photo credit: Windows 7 Tablet

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer will show off “a slew of new slates” at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in January. This is according to a report in the New York Times. Microsoft did the same thing last January, and sales were flat for the Windows 7 tablets. HP then postponed their launch of the Windows 7 tablet supposedly because they bought Palm because the WebOS was more suitable for tablets. When HP did launch the Slate 500 in October, no one was impressed. Read the rest of this entry »

photo credit: ViewPad 100

Earlier this month ViewSonic launched the ViewPad 100. This is the second tablet ViewSonic has launched recently. The ViewPad 100 sports a 10 inch screen, comes with 16GB of storage and a Micro SD slot for another 32GB. It is a Wi-Fi only tablet, using an Intel Atom N455 1.66 GHz processor to power the tablet, with 1GB of DDR3 RAM. The screen has a 1024 x 600 pixel resolution. Read the rest of this entry »

photo credit: Microsoft Kin Smartphones

Microsoft has entered the phone market! The new phones, Kin One and Kin Two will hit the US market in May through Verizon, and through carrier Vodafone Group PLC (which owns Verizon Wireless in partnership with Verizon Communications Inc.), in Germany, Italy, Spain and The United Kingdom later this fall. Microsoft did not mention a release date for Canada. Read the rest of this entry »