Recently in Tablets Category

"Mobile" roadshow to demonstrate ThinManager for manufacturing and all of the mobile app and capabilities.

Dumb terminals get intelligence. Phones become smart phones. Tablets sprout keyboards and become collapsible laptops. So much for the "post-PC" way of thinking.

"A fresh new community has recently come together in the form of OpenTablets.org. The brain-child of Matthias Lee, the community's primary effort centers around MakePlayLive's premier tablet, Vivaldi. There is a lot of productive discussion there concerning Plasma Active, and making it run proper on this device, but the community also welcomes discussion about any other open tablet platform or open-source software running on various other hardware."   OpenTablets.org

Creating another tablet operating system with Windows 8 is not going to change the world. We have two of those already and they are advancing in capability and installed base at a torrid pace. Nintendo has already come to this realization, and is about to create a powerful paradigm that cannot be ignored. 

Dell drops the Mini netbook from its site (after killing the Streak). Thanks to Tablets.

The Department of Defence will roll out 500 Thales Trusted Thin Client devices by March for a three-month pilot under its Next Generation Desktops project.

The project will allow personnel to access multiple, classified networks from a single device, replacing the current practice of having separate machines for 'restricted' and 'secret' domains.

Personnel will choose from either accessing each domain on a separate monitor, or calling up domain-specific, virtualised applications from a single desktop interface using Citrix XenApp and Microsoft App V.

I've been reading the Black Friday sale fliers and you know what's missing? Desktop computers.  Radio Shack doesn't even have a desktop on sale tomorrow and even Walmart has only one. This season marks the triumph of notebook and tablet computers.. Robert C. Cringely

Juniper is pushing new set of reports all about Tablets and "heralds a new era in computing". We're going to dust off our EO Communicator and join the party we suppose.

TouchPad is coming...soon. And it comes with free Citrix Receiver. And WebOS multitasks.

Rob Enderle writes why Chromebooks will fail. One comment wonders if Facebook paid for the article. We were surprised at how highly he rates ipad for enterprise and low Android tablets. We work enterprise and it seems reversed to us?

Google acknowledged the tablet version of Chrome OS but wouldn't discuss details such as when the project's first version will be done.

Mossberg/WSJ declares Xoom tablet to be nearest new alternative to iPad thanks to Honeycomb

Google new Honeycomb for tablets needs to get off phone-oriented Froyo and onto on API.

Woody Leonard/Infoworld commentary on upcoming Google Chrome OS and what it means. And what it means to Microsoft.

Gartner, Inc. announced that it expects media tablets (iPad, PlayBook, Galaxy Tab, etc.) to eat steadily into PC sales over the next few years

As the rise of tablets threatens its low-cost laptop business, computer maker Acer Inc. unveiled plans to begin selling tablets that run either Microsoft Corp. and Google Inc. software

If a new demo video on YouTube is anything to go by, HP should abandon it's Windows 7 tablet plans now, says Nicholas Kolakowski. He roughs the prototype quite a bit.

IGEL Technology, a thin client vendor, has expanded its product range with three new series: the IGEL ProScribe thin client tablet for mobile applications, the IGEL Elegance thin client with integrated 17" TFT display and the IGEL PanaVeo quad-display thin client. The expanded IGEL product range allows organizations, with almost any application and in any market, to provide manageable and secure digital access to their infrastructure.

Motion Computing Launches LE1600TC Tablet Client. The unit is priced at $1899 and runs Embedded XP.

Motion Computing has converted its M1400 Tablet PC into a thin client device