Ultrabooks, Tablets May Shatter Microsoft-Intel Alliance Next Week
21.05.68
Is "Wintel" a thing of the past? Next week, Intel is expected to spotlight its MacBook Air rival, the "ultrabook," at the same time Microsoft shows the industry how the wave of the future may be tablets from rival ARM.
At about the same time Intel chief executive Paul Otellini is opening Intel's Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco on Tuesday, Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer will give the keynote at its inaugural BUILD conference in Anaheim, which will be designed around Windows 8.
The two competing conferences may not represent a sharp break in the so-called "Wintel" alliance, the duopoly of sorts that has directed the path of the PC for decades. But with trends like Intel backing operating systems like Meego, while Microsoft embraces chip partners like AMD for its leading-edge graphics, both Intel and Microsoft may be drifting further apart.
Source: PC Magazine
Dell and Baidu Team Up to Produce Tablets and Mobile Phones
21.05.45
Dell showed strong interest in Baidu’s new operating platform, especially because the technology will be related to tablet devices.
“We have a partnership with Baidu and you know we have the Streak 5 tablet, so the partnership will be in that space,” said a Dell spokesperson.
In addition, Dell indicated it will also cooperate with Baidu on mobile handsets.
Although seeing its first quarter sales grow by 22 percent in the Chinese market this year, Dell is still faced with both internal and external challenges on the mobile and tablet front. The company has just launched its 10-inch tablet Dell Streak 10 Pro in China this summer, while around the same time it discontinued the sale of its Dell Streak 5-inch phone-tablet hybrid in the U.S. market. The product was widely criticized for its outdated operating system.
Source: 2point6billion
Sony Tablet S, P: Nine Crazy Reasons Why I Should Buy these Hip & Hot Tablets
06.09.11
9. Pricing. The 16GB entry level Tablet S is priced at $499 and the Tablet P will be available at $599. The $499 is the same price as the entry-level iPad 2. Does Sony really think that it has a superior device that can go head to head with the iPad? Hewlett-Packard has slashed the price of its TouchPad from $499 to $99, Research In Motion has cut by $50 the price of the $499 BlackBerry PlayBook, and Lenovo is launching its 7-inch IdeaPad tablets at $199. There must be lost in translation somewhere: someone from the marketing team must have thought that Sony is releasing the PlayStation 4. Sony's new to the tablet market and the devices are not
Source: International Business Times AU