At the Consumer Electronics Show in January, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer introduced his new touch-screen, tablet-style computer from Hewlett-Packard. This is what Steve Ballmer had to say about his HP Slate. “We’re talking about something that is almost as portable as a phone and as powerful as a PC running Windows 7.” “The emerging category [...]
Continue reading...Monday, February 15, 2010
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After all the facts and figures came out on the iPad, it left Microsoft in the position to have to repsond. They have a great product of their own to debut, which will be the HP Slate, but they have some barriers to overcome. Microsoft is going to have to make a defensive move. The [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Now it seems that Steve Ballmer is taking over the evasiveness and lure of mystery from Steve Jobs. Mystery now surrounds the HP Slate as much as it did the iPad. We now know the highly protected secrets of the iPad. But, now we are left to wonder about what secrets the HP Slate has [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, January 31, 2010
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Acer owns Gateway and eMachines, and worldwide, it’s the number two supplier of PCs, behind Hewlett Packard and ahead of Dell. Acer Inc, is planning on entering the electronic-book reader market later this year, as well as a version of Google’s Chrome operating system on a netbook in 2010. President of the IT Products division of [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 12, 2010
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The rush to put the Apple iSLATE on the market has caused a ferocious stir among the software empire. Microsoft giant has rushed to put a similar product on the market to try and take the SAILS out of APPLES much anticipated release of their ultimate secret rumored iSlate. Although their current prototype unofficially named The Courier, [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 12, 2010
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Microsoft’s man on the spot, Steve Ballmer (Microsoft Chief Exective) had a rough day at the show. Microsoft trying to jump on the Apple wagon at the last minute, fell off. Microsoft had hoped to put a product together fast enough to try and trump Apple’s iSlate, that has been in the works for 2 [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 12, 2010
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The new market for tablets or slates as they are being called is skyrocketing. They are coming out of the woodwork. Everyone is coming out with one. T-Mobile just came out with their version called the T-Mobile tablet or ICD Vega it will be available sometime in 2010. It is geared more for families. It has [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, January 14, 2010
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Rumor has it that HP feels they can launch their tablet before Apple. I myself think this is wishful thinking. Since the rumors about the iSlate started, HP and other major electronic companies have rushed to try and catch up. The only thing going for these companies is that they are throwing out tablet after tablet, [...]
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