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Saturday, March 30, 2013
Google may build early models of Glass in U.S.
Report says Google will contract with Foxconn to manufacture Glass in Silicon Valley
by Sharon Gaudin
Early models of Google's wearable computer, Glass, may be manufactured in the U.S., according to a report.
The Glass eyewear, which is still in development, is expected to be built in Silicon Valley, The Financial Times reported, citing unnamed sources. The Times also reported that Google is working on a deal with Hon Hai Precision Industry, the Taiwanese contract manufacturer also known as Foxconn.
by Sharon Gaudin
Early models of Google's wearable computer, Glass, may be manufactured in the U.S., according to a report.
The Glass eyewear, which is still in development, is expected to be built in Silicon Valley, The Financial Times reported, citing unnamed sources. The Times also reported that Google is working on a deal with Hon Hai Precision Industry, the Taiwanese contract manufacturer also known as Foxconn.
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Tuesday, March 26, 2013
AI programmers struggle to makes games 'imitate life'
Engineers propose solutions to some of the biggest problems in artificial intelligence
by Zach Miners
Artificial intelligence, a field of programming employed by video game developers to make characters smarter and improve their decisions, still has a ways to go before it actually yields intelligent characters.
"There are AI games with very little 'I' in them," said Brian Schwab, senior AI and gameplay engineer at Blizzard Entertainment, which has published the hugely successful "Warcraft," "StarCraft" and "Diablo" series of strategy games.
by Zach Miners
Artificial intelligence, a field of programming employed by video game developers to make characters smarter and improve their decisions, still has a ways to go before it actually yields intelligent characters.
"There are AI games with very little 'I' in them," said Brian Schwab, senior AI and gameplay engineer at Blizzard Entertainment, which has published the hugely successful "Warcraft," "StarCraft" and "Diablo" series of strategy games.
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Friday, March 22, 2013
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Create Your Own Smartphone App With Infinite Monkeys – No Coding Knowledge Required
It would be great if we all had the time, skills, and patience to learn computer coding, especially since technology pervades so many areas of our life. But thankfully, there are applications and web developers out there who provide ways for the rest of us to produce apps with little or no coding skills.
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North Korea's Internet returns after 36-hour outage
Internet connectivity to North Korea was restored Friday after a
day-and-a-half-long outage that the country's official media blamed on
international hacking.
Connections to the Star, North Korea's sole Internet service provider, hit problems on Wednesday when websites became inaccessible from outside the country. The sites remained largely offline throughout the incident, although occasionally made brief returns.
Connections to the Star, North Korea's sole Internet service provider, hit problems on Wednesday when websites became inaccessible from outside the country. The sites remained largely offline throughout the incident, although occasionally made brief returns.
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Google Glass may someday fire up your coffee maker
Google applies for tech patent that would allow Glass to control home alarms, doors or copy machines
by Sharon Gaudin
Google envisions a future when your computerized glasses will turn on your coffee maker even before you roll out of bed.by Sharon Gaudin
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Rising cyber-nationalism leads to amplified cyber-mistrust
The Network World story "Rising cyber-nationalism leads to amplified
cyber-mistrust," which ran on the wire Tuesday, misreported plans by
Kaspersky to develop a secure operating system for industrial control
systems. Kaspersky says it has no such plans.
Click fraud botnet defrauds advertisers up to $6 million
An advertising analytics company said it has discovered a botnet that
generates upwards of US$6 million per month by generating bogus clicks
on display advertisements.
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Click fraud botnet defrauds advertisers up to $6 million
This is not formally a correction, but rather an alert to an important
update with additional information that contradicts a source in the
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Rising cyber-nationalism leads to amplified cyber-mistrust
The Network World story "Rising cyber-nationalism leads to amplified
cyber-mistrust," which ran on the wire Tuesday, misreported plans by
Kaspersky to develop a secure operating system for industrial control
systems. Kaspersky says it has no such plans.
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Thursday, March 21, 2013
Canon to launch world's smallest digital SLR camera
The SLR will cost about US$800 and go on sale from April in Japan and the U.S.
by Jay Alabaste
Canon will soon launch what it is calling the world's smallest digital single-lens camera, with a body that weighs just over 370 grams and featuring an 18-megapixel image sensor.
The company said its new camera, which is called the "EOS Rebel SL1" in the U.S. and the "EOS Kiss X7" in Japan, will go on sale from next month. It measures 116.8mm wide by 90.7mm tall, with a thickness of 69.4mm.
Digital SLR makers like Canon are increasingly feeling competition from lower-priced "bridge cameras," that offer a step up from a digital point-and-shoot models but are far cheaper and easier to use. Bridge models typically feature a single optical zoom lens that cannot be swapped out.
Canon said it is the smallest digital SLR with an APS-C image sensor, a format used in many mid-range and high-end single lens cameras. In Japan it has a suggested retail price of ¥79,800 (US$833) for the body alone and ¥89,800 together with a newly developed zoom lens.
The company said its size and weight are about 25 percent less than previous models.
The image sensor and graphics processor in the X7 allow for shooting about four frames per second. It will also allow auto-focus on about 80 percent of image area it shows.
The company said the new camera and lens combination were designed for video as well as still shots, with quieter and smoother operation than previous models.
Canon also announced a separate camera, called the X7i in Japan, that offers a slightly upgraded feature set, including an LCD display that can be rotated for shooting at different angles.
Canon said it will initially produce 200,000 units per month of the smaller sized model.
by Jay Alabaste
Canon will soon launch what it is calling the world's smallest digital single-lens camera, with a body that weighs just over 370 grams and featuring an 18-megapixel image sensor.
The company said its new camera, which is called the "EOS Rebel SL1" in the U.S. and the "EOS Kiss X7" in Japan, will go on sale from next month. It measures 116.8mm wide by 90.7mm tall, with a thickness of 69.4mm.
Digital SLR makers like Canon are increasingly feeling competition from lower-priced "bridge cameras," that offer a step up from a digital point-and-shoot models but are far cheaper and easier to use. Bridge models typically feature a single optical zoom lens that cannot be swapped out.
Canon said it is the smallest digital SLR with an APS-C image sensor, a format used in many mid-range and high-end single lens cameras. In Japan it has a suggested retail price of ¥79,800 (US$833) for the body alone and ¥89,800 together with a newly developed zoom lens.
The company said its size and weight are about 25 percent less than previous models.
The image sensor and graphics processor in the X7 allow for shooting about four frames per second. It will also allow auto-focus on about 80 percent of image area it shows.
The company said the new camera and lens combination were designed for video as well as still shots, with quieter and smoother operation than previous models.
Canon also announced a separate camera, called the X7i in Japan, that offers a slightly upgraded feature set, including an LCD display that can be rotated for shooting at different angles.
Canon said it will initially produce 200,000 units per month of the smaller sized model.
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Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Samsung Galaxy S4 release date, specs and everything else you need to know
The Next Galaxy from Samsung is almost here and it’s already shaping
up to be the year’s most highly anticipated smartphone launch.
In this comprehensive run down we’ll be detailing all the nitty-gritty
to prepare you for the fourth flagship kit’s imminent debut. So grab
some popcorn, sit back and read on…
The actual release date is still a tightly guarded secret. However, a reliable source close to a major UK retailer has revealed that it should go on sale sometime between April 15th and April 22nd.
Pre-orders for the handset should begin at least two weeks before it hits shop shelves. So you should be able to reserve your unit as early as late March or early April.
Here, we’ll discuss some of the best features and specs expected to be on board.

Also expected on board is a two-megapixel front-facing camera for video calls and self-portraits in HD, and numerous features on the camera application itself, including the ability to take 360-degree panoramic shots of your surroundings and share them instantly on Facebook.
This is a state-of-the-art eight-core processor that comprises four high performance cores and four power-saving cores to handle multitasking with real sense of snap, while conserving battery life when carrying out everyday tasks.
Based on ARM’s ‘big.LITTLE’ architecture, the Exynos 5 Octa ensures a perfect balance of power versus power efficiency and consumes up to 70 per cent less energy compared to the current chip designs.
Naturally, as the world’s leading panel-maker, Samsung is sure to squeeze all its expertise and high-tech display technology into making this truly stand out from rivals.

Reports also suggest the Galaxy S4 could boast the latest, fifth-generation (5G) chips for Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, offering even faster and more reliable data transfers than before.

While wireless charging is not new to smartphones, Samsung’s take reportedly uses a more advanced method enabled by resonant magnetic coupling technology that would allow the Galaxy S4 to be charged from up to two metres away.
Along with features such as Google Now, a personal voice-guided assistant that sorts and displays all kinds of information in a nifty card-based interface, Android Jelly Bean is also home to all of Google’s best apps and services installed out of the box, plus offers hundreds of thousands more to download from Google Play.

Of course, because this is a Samsung smartphone, the Galaxy S4 will feature the latest iteration of the Nature UX user interface, as well as upgraded versions of all the ‘smart’ features that are exclusive to Samsung devices.
Better still, if Samsung’s recent patent filings are anything to go by, this will bring intuitive touch-free gestures and eye-tracking technology to enable you to control the handset with minimum physical contact and possibly even pause videos and scroll pages using your eye movements alone.
A microSD slot should be included to expand that by a further 32GB, plus free cloud storage from Dropbox to easily access your files on a host of other devices.
Initilally, the Galaxy S4 is likely to land in two colour options: black and white. However, down the line we expect Samsung to release more colourways, along the lines of the nature-inspired pebble blue and marble white hues of the Galaxy S3.
Samsung Galaxy S4 release date UK
Samsung has sent out press invites to one of its Unpacked events in New York on March 14th where it’s certain to officially raise the curtain on the Galaxy S4.The actual release date is still a tightly guarded secret. However, a reliable source close to a major UK retailer has revealed that it should go on sale sometime between April 15th and April 22nd.
Pre-orders for the handset should begin at least two weeks before it hits shop shelves. So you should be able to reserve your unit as early as late March or early April.
Samsung Galaxy S4 specs and features
If months and months of insider leaks and industry forecasts are to be trusted, the Samsung Galaxy S4 will be crammed with some of the most cutting-edge technology ever to grace a smartphone.Here, we’ll discuss some of the best features and specs expected to be on board.
Samsung Galaxy S4 camera
The Samsung Galaxy S4 is tipped to feature a 13-megapixel camera that you can expect to take stunning photos and record videos in full high-definition at a silky smooth framerate that would give even digital SLRs a run for their money.Also expected on board is a two-megapixel front-facing camera for video calls and self-portraits in HD, and numerous features on the camera application itself, including the ability to take 360-degree panoramic shots of your surroundings and share them instantly on Facebook.
Samsung Galaxy S4 processor
The Samsung Galaxy S4 is mooted to debut the tech giant’s latest, most powerful system-on-chip yet, the Exynos 5 Octa.This is a state-of-the-art eight-core processor that comprises four high performance cores and four power-saving cores to handle multitasking with real sense of snap, while conserving battery life when carrying out everyday tasks.
Based on ARM’s ‘big.LITTLE’ architecture, the Exynos 5 Octa ensures a perfect balance of power versus power efficiency and consumes up to 70 per cent less energy compared to the current chip designs.
Samsung Galaxy S4 screen
The Samsung Galaxy S4 is rumoured to feature a 4.99-inch Super AMOLED display with an eye-popping full HD (1080p) resolution and 441 pixels per inch density that’s over a 100 pixels higher than even the iPhone’s Retina display.Naturally, as the world’s leading panel-maker, Samsung is sure to squeeze all its expertise and high-tech display technology into making this truly stand out from rivals.
Samsung Galaxy S4 design
Although details remain thin on the ground, supply-chain chatter suggests the Samsung Galaxy S4 could debut an aluminium unibody design to make it sturdier than its predecessors, while building on the much-loved ‘nature-inspired’ form factor of the Galaxy S3.Samsung Galaxy S4 connectivity
As with most high-end smartphones, the Samsung Galaxy S4 will be loaded with a host of connectivity options. At the very least it’s expected to offer 4G LTE support, Wi-Fi a/b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0, Near Field Communication (NFC), Assisted GPS and a microUSB port.Reports also suggest the Galaxy S4 could boast the latest, fifth-generation (5G) chips for Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, offering even faster and more reliable data transfers than before.
Samsung Galaxy S4 wireless charging
Based on patent filings and an FCC certification, it’s believed that the Samsung Galaxy S4 will be capable of wireless charging, making fiddly charger cables truly a thing of the past.While wireless charging is not new to smartphones, Samsung’s take reportedly uses a more advanced method enabled by resonant magnetic coupling technology that would allow the Galaxy S4 to be charged from up to two metres away.
Android Jelly Bean and Nature UX user interface
Samsung Galaxy S4 will run on Google’s superb Android operating system – most likely the latest Jelly Bean edition.Along with features such as Google Now, a personal voice-guided assistant that sorts and displays all kinds of information in a nifty card-based interface, Android Jelly Bean is also home to all of Google’s best apps and services installed out of the box, plus offers hundreds of thousands more to download from Google Play.
Of course, because this is a Samsung smartphone, the Galaxy S4 will feature the latest iteration of the Nature UX user interface, as well as upgraded versions of all the ‘smart’ features that are exclusive to Samsung devices.
Better still, if Samsung’s recent patent filings are anything to go by, this will bring intuitive touch-free gestures and eye-tracking technology to enable you to control the handset with minimum physical contact and possibly even pause videos and scroll pages using your eye movements alone.
Memory and Colours
Based on reliable intel, the Galaxy S4 will be available in three storage variants of 16, 32 and 64GB.A microSD slot should be included to expand that by a further 32GB, plus free cloud storage from Dropbox to easily access your files on a host of other devices.
Initilally, the Galaxy S4 is likely to land in two colour options: black and white. However, down the line we expect Samsung to release more colourways, along the lines of the nature-inspired pebble blue and marble white hues of the Galaxy S3.
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Friday, March 15, 2013
Windows 8 uptake remains listless after public launch
by Gregg Keizer
Driven by millions of upgrades, Windows 8's global usage share climbed by a third last month, but the new OS's adoption pace remained lethargic compared to that of its predecessor three years ago.
According to data released Thursday by Web measurement firm Net Applications, 0.45% of all computers running Windows during October were powered by Windows 8. That number, which represents 45 out of every 10,000 Windows machines, was a jump of slightly more than one-third over the month before.
But it's a far cry from Windows 7's uptake: At the end of October 2009, Windows 7 accounted for 2.33% of all Windows PCs, or 233 out of 10,000. That puts Windows 7 as the easy winner in the early race. Its share of all Windows PCs in its release month was more than five times that of Windows 8's.
There is at least one caveat, however. Windows 7 went on sale Oct. 22, 2009, four days earlier on the calendar than Windows 8, which hit retail Oct. 26.
Windows 8's jump, small as it was in absolute terms, could be attributed to the large number of upgrades sold so far. On Tuesday, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said that the company had sold 4 million upgrades to Windows 8 Pro in the first three days of availability.
Last Friday was the first day that customers could download the $39.99 upgrade to Windows 8 Pro, take advantage of a $14.99 deal if they had purchased a new Windows 7 PC starting June 2, or pick up a DVD in a boxed copy for $69.99 at retailers.
New PCs, tablets and so-called "convertibles" -- systems that share characteristics of a light notebook and a tablet -- also went on sale Oct. 26, all with Windows 8 pre-installed.
Windows 8's October gain was its best-ever since Net Applications began tracking the new operating system, but it's fallen further behind Windows 7's pace. In 2009, Windows 7 added 0.69 of a percentage point during its release month, a jump of about 40%. Windows 8, however, added just 0.12 of a percentage point, less than a fifth as much.
In fact, Windows 8 will have to hustle to match the uptake of Windows Vista. That problem-plagued edition accounted for 1% of all copies of Windows after its first full month. To equal that, Windows 8 will have to more than double its share during November.
Other versions of Windows stuck with the their long-established trajectories.
Windows XP lost six-tenths of a percentage point last month, but still accounted for 40.7% of all personal computers, or 44.4% of all Windows machines. Vista also dropped, falling by a quarter of a point to under 6% for the first time since July 2007.
And Windows 7 gained ground, adding about seven-tenths of a point to end the month with a 44.7% share of all PCs and a 48.8% of all Windows PCs. At its current pace, Windows 7 will break the 50% mark next month to become the edition used by a majority of Windows customers.
That trend will likely continue, analysts have said, as enterprises continue to replace their aged Windows XP hardware with newer machines running Windows 7, not Windows 8.
The poor-thus-far showing of Windows 8 doesn't preclude it from eventually thriving, of course. Microsoft is reportedly ready to spend between $1 billion and $1.5 billion on advertising the new operating system, its Windows RT spin-off, and the also-new Windows Phone 8.
At his company's BUILD developers conference, Ballmer made clear that Microsoft was betting big. "You will not be able to pick up a magazine, go to the Internet or turn on a television set without seeing one of our ads," Ballmer told developers Tuesday.
Net Applications measures operating system usage by tracking unique visitors to approximately 40,000 sites it monitors for clients.
Windows 8's pre- and at-launch uptake remains sluggish compared to Windows 7's adoption in 2009. (Data: Net Applications.)
See more Computerworld Windows 8 launch coverage including news, reviews and blogs.
Gregg Keizer covers Microsoft, security issues, Apple, Web browsers and general technology breaking news for Computerworld. Follow Gregg on Twitter at @gkeizer, on Google+ or subscribe to Gregg's RSS feed. His email address is gkeizer@computerworld.com.
See more by Gregg Keizer on Computerworld.com.
Read more about windows in Computerworld's Windows Topic Center.
Driven by millions of upgrades, Windows 8's global usage share climbed by a third last month, but the new OS's adoption pace remained lethargic compared to that of its predecessor three years ago.
According to data released Thursday by Web measurement firm Net Applications, 0.45% of all computers running Windows during October were powered by Windows 8. That number, which represents 45 out of every 10,000 Windows machines, was a jump of slightly more than one-third over the month before.
But it's a far cry from Windows 7's uptake: At the end of October 2009, Windows 7 accounted for 2.33% of all Windows PCs, or 233 out of 10,000. That puts Windows 7 as the easy winner in the early race. Its share of all Windows PCs in its release month was more than five times that of Windows 8's.
There is at least one caveat, however. Windows 7 went on sale Oct. 22, 2009, four days earlier on the calendar than Windows 8, which hit retail Oct. 26.
Windows 8's jump, small as it was in absolute terms, could be attributed to the large number of upgrades sold so far. On Tuesday, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said that the company had sold 4 million upgrades to Windows 8 Pro in the first three days of availability.
Last Friday was the first day that customers could download the $39.99 upgrade to Windows 8 Pro, take advantage of a $14.99 deal if they had purchased a new Windows 7 PC starting June 2, or pick up a DVD in a boxed copy for $69.99 at retailers.
New PCs, tablets and so-called "convertibles" -- systems that share characteristics of a light notebook and a tablet -- also went on sale Oct. 26, all with Windows 8 pre-installed.
Windows 8's October gain was its best-ever since Net Applications began tracking the new operating system, but it's fallen further behind Windows 7's pace. In 2009, Windows 7 added 0.69 of a percentage point during its release month, a jump of about 40%. Windows 8, however, added just 0.12 of a percentage point, less than a fifth as much.
In fact, Windows 8 will have to hustle to match the uptake of Windows Vista. That problem-plagued edition accounted for 1% of all copies of Windows after its first full month. To equal that, Windows 8 will have to more than double its share during November.
Other versions of Windows stuck with the their long-established trajectories.
Windows XP lost six-tenths of a percentage point last month, but still accounted for 40.7% of all personal computers, or 44.4% of all Windows machines. Vista also dropped, falling by a quarter of a point to under 6% for the first time since July 2007.
And Windows 7 gained ground, adding about seven-tenths of a point to end the month with a 44.7% share of all PCs and a 48.8% of all Windows PCs. At its current pace, Windows 7 will break the 50% mark next month to become the edition used by a majority of Windows customers.
That trend will likely continue, analysts have said, as enterprises continue to replace their aged Windows XP hardware with newer machines running Windows 7, not Windows 8.
The poor-thus-far showing of Windows 8 doesn't preclude it from eventually thriving, of course. Microsoft is reportedly ready to spend between $1 billion and $1.5 billion on advertising the new operating system, its Windows RT spin-off, and the also-new Windows Phone 8.
At his company's BUILD developers conference, Ballmer made clear that Microsoft was betting big. "You will not be able to pick up a magazine, go to the Internet or turn on a television set without seeing one of our ads," Ballmer told developers Tuesday.
Net Applications measures operating system usage by tracking unique visitors to approximately 40,000 sites it monitors for clients.
Windows 8's pre- and at-launch uptake remains sluggish compared to Windows 7's adoption in 2009. (Data: Net Applications.)
See more Computerworld Windows 8 launch coverage including news, reviews and blogs.
Gregg Keizer covers Microsoft, security issues, Apple, Web browsers and general technology breaking news for Computerworld. Follow Gregg on Twitter at @gkeizer, on Google+ or subscribe to Gregg's RSS feed. His email address is gkeizer@computerworld.com.
See more by Gregg Keizer on Computerworld.com.
Read more about windows in Computerworld's Windows Topic Center.
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The smartphone is 20 years old, believe it or not
by Jon Gold
The breakneck pace of change in the smartphone world is well known: Since the iPhone catalyzed popular demand in 2007, development has been moving faster and faster, to the point where devices are out of date mere months after their release. However, this wasn't always the case. In fact, according to some estimates, the smartphone is actually all of 20 years old, as of last Friday.
WE'VE COME A LONG WAY: Bye-bye, mouse. Hello, mind control
MORE MOBILE: Dual-identity smartphones could bridge BYOD private, corporate divide
The IBM Simon was rolled out on Nov. 23, 1992, at COMDEX, though it was code-named "Angler" at the time. You likely couldn't have fit it in your pocket, given that it was about the size of today's Nexus 7, but then, at 18 ounces in weight, it probably would've made you walk funny anyway. It sported a 16MHz processor, 1MB of memory and 1MB of storage. Its operating system was a variant of DOS.
Its external app ecosystem consisted of exactly one program -- a PC-to-Simon texting tool called DispatchIt, which cost $3,000 for the PC software and an additional $300 for every Simon client. To be fair, however, it could do some things modern smartphones can't, like accept fax transmissions.
As primitive as Simon looks today, however, it was still recognizably a smartphone -- it used an app drawer, had touch-screen input (admittedly, in monochrome and with a stylus) and was even sold via the same subsidized pricing scheme commonly used today, at $900 with a new two-year deal from BellSouth Cellular.
[Video is complete with real knee-slapper of an Android joke at the end.]
Unfortunately, Simon wasn't a commercial success -- according to Bloomberg, it was plagued by half-hearted marketing, short battery life and a host of other problems, and spent a total of six months on the market before being yanked.
Still, despite all that, Simon was undeniably the forerunner of today's smartphones. What's more, it's a great reminder of how far the technology has come in two decades, and how fast it continues to develop. Just think of Simon the next time you complain that iOS 6 is terrible or that you haven't gotten an Android update for a whole month.
Email Jon Gold (who has done both of those things) at jgold@nww.com and follow him on Twitter at @NWWJonGold.
Read more about anti-malware in Network World's Anti-malware section.
The breakneck pace of change in the smartphone world is well known: Since the iPhone catalyzed popular demand in 2007, development has been moving faster and faster, to the point where devices are out of date mere months after their release. However, this wasn't always the case. In fact, according to some estimates, the smartphone is actually all of 20 years old, as of last Friday.
WE'VE COME A LONG WAY: Bye-bye, mouse. Hello, mind control
MORE MOBILE: Dual-identity smartphones could bridge BYOD private, corporate divide
The IBM Simon was rolled out on Nov. 23, 1992, at COMDEX, though it was code-named "Angler" at the time. You likely couldn't have fit it in your pocket, given that it was about the size of today's Nexus 7, but then, at 18 ounces in weight, it probably would've made you walk funny anyway. It sported a 16MHz processor, 1MB of memory and 1MB of storage. Its operating system was a variant of DOS.
Its external app ecosystem consisted of exactly one program -- a PC-to-Simon texting tool called DispatchIt, which cost $3,000 for the PC software and an additional $300 for every Simon client. To be fair, however, it could do some things modern smartphones can't, like accept fax transmissions.
As primitive as Simon looks today, however, it was still recognizably a smartphone -- it used an app drawer, had touch-screen input (admittedly, in monochrome and with a stylus) and was even sold via the same subsidized pricing scheme commonly used today, at $900 with a new two-year deal from BellSouth Cellular.
[Video is complete with real knee-slapper of an Android joke at the end.]
Unfortunately, Simon wasn't a commercial success -- according to Bloomberg, it was plagued by half-hearted marketing, short battery life and a host of other problems, and spent a total of six months on the market before being yanked.
Still, despite all that, Simon was undeniably the forerunner of today's smartphones. What's more, it's a great reminder of how far the technology has come in two decades, and how fast it continues to develop. Just think of Simon the next time you complain that iOS 6 is terrible or that you haven't gotten an Android update for a whole month.
Email Jon Gold (who has done both of those things) at jgold@nww.com and follow him on Twitter at @NWWJonGold.
Read more about anti-malware in Network World's Anti-malware section.
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