Bad

How quickly have MS scraped off Mo6 from CE and glued a new Applesk interface, so quick they have lost Copy & Paste.

You didn't think this was a new OS?

The last * new * OS commercially released by MS was Windows CE, 16 November 1996; 13 years ago, upon which WinMobile resides.

Windows 7/Server2008 is based on 1993 NT3.1, it's NT 6.xxx

Singularity is a new MS OS. But that's not even intended to be commercially released.

WinCE isn't bad apart from one size fits all for driver, Original stupidity of copying Win Desktop GUI and limited number of processes. Arguably better than iOS4 or Linux/Android. It's just that in entire history of CE/Mobile MS have wanted to have "one size fits all" GUI experience and been clueless about Gadget GUI maybe till the Zune.

So is it really a Zune with a phone, really running 1996 CE? If so the next version, the finished one might be quite good if the Mobile & Gadget division isn't closed first.

A single Market?

<<Like thsuch e Parliament's report, Kroes advocated the creation of a 'multi-territorial' licence for material. "Creating the legal Digital Single Market will lead to a wealth of options for citizens. It will strike a blow against piracy and benefit authors and artists," she said.>>

The Merkins and Sports people won't like it.

Let them lump it. Too long the FIFA, Hollywood and such have divide and conquer attitude.

Even "non-pirate" "grey" subscriptions and imports are on a massive increase (Sky Italia, Arab, Tring and Albanian satellite subs in Ireland and UK).

By all means have copyright and IP. Ditch SW patents. Copyright is more than enough.

But lets have fair prices and availability

Oh Arrr my hearties!

But...

Until there is a LTE Verizon the capacity and speed will be rubbish.

3G can dynamically share between data and voice.

CDMA/EVDO uses 1/4 size channels and separate data and voice channels, so the peak speed is 1/4 or less and also the network utilisation is less efficient.

I can see Verizon grinding slow when that get much iPhones or Smart phones that people want to eat data on. Of course it won't affect voice traffic.

Now I Know

Why I haven't bought an iPhone

It's a big market. Or someone thinks it is. All the Music and gadget shops full of iThing Accessories for serious money.

Generic 3.5mm "CE" FM transmitter = €8

iPhone iFied Belkin "iTrip" = €70

I call Marketing Spin

They want to sell more of these overpriced iSlate tablet things.

<<The company will make iPads available in all its 1,093 shops. Dunn said: "People are willing to disproportionately spend for these devices because they are becoming so important to their lives.">>

This is advertising dressed as Market Research.

Tux, cos even though I mostly use WinXP, a penguin knows Marketing Hype when he reads it :-)

I thought

Didn't they say they would Open Sauce it once they had finished tinkering?

OR did I miss that bit?

How does it relate to EBU HBB TV?

Well the exact Spec of Freeview and Freesat (D Book?) seems to be secret too.

Gerbils too.

$100Million?

In UK 23 Billion?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrum_auction#United_Kingdom

Should the Million not be Billion?

Regulation isn't supposed to raise revenue. It's meant to ensure the best use to benefit the Infrastructure and Economy, also ensure no Interference between services.

Ofcom thinks the way to do this is purely consider "efficiency" (a doubtful but partially true measure) and then make the mistake of thinking highest bidder will make most efficient use of the Spectrum. The reverse can be proved to be true as a very "Good" (benefit in Spectrum efficiency and Infrastructure quality ) likely has a much higher per user install cost.

I have no idea how this relates to making money from advertisers, or the effectiveness of advertisers other than that the application of this formula to Spectrum Regulation, in particular Auctions may maximise Revenue but is otherwise " A Bad Thing".

Is pure maximisation of Revenue or Profit today the best aim? The Banking Crisis and the Irish Celtic Tiger that was really a Ponzi scheme (Anglo Irish Bank) and Property Bubble (everything else) suggests that simply maximising today's revenue or profit might be too narrow a view.

Maybe Magic is only in Books. If it seems too good to be true, it probably is.

Re: LTE is still 3G?

No.

LTE and 3G are completely different incompatible animals despite Mobile Operator hype about their iHSPA and HSPA+ base station gear that runs over the 3G air interface. Just because a base station hardware can be reprogrammed to do LTE or WiMax on 2.6GHz (Clearwire) or 3G or LTE on 2.1GHz without hardware change at basestation doesn't make the systems remotely the same. Mobile WiMax is much more similar to LTE (assuming both are TDD or FDD versions. Mobile operators generally prefer FDD, different band for up and down links)

3G uses:

W-CDMA downlink thus suffers CDMA breathing

Four separate protocols over Air Link. GPRS, SMS, Circuit Switched Voice and IP Data

Fixed 5MHz channel (IPW is like 3G, but can use smaller channel)

LTE uses

OFDM on downlink.

Single Native IP protocol over Air Link and back to Central. Voice is using VOIP.

Various possible channel sizes up to 20MHz

You might as well claim that 3G doesn't exist as it's only a 5MHz combo version of 2.5G EVDO and 2G CDMA-1

You can't build LTE "on top of" a 2G Network.

1) GSM (UK's 2G) air interface is 200kHz channels with TDMA slots for traffic. Not remotely compatible with LTE. USA CDMA-1's 2G is 1.25MHz CDMA, also 100% incompatible with LTE air interface (There is also GSM in USA).

2) Existing UK GSM licences only allow GSM. Not 3G or LTE.

Nuts

What sort of mad web content needs Hardware Acceleration "built-into the Browser"? What is that content going to be like on Tablet., iThing, MID, single core Atom Netbook with Integrated Graphics?

Or is it the case that unless you do this on Windows 7, that Windows 7 is SLOWER than XP with same content on Same Browser on Same PC, because MS has deliberately "slugged" the traditional Windows APIs in favour of the Direct 3D etc that Aero needs?

Amazing

People in Disney wanting to view smut?

When are people going to learn.

The problem is not people neglecting to have AV software but disengaging brain and low level or user training of PCs. People will even give away their passwords in exchange for pens or chocolate.

Apart from problem that they use same user name and password everywhere. I wrote about this after the El Reg Waledac article http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/08/waledac_takedown_success/

here http://www.techtir.ie/blog/watty/waledac

Break into Market?

RIM is rising

Android is rising fastest.

Apple has peaked and falling, at 15% peak

Windows Mobile has died. MS hope Win Mobe 7 will be the Second Coming.

Nokia at over 40% world wide and tiny in North America. IF Nokia even does 1/2 as well as Android, RIM or Apple in USA, then their World Wide share will be massive.

RIM, Android, MS and Apple ONLY make Feature phones.

Nokia also make Smart phones and Basic Phones.

Apple is just "breaking in" and has stalled. MS is retrying.

Nokia is already there.

Stereotypes are bad.

An American MS guy is not automatically worse (or better) than a European (or UK, have they joined Europe yet?).

Stephen Elop is Canadian. That's nearly European :)

Also some things MS has understood and done well. But Phones isn't one of them. Still, he won't actually be designing anything.

64 bit

the intel & AMD 64 bit cpus don't address 64 bits.

An MMU is fine. 32 bit Intels did fine on NT4.0 Enterprise accessing more RAM than many 64 Bit systems have.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Address_Extension

Supported by NT4.0 and later, OS X and Linux.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86#Physical_Address_Extension_.28PAE.29

x64 Physical addressing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64#Physical_address_space_details

The Address space is really 48 bits, not 64,

The upper limit on RAM that can be used in a given x86-64 system depends on a variety of factors and can be far less than that implemented by the processor. For example, as of June 2010, there are no known motherboards for x86-64 processors that support 256 TB of RAM

OS

Ability to use up to 128 GB (Windows XP/Vista), 192 GB (Windows 7), 1 TB (Windows Server 2003), or 2 TB (Windows Server 2008) of random access memory (RAM).

Also with Intel architecture the 4 or 16 cores share the memory, meaning you need 2x to 16x as much memory. If each core has its own memory bus then memory access on a 4 core machine can be x4 faster and physical addressing can be be x4 less.

Address space on a Well designed 32 bit system isn't a problem especially if you have multiple memory interfaces on your SOC.

We need to know

"devices of 6,671 travelers from October 2008 to June 2010"

And how many Terrorists did that net?

It does indeed

It works very smoothly on my 8 y.o. 1.8GHz P4M laptop 1600x1200 GeForce 440 go 32M

But does indeed use 100% CPU. But only at load or if you "mouse over" it,

There is also always Bing.

Replacing WiMax in Laptops?

<<The acquired technology will be used in Intel Core processor-based lap- tops, and myriad of Intel Atom processor-based devices, including smartphones, netbooks, tablets and embedded computers." It will also enhance Intel‘s HSPA activities>>

Article all very interesting. But Intel has yet to prove itself in MID, tablets, PMP and phones. Laptops & Netbooks built in "Centrino" or other Intel branding WiFi + GSM/3G-HSPA/LTE.

The consumer market envisaged by Intel for WiMax built in rather than an Outdoor Fixed Wireless has not materialised and now never will.

It's Meh...

<<What this deal means is that content which can be viewed for nothing on TV, can be bought. And a 22 episode TV series will cost you more than the DVD, if you buy it one online rental at a time, a total of $22. And at the end of that you can’t watch it again, as you could with a DVD.>>

And even then, the "HD" will be poorer than DVD upscaled due to compression needed, never mind BluRay. Quality streaming on Demand (real VOD) isn't really possible on the Public Internet and not possible at all for nearly 50% of people not on fibre or cable. Their connection isn't good enough for other than Web TV quality.

It's a "me too" Streaming service for people more interested in instant access rather than waiting for Disc to come in post or going to Shop or than quality of picture.

The winning service will be one offering FREE streaming when you order the DVD/BluRay online.

For a long time to come most of the World won't have true ISP provided VOD, and only ISP provided VOD can be done economically at Broadcast quality, probably ever.

What's to say

The article says it all.

A Patent should enable someone to "make" one just from the Publish patent, but pay royalties.

Most patents are either non-novel broad brush wordfests or pointless drivel.

The point of a patent is to protect what you are producing now, to have a temporary monopoly, not to stop it happening at all, stifle innovation or make money years later as a parasite of all the people that did go out and do something.

HD Streaming?

if it's really only streaming and really HD (!) I wonder who apart from Cable (Fibre hybrid) and Fibre users will be able to use it?

(!) Of course may not be HD in sense BluRay or BBC Satellite is HD.

I can't see why I would buy a box to rent poor quality video (compared to Broadcast, DVD or BluRay). Of course people did that with VHS. But they used the VHS to Time shift and save shows too. Cheap DVD & BluRay purchase and Broadcast PVRs make this a niche product.

Nice but

Great concept well done.

But realistically another illegal Radio Transmitter using a testing loop hole for certification. Just like all the other Networking over mains.

I bet it still connects WITHOUT any mains wiring. Extension cable and switched of table lamp on a UPS will be enough aerial.

Hedging Bets

A Centrino that has WiFi and 3G/LTE rather than Mobile WiMax?

Last nail in WiMax Coffin?

http://www.techtir.ie/watty/mobile_wimax_dying

USB3? or ARM

USB3 is not significant. Intel's lightpeak may be better. for storage eSata? Networking 1 Gigabit Everything else USB2 or firewire?

Maybe people spending the money on feature/smart phones, Satnavs, PMP, MID, pads/slates etc all ARM based. Not just iThings from Apple.

Also with lower spec laptops and netbooks that were on a race to bottom on price do people with working laptops need to buy a new one anymore? It's not like 10 years ago.

Mines the one with an old Archos 605 WiFi and Nokia E65 smartphone in the pocket. Hold on while I pack my 8 year old 1.8Ghz 1600x1200 laptop.

Prior Art

Samsung SC6400 family

This idea was around even before that. I spec'd a design 3 years ago with ARM, FLASH and RAM stacked in single package. Samsung.

Apple are trolls.

Only 1600 x900 on 17."

Is this for people that need reading glasses but won't wear them? It's only about 104 dpi

My 8 y.o. laptop is 1600 x 1200 and 15.4" yet is lower resolution than my PMP and many mobile phones. It's about 133dpi

What happened to the dream of a 200 dpi or better paper like WYSIWG display?

Why is it nearly impossible to find a laptop with a display that can show an entire A4 document at readable quality? (You do need at least 1200 lines, 1080, the HDTV resolution is just too small).

Good review though :-)

Fail

A backward step.

What next? MS office that runs in a console and uses vi commands?

I want to use my experience of UI design. I don't want the size and layout of UI decided by the designers of Lightswitch.

Or does it really have a visual designer?

Hmm

The Chinese are tunnelling into eBay from below

Yes.. but

Now if anyone can figure how to make this idea work...

Intel

If the lads and lassies in Intel are serious about Services this is what they should be doing. $7 Billion would be loads spare to spend doing it well.

Rather than buying a "Close the stable door after horse bolted" Marketing company.

Badgers

The Intel execs must be eating ones with BSE. I still don't get this.

1) Any security mechanism in Silicon has nothing to do with any McAfee product.

2) It's really only Windows specific

3) The whole concept of how McAfee and other like products work is flawed.

IBM 1970s era "FUD". Psychology, not Technology?

Huh?

They paid $7.7 Billion for a brand name.

There is zero McAfee product or IP that is anything that I would build into a chip. The whole concept of AV signature scanning is broken.

Ok, if nothing changes, in 4 years they break even and 5th year and later $2Billion profit a year.

Well they *DID* say they were expanding into services and software, to make chip making the minority sport. It's on their road map. I guess this is a "Service". Not one I'd ever buy.

1Gbps

Needs 100MHz channels and perfect signal. Not likely on any existing Mobile WiMax. or possibly ever on Mobile as a reasonable "cell" based system needs 3 channels and ideally 9. Getting 300MHz spectrum is likely only in Line Of Sight part of Microwave spectrum. Thus outdoor fixed aerials and dishes.

Might be good for big dish backhauls?

p per MByte

£240 per Gigabyte is how I'd think of 2.4p per MByte,

I welcome

our new sling shot wielding small overlord.

I wish them success. They need marketing and political luck as much as a good design.

So like Google then?

People have the mistaken idea that Android is FOSS development.

The Android road map is secret.

Google alone develops a new version of Android and *then* releases it as Open Source. Google decides what item of confectionery it will be called.

So Oracle has taken a leaf out of Google's book :-)