consumer electronics

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer gave a subdued keynote address at the International Consumer Electronics Show on Wednesday night, touting the success of the Xbox Kinect and showing off new machines running Windows 7. Many had expected a splashier tablet announcement from the software maker. Link...

Fluid Computer Systems has unveiled the first fuel cell powered Windows 7 Tablet PC. The CEO, Aaron Henry, and COO, Todd Miller, are attending the Consumer Electronics show this week with the "Fuel Cell Powered" tablet prototype in tow. More...

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer gave a subdued keynote address at the International Consumer Electronics Show on Wednesday night, touting the success of the Xbox Kinect and showing off new machines running Windows 7. Many had expected a splashier tablet announcement from the software maker. Link...

Tribune Company will debut its beta version of a new mobile news aggregation application at this week’s 2011 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Called “Mosaic,” the app offers a visually stunning, multi-touch screen designed to enable consumers to personalize and read all of their news via...

Packaging has gone from the junk that keeps gadgets from breaking before you bought them to the star of every unboxing video. Where does it come from and who are the faces behind it at Microsoft? Meet Jill Geurts, structural Packaging Engineer at Microsoft. Jill has been one of the people...

Yes, Android tablets may be all the rage at this year's consumer electronics show in Las Vegas. So, we are certainly glad to see AHX Global giving Windows enthusiasts some much-needed mobile love with the iTablet. read more Link Removed

OCOSMOS. Sound familiar ? If you were with us for last year's wild ride through the autumn, it most definitely will. For whatever reason, this South Korean company only comes out to play when the world's eyes are watching, and while we've yet to hear a peep about the products it wowed us with...

All eyes may be on Dell’s Streak 7 (aka M02M “Looking Glass”) Android tablet, but the company isn’t ignoring its enterprise customers either. More Dell Windows tablet rumors have emerged, this time with DigiTimes describing the company as – along with RIM and the PlayBook – “the most active...

We can't say for sure just yet, but we're starting to get the feeling that we're going to see lots of tablets at CES . The latest to join the party is Viliv , which has just announced that it will be showing off its new Android-based X7 and X10 tablets, along with the Windows 7-based X70 "slate"...

News Analysis: Microsoft is bullish on Windows 7-based tablets. But a closer look at these tables reveals that they won't have what it takes to be a success in that market. Link Removed

Word on the street is that Microsoft plans to announce a Windows-powered iPad contender at next month's Consumer Electronics Show. More...

Word on the street is that Microsoft plans to announce a Windows-powered iPad contender at next month’s Consumer Electronics Show. Here are seven reasons buying a Windows 7 slate would be a bad idea. Link Removed - Invalid URL

I've just bought a netbook with windows xp home edition for $229 at London Drugs..i have 14 days from purchase date (Friday Dec 10)to change my mind and return it for a windows 7 starter edition netbook (there's only one left on the shelf at the sale price of $279). The difference in cost is...

Microsoft’s failure to get consumer-friendly tablets in stores for the holiday season could result in a frosty year-end quarter for the software maker. More...

Regular readers may remember the much ballyhoed LG tablet. LG's VP of Marketing famously bragged that his company's tablet would be "better than the iPad". The tablet was said to have a focus on... More...

Link Removed due to 404 Error Earlier this year Nvidia Corp. merged chipset and system-on-chip development teams in order to strengthen the Tegra product line. On Thursday chief executive officer of Nvidia officially said that the company was no longer building chipsets, which probably...

First International Computer (FIC), a second-tier Taiwan-based PC and consumer electronics ODM, on November 10 debuted the Tycoon, a tablet PC based on Windows 7 Home Premium, for sale in the Taiwan market under its own brand and overseas on an ODM basis, according to the company. More...

Khidr Suleman, V3.co.uk , Thursday 28 October 2010 at 15:30:00 ViewPad 7 and ViewPad 10 look to challenge the iPad's dominance ViewSonic has launched two tablet PCs in a bid to capitalise on the growing consumer and business markets for portable devices. The ViewPad 10 comes with a 10in 1,024 x...

Hewlett-Packard's long-awaited slate PC is now available but with a different target audience than originally planned. Link Removed

RedFox Technologies announced over the week-end the availability of its long-overdue tablet PC — the RedFox WizPad. First mentioned back in July, the WizPad is a 10-inch tablet running an Intel Atom CPU and Windows 7. We got to check out one at an SM Appliance Store yesterday to see it...