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Gateway M285-E Tablet: Too Much of a Good Thing?
With a 14-inch widescreen display, a full-sized keyboard and the latest Intel processor, Gateway’s M285-E Tablet PC is a machine for users who don’t want to make sacrifices to have tablet functionality. The M285-E may provide too much of everything, though: The screen provided plenty of real estate for jotting down notes or for drawing…
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Microsoft Restructures Its Windows Core OS Division
Microsoft has restructured its Windows Core Operating System Division into five teams in a move designed to better focus on PC hardware and provide a richer set of customer solutions. The software giant is also making changes on the security front by bringing its security, Trustworthy Computing and Engineering Excellence teams together in one group,…
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Toshiba’s Tecra M7: Notebook with Tablet PC Bonus
Toshiba’s Tecra M7 is for users who want a good notebook system with some tablet functionality. Weighing in at almost 6 pounds and sporting a 14.1-inch widescreen display, the Tecra M7 is large and powerful enough for everyday computing, but it lacks the battery performance of its competitors. The Tecra M7 is a convertible tablet…
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WiMax World Finds Wireless Broadband Still Grappling for a Foothold
BOSTON—There’s nothing quite as sad as a wireless broadband show without connectivity. “Check back later, after they work out the bugs,” said the marketing communications manager at Expedience’s in-your-face-at-the-door, floor-dominating booth at WiMax World here Oct. 11. Here Expedience was, having plopped a two-sector base station on top of the Seaport Hotel, and having paid…
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Marwaha to Merge High-Volume Process with IBM’s High-Value Channel
On paper the two channels are contrasts. IBM’s practice of deep integration and customization for high-end products; Lenovo Group’s fast and furious pace to mass market PCs to the world. But IBM, partners and analysts claim both methods have a place in the same family and that Ravindra “Ravi” Marwaha, who has been chosen to…
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OpenApple: Apple Takes on Office, Gently
Apple will step on yet another of Microsoft’s toes early next year when the Mac maker unveils the next version of its iWork productivity suite, complete with a new spreadsheet application. Sources report that iWork ’07 will gain this new third component, code-named Lasso, which will go to bat against Microsoft Excel in the consumer…
