Now is the time for Apple to move in for the kill

by TQ

Is the following a nightmare scenario? Apple seems to be firing on most, if not all cylinders. The iPhone and the iPod Touch are both selling quite well, and Internet rumors are abuzz of a possible larger iPod Touch-slash-tablet, which could quite… Full Details

iPhone and iPod Touch market is strong, very strong. Great opportunity for devs.

by TQ

MG Siegler is right about the state of the iPhone and iPod Touch markets. They are spot on the best mobile devices around. “People can downplay the actual number of iPhones in circulation all they want — the fact of the matter is that it has… Full Details

Ink input showcased in Engineering Windows 7 blog

by TQ

If you haven’t seen what ink looks like in Windows 7, you need to check out today’s post on the Engineering Windows 7 blog. Of the many ink improvements and extensions in Windows 7, some of my favorites are smart corrections in the… Full Details

Windows 7 Started Edition OK for standard Netbooks

by TQ

Ed Bott walks through what it’s like to live with Windows 7 Starter Edition on a Netbook. Recall, this permutation of Windows 7 only supports three apps at a time. His conclusion? “In short, when I used this system as a netbook, it… Full Details

Sharp Mebius PC-NJ70A sports LCD-based, multi-touch trackpad

by TQ

This is cool. The forthcoming Sharp Mebius netbook is shipping with an LCD trackpad that supports muti-touch. The 4″, 854×480 pixel LCD is kind of like having an iPhone’s touch built right into a PC. No idea if the display can be… Full Details

MSI Wind Top offers touch, handwriting recognition for $529

by TQ

Want a low-cost, netbook class All-in-one for your home or office? MSI has the answer: The MSI Wind Top. It’s only $529. With an 18.5″ display running either an Atom 230 (1.6GHz) or 330 (1.6GHz dual core), resistive digitizer, webcam and… Full Details

We are not nearing the end of OS innovation

by TQ

Jason Hiner over at Zdnet makes the claim that we’re approaching the end of the Windows era–namely that for businesses there’s not much more innovating we can squeeze out of the Windows OS. What may come next are diminishing… Full Details

Community guided video editing

by TQ

This weekend Friends of O’Reilly invited over about 150 friends for a weekend of conversation and sharing about social networking and related topics. No big agenda, just people talking about “how to change the world.” Attendees… Full Details

Numbers tell Apple they should be in the book business

by TQ

Ben Lorica at O’Reilly Radar shares some interesting numbers on iPhone apps. You’ve got to check them out, particularly if you’re pondering the eBook market. Yes, the game market is #1, but look at who is coming up fast from… Full Details

Is there a Microsoft tax for attending Microsoft’s developer events?

by TQ

Microsoft’s Laptop Hunter’s commercials have brought the whole “Is there a price premium for the Apple brand when purchasing a Mac rather than a PC?” to the forefront. Steve Ballmer argues it’s a $500 premium. Apple… Full Details

Epson takes a swing at a surface computer with the X-Desk

by TQ

Epson, with its wide range of projectors, has entered the interactive table market with the X-Desk–though no price has been made public. Here’s a video of the table in action: According to RegisterHardware the X-Desk has a 52-touch… Full Details

Bridgestone QR-LPD e-Paper supports ink

by TQ

The e-Paper space continues to grow. This time Bridgestone shows off its latest e-Paper technology, QR-LPD at Display 2009. In the following video you get to see the technology shown up close. It’s quite impressive: The technology has been… Full Details

Origami Team Blog folds

by TQ

The Origami Team blog at origamiproject.com is retiring this month. Today’s blog post announcing the termination of OrigamiProject.com attributes the end of the site to all the growth in UMPCs. “When we launched the Origami project about… Full Details

CNet: ASUS T91 hands-on video

by TQ

Roy Reid gets some hands on time with an early ASUS Eee PC T91 Tablet PC. Live we’ve seen before, the 8.9″, Atom-based, T91 has a resistive touch screen and custom software running alongside to make it easier to use with touch. That… Full Details

Two-day TechEd pass for California residents: $995

by TQ

As I mentioned the other day in the post on the excessive cost of attending events such as TechEd, Microsoft is making available some discount offers to this year’s TechEd event to be held in Los Angeles May 11-15th. The offer shown at right,… Full Details

Time to think about Desert Code Camp

by TQ

It’s time to start thinking about Desert Code Camp, which is to be held on Saturday June 13, 2009. I see that the team organizing the event is looking for speakers and recommendations for sessions. Hmmm. I just signed… Full Details

N-Trig digitizer doesn’t get respect from cartoonists and illustrators

by TQ

As I’ve blogged about before, I’ve been non-plused with the Dell Latitude XT Tablet PC in part because of the problems I’ve been have with its N-Trig digitizer. Let’s just say that between the digitizer having a mind of its… Full Details

How much would you pay to go to a conference?

by TQ

Almost every company I know is cutting back on attending conferences. It makes complete sense. They need to watch their expenditures at a time like this. However, interestingly, conferences such as Microsoft’s TechEd developer conference… Full Details

The Imagine Cup’s Tablet PC competition has me thinking

by TQ

If only I was a student again. The things I could do. So many ideas are popping into my head for the Tablet PC accessibility category for this month’s Imagine Cup competition. In college I tried entering a couple of these types of design… Full Details

Microsoft Surface team wants developer feedback

by TQ

From the Microsoft Surface blog: “Do you build Microsoft Surface applications? If so, we want to hear from you! We have created a survey to help us better understand how developers and designers are using our tools and SDK to build Microsoft… Full Details

Will Apple take over the developer market?

by TQ

What follows is 100% speculation based on assumptions built from rumors built from unkept promises. Take it for what you think it’s worth, but something tells me there are realitites in some this. Here goes: We all know that the iPhone has… Full Details

Is the CrunchPad a better All-in-one than a web reader?

by TQ

If I could have lunch today with Michael Arrington, I’d try to persuade him that he just might have a winner with the CrunchPad–though not necessarily as a web reader. No, I think he might have stumbled across a new device category that… Full Details

Imagine Cup adds Tablet accessibility award

by TQ

Lora over at WhatIsNew points to a new project category for the Imagine Cup: Tablet PC accessibility: “This year the Imagine Cup has a Tablet Accessibility Award with first place prize of $8000, a Tablet PC, and a trip to the Imagine Cup… Full Details

12? CrunchPad to support capacitive touch!

by TQ

TechCrunch decided to go with the flow and post more details and pictures of the CrunchPad. In this recent post, TechCrunch gives us some tantelizing details: “What you see is a prototype, equipped with an Intel Atom processor and a 12?… Full Details

Is the TechCrunch Tablet coming soon?

by TQ

Dustin Curtis teases us with a post about the TechCrunch Tablet. There were some photos for awhile of the potentially forthcoming device, however, they were taken down (although I did find one image on another site which you can try to find on your… Full Details

Imagine Cup Tablet Accessibility Award

by Lora Heiny

Learning to write is an intergral part of schooling and with advancements in Tablet technology, the ability for students to learn to write and continue using practical skills like note-taking on a computer is a great opportunity. More work is… Full Details

Imagine Cup Tablet Accessibility Award

by TQ

Learning to write is an intergral part of schooling and with advancements in Tablet technology, the ability for students to learn to write and continue using practical skills like note-taking on a computer is a great opportunity. More work is… Full Details

Gigabyte T1028M Touchnote (convertible Netbook) unboxed

by TQ

Chippy from UMPC Portal unboxes the Gigabyte T1028 Touchnote. The device currently comes with XP, but I wonder about Windows 7 since it has a multi-touch trackpad. The question is: Will Windows 7 provide a multi-touch experience via the trackpad? I… Full Details

Six innovations to improve publishing

by TQ

This is a must view video for anyone interested in book publishing of any form, paper or electronic: Michael Tamblyn, CEO of BookNet Canada, gives an enthusiastic presentation making the case for innovation in the publishing industry. Well done. I… Full Details

Plastic Logic builds out content platform and partners

by TQ

Plastic Logic’s eReader is getting one step closer to reality. Today it’s announcing content distribution partnerships as well as an open platform for content. This light weight device is definitely going to shakeup the eReader market as… Full Details

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