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Microsoft's Project Spartan

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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><br />As rumored, <a href="http://adf.ly/wWLUF" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Microsoft</a> will be introducing a new default web browser as part of Windows 10 — and it's not Internet Explorer. <br /><br />The new browser, dubbed Project Spartan for now, represents a new era for Microsoft and its web browsing efforts.<br /><br />Project Spartan isn't so much of a completely new take on the web browser as much as it is a way to rebrand Microsoft's browser efforts. Internet Explorer 11 is a good web browser, but its market share has fallen over the years on the desktop and its presence in mobile is virtually nonexistent. <br /><br />That's in part because of the legacy baggage carried by the Internet Explorer brand. No matter how good Internet Explorer has become, for many users, speaking of IE conjures up images of IE 6 or IE 7. No one wants to go back to that era of browsing. <br /><br />So rather than try to convince the world that IE is still awesome, Microsoft has decided to introduce a new browser. Based on a new rendering engine, Project Spartan offers a more clean user experience, a more streamlined appearance and is designed for mobile, tablets and the desktop. <br /><br />Other features of Project Spartan include: </span></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">The ability to annotate web pages and share them with others around you. This works both with a pen and touch device or with a keyboard and mouse.</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">A special reading list and reading mode, similar to Apple's Reading List and apps such as Pocket or Instapaper. The reading list feature actually works offline, which is cool.</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Built-in PDF support.</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Cortana support. Again, this is similar to some of the Siri-powered features built-into Spotlight and Safari on iOS and OS X. That said, Microsoft's efforts seem a bit more robust. In addition to working in a Google Now-like manner with helping anticipate events happening soon, it can also work alongside actual web pages and text on a page, rather than simply in a search menu.  </span></span></li>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Will this be enough? <br /><br />Microsoft's desktop market share has fallen over the last five years as Google's Chrome browser has become the favorite for desktop machines. Moreover, Chrome also has an advantage of being the default browser on Android, which means that more people use Google's browser on mobile and on the desktop. <br /><br />Meanwhile, an increasing number of web developers no longer view IE compatibility as an important attribute. Developers build sites and apps for WebKit and Blink, the two rendering engines (that are very similar in nature) that power Safari and Chrome on mobile and desktop, first. Mozilla's Firefox often gets tested too and it has been designed to be largely compatible with code prefixes written for WebKit or Blink. Only after the major bases are covered do an increasing number of developers focus on Internet Explorer. <br /><br />For Microsoft, this is a problem. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><br />The big challenge Microsoft will face with Project Spartan isn't just whether this new web browser can win over former users who harbor ill-feelings towards IE, but if developers will start to treat Microsoft as a central platform for web development again.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><br />Source: <a href="http://adf.ly/wWLD1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mashable</a></span></span>

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Windows 10 will be a free upgrade

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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><a href="http://adf.ly/wWGAW" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Windows 10</a> will be free for existing Windows users running versions of the OS, going back to Windows 7. That includes Windows 7, 8, 8.1 and Windows Phone. Microsoft specified the Windows 10 upgrade would be free for the first year of release, but users would need to pay for it after that. However, <span style="color: red;">Microsoft will support the upgrade for the "lifetime of the device," according to the announcement</span>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">"We want to make Windows 10 the most loved release of Windows," Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said at the event. ""We are going to have services everywhere. But when it comes to Windows, we're not bolting on apps."<br /><br />Source: <a href="http://adf.ly/wWFby" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mashable</a></span></span>

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Storedot Battery Charger

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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://adf.ly/wEFSh" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><br />StoreDot</a>,  the nanotech startup behind the charger, has a new prototype that is  smaller and doesn't add bulk to the actual smartphone. During <i>Mashable's</i> demo, the Galaxy S5 battery went from almost empty to 100% in less than two minutes. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;">It almost sounds too good to be true but StoreDot CEO Doron Myersdorf  says it's because the company took a completely different approach when  creating its battery. Rather than trying to improve the capacity of the  battery itself, the company redesigned the internal structure of the  battery so it can charge rapidly. The tradeoff for this speed is the  overall battery life is shorter— the battery I saw will last about five  hours.<br />
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But by cutting charging time down to a minute or two— Mysersdorf says the final product will have a recharge time of well under two minutes— recharging once or twice a day is a nonissue.<br />
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"This is not trivial, it took us a lot of research," Mysersdorf said. "This is a design that is trying to achieve something that was not the goal before. Nobody thought about giving you less energy ,everybody thought about giving you more energy."<br />
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There are some caveats. The battery is more expensive than typical batteries and Myersdorf anticipates the battery will add about $50 to the total cost of a phone. And though StoreDot has made prototypes that work with handsets currently on the market, smartphone manufacturers will have to make "some modifications" to their devices in order to accommodate the battery. This means it will be up to individual companies to take advantage of the technology.<br />
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But on that front, Myersdorf is optimistic. The company is already in early talks with "all the big guys"— the CEO said they have already had more than a dozen meetings with potential partners during CES— and<br />
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the current goal is to have the batteries in the hands of consumers by 2017 <br />
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the current goal is to have the batteries in the hands of consumers by 2017.<br />
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But the company's vision goes well beyond smartphones. Myersdorf sees a future where all battery-powered devices are use these types of batteries and see electric vehicles as the next big opportunity for the company.<br />
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StoreDot starting an an electric vehicles initiative with the goal of creating batteries for cars like Teslas that will recharge in lminutes rather than hours. Myersdorf said a prototype that will recharge a Tesla's battery in three minutes should be ready in about year.<br />
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"This a mindset shift," he said. "Everything can be charged faster."<br />
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Intel's Compute Stick

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                    The Intel® Compute Stick<sup>1</sup> is a new 
generation compute-on-a-stick device that’s ready-to-go out-of-the-box 
and offers the performance, quality, and value you expect from Intel. 
Pre-installed with Windows 8.1* or Linux*, get a complete experience on 
an ultra-small, power-efficient device that is just four inches long, 
yet packs the power and reliability of a quad-core Intel® Atom™ 
processor, with built-in wireless connectivity, on-board storage, and a 
micro SD card slot for additional storage. It’s everything you love 
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Google Nexus 6

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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: large;">One of Google's flagship devices that came out November 2014 running Android Lollipop. <a href="http://adf.ly/vmAsR">Nexus 6</a> is said to be a larger version Motorola's Moto X. It is larger than Samsung Note 4, and even wider than Iphone 6 plus. The phone has nice combination of round and flat for gripping purposes. Has front facing speakers, so expect a good quality of sound. It has ring-flash camera. Supports 15-minute fast charging technology, wireless charging and battery saver mode. The phone's hardware is perfectly built. The most exciting feature of this phone is it's operating system. It is running android lollipop where there are animations everywhere. The user interface is even improved.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: large;">13MP rear-facing with optical image stabilization<br />2MP front-facing</span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: large;"><br /><br /><b>Processor</b></span></div>
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                  CPU: Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 805 processor<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: large;">*credits to Marques Brownlee for the review</span><br />
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Google Nexus 6

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