This is not a surprise, but a welcome confirmation for the millions of business citizens and students of the world who have already adopted Apple’s tablet as a work tool: Microsoft Office could be coming to the iPad in the next few weeks. More »
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Office for iPad Is Reportedly Imminent (Updated) [Ipad]
This is not a surprise, but a welcome confirmation for the millions of business citizens and students of the world who have already adopted Apple’s tablet as a work tool: Microsoft Office could be coming to the iPad in the next few weeks. More »
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Office for iPad Is Reportedly Imminent [Ipad]
Version 2.0 of the BlackBerry PlayBook OS is available for owners of the tablet as of today, Research In Motion announced. The update will finally add a native e-mail application to the tablet, among other new features, ten months after the tablet’s initial release.
The BlackBerry PlayBook was derided upon its release for its lack of e-mail and calendar apps without an accompanying BlackBerry smartphone to feed it that information. The new version of the OS gives users a unified inbox that can not only handle e-mail, but also messages in Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.
That social network integration extends to the Calendar and Contacts apps, which can be automatically populated with content pulled from the services above. One of the most popular apps from RIM, BlackBerry Messenger, remains absent from the company’s tablet.
The PlayBook went through rounds of price cuts and deals from retailers last fall, and received a flat price cut following the release of the Kindle Fire. The base 16GB WiFi model now retails for around $200.
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An anonymous reader writes with some new information on the happenings of the Hacker Space Program. From the article: “At the Chaos Communication Camp 2011 Jens Ohlig, Lars Weiler, and Nick Farr proposed a daunting task: to land a hacker on the Moon by 2034. The plan calls for three separate phases: Establishing an open, free, and globally accessible satellite communication network, put a human into orbit, and land on the Moon. Interestingly enough, there is already considerable work being done on the second phase of this plan by the Copenhagen Suborbitals, and Google’s own Lunar X Prize is trying to spur development of robotic missions to the Moon. But what about the first phase? Answering the call is the ‘Shackspace,’ a hackerspace from Stuttgart, Germany, who’ve begun work on an ambitious project they’re calling the ‘Hackerspace Global Grid.'”
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While Nvidia is no stranger to the mobile computing game, until now it’s only really been providing scraps of technology required to build mobile phones. ZTE, however, is about to launch the first entirely Nvidia-driven smartphone, and this is it. More »
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Required Snark writes “A remote control drone operated by an animal rights group was shot down in South Carolina by a group of thwarted hunters. Steve Hindi, the group president said ‘his group was preparing to launch its Mikrokopter drone to video what he called a live pigeon shoot on Sunday when law enforcement officers and an attorney claiming to represent the privately-owned plantation near Ehrhardt tried to stop the aircraft from flying.’ After the shoot was halted, the drone was launched anyway, and at this point it was shot down. ‘Seconds after it hit the air, numerous shots rang out,’ Hindi said in the release. ‘As an act of revenge for us shutting down the pigeon slaughter, they had shot down our copter.’ ‘It is important to note how dangerous this was, as they were shooting toward and into a well-travelled highway,’ Hindi stated in the release.”
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Depending on what tactics you use, your passwords might be great or they might be awful. One thing is certain, though: if you reuse the same password across multiple websites, that is definitely a bad idea. Mozilla are keen to show you just how bad. More »
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Visualize How Dumb Your Password Reuse Is [Passwords]
The Portuguese-language blog BlogdoiPhone has somehow gotten its hands on a Pre-GM build of the upcoming iOS 5.1 update. Here’s what could be in store for the expected March 9th-ish update. More »
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Leaked iOS 5.1 Build Shows Off a Camera-Slider and Expanded Siri Functionality (UPDATED) [Rumors]
The Portuguese-language blog BlogdoiPhone has somehow gotten its hands on a Pre-GM build of the upcoming iOS 5.1 update. Here’s what could be in store for the expected March 9th-ish update. More »
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Leaked iOS 5.1 Build Shows Off a Camera-Slider and Expanded Siri Functionality [Rumors]
Microsoft’s SkyDrive cloud storage service is set to receive some substantial upgrades this year, according to news from both official and unofficial channels. File synchronization, secure remote access, and Windows 8 integration have been demonstrated by Microsoft, and rumored improvements include paid storage upgrades, secure storage of BitLocker keys, a new Mac client, and support for OpenDocument (ODF) files.
Pictures leaked by Brazilian site Gemind showed off the paid storage options, allowing an extra 20, 50, or 100 GB to be added to SkyDrive’s base 25GB, for $10, $25, or $50 per year. The same pictures also encourage users to download a SkyDrive client for Windows or Mac OS X.
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Bigger files, remote access, OpenDocument, and more coming to SkyDrive