PDA and Tablet PC NewsNews about Palm handhelds, Pocket PC's, Tablet PC's, and more.Tablet PC's and the Health Department- January 25, 2004 GISuser: "Accela, Inc., the leading provider of government enterprise software solutions, announced today that the Washington D.C. Department of Health has selected Accela Wireless™ as the Department's new mobile government application. HP Tablet PCs will be used to run the application, providing the Department's inspectors with complete mobile capabilities."...http://wansfell.weblogs.us/archives/013341.html IBM Tablet PC- January 25, 2004 National Business Review (New Zealand): ".... A Centrino-based tablet PC from LG Electronics, co-branded with IBM, appears to be in retail beta in Korea... If this story is true, it would mean IBM is joining the very few companies already on the tablet train and would signal good news for the design at market since IBM targets enterprise users rather than the high end consumer niche that has been leading the demand for tablets."...http://wansfell.weblogs.us/archives/013340.html Beautiful Art- January 19, 2004 Larry Larsen: "Lately I've been 'painting' using a Tablet PC." Click on the link and look at the beautiful works of art that Larry created using his Tablet PC....http://wansfell.weblogs.us/archives/012780.html Overly Ambitious Assumptions- January 19, 2004 Leo Laporte: "One surprise in the Bill Gates keynote address at CES was the lack of comment on tablet PCs. In an interview with cnet Gates admitted that he might have been a little premature in his support for the form factor: 'Many of my assumptions--I'd say a high percentage--are overly ambitious. I have to wait longer to have them come true. I was working doing the Tablet PC for a decade before it came out. Now, it's gaining traction, but we have lots work to do. I believe that it will be...http://wansfell.weblogs.us/archives/012779.html Tablets and E-Books- January 19, 2004 Jeff Duntemann (in his January 12, 2004 entry): "Part of the problem with the e-books industry is that today's reader hardware doesn't work well except for illustration-free works like novels and textual references. PDAs just don't have the display resolution, and Microsoft is still skimming cream on the Tablet PC OS, forcing prices on what is basically a laptop to $2500 or more. Oddly, I find that e-books read better for me on a CRT than an LCD, at least at the current font-aliasing state of...http://wansfell.weblogs.us/archives/012778.html It's Inevitable- January 19, 2004 The Register: "According to META Group, by 2006, only 45 per cent of corporate users will rely on a traditional desktop as their primary information device, while 40 per cent will mainly use a notebook or tablet PC.... On a technology level the analyst group blasted the current generation of tablet PCs (without an integrated keyboard) for lacking the functionality for most office users to rely upon as their only computing device. But improved form factors, coupled with declines in the cost of...http://wansfell.weblogs.us/archives/012777.html It Really Should Be- January 8, 2004 Tabula PC: "Some say Quanta has been manufacturing some sort of tablet device for Apple for a long time now. Others predicted an Apple Tablet PC to be unveiled last year at Macworld San Francisco." For me, the persistent rumor of an Apple Tablet PC (an iTablet) falls into the category of "It's probably not true, but it should be!"...http://wansfell.weblogs.us/archives/011966.html Tablet PC Meeting in Pennsylvania- January 8, 2004 It's too late now, but the Pittsburgh Area Pocket PC User Group in Monroeville had a meeting on Wednesday at 7 p.m. The subject was "'The Tablet PC,' a presentation of various models and information about what is looming on the horizon," according to PittsburghLIVE.com. Did anyone attend who reads this weblog It would be interesting to know what was said....http://wansfell.weblogs.us/archives/011965.html The Tablet PC at Work- January 8, 2004 Fast Company: "In the past, practicing pharmacist and resident 'computer guy' S. John Johnson would make his rounds, then either hunt for a free computer terminal at the nurse's station or return to his desk in the first-floor pharmacy to input information into the computer and approve the medicines. Only then could a nurse collect the drugs and administer them to the patient. Now, Johnson does everything in real time on his wireless Toshiba Tablet PC. 'We can approve in-house prescriptions...http://wansfell.weblogs.us/archives/011964.html Mother Nature versus the Tablet PC- January 8, 2004 The Seattle Times: "Consider Emily Rima, who was so determined to get work done that she strapped on her cross-country skis, grabbed her Tablet PC a machine about the size and weight of a thick pad of paper and skied from her Madison Park home to Vrit Coffee in Madrona, where she took advantage of the free Wi-Fi access." The article is about how recent technology made Tuesday's Seattle snowstorm have much less impact on local business. I'm not sure why Emily Rima had to ski to a coffee shop...http://wansfell.weblogs.us/archives/011963.html |