Cisco Cius on AT&T: crystal clear corporate communication coming this fall

Cisco’s Cius hopped on Big Red’s bandwagon a few months back, and now it's bringing its high-def corporate communications skills to AT&T. And not only will Ma Bell be selling the seven-inch slate, its AT&T Foundry division will make business-friendly apps for the device. Don't go bugging the bossman for one just yet, however, as the Cius won't be riding AT&T's waves of 4G HSPA+ until this fall. PR’s after the break.

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VIA QuadCore processor combines low-cost and low-power with ‘adaptive overclocking’

Computex is coming up fast and with it we’re expecting a slew of new gear. The event will also mark the first public showing of VIA’s new x86 quad-core processors aptly named, QuadCore (pictured above center next to a Nano X2). The new procs are manufactured using 40nm processes and combine four Isaiah cores on two dies resulting in a Thermal Design Power of 27.5 watts. That low TDP allows VIA to make the nebulous claim that its first QuadCore L4700 processor is 21 percent more energy efficient than its nearest competitor while offering “awesome” multitasking and multimedia playback performance. Initially available at 1.2+GHz, the 64-bit native processor features adaptive overclocking (think Intel Turbo Boost) for dynamic clock adjustments up to 1.46GHz, a 4MB L2 cache, and 1333MHz front-side bus. Oh, and the QuadCores will be pin-to-pin compatible with VIA Eden, C7, Nano E-Series, and Eden X2 processors when they begin shipping in bulk in Q3. We’ll bring you more on these supposed low-cost procs when we see them demoed first hand in Taipei starting May 31st. Until then, click through for the full press release or hit up the more coverage links below for an in-depth preview.

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Samsung’s 64Gb toggle DDR 2.0 NAND flash memory with 400Mbps transfer rate hits production

Get ready for it speed freaks, Samsung’s toggle Double Data Rate 2.0 MLC NAND chips are now in production — an industry first. The 64 gigabit flash chips manufactured using 20nm processes boast an impressive 400Mbps transfer rate. That makes these toggle DDR 2.0 chips about three times faster than toggle DDR 1.0 (a 133Mbps interface) or ten times faster than the 40Mbps SDR NAND flash in widespread use today. Look for ’em in future teardowns of tablets, SSDs, and smartphones.

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Oldest, Oddest Fungi Finally Photographed

The fungal cells in this picture are so small and hard to detect that they had to be colored with fluorescent dye before they could be recorded. They are attached to algae cells.

The first views suggest that unlike any other fungi known, these might live as essentially naked cells without the rigid cell wall that supposedly defines a fungus, says Tom Richards of the Natural History Museum in London and the University of Exeter in England. He calls these long-overlooked fungi cryptomycota, or “hidden fungi.” Of the life stages seen so far, a swimming form and one attached to algal cells, there’s no sign of the usual outer coat rich in a tough material called chitin, Richards and his colleagues report online May 11 in Nature.

“People are going to be excited,” predicts mycologist Tim James of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, who also studies an ancient group of fungi.

But now scientists will have to either redefine what a fungus is, or classify a new group of species that are “almost-fungus.” Read more about it at Wired Science. Link

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What Bias? FCC Commissioner Leaving To Become Comcast Exec

Now, let’s be charitable here and admit that it’s natural for people to perform similar duties in business as they might have in government, and vice versa. It’s called job experience. But honestly now. Voting in favor of the Comcast-NBC Universal merger and then leaving to join that company five months later? You’re joking, right?

Other, more important people than me will be objecting to this, I’m sure, but I just wanted to put down for the record here how incredibly inappropriate this obviously is.

Funnily enough, she criticized the merger process as taking too long. I wonder why!

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A Peek At Google TV’s New Interface


Google announced yesterday that Google TV would be expanding and getting Android 3.1, but aside from some new manufacturers, there wasn’t much to show. Today, though, during another GTV-related developer talk, they showed off the new interface (above) and noted that the remote app API was being open-sourced. That’s nice — hopefully we’ll see more support in universal remote apps and so on now.

I like the new look, but what really matters is how it performs, of course. It won’t be rolling out until a bit later this year (no dates were mentioned, though summer is a possibility), but expect a preview before then.

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Editorial: Google clarifies Chromebook subscriptions, might have just changed the industry

Following Google’s second I/O keynote, we were ushered into a room where a number of the company’s executives were on hand to field questions from the press. Or in other terms, dodge bullets and tell us what we’re probably not looking to hear. All jesting aside, the Chrome team was rather forthright during the session, and a number of details surrounding the outfit’s (potentially game changing) subscription model were unearthed. Details on contract terms, what’s included / not included and where the line is drawn between enterprise and consumer lie just after the break, along with our take on how this monumental announcement may or may not change the way we buy computers.

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Shell opens America’s first pipelined hydrogen-fueling station in Southern California

Residents of SoCal’s Torrance should consider themselves lucky, as they’re now living in America’s first-ever city to have a pipelined hydrogen-fueling station. You can thank Shell and Toyota for picking up this government-funded green project. Sure, while the few other hydrogen stations still rely on delivery by supply truck (presumably running on diesel, ironically), this nevertheless marks a new milestone for our squeaky clean fuel, and it’s only a matter of time before more stations get piped up to Air Products’ hydrogen plants. If there’s any indication of a time frame, Wired reminds us that 2015 should see the arrival of many new mass-market hydrogen cars from Toyota, Honda, and Mercedes-Benz. Not long to go now, fellow tree huggers.

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