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Windows 8 Tablet PC Edition - Years before there was even the slightest hint of Apple making its first iPad, Microsoft was already hard at work building the software and hardware ecosystems around a Tablet PC version of Windows. Approximately six years ago, in excess of 300 independent software vendors were building solutions for a slate flavor of Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2).

Image Conversion, Resizing and Watermarking All in One - Kigo Image Converter is a three-way image processor, providing a fortunate mix of conversion capabilities, joined by a resizing utility and a watermarking feature. All these make a good promise for users that are looking to process large packs of photos at a time. Image conversion is such a common task these days. The simple fact that more and ...

Weekend Reading: Portal 2 and User Complaints - Barely was Portal 2 released at the beginning of the week and some gamers already managed to find things wrong with it and decided that the best way to fight back against this seemingly inferior game was to bombard its Metacritic page with low scores, taking the average to around 5.0 out of 10. This went against the stellar reviews the...

Motorola's Quad-Core Smartphones, Bullet and Jet - Mobile phone maker Motorola Mobility is expected to be among the first companies in the world to come to the market with quad-core application processors inside, some of the latest rumors around the Internet suggest. According to the news, the new devices should arrive on shelves as Motorola Bullet and Jet, while being powered by ...

Bradley Cooper Isn’t Interested in Jennifer Aniston - For some weeks now, reports that Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Aniston are dating have been burning a hole in the Internet. Talk of how they’re “rekindling” their 2009 romance hasn’t ceased making the rounds but, as it turns out, there’s no rekindling of anything between them. It all began shortly af...

AMD Prepares New Range of Low Power APUs for Tablet Use - Report - AMD's first generation of Fusion accelerated processing units (APUs) have managed to make their way into quite an important number of netbooks and other mobile computing devices, and recent reports suggest that the company is now working on developing a new series of Fusion CPUs designed especially for tablets. These ...

Angelina Jolie Gets $10 Million for Louis Vuitton Endorsement Deal - It pays to be the most beautiful and famous woman in Hollywood: Angelina Jolie has landed a very good endorsement deal with French fashion house Louis Vuitton. The estimated value of the contract is of $10 million, it has emerged. E! Online is the first to report that Jolie may appear next in a series of print-onl...

Dell Preps 10'' Streak Pro Android Tablet for Summer - Computer maker Dell was among the first manufacturers in the world to come to the market with a tablet PC that packed Google's Android operating system, the Dell Streak, which boasted only a small 5-inch touchscreen display, but it seems that the company aims big with new devices in the Streak family. The first larger tablet PC ...

Water for Elephants – Movie Review - Jacob Jankowski never thought that his life would turn out to be so unpredictable. At the same time, viewers will probably be surprised to see that, in an era when bombastic – and otherwise empty of any concrete meaning – special effects and insane action scenes set the tone, “Water for Elephants” is a pleasure for the eyes. F...

American Idol Producers Are Pressuring Contestants to Lose Weight - In what could be another “fat-gate” for American Idol, word online has it that producers are now forcing some of the more normal-sized contestants left standing to lose weight. James Durbin and Lauren Alaina are at the top of the list. Some finalists are being told they need to eat less of their favori...

Katy Perry Lights Up American Idol Stage with ‘E.T.’ Performance - Even though she’s out on tour, Katy Perry still found the time to pre-tape a live performance for the latest American Idol eliminations show – and even got Kanye West to show up for a surprise cameo halfway through the song. The stage at American Idol went up in bright lights the other night, as Katy made s...

Jennifer Lopez to Leave American Idol for Her Own Show - Fans of the first post-Simon Cowell American Idol season who believe Jennifer Lopez as judge is a keeper, will probably be saddened to hear that she may not return for a second one because she’s thinking of launching her own show. Even though the current season of AI is not even close to finish, talk has already begun ...

Wi-Fi HTC Flyer on Pre-Order at Best Buy on April 25th - On Friday, Best Buy announced that it would start offering the Wi-Fi-only version of the HTC Flyer for pre-order to its customers starting with April 25th. The new tablet PC would be put on pre-sales via all Best Buy and Best Buy Mobile standalone stores around the United States, the retailer announced. For t...

Weekend Reading: Shift 2 Unleashed and the Role Playing of Races - I have just mastered a corner in Need for Speed: Shift 2 Unleashed, which means I got a bit of extra experience for my driver, got a bit closer to the next level and also turned a section of the track I am currently racing on green from drab gray. A few hours later I will hear a little ding and a gold-covered announc...

Softpedia Giveaways 2011: 100 Free Licenses for Ad-Aware Pro - This year’s giveaway campaigns on Softpedia will get a strong start this weekend with free licenses for Ad-Aware Pro Internet Security. The amount of licenses Lavasoft is putting into this campaign is a generous, round 100, so there will be plenty of winners.All you have to do in order to...

Snooki Hits the Gym, Reveals Slimmer Figure on Twitter - Snooki of MTV’s “Jersey Shore” was a cheerleader in high school but, in recent years, her weight has ballooned mostly because she has a chaotic lifestyle, eats junk food and ingests large quantities of alcohol. Now, curvy Snooki is a bit less curvy. The reality star, who is getting ready to head to Italy to ...

Google Offers Rare Peek into Its Data Centers, Shreds and Impales Drives for Security (Video) - Google is giving its users a rare glimpse into one of its data centers with a new video it released, to boast about the security and reliability measures it employs to ensure that its customers' data remains safe. The company is notoriously secretive about its data centers so this video...

LHC Experiment May Have Found Higgs Boson - According to a memo that leaked on the Internet, it could be that one of the four particle detectors installed on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) managed to discover the Higgs boson.This particle is the reason why the 27-kilometer-long accelerator was built on the French-Swiss border, near Geneva. The Standard Model indicates that the force ...

Bing Rewards Incentive Program Now Accessible to a Broader Audience - An incentive program that allows users to take advantage of rewards for leveraging Microsoft’s search / decision engine has been expanded to cover browsers and platforms beyond Internet Explorer and Windows. Bing Rewards is now available to the largest audience since its introduction in September 2010. ...

NASA, Other Agencies Dedicate Themselves to Climate Research - A group of federal agencies, organizations, universities and research institutions in the United States announce that they will begin a 4-year collaborative effort to gain a deeper understanding of Earth's climate and the change it is going through. The work will span 15 research projects, which will be funded with a total ...

Security Expert Finds Holes In Sensitive Chinese Government Systems - A security expert has identified a large number of vulnerable Internet-facing systems operated by the Chinese government and local administrations, including an official job applications site and an email server.A few days ago, Dillon Beresford, a security researcher with NSS Labs, has notified China's Computer Emer...

Google Won't Delete Content, Offers YouTube Migration Tool for Its 'Video' Site - The death of Google Video, at least as a video host, has been postponed after public outcry. Last week, Google announced that all videos still available on the site will be deleted at the end of this month. Unsurprisingly, most people didn't take the news very well and it seems that there are still plenty that care abo...

Lindsay Lohan Sentenced to 4 Months in Jail - Hours ago, Lindsay Lohan faced the music on her latest (alleged) crime, that of stealing a $2,500 gold necklace from an LA jewelry store shortly after leaving rehab. There’s good news and bad news, with the latter being that she will be going to jail soon. The good news is that the grand theft charge was dropped to a misdemeanor,...

PlayStation Network Down Due to Intrusion - Sony says the extended PlayStation Network (PSN) downtime is caused by an intrusion into its systems which has prompted a detailed investigation.The PlayStation Network is used by 70 million gamers, many of whom are currently infuriated after being locked out of the service for over three days."An external intrusion on our system...

SpaceShipTwo Completes Longest Flight Ever - Officials at Virgin Galactic are proud to announce that their private spacecraft was recently able to finish a long test flight, which topped off all other such endeavors to date. The space plane is being developed to carry paying passengers to the edge of space, on suborbital joy rides.The new drop tests took place over the Mojave Desert, ...

Dell Streak 7 Up for Pre-Order in Canada - Dell really does seem to be determined to establish a foothold on the tablet market, since it is not only leaking roadmaps to the web but also expanding the availability of a certain, already existing model. The Streak brand has already become a sort of synonym to the idea of a Dell tablet, though, true enough, Latitude isn't letting itse...

Early Universe May Have Been a “1D Line” - Physicists have now proposed a new theory seeking to determine how the early Universe may have looked like, shortly after the Big Bang. They say that it may have taken on the appearance of a single line of pure energy, rather than that of a sphere or a bell. The new view comes as a breath of fresh air for experts working in the world of hig...

Firefox 4 Reaches 100 Million Downloads One Month After Launch - Firefox 4 launched exactly one month ago and it seems to be one of the most successful Mozilla launches to date. While it didn't manage to beat the record for the number of downloads in the first day, though it came close, Firefox 4 continued to make headway and has now reached 100 million downloads, according to Mozilla's own count...

Dell Also Plans 13-Inch Latitude XT-3 Convertible Tablet - Dell might not have meant for it to happen, but a roadmap for its tablets has been leaked to the web, revealing not just two 10-inch media tablets but also a convertible one, set to come soon after the Streak Pro.Dell seems to be well on its way to making use of pretty much every sort of platform out there suited in the makin...

Google Music Plans in Limbo, Now in Talks of Partnership with Spotify - Google is now said to be in talks with potential partners, including Spotify for a music service. Apparently, the company is exploring the idea of having someone else provide the actual music for its music service, since its talks with the music labels aren't going so great. At this point, it becoming apparent that...