HP to release 7-inch webOS tablet in August?

Inventec, a major contract manufacturer of personal computers in Taiwan, has received big-ticket orders for tablet PCs from Hewlett Packard. HP has reportedly ordered 400,000 to 450,000 TouchPad tablets per month, and will sometime in August launch a 7-inch tablet. Inventec will supply HP these two tablet PC models, according to a subcontractor cited by the Taiwan Economic Times.

HP is Inventec's largest buyer of notebook PCs, but has yet to confirm that Inventec is its largest contract manufacturer of tablet PCs. Inventec is aiming to supply smartphones, tablet PCs, electronic books, portable navigation devices, this year in order to enjoy a larger growth due to the shipments of new products.

HP, the world's largest PC maker, is only now entering the tablet PC arena with the HP TouchPad. Of course, we've expected that HP would release more than just one tablet, but August just seems too soon. If it really is coming just one month after the HP TouchPad is officially released, we would have expected HP to announce the product by now, and details would have leaked even before then. We'll have to watch this rumor closely: a 7-inch tablet is definitely in the works, but the timing just seems off.

The HP TouchPad is a 9.7-inch slate (1024 x 768 resolution), powered by a dual-core 1.2GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon APQ8060 processor, 16GB or 32GB of built-in storage, 1GB of RAM, HP's Beats audio, a micro-USB 2.0 port, Bluetooth 2.1+EDR, a front-mounted 1.3MP camera, as well as a light sensor, gyroscope, accelerometer, compass, and GPS (3G model only). It measures 242 x 190 x 13.7mm and weighs around 740g. The device is running a WebOS 3.0 with true multitasking, Flash 10.1, a paneled e-mail application, a pop-up notification system like Growl, Skype support, wireless printing, calendar and e-mail integration via HP Synergy, as well as compatibility with Amazon's Kindle ebook store, Google Docs, QuickOffice, and more.

Optional accessories (sold separately) for the HP TouchPad include the HP Touchstone Charging Dock, the HP TouchPad Wireless Keyboard, and the HP TouchPad Case. These are expected to be priced at $80, $70, and $50, respectively.

Preorders for the Wi-Fi version of the HP TouchPad in North America and Europe have already begun, and that the US release date is slated for July 1, 2011. The device will be available from US retailers, commercial resellers, and direct from HP with the option of either 16GB ($500.00) or 32GB ($600.00) of internal storage. HP's first webOS tablet will be available in the UK, Ireland, France, and Germany a few days later and in Canada in mid-July, with availability scheduled to follow later this year in Italy and Spain, as well as in Australia, Hong Kong, New Zealand, and Singapore.

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As Politics of War Shift, Risks for Obama Ease

The president, who addressed the nation in a prime-time speech from the White House, stopped short of declaring victory, but he suggested that the mission had been a success and that it was time to turn to a new foreign policy and to place a greater focus on domestic concerns.

A debate inside the Republican Party over Afghanistan, along with larger questions about American military engagement, has changed the political dynamic facing Mr. Obama as he prepares for re-election. He made clear that he would not be haunted, like many Democrats before him, by being cast as weak on national security. But he pledged to ?chart a more centered course,? a phrase that could well serve as a metaphor for how he has sought to reset his presidency after Democrats were soundly defeated last fall.

Mr. Obama is benefiting from a confluence of factors ? a rising strain of Republican isolationism, the killing of Osama bin Laden and deep concerns about spending and the deficit ? which provide unexpected flexibility for dealing with Congress and selling his decision to the nation. He will test whether the post-Sept. 11 politics have changed enough to allow a Democratic president to wind down a war with little or no political peril.

?These long wars will come to a responsible end,? Mr. Obama said. ?As they do, we must learn their lessons. Already this decade of war has caused many to question the nature of America?s engagement around the world.?

As the nation has grown weary over the cost and toll of war, fault lines have emerged among Republicans, with the longstanding isolationist strain regaining its footing after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and the adventurism of the George W. Bush era.

The aggressive posture adopted by the president, particularly in pulling out troops faster than Pentagon advisers recommended, could open a discussion in Congress and on the presidential campaign trail. Republicans now hold an array of positions, from the budget-minded focus of the Tea Party movement to the stay-the-course view of the party?s 2008 nominee, Senator John McCain of Arizona, to other internationalist Republicans who fear the party has lost its way.

For the first time in generations, neither the president nor any candidates for the office have worn the military uniform. The familiar chords of patriotism may have given way to increased concerns about priorities at home.

Mr. McCain has emerged as the leading critic of Mr. Obama?s decision on Afghanistan, but his views are muted by the many Republican presidential candidates who have expressed a desire to end the war as soon as possible.

Jon M. Huntsman Jr., a former Utah governor who recently stepped down as the ambassador to China, is trying to build his Republican presidential campaign around his foreign policy experience, which included positions in both Bush administrations. Four years ago, he was Mr. McCain?s co-chairman, but now is seeking to distinguish himself on Afghanistan by raising questions about whether the country can afford it.

?It is time we move to a focused counterterror effort, which requires significantly fewer boots on the ground than the president discussed tonight,? Mr. Huntsman said.

Tim Pawlenty, a former governor of Minnesota, has emerged as one of the party?s few candidates who are cautioning against an abrupt withdrawal in Afghanistan. ?I?m concerned about what appears to be a drift toward minimalism and isolationism inside the Republican Party,? Mr. Pawlenty said Wednesday in an interview. ?But it?s really important to make sure that we finish the job correctly in Afghanistan.?

Geoff Garin, a Democratic pollster who has conducted focus groups to gauge public opinion of the war, said the multiple messages among Republicans would benefit Mr. Obama.

For Mr. Obama, his prime-time announcement was the latest in a series of defining moments in his presidency. Four years ago, in the early stage of his political rise, he positioned himself as a strong opponent of the Iraq war. After he took office, he began delivering on his pledge to end the war. But he chose to build up efforts in Afghanistan, infuriating many Democrats by sending 30,000 more troops.

Jim Rutenberg contributed reporting from Columbia, S.C.

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A Spit Test for Age

Analyzing a few chemical markers in the DNA of saliva can determine a person's age with surprising accuracy. Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, have found that the presence of just two chemical modifications allowed them to predict the ages of members of a sample group within a range of about five years. The technique, if validated, could be a useful tool in forensics. It also points to the possibility that DNA modifications might offer a way to measure aging that's more medically relevant than counting birthdays.

The discovery, published this week in PLoS One, began as part of different research into the biological basis of sexual orientation. The UCLA team analyzed saliva samples of 34 pairs of identical male twins aged 21 to 55, looking for chemical modifications of DNA called methylation, a common marker of gene regulation, or epigenetics. The researchers, led by geneticist Eric Vilain, noticed that patterns in a subset of methylation sites tend to vary with age, with some sites on the genome becoming more methylated across large groups of cells and others less so.

They identified 88 sites on the genome that correlated strongly with age, and confirmed these findings in a group of 31 men and 29 women aged 18 to 70. Many of the genes associated with these sites are linked to cardiovascular and neurological disease. The researchers chose the two sites that correlated most strongly with age and used them to create a predictive model.

Sven Bocklandt, the study's lead author, formerly of UCLA and now at biotech company Bioline, says that the model, which can determine a typical person's age within 5.2 years, "is by far the most accurate predictive tool" of age yet developed. The tool could have clear benefits for forensics, in which the ability to narrow down the age of a suspect would aid investigations. However, the accuracy of the method needs to be validated in other samples, and also in other body fluids and tissues.

Jean-Pierre Issa, a epigenetics expert at University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center who was not involved in the study, says the findings are in line with work by him and others demonstrating that DNA methylation patterns change with age. But he adds that certain lifestyle factors, like heavy smoking or drinking, may affect methylation and make people seem to be older than they are. He notes that some study subjects were outliers whose methylation did not correspond as closely to age. In the study, the outliers could be identified because their real age was known, but in forensics applications this wouldn't be the case.

These outliers also raise the possibility that methylation status might hint at a "biological age" that differs from chronological age. For example, someone with an unhealthy lifestyle might be older biologically than chronologically. Having an objective way to assess this might help predict risks of age-related diseases or better guide the need for age-related screenings and other health recommendations. Issa says this idea has been around since the 1990s but has not been studied enough to verify it.

Scientists have investigated a similar concept based on the length of telomeres?caps on the ends of chromosomes that get shorter with age but that have also been found to respond to stress. Issa says DNA methylation may prove to be a simpler and more accurate measure of biological age.

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Loosen the Cap on Employees' In-Boxes

Companies can strengthen their computer networks against hacking attacks and data breaches, but their defenses won't work as well if employees are circumventing them. Yet companies often unintentionally inspire just such behavior by limiting how much e-mail their employees can send, receive, and store.

That's because employees who face tight limits on the size of their mailboxes tend to merely work around the restrictions. For instance, they might send and receive files through their personal Web mail accounts or through Web file-transfer sites. Using the public Internet could make it more likely for the information to be stolen, and there are consequences beyond hacking, too: once data leaves a company's control, it can be harder to restore it after a disaster or to find it during audits or lawsuits.

The employees at the Pump Solutions Group used to have strict limits on how much e-mail they could store because ballooning in-boxes required the company to buy, manage, and maintain more mail servers. But the pump manufacturer's global network manager, Jeff Rountree, has been lightening up on the policy and might get even more generous. He hired a company called Mimecast to handle the e-mail remotely?"in the cloud." That greatly reduced the need for Rountree to manage e-mail servers, which in turn could reduce the need for 700 of Rountree's coworkers to worry about the size of their in-boxes. Rountree likes that idea because if employees face no resistance to e-mailing large files, "in the long run, it's better for us to let them do it and we can monitor it," he says. "If we don't let them send it, we wouldn't know, because they would find some other way to do it."

Mimecast is one of a growing number of options for companies that want to reduce the headaches of managing e-mail themselves. Many large companies use Google Apps, which also offers ways for companies to archive and otherwise maintain employees' e-mail. The cost of such cloud services is often a few dollars per employee per month. These services don't always remove mailbox caps entirely, but the limits are generous: Google's Gmail for business lets each employee have 25 gigabytes of mail.

Some Mimecast customers give their employees unlimited e-mail. Others, like Rountree, do set limits, because Mimecast routes messages through their local mail servers: Pump Solutions Group employees still get reminders to clear space by deleting old mail. But Rountree is exploring a significant increase in the limits, because Mimecast can reduce the load on the local mail servers by archiving old messages and "stubbing" other e-mails to reduce their file size. "Users wouldn't even have to worry about it," he says.

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Gaming Case Roundup: Six Sub-$200 Choices

With dozens of affordable, well-equipped desktop cases begging for your cash, it can be a nightmare to find the right one for your needs. Hoping to simplify your building experience, we've assembled a shortlist of six unique sub-$200 enthusiast chassis that deserve your attention.

Included in our roundup is BitFenix's flagship Colossus, which takes lighting to the next level courtesy of multi-color LED strips that embrace the enclosure if that's your kind of thing. We also have the company's new Shinobi mid-tower, a budget-minded gaming chassis with a bold yet clean design.

Announced earlier this year, the Cooler Master Storm Enforcer is an attractive and surprisingly affordable addition to CM's extensive chassis lineup. The company boasts that it's the first mid-tower with native support for massive dual-GPU cards like the Radeon HD 6990 and GeForce GTX 590.

Cooler Master's acclaimed HAF X has also come along for the ride, and this time we have an in-your-face green edition that will surely test the gag reflex of Radeon fans. Despite its flagrant lime green frame, the HAF X Nvidia Edition is essentially the same case we've come to know and love.

Incredibly, it's been almost two years since we reviewed the LanCool PC-K62, one of the brand's first products (for the unacquainted, LanCool is Lian-Li's budget arm). Since then, LanCool has shipped the PC-K63, which carries a new curvaceous shell along with other modernizations.

Last but certainly not least, we have one of the most fascinating cases released this year: Thermaltake's Chaser MK-1. As part of Thermaltake's e-Sports range, the MK-1 is aimed at gamers and its outlandish design will undoubtedly provoke some strong opinions -- be they good or bad.

Considering the lukewarm response to its Level 10 novelty chassis and its "affordable" offspring, the Level 10 GT, we're hoping Thermaltake can shake its losing streak and knock one out of the park. Before we get ahead of ourselves here, let's get down to the nitty-gritty of each offering

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New Dating API could become the Facebook Open Graph of love

While online dating is no longer the embarrassing little corner of the Internet which it used to be, this now socially acceptable way of finding a new partner still feels a bit detached from the wider social Web. That could be set to change with the launch of a new ?API for dating?.

Called quite simply Dating API, the project comes from San Francisco startup VisionSync and is setting out to ?do for dating what Apps have done for Facebook.?

Essentially, it gets rid of the problems many new dating sites have ? having to re-invent the wheel in terms of basic functionality and having to encourage potential users to fill out their profile information on yet another site. With the API, there?s a single sign-on for whatever supported site users wish to join, automatically feeding in all their profile information.

VisionSync has quite a history in dating apps. Co-founders Steven Sykes and Nikolas Gough launched the company in 2009 and after some initial experiments, began to focus on mobile and social services. Most notable of the company?s products is Social Connect, a Facebook app which won About.com?s Readership Award for Best Dating App in 2011, beating household names like Match.com and OKCupid.

?The genesis of the Dating API occurred internally while we were integrating partners? APIs within our dating apps,? explains Sykes. ?The user experience on dating apps and sites is enhanced when there?s a significant number of candidates and members in your targeted area, when it?s easy to sign in and join, and when you can search for people who have similar interests. We also saw that our Favescape module which allows users to check out other users? ?faves? in movies, music, food, places, hobbies, was very popular. So we wanted to create an open API system to allow all our platforms, as well as affiliate portals; vendors (of dating-related goods such as gifts and flowers); game developers and content vendors to share a common user base.?

In addition to offering a single sign-on across multiple services, the API will provide a central profile search service, allowing users to browse profiles from multiple dating sites from one place. Sykes says that the Dating API will also let users see updates and feeds of users? social activity on the likes of Twitter; Facebook; Netflix; Pandora; Yelp; Good Reads and SoundCloud.

Having been bootstrapped by its co-founders up to now, Sykes says that VisionSync is currently talking to potential investors and partners. The company is refining the API while also working on a new dating site, dating.me which will launch at the same time, currently penciled in for ?early summer?.

If the Dating API fulfils its potential, it could be a powerful force in enabling a new breed of dating startups to get off the ground, focusing on technology and innovation rather than basic functionality and having to encourage users to fill in profile information. Developers interested in trying the API can register for more information at datingapi.io.

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As Politics of War Shift, Risks for Obama Ease

The president, who addressed the nation in a prime-time speech from the White House, stopped short of declaring victory, but he suggested that the mission had been a success and that it was time to turn to a new foreign policy and to place a greater focus on domestic concerns.

A debate inside the Republican Party over Afghanistan, along with larger questions about American military engagement, has changed the political dynamic facing Mr. Obama as he prepares for re-election. He made clear that he would not be haunted, like many Democrats before him, by being cast as weak on national security. But he pledged to ?chart a more centered course,? a phrase that could well serve as a metaphor for how he has sought to reset his presidency after Democrats were soundly defeated last fall.

Mr. Obama is benefiting from a confluence of factors ? a rising strain of Republican isolationism, the killing of Osama bin Laden and deep concerns about spending and the deficit ? which provide unexpected flexibility for dealing with Congress and selling his decision to the nation. He will test whether the post-Sept. 11 politics have changed enough to allow a Democratic president to wind down a war with little or no political peril.

?These long wars will come to a responsible end,? Mr. Obama said. ?As they do, we must learn their lessons. Already this decade of war has caused many to question the nature of America?s engagement around the world.?

As the nation has grown weary over the cost and toll of war, fault lines have emerged among Republicans, with the longstanding isolationist strain regaining its footing after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and the adventurism of the George W. Bush era.

The aggressive posture adopted by the president, particularly in pulling out troops faster than Pentagon advisers recommended, could open a discussion in Congress and on the presidential campaign trail. Republicans now hold an array of positions, from the budget-minded focus of the Tea Party movement to the stay-the-course view of the party?s 2008 nominee, Senator John McCain of Arizona, to other internationalist Republicans who fear the party has lost its way.

For the first time in generations, neither the president nor any candidates for the office have worn the military uniform. The familiar chords of patriotism may have given way to increased concerns about priorities at home.

Mr. McCain has emerged as the leading critic of Mr. Obama?s decision on Afghanistan, but his views are muted by the many Republican presidential candidates who have expressed a desire to end the war as soon as possible.

Jon M. Huntsman Jr., a former Utah governor who recently stepped down as the ambassador to China, is trying to build his Republican presidential campaign around his foreign policy experience, which included positions in both Bush administrations. Four years ago, he was Mr. McCain?s co-chairman, but now is seeking to distinguish himself on Afghanistan by raising questions about whether the country can afford it.

?It is time we move to a focused counterterror effort, which requires significantly fewer boots on the ground than the president discussed tonight,? Mr. Huntsman said.

Tim Pawlenty, a former governor of Minnesota, has emerged as one of the party?s few candidates who are cautioning against an abrupt withdrawal in Afghanistan. ?I?m concerned about what appears to be a drift toward minimalism and isolationism inside the Republican Party,? Mr. Pawlenty said Wednesday in an interview. ?But it?s really important to make sure that we finish the job correctly in Afghanistan.?

Geoff Garin, a Democratic pollster who has conducted focus groups to gauge public opinion of the war, said the multiple messages among Republicans would benefit Mr. Obama.

For Mr. Obama, his prime-time announcement was the latest in a series of defining moments in his presidency. Four years ago, in the early stage of his political rise, he positioned himself as a strong opponent of the Iraq war. After he took office, he began delivering on his pledge to end the war. But he chose to build up efforts in Afghanistan, infuriating many Democrats by sending 30,000 more troops.

Jim Rutenberg contributed reporting from Columbia, S.C.

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Mullen Backs Afghan Pullout Plan but Calls It Riskier

But General Petraeus, pressed for his personal views at a Senate hearing on his nomination as director of central intelligence, said the president had to consider many factors beyond the battlefield and that he fully accepted Mr. Obama?s plan. It would bring home 33,000 troops by September 2012 and withdraw the remaining 68,000 by the end of 2014.

?There are broader considerations beyond those just of a military commander,? General Petraeus told the Senate Intelligence Committee. ?The commander in chief has decided, and it is then the responsibility, needless to say, of those in uniform to salute smartly and to do everything humanly possible to execute it.?

He said he had received some e-mails suggesting that he resign if he disagreed with the president?s decision, which would require troops to depart before the end of next year?s fighting season. ?I?m not a quitter,? he said, noting that the troops under his command do not have the option of walking off the job, and that a general should take such a step only in a ?dire? situation.

The general?s comments echoed those earlier in the day of Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, about the military?s preference for a slower withdrawal. But Admiral Mullen added, ?No commander ever wants to sacrifice fighting power in the middle of a war.?

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, who other officials said had also expressed concern about the speed of the withdrawal, told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that Mr. Obama?s decision had followed ?a very open, candid discussion within the national security team? in which ?people forthrightly presented their own views.?

She said the United States was able to withdraw the troops from ?a position of strength? because of the progress that had been made. She cited a large increase in school enrollment ? from 900,000 boys under the Taliban to more than seven million children today, 40 percent of them girls ? and a 22 percent decrease in infant mortality.

?Despite the many challenges that remain,? she said, ?life is better for most Afghans.?

As his aides defended his decision in Washington, Mr. Obama traveled to Fort Drum, N.Y., to meet with about 200 members of the 10th Mountain Division?s 1st Brigade Combat Team, briefly addressing soldiers before posing for photographs and shaking hands.

?Now, last night, I gave a speech in which I said that we have turned a corner where we can begin to bring back some of our troops,? Mr. Obama said. ?We?re not doing it precipitously.  We?re going to do it in a steady way to make sure that the gains that all of you helped to bring about are going to be sustained.?

He added, ?Because of you, we?re now taking the fight to the Taliban instead of the Taliban bringing the fight to us.?

As Mr. Obama?s nominee to take over the C.I.A., General Petraeus faced the Senate panel in an awkward position: he is the leading champion of a counterinsurgency strategy, which requires large numbers of troops, from which the White House is gradually turning away.

Yet in moving to the C.I.A., he will take command of the spy agency that has become central to the Obama administration?s counterterrorism efforts, carrying out hundreds of missile strikes from unmanned drone aircraft over Pakistan. Administration officials have hailed the drone program?s achievements in weakening Al Qaeda as part of the justification for drawing down troops in Afghanistan.

Because the drone program remains classified, it was barely discussed at the hearing. One of the few surprises in three hours of testimony came when Senator Roy Blunt, Republican of Missouri, said he wanted to discuss drones.

There was a hush as aides and senators whispered about the potential security breach. General Petraeus then answered by reference to the military?s drone strikes in Afghanistan, which are not classified.

General Petraeus, who is expected to win Senate confirmation easily, would take over the C.I.A. at a time of close collaboration between the spy agency and the Pentagon, so close that some have raised concerns about the blurring boundaries between soldiers and spies.

Thom Shanker, Steven Lee Myers and Jackie Calmes contributed reporting.

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