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Microsoft Offers Extra-strength Tablets
News A tablet PC is a fully functioning computer that is accessed either by stylus or keyboard and mouse. Smart Display-based and Tablet PC-based products let consumers and business people access information using a stylus instead of a keyboard and...
[March 13, 2003, 7:43]
Symbian Shipments Rise Amid Doubts Over Future
News Bubley added that this was this is particularly true of other licensees of Series 60, which is Nokia's implementation of Symbian for mobile phones that use only their numerical keypad, rather than a stylus, for input.
[February 23, 2004, 11:10]
Tablet PC Shipments Fizzle Out
Talkback A much cheaper technology - resisitive film, used by companies like Fujitsu, would reduce the price and eliminate the need for a special stylus. When you use the existing tablets, there's a noticable and irritating lag between the time you move the...
[July 30, 2003, 18:13]
Microsoft Sets XP Update Release Date
News The Tablet PC, slated for 7 November release, is a notebook hybrid that allows people to input text by writing on the display with a stylus. As previously reported by CNET News.com, Microsoft had been expected to complete work on the update by the...
[September 2, 2002, 8:01]
Tablet PC Gets A Boost From Dell Veterans
News The tablet PC is a next-generation notebook computer that resembles a laptop screen and uses a stylus as the primary input device. Tablet PC software, developed by Microsoft, seeks to provide a new take on an old idea: How to combine a Windows...
[May 21, 2002, 7:32]
TechXNY: Trying Out The Tablet PC
News I write with a stylus for short notes and use a keyboard when I do something longer, like at meetings," said David Dempsey, a senior advisor at New York-based investment firm Bentley Associates. Unlike the Graffiti interface developed by Palm...
[June 26, 2002, 14:16]
Opera Updates Smartphone Browser
News The update introduces options that can be accessed by tapping and holding with the stylus, called long-clicking. Opera started off in the desktop PC browser business, but has been aggressively pushing into the mobile market in order to compete with...
[September 25, 2003, 15:25]
Sony Reveals VAIO Makeover
News With its small LCD (5-inch SVGA), the device can be operated by stylus as well as by built-in buttons and cursor. By rebranding the VAIO business as "Do VAIO", the company hopes not only to compete with offerings from other Japanese PC and consumer...
[May 10, 2004, 17:00]
Microsoft Readies XP SP2 Giveaway
News Tablet PCs are also catered for by SP2's inclusion of Lonestar -- more formally known as XP Tablet PC Edition 2005 -- which adds more stylus input options and Office integration. At a reviewers' workshop in London yesterday, Microsoft revealed more...
[May 11, 2004, 14:30]
Microsoft Launches Smartphone Assault
News However, the P800 uses a stylus, whereas the 7650 and Windows Powered Smartphone models rely on the handset keypad. The announcements mark the first entry by Microsoft into the potentially huge market for mobile phones with email and personal...
[October 22, 2002, 16:58]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog There are around forty journos there; given the average review cycle of two weeks at best, that means it'll take around half a year for them all to get fingers on stylus. But the seal of the day is provided, once again, by Microsoft.
[October 3, 2003, 13:45]
Orange Unveils First Microsoft Smartphone
News These devices include a stylus and tend not to have a built-in keypad. Calendar and contacts data can be synchronised over a GPRS wireless connection using Microsoft Mobile Information Server -- functioning much the same as the BlackBerry device...
[October 23, 2002, 11:37]
Improve Your Pocket PC Support
News The Remote Display Control applet, which enables you to interact with a Pocket PC device via a connected standard computer, is a useful way to extend the Pocket PC's power beyond a tiny screen and clumsy stylus.
[April 17, 2003, 9:31]
MWg Takes On HTC's Windows Mobile Phones
News MWg's future plans include a new version of its stylus-driven phone — Atom — and a Vista tablet device, according to a roadmap shown at the European launch. One item on that roadmap was immediately called into question, however: Butterworth's...
[May 9, 2008, 16:50]
Symbian Chief Blasts Microsoft
News It lacks some Pocket PC features, such as a stylus or a touch screen. Ericsson representatives pointed out, however, that most R380 features can be accessed without flipping the phone open or using the stylus.
[February 22, 2001, 14:53]
Sony Launches TV With Web-pad Remote
News A stylus, rather than a keyboard, is used to input data. These pads, which Microsoft developed under the code name Mira, are typically a 10-inch or 15-inch detachable monitor running Microsoft's Windows CE for Smart Displays operating system.
[August 5, 2003, 12:39]
Microsoft Tablets Start Strong In Europe
News Users can either input written text or drawings with a stylus or attach a keyboard for input. Sales of portables running Microsoft's Tablet PC software started strong out of the gate in Europe, according to market researcher Context.
[January 29, 2003, 7:37]
Lenovo Plans Convertable ThinkPad
News Kay said general purpose tablet PCs haven't really taken off, mostly because home and small-office users are more used to typing than using a stylus to enter information. These are people with stylus in hand walking around, like in a hospital or...
[June 6, 2005, 9:35]
Symbian OS Upgrade Aims At Mass Market
News UIQ 3.0 will include a version for use without a stylus, bringing UIQ into direct competition with Series 60, the Symbian user-interface software Nokia has successfully licensed to a number of phone makers.
[February 25, 2004, 11:50]
Palm Readies New Consumer Handheld
News With the m100 series a year ago, Palm introduced customised face-plates and flip covers, and these will fit the new device, although the m125 will use a different stylus. As Microsoft readies the next version of its operating system for handhelds...
[August 14, 2001, 16:01]
