but yesterday Amazon announced that the Kindle Fire and Kindle eReader family have been extremely popular this holiday season. Although the online retailer stopped short of
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The 10 inch Acer Iconia Tab A200 is now available for purchase in the UK for 299 pounds. The tablet is powered by a NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual core processor and runs Google Android. The 10 inch display has a resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels. Other specifications include 1GB of RAM, a 2MP front-facing camera, WiFi 802.11n, Bluetooth 2.1 and a microSD card slot.
In the UK retailer Very is taking
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fatih on Kamis, 29 Desember 2011
Intel is all set to launch its Medfield processors for tablets and smartphones. Intel has been working on the low-power system-on-a-chip platform for a while, but the company never really disclosed the actual specifications.
But now leaked specifications of the chips have hit the cyberspace. Benchmark tests done on a prototype tablet with a 1.6GHz x86 Medfield processor and 1GB of RAM shows
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Intel has started shipping its Cedar Trail Atom processors for netbooks. Devices sporting this third generation of low power Atom processors are expected to hit the streets in early 2012. The companies that are going to launch Cedar Trail netbooks include Acer, Asus, HP, Lenovo, Samsung and Toshiba.
Interestingly we will not see any Dell netbooks with Cedar Trail processors. The US-based PC
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Sony has kind of confirmed that its Tablet S and Tablet P are getting Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich upgrade. Neither tablet was all that popular but that didn’t prevent Sony from offering continued support for them.
Samsung, unfortunately, thinks a little bit different. The company has revealed that its Galaxy Tab 7 inch tablet will not be getting the Ice Cream Sandwich upgrade. The reason,
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Asus expects to ship 3 to 6 million tablets in 2012. The company shipped around 1.8 million units in 2011. Asus chairman says that the company’s Transformer Prime tablet will be the most popular of its devices thanks to its unique detachable keyboard design. The design is patent pending and Asus plans to optimize the technology even further.
The Eee Pad Transformer Prime is the successor to
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The Sony Tablet S and Tablet P are all set to get the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update. Sony is yet to confirm when the update will arrive, but it is definitely on the cards. The Sony Tablet S is a 10 inch tablet computer that resembles a magazine in its folded shape. Sony says that the unique form factor makes the tablet easy to hold in the hand.
The Tablet P has a pair of 5.5 inch
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Notion Ink is working on bringing the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich to its Adam tablet. The India-based startup company has released an early build which anyone can download and test. Right now the new build only supports WiFi, GPS, graphics and some other key functions. No support for Bluetooth, 3G, audio or the camera is available at the moment.
The Notion Ink Adam is a 10 inch Android
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fatih on Selasa, 27 Desember 2011
CTL has launched a new 14 inch laptop with an Intel Sandy Bridge processor and Ubuntu Linux operating system. Notebooks sporting higher-end Intel processors usually run the Windows operating system. The CTL MB40U, on the other hand, comes pre-loaded with the open source Ubuntu 11.10 ‘Oneiric Ocelot’ 64-bit operating system which has a wide range of free apps written for it.
The notebook can be
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The first Samsung ultrabook – the NP530 – is now up for pre-order in Europe. The Series 5 NP530 has an Intel Core i5 2467M processor, 4GB of DDR3 memory and a 4-cell 44Whr battery which will reportedly get up to 6.5 hours of endurance.
The storage option is a hybrid drive with 500GB of HDD and 16GB of SSD. The 13.3 inch display has a resolution of 1366 x 768 pixels.
The Samsung NP530 is
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The Lenovo IdeaPad U300s is now available for purchase from retailer NewEgg. The 13.3 inch notebook has been up for pre-order since September.
The version that Newegg sells has the model number U300s 108026U. It has an Intel Core i7-2677M processor, integrated Intel HD graphics, 4GB of RAM and a 256GB SSD. All that high-end components come at a price. The notebook runs $1600.
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Like most other tablet makers, ViewSonic too has launched 7 and 10 inch Android tablets. And now it looks like the company is taking a leaf out of Apple’s book. The new ViewSonic ViewPad 97a has a 9.7 inch, 1024 x 768 pixels IPS display. The Apple iPad too has a 9.7 inch display with similar pixels density.
The tablet is expected to go on sale in China later this month. It is powered by a
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It looks like Asus is getting ready to launch a new notebook called the Eee PC 1225B. Few details are available about this machine at the moment, but sources suggest that it will have a 12.1 inch display and an AMD processor. If that is indeed so, then this could be a successor to the Eee PC 1215B introduced earlier in 2011.
The Eee PC 1225B has already showed up at some retails websites.
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fatih on Minggu, 25 Desember 2011
A relatively unknown company called Skytex has started taking orders for its Skypad Alpha 2 Android tablet. The device has a 7 inch display and a 1.2GHz ARM Cortex A8 processor. It runs the Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread operating system. Skytex claims that the tablet can recognize up to 5 touch inputs at the same time. The tablet has an HDMI output port. It is also capable of handling 1080p HD video
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A German court has ruled that Samsung can sell its 10 inch Galaxy Tab 10.1N Android tablet in Germany. The Galaxy Tab 10.1N is a slightly different version of the Galaxy Tab 10.1. It has a plastic bezel which extends over the sides of the tablet.
The original Galaxy Tab 10.1 looked an awful lot like the Apple iPad 2. Needless to say, Apple wasn’t all that happy with this and filed a lawsuit
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Best Buy has started selling the Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime Android tablet for $500. The Transformer Prime is the first tablet to launch with a NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad-core processor.
The tablet went on sale recently, but the demand was so high that it was soon sold out.
The Eee Pad Transformer Prime is not yet available from stores. Best Buy says that orders placed today will ship within 24
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fatih on Kamis, 22 Desember 2011
Intel is getting ready to launch its next generation Atom processors code-named Medfield. These are highly power efficient chips designed for tablets and smartphones. Although Intel is the reigning king in the netbook space, the company hasn’t had much success in the tablet and smartphone segment where ARM-based chips are in demand.
The new Medfield processors are reportedly as power efficient
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The Lenovo ThinkPad X130e has been delayed. The ThinkPad X130e is a rugged laptop for students. It is the latest model in the company’s 11.6 inch Thinkpad lineup. Lenovo already has launched two other 11.6 inch ThinkPads called X120e and X100e.
Starting today Lenovo was supported to take orders for the laptop for $469 and up. But now the launch has been pushed back to February 2012. Nonetheless
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fatih on Rabu, 21 Desember 2011
The $199 BlackBerry PlayBook tablet is now up for sale again. Retailer Staples offer the 16GB model for $199 and the 32GB model for $299. The 64GB version runs $399. Best Buy and Office Depot are also offering the base model for $199.99. The 32GB model runs $249.99 at these retailers.
The BlackBerry PlayBook launched earlier this year with a price tag of $499. However, due to poor sales RIM
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That Lenovo is working on a quad-core tablet is now known to almost everybody. Last month Engadget published some images of the tablet. Some leaked benchmarks too are available online. And now Digitimes report that the tablet is getting ready to launch.
The Lenovo tablet is reportedly being built by Taiwanese OEM Pegatron. The same OEM is building tablets for Acer and Toshiba as well.
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fatih on Senin, 19 Desember 2011
The Samsung Series 7 Slate PC is a Windows-based tablet computer with an 11.6 inch display. It has impressive hardware including an Intel Core i5 processor. The tablet offers support for both finger and stylus input.
Although Windows isn’t quite a touch-friendly operating system, a Windows tablet has some advantages over a tablet running Android. For one thing, it can run all Windows
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Google officially released the Android 4.0.3 Ice Cream Sandwich this week. This is the latest version of the company’s mobile operating system.
The first device to get the Android 4.0.3 update will be the Samsung Galaxy Nexus phone. Other phones and tablets should get the software soon as well. Note that this OS is optimized for both tablets and cell phones. That is, from now onwards, there
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fatih on Minggu, 18 Desember 2011
It looks like the Grid10 is going to be the next JooJoo tablet for Fusion Garage. The device started shipping this summer and at least a few units have been shipped but that is all we know at the moment. A number of customers who have placed their order are yet to receive their tablets. Worse still, Fusion Garage hasn’t updated its Twitter or Facebook accounts in several weeks.
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Within weeks of retiring the Streak 7 and Streak 5 Android tablets, Dell has pulled the plug on its Mini line of laptops too. If you search for the netbooks at Dell’s online store you get a variety of messages indicating that they are no longer available. Among the netbooks that are discontinued are the Inspiron 910 and the Dell Inspiron Mini 1012. The Inspiron Duo convertible tablet style
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fatih on Sabtu, 17 Desember 2011
The BlackBerry PlayBook was available for as little as $200 in November, but those folks who didn’t manage to buy the tablet during that promotional window don’t have to lose to heart. The tablet will be on sale again after Christmas.
The US wireless carrier Sprint will be selling the tablet for $200 from December 26th and January 7th as part of its after-Christmas sale promotion.
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Amazon is not known for providing precise sales figures of its Kindle line of tablets and ebook readers. However, according to a major announcement the retailer made yesterday, the Kindle products are fast flying off the shelves.
Amazon reportedly sells more than a millions Kindles per week. That figure includes all products bearing the Kindle name.
A number of Kindle devices are available at
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Apple could be working on a smaller iPad. The company’s flagship iPad has a 9.7 inch display. Not so long ago, Apple CEO Steve Jobs had rubbished rumors that his company would build a smaller iPad. Jobs had said that existing iPad apps wouldn’t run well on tablets with smaller displays.
At that point the iPad faced hardly any competition in the market. The only other tablet that was selling
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Research in Motion shipped 850,000 BlackBerry Playbooks this year 150,000 of which were sold during the quarter ending on November 26th. That is not a huge figure and clearly shows a remarkable dip in sales.
RIM has been aggressively promoting the tablet for a few months. The PlayBook launched earlier this year with a launch price of $499.99. Interestingly, during the quarter the tablet launched
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fatih on Rabu, 14 Desember 2011
Toshiba has already launched a few Android tablets, but the company’s latest runs Windows 7 Professional operating system. It is aimed at business customers and will be available in Japan sometime soon.
The Toshiba Dynabook WT301/D has a 10.1 inch display with a resolution of 1366 x 768 pixels. It is powered by an Intel Atom processor. Other specifications include 2GB of RAM and a 64GB solid
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The Archos 80 and Archos 101 G9 tablets will hit the market in time for Christmas. The Archos 80 has an 8 inch display while the Archos 101 G9 has a 10 inch display. Both models have 1.5GHz dual core processors. Archos already offers tablets with 8 inch and 10 inch displays. But these models have either 1 GHz or 1.2GHz processors.
The new Archos 80 and 101 G9 tablets run 350 Euros or less in
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The Toshiba Z835 ultrabook is now available for as little as $699.99. It looks like it is a promotion which may not last forever, but this week you can pick up the Z835 for the afore-mentioned price.
Ultrabooks are ultrathin notebooks sporting Intel’s latest processors and fast and durable SSDs. They have fast boot and resume-from-sleep speeds. They aren’t exactly cheap: prices usually start at
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fatih on Selasa, 13 Desember 2011
Generally speaking, ulltrabooks are ultrathin laptops with 13.3 inch or smaller displays. But they can be larger too. Samsung has just announced that it is building ultrabooks with 14 inch displays. The new laptops will be part of Samsung’s Series 5 lineup. The company will reportedly offer 2 models.
One of these Series 5 ultrabook has a 14 inch display, an optical drive, 8GB of RAM and an
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The Samsung Series 7 Slate PC is one of the few Windows tablets on the market. With a starting price of $1149, the Slate PC isn’t cheap. On the bright side, it has the hardware that kind of justifies its huge price tag. It is also designed to take full-advantage of the touch-based features of Windows 7 OS.
Since the Series 7 Slate PC runs Windows 7, it is capable of running all desktop
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The 7 inch Toshiba Thrive Android tablet is now available for purchase for $379.99. At the price point it is kind of costly. Some big name companies like Amazon now sells decent tablets for as little as $200. That said, the Toshiba Thrive has better specifications than Amazon’s Kindle Fire.
The Toshiba Thrive is powered by a 1GHz NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual core processor and runs Google Android 3.2
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Intel was the first to coin the term ‘ultrabook’. These are ultraportable laptops featuring Intel’s newest processors and solid state disks. They also feature fast boot and resume-from-sleep speeds. Ultrabook is now a registered trademark of Intel. That means you will never find an ultrabook with an AMD processor. That, however, doesn’t mean that AMD is taking things lying down. The company is
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At the BlackBerry DevCon Asia 2011 developer conference BlackBerry announced that a major software update to its PlayBook tablet OS is ready. The PlayBook OS 2.0 will bring in folder support, Android app support and better user customization. That means, now you will be able to run Android apps on your Playbook. Another notable feature is the new customizable ‘favorites’ strip which allows you to
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fatih on Minggu, 11 Desember 2011
The Asus Eee PC X101CH sporting an Intel Cedar Trail processor has been caught on a video. It is an update to the previous generation Eee PC X101/X101H netbooks which had the Intel Atom N435 or N455 single core processors.
The Eee PC X101CH has an Intel Atom N2600 dual core processor. It runs Windows 7 Starter edition. A notable feature of the laptop is its HDMI output which allows you to
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The 15.5 inch Sony VAIO VPCEL22FX/B is now available for just $350. At that price point it is the cheapest VAIO on the market. Sony is not known for launching affordable laptops. Although the VAIO VPCEL22FX/B is cheap for a Sony laptop, many laptops having comparable specs are available on the market for less. But if the Sony brand name is important for you, this is a good opportunity to own a
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fatih on Jumat, 09 Desember 2011
Toshiba is getting ready to launch yet another Android tablet. The new Toshiba Excite AT200 will have a 10.1 inch, 1280 x 800 pixels display, just like the Thrive tablet. The Excite tablet, on the other hand, is thinner and lighter. It measures just 0.3 inches in thickness. While the Thrive has a NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor, the Excite will feature a 1.2GHz TI OMAP 4430 dual core processor.
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Word on the street is that Samsung is planning to launch an 11.6 inch tablet with a whopping 2560 x 1600 pixels density. If it is indeed true, then this tablet will have a pixel density comparable to the Retina display found on the new iPhone.
According to sources, the new Samsung tablet will have a thin bezel which means that it won’t be much larger than the 10 inch Galaxy Tab 10.1. It is also
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Archos is all set to launch a successor to its Archos 70 Gen8 tablet. The 7 inch Archos 70 has been available since 2010. While the original Archos 70 had 256MB of RAM, the new version has 512MB. It also has a higher resolution (1024 x 600) display. The previous model had 800 x 480 pixels panel.
While most Archos tablets ship with Android 2.2, the new model has Android 3.2 Honeycomb operating
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fatih on Kamis, 08 Desember 2011
Seagate has launched a next generation hybrid hard drive which combines SSD storage with traditional HDD platters. The new Seagate Momentus XT ST750LX003 spins at 7,200 rpm. It is essentially a SATA 2 6 Gbps hard drive with 8GB of SLC type NAND Flash memory embedded.
Flash-based Solid State Drives (SSDs) are faster and more durable than traditional hard drives. On the flip side, they are costly
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The 17.3 inch Toshiba Satellite L775-S7307 desktop replacement laptop is now available from online stores of Best Buy for $350. But before you reach for your credit card bear in mind that you get what you pay for. The laptop doesn’t have a bleeding-edge processor. It is powered by a 2.1GHz Intel Pentium B950 processor. Other specifications include 4GB of RAM, a 320GB hard drive, integrated Intel
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The HTC Flyer owners in France have started getting over the air (OTA) update to Android 3.2 Honeycomb operating system. The stylus-friendly tablet launched with Android Gingerbread a few months ago. The fact that the tablet-friendly Android Honeycomb was available at that point prompted many to question HTC’s decision to launch its tablet with an OS that had already become dated by then. HTC,
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fatih on Rabu, 07 Desember 2011
Toshiba has launched a 7 inch version of its Thrive tablet. The tablet is available at some lesser-known retailers like eCost and Applies Computer. While eCost lists the tablet for $468, Applied Computer sells it for $441. Interestingly the tablet is not yet available from big retailers like Best Buy or Amazon.
The 7 inch Toshiba Thrive has a 1280 x 800 pixels display. It is powered by a 1GHz
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Lenovo has launched a new Thinkpad notebook. The Lenovo ThinkPad X130e is aimed at students. Needless to say, it sports a rugged case with design elements such as recessed and reinforced ports, strong hinges and a rubber bumper on the top cover.
The ThinkPad X130e has an 11.6 inch display. It will start shipping towards the end of this month for prices starting at $469.
The laptops will be
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LG is the latest PC maker to throw its hat in the ultrabook ring. The company has just unveiled an ultrabook called LG Xnote Z330. The 13.3 incher will be available with a choice of Intel Core i5 or i7 processor. The Xnote Z330 has a small screen bezel which means that it isn’t much larger than a 12 inch notebook.
The 13.3 inch display has a resolution of 1366 x 768 pixels. Like other
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fatih on Selasa, 06 Desember 2011
The Asus K53E-BBR4 has had a major price drop. The 15.6 incher has an Intel Core i5-2430M Sandy Bridge processor. That Core i5-processor is the kind you would find in mainstream laptops running $700 or above. But the K53E is now available for just $450.
The Intel Core i5-2430M is a dual core processor with a normal clock speed of 2.4GHz. In the Turbo Boost mode it can reach up to 3.0GHz.
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Chip designer MIPS has announced a $100 tablet with Android 4.0 operating system. Android 4.0 aka Ice Cream Sandwich is the first version of Android optimized for both tablets and phones.
The MIPS Novo 7 tablet has a 1GHz Ingenic Xburst processor which may not be able to run some of the apps designed for Android. Other specifications include a 7 inch capacitive touchscreen display, WiFi 802.11b
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fatih on Minggu, 04 Desember 2011
A certain Gigabyte convertible tablet-style netbook has showed up at the FCC website. The Gigabyte T1006 has a 10.1 inch capacitive touchscreen display with a resolution of 1366 x 768 pixels. It is powered by an Intel Atom processor although we don’t know which Atom processor we are talking about. Other specifications include Intel GMA 3650 integrated graphics, VGA, HDMI, 1 USB 3.0, 1 USB 2.0 and
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Samsung can continue selling its Galaxy line of smartphones and Galaxy Tab 10.1 Android tablet in the US. Apple had filed a law suit against the Korean company alleging that some of its smartphones and latest tablets infringe on their copyright. While Apple managed to obtain a preliminary injunction against Samsung in Germany, in the US a federal court denied a request for a similar ban.
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Dell has pulled the plug on its 7 inch tablet called Dell Streak 7. The Streak 7 was supposed to be a successor to the 5 inch Streak 5. Neither tablet is now available for sale online. In other words, Dell currently has no Android tablets for sale. The company still offers a couple of convertible tablet style netbooks.
The Dell Streak 7 launched with Android 2.2 earlier this year. The tablet
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fatih on Sabtu, 03 Desember 2011
Acer has officially unveiled its Iconia Tab A200 Android tablet. A couple of days ago the company had launched a promotional video for the same. Now we have other details too including a press release, launch information and spec sheet.
In terms of looks, the Iconia Tab A200 isn’t all that different from the Acer Iconia Tab A500. There are some differences though. The A200 will run Android 3.2
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fatih on Jumat, 02 Desember 2011
A certain Archos tablet called Arnova A9 G2 has made an appearance at the FCC website. The Arnova 9 G2 has a 9.7 inch IPS display with a resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels. It runs the dated Google Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system. The tablet has a 1 GHz ARM Cortex A8 single core processor. It can recognize five finger multitouch input at the same time.
The Arnova 9 G2 has built-in stereo
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Ultrabooks are a new category of ultraportable computers with Intel’s latest processors and solid state disks. Although Intel said that they would cost less than $1000, only the entry level models sport that price tag. Higher-end models have prices ranging between $1500 and $2000. But PC makers are hoping that competition will drive prices down.
According to Intel within the next two years,
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Serendipity: ser·en·dip·i·ty/ËŒserÉ™nˈdipitÄ“/
| Noun: | The occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way
A couple of months ago, I sent out a blog post looking for classrooms that wanted to participate in our This I Believe Goes Global project. We had more responses this year than any other matching up classes from Poland, Saudi Arabia, Mexico, South Korea and all over the United States.
As Karl and I were sorting through the responses. We notice one response from a teacher named Jeff Boyce. About three years ago, we had a teacher named Jeff Boyce here at AHS. Karl and I wondered if this was the same Jeff Boyce. So, after an email exchange, we discovered it was a former colleague now teaching in South Korea. Serendipity #1
My all boys' class was matched up with Jeff's class in South Korea at the Korea International School. I knew that my all boys' class was going to be writing their "This I Believe" essays on something important to them, something they strongly valued. Jeff let me know early on that his class was going to be writing their essays with a slight twist to the assignment: "I Believe in Evolution...". To help you understand his requirements for their essays, Jeff is a science teacher, thus they were going to be writing about evolution. Serendipity #2
Now, to make this collaboration even more interesting, my all boys' class is currently reading Jerome Lawrence and Robert E Lee's Inherit the Wind, a play based upon the Scopes Monkey trial of 1925 and the teaching of the theory of evolution in a fundamentalist Christian town. Serendipity #3
To prepare for our reading of Inherit the Wind, and help my all boys' class understand what John Scopes and Bertram Cates were facing with teaching the theory of evolution, I brought in one of our own biology teachers, Adam Wallace, to talk to the gentlemen about what it is like to be a modern day biology teacher and the theory of evolution. Serendipity #4
A few weeks ago, after Jeff and I figured out the logistics of our timelines, I asked Jeff if it was possible for him and his class to Skype into our class here at AHS. I didn't know upon asking him what the time difference was between Seoul and Littleton, CO. Jeff talked to his kids. They were all willing to stay up till 1 am their time in order to Skype into our class. We planned 1-1 connections with a kid from Seoul to a kid in my class. Serendipity #5 (more forced Serendipity, but it goes with the theme of this post)
I talked with Karl about whether this would be possible with our EEE's and their built in web-cam. He assured me we could do it, we just needed to test out the Skype feature since Skype and the built in webcams hadn't been used before. We practiced in class with one another everything seemingly looking splendid. Then came the test call...
Jeff and I decided we should do a practice call before the big day. Wednesday he had a group of kids call into my class first to me on the teacher computer and then to each of the kids they were assigned to. The calls to me were flawless with our wireless system. However, problems arose with the calls to the individual students in class. We could hear and see the kids in South Korea perfectly, but they could only see us, there was no sound! Oh no...
So, I asked some of my kids to go and get Karl to assist with our technical difficulties. Some of my boys have Karl as their math teacher and relayed to me that he had a family emergency and would be gone the rest of the week. OH NO....
I sent off a couple of emails to our district personnel to seek out some help. Later that day, after I had chewed my fingernails down to the nubbins and aged myself another 10 years, I got an email back from Rody Smith. Rody brought over two other district tech folks to help me solve my problem with the sound.
At 7:30 am Thursday morning, after being told what I wanted to do wasn't possible, somehow the thoughts shifted to make the impossible possible. Mark Lindstone, Randy Stall, and my favorite Rody Smith figured out a solution to the problem. Rody imaged a brand new set of EEE's for my gentlemen. Our library lent us enough USB headsets for each kid to have their own. Additionally, Rody delivered the brand new EEEs to AHS, helped me set up the classroom with a wired switch for all 24 netbooks (we decided to move from wireless one to one connections to wired connections), and managed to help me facilitate the day today. Serendipity #6
I relayed all the events of Thursday morning to my all boys' class during our class time on Thursday managing to break into tears in front of them. I stressed to them the importance of what we were about to do on Friday, the opportunity that this presented to them as men, as learners and as agents of change. The pressure was on! Since it is an all boys' class, I reminded them that this was like preparing for game day. We needed to prepare ourselves for the challenges but then also embrace the opportunities as well.
And how did it go? It was awesome- we even had cookies and juice thanks to one of our moms. The kids connected both technologically and literally. They didn't stop talking until I told them that we needed to start wrapping up things. The discussed their essays, their lives, their schools, their interests, and their beliefs. They changed the world by getting to know one another, by shaping one another's understandings and learnings. I couldn't stop smiling and neither could the kids. The kids started talking one to one, and before I knew it, they were moving around the room talking to all the other South Korean students. What a fantastic day. What a fantastic learning opportunity. We couldn't have done this without the help of Jeff Boyce, the students in South Korea, Rody Smith ( my all boys class voted him as President for all his hard work), Mark Lindstone, Tracy Murphy, Karla Brachtenbach, Mr. Booth, Karl and of course my gentlemen. Serendipity #7 (which just happens to be my favorite number).
Here are some more pictures of the day...
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fatih on Kamis, 01 Desember 2011
The Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime can proudly claim to be the fastest Android tablet on the market. It is the first device to sport the NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad-core processor which also comes bundled with high performance graphics.
The Eee Pad Transformer Prime has a 10.1 inch Super IPS display with a resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels. Other features include 1GB of RAM, an excellent camera and an
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fatih on Rabu, 30 November 2011
Refurbished versions of the BlackBerry PlayBook are now available for as little as $150. Brand new versions of the tablet have been available for $199 for the past week in the US and Canada. Wait, there is more. RIM, the maker of the tablet, is now offering it to its employees for just $99. So is RIM trying to clear its tablet inventory by selling them at below cost? Well, RIM says that it isn’t.
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Lenovo has made three new additions to its tablet lineup. The company has just rolled out 5 inch, 7 inch and 10 inch Android tablets in China. In China they will be sold under the name LePad. They could be called IdeaPad or IdeaTab when they hit other countries. Here a quick overview of the three models
Lenovo LePad S2005
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Acer is yet to officially announce the existence of a device called Iconia Tab A200. Nonetheless, the company has launched a promotion video for the Android tablet.
The video makes it clear that the tablet will have a full-sized USB port. It will also have a microUSB port, a microSD card slot and miroc HDMI output port. It reportedly has a 10 inch display and a front-facing camera.
The Iconia
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Before you update your device be sure to read what the update offers. You must know what exactly the benefits of updating your device are.
If you are happy with the way the device works now, stick with your current operating system. If you are not seeking newer features, you have no reason to update. However, make sure that the device maker will continue to offer support for the OS you use.
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This is the most recent version of the Google Android operating system. Android was originally a smartphone operating system. That however, didn’t prevent PC makers from using it on their tablets. Tablets, after all, are over-sized smartphones. Some even sport phone capabilities. The growing popularity of Android among tablet makers prompted Google to launch a version of the OS specifically
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fatih on Selasa, 29 November 2011
Amazon has confirmed that its Kindle Fire Android tablet has topped its best seller list for 8 weeks in a row. The Kindle Fire isn’t the best tablet out there, but demand for the $199 device has been pretty high ever since it went up for pre-order 8 weeks ago. While we don’t have any detailed sales figures, Amazon has reportedly built and sold millions of Kindle Fire tablets.
The Kindle Fire
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Gigabyte has made another addition to its convertible tablet lineup. The new Gigabyte T1132 is supposed to be a successor to the T1125. It has a swivel which would allow you to rotate the display down over the keyboard. The hybrid is powered by a 1.6Ghz Intel Core i5-2467M processor and GeForce GT520M discrete graphics with 1GB of dedicated video memory. That graphics card supports the NVIDIA
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fatih on Senin, 28 November 2011
The Lenovo U300S ultrabook has started shipping. The U300S has a 13.3 inch display. An interesting design feature of the laptop is its sandblasted aluminum casing which makes it cool to the touch.
The Lenovo U300s weighs 1.32kg. Under the hood it has an Intel Core i5 processor, 4GB of RAM and 128GB of SSD. The laptop has full sized USB 3.0, USB 2.0 and HDMI output ports. The supported
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The Asus Zenbook UX31 is now available in many parts of the world. This is the first Ultrabook from Asus and sports a tapered design. The laptop tapers to a mere 3mm at its thinnest point.
The UX31 is powered by Intel’s Core i7 processor. Other specifications include 4GB of RAM, 256GB SSD, USB 2.0, USB 3.0 and an SD card reader. The supported connectivity options are Bluetooth 4.0 and WiFi.
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fatih on Sabtu, 26 November 2011
Online retailers in Britain have started listing an unannounced Samsung netbook with an unknown Atom N2100 processor. That chip is rumored to be a Cedar Trail chip which is expected to ship in December. Although some retailers are claiming that the netbook will start shipping on December 2nd it is unlikely to be true. The Atom Cedar Trail chips are only expected to be available in December. That
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Although Intel unveiled its Cedar Trail Atom chips this summer, none of the netbooks currently shipping sport this processor. Word is that the new processors have some problems with their graphics drivers. Intel is expected to launch the repaired chips in December. That means Cedar Trail netbooks are unlikely to hit the market in time for the holiday shopping season.
Asus, by the way, will
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fatih on Jumat, 25 November 2011
The Toshiba Portege Z830 ultrabook has started shipping. Four ready-made models are available right now. They have prices ranging between $929 and $1,429. Alternatively, you can customize the laptop according to your preferences. The customized versions start at $1,099.
The Toshiba Portege Z830-S8302 has a 13.3 inch widescreen display. An overview of the different models are given below.
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RIM has officially dropped the price of its BlackBerry PlayBook tablet. This is a limited period offer. During this holiday season you will be able to pick up the tablet from BlackBerry stores for as little as $199. For that price you will get a 16GB PlayBook. Although this model has a list price of $499, some retailers have been selling it for $299 for a few months.
The 32GB model PlayBook
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fatih on Kamis, 24 November 2011
Motorola is yet to put an official price tag on its Xoom 2 and Xoom 2 Media Edition tablets, but it looks like the folks at Droid Life have some info on Verizon’s prices for the tablet. The models that Verizon will carry have 3G or 4G radios. The carrier will subsidize them if you sign up for a 2 year service contract.
According to sources the new Motorola tablets are expected to go on sale on
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The Sony Tablet P has started shipping in the UK. The dual screen device has a pair of 5.5 inch, 1024 x 480 pixels displays which can be folded into a cylindrical form. The same app can be run across both displays. Alternatively you can run one app on each screen.
The Sony Tablet P was introduced this summer. In the UK, retailer Dixons is taking orders for the tablet for £499.99 (about $782).
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Amazon has started taking pre-orders for the Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime Android tablet. The 32GB model runs $492.20. If you need more storage space, you can consider buying the 64GB model which will set you back $584.22. Bear in mind that these are the prices of the tablet. The optional docking station costs an extra $150.
The Eee Pad Transformer Prime is thinner and lighter than the
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fatih on Selasa, 22 November 2011
Word is that as many as 50 ultrabooks could be on display at CES in January 2012. While that sounds too good to be true, Intel has also predicted that by the end of 2012 ultrabooks will constitute nearly 40% of all laptop sales.
By Intel’s definition, an ultrabook is an ultra-thin laptop that weighs less than 3 pounds and measures less than 0.8 inches in thickness. Ultrabooks will have Intel
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Close on the heels of Acer dropping the price of its AC700 Chromebook, Samsung too has slashed the price of its ChromeBook. Instead of dropping the price of its existing models, Samsung has introduced a new model with exact same specs and a different color lid. The new Samsung Series 5 Chromebook is available in ‘piano black’. It is now up for order from Amazon for $350. Interestingly Samsung
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When the Acer Chromebook launched this summer it sported a $350 price tag. Although that didn’t quite make it pricey, at that price point, it was still costlier than a typical netbook. Now Acer has dropped the price of the laptop. The Acer AC700 Chromebook is now available from Amazon for $299.99.
The ChromeBook runs the Google Chrome operating system. It has just 16GB of storage and that is
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fatih on Sabtu, 19 November 2011
The Asus U24E-XH71 notebook is now available for purchase. The 13 incher has an Intel Core i7 processor, USB 3.0 port, 4GB of RAM, 500GB HDD and a 6-cell battery which will reportedly get up to 10 hours of battery life.
The U24E-XH71 has a magnesium-aluminum alloy chassis which makes it sturdier than laptops sporting plastic casings. The 13.3 inch display has a resolution of 1366 x 768
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fatih on Kamis, 17 November 2011
In a bid to satisfy German courts, Samsung has made slight variations to the design of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 Android tablet. A little over a few months ago a German court had prohibited Samsung from selling the original Galaxy Tab 10.1 because Apple complained that it infringed on their copyrights.
The new model has a slightly different design and a slightly different name: it is called Galaxy
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Acer is reportedly working on a new Android tablet with a NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad-core processor. According to leaked details, the upcoming Acer Iconia Tab A700 tablet will have a full HD 1920 x 1200 pixels display. Obviously Acer wants to take advantage of the graphics prowess of the new Tegra 3 processor. There is no word on the screen size though. It could be 10 inches or something larger.
Few
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fatih on Rabu, 16 November 2011
HP has announced that its Folio Ultrabook will be available in the US in December. The ultrathin laptop will have a starting price of $899.
The HP Folio is a 13.3 inch laptop that measures about 0.7 inches in thickness and weighs 3.3 pounds. It is available with an Intel Core i3 or i5 processor. Other specifications include 4GB of RAM and a 128GB SSD. HP says that the laptop will get up to 9
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fatih on Selasa, 15 November 2011
The 7 inch HP TouchPad Go tablet has been spotted in the wild. The TouchPad Go is supposed to be a compliment to the recently discontinued 9.7 inch TouchPad tablet. Although we have been hearing about this tablet for a while, there is still no word on a launch date.
The TouchPad Go reportedly has a 6.95 inch, 1024 x 768 pixels capacitive touchscreen display. That display has a Corning Gorilla
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Amazon has started shipping the Kindle Fire tablet ahead of schedule. The $200 tablet has a 7 inch, 1024 x 600 pixels display and 8GB of storage. It is powered by a 1GHz TI OMAP4 dual core processor and runs the dated Google Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system.
While the specifications aren’t exactly mouth-watering, the Kindle Fire does have a lot of things going for it. The tablet can,
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A leaked Lenovo product map has revealed details about Lenovo’s upcoming laptops and tablets. According to the product map, the company is working on a ThinkPad X1 Hybrid which will be capable of running both Windows and Android. Lenovo is also working on a Tegra 3-powered Android tablet running Android 4.0 operating system.
In the laptop space, the company will be offering a budget-friendly
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fatih on Senin, 14 November 2011
Toshiba has revealed the pricing details of its Portege Z835-P330 ultrabook. The laptop will be a Best Buy exclusive and has an impressive starting price of $799. At that price point it will be one of the first ultrabooks to launch with a sub $1000 price tag.
An ultrabook is an ultrathin laptop sporting Intel’s latest processors. The term was coined by Intel itself. While introducing the
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The Black Friday deals for Best Buy and Staples have already leaked. And now we have got a sneak peek at what Target will be offering on the most frantic shopping day in the US.
The retailer will be offering deep discounts on the following laptop models on November 25th.
A 10 inch Acer netbook will be available for $157. It is not exactly clear which model Target is talking about. The 11.6 inch
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fatih on Minggu, 13 November 2011
US wireless carrier T-Mobile is all set to launch the Huawei MediaPad Android tablet under the name SpringBoard. Customers will be able to pick up the tablet starting November 16th by making a down payment of $179.99.
The full price of the tablet is $429.99. While carriers usually subsidize the tablets when buyers sign up for long term service contracts, in this case it is a bit different.
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fatih on Sabtu, 12 November 2011
Best Buy’s Black Friday deals have leaked. The company will be offering some deep discounts on select tablets.
The retailer will, for instance, sell the Eee Pad Transformer for $249.99. The tablet usually retails for $400. The Eee Pad Transformer has a 10.1 inch, 1280 x 800 pixels IPS display. It is powered by a 1GHz NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual core processor and runs Android 3.2 Honeycomb operating
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Staples will offer some of the best Black Friday deals this year. The supply store will sell the BlackBerry PlayBook for $199 on Black Friday and in the days up the day after Thanksgiving.
The $199 version of the PlayBook has 16GB of storage, 1GB of RAM, front and rear facing cameras, WiFi and Bluetooth. To get the tablet for this price, you will need to go to one of the bricks and mortar stores
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fatih on Rabu, 09 November 2011
My kids decided they needed to create an award in recognition of the best banned book movie trailer for our
Banned Book assignment. So, they created the Smitty- combination of me and Wonder Woman. I send along pictures later. What I really wanted to share were some of the best trailers. And the Smitty goes to two of the following....
Best videos: Emma
Best video: Alex
Best videos: Alison
Best videos: Grant
Best videos: Liz
Best videos: Brooke
Best videos: Maddie D
Best videos: Cassie(all pictures were hand drawn)
Best videos: Zoey H
Best videos: Brian H
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Best stance: Sean and Delaney
Best Why Banned: Bekah
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NVIDIA has officially introduced its Tegra 3 ARM Cortex-A9 multi-core processor. The Tegra 3 has 4 high-performance CPU cores, 1 extra low power ‘companion’ core and 12 graphics cores. It has a clock speed of 1.4Ghz.
The new processors are aimed at tablets and smartphones. The Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime will be the first device to ship with the Tegra 3 processor. Other tablets are also in
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Lenovo has restarted taking orders for the IdeaPad A1 tablet. The new models are available in a range of colors including black, white, blue and pink. All models are expected to start shipping by November 21st.
When Lenovo first launched the tablet, the company had promised that it would sell it for $199. That model has only 2GB of storage. Strangely Lenovo has now bumped the price of this model
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Asus is all set to launch a sequel to its hugely popular Eee Pad Transformer Prime Android tablet. The Transformer Prime is thinner and lighter than the original Transformer and sports a metallic finish.
The Eee Pad Transformer Prime will launch with Google Android 3.2 Honeycomb operating system. Asus will reportedly offer an update to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. It will also be the first
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fatih on Senin, 07 November 2011
Motorola has launched two new Android tablets – the Xoom 2 and Xoom 2 Media Edition. While the former has a 10.1 inch display, the latter sports an 8.2 inch display. Other specifications are more or less the same.
The Xoom 2 and Xoom 2 Media Edition both have a 1.2GHz dual core processor, 1GB of RAM, 16GB of RAM and Android 3.2 Honeycomb operating system. Both tablets have a 1.3 megapixel
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fatih on Minggu, 06 November 2011
The Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus has started shipping. You can order the tablet from Amazon for $399.99 and up. For that price you will get a 7 inch tablet with 16GB of storage. The 32GB version runs $499.99. The 7 inch display has a resolution of 1024 x 600 pixels.
The Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus runs Google Android 3.2 Honeycomb operating system. The tablet reportedly has a 1.2Ghz dual core
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fatih on Sabtu, 05 November 2011
Barnes & Noble will launch their Nook tablet on November 16th for $249. The company’s first tablet was the Nook Color launched last year. At launch it had a price tag of $249, but now it is available for $199.
The Nook Tablet is thinner and lighter than the Nook Color. It also sports a faster 1.2 GHz TI OMAP4 dual core processor. Other specifications include 1GB of RAM, 16GB of storage and a 7
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HP is all set to launch a new business laptop. The new HP 3115m is the business version of the Pavilion dm1z launched last month.
The HP 3115m has more or less the same specifications as the Pavilion dm1z. Both models have an 11.6 inch display and AMD E-300 or AMD E-450 processor. The AMD E-300 has a clock speed of 1.3Ghz. It comes bundled with the Radeon HD 6310 integrated graphics. The E-450
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fatih on Kamis, 03 November 2011
Asus is all set to launch a new 11.6 inch laptop called U24E. The machine will have an Intel Core i5-2430M processor, 4GB of RAM and a 750GB hard drive. The display will have a resolution of 1366 x 768 pixels.
The Asus U24E weighs 3.3 pounds. It is likely to cost much less than the 11.6 inch Ultrabooks Asus recently launched. And that is because the U24E lacks many of the premium features you
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HP has updated its Windows 7 tablet with a faster 1.5GHz Intel Atom Z670 Oak Trail processor and a solid state disk.
The HP Slate 500 launched a little over a year ago. It is aimed at business users. The upgraded model will, reportedly, get more battery life and offer more security features. It will also have a flat back panel. The tablet will start shipping later this month for $699 and up.
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fatih on Selasa, 01 November 2011
Asus shipped 1.3 million Eee PCs during the third quarter of this year. The company has, so far, shipped 3.6 million Eee PCs in 2011. During this year, the company shipped 1.2 million tablets - 800,000 of them were sold during the third quarter.
That means, netbooks are still selling better than tablets. Meanwhile, Asus hasn’t made any new announcements about upcoming tablets. The company,
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fatih on Senin, 31 Oktober 2011
MSI’s newest gaming laptop is now available for purchase. By MSI’s own claims, the GT780DX is the ‘ultimate weapon in battle’.
The MSI GT780DX has a 17 inch display, a 2.2GHz Intel Core i7 Quad-core processor, NVIDIA Geforce GTX 570M discrete graphics and 12GB (supports up to 32GB) of RAM. The display has a resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels. The storage option is a 750GB hard drive. Other
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RIM is trying every trick in the book to boost the sale of its PlayBook tablet. The company dropped the price of the tablet from $499 to $299 this summer. And now it has launched yet another promotion. Long story short, starting today you can get a PlayBook free if you buy two. Buyers will also be treated with a free accessory like a leather sleeve or HDMI cable. It is not exactly clear how many
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fatih on Sabtu, 29 Oktober 2011
Best Buy will start selling 32GB HP TouchPad tablets for $149.99 on November 1st. To get that price you will need to buy an HP or Compaq laptop or desktop though.
The HP TouchPad launched a couple of months ago. It wasn't selling well until HP dropped the price to $99 this summer. In a matter of seconds the tablet started flying off the shelves. HP is no longer selling the tablet directly to
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fatih on Jumat, 28 Oktober 2011
Dell has officially introduced its 10 inch business tablet called Latitude ST. Dell is yet to unveil the official specs-sheet of the tablet, but according to an Italian website it will have a 1.5GHz Intel Atom Z670 single core processor, 2GB of RAM and a 10.1 inch LED display with 1280 x 800 pixels. The display is coated with Gorilla Glass.
The Latitude ST will be available with up to 128GB of
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The 14 inch Dell XPS 14z will start shipping in the US on November 1st. The laptop measures just 0.9 inches in thickness and weighs 4.36 pounds when configured with a hard drive. It is available with a choice of Intel Core Sandy Bridge processors, up to 8GB of RAM, NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M discrete graphics and a slot-loading DVD writer. That NVIDIA graphics support the Optimus automatic graphics
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Apple has refreshed its MacBook Pro lineup. The new laptops feature faster ‘Sandy Bridge processors’, better graphics and new storage options.
The 13.3 inch MacBook Pros are now available with up to 750GB of hard drive storage. The base configuration has a 2.4GHz Intel Core i5 dual core processor while the top-of-the-line model sports a 2.8GHz Intel Core i7 dual core processor.
The 15 inch
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fatih on Rabu, 26 Oktober 2011
Motorola is reportedly working on new 8 and 10 inch tablets. We have already seen leaked photos of these machines and now one of them has made an appearance at the FCC website. That means it is inching closer to its launch in the US.
Few details are available on the FCC website, but the tablet will reportedly have a 1.2GHz processor, 1GB of RAM and a 1280 x 800 pixels display. No word on the
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A new Dell tablet running Windows has been spotted in the wild. We first heard about the the Dell Latitude ST this summer. And now Dell has posted a video of the tablet on its Malaysian website.
The Latitude ST is aimed at enterprise users. Dell says that it will have an Intel Atom processor, Windows 7 operating system, USB ports, an HDMI ouput port, and an SD card slot. The display will
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The 7 inch ViewSonic ViewPad 7e Android tablet will start shipping this month for $200.
At that price point it costs just as much as the Amazon Kindle.
The device is powered by a 1GHz processor. It has 4GB of storage. There is also a microSD card slot for expanding storage. The 7 inch display has a resolution of 800 x 600 pixels.
The ViewPad 7e runs Google Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating
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fatih on Minggu, 23 Oktober 2011
The first notebooks sporting the Intel Celeron B800 notebooks have hit the market. PC makers like Acer, Gateway and Toshiba have all launched laptops with the just released low-end processor.
The 15.6 inch Acer Aspire AS5349-2481 with the B800 processor, 2GB of RAM, a 500GB hard drive and HDMI output port retails for just $299. The Toshiba Satellite C655-S5335 sporting the same processor and
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Apple will reportedly launch a refreshed version of its MacBook Pro in November. The company was supposed to launch the update in September, but had to push it back probably because they wanted to focus on the launch of the iPhone 4S.
The refresehed MacBook Pros are expected to have the same looks. But under the hood, it will have a faster Intel Sandy Bridge processor. The new Intel Core i7
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fatih on Sabtu, 22 Oktober 2011
The 14 inch Lenovo Ideapad U400 thin and light laptop is now available for purchase in the US. The laptop has a 2.4GHz Intel Core i5-2430M processor, ATI Radeon HD6470M discrete graphics and a slot-loading DVD burner. The IdeaPad U400 has an aluminum case. It measures 0.9 inches in thickness and weighs 4.4 pounds. The 14 inch display has a resolution of 1366 x 768 pixels.
Lenovo says that the
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Samsung will start taking pre-orders for the Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus on October 23rd. The tablet will start shipping in the US on November 13th.
The Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus has a 1.2GHz dual core processor, 1GB of RAM and 16GB of storage. Models with more storage should also be available. The tablet runs Google Android 3.2 Honeycomb operating system.
The tablet weighs about 0.75 pounds and
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Velocity Micro has added two new tablets to its lineup. The company is already known for its line of low cost Android tablets. The new models are called Velocity Micro T408 and T410. They are better than the previous models and sport capacitive multitouch displays and Samsung 1GHz ARM Cortex A8 processors.
Here is a closer look at both models.
The Velocity Micro Cruz T408 has an 8 inch 800 x
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fatih on Jumat, 21 Oktober 2011
About a month ago,
Karl Fisch sent along a tweet from alibrarian in Grand Junction,
Becky Johnson. Becky was creating QR codes to go along the spines of books in herlibrary. The QR codes linked to YouTube videos students had created based uponthe books.
After expressing my interest in building from Becky’s work,Karl contacted her to gain more information about the coding creating processand help us get started. I thought Iwould pass along Karl’s questions as well as Becky’s responses:
- What site are you using to generate the QR codes? I know there are a bunch, but thought if you had one that worked well, we'd use that.
- I use Kaywa QR-Code Generator<http://qrcode.kaywa.com/> - No registration or download needed, just paste the link to the site you want to generate the code for, choose the size and click generate.
- Any advice on printing? My concern is getting them small enough to fit on the spine of a book but still be a functional QR code.
- Printing is easy. Copy (copy image) the code and paste into Word or a Google Doc. Resize to fit the spine and print. I've made them as small as a half inch square and never had a problem scanning them. Just make sure you re-size proportionally. I use the ScanLife app on my Android phone, but I've seen kids use other apps and the Google Goggles App works too. I just print them off on a laser printer and fix them on the spine with book tape.
- Did you do book trailers at YouTube, or did they create a site to host the videos, or what? Any links to samples you might share?
- I've got kids who've created videos in Animoto<http://animoto.com/>, FlixTime<http://flixtime.com/>, Photopeach<http://photopeach.com/home> and Photostory. It always works better if they can be exported or saved in a format that can be uploaded to YouTube, however I've included some examples that play in the native app, like Photopeach and FlixTime. I sometimes create codes linked to student blog post book reviews, so I've included some examples of those.
- Anything else we should ask but I haven't thought of?
- 4. Problems encountered:
* As long as kids have devices with 3G or 4G access, Android or Apple, they can view YouTube videos and they always load quickly and play well. My district's wi-fi blocks YouTube (grrrr), but the kids tend to loan devices to each other to enable scanning. The QR codes are fairly new and I don't have a lot of them on books yet, so it is the geeky kids that are accessing them right now.
* Animoto is my favorite site for students to create book trailers, but I can't get codes linked directly to the Animoto site to play on some devices, so I always export or upload to YouTube. Using the Animoto Educator Plus Account<http://animoto.com/education?gclid=CJ6eiZmMyasCFaUCQAodPg992Q> allows students to make videos with no length restrictions and they can be exported directly to a YouTube account (if the student has one) or saved as an mp4 file, which I can upload to my YouTube account.
* I've tried uploading to SchoolTube. The codes and links work fine, but the videos take forever to load and tend to look wonky on a device.
* The flash-based videos in PhotoPeach and FlixTime don't show on Apple devices. - Samples: https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1e9_OFRb7ph_qnWfDaOA1yl-dM7h12XOgwOn_zjBzPc4
During the month of October, along with our study of RayBradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, we read banned and challenged books. The kids printoff a
permissionletter from our webpage getting their parent’s approval on a banned orchallenged book they wish to read. Inyear’s past, we have had the kids complete a banned book project where thestudents create a visual on their desk space presenting the book, the researchon why the book was banned or challenged, and then, take a stance on whether ornot they agree with the banning and challenging.
After hearing of Becky’s school’s work, I threw out the ideato
Maura Moritz( mypartner in all things 9
th grade Honors)of our kids making movietrailers for their banned/challenged book. The kids were ecstatic about thethought of creating a movie. We workedwith the original rubric for the project, and adapted the rubric to
fitour new idea. The kids wanted a lot of freedom in determining what parts ofthe project could be video and what parts could be still written. I thoughtthis was important since some kids didn’t want to publish to the world theirbelief on whether or not a book should be banned or challenged.
To make this new project even more serendipitous, at parentteacher conferences, one of my student’s mom happens to be a creative directorwho has created a number of commercials and worked with movie trailers as well.Mrs. Friskey offered to come into class and help the kids think about movietrailers offering up her feedback to the kids. This was an amazingopportunity. It helped the kids andmyself refine the project even more. Here is the new rubric based upon her suggestions and tips to thekids. Also, here is some of her sageadvice to our classes:
THE GOLDEN RULE of ADVERTISING
Mention/present yourproduct and share its information/benefits in the best creative way to garnerthe desired response.
What Makes a MovieTrailer? (think of a movie trailer as a tease)
(Mention Product) Thename of the movie (book)- this often appears at the end of the trailer.
(Info/Benefits) Plot points or cool prestige elements such asthe director’s or actors’ names. Be careful not to give away whole story.
(Creative) Excitingediting, clever copy, memorable scenes or dialogue, compelling music. Mostimportant to storyboard out idea. Thinkabout using catch phrases (powerful quotes), use imagery (taste, touch, see,hear, smell), LESS IS MORE
(Desired Response)TICKET SALES! Money? Get people to read your book?
We plan on having a movie watching day with a special awardfor best trailer.
Karl and our library/mediaspecialist,
Mr. Tracy Murphy, will help the kids create the codes. The kids are submitting all their projects througha
GoogleForm to easily collect their masterpieces. I will post our results as wellas feedback from the kids when the projects come in on October 31.
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My all boys’ class has been writing up a storm this semesterwith our work on
PLNs.
We have moved from the first 6 weeks of each
writingtheir own response on a selected post/ blog:
Tony Wagner’s “RigorRedefined” portrays how the youth of the twenty first century is notprepared for the largely evolving work place. Throughout his article he asksCEOs about the youth they hire and how efficient they are. They all explainedthat the youth they hire are great at the bases of their job, however as theyincreased into the higher level requirements and more detailed work they justcouldn’t process it. This makes me wonder, is the job marketplace evolving toofast for the schools and colleges to keep up. If you ask me, I believe thatschools are not improving what they teach simply because the leaders ofeducation are lazy. They don’t want to respond to change. However if a smallgroup of teachers tried to push that change into action I believe that my generationwould be much more prepared for the future. In the world the younger peoplethat are trying to get jobs are having a hard time because employers are nolonger looking for the blunt man or woman that can do the same thing all daylong. They are looking for the person that thinks at a different level ofthinking, a much higher one that can ask questions and be focused on a broadtopic. It explains in his article that people are working as teams to finishgoals but those people don’t even know each other or even work in the samecountry. People are being brought together through a global conferences andconnections online. But those people aren’t the young ones that have just beenemployed it’s the veteran that knows what he or she is doing. I believe thatbetween now and my generation graduating from college there will be enough timeto improve on education as a whole and complete the goal of preparing us forthe jobs they may not exist. However there is also time for the jobmarketplaces to grow even more and exceed a milestone that was never thoughtpossible. But as time goes on its hard to depict what will happen in thefuture. Many of the CEOs said that the main problem with their young employeeswas that they couldn’t focus or bring their ideas to a conclusion. Which bringsme to ask like Nicholas Carr’s “IsGoogle Making Us Stupid?” has the internet made our attention spanmuch lower? In the case with the employees not being able to focusthat problem is only found in the younger employees rather than the older ones.The problem with them not being able to focus may be because of the youngergeneration’s deeper connection to the internet. As we move forward into adifferent type of work ethic; do you believe that changing the goals we learnin school will make us more prosperous in the work place? I believe it wouldmake the next generations to come much more ready to succeed and be ableunderstand what they are doing. So as we move forward into the future I justhope that schools and colleges can catch back up to where the workplacesadvanced to. Then we moved towards writing on others’ blogs:
Mr. Stager:
I was intrigued andentertained by your article and Silvia’s videos but I disagree with some of thepoints you made. I watched Silvia’s videos and was very impressed as I couldnot see my self, a ninth grader at Arapahoe High School doing something thateducational or high quality for a school project let alone in my free time. Iam usually worried about a hockey game the next weekend or the cheerleader inmy science lab, not learning how to use an Arduino or a new computer program todo something productive. This sentence from your article really struck me“While you bathe in the warmth of your PLN with self-congratulatory tweets,Sylvia is sharing serious expertise with the world.” The fact that I amcurrently doing a PLN(Personal Learning Network) for my english class makes methink if you are calling out my teacher. PLNs are the first time I have beenexposed to blogs and all of the blog posts we have had to summarize are sendingthe same general message of improving education with technology.
I respect Silvia’s devotion and love for whatshe is doing but she is one of few in our current education system. I, likemany others in my class have just started to understand the art of blogging andpersonally I am pretty proud and then there are the kids like Sylvia who areclearly a level head and shoulders above kids like me when it comes to lust forknowledge. There has always been people like Sylvia who are fortunate enough tocome form such supportive parents and has a love for learning and we call peoplelike that over achievers or active learners. Its not meant to be an insult infact the opposite but it helps show there is another side of the scale. Kidswho come from divorced parents living off lower wages who cant afford homecomputers and struggle in school and life in general. We have to give both anequal opportunity for an education. Should we send them to different schools,or should take away Sylvia’s opportunities and give the challenged kids thesame attention Sylvia needs or vis versa.
And to the blogger responding:
Jake,
Greetings from SouthKorea!
Thanks for reading mywork and for taking the time to write. My article is indeed an indictment ofmany educators who fail to seize the remarkable capacity of children and helpthem go farther than they could have gone on their own. It’s not an attack onspecific teachers, nor does it negate the value of blogging, although bloggingis just a new place to write.
I don’t understand whyyou think that all kids could not profit from the experiences afforded Sylvia?Is it fair to blame kids for their parental involvement? Is that reallydeterminative of a kid’s educational aptitude or achievement? As I said in thearticle (above), the reason we have school is to democratize such experiencesand let more children benefit from them.
Few parents arechemists or conductors or sculptors or authors. School assembles people with avariety of expertise and makes them available to more kids.
Best,
Gary
- Stand in the front of the class with your blog projected on the screen behind you
- Present your blog entries
- Talk about what you are reading, what matters from it, how does it connect to what we are doing in class, and how does it relate to the world around us?
- Presentation must be organized- Use an organizational strategy to keep your presentation on track without reading from notes or the screen.
- Make eye contact with audience
- Must be creative and interesting: use attention getting opening and conclusion to tie ideas all together
- You are not allowed to miss on your assigned presentation day!
- Stand up straight
- No fidgeting: keep arms and hands in good speaker positions
- Referenced blog postings- connect similar blog postings under one thematic idea
- Asked question of audience at end of presentation
During the presenter’s presentation, the classmates aregiving feedback on the presenter’s individual blog. Once the question has been asked at the endof the presentation, the gentlemen answer the presenter’s question while thepresenter facilitates a group conversation. We have conducted about 6 weeks of presentations.
This week began a new venture for the PLN presentations onFriday.
We
Ustreamed out thepresentations for the presenter to be able to self-assess and for others towatch what we are doing.
The gentlemen had trepidations today knowing that otherswere going to watch what we were doing, but I think for our first go around,they did a good job. We will see how therest of the semester goes and carrying over this idea into secondsemester. Here are some samples fromtoday:
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Major PC makers like Acer, Asus, Lenovo and Toshiba have already launched ultrathin notebooks with Intel's latest processors. Intel calls these machines ultrabooks. They have premium features. And although Intel insists that ultrabooks should cost less than $1000, only the entry level models have that price point. But competition may drive the prices further down.
Anyway Intel says that in the
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MSI has launched a budget-friendly mainstream laptop. The 15.6 inch MSI A6400-042US has decent hardware. It is powered by a 2.30GHz Intel Core i5 2410M dual core processor with integrated Intel HD graphics. The laptop has 4GB of RAM, a 500GB hard drive and a DVD burner.
The 15.6 inch glossy display has a resolution of 1366 x 768 pixels. Other notable features include a pair of USB 3.0 ports
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fatih on Kamis, 20 Oktober 2011
A 3G capable version of the Asus Eee Pad Transformer Android tablet is coming soon. It will reportedly hit the streets in November or December.
The WiFi-only versions of the tablet have been available since early this year. The 3G model just happens to have a full-sized SIM card slot on the side of the tablet that also houses the volume rocker. The rest of the specifications are the same.
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fatih on Senin, 17 Oktober 2011
The Sony VAIO SE is now available for purchase. The 15.5 inch laptop starts at $1,000.
The mid-range laptop has decent specs. It is available with your choice of an Intel Core i5-2430M or Intel Core i7-2640M processor. The graphics options are the AMD Radeon HD 6470M or HD 6630M. The VAIO SE also has up to 8GB of RAM, up to 750GB of storage, a DVD burner or Blu-ray combo drive.
Other
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It looks like Archos is planning to launch yet another tablet in its Arnova lineup. The company recently launched two new Arnova tablets – the Arnova 7 G2 and the Arnova 10 G2. The new model will reportedly have an 8 inch display. As you can probably imagine, it will be called Arnova 8 G2.
Retailer J&R has already uploaded a product page for the tablet. No shipping date is available as yet,
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fatih on Minggu, 16 Oktober 2011
Panasonic has already launched a couple of Android tablets, but none of these machines are available outside of Japan. And now the company has launched a new line of business tablets. These machines, too, are unlikely to be available outside of Japan anytime soon.
The new Panasonic BizPad JT-580VT has a 7 inch, 1024 x 600 pixels display while the BizPad JT-581VT has a larger 10.1 inch, 1280 x
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The Lamborghini inspired Asus VX6 has been upgraded with a 2.13GHz Intel Atom D2700 Cedar Trail processor. The 12.1 inch notebook has been around for a while. It originally shipped with a 1.8GHz Intel Atom D525 dual core processor. Although that is a decent processor, it is not very fast by notebook standards.
The new Atom D2700 is a desktop-class processor. Still, it is an Atom processor, so
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The Sony Vaio YB notebook has been updated with the 1.65GHz AMD E-450 dual core processor and Radeon HD 6310 graphics.
Sony launched the VAIO YB early this year. Back then it sported a 1.6GHz AMD E-350 processor and Radeon HD 6250 graphics. The new AMD E-450 is only slightly faster than the E-350, so don’t expect any dramatic improvement in performance.
The Sony VAIO YB has an 11.6 inch
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Asus UX21E-DH52
This model has an 11.6, 1366 x 768 pixels display. It is powered by an Intel Core i5-2467M processor. Other specifications include 128GB SSD and a 35Whr battery which will reportedly get up to 5 hours of runtime. The laptop measures 0.67 inches in thickness and weighs 2.43 pounds. The Asus UX21E-DH52 runs $999.
Asus UX21E-DH71
This is the second model in the 11.6 inch series.
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Asus is introducing a new line of thin and light laptops called Zenbooks. The Asus Zenbooks will be available in two screen sizes. There will be two models with 11.6 inch displays and three models with 13.3 inch displays.
The Zenbooks are based on the Intel ultrabook platform. By Intel’s own definition an ultrabook is a laptop computer that weighs less than 3 pounds, measures less than 0.8
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fatih on Rabu, 12 Oktober 2011
The Velocity Micro Cruz T408 tablet has joined the growing brigade of sub $200 Android tablets. The tablet launched last month with a price tag of $240. Now it is available for as little as $200.
The Cruz T408 has an 8 inch, 800 x 600 pixels capacitive touchscreen display. It is powered by a 1GHz ARM Cortex A8 processor and runs Google Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system. Other
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ViewSonic has introduced yet another Android tablet. The budget-friendly ViewSonic ViewPad 10e has a 10 inch display. As the name may suggest, the ViewPad 10e is a larger version of the 7 inch ViewPad 7e.
Both models have a 1GHz ARM Cortex A8 processor and run Google Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system. While the 7e has a 7 inch display, the 10e has a larger 9.7 inch IPS display with a
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fatih on Senin, 10 Oktober 2011
The sub $200 Android tablets are not a rarity. There are plenty of them on the market. But up until now these machines were built by unknown Chinese device makers. Now the situation is different. Two big name companies have announced Android tablets with a $200 price tag.
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Lenovo is the latest big name company to launch a sub $200 Android tablet. The Lenovo IdeaPad A1 has a $199 price tag. It will reportedly start shipping on October 27th.
The IdeaPad A1 has a 7 inch touchscreen with a resolution of 1024 x 600 pixels. The screen can recognize two-finger multi-touch. The tablet is powered by a single core ARM Cortex A8 processor. It runs Google Android 2.3
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fatih on Minggu, 09 Oktober 2011
The Dell XPS 14z has leaked on the Dell US website. The 14 inch laptop is expected to hit the US shores sometime soon.
The Dell XPS 14z L412z is an ultraportable notebook measuring just 0.9 inches in thickness. It weighs 4.36 pounds when configured with an HDD. It is powered by Intel’s second generation Core series processors. Other specifications include up to 8GB of RAM, NVIDIA GeForce
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Pandigital has launched a new budget-friendly tablet. The Pandigital SuperNova has an 8 inch display and a $229 price tag.
The SuperNova has a 1GHz Samsung S5PV210 processor, 512MB of RAM and 4GB of storage. The 8 inch capacitive multitouch display has a resolution of 800 x 600 pixels. The tablet runs the dated Google Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system. Other specifications include WiFi
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The 11.6 inch Samsung Slate 7 Windows 7 tablet is now up for pre-order. The 11.6 inch enterprise class tablet has a 400-nit bright display and wide viewing angles. It supports both multi-touch and pen input.
The Samsung Slate 7 is aimed at businesses. It doesn’t have a physical keyboard, but you can add one via Bluetooth, thanks to the keyboard dock. That said, the tablet doesn’t come standard
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The 15.6 inch Lenovo B575-1450A7U notebook is now available from Best Buy for just $300. The notebook has an AMD E-series E-350 processor which comes bundled with the Radeon HD 6310 graphics. Other specifications include 4GB of RAM, a 250GB of hard drive and Windows 7 Home Premium operating system.
The Lenovo B575 also has a DVD burner, a 0.3 megapixel web camera, HDMI, 4 USB ports, WiFi and a
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fatih on Rabu, 05 Oktober 2011
Toshiba launched two new tablets yesterday. While the Toshiba Regza AT700 has a 10 inch display, the Regza AT3S0 has a smaller 7 inch display. Actually we have heard about these tablets before, but these model numbers weren’t available then.
The Regza AT700 appears to be a rebranded version of the Toshiba AT200, while the smaller AT3S0 seems to be the same machine as the Toshiba Thrive 7. Both
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A new Asus netbook has hit the FCC. The Asus Eee PC 1025CE isn’t all that different from the 1025C which made an appearance at the FCC website last week. Both models have the same case design, same keyboard and 10 inch displays. There are some differences too.
The Eee PC 1025CE is likely to be the pricier of the two. It has got 2 USB 2.0 and 1 USB 3.0 ports. The 1025C, on the other hand, has
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fatih on Selasa, 04 Oktober 2011
For the past four years, I have had my classes write their versions of
National Public Radio’s “This I Believe” segment. I was introduced to this idea by a colleague and have been always impressed by what my students hold as their personal values and beliefs. Writing these essays has allowed for them to do something they don’t get to do all that often at school - express their heartfelt beliefs.
After writing the essays the first year, we submitted them to NPR, but we also decided to podcast them ourselves – no need to wait to see if NPR might choose to broadcast them. The writing was good at expressing their values, but once their voice was added to their written expression, WOW, it simply transformed that personal essay. Instead of the words simply being words, the words conveyed deeply held emotions. Now, this is the standard.
Here are some previous class examples:
Period 2 06-07Period 5 06-07Period 3 06-07Period 2 07-08Period 5 07-08Period 3 07-08Wiki 09-10Wiki 10-11We are approaching that time of year, when I am going to start the kids on this writing adventure, but this year I wanted to invite you in the blog-o-sphere to join us again. I want “This I Believe” to go global. I want my students to benefit not only from knowing what their peers believe, or what the other AHS classes believe, but to hear and see what the world values. What do kids elsewhere in the U.S. believe in? What do kids elsewhere in the world believe in? What do some of the learned professionals that I know believe in? I want my students to walk away from this experience realizing the power they have as professional writers as well as connecting to other teenagers and adults from around the world. I want to see them exchange ideas, foster relationships, and appreciate the variety of perspectives. Maybe you can challenge your principal, your school board members, your local politicians, heck, maybe your entire school. Maybe we can even get our President to write his own “This I Believe.”
So, how do we accomplish this?
Karl Fisch, of course, is willing to be my master facilitator. He has set up
a wiki (still a work in progress) that will provide the guidelines for the classes to follow. I am making
Maura Moritz’s classes join us again, so there will be five classes (ninth grade, 14 and 15 years old) from AHS writing and podcasting their essays:
Moritz 2, Moritz 4,
Smith 3 and Smith 5. We are hoping to attract at least four other classes from around the world, one each to pair up with each of our four classes. If we get more than ffour classes that are interested, then we will try to pair up any additional classes with another class somewhere in the world.
If your class(es) are interested, please complete
this Google Form with some basic information (your name, your email address, school name, location, grade level(s)/ages, how many classes, number of students in each class, and time frame that you’d like to do this) so we can setup those partnerships. (Our thinking is that pairing one class with one class will keep this from becoming too overwhelming for the students, although of course anyone can read/listen/comment to any of the essays on any of the wiki pages).
We will create a wiki page for each set of paired classes and each student will upload their written essay as well as their podcast (the podcast can either be uploaded directly to the wiki, or you can use a variety of other services for that and then link to them). Each pair of classes will be in charge of their own wiki page and we’ll use the discussion tabs on each page to give feedback to the students.
If you are an adult interested in writing a piece yourself, simply add them to the “adults” page on the wiki. I am hoping to get some notable edubloggers as well as my superintendent, CIO, and others to participate. It would also be helpful to include a brief bio so the kids can know who they are reading about.Obviously you don’t have to do this with us or on our wiki, you can create your own. But we thought it might be interesting and helpful to have one wiki that aggregated all these essays/podcasts, one place that students (and others) could visit to learn about beliefs all over the world. Wondering where to start? NPR has a number of education friendly links to help you along the process:
For EducatorsFor StudentsEssay writing tipsHow to contribute an essay to NPRTimeline: For our honors classes we are going to start writing our essays, October 27th with a final due date of November 7th for their essay. The week following their due date, they will begin podcasting their essays. The paired classes don’t have to match this timeline exactly (although that would be great), but we’re hoping they can have theirs completed by Thanksgiving so that the students can start commenting on each other’s essays /podcasts.But for other pairings you can set whatever time frame works best for you – that’s the beauty of the wiki, it’s a living document with no “end” to the assignment (although that’s why we need you to include your time frame when you email us so that we can try to match folks up). We would really appreciate any feedback (now or as this progresses) to make this an experience that is truly relevant and meaningful for these kids.
