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ViewSonic has been in the tablet game for a long time, but its recent efforts have gotten mixed results. The ViewSonic ViewPad 10pro ($599.99 direct) is a business-oriented tablet aimed at vertical markets, where Windows functionality and IT compatibility take precedence. Along the way, it has tweaked and upgraded the tablet, shedding a few of the flaws that held back its predecessor, the ViewSonic ViewPad 10 ($729 list, 2 stars).
Design
The ViewPad 10pro keeps the same form-factor that's now so familiar in the tablet space, consisting of little more than a 10.1-inch capacitive touch screen, with ports and buttons along the edges of the bezel. An integrated light sensor automatically adjusts the brightness of the screen, making it brighter when ambient light levels drop. Its 1,024-by-600 resolution falls behind competitors, like the Fujitsu Stylistic Q550 ($849 list, 4 stars) (1,280-by-800) and Motion Computing CL900 ($1,125 list, 3.5 stars) (1,366-by-768). What the ViewPad 10pro does have, however, is a full-sized HDMI port, as opposed to the mini-HDMI port found on the Motion CL900. The HDMI port allows you to output 1080p video to an external display, whereas the mini-HDMI port will require you to purchase a mini-HDMI to HDMI port to connect it. While the display is passable, the touch sensitivity isn't as responsive as it should be. I often ran into problems getting my fingers to register any sort of touches when they strayed near the edges of the screen?where all of the scroll bars and close buttons are found.
At 1.79 pounds, the ViewPad 10pro is lighter than its competitors, like the 2.07-pound Acer Iconia Tab W500-BZ467 ($549.99 direct, 3.5 stars), 2.1-pound Motion Computing CL900, and 1.87-pound Fujitsu Q550. The ViewPad 10pro is constructed of aluminum with a glass screen. The aluminum back has a black matte finish, which provides a bit of grip while holding the tablet in one or two hands. However, its thin body (6.7 by 10.7 by 0.58-inches, HWD) doesn't leave a lot of room for heat to escape, hitting temperatures of 97-degrees Fahrenheit (as measured with a Fluke IR thermometer). The warmth can quickly be enough to make you hands sweat, making it more difficult to hold.
The ViewPad 10pro also tweaks the physical controls. The Power, Home, and Back/Undo buttons on the face of the ViewPad have been replaced with four touch-sensitive controls, more typical of Android devices. The new controls include Home and Back/Undo, as well as a button to call up a Control Center utility and a Search button (which might be mistaken for Zoom, as it's labeled with a magnifying glass). Other controls on the ViewPad 10pro include a Power button, Hold button and Volume controls along the top edge of the tablet.
Features
The ViewPad 10pro has a couple of software tweaks worth noting. The first is the keyboard. ViewSonic has ditched the clunky Windows keyboard for Swype, which aims to speed up text entry by letting you zig and zag your finger from one letter to the next, entering entire words in one fluid motion. This function worked smoothly, but it was also tripped up on occasion by the spotty responsiveness of the touch screen.
The second significant software change is the presence of Android. Unlike the previous Viewsonic ViewPad 10, which had dual-boot functionality, the ViewPad 10pro does one better, providing you with Android in Windows 7 (32-bit) via BlueStacks. Instead of requiring you boot into one or the other, BlueStacks allows a virtualized Android 2.3 environment to run in Windows, providing access to the Android interface and apps. Unfortunately, you won't be able to access Android Market, limiting you to apps available through third-parties, such as Amazon.
As mentioned above, the ViewPad 10pro is equipped with a full-size HDMI port, as well as a single USB 2.0 port and a slot for a microSD card. A front-facing 1.3-megapixel camera allows video conferencing, but there is no rear-facing camera. Internally, you'll find 802.11n Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 2.1. On the bottom edge of the tablet is a docking port, but you'll need to purchase the dock separately ($65 street).
The ViewPad 10pro is equipped with a 16GB solid-state drive (SSD), which is fast, and physically small enough to be ideal for a tablet, but its capacity is frustratingly tiny. This is only made worse by the fact that it's running Windows 7, which doesn't leave much room for storage. You'll definitely want to supplement it with a microSD card. Thankfully, ViewSonic hasn't loaded the ViewPad 10pro down with a lot of bloatware. Instead, most of the programs are utilities necessitated by the touch interface, like a touch UI and Web browser from Thinix, and a touch-friendly PDF viewer from Corel, in addition to the BlueStacks and Swype utilities already mentioned. You'll also find a starter version of Microsoft Office 2010 preinstalled.
Performance
The ViewSonic ViewPad 10pro is equipped with a dual-core Intel Atom Z670 processor (1.5GHz). It's the same processor found in the Fujitsu Stytlistic Q550 and Motion Computing CL900. In our Cinebench R11.5 rendering test, which serves as our processor speed benchmark, the ViewPad 10pro scored 0.22 points, beating out the Fujitsu (0.18 points), matching the Motion Computing CL900 (0.22 points), but falling behind the Acer Iconia, which scored 0.39 points with an AMD C-50 processor.
The limited space on the ViewSonic's 16GB SSD left us unable to run either SysMark 2007, our general performance test, or MobileMark 2007, our battery benchmark test. However, testing battery life with a looped video file provides fairly accurate, if anecdotal, results. In our video rundown test, the ViewPad 10pro lasted 4 hours 27 minutes. It beat out the ViewPad 10 consumer model (4:03) and Acer Iconia (3:20), but fell behind the Motion CL900 (7:24) and Fujitsu Q550 (7:42). As with most tablets, the battery in the ViewPad 10pro is sealed inside the chassis and is not accessible to the user.
Though it does introduce a few improvements to the ViewPad line, like the use of Swype and BlueStacks, and a revamped physical control set, the ViewSonic ViewPad 10pro is still a bit of a disappointment. For the business user, the difficulties of an unresponsive touch screen and limited storage space will not only cause frustration, they may hurt the bottom line. A smarter buy would be the Fujitsu Stylistic Q550, which offers similar performance, but a better user experience, along with a swappable longer-lasting battery.
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by Craig Harris - Nov. 28, 2011 09:08 PM
The Arizona Republic
The Fiesta Bowl has spent more than $5 million defending itself in local, state and federal investigations since The Arizona Republic nearly two years ago reported that employees said they were illegally reimbursed for making campaign contributions.
The legal bills, disclosed in a civil suit the bowl filed against its insurance carrier, have mounted as the bowl deals with inquiries by the U.S. Department of Justice, the federal Internal Revenue Service, the Federal Election Commission, the Arizona Attorney General's Office, the Arizona Secretary of State's Office and the Maricopa County Attorney's Office.
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The legal bills amount to more than one-fifth of the bowl's $22.3 million in net assets as of fiscal 2009-10, according to the most recent records available.
The suit says that since Nov. 15, 2010, the Arizona Attorney General's Office has issued several criminal subpoenas to the Fiesta Bowl demanding that the bowl appear before a state grand jury or produce documents. The suit does not disclose who appeared.
The state's investigation is being run in conjunction with the federal and county inquiries and is ongoing. No one has been charged in the state or county cases.
However, a federal grand jury this month indicted Natalie Wisneski, the bowl's former chief operating officer, alleging her involvement in a cover-up regarding illegal political contributions by bowl employees.
She faces nine charges, including seven felonies, and is scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Phoenix.
The bowl's civil lawsuit, filed last month in Maricopa County Superior Court, seeks a judgment against Axis Insurance Co. of Georgia to cover the Fiesta Bowl's financial losses incurred by the legal battles.
Axis, which has denied coverage, has not responded to the suit. Messages left at its headquarters in Alpharetta, Ga., were not returned Monday.
Nathan Hochman, the bowl's attorney, could not be reached.
The Fiesta Bowl, a member of the Bowl Championship Series, is operated by four non-profit organizations and will play its annual game Jan. 2 at University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale.
The bowl claims Axis should cover its financial losses because all of the investigations "arose from the same wrongful or interrelated wrongful acts."
The suit says the investigations began after The Republic on Dec. 18, 2009, reported that past and present Fiesta Bowl employees said they were encouraged by the bowl to make political contributions and then were allegedly reimbursed. The contributions went to local, state and federal candidates.
Around that time, the Fiesta Bowl, at the urging of its lobbyist, Gary Husk, hired former Arizona Attorney General Grant Woods to examine the misconduct allegations. After less than a week of investigation, Woods said his independent review found "no credible evidence that the bowl's management engaged in any type of illegal or unethical conduct."
The State Bar of Arizona said Monday that it is continuing to investigate Husk, who no longer works for the bowl, and Woods. The former attorney general has said he was paid $55,000 for his examination of the bowl, and he gave $20,000 to Husk.
After the Woods investigation, Playoff PAC, a political action committee composed mostly of lawyers who want to dismantle the BCS in favor of a playoff postseason for college football, then filed a complaint with the Arizona Secretary of State. That led the Attorney General's Office to launch a criminal investigation.
In October 2010, the bowl began a new investigation with Minneapolis-based Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi. That firm produced a 276-page report in March that alleged widespread financial abuses at the bowl and a cover-up to hide a scheme in which employees were reimbursed for making campaign contributions.
The bowl subsequently fired former Chief Executive John Junker.
The bowl's report was turned over to the Arizona Attorney General, and it has been used in the federal probe and an investigation by the county attorney, who is examining whether elected officials who took gifts from the bowl violated any laws.
Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery said last week that results of his investigation would be released by the end of the year.
The U.S. Attorney's Office has declined to comment on whether anyone else will be charged.
Playoff PAC in September 2010 filed a complaint with the IRS challenging the Fiesta Bowl's non-profit status. And in April 2011, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics, a Washington, D.C., non-profit organization, filed a complaint with the FEC regarding campaign contributions by bowl employees.
The IRS and FEC investigations are pending, according to the suit.
John Zidich, CEO and publisher of The Arizona Republic, is a former member of the Fiesta Bowl's board of directors and was on the bowl's five-member executive committee from January 2010 to April 2011. The Arizona Republic is a Fiesta Bowl advertising sponsor.
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Jeff Passan of Yahoo! spoke with an MLB executive who says?he?s ?100 percent certain? Albert Pujols will re-sign with the Cardinals. ?The reason: no one else is really showing interest. At least no one with the kind of money to outbid St. Louis.
I?ve kinda assumed this for a while. It was just bad timing for Pujols to hit the market, with with the Yankees and Red Sox both committing to top-notch first basemen in recent years. ?That left the occasional-spenders out there. Texas. Los Angeles. Detroit. Washington. Maybe the Cubs. Those teams either have a first baseman already or just don?t seem to want to pony up this year.
Albert is going to stay with the Cardinals. He?ll still be very rich. His legacy will be much better for it. And the Cardinals will be a much better team for it, at least for the next several years.
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SAN FRANCISCO ? Most Americans spent Thanksgiving snug inside homes with families and football. Others used the holiday to give thanks alongside strangers at outdoor Occupy encampments, serving turkey or donating their time in solidarity with the anti-Wall Street movement that has gripped a nation consumed by economic despair.
In San Francisco, 400 occupiers at a plaza in the financial district were served traditional Thanksgiving fixings sent by the renowned Glide Memorial Church to volunteers and supporters of the movement fighting social and economic inequality.
"We are thankful that we are, first and foremost, in a country where we can protest," said the Rev. Cecil Williams, the founder of Glide and a fixture in the city's activist community. "And we are thankful that we believe that there are things that could be worked out and that we have a sense of hope. But we know that hope only comes when you make a stand."
While the celebration remained peaceful in San Francisco, an amplified version of a family Thanksgiving squabble erupted in New York when police ordered a halt to drumming by protesters at an otherwise traditional holiday meal.
About 500 protesters were digging into donated turkey and trimmings at lower Manhattan's Zuccotti Park when police told a drummer to drop playing.
About 200 protesters surrounded a group of about 30 officers and began shouting in the park where the Occupy movement was launched Sept. 17.
"Why don't you stop being cops for Thanksgiving?" yelled one protester.
"Why don't you arrest the drummers in the Thanksgiving parade?" hollered another.
A van rolled up with more officers, but they stayed back as protesters eventually decided to call off the drumming and return to their food. Tensions have run high at the park since campers were evicted Nov. 15.
Protester Chris Coon wandered into Zuccotti in a Santa Claus suit with a list of "naughty" people that included former President George W. Bush, former Vice President Dick Cheney and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
"Bank of America foreclosed on the North Pole, then I flew here in my sleigh and the NYPD towed my sleigh," Coon said. "So now I'm here in Zuccotti Park protesting the 1 percent."
In San Diego, four Occupy protesters were arrested between midnight and 2 a.m. Thursday at an encampment at the City's Civic Center Plaza, said Officer David Stafford. Three were taken into custody for sleeping overnight in public, while the fourth was arrested for spitting on an officer, Stafford said.
Demonstrators nationwide say they are protesting corporate greed and the concentration of wealth in the upper 1 percent of the American population.
The movement was triggered by the high rate of unemployment and foreclosures, as well as the growing perception that big banks and corporations are not paying their fair share of taxes, yet are taking in huge bonuses while most Americans have seen their incomes drop.
Restaurants and individual donors prepared more than 3,000 meals for the gathering at Zuccotti.
Haywood Carey, 28, of Chapel Hill, N.C., helped serve the meals and said the Thanksgiving celebration was a sign of Americans' shared values.
"The things that divide are much less than the things that bind us together," he said.
In upstate New York, Danny Cashman, 25, an Afghanistan war veteran who works for a company that resells cellphones, said he sleeps at least three nights a week at an encampment in Rochester to show his solidarity with the movement.
"For today, this is my family," Cashman said as he dug into a chicken dinner at the 35-tent encampment in tiny Washington Square Park. "We have a great brotherhood, great friends, a great community."
Pat Mannix, 72, a longtime community activist, dropped off a vegetarian turkey and pies at the camp.
"I give thanks for these young people," she said. "The young people down here are sleeping out in spite of the cold, the wind, the soaking rains, and they are here trying to save democracy."
In Los Angeles, where more than 480 tents have been erected on the lawns of City Hall, activist Teri Adaju, 46, said she typically serves dinner to homeless people on Thanksgiving and knows that many at the Los Angeles encampment were just that.
Still, she added, "Everybody's in good cheer."
In Las Vegas, Occupy protesters had a potluck meal at their campsite near the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Organizer Sebring Frehner said he was happy to skip his traditional meal at home.
"Instead of hunkering down with five or six close individuals in your home, people you probably see all of the time anyway, you are celebrating Thanksgiving with many different families ? kind of like the original Thanksgiving," Frehner said.
Trisha Carr, 35, spent her holiday at the Occupy encampment at City Hall in Philadelphia. She has been out of work for more than two years and lost her car and home. She's been living in an Occupy tent for two weeks.
"Some days are harder than others," she said.
The sunny, crisp weather Thursday put her in a good mood, and she watched the annual Thanksgiving parade before coming back to the encampment for a plate full of turkey and fixings.
Carr said her job search has been fruitless, and the government needs to do more to help people like her.
"I had the benefits, I had money in my pocket, I had health care ? I had it all," Carr said. "There should be no reason why people aren't working."
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Associated Press writers Kathy Matheson in Philadelphia; Chris Hawley in New York; Ben Dobbin in Rochester, N.Y; Alicia Chang in Los Angeles; and Cristina Silva in Las Vegas contributed to this report.
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