Toshiba, like pretty much every other company that’s ever produced a computer, is expected to launch a tablet soon. And the folks at Notebook Italia have snagged some of the first images of the upcoming Toshiba tablet, featuring an HDMI port, docking station, flash card reader, audio jack, and both full and mini-sized USB ports. […]
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Best Buy to bring tablet computers to the masses?
Best Buy may already have a tablet computer for sale, called the Apple iPad. But Forbes is reporting that Best Buy plans to seriously up that number in time for the holiday season. The company isn’t saying exactly which models it will carry, but a Best Buy exec has indicated the retailer could stock a […]
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Malata ZPad tablet with NVIDIA Tegra 2 chipset – Video
Chinese PC maker Malata has a history of producing slick looking mini-PCs, most of which never make it to US shores. But that doesn’t stop us from gawking at them. One of the company’s latest is a 10 inch Android tablet which stands out from the crowd thanks to its 1GHz NVIDIA Tegra 2 chip, […]
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Coby to offer cheap netbooks in the US?
Coby is a consumer electronics maker known for making cheap, if not incredibly reliable products. For the past two years the company has been toying with the netbook space, showing off a line of budget mini-laptops with 7 to 12 inch displays at CES in 2009 and 2010. A few models even showed up in […]
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Google Chrome OS web store, gaming ambitions revealed?
OK, so Google might launch a tablet this fall running its browser-centric Chrome Operating System. OK, so Chrome OS is designed to run web apps instead of native apps stored on a hard drive. But what kind of apps are going to be available? Video gaming site 1Up snapped some photos at a Google presentation […]
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Google and Verizon to launch a Chrome OS tablet in November?
Google is expected to launch its Chrome Operating System for netbooks and other mobile devices later this year. Chrome OS is based on the Google Chrome web browser, and it’s designed to blur the lines between a desktop operating system and web-based apps. Want to write a document, watch a movie, chat with friends, or […]
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Notion Ink teases Genesis development platform for the Adam tablet
The Notion Ink Adam Tablet is one of the most intriguing Android tablets on the horizon, thanks to its NVIDIA Tegra chipset, Google Android operating system, and optional Pixel Qi transflective display. While the Adam isn’t expected to launch until later this year, the folks at Notion Ink have already made it clear that they […]
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EnTourage eDGe tablet/eReader rooted — does this make it any more useful?
The EnTourage eDGe is one of the most intriguing Android devices to hit the market this year. It’s a dual screen device running Google Android. But while one screen is a normal LCD touchscreen display, the other is an e Ink screen meant for reading digital books. The whole thing looks more like a netbook […]
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Multitouch gesture support coming to Ubuntu 10.10
Multitouch gesture support is everywhere these days. Windows 7 has it baked in (well, not Windows 7 Starter, but all the other versions). So does Apple OS X and iOS, Google Android, Palm WebOS, and a number of other mobile operating systems. So it’s not all that surprising that Ubuntu Linux founder Mark Shuttleworth is […]
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Correlation is not causation: iPad may or may not be killing netbooks
The iPad is selling really, really well right now. And it’s not a complete surprise. It’s one of the cheapest, easiest to use tablet computers ever to hit the market. It won’t be the last, and there’s a chance that by this time next year a dozen Android, WebOS, or Windows 7 tablets could be […]