Do Tablets Face A Convertible Future?
News The projected number of tablets is small compared with the overall number of notebooks. Manufacturers and consumers are still trying to figure out what to do with tablets and if they make sense for their daily lives," said IDC analyst Richard Shim.
[October 20, 2005, 19:45]
Microsoft Blamed For Making Tablets Hard To Swallow
Talkback Jobs was right. There's no market for this crap at this time. Besides, the Newton did it first, and better, years ago.
[November 7, 2003, 22:53]
Microsoft Blamed For Making Tablets Hard To Swallow
Talkback Well its a M$ product. Nuff said
[November 7, 2003, 20:57]
Microsoft Blamed For Making Tablets Hard To Swallow
Talkback Microsoft sucks. That is all.
[March 3, 2004, 23:51]
Environment Agency Swallows Tablets
News The Environment Agency is rolling out tablet PCs to its inspectors in an attempt to improve productivity and limit the impact on the environment. The government body, which is responsible for enforcing environmental regulations, hopes that the...
[June 30, 2006, 15:55]
Ballmer: Tablets Will Displace Laptops
News Although tablet PCs represent just a sliver of the PC market today, Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer says the new category could eventually account for one-third of all computers -- by supplanting the laptop.
[November 18, 2002, 14:04]
Microsoft Offers Extra-strength Tablets
News Microsoft on Wednesday added broader language support to its Smart Display and Tablet PC technologies and announced a manufacturing deal with Packard Bell. Packard Bell, NEC's consumer PC division, joins Samsung, ViewSonic and other display makers...
[March 13, 2003, 7:43]
Microsoft Tablets Start Strong In Europe
News Sales of portables running Microsoft's Tablet PC software started strong out of the gate in Europe, according to market researcher Context. Despite only a partial quarter of sales, Microsoft tablet PCs accounted for 1 percent of European portable...
[January 29, 2003, 7:37]
Microsoft Blamed For Making Tablets Hard To Swallow
News One year after Microsoft launched its tablet PC operating system, sales have been disappointing, the choice of models is still poor, and software developers have no incentive to create specialist applications, according to a report by research...
[November 7, 2003, 9:05]
Tablet PC Shipments Fizzle Out
Talkback They can improve the tablets as much as they want, but the underlying problem is that this market does not exist. Gadjeteers may find them interesting, but these tablets cannot compete with PDAs for the PDA market, which itself is not growing.
[July 31, 2003, 7:29]
Nokia Unveils Latest Linux Tablet
News Nokia has released the latest in its line of touchscreen internet tablets, the N810 — the first device in the series to come with integrated GPS and a slide-out keyboard. The N810 will come with Skype and a Mozilla-based browser pre-installed and...
[October 18, 2007, 9:05]
CE Family Welcomes Mira
News Although devices using Microsoft's Mira technology are still a few months from hitting shelves, the software giant said on Wednesday that it has settled on its name for the software that will power the Web-surfing tablets.
[June 27, 2002, 10:03]
Wireless Thin Client Tablet Or Tablet PC: What's The Difference?
White Papers However, it should be noted that all tablets are not equal, as there are several existing tablet architectures, including Microsoft smart displays, web appliances, Wireless Thin Client Tablets, pen computers, and tablet PCs; each with their own...
[January 16, 2005, 23:00]
Tablet PC Shipments Fizzle Out
Talkback While a case could be made as to why convertable Tablets like the Acer have to be more expensive, other Tablets are essentially normal laptops with the keyboard removed. When you use the existing tablets, there's a noticable and irritating lag...
[July 30, 2003, 18:13]
Toshiba Beefs Up Tablet PC
News Along with a number of competitors that have also recently released new tablets, Toshiba is aiming to capture more business in the fledgling category of computers that can capture handwriting and be operated with a pen.
[November 19, 2003, 9:45]
Tablet PCs: Sales Still Hard To Swallow
News Sales of convertible tablets were up 93 percent, while sales of slate PCs fell by 45 percent, compared to the same period last year. For all the positive feedback that comes from users once they have had hands-on experience of tablets, mainstream...
[August 12, 2004, 8:15]
New Tablet OS 'easier To Use'
News One university, Winona State University, is issuing about 4,000 Gateway tablets to students and faculty this year. But manufacturers are hopeful that Tablet PC Edition 2005, a new version of the operating system unveiled last week, will mark a...
[August 31, 2004, 9:30]
Mira Device Gains New Supporters
News Unlike many other Web tablets, Mira actually doesn't function as an independent computer. Long term, Microsoft doesn't see Mira limited to tablets. Microsoft has added four consumer-electronics giants to the stable of companies committed to making...
[March 13, 2002, 8:52]
Microsoft Tries Again With Ultramobile PCs
News The latest tablets, code-named Vistagami because of their Windows Vista support, also will come in a wider range of looks, including some models with keyboards. Sony's UX series devices cost even more than the mini-tablets and sport a built-in...
[December 22, 2006, 8:00]
Webpad Maker Switches To Windows
News In Taiwan, Acer and AboCom are both developing Windows CE-based Web tablets, according to Microsoft. FIC currently makes one of the handful of Linux-based Web tablets on the market, the AquaPAD, which is currently also available running Windows.
[November 6, 2001, 16:32]

