The Tech And Gadget Blog » Mobile and PDA http://i486.net Technology and Gadgets News, Updates, Reviews and Guides Wed, 02 Jun 2010 12:19:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Tablet frenzy picks up with new products http://i486.net/2010/06/02/tablet-frenzy-picks-up-with-new-products/ http://i486.net/2010/06/02/tablet-frenzy-picks-up-with-new-products/#comments Wed, 02 Jun 2010 12:19:19 +0000 admin http://i486.net/2010/06/02/tablet-frenzy-picks-up-with-new-products/

Tablet frenzy picks up with new products
The tablet fad kicked off by Apple Inc.’s iPad turned into a frenzy this week, as a host of manufacturers unveiled their version of the new computing device at a tech trade show in Taiwan.

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IDG News Service – Matias Duarte, formerly vice president of human interface and user experience at Palm, has left to take a job with Google , marking one of the first defections since Hewlett-Packard announced plans to buy the struggling phone maker.

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The nonprofit organization that has tried to produce a $100 laptop for children in the world’s poorest places is throwing in the towel on that idea __ and jumping on the tablet bandwagon.

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McAfee Tuesday said it’s signed an agreement to acquire privately held Trust Digital as part of its strategy to expand into the mobile security arena, the enterprise sector in particular. The acquisition price for Trust Digital was not disclosed.

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IDG News Service – The world’s second-largest contract manufacturer of laptops is spreading its bets on tablet PC operating systems. It is building tablets running Microsoft Windows, Google’s Android, and the MeeGo OS backed by Intel and Nokia.

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Apple Inc Chief Executive Steve Jobs finds “troubling” a string of worker deaths at Foxconn, the contract manufacturer that assembles the company’s iPhones and iPads, but said its factory in China “is not a sweatshop.”

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Hardware makers will unite behind Google’s Android as the primary operating system for tablet computers, according to Nvidia’s CEO.

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IDG News Service – Hardware makers will unite behind Google ’s Android as the primary operating system for tablet computers, according to Nvidia’s CEO.

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MCLEAN, Va.—-enTourage Systems, Inc., creator of the world’s first dualbook™ – the enTourage eDGe™ – announced today that it has partnered with Wolters Kluwer Law & Business, a leading provider of legal and legal education information, software and services, to enhance enTourage Systems’ e-book store with legal educational material.

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TORONTO – Consumers who aren’t quite sure whether they need or can afford one of Apple’s iPad tablet computers may not have to wait long for cheaper alternatives to hit the market.

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