Plus there are several reports that Microsoft will add such a tiny tablet to its Surface line of devices.
Microsoft has already shown its hand, it wants to strengthen the ecosystem for its Surface line of tablets and Windows 8.
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We already know a lot about the Surface tablet line's birthing process.
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Microsoft will start shipping its Surface tablet line on October 26, the same day it will officially launch Windows 8, the company disclosed in its 10-K filing with the SEC for the June 2012 fiscal year.
Microsoft even has its own line of Surface tablets that blur the line between PC and laptop thanks to a clever snap-on keyboard cover.
Microsoft this morning announced pricing for its line of Surface tablets, which go on sale October 26.
On October 26, Microsoft will officially launch Windows 8, as well as its new line of Surface tablets.
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Analysts describe Surface as straddling the line between tablet and PC by featuring a tablet form with a multi-touch keyboard and USB port.
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As a result of this, Microsoft has overhauled all of its major programs and services, from Office to Xbox to Skype along with adding the new Surface tablet to its line-up.
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Everybody was doing it, and on the surface it helped the bottom line.
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Inventor, Hideki Watanabe, created the prototype using dental plaster from his practice that he used to line the inside surface of a metal pot in a spiral design.
The interaction comes from when you touch the surface, which breaks the line of sight of the laser and is recognized as a touch just as if you might touch the trackpad on an Apple Macbook.
Starting with two silicon wafers, Soitec machines coat the surface of one with silicon dioxide insulator and embed inside it a thin fault line of hydrogen atoms anywhere from 100 to 20, 000 nanometers below the surface, depending on customers' desired wafer thickness.
"Neighbours had thrown him a line to keep him above the surface until we got there, but conditions were very arduous, " he said.
In addition to mastery of traditional calligraphy, the art of engraving requires a high degree of virtuosity, since the artist works on a tiny surface area where every curve, every thickness of line counts.
This type of tag, however, requires a buoy to carry the aerial, and this is attached to the shark by a ten-metre-long line. (The line is needed because the sharks themselves rarely break the surface, and the transmitter cannot signal to the satellite from under water.) Two American biologists, Scott Eckert and Brent Stewart, from the Hubbs-Sea World Research Institute in San Diego, have had some success with satellite tracking.
Just this fall, Microsoft launched its Surface tablet and other Windows 8 devices while Google beefed up its Nexus line with the Nexus 4 smartphone and Nexus 10 tablet.
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More modern versions of the tool add in a laser beam projector, which allows builders to level out the device and "draw" a long line of light across a wall, indicating an exactly level surface.
When the tide goes out, organizers shovel up and pat down the sand to create the racing line, but such are the elements that occasional pools of surface water can remain, which some horses don't mind but others despise -- merely another nuance to the racing at Laytown.
As the fish sped off and line played out, Whalen struggled for 45 seconds back to the surface.
The tourists had the better of the opening day as they bowled Australia out for 214 but their batting line-up was also found wanting on a seamer-friendly surface.
Track conditions deteriorated during the course of qualifying and the surface was breaking up at the newly resurfaced hairpin with officials forced to use brooms to clear the racing line of gritty debris.
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