Microsoft’s new gaming keyboard, for those with 26 fingers
The hardware group at Microsoft today announced a new keyboard for PC gamers that enables them to press 26 keys at once. It’s unclear, though, how many gamers have that many fingers.
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Microsoft’s new gaming keyboard, for those with 26 fingers
A few online marketer moves that went down today: — Seattle search engine optimization company SEOmoz is backing out of the consulting business so it can focus on developing software for online marketers. SEOmoz passed its $1 million yearly consulting business to British SEO firm Distilled , which is setting up a Seattle office. The move takes a load off SEOmoz founder Rand Fishkin and clears up any awkwardness caused by SEOmoz’s selling software and services to SEO consultants, while doing consulting itself
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Web marketer mania: SEOmoz shuffle, BlueKai cash and a rant
Buried beneath the blowout sales figures in Microsoft’s earnings report are new details of the deal made with its former chief financial officer, Chris Liddell, who resigned Nov. 24 to become CFO at GM . In addition to the $1.9 million sayonara payout disclosed last month , Liddell’s Dec
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Microsoft earnings report includes CFO’s hush deal
The state’s new free TV and PC disposal program netted a huge pile of old devices in its first year: 38.5 milion pounds, according to a release today from the Department of Ecology. That included 22.3 million pounds of old TVs, 12.3 million pounds of monitors and 3.9 million pounds of computers that were taken for free at recycling centers during 2009.
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Free TV & PC recycling tally: 38.5 million pounds
Here’s a quick little gallery of some iPadalooza pics I sent earlier to Twitter. This will be my last iPad post for awhile, promise. Steve Jobs perusing his new bookstore: The MLB app for the iPad will stream live games to the device and display stats and other information.
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Apple iPad: Steve Jobs, MLB and more pics
The launch of Apple’s iPad is bittersweet for Otto Berkes , a Microsoft manager who led the company’s earlier effort to develop a handheld, wireless, touchscreen slate computer. Microsoft’s “Origami” project surfaced in 2006 and gave early definition of a new category of devices between phones and laptop computers. It led to the Ultra-Mobile PC category that never caught on after early models were priced over $1,000 and the device was caught in the Windows Vista turbulence.
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Apple iPad: Father of Microsoft "Origami" slate PC weighs in (updated with video)
DigiPen Institute of Technology, the Redmond college dedicated to training game developers, is about to get bigger. The privately owned school is creating a new campus in a former Microsoft building on Willows Road in Redmond with more than 100,000 square feet of space. It’s announcing the plan Friday, moving in the summer and starting classes there in the fall.
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DigiPen gets new campus, teaching kids game development
SAN FRANCISCO — After spending some time with the long-awaited Apple iPad, I see why it starts at $499. At that price it seems like a very nice accessory for a wired home, where it would become a shared Web kiosk and media browsing device, tapping into the home’s wireless network. Instead of waiting to use a shared computer to check e-mail, you could just grab the iPad.
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Apple iPad: Hands-on first impressions
SAN FRANCISCO — It’s called the iPad, it looks just like what everyone expected — like a supersized iPod Touch — and it’s first and foremost a Web and media tablet. Introducing Apple’s much anticipated new gadget at a launch event in San Francisco, Steve Jobs said, “it is the best browsing experience you’ve ever had … way better than a laptop, way better than a smartphone
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Live from Apple iPad launch: $499 & up, 3G, 9.7", 1.5 lbs, with iBook
I’ve been writing a lot about e-readers lately. Of course, they’re all over the news and are having a tough time competing with new generations of tablets/MIDs/slates/whatever you want to call the tablet-y things that flew out of CES and are most likely flying out of Cupertino next week. I’ve written quite a
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Can Calibre overcome basic e-reader limitations for schools?
It is abundantly clear that the days of the black and white, vanilla, paperback substitute e-reader are numbered. The pending release of the KDK should be welcome news to educators, suggesting that the promise of e-readers and MIDs is right around the corner and countless hardware and software companies are scrambling to beat Amazon at its own game.
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Amazon Kindle Apps: They’ll flop, but welcome to the land of competition
LAS VEGAS — First, it was rainwater collection barrels, then it was solar panels on the roof. Now the coolest eco accessory is going to be home fuel cell generators and energy storage units like these babies offered by Panasonic. The residential fuel cell generator uses natural gas to create electricity and heat: To store all the energy you’re generating at home, Panasonic Is also offering a battery module comprised of 840 lithium-ion batteries:
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CES: Power up with a home fuel cell generator
LAS VEGAS — Segmentation of the electronic book market has begun in earnest with the arrival of the Que, a new reader aimed at executives and traveling business people. Plastic Logic’s much anticipated reader will go on sale in April for $649 for a 4 gigabyte model with W-iFi and Bluetooth radios and $799 for an 8 gigabyte model that also has 3G wireless service from AT&T. The device is 8.5 by 11 inches with a black and white touchscreen and a single button on the bezel, for returning to the home screen.
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CES: Plastic Logic Que, the executive eReader
LAS VEGAS — It’s sacrilege to say so at this year’s CES, but I’d trade any of the 3-D TVs on display for one of these — a 152-inch ultra high def plasma with 4096 by 2160 resolution: Panasonic displayed plenty of 3-D sets as well, including one that receives content wirelessly:
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CES: Obligatory huge TV pic — 152" ultra high def plasma
LAS VEGAS — Look out, Clearwire. LG’s showing off some amazing hardware for the LTE mobile broadband network competing with Clearwire’s WiMax network. A prototype LTE laptop modem on display in its CES booth downloads data at 100 megabits per second and uploads 50 Mbps.
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CES: How about a 100 Mbps laptop card? LG’s got ‘em
LAS VEGAS — A test of my capacity for humiliation — the Charity PC Race — should be broadcast live on the link below starting just before 7 p.m. Dozens of journalists participate in the race to see who can assemble a new PC the fastest
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CES: Charity PC race, live video stream
LAS VEGAS — Samsung got artsy with 132 TV sets, a bunch of mirrors and a half-acre of white vinyl: To see the thickness of Samsung’s new flagship LED9000 3-D TV, here’s a closeup of four sets on a carousel so you can see them from the front and side:
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CES video: Wild art installation, or is it a TV display?
LAS VEGAS — It’s not going to be the next “Halo” or “Modern Warfare,” but I’ll bet the retro “Game Room” service the company announced at CES will be a huge hit. The company built a virtual arcade within Xbox Live stuffed with original arcade games from the ’70s through the ’90s
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CES video: Xbox "Game Room" demo — the 360 goes retro, 8-bit
LAS VEGAS — One of the most intriguing new computers at CES this year is Lenovo’s IdeaPad U1 “hybrid” laptop with a detachable screen that functions by itself as a wireless, touchscreen Web tablet. In laptop mode, the system runs Windows 7 on an Intel Core 2 processor and weighs 3.8 pounds.
LAS VEGAS — Sprint hasn’t announced a 4G handset yet, but it unveiled a pretty nifty new gadget at a press event tonight at CES. The company announced the Overdrive, a 4G modem and hotspot device about the size of a pack of cards. Up to five computers and devices can connect to the modem via Wi-Fi, and a sixth can be connected through a USB cable.
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CES: Sprint’s 4G "Overdrive" hotspot, with gang from Seattle