Tag: tablets
HP Returns To Tablet-Making For Some Reason
HP, the company that released their TouchPad tablet last year only to K-Line it a month later, had declared that they’re getting back into the...
Intel Makes Promises About Windows 8 Tablets
In Beijing this week, Intel released some more information about future Windows 8 tablets that will be using its Clover Trail CPU platform. While these...
Foxconn to build five more Brazilian factories to keep up with tablet demand
The name Foxconn has been in the news a lot recently. Today they’re back, but not for the usual reason. Apple’s product assembler plans to build...
Knock, knock. Who’s there? Steve Ballmer says “WINDOWS!”
Asking Steve Ballmer how he feels about being in the “post-PC era” and he’ll give you a sorta-kinda answer: “We are in the Windows era —...
Ballmer says Metro iTunes app is welcome
During a recent Q&A call with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, he explained that he’d welcome Metro-compatible apps from competitors such as Apple and Amazon, saying “they...
Microsoft’s Metro says “no” to Flash
I can’t decide whether I’m surprised or not: Microsoft has announced that Metro, their front-end for the upcoming Windows 8, will not support plug-ins for...
Brazil to buy tablets and cut taxes to attract manufacturers
Brazil continues to make overtures to foreign manufacturers. Bloomberg reports that the government is considering adding tablets to the One Laptop per Child program that...
Sony unveils two Playstation Suite-compatible tablets
Sony is getting into the tablet market with the unveiling of the S1 and S2 Android-based tablets. More specifically, the tablets run Honeycomb, Android 3.0...
Textbooks out, tablets in
Apple started an innovative program called One to One ten years ago, which consists of using the original iBook laptops in schools. Countless schools around...