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Photos: The Android smartbook fired up by Qualcomm's Snapdragon
Photo This week saw chipmaker Qualcomm taking the wraps off a range of hardware powered by its Snapdragon platform. Among the devices on show was this Lenovo smartbook (pictured above and below) which runs the Google Android OS. [20 Nov 2009]
Minority Report: Is Microsoft competing with imaginary Apple tablets?
Comment Are Microsoft and Apple about to lock horns yet again, this time in the battle to reign king of the Tablet? Or, Seb Janacek says, is Microsoft fighting an imaginary opponent? Hyper-reality was rife early this year after shrink-wrapped... [01 Oct 2009]
Firefox for phones: Alpha 3 lands on Windows Mobile
News As with Fennec 1.0 beta 3 for the Maemo platform found on some Nokia internet tablets, Fennec for Windows Mobile makes changes to the mobile browser's theme, and its scrolling and panning performance. [07 Sep 2009]
Photos: Nokia and Sony Ericsson unveil latest phones, laptops and tablets
Photo This week has seen mobile makers Nokia and Sony Ericsson showing off the latest additions to their device line-up. The handset pictured above is Sony Ericsson's Xperia X2. The smartphone, unveiled yesterday, is a business-focused device... [03 Sep 2009]
Photos: Nokia's very first laptop, the Booklet 3G
Photo The device isn't the first device Nokia has produced outside the mobile phone sphere: it has previously developed a line of Linux-powered mini tablets, the first of which - the 770 - was unveiled in 2005. [24 Aug 2009]
Apple tablet or no Apple tablet, business is the device's natural home
News Long-established they may be, but tablets remain firmly outside of the mainstream. However, tablets are once again catching the techie imagination thanks to reports that Apple is soon to bring out its... [13 Aug 2009]
There's just one problem with tablets: No one wants them
Comment With rumours abounding that hardware makers are falling over themselves to make tablets, Rafe Needleman asks - does anyone actually want them? Tablets, like other tweener devices, ultramobile PCs and... [05 Aug 2009]
Mobile Firefox hits Windows Mobile 6
News For months, Fennec has been in first alpha, then beta modes on two Maemo-run Nokia internet tablets that few people owned, now it has hit a device much more widely used. On Friday, alpha 1 of Mozilla's mobile version of... [18 May 2009]
Minority Report: Mac Tablet - to be or not to be?
Comment Tablets are a commercial flop. Will Apple release a Mac Tablet? The prognosticators are divided. Seb Janacek overhears the arguments for and against such a device. Mr Point (P): Apple is going to release a Mac Tablet. [07 Apr 2009]
Mozilla exec on the future of handheld Firefox
Comment The results of that work have been made available as an alpha release for Nokia's N800-series of tablets with Maemo mobile Linux. Sullivan: We have had two alpha releases on Nokia's Maemo tablets and... [20 Feb 2009]
Minority Report: Rumour mill killing Apple
Comment When I wrote that column, the web was always full of speculation about what was due next off the Cupertino conveyor belt - from headless Macs (true) to G5 PowerBooks (false) to Mac Tablets (false) to an Apple mobile... [04 Feb 2009]
IT-Enabled Care Transformation at Banner Estrella Enhances Patient Care and Nets a $1.6M Annual Impact
White Paper Banner mapped its workflow to powerful digital technologies, including the Cerner Millennium suite with Intel technology-based front-end and mid-tier servers, workstations and tablets. Banner Health wanted to use the... [01 Jan 2009]
Mozilla's mobile Fennec to browse Symbian
News Mozilla announced plans to enter the smartphone market in April and, in October, released the first alpha of Fennec, with compatibility limited to Nokia's Linux-based N810 internet tablets. Mozilla has begun development... [17 Dec 2008]
New direction for Apple in 2009 - but what is it?
News Earlier this year CEO Steve Jobs implied Apple was watching small-device categories like tablets and Netbooks to see if they actually take off as a mega-trend, but in the meantime the company had other priorities. [09 Dec 2008]
Leicestershire police save time with virtualisation
Case Study The force has estimated its police officers spend almost a third of their time processing paperwork or travelling back to the office to do so, so Pearce claimed efficiency savings of up to 30 per cent are possible using the virtualised... [11 Nov 2008]
