Sunday 2 December 2012

iPad Mini ruins Retina chic


iPad Mini First Look: The teeny, tiny iPad-- i read this in cnet news...

Retina iPad (foreground) and recently purchased iPad Mini with 4G/LTE. (Credit: Brooke Crothers/CNET) If the iPad Mini is a Gucci tote bag, the Retina iPad is a Rimowa Topas suitcase.

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Retina iPad (foreground) and recently purchased iPad Mini with 4G/LTE.
Retina iPad (foreground) and recently purchased iPad Mini with 4G/LTE.
(Credit: Brooke Crothers/CNET)
If the iPad Mini is a Gucci tote bag, the Retina iPad is a Rimowa Topas suitcase.
Use the iPad Mini for a while, then reach for the Retina iPad. It's a mild shock every time. That extra metal and glass add up.
So, you might ask: wasn't there some way Apple could have made the Retina iPad less like a dense slab of aluminum attached to a great display?
Probably not. The Retina's 2,048x1,536-pixel screen is demanding. The grams begin to pile up quickly when you pack a display assembly supporting 3 million-plus pixels into a 9.7-inch design and then shoehorn in the kind of battery watt-hours necessary.
By comparison, the Mini's low-resolution (very) 1,024x768 display requires a simpler display assembly -- yielding the Mini's ultralight chassis.
And the Mini is no different than any electronic device: more portability means less stuff, i.e., no Retina. Will Apple and its display partners figure out a way to eventually squeeze a high-resolution display into the Mini? Let's hope so.
For now, Retina entails weight. I can only guess what Apple was thinking when they decided to bring out the iPad 4. "Just as stunning, just as heavy!"
It's still gorgeous but the design wrapped around it is anything but chic.
references--(scientific american)

Apple targets Galaxy Note 2, S3 Mini in latest court request

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Apple and Samsung continue to hurl gadgets at each other in their seemingly never-ending patent battle. Midweek, Samsung filed a request that the iPad Mini, the fourth-generation iPad, and the fifth-generation iPod Touch be included in a California case set to go to trial in 2014.
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Apple and Samsung continue to hurl gadgets at each other in their seemingly never-ending patent battle.
Midweek, Samsung filed a request that the iPad Mini, the fourth-generation iPad, and the fifth-generation iPod Touch be included in a California case set to go to trial in 2014. Not to be outdone, Apple responded last night by asking that several more Samsung devices, including the Galaxy Note 2, the Galaxy S3 with Android 4.1, and the Galaxy S3 Mini, be covered by the case.
The last round of tit-for-tat additions to the list of gadgets covered by the case included Apple's iPhone 5, Samsung's Galaxy Note 10.1, and the Galaxy Nexus smartphone in conjunction with Google's Android 4.1 Jelly Bean OS. The U.S. model of the Galaxy S3 -- which was not yet running Android 4.1 -- was also part of the earlier back-and-forth.
Back in August, Apple won an earlier California case, which focused on exterior design issues and not just on what Apple said were similarities to patented software features. This case deals more with software and user interface patents, raising the question of whether Android-maker Google might somehow get pulled directly into the fray.
The case is being overseen by U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul Grewal in a federal court in San Jose, Calif.
references-scientific american news(http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=apple-targets-galaxy-note-2-s3-mini-2012)

Facebook uses posters to push employees to switch to Android



Today i read beautiful news about FB in scientific american site... so i like to share with you....

Poster in Facebook headquarters encouraging employees to switch from iPhone to Android handsets. (Credit: Josh Constine/TechCrunch) Borrowing a page from war posters of yesteryear, Facebook is using posters of its own to encourage employees to dump their iPhones for Android devices.

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Poster in Facebook headquarters encouraging employees to switch from iPhone to Android handsets.
(Credit: Josh Constine/TechCrunch)
Borrowing a page from war posters of yesteryear, Facebook is using posters of its own to encourage employees to dump their iPhones for Android devices.
After it was reported in August that Facebook employees were being "nudged, cajoled, and even ordered to give up their iPhones for Android devices," the social networking giant appears to be stepping up its campaign. Posters encouraging employees to "switch today" have begun appearing on the walls at the company's Mountain View, Calif., headquarters, according to a TechCrunch report.
While Facebook used to give its employees primarily iPhones, the aim of the Android effort is apparently to improve functionality for the app, which has been criticized as slow, thin on useful features, and a drain on resources. The aim of this so-called dog-fooding, in which employees are encouraged to use their own products, would be to improve the Facebook experience on the smartphone platform with the largest marketshare; recent data shows Android controlling 68.1 percent of the smartphone market, while Apple's iOS nabbed only 16.9 percent.
One such poster gracing Facebook's walls included a large graph displaying IDC data that predicted Android would control about twice as much of the smartphone market as iPhone in 2016. Both posters encouraged employees to contact Facebook's help desk immediately to arrange to have their device switched to Android.
CNET has contacted Facebook for comment and will update this report when we learn more.
When asked about the posters by TechCrunch's Josh Constine, a Facebook spokesperson said: "We don't encourage one device over another. We let employees choose."
News of the posters emerged as Facebook released new versions of its app for iOS and Android. However, while Facebook trumpeted that the iOS app was "rebuilt from the ground up," the Android app update was relatively minor.
references-Scientific American Technology(http://www.scientificamerican.com)


GM ON REVOLUTIONS...!!!!!


GM Aims to Build 500,000 Electric-Technology Vehicles a Year


General Motors Co aims by 2017 to buld up to 500,000 vehicles a year that include some form of electric power in the engine, including cars like the Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid, a top executive said on Wednesday.
inShareBy Ben Klayman

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General Motors Co aims by 2017 to buld up to 500,000 vehicles a year that include some form of electric power in the engine, including cars like the Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid, a top executive said on Wednesday.
GM has made rolling out cars with electrical technology -- including its eAssist system that boosts fuel efficiency in gasoline-powered cars -- a central part of its global strategy, global product development chief Mary Barra told reporters.
"Our plans call for producing up to 500,000 vehicles annually with some form of electrification globally by 2017," she said via satellite.
That would be slightly more than 5 percent of GM's global sales last year of about 9 million.
The forecast includes plug-in hybrids; pure electric vehicles like the Chevy Spark EV that will go on sale next summer; and eAssist system, which GM offers on several vehicles, she said. GM introduced the Volt in the fall of 2010.
So far this year, GM has sold more than 50,000 vehicles that include electrification technologies in the United States, with eAssist accounting for slightly more than half that total. Barra did not break down how much of GM's target would be cars that do not include a gasoline engine, but she said plug-in technology will remain central to GM's strategy.
"A major focus for GM's electrification strategy will center on the plug," she said. "We have every intention of maintaining our leadership position in plug-in vehicles."
Barra said GM is not turning its back on traditional hybrid or hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles.
GM plans call for its eAssist system, which boosts fuel efficiency as much as 25 percent in some gasoline-powered vehicles, to be on "hundreds of thousands" of vehicles annually by 2017, she said.
Barra said the Spark EV minicar, which will take on Nissan Motor Co's Leaf, will be a global vehicle, launching first in select markets in the United States and South Korea before moving to other countries. GM will sell the car, rather than limiting access to lease deals, she added.
"We're not building the Spark EV to check a regulatory box," Barra said.
The EV's battery will be made by A123 Systems Inc, which filed for bankruptcy last month.
The rollout of the Spark continues GM's push to seize the mantle of "greenest automaker in the world" from Toyota Motor Corp, which makes the popular Prius hybrid car. Toyota also sells a plug-in version of the Prius as well.
Chief Executive Dan Akerson has driven GM more aggressively toward EVs. Efforts have centered on rolling out the plug-in technology in a broader range of vehicles to recoup its investment in the money-losing Volt.
In August 2011, GM said it would build a Cadillac ELR luxury coupe based on the Volt's plug-in hybrid technology. In October, the company said the ELR will begin in late 2013 at the same plant that makes the Volt.
GM, like other automakers, also needs more fuel-efficient cars as the industry pushes toward more stringent U.S. requirements that will be in place by 2025.
Ford expects hybrids, plug-in hybrids and EVs will account for as much as a quarter of its global sales by 2020. GM's smaller rival said in August it was accelerating development of its hybrid and electric vehicles by bringing design and production of key parts in-house.
The No. 2 U.S. automaker, which has launched the Focus EV and C-Max Energi plug-in hybrid car this year, said it will spend $135 million to design parts for its next wave of EVs and double its battery testing capabilities by next year.
President Barack Obama's administration has been a strong proponent of electric vehicles like the Volt and set a goal of reaching 1 million battery-powered vehicles on the road by 2015.
Analysts are less optimistic as prices remain too high for EVs, and driving range and wide availability of public battery charging stations remain the chief concerns for consumers. Lux Research estimates the number will actually be fewer than 200,000, and Boston Consulting Group has predicted EVs and plug-in hybrids will make up only 5 percent of the market within eight years.
However, Elon Musk, the CEO of electric carmaker Tesla Motors Inc, said on Monday that Obama's re-election would likely mean a continuation of the U.S. government's policy promoting EVs. He said he would back any efforts to boost federal tax credits for electric cars to as much as $10,000 from $7,500 now and added Tesla would install fast-charging stations on major U.S. routes by the end of next year.
(Reporting By Ben Klayman in San Francisco; Editing by David Gregorio)
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