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Tofel Inks on the Vye

Kevin Tofel takes a look at the inking experience on the Vye S37 for all of...

Oct 31st

Whiteboard Based Inking App Getting...

Keep a close eye on Loren’s blog!  His Silverlight based whiteboard application is getting...

Oct 31st

WOW - Look At What Came Trick or...

Warner put up a picture of Rob earlier today, but man, look what came to my door this evening with...

Oct 31st

Audiovox/Jensen Debuts an Internet...

And here is another take on the Internet Tablet or MID. The NVX3000PC (they’ve got the not so sexy...

Oct 31st

New book on Tablet PCs in Education

Lora over at WhatIsNew is also very interested in Tablet PCs in the education...

Oct 31st

Is Google Creating an MID?

There’s been a lot of rumors flying around about a possible Google cell phone being...

Oct 31st

GBM Podcast #38: Happy Halloween In The...

Sometimes things can get down right spooky in the...

Oct 31st

Tablet PCs Protect National Security

Well, maybe the Tablet PCs aren’t directly protecting national security,...

Oct 31st

Portland, OR Tablet PC Meetup

The Tablet PC people in the Oregon / Washington area will be meeting this Sunday, Nov...

Oct 31st

Building Our Own Tablet PCs and UMPCs

Loren Heiny picked up a great piece by CNET on the “white book” pc makers....

Oct 31st

Halloween Ushers in a New GBM Team...

GBM just keeps adding team members and contributors in our quest to cover as much of the mobile...

Oct 31st

Will Low Cost Ultra-Portables Affect...

Over the last year or so there has been much talk about low cost computing solutions targeted at...

Oct 31st

Eye-Fi Puts Wi-Fi on Most Digital...

This looks like a winner. The Eye-Fi is a 2GB SD memory card that adds Wi-Fi to most digital...

Oct 31st

Three Guys, Three N810s, Two Weeks, One...

Three of the most influential Nokia Internet Tablet bloggers got together to share their brief...

Oct 31st

PC Mag gives the Fujitsu U810 a Looksee

I’m always interested in seeing what PC Mag’s Cisco Cheng has to say when...

Oct 30th

Does Touch on Leopard Stack Up to a Good...

Warner posed an interesting question today regarding the oft-rumored Apple / Mac Tablet,...

Oct 30th

Is Apple Stacked Up For Touch On A Mac?

I’ve been watching much of this year’s Apple news from afar, and vicariously living through the...

Oct 30th

Chippy Is a Hipper!!

Or at least that’s what I call them…  There was a lot of fun going on the other night...

Oct 30th

Alternate to 'Clicking'

Antimatter posted up an interesting link in the forums last...

Oct 30th

Chippy Takes on the Vye Mini-V S37B

The new Vye Mini-V S37B continues the utterly incomprehensible naming conventions that...

Oct 30th

Lenovo Outlet - Great Deals While They...

I just saw this in the Lenovo forums - Some good deals there right now!!  Thanks Yonatan!! ...

Oct 30th

GBM InkShow: The Solio Hybrid Solar...

We all spend time looking for charging solutions and extra juice...

Oct 30th

Chalk One Up for UMPCs

Many believe that the holy grail for Tablet PC and UMPC success is the education sector. For many...

Oct 30th

Craig Pringle Does The Multi-Mode...

Craig Pringle, a Microsoft Tablet PC MVP, recently checked out TabletKiosk’s Sahara i440D...

Oct 30th

A Shift in the Cloud: Google to Roll Out...

Google is making big moves on the big email front in the cloud. They began rolling out IMAP support...

Oct 30th

Windows Live Photo Gallery Now Includes...

I must have missed this a week or so ago, but nonetheless, this is good news for digital photo...

Oct 30th

HTC's Shift and Advantage in the...

If the consonants  j, k, h, t, and c, mean anything to you, then you know you are a follower of the...

Oct 30th

Asus R2E UMPC About To Bust Out

Asus’s successor to the R2H UMPC, the R2E, is getting ready to hit the market. In fact, according...

Oct 29th

Using Windows Journal as an Electronic...

WhatIsNew just wrote up a good discussion of using Windows Journal as an index card. The...

Oct 29th

GottaBeAStudent: Myth of Battery Life

Andrew Ferguson is an author at StudentTabletPC.com…when homework and exams permit....

Oct 29th

WiBrain Gets an Updated Look

Chippy over on UMPC Portal noticed an updated picture of the...

Oct 29th

Cartoonmonkey Takes a Look at Lots of...

Cartoonmonkey has his hands full, full of slate Tablet PC’s...

Oct 29th

GBM Shortcut: Cradlepoint Technologies...

When going mobile, one of the things I get the most benefit out of is my WWAN modem card. I used to...

Oct 29th

Roper Mobile Technology Acquires Black...

During CES this past year, we brought you news and footage of Black...

Oct 29th

ESET Getting Ready to Roll Out a New...

I have been using ESET’s NOD32 Anti-Virus program for some time now and really like it. The...

Oct 29th

The Tablet PC as a Social Instrument

I’m not suprised at the result of this post on Thinking on the Margin, as I’ve seen it myself many...

Oct 29th

Students, Mobility, and Tablet PCs

Our readership on GottaBeMobile.com is quite diverse - from business people, to stay-at-home moms,...

Oct 28th

Chippy's Live Chat Looks Like It Was A...

Steve “Chippy” Paine hosted a live video and chat session last night and from the looks of things...

Oct 28th

Checkout the Dell Tablet PC at Purdue...

If you are in the Purdue University / West Lafayette, Indiana area, then you need to head over to...

Oct 28th

Fujitsu LifeBook U810 at $899

If you’re looking to get your hands on a Stormtrooper (our sexier nickname for the Fujitsu U810),...

Oct 27th

UMPC TV With Chippy Live Tonight

If you want to take a gander at a bevy of Ultra-Mobile PCs, you might want to get the popcorn ready...

Oct 27th

EVDO In The Hood

Looks like Sprint has finally decided to connect my little burg to the rest of the world by quietly...

Oct 27th

Kathy Jacobs is NabCasting

OneNote and PowerPoint MVP and Tablet PC Enthusiast Kathy Jacobs is experimenting with NabCasting....

Oct 27th

The Samsung Q1 Ultra as a Professional...

GBM Forum member cbodhi has picked up a USB Studio Microphone (the MXL USB.007) and turned in...

Oct 27th

One More Day for the Tom Bihn Bag...

Just a reminder about the Tom Bihn Bag contest! ...

Oct 27th

Meet the Microsoft Folks Behind...

Microsoft’s Channel 9 has some good video of the folks behind Surface and Multi-Touch: ...

Oct 26th

Stay online longer with Vista Battery...

If you’re like me, you are constantly looking for ways to improve the battery life...

Oct 26th

Windows Home Server Demo Site

This demo is a great tool for showing off the capabilities of the new...

Oct 26th

Win a Nokia N810 Internet Tablet

Thoughtfix is running a heck of a contest over on TabletBlog.com. He’s giving away a Nokia...

Oct 26th

GottaBeSecure: File Sharing Security...

If you’re a mobile PC user, you probably have a network at home. Maybe you...

Oct 26th

GBM InkShow: A Look at Touch on the...

 One of the most exciting things to happen to Tablet PCs is the...

Oct 26th

jkkmobile Demos WebGuide on a UMPC

I’ve never heard of WebGuide before. It is a web based add-on for Media Center that allows you to...

Oct 26th

Cast A Wary Eye Towards Those Best Buy...

I’m sure most of our readers already know how to deal with a big box sales pitch, or any sales...

Oct 26th

Lenovo Running 25% off Anniversary Sale

The sales come and go at Lenovo, but this one looks to be pretty darn good- 25% off through October...

Oct 25th

Review of ASUS Eee Laptop

Laptop Magazine just posted a review of the ASUS Eee PC 701....

Oct 25th

Dell Tablet PC Spotted at Educause:...

Loren Heiny just pinged me with this link from Educational Technology Services, where the blogger...

Oct 25th

SSD and HDD - What's The Future?

Looks like a little friendly competition brewing over on Ultramobile PC Tips.  CTitanic and JKK are...

Oct 25th

Where Does a UMPC Fit?

Checkout this video from Ben Hussein on how his Samssung Q1 Ultra UMPC fits in to his lifestyle. ...

Oct 25th

Qualcomm's Multi-Mode Chip: The Gobi

We all know that one of the keys to mobile computing is being able to connect whenever and wherever...

Oct 25th

Apple Files for Patent on Tactile...

Apple recently filed for a US patent on “Keystroke Tactility Arrangement on a Smooth Touch...

Oct 25th

Nokia N800 Robot Dog

This is just fun. Some kids at a school in Finland (the school is funded by Nokia) took the Nokia...

Oct 25th

Modern Notebook Stand with Cable...

As much as we like to be wireless, there are some wires we’ll never be without,...

Oct 25th

Is Transparency All It Is Cracked Up To...

Fascinating. As many folks using Vista on mobile devices have discovered, one of the first...

Oct 25th

Josh "No More Mister Nice Guy" Einstein...

There is a great thread running in the GBM Forums startred by TEO develoepr Josh Einstein. He...

Oct 25th

Great Deal on My Favorite Camera: Canon...

One of the best gadget purchases I’ve made all year is the Canon Powershot SD1000 Digital Elph...

Oct 25th

Review of Everun

Frank Garcia (aka CTitanic) has posted a comprehensive review of the Everun by Raon...

Oct 24th

Steve Ballmer on Vista, Windows Mobile

CNet News has posted three good videos and a transcribed...

Oct 24th

The GottaBeMobile.com / Tom Bihn Bag...

Like the last InkShow on the Tom Bihn Buzz bag...

Oct 24th

Jim Forbes on Mobile Tech and the...

The fires in California are certainly a major disaster, uprooting so many from their homes and...

Oct 24th

GBM Podcast #37: Sierra Modro Unplugged...

We’re all excited on the GBM Team with the new addition of Sierra Modro to the wacky gang of...

Oct 24th

Mi-Co Offers Free E-Forms Assessment...

Here is some good news from Mi-Co for our mobile health-care readers: Mi-Co,...

Oct 24th

GBM How-To #28 : Speeding up your...

How many external USB drives do you have installed? I had to use both...

Oct 24th

Look Out Outlook IMAP Gmail is Coming!!

Gmail is really shaking things up now!  Seems that a select few...

Oct 24th

Embedded and Componetized Windows OS...

Steve “Chippy” Paine links to some interesting news that Microsoft is looking to componetize an...

Oct 24th

Victory for Truth in Advertising:...

Well, it looks like there are some legal beagles who believe in the sanctity of language when it...

Oct 24th

Battery Life On My Lenovo x61

Today was a stretch for me - well, not for me but the battery on my Lenovo...

Oct 23rd

WACOM Comes Out With a 12" Inkable...

This thing is something I really want!!  Aftermath in the forums put up a...

Oct 23rd

Part 2 of Cleaning Your Notebook Guide

If you’re like me, you eagerly read the first part of the TabletPCReview’s...

Oct 23rd

Kevin Tofel Checks Out The Vye S37

Kevin Tofel of jkOnTheRun has his hands on the Vye S37 Ultra-Mobile PC and has posted up a video...

Oct 23rd

How Location Aware Are Your Mobile...

Or do you want/need them to be? In his voluminous coverage of the Nokia N810, Thoughtfix has raised...

Oct 23rd

Vista Activation Issues and Device...

While the headline of this artilce, WARNING: device driver updates causing Vista to deactivate, by...

Oct 23rd

Philips releases a new medical Tablet PC

Philips just announced a new 10.4” Tablet PC aimed again at the medical...

Oct 23rd

RTM of Microsoft Silverlight Ink SDK...

Developers looking to take advantage of Ink in Silverlight can now grab the Microsoft Silverlight...

Oct 23rd

Stack Your Files With Windows Vista

With the release of Apple’s new Leopard update to OSX just around the corner one of the features...

Oct 23rd

The Scooter Desk

Well, I guess this is mobile in a way. How about a mobile...

Oct 23rd

Short Video Tips for Tablet PCs

Jim Vanides from HP has started posting some short video clips aimed at showing educators...

Oct 22nd

HP Offers Deal on Embedded Sprint EVDO...

If you’re looking at a possible purchase of the HP 2710p Tablet PC, you might want to check out...

Oct 22nd

Funny OneNote Cartoon

Via : Office Offline This article originally posted on...

Oct 22nd

Microsoft's Marketing Goes Into The...

My, oh my, oh my, oh my. Mary Jo Foley points to Microsoft’s new marketing campaign for Vista....

Oct 22nd

The Everun Dock Pictures

Chippy over at UMPC Portal has some pictures of a dock that will add to the...

Oct 22nd

100 Times Faster Than WiFi: Bring It On

I’m sure it will be some time before this comes to be, but I’d sure like to see it happen....

Oct 22nd

Tablet PC ReviewSpot: Cleaning Your...

Caleb Schmerge at TabletPCReview.com has started a series on how to clean up your Tablet PC (or...

Oct 22nd

Student Tablet PC: Cleaning Your...

Caleb Schmerge at The Student Tablet PC has started a series on how to clean up your Tablet PC (or...

Oct 22nd

Drive Targeted Readers to Your Blogs

I’ve found this new service called Blogrush. This system automatically promote your posts on...

Oct 22nd

Walt Mossberg Nails It

Bang. Sometimes clarity comes from the strangest places. Walt Mossberg, in his editorial, Free My...

Oct 22nd

Get Your Nokia N810 Fix With Thoughtfix

Nokia’s new Internet Tablet, the N810, has certainly captured a lot of attention. As far as...

Oct 22nd

Thumbnail Sizer for Vista

Ever have the problem where there are more than one Word Documents open,...

Oct 21st

Vista vs. Leopard

With the release of Leopard just around the corner, people are comparing...

Oct 21st

On Screen Keyboard Keeps Getting Updated

DevDoo6 in the forums keeps updating his onscreen keyboard.  Lots of functionality in there, I had...

Oct 21st

Blog Launch: Tablet PC - A Student’s...

Breaking cover during the past week is a new blog coming courtesy of student Anirudh Saraf. His...

Oct 21st

When Reliable Methods Fail On The Road

I’m away on a family trip this weekend and as usual I’m carrying my mobile kit with me. Normally...

Oct 20th

Followup With the U810/U1010 - Inking...

Marauderz has sent us a follow up video that displays the Inking on the U810.   From the last video...

Oct 20th

Inking on The Fujitsu U1010 with...

A lot of folks, myself included, have been looking for some solid info on the Inking ability of the...

Oct 20th

OneNote TreeView of Your Notebooks

This one sure is worth following.  TreeView of OneNote notebooks seems like a good idea...

Oct 20th

Midlinux 2.0 on a Samsung Q1U

Rodfather is pointing to an interesting post over on the Intel site.  Clayne Robinson of...

Oct 20th

Is 5 Minutes Enough With The Nokia N810?

Quite an article over on Information Week talking about the Apple iPhone and the...

Oct 20th

More Tablet PCs in Healthcare

Apparently Emergency Health Center, a new “luxury” emergency room in Willowbrook, TX,...

Oct 19th

Tablet PC Meetup in Oregon

We’re planning a Tablet PC user group / meetup in Portland, Oregon, for sometime in November....

Oct 19th

GBM InkShow: The Tom Bihn Ego Bag and...

There are many times I look into my closet and see a whole bunch...

Oct 19th

5 Years of Tablet PCs - Let's Talk...

We are rapidly approaching the 5-year anniversary of Microsoft’s launch of the Tablet PC....

Oct 19th

Vista memory usage explanation

I complained in my recent review of my HP 2710P that the memory usage in Vista seemed really high,...

Oct 18th

Multi-Touch Laptop and Vista from...

Ok - this has to be one of the coolest things I’ve seen in a while,...

Oct 18th

GBM Shortcut: Inking In a GIS...

Best Tablet PC Today I am correcting and reviewing some work at my daytime job. I work for an...

Oct 18th

Microsoft Popfly now in Beta - Best...

Best Tablet PC Another interesting new Silverlight application is entering beta! For those...

Oct 18th

More Fujitsu U810 UMPC Reviews Coming In

I can’t remember where I saw this headline, but it does a good job of highlighting just how...

Oct 18th

Gates Still Going to Champion the Best...

Best Tablet PC Well, this is good news. According to this CNET report, Bill Gates will still be...

Oct 18th

Screenshots of Microsoft Office Live...

Best Tablet PC Yesterday, Microsoft released 3 screenshots of Office Live Workspace. This is going...

Oct 18th

GBM InkShow: The Shwamee Microfiber...

Best Tablet PC I’ve been looking for a good cleaning solution for the Lenovo ThinkPad...

Oct 17th

ASUS Eee finally official - Best Tablet...

Best Tablet PC The ASUS Eee, that small, ultra-inexpensive notebook with Linux, has finally...

Oct 17th

Shame on CrunchGear - Best Tablet PC

Best Tablet PC I can’t believe what I just read. CrunchGear.com, a supposedly reputable tech...

Oct 17th

Nokia N810 Officially Announced - Best...

Best Tablet PC Warner pointed to Internet Tablet Talk’s pictures of the Nokia N810 Internet...

Oct 17th

Bringing an M1300 Tablet PC Back To Life

Wow. It doesn’t get any better than this. Forum member SegalSegal had a Motion...

Oct 17th

Fujitsu U810 Lifebook Review - From the...

Fujitsu U810 Lifebook Review By Jeff Christiana 10/17/2007 (First...

Oct 17th

GBM Podcast #36: The Security Show

Managing security in a mobile world can be a challenging problem. That is...

Oct 17th

The Wayback File: Peter Rojas checks out...

Like Bjorn said this morning, I haven’t ever seen this video of Peter Rojas, of...

Oct 17th

User Review of the Kohjinsha SH6WP10A...

A reader over at Tablet PC Review took a nice look at the new Kohjinsha...

Oct 17th

Google Docs Goes Mobile

If you’re a Google Docs fan and want to view your files from the cloud on your handheld, Google has...

Oct 17th

Nokia N810 Shows Its Face (and Keyboard)

Internet Tablet Talk has pics of the Nokia N810, the eagerly awaited next step up...

Oct 17th

Export Your Drivers Across PCs

When you are setting up a new Tablet PC or UMPC one of the things on your check list is to make...

Oct 17th

Apple Changes Its Tune About DRM-Free...

In the wake of competition from Amazon.com and WalMart, Apple changed its tune on...

Oct 17th

Education Goes Wireless

I’ve become even more interested in articles discussing using Tablet...

Oct 16th

Fully Rugged Tablet PCs with iWater...

GETAC, Inc is showing off a Tablet PC during the Water...

Oct 16th

Synergy Digital Forms for the Tablet PC

Looks like we have a new player in the digital forms / Tablet PC space: Synergy World and their...

Oct 16th

Tablet PCs in the waiting room?

Although we’re all familiar with doctors using Tablet PCs like the Motion C5 for ...

Oct 16th

The Life of Chippy From a UMPC

Join in on the fun with Chippy from UMPC Portal - He is streaming from the...

Oct 16th

Is Constant Online Connectivity...

I spent last week away from the office in technical rehearsals for Shadow of the Raven: Stories of...

Oct 16th

How To Blog in Ink Using Word 2007

Chris Paris is a very active GottaBeMobile.com reader and forum member, helping others in...

Oct 16th

Microsoft Surface In Action

We’ve been covering Microsoft Surface news over on GottaBeSurface.com, but some posts are...

Oct 16th

Nokia Rolls Out Touch on the S60...

Nokia is rolling out its answer to Apple’s popular multi-touch on the iPhone for the S60 platform...

Oct 16th

Microsoft Releases New Live Search...

Microsoft continues to ramp up its Live Search services with the introduction of voice search...

Oct 16th

IMPS: The Launch of the MTube

We’ve got more acronyms than we can hang an alphabet on these days when it comes to...

Oct 16th

Broadcom BCM21551 Chip Ads 3G and More

For those looking at iPHones and other handhelds as their future mobile device of choice,...

Oct 16th

Mobile Music Creation on the Raon...

Want to create a tune or two while you are on the road? Steve “Chippy” Paine gives mobile music...

Oct 16th

Fujitsu U810 UMPC $50 Off Sale

Folks are showing a lot of interest in the Fujitsu U810 UMPC - their $50 off sale ought to help,...

Oct 15th

Student Discount on Bluebeam Revu PDF...

Bhaltair on our forums points out a major discount on the pen-friendly Bluebeam PDF Revu (similar to...

Oct 15th

60 Days with an HP 2710p - Best Tablet

Best Tablet PC Many of you may have read my initial review of my new HP 2710p. I’ve been...

Oct 15th

Zune - $99 Through Buy.com - Best Tablet...

Best Tablet PC I don’t know how long this special will last, but Buy.com has the brown 30GB...

Oct 15th

Craig Pringle Goes Hands On with the...

Best Tablet PC We’ve recently seen some reviews of the Fujitsu U810, and now Craig Pringle has gone...

Oct 15th

Screen Resolution and the HTC Shift:...

Best Tablet PC Concerns over the screen resolution on the HTC Shfit is still a confusing issue. At...

Oct 15th

Nokia's Next Internet Tablet: The N810?...

Best Tablet PC Thoughtfix is turning into quite the detective. He’s dug up some info that looks like...

Oct 15th

The Fastest and Easiest Way To Instantly...

Ready For Free Traffic ? Add This FREE Widget to your Blog and have your posts automatically...

Oct 15th

Pure Slate or Bigger Convertible??-Best...

Best tablet pc.There is a interesting thread going on over in the Fourms. New forum member...

Oct 14th

Ink Publishing to Flickr and Twitter -...

Best TabletLoren Heiny has been busy. Using Silverlight he’s coded up a tool, InkGrams, that allows...

Oct 14th

Samsung Q1 Goes Sleuthing

The original film, Sleuth, is a classic mystery featuring Laurence Oliver and Michael Caine. It is...

Oct 14th

Outlook Connector - Keep your Outlook...

Best Tablet PC We get a lot of questions about keeping Outlook data in sync between computers....

Oct 13th

Photosharing Application by IntuiLab

JKKMobile sent us this video of a fantastic looking photosharing application made by...

Oct 12th

Freebee Of The Day: 5 Free iTunes Songs...

A friend of mine just passed this along and it works great - no purchase or spam required! Best...

Oct 12th

Centrafuse Videos on YouTube

Late last night I received and e-mail form the founder of Flux Media.  That e-mail pointed to some...

Oct 12th

GBM InkShow: OneNote Synchronization -...

Best Tablet PC A frequent topic of discussion in our forums is that of synchronization. Due to the...

Oct 12th

Welcome Sierra Modro to Team GBM! - Best...

For those that have been around the Best Tablet PC space from the very early days, Sierra Modro is...

Oct 12th

GottaBeSecure: WiFi and the Rookie Looks...

Best Tablet PC Over the past few weeks, we’ve discussed passive mobile security threats, active...

Oct 12th

Transparent Touch Screen Video

We’ve reported on this concept from Microsoft Reserach and MERL before, but here’s a video that...

Oct 12th

Fujitsu U810 Reviews - Best Tablet PC

Best Tablet PC Linda Espstein of TabletPC2.com and CNET both take quick looks at Fujitsu’s U810...

Oct 12th

Fitting a ‘better’ Cornell page template...

Well my migration over to OneNote is going pretty good.Best Tablet I’ve used it exclusively now in...

Oct 11th

I'm Really Enjoying Anagram on My Tablet...

I have a new program that I am including into my base clean install.  That...

Oct 11th

I Am Really Getting Into Anagram

I have a new program that I am including into my base clean install.  That...

Oct 11th

Dell Tablet PC Talk Continues

In addition to what we’ve already learned and gleaned, Crave has the following info from...

Oct 11th

Have an Everun? Make it Rugged!!

We saw the Everun during Hugo’s InkShow and it really seemed like a...

Oct 11th

Linux vs Windows - Thoughtfix

Better watch out - Thoughtfix is drinking coffee again. In this episode he tackles Linux and...

Oct 11th

OQO Model 02 - An Office in Your Pocket?

I wouldn’t classify the OQO Model 02 Tablet PC as pocketable, but it is one of the most...

Oct 11th

UML Weekly News 10/11/07

Here is the second installment of UltraMobileLife.com Weekly News ...

Oct 11th

Tablet PC's and NASCAR Testing

Off line I like to watch NASCAR races, and even though I am not a Ryan Newman fan, I’ll still...

Oct 11th

GottaBeSecure: WiFi and the Rookie Looks...

Over the past few weeks, we’ve discussed passive mobile security threats, active hacker threats,...

Oct 10th

Microsoft's UMPC Usage Scenario Survey

OrigamiProject.com has posted a request for folks to fill out a survey on UMPC usage and...

Oct 10th

Dell and Their Changing Business

ComputerWorld.com has a pretty good article on Dell’s changing business focus,...

Oct 10th

The Worst Customer Support Call I've...

Several months ago I decided to upgrade my HP Media Center to Vista. It worked ok, but the fan...

Oct 10th

What Resolution for MIDs?

Chippy, from CarryPad.com, has a good article on resolution options and MIDs - good primer for...

Oct 10th

Motion Computing: Not Offering LE1700...

In a surprise announcement in its partner newsletter, Motion Computing said that they will not be...

Oct 10th

GBM How-To Series #27 : Customizing the...

This weeks how-to is one that falls into the area of interface customization. I have...

Oct 10th

GBM InkShow: FlipStart Ultra-Compact...

Wanna talk portable? You’ve got to see the FlipStart! It is definitely...

Oct 9th

Please excuse a quick test of a new...

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political...

Oct 9th

Guest Editorial: Why do Linux MIDs...

Hi there! I am Daniel Gentleman, better known as ThoughtFix. I’ve been using...

Oct 9th

University of North Carolina Begins a...

University of North Carolina’s Information Technology Services has built upon their...

Oct 9th

Gateway Tablet PC Makes an Appearance at...

Gateway and BestBuy must be listening to our...

Oct 9th

Text While Driving? Maybe Soon

Well, Safely that is…  I am guilty of it too.  Being mobile and...

Oct 9th

Educause Tablet PC Meetup

Lora Heiny wants to know if any Tablet PC / UMPC users are attending Educause ‘07....

Oct 9th

Chippy Digs Up the Info on the Samsung...

Gotta hand it to Chippy at UMPCPortal.com - the guy knows how to dig for...

Oct 9th

Craig Pringle: In Defense of Vista

Microsoft’s Vista has been taking it on the chin lately. Some of it rightly so, and some of it not...

Oct 9th

650GB Flash Drive. At a Price.

Mobile gadget geeks everywhere follow the development and advancement of flash drives with great...

Oct 9th

The HTC Shift Screen Resolution at...

The HTC Shift has been the most anticipated device since the iPhone in most mobile circles, but it...

Oct 9th

Talking Tablet PCs and Intrusive...

The following is the second in a series from Mike Moore -...

Oct 9th

TechSmith Releases Camtasia Studio 5

TechSmith, the sponsor of our InkShows, just released Camtasia Studio 5. We use Camtasia...

Oct 9th

Tablet PCs Software for Drawing and Art

I love to draw. It’s what I do during my boring lectures. It’s what I do to relax. The tablet pc as...

Oct 9th

Silverlight Ink SDK Sample Download

Gavin Gear from Microsoft has posted some information on an Ink...

Oct 8th

Searching For and Removing Duplicate...

One of the downsides of using multiple mobile Tablet PCs / UMPCs, is that...

Oct 8th

Alltel Launches a New WiFi Solution

Alltel is a Telcom we don’t hear that much about, but that may change with their recent...

Oct 8th

Holiday Computer Cleaning

I noticed this morning that Sumocat is taking time on his day off for the Columbus Day holiday to...

Oct 8th

US To Say No to In-Flight Mobile Phone...

Looks like the friendly skies will remain cell phone free, for at least awhile. The Telegraph is...

Oct 8th

Kids and Tablet PCs

Amazing - watch Kaylee, a two year-old, as she uses a Tablet PC to play a game, closes the TIP and...

Oct 8th

A Pyramid Touch Screen

Ok, this just looks cool and a bit sci-fi. How about a pyramid shaped touch screen instead of the...

Oct 7th

Tablet PC Talk - Marketing

I’ve been corresponding with Mike Moore, a GBM reader and Tablet PC enthusiast, for...

Oct 6th

A Plea For Better Inking on Small Mobile...

Yesterday was the first run-thru of the new show we are working on, Shadow of the Raven: Stories of...

Oct 6th

Adding RAM and the Memory Configurator

It’s been a pretty hectic last few weeks, a handful of exams and lots of homework. A couple weeks...

Oct 5th

N800 Internet Tablet Price Gets Slashed

Thoughtfix just let us know that Amazon has slashed the price on the Nokia N800 Internet...

Oct 5th

Commercial Mower Manufacturer Discovers...

Commercial lawn mower manufacturer, Better Outdoor...

Oct 5th

JkOnTheRun Reviews the HP 2710p Tablet...

James Kendrick recently took ownership of an HP 2710p Tablet PC and has given it a pretty thorough...

Oct 5th

GottaBeSecure: WiFi and the Rookie Looks...

As a computer security professional I tend to spend a lot of my time...

Oct 5th

Thank You, Tablet PC and Ultra-Mobile PC...

One year ago today, we launchedforums on GottaBeMobile.com. In that one year, we have grown forum...

Oct 5th

Early Observations on Microsoft's...

Microsoft recently released a series of patches for Vista that were aimed at improving reliabilty...

Oct 5th

Jim Vanides Offers Video Series on...

We’ve highlihgted Jim Vanides blog before. Jim is HP’s Worldwide Higher Education...

Oct 5th

Going Back To School On OneNote Printing

Tracy Hooten of The Student Tablet PC has posted a great tutorial on how to get...

Oct 5th

Jim Vanides - Tablet PC Tips

Jim Vanides, HP’s Worldwide Higher Education Philanthropy’ s Program Manager (wow great title!) is...

Oct 5th

Making OneNote Printer-Friendly

One of my major gripes about OneNote is that the pages will get longer, but they won’t tell you...

Oct 5th

Linux On My X60 Tablet PC and The...

So earlier this week I decided to put Linux on my Lenovo x60 Tablet PC. ...

Oct 4th

Tronic UMPC Photos Turn Up

JKK Mobile found a new UMPC today - the Tronic.  Looks kind...

Oct 4th

Out with the old (sob!) and in with the...

Well it couldn’t have happened at a worse time i.e. a few days before the start of my new term, but...

Oct 4th

MIDs, Linux, and UMPCs - Getting Focused...

The mobility landscape seems to be in a constant state of flux as of late, as software companies...

Oct 4th

Streamlined Installation of Internet...

Microsoft has just released a new installation build of Internet Explorer 7. This updated...

Oct 4th

Mozilla, Arm, MontaVista to build Linux...

This ought to shake things up a bit in the UMPC space According to Nancy...

Oct 4th

OQO's CEO is Blogging

How do you know when a company is plugged in to community? When their CEO starts blogging. ...

Oct 4th

Domino PCs

No, this has nothing to do with pizza, but it is just fun viewing. Apparently it has been around...

Oct 4th

That Old Battery Life Logjam

Better battery life is the Holy Grail of mobile computing. No question there. Until someone...

Oct 4th

Nokia's Eyes-Free Touchscreen Patent

This could come in handy for those who are sight-impaired, and perhaps for all of those who insist...

Oct 4th

Web Worker Daily on Ultra Mobile Devices

When looking for a good ultra-portable device, it is always good to get some outside opinions. ...

Oct 3rd

The High School of the Future?

What I wouldn’t give to be a student in today’s technology age!...

Oct 3rd

Data Ltd. Inc Launches New Rugged Tablet...

This press release states that Data Ltd. Inc. is set to release a new...

Oct 3rd

Vista Service Pack 1 Beta , Part 3

In Podcast #35, I mentioned that I was hoping to see some rough stuff with Vista Service Pack 1...

Oct 3rd

GBM Podcast #35: I Want to Demo a Tablet...

Get two veteran Tablet PC guys together and you know what happens: they talk about the good...

Oct 3rd

Notetaking Is All The Rage

There is a lot of focus these days on notetaking applications, especially with the popularity of...

Oct 3rd

FlipStart Price Drops by $500

It seems $2k was a bit too steep for those looking at the FlipStart. The price just...

Oct 3rd

Microsoft Vista "Wonder Patches" Make Me...

Very interesting news on the Vista front this morning. While some are having success and some are...

Oct 3rd

HTC Shift Video from UK Launch

I think the HTC Shift has had more time in front of a camera than any device I can recall in...

Oct 3rd

The HP2710p and the Lenovo Thinkpad X61...

Head to head comparison reviews of Tablet PCs are few and far between, so when they do appear they...

Oct 3rd

Hardware Zone Takes a Look at the...

This design has been round for a while, but the Gigabyte U60 still has one...

Oct 2nd

UltraMobileLife Weekly Video News

UltraMobileLife is begun a new weekly video recap of ultra-mobile news. In this first...

Oct 2nd

IEEE Computer Society Magazine Covers...

The latest edition of IEEE Magazine has six in-depth articles on Tablet PC...

Oct 2nd

Sharp Small Touchscreen Photos Emerge

Remember a short while ago when we mentioned Sharp’s new small (3.5”) touchsreens with an optical...

Oct 2nd

Ink on Windows Mobile over to OneNote...

This will be great to try out on my new phone when it get’s here…  I have...

Oct 2nd

Warner and Hugo Get Re-awarded as Tablet...

Congratulations to our very own Warner Crocker and Hugo Ortega for getting re-awarded by Microsoft...

Oct 2nd

Get Me Rewrite!

I’m neck deep into another production for Wayside Theatre and this project is a fascinating...

Oct 2nd

Hugo ReSurfaces

GBM mate, Hugo Ortega is still on vacation somewhere in Europe, but he recently resurfaced with a...

Oct 2nd

Loren Heiny, Ink, and Silverlight

If there is a developer out there more committed to getting Ink onto the web than Loren Heiny I’m...

Oct 2nd

GottaBeMobile September InkShow and...

As we head into autumn, September was quite a month for GottaBeMobile Inkshow, Podcast, and...

Oct 1st

Fun With Embedded Fonts

If you visit this site through conventional means, you may have noticed I’ve been playing with...

Oct 1st

Turn Your Nokia N770 Internet Tablet...

If you have a Nokia N770 Internet Tablet and admiring the newer N800 model, you might want to take...

Oct 1st

DocuPen on the Way

Quick update that I have a Planon DocuPen RC800 coming my way for review purposes. I really can’t...

Oct 1st

Announcing GottaBeSurface.com

We’ve been following Microsoft’s Surface technology since it...

Oct 1st

HTC Shift Coming to Europeans in...

UMPCPortal’s Chippy is at the HTC conference and scored an interview with Paul...

Oct 1st

UMPCs and MIDs On the Chip Side

Layne Heiny at UMPC Buzz seems to have broken out with a barrage of blogging lately and he’s got...

Oct 1st

Microsoft Takes Steps to Get Into the...

Microsoft is announcing its strategy to get into the cloud focusing on two different types of...

Oct 1st