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Intel has scored a mobile win with Samsung and will power at least one Galaxy tablet in the near future says VentureBeat. The site’s sources on Saturday confirmed our own reports from earlier this week when benchmarks of an Intel-powered Galaxy Tab appeared online. There could be several tablet variants from Samsung and others could use Samsung’s own chip. Even if Intel powers just one Android tablet made by Samsung, it would be big for the Intel Atom team. Since debuting the Atom chip five years ago, it has typically been used in low-end PCs such as netbooks. Over the past year, Intel managed to get Atom silicon inside a few smartphones, but none of those devices have gone on to be major sales hits. The chip does power Windows 8(msft) tablets as well. In this case, Samsung is one of the top Android tablet makers, giving Intel a chance to prove its Atom has the right blend of power and efficiency to compete in the growing mobile market. I noted earlier this week that Samsung could be considering the move in order to keep its Exynos chips available for higher demand devices such as the Galaxy S 4 smartphone: “So why would Samsung, which makes it own chips for smartphones and tablets, consider an Intel inside its newest Galaxy Tab? Samsung could be keeping the Exynos for its own handsets, such as the new Galaxy S 4, because it sells more handsets than tablets. The company’s tablets wouldn’t like suffer any performance hit by using Intel’s silicon either; at least not if the early benchmarks are valid.” The timing of a potential Intel Atom design win is a little surprising to me. The company will debut the next generation of Atom chips called Silvermont in the second half of this year, promising three times the computing power or five times the power efficiency of the current Atom processors. Related research and analysis from GigaOM Pro:Subscriber content. Sign up for a free trial.The future of mobile: a segment analysis by GigaOM ProMobile first-quarter 2013: analysis and outlookMobile 2012 and beyond

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More than 18 months after announcing that it was shutting down Google Buzz, Google is taking the final steps in snuffing out the platform. According to an email sent to Buzz users, as of July 17, 2013, Google will remove the posts from its public servers and archive them to users Google Drive acounts. Google Buzz — for those of you who don't remember — was Google's first attempt at a broader social strategy. In many ways, the network can be viewed as a precursor to Google+ It took elements from Twitter and Facebook, but was focused on existing within a special tab in Gmail. The idea was that users could share quick updates with their followers or frequent contacts from within the inbox. The service could also syndicate content from other services — a la FriendFeed — and conversations could take place around that content Read more...More about Google, Google Buzz, Tech, and Apps Software

For only US$0.99, the OS X Farensius app is just adorable. It adds a current weather indicator to your menu bar, and offers an optional 5-day forecast in its drop-down. It's exactly what I've been missing on my desktop. I have it set to update every five minutes, and with a tiny glance up and to the right, I can keep track of the current temperature. Farensius is one of two related apps. Its big brother, Farensius Desktop ($1.99) adds the forecast to your desktop wallpaper. For me, my bland white desktop background is a necessity -- so I'm sticking with the basic app for now. Those looking for a whimsical weather-themed backdrop, however, will enjoy this. Not everything was, unfortunately -- and if you forgive the pun, sunny. Farensius Desktop struggled with my multi-monitor set-up, insisting on placing its background only on my secondary monitor. What's more, when I tried adding custom backdrops, the app crashed several times. I had no issues with the menu-bar-only version, which is even now running on my desktop.Farensius adds weather to your Mac menu bar originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Sat, 25 May 2013 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Source | Permalink | Email this | Comments

Bob Lutz, in conjunction with China’s Wanxiang Group, is reportedly making a move for the remaining assets of Fisker Automotive, possibly in a move to increase production of Lutz’s Karma-based supercharged V-8-powered VL Destino. But Lutz and friends may not be alone in their quest for the California-based startup automaker. Reuters is reporting a group [...]

Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Vooza, “the world’s most unbelievable tech startup.” Been following the Tumblr/Yahoo deal? Notice how every company that gets acquired says the same things (we’re in it for the long haul. Nothing’s going to change. The new management “gets it.”), but then reality sets in and things get hazy? In this video, Vooza’s CEO reveals the TRUTH about what happens when you get acquired. Vooza is a video comic strip about the startup world that’s been buzzed about by David Karp, Dennis Crowley, Jason Fried, and other tech bigwigs. Join Vooza’s email list for exclusive VIP access to more Vooza.

According to The New York Times, a vintage Apple-1 computer made in 1976 has sold for a record $671,400 (including taxes and fees) to an anonymous wealthy Far East entrepreneur at a German auction. The previous high was $640,000 for a similar sale back in November at the same auction house in Cologne. The original owner of this auctioned off Apple-1 was a retired electrical engineer by the name of Fred Hatfield living in New Orleans, as he verified this to the NYT by showing a letter addressed to him from 1978 signed by Steve Jobs, which detailed an offer to exchange an Apple II computer for the older machine with an offer to send a $400 check as incentive. Hatfield says he was approached by an interested buyer earlier this year to purchase his Apple-1, which was not in working condition, for $40,000. That buyer went to California and had the Apple-1 autographed by Steve Wozniak who designed the computer. When told of the record auction sale Hatfield said “My God,” and went on to say “Best to him. He’s the one who fixed it up and figured the best way to sell it for all that money. Evidently, he’s very good at this.” As noted in the Steve Jobs biography written by Walter Isaacson, Steve Wozniak said he made history with his early computer prototype, which had its software handwritten by Wozniak himself: After a couple of months he was ready to test it. “I typed a few keys on the keyboard and I was shocked! The letters were displayed on the screen.” It was Sunday, June 29, 1975, a milestone for the personal computer. “It was the first time in history,” Wozniak later said, “anyone had typed a character on a keyboard and seen it show up on their own computer’s screen right in front of them.” The Apple-1 originally sold for $666 ($2,700 in today’s dollars). Now that’s one expensive computer. Check out the video below: [via NYT] Historic Apple 1 Sells for Record $671,400 at German Auction [VIDEO] is a post from: iPhone in Canada Blog - Canada's #1 iPhone Resource