Will Microsoft demo Windows 8 for tablets next week?

A rumor from two months ago suggested that Microsoft would demo its Windows 8 tablet UI, which will use concepts from the Metro interface developed for Windows Phone 7, in June. That's next month. Actually, to get you a bit more excited, next month starts next week.

If that still doesn't pique your interest, let me try again. The rumor is back in full force. Microsoft will reportedly preview Windows for tablets during demonstrations next week, according to three people with knowledge of the company's plans, cited by Bloomberg.

It's not clear where exactly it will happen: Windows President Steven Sinofsky is scheduled to present at the All Things D conference while Vice President Steve Guggenheimer is addressing the Computex show in Taipei. It could be at both places, but if it has to be just one, we'd wager it's going to be the former. Ever since the development of Windows 7, Sinofsky has been doing the early Windows demos.

The company will showcase the software's touch-screen interface running on hardware with an Nvidia Tegra chip, which is based on ARM technology. That's not a coincidence. Microsoft announced earlier this year that Windows 8 will support Intel, AMD, and ARM architectures.

Although a rumor suggests that Windows 8 will arrive on January 7, 2013, we expect that the operating system will ship in time for the 2012 holiday season. In fact, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has said Windows 8 is coming in 2012, although Microsoft quickly claimed this was a misstatement.

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Gaming 26 - The Showman's Bag

Gaming 26 - The Showman's Bag

Posted on 13th May 2011 at 12:17 by Podcast with 16 comments

This week Paul and Joe were joined by plughead.net founder and former PC Zone writer David Brown. First up on the agenda was the continuing PSN outage, and how the continuing lack of service is starting to affect games developers.

We also attempted to talk about the Witcher 2, but somehow we ended up on the topic of DLC and, unsurprisingly, Mass Effect 2. Joe also got a chance to talk about his experiences with Star Wars: The Old Republic, and why he thought the game deserved the savaging that he gave it.

Finally, we also got a chance to put a few of your questions to David who discussed everything from the future of print publishing to the pressure that games publishers and developers put on members of the games press.


As always, we've also set up our weekly competition too, the lucky winner of which will walk away with a Roccat Vire Gaming Headset. The headset weighs only 15g and comes complete with a carry bag and rubberised ergonomic earplugs.

As ever, the bit-tech hardware podcast features music by Brad Sucks, and was recorded on Shure microphones. You can download the podcast direct, listen in-browser or subscribe through iTunes using the links below. Also, be sure to let us know your thoughts about the discussion in the forums.

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Gaming 26 - The Showman's Bag

Gaming 26 - The Showman's Bag

Posted on 13th May 2011 at 12:17 by Podcast with 16 comments

This week Paul and Joe were joined by plughead.net founder and former PC Zone writer David Brown. First up on the agenda was the continuing PSN outage, and how the continuing lack of service is starting to affect games developers.

We also attempted to talk about the Witcher 2, but somehow we ended up on the topic of DLC and, unsurprisingly, Mass Effect 2. Joe also got a chance to talk about his experiences with Star Wars: The Old Republic, and why he thought the game deserved the savaging that he gave it.

Finally, we also got a chance to put a few of your questions to David who discussed everything from the future of print publishing to the pressure that games publishers and developers put on members of the games press.


As always, we've also set up our weekly competition too, the lucky winner of which will walk away with a Roccat Vire Gaming Headset. The headset weighs only 15g and comes complete with a carry bag and rubberised ergonomic earplugs.

As ever, the bit-tech hardware podcast features music by Brad Sucks, and was recorded on Shure microphones. You can download the podcast direct, listen in-browser or subscribe through iTunes using the links below. Also, be sure to let us know your thoughts about the discussion in the forums.

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Tension Marks Clinton?s Visit to Pakistan

The atmosphere of her initial meetings ? visibly frosty ? underscored the tensions between the two countries, which have threatened to lurch into open confrontation since Navy Seals found and killed Bin Laden on May 2 in a military garrison town only 35 miles from here. Mrs. Clinton, the highest ranking American official to visit Pakistan, was joined by the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Mike Mullen, who arrived separately as part of a carefully orchestrated diplomatic encounter.

In contrast to the usual diplomatic pleasantries, however, Mrs. Clinton and Admiral Mullen appeared awkward and unsmiling at a meeting in the presidential palace with President Asif Ali Zardari, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani and the chief of the Army, Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani.

Otherwise the officials did not appear together or make a joint statement, and Mr. Zardari?s office limited access of journalists traveling with Mrs. Clinton even to the photo opportunity and did not allow it to be recorded.

In brief remarks directed at Mr. Zardari, Mrs. Clinton said the Obama administration recognized ?the sacrifice that is made every single day by the men and women of your military and the citizens of your country,? according to a video of the encounter. Mr. Zardari?s response was inaudible because his staff had barred microphones.

Mrs. Clinton and Admiral Mullen appeared later at the American Embassy with no Pakistanis present and addressed the stress in the relationship. She joked about tense opening of the talks but made it clear in her remarks that the conversations were sharp.

?There is always a lot to talk about but this was an especially important meeting because we have reached a turning point. Osama bin Laden is dead but Al Qaeda and its syndicate of terror remain a threat to us both,? Mrs. Clinton said. She said the Pakistanis had agreed on ?some very specific actions? they will take alone and with the United States but she did not elaborate.

?We both recognize that there is still much more work required and it is urgent,? she said.

Mrs. Clinton and Admiral Mullen referred to the recent strains but emphasized that Friday?s talks were frank and constructive. Admiral Mullen acknowledged that trust between the two nations? militaries ?still needs to be rebuilt? but said it was in the interest of both countries to work together.

?Now is not the time for retreat or for recrimination. Now is the time for action and closer cooperation, not less,? he said.

Mrs. Clinton and other officials have said there was no evidence that Pakistan?s senior civilian and military leaders knew Bin Laden was hiding for years in Abbottobad, the garrison town north of here. But they have vowed to press Pakistan to investigate whether any other lower-level officials were complicit in his ability to elude detection and for reassurances of a shared commitment to fighting extremist groups resident in Pakistan.

?We do have a set of expectations that we are looking for the Pakistani government to meet,? Mrs. Clinton said in Paris on Thursday before flying here overnight. When pressed, she added that those expectations involved issues ?across the board.?

Mrs. Clinton postponed a visit to Pakistan earlier this month as the Obama administration gauged Pakistan?s reactions to the raid, which a senior administration official traveling with her noted created ?a real risk of precipitous action.? Her visit with Admiral Mullen was unannounced because of security concerns, and lasted only a matter of hours.

In addition to a flurry of anti-American statements from senior government officials, Pakistan has taken deliberate steps to undercut security cooperation since Bin Laden?s death. Those steps included leaking the name of the station chief of the Central Intelligence Agency here and asking the Pentagon to withdraw some of the military advisers who have worked with the country?s security forces for years.

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Political Memo: A State of Uncertainty for the Romney Camp as It Looks to Iowa

This year, there are no commercials, no bulging payroll and no headquarters at all. And he has yet to signal whether he will treat Iowa with deference (as he did in 2008) or indifference (as some advisers have urged him to do).

That is part of the expectations game for Mr. Romney, a tricky calibration of not-too-high or not-too-low anticipation for how he should approach the Iowa caucuses, whose outcome will help set the tone for the rest of the party?s nominating contest.

But as Mr. Romney arrives here on Friday for his first time this year, for three public events and many more private meetings, the evidence suggests that he is leaning against a strategy of bypassing Iowa. He is the only candidate with a network of supporters in all 99 counties, many of whom say they have received calls from Mr. Romney?s aides in recent days.

?We?ve got a lot of friends here, a lot of support here,? said David Kochel, a veteran strategist in Iowa, who is Mr. Romney?s top adviser here. ?We want to reach out to the people who were with us last time and invite them back to the campaign. But we?re not going to run the same campaign we ran last time.?

The prospecting visit by Mr. Romney highlights the shifting contours of the Republican field and the myriad paths of trying to win the nomination in a campaign that remains awash in uncertainty.

While he received a measure of clarity when Gov. Mitch Daniels of Indiana and former Gov. Mike Huckabee of Arkansas said they would stay out of the race, new questions were raised on Thursday by Sarah Palin?s signal that she is still weighing a presidential run.

?It?s a wide-open situation here as far as I can see,? said Gov. Terry E. Branstad of Iowa, who spoke to Mr. Romney by telephone this week, urging him to come to the state and focus on economic issues. ?There are some concerns about the health care issue ? I think he has to answer those ? but he?s got to come here and spend some time and share his vision with people.?

On the eve of his arrival here, Mr. Romney announced that he would formally declare his candidacy next week in New Hampshire, the state that is critical to his strategy.

He has told friends that he felt burned by the process in Iowa four years ago. He invested $10 million and finished second in the caucuses to Mr. Huckabee, who spent a sliver of that amount. Mr. Romney also struggled to connect with religious conservatives and often spent more time trying to convince people that his rightward-shifting positions on abortion and gay rights were changes of heart rather than decisions of political expediency.

Still, Mr. Romney won 30,021 votes, or 25 percent. And when adding up the results of the other defeated candidates, Senator John McCain, former Senator Fred Thompson of Tennessee and former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani of New York, about 55 percent of the voters supported someone other than a religious conservative.

?There?s a real opportunity for him to grab the establishment Republican vote ? 35 or 45 percent of the people are really looking for a place to go,? said Doug Gross, the Iowa chairman of the Romney campaign in 2008, who remains uncommitted. ?I haven?t come to the conclusion that I think he can win, but he could run a good solid campaign here.?

In the opening stages of the presidential race here, a heavy focus has been placed on social issues, including the Iowa Supreme Court ruling that legalized gay marriage. The forums for candidates have been sponsored by religious groups, but a coalition of business leaders came together to host a lecture series to focus on the economy that Mr. Romney is attending Friday.

Yet Mr. Romney is hardly the only candidate chasing the establishment Republican vote.

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The future of conferences? The anti-conference: MaiTai 2011

Last week I was lucky enough to be invited to a entrepreneurs/VC Kiteboarding camp in Hawaii called MaiTai. Over 200 entrepreneurs, VC?s and some of the world?s best kiteboarders gathered on the Island of Maui for a week of panels, networking and most importantly; kiteboarding -a sport that is the golf for geeks in Silicon Valley.

Aside from learning to kiteboard, a sport that I am now obsessed about, what emerged from my time on the trip were relationships with people who also work in the technology industry -relationships so deep, many will be life-long friends.  My life is spent traveling the world from conference to conference meeting people, but never forging the same level of depth that are unique to trips like MaiTai.

But It?s not just relationships that got made, serious business gets done; The co-founder of Mai Tai, Bill Tai, Partner at Charles River Ventures, told Forbes?s Kim McNicholas how TweetDeck?s initial investment started on the beach at MaiTai. A company that just sold to Twitter for around $40million. MaiTai, which is now five years in the making, also provided insightful panels featuring entrepreneurs like Scribd?s 25-year-old CEO Trip Adler who?s raised over $13million in venture funding.

Social Capital

It?s never been more important to forge authentic relationships with people, the expression ?it?s not what you know, it?s who you know?, has never been more poignant than now; a time when anybody can access anyone, whenever they want. Sites that measure your social influence like Klout and Empire Avenue indicate a move towards a people driven economy where social capital turns into influence and revenue.

The growth of social networks with focus on the individual, is testament to the power of social capital, and now who you are and who you are connected to is almost more important than the product you are trying to build; In Silicon Valley at least, VC?s are investing in teams of great people, not necessarily a great product, in the knowledge that the team will pivot and pivot until eventually hitting jackpot.

The social network is getting smaller

The big trend at SXSW this year was group messaging, why? Because our social networks have become so big, they?ve also become meaningless. Whilst we can all have 5000 Facebook friends, the trend is that people want to connect to a smaller number of people, maybe 50 or 100 whose relationships have more meaning. Path for example is a photo sharing service that limits your sharing capabilities to 50 friends and GroupMe is like a private chat for a select number of contacts on your phone. I believe the same is happening with conferences, I can go and swap my business card with 500 people at a conference, but at a smaller event I can make 100 solid relationships with people that last a lifetime.

Anti-conference trend

Unconferences have been around for a while providing an unconventional and creative setting for people to meet and network, but I?m witnessing a trend for the conference aspect of an event, (thousands of participants watching a speaker, bad coffee, organized networking) being thrown out of the window and more activity conscious events being organized. Friends who went on Summit Series, an event for entrepreneurs on a charted cruise ship that sailed round the Bahamas, were raving about their yoga/music and shark tagging expeditions as well as the relationships they made onboard.

In Europe I have been a member of an entrepreneurs group called Mr Rongs, set up by entrepreneur Robert Loch (much talked about in technology journalist?s Paul Carr?s Book) since 2007 and if it wasn?t for the support I had from that group I would have never started my first company. Since then I have been a member of the European entrepreneur?s SPICE group organized by VC Alex Hoye and this group regularly shares and helps each other with the  challenges and problems faced being and entrepreneur trying to build our various startups. The similarities between all of these events are that these groups regularly organize the events around an activity, be it a ski trip, sailing trips or paintballing trip, making them cost effective so even the bootstrapping entrepreneur can afford to attend.

Analysis

So what was the magic formula that made MaiTai and other anti-conference events so special? When I try to dissect the conditions that fostered these relationships, it?s hard to analyze, but here goes:

Ice breaker

When you?re with a group of people learning a new skill, it gives everyone something to talk about. Weather you?re a pro or a beginner you can talk about what you managed to do that day. Definitely beats the boring ?Who are you, what do you do pitch?.

Relaxed atmosphere

When you are enjoying yourself  and having fun with people, you and they tend to open up and talk about more than just business. This takes mutual trust and an environment that makes each other feel relaxed.

Takes people out of their comfort zone

When you don?t have familiar surroundings or are in a place with no phone coverage it forces you to talk to people, be resourceful and you have to make an effort to get along with people. The biggest lessons I have learnt about myself are ones when I am faced with a difficult or unusual situation.

What should we take from all this? I would rather spend $500 for a plane ticket to one of these anti-conference events than spend the same money going to a conference with thousands of people; I?ve been building my social networks for years, now I realize it?s quality over quantity.

You can watch the videos from MaiTai2011 below:

Three words to describe MaiTai

MaiTai event report

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A Blood Test for Depression

Doctors may soon have a more objective way to diagnose and treat depression: a blood test that provides a score between one and nine, with higher scores correlating with an increased probability of a patient having major depressive disorder.

Developed by Ridge Diagnostics, based in San Diego, the test measures changes in 10 biomarkers in the blood and feeds the results into an algorithm that assesses four different body systems to compute the final score.

While advanced blood tests and imaging scans can reveal many diseases at their earliest stages, diagnosing neuropsychiatric disorders typically requires an expert to assess how many subjective symptoms a patient exhibits. As a result, many patients are misdiagnosed or never diagnosed. In 2005, Harvard researchers published a study that indicated that more than 20 million people in the United States suffer from mood disorders, but only about 50 percent have been diagnosed and are being treated.

Doctors have been searching for an objective, biological test for depression "ever since the beginning of clinical psychiatry, 50 or 60 years ago," says George Papakostas, an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and director of Treatment-Resistant Depression Studies at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Scientists have tried various approaches, including genetic tests, tests that measure hormone stress responses, or brain imaging. They've measured possible imbalances in neurotransmitters such as serotonin, norepinephrine, and dopamine, and even measured vocal cues. "There are some signals," Papakostas says."The problem thus far is that if you looked at a single element, a single marker or disease area, the signal was weak."

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On Our Desk - Mionix Propus 380

As you can imagine, we get lots of natty little bits and pieces sent into the bit-tech offices. Annoyingly, though, much of it is just a little too small or a little too silly to write about in a full page review. As a result, I?m trying to resurrect the On Our Desk series of articles that we used to cover all these little bits of gadgetry.

So without further ado I?ll tell you about the Mionix Propus 380 mouse mat, on which my CM Storm Inferno has been happily sitting for the last few days.

The first feature that grabbed me about the Propus 380 is that it looks good. It was actually its unusual shape and sleek, unfussy design that prompted me to pick it out from the pile of gaming mouse mats we?ve got sitting in the labs in the first place; it certainly looks like it means business.

On Our Desk - Mionix Propus 380

Once out of the packaging, I was pleasantly surprised by the build quality on show. The edges of the Propus 380 are very precisely cut, with no rough edges in sight. The upper tracking surface is also very firmly bonded to the rubber base of the mat; it certainly doesn't feel like the Propus 380 would suffer from the kind of delaminating or edge-peeling you may have seen on older mouse mats.

The surface of the mat is made from extremely fine-grained plastic, results in some very quick mouse movements. In fact, I was actually able to move my mouse almost too quickly compared to the cloth covered mat that the Propus 380 replaced, with very little drag or friction between the mouse and mat. Once I was used to it, though, the lack of friction meant that my mouse movement felt very precise, and that fatigue was less of a problem during long gaming sessions.

Measuring 380 x 260mm, the mat is wider than it is tall, but this means there?s plenty of room for large sweeping movements if you run your mouse with low sensitivity. If you don?t need all that width, though, then you can rotate the mat through 90 degrees. What's more, in this orientation, the indents in the upper and lower edge of the mat help it to butt up nearly with your keyboard.

On Our Desk - Mionix Propus 380

If you?re into your LAN gaming, then the fact that the Propus 380 doesn?t roll up could be an issue. It does have a degree of bend in it, but it'll crease if you push it too far. For most people, though, this is unlikely to be a problem, and it also means the edges of the mat won?t curl with time.

Of course, a gaming orientated mouse mat is a luxury; most decent mice these days will track quite happily without any mouse mat at all. The Propus 380 is a great piece of kit, though. It feels well made, and has a surface that provides very smooth and quick tracking for a laser mouse. At £17 it couldn?t be called cheap, but at least you feel like you?re getting £17 worth of kit; it?ll definitely be staying on my desk for the foreseeable future.

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The Caucus: Palin to Begin Public Tour This Weekend

1:59 p.m. | Updated Sarah Palin will begin a bus tour of the East Coast on Memorial Day weekend, the latest and most significant evidence that the former governor of Alaska is still seriously considering a run for the Republican presidential nomination this year.

Ms. Palin will begin the series of high-profile public events in the Washington area, starting with the annual Rolling Thunder motorcycle rally and continuing on through the Northeast, according to a statement on her Web site.

Her purchase of a house in Arizona and recent additions to her staff have prompted renewed speculation about her political intentions even as the field of Republicans who are vying to challenge President Obama has dwindled in recent weeks.

The bus tour, which will extend beyond the weekend, will take Ms. Palin and her family through the Northeast in a decorated, red-white-and-blue charter bus, heightening comparisons to a campaign whistle-stop tour.

One source familiar with the trip said Ms. Palin would make a stop in New Hampshire, the state that holds the first presidential primary. But such a stop, if it happens, could complicate efforts to describe the events as something other than the beginnings of a presidential exploratory campaign.

With the announcement, Ms. Palin proved once again her outsize ability to seize the political spotlight while simultaneously depriving her potential rivals of much-needed news media oxygen.

Representative Michele Bachmann of Minnesota was said to be ramping up toward an announcement that she will run for president as early as next week. Mitt Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts, is due in Iowa on Friday for his first appearance there this year.

But it is Ms. Palin and the start of her bus tour that is now sure to command the attention of a political press corps that has been anxious to know her intentions for the 2012 campaign.

Ms. Palin, who exploded onto the national political scene in 2008 as the running mate of Senator John McCain of Arizona, has remained coy on whether she will run on her own in 2012. She has made sporadic forays into the public debate via her Facebook page and Twitter feeds, and she has maintained a steady stream of conservative commentary as a paid analyst for Fox News.

Ms. Palin?s bus tour raised questions about her deal as a paid analyst on Fox News Channel, which suspended ? and later terminated ? the contracts of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and former Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania when they made it clear they were moving ahead with presidential plans.

Fox News has laid out a specific set of actions that would lead it to determine one of its analysts is seriously considering a campaign, including starting an exploratory committee, appearing at debates, or, obviously, outright declaring a candidacy.

In a brief statement released Thursday, the Fox News executive vice president of programming Bill Shine indicated the network did not believe the bus tour would cross that threshold: ?We are not changing Sarah Palin?s status,?? it read.

In a statement on her Web site, Ms. Palin hinted at the kinds of themes that will be highlighted by the bus tour ? and that could power a presidential campaign.

?Our nation is at a critical turning point,? she wrote. ?As we look to the future, we are propelled by America?s past. It?s imperative that we connect with our founders, our patriots, our challenges and victories to clearly see our way forward. A good way to do this is to appreciate the significance of our nation?s historic sites, patriotic events and diverse cultures.?

Ms. Palin said the tour will ?celebrate the meaning of our nation?s blueprints? and said the ?pro-America? events were designed to touch on, among other things, the ?survival of American exceptionalism,? a topic that she has used to criticize Mr. Obama in the past.

The trip has clearly been in the works for some time. Pictures on the Web site show the dark blue bus emblazoned with the logo ?One Nation,? with the Liberty Bell as the ?a? in ?Nation.? (View the photos.)

It also shows an enlarged copy of the Constitution with the words ?We the People? on the side and the words ?Join the Fundamental Restoration of America? on the back.

Moments after the tour was announced, Ms. Palin?s Web site also sought to raise money for her political action committee. Visiting the site now prompts a pop-up window asking for donations.

?SarahPAC is excited to announce the One Nation Tour,? the site says. ?You can show support for the ?Fundamental Restoration of America? and the One Nation bus tour by making a generous donation to SarahPAC today and following the bus tour every step of the way on our SarahPAC Web site.?

Her Web site adds that the ??One Nation Tour? is part of our new campaign to educate and energize Americans about our nation?s founding principles, in order to promote the Fundamental Restoration of America.?

Jim Rutenberg contributed to this report.

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AT&T launching LTE Service in five cities this summer

AT&T has revealed the first five markets in which it will begin to rollout its next generation 4G LTE network: Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Houston and San Antonio. These cities will get access to the super-fast wireless service in the summer and will be joined by 10 additional U.S. markets before the end of 2011, as AT&T looks to reach 70 million potential customers.

The company's CTO John Stankey made the announcement this morning at a Barclays Capital conference, where he also announced plans to add 20 4G devices to AT&T's portfolio this year. Of course, it's unclear how many of those will actually support LTE as AT&T -- alongside T-Mobile -- has added some ambiguity to the term by branding their 3G HSPA+ service as 4G.

AT&T did not give an exact launch date nor did it mention what download and upload speeds users will get from its network.

GigaOM recently trialed AT&T's LTE network and was able to reach download speeds of 28.87 Mbps and upload speeds of 10.4 Mbps, although it should be noted that this was on a controlled test environment and those speeds will go down in real-world usage. By comparison, Verizon, during its own trials last year said it had reached download speeds of 40 to 50 Mbps, and peak upload speeds of 20 to 25 Mbps, but it promises customers 5 to 12 Mbps down and 2 to 5 Mbps up.

Donovan said that the company has invested $75 billion in its wired and wireless networks over the last four years, with plans to invest $19 billion more in those areas this year. Nevertheless, the AT&T's LTE rollout is significantly more modest than Verizon's, which launched with 38 markets late last year and will cover a total 76 markets by June.

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