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Could Microsoft be about to out cool Apple? Will reality match the vision? Lets hope this doesn’t become Origami 2, remember the UMPC tablet that never really happened*, because it looks too good to fail. The video demo is cool but I wonder, how would it cope with CAD
Tablet PCs are five years old (!) but will 2008 be the year they finally take off? They currently have only a small market share but there seems to be a resurgence with new major players, like Dell, e...
The Warehouse Group Ltd
Let the games begin… Court says Warehouse can be sold - 29 Nov 2007 - NZ Herald Shares in The Warehouse Group surged as much as 25 per cent today after the High Court granted supermarket giants...
Autodesk University
In this conversation about Autodesk University 2006 from the Autodesk Discussion Group Melanie points out that to get the most out of AU you need to: “TAKE DETAILED NOTES!!! These classes are IN...
Recently I blogged about digital design of Aircraft using the title “The end of paper flight?”. The odd thing is that many flights, especially in light aircraft, are totally dependent on paper – thick books of charts and flight instructions. It seems rather primitive to have pilots carrying hundreds of bits
Bill Gates uses the term “Origami” rather than UMPC (Ultra-Mobile PC). JK approves and so do I. Still not sure if they are useful, toy, or hype (battery life a downfall?) but calling them Origami rather than YouEmmPeeCee’s is a good move. Maybe strange at first but no more
Hugo Ortega has some good news, seems like it won’t be long until we see Origami [UMPC] devices in Australia & New Zealand. He also pointed to a interesting review of the Tablet Kiosk V-700 UMPC. Uber Tablet: a Tablet PC Talk Spot!: Origami Device in Australia - April
It looks nice, cool even, except Ultra-mobile PC (UMPC) is a clunky name – I prefer “Origami”. Then I see Robert Scoble’s comment on the video page: “The team tells me they are getting two to three hours of battery life with the first devices” Ultra-mobile, but not for long
Origami is the art of paper folding. Generally you start with a clean sheet of paper and create something small & elegant. So what is Microsoft Origami Project all about? Kevin Tofel seems to have found the answer: jkOnTheRun: Origami video? Kevin 2.0 » Origami video: the real deal? Much
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Auckland company Rakon have announced a GPS receiver module “ as tiny as a baby’s fingernail”. Maybe we’ll soon see GPS being used in devices and ways just not viable with the current technology.As an example of novel use for GPS consider the Celestron SkyScout. It combines location
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jkOnTheRun gets up close with the DualCor cPC… jkOnTheRun: Sitting down with DualCor Technologies at the CES. jkOnTheRun: Sitting down with DualCor Technologies at the CES I had a great opportunity to spend quite a bit of time with DualCor Technologies' President and CEO Steve Hanley to review their
UMPC
Early attempts with Pocket PC’s for on-site CAD mark-up struggled to cope with memory capacity and performance limitations. DualCor Technologies, Inc have announced The DualCor cPC – a combination Tablet PC and Windows Mobile Hand-held device which promises to solve that by offering portability, connectivity and power. It uses twin