“Gael’s software allows business users to stimulate and capture ideas, then organise them in an ordered manner. The results can then be presented in various formats. So far it has been sold to 15,000 customers in 103 countries -- although after almost £2 million of investment the package has not yet broken even. Maciver, however, has high hopes for a rebranded version of the package, MindGenius, which will be launched early in 2003. For Gael there is plenty of light at the end of the tunnel as far as its mind-mapping software is concerned. It is currently developing the product for Microsoft’s new Tablet PC and hopes that the software will eventually be bundled with the machine, offering the potential for wider international exposure.” (Source: Sunday Herald, Scotland)
Posted Saturday, December 7, 2002 by ChrisC Rating: 1
“If you start receiving handwritten e-mails over the next few weeks, you’ll know that one of your colleagues has glommed on to the latest wave of “tablet” PCs. These devices, which were introduced with much fanfare last week by nine manufacturers, are powered by a special new version of Microsoft’s Windows XP that lets you write on the screen rather than type. The Fujitsu Stylistic ST4000 Barron’s tested was an inch thick and weighed in at a very portable 3.2 pounds. And while it was great for scribbling down messages, the handwriting recognition software seemed not quite ready for prime time. We wrote the following question: “When will the bear market end?” -- and then asked the machine to render it as text. The result: “Ulcer will the market tardy.” Microsoft warns that chicken-scratch handwriting won’t cut it, but that’s precisely how lots of folks write in the computer age. As an alternative, you can simply store your scrawl, without converting it to type. But that assumes, perhaps heroically, that you’ll be able to decipher it when you call it up. With any luck, the next version of Windows for tablets will be bttre. Er, better.” (Source: Barrons)
Also Barrons takes a look at Groove...
“Tim Davis, a partner in a technology start-up called Bean-Stream, has plenty of gear in the basement office of his Marstons Mills, Mass., home: five desktop computers, a heavy-duty printer, two digital cameras and a wireless intercom -- for listening for the UPS man. But his very favorite is a $49 piece of software. Called Groove, it lets him easily share files on the Internet with his colleagues in California, Delaware and New York. “When we first downloaded it,” he recalls, “it was like, Pinch me! Here’s our instant IT department.” (Source: Barrons)
“Perhaps no tech company outside of IBM has been able to keep on top of the industry as much as Microsoft. What's more, Bill Gates & Co. achieved this success during times of incredible technological transformation, usually the period when titans are vulnerable to getting knocked off by disruptive technologies. Critics often argue that Microsoft can’t innovate its way out of a paper bag and that instead it has used its monopoly position to stamp out competition and force an industry to bend to its standards. But now comes a study on the inner workings of the company from Harvard Business School professors Marco Iansiti and Alan MacCormack. Their take: Microsoft actually wins through effective management of its intellectual property and an ability to spot and react to important trends before they take hold.” (Source: HBS Working Knowledge/CNET News)
Posted Saturday, December 7, 2002 by ChrisC Rating: n/a
Paul Thurrott takes a look at Microsoft Office 11 Beta 1...
“Roughly two years after I first previewed Microsoft Office 10 Beta 1, which became Office XP, we’re back again with a new Office version, set to ship in mid-2003. The new Office, currently known only as Office 11, adds a new user interface scheme based on the visual styles in Windows XP and a host of new features, while dropping the subscription software scheme that Microsoft tested in the previous version. Office 11 will also include new applications, such as XDocs and OneNote, though some of these new features aren’t present in the first beta.”
“Global Tablet PC production may reach 1.5 million units in 2003, and Taiwan may account for 45 percent, or 600,000 units, of that figure, the Market Information Center (MIC) under the Institute for Information Industry (III) estimated this week. Taiwan, South Korea and Japan are currently the only three suppliers of Tablet PCs. International market observers have different market assessments on the Tablet PC. The most optimistic prediction expects Tablet PCs to take a 5 percent, or around 1.5 million units, share of the notebook computer market in 2003. That percentage, as MIC Director Chan Wen-nan noted, is not big enough to significantly impact the notebook computer market. “Several Tablet PC models that were launched in November weighed more than 1 kg, like some notebook computers,” Chan said as he explained the problems associated with Tablet PCs’ challenge to traditional notebook computers. Moreover, he added, “their batteries also need to be recharged every four or five hours.” (Source: Michelle Hsu, The China Post, Taiwan)
Posted Saturday, December 7, 2002 by ChrisC Rating: 5
“Imagine a world where all your portable devices can be charged and powered simply by placing them on a desktop. Chip manufacturer MobileWise has gone well beyond imagining such a world and this week unveiled “a conductive solution” that it believes can make it all possible. During a mid-day press conference in chilly New York City, MobileWise showed off a handful of functioning prototype powerbases and retrofitted mobile devices that all use the company’s new MobileWise chipset and enable “Wire-Free” electric power. One chip, the tiny Adapter Controller, goes inside the mobile device and the other, the Contact Controller, gets built into the power base station.” (Source: Lance Ulanoff, PC World)
Posted Saturday, December 7, 2002 by ChrisC Rating: n/a
“I agree with HP on the need to support standards-based, modular systems, where it makes sense for users and the industry,” we quoted Kay as saying. That’s the beginning of the level playing field on which many different providers of data, services and other more concrete products can compete to offer value and to keep each other honest. Without that environment, even Kay’s most fully realized vision of the Dynabook--not just the hardware, but the tools for collaborative discovery as well--will be trapped in a tiny subset of its potential. Until we reach that goal, it’s up to enterprise IT builders not to trap themselves.” (Source: Peter Coffee, eWeek)
Posted Saturday, December 7, 2002 by ChrisC Rating: n/a
“The Tablet PC has made a tremendous difference in what happens in the classroom,” said Bill Hogarth, director of the board, the York Regional District School Board, north of Toronto. “Ultimately this technology will help students support their own learning,” Hogarth said. “It also helps all of us be better organized, paperless and more efficient.” Despite Hogarth’s optimism for the Tablet PC, industry analysts were singing a different tune.”
“Gartner Dataquest Inc. issued a report in early November predicting that the WinXP Tablet PC would account for only one per cent of worldwide notebook shipments in 2003. Meanwhile, IDC Canada mobile computing analyst Eddie Chan told Computing Canada price would be a major factor in how quickly adoption spreads with consumers and business users alike. “It’s a question of timing and the big stickler is the price point,” Chan said. "It’s priced premium to the ultra portables and the ultra portables are priced pretty high in Canada.” Other industry watchers agree. Evans Research Corp. industry analyst Michelle Warren said the uptake of the WinXP Tablet PC will depend to a large degree on pricing, but added there’s a gradual learning curve users will need to contend with.” (Source: Liam Lahey, ITBusiness.ca)
Posted Saturday, December 7, 2002 by ChrisC Rating: n/a
“Microsoft (China) Co. Ltd. is teaming up with four computer hardware vendors to bring Tablet PCs, light-weight computers that allow users to input text or characters using a special pen, to China’s mainland, a natural market for the device as many older Chinese people have never learned to key in Chinese characters on computers. The four vendors - Legend, Acer, HP and View Sonic - all demonstrated their new products at a product launch held in Xintiandi yesterday. All of their PCs run on Microsoft’s Windows XP Tablet PC Edition operating system.” (Source: Shanghai Daily News)
Posted Saturday, December 7, 2002 by ChrisC Rating: n/a
“Having used Compaq’s version of the Tablet PC for a few weeks, I’m still skeptical -- but also somewhat impressed. This is not a technology that is going to set the world on fire, or even warm the hearts of the beleaguered tech industry’s accountants. But it is an intriguing niche product that may find mass-market uses down the road. The Compaq Tablet PC uses a 1-gigahertz Crusoe processor from Transmeta that’s renowned for being a power miser. Indeed, the battery life in the Tablet PC is impressive. I got well over three hours of use, even when connected to a wireless network. However, overall performance was fairly sluggish.” (Source: Dwight Silverman, Houston Chronicle)
Posted Saturday, December 7, 2002 by ChrisC Rating: n/a
“I’ve not been a big fan of Tablet PCs, the new, pen-enabled portable computers made possible by Microsoft’s Windows XP Tablet PC Edition operating system. The devices I’ve seen so far, with the notable exceptions of ones from Toshiba and a Texas company called Motion, have been too heavy to carry anywhere, too expensive, too limited or too dorky for me to carry around all day. But something happened yesterday that changed my mind: The announcement of a new company called Cometa Networks, which plans to install more than 20,000 wireless broadband Internet access points -- or hotspots -- around the country within two years. Cometa’s goal is to provide residents of the 50 largest metropolitan areas with wireless Internet access points that are no more than a five-minute walk away, or, in the ’burbs, a 5-minute drive. Why should such a vaporous announcement make me change my mind about Tablet PCs? It’s the wireless broadband Internet access, of course.” (Source: Peter Lewis, Fortune)
Posted Friday, December 6, 2002 by ChrisC Rating: n/a
“We didn’t want ink to be some weird special thing that didn’t work the same way as your text did. All the features you would expect [to] work with text also work on ink, not just showcase features like bolding or color, but also search, for example. Our teams think this is a key advantage, because what we saw in the previous handhelds and tablets is that there was a huge focus [on] recognizing everything in text; the implication was that the information was useless unless it was in text format. Ninety-five percent or more of the things you handwrite never need to be recognized in text. Some people handwrite [notes] and all they ever want to do is go back and look at it; they don’t care about reusing it or retyping.” - Chris Pratley (Source: Steve Gillmor, InfoWorld)
Posted Friday, December 6, 2002 by ChrisC Rating: n/a
“Could the new Tablet PC be the form factor that finally ushers in wider acceptance of e-books? It’s raising hopes among digital publishing and media executives who gathered here at a Tablet PC digital publishing conference. “Publishers are excited about it,” said Nick Bogaty, executive director of the Open eBook Forum, an interoperability standards consortium that organized the one-day conference.”
“This will jump-start things, and it will certainly jump-start a lot of the e-book activity that two years ago was supplied by venture capital money,” Bogaty said. After the dot-com bubble burst, many venture investors and publishers pulled back on their electronic publishing ventures. Neil Budde, outgoing publisher of The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition (WSJ.com), said he found the Tablet PC easier on the eyes. “What I find exciting about this is that it’s a device that people will start using to read and take with them. It’s almost like you need a format for reading." (Source: Erin Joyce, InternetNews.com)
Posted Friday, December 6, 2002 by ChrisC Rating: 4
Santa's Bringing a $500 Tablet PC Book For Christmas
Microsoft's Plans for the Tablet PC and the Business Solutions' Customer Base: Simply World Domination [DOWNLOAD: PDF] by IDC (Author)
"As I write this Acer is busy trying to fix herself. I wrote to Julius Sinkevicius of Microsoft. He is part of the Tablet PC team and has been doing research to see if he can determine what is causing the problems. He seems to feel it is Office XP Service Pack 2 that is causing the problem in conjunction with Norton Anti-Virus Software." Tablet PC Talk Exclusive
Posted Friday, December 6, 2002 by ChrisD Rating: n/a
“This driver should only be installed on a Penabled Tablet PC running Microsoft Windows XP - Tablet PC Edition. It resolves the cursor offset problem for the Toshiba Tablet PC, continues to run after the settings have been changed in the control panel and supports the Right Click for the side switch. This driver also has improved support for various applications (e.g. Corel Grafigo, Alias Sketchbook, etc.) and a number of smaller bug fixes.”
Posted Friday, December 6, 2002 by ChrisC Rating: 5
Gabe from Penny Arcade reports on his Tablet PC...
“With data flowing freely through my apartment it was time to get down to business and see if I really could draw a comic strip on this thing. It turns out I can. Today’s comic strip was done from start to finish on the Tablet PC. I started out by sketching the characters in Alias Sketchbook. It blows me away that a piece of software this good is free. One of the big problems with the Tablet PC is that there just isn’t much space there to work with. Most art programs would take up the majority of your screen with tools and windows. However Sketchbook was designed for the tablet PC and so roughly 90 percent of the screen is pure white digital paper. The tools and options have been placed in an almost Sims like radial menu that sits unobtrusively in the corner. I picked a 2B pencil and started sketching. After a bit of screwing with the pressure sensitivity settings I was in heaven. I was able to sketch just as I would on paper and with the same results. In no time I had all the sketches I would need for today’s comic. I think that for artists, the Alias Sketchbook software is the killer app that the Tablet PC needed.”
“The Tablet PC takes the place of all those tools and even makes a pencil and paper unnecessary. As for using it at home that’s a different story. I will certainly use it as a digital sketchbook. I can draw right into it now and bypass the scanner completely. As for the finish work like inking and coloring I will probably still do that on my home machine. The Tablet PC is a sketchbook. You would not do a finished painting in a sketchbook. You rough out your ideas in it. Work out the composition and lighting, but at some point you need to move to a canvas. The tablet PC takes the place of the sketchbook, not the canvas. Is it an expensive sketchbook? Yeah. But it’s the only sketchbook I’ve seen that lets me check my mail and surf the web.” (Source: Penny Arcade)
Steve Potash, President, Open eBook Forum, CEO OverDrive, Inc.
A snowstorm in NYC could not dampen the excitement felt for the Tablet PC platform at The Tablet PC Digital Publishing Conference presented by The Open eBook Forum (OeBF). The promise of a rich eReading experience was demonstrated by representatives from Microsoft, Adobe, Palm Digital Media, Zinio, NewsStand and Olive Software.
The major publishing companies were also on hand (McGraw-Hill, Random House, HarperCollins, AOL Time Warner Book Group) and recounted some of the challenges that they in the past with eBook initiatives and what things are different this time. The consensus was that the Tablet PC will usher in a new era of eReading.
eBook sales, according to the presenters, are at record levels. It seems that the reports of the death of eBooks have been greatly exaggerated.
Panel discussion from left: Kelly Leonard – Executive Director of eBook Publishing – AOL Time Warner Book Group Bob Bolick – VP & Director of New Business Development – McGraw-Hill Professional Amanda Kimmel – Director, New Media – Random House Christopher North – VP & General Manager – Electronic Publishing – HarperCollins Publishers
E-Reading panel: From Left: Peter & Joth from Palm Digital Media Group James Alexander, Director of eBooks, Adobe Systems Inc. Cliff Guren – Group Product Manager of eReading – Windows Division – Microsoft Corp.
John Frederiksen, General Manager PC Experience, Product Unit Manager, Microsoft - eReading Group
Roger Fidler, Director, Institute for CyberInformation
Tablet PC Talk Exclusive
More to follow... Adam
Posted Friday, December 6, 2002 by ChrisC Rating: n/a
“Technology industry giants AT&T Corp., Intel Corp. and IBM, along with two investment companies...confirmed that they are creating a new company that will build a network of wireless LAN “hot spots” across the United States. Previously known under the code name “Project Rainbow,” the new company will be called Cometa Networks and will sell its services to telecom companies, ISPs, cable operators and wireless carriers, who will then sell the services to both corporate and consumer customers. The company will work with major retail chains, hotels, universities and real estate firms to deploy the service, based on the 802.11b wireless LAN protocol, in public “hot spots” throughout the top 50 U.S. metropolitan areas, officials said.” (Source: eWeek)
Posted Thursday, December 5, 2002 by ChrisC Rating: n/a
Journal Viewer (Windows XP)
Journal Viewer is now available on Windows Update under Windows XP Recommended Updates, with a download size of around 7 meg.
“This accessory allows people who do not have a computer running Windows XP Tablet PC Edition to view files that were created in Microsoft Windows Journal on a Tablet PC.”
Posted Thursday, December 5, 2002 by ChrisC Rating: n/a
“New Tablet PCs have been introduced to take on the corporate market. Allied Business Intelligence (ABI) projects the IA market value to increase to $14 billion in 2002, up from $13 billion in 2001. Over the longer term, the IA market is forecast to grow to $32 billion by 2007. Many devices in the IA market suffered from misdirected marketing at the outset. As vendors try to re-position products to compliment PCs in the home rather than replace them, their acceptance and use will catch on. Microsoft’s Tablet PC re-invents pen-based computing in the workplace and may be the needed boost in the arm to lagging PC sales. Wireless solutions will gain attention as broadband access becomes more widespread. Although IA devices will experience faster growth rates, they will not overtake PC shipments over the forecast period.” (Source: Press Release)
Posted Thursday, December 5, 2002 by ChrisC Rating: n/a
WhatIsNew.com reports... “many people have asked where we acquired the Tablet PC circuit drawing application screenshots. The application is by InkWalker Software. You can find preliminary product information at www.inkwalker.com.”
“The strongest trend we witnessed was the buzz surrounding the Tablet PC, which comes in a variety of formats that allow users to write on the screen as well as type in commands...Today, we feel Tablet PCs are a “Version 2” technology for CPA firms, (plan on using it after next year), but we feel they have some features that show promise for our industry. The application that most intrigued us was Microsoft’s “OneNote” that is scheduled for release next summer. The product demonstration on a Tablet PC showed users keeping a variety of notes on different tabs on the screen that could be moved, cut, pasted, and edited with complete freedom, bringing us the closest we have ever been to a true writing tablet. In addition, your handwritten notes could be searched like any other words, and converted to text if you wanted. In another year, we feel the size (thickness) and weight will come down, the processing capability and battery life will increase, and the software be stabilized, so they will be a possible candidate for accounting firms.” (Source: AccountingWEB)
Posted Thursday, December 5, 2002 by ChrisC Rating: n/a
International Herald Tribune’s repost of Peter S. Goodman’s Washington Post article on China's role in high-tech, with a lead-in detailing Wang Jian and his teams Chinese language reco efforts on the Tablet PC...
Posted Thursday, December 5, 2002 by ChrisC Rating: n/a
“HCL Frontline, the distribution arm of HCL Infosystems...announced the launch of Toshiba Tablet PC in India. Toshiba’s new Portege 3500 series combines the power of a wireless business notebook with the versatility of a Tablet PC with a configuration of Pentium III processor with 1.33 ghz speed, a company release said. The Toshiba Tablet PC is priced at Rs two lakh. “India being an important market for us, we will continue to ensure that such latest products reach the customers here as part of the global launch,” Wu Tengguo, general manager, computer systems division, Toshiba, Singapore, said.” (Source: Press Trust of India)
“Product of the year runner-up: Tablet PCs. This looks like another flip-flop from the 2001 Best, Worst, and Ugliest, but back then, all anyone knew about Tablet PCs was that Microsoft was urging manufacturers to join the vertical-market-niche, filling-out-forms, bulky-clipboard club populated by Fujitsu and a few oddballs. Flash forward to today’s world of WiFi-networked workplaces and coffee shops; cool notebook hybrids with pivot-and-fold screens like Toshiba’s Portege 3500 or HP’s Compaq TC1000; and the opportunity for pen input -- not overhyped handwriting recognition, just pen input -- to inspire new and nifty software like Corel’s Grafigo, and I’m a convert.” (Source: Eric Grevstad, Hardware Central Managing Editor)
Posted Thursday, December 5, 2002 by ChrisC Rating: n/a
“Call it the “Performance Plateau”. Price is the driver in this brave new world, not price/performance and every penny will count. Certainly there’s a budding market for 64-bit server chips, but that arena isn’t anywhere near the size of the sated PC desktop world...Selling new-fangled gadgets such as smart displays, Media Center PCs, and Tablet PCs is going to be a slow, uphill struggle since most users aren’t clamoring for such functionality in their desktops. If anything, users are paying for an excess of features between legacy (serial, parallel, mouse, keyboard, multiple PCI slots) and today's AGP, Firewire, and USB 2.0.” (Source: Doug Mohney, theinquirer.net)
Posted Thursday, December 5, 2002 by ChrisC Rating: n/a
“Technology that enables you to use a notebook computer as you would a handheld device, such as a Palm, Handspring or Pocket PC, drew the attention of hundreds at Wednesday’s Information Technology Exposition and Conference (ITEC). The Memphis Area Technology Council’s ITEC continues today from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Memphis Cook Convention Center. Cathy Elliott, MATC director, said this year’s event seems to be better attended than the 2001 ITEC.”
“Microsoft account technology specialist Donnie Wilemon drew strong attendance for his demonstration on the use of Microsoft’s new Tablet PC system, which includes handwriting recognition software that links to existing PC software such as Office XP and Windows.” (Source: Mark Watson, gomemphis.com - The Commercial Appeal)
Posted Thursday, December 5, 2002 by ChrisC Rating: n/a
Technically ‘old’ news, but additional DigiTimes coverage...
“Legend, China’s leading computer vendor, on December 10 will launch the first Tablet PC developed by a Chinese company. The Soleil Shangyu T100 will be equipped with Intel’s ULV Mobile Pentium III-M 866MHz CPU and bundled with a 12.1-inch, 1024x768-pixel LCD monitor, 256MB PC133 memory and 20GB hard disk. The T100 will weigh 1.35 kilograms and be priced from $16,888 yuan and up. The product features a detachable panel and wireless connectivity. Manufactured by Compal Electronics, the T100 is very similar to US-based Motion Computing’s M1200, also made by Compal. Compal will ship about 30,000-40,000 Tablet PCs next year.” (Source: David Tzeng, Sarah Chang - DigiTimes)
Posted Thursday, December 5, 2002 by ChrisC Rating: n/a
“Professors at USC [University of Southern California] have already realized the potential of the tablet PCs. The School of Engineering’s Information Technology Program is preparing to launch a course aimed at educating students on the existing tablet functionality. The department has spent the last three or four months testing out the tablet PCs in various classrooms, said ITP Program Director Anthony D. Borquez. By next fall, full mobile carts outfitted with the tablets will go from classroom to classroom and give students the opportunity to try out the units' note-taking functions. Computer science professor Ellis Horowitz took part in Microsoft’s faculty summit earlier this year and was able to test out the tablet PCs. “We’re seeing Microsoft getting away from the desktop computer,” Horowitz said. “It will be interesting to see if it can find a niche.” (Source: Heather Cheng, Daily Trojan - Univ. of Southern California)
Posted Thursday, December 5, 2002 by ChrisC Rating: n/a
Tabletpctalk.com has launched it’s interactive discussion forums.
You will find areas to discuss Hardware, Software, the Tablet PC marketplace and how Tablet PC owners use them. You will also be able to vote in polls.
“Hot on the heels of Draw 11’s release, Corel made some very promising announcements concerning SVG. First, Corel has committed to providing its own SVG Viewer plug-in; there's already a technology preview available. While a very early release, this viewer already supports the SVG fundamentals: basic shapes, paths, linear gradients, clip paths, masks and text. Additionally, Corel has released one of the first Tablet PC applications, Grafigo. Grafigo is graphics software focusing on day-to-day mobile graphics tasks, like “sketching, annotating, creating graphics and collaborating”. Grafigo offersd some intelligence when you sketch and write. Its shape recognition turns your dodgy hand-drawn ellipse to a geometrically perfect one. Same goes for text with the handwriting recognition engine. Grafigo works with SVG, allowing perfect export and import of your data through SVG. On the gossip side, Grafigo is kindly regarded by Microsoft, which links to it from its Tablet PC pages.” (Source: Antoine Quint, xml.com)
Posted Wednesday, December 4, 2002 by ChrisC Rating: n/a
Superset
Superset - “A set that includes other sets within it, which are called subsets. For example, a software or hardware upgrade may be a superset of the previous version in that it can do everything the previous version can do and more.”
sub·set -- Pronunciation: 's&b-"set (Function: noun) Date: 1902 - a set each of whose elements is an element of an inclusive set.
Does this here application run on the Tablet PC? Well first off, does your program run under Windows XP? Ok it does? Ok, then it runs on the Tablet PC. The Tablet PC is superset of Windows XP. That means it will run my programs? Yes. You sure? Yes, if it runs Windows XP, even via compatibility mode, it will run on the Tablet PC. You sure? Yes, yes. Does it run Excel? Yes. Does it run Outlook? Yes. Does it run Photoshop? Yes. Can I surf the Internet on a Tablet PC? Yes, you can, Internet Explorer is there. Does it run Acrobat? Yes. Does it run Word and Pagemaker? Yes and Yes. Does it run MS Access? Yes, yes and YES. It will run anything that runs on Windows XP. So that means all my old programs will still run on the Tablet PC? If they run under Windows XP, YES they WILL run. YES YES YES annnnddd Y-E-S. Honest, yes, I promise, yes, if it runs XP, yes. :) The one exception being some games that require serious-horsepower 3D video cards, which Tablet PCs do not have. But otherwise, if it runs under Windows XP it will run under the Tablet PC. So all my old programs are safe? Yes, they are.
Posted Wednesday, December 4, 2002 by ChrisC Rating: n/a
A new BIOS has been posted to the Acer Support Page. Thanks to Luc Bouchard for the info.
C100BIOS.EXE 923,260 Bytes 4 Dec 2002
“This is a flashable BIOS version R01-A4F for the TravelMate C100 series. Download and double-click on this file to install the BIOS. After flashing the BIOS, please remember to reset to “Default Settings” in the BIOS.”
Posted Wednesday, December 4, 2002 by ChrisC Rating: 2
“The story of the week is the official launch of the Tablet PC, which is a new Microsoft computing platform that combines pen input, keyboard input, and laptop power. I have read dozens of articles on the subject and almost all of them take a dim view of the new platform. Most of the criticisms range from naive to absurd. On the naive side, analysts have said it’s too similar to a conventional laptop design to be worth the upgrade. On the absurd side, analysts have said it’s too similar to the Newton and other pen-based systems that have already failed. “Why would Microsoft’s attempt at this be any different from the previous failed attempts?” seems to be the prevailing theme from this group of analysts. It is clear from most of these comments that few analysts have had the chance to actually try one of these units, let alone imagine all the possibilities the new platform offers.” (Source: James Mathewson, Editor - ComputerUser Magazine)
Posted Wednesday, December 4, 2002 by ChrisC Rating: 1
Bishop Hartley High School and Tablet PCs
“Come January, the 30-pound book bag could be history for Bishop Hartley High School seniors. The East Side school is offering all 142 of the students free Compaq Tablet PCs, which sport technologies that are too new to be on retailers’ shelves. Next year’s senior class will be offered the 3-pound devices, too, followed by offers to seniors and juniors during the 2004-05 school year. “We want to bring in technology at such a pace that we can keep the faculty and kids comfortable with it, so it gets used effectively,” said Ken Collura, technology director for the Diocese of Columbus and the project’s initiator. The school is buying the tablets with technology funds and grants, he said. "We’ve been saving for several years. We’ve not used a tuition dollar for any of these tablets.”
“Collura and Helmut Naunheimer, Bishop Hartley’s development director, say that the school likely is the nation’s first to order the tablets for an entire class of students. “Ours has been a good test market for school technology,” Naunheimer said. “What better resource than students to see how these work?” (Source: George Myers Jr., The Columbus Dispatch) Thanks to Ken Collura for the info.
Posted Wednesday, December 4, 2002 by ChrisC Rating: n/a
“The worldwide wireless market continues to grow more slowly, but leaders of the CDMA community see a trend that supports still-hot growth of networks and handsets using their technology platform. [Perry LaForge, the CDMA Development Group’s executive director] “also demonstrated a factor that the CDMA camp says is giving it a significant current advantage over GSM: bandwidth. LaForge showed the opening session audience a video of the trailer for ‘Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets,’ streamed to a Tablet PC at 500 kilobits per second over a trial EV-DO network that Verizon has up and running in San Diego.” (Source: Wireless Week)
Posted Wednesday, December 4, 2002 by ChrisC Rating: n/a
“Did you expect perfect handwriting recognition from the new Tablet PC laptops? Fuggetaboutit. But that doesn’t mean there’s no value in the Windows XP Tablet PC operating system from Microsoft (released in early November)--just make sure the machine running it doesn't rely solely on pen-based handwriting recognition or even pen-based pointing and clicking. The Tablet PC technology, which a few dozen computer makers have incorporated into their laptops, runs touch-sensitive displays that you can tap with a pen, forgoing a mouse or touch pad. It’s a good complement to a full keyboard, but it’s mediocre as a total keyboard replacement.” (Source: Dean Takahashi, Red Herring)
Posted Wednesday, December 4, 2002 by ChrisC Rating: n/a
“As Tablet PCs become the notepads of the 21st century, consider Mi-Co’s Mi-Forms as the enterprise data capture solution for these devices -- the paper in those pads. It’s a simple, yet realistic view of how the new Microsoft Tablet PC works with the mobile data capture feature of Mi-Co’s Mi-Forms Software System, and moves technology a major step closer to true efficient data capture in the mobile world. Mi-Co...is the maker of electronic data capture technology that enables users to digitally capture, on a number of devices, any information that is handwritten. The leading edge Mi-Forms software used in other handwriting-recognition applications can now be used with the latest technology from Microsoft.” (Source: Press Release)
Posted Wednesday, December 4, 2002 by ChrisC Rating: n/a
Announcing OneNoteInfoCenter.com
Reposting due to database error yesterday ...
Announcing OneNoteInfoCenter.com, the pioneering information resource for users of Microsoft OneNote (tm), the "killer app" for Office 11 due out in "mid-2003."
Posted Wednesday, December 4, 2002 by wmf Rating: n/a
"I was so excited to see Acer. I could get her all ready for the holidays and show her off to all my friends and family. I carefully opened her box and she had a new heart (hard drive)." Tablet PC Talk Exclusive
Posted Wednesday, December 4, 2002 by ChrisD Rating: n/a
“Most of the scenarios being talked about for these devices [Tablet PCs] have an enterprise focus but with SnapStream’s TV recording and home media server software, the Tablet PC (with 802.11 access) can be used to access TV anywhere inside the home or the office...” (Source: Samir Saxena, SnapStream Media)
“SnapStream Personal Video Station 3.0 puts the power of television in your hands. Don’t just record and rewind your favorite shows -- play them on your TV, PC or other device over your home network. You can even remotely control PVS 3.0 via the Internet from anywhere. If you’re working late, tell your PC to record the football game and watch it when you get home.”
Per a few emails as to when Samsung hits the market: “first half of next year”... :)
“Samsung...said...that it plans to release tablet PCs, considered next-generational portable computers, within the first half of next year in the local market. The Korean company said it has signed an original equipment manufacturing (OEM) contract with Microsoft Corp. to produce tablet PCs from early next year by using the U.S. giant’s new “Windows XP Tablet PC Edition” operating system. Local prices will likely be the 3 million won (US$2,468) level.” (Source: Press Release)
Posted Wednesday, December 4, 2002 by ChrisC Rating: n/a
Tip: Want to follow DAILY Tablet PC News in China? Bookmark this link. No less than 18 articles dated Dec 3, 2002!! :) I don’t link to all stories as some are mirrored in the English Press and some Babelfished items like “Tablet PC from ball from sings, Microsoft hotly fries the concept?” are hard to figure out sometimes. :) And the world is a BIG place, full-tracking all info, would be massively time-consuming, tho I try. :) But BOOKMARK it to follow Tablet PC news from China.
Posted Wednesday, December 4, 2002 by ChrisC Rating: n/a
“The first Tablet PCs are out and the verdict is in: digital ink is versatile, feels and looks good...So, I must agree with Mr. Gates and Mr Shih when they say that the time is now ripe for the Tablet computer. We have probably forced computer users to learn how to use a keyboard for too long, and I am sure that “pen power” will be liberating for many.” (Source: Tony Waltham, Bangkok Post)
Posted Wednesday, December 4, 2002 by ChrisC Rating: n/a
“Corel has appointed a new person to head up their channel operations, and he pledges that Corel will deepen and strengthen its channel focus, and that a new channel strategy will be rolled out based on consultation with partners. The new Vice-president of Channel Sales is John Deegan, who comes to Corel from 11 years in channels at Microsoft, most recently as Senior Director of Channel Sales for the South Pacific and Americas region. In that role, the Winnipeg native oversaw Microsoft’s channel strategies, sales, services and marketing programs for large-account resellers and direct marketing resellers in the U.S. Corel intends to leverage Deegan’s experience and channel contacts to better develop its own channel presence and sales.”
“The new products, which Deegan declined to identify for the moment, are scheduled to roll out beginning early in the new year. Corel has already made a new product announcement concerning Corel Grafigo, made explicitly for the new Tablet PCs. It’s a collaborative tool that lets users create graphics on these mobile devices. It’s a free product -- for now. Corel’s strategy here is to seed the product during the Tablet PC’s initial stages. Then they are looking to develop it for specific verticals as the market becomes more established.” (Source: Mark Cox, eChannelLine)
Posted Wednesday, December 4, 2002 by ChrisC Rating: n/a
“The Tablet PC will actually herald this new era of computing, offering excellent handwriting recognition for the masses, and the ability for anyone _ yes, anyone _ to operate a computer using a pen. But it will be the tablet aspect that will be a huge success, and not the integrated mobile unit or Tablet PC. I make this prediction even though I am a touch typist who loves a good keyboard. Right now I am shopping around for a good tablet, for I can see how I can use a tablet and pen...Also, perhaps I would just be sketching, too, since I find this therapeutic, while the digital ink that a computer enables can be very flexible in terms of expression. Tablet-based input will free computer users from the rigors of learning to type, which here in Thailand this is a daunting dual-language challenge. Thais who need to master both Thai and English must learn the positions of and the key shift codes for over 100 characters.” (Source: Tony Waltham, Bangkok Post)
Posted Wednesday, December 4, 2002 by ChrisC Rating: n/a
“While introducing the new PC tablet, Bill Gates called it “...one of the most amazing projects we’ve ever done.’ It was about two years ago at the Comdex computer trade show, at Las Vegas, Microsoft founder Bill Gates showed off a prototype of “one of the most amazing projects we’ve ever done.” A year later, at last year’s Comdex, Gates predicted that within five years “it will be the most popular form of PC sold in America.” Finally, that project is a reality. On Nov 7, Microsoft, along with Hewlett Packard, Acer, Fujitsu, Toshiba and other PC companies unveiled the long awaited “Tablet PC”. (Source: DAWN Group of Newspapers, Pakistan Herald)
Posted Wednesday, December 4, 2002 by ChrisC Rating: n/a
“Motion Computing...and Pharmedica Holdings LLC, a leader in medical education...announced a collaboration to enhance the way pharmaceutical sales representatives interact with physicians. Pharmedica will use the new Motion M1200 Tablet PC to create and reformat its compendium of collateral sales material and medical education programming, which is designed to help sales representatives improve access to, interaction with, and education of clinicians.” (Source: Press Release)
Posted Wednesday, December 4, 2002 by ChrisC Rating: n/a
“For more than a year, Wang Jian and his team at Microsoft Corp.’s research lab here fed a computer a diet of handwritten documents -- scribbled lecture notes, back-of-the-envelope diagrams, shopping lists. The computer grew smarter, until it was finally able to perform a mundane yet crucial task: It could distinguish words from most everything else on the page, then turn the letters into neatly typed text...With thousands of individual characters and no alphabet, the Chinese language cannot be easily accommodated on a keyboard. Chinese engineers are particularly attuned to finding other ways to input characters, including creating digital versions of pen and ink.” (Source: Peter S. Goodman, Washington Post)
Posted Wednesday, December 4, 2002 by ChrisC Rating: n/a
“The long-awaited Compaq Tablet PC, manufactured by HP, has arrived in SA and Tarsus Technologies, the value-add distribution arm of MB Technologies, will have stock available from December. This is the second Tablet PC available to the local market and although it will generate a great deal of interest, says HP PSG product manager at Tarsus Technologies, Jason McMillan, it is likely to remain a relatively niche item for the time being. “I foresee the bulk of the immediate demand coming from ‘techno-junkies’ and that it will be used for niche applications that require this type of mobility,” he adds. (ITWeb, South Africa)
Posted Tuesday, December 3, 2002 by ChrisC Rating: n/a
A tool several have found very useful per Tablet PCs...
“PhraseExpress pastes all your frequently used text phrases into any Windows application in a snap. Ideal for letter templates (e.g. sell/buy letters for Ebay), signatures, addresses, chat phrases and to easily fill web forms. The phrases are filed clearly laid out in a taskbar icon. New phrases can be added via the Windows clipboard with a single mouse click.”
• Save time by not having to rekey commonly used phrases • Reduce typing errors • Ideal for letter templates, signatures, addresses, chats • Logs into web accounts with a single mouse click • Runs powerful macro functions to automate everday’s tasks • Spares your keyboard
“Adam Erickson, ERUCES vice president of worldwide sales, said the security software firm will equip Motion Computing’s Tablet PCs with a data security application. Erickson would not disclose the terms of the partnership, but he said the company expects the deal to generate $7 million to $8 million in sales in the next two years. The software will be added to Motion Computing’s M1200, a mobile computer marketed to the health care, legal and consumer markets. Erickson said the deal is the company’s first foray into the Tablet PC market. “We’re immediately pushing out into the legal industry,” he said. “Going to market with Motion makes sense.” (Source: Kansas City Business Journal)
Posted Tuesday, December 3, 2002 by ChrisC Rating: n/a
“The Tablet PC operating system and included software looks like any Windows XP version. Unfortunately, it suffers the same bloops and freezes as you might expect with Windows. The system suffered a number of serious errors and required immediate installation of a patch. There are many reasons to be wary of these tablets. Battery life lasts about three to four hours. Reading the screen contents in bright sun was difficult. Most, if not all, of the slates lack optical drives, so to add software or repair a program’s installation, you have three choices: Load software over a network, buy an external CD drive or buy a docking station. So do the tablets’ promising features justify a price tag of $1,800 to $2,600? It’s hard to justify. But keep an eye out for possible falling prices.” (Source: Peggy Rogers, The Miami Herald)
Posted Tuesday, December 3, 2002 by ChrisC Rating: n/a
“iSOFT’s ‘LORENZO’ product suite allows doctors and clinicians to annotate diagrams, ultrasound images and pictures using the digital ink capabilities of Tablet PC, illustrating clinical signs and symptoms in a direct electronic format as part of a true multi-media Electronic Patient Record. The unique combination of LORENZO and the Tablet PC also gives dynamic access to up-to-date notes at patient’s bedsides, with the doctors and clinicians able to prescribe drugs, order tests, and view results and knowledgebases in real-time at the point of care.”
ALi notebook chipsets adopted by Toshiba for Protégé Tablet PCs - “ALi Corporation (formerly Acer Laboratories) recently made further improvement in its core logic chipset business, with Toshiba deciding to adopt its notebook-use CyberALADDiN-T integrated chipsets for the company’s new Protégé 3500 and Protégé 2000 Tablet PCs. Co-developed with Trident Microsystems, ALi’s CyberALADDiN-T integrates ALi’s ALADDiN-Pro 5 north bridge chip and Trident’s CyberBlade XP graphics core.” (Source: Charles Chou, Christy Lee, DigiTimes)
MSI to launch sub-US$1,000 Tablet PC next year - “Continuing its diversification from motherboards into other products, Micro-Star International (MSI) will make a foray into Tablet PCs next year and market a device for under US$1,000, or half of current Tablet PC prices. The company has finished developing samples for the product and said it would launch the device at the earliest in the first half of next year wearing its brand. The company said it would also consider contract manufacturing for other vendors. MSI expressed optimism towards Tablet PCs, despite the stagnation of PC sales, saying the product is whole new concept and pricing will be the key to determine future demand.” (Source: Charles Chou, Christy Lee, DigiTimes)
Posted Tuesday, December 3, 2002 by ChrisC Rating: n/a
“With Microsoft nipping at its heels in the network publishing space, Adobe Monday said it would push its heralded Acrobat product line to the enterprise market. The San Jose, Calif.-based firm said the Adobe Document Server and Adobe Document Server for Reader Extensions are the latest server-side tools being marketed to clients looking to integrate enterprise applications with document workflows. Coming on the heels of Microsoft’s entrance into the fray with its XDocs addition to the Office 11 suite, Adobe is clearly moving to get a head start on the Redmond-based software behemoth. Microsoft’s XDocs, which is due for shipping in the middle of 2003, is aimed squarely at the market dominated by the likes of Adobe and Macromedia. When Microsoft unveiled XDocs, it was styled as a new XML-based application to allow businesses to create forms and then integrate the information into their business processes. Not much is known about how Microsoft plans to position and market XDocs within the all-new Office 11 suite but Adobe has wasted no time pushing its own alternative to enterprise clients.” (Source: Ryan Naraine, internetnews.com)
Posted Tuesday, December 3, 2002 by ChrisC Rating: n/a
“Groove Networks Inc. and Microsoft Corp. are extending their technology partnership as each readies new versions of their respective collaborative applications. Groove is expected this month to release Version 2.5 of its namesake peer-to-peer collaboration software, Workspace Professional Edition, which offers improved support for Microsoft’s .Net and Web services integration. Microsoft last week made available Version 1.5 of its MSI (Microsoft Solution for Intranets), which uses the Redmond, Wash., company’s Content Management Server, SharePoint Portal Server, SharePoint Team Services and other technologies to build collaborative applications.” (Source: eWeek)
Posted Tuesday, December 3, 2002 by ChrisC Rating: n/a
Federal Computer Weekly takes a belated look at Comdex 2002, includes information on the Toshiba Portégé 3500, Fujitsu Stylistic ST4110, Motion M1200 and the NEC Versa LitePad...
Posted Tuesday, December 3, 2002 by ChrisC Rating: n/a
“Legend Group Ltd will launch its Tablet PC, the Soleil Shangyu T100, on Dec 10...Based on an Intel Corp 866MHz Mobile Pentium III processor, the Soleil Shangyu T100 ships with 256M bytes of SDRAM (synchronous dynamic RAM), a 20G-byte hard disk and a lithium battery that Legend says will provide four hours of power. Perhaps the most compelling feature of the new Tablet PC is its 12-inch TFT (thin film transistor) LCD (liquid crystal display), which is larger than the screens on many other Tablet PCs, such as Acer Inc.'s convertible TravelMate C100. First shown as a prototype in September, the slab-shaped Soleil Shangyu T100 runs the simplified Chinese version of Microsoft Corp's Windows XP Tablet PC Edition operating system, measures 287 millimeters by 223 millimeters by 21.6 millimeters and weighs in at 1.35 kilograms. The Soleil Shangyu T100 will retail for around US$2,038 (HK$15,896) when it hits the street next week.” (Source: Sumner Lemon, IDG News Service, Taipei)
Posted Tuesday, December 3, 2002 by ChrisC Rating: n/a
“Taiwanese chip designer VIA Technologies Inc. will add around 100 specialists to the current staff off 200 at its mainland Chinese operation next year. The chief executive of VIA’s mainland Chinese operation, Xu Tao, announced the decision recently in Beijing. VIA has a facility in Beijing to design chipsets and wireless local area network chips, a center in Shanghai to design graphics chips, and a design center for notebook computer chips and storage-media chips in Shenzhen. Xu forecast that the mainland computer market would expand by 20% next year, about half the pace of recent years. Mainland Chinese computer supplier Konka Group recently contracted VIA to supply microprocessors for its iMe Tablet PCs.” (Source: Taiwan Economic News)
Posted Monday, December 2, 2002 by ChrisC Rating: n/a
Only 8??? More like 20+ and counting...the article didn’t even mention Sotec, Legend, FIC, Aplux, Electrovoya, PaceBlade, Tatung, Walkabout, Xplore...
“Licensees for Microsoft Corp.’s Tablet PC operating system are at eight and counting, but notably missing are two of the giants in the industry—IBM and Dell Computer Corp...Dell is taking a wait-and-see approach, while IBM is taking the stance of been there, done that. “We’re not doing a Tablet,” said Brian Connors, chief technology officer and vice president of business development and quality for IBM's Personal Systems Group, in Raleigh, N.C. “We’ve been in that space twice before, first in the late ’80s and then we tried again with the TransNote.” Dell gave similar reasons for waiting as IBM did; officials said they expect the Tablet PC to be popular only with vertical markets for the next couple of years. For customers that have asked for Tablet PCs, Dell is reselling ViewSonic’s Tablet PC V1100, a slate-only model with no keyboard.” (Source: eWeek)
Posted Monday, December 2, 2002 by ChrisC Rating: n/a
“Palm Digital Media...released the first Palm Reader eBook version of Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 17th Edition. Published by Little Brown and Company and updated for the first time in more than 10 years, the latest edition contains more than 20,000 quotations, including 90 new additions, from great thinkers such as Aristotle to great humanitarians such as Mother Theresa...Palm Reader eBooks run on Palm Powered handhelds, the Palm Powered portable computer Dana from AlphaSmart, Pocket PC devices, Mac and Windows desktop and notebook computers, and Microsoft’s Tablet PC version of Windows XP.”
Posted Monday, December 2, 2002 by ChrisC Rating: n/a
“Gates says he has found the tablet indispensable around the office. Even authors and actors are using it to make comments in the margins of their manuscripts and scripts. And in other fields, doctors can use the tablet like a legal pad when making notes and accessing charts, which cuts down the office paperwork and increases time with patients.” (Source: Elena Brown, Denver Business Journal)
Posted Monday, December 2, 2002 by ChrisC Rating: n/a
“Like many innovations, the Tablet PC is likely to be first carried onto campuses in the knapsacks of students, who will be attracted by its sleeker form factor and easy portability and mobility. But it won’t be long before the Tablet PC will start to fundamentally change the way students conduct their business, claim Tablet developers, especially in the classroom. The key tool here is Microsoft Windows Journal, the note-taking utility that lets users take, keep, search and manipulate digital notes in their own handwriting. With Journal, they can also convert handwriting to typed text, input typed text into notes, and search for keywords across all their text and handwritten notes. “Taking notes on a laptop is fairly difficult, especially in math, statistics, or economics classes, where students needs to draw," says Ted Clark, vice president of the new notebook business for HP, one of six original equipment manufacturers who announced new Tablet PCs last month. “Journal supplies the student with an unlimited sheet of paper to capture what’s on the board as it’s delivered.” (Source: Syllabus Magazine)
Posted Monday, December 2, 2002 by ChrisC Rating: n/a
“With the Tablet PC, a professional does not have to wait to report a conference with a computer keyboard. The computer is able to take handwriting input, preserve it or convert it to standard text. “We can say that the idea of personal computing is far broader than ever before, broader in new experiences, broader in ways that systems connect automatically, and broader in greater productivity”, Bill Gates said at the last Conidex trade meeting. “The advances in chips and connectivity, and the devices themselves will make so many things common sense to be done in digital form”, he added. (Source: Daily Times of Nigeria)
Posted Monday, December 2, 2002 by ChrisC Rating: n/a
“While launching its first two Tablet PC versions, FIC defined itself as an ODM manufacturer for the international market but will sell the products under its won brand name, LEO, on the domestic market in Taiwan. LEO Systems, an affiliate of FIC in charge of domestic sales, will focus the market for the Tablet PC on those institutions or companies whose business patterns require intense labor inputs, such as hospitals, express delivery companies, and the like. The LEO Slate Vision FT800 is priced at NT$49,900 and the higher-end LEO Slate Vision FT933 NT$54,900.” (Source: Michelle Hsu, The China Post - Taiwan) (Site Babelfished into English)
“For the first time on one stage the leading electronic publishing vendors will be demonstrating how consumers can instantly receive their favorite newspapers, magazines and periodicals – electronically. In addition to the session where Zinio, NewsStand and Olive Software demonstrate their competing solutions, Microsoft, Adobe and Palm Digital Media will present their competing digital publishing tools that enable publishers to take advantage of the reading enhancements of the Tablet PC. “PDF versus XML, online versus offline reading, and which business model consumers will accept for digital reading are among the issues that will be presented on Dec. 5th,” stated OverDrive CEO Steve Potash who will chair the Tablet PC Digital Publishing Conference. Registration and event information for the one-day conference is available at www.openebook.org/tabletpc which will be held at the McGraw-Hill Auditorium located at 1221 Avenue of the Americas in New York City.” (Source: Press Release)
Posted Monday, December 2, 2002 by ChrisC Rating: n/a
“I’ve had a lot of conversations with Microsoft about the Tablet PC. I definitely think it’s heading in the right direction, but it will take time to develop.”
Posted Monday, December 2, 2002 by ChrisC Rating: n/a
“It was all the fun of the fair as Information Technology Month (IT Month) kicked off at the Taipei World Trade Center (TWTC) on Saturday. The venue was crowded with a lot of people — some curious, some looking for a bargain, some who just came to see what was going on. With tens of thousands thronging to the fair, it was tough going but it had a carnival atmosphere...Tablet PCs were one of the major attractions of the fair. Four Tablet PC manufacturers — Acer, Hewlett-Packard, View Sonic and Leo Systems, all had tablet PCs available for demonstration.” (Source: Jeffry Babb, The China Post - Taiwan)
Posted Monday, December 2, 2002 by ChrisC Rating: n/a
“Gene Sheu, President of the Networking and Information Division of the First International Computer (FIC), does not classify the Tablet PC as another IT item, but instead a PC with higher value added. When the tablet PC was first launched, Sheu regarded it as something between the notebook and a pocket PC. Initially, he noted, the Tablet PC appealed to consumers who needed a PC bigger than the Pocket PC and handier than a notebook. “Later on, the Tablet PC will gradually replace the traditional notebook as the main stay of the PC market,” Sheu said agreeing with what Microsoft was saying at that time. In other words, all the advantages of a Tablet PC would gradually become the standard functions of a PC. At that time, a PC without the handwriting capability of today’s Tablet PC may not have been considered a full-functioning PC. That is what Bill Gates meant when he said that the Tablet PC is the computer for the future.” (Source: Michelle Hsu, The China Post - Taiwan)
Posted Monday, December 2, 2002 by ChrisC Rating: n/a
“The Viglen Exaro Tablet PC is our latest offering in a long line of successful products designed specifically by Viglen for the Education market. The Tablet PC is our biggest product launch since the notebook and is the first real alternative to the standard PC as we know it. Using our extensive knowledge of both technology and the education market we went back to basics with the Viglen Tablet PC. You don’t even need a keyboard and mouse! From just £899, you can have access to the next generation computing at yesterday’s prices.”
933 MHZ Transmeta, 256 meg, 20 gig HD, 8 meg graphics, 10.4", 802.11b and 10/100 LAN, 2 USB 1.1 ports, FireWire
• Viglen Tablet PC a win for Transmeta - “British PC Company Viglen, which specialised in the educational market, has apparently ordered Tablet PCs made by First International Computer (FIC) in Taiwan. According to reports in the Taiwanese press, Viglen will order 1,000 Tablet PCs per month from FIC starting in 2003, with the units costing around £1,000. The Slate Vision Tablet PC FIC makes uses the Transmeta TM 5800, at a clock speed of 1GHz.”
Posted Sunday, December 1, 2002 by ChrisC Rating: n/a
“Hanwang Technology Co., Ltd., a high-tech company, founded in 1993, is mainly engaged in the research and development of multi-intelligence interaction technology with its current specific direction laying on Chinese character handwriting recognition, OCR (Optical Character Recognition), artificial intelligence, etc. It also deals with the manufacturing and commercializing of related products to its technologies. Headquartered in Beijing, it employs nearly 400 people and operates over 20 subsidiary companies, affiliated companies and 40 agents throughout the country.”
Posted Sunday, December 1, 2002 by ChrisC Rating: 3
“Aplux develops Tablet PC hardware combining Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition...Aplux provides two versions of Tablet PC - TTM1C and TVM1C to fulfill the customer needs with different requirements. TTM1C is an all-in-one solution and powered by Transmeta CPU with 8.4 inch display panel and Wi-Fi 802.11b wireless Lan. TVM1C is powered by VIA Eden processor with 10.4 inch display panel. Customers can choose the best solution from the various products based on their demand.”
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Posted Sunday, December 1, 2002 by ChrisD Rating: n/a
PC Watch spoke with David R. Ditzel at Comdex 2002. (Website in Japanese, Babelfished into English)
Posted Sunday, December 1, 2002 by ChrisC Rating: n/a
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