Hey people! I’m in the cell phone waiting lot at Philadelphia International Airport waiting for my friend to arrive. Thought I’d spill some ink and share the tools I’ll be testing while here: the T-Mobile WebConnect Rocket USB modem and the Fujitsu Lifebook T900 Tablet PC. Already ran some download tests and checked my friend’s [...]
Apple knows how to keep its hand in your face. Quite a few companies are using the Computex show to bring their hoped for iPad competitors onto the radar screen, and we’ve see a few announcements and prototypes so far. Sitting comfortably in Cupertino while Computex gets underway, Apple announced that iPad sales have now [...]
The Taiji Windows 7 Slate being shown off at Computex adds an interesting twist to the “here come the slates” entry. It has a small detachable Bluetooth keyboard. The Slate is running Windows 7 on a VIA C7 M processor so don’t look for a speed demon here. Check out the video below. Shanzai.com via [...]
Asus is not only showing off its Eee Pad prototypes at Computex, it is also touting the Eee Tablet. Confused? well, kinda, sorta. But Inkers might pay attention to the distinction. The 8 inch, 1024 x 768 pixel display of the Eee Tablet is being targeted towards note takers. It is capable of displaying 64 [...]
The Asus Eee Pad has great expectations behind it. At Computex, we’re starting to see info and hands on reports about the slates from the folks who started the Netbook craze. Asus is showing off two models. The 12-inch EP121 features Intel’s Core 2 Duo CULV processors, is running Windows 7, and supposedly meets the [...]
Computex is underway and from what the pre-show hype tells us, we’re supposed to be seeing Tablets and Slates that are being targeted towards the end of the year being ballyhooed. MSI has jumped out of the gate with its Wind Pad 100, a 10 inch, Intel Atom (1.66GHz), Windows 7 Home Premium based slate. [...]
Maybe it is just that I sweat easily and I guess a lot. (Not quite as much as the guy in the picture.) But when the Virginia humidity kicks in during the late spring and summer, I find myself very frustrated with touch screen and touch enabled trackpads on devices. It’s early on what will [...]
Watching the Tablet/Slate landscape these days is like watching a classic western where the town folks slowly realize that the new shooter in town might take out the bad guys that they have been bowing to all these years. The script is always the same. You get one or two good citizens who get it [...]
We already know that whatever Amazon comes out with next for its Kindle that it won’t have a color screen. Bloomberg is reporting that when it quotes a couple of unidentified sources that whatever the new Kindle will be we’ll see it debut this August. According to Bloomberg, the new Kindle will be thinner and [...]
Apple sure created a revolution with its iPad alright. But not the one anybody was really thinking it would. Tablet/Slate manufacturers were all set to follow Apple’s path, but as it stands now, while they may be working on “me too” products, plans keep shifting and things keep getting delayed as they try to compete. [...]
According to Engadget, the next iteration of Apple TV will shift further away from being a crippled Mac and much closer to being, well, a crippled iPhone. Might sound like a downgrade, but here’s the kicker – they’re aiming for a price-point of $99. Better, right? Maybe but there are still key questions to be [...]
Traveling with a bag full of computers and gadgets can be a real pain. One of the most frustrating things I deal with when traveling is that most hotel rooms simply aren’t set up for guests traveling with multiple computers, cameras and mobile devices. There’s rarely enough AC outlets to plug more than a couple [...]
I’ve gone for two years without a decent checklist/to-do list app for my iPhone. Wanted something I could take lists I made on my PC, share it back and forth, not be tied to either device, and look cool. Well, my wait appears to be over thanks to Egretlist, a to-do list app that syncs [...]
Voice and data are key elements of any smartphone, but not so much for tablets and PMPs. Well, a company called Iota aims to fix that with a device called FLEX, a flexible square ring that can route voice and text to your Android-based tablet, eReader or media player effectively turning it into a phone. [...]
The One Laptop Per Child foundation may be slowly chugging along these days, but they’re still pushing ahead with that $100 laptop goal. Their latest step forward, however, isn’t a laptop but a slate tablet based on Marvell’s Moby design.
Here’s a rumor that’s sure to make the heads explode of fanboys from all corners: Steve Ballmer is said to be speaking at the keynote at Apple’s Worldwide Developer’s Conference next week, talking about using Visual Studio 2010 to build apps for the Apple environment. Let the Internet be set ablaze!
One thing you can say about reading books on the iPad, you have some choice available to you as to what platform you want to read from. Obviously there is Apple’s iBooks reader and store, and I think everyone was pleasantly surprised when Amazon had its Kindle App available for that platform at the US [...]
Acer had declared that they weren’t focusing on the Tablet/Slate craze. Well, that apparently didn’t last. Acer CEO Gianfranco Lanci was recently seen showing off a 7″ Android Tablet in Beijing. From the picture, I’d have to agree with Engadget that it looks like it follows the Amazon Kindle form factor of having a screen [...]
The first version of MeeGo, the mighty gestalt OS formed by Intel’s Moblin and Nokia’s Maemo, is now available for developers and geeks to try out. This gives developers a chance to get cracking on apps and geeks a chance to be geeks. Speaking of which, Brad Linder already has a video of it in [...]
Joanna Stern with Engadget got a peek at a 10″ tablet based running a Marvell chipset. She didn’t find out which on of Marvell’s customers will be offering it, but whoever it is, they’ll have a fairly sleek-looking gadget on their hands. “…it has a brushed metal back and there’s an opening on the front [...]
Today MobileDemand officially announced its sponsorship of the Red Bull Racing Team. I’m in Charlotte, North Carolina with the NASCAR team to learn more about how the team uses mobile technology as it preps for the Coca Cola 600. Yesterday I met up with the Red Bull team, MobileDemand CEO Matt Miller and Notebooks.com’s Kevin Purcell [...]
The parent group for Holiday Inn, InterContinental Hotels Group, is looking to get you into your hotel room more quickly. Two Holiday Inns will be testing a system that allows you to use your SmartPhone to unlock your room, allowing you to avoid the front desk check in logjam entirely. It looks like the test [...]
It seems like hardly a day goes by that we don’t see a new study that says Netbooks are on the decline. And of course we have one today. Most of the recent ones focus on the iPad, but this latest one suggests that Netbooks are being squeezed from both the iPad and Notebooks. This [...]
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos told shareholders that bringing color to the Amazon Kindle eBook reader “is still a long way out” and not in the immediate future. Calling what he’s seen in his labs, “not ready for prime time production,” I’m guessing that Bezos is a little frustrated by what he’s seeing. That said, keep [...]
Lenovo is offering the Lenovo G455 dual core AMD powered notebook for $549, including free shipping, after an instant $150 discount. The 14″ Lenovo G455 is powered by an AMD Athlon II X2 M320 2.1GHz Dual-core CPU, 3GB DDR2 RAM, a 320GB hard drive and an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4200 512MB GPU. Visit LogicBuy [...]
Good news if you are in the UK and are in the market for what once upon a time would have been called an MID: The Dell Streak is officially announced to be on the O2 network. Woo hoo! Let’s go Streaking! (…or maybe I should let Dell come up with their own tagline.)
If you didn’t catch The Big Bang Theory last night (and your DVR missed it because Chuck ran two hours), you missed out on seeing Dr. Sheldon Cooper, PhD use an HP TC1000 series Tablet PC to help the guys shoot a laser at the moon. But not to worry, we got you covered. Oh, [...]
Environmentally-aware blog GreenerComputing has reported on a couple of companies saving trees and money by using iPads for printed material instead of paper. While the environmental savings can be debated, the monetary savings appear substantial. Sounds good, but I also see the iPad is stealing yet another device’s thunder.
In a move to get their New York City customers online (and divert traffic away from their overcrowded 3G network), AT&T has announced a Wi-Fi “hotzone” program that aims to cover broader areas with Wi-Fi, starting with the ever-busy Times Square.
Dell Home is offering the 1″ thin Dell Inspiron 14z dual core notebook for $399 after an instant discount of $265. The Dell Inspiron 14z is a 14″ notebook and is powered by an Intel Pentium Dual-core SU4100 1.3GHz CPU, 250GB hard drive, 3GB DDR3 RAM and comes with a 4-cell battery. Visit LogicBuy for [...]
Looks like the good folks in England will get their hands on the Dell Streak in early June. The Android Tablet/Phone with the 5 inch screen will roll out with O2 as the exclusive carrier at first. The rest of Europe will follow later in the month and those of us interested in the device [...]
Everywhere you look, Google’s Android is a hot topic these days, and rightly so. The news is tough to keep up with it seems so fast and furious and at the Google I/O conference last week, Google unleashed a flurry of announcements that was dizzying. Android has been the big thing for quite some time [...]
Last week Mary Jo Foley hinted that J Allard the man behind Microsoft’s XBox, and who was also behind Microsoft Courier, was none too happy with the cancellation of that device and might be headed out of the company. Today the Wall St. Journal is sort of quasi confirming that story saying Microsoft is prepping [...]
In case you missed the various signs and hints of the pending arrival of the next iPhone, here’s a round-up of stuff from just the past day or so.
Intel Vice President Mooly Eden, who previously answered positively to a question about whether Intel was serious about tablets, answered a new question from our friend Chippy at Carrypad about their new ultra-thin solutions in tablets. The keyword this time is “dedicated”.
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