As a tech author, blogger and reviewer I get technology sent to me periodically or I pick up bits and pieces myself.  This does mean that I can occasionally find something being replaced when its not too old.  This is about to happen with two tablets, an HP TouchPad 32Gb and a RIM Playbook 16Gb.  [...]

Categories: ask the readers

We take for granted these days that Microsoft will always provide new versions of Windows and Windows Server, that Google will always provide world-leading search and that many other companies will just be there for us in perpetuity.  After all, look at the big names like Coca Cola, Ford and and more that have been with [...]

Categories: Microsoft

2011 has not been a good year for HP’s WebOS tablet operating system.  The year began with the company praising the product they had acquired when they bought Palm but there then followed the sudden announcement of the dropping of the TouchPad, the first WebOS tablet only seven weeks after it went on sale.  Now [...]

Categories: Hardware

The HP TouchPad is dead, long live the HP TouchPad!  It feels very odd reviewing a product that you can’t buy any more.  When you factor in though that this new tablet computer is brand new out and still in its review period, and that many people will this week be taking delivery of their [...]

Categories: Hardware

This can hardly be believed but it’s actually true and not some cruel joke.  Having only just released the first WebOS tablet after having purchased Palm last year, and having spent the last year talking up their new mobile operating system as the next big thing, which frankly it had a very good chance of [...]

Categories: companies

We may still be at least a year away from Windows 8′s big debut in 2012, but the OS arena is heating up like never before, and new competitors are stepping up to the plate. It’s no big secret that Google has been preparing a streamlined, Chrome-esque operating system to challenge Microsoft’s double decade monopoly. [...]

Categories: Google, Microsoft, Operating Systems, Windows

So far we’ve heard quite a bit of comparisons between the webOS platform and OSX (for the iPhone), as well as Android vs. OSX. But so far, comparisons between both Android and webOS have been nonexistent. What makes this lack of coverage quite interesting is the fact that both operating systems are built off similar [...]

Categories: Mobiles, Operating Systems