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We’ve covered a lot of floppy drive music here on Giz recently but if you’ve got a few floppy drives lying around (presuming you’re not using them for archiving your old media), it’s possible to hook them up to a normal keyboard for your own drive tunes.
Microsoft’s latest rebate offering relates to its hardware division; this isn’t PCs but things like keyboards, mice and webcams. Buy any listed Microsoft product, and they’ll send you 30 per cent of the RRP in return. Where that gets particularly neat is that Microsoft’s accounting off its own RRP, not what you pay in store — so if you can negotiate a bargain on a peripheral, you still get the “full” saving back from Microsoft. The deal runs until the 5th of July, so there’s plenty of time to negotiate a good deal. [Microsoft]
June is shaping up as one hell of a showcase for next-gen mobile platforms. Apple will likely use WWDC to introduce iOS 6 and Microsoft is expected to demo Windows Phone 8 (Apollo) at its SF developer summit on June 20. Now it’s alleged that the long-rumoured 7-inch Google Nexus tablet (probably made by Asus) will be unveiled at Google I/O on June 27. Possibly with Android 5.0 Jelly Bean.
Viewsonic’s previous tablet attempt, while easy on the wallet, failed to impress the Gizmodo US crew. It looks like the company has decided to dip its toes in the other end of the pool — the expensive, massive end — going by this invitation for an event at this year’s Computex, which teases a “smart business tablet monitor” measuring 22 inches in size. 22 inches.
Last week we posted a story about a tiny Android-powered computer packed into a shell not much larger than a thumb drive. With its 1.5GHz single-core Cortex-A8, 512MB of RAM and 4GB of Flash storage, it’s not hard to imagine myriad uses for this ultra-ultra portable machine. Now we have a video showing off exactly what it’s capable of.
“Steve Ballmer has an 80-inch Windows 8 tablet in his office. He’s got rid of his phone, he’s got rid of his note paper. It’s touch-enabled and it’s hung on his wall.”
The man at Microsoft’s helm, Steve Ballmer, is an optimistic guy. So optimistic, in fact, that he plans for a significant proportion of the world’s population to be using Windows 8 by the end of 2013.
Last week Giz received news that the Transformer Pad TF300T and the Asus PadFone (already available in Taiwan) would arrive down under in May and August, respectively. But what about the Asus TF700T and Infinity tablets you asked! We now have an answer.
The Raspberry Pi project has noble aims. It’s intended to inspire a new generation of school-age coders and hackers to build exciting new things from a very cheap computer base. There’s just one problem; everyone else is snapping up Pi units as fast as they can be built. Enter Google.
