APPLE
Get More Work Done On-The-Go: Parallels Access Lets You Manage Mac and PC Apps on iPad

It is unique in its manner to give your Windows or OS X a very iPad like feel in an intuitive and useful way for consumers. Full fledged Mac and Windows apps, even Adobe Flash, will run as if they were made for the iPad; great for users that have that occasional need to edit or recover a file stuck on a PC!

 

TABLETS
Amazon’s New Kindle Fire Tablets Alleged to be 3X the Speed of Current Editions

Prototype models so far include 7 inch and 8.9 inch Kindle Fire HD versions, which will be powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 chip, most powerful chip from this company, which is revs up to about 2GHz!

 

DELL
Dell Latitude 10 Tablet Pulls a Win in Classrooms

Dell recently rolled out a 5-step blueprint geared towards a personalized learning experience in the classroom, and it seems that the marketing and development team for that project has hit a home run. Several schools across the country have recently signed contracts with Dell to integrate tablet learning into their classrooms with Dell’s Latitude 10.

 

DELL
“World’s Thinnest & Lightest All-in-One” Hybrid Desktop-Tablet: Dell XPS 18

Dell is calling their XPS 18 All-in-One (AIO) convertible tablet-desktop the world's thinnest and lightest AIO.

 

DISPLAY SCREEN TECHNOLOGY
World’s Thinnest Tablet: Sony Xperia Tablet Z is a Lightweight in a Good Weigh

Sony's Xperia Z is the lightest 10-inch tablet on Earth, the thinnest tablet in the world, immersible in up to three feet of water, the 1st tablet to run on Qualcomm's Snapdragon S4 Pro; & has WUXGA 1,920 x 1,200 resolution with the "widest spectrum of color on any tablet" & more than 20% greater color reproduction than Apple's iPad; while providing Near Field Communication (NFC), 10 to 12 hours of battery life, & working as a universal IR remote.

 

INVENTIONS & INNOVATIONS
“Surveillance-Proof” Encryption: Silent Circle by PGP Creator & a Navy SEAL

Silent Circle pledges to never provide law enforcement access back-doors & operates in such a way that the company retains almost no user data.

 

CES - CONSUMER ELECTRONICS SHOW
World’s Fastest Mobile Processor: Nvidia Tegra 4 With 72 GPU Cores – The Chips Are Up

With brute force of 72 GPU cores & real speed improvements, the Tegra 4 is not dancing the Hokey Pokey: & that's what it's all about.

 

DISPLAY SCREEN TECHNOLOGY
World’s Highest Resolution Tablet: Google Nexus 10 Beats Apple iPad Retina Display

Several companies are lining up for pixel-to-pixel combat & will introduce products that make Apple's "retina display" seem so-last-year.

 

LAPTOPS & ULTRATHIN ULTRABOOKS
Microsoft Surface Tablet is Not a Shot Across the Bow: It’s a Real Torpedo – Opinion

Macroruffian-Giganticus seems to be so uncertain of the survival of its operating system products that it is apparently quite willing to eat its own friends alive.

 

BATTERY & POWER TECHNOLOGY
Calxeda Low-Power ARM-Based Servers Mean Datacenter Savings: Austin Technology

Calxeda's innovations are aimed at increasing density of datacenter computer resources while markedly reducing the need for power, space, and cooling.

 

TABLETS
$60 Matrix One Android ICS 7-Inch Tablet – Make ’em cheap & stack ’em deep

The Matrix One Android ICS 7-inch tablet brings to mind the Datawind $35 Aakash 2, but appears to be on far more solid ground with the ability to actually deliver the product.

 

MINI / NANO PCS
Datawind $35 Aakash 2 & UbiSlate Tablets – A Cautionary Tale

It could have been a beautiful story, but for many people in India who pre-paid for Datawind Aakash tablets it has not worked out that way as of September 2012.

 

CONVERGENCE & CONVERTIBLE HYBRID PCS
Intel Ultrabooks’ 40% Market Share Magical Mystery Tour: Parsing the Numbers

As materials become thinner, cheaper & lighter, mainstream adoption of ultrabooks will increase exponentially, as ultrathins become the new norm.

 

CONVERGENCE & CONVERTIBLE HYBRID PCS
Dell XPS Duo 12 Laptop-Tablet & XPS 10 Tablet-Laptop: Faces of Convergence

Convergence of devices into hybrid or convertible forms is clearly the order of the day, and Dell Inc. will make two significant contenders.

 

LAPTOPS & ULTRATHIN ULTRABOOKS
Samsung to Inject $4-Billion Tech Investment Into Austin Texas – Silicon Hills

Samsung Electronics will be the largest foreign investor in Texas, with more than $13-Billion with a "B" invested since 1996.