Bhavit Sharma

Aerosoft IT News
1)Intelligent Decisions, Inc. Announces New Agile Technology Solution
ASHBURN, Va., March 8, 2011 — /PRNewswire/ -- Intelligent Decisions, Inc. (ID), a premier global technology solutions provider specializing in Information Technology capabilities, announced it has partnered with Horne International to offer a suite of Agile technology solutions developed by ThoughtWorks Studios to the Federal Government. Through this relationship, ID will help federal customers adopt Agile processes enabled by ThoughtWorks Studios, including its Mingle® agile project management solution and ThoughtWorks Studios' Agile Workshops, Training and Coaching services.
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This suite of products and services, combined with professional services from Intelligent Decisions, will assist the Federal Government with quickly and efficiently implementing an Agile methodology and immediately benefiting from its result oriented focus. The products and services will be available on ID's GSA Schedule (GS-35F-4153D) and SEWP IV Contract (NNG07DA28B).
Each year more than $4 billion in mission critical, IT development projects with Line of Business impact result in greater than a 50 percent failure rate across the Federal Government. Agile methodologies were pioneered for these types of software development projects and have proven a higher success rate, on time delivery and lower project cost than traditional waterfall SDLC models.
"Built on our partnership with Horne International, the ThoughtWorks Studios' solutions will enable us to bring the value of Agile methodologies to the Federal Government," Harry Martin, President and CEO of Intelligent Decisions said. "By leveraging our experience in the Federal space, Intelligent Decisions is uniquely positioned to help Federal Agencies accelerate the benefits of adopting Agile approaches resulting in reduced time and cost, and unprecedented improvements in quality."
About Intelligent Decisions:
Headquartered in Ashburn, VA, Intelligent Decisions (ID), a premier global systems integrator, provides a broad range of innovative, IT professional services, software, hardware and manufacturing solutions to Federal, State and Local governments. Ranked on the VARBusiness 500, Inc. 5000, CRN's Fast Growth 100 and Washingtonian's Best Places to Work, ID offers best-value pricing and helps clients meet their strategic goals and mission objectives. For more information, visit http://www.intelligent.net/ or call toll-free 800-929-8331.
About Horne International:
Horne International provides engineering services for a sustainable infrastructure, with an emphasis on security, energy, and the environment. The company is a trusted partner for its customers in the defense, environment and energy, homeland security and transportation sectors. For more information, please visit http://www.horne.com/. For more information about this press release, please call 703-652-1049.
About Thought works Studios:
ThoughtWorks Studios is a global leader in Agile ALM products and training. A division of ThoughtWorks, Inc.®, the pioneer in Agile development and best-practices, it offers the tools, coaching and experience to help companies realize the full potential of Agile development in the enterprise. Its products, Mingle (project management), Twist (automated testing) and Go (Agile release management), help organizations manage all aspects of the software development lifecycle – from requirements definition and portfolio management to test automation, quality assurance and release management. The company's Agile Workshops provide in-depth training that covers all facets of Agile ALM best practices. Customers include 3M, Barclays, BBC, eBay, Honeywell, McGraw-Hill, Rackspace and Vodafone. ThoughtWorks Studios is headquartered in San Francisco and Bangalore, with offices in London and select cities in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. For more information, please visit http://www.thoughtworks-studios.com/.
Forward-Looking Statements
This news release contains forward-looking statements as defined by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements include statements concerning plans, objectives, goals, strategies, future events or performance and underlying assumptions and other statements, which are other than statements of historical facts. These statements are subject to uncertainties and risks including, but not limited to, risks set forth in documents filed by the company from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission. All such forward-looking statements, whether written or oral, and whether made by, or on behalf of, the Company, are expressly qualified by these cautionary statements and any other cautionary statements which may accompany the forward-looking statements. In addition, the Company disclaims any obligation to update any forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof.
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2)Stocks 52-Week Lows: HTCH, CNIT, ANW, CSCO, JAG
Several stocks recorded a new 52-week low despite the positive movement of the market. Some notable stocks are discussed here.
Hutchinson Technology Inc (NASDAQ: HTCH: 2.78, -0.02) slipped to a new 52-week low of $2.74 amid reports that the company intends to reduce its workforce in the US by 30 to 40 percent. The trading volume was 746 thousand shares against its average volume of 262 thousand shares.
China Information Technology (NASDAQ: CNIT: 4.14, -0.11) recorded a new all-time low of $4.35 as the company reported a decline in its Q4 profit to $8.16 million from $8.81 million it posted a year earlier. The stock's trading volume was 647 thousand shares compared to its average volume of 233 thousand shares.
Aegean Marine Petroleum Network (NYSE: ANW: 7.79, -0.21) hit a new all-time low of $7.71 today with a trading volume of 297 thousand shares. The stock's average trading volume was 640 thousand shares. Recently, the company had posted a loss of $12 million in its Q4.
Cisco Systems Inc (NASDAQ: CSCO: 18.095, -0.095) recorded a new all-time low of $18.02 amid reports that the company plans to slash the prices of its umi high-definition video conferencing system, just months after it was launched. The stock's trading volume slipped to 34 million shares from its average volume of 105 million shares. Jaguar Mining Inc (NYSE: JAG: 4.865, 0.025) hit a new all-time low of $4.73 today with a trading volume of 1.09 million shares. The average trading volume was 1.4 million shares. CEO Daniel Titcomb states that the company has targeted production of nearly 200,000 ounces of gold in 2011.

3)IT fails to curb anti-social behaviour
Information technology failures are a key reason why efforts to stamp out anti-social behaviour have failed for at least a decade. The failure to launch a national database on time, revealed by Computer Weekly last week, suggests the problems persist.
Anti-social behaviour (ASB) is one of the most politically contentious social issues facing the UK. Widely regarded, sometimes incorrectly, as a precursor and indicator of crime, dealing with it effectively is a key factor in public confidence in the police.
Official figures show 3.6 million reports of ASB were made in 2008/09. By comparison people reported 4.6 million crimes in the same period.
Cardiff University has found that those likely to suffer the greatest harm from ASB incidents were repeat victims and those with a long term illness, disability or infirmity.

A 2010 Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) investigation into how the police treat ASB found severe failings in definition, recording, analysis and response. These pointed to a failure of the information systems that the police used.
Denis O'Connor, HM Chief Inspector of Constabulary, said in March 2010 all forces had prioritised ASB. This was up from January 2010 when 20 forces cited ASB as a priority.
Despite that, only 22 out of the 43 police forces in England and Wales had IT systems that helped them to identify and prioritise repeat calls when the report was made, O'Connor said.
Just 16 forces could identify individuals' vulnerability effectively, he said. This fell to only 13 that could identify effectively those most at risk at the time the call was made.
"This leads to uncertainty of just what priority ASB should or could be given by police forces," he said. "It takes little imagination to understand the potential impact of limited IT systems and of decisions to 'grade out' calls."

Shortly after O'Connor's report, the HMIC commissioned Martin Innes, director of the Universities Police Science Institute (UPSI) was in Cardiff to help develop a new ASB response framework for police.
Innes found that South Wales had higher reports for both actual and perceived ASB than average, according to an HMIC report, Stop the rot, in September 2010.
Meanwhile, South Wales police had responded by starting development on what documents describe as a national database to record ASB incidents. The database was due to go live last September, but reportedly failed penetration tests designed to deny access to unauthorised users.
South Wales police have confirmed the existence of the database but have so far declined to reply to questions on its origin, development and operation.
However, the research suggests that police are anxious to collect data about repeat incidents, especially where vulnerable people are harassed, and to have that flagged during the call to report the incident.
According to HMIC, reliable analysis of data was hampered by inconsistent definitions of what constituted ASB, a repeat victim and a vulnerable victim. "We found five different definitions of ASB being used and many differing definitions for 'repeat victim', ranging from two reports in 12 months, to four reports in a month," it said.
Although the existence of the database is described in official documents, spokesmen for the Home Office, the Association of Chief Police Officers, the National Police Improvement Agency and others have expressed their lack of awareness. Unconfirmed reports have surfaced that suggest there could be up to eight similar databases.
A new study, Too many cooks, into saving public money by developing IT systems in one place and copying it to other jurisdictions found the approach potentially unhelpful.
Socitim, the local authorities' IT managers' group, which looked at 13 such projects, said better understanding of the value of information and how it should be managed was essential to avoid waste.
"Despite the fact that information was not a primary interest the evaluation studies from almost every one of them raise serious issues about information availability, quality, sharing and management," it found.
The same seems true of the ASB database. Safer South Wales, a police/community coordination group, expected to hear a progress report on the ASB database on 13 September 2010, three days after the original go live date. The meeting was to cover "the emerging policy principles and the outstanding challenges (including data recording and exchange)".
What lesson can be drawn from this project so far?
Anti-social behaviour is a raw nerve with the public. That makes transparency a primary factor in whether the ASB database will enjoy public support, firstly to finance it, and secondly to run it.
To identify repeat victims accurately, the database will store personal details of many vulnerable people as well as those of many who are unlikely to be convicted of an offence. Securing this information against unauthorised use must be a primary goal.
Bearing in mind that many of the people whose details are recorded are likely to be young (idle teenagers are a frequent object of ASB complaints), it would be wrong for such a record to follow the individual into adulthood, especially if there was no conviction.
The Information Commissioner's Office has eight principles that should guide the development of all databases that contain personal data. The ASB database should follow them scrupulously, both in letter and spirit.

4)Walking in the information footprints of others
It can be argued that technologies define their times- and that, by extension, big thoughts use the language of technologies to both unearth and define the metaphors of their times. Descartes, Hobbes and Newton all used the vocabulary of mechanical engineering to describe the self, the body politic and the universe. Indeed, the phrases “ghost in the machine”, and “things working like clockwork” are still used and understood today. In our times, scientists like Richard Dawkins insist that we describe the genome as a collection of “bits of information”, and the economist Niall Ferguson recently framed cross-cultural political debate by speaking of “killer apps” that allow non-Western cultures to “download civilisational software.”
It seems, then, that the vocabulary of information technology and data processing is increasingly used to describe the world we currently live in.
We all probably use this language ourselves and are increasingly aware of how much information and data we have to wade through and the means at our disposal to do so - from finding bus times to looking for football scores via websites, apps, tweets, and so on.
But are we also aware of how much information we create ourselves?
To clarify, let me speak of our “information footprint”. With all our tweeting and Facebooking, Googling, email and texting, we are creating a mass of information the likes of which has never been seen before. The footprints are only getting bigger and bigger; more and more global.
All of this information has a value, and there are countless projects underway to scrutinise these information footprints; to gather, scrape, compile, aggregate, cross-reference and benchmark this information - and from there to repackage it and sell it on to those who are willing to pay for it. The buyers in this scenario are mostly large corporations looking for consumer feedback and information to enhance and develop old and new products and services, adjust pricing and so on.
I have been in the business of gathering data for over a decade and have seen that information that was once hard to come by - literally begged and bribed out of people - is now being freely volunteered thanks to new technology platforms and a new understanding of what privacy means. People’s chit-chatting has moved onto the social web and with that become more open and documented: it can be data-processed, cross-tabulated, integrated, pattern-analysed, et cetera. All of this can sound “creepy” – and indeed, speaking of Google’s stance on these matters, ex-CEO Eric Schmidt claimed six months ago that “Google policy is to get right up to the creepy line and not cross it.”
It is equally clear, however, that the benefits and convenience, and even the revolutionary political potential of these information platforms cannot be overlooked: from keeping in touch with friends over Facebook, to using Twitter as a documentation tool for shining a light on old media coverage black-spots: the “creepy” is contrasted with the “liberating”. In short, there is a risk/reward binary at play here.
An information gathering technique particularly close to my heart is “crowd-sourcing”. Put simply, information crowd-sourcing encourages mass-contribution to collect data from the web, so the “wisdom” of this crowd can be expressed and measured.
When done right, information crowd-sourcing should include a list of key attributes: it should be a rewarding, open and transparent exercise, only minimally edited; it should provide a robust, user-friendly platform, which helps lend a voice to its data contributors. In this way, a pool of information is created which is actually useful, meaningful and interesting to everyone involved – both the contributors and those who consume the data. It should lead to a win-win situation for all.
In terms of consuming data, there are encouraging signs that transparency and free access to information are growing trends. In 2009, Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the web, was put in charge of data.gov.uk, a project tasked with making government data more transparent and accessible on the web. This constitutes a shift in thinking and of expectation: the default position now is that data "should be in the public domain unless there is a good reason not to - not the other way around." Some of this government data has already been processed, visualized and published - perhaps most notably by the Guardian's datastore.
I hope this trend of transparency and free access continues and extends to the collection of data. I look forward to seeing more good crowd-sourcing projects in future that collect and analyze and display interesting, meaningful data so that we can all benefit from the information footprints we create.

Software News
1)Google Chrome Plugs 25 More Flaws Ahead of Pwn2Own
Google patched 25 new flaws ahead of its stable Chrome 10 release and ahead of the Pwn2Own hacking contest in Vancouver, British Columbia March 9.
Google sewed up 23 flaws in its Chrome Web browser March 8, one day before the Pwn2Own hacking contest opens at the CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver, British Columbia.
The search engine paid between $500 to $2,000 to developers who detected the flaws, ranging from low to high severtity ratings.
Google rewarded some lower-severity issues for being "particularly interesting or clever," and paid out $1500 and $2000 for bug reports where the reporter worked with Chromium developers to patch the holes.
The plugs come one more than a week after Google patched 19 security holes to prepare for Pwn2Own.
Google in January launched its Chromium Security Rewards program, a controlled, crowdsourced approach to letting developers earn money by helping Google squash bugs in the open source operating system. The program has since paid more than $100,000 in rewards payments.
For today's Pwn2Own hacking contest at CanSecWest, Chrome, Apple's Safari 5, Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 and Mozilla's Firefox 3.6 will all be exposed to hacking.
Google will pay the first researcher to hack Chrome $20,000. If no one cracks Chrome today Google will pay $10,000 for a hack on Thursday or Friday. Pwn2Own sponsor HP TippingPoint will pay another $10,000.
"We are excited that the Pwn2Own contest will bring some of the top minds in the security community together to help improve products like Google Chrome," a Google spokesperson told eWEEK. "Chrome was built with security in mind from the beginning and we believe that many of the security approaches we brought to Chrome help set it apart."
The Chrome patches are well-timed, coming just before the stable release of Chrome 10.0.648.127 on Windows, Mac and Linux.
Chrome 10 features more speed, courtesy of its refreshed V8 "Crankshaft" engine, settings pages that open in a tab, sandboxed Adobe Flash on Windows, and improved security with malware reporting and the default disabling of outdated plugins.
Chrome detects when a plug-in is out of date and blocks it with an infobar, which guides the user towards updating their plug-in with the latest fixes.

2)Google expands Instant Previews search results to mobile
Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) rolled out its Instant Previews visual search results tool to mobile devices running the Android (2.2+) and iOS (4.0+) operating systems, enabling users to more efficiently find desired information by comparing webpage snapshots. According to Google, Instant Previews helps consumers more quickly identify the type of data they're after without navigating back and forth between search results and websites, offering side-by-side comparison views of each webpage in a list of search results. In instances where a mobile-optimized version of a website is available, Instant Previews will present the mobile page.
Instant Previews follows on the heels of Instant, a predictive search tool that anticipates the most likely outcome of a query based on what is already typed and streams real-time results based on the virtual forecast. Google extended Instant to Android and iOS in November 2010.
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Last fall, Google reported that mobile search queries had increased 500 percent over the past two years, with the digital services giant now on track to generate more than $1 billion in annual revenue from its mobile search and display advertising initiatives. Mobile services now account for almost 5 percent of paid search spending in the U.S., and are on pace to represent 10 percent of the market by the end of 2011 according to new data issued by banking and investment firm Macquarie Group. At the current rate of growth, the U.S. mobile paid search segment is on track to end the year at an overall value of $1.1 billion--Macquarie notes that Google alone rakes in almost 97 percent of U.S. mobile search spending, with Yahoo and Microsoft's (NASDAQ:MSFT) Bing dividing the remaining 3.2 percent.

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3)South Africa: Google to Help digitise Madiba and Tutu Archives
Google has today announced a $1,25 million (ZAR 8,6 million rand) grant to the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory, housed at the Nelson Mandela Foundation, that will help to preserve and give unprecedented digital access to thousands of archival documents, photographs, and audio-visual materials about the life and times of Nelson Mandela.

Based in Johannesburg, the Nelson Mandela Foundation Centre of Memory is committed to documenting records about the life of one of the world's greatest statesmen. Its objective is to use his legacy to foster meaningful dialogue and debate to promote social justice.
Google's grant will assist in expanding the online Mandela archive and make it available to global audiences, scholars and researchers in the future. In addition to significant audio-visual materials, the online multimedia archive will include Mr Mandela's letters and correspondence with family, comrades and friends; prison diaries; and notes he made while leading the negotiations that led to the end of apartheid in South Africa.
"We are delighted that Google has come on board to help ensure that our Mandela Portal becomes a world class source of accurate and reliable information about Madiba," said Verne Harris, head of the Centre of Memory.

A grant of the same size has also been made to the Desmond Tutu Peace Centre in Cape Town, for the documentation and digitisation of Desmond Tutu's archives, and an interactive digital learning centre.
Commenting on the initiatives, Luke Mckend, Country Manager for Google South Africa said, "Google wants to help bring the world's historical heritage online, and the Internet offers new ways to preserve and share this information.

"Our grants to the Nelson Mandela Centre and to the Desmond Tutu Peace Centre will facilitate new digital archives for South Africa's past, giving the global public an unprecedented opportunity to engage with the history of some of the most extraordinary leaders of our time. We are also delighted to be announcing additional grants which will help many more people across South Africa and Africa access the internet and benefit from access to information".
Google today also announced three other grants of between $500,000 and $1,250,000, also made through the Google Inc. Charitable Giving Fund of Tides Foundation, to the Tertiary Education and Research Network of South Africa (TENET)($750,000 for continued work to assist South African universities with Internet and information technology services), the Nigeria ICT Forum ($500,000 to support efforts in improving access to Internet infrastructure in tertiary education institutions in Nigeria), and the Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC) at the University of Oregon ($1,250,000 to enable more people in numerous African countries to participate in and contribute to the global Internet).

4)Motorola Xoom (Wi-Fi + 3G)
All eyes are on the Motorola Xoom tablet, and for good reason: It’s the first device in an expected multitude to ship with Google’s tablet-optimized Android 3.0 (Honeycomb). The Xoom has a lot of features to like, and a lot to set it apart from the ever-growing crowd of tablets; but it also has some drawbacks that temper my enthusiasm about it.
One drawback is its price: $800 with no contract on Verizon, and $600 with a two-year contract (prices as of February 23, 2011). More critically, I experienced some issues with the display and image rendering during my hands-on evaluation of the Xoom.
Using the Xoom confirmed my earlier impressions of Android 3.0: The OS is vastly superior to its predecessor and is so different to use that it’s practically unrecognizable as a close relative of the Android widely deployed today. The software’s tablet optimization was evident in the home screens, the widgets, the music player, the browser, the e-mail, and even the YouTube player. Missing, however, was the Adobe Flash 10.2 player, which is coming soon but wasn’t available in time for this story.
The Hardware: Style and class
The Xoom zooms to the top of the tablet class in overall style and design. The build quality is solid, with volume and power buttons that are easy to press and a sturdily constructed SIM tray that doubles as the MicroSD Card slot cover. It has a soft, rubberized feel along the top, and black metal on the bottom when held in horizontal mode. It also has its buttons and other elements configured for that orientation.
Clearly, the device was designed with landscape orientation in mind: In that position, you hold it with two hands, and the front-facing 2-megapixel camera sits at the top middle of the display, just as the Webcam on a laptop typically is. The stereo speakers, at back, appear to the right and left, with plenty of clearance for your fingers (this positioning is unfortunate, however, if you plan to listen to music while the pad is lying flat, with its screen face-up). The micro-USB and HDMI-mini ports are at bottom, perfect for mounting the Xoom in its optional dock (standard dock, $60, Speaker HD dock, $150). The power button is located on the back, to the left of the rear-facing, flash-equipped, 5-megapixel. The button lies where your forefinger naturally lands when you hold the Xoom in both hands.
The Xoom runs Nvidia’s Tegra 2 platform, with a dual-core 1GHz processor, 1GB of RAM, and 32GB of on-board user memory. The MicroSD Card slot permits users to double their storage space as they use the device—a boon for anyone who tends to pack gadgets with media. Unfortunately, the MicroSD Card slot is not enabled at launch-so early shoppers will have to wait until a software update comes along (eventually, Xoom will ship with the slot enabled).
The display measures 10.1 inches diagonally, with 1280-by-800-pixel resolution. The widescreen’s 16:10 aspect ratio makes it perfect for viewing video; but for folks accustomed to the 4:3 aspect ratio of the 9.7-inch Apple iPad screen, it may take some getting used to. The unit also stands an inch taller than the first-generation iPad, but it feels comfortable when you hold it landscape-style in two hands.
You’ll definitely want to use two hands: Like the first-generation iPad with 3G and Wi-Fi, the Xoom weighs 1.6 pounds. The weight is manageable for periods of two-handed operation, but intolerable for extended one-handed operation. A third-generation Amazon Kindle weighs one-third as much as the Xoom.
The Display: The draw and the drawback
I wasn’t terribly impressed with the Xoom’s display’s quality: In spite of its high resolution, I detected graininess; colors seemed somewhat inaccurate and didn’t pop as they do on the iPad and on Samsung’s bright, occasionally oversaturated Galaxy Tab.
Initially, the device’s display looked lovely. The home screens were readable, and colors looked fine. But as I used the device, the pattern of the screen became more obvious. The display on the iPad felt downright sparkly, as if sand were buried in the liquid crystals themselves. In contrast, the Xoom seemed to present me with a grid whose lines were more obvious in some situations than in others. I noticed them especially in photos and on the gray of the keyboard, but less so on the default blue Honeycomb wallpaper. The lines were most obvious in screens with white backgrounds, such as in the Web browser or in the preinstalled Google Books app. I also detected a lot of pixelation in the letters, but that effect varied depending on the font I used (for example, the sans serif font in Google Books looked relatively smooth)—which leads me to wonder whether this is primarily a screen issue (Motorola says that the display is 150 dots per inch) or a rendering issue.
When I looked at a series of pictures (10-megapixel or greater images shot on advanced cameras) sideloaded to the Xoom via the USB connection on my PC, it became clear that the images’ contrast was off. Under identical lighting conditions, I compared the images as they appeared on the Xoom to the original images on my PC monitor and to the way they looked on the Samsung Galaxy Tab and on the first-generation Apple iPad. Colors seemed dull and uninspired on the Xoom, and the images lacked the detail and depth I expected to see.
Even worse, the included Gallery app didn’t render the images properly. Images lacked sharpness and suffered from artifacting, dithering, and macroblocking. It was almost as though I were looking at images that had undergone a preview render but never fully rendered. A Google spokesperson did not know what was going on, nor did Motorola. Nvidia, which makes the Tegra 2 processor, did not respond to my inquiry before I posted this review.
Blockiness and artifacting were issues in video playback, too—for instance, in YouTube videos played in both standard and HQ modes, and in Google Talk video chat over Wi-Fi (as well as 3G). The images I captured on the device were disappointingly middle-of-the-road, as well. Overall, the camera was a bit awkward to operate, as was the video camera, though you do get more controls than before.
Interestingly, though the Gallery player supports H.263, H.264, and .mp4 video files, it failed to play .wmv files that Android 2.2 and 2.1 devices had managed to play just fine.
The big piece of glass on the display is readable indoors, but it’s very glarey. I’ve described the Apple iPad as a mirror—but compared to the mirror effect of the Xoom, the iPad is as nonreflective as paper. The Xoom’s glare was noticeable both indoors and out; and closer inspection revealed an air gap between the glass and the display beneath. I expected better: If the Barnes & Noble NookColor could nail the screen and glare issue on its $250 e-reader tablet, why couldn’t Motorola overcome glare on its $800 flagship device?
Performance zips along
I was quite impressed with the Xoom’s overall ability to zip through content. I easily and speedily moved through menus, through large collections of digital images, and through the redesigned Android Market. Even the file transfer speeds via USB were impressive. Anyone who has synced content to an Apple iPad knows how torturously slowly content moves from PC to device. On the Xoom, waiting wasn’t a huge issue: I transferred 700MB of digital pictures to the Xoom in just three minutes. Not too shabby.
Speed buffs will also appreciate that this 3G+ Wi-FI device will be able to migrate to Verizon’s 4G LTE network in the second quarter at no extra charge. The free upgrade rewards early adopters eager to own the first Honeycomb tablet.
Ultimately, the price feels too high, given that the nearly one-year-old, no-contract, 3G- and Wi-Fi-enabled first-generation Apple iPad came in at $730. But by obtaining a 4G SIM card (when the update comes out) and performing a software update, you’ll be able to surf the Web with the Xoom at lightning speeds. That future-proofing is a very appealing touch.
Other Usage Minutiae
Android 3.0 is easily the most polished Google software effort to date, but the random apps I downloaded from the Android Market didn’t work on Honeycomb at all, let alone scale to the Xoom’s large screen. Moreover, there’s no obvious way of knowing whether an app has been optimized for Honeycomb.
I endured some software crashes, and Google Talk behaved somewhat inconsistently (where’s the button to answer that call?). Also, some folders that I transferred to the Gallery didn’t show up, so I couldn’t test whether Honeycomb does indeed support .bmp files as Google says. (For a full list of supported files, see Google’s Android Developer site.)
Motorola rates the Xoom’s battery life at about 10 hours of high-definition video playback. And the device’s recharge time is fast, at just 3.5 hours for a full recharge (in my testing, it recharged from a 13 percent charge in less than 3 hours).
One of the Xoom’s main assets—aside from being the first Honeycomb tablet to market—should be its deep integration with the Honeycomb platform: Motorola worked hand-in-hand with Google to make Honeycomb run well on the Xoom, Google’s reference Honeycomb device. As such, the Xoom is likely to be as pure a Google Honeycomb device as possible.
All in all, the device is a solid but imperfect first effort. Platform stability and 4G can come with future software upgrades, and the bugs in the graphics and video rendering will (I hope) be fixable through software, too. But the screen’s annoying grid effect can’t be fixed by a simple update.
The Xoom is the first large-screen tablet to provide stiff competition for Apple’s iPad. But as smooth as many of its elements are, and as groundbreaking as this first-of-its-kind tablet is, its weaknesses prevent me from giving it a rousing endorsement. Software rough patches can be patched; but hardware frustrations may run deeper than any firmware update can fix.

Aerosoft Laptop News
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Aerosoft Mobile News;

1)HTC Thunderbolt Release Date: Last Friday Of The Month?
The HTC Thunderbolt has yet to be given an official release date however it continues to show up in Best Buy circulars every week and the electronics reseller has taken pre-orders for the device almost two months ago. So we can imagine how frustrating this can be for many HTC Thunderbolt fans.
HTC Thunderbolt Release Date: Last Friday Of The Month?
Well things don't seem to be getting any better as the latest rumor pushes the HTC Thunderbolt release date to the end of this month, around March 24 or 25th to be exact. The latest leak apparently comes from a Verizon rep who gave "JR" the details, who in turn leaked it to AndroidCommunity.com.
So what did the Verizon rep tell JR? According to AndroidCommunity, the only hint JR got as to the possible release date of the HTC Thunderbolt was to "look at the pattern of device releases" and he might be be able to figure out when the Verizon LTE Android would launch. Well AC did just that and mapped out the last major devices and their release dates on Verizon:
Verizon iPhone 4: February 10
Motorola Xoom: February 24
New iPad 2: March 11. [AC originally put this as March 10th]
HTC ThunderBolt: March 24th? [or possibly March 25th based on above mistake]
So based on the above pattern, we could see the Verizon HTC Thunderbolt release date around the end of March, either Thursday 24th or to be safe, Friday 25th.
Lets hope this will be the release date and for two reasons, firstly because we don't think we can stand another delay, and second because it is getting awfully close to the rumored "early April" release date of the next Verizon-bound LTE smartphone, the Samsung Stealth 4G.

2)Windows Phone 7 'NoDo' update for HTC HD7 makes unofficial
Got an HTC HD7 and an adventurous streak? If so, you can grab a ROM and flash your way into the ranks of early adopters of the Windows Phone 7 NoDo update. This, of course, is the update people were actually waiting for, since it adds copy and paste functionality to WP7.
The ROM has been shared at XDA, and is intended for the European HTC HD7. Users in other regions aren't totally out of luck, but a bit of additional tinkering is required. We'd recommend waiting it out at this point, since the NoDo update is due in the very near future anyway.
If you're wondering, the name 'NoDo' comes from the fact that someone failed to bring donuts to a (seemingly important) Windows Phone 7 meeting.

3)Clove claims earlier end of March date for HTC Desire S
TAIWANESE PHONE MAKER HTC's Desire S is expected to appear in the UK the last week of this month and not 18 April as had previously been stated.
According to mobile phone etailer Clove.co.uk's blog, the Android 2.3 Gingerbread powered handset will be landing the week of Monday 28 March. The Desire S is already available for pre-order from Clove for £406.80.
Clove's blog post said, "We are expecting stock of the Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) handset to be here in the last week of March, which is a bit earlier than initially expected."
The Desire S is the successor to the HTC Desire HD and it has a number of design changes, such as a smaller 3.7-inch display, unibody design, and a 5MP camera. But it keeps a 1GHz Snapdragon processor.
Despite Clove's new date other etailers have not changed their availability dates. Amazon still says the phone will not be available until 18 Apr

4)Will people want the HTC Flyer when it makes it to shelves?

March is in full swing and things in the tablet world are definitely heating up. The Motorola XOOM has been out for just under two weeks, the iPad 2 is just days from launch, and talk of the BlackBerry PlayBook and Wi-Fi only XOOM heading to Staples in April is spreading about. Not only that, but there has been quite a bit of jive about the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 and 8.9 and HP's TouchPad. Let's not forget about HTC's Flyer either.
I know HTC is a popular brand when it comes to handsets. From their Sense UI down to the solid hardware, I absolutely love their phones. Despite all of them looking essentially the same and HTC not yet jumping on the dual-core bandwagon, their handsets remain fairly impressive and hype remains high. When it comes to tablets though, I'm not so sure they're going to fare so well; not at first.
While I can't really say the tablet market is diluted yet, it's well on its way. In a few months, choosing your tablet will like picking out your next car. The Flyer will be a Smart Car in a crowd of muscle cars. It's small, cool, and trendy, but slightly overpriced and not as efficient as proclaimed to be.
There are two sides to the pricing battle, and I'm not really trying to get into that. Smartphones are generally $500 and up without a contract. Tablets are scaled-up smartphones, thus yielding a larger price tag. The people on the other side of the fence are up in arms because it's a luxury item and they can't justify a less functional, $600 tablet over a laptop. Apple set a pretty low price for its starting point, and other tablet manufacturers are having a hard time matching that. Over time, manufacturers will find the proper place for tablet pricing and the market will fix itself – we hope.
A more legitimate argument is that the Flyer is supposedly shipping with an older operating system. Granted, it has been skinned by the tablet version of HTC's popular Sense UI, codenamed Sensation. However, that doesn't change the fact that it is running a version of Android that isn't optimized for tablets. After seeing the major differences Honeycomb brings, Gingerbread and Froyo are not something I want to deal with on a large display. Plus, you aren't going to get all of the benefits of Honeycomb, like tablet-optimized applications. Then again, all it would take is a single upgrade and everyone could be running Android 3.0. We all know how Android updating goes; never buy a device on the belief of a software update.
Software aside, the hardware seems somewhat disappointing as well. Save for the faster processor, its specs are on par with those of the original Galaxy Tab that launched in November of last year. It has a slightly better rear camera (5MP versus the 3MP of the Galaxy Tab), 32GB of internal memory, 1GB of RAM, and the same 4000 mAh battery.
Much like that of the smartphone world, there are tiers of quality: low-end, mid-range, and high-end. This is forming within the tablet world, too. Your have low-end tablets that are typically in the sub-$300 category with resistive touchscreens and lackluster specs. Devices like the Galaxy Tab border the line between mid-range and high-end, and the XOOM is obviously high-end, currently battling the iPad for tablet King. I'm prone to believe that the Flyer will fall in the mid-range sector.
In all honesty. I don't think the Flyer will be a bad buy. I have yet to own a HTC device that I wouldn't recommend. However, set at $600 and still – for all we know – months from release, there will be several other tablets with more future-proofed specifications, Honeycomb, and a more appropriate price tag. The Wi-Fi only XOOM is said to be hitting Sam's Club at $539. That's a larger, more powerful tablet (lacking a 3G or 4G radio) for $60 less.
I truly want HTC to blow me away. I've always been a big fan, but I'm losing interest as of late. With all of the tablet news heading our way, the Fyler just doesn't excite me in the least. Hopefully, HTC has something up their sleeve that will surprise us all, but I'm not holding my breath. Are any of you interested in the Flyer? Which would you buy? A XOOM for $539 or Flyer for $600?

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