The information center, located on Seventh Avenue between 52nd and 53rd streets, is equally Googly. The city’s technocratic mayor, Michael Bloomberg, even contributed a guest post to the official Google blog to announce it: “The Information Center features interactive map tables, powered by the Google Maps API for Flash, that let you navigate venues and attractions as well as create personalized itineraries, which can be printed, emailed or sent to mobile devices,” the blog post explained. “A

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An ARM diagram showing a quad-core Cortex-A9 processor

“The A8 is just a single core while the A9 will be dual-core, all the way up to quad-core to give smartphones an even bigger performance boost,” Bruce said.

He said the move to dual-core phones should happen relatively quickly. “It’s very aggressive. It’s only going to be in a year’s time that you’re going to get these phones,” he said.

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I tend to agree with Rafe on a lot of his points. I think tablets and tweener devices–like Ultra Mobile PCs (UMPCs)–that are too big to put in your pocket, cumbersome to operate, and overpriced, are problematic and have no place in the marketplace.

To a degree, this is what Brooke Crothers argued in his piece, “Why an Apple tablet will succeed.” It was meant to be a counterpoint to Rafe’s article and featured some potential specs for a fantasy tablet of the near future. I a

Berkley noted that one of the leading causes for the demise was publishers not wanting to pay to use its technology, which had previously been offered for free. He also said that the VC community was not willing to “bet” on the company, despite it picking up a $4 million Series A funding in late March last year.

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Between becoming a social TV service, and its start as a CMS for enterprise users, one of the company’s most interesting products was its consumer

A new Argus model with a higher electrode count is currently under development.

Users would wear special glasses fitted with a small camera that relays image data to a titanium-encased chip mounted on the outside surface of the eyeball. The chip would then fire an electrode array under the retina to stimulate the optic nerve. The glasses would also wirelessly transmit power to coils surrounding the eyeball.

About 20 teams worldwide are working to realize the dream of e

Apple exerts its control to try to give iPhone users a simple, stable, and useful experience. But that control can be at odds with what programmers and users want, as was most clearly illustrated in Apple’s rejection of the Google Voice application–though Apple said it hasn’t actually rejected the application.

Although Galbraith and Dalmaer are excited by the possibilities of Web applications and the new era of mobile computing ushered in most notably by Apple’s
iPhone, Galbrait

Opera Software has completed its first release candidate of Opera 10, a browser that the company says has better performance, a Turbo mode for slow Internet connections, support for a variety of Web standards such as Web fonts, and improvements to the Opera Mail feature.

“Now, we are very close to releasing the best browser in Opera’s long history,” Jan Standal, Opera’s vice president of desktop products, said in a statement. “We hope everyone who has helped us test our browser t

“We lead the industry in smart phones,” he said. “As a result, we are having to stay ahead of what is incredible and increasing demand for wireless data services.”

While I do have friends who report no problems with their iPhone reception, many of my friends have complaints. I did an informal survey of friends on Facebook and learned that people suffer from dropped calls, as well as inaccessible voice mail and delayed voice messages. Also, I am not alone in being for

The 30-year Intel veteran was Intel’s chief technology officer but, in a sideways move, became co-general manager of Intel Corporation’s Digital Enterprise Group–his most recent title.

Former Intel vice president Pat Gelsinger

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Gelsinger is also an author who has written about balancing work, family, and faith.

An Intel blog dated September 13 shows clearly that Gelsinger was scheduled to appear in the No.2 speaker slot at th

Xerox is valuing ACS at $63.11 a share, up from ACS’ closing price of $47.50. The move transforms Xerox into a services company that can focus on business process management and outsourcing (statement).

However, there will be some savings. Xerox said it will save $300 million to $400 million annually in the first three years once the deal closes. The savings are related to back office, procurement, and the costs related to running a public company.

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