The story about Vista and enhanced newspaper reading is posted on just about every website and tech blogs, so I won’t repeat it all here. Good stuff…I love electronic book reading. However, while perusing tech.memeorandum.com , I came across this shot of Tom Bodkin, assistant managing editor at The New York Times demoing the new [...]
I was talking with a good friend of mine over the weekend who passed along some very interesting information regarding Lenovo. I trust the man completely and feel good about blogging it. Before the X41 Tablet PC was announced last year, he was given a private demo of the X41 during an IBM Partner conference. During [...]
I’ve been following Christian’s posts the past several weeks as he has been developing a utility to control the fan on his Tecra M4 Tablet PC. He started developing the app as a way of prolonging battery life and adjusting the noisy fan. Well, he has just released the utility and has made it available. [...]
Craig Pringle, a fellow Tablet PC MVP, has posted a good wrap-up on Vista and Tablet PCs. Check it out.
David Radin of Post-Gazette.com has just posted a nice article on the improvements in handwriting recognition since his last review. Tablet PCs have come a long way. The last time I reviewed one, I had a good experience with the software; but the hardware had its problems. Recently, though, I’ve been using a convertible laptop [...]
I was just checking out the DualCor website and noticed that they have provided some really good details on the DualCor cPC, with complete specs. Once of the things I noticed in the specs is that it says “Origami UI option”. The other interesting thing is that the cPC appears to be running the Via 1.5 ghz processor on [...]
I’ve really fallen in love with this LS800. As nice as the tablet pc is, however, there is one accessory that makes it usable for me: the bump case. Without the bumpcase and the integrated stand, I think I would just be a frustrated slate user and end up having to send it back. The [...]
Melissa Chotiner contributes to a Blackboard blog and wrote a really good article on Tablet PCs and education. In the article, she points to a research project they participated in, interviews Brad Baldwin, of Agilix , and also points to StudentTabletPC.com . She pulls some really good quotes from one of Tracy’s articles about how she integrates a tablet [...]
I was talking with Dennis last night and he has been slammed with network support all week – 12 – 15 hours days. I’ve been heads down programming all week, trying to wrap up several web projects. A quick look online at Messenger and I see Trevor and Tracy of www.StudentTabletPC.com are behind the 8 [...]
When I was with Dennis at CES in January, we got to see one the new SanDisk 1GB Ultra II SD Plus USB cards cards – they are very cool. I just picked one up from up from Buy.com and am now storing it in my Treo 700W. When I go to a customer site and need [...]
Spam is out of control. Way out of control. I used to get about 100 – 150 spam emails a day. My Outlook junk email filter did a great job of handling it, but I still had to download them and when I was mobile with just my Treo, I was downloading them there too. [...]
James and Kevin of JkOnTheRun.com are doing a fantastic job with their mobile postings. They have really raised the bar on the quality of the postings and applicability to mobile users. Keep up the good work – you are doing an awesome job! If you don’t subscribe to www.JkOnTheRun.com, visit them and add them to your RSS reader [...]
Looking for the killer laptop but don’t necessarily have the bucks? Well, Dell is running a 35% off special on Inspiron notebooks priced $999 or more. Coupon code: LNB2339KQ35MMR Thanks to Kevin over at www.JkOnTheRun.com for the info
We all run in to situations where we need to get a 10 – 50mb file to someone, but due to size limitations on emails, getting it to them is difficult if you don’t have an ftp server or something. Enter www.YouSendIt.com Go to www.YouSendIt.com, browse to the file you need to send, type in [...]
I frequently find myself in situations where I need to print a document, but either the client doesn’t have a printer, I’m in a hotel without my printer, or the security is such on the network that I can’t use their printer. What is a mobile guy to do? I’m sure many of you have solutions [...]
– I’m always interested to hear what anyone has to say about Tablet’s and UMPC’s. I cruise the internet looking for new thoughts, new faces, etc. in order to help provide what we hope is a well rounded reporting experience for you. I cam across this blog entry today, from James Forbes. Here is the [...]
- I’m not sure whether Loren has more time or ideas. Whichever it is, he keeps coming up with new things to do with ink. First he came out with ink in IE (primarily on form filling), and now he decided to play with doing ink in Firefox. Surprised a Microsoft MVP is playing with [...]
– Just a quick pointer to The Carrypad UMPC journal. They have a UMPC “Top 10″ list up of people’s interest in their UMPC Product Portal page. Like they say, it is not exactly scientific, but interesting nonetheless. If you haven’t checked it out, it is a good source of info on Ultra-Mobile PC hardware [...]
- Oh man, I just had to post this one I picked up from Robert Scobles blog. A very cool and hilarious cartoon about the whole browser wars thing. Embedded in the rhetoric are actually some truths, and if your “force” is strong enough, you will pick up on them. Okay, I admit it, I [...]
– Emily on the Microsoft Ultra-Mobile PC Origami team, has posted more on her travels with a UMPC over at Origamiproject.com, the team blog. If you remember, her last adventure was on a bus ride, but this one went a little further and ended up in Europe. I enjoy listening to her, but am still [...]
– Well, this is not exactly deep, but it does make sense. In a PC World interview Dadi Perlmutter, senior vice president and general manager of Intel’s Mobility Group, makes some comments about this “round of UMPC’s that have been announced and are close to shipping: “On May 1, Samsung Electronics will start selling its [...]
– Another quick goodie I picked up from jkontherun, and I quote: “David Gaw has an informative, under 9 minute video review of the Toshiba Portege M400 Tablet PC, which is basically a refresh of the M200 line. As an M205 owner for the past 16 months, I was tempted to upgrade to the M400 [...]
- Palm addicts is giving you a chance to win a TC1100 Tablet PC! They (literally) don’t make them like this anymore! Source: jkontherun
More tablet pc news from the vertical markets, this time from the automotive industry. From The Auto Channel, we get word of some new tablet pc based customer service software. A new generation of automotive customer service software is on the way! Wynn’s, a division of Illinois Tool Works, Inc., headquartered in Azusa, Calif., has [...]
Here is another sign where Tablet PCs in the mobile world are making their mark – delivery drivers using tablet pcs to deliver beer. Intersolve just raised $2 million to develop this tracking system. BTW: if anyone at Intersolve wants to send some software our way, Dennis and I would really be interested in beta testing [...]
– One of the things Rob and I have considered from the beginning of our planning for GottaBeMobile.com was to cover Media Center as well as it pertains to mobile devices. Is this something people are interested in? The thought came from the fact that lots more mobile PC’s, Tablets, etc. are coming with Media [...]
We just published a new poll on note-taking ( on the right side of the site ): What do you primarily use to take notes? GoBinder, OneNote, EverNote, TEO, Journal, Word, MindManager, Notepad, Paper,None of the above Thanks for participating.
I always appreciate a really, really good review – one that gives me practical, take home advice on how I can use something. Tracy Hooten has done just that with her TEO 3.0 review. There has been a fair amount of positive buzz regarding TEO 3.0 and rightly so. A “plug-in” it is not. Whether you have watched [...]
I received the following email from Steve Van der Hoeven, Product Manager for Fortune Fountain Ltd, the developers of DialKeys. I asked Steve if I could pass along the email to you so it would help clarify anything I failed to demonstrate on the eo video review, or explain why certain things would not work. Dear Rob [...]
– OrigamiPortal.com is reporting some more detail on the official launch of the Samsung Q1. Apparently a forum member (Maverick) made some calls to get the scoop. Here what what they had to say: “After the news came out that the Samsung Q1 would be released in Korea on May 1st there was a lot [...]
Warner just IM’d me a link to Frank’s blog where Frank posts about TabletKiosk delaying a majority of the eo orders until the beginning of June due to a quality control issue. As the end of April rapidly approaches, we find ourselves in the position of having to balance our commitment to quality with the expectation of a [...]
– Very cool video about technology in flying ON “10″, whis is a great site dedicated to showing innovative uses on new technology. David Hale of Microsoft and others talk about using the Tablet PC as a tech tool for flying. David takes the reporter on a flight that he plans and executes all on [...]
– “Asustek will introduce its first tablet PC (R1) in May or June, according to the Chinese-language Apple Daily. Overseas media reports in January suggested the company would be launching slate- and notebook-style tablet PCs in April or May. At that time, the notebook-style version was dubbed the “R1F”. The specs published then match the [...]
– I used to read a lot of ebooks on my HP TC1000, back when Microsoft was giving away a free ebook each week. My wife and I both got hooked until we started to have to pay for the books. Just too expensive. Now with the release of Ultra-Mobile PC’s imminent, I would really [...]
– Adam Blankenship is thinking about the future of Ultra-Mobile PC’s. He’s also thinking about the future of how his company could be affected by the use of a UMPC. I like his thinking. This is an example where people are thinking about how this device could be used for more than just an entertainment [...]
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