The developer conference known as Google I/O that's going on this week at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California, is home to several traditions, one of which is now de-coding the official t-shirt given out to all attendees. As it turns out, this year's shirt is not only super-fashionable, it's also displaying a bit of actual coding language on the butt. This code runs a string of commands and rules that creates a fun little bit of digital excellence right inside the Google universe, and it's all so simple.
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SlashGear heads to Google I/O 2012 next week!
It’s less than a week from the biggest event for Google developers, Google I/O: with Android, Chrome, and more, and SlashGear will be bringing you the whole event from on-site! This event will have both SlashGear and Android Community speaking with developers as well as showing you hands-on looks at everything big approaching from the Google universe. In addition, our very own Vincent Nguyen will be working with the Google Developers Blog to present an inside look at what we’re expecting as well as what we’ve experienced at the event from his perspective – join us!
Microsoft Surface tablet event wrap-up
This week we made our way down to Los Angeles to check out Microsoft‘s big Surface tablet reveal, this their big move into the tablet space before Windows 8 and Windows RT have been formally introduced with 3rd party manufacturers. The likes of Acer, Lenovo, and HP were nowhere to be found at this event, with Microsoft speaking only for themselves here in their rare appearance in the hardware manufacturing realm. After a quick drive down memory lane from the Microsoft Mouse to the Xbox all the way forward through the original Microsoft Surface (the big table version), Microsoft brought on the fire with their first big-time tablet for Windows 8′s Windows RT and Windows 8 Pro.
Microsoft Surface tablet details revealed
This week Microsoft has revealed a tablet version of their Microsoft Surface brand, bringing on a device thats 9.3mm thin with edges beveled at 22 degrees and working with Windows 8 with full touch interactivity. This device weighs in at 1.5 pounds, is made with a magnesium case, and has a lovely PVD finish. Inside you’ll find access to Windows apps for Music, Movies, and multimedia of all kinds, and it all comes in on a 10.6-inch display.
Microsoft Surface re-introduced as a handheld tablet
This week Microsoft has re-introduced their own creation as a smaller version of itself: Microsoft Surface in the form of a handheld tablet. It was Steve Ballmer himself that came onstage at the start of this event, beginning his talk with a bit of a teaser with "cloud computing and entertainment" and ending up letting us know the big bang right from the start: "and in all that we've done, Windows is the heart and soul." Ballmer let the audience know that Windows in all powers 1 billion computers (and more, we must assume) across the earth, and that "Windows 8 re-imagines the product."
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Microsoft makes another tablet tease pre-event
Today while in wait before the Microsoft "Major Announcement" media event began, the screens up front showed no less than what we may well have called early on: tablets. The sounds of Gotye brought on bright shapes and clear 16:9 ratios in rectangles pushing up and down the screen at Milk Studios as we awaited what we've been tipped (before the event) would be either a Windows 8 Surface device or a Windows RT tablet. It's that or a new Xbox handheld, ladies and gentlemen.
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Microsoft Milk Studios event – we’re here!
It's just about time to head in to the Microsoft "Major Announcement" media event that the press have been invited to on this extremely hot and sunny summer's day. We've been hypothesizing since the end of last week when Microsoft first invited the media world to this super secretive announcement (or set of announcements), and what's come up has been everything from an Xbox software upgrade to a Microsoft Surface downgrade - in size, that is. What seems most likely thus far is a Windows 8 tablet, as it were, so stay tuned as we move forward into the fray!
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Microsoft Xbox Surface predicted back in 2010
If you've got a rather good memory and do truly believe that the engineers who create devices like the Xbox and the operating system Windows are that good, it does appear likely that Microsoft leaked today's Special Event secret back in 2010. Back then a fellow by the name of Bill Buxton, Microsoft's then Principal Researcher, spoke about how the Microsoft Surface, which had been in the works since 2007, was going to get a whole lot smaller rather quickly, or as he said it: "I believe you will see [a cost-effective Microsoft Surface in people's living rooms] in three years." This combined with the leaked "Xbox Surface" document we saw earlier makes a rather enticing case, wouldn't you say?
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Microsoft $1 billion Yammer purchase sets stage for birthday blowout
This week it's become apparent that Microsoft Corp. may well be purchasing the business social network by the name of Yammer for a hefty sum of $1 billion USD. This number of course does not seem all that grand compared to the $1 billion USD Facebook purchase of Instagram, but it does show that Microsoft could be in the market for an expansion of the many social-minded bits of software and hardware they've already got. Yammer is, on the other hand, business oriented, so perhaps this is a purchase made for the corporate customers Microsoft works with alone.
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Apple WWDC 2012 Keynote video available now
In case you somehow managed to not get enough details from our WWDC 2012 liveblog earlier today, in their usual fashion Apple has now posted the full WWDC 2012 keynote video online for your viewing pleasure. They had tons of exciting goodies to announce and we covered anything at everything this year.
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Microsoft forced to apologize for penis song
Microsoft is a global company, so sometimes the software giant has to tailor its message depending on what region it's in, but even cultural differences can't possibly describe what was going through the minds of whoever set up a recent developer event in Norway. Microsoft is now playing damage control over a bizarre and borderline offensive dance routine that was part of said event.
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Qualcomm Uplinq 2012 registration open: Join us June 27 and 28!
It’s that time of the year again, time for Qualcomm to invite developers of all kinds to their yearly main event: Uplinq 2012! This year’s event is sure to have many fabulous presentations from great speakers bringing not just big ideas to the developer world, but presentations of next-level Snapdragon technology and more from Qualcomm as well. We’ll be at these events bringing you everything you need to know on the future of Qualcomm as the event unfolds – and what’s more, we’re inviting you to join us!
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