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Vaio Pursues Panasonic in Domestic Market

by Super User

Vaio, Sony’s ex-PC unit (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 6), has shown a tablet PC concept that appears to target the same audience as Microsoft’s Surface Pro. Despite the similarity, though, Vaio says that …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| PCs| tablets| Vaio| Vol 21 - Issue 40| Volume 21

HP Offers Stylus With Procap Tablet

by Super User

HP is preparing to launch a large tablet for business users. Hardware security is integrated and managed through HP’s Touchpoint Manager and Managed Mobility Services. Third-party security software is also available as an option. …

Tags:HP Inc| Mobile Display Monitor| Pen Input| tablets| Vol 21 - Issue 43| Volume 21

Intel’s Core M Shown at Showstoppers

by Super User

Always a big event at IFA, Showstoppers this year was again a great place to go for food, drink and networking. Oh, and a few new products! The showcase takes place in Hall 15 …

Tags:IFA 2014| Large Display Monitor| Notebooks| tablets| Vol 21 - Issue 36| Volume 21

Adversign Claims 21.5″ is ‘Tablet’

by Super User

Germany’s Adversign has developed a ‘tablet’ for small signage applications. We use quote marks because the product is a bit bigger than your normal handheld… Adversign argues that consumers are used to seeing and …

Tags:Digital Signage| Germany| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| tablets| Vol 21 - Issue 40| Volume 21

MEA…As Tablets Shift to Tier 2 Vendors

by Super User

There was a 2% fall in tablet shipments in MEA between Q1’14 and Q2’14, according to IDC. As well as the expected fall due to the traditionally slow summer season and Ramadan, shipments were …

Tags:IDC| Large Display Monitor| MEA (Middle East & Africa)| tablets| Vol 21 - Issue 36| Volume 21

Microsoft Committed to Surface

by Super User

Microsoft wasted no time recently in countering a claim by Taiwan’s Digitimes that the company was ‘likely to terminate the [Surface] product line’. A blog post by Surface general manager Brian Hall (http://tinyurl.com/kc7fxr9) showed …

Tags:Microsoft| Mobile Display Monitor| tablets| Vol 21 - Issue 40| Volume 21

Panasonic Completes 7″ Toughpad Range With Android

by Super User

Panasonic’s 7″ Toughpad range has been completed, with a new Android 4.4.4 model – the Toughpad FZ-B2 – joining existing Windows units. A fanless tablet, the Fz-B2 is IP65-compliant, meets the MIL-STD-810G standard and …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Panasonic| Rugged Displays| tablets| Vol 21 - Issue 43| Volume 21

Cypress’ Controller Enables Slim Huawei Tablet

by Super User

The Mediapad X1 is Huawei’s 7″ tablet: the world’s thinnest, the company claims, at 7.18mm. USA-based Cypress Semiconductor says that the thin body is partly enabled by its Truetouch Gen5 TMA568 capacitive touchscreen controller. …

Tags:Back Panel| Huawei| Large Display Monitor| tablets| Touch Controllers| Vol 21 - Issue 37| Volume 21

4G Arrives on Asus’ Padfone Series

by Super User

The PF451CL is a 4.5″ addition to Asus’ Padfone line-up – a range of smartphones that can dock into a larger chassis to power a tablet. In the case of the PF451CL (aka Padfone …

Tags:Asus| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| tablets| Vol 21 - Issue 40| Volume 21

CES & Eye Tracking

by Bob Raikes

I wrote in Display Monitor recently about this time being the time for a change over from PCs being at the centre of our technology worlds and mobile devices dominating. This will be a …

Tags:eye tracking| tablets

Chaebols in the Matrix

by Raverstead

Looking back on the year, the big trend has been the increasing dominance of the 2 x 2 matrix of Apple and Samsung, phones and tablets. If you don’t fit one of the four …

Tags:Apple| Microsoft| phones| Samsung| tablets