Nel 1994 c'era chi profetizzava un'editoria e un giornalismo crossmediale capace di adattarsi a nuove e futuribili tecnologie per restare al passo coi tempi. Come i tablet.

Secondo The Verge il tablet di Redmond prova a fare tutto, ma non riesce a fare niente davvero bene.
Walt Mossberg è dello stesso avviso.

It's too hefty and costly and power-hungry to best the leading tablet, Apple's full-size iPad. It is also too difficult to use in your lap. It's something of a tweener -- a compromised tablet and a compromised laptop.

Difficile non concordare con l'opinione dello staff di Wirecutter sul tablet di Apple.

The iPad mini is the best tablet to get and lets be honest, it's way better than the full sized iPad for nearly everyone. I'd even go so far as to say that the full sized iPad is plain obscene after using the mini.

I'm embarrassed to say this because I've been part of the problem by not talking enough about the heft. But the truth is that we've all been overlooking the iPad's weight because everything else was good about it. It's not anyone's fault-it's physics and trade offs that make a 10-inch tablet weigh this much when its made of these materials with a battery life this long. It was the best tablet for most, because it was the only one to get with iOS and its amazing library of apps and great hardware. But I can't say the heft is ok anymore. You didn't hold it like a magazine, which is the dream of a tablet, because it weighed as much as coffee tablet book or a small telephone book. You can agree or disagree, but it's indisputable that the mini is a better hold because you don't have to grip it like a steering wheel or like an underpowered circus strongman. And what good is a mobile gadget if its hard to carry and hold?

Questa posizione permetterà infatti al gelataio di sinistra di raccogliere tutti i bagnanti del suo lato e magari carpirne qualcuno anche dell'altro lato.
Lo stesso dicasi per il gelataio di destra.

Ora sostituite alla spiaggia il corpo elettorale e ai due gelatai il Partito Democratico ed il "partito unico delle libertà".

Crosspost su Blogfriends.

Difficile non innamorarsi a prima vista del piccolo tablet progettato a Cupertino.

The Verge ha analizzato il nuovo tablet di Google.

It feels good to hold in your hands. That soft backing strikes me as decidedly different than other tablets in its class, and seems far more smudge resistant than something like the Fire. The bezel on the front looks a bit too large for the screen size, though when reading a book I found the extra real estate helpful because I had something to grip (in fact, Duarte told me that the design was intentional, not a victim of cheap parts). There are a few very minor build issues, like the fact that the display can give a little and cause the LCD to ripple if you really press hard against the screen, but most users will never press hard enough to notice.

In all, I'm impressed by what Asus and Google have done with the Nexus 7. It's a classy, well-made product from a design standpoint. It may not be the most original, thinnest, or lightest tablet on the market, but it's certainly a respectable and refined entrant to the race. Bottom line - this is a much better feeling and looking tablet than anything else in its price range.

Google lancerà il suo tablet economico questa sera alla Google I/O conference.

According to an allegedly leaked training document, this is Google's new tablet, a 7-inch Tegra 3 device running Android Jelly Bean. The document says that Nexus 7-as it is named-would hit the streets in July for $200.

As rumoured, Google is allegedly going to announce a 7-inch, Nexus-branded tablet called the Nexus 7. According to this supposed leak, it's built by Asus, with a 1.3Ghz quad-core Tegra 3 processor, GeForce 12-core GPU and 1GB of RAM with two different storage variants: 8GB and 16GB.

The Nexus tablet will also feature NFC and run Google Wallet (probably only in the US) and Android Beam.

The screen is an IPS display with a 178-degree viewing angle, running a resolution of 1280 by 800. The device will also sport a 1.2 megapixel front-facing camera. The battery will also give you 9 hours worth of operation.

The 8GB model will set you back $199 USD and the 16GB will cost $249 USD. No word in the document on local prices.

Surface il tablet in puro stile Metro con Windows 8, schermo da 10.6" full-HD e tastiera opzionale con aggancio magnetico del tutto simile alle Smart Case di iPad.
Potenzialmente dirompente. Ottimo competitor per i tablet Android.

Beh Savona Web, portale turistico della Riviera delle Palme e della Provincia di Savona, mette a disposizione un comodo servizio di ricerca degli access point WiFi.
I risultati delle ricerche includono anche gli hot spot FON.

Non resta che prendere il portatile e le pinne...

Crosspost su Rhadamanth.net Weblog, GBC.

Un concept su come migliorare l'editing su iPad.

Ecco perché il nuovo iPad è più caldo, 33,6 °C rispetto ai 28,3 °C di iPad 2.

1. Twice the LEDs: That means more heat coming from more LEDs. This is especially a problem at full brightness.

2. 2.5X the power needed: The brightness efficiency is lower because the new iPad has more pixels (which means more transistors) compared to the iPad 2. More pixels and transistors take up more space, meaning less opportunity for light to pass. "So they basically have to blast light through the LCD to make it come out." Soneira adds: "I measured the LED power at maximum brightness–it's two and a half times greater than on the iPad 2."

3. Battery generates more juice: The battery has to push out more power. This makes the battery warmer.

4. Traditional LCD technology: Sharp's power-efficient IGZO technology was not ready for the new iPad. That forced Apple to use traditional–and less power efficient–amorphous silicon tech.[To be fair the older iPads also used this tech but perhaps Apple was hoping to go 100% IGZO to offset the above].

Un lungo articolo di The Verge svela segreti, chiarisce dubbi e riporta ogni dettaglio del nuovo gioiello di Apple.

Una spiegazione originale sulla scelta di apple di chiamare il suo nuovo tablet Nuovo iPad.

Short term, that may be a little confusing. Presumably, Apple will eventually quit calling this thing "the new iPad" and just refer to it as the iPad. And when it does, that's going to be kind of weird because Apple is still selling the iPad 2. (At least for now.) In six months, will you be choosing between an iPad and an iPad 2, with the iPad being the newer, better model? Do they just plan on calling it "new" until iPad 2 inventory runs dry? That's going to take some shaking out.

But long term, it makes sense. Think about the iPhone. The iPhone 4S is the fifth generation iPhone, which would make an iPhone 5, if there was to be one, the sixth generation iPhone. See? Confusing! Which is why folks are already predicting that the next iPhone will simply be called iPhone, and not iPhone 5. Simple.

Il liveblog del lancio del nuovo iPad su The Verge.