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Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 Hands-on

The announcement that Samsung's follow-up to its Galaxy Tab 10.1 would be receiving some downgrades from the previous entry, filled with a mixture confusion and disappointment. Eric Franklin just couldn't wrap his head around why the sequel to one of the premiere Android tablets would launch with a less impressive spec list than its predecessor. Yesterday, Samsung revealed that the Tab 2 10.1 would be released on May 13th for $400. That's $100 lower than the original Tab 10.1's list price and it fills the logic hole he believes Samsung was falling into, he is still not 100 percent on board.

April 13, 2012 Ivo Rangelov

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Adobe

With CS6, Adobe Tidies up Premiere Pro, Speeds up After Effects

Quick access to software features is nice, but there can be too much of a good thing. That's what Adobe concluded when designing Premiere Pro CS6, the upcoming version of its video-editing software. Adobe was pleased with the current CS5's Mercury Playback Engine, which on computers with higher-end Nvidia graphics cards provides a major hardware acceleration boost for some tasks. But the user interface was too cluttered, said Premiere Pro Product Manager Al Mooney.

April 12, 2012 Ivo Rangelov

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Google's New Chrome OS: Back to the Future

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols has little love for the new generation of desktop interfaces, such as Windows 8 Metro. They use a smartphone/tablet like metaphor in which each application takes up the entire screen. So, why did he bought all these 20-inch and larger displays? Google, in the latest developer release of its Linux and cloud-based Chrome OS, has reversed this trend. This developer Chrome OS update adds a taskbar and support for multiple windows to its light-weight, desktop operating system.

April 11, 2012 Ivo Rangelov

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YouTube Live Streaming Now Features Pay-Per-View

For some time now, YouTube Live has been thinking about how to move beyond a free, ad-based service. Now it's moving ahead with that plan. After tests with a handful of publishers, YouTube is offering pay-per-view options to publishers on its live-streaming service. The company said that it was in the process of rolling out live streaming to its partners.

April 11, 2012 Ivo Rangelov

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Microsoft

Microsoft Retires Vista, Office 2007 from Mainstream Support

Vista, the problem-plagued operating system that never really took hold among users, will exit mainstream support on Tuesday, April 10. According to Microsoft, Office 2007 left mainstream support yesterday. In a product's extended support phrase, Microsoft continues to provide security patches to all users, but offers other fixes - such as reliability and stability updates - only to organizations that have signed support contracts with the company.

April 10, 2012 Ivo Rangelov

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Adobe

Adobe Touts Tools for Flash-to-HTML Conversion

Many developers are ready to dump Flash in favor of Web standards - and for those who aren't ready, Adobe Systems is throwing its weight behind a new project called CreateJS to ease the transition. CreateJS is a collection of libraries - prewritten code, essentially - that lets people program with Web standards such as HTML5 and JavaScript the way they're accustomed to with Flash. And along with the libraries there's the Toolkit for CreateJS, an extension for Adobe's Flash Pro developer tools that lets programmers work with Flash Pro and then export an HTML/JavaScript version of the creation.

April 10, 2012 Ivo Rangelov

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HTML5 Roundup: Mozilla Demos Standards-Based Video Chat in Firefox

Mozilla recently published a demo of standards-based video chat in an experimental build of Firefox. The functionality is built with the Web Real Time Communication (WebRTC) standard, which aims to support streaming audio and video communication on the Web without relying on plugins. The WebRTC standard is currently in the draft stage, but it has been endorsed by most of the major browser vendors. Some initial components are already available in several browsers.

April 9, 2012 Ivo Rangelov

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YouTube Brings 3D to all

YouTube last year allowed video creators to convert their clips to 3D. Now, they're giving ordinary viewers the chance to do so. The online video site yesterday announced that when users access certain 1080p 3D videos from the site, they'll be given a 3D option under the Quality settings pane. Upon clicking it, the video is automatically converted to 3D, which will require users to don their favorite 3D glasses to view it.

April 6, 2012 Ivo Rangelov

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Chrome Web Store Gets Trending, Offline Filters

As a webmaster who is always looking for the latest and greatest, Caschy has to admit that he dislike the Chrome web store. The core reason for this is that it does not allow him to sort by new extensions, or updated extensions. When you open it, you always see the same old extensions and apps at the top, with little room for changing what is displayed on the page. While it is possible to sort by popular, recommended and rating, it does not change the fact that you won’t see a lot of new extensions at the top of those pages.

April 5, 2012 Ivo Rangelov

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Mobile

Android now Represents Half of U.S. Smartphone Market

Google's Android has bitten off a 50 percent chunk of the U.S. smartphone market, according to the latest stats from ComScore. Over the three months from December through February, Android carved out an average 50.1 percent share, a leap of 17 points from the same period in 2011 and 3.2 points from the prior three-month period. In second place, Apple's iOS grabbed a 30.2 percent share, inching up 1.5 points from the previous three months. Combined, those numbers gave iOS and Android a collective share of more than 80 percent.

April 4, 2012 Ivo Rangelov

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