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Microsoft, what are you doing to help your ISVs capitalize on this momentum? How about helping Amazon make the Kindle on the PC a great touch and tablet app rather than just an ok experience? That app screams for ink markup – where is it? Showcase why Kindle on a Tablet PC will be better than Kindle on an iSlate…

Microsoft, OEMs and ISVs: you’ve owned the tablet space for the past six years. C

 


Google and HTC Working On a Chrome OS Tablet
According to Gizmodo,

Lenovo Combines Laptop With Tablet, Using Two Chips
The China-based computer maker is using the Consumer Electronics Show this week to announce an unusual hybrid product called the IdeaPad U1 that covers the two categories. It can function as a conventional clamshell-style laptop, which runs Microsoft Wind

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Loren asks a compelling question, "what happens if the Apple January 26th announcement is not an iSlate?"

We've all been down this road before. Apple prognosticators get us all excited only to find out they were completely wrong. Plus, Apple's been close to releasing a Tablet before -- or has it?

 


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How does the tablet blur own notion of what's a book, what's a magazine and what's a newspaper? The web atomized everything, and the tablet is one form of reordering. Each device though -- a Sony Reader, a Kindle, a Nook, a JooJoo, an Adam, an Ultra, whatever -- will have a singular interface, regardless of the source of the content. That eliminates the historic difference in page size among news

 


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Microsoft "seek(s) to recognize the best and brightest from technology communities around the world with the Microsoft® Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Award."

GottaBeMobile's Warner writes, " Xavier Lanier has been name a Microsoft MVP for Tablet and Touch. He joins fellow GBMers Warner Crocker, Sumocat, and Matt Faulkner also on the MVP roles, as well as former team member and founder of GB

 


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I am not a fan of heavy gloss, drop shadows, and bevels, but a light touch of each can make a nice effect to a lot of elements on the web. Let’s get started!

 


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Similar to previous external beta service pack rollouts, Microsoft has enabled – via updates you already installed – a beta ‘candidacy check’ within its Windows Update software. Just like Windows Vista, a registry key and value pair need to be added prior to being authorized to download the new software.

 


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Freescale Semiconductor is helping to kick this year's CES off with a bang, as its latest reference smartbook design actually has somewhat of a sexy flair to it. Currently, the model is little more than a great idea, but the company is hoping to have it available for partner evaluation starting next month.

Press release included in the post.