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Lenovo inks blade desktop deal
News The company unfurled a tablet PC back in June and said it planned to open a centre to design different types of PCs for different markets such as potentially cheap PCs for places such as India. Similar to blade servers, blade desktops are complete...
[July 11, 2005, 9:15]
Origami's fondness for folding
Leader Of course, it's unthinkable that it's just a tiny tablet - too small to be productive, too big to be pocketable - so we can continue to tease ourselves with dreams of what else might be in the package.
[March 3, 2006, 14:20]
Gates still has unfinished business
News The Tablet PC, a frequent staple of Gates' Comdex keynote speeches in the 1990s, remains a fairly niche product. And, although the ability to control PCs through voice is built into Vista, the feature has received scant attention, and the operating...
[October 18, 2007, 18:30]
EverNote (beta) review
Reviews For Tablet PC users hooked on the stylus, a free-form, anywhere-on-the-page approach would be better. Also EverNote will soon charge users who want to synchronise notes between their Windows PCs and handhelds.
[February 16, 2005, 7:35]
Windows 7? No arm in it
Blog Comment My mother has a tablet PC; she never learned to use a typewriter and thus this is a godsend to her. It's not that nobody thought of using them on PCs - far from it! I've just spent a long time on the phone to someone trying to help them out with a...
[June 4, 2008, 9:16]
Photos: Origami Ultra Mobile PCs
News Like the other UMPCs, the Q1 runs Windows XP Tablet PC Intel's general manager for Europe, Christian Morales, introducing three Ultra Mobile Origami PCs — from Samsung, Asus and Founder — at CeBIT on 9 March.
[March 9, 2006, 12:55]
Comdex: Pen maker Cross crosses over to PC
News The pen works with Cross's digitiser tablet on any PC. The firm also plans to ship a Digital Writer line of pens in several colours and designs to attract users of handheld PCs. The venerable maker of ink pens is going electronic with the formation...
[November 21, 1997, 9:53]
Microsoft Vision II puts PC on back burner
News We're very enthused by developments in things like wireless and tablet computers," Gates said. Ballmer added that the business productivity division's aim will be "to get more value out of the information whether it's on PCs or palm-sized devices".
[March 30, 1999, 11:21]
Psion targets corporates in the PDA/PAD market
News Quantum is Psion's hardy tablet-style mobile device. Companies will not sign up for free devices or PCs. Analyst believe Personal Access Devices (PADs) may follow the "Free PC" trends, where appliances cost next to nothing but require customers to...
[July 16, 1999, 18:42]
HP merges security into desktop
News HP's new Mobile Print Driver for Windows is designed to help workers with a notebook or tablet PC connect to local and networked printers through an 802.11 or Bluetooth connection. The Embedded Security Manager is available today on certain HP...
[June 28, 2004, 9:15]
Meet the new Amiga: It's not like the old Amiga
News They will include a "multimedia convergence computer" and a wireless tablet computer. Instead, the reconstituted company acquired by Gateway Inc.a couple of years ago will supply operating system software and hardware reference specifications to...
[August 13, 1999, 9:06]
Longhorn's range shrunk for greater speed
News The software maker has not had a full release of its desktop operating system since Windows XP debuted in October 2001, although the company has shipped specialised versions of the operating system, such as the Tablet PC and Media Centre editions.
[August 31, 2004, 10:50]
Microsoft's Mundie looks beyond Gates
News Q: Bill Gates has pointed to a couple of things that are still part of his vision but are going to take longer than the amount of time he's going to be working full time — things like the Tablet PC really becoming a mainstream interface and his...
[May 18, 2007, 17:05]
Photos: Windows 7 Build 7048 review
Reviews Does your hardware support pen or tablet functions? On a home network with multiple Windows 7 PCs, you can set up and manage a Homegroup without going to the Network and Sharing Center. Windows 7 Build 7048, which leaked out of Microsoft's labs...
[March 11, 2009, 9:38]
Acer shows off Android netbook, smartphone
News Acer's Aspire 1820P notebook has a convertible tablet display that allows multitouch input. On Wednesday, Acer showed off some of its latest PCs, netbooks and smartphones at a London hotel. One of the biggest draws at the show was the Aspire One...
[October 14, 2009, 15:09]
Photos: 2nd generation UMPCs at CeBIT review
Reviews This makes typing much easier than it was with the Q1's pair of on-screen keyboards (regular Tablet PC and semicircular DialKeys). Last year's CeBIT saw the introduction of the first Ultra Mobile PCs (UMPCs), which had been the subject of much pre...
[March 16, 2007, 8:15]
Microsoft gets in a round of 'Talisker' for everyone
News Among the companies taking part in that program are Siemens, which is creating a Talisker-based Web-browsing tablet, and Wyse, which is using the new software to build a so-called thin client, a desktop machine that runs Windows-based programs...
[August 13, 2001, 10:40]
Microsoft and HP to unveil a PC console
News HP, along with several other manufacturers such as Toshiba, also adopted Microsoft's Windows XP Tablet PC Edition software. More recently, Microsoft has begun focusing the conference on PCs that connect to and communicate more fluidly with consumer...
[May 2, 2003, 14:33]
Windows 7 sparking developers' interest
News Although touch will remain a small part of the total PC market, Engelhardt said he sees it expanding from where it is today, with a few desktop models as well as a handful of convertible tablet laptops.
[June 4, 2009, 9:09]
Intel shows off Origami-like prototypes
News Intel on Tuesday plans to show off the mini-tablet device at the centre of Microsoft's Origami Project. Although Intel has consumers in mind for the Ultra Mobile PCs, Graff said he expects technology enthusiasts, as well as some niche business and...
[March 8, 2006, 8:00]
