On Thursday I joked about making Windows Phone 7 my post-WebOS platform. It seems I wasn’t the only person who had that thought. Microsoft’s Brandon Watson, who has been getting attention by sending free phones to people like Molly Wood and Scott Adams, tweeted an offer to give free phones and training to published WebOS […]
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Tablet Thursday News Digest
This was a pretty big week for tablets, as every company under the sun seems to be rushing to exploit the market. While it may seem like their fighting for Apple’s table scraps, there are a huge number of potential tablet users out there, and everyone seems to be trying to grab them. The most […]
Microsoft Makes More Money From Androids Than Windows Phones
Here’s a really interesting concept. Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 hasn’t been the smash success they were hoping for, and MS in general has been losing the smartphone market share ever since iOS and Android have taken over. But Microsoft still owns many patents in smartphone technology. Remember when there were rumors of Microsoft suing HTC because […]
HP TouchSmart 610 Says “Touch Me. Touch Me NOW.”
We’ve come along way since HP first unveiled the TouchSmart line in 2007. Touch interfaces are no longer seen as a gimmick or something quirky, but as a killer app. Tablets and smartphones have users conditioned to want to interface with their fingers. While many manufacturers are bringing touch to their desktops for the first […]