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<title><![CDATA[Google's Android 3.0 Honeycomb: What's inside]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[See five home screens in one zoomed-out view.(Credit:Google)We already knew about Android 3.0's (Honeycomb) 3D capability and its new look with larger, revamped icons and the like. But now Google has revealed the details on many more feature updates and additions in its Android operating system fortablets.The Goog's theme for tablets is bigger, better, and more. Tablets' larger screen size encourages a proportionately larger design and gives developers more room to play around with 3D graphics, live streaming, and deeper connections with Bluetooth devices.It's clear that with Honeycomb, Google is urging Android 3.0 tablet makers to market tablets as laptop replacements or powerful in-betweener devices, not just as larger versions of existing Android smartphones. That's evident in the way Google is giving the browser a distinctively desktop look and feel with side-by-side browser tabs (Android smartphones call them &quot;tabs&quot; but treat them like windows) and with two-paned contact information windows that are easier to read on a 7- or 10-inch screen. We've already seen this with theiPad, so it's expected that Google would follow suit. Below, we outline major changes to the user interface (UI), the keyboard, and the signature Google apps built into every Android device. You can read up on even more details in Google's Android 3.0 SDK document for developers. Android 3.0 Honeycomb's new features (photos)  Interface changesNew System Bar at the bottom of the screen has navigation controls. It's pervasive across all screens, but has a dimmer to become less obtrusive. Thumbnail view of recently accessed apps in the System Bar.Application controls appear in a bar whenever an app is running. Should largely replace the context menu for accessing a program's options and controls. Universal search bar on each of the five home screens.Zoomed-out overview of all five screens for easier selection (we've seen something similar in HTC's Sense skin for Android phones).Tweaked virtual keyboard, plus new keys, like Tab. After selecting text, elect to cut, copy, paste the text from the action bar.ConnectivityBluetooth tethering support Sync media files with a USB-connected camera or desktop computer--without mounting the phone as a USB mass storage device.Connect USB or Bluetooth keyboards. Updated Google appsBrowser: Side-by-side browser tabs, automatic sign-in on Google sites, incognito (private) mode, joint bookmarks and history view.Camera: Gallery app gets full-screen mode, adds thumbnails for other photos.Contacts: Dual-pane interface, contact info presented as a contact card.E-mail: Dual-pane interface, select multiple messages, manage e-mail with a home screen widget.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Hacking Kinect: Setting sci-fi in motion]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2011 08:11:21 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[So far, hackers have figured out how to get the Kinect to do all kinds of things Microsoft never imagined. Here, we see a still from a video showing a hacker who rigged a Kinect to an iPod Touch in order to control the hit game Angry Birds with hand gestures.(Credit:Daniel Terdiman/CNET)In the two-plus months since the creation of open-source drivers for Microsoft's Kinect made it possible to hack the popular motion controller, the device has been used as a sophisticated piano, to add voice control to popular video games, to create 3D renderings of a car's path, and even for a demo of soft-core porn.Indeed, the open-source tools have snatched control of the device from Microsoft's proprietary hands, and each new day sees the emergence of some new kind of Kinect hack. But as the community of techies investing time in these types of imaginative--and unauthorized--works grows and each new hack pushes the envelope a little more, it's natural to wonder just how far hackers can go. What are, in other words, the outer limits of Kinect hacking&quot;I truly believe that those who [say] that the sky is the limit [have] limited imagination,&quot; said Kristoffer Risanger, the founder of a site called Kinect Hacks that aggregates the latest efforts by the fledging community to do things with the device that Microsoft never intended. &quot;There are virtually no limits to what can be done.&quot;In other words, science fiction may be the best starting point.Adafruit's Philip Torrone explained that he imagines Kinect telepresence projects along the lines of people employing the device as &quot;puppet strings for controlling robots.&quot;If you're not familiar with the Kinect, it's Microsoft's new $150 motion-control camera system that lets people control all kinds of software with nothing more than their bodies. Where Nintendo's Wiimote translated users' movements of a physical controller into in-game changes, Kinect's camera captures the 3D movement of users' arms, legs, torsos, facial expressions--indeed, their whole bodies--and translates it on-screen. But when it was released, last November, it was tethered strictly to Microsoft'sXbox 360 video game console. But while there is already a wide variety of games from Microsoft and third-party developers that support Kinect, many people chafed at being limited to authorized uses of the device.The story of Kinect hacking is one of a community refusing to be bound by Microsoft's directive on how the controller could be used. Within days of the release of the Kinect, the open-source hardware developers at Adafruit Industries had offered a four-figure bounty for the first person to come up with an open-source driver for the motion controller--a bounty that was raised after Microsoft said it was willing to call in law enforcement to protect its intellectual property rights. The money was quickly claimed, springboarding the entire Kinect hacking movement.Before long, Microsoft softened its tune, with two of its people going on NPR and saying they were impressed with what the community was doing on its own. And not long after that, the nascent genre went where just about all new tech genres go. Kinect sex was born.The question of what's next--and how far it may go--is obviously abstract. Risanger, who, professing to be overwhelmed by traffic, has put the Kinect Hacks site up for sale, said such a boundary has everything to do with the imaginations of those creating the hacks, though the Kinect technology itself has hardware limits--that will erode with succeeding iterations of the device. As well, Microsoft may try to sweep aside the whole idea of Kinect hacking by, as is rumored, releasing a Kinect software development kit for Windows. That would mean, experts say, that developers would have a vast scope for new, authorized, projects on Windows.&quot;Once Microsoft's SDK comes out,&quot; said Kyle Machulis, an expert on sex and digital toys and video games, and someone working on his own open-source Kinect projects, &quot;anything on the Kinect is fair game.&quot;Microsoft did not reply to a request for comment for this story.To Philip Torrone, a principal at Adafruit, and therefore one of the people with a legitimate claim to kicking off the entire field of Kinect hacking, this is a very exciting time to be trying to find, or stretch, the controller's limits. &quot;The Kinect as it is wasn't meant to do anything it's doing now,&quot; Torrone said. &quot;We're only at version 1 [and] the best part about all these hacks will be all the things we cannot possibly imagine.That said, with his prognostication hat on, Torrone sees a rich future of new projects made with the device.Robots and mo-cap&quot;A few things come to mind, since the Kinect--once hacked--is a great input device specifically [for] whole-body movements,&quot; Torrone said. &quot;I think we'll see the Kinect hackers start out using it to control machinery in some manner. There are some small robotics and telepresence examples already [but] that's just the start.&quot;Torrone explained that he imagines Kinect telepresence projects along the lines of people employing the device as &quot;puppet strings for controlling robots with vision systems over small and large distances.&quot; At the same time, he envisions the Kinect being used to run anything from industrial machinery to giant Burning Man projects. In each case, &quot;the hacked Kinect allows the user to control extremely complicated machines just [by] using their bodies, distance, and shapes.&quot;But limiting the Kinect to controlling Earth-bound projects is small potatoes, Torrone suggested. He finds it easy to imagine hacked Kinects &quot;being used to control planetary or moon probes as we land new rovers in our solar system.&quot;NASA, of course, might prefer to work within Microsoft-authorized uses.At the same time, Torrone thinks that the Kinect could be a very attractive new tool for young robot enthusiasts and predicted that First, a large high school robotics organization, could start implementing the device in its competitions. And then there's the obvious military, industrial, and research uses. For one, Kinects could be employed to operate underwater robots, and for another, scientists might be able to use the controller to conduct microscopic studies. &quot;I suppose we might see weaponized robots,&quot; Torrone said. &quot;'Robot wars' with human puppeteers [using Kinects] and giant robots fighting is certainly going to happen.&quot;Risanger believes that the Kinect will be a popular choice among amateur and hobbyist filmmakers and video game designers, giving Kinect users a low-cost motion-capture system. Mo-cap &quot;has traditionally been insanely expensive, with just the basic equipment costing several thousand dollars,&quot; Risanger said. &quot;The Kinect makes it possible to do motion-capture for just the small cost of one or two Kinects.&quot;At the same time, he thinks that filmmakers and game designers might find the device useful for object scanning and green screen technology.More Kinect sexAs vice president of business development for ThriXXX, the first acknowledged developer of a Kinect-based sex game--or at least a demo for such a game--Brad Abram has his own ideas about where Kinect hacking might go. In the world of adult games, realism is one of the holy grails, and Abram foresees offering players the ability to get quite a bit more hands-on than is possible in any of today's sex-based titles. On the one hand, because Kinect accepts voice commands, he sees games and 3D worlds where players can issue spoken directions to an on-screen avatar--such as &quot;undress,&quot; or to take off this or that layer of clothing. And at the same time, the Kinect could make it possible to reach into the world to, as he says, &quot;stroke and touch&quot; an avatar. &quot;We're trying to figure out how to [do] 3D mesh morphing,&quot; Abram said, &quot;so that when you reached in, you could actually be touching the [avatar's] breast. We've [already] got basic breast physics [down, such as] bounce. But now we want to make it deform.&quot;Abram explained that some Kinect hacks have already demonstrated that users can experience a somewhat realistic sensation of touching and manipulating cloth. &quot;The same thing could go for a breast or any other body part.&quot;And expanding on what Risanger proposed about using Kinect for mo-cap, Abram thinks that mo-cap could easily be a valuable tool in the creation of sex games or adult 3D worlds, allowing users or designers to capture dancing, either vertical or horizontal, and capture some of that data as sex poses.Of course, he said, full-on mo-cap sex would be difficult with capture technology like that of Kinect because of the problem of various limbs and body parts disappearing behind bodies. So multiple cameras and potentially different colored mo-cap suits might be necessary to overcome such limits. Abram and Machulis both spoke optimistically about the work being done by PrimeSense, the Israeli company that designed the original reference hardware used in Kinect, on an open-source camera system. Abram said that PrimeSense is trying to keep its distance from anything sexual, but said the Israeli firm will have trouble stopping users from going in that direction. &quot;It's a piece of hardware. It's a camera,&quot; Abram said. &quot;It's like Panasonic saying you can't use [their] 3D cameras to shoot porn.&quot;PrimeSense did not respond to a request for comment.In the short term, Abram said, the word is that PrimeSense's camera might not be as powerful as Kinect but is likely to improve quickly. The prediction, he said, is that by March or April of this year, the camera could be on par with Microsoft's offering.Either way, what's clear is that the Kinect hacking community is determined to push the limits of the new device far, far beyond what executives back in Redmond, Wash.--Microsoft's headquarters--ever imagined. Yet perhaps asking those on the front lines of designing and developing the hacks how far they can take them isn't the best approach to determining what's really possible.After all, said Machulis, himself an accomplished engineer, maybe engineers aren't the ones best suited to imagining the device's true boundaries. Science-fiction writers, he said, may be the right people to ask. &quot;It sounds,&quot; Machulis said, &quot;like you want the people that create engineers' dreams.&quot;<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Robots dazzle CES-goers with stunts, upgrades]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 08:10:37 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Pedal power: Bicycling robot Murata Boy shows off its balance beam chops. Murata Girl can do it on a unicycle. (Credit:Tim Hornyak/CNET)LAS VEGAS--From robo-dinosaurs to mecha-masseurs, robots atCES 2011 ran the gamut of wacky novelty products like the SpheroiPhone-controlled ball and the WheeMe back massage robot to practical but funked-out floor cleaners like dancing Mint sweepers. There wasn't a whole lot that was new, but there were enough debuts and upgrades to keep it interesting.Robots at CES 2011 (photos)  Japan's Murata Manufacturing, which makes capacitors found in many mobile phones, showed off its robotics skills with Murata Boy (above) and Murata Girl, which cycle along balance beams without toppling over. Making their CES debut, the acrobat bots can stand upright even when stationary thanks to gyro sensors that control a rotating disk, which in turn corrects their slant. Massachusetts-based iRobot, meanwhile, took the wraps off a more compact Scooba floor scrubber that can clean around toilets, as well as an improved line of Roomba vacuum robots. The top end of the new Roomba 700 series is the 780, which replaces all buttons with a touchpad and has 20% better cleaning ability, according to the company. A wireless RF remote control tells the 780, which ships in spring 2011 for $549.99, which rooms to clean. Check out more of the robots that appeared at CES in our photo gallery above. The Roomba 780 has a touchpad, handheld RF remote control, and longer battery life.(Credit:Tim Hornyak/CNET)<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The spectacle of CES in pictures (photo gallery)]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas ended yesterday with a bang, not a whimper. Drawing more than 140,000 attendees to the Las Vegas Convention Center, the show was back to its pre-recession size. More than a trade show, CES has become a spectacle. Each of the 2,700 vendors tried to outdo the others, with bigger booths, splashy tech gear, and marketing tricks such as giveaways and booth babes. Here&amp;'s a sample of the show&amp;'s scenery, from beginning to end. Our top photo shows off the beauty of Microsoft&amp;'s newest Surface touchscreen table, which will be built by Samsung and sold for $7,600. The hands belong to Microsoft&amp;'s Surface exec, Chip Wood.Panasonic wins the award for the over-the-top booth. Anyone care to guess how much electricity this one consumes, even if the TVs are billed as energy efficient Still, it was cool to see so many pretty TVs.Google&amp;'s Android 3.0 mobile operating system and 4G LTE wireless service were in the air, from the beginning to the end of the show.The Nvidia folks tied me up and forced me to appear in this picture, which features two warriors from World of WarCraft. I wasn&amp;'t scared.Marketing the old fashioned way. This company in the South Hall of the sprawling Las Vegas Convention Center was one of many that used the combo of sex appeal and contests. Here, Miss Playboy Club from the Palms hotel picked a raffle winner.Gary Shapiro (left), president and CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association, has written a book called The Comeback about how innovation will restore the American dream.Smart meters like this one can bring the internet into your thermostat. Not only does it tell you how to cool your house, it reports back on your usage and the efficiency of your energy usage.LG Electronics debuted its ThinQ line-up of smart appliances, including this web-connected washer and dryer. You can download new laundry cycles. and the device can help you lower your electricity bill as it figures out the most appropriate time to do laundry. Seeker Technology unveiled its pipSqueak Bluetooth device that helps you screen calls. You can attach it to your clothing and check to see who is calling you. You don&amp;'t have to immediately pull your phone out of your pocket or your purse.TVs are getting thinner, sharper, and web-connected. More than half of models can display in stereoscopic 3D.Toshiba had its, uh, marketing women ready at the Tao Nightclub event in the Venetian hotel, where it unveiled its glasses-free TV and laptop.Intel&amp;'s CEO Paul Otellini gets credit for the mega boasts of the show. He said Intel had more than 500 design wins for computers based on Intel&amp;'s new Core microprocessors, code-named Sandy Bridge, which combine a microprocessor and graphics on the same chip. He said that Sandy Bridge chips would likely lead to more than$125 billion in computer industry sales in 2011.Jen-Hsun Huang, chief executive of Nvidia, went long on his presentation. But he saved a whopper for the end. He said Nvidia is working on a high-end microprocessor based on the ARM architecture. This chip will be able to run a future version of Windows, breaking Intel&amp;'s near-monopoly on Windows chips.Sony pulled out the coolest stars at the show. Seth Rogen and Jay Chou, the stars of the upcoming film The Green Hornet, showed up on stage in a car with twin machine guns on its hood. They chatted with Howard Stringer, (right), the whimsical CEO of Sony, who likes 3D TV so much that he kept his glasses on even after the presentation of 3D was over.Sony&amp;'s new 3D glasses looked cool. But is this a new version of dressing up the pig Some people still don&amp;'t see the value of 3D, even though the marketing departments of the tech giants are in overdrive.We&amp;'re suckers for album cover art. Sony&amp;'s new Music Unlimited cloud-music service finally got the green light to launch in the U.S. Sony TV and gadget users will be able to access it via internet connections and discover new music.Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, said at the opening keynote that future versions of Windows would run on ARM chips. That&amp;'s a nod toward smartphones and tablets. But is the move coming too late, given the success of Apple and Google in mobileAsus showed off a dual-screen laptop computer that had glass where there is normally a keyboard on a laptop. But if you want, you can open a virtual laptop on the bottom screen and type as if it were a laptop.It&amp;'s going to be a broadband world. Lowell McAdam, chief operating officer of Verizon, said that 4G LTE networks will give users multiple megabits a second data speeds. Those wireless networks will in turn fuel the growth of Android-based products such as Motorola&amp;'s Atrix 4G phone. Meanwhile, Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg said that some fiber-optic broadband network subscribers are getting as much as 150 megabits a second service to the home.Yep. Lowell McAdam, COO of Verizon Wireless, wants to conquer the world.The Motorola Atrix sports the Google Android software, and its bright screen can do important things like display games.Small and colorful are in fashion. Kodak came up with a bunch of small camcorders and digital cameras, including the big yellow waterproof model.Intel&amp;'s booth had this inexplicable puzzle, but it sure looked pretty.Intel also showed off some cool-looking touch screens that touted its Core microprocessors.The crowds were huge this year. Forget about trying to get a Starbucks Mocha or a burger for lunch.B.K. Yoon, a Samsung executive who gave one of the keynote talks, promoted &amp;''human digitalism,&amp;'' which focuses on the human side of technology that really makes our lives better.Jeffrey Katzenberg, chief executive of DreamWorks Animation, comes back every year to tout 3D viewing. And guess what This year is the year of 3D again. So Jerry says.B.K. Yoon of Samsung set off some digital fireworks in the background to show off Samsung&amp;'s theatrical 3D sound system.Car computers were back in force at CES. Putting a cool car in a booth is the next-best thing to the booth babe when it comes to CES exhibits.Yes, showgirls are techies too. Here&amp;'s the proof, though I have no idea what she was hawking.Yep, Motorola is back as the tip of the Android spear, which is pointed right at Apple. Motorola&amp;'s Atrix 4G and its Xoom tablet were hot tickets this year.Every year, someone has to claim they have the world&amp;'s largest TV. Here&amp;'s Samsung said its 75-inch model was the world&amp;'s largest full HD LED TV with 3D viewing.Stantum showed off software for touchscreens that allows you to write on them even if your hand is touching the surface.Monster Cable always has the biggest marketing budget. The company&amp;'s concert performers this year were Earth Wind &amp;amp' Fire. Hewlett-Packard captured the performance in 3D and streamed it live to a huge stereoscopic 3D screen. The system used a wide camera with 19 imaging engines and 12 synchronized projectors.Out on the Las Vegas strip, Michael Jackson was still alive. In digital form, Ubisoft&amp;'s Michael Jackson game sold 2 million units on the Nintendo Wii.I wonder how much this rather large poster costWarren East, CEO of ARM, is happier than he looks here. He has 220 licensees building ARM chips. And soon, those chip makers will be building machines that run Microsoft&amp;'s Windows.This is Paro, the therapeutic robot for patients who need a little physical interaction.Kenmore and General Electric had booths that were near each other. They showed off internet-connected refrigerators that can use smart grid technology to figure out when is the best time to turn on their energy-consuming compressors. The time to do it is when the electricity costs the least.The little toy on the lady&amp;'s back is a Dream Bots Whee Me portable massage robot. It applies a gentle massage and is smart enough not to fall off as it rolls back and forth.DEMO award winner Jeff Mullen, CEO of Dynamics, showed off his company&amp;'s newfangled electronic credit cards, which can stop fraud because they have numbers that change and buttons that can be used to enter special codes. Dynamics announced a deal with Citibank, which is issuing cards using the technology this year.Murata showed off a robot that could ride a unicycle. It was part of a larger section dedicated entirely to robots.Chris Culver of National Instruments showed that you could control a game with your eye movements.Previous Story: Foodspotting bites into $3M of new fundingPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: CES, CES 2011, Consumer Electronics ShowCompanies: Dynamics, Intel, Microsoft, Nvidia, SonyPeople: Chris Culver, Howard Stringer, Paul Otellini, steve ballmer          Tags: CES, CES 2011, Consumer Electronics ShowCompanies: Dynamics, Intel, Microsoft, Nvidia, SonyPeople: Chris Culver, Howard Stringer, Paul Otellini, steve ballmerDean is lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. He covers video games, security, chips and a variety of other subjects. Dean previously worked at the San Jose Mercury News, the Wall Street Journal, the Red Herring, the Los Angeles Times, the Orange County Register and the Dallas Times Herald. He is the author of two books, Opening the Xbox and the Xbox 360 Uncloaked. Follow him on Twitter at @deantak, and follow VentureBeat on Twitter at @venturebeat.VentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Blame the iPad: PC chip sales flattened in the fourth quarter]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Worldwide personal computer microprocessor shipments were flat in the fourth quarter compared to a year ago, due in part to the popularity of the Apple iPad.Market researcher IDC reported that PC microprocessors &amp;8212' the brains of computers &amp;8212' were down 0.04 percent from the third quarter and down 0.21 percent compared to a year ago. That shows the impact of non-PC microprocessors taking market share thanks to the popularity of Apple&amp;'s iPad, which sold more than 15 million units in 2010. (Pictured right, from Apple&amp;'s Mac vs. PC ads, are the boring PC guy on left and cool Apple Mac guy on the right).For the full year, microprocessor shipments grew 17.1 percent and revenues were up 26.7 percent to $36.3 billion.&amp;''The fourth quarter was weak and out of synch with normal seasonal patterns in terms of unit shipments,&amp;'' said Shane Rau, an analyst at IDC. &amp;''The first half turned out to be the better half of the year. However, looking back at the whole year 2010, it&amp;'s clear that the ongoing shift to mobile processors, combined with a shift back towards high-performance mobile processors, drove a significant rise in overall processor average selling prices.&amp;''Overall, average selling prices for microprocessors rose 8 percent, with prices approaching levels last seen in 2008. Laptop processor sales grew 26.2 percent in the year, while Intel-based (x86) server unit shipments grew 28.1 percent. But desktop processor unit shipments grew only 6.2 percent. Overall, mobile PC processors were 54.1 percent of the market in 2010, compared to 50.2 percent in 2009.In the fourth quarter, Intel had 80.8 percent of PC microprocessor unit market share, up 0.4 percent, while Advanced Micro Devices had 18.9 percent, down 0.4 percent. Via Technologies had 0.3 percent market share. For the full year, Intel&amp;'s share was 80.7 percent, up 1.1 percent' AMD had 19 percent share, down 1.1 percent, and Via had 0.3 percent. Intel has the biggest share in the PC mobile processor market, with 86.1 percent in the fourth quarter, and in the server market, with 94.2 percent market share. In desktops, AMD is stronger with 27.3 percent of the market, compared to 72.5 percent for Intel.IDC expects overall PC microprocessor sales to grow 10.1 percent in 2011. That&amp;'s slower growth than in 2010 and is consistent with what Hewlett-Packard, the world&amp;'s biggest PC maker, said today in its earnings call. Rau said the economic concerns around the world and the impact of tablet computers is leading IDC to be more conservative in 2011.Previous Story: Google&amp;'s Don Dodge: Q&amp;038'A site StackOverflow&amp;'s valuation &amp;''gave me a heart attack&amp;''PrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: iPad, microprocessors, PCs, tabletsCompanies: Amd, Apple, Hewlett Packard, Intel, Via TechnologiesPeople: Shane Rau          Tags: iPad, microprocessors, PCs, tabletsCompanies: Amd, Apple, Hewlett Packard, Intel, Via TechnologiesPeople: Shane RauDean is lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. He covers video games, security, chips and a variety of other subjects. Dean previously worked at the San Jose Mercury News, the Wall Street Journal, the Red Herring, the Los Angeles Times, the Orange County Register and the Dallas Times Herald. He is the author of two books, Opening the Xbox and the Xbox 360 Uncloaked. Follow him on Twitter at @deantak, and follow VentureBeat on Twitter at @venturebeat. Have news to share Launching a startup Email: tips@venturebeat.comVentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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