By ConnectedInternet March 30th, 2009
Witness the first multi-touch notebook for the masses: The HP TouchSmart. Also dubbed the TX2, this baby allows customers to pack up the keyboard and mouse and settle for a more natural user interface… the good ole fingertip. The snazzy multi-touch display affords rapid and easy access to data, entertainment and web media with its capacitive technology. Just as with the iphone, you can pinch, arc, press and drag, rotate, double click and single tap any element with your fingers. I had a 30 minute test drive of this notebook and found that it works in three modes: PC, tablet, and display. There’s also a digital pen that got me flexing my creative muscles as I wrote, sketched, drew and took notes and graphs right onto the screen. These were converted into real text into no time. It’s something every secretary or executive assistant would love to have. So bosses, start setting a budget aside for this ultimate productivity tool!
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Monday, March 30, 2009
Sneak Peek at Skype for iPhone, Available Tuesday
By Daniel Ionescu, Mar 30, 2009
Skype is set to launch its iPhone application Tuesday bringing its much anticipated Net-based phone service to Apple's mobile platform. With the Skype iPhone app users will be able to make free calls using Wi-Fi to other Skype users as well as use their Skype accounts to make reduced price calls to traditional landline phones. Skype announced its iPhone application would be available on Tuesday for free with a version for the BlackBerry available in May. Mobile versions of Skype are already available for Nokia, Windows Mobile, and Google Android phones. From what we can tell the Skype for iPhone looks great, but there are some drawbacks. One disappoint is users won't be able to place calls over cellular networks but only via Wi-Fi. Still, for international callers especially Skype's iPhone app will save callers money by allowing them to avoid AT&T's traditional wireless phone network and adds the convenience of allowing Skype users to use their iPhone handset for Skype calls.
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Skype is set to launch its iPhone application Tuesday bringing its much anticipated Net-based phone service to Apple's mobile platform. With the Skype iPhone app users will be able to make free calls using Wi-Fi to other Skype users as well as use their Skype accounts to make reduced price calls to traditional landline phones. Skype announced its iPhone application would be available on Tuesday for free with a version for the BlackBerry available in May. Mobile versions of Skype are already available for Nokia, Windows Mobile, and Google Android phones. From what we can tell the Skype for iPhone looks great, but there are some drawbacks. One disappoint is users won't be able to place calls over cellular networks but only via Wi-Fi. Still, for international callers especially Skype's iPhone app will save callers money by allowing them to avoid AT&T's traditional wireless phone network and adds the convenience of allowing Skype users to use their iPhone handset for Skype calls.
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Microsoft goes after Apple online too
By Ina Fried Mar 30, 2009
After launching its most direct TV assault yet on Apple, Microsoft is extending the battle onto the Web. The software maker has launched an online spot, in which Web surfers spin a wheel and compare what they can buy for the same amount of money. In each case, users can get a Mac and, say, pocket lint, or they can get a PC and two other things of value. In one "spin", a user is told they can choose from a shoelace, pen cap, and MacBook, or get a Lenovo Y530, a photo scanner, and pair of Supras (I didn't know what they were either, but apparently they are some hip skater shoes). David Webster, a general manager in Microsoft's Central Marketing Unit, said that while some people are enticed by lower prices alone, some like to think of value in terms of what else they could spend that money on. In the online campaign, Microsoft tries to play up those things. Webster said Microsoft is also trying to play up the variety of the PC marketplace, saying a customer is likely to get "a better fit" with Windows. "If you want a machine with racing stripes and lights and a Blu-ray drive, we've got it," he said. "If you want a PC that's 1.1kg and that's still got an optical drive, we've got it. That contrasts with a different story on the other side of the fence."
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After launching its most direct TV assault yet on Apple, Microsoft is extending the battle onto the Web. The software maker has launched an online spot, in which Web surfers spin a wheel and compare what they can buy for the same amount of money. In each case, users can get a Mac and, say, pocket lint, or they can get a PC and two other things of value. In one "spin", a user is told they can choose from a shoelace, pen cap, and MacBook, or get a Lenovo Y530, a photo scanner, and pair of Supras (I didn't know what they were either, but apparently they are some hip skater shoes). David Webster, a general manager in Microsoft's Central Marketing Unit, said that while some people are enticed by lower prices alone, some like to think of value in terms of what else they could spend that money on. In the online campaign, Microsoft tries to play up those things. Webster said Microsoft is also trying to play up the variety of the PC marketplace, saying a customer is likely to get "a better fit" with Windows. "If you want a machine with racing stripes and lights and a Blu-ray drive, we've got it," he said. "If you want a PC that's 1.1kg and that's still got an optical drive, we've got it. That contrasts with a different story on the other side of the fence."
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