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Close to three-quarters of smartphone owners in the United States use location services on their mobiles. Most of those interactions involve a map in some way. No wonder then, that both Apple (iOS) and Google (Android) recently held public events talking about the future of their mobile map products. As these stats illustrate, maps are a big deal on mobile.
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Despite companies' hamfisted, male-focused marketing efforts, women are the dominant users of a wide variety of new technologies. If you want to find out what the future looks like, you should be asking women.
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At the live event taking place now, Microsoft have announced a new tablet called Surface.
Their website has been updated: http://www.microsoft.com/surface[^]
Edit: Youtube video now up; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpzu3HM2CIo[^]
9.3mm thick
Detachable cover includes keyboard and touchpad (3mm think)
Built in stand
HDMI
USB2.0
Front and Rear cameras.
WinRT, Arm processor by NVidia.......
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Friggin' amateurs ...
When you do an announcement for a product, you DO NOT have a web page with a :
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Welcome to Microsoft Surface.
Coming Soon
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Right smak on the front page.
I WANT TO SEE ALL THE SPECS RIGHT NOW, AND I WANT A BUTTON TO BUY IT.
BUT it looks good; except for the foldable "stand" that will break just by looking at it (over-engineered).
Watched code never compiles.
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The website wasn't even up when I went to it as soon as they announced the link.
It just gave an 'unexpected error'
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Maximilien wrote: except for the foldable "stand" that will break just by looking at it (over-engineered).
Magnesium alloy is pretty tuff you know, would be more likely to break if it was plastic or aluminium.
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Moving parts, moving parts.
Fow all we know, the hinges are crap plstic.
Watched code never compiles.
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Magnesium is not particularly tough at all. You are confusing it with Titanium, which is tough. Magnesium is also quite flammable (and once started, hard to put out - water accelerates the burning). Battery fires should be a whole new experience. The only advantage magnesium has is that it is lightweight...
"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them." Eric Hoffer
"The failure mode of 'clever' is 'a**hole'" John Scalzi
"Only buzzards feed on their friends" Patrick Dorinson
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No I am not confusing it with titanium, I know what titanium is.
Pure magnesium is pretty nasty flammable stuff.
However Magnesium Alloys can be relatively strong (otherwise we wouldn't make car wheels out of them!) From wiki: The strength –to-weight ratio of the precipitation-hardened magnesium alloys is comparable with that of the strong alloys of aluminum or with the alloy steels
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AKA, the Windows iPad. 
Actually, years ago they had this giant multi-touch table they called Surface. It was something like $10,000+. Hard Rock in Las Vegas had one. Looks like they're doing different form factors now.
I do love that marketing video though; I don't even know what it does and I want one.
And I just tried to go to Surface.com (as indicated in the video), but it redirected me to Microsoft.com/Surface/ and gave me "Unexpected error occured". Which is funny, because this is the second time I've seen them misspell "occurred". 
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Typical Microsoft…
Claim it's new and different… it's not.
Demo crashed.
Over designed.
Fairly ugly.
Not available for months.
No definite pricing.
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Typical smoke and mirrors only difference after you buy it you need to smoke one.
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I wonder if the TSOD (Touch Screen Of Death) will also be the newest product output from Microsoft? Just a thought.
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BSOD, TSOD - we all SOD togeth...
Oh wait - nevermind. 
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OK, but where do you plug in the mouse?
/ravi
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USB port ... or use the cover touchpad
Steve
_________________
I C(++) therefore I am
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Spec sheet now available [^]
Steve
_________________
I C(++) therefore I am
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2 OS for the same tablet ?
OVER-ENGINEERED!!!
Watched code never compiles.
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Looks like a tablet designed by someone who sees a PC in everything, the result is likely to be the worst of both. Ballmer is really killing this company. And to recycle the name for that coffee-table sized touch screen thing no one wanted from several years ago - I would have thought that name a jinx, and in any case expected something more creative than that.
Bet the stock drops a buck tomorrow.
[edit] just looked at the specs WTF is VaporMg? Who thinks that is a GOOD Trademark name? Sounds like a cross between VaporWare and an extinct British sports car! [/edit]
"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them." Eric Hoffer
"The failure mode of 'clever' is 'a**hole'" John Scalzi
"Only buzzards feed on their friends" Patrick Dorinson
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Windows 8 on a tablet.
I'm struggling to see what the big announcement was. The whole point of Windows 8 was to create an OS that worked well on tablets and phones.
Just a pity they forgot about PCs and laptops...
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I watched the "Analyzing Malware with SysInternals tools" video you have on one of your news letters the other day, the presenter didn't have a lot of fun with Win8. He was all over the place trying to find his open presentations and demos.
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Microsoft isn't actually manufacturing these new tablets itself.
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Who does manufacture their own things now a days?
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Open source vendor GeekNet is turning a new page in the SourceForge story today with a proposal to the Apache Software Foundation to accept the Allura software platform within the ASF as a new Incubator project. [ITworld]
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"The computer is capable of calculating in one hour what otherwise would take 6.7 billion people using hand calculators 320 years to complete if they worked non-stop."
Link[^]
A faster infinite loop.
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