Well, another Thanksgiving day is upon us, and here in the United States, a lot of us shall pause from normal activities, gather around a tablet piled high with some serious feasting materials, and gorge ourselves until we cannot move. We shall visit with family and close friends, watch football (American Football that is), and take a [...]
Well, we have really covered the X60 Tablet PC from Lenovo at GottaBeMobile.com. So what is next? I know people are still curious about thismachine, and I feel guilty having ths fine piece of machinery in my hands and not answering lots of questions. So what would you folks like to see the most on [...]
Throughout the year, I’ve made it no secret that the Lenovo Thinkpad X41 has been my favorite convertible Tablet PC. I thorougly enjoyed it – the size, the keyboard, the weight, the extended battery, etc. The only negative I had was the speed – it handled my day to day to tasks well, but after [...]
Not sure about everyone else, but I had a dickens of a time getting to Vista RTM download on MSDN yesterday. The few times I could actually get the page to load, it would die when I tried to start the download with some kind of cryptic server error Now today I decided to try [...]
Well, it has been 24 hours since I received the Fujitsu P1610 Tablet PC, and I have to say I’m very, very pleased with it. I’m working on an InkShow that should be up sometime this weekend, so I’m hoping this article will answer a few questions folks have until I can get that video [...]
The past 4 years, my web programming career has basically been on “auto-pilot” mode. Because of some medical issues with my daughter, I lacked the mental capacity to soak in a new framework, architecture, etc. So, I kept programming with the languages I was comfortable with: Visual Basic, ColdFusion, Flash, and ASP. You do what you [...]
Much as been made of Vista’s User Account Control (UAC) as a new security feature. Given how vulnerable we all are to malware, Microsoft really didn’t have much of a choice but to make a major improvement in security features and follow the path that Apple and Linux take by keeping users away from the core of the OS. [...]
Having just launched our Tablet PC and Mobile PC discussion forums close to two weeks ago, we are continuing to make improvements based on feedback from our members. The first enhancement was the addition of an Off Topic discussion area. Off Topic areas are normally a place that we get to know each other on [...]
Brian Krebs, in a Washington Post column, is reporting that in order to keep things out of the courts and (speculation alert) to keep things on track for the release of Vista, Microsoft relented and made it easier for outside vendors (think Symantec, McAfee, etc..) to hook their software into the Vista OS. This is [...]
There are only 10 days left to enter the Make Me Mobile with Motion Contest. Start working on those essays and get your entry posted! The weekend is the perfect time to put your thoughts down and get to writing. Who knows, you might be unpacking a Motion Computing LS800 Tablet PC in a few [...]
Over the years, I’ve banged pretty hard on PC Magazine. Their lack of Tablet PC coverage at the most opportune times still continues to boggle my mind, but I believe that PC Magazine’s Cisco Cheng will make a dent there. In the Sept edition of PC Magazine, Cisco wrote up a First Looks article on [...]
Dennis Rice was able to get TabletPCBuzz.com back online this morning. Check out www.TabletPCBuzz.com for all the details. Spencer should be posting an update in the next couple of days, but Dennis has given the low down on what he was able to restore and why.
What’s happening at GottaBeMobile.com? Forums, a new server and contests with tons of great Prizes and swag galore! It has been a tremendous ride so far at GottaBeMobile.com. When Rob and I started this site back in February of this year, we envisioned a site that was full of fresh content on a regular basis with [...]
Dennis and I received an email from Spencer Goad, the owner of TabletPCBuzz.com . He has asked us to update you all on the status of TabletPCBuzz.com Spencer is currently out of the country and doesn’t have access available to look at the server and its current database errors. He does not have an ETA [...]
Beta testing on our new Forums area is going very well. We are getting a lot of good feedback and participation already. The general consensus among beta testers is that they are very excited about this new addition and cannot wait for it to go live. To prepare for the launch of Forums, we have [...]
Major kudos go out to Hugo Ortega, who was just awarded the Most Valued Professional Award by Microsoft for his online and offline work with Tablet PCs and UMPCs. Congratulations, Hugo. It was well deserved!
We’ve got 4 VIP tickets to the Digital Life conference that is being held at the Javits Center in New York from October 12 – 15. It is being billed as the largest consumer technology, gaming & entertainment event of the year. To win one of the four VIP tickets. listen to the GBM Forum [...]
As some of you might now, my family was recently blessed with the addition of two new children: my nieces from Mississippi, ages 6 and 11. I traveled to Mississippi a couple of weeks ago to pick them up and they are living with us indefinitely. So, that raises the number of children in my house [...]
We are pleased to announce that community discussion forums are coming to GottaBeMobile.com and will be live by Friday, October 6. We have actually been working diligently on this for several months, and now recognize the need to launch them sooner than originally planned. We are very excited about this new addition to GottaBeMobile.com, and you can [...]
Most people do not know what goes on behind the scenes at GBM to produce the InkShows that we publish at least twice a week. We have a schedule that is typically a month out, and we do our best to produce two InkShows a week. It is true that it takes a team to produce [...]
Earlier this month, I wrote an editorial regarding the placement of the Tablet PC program group within Vista. I also submitted my opinions to Microsoft as a bug, and was consequently told that Microsoft had made a decision to move the Tablet PC options group underneath Accessories. That remained the case as of Build 5472. [...]
Several months ago, we ran a “Design our Shirt” contest, so that we could launch our GottaBeMobile.com Gear Shop and give you something proudly to wear at the office on casual day, at the gym, conferences, banging around the house on a Saturday, etc. Kerim Satirli submitted the winning entry ( see below ) and received a [...]
Good news for iTunes users out there: you can now subscribe to our Podcast / Audio InkShows using iTunes via this link. Being total newbies to the podcast area, we have a bit of clean up work to do with show titles and descriptions so that they are more iTunes friendly. So, bear with the messed up title [...]
The Age.com.au is running a fascinating article about Gartner and their 10 year “evolutionary hype” cycle. Their cycle covers a number of stages and I’ll recap them briefly for you here, and then look at the Tablet PC. Gartner defines their “evolutionary hype” cycle as beginning with what they call the technology “trigger”, going through [...]
Catchy title, huh? I love getting to say that! We have been amazed at the response you, our readers have given the content on this site. We have quite the passionate group of readers, complemented by a lot of passion from Rob, Warner, and myself. What a great combination. So where do we go from [...]
In a recent GottaBeMobile.com Audio Inkshow interview with Jim Forbes of ForbesOnTech, Jim mentioned a disturbing instance where two PR flacks representing two different Tablet PC OEMs told him he couldn’t review their respective client’s Tablet PCs. Why? Because he had suffered a stroke and that might effect his handwriting. Jim mentioned that we would talk about [...]
Yesterday, I posted an editorial on the decision that Microsoft made to move the Tablet PC programs group deeper within the Programs menu and hide it under the Accessories group instead of making it a top level group option. I submitted this as a bug yesterday, and suprisingly, heard back on that issue today. Apparently, there was a decision made, between [...]
I was preparing for my next InkShow on the TIP and Personalization in Vista, when I came across some interesting changes in the categorization of included Tablet PC apps. In Windows XP SP2, when you go to Start / Programs, there is a folder called Tablet PC. In that folder is Journal, Sticky Notes, and [...]
We are pleased to announce another way for you to get your GBM fix: email notifications . After subscribing using this link or the link on the right side of the site, you will receive a daily update from FeedBltiz with links to all of the news, features, and InkShows that we have published for the day delivered [...]
In this article from Todd Bishop’s blog on SeattlePI.com, Todd quotes Microsoft’s Robbie Bach, president of the Entertainment and Devices Division, on how Microsoft sees the Zune fitting in to its media offerings. Read the quote and then jump down below for my comments: Speaking to an audience of financial analysts, Bach had this to say: “In [...]
Warner Crocker, a good friend and fellow GBM’er, is celebrating a major milestone today – his 50th birthday. Wow….50 years old. That is like, really, really old. Warner, did you know that when you were a freshman in High School, I wasn’t even born yet? When you were 30, I was just learning to drive? I [...]
In approximately August of 2002, I began a journey that would take me places I never dreamed. I came across some information about a new computing device called a “Tablet PC”, and the idea really appealed to me. I started looking around for more information, and eventually ended up in a web forum called, TabletPCBuzz.com. [...]
We just posted a new poll asking the question: When it comes time to replace your Tablet PC, would you buy another one? The poll is on the lower right hand side of the stie. For all you RSS readers out there, be sure to click through and come online to answer the poll question. [...]
Congratulations to Josh and Heather Einstein on the birth of their new baby boy: Jacob Tennyson Einstein. Have you given him his first Tablet PC yet? We are expecting great things out of that “Baby Einstein”! Josh is the developer of Tablet Enhancements for Outlook
As I’m working more with Vista, I’m finding little things here and there that just puzzle me. As a follow-up to my Vista and Ink post, here is another example of what would seem like an obvious Ink integration opportunity. Windows Vista has this wonderful new feature called Windows Sidebar. The Sidebar appears on the [...]
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Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE Review: A Worthy Successor to the Original (Video)
When Sprint had debuted the original WiMax-capable HTC EVO 4G nearly two years ago, it was an instant hit on the Now network. Not only was the HTC EVO 4G the first 4G smartphone in the world taking advantage of Sprint’s then speedy WiMax network, but it brought some new features and pizzazz to the [...]
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Google Search App iPhone and iPad Update Looks Beautiful (Video)
Google just delivered a beautiful update to the company’s Google Search app for the iPhone and iPad The Google Search app for iPhone and iPad replaced Safari as my browser of choice, earning a spot in the iPhone and iPad dock. It’s faster and offers a beautiful new full screen image search which looks awesome on the [...]
