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July 11, 2011 at 8:40 pm

I received a Motorola XOOM recently to review and must admit I am quite enamoured. In this world of overly critical Tablet awareness it is easy to suggest that when it’s not an iPad (2) it’s not good.

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Will an Amazon Tablet Succeed?

May 13, 2011 at 5:10 am

[caption id="attachment_50585" align="alignright" width="300" caption="What's Next from the Online Giant?"][/caption] Some of the biggest releases of 2011 have now landed and we’re knee deep in news about how this tablet or that tablet will single handedly ove...

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Do Travelers Use Different Tablets from City Dwellers?

May 7, 2011 at 12:56 pm

[caption id="attachment_49477" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Does Travel Affect Your Tablet Choice?"][/caption] There are millions of new tablets entering the marketplace every month, but we still can’t seem to agree on which tablets will sell best, how l...

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Sony’s New Tablets Court the Gaming Crowd

May 4, 2011 at 4:15 am

[caption id="attachment_48825" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Sony's Twin Tablet Entries "][/caption] News leaked a few months ago that Sony was working on a gaming tablet.

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After the Consumer Market Where is the Next Big Tablet Push?

April 30, 2011 at 12:40 pm

[caption id="attachment_48423" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Where's Will Tablets Boom Next?"][/caption] Like most technologies that finally make it to the mainstream, tablet PCs and the iPad in particular are finding success in large part because they...

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Pushing the Boundaries of Technology in Tablets

April 21, 2011 at 2:32 pm

[caption id="attachment_47154" align="alignright" width="237" caption="Foreseeing what's next isn't easy"][/caption] A couple days ago, there was a rumor that a Lenovo insider had revealed company plans to release a 23” tablet by the end of 2011 for home ...

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What Should Your Tablet Weigh?

April 18, 2011 at 3:18 pm

[caption id="attachment_46587" align="alignright" width="300" caption="What's the Right Weight?"][/caption] An acquaintance of mine received a new tablet the other day and when I asked him how it felt, the first thing he said was that it was intuitive, slick and...

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Is Free the Right Price?

April 15, 2011 at 1:08 pm

[caption id="attachment_46394" align="alignright" width="300" caption="How Low Should Prices Go?"][/caption] Whenever a new tablet hits the market, one of the first things people want to know is how much it will cost.

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Do We Really Need eReaders?

April 11, 2011 at 6:41 am

[caption id="attachment_45510" align="alignright" width="275" caption="What's Next for the eReader Market?"][/caption] Two years ago, Amazon was on top of the world.

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Multi or Single Platform Computing?

April 8, 2011 at 8:58 am

[caption id="attachment_45261" align="alignright" width="300" caption="How Many Platforms Will You Use?"][/caption] It wasn’t very many years ago that the vast majority of computing was done on one of two platforms – Windows or Mac OS.

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Convertible Tablets – Can They Sell?

April 5, 2011 at 9:31 am

[caption id="attachment_45266" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Asus EeePad Transformer"][/caption] The earliest tablet PCs didn't look much like what we use today.

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How the Demand for Content Changes the Tablet Game

March 21, 2011 at 9:51 am

[caption id="attachment_42593" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Tablet Only Content - Can it Work?"][/caption] When the iPad was first released many people were skeptical of its potential, and a lot of that was driven by the platform’s lack of content to dif...

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Common Tasks on a Tablet

March 18, 2011 at 9:00 am

[caption id="attachment_42463" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Getting Things Done on Your iPad"][/caption] Tablets are not designed to do any one thing.

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How Many Tablets Will You Own?

March 15, 2011 at 4:44 am

There are some people who think we’re entering a tablet bubble – that analysts are pushing growth too hard and that people don’t yet know what they will do with their tablets.

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Tablet Features Two Years from Now

March 11, 2011 at 8:57 am

There have been a lot of words written in the last week about the iPad 2’s upgrades and how they stack up to the other tablets hitting the market this year.

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A QUESTION OF ECOSYSTEM VIABILITY IN 2011

March 5, 2011 at 4:51 pm

One of the many reasons Apple was able to finally jumpstart the tablet market (and stay on top of it for almost a year and counting) was their mastery of this concept of an ecosystem based device.

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Remote Desktop vs. Desktop Functionality on a Tablet

March 5, 2011 at 4:05 am

[caption id="attachment_40853" align="alignright" width="256" caption="Access your desktop remotely, or remotely work on your desktop"][/caption] Everyone has different ideas about what a tablet PC should do.

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How do you get it on with your Tablet?

February 25, 2011 at 10:07 pm

[caption id="attachment_39714" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Lets move forward folks!"][/caption] One of the best features of a tablet PC is that it does not require external input devices.

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Honeycomb’s Likely Impact in 2011

February 24, 2011 at 1:39 pm

[caption id="attachment_39564" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Google's Honeycomb Bee in the waiting"][/caption] Motorola’s Xoom is finally here and Apple is set to announce the iPad 2 on March 2nd.

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When does size matter on your Tablet?

February 21, 2011 at 6:04 am

[caption id="attachment_39168" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Back in 2007 - with 5" OQO and EVERUN"][/caption] Over the weekend, news leaked of Apple preparing a larger iPod Touch to compete with low end tablets that offer a smaller screen size than th...

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How Much Should a Tablet Cost?

February 18, 2011 at 9:49 pm

How much, or how little, should a Tablet cost? [caption id="attachment_39035" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Cheap, Cheaper, Cheapest?"][/caption] I remember early 2010 before the iPad turned into something more than a longstanding rumor.

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Tablets must Find a Niche to Call Their Own

February 15, 2011 at 12:00 pm

There are a lot of reports bouncing around the Internet about projected tablet sales, how tablet devices will be the next laptop device or how Apple will remain the market leader for years to come.

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The State of Tablet PCs in 2011

February 11, 2011 at 5:16 pm

As many of you know I’ve been working with Tablets for well over a decade. I’ve owned countless Tablets, produced countless videos (and bloopers) and my enthusiasm has never wavered.

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Choosing the Right Tablet OS and Ecosystem

February 11, 2011 at 4:35 pm

Tablet PCs for nearly a decade ran almost exclusively with a Windows operating system. Enterprising users could install various forms of Linux and occasionally a third party would try their hand at the platform, but Windows was the only mass market option.

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