Tablet PC News Archive

May 2005

May 2, 2005

EKM Corp. Enhances LABTrack With Tablet PC Digital Ink Functions
Business Wire

San Diego-based EKM Corp., an award-winning knowledge discovery systems technology firm, continues to lead the electronic lab notebook (ELN) market with added features such as Digital Ink. Digital Ink technology allows users to handwrite notes directly onto a tablet PC by using a stylus.

EKM's Digital Ink technology, provided with Microsoft Windows for the Tablet PC Edition, is now compatible with the enterprise and team versions of the company's LABTrack ELN. LABTrack - software that runs on any Windows-based device - is the first electronic lab notebook based on a scientific word processor platform that allows researchers to format electronic pages that mirror paper-based notebooks. With Digital Ink, LABTrack users can now quickly jot down notes and draw directly onto the notebook pages when typing on a keyboard isn't convenient.

Digital Ink gives LABTrack users the choice of converting their handwriting immediately into text or saving it as ink on the notebook page and converting it into text at a later time.

"The benefit is that by using mobile devices such as Tablet PCs, researchers can enter information immediately and very quickly," said Richard Stember, LABTrack creator and CEO of EKM's Scientific Division. "The Electronic Lab Notebook should be as easy to use as paper - and now it is."

EKM incorporated digital ink into LABTrack with Austin, Texas-based Motion Computing, one of the leading suppliers of tablet PC's.

Collaboration Among Microsoft, University of Virginia, Thomson and ...
PR Newswire

Students participating in the technology-rich courses provided formal evaluations of the tools and materials and gave predominantly positive feedback on the content, Microsoft(R) OneNote(R) software and the HP Tablet PC 1100, A number of benefits and advantages emerged from the study, including

HP Tablet PCs are valuable additions to course materials -- 83 percent of students viewed the HP Tablet PC as favorable and approximately 80 percent of students used the Tablet PC for applications beyond the pilot class such as note-taking in other classes and e-mail.

The program combined Thomson's rich library of digital content and e- learning applications with Microsoft OneNote software and HP Tablet PCs, allowing students to take digital handwritten and/or typed notes anywhere on the page, and access the interactive educational platform from any location. In addition, the technology and content package enabled students to collaborate with each other and communicate digitally with their instructor in real time on campus and in wireless classrooms.

Lenovo completes acquisition of IBM's PC unit
Computerworld New Zealand

Upcoming product introductions could also include a version of the ThinkPad X41 notebook with a rotating screen that can be folded back against the keyboard, allowing it to be used as a tablet computer. Documents describing the notebook, called the ThinkPad X41 Tablet Series, were recently made available on the website of the US Federal Communications Commission. The FCC's approval is required before any device that includes a radio, including wireless LAN connectivity, can be offered for sale in the US.

Mobile Systems Come On Strong
Information Week

As organizations grow comfortable using notebook PCs over desktops, they're also expanding their mobile strategies. Mayville State University in North Dakota has relied on laptop computers for its staff and students for years, and last year it began using tablet PCs, as well, CIO Keith Stenehjem says. When Stenehjem put out bids for tablet PCs for the 2004-05 school year, he had expected their costs to be too high. He was surprised to find them competitively priced with more traditional systems.

The school's goals for nearly a decade have been "to provide ubiquitous computing to the faculty and students on a 24-by-7 basis," Stenehjem says. "During that period, technology has improved and prices have gone down." After a limited test in the spring, and then a larger test with summer-semester students and faculty, Mayville purchased 800 M275 tablet PCs from Gateway Inc

Winsted Receives Indication Of Interest for Select UBC Assets
Market Wire

"We have been approached by a serious buyer for some of the assets which we purchased from UBC," stated Winsted CEO Mark Ellis. "Unlike our all-stock deal, this would be a cash transaction. The best utilization for some of the underutilized UBC purchased assets is to turn them into cash. Our anticipation is to deploy this new money into MedSpa Solutions for further market penetration, into Qbe Technology for further PC Tablet improvements and market deployment for Spencer Communications.

Rethinking the word processor
Baltimore Sun

You can, of course, search through notes for specific words, as you do in word-processing programs now. More significantly, you can also assign one or more categories to each note, such as "Birthday Party Planning" or "Vacation Ideas," and then only display the notes from those categories. For users of pen-based PC tablets -- and come on, there must be one or two of you out there -- EverNote also lets you write in notes directly, via your pen.

So what is the use of a program like EverNote? Clearly not to write a letter to your boss; your regular word-processing program is fine for that. Instead, it works best with jobs where you pile up lots of extra information from different sources.

ZyDoc Extends Enhanced Performance Transcription Services to Transcription Services to Urology
Emediawire

The company uses transparent embedded technology that leverages front- and back-end speech recognition, workflow enhancements, and the Internet. ZyDoc is a development partner with SUNY Computer Sciences at Stony Brook, a Microsoft Solutions Partner, a ScanSoft Platinum Dealer, and an IBM Speech Premier Business Partner. In 2004, ZyDoc was ranked third nationally in medical transcription by The Medical Records Institute and was named the Healthcare Tablet Application of the Year.

Gates, Allen both looking toward miniature PCs
Seattle Post Intelligencer

Illustrating the concept, Gates displayed a non-working mock-up that Microsoft had created for the purpose. Unlike FlipStart, which looks like a miniature laptop, the device Gates showed is flat, similar to a slate-style Tablet PC, but in miniature form. The screen is about 7 inches across.

Like FlipStart, the small machine would run the same full-fledged Windows operating system and programs used by laptop and desktop computers, not the specialized Windows Mobile operating system and programs that Microsoft offers for smart phones and personal digital assistants.

But it's not yet clear when or whether the idea will catch fire among consumers. There's a risk that machines such as FlipStart could get lost in the niche between standard laptop computers, Tablet PCs, PDAs and smart phones with computing capabilities, said Roger Kay, vice president of client computing at research firm IDC.

Joe Wilcox Talks About Longhorn Marketing
WebProNews

Joe's right, though. Microsoft doesn't do enough to put Media Center and Tablet PC front and center. Those two are gonna play huge roles in the future. Why?

Let's come back to the movie theater again. Portable devices and entertainment. Those are two areas where you'll see big growth over the next few years.

Averatec C3500 Tablet PC under $800
4U

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Mac OS X Tiger Launch - No Tablet Computer Support Yet...
Tablet PC Reviews

"Overall, Tiger is the best and most advanced personal computer operating system on the market, despite a few drawbacks. It leaves Windows XP in the dust."

May 3, 2005

Tablet PC 2 Accessory of the Month - May 2005

Microsoft's Metro Technology Has Adobe Acrobat in the Crosshairs
NewsFactor Network, CA 

Dubbed "Metro," the new Microsoft technology would give the next Windows version a built-in method to let people accurately view and print graphical documents even without the application that created the original file. That's also the basic idea behind the Adobe technologies.

Apart from the Longhorn preview, Gates showed new hardware products and prototypes that expand the concept of the Tablet PC. He also announced the availability of long-awaited editions of Windows for advanced, 64-bit microprocessors from Advanced Micro Devices and Intel .

A special Tablet PC Show interview
tabletpcs.weblogsinc.com

A special show with a special guest. James and I had the pleasure to sit down (in three time zones) with a member of the First Family of the Tablet PC, Lora Heiny. Lora is well known to most everyone involved in the Tablet PC community and we had a wonderful conversation that covered a lot of ground.

In the interview we find out how many web sites and blogs the First Family is directly involved with (more than two dozen) and Lora fills us in on all the fun things shown at WinHEC including the convertible Tablet with the sliding screen, Bill Gates’ UMPC and the Intel Entertainment slate. We also talk about some of the newest Tablet PCs that have been recently announced and how the different choices confronting the prospective consumer meet anyone’s needs.

HP Compaq TC4200 Tablet PC "First Look"
Tablet PC Reviews 

The new TC4200 Tablet PC from HP is an exciting product. At only 4.5 lbs. and powered by the Sonoma-based Intel Pentium M processor, this convertible Tablet PC functions as the perfect powerhouse travel companion. The TC4200 also sports a 1.3" thick, sturdy and roadworthy casing, a bright 12" electromagnetic display and operates as a perfect sub-notebook and a fully-functional Tablet PC.

Of honorable mention is the improved Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 900 video architecture. For users who require more punch and performance for graphics editing and 3D, this new video solution although not "dedicated", (it shares system memory) promises significant gains over the consumer-level "Intel Extreme Graphics" chips found in the majority of Centrino Tablet PC's and notebooks.

Collaboration Among Microsoft, University of Virginia, Thomson and ...
I-Newswire.com

According to study results released today, the majority of participating students report that the tools either increased understanding or retention of class content, or stimulated greater interest in coursework.

The results mark the first research findings of the pilot project that was launched at the start of the 2004 academic year aimed at identifying and measuring the value high-tech tools and rich digital content could bring to students and instructors*. The first phase of the project involved 362 UVa students enrolled in the College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences' fall 2004 biochemistry, psychology and statistics classes, as well as their instructors. Students participating in the technology-rich courses provided formal evaluations of the tools and materials and gave predominantly positive feedback on the content, Microsoft® Office OneNote® 2003 software and the HP Tablet PC 1100. A number of benefits and advantages emerged from the study, including the following:

HP Tablet PCs are valuable additions to course materials. Eighty-three percent of students viewed the HP Tablet PC as favorable, and approximately 80 percent of students used the Tablet PC for applications beyond the pilot class such as note-taking in other classes and e-mail.

May 4, 2005

Another round of updating software
whatisnew.com

Churchill Downs Incorporated Picks a Winner - Major Racetrack Company Goes With Gateway for a Complete Enterprise Technology Makeover
PR Newswire

Gateway, Inc. today announced that it will be the exclusive provider of front- and back-end technology improvements to world-renowned horse racing venue operator Churchill Downs Incorporated

Gateway has supplied CDI with a full suite of products to meet the demands of the organization, including Gateway(R) 975 and 995 rack-mount servers offering optimal storage and networking capabilities, Gateway(R) M275 tablet PCs, Gateway(R) M460 and M680 notebooks and Gateway(R) E-Series desktops

May 5, 2005

Siemens Business Systems selects RF PC Handheld Reader from ACG for RFID project at Jacobi Medical Center
Contactless News

Patients at Jacobi Medical Center in New York are being equipped with RFID wrist bands that contain the patient's medical history and identifying number. To read those wristbands, Siemens Business Services chose a portable hand-held reader supplied by ACG Identification Technologies.

In contrast to barcode, RFID wristbands do not require direct access with the reader; they can be scanned through clothing and blankets. The hospital staff uses lightweight PDAs or tablet PCs with a RFID reader to read the data without disturbing the patient. As a result, care of patients has improved. Doctors and nurses can quickly and easily identify patients and can accurately and safely dispense the correct drug dosage at the correct time to the corresponding patient.

May 6, 2005

6th annual 2005 Big Break! International Screenwriting Contest.

Enter today for your chance to win $15,000 in cash and prizes, plus a foot in the Hollywood door!

The first prize winner will receive $10,000 cash, a Microsoft Tablet PC and all prizes listed in rule 10. Also, round-trip airfare to Los Angeles with 3 nights hotel accommodations and meetings with industry executives and agents. Final Draft, Inc. will have the right to determine choice of hotel, airline and flights.

The second prize winner will receive $3,000, plus a Microsoft Tablet PC.

The third prize winner will receive $1,000, plus a Microsoft Tablet PC.

SOA Executive Forum recap
InfoWorld

Our SOA Executive Forum yesterday went extremely well. I would have blogged more of it, but it seemed like every session I went to was standing room only and I'm not very productive with a laptop standing up (note to self: another reason to get a Tablet PC). The only time my seat was guaranteed was when I moderated the CTO Reality Check panel at the end of the day

Real-time graphics used for BBC election coverage
4RFV, Ireland

RT Software's new MixTV real-time graphics system, which is powered by NVIDIA Quadro graphics hardware, was used for the first time by the BBC during its live UK General Election coverage.

Viewers saw it in action when the graphics of constituency results appeared to sprout from the tablet PC screen on presenter David Dimbleby's table. The power of MixTV was fully demonstrated when the PC was passed around the table and the position and perspective of the computer generated graphics remained true.

Traditionally, this type of effect could only be achieved in postproduction, not live on television using data which had only just been received. MixTV heralds a new era in real-time graphics.

WinInfo Short Takes: Week of May 9
WinInformant.com

Microsoft won't reveal yet which product editions it will provide for Longhorn, but Bill Gates did say that there would be a Tablet PC Edition in his WinHEC keynote address last week. Of course, Gates also said he was going to ship Longhorn in early 2005, so maybe we should just give him a pass on that one.

Mi-Co VP Presents Trends in Digital Ink at Correctional Technology ...
I-Newswire.com

I am very excited to be presenting to individuals involved in state and local departments of corrections,” stated Joyner, “because digital ink applications running on Tablet PCs can definitely save these organizations time and money. Unfortunately, corrections is a “growth industry” in the US and institutions that are highly efficient in capturing data and using information is a positive trend for all tax payers.”

Mi-Co was invited to speak in association with Gateway® which is demonstrating their technology at the conference. Gateway is highlighting Mi-Co’s Mi-Forms Software System on the Gateway M275 Series of Tablet PCs. The M275 Series is an incredibly versatile and feature-packed notebook that easily transforms into a Tablet PC.

Mi-Co and Gateway have a number of joint commercial and governmental customers deploying Mi-Forms on the Tablet PC.

MIKE WENDLAND: Tablet's cool, but my heart is with Macs
Detroit Free Press

wouldn't drive my wife's Honda to an interview with Bill Ford. So when Microsoft Chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates came to town last week, I didn't take my Mac PowerBook to my interview with him; I brought along a Tablet PC.

The model I have, a Motion 1400, is what's known as a slate tablet. It's less than an inch thick and has no keyboard, but it has a nice 12-inch screen that you write on with an electronic stylus.

Gates was impressed. "That's the same one I use," he told me as we sat down for our interview and I began scribbling notes on it, simultaneously recording our interview with a built-in Microsoft program called OneNote.

May 9, 2005

Wireless watchdog
Australian IT, Australia

As chairman of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, Samuel is the umpire who keeps Australian business playing by the rules.

With the rise of broadband blurring old boundaries between traditional media, telecommunications and the internet, the job requires a solid knowledge of technological developments and how they will affect the playing field.

At home in Melbourne, he uses a tablet PC to work with documents, using the handwriting feature built into the operating system for notes and amendments.

Naturally, the car has GPS navigation, "which is fascinating". At home there's a digital television, "and I'm just about to get a PVR".

Occasionally, Samuel will take off his regulatory hat and go for a walk, but he takes some technology with him.

Connecticut Police Department Deploys Citrix Software for Secure, On-demand Access to Law Enforcement Applications
Business Wire

Today using Citrix, applications are centrally deployed and managed on Citrix Presentation Server, and each patrol car has a tablet PC that can access applications, including municipal, state, and federal criminal records, over a wireless network in real-time. Now time lags and dropped calls that plagued communications no longer exist. The officers log in once and have uninterrupted access to all their applications while they change devices and network connections, even when they drive through wireless dead zones in their police cruisers.

Tablet PC can't seduce Mac lover
Seattle Times

Business journalists who heard Bill Gates speak at the Society of American Business Editors and Writers conference last week in Seattle didn't get the full story.

The Microsoft chairman pitched the Tablet PC during his speech and mentioned that Detroit Free Press tech columnist Mike Wendland used one during an interview the previous week. "He'd switched from an Apple," Gates said.

Not exactly. Wendland said his Motion 1400 Tablet is a great tool for a reporter and he did bring it to his Gates interview. But Wendland remains a diehard Mac user.

Students replace books with Tablet PCs
Monessen Valley Independent

Carnegie Mellon University is conducting an experiment at The Ellis School and one of CMU's own classes in which traditional textbooks are replaced with a Tablet personal computer. The HP Compaq 1100 Tablet PCs weigh 4 pounds and have been adapted so students can highlight key passages on the screen and write on the e-text with a digital pen. Students also can send their homework on the Tablet PCs and get material from their teachers.

Nine eighth-graders at Ellis have replaced their hardback geometry and earth science texts with Tablet PCs. The geometry class uses software developed by Shadyside-based TextCENTRIC that allows students to highlight passages and trade material with their teacher.

Besides its lightness, Gunawardena said, another popular feature is the search engine, which works like Google. Students type in some key words, and the search engine finds a particular passage faster than they could from the index of a hardback.

He teaches a class to 25 students who use Tablet PCs. A few of them complained that it is hard to read on the small screen and that because of copyright restrictions, they cannot print out material from the e-text. As a result, students have to cut and paste material, then print it out.

Cara Palermo, 19, a freshman from Linwood, N.J., prefers taking notes on the Tablet PC for her computer science class.

"According to Jim" 100th episode
Hollywood Reporter

One of the ways the "Jim" staff copes with the workload and communicates more effectively is via a digital system instituted by Hodes a little less than two years ago. The show features the first paperless, all-digital writing staff in TV history, having completely replaced paper scripts with portable, wireless-enabled, spiral notebook-sized tablet PCs.

"We're paper-free, which just won us an Environmental Media Award for reducing our use of paper by a few hundred thousand pages a year," Hodes boasts. "At the end of the production day, we don't have to sit around waiting for copies of the rewritten script. The script just appears instantly on our tablet PC."

May 10, 2005

GijimaAst's SignSecure, SignDoc in top 12 of Microsoft's contest
ITWeb,

Products of the company Softpro, distributed in southern Africa by GijimaAst, were recently ranked as the best biometrics applications for tablet PCs worldwide. Microsoft held an international developer contest titled "Does Your Application Think in Ink?" where Softpro's SignDoc and SignSecure products were one of 12 winners out of 260 global submissions from independent software vendors.

SignDoc securely embeds handwritten signatures into documents according to various e-sign laws. SignSecure allows users to log on to a PC or network using a handwritten signature in place of a password. Both products won Microsoft's national "Tablet PC Challenge" in Germany in February 2004.

MIKE WENDLAND: OneNote greatly simplifies interview
Detroit Free Press

Ever since Bill Gates singled out my use of a Tablet PC in a speech in Seattle last week, I've been barraged with e-mail from people asking me about the software I used to take handwritten notes on the screen while simultaneously making an audio recording.

I've written before about the Tablet PC. Some come as laptops, with a screen that swivels and flattens down over the keyboard. Some, like the Motion 1400 model I use, are called slates because there is no attached keyboard; the unit resembles a big Etch A Sketch. Mine weighs about three pounds, is a half-inch thick and has a 12-inch screen. I can attach a keyboard to it when I want it to work like a desktop, but mostly I just carry it around to surf the Net, check e-mail and take notes.

It's all made possible by what has to be one of the most innovative and productive pieces of software ever invented, yet very few people have heard of. It's called OneNote, and it's a $99 application from Microsoft that is officially described as a note-taking and management program.

You can use OneNote on any Windows computer. On traditional desktops and laptops, you type your notes. On a Tablet PC, you can also use a stylus to take handwritten notes or draw diagrams, and you can mix and match typed notes with handwritten notes.

So when I interviewed Gates, for example, I scribbled away on the surface of my Tablet just as if I were taking notes on a paper pad. As he said something that I knew I'd want to quote later when I sat down to write my story, I just scribbled an asterisk next to the handwritten note I made of his quote.

Cheap Asus SLI boards out there
Inquirer

The Geeks are also selling a refurbished Averatec C3500 Tablet PC for only $879. It features an AMD XP-2200 mobile CPU encased in a transformable sub-portable notebook. The rest of the configuration is pretty standard. 512MB memory, a 12.1-inch touch sensitive monitor, 802.11g wireless LAN and wired LAN, DVD combo, USB 2.0 ports etc.

May 11, 2005

Blue Diesel Expands Capabilities Through Partnership With Proscape
PharmaLive.com

Proscape, a leading provider of face-to-face selling and marketing effectiveness software for the pharmaceutical industry, today announced a partnership with Blue Diesel, one of the nation's leading interactive marketing companies, to develop customizable messaging for Tablet PC-based sales materials.

 Proscape offers a software solution that enables pharmaceutical sales forces to manage sales and marketing content including visual aids, case studies, clinical reprints, POA materials, opinion leader videos, managed care information, and training materials. The system then distributes the information to sales reps in the field via the Internet/intranet for playback on Tablet PCs.

A growing number of our clients are evolving their sales aids to be tablet PC-based, rather than paper-based," said Kelly Gratz, president of Blue Diesel. "Not only is the online format more flexible and easier to update with new information, it also gives the sales rep the ability to customize the presentation for the specific physician they are calling on.  We're thrilled to partner with Proscape in offering our clients a tool that enables them to be more targeted and strategic in their sales efforts."

Apple Patents Tablet Mac
The Mac Observer

Apple Computer was granted a patent for an enigmatically titled "Electronic device" Tuesday, May 10th, 2005. Illustrations for the device clearly indicate it to be a tablet-style Macintosh, and patent filings specifically compare it to the "HP Compaq Tablet PC" and several other tablet machines.

Wireless frontiers
British Industry

Wireless technology is blooming in the industrial sector. Malcolm Wheatley examines the latest emerging technologies

the benefits are self-evident. Salespeople are more productive, for a start. “Instead of spending three and a half days on selling, and a day and a half on administration, we’re getting four and a half days of selling achieved,” he says. The extra time spent selling increases the revenues – and the profit. What’s more, the immediacy of the quotation “slightly increases the conversion rate,” he adds. Overall, reckons Young, each sales representative is generating around £25,000 extra business – not a bad return from a small tablet PC and some customised software.

May 12, 2005

Microsoft Mobile & Embedded DevCon 2005

Photos from MEDC

While the big news at MEDC was the Announcement of Windows Mobile 5.O there were plenty of Tablet PC's to be found

City of Prince George Receives Award for Their Innovative use of GIS Technology
Spatial News

In another application, cadastral, underground infrastructure and the City's archive of water, sanitary, and storm drawings are loaded on a Tablet PC and accessed through ArcPad. This replaces a system whereby hardcopy versions of those records were accessed through the central archive at City Hall. Having this data in the field has also proven invaluable in emergency situations.

May 13, 2005

Car Tablet PC — 5 large for what?
engadget, CA

We’re sure there’s someone out there who’s willing to lay down $5K for the Car Tablet PC, an ultra-small PC with an 8.4” TFT, built-in keyboard, 40GB HDD, 1.4GHz Pentium M and integrated speakers, designed to be used while you’re cruising the freeway. But for a lot less, we can get a car-ready Mac mini with a touchscreen display, or any number of homebrew options. Check out the new book Geek My Ride

Fujitsu LifeBook T4010 review
mobiletechreview

Fujitsu has managed to hit that sweet spot with their LifeBook T4010 convertible tablet PC. Weighing in at 4.6 lbs. with dimensions similar to other highly portable convertibles, the LifeBook manages to pack in an optical drive, card reader and all the ports you'd expect to see on a serious notebook. While most compact Windows XP Tablet PC Edition notebooks have no internal CD or DVD drive, Fujitsu managed to fit that all important drive into their design.

May 15, 2005

Channel 9 Forum has Ink
msdn.microsoft.com

Check it out! Channel 9 now has ink-enabled forums. Visit the site, participate in the discussion, and post your own ink messages.

4200 RPM vs. 5400 RPM Hard Drive - Performance vs. Battery Life
Tablet PC Reviews

Here at TabletPCReviewSpot.com we have had the subject come up time and time again. Readers want to know: Which hard drive should I get in my Tablet PC? This year more manufacturers than ever are offering a 5400 RPM hard drive option over the 4200 RPM found in most notebooks and Tablet PC's.

May 16, 2005

Motion LE1600
tabletpcbuzz.com

Forum member fpanagak just received his copy of Laptop Magazine and has posted a scanned image of an article where they discuss Motion's newest Tablet PC, the LE1600.

Reading from the image, it would appear that this new tablet has 3 microphones, since they say that it has an extra one (the M1400 has 2) for improved voice recognition. It also appears it will be sonoma based since they mention a second-generation Centrino. Also from the article, it would appear that the hardtop keyboard has been reengineered to be more notebook-like. What really struck me was the DVI port. If true, I think Motion would be the first tablet pc with a DVI port, something I think would be very much needed by the medical industry.

New TabletKiosk.com Website Launched!
tabletkiosk.com