Category Archives: Mobile PC Hardware

Why Schools Should Consider Tablet PCs

Jerel Chong (Product Manager at HP Australia) explains via video why schools and educational environments should consider using Tablet PCs over standard notebooks. Here’s a sample of reasons HP explains why school people should consider Tablet PCs. 1. Use of … Continue reading

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Speed School Tablet Deployment Expansion

In Fall 2009, the Tablet PC requirement for students attending the Speed School of Engineering at University of Louisville is extended to include freshman, sophomores, juniors and all transfers. The Tablet program began in Spring, 2006. By 2011, all Speed … Continue reading

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FLEPia Fujitsu Color E-Reader Release

Fujitsu says it is shipping an LCD-based electronic reader called FLEPia in Japan next month. It displays vivid color, a first in the industry. The company hopes the technology can compete directly with E Ink, the manufacturer of the black-and-white … Continue reading

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PC Controlled by Gestures

Giving a PC a robotic neck and throwing away the keyboard and mouse has produced a personal computer that is less needy of our full attention. The music and game-playing gadget, which is controlled only by gestures, went on show … Continue reading

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New Intel-Powered Ink Enabled Classmate

The new Intel-powered Classmate PC converts from a clamshell to a tablet mode with a touchscreen. Further, it meet the $300 to $500 pricepoint urged by educators for the past decade. Public school administrators have argued that they would consider … Continue reading

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Spot Cancer Early with Computer Hard Drive Technology

A new system for detecting cancer proteins uses the same magnetic phenomenon that lets computer hard drives read and write data. The Stanford University researchers developing the system hope that it will detect cancer in its earlier stages, when it’s … Continue reading

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$50 Handheld to Mexico Students

Dian Schaffhauser reports that Stanford University School of Education and Innovations for Learning have entered into an agreement to bring the $50 Teachermate Handheld Computer to children in Latin America. “Mobile learning technology loaded with innovative educational content for basic … Continue reading

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Photos of 2008 CES Tablet PC Gathering

Loren, the Incremental Blogger, posted photos of the 2008 CES Tablet PC Community Gathering. That’s the fifth such CES gathering. About 100 people attended, including teachers! I’ll post more about this later. Thanks, Loren, for capturing the excitement of those … Continue reading

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Family Holiday Mobiles

During the holidays, I counted the following mobile communication units in our house and cars. What a great time we had with them; yes, someone in the family owns one or more of each of them. As usual, owners ranged … Continue reading

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Will Kindle Go to School?

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announced a new electronic book-reading device, the Kindle, just days after the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) reported a continuing decline in reading among today’s students. …the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) announces the … Continue reading

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