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Cisco has unveiled its first entry into the tablet computer space: the Cius, a 7-inch HD business collaboration device running the Google Android operating system.

The Cisco Cius was revealed earlier today by CEO John Chambers at a conference in Las Vegas. Like most Cisco devices, the Cius is designed with the business user in mind. It is a virtual desktop and telecommunication machine, complete with a front facing 720p HD camera and a second, 5-megapixel rear-facing camera. It’s smaller than an iPad, with a 7-inch screen and weighing only 1.15 pounds.

The device is designed to be mobile. It runs a modified version of the Google Android operation system, which is becoming more and more popular for use in tablet devices. It also comes with 3G capability, along with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth (Bluetooth) and Micro-USB support. Cisco claims that the device will go for eight hours “under normal usage.” As a bonus, the battery is detachable.

The key to this tablet is the suite of Cisco software products that it will run. The list includes Cisco Quad, Show and Share, WebEx, Presence and Cisco TelePresence; it also supports Unified Communications Manager. It looks like these apps will run as modified Android (Android) applications.

Any tablet, even an enterprise-focused tablet, inevitably compete with the iPad. However, Cisco’s device does sound like it has a lot of business features that the iPad does not, especially its deep integration with Cisco telecommunication products. The inclusion of two cameras for teleconferencing alone could make it a popular buy with enterprise companies.

Customer trials begin in the third quarter, meaning that you could see Cius tablets floating around as early as next month. However, the device won’t officially launch until early 2011, right around the time Apple is likely to unveil the next version of the iPad.

Below are some more details regarding the device’s specs. Let us know your first impressions of the Cius in the comments.
Cisco Cius: Official Specs

Tablet Capabilities:

* 802.11a/b/g/n Wi-Fi, 3G/4G data and Bluetooth 3.0 help employees stay connected on and off-campus
* HD video (720p) with Cisco TelePresence solution interoperability for lifelike video communication with the simplicity of a phone call
* Virtual desktop client enables highly secure access to cloud-based business applications
* Android operating system, with access Android marketplace applications
* Collaboration applications including Cisco Quad, Cisco Show and Share, WebEx, Presence, and IM

Tablet Highlights:

* 7” diagonal, high-resolution color screen with contact-based touch targets
* HD Soundstation supports Bluetooth and USB peripherals, 10/100/1000 wired connectivity and a handset option
* Detachable and serviceable 8-hour battery for a full day of work
* Highly secure remote connections with Cisco AnyConnect Security VPN Client
* HD audio with wideband support (tablet, HD Soundstation)

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Adobe senior business development manager Gary Cossimini had 35 minutes yesterday to show off his company’s New York Times reader at the Magazine Publishers of America technology conference, “The Technology of Magazine Content: From Augmented Reality to Tablets.”

The room was peppered with representatives from magazines, media companies and ad agencies. Some sat in white folding chairs around tables near the stage. Others huddled in small groups next to exhibition tables covered in iPads and strange tablets at the back of the conference room on West 18th Street.

The crowd had convened to see the latest trends in digital publishing technology. Mr. Cossimini was talking fast.

“It has interactive features, basically, that are designed to engage readers through common types of interaction,” he said, standing on stage. “It’s going to blossom a lot of new opportunities for advertisers.”

Mr. Cossimini was repeating the keywords of the day: interactive…features…engagement…advertisers.

Images of BMW 3-Series advertisements flashed on a screen behind him. Mr. Cossimini repeatedly returned to the phrase “geography of the mind” to describe the experience of reading a magazine or newspaper.

“I need a drink,” said a man sitting near the front, shaking his head. He was a production manager at a small publishing company.

Nearby the photo director of National Geographic finished up an email on his iPad and pulled out a pen and notebook to jot a few notes about Mr. Cossimini’s remarks. He watched. He listened. He pulled out his iPad again and read an article in the Harvard Business Review.

Earlier in the day, there was a panel on “augmented reality” technology, which involves holding a magazine up to a computer webcam.

“I don’t know if any of you know the U.S. president of Burberry — I don’t think she’s known as a squealer — but when she saw the technology, she actually squealed,” said Paul Robertson, who runs integrated marketing at InStyle.

Mr. Robertson explained the purpose of augmented reality.

“The idea is engaging, entertaining people — which InStyle is known for editorially — and then driving them to point of purchase,” he said.

Mr. Robertson said that InStyle’s marketing department introduced the use of augmented reality at the magazine.

“In an unusual turn of events, our editors followed suit,” he said. “Typically we follow the editors in terms of things that we do and create. They were so taken by this technology and by the Tinkerbell effect that they made the December cover come to life with Taylor Swift.”

Elsewhere, Esquire features editor Richard Dorment was taking a more low-key approach. “We’re not making anyone do anything,” he told The Observer. “We’re just giving them the option.”

Mr. Dorment spoke on a panel about something called QR code with David Edwards, a director at the digital ad agency R/GA.

QR code involves “two-dimensional barcodes” that readers can scan out of a magazine with their cell phones. Japanese magazines have been doing this for over a decade apparently. The idea is that if a reader sees a pair of khakis that he likes in a magazine, for example, he can scan the code and begin shopping for them on his phone.

The Observer asked Mr. Dorment what QR stood for.

“No idea,” he said.

We wanted to know if it was hard to design a magazine around a bunch of barcodes.

“Design people never gripe!” said Mr. Dorment, smiling. “They’re always pleased to do whatever.”

Design man Scott Dadich, the creative director of Wired, spoke on the last panel of the day. This month his magazine’s first iPad edition beat the print edition’s average newsstand sales.

“The greatest lesson I think that we’ve learned over at Condé Nast is the power of design in this process,” Mr. Dadich said on stage.

He showed off different fonts that the magazine was using for its iPad edition and talked about “design fidelity.”

After the panel, The Observer asked Mr. Dadich if he was worried about advertising and editorial commingling.

“I think because it’s such an early time frame that there is going to be a natural back and forth, that we’re going to spur each other on, the ad side and the edit side,” Mr. Dadich said. “There is still a clear distinction between church and state, there is no pay to play, and it’s entirely a separate organization as it is in print.”

Mr. Dadich seemed very confident about all of this. Was he scared to be designing magazines in largely uncharted territory?

“A little bit,” he said. “But as David said today, there aren’t rules yet. We’re trying to fail quickly and pick ourselves up and learn from our mistakes and, as quickly as possible, get a product that our readers are in love with and that we enjoy making and that our advertising partners feel is helpful to them as well.”

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« Adobe officially launched its digital viewer technology for developers on Tuesday. The software complements Adobe’s recently announced Creative Suite 5 collection of design and development applications.
Publishers using CS5 can build digital magazine layouts that contain the same design elements as those in periodicals found on news racks, while also containing interactive capabilities associated with online publications. « It’s safe to say that if you are already working in InDesign CS5, you’ll be well on your way to producing a beautiful digital version of your publication, » David Burkett, VP and general manager of creative solutions for Adobe, said in a statement.

Adobe plans to make its latest viewer software available on as many hardware platforms as possible, including smartphones and the emerging market for slate computers like the Apple iPad. The strategy is similar to the company’s approach with its PDF format for business document creation. The PDF viewer is widely available at no charge for multiple platforms, while Adobe sells tools for creating documents.
Wired magazine, a Conde Nast publication, built its recently released reader application for the iPad using Adobe’s latest technology. The Wired reader, available through Apple’s App Store for $4.99, lets readers watch video and slideshows, view 360-degreee images and rotate content in vertical and horizontal modes. Another feature made possible through Adobe technology is touch-based navigation.

From Information Week »

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The Wall of Chile (Muro de Chile) for the Chilean Pavilion at the 2010 Shanghai World’s Fair features a 4-meter-long (13’) and 1.2-meter-high (4’) display wall that enables visitors to access more than six hours of video and thousands of photographs from historical archives, including satellite, natural, and terrestrial images that detail Chile’s culture and character. The wall will appear at the Chilean Pavilion through October 31, 2010.

1. Product: 8 x 46” MultiTouch Cells
2. Application: The Wall of Chile by Riolab
3. Use case: Exhibition
4. Location: Chilean Pavilion, Expo 2010, Shanghaï

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UnoWhy, groupe média digital français, a lancé le 25 octobre 2009 le premier coach culinaire à écran tactile.
Facile d’utilisation, cette tablette tactile et Wi-Fi
vous permet d’accéder à des milliers de recettes et à des vidéos explicatives.
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Fantastic video on the progression of information technology, researched by Karl Fisch, Scott McLeod, and Jeff Brenman.

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Software maker Adobe has announced a new set of Flash Platform Services, a group of tools that give Flash developers an easier way to build, deploy and track their apps on the social web’s various application platforms.

Adrian Ludwig, group manager for the Flash Platform, tells Webmonkey the new Flash Platform Services will “help app developers building on Facebook and other social networks reach a larger audience.” Ludwig also promises that the new components will make it easier for developers to manage and track their apps — who’s installing them and using them, and how often, for example — thanks to a clean, simple stats-tracking package.

When social networks first started rolling out their application platforms, it seemed like anyone could release an app and the viral nature of the social network would take care of the rest. But those days are long gone. Now, releasing an app on Facebook, MySpace or other social platforms now is like tossing a needle into a haystack.

This is the conundrum Adobe is hoping to solve. Using Flash Platform Services, designers get tools to speed common development tasks and automatically create elements like “share this” buttons, e-mail links and mobile delivery options. All of the new Flash Platform Services are component-based tools, so adding them to your application is just a matter of drag-and-drop. The components themselves are ActionScript libraries, so it’s easy to customize them, though Ludwig tells Webmonkey that everything should “just work” right out of the box.

The components themselves are free, but Adobe has a few extra, enhanced capabilities available on a pay-per-use basis. See Adobe’s website for details.

Also part of the announcement is a new partnership with Gigya, the widget distribution service, which will give developers access to usage statistics pulled from Gigya and displayed in a nice looking AIR application that will available as a separate download.

While its not part of today’s announcement, in the future Adobe plans to release more Flash Platform Services including a package named “Social” which will give developers a way to build write-once, run anywhere apps that work on all the major social networks.

So far Adobe has not set a time line for the Social Service, but the distribution and statics services are available for download today. If you’d like more details on how the new components work head over to Adobe download center.