google s executive chairman eric schmidt about the great tablet battle between apple and google. why it matters who will win. here is my take. pakistan s military has been embarrassed, to put it mildly, by the suspicion it must have known where bin laden was hiding. in response, it is using its old tricks and hoping to ride out the storm as it has in the past. it is leaking stories to favor journalists, all with the aim of stoking anti-americanism in pakistan. having been caught in a situation that suggests either complicity with al qaeda or gross incompetence and the realty is probably a bit of both, it is now furiously trying to change the subject. generals angrily denounce america for entering the country. a pakistani friend put it to me this way. it is like a person caught in bed with another man s wife who is indignant that someone entered his house. the military has also once again been able to stop the civilian government. according to pakistani sources, the speech g
these are truly a mobile device. you have to think about carrying this around with you. it s not a full computer in terms of necessarily interacting with it with a keyboard. you can do things with it that you can t do. it has touch screens. and they re very popular. of course, apple, leading the way with the ipad. apple s not here at the consumer electronics show. why is that? but their presence is still felt. they don t do the consumer electronics show. but its presence is still felt here. like the 800 pound gorillas that not in the room. the rumor is that the ipad-2 will be out in the next couple of months. all these companies are scrambling to get a share of the market. daniel at the tablet-palooza. software developers are working on new apps for those that daniels was talking about. the american dialect society has called app the word of the year. we wouldn t need to filter our water.
netflix wanted to approve. they award ad million dollars. they got 40,000 entries for software developers all over the world. if you think of how much time and up frontal ent and capitol was spent trying to develop these solutions, netflix got a lot of bang for the $1 million. who can apply? are they accepting ideas from anyone? it s the central clearinghouse for all these invention contests. and anyone can apply. i think part of what the administration and congress is trying to do by passing this act is to try to really tap into the inventive spirit of the american people. private sectors realized that no one has a monopoly on good ideas. the government is increasingly starting to recognize this with the passage of this act.
reporter: microsoft says it decided to take it a step further with kinect add-on for x-box 360. it initially offered 17 titles with plenty more coming. as software developers creative ways to incorporate the interactive experience. the sensor tracks your joints. that s how it can identify you from your couch or the floor or anything else. it realizes once you step in front of it. from that point on, it s tracking your movements. it s able to track people in games. you can have multiple people playing, you can jump in and out, you can do things to work together as a team. like you and i can play on the same beach volleyball team. we can play on the same ping-pong team. we can navigate a river together. it s fun. you re collaborating and working with people and it s very social. reporter: microsoft s xbox 360 console has picked up steam in recent months and kinect could give it an extra boost.
shannon: we have seen the internet used for negative things that people connect with al-qaeda and get other ideas and check in with people that have negative aims this is really a chance to branch into something positive. a lot of it is through the exploratory trips to other countries. we do it all over the world and the middle east is one of the regions we do this in. we try to interact with the it community to understand how to better support the enter are entrepreneurs and business needs. we established a couple of google and user groups where software developers and technologists can get together and talk about the internet and different google products and share ideas and information. shannon: another important trip coming up? yes, we do. we are going to go to iraq and do some of the similar things to georgia d gaza and the west.