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- Fujitsu U810 UMPC gets AT&T integrated WWAN and a hard drive bump
- I thoroughly enjoy my Fujitsu U810 UMPC because it gives me a full computer in a 1.5 pound package that runs for at least 4 hours with a single battery and wireless connectivity. Fujitsu just announced the availability of a model with integrated AT&T Broadband (wireless) data support. These new...
- Tags: Hard Drive, Ultramobile PC, AT&T Corp., Fujitsu Ltd., Fujitsu U810 UMPC, Ultramobile PCs (UMPCs), Microsoft Windows, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Tablets, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Emerging Technologies, Operating Systems, Software, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-05-02
- Will Tablets go the way of the Palm Pilot?
- Business Week has followed up on my recent piece about the iPhone with a feature about a host of medical applications for mobile phones. It's making me wonder whether tablet PCs, no matter what innovations come from them, might go the way of the Palm Pilot. ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Phone, Palm Inc., Palm Pilot, Data Transmission Cost, Tablets, Notebooks, Telecom & Utilities, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-01
- OQO hacked to run Leopard
- OQO Talk claims that a junior member has successfully hacked the OQO to run Mac OS X Leopard. In case you're not familiar, OQO developed several subnotebooks that have the functionality of a tablet PC in a form-factor slightly larger than a PDA. According...
- Tags: OQO, Apple Mac OS X, Corporate Communications, Tablets, Notebooks, PDAs, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Marketing, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Handhelds, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
- Microsoft earnings post-mortem: The cash cows quiver
- The headlines on Microsoft's fiscal 2008 third quarter earnings were all over the map this week -- with claims that Microsoft beat expectations, to Microsoft fell far short of the mark. The one consensus, however, was that Windows client and Office, Microsoft's two biggest cash cows, weren't the robust bottom-line...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Earnings, Ppt, Microsoft Windows, Ultramobile PCs (UMPCs), Microsoft Office, Operating Systems, Software, Tablets, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Emerging Technologies, Office Suites, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-04-25
- Fujitsu's new all-in-one, updated laptops
- Fujitsu released today a new desktop and refreshed most of its notebook line in Japan. Akihabara News has details on all of the changes. The Deskpower FMV F/A50 is an all-in-one PC with a 16-inch widescreen LCD. The design is clearly inspired by Apple. Specs for the...
- Tags: Fujitsu Ltd., Series, Laptop Computer, Deskpower FMV F/A50, Ultramobile PCs (UMPCs), Notebooks, Processors, Tablets, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Emerging Technologies, Semiconductors, Components, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-04-22
- MobileTechRoundup show #130, Affordable HP entertainment Tablet PC and Mac OS X on a UMPC
- Listen here (MP3, 32.1 MB, 35:00 minutes) Subscribe to the show with this link (RSS) We put a small teaser in show #129 about another new device that James Kendrick has been playing with and in...
- Tags: MobileTechRoundup, Apple Macintosh, Hewlett-Packard Co., PC, Ultramobile PC, Tablet PC, Podcasts, Ultramobile PCs (UMPCs), Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Operating Systems, Internet, Tablets, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Emerging Technologies, Software, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-04-21
- trafficGP (zip)
- trafficGPS works with any Windows Mobile 2003SE platform and supports virtually all GPS hardware. Designed to operate with the popular square screen format (240x214) and higher. The UMPC/PC version is designed to operate with typical 800x600 UMPC displays and supports virtually all GPS hardware.
- Tags: Ultramobile PC, Ultramobile PCs (UMPCs), GPS, Handhelds, Tablets, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Emerging Technologies, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2008-04-18
- Dell is latest to plan a $400 laptop
- It was only a matter of time before Dell jumped on the low-cost laptop bandwagon. The Wall Street Journal reported this morning that Compal, a major contract manufacturer, will build a low-cost laptop for Dell that will go on sale in the second quarter. Like others in this category, the...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Laptop Computer, Notebooks, Ultramobile PCs (UMPCs), Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Tablets, Emerging Technologies, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-04-10
- HP announces the HP 2133 Mini-Note PC
- There have been rumors of an HP mini-notebook/UMPC type device in the works and my MobileTechRoundup podcast co-host James Kendrick seems to be the first to post his thoughts on the HP Mini. He also posted a video of it in action. He has been playing with the device for...
- Tags: Device, Hewlett-Packard Co., PC, Desktops, Ultramobile PCs (UMPCs), Tablets, Ethernet, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Emerging Technologies, Networking, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-04-07
- Microsoft: June 30 Windows XP cut-off set in stone
- Microsoft made it official on April 3: There will be no new reprieves for Windows XP (other than on Ultra Low-Cost PCs). Some customers and partners had been hoping the company might extend again the deadline for all PC makers to be allowed to preload Windows XP,...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., ULPC, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows, Ultramobile PCs (UMPCs), Operating Systems, Software, Tablets, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Emerging Technologies, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-04-03
- A "goldmine for Intel" and a treasure trove for Ed Tech
- Tom's hardware just featured a piece on Intel's Atom processor. While this new low-end processor family for UMPCs and mobile Internet devices has already been well-covered by the media, the most interesting piece of the article related to the cost of the chips themselves: Our source...
- Tags: CPU, Intel Corp., Tom, Ultramobile PCs (UMPCs), Processors, Semiconductors, Tablets, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Emerging Technologies, Components, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-03-31
- Dell's tablet, take two
- Dell took its time with tablets. It wasn't until last December that the company finally released its first tablet PC, the convertible Latitude XT--years after competitors such as HP, Gateway and Lenovo introduced their own versions. But it looks like the results have been good enough to convince Dell to...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Dell Latitude, Notebooks, Tablets, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-03-19
- Windows Mobile to come to Mobile Internet Devices
- Microsoft has brought on a new hire -- a former founding member of Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie's Iris Associates -- to help the Redmond software company port the Windows Mobile operating system to new form factors. Len Kawell, whose title is "Distinguished Engineer in the...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, Ultramobile PC, Microsoft Corp., Internet Device, Mobile Internet Device, Kawell, Ultramobile PCs (UMPCs), Microsoft Windows, Advertising & Promotion, Operating Systems, Tablets, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Emerging Technologies, Software, Marketing, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-03-18
- Live Webcast: Enhancing Business Mobility with Pen Computing
- For years pen-enabled computing devices have enjoyed great success and acceptance in highly vertical industries like delivery services, auditing and POS. The primary limitations of early pen computing devices, which were the hurdles to early mainstream adoption, were the power limitations of the devices, no stable OS...
- Tags: Webcast, Mobility, Fujitsu Ltd., Computing, Sales Force Automation (SFA), Tablets, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets
- Webcasts 2008-03-17
- Do 1:1 solutions really need to be portable?
- News.com is carrying a story on efforts in one Brazilian city to forgo emerging trends towards OLPC-style laptops for kids and bring computing directly to kids' desks. While the Brazilian government is being courted by both OLPC and Intel to place their respective low-cost laptops into classrooms around the...
- Tags: Desk, Classroom, Tablets, Productivity, Notebooks, Desktops, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-03-13
- Microsoft, Nokia to port Silverlight to Symbian phones
- Microsoft already has said it will port its Silverlight competitor to Adobe Flash to Windows Mobile phones. But it also is working on a Silverlight port to phones from cellphone market leader Nokia. Microsoft will announce on March 4 that, with the help of Nokia, it has...
- Tags: Phone, Microsoft Silverlight, Nokia Corp., Symbian Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Tablets, Operating Systems, Handhelds, Software, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-03-03
- Asus EeePC successor with 8.9 inch display to be announced at CeBIT
- I just recently bought a Fujitsu U810 UMPC to serve as my mobile computing device, but have been seriously looking at the Asus EeePC as another alternative for my daily 2+ hour commuting needs. Engadget has pics of the Asus EeePC 900 that is supposed to be officially announced tomorrow...
- Tags: ASUS, Engadget, CeBit, 1024x600, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Ultramobile PCs (UMPCs), Advertising & Promotion, Wireless, Handhelds, Tablets, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-03-03
- The Lenovo X300 is a true road warrior device
- I just recently purchased a super compact Fujitsu U810 UMPC (my review is under development right now) because my personal gadget budget had a cap of US$1000. However, for those of you in the enterprise looking for a serious road warrior device that is high portable and has everything, but...
- Tags: Lenovo Group Ltd., Lenovo X300, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Engineering, Ultramobile PCs (UMPCs), Processors, Tablets, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Emerging Technologies, Semiconductors, Components, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-02-26
- A new digital pen
- This may come off as a naked plug for a new gadget, but it's actually a sober technology assessment. You have my word on this as a journalist, husband, father, and President of the United States. I'm always interested in new user interface hardware and I've just...
- Tags: Audio, Pen, Livescribe, Tablets, Notebooks, Desktops, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Ed Gottsman
- Blog posts 2008-02-22
- HP's mysterious ultra-mobile PC
- Subnotebooks have always been overpriced and under-performing. But suddenly that niche has become a lot more interesting. It began with low-priced laptops such as the Asus Eee PC, which has been a surprising success since its introduction last October. Then, at the opposite extreme, we got the...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., PC, Ultramobile PC, VIA Technologies Inc., Site, UMPC Portal, Isaiah, Ultramobile PCs (UMPCs), Processors, Tablets, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Emerging Technologies, Semiconductors, Components, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-02-20
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