Motorola preparing a quad-core, Android 4.0 monster?

According to multiple reports, Motorola is already testing a prototype for the tablet that will succeed the Xoom.

The device is allegedly much thinner than the Xoom and will include the same 10-inch display as its predecessor.

Additionally, the new tablet will run on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, have a 2048x1536 resolution and be powered by a quad-core Nvidia Tegra 3 processor.

Speculation is the tablet will hit in time for Christmas, but there is the possibility Motorola will release it in February, a year after the launch of the Xoom.

We will keep you updated.

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Senator Gillibrand Thinks PROTECT IP Is About The Internet Kill Switch

Last week, we wrote about how Rep. Anna Eshoo (whose district covers much of Silicon Valley) is apparently so incredibly out of touch on what PROTECT IP is about (despite it having a huge impact on the economy of her district) that she thought it was really about immigration. We were willing to chalk it up to a busy staffer sending out the wrong form letter, but there's growing evidence that our elected officials simply don't know what PROTECT IP is about at all.

David Segal from Demand Progress was kind enough to pass on that they've been watching the responses from elected officials to letters sent via their form about PROTECT IP and nearly 50% of them seem to be about things totally unrelated to PROTECT IP. Are Congressional staffers really that busy or are our elected officials just clueless?

As an example, they sent over this letter, sent in response to someone who wrote to Senator Kristen Gillibrand protesting PROTECT IP, which, you'll note, has nothing to do with PROTECT IP, but is instead about the "internet kill switch."

Thank you for writing to me with regard to legislation that would give the federal government the authority to turn off portions of the internet in the event of a major cybersecurity incident. I understand your concerns.

In the 21st Century, access to the internet has become an indispensible communication tool and a forum for vigorous public discourse. We have seen the power of the internet leveraged to promote democracy and topple repressive regimes in North Africa. While the internet has become a great tool for good, it has also provided new opportunities for criminals to exploit individuals, disrupt commerce and attack governments. For that reason, Congress and the Administration are working on various proposals to better protect the United States against cyberattacks and cybercrime. This is necessary if we are going to be vigilant against existing and emerging online threats and ensure a coordinated and coherent U.S. approach to cybersecurity. In addition, I have sponsored legislation to foster greater international cyber cooperation and ensure that the United States is working with other governments to address the threats emanating from overseas....

It goes on in that nature, but never once mentions anything having to do with PROTECT IP. It's pretty sad that our elected officials can't even be bothered to understand this bill that so many people are against.

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ESRB dreams up Klonoa: Door to Phantomile on PS3 and PSP

When we saw this news, our giant wing-like ears flapped in excitement and we exclaimed in a nonsensical language. Klonoa: Door to Phantomile, one of the PlayStation's best (and only) side-scrollers, is going to be released on PSN via PSOne Classics.

That is, of course, assuming that's why the ESRB rated the game for PS3 and PSP. It's a pretty safe assumption. If you don't want to wait for the Wind Bulleting, enemy-grabbing action to hit PS3 and PSP, Door to Phantomile is also available in a more modern form -- it was remade for Wii.

ESRB dreams up Klonoa: Door to Phantomile on PS3 and PSP originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 18 Jul 2011 16:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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1UP's Tekken Blu-ray Giveaway

1UP's Tekken Blu-ray Giveaway
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Tekken is not just an epic fighting game, it's an epic movie...

Yup, Tekken is out on Blu-ray and we've got copies to bring away! But that's not all - today's winners will also receive Dead Space: Aftermath on Blu-ray, in order to help you beef-up your video game movie collection! Here's what it takes to win:

We'll post a secret message on our homepage, right next to our Top Story area. Here's a pic:

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Portabliss: Mighty Flip Champs DX (PSP Minis)

Did you know that you can download handheld games now? That's amazingly convenient! The only inconvenient part of it is finding the right games to buy -- and that's where we come in, with our Portabliss column. Three times a week, our new Portabliss column will tell you about a downloadable game on the iPhone, iPad, Android device, DSi, 3DS, PSP, etc. Today: Mighty Flip Champs DX!

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We didn't have a periodic column about portable downloadable games when WayForward unleashed the bookish puzzle game Mighty Flip Champs upon DSiWare. WayForward graciously ported the game to PSP and released it as a Mini last week, affording us the opportunity to treat it as a new release once again and write about it here. Thanks, WayForward!

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Portabliss: Mighty Flip Champs DX (PSP Minis) originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 18 Jul 2011 20:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Japanese hardware sales, July 4 - 10: Super Mass Effect 3 Turbo Championship Edition edition

Did you guys hear the news? They're putting Vega in Mass Effect 3. Crazy, right? They must have kept this under the tightest of wraps; Joystiq's tendrils spread far and wide, and even our deepest undercover agents never picked up anything about a Capcom/BioWare partnership. What's next, BioWare vs. Capcom: Legendary Interbattle Fighter's Mix for the Citadel? The possibilities are endless! We wouldn't be surprised if this worked both ways, with Commander Shepard teaming up with Jill Valentine for-- what?

It's not that Vega?

... oh.

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Japanese hardware sales, July 4 - 10: Super Mass Effect 3 Turbo Championship Edition edition originally appeared on Joystiq on Sun, 17 Jul 2011 23:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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PSA: ExtraLives playing classic and crappy games for charity in the Mop-Up Marathon

The boys at ExtraLives.org are playing the Mop-Up Marathon, raising money for Free the Children. The Marathons have raised more than $64,000 since 2009 and Mop-Up is about $1,000 short of its $8,500 goal, streaming on Ustream. If that doesn't convince you to donate, they just quoted The Room. Twice.

PSA: ExtraLives playing classic and crappy games for charity in the Mop-Up Marathon originally appeared on Joystiq on Sun, 17 Jul 2011 21:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Wall Street Economists Have This Recovery All Wrong

My Sunday Washington Post column is out, and its titled “Note to investors: It takes longer to bounce back from a credit crisis” The online version gets a different title, Wall Street analysts and economists have this recession recovery wrong. In it, I discuss how the post WW2 recession recovery cycle is the wrong frame [...]

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Fast Draw Showdown shooting to PSN July 19

PSN is bringing the small, evenly weighted guns to PSN with Fast Draw Showdown, slinging onto Move on July 19.

The PS3 version of Showdown is revamped from the WiiWare release of the arcade FMV light gun game, including multiplayer modes, online leaderboards and every cowboy's secret weapon -- a new wardrobe. Fast Draw Showdown will cost $9.99 on PSN next week, so polish your pistols now ... although that probably won't do much good for the game, since it uses Move controllers.

Fast Draw Showdown shooting to PSN July 19 originally appeared on Joystiq on Sat, 16 Jul 2011 01:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The Joystiq Indie Pitch: Pragmatica

Indie developers are the starving artists of the video-game world, often brilliant and innovative, but also misunderstood, underfunded and more prone to writing free-form poetry on their LiveJournals. We at Joystiq believe no one deserves to starve, and many indie developers are entitled to a fridge full of tasty, fulfilling media coverage, right here. This week, we unlock HiVE's apocalyptic puzzler, Pragmatica.

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What's your game called, and what's it about?

This is Pragmatica. It's a programming-based puzzler set in a not-too-distant future, in which robots have, somewhat controversially, all but replaced humans as the world's industrial labour force. The largest and most powerful robotics firm, Pragmatica, hires you as a programmer, tasking you with writing programs to solve tasks using their expensive and highly volatile robots. Gameplay-wise, this means combine actions and conditions (SEE-WALL, TURN-RIGHT) into a program, then hitting the launch button and watching the robots execute it to complete the task, or crash and burn trying.

Continue reading The Joystiq Indie Pitch: Pragmatica

The Joystiq Indie Pitch: Pragmatica originally appeared on Joystiq on Sun, 17 Jul 2011 22:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Retailer sites show new August date for El Shaddai

El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron is officially scheduled for release July 26, 2011, but it seems Amazon and GameStop have their own schedule, both listing its release as August 16, 2011. Considering El Shaddai has been in development since 2007 and has been delayed once already, perhaps the retailers are just assuming here.

We have contacted Ignition for confirmation of El Shaddai's release, or even just a date for when it will release information about a new release date, if that's Metatron enough for you.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in!]

Retailer sites show new August date for El Shaddai originally appeared on Joystiq on Sat, 16 Jul 2011 21:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Blog Post: 200 Sessions Announced for SharePoint Conference 2011

SharePoint Conference 2011 is your only opportunity this year to see over 200 sessions focused on SharePoint 2010 and related technologies both in the cloud and on-premises. All current session content including abstracts and speakers have been posted to www.mssharepointconference.com!

The conference will be held in Anaheim, CA on October 3 ? 6.

This year?s conference will have a breadth of both technical and non-technical sessions and will have suitable topics for everyone regardless if you are new to SharePoint 2010 or working on continuing your SharePoint education.

SPC11 will provide you with the training, insight, and networking you need to develop, deploy, govern and get the most from SharePoint. You?ll also hear from Microsoft Engineers, Product Managers, MCMs and MVPs who will discuss topics such as cloud services, best practices and real world project insights.

Don?t miss your chance to attend and learn from these sessions by registering now! Conference registration is only $1,199 and seats are selling fast with only 2.5 months until the event!

Pre & Post Conference Training Opportunities

SharePoint Conference announces five ancillary conference training opportunities with limited space!  Act fast before space sells out! 

To view more information on each session below click on the training title to learn more about the session including abstracts, agendas, speakers, costs and maximum attendance.  Register now to reserve your seat!

Sunday, October 2

Enable Better Decision Making with Microsoft Business Intelligence

Learning to develop a high-end search solution with FAST Search for SharePoint 2010

Project 2010 Technical drill-down for SharePoint Partners

Thursday, October 6 (2pm-6pm)

SharePoint 2010 and Windows Azure Bootcamp: Developing SharePoint 2010 Applications that Integrate with the Cloud

Friday, October 7

SharePoint 2010 Administrators Deep Dive

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Steam Improves its Content Delivery System

If you've ever struggled to download a new game on launch day from Steam, you'll be pleased to hear that Valve has upgraded its content delivery system. This should make it easier and quicker to download new titles that are in high demand, improve download speeds worldwide, and allow for more games to be shipped through Steam.

For those who are stuck with an ISP that has a monthly bandwidth cap (you poor thing), Steam will no longer force you to download unnecessary amounts of data when a game is updated. Instead, you'll simply download whatever has been changed, rather than the entirety of the files that have been updated. Updates can now also make their way onto Steam more quickly in the first place, thanks to a simpler process for developers.

Valve's announcement revealed some upcoming features Steam will be getting through client updates, including download scheduling, bandwidth throttling, and the ability to both prioritize the order that games are downloaded in and download updates for a game while playing it (the update won't be applied until after you're done playing).

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10 Reasons State Street Is a 'Safe' Financial Stock to Own

Bret Jensen submits:

The Financial Sector has significantly underperformed the market for a long time now. JP Morgan (JPM) and Citicorp (C) reported better than expected earnings last week. So, is now the time to start to pick up bargains in the beaten down financial sector? One stock that I like here because of valuation and the consistency of earnings is State Street Corporation (STT) .

State Street Corporation, through its subsidiaries, provides various financial services and products to institutional investors worldwide. Its investment servicing business line offers services, such as custody, product-and participant-level accounting, daily pricing, and administration; master trust and master custody; recordkeeping; foreign exchange, brokerage, and other trading services; securities finance; deposit and short-term investment facilities; loans and lease financing; investment manager and alternative investment manager operations outsourcing; and performance, risk, and compliance analytics.

This business line also provides shareholder services, including mutual fund and collective investment fund shareholder accounting.

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WRUP: Goodbye to our Major Nelson

It is time for us to say goodbye to Randy Nelson, our very own snake eater. Being one of the few Joystiq writers on the west coast, he would tend the news fires at night. A lonely man. A necessary man.

With over a decade of experience, having been part of the birth of IGN and the death of a few gaming magazines, he knows the hardships of game industry media. A soldier from print, an officer in online and an editor off on the next adventure.

What's everyone playing?

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WRUP: Goodbye to our Major Nelson originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 15 Jul 2011 22:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Blog Post: Installing and Configuring Data Quality Services

 

After you’ve downloaded Denali CTP3, it’s time to install DQS!

Here you can find some important information that will help you install and configure DQS successfully.

Data Quality Services (DQS) contains three components: DQS server, DQS client, and a DQS Cleansing SSIS component. The DQS server is installed on top of the SQL Server Database Engine, and includes two databases: DQS_MAIN and DQS_PROJECTS. DQS_MAIN db contains all the DQS stored procedures, its engine and the published knowledge bases. The DQS_PROJECTS db contains all the data quality projects information. The DQS client is a standalone application that enables you to connect to a DQS server, providing you with a highly-intuitive graphical user interface to perform your data-cleansing tasks, as well as other administrative tasks related to DQS. The DQS Cleansing SSIS component enables you to integrate the DQS functionality into an SSIS data flow, for batch execution. Each of these 3 components can be installed on separate machines, or on the same one – according to your needs. Refer to the DQS Help documentation for additional details on DQS and how it can be used.

All DQS components are installed through the SQL Server Denali Setup. Watch this video to walk through the DQS installation and configuration, step by step. For more detailed information, refer to the DQS Installation Guide.

Please pay attention: in order to complete the DQS server installation, some post-installation steps must be performed. Otherwise, DQS server will not be functional. These steps are explained in the resources mentioned above.

Do you experience any issues during installation? Check this page for troubleshooting, refer to CTP3 release notes, or contact us.

 

Enjoy!

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Blog Post: The internet is affecting our memory

Interesting article which I think has some profound statements on..... ooh look, a squirrel.

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Weekend Reads

Some interesting reads for your weekend pleasure: ? Return of the Gold Standard as world order unravels (Telegraph) see also Fed Official: It’s Time For Rates To Go Up (NPR) ? As a Watchdog Starves, Wall Street Is Tossed a Bone (NYT) ? Worried About Debt Limit? The Bond Market Isn?t (Bloomberg) see also Why [...]

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Add phone capabilities to your iPad for $10 a month with Line2

Line2 has demo'd its upcoming software this week that will turn your iPad into a phone for $10 a month.

The service goes live at the end of the month and Line2 shows it off in the embedded video.

When it's live, you will be able to use Line2 to make/receive calls, manage visual voicemails and send/receive texts, as well.

Best of all, it works via 3G and Wi-Fi unlike certain Apple apps.

For more info click here: Line2

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Blog Post: Enterprise Architecture: arquitetura corporativa como instrumento de governan�a

Olá pessoal, tudo certo?

Vamos retomar o assunto de Enterprise Architecture, que já apareceu por aqui no blog diversas vezes. Veja alguns posts e artigos:

Enterprise Architecture: A arquitetura corporativa e o papel do arquiteto de TI
http://msdn.microsoft.com/pt-br/library/gg490650.aspx

Enterprise Architecture: uma visão sobre frameworks de arquitetura
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/wcamb/archive/2010/07/27/enterprise-architecture-uma-vis-227-o-sobre-frameworks-de-arquitetura.aspx

Enterprise Architecture: conhecendo as capacidades de sua plataforma de aplicações
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/wcamb/archive/2010/09/08/enterprise-architecture-conhecendo-as-capacidades-de-sua-plataforma-de-aplica-231-245-es.aspx

Um livro de leitura obrigatória sobre o assunto é o “Enterprise Architecture at Work” de Marc Lnakhorst et al., que recomendo abaixo:

Enterprise Architecture at Work: Modelling, Communication and Analysis
(The Enterprise Engineering Series)
Hardcover: 352 pages
Publisher: Springer; 2nd ed. edition (September 18, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 3642013090

Em certo momento, o autor posiciona a Arquitetura Corporativa como um instrumento de gerenciamento na corporação, atuando como elemento importante de coordenação e governança na empresa.

 

Veja o desenho da figura 14, abaixo:

Nos primeiros níveis, vemos a definição da MISSÃO da empresa. Por que a empresa existe? Qual é seu papel no mercado ou na sociedade? O que justifica a realização de seus negócios?

Na sequência, a VISÃO é colocada, permitindo uma primeira impressão sobre os objetivos gerais dentro da empresa e sua direção.

Com essas definições iniciais, montamos a ESTRATÉGIA da empresa, que deve indicar de forma clara o foco da corporação, mapeando o estado atual para o estado futuro, suas aspirações de negócio e OBJETIVOS que farão a empresa dar um novo salto dentro de sua estratégia. Como exemplo temos as definições estratégicas para os próximos 2 ou 3 anos, setando a evolução esperada para certos indicadores de negócio.

Esse conjunto de definições irá apoiar o MODELO OPERACIONAL da empresa. As empresas possuem diferentes modelos operacionais, que variam de acordo com sua indústria e ramos de atividades. De fato, o modelo operacional de uma empresa tem impacto direto sobre como a TI é implementada e conduzida, aumentando ou diminuindo sua importância estratégica para a realização dos objetivos de negócio dentro da estratégia global da empresa.

No desenho acima, vemos que na camada de AÇÕES ou implementações de TI, os vários domínios de arquitetura estão contemplados na ARQUITETURA CORPORATIVA, atuando diretamente sobre a cultura da empresa e seus integrantes (pessoas e processos).

Descendo mais um nível na pirâmide, vemos finalmente a camada de OPERAÇÕES da empresa, envolvendo Produtos, Processos, Pessoas e os Recursos de TI (infraestrutura e desenvolvimento).

Com esse mapa em mente, faça uma avaliação do impacto de seu projeto de TI para a organização. Ele irá ajudá-lo a entender quais são os objetivos de negócio que devem ser atentidos e como sua TI ou arquitetura está suportando a visão e a estratégia da empresa para os próximos anos.

Para saber mais, esse livro é Leitura Obrigatória!

Por enquanto é só! Até o próximo post :)

Waldemir.

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