Asustek plans Eee Book e-reader and tablet PC to rival iPad
Netbook pioneer Asustek Computer plans to launch its own e-reader and a tablet PC to rival Apple’s iPad in the second half of this year.
The company will focus on bringing content providers on board when it releases its tablet PC, said Jerry Shen, CEO of Asustek, during the company’s fourth quarter investors conference.
The company will [...]
Amazon: The King of Computing?
It’s one of those funny little situations we find ourselves in where we start to see some clues of Amazon’s long reaches into computing. We mainly see Amazon now as a retail-like store selling everything from books to DVDs to microwave egg cookers. But if you look under the hood, you also see they are [...]
Amazon may be feeling a little “touchy” as well
According to a New York Times article, Amazon may be looking to upgrade the Kindle to use a touch screen. It had to happen sooner or later. Here’s the article:
In a sign that Amazon wants to upgrade its Kindle e-reader to compete head-on with the Apple iPad, Amazon has acquired Touchco, a start-up based in [...]
Finally, the iTablet
Well, after being fooled by Apple, we finally have the “iTablet.” Most people thought Apple’s new device would be either the iSlate or the iTablet. Very few thought iPad had a good chance. Here’s the real iTablet as indicated by the TrustedReviews article below:
For years it had been thought that Apple would announced the ‘iTablet’, but instead we [...]