Those Apple Tablet rumors keep churning and churning. Today ABC News sums up what’s going on in the Mac Tablet rumor space. There’s nothing new here though. Just idle speculation and the repetition of rumors. Like many, I’ve had… Full Details
Mary Jo Foley is reporting that Microsoft has “released to manufacturing the version of Windows XP that it has tweaked to run on the One Laptop Per Child XO computer.” Cool. Now maybe someone can sneak the Tablet bits in. Maybe if… Full Details
CNet is reporting that Microsoft and researchers have developed an algorithm that ranks search results not simply on link patterns, but on the browsing patterns of users. They call it BrowseRank. This is in contrast to Google’s PageRank… Full Details
Techno Dummy is a new live-chat series highlighting the use of technology in the classroom. We start the series preparing for the school year. Each episode is designed to help teachers manage the requirements of running a smooth classroom. Episode… Full Details
News is spreading that Windows Live Photo Gallery is going to be including face recognition for “family members and friends.” Seems like an interesting feature, however, Microsoft needs to be careful here. I’m betting they’re… Full Details
It’s time to go beyond thinking of WIFI access points as single entities. It’s time to go the next step and leverage access points as part of a location-aware network. Here’s the thing: Access points broadcast and receive signals… Full Details
Rendering in IE 7.0 and FireFox 3.0.1 are compared for the website Technology Questions. You will quickly see the site headers and width are very different. Cache on the server as well as locally have all been cleared several times. I am logged into… Full Details
TechCrunch is reporting that Google is looking into acquiring Digg. I have no idea one way or another, but I can imagine that Google is considering the possibilities. It has to, as do all companies. However, I hope Google doesn’t fall into the… Full Details
With the news that JKOnTheRun is joining GigaOM, James Kendrick takes a moment to reflect on this past year’s loss of a great fellow contributor and one of the most warm-hearted persons you’d ever meet, Marc Orchant. Reading through the… Full Details
The number of people predicting a forthcoming Apple Tablet keeps growing. Dave Winer thinks we’ll see one soon too as the next generation of Apple systems make their way to market: In the next round you’ll see one with two or three USB… Full Details
This is a test post from the new Wordpress app on the iPhone. The app is quite minimal and missing some obvious features, but one feature is great: It can post images taken with the iPhone to the blog. This is a photo I took last night at… Full Details
While waiting for my order to arrive, I started reading the CherryPal website and a few questions started to take shape. Matt from CherryPal was kind enough to answer them. You may have more questions and so feel free to leave them in the… Full Details
I rediscovered SketchBook Pro yesterday. What a great drawing experience on a Tablet PC! Even if you’re as bad at drawing as I am, it’s a great app to try out. If nothing else, you can scribble, erase, scribble, erase without wasting any… Full Details
MacDailyNews is reporting another Mac Tabletish rumor. Supposedly there might be something coming by October. Who knows. At some point we have to say “Deliver or Step Aside.” I’m leaning towards the… Full Details
After Loren’s recent medical news that he needed to go back to chemotherapy, Loren declared that he wants to go to Disneyland this weekend. So, I’m going to call the park tonight to find out about hotel reservation for Loren & friends, Layne,… Full Details
Let’s face it, the OEM community has failed to deliver a knock out mobile Internet device. Microsoft didn’t deliver with the UMPC and its sleek Haiku concept. Even Apple has been unable to deliver a larger version of the iPhone–the… Full Details
For the first time in over 5 years, I am officially tossing my hat into writing a product review. What product has motivated me from the dead pool? The CherryPal. I pre-ordered the unit about a half-hour ago. I’m more excited about this… Full Details
I haven’t been posting much lately. I’ve been taking a couple days off to just go do things. I went to a rodeo. Never had done that before. Kind of interesting. I drove up to the Grand Canyon and walked a bit of Bright Angel Trail…. Full Details
Last week Lora posted over at WhatIsNew a list of school case studies on Tablet PCs and touch. Wow. Things have sure progressed in the education space. Sometimes I feel like there’s not much going on and then I read this. I’ll say it… Full Details
As a developer I’ll put it simply: If I were at any company working on any product, I’d place developing a well-tuned iPhone app or service at the top of my list–above any other skunkworks projects. Yes, any company. Any product…. Full Details
Fundamental business practices can easily be overlooked when a company grows quickly. This is because employees are tempted to forget the foundations of their company’s success. Therefore, management must always be on the alert for sloppy… Full Details
Technology in the urban, public school classroom centers around the teacher’s ability to piece together lesson plans that engage kids long enough for them to learn and retain some knowledge. If the teacher does not know enough about… Full Details
Domain names are important. They provide the first clue to a visitor about the website. Years ago, I bought the domain name KillerTux.com because the name seemed clever. After some thought, the site name changed to Tux Reports. The Tux Reports… Full Details
Dell was slow to enter the Tablet PC market but is quickly learning to add features people want to have on a Convertible PC. The multitouch gesture upgrade is an excellent addition for the Latitude XT owners. The two finger operation is a welcome… Full Details
Here is an updated list of case studies about mobile PCs with Tablet or Touch technology used in education. Blackboard & Tegrity Colorado Technical University – Sioux Falls British Educational Communications and Technology Agency… Full Details
Robert Scoble: Today I visited two iPhone developers to see how things went. First we visited Evernote, which makes a great note-taking app. This is the most useful app I’ve loaded on my iPhone so far (which has more than 30 apps loaded on it)…. Full Details
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Tablet PCs
The other day I wrote about the digital academy students learning to use Tablet PCs in the classroom. Today, I wanted to quickly share a victory for learning. Students in the digital academy started to download chemistry problem sets and complete… Full Details
Quick. Name 5 technologies you’ve purchased over the past 5 years that improved your life. Yeah, I struggled, too. I purchase tons of technology every year but adding the condition that my life was improved – well – now the list narrows. Here… Full Details
For years vBulletin has been a growing community because the forum software was inexpensive, easy to install, focused on creating great forum experiences for members right after the installation, and because a community of developers added to the… Full Details
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Blogging
Robert Scoble writes a fairly long post about blogs and the PR industry and how the PR industry is promoting things the wrong way when it comes to tech blogs–or the blogs are getting pulled into their strategies. I think Robert’s trying… Full Details