IPAD, Tablet PC, and death Touchpad HP

Apple, IOS began in the genesis of an operating system for phones and digital media player. As far as the world thought then, it meant very limited mobile operating system for writing messages, phone calls, plus a little more for handling audio / video. We now know that this was part inspired by several stages, not only to impose a new OS for the PC market, but to do what no other OS has been made since the dominant growth of Microsoft Windows. That is, successfully capture a significant share of the PC market.

The second part of this plan was the introduction of Apple App Store in July 2008 that elevated the iPhone and IPod Touch into a mini-PCs and portable gaming systems. This is the third part, which is the most important part. It was the processing of the operating system IOS within the two "limited" devices. As demand for applications exploded opportunities IOS has been pushed. Apple, responded and IOS evolved.

Two years later, in April 2010, Apple introduced IPad; the fourth part of the plan.Tablet PCs, which, although still limited compared to Windows PC, had an OS that is already two years of practical consumer sophistication. This is more than half a million applications to work on it.

Tablet PCs have been around for decades with our gaining much traction. Even mighty Microsoft, which is a tablet version of Windows, for ten years before the IPAD, and could not pick up pills to nothing more than a niche product. Apple, lights on the market. Its opening month sales blew away all sales IPad Tablet PCs last year. Caught flat-leading notebook manufacturers, understanding the threat to Apple in the portable PC market, there was no other choice but to throw himself competing tablets.

Rush is the key word. Where leisure Apple three years of testing both devices and operating systems under the guise of mobile phones such as HP, Dell, RIM, Sony, Acer did not. In addition, although all these bodies are fully capable of getting chips and soldering of production rights, the OS was a different story.

Apple, do not share it with anyone else running. This meant, the leading PC manufacturers had to look elsewhere and the elections were not perfect. Most computer manufacturers passed Windows Tablet OS, which says a lot about its ability to compete in this market. Most turned to the Android from Google. HP acquired WebOS from Palm for the touch pad and use my RIM Blackberry Tablet OS for its line of Playbook. All of these operating systems are catching up in terms of performance IOS tablet.

This does not mean, IOS is perfect, ask anyone who wants true multitasking capabilities. But much further along the IOS for the refinement of the curve, and that makes the performance IPad more attractive for the average user. Mixed reviews given to first base IPad competitors illustrate the growing pains in a brutal war of pills that did not even exist a little over a year ago.

Announcement that HP has laid off the touchpad after only 49 days on the market shows just how devastating the poor reviews were for immature tablets.HP saw the writing on the wall immediately after the IPad. In anticipation that the seismic shift in the mobile PC from laptop to tablet was inevitable, HP readying themselves for a shift and WebOS purchased from Palm as the basis of its strategy pills.

Unfortunately, the first HP product was hopeless and the words came out quickly, killing the enthusiasm of release. HP shipped 200,000 units Touchpad for dealers. During these 49 days only 25 thousand have been sold to the touchpad, leaving a huge stock of unsold goods. The results were so bad, HP totally killed his tablet PC program. It's amazing what can happen in 49 days.With nowhere to go, the largest PC manufacturer in the world are now selling off their local network as a whole.

All this in less than two months. Like I said, devastating.

This should not be so, of course. Consumer Reports' September 2011 issue of seventeen Tablet PC reviews and then tops the list of the best IPad Android 3,1 tablets, Samsung Galaxy and Motorola Xoom, were not far behind. However, Motorola Xoom sales do not look better than the TouchPad, in spite of the love of many techno-boys with Android. Blackberry Playbook and did OK in the review, and can not be good enough that can develop into two races of the OS.Touchpad HP was later acquired by CU's too late for consideration this month.

All of this bodes well for strong Microsoft, which now have to wait until next year to get into the game. That's when Windows 8 is rumored to be released. Next year may be too late, even if Microsoft, a new tablet OS is better.

Down housing market by Realtors to be creative

HOLLISTON-With Realtors across the state losing confidence in the struggling real estate market, a husband-and-wife team have found a creative way to draw interest in at least one home they're trying to sell.

What Leslie and Kyle Mann, of Realtors at Hallmark Sotheby's International Realty in Hopkinton, came up with was a fashion show inside a Holliston home.

Working with Lyn Evans Potpourri Designs of Westborough for clothing, Platinum Cut & Color of Hopkinton for hair styling, the Color Studio in Wellesley for make-up and a few of her friends for models, Leslie Mann had a pool-side photo shoot to show the glamorous side of 464 Marshall St. in Holliston.

"I kept saying, 'we've got to do something special for this house, because it's so different,"' Leslie Mann said. "When you're flipping through a magazine, and you see a really fabulous car or piece of jewelry, there are always people enjoying it and showing it off. It always seemed really odd that in real estate, it's always devoid of humans. Why not show off people enjoying the space?"

Mann hired a fashion photographer from Boston, Lucie Wicker, and said she and the clothing boutique are sharing the photos to cross-promote the clothing and the home. All told it cost her $600, but selling the property currently listed at $639,000 would make the extra cost well worth it, she said.

"I felt like it just needs a little oomph in the marketing," she said. "It's a really fantastic house and we really needed something special for it."

A monthly survey of market confidence released earlier this week by the Massachusetts Association of Realtors showed agents saw the market continue to decline in July, compared to both the previous month and July 2010. The same survey also showed most Realtors expect prices will continue to decline.

The Manns' idea has inspired other local agents.

"It's ingenious," said Carolyn Chodat, the broker/owner at Classic Properties Realtors in Medway. "I give her credit for doing something creative like that."

Chodat is an "accredited staging professional," a professional designation for Realtors showing she's trained in preparing a house to look good for potential buyers. "Staging" is all about a well-placed piece of furniture, a clean look, and maximizing the potential of a space, not filling it with stuff.

"The first rule of thumb for staging a home is: staging is not decorating, staging is undecorating," she said. "We're trained to want to minimize the home and show as much space as possible without it looking barren. You want the new buyer to envision the home with their own furnishings."

Chodat said the Holliston home fashion show is different than staging, it's more like advanced marketing. But the pictures Mann's photographer took are trying to provide a good first impression for the space.

"I think staging, (that's what) 99 percent of it really is," Chodat said. "It's that first impression. When you're new on the market you need to have that good first impression."

Rob Harrington, broker/owner of the Framingham real estate agency Nexum Group, said Mann's photo shoot is less showing the space, like staging, and more showing a fun way to use the space.

"It's more to lure someone in, and sell them the lifestyle of what's going on in the pictures," Harrington said. "I think it's more intangible, but I think it's a wonderful thing for a Realtor to do something like that."

Harrington said his agency works directly with developers to sell new homes, so when he stages properties it's often with a home that's never been lived in. The extra touches added make the buyers in new developments want the model home, which has been lightly furnished, instead of an empty but identical home.

"The staging, to me, is really about the house and how it looks and how it feels," he said. "I bet we sell our model to an empty unit, three-to-one. (the empty home) is lacking the personality, and it's lacking the drama, but adding those pieces and your lifestyle, it makes a big difference."

Hewlett-Packard in the $ 7 billion pounds capture software firm UK

Hewlett-Packard has sent shock waves in the IT world by announcing his retirement from personal computers and 7 billion pounds of capture Autonomy Corporation, the largest software companies in the UK.

The autonomy of the co-founders Mike Lynch and Richard Gaunt a chance to earn £ 566m from the sale of the business that they started with a £ 2,000 loan, that will be the largest sale of a European software manufacturer and the largest UK company falls under the hammer was bought by Cadbury U.S. group Kraft in the past year for £ 11.5bn.

We offer a Hewlett-Packard in the amount of £ 25,50 share was unanimously adopted by the Authority board, which will now recommend to its shareholders.

Lynch will continue to lead the Authority and the company still retains its significant research and development headquarters in Cambridge.

HP, the world's largest maker of personal computers, today announced that a strategic review unit, which he hoped would lead to the sale or separate listing of the stock market over the next year to 18 months.

Leo Apotheker, the new CEO of HP, wants to shift business from the production of the hardware side of cloud computing - software deployment and storage of information via the Internet.

Tablet PCs, in particular IPad Apple, starting to eat into the market for laptops and Apotheker believes the consumer will be able to adapt HP business more quickly, as independent entities.

He said: "Autonomy is an opportunity to accelerate our strategic vision to strongly and profitably to a large and growing area of ​​autonomy brings HP a high value business solutions that help customers manage the information explosion.".

Autonomy specializes in "unstructured" looking for large companies, allowing them to light their own databases and search the content of letters, telephone calls and video, to find information that can be used to detect fraud and ensure legal compliance.

Like HP, he also moved to the cloud. At present, it stores data on behalf of its clients, including Coca-Cola, Nestle and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Earlier this year, the Cambridge-based company spent $ 380 buying a digital archiving business with Iron Mountain's stock company.

Autonomy said in a statement: "This is a momentous day in the history of autonomy from our founding in 1996 we have had one common vision: .. to fundamentally change the IT industry, revolutionizing the way people interact with information, HP shares this vision and provides autonomy to the platform to bring our leading technology and innovation to a truly global stage, making the transition to the next century knowledge-based economy a reality. "

The news began to leak after the London Stock Exchange closed, he took British traders by surprise.

Autonomy shares were among the top 10 fallers in the FTSE 100 on Thursday, ending the day up 8.3% to £ 14,29. HP offer represents a premium of approximately 64% to the closing price of 15.58 pounds per share on Wednesday.

Lynch was a fractious relationship with the British investment community, complaining that their American counterparts, who make up about 50% of the shareholders of autonomy, a better understanding of the potential for IT companies.

In the past two years, the value of shares has not risen much above 20 pounds.The success of the business model of autonomy was never any doubt - his ability to extract information even better than Google in the complexity and diversity of data that can make a connection between them.

Autonomy reported full year revenue for 2010 of $ 870 million, up 18% from a year earlier, while profit before tax amounted to $ 379m, compared with $ 323m in 2009.

But observers have raised questions about the management style of the company.

Last summer, Deutsche Bank analyst Marc Geall, former head of investor relations for autonomy, a report which stated: ". The structure of the management, control and management autonomy, more representative of the start-up than the big global players in the senior management team of talented, but not enough bandwidth. This can lead to paralysis of some sort of solution. "

Lynch ability to create value beyond doubt. Autonomy was a turnover of $ 1.5 million, when in was floated in 1998 at 30 pence per share. His departure from the London Stock Exchange will take a wise man, as the only other major independent software company of Great Britain.

Christine O'Donnell, "The Troublemaker"

O'Donnell lost her Senate race rebel Delaware Chris Coons by a wide margin.And her new memoir, Troublemaker: Let's do what it takes to make America Great Again, it turns out, she thinks a witch video had a lot to do with it, as it shows layer upon layer of evidence that shows that it can never win in the first place.

Troublemaker is shorter than his books, large print manipulates it to be. But despite his modest time, it's unlikely you'll be able to sit sometimes painfully boring childhood stories and endless political jargon. We chose the most delicious quotes, revelations, and themes, so you do not not have to.

She never wanted to tell you that it is not a witch.

O'Donnell does not waste time telling the backstory of "not a witch," an ad, pointing out that it in small fragments are spliced ​​between the early chapters.May be interested editor suggested that this trick as an intervention to scan the surface temperature and the story of a chapter on the early life of O'Donnell.

O'Donnell says she never wanted to burn the witch ad. When she broke her campaign manager, said: "You're going to hate it, Christine, but hear me out."She hates him, and continued to hate him even when he cheated all, but its record in multiple takes. They wrote another ad is preferred, which featured stories of her supporters to economic difficulties" I think I just made a terrible mistake, "she said .

As she chirped later, she thought, SNL parody Kristen Wiig was funny, and she also saw the positive intent in gay automatically tuned version, which became a classic YouTube. "Bright, bouncy tune," she writes, "to establish a more positive, upbeat tone." Never quite clear that she finally thought about the whole fiasco, her criticism of Fred Davis, campaign manager, just barely contained.She calls the announcement "idiotic," "ridiculous" and "not the message I wanted to convey," and turning it into a lesson to listen to the experts, instead of with her instincts. But at the end of one chapter, she reprints the script declaration with an apparent note of affection for his "real message."

She almost got a job to look at.

In the 1990s, O'Donnell blossomed like a TV expert. "I grew up in an experienced talking head on de Jour [sic]," she writes. "And it was not just that I experienced, people have told me that when I appeared on television, I came across as relaxed, representative and passionate about their faith." O'Donnell worked for Concerned Women for America, the conservative evangelical group, and appeared regularly on talk shows Sunday.

She eventually followed by three of her sisters in Los Angeles, where she hopes to expand her career in television. She was in the "development talks" with Paramount and interviews to work on View. "When I crossed the ABC News Diane Sawyer, whizzed through a thick stack of papers," she writes. "I thought it was a violation of the history of racing in the file. Then I saw Barbara. She leaned against the doorjamb, shoes kicked off, talking with the employee. She greeted me with a friendly smile and just randomly put me in peace." An interview with Walters went so well that ABC is made a contract, but eventually gave the job Lisa Ling.

She ran PR machine by Mel Gibson.

Between unsuccessful runs the Senate, was a freelance consultant O'Donnell publicity in Delaware, and was chosen to head the "grassroots" campaign to get Christians to see Mel Gibson's The Passion of Christ. For Christina, it was just like another campaign: get Christians to see the film to throw a "vote for Christ in Hollywood." O'Donnell wrote that the team "had the idea that, as Christian conservatives have been interested in material, we should ask them to buy now and commit to supporting the film ahead of its release. "They said, evangelicals," Hey, you want the best movies in Hollywood? you want spiritual meaning of history, stories that reflect your values? Well, here your chance to put your money where your mouth is. " In the Passion of Christ, anecdote, Hollywood bosses are to create the Republican Party, and the choice of O'Donnell's "hold on [my] belief and [my] vision" proved them wrong, very similar to a tea party using grass-roots enthusiasm to challenge the assumptions rooted, powerful Republican leaders.

RINOS in Delaware really mean.

It is not enough to say O'Donnell has a vague idea of ​​the creation of the Republican State of Delaware, and her experience during the campaign shows why. Of course, she was totally unproven candidate who was extremely ideas and never won a race. But she felt the Republican Party should support her in any way, especially when she won the nomination for the party to run for the Senate. They did not. When she challenged Joe Biden in 2008, Republican Rep. Mike Castle has personally visited potential donors O'Donnell and ordered them not to hold a fundraiser. At another dinner of the Republican Party, Republican Party Delaware official pointedly represented by each person in the room except O'Donnell. "It was a clear rebuke and a hell of a shame in my home state, in front of my old boss, a guy who also spoke of a future presidential candidate." This guy was Haley Barbour, who has done all right thank O'Donnell, as soon as he came on the scene

Previously, she was pro-abortion liberal

O’Donnell's mother was a lifelong Democrat who seriously disappointed withthe 7-year-old Christina, voted for Jimmy Carter. (O'Donnell had decided she wanted to marry Gerald Ford.) ​​But its policy followed her mother. In college, she said, she "thought of myself as a liberal man, leaning on the left for the day." But she tangled with a friend for an abortion, and soon found myself reading the technical medical books in the library. "It was terrible for me, as they describedthe procedure," she writes. Realizing that abortion was wrong, "shattered my world, to the point where I came in thinking, If I was wrong about abortion, what else I'm wrong?" In a very short time, she became lonely on the campus of heranti-abortion activist who receive a box of plastic fruit in the mail from abortiongroups. In his words, it was that the only issue and talking with a cute collegeRepublican volunteers, who opened it to join its efforts with the Republican Party, and soon it was evident in the excitement of the Bush / Quayle campaign

She thinks that Karl Rove convinced Bush is so liberal.

She admires the former president for having "the courage to stand up for theirbeliefs ... most of the time. But the liberal influences in his own administration, headed by Karl Rove at times, severely tarnished Bush's legacy of trueconstitutionalists, and undermined our Republican-led Congress ... It was Karl Rove's camp, who pushed for amnesty for illegal aliens, as well as deal with the Liberal Democrats of overspending and the ever-expanding regulation. "She describes the initiatives of the Bush policy as" Rove politics, "as the 43rd President is the second largest after Ronald Reagan in his ability to do something conservatives hate and will never be blamed for them.

Oh yeah, she likes to say "darn."

O'Donnell's older sister, Jenny thought the children behave better when they were allowed to send their bad behavior, so that during one session, the nurse, she let her younger brother and sisters to begin the evening, uttering curse words. "I'mnot a prude two-shoes, believe me, but nothing comes out of my mouth," saysO'Donnell. ". I guess I just need more persuasion, "but her little sister Eileen has been much more willing, screaming, shock of all!" Shit, "O'Donnell may notprude, but she seems to love the word" darn ", whose votes against Joe Bidenwas" darn respectable, "her treatment in the hands of the Delaware Republican Party was" darn offensive, "and so on.