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Trump Lawyer Resigns One Day Before Trial To Begin

Joseph Tacopina has filed with the courts that he will not represent Donald J. Trump. The E. Jean Carroll civil case is schedule to begin Tuesday January 16,...

Judge Lewis A. Kaplan Issues Order RE Postponement

On May 9, 2023, a jury found Donald J. Trump liable for sexual assault and defamation. The jury awarded Ms. Carroll $5 million in damages. Seven months ago,...

ASUS Announces 2023 Vivobook Classic Series

On April 7, 2023, ASUS introduced five new models in the 2023 Vivobook Classic series of laptops. The top laptops in the series use the 13th Gen Intel® Core™...

What Is New

Microsoft lnnovative Teachers Program

Microsoft and its partners' visions of how technology can be used by teachers and students are highlighted at Schools of the Future. At the Philadelphia SOF students, teachers and staff have been using Gateway Tablet PCs or Samsung UMPCs in one PC per student learning environment.

Are you attending Educause?

Educause begins October 23rd. Let me know if you are attending. I'm trying to figure out if we should have a Tablet PC & UMPC meet-up.

Educause '07
Seattle, WA
October 23 - 26th

Note: The conference has sold out.

ZDNet compares OLPC XO to Apple eMate 300 (1997)

As we all know, there are good things about our past technology. We learn what it can do for us, its limits, and then use it to build the next version. In 1997 Apple released the eMate 300 for K-12 Education market and used the Newton OS. It was on the market for only a year. A good idea, but the $800 was expensive for a limited device at that time.

Tablet PC by day and UMPC by night

My query about Tablet PC and UMPC innovations has caused quite a flurry. Per request, Warner posted a thread on GottaBeMobile where there are already enough suggestions to keep development teams working for several months, at least. People are sharing important ideas about expectations about where they see future with handwriting, touch, and power management. Using touch and improving Pen centric navigation is also up there. Brilliant.