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News Week of December 31, 2006UMPC vertical appeal? UMPCs are a consumer product. The Microsoft website for UMPCs shows regular people using UMPCs in everyday situations. Microsoft could have used images of a sales person punching buttons on the touch screen while at a field appointment, but didn't. Interestingly, businesses have seen on their own how they can use UMPCs and some are chosing to adopt them. This is a good thing. The prospect of volume sales is always tempting to manufacturers. Do you want to have one sale of 1000 units or 1000 sales of 1 unit? Both take time. Both will have post-sales support. The RMA rates will be the same. Single unit sales can be rapid cash flow. But it's tempting to think that the one sale of 1000 units is the way to go. It seems "easier" and there is always that hope with sales people that where there is one potential sale of 1000 units that there are more just like that waiting out there. (Source: Lora, What Is New) Major Pharmaceutical Company Awards Contracts to Skura Corporation and Blue Diesel Skura and Blue Diesel to deliver “next generation” eDetailing and CLM software together with leading-edge creative content for physician eDetailing visits. SFX Viewer™, running on Tablet PC technology, is being deployed to improve the return on investment (ROI) of the brand's sales force. Blue Diesel will create multimedia presentations designed to turn a traditional pharmaceutical sales call into a highly effective educational experience for physicians resulting in better message retention and drug knowledge. Skura next generation Closed-Loop Marketing is the most advanced sales/marketing business process available to enable pharmaceutical and Life Sciences product manufacturers to eDetail the right physician, with the right multimedia message, at the right time. Face time with physicians is improved, as well as sales force retention levels, including several other efficiencies that result in a measurable ROI. (Source: CRM Today) A Mac Tablet will be launched at Macworld – just not from Apple! Back when 12-inch iBooks were available, someone turned a 12-inch iBook into a Tablet, but offered no warranty and you lost use of the keyboard. Now, Other World Computing (OWC) and Axiotron will release the ModBook – a MacBook converted into a Mac Tablet – and it’s launching at Macworld next week! Can you say ‘cease and desist’? Maybe that’s what Apple’s lawyers will be saying on day one of Macworld to OWC and Axiotron, who are scheduled to launch the ModBook, an unofficial modification of the MacBook into a Mac Tablet. Details on the OWC site are sketchy, but it will be a slate (possibly meaning the loss of the keyboard), with a WACOM Penabled touch screen, Apple’s Inkwell technology for handwriting and gesture recognition technology so the WACOM has something to work with when you write on screen, and the option of a built-in GPS for good measure. (Source: Alex Zaharov-Reutt, ITWire) One of those "Oh No!!!" moments This Tuesday was no exception. It was six o'clock and we were late to Scouts. In a rush to head out the door, I threw my X60 Tablet PC in my Ogio Metroid backpack, pulled the backpack over one shoulder, and turned to head out the kitchen when I heard the sound all mobile folks hate to hear: a loud bang on the hardwood kitchen floor. You guessed it. I forgot to zip up my backpack, and with that sudden turn toward the door, my tablet pc fell about 4 feet and kissed the floor with a good ole smacker. I stood there and just looked at what I thought was a catastrophe - 3 days before leaving for CES and now this. "Please, please, please - start up, please.....", I mumbled to the computer as I pressed the power button. My kids and wife were all standing around me, eyeballs going back and forth, scared to say anything. They knew.... Find out what happened to Rob's X60 when he tried booting up! (Source: Rob Bushway, GottaBeMobile) Imagine LAN Announces UltraSync™ v2.0 for Windows® Vista and XP PCs UltraSync™ software from imagine LAN provides comprehensive digital content synchronization (files, music, pictures, video, Outlook® email, and browser favorites) for Vista and XP PCs. Imagine LAN, Inc., a leading developer of mobility and recovery software applications, today announced UltraSync version 2.0. UltraSync, the PC-to-PC synchronization application for files, music, pictures, video, Outlook® email, and browser favorites, has added support for Vista and Outlook 2007 in version 2.0. Microsoft camp to show new mobile designs Microsoft and partners will put a new face on mobile PCs at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas next week. As part of a speech scheduled for Sunday 7 Jan, company founder Bill Gates is expected to show off new approaches to the ultramobile PC (UMPC) format that is an attempt to straddle the PDA and Tablet PC categories. Originally codenamed Origami, the first-generation UMPC format was criticised for high costs and poor usability, performance and battery life, but Microsoft and supporters still believe there is a place for a lightweight, mini-tablet unit that uses a pen as its primary means of input. (Source: IT Week Staff, IT Week) Tablet predictions for 2007 With the beginning of the new year, it's that time again: To make predictions for all things Tablet in 2007. Here's my list of fourteen predictions for 2007. (Source: Loren Heiny, Incremental Blogger) Reviews: LifeBook P1610 Tablet PC (1.20GHz Core Solo U1400, 1GB, 80GB, Windows XP Pro, 8.9 Although my small hands had few issues with the cramped keyboard, touch typists and users with large hands may find it difficult to work with. My two design complaints are minor ones: First, the flat, sliding power switch was awkward to switch on and off. Second, the spacebar depresses beneath the unit's chassis, so I often found myself bumping into the chassis as I typed. Equipped with a 1.2-GHz Intel Core Solo ULV U1400 CPU, integrated graphics, and 1GB of RAM, the unit mustered only a Fair rating on our WorldBench 5 tests, earning a score of 62. It also did poorly on our gaming graphics tests, producing unplayably low frame rates. The P1610's 3-hour battery life is respectable given the unit's small size, but the result falls nearly an hour and a half short of the current average battery life among ultraportables we've seen. Clearly, this notebook is aimed at people who put a premium on portability. If you crave both compactness and functionality, the petite LifeBook P1610 will charm you. (Source: Melissa J. Perenson, PC World) Running Ubuntu Linux on Acer Tablet PCs Part III Installation Installing Ubuntu was a snap. Since I had chosen to completely get rid of Windows altogether, instead of dual booting, I backed up all my sensitive data, music, Word documents, photos, etc., to my external NTFS hard drive. It is crucial to note that Ubuntu 6.06-6.10 can only read from NTFS natively and writing to NTFS drives is a bit trickier. Apparently, if your hard drive is in FAT32, it isn't a problem at all and Ubuntu can talk to FAT32 perfectly. When I was sure I had backed up all my data, I inserted the x386 disc (for all Pentium processors) into the drive and booted into the Live CD. On the Acer c310 series, the default way to boot is into the hard drive. You must press F12 at the BIOS post splash screen in order to boot to the CD. The icon on the desktop of the Live CD labeled “Install” is the key to the whole process. Installation was step-by-step at first, but then unattended for the majority of the time. The entire install took approximately one hour. Ubuntu can be installed on its own partition; can reallocate free space from another partition such as a Windows one for Ubuntu or wipe the entire hard drive clean, creating one giant Extended 3 Linux partition. I chose the last option. (Source: Gautam, TabletPCReview.com) jkOnTheRun Review- Fujitsu P1610 Tablet Mode Bump Case Fujitsu offers two bump cases for the P1610, the Tablet Mode Bump Case that I purchased and the Convertible Bump Case which provides usage of the device in either Tablet mode or laptop mode. The two cases are almost the same price ($79 for the Tablet Mode and $80 for the Convertible) and since price wasn’t a factor I decided to get the Tablet case because it looked a little smaller than the Convertible case. The last thing I wanted to do was take my nice small Tablet PC and bulk it up with a huge case. (Source: jkOnTheRun Blog) The 2006 Engadget Awards: Nominate the Tablet PC of the Year |
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