I was summoned for jury duty. iPad in hand, I reported as ordered. Free wi-fi in the jury assembly room made the interminable wait bearable. Actually… enjoyable! And what a bonus when I needed to find a local eatery during the 90-min lunch break. All doable with an iPhone of course.. but much more elegant [...]

Looks like the business Android-based Cius wasn’t the only tablet out of Cisco (CSCO) this week, the company’s also announced a countertop unit built for home energy management that comes with a 7-inch WVGA capacitive touch screen with 800 x 480 resolution. The Tablet Runs on a Ubuntu Linux operating system and is powered by [...]

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Back in April, Microsoft (MSFT) Corporate VP of Communications Frank Show announced that the Microsoft Courier tablet project has been cancelled:
“At any given time, we’re looking at new ideas, investigating, testing, incubating them. It’s in our DNA to develop new form factors and natural user interfaces to foster productivity and creativity. The Courier project is [...]

Dell is now selling a SIM-free unlocked version of its 5-inch Streak tablet direct to customers without a contract for £449 ($675) according to the manufacturer’s updated website with customers limited to only two units each.  Earlier this month, Dell released the Streak through an exclusive deal with UK’s wireless carrier O2.  O2 has been [...]

The telecom solutions provider Huawei, unveiled the Smakit S7 Android Tablet at the Computex Technology Show in Taipei, Taiwan is now releasing the device through an exclusive retailer, Expansys for  £299 ($359 US).  Both Expansys USA and UK is offering the device.
The Smakit S7 tablet has a 7“ WVGA 800×480 touch screen that runs Google [...]

Rats! It appears that the iOS 4 upgrade to iPads won’t be until Nov. I was hoping for Aug. I’m wondering if a new iPad will be introduced at the same time. FaceTime on the iPad? Could be…

        Nokia is planning to launch a  MeeGo-powered ARM-based tablet PC in Q4 2010.  The tablet is expected to have a 7 or 9-inch screen with OpenGL ES 2.0 graphics for gaming, integrated cellular wireless connectivity and WiMAX for 4G Internet access and expected to run on a ARM processors as opposed to earlier information [...]

     Apple’s (AAPL) iPad sales are from slowing down, more than 3 million iPads have been sold in just the first 80 days tablet computer’s launch in the United States.  The iPad past analysts’ expectations by selling million units in the first 28 days, the second million was reached in 60 days. 
According to Katy Huberty [...]

SmartDevices has upgraded their Ubuntu Linux SmartQ 7 tablet and renamed it SmartQ V7 and classified it as a HD MID.  The SmartQ V7 is a big brother of the SmartQ V5 has been upgraded to the Telechips TCC8900 ARM 11 CPU that runs at 600MHz and had the RAM doubled from 128MB to 256MB [...]

A Hong Kong-based technology company, RealEase is working on a ARM-based Linux tablet called Shogo 10.
The Shogo 10 tablet has a 10-inch capacitive multi-touch screen with 1024×600 resolution with 256MB DDR RAM and 4GB internal Storage NAND-Flash (1GB to 8GB).  The tablet will come in two versions, one will run on Freescale’s i.MX37 (ARM 11) processor [...]

The company Canonical, which is a open source software developer is building a version of the Ubuntu Linux operating system that will run on tablet PC’s.
Ubuntu is a computer operating system based on the Debian GNU/Linux distribution and is distributed as free and open source software with additional proprietary software available.  Ubuntu has had pretty [...]

  Huawei, a telecom solutions provider owned entirely by its employees recently showed of a upgraded version of their Android-powered S7 tablet at the Computex International Information Technology Show in Taipei, Taiwan.
Back in March at the Mobile World Congress, Huawei originally showed off the Smakit S7 tablet running Android 1.6 OS, but has since upgraded [...]