Frank Gocinski has posted an excellent example of the problems that still plague mobile users: how much time it takes to get connected to the stuff we need when mobile. I’d encourage you to check out his post. Sound familiar? He closes it with this plea to the mobile developers: As the world goes mobile [...]
Chris Pratley has posted an entry on his blog announcing the new official name of the Office 12 packages. The best part is that OneNote is now included in some of the Office packages: Office Home and Student. That makes perfect sense considering how well OneNote is situated for students. Unfortunately, it will not be [...]
Nobody can deny that the healthcare vertical market has been one of the most successful for Tablet PC OEMs like Motion Computing and Fujitsu. If you follow the medical industry, you might want to check out this press release from Microsoft where they talk about their successes in the medical space and also highlight some [...]
Intel shipping Ultra Mobile PC coming this quarter? More info coming out on UMPC’s….. Wonder how accurate this is? There is not a great deal of facts surrounding this project, so don’t draw too many quick conclusions. As we stated when blogging this from the Microsoft Mobile Partner Briefing, these specs are design goals, which may take [...]
I had a good email conversation with the folks from xThink this weekend. Look for the beta testing on MathJournal 2.0 to begin soon. New features and functions to look forward to. I’ll be doing some beta testing for them and am really looking forward to it. If you are interested, check this page out.
I’m putting the DocuPen RC800 scanner to good use this week, as I meet with clients, scanning things on the go. I plan on posting a more detailed entry about the entire workflow from scanning, importing, etc. For right now, I just wanted to let you know some of my initial findings: 1) scanning small [...]
Electrovaya has just released a new Tablet PC model to their Scribbler line: the SC3100 State-of-the-art SuperPolymer ® Lithium-ion 75 Whr battery New BOE Hydis 180 viewing angle screen Dual Array Microphone System for better quality of sound†Now available ““Outdoor Viewable Screen†for your Scribbler‡ Extended battery run-time of up to 9 [...]
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This will definitely be a story to watch. Microsoft Corp. plans to unveil several devices Monday as well as offers from cell phone-service providers as it aims at the lucrative mobile e-mail market now dominated by Research in Motion’s BlackBerry device, according to a published report. The Wall Street Journal reported Monday that Microsoft (Research) [...]
Warner Crocker has posted an excellent entry on using OneNote, PDF Annotator, and web cam via a Tablet PC to do the theatre audition. Well worth checking out. Thanks for posting this, Warner. The more practical experience we offer the community, the better.
The Intel collaboration news on ultra mobile pc just keeps coming. From Digiens (via Lora) The feature a photo what they are calling Samsung’s Ultra Mobile PC. I don’t see where it lines up with Microsoft’s Lifestyle PC spec, but it still looks pretty interesting. Samsung as an OEM would be a good choice. They [...]
I attended CES last year with a single goal in mind: establish relationships with OEMs in order to provide better content for my readers and the Tablet PC community. I attended CES this year with that same goal in mind. That content includes reviews of new units when they are launched so that the many [...]
Chris Pratley has just posted a great blog entry regarding OneNote 12 and the Tablet PC. A must read for Tablet PC users. Here is an excerpt: I promised some time ago to write about the Tablet experience in OneNote 12 and how it has changed. This is a tricky topic to cover since there [...]
Ken Hardy is talking more about the Lifestyle PC at the Mobile Division Partners Brief on making Windows Personal. Here are my notes from his talk: Lifestyle devices Small Enough to go anywhere Simple enough to be used naturally Fashionable enough to be carried Devices stop becoming bits and hardware, they are about the music collection, [...]
Arnie Lund is talking about the new Lifestyle PCs at the Microsoft Mobility Brief. The following are some of my notes from the brief His major talking points – a must-read to understand where Microsoft and the OEMs want to go with these ultra mobile / lifestyle device. These points paint a really good picture [...]
Look for the following device to be announced very soon From Bill Mitchell’s slide: The ideal Lifestyle Ultra-Mobile PCs will be wearable all day battery life (12 hr on-time) $500 msrp always on connection through 3G instant use 10†Pen based full windows based There will be trade offs of the above featues to hit [...]
I think this is safe to post about since Chris Pratley posted a comment on my blog on how to link to an individual paragraph or page within a onenote section from MindManager. I tried out his tip last night and I had a lot of trouble getting to work, until I started investigating MindManager [...]
I’ve officially switched over from GoBinder to OneNote 12 beta for my free form notetaking and storage of printed documents. In addition, when I need to do free form notetaking within MindManager, I create a hyperlink from a topic to the OneNote section where I am storing that note. I’ve printed all of my GoBinder [...]
I just love technology. I especially love getting my hands on gadgets, playing with them, figuring out what works / doesn’t work — especially for my customers. I’ve been putting the Thinkpad X41 Table PC through its paces since last Friday and then running some working scenario comparsions against the Toshiba M200 Tablet PC. For [...]
On November 7, 2002 Microsoft launched the Tablet PC platform and what a ride it has been. I have been through more computers in the past three years than I ever thought possible. I have owned or still own the following Tablet PCs in the following order: HP TC1000, Motion M1300, Toshiba M200, Motion M1400VA, [...]
Overall, I’ll say that I’m pleased with the LE1600 Convertible Keyboard. I’ll summarize my thoughts as a series of bullet points, rather than a very long post. Likes: It props up the tablet and allows for a wide range of angle placement, much like a regular laptop. No messy cables The keyboard is much better [...]
I received the LE1600 last Friday. With everything that Motion has done innovation wise to this tablet, I was really excited about the possibilities. I’ve always liked the Motion tablets: I’ve owned 2 of them prior to this one — M1300 and M1400VA. Motion kept up with excellence in design and innovation and there is [...]
In my review of the Motion Bluetooth Keyboard, I talked about a much needed accessory: a prop in the back of the tablet, that when folded out, it would prop the tablet up like a picture frame Well, after talking with Trevor Claiborne (a felllow Tablet PC MVP), I became aware of the SlateGlove. Its’ [...]
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