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iPad rivals already on the way

Posted by John on 13th April 2010


Google, Microsoft Prepping iPad Rivals

An Android tablet PC from Google and a two-screen slate from Microsoft may join devices from Acer, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, and Lenovo to vie with Apple’s iPad.

ByAntone Gonsalves InformationWeek  April 13, 2010 08:35 AM

Google and Microsoft are reportedly working on their own slate computers that would challenge Apple’s iPad.

Google chief executive Eric Schmidt told friends about the company’s new device at a recent Los Angeles party, and the company is talking to publishers about delivering books, magazines and other content to the device, The New York Times reported Sunday. The gadget would run exclusively on Google’s Android operating system.

Microsoft, on the other hand, has built a prototype of a slate. The device, called the Courier, is about the size of an average paperback and unfolds to reveal two screens, a Microsoft employee claiming to have seen the device told the Times. Users would be able to write on the screens using a stylus and would be able to drag content between the two screens.

While Microsoft engineers have talked about having the device ready for release by early 2011, no official announcement has been made on whether to sell the computer.

(for the rest of the article, head over to http://www.informationweek.com/news/storage/portable/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=224400032 )

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Apple’s brand new iPad

Posted by John on 27th January 2010

Apple‘s new iPad has launched (more news, latest info, images, video, ) and it looks to be more forward thinking. (even if a lot of of would have enjoyed the iSlate moniker)

apple iPad intro Steve Jobs

Shipping within a couple of months with the WiFi (802.11n) variant, and a month later for the added AT&T-only 3G capability (a small boo for not opening that up to other carriers).

Light and thin, and borrowing heavily from the iPhone and iTouch, it looks like it could spell trouble for competitors (new iBooks vs the Kindle / Nook, as well as the smartphone / netbook arena).

There is a massive amount of coverage out there as indicated at the start of this article, but one of the better first articles I read was at Cnet and a more in-depth blog is available as well.


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Apple’s iSlate and the Competition

Posted by John on 22nd January 2010

All eyes are on an Apple iSlate computer unveiling later this month. What is the competition cooking up to stop it in its tracks?

It’s barely two weeks into the new year, and I already have a piece of potential vaporware on my brain: the forever-rumored tablet from Apple. Is this mythical piece of hardware still a lot of talk, with no physical prototype or production model in sight? Yes, but with an event planned for later this month, Apple has many in the mobile computing world on pins and needles about a Unicorn sighting.

Rumors are rumors, but there’s enough evidence and leaked information to say that an Apple tablet or slate device is inevitable, and that such a device will be announced in the very near future. So, if you’ll power on your imagination for a moment, what can we expect from the “iSlate” (Ed. note: that’s what we are calling the Apple product in this article, it’s not an official name by any means)? And just as important, what can we expect from the competition? You won’t see any other tablets or slate PCs running OS X legitimately, but companies like Lenovo, HP, Pegatron, and MSI are totally on board with this tablet idea.

Competition is the eternal fuel on which innovation runs, so while some of these iSlate competitors are very alluring, others are the product of a “me-too” half-baked attempt. Let’s see what the rest of the PC world has to offer.

(see more over at Tom’s)

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Tech bag of the day

Posted by John on 5th September 2009


http://regexpal.com/ quite handy to test out your RegEx before it causes any issues :)

http://www.askapache.com/htaccess/mod_rewrite-tips-and-tricks.html useful links for those delving in the Apache world.

http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html Still worthy of inclusion - Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site from the Yahoo Team themselves

Apple is great at many things – this just isn’t one of them http://www.forbes.com/2009/09/03/apple-snow-leopard-technology-security-flash.html

http://perishablepress.com/press/2008/01/16/comprehensive-htaccess-canonicalization-for-wordpress/ Title says it all ;)

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