With Microsoft as tablet rival, will HP go Android?

First a Chromebook, next an Android tablet?

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If Hewlett-Packard introduces an Android tablet, the newfound rivalry with Microsoft will be one motivating factor, according to analysts.

"I can see why they would go down this route instead of sticking with Microsoft for everything," said Ben Bajarin, a principal at Creative Strategies.

That may be putting it charitably. "[PC makers] are pissed off at Microsoft. That's the general mood," said Roger Kay, principal analyst at Endpoint Technologies, referring to Microsoft's entry into the PC/tablet market with Surface.

Surface practically precluded HP from coming out with a Windows RT tablet based on an ARM chip -- the same silicon used for Android devices -- Kay said.

In fact, HP scuttled plans last year to bring out an RT tablet and then dissed Microsoft's device publicly, calling it "slow...kludgy" and "expensive."

But that of course isn't the only reason HP would do an Android tablet. It could, for instance, try to take the lead in bringing Android tablets to large corporate customers, Bajarin said.

To some extent, Samsung is doing that in phones now, but HP, being the largest PC maker in the world, could spearhead Android for business, according to Bajarin. "They could see that as a big opportunity," he said.

And being late to the Android market isn't all bad. "All the development in Android up to this point accrues so they can claim to be on board without a whole lot of development that they have to do independently," Kay said.

This would come about two years after HP's WebOS tablet debacle. In August of 2011, the company terminated its TouchPad only a month and a half after the device's introduction.

It also ended plans for a WebOS-based phone at that time.

HP currently offers the Windows 8-based ElitePad 900 tablet and a Windows 8 hybrid tablet-laptop: the Envy x2. Both are based on Intel's power-efficient -- and relatively slow -- Atom processor.

And it already has one product based on a Google operating system. It's selling a Chromebook for $330.

HP declined to comment.

Remember the WebOS-based HP TouchPad? This time HP will adopt Android. The company already has a Windows 8 tablet.

(Credit: Hewlett-Packard)

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What's China doing in Greenland?

China?s drive to develop Greenland?s rare earths may be driven more by its economic than geopolitical interests, Rogers writes.

By Will Rogers,?Guest blogger / February 15, 2013

Bergs calved from Helheim glacier float in Sermilik Fjord on the south-eastern coast of Greenland. If China does manage to acquire the exclusive rights to develop Greenland?s rare earths, don?t expect the geopolitical balance to go out of whack quite that easy, Rogers writes.

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Western policymakers are becoming increasingly anxious about China?s foothold into Greenland, particularly its desire to produce the semi-autonomous island?s rare earth metals ? the materials used in high-end electronics, from smart phones and smart bombs to clean energy technologies, including wind turbines and advanced batteries. But policymakers can rest assured that there is more to China?s foray into Greenland than meets the eye ? and not as much cause for concern.

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A Thawing Frontier

Greenland?s icy frontier is transforming before our eyes. Climate change is contributing to a hastened retreat of the island?s massive ice sheet and ushering in new opportunities for the 57,000 people living in the northern hinterlands.

The island?s extractive industries are poised to be the biggest winner, as the thawed ice reveals new deposits of raw materials, everything from iron ore to aluminum.?(Read More:?Rocking the Boat in the Energy Rich South China Sea)

Rare earths are the big prize. The small town of Narsaq sits near?one of the world?s largest deposits of rare earths. According to Greenland Minerals and Energy Ltd, one of the island?s leading mineral development companies, that deposit could contain about?10.3 million metric tons of rare earth metals, equivalent to about 10 percent of the known global reserves (which today total?about 110 million metric tons, according to the U.S. Geological Survey).?

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Goodbye, Windows Live Messenger. Hello, Skype.

Microsoft will soon begin shuttling its Windows Live Messenger users to Skype.?

By Matthew Shaer / February 15, 2013

Microsoft is merging its Skype and Messenger services.

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Back in October of 2011, Microsoft completed its $8.5 billion acquisition of Skype, the popular Internet phone and video chat company. Now, more than a year later, Microsoft has begun funneling all Windows Live Messenger users onto the Skype platform. Microsoft is billing the whole thing as an upgrade, but it's not exactly optional ? where once you communicated with pals via Live Messenger, beginning April 8, everyone will do so via Skype.?

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"The process will take a few weeks to complete," Parri Munsell of Microsoft wrote in a blog post. "We?ll start the upgrades with our English language clients, and finish up with Brazilian Portuguese on April 30 or later."

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As TechCrunch notes, the change-up is restricted to desktop clients, so if you're a mobile user, and you're still smitten with the Windows Live Messenger experience, Microsoft isn't going to cut you off just yet. But there seems to be little reason to avoid making the switch: It's Skype that's going to be continually refined and improved in coming years, not Live Messenger, which will basically be a dinosaur starting on April 8.?

In addition, Skype already offers some features that Live Messenger does not, including Facebook-integrated video calling and instant messaging.?

It's worth noting that back in 2011, many analysts were?extremely wary?of Microsoft's decision to pay such a hefty price for Skype, which was actually losing money at the time. But Microsoft was clearly less concerned with profitability than with enhancing products such as Windows and the Windows Phone mobile operating system.?

Over at the Verge, Tom Warren sees the Live-Messenger-to-Skype transition as a step in the right direction for Microsoft.?"If this first sign of integration helps move Microsoft towards Skype in every product to compete against services like WhatsApp, iMessage, Google Talk, and others," Warren writes today, "then it will benefit all who rely on Microsoft's ecosystem of software and services in the long run."

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A player in debt issue? Harlem Shake

If you were waiting for the political world to glom onto the ?Harlem Shake? online dancing phenomenon, your wait is over.

Alice Rivlin, the former director of the Congressional Budget Office, and David Walker, the former Comptroller General of the United States, are getting their shake on in a new video for The Can Kicks Back campaign.

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The video begins innocently enough, with Rivlin and Walker telling a conference room full of twenty somethings that ?it?s time to shake things up? and ?there?s no dancing around the fact that more needs to be done? (get it?).

?The Congressional Budget Office?s new report shows that our national debt will hit 77 percent of the gross domestic product by 2023,? says Rivlin. ?We can?t grow our economy and have a prosperous America with debt growing that fast.?

?And you know that will impact young people the most,? Walker says.

Then things get crazy.

True to ?Harlem Shakes? form, the conference room ? including Rivlin and Walker ? bust into body-wriggling dancing.

The Internet meme, which has exploded online this month, begins with one person dancing with those around him or her seemingly unaware. Later, the entire room erupts into dance.

The Can Kicks Back campaign was launched late last year and is a ?millennial-driven campaign to fix the national debt and reclaim our American Dream,? according to its website.

This isn?t the group?s first foray into viral videos ? this was the group that brought us former Wyoming Sen. Alan Simpson dancing ?Gangham style?.

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South Africa vs Pakistan 2nd Test Match Day 3 Live Streaming

by rahus | February 16, 2013 at 01:19 am

The genius of Saeed Ajmal came to the fore for the first time in the series, as the Pakistan spinner single-handedly put South Africa on the back foot on day two of the second test at Newlands on Friday.

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South Africa went to stumps on 139-5 in response to Pakistan's 338 all out, with Ajmal profiting from a Decision Review System controversy in the process of claiming all five Proteas wickets.

Ajmal's threat was nullified by a seam-friendly pitch in the first test at the Wanderers, but a healthy breeze and a dry surface at Newlands assisted both drift and turn as he recorded figures of 5-41 from 25 bewitching overs.

From the moment that Ajmal was introduced in just the 12th over of the innings, South Africa's batsmen never looked comfortable against the offspinner as they struggled to pick him.

"We know he's a quality bowler, and obviously the wicket has assisted him because there's been a bit of purchase and it's a little bit drier than we thought it would be," South Africa's assistant coach Russell Domingo said.

"Maybe we've been a bit tentative against him. He hasn't given us many scoring opportunities so maybe we need to look at playing a little bit more positively against him."

Ajmal dismissed openers Graeme Smith and Alviro Petersen in the second session, before inducing a collapse midway through the third that claimed Hashim Amla, Jacques Kallis and Faf du Plessis.

Smith, Amla and Kallis were all trapped lbw, while Petersen and du Plessis were caught at short leg and slip respectively.

"The home team in the first test were not under much pressure at all," Pakistan coach Dav Whatmore said. "Here they're confronted with a total of 300-plus on the board on a wicket that's totally different to the one in the first test and it's become harder."

Ajmal's haul was not without debate, however, with umpire Steve Davis at the center of a contentious decision to give Kallis out.

Davis, who had already had two other calls overturned by the DRS, appeared to give Kallis out caught before the batsman referred the decision upstairs.

HotSpot failed to find an edge, but ball-tracking technology suggested the ball would have struck the outside of leg stump.

Kallis was therefore given out lbw on 'umpire's call,' despite the ICC's DRS rules stating that decisions over a different mode of dismissal should be "conducted as if the batsman has been given not out."

Kallis sought clarity from Davis before he was eventually forced to leave the field, but while the incident left a sour taste in South African mouths, it took little away from Ajmal's superb effort, which saw him bowl all his overs unchanged.

It more than matched that of Vernon Philander, who had claimed the ninth five-wicket haul of his 15-test career in the morning session as the Proteas clinched the five wickets required to close out the Pakistan innings before lunch.

Philander took three wickets in three overs at the start of the day, including centurion Asad Shafiq for his overnight score of 111, and finished with figures of 5-59.

Left-arm spinner Robin Peterson claimed the final two wickets to wrap up the innings, but not before Tanvir Ahmed and Ajmal had put on 64 runs for the ninth wicket.

"Certainly it was very important that we got as many runs as possible in the first innings, because we feel that the wicket might be a bit harder to bat on as the days go," Whatmore said.

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Pat Brady?s Gay Marriage Crusade and the Daily Herald?s Bias Against GOP

-By Warner Todd Huston

Once in a while you see one of the Old Media?s little anti-conservative tricks that just screams to be pointed out and in a story about Illinois GOP Chair Pat Brady?s apostasy on gay marriage we see one of those tricks screaming out loud and clear.

The story focuses on Chairman Brady?s personal crusade to upset centuries of man/woman marriage traditions only to replace them with an anything-goes marriage policy. Chairman Brady has stepped aside from his role as Chairman of the Party, decided not to abide by his own party?s platform, and entered into a campaign to legalize gay marriage in Illinois.

I don?t begrudge the chairman his personal opinion, of course. I also appreciate that he is going to pains to note that he is doing this outside his role as GOP chairman?though I am not sure how one can easily separate the roles. I mean, when a party chairman calls you on the phone, regardless of what he is saying you are still talking to the party chairman!

Regardless, Brady says he feels that the GOP is ?on the wrong side of history? on the issue of eliminating traditional marriage. This, to me, is not a logical position to take. ?History? is not always right. ?History? once supported keeping women from voting. That changed. That was good. ?History? has also said that ?social issues? are more important to teach our children in school than reading, writing, and arithmetic. One change was good. The other not so much, but BOTH were ?on the side of history? and the times. It seems that ?history? is sometimes on the wrong side of? well, of history.

You can give a million examples from all over the world where ?history? was both wrong and right. Being ?on the side of history? is no panacea to morality. It is the issue that matters, not the measure of public opinion.

Anyway, whatever. Mr. Brady has his opinion and it is one that runs contrary to conservative principles.

That all being said, the Old Media is desperate to use Mr. Brady as a way to attack Republicans and a recent piece written by the Daily Herald?s Mike Riopell reveals that attempt.

Riopell?s piece notes that Brady launched his little anti-conservative campaign to undermine traditional families but noted that for all his phone calls and cajoling he only got one vote. So, what does this ONE vote mean to the Daily Herald?s Mike Riopell?

Check out his penultimate paragraph (my bold):

The flap over Brady?s views on same-sex marriage emphasizes a divide in the GOP over some social issues, but he points out Democrats weren?t united on the issue, either

?Emphasizes a divide?? Let?s review, shall we? One guy (Pat Brady) went on a personal campaign to tear down traditional marriage and after all the efforts he got one vote to go his way (Freshman GOP senator Jason Barickman).

One guy?one opinion?one vote.

How is it a ?divide? when 99.9% of the party and all its elected senators but one ignored Brady?s advice?

Obviously there is no divide, at least not as evinced in this vote What we are seeing here is Mike Riopell?s attempt to create a divide where none really exists. And that, my friends, is a typical, Old Media rhetorical trick to manufacture a reality to replace the truth.

Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago-based freelance writer, has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and is featured on many websites such as Andrew Breitbart's BigGovernment.com and BigJournalism.com, RightWingNews.com, CanadaFreePress.com, RightPundits.com, StoptheACLU.com, Human Events Magazine, among many, many others. Additionally, he has been a frequent guest on talk-radio programs to discuss his opinion editorials and current events. Warner is also the editor of the Midwest Editor for RedCounty.com. He has also written for several history magazines and appears in the new book "Americans on Politics, Policy and Pop Culture" which can be purchased on amazon.com. He is also the owner and operator of PubliusForum.com. Feel free to contact him with any comments or questions, EMAIL Warner Todd Huston: igcolonel .at. hotmail.com "The only end of writing is to enable the reader better to enjoy life, or better to endure it." --Samuel Johnson

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