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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

My Clean Install of Vista Ultimate on a...

On Friday night I decided to reinstall Vista Ultimate on my Lenovo x61 Tablet PC.  I was just...

Sep 30th

Next Nokia Tablet to Have a Slide-out...

Looks like Nokia is following the latest tablet trend by integrating a...

Sep 30th

To Go Mac or Tablet PC?

When students at Winona State get to choose between a Mac and Tablet PC, more and more students are...

Sep 30th

An Argument For Taking Good Notes (on a...

Lifehacker has an interesting post on how to protect yourself in a work environment by taking good...

Sep 30th

Survey: DRM Free Digital Music Downloads

Digital Rights Management is a scourge we all live...

Sep 30th

Vista and Service Pack 1 Beta, Part 2

I’ve had the beta of Vista Service Pack 1 running on two different Table PCs (2710p and X61)...

Sep 30th

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...

Sep 30th

Nokia On Their Next Internet Tablet

Thoughtfix was fortunate enough to attend Nokia’s Unlocked event, and has been posting up a...

Sep 29th

Would this idea work as an ink-blogging...

OK, I’m not a programmer, but it makes sense to me that this would somehow work. What if someone...

Sep 29th

Any Topic Requests? (ink post)

Sep 29th

41 Money Facts That Will Blow You Away

Do you think you know a lot about money? Maybe you do. Maybe you don’t. But let’s see if...

Sep 29th

Lora Heiny Asks: What Are Your Favorite...

When the First Lady of the First Family of Tablet PCs asks, you better deliver. Lora Heiny has been...

Sep 29th

Circuit City Looking To Add Tablet PCs

Lora Heiny posts up a tid bit that Circuit City is looking to hire Project Specialists for Enabling...

Sep 29th

Vista SP1 Recovery Disk Creation

This is an interesting development. While there have been many rants about Microsoft’s Vista SP1...

Sep 29th

What am I doing tonight?? Clean Install...

Well, it’s been a while and lots of beta’s and trials…  It’s time to give...

Sep 28th

YouTube Tablet PC How To - Powerpoint...

I’m not sure if these are going to continue or not (this is the first one) but YouTube user...

Sep 28th

GBM Shortcut: HTC Kaiser / Tilt Unboxing

When we go “off-topic” at GBM, we try to make it worth it. This case is no different. ...

Sep 28th

Tablet PC's Down Under - Under Ground...

Who would have thought…  This is kind of interesting and something I...

Sep 28th

The Quaduro Quadpad Tablet PC

This is an interesting Tablet PC that I haven’t seen before today. ...

Sep 28th

Allegiance Technology Partners Featured...

Allegiance Technology Partners is a good friend of...

Sep 28th

GBM InkShow: Amtek T770 Ultra-Mobile PC

 I’ve seen a lot of Ultra-Mobile PCs here...

Sep 28th

Torrey Pines: Case Study of School Using...

Here is a link to a great case study of how one school, Torrey Pines, intergrated Tablet PCs into...

Sep 28th

Office Mobile 6.1 Confusion

Yesterday we posted about the availablity of Office Mobile 6.1 as an upgrade for those who have a...

Sep 28th

GBM Shortcut: The Cardo S2 BlueTooth...

Continuing a look at several BlueTooth headset options that are out there, here is a...

Sep 28th

ThoughtFix and Nokia Unlocked

Daniel (aka Thoughtfix) is attending and blogging from Nokia Unlocked, a conference that is...

Sep 28th

Microsoft Extends Availability of...

In a sign that they are listening to OEM and customer feedback regarding Vista, Microsoft issued...

Sep 28th

A Tablet PC and LOTS of Monitors

There really isn’t much content other than a short description in the post on YouTube.  And I...

Sep 27th

Russia Sold Toilet To US For $19 Million

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — NASA has agreed to pay $19 million for a Russian-built toilet system...

Sep 27th

GBM InkShow: Slingbox Mobile Overview

We are all about being mobile here on GottaBeMobile, and one thing about...

Sep 27th

Microsoft Office Mobile 6.1 Now...

Microsoft has rolled out an upgrade to Office Mobile 6.0 that now allows you to read...

Sep 27th

Josh Einstein's Outlook Ribbon Interface

If you’re one of those who wished Microsoft had been consistent across the Microsoft Office 2007...

Sep 27th

Verizon Offers First USB Wireless...

Being a multiple Tablet PC person right now and suffering through the...

Sep 27th

Sprint Hints at Future UMPC Makers?

Rob reported about Sprint’s WiMax news with Nokia yesterday. Turns out Sprint might be spilling the...

Sep 27th

Spanish Nursery Replaces PCs with UMPCs

Fascinating. CTitanic has a very powerful pictorial that shows off the before and after of a...

Sep 27th

Are You Looking for a Second Hand Tablet...

William at The Student Tablet PC has put up an informative post for those who might be taking a...

Sep 27th

Old Vs New

The X61 vs Everything Else - Part 2 (better late than never) It’s a fact that students are not the...

Sep 26th

Nokia and Intel Strike a WiMax Deal

Tis’ the day for tablet news! This in from Reuters, which confirms what...

Sep 26th

Thoughtfix and His Mobile Gadget Car MOD

Well, just when you think you have seen it all…  Thoughtfix comes up and trumps it! What is...

Sep 26th

Apple's Answer to the Ultra-Mobile PC

AppleInsider has all the juicy details on what Apple is cooking up as their answer to the...

Sep 26th

Tracy’s "Already at uni" Software Box

As a follow up to Robert’s post, I thought I’d share as well, though I’ve been back to school since...

Sep 26th

Podcast 34: The MID and Vista Show

In the GottaBeMobile.com Podcast #34, Warner and I chat about quite a few things that have been...

Sep 26th

GBM How-To Series #26 : Using Vista and...

Reading the headline of this post you might ask, “Now what has...

Sep 26th

More Footage of the Switchback UMPC

One of the vendors we made a bee-line for during CES was Black Diamond, the makers of the...

Sep 26th

Creating Art with a Tablet PC

Roy Blumenthal is a Tablet PC artist that I follow. I really enjoy a lot of his stuff. He’s...

Sep 26th

Sumocat Takes On SketchCast

Matt posted the other day about SketchCast, which looks like it can be not only a fun tool...

Sep 26th

Sling Media bought by EchoStar

This might normally fall outside out coverage here on GottaBeMobile.com,...

Sep 25th

Windows Dreamscene Released

Those wondering where all the Ultimate Extras have been, there is one that...

Sep 25th

GBM InkShow: Active Ink's Professional...

  When businesses begin the process of looking at Tablet PCs, one of the...

Sep 25th

GBM Shortcut: The Amtek T770

Allegiance Technology Partners sent us the Amtek T770 Ultra-Mobile PC a couple of weeks...

Sep 25th

Getting Down and Dirty with OneNote

TabletPCBuzz.com just began another video series entitled: Down and Dirty. The video...

Sep 25th

FlipStart Labs Announces Introduction of...

Don’t you love being first; being in “the know”? We’ve been holding onto...

Sep 25th

Sony Refreshes The UX Series

With all the talk of Ultra-Mobile PCs and Mobile Internet Devices lately, we haven’t heard much...

Sep 25th

All Your Memory Cards In One Place

If you use multiple memory cards this might be the accessory for you. Elecom’s MR-C12 card reader...

Sep 25th

Vista Service Pack 1 First Impressions

I installed Vista beta Service Pack 1 tonight and have been playing with it for a bit. Here is a...

Sep 25th

Vista SP1 Now In Wider Release For Beta...

Microsoft has expanded its Beta testing of Vista SP1 to a larger group of testers....

Sep 24th

Sketchcast.com - Fun With Ink

Check out Sketchcast.com - play around for a little while - it’s simple, but cool!!  It...

Sep 24th

SnagIt Users Give Some Input!

SnagIt is looking to beef up their Beta Testing team for a new version of...

Sep 24th

Coming to America: N-Trig

We’ve been following N-Trig since the announcement of Motion Computing’s LE1700...

Sep 24th

The Intel MID vs The Microsoft...

Layne Heiny, of UMPCBuzz.com, has some very insightful commentary on the state of the ultra-mobile...

Sep 24th

Europeans Can Now Do the OQO Jig

There has been a little bit consternation among Europeans and their ability...

Sep 24th

Wait and See or Satisfy That Gadget Lust...

A geek’s conundrum: When to spring for the latest and greatest? Right away, or wait? And if you...

Sep 24th

True Tablet Heroes: Rich Scaffidi,...

I love this new series that TabletPCBuzz.com is running, featuring professional that might not seem...

Sep 24th

EB MIMD Pictures: MIDs are coming

jkkmobile dug up some pictures of an interesting looking Mobile Internet Device (MID), and l...

Sep 24th

Slip Sliding Away

Cue Paul Simon. Quite a bit of consternation out there caused by the recent news about...

Sep 24th

The Vista Downgrading Debate: Time To...

Small firestorm alert. In the last couple of days CNETand Engadget have blown some air on the embers...

Sep 23rd

Staying Motivated as Mobile Online...

I love reading Web Worker Daily. Being a web developer who spends a lot of time online, works from...

Sep 22nd

Wacky Weekend Gadget Roundup

As we cover the Intertubes looking for news here at GottaBeMobile.com we come across all sorts of...

Sep 22nd

Document written from 5 different...

That was nice experiment: I created a presentation, than my friend connected from Italy and we both...

Sep 22nd

GottaBeMobile.com Forum Upgrade Tonight

Tonight we will be upgrading the forums.  This upgrade is going to take place at 9 PM MST (11 PM...

Sep 22nd

Weekend Mobile Hack Reports

Well it looks like there has been some hacking going on in Mobile Device land recently, exposing all...

Sep 22nd

Samsung Debuts 19-inch USB Monitors

For those who like to hook up an external montior to their Tablet PC this might be of interest....

Sep 22nd

Is There Trouble In Vista Land? XP to...

Well, it seems OEMs are bowing to consumer demands, and thus putting the pressure on Microsoft to...

Sep 22nd

Fun With a Large Digitizer

At the office today a nice delivery guy brought a new toy productivity tool to us. Check it out -...

Sep 21st

GottaBeSecure: Still More WiFi and the...

In Parts 1 & 2 of this series about mobile security, I discussed the dangers of having your...

Sep 21st

Loon Heiny WantsTo Get Some Google Ink

Loren Heiny has a pretty interesting post demoing how he thinks Google could add Inkability to...

Sep 21st

Cellphone Makers Agree On Charging Plug...

Well whadda ya know. Some cooperation in the cell phone industry. Looks like a number of cell phone...

Sep 21st

Making Page Templates in OneNote 2007

Folks are always finding better ways to personalize their notetaking experience in OneNote - from...

Sep 21st

When Tough Gets Tougher

Need something tough? How about something REALLY tough! While the information doesn’t...

Sep 21st

Otto Berkes at VTF 2007

Otto Berkes was a key player in the Origami/Ultra-Mobile PC sector from its inception. Steve...

Sep 21st

A New Asus UMPC?

Enterpising Origami Project forum member HerDinky spied what looks like it might be a new Asus UMPC...

Sep 21st

Don't Let That Slip Case Slip

Slip cases are popular for Tablet PCs and other notebooks. But even protected they could slip out of...

Sep 21st

The Return of an Ink Blogger

Ink Bloggers are a rare breed. It takes time and patience to put your thoughts into Ink and put them...

Sep 21st

iPhone and Exchange Syncing Coming Soon?...

After seeing Kevin Tofel’s post about iPXSync offering full Exchange syncing ( calendar,...

Sep 20th

Loren On What MIDs Mean for the UMPC...

Loren Heiny, a Microsoft Tablet PC MVP, has written up a fantastic essay on his thoughts regarding...

Sep 20th

A GBM Shortcut: Taking A Look at...

In what I hope will be a series over the next several weeks, This GBM Shortcut takes a look at some...

Sep 20th

Intel's MID News Wrap UP

Several sites are doing a bang up job of reporting the MID news from Intel’s IDF Forum. ...

Sep 20th

IOGEAR Gives Anyone Ink on the Cheap

If there isn’t quite enough cash in the piggybank just yet and want to play with Ink on a...

Sep 20th

What’s in Robert’s ‘back to uni’...

I know a lot of our readers are already well into the new term and I hope you’re all getting on...

Sep 20th

Vista Sleep Mode Good For The...

Interesting, but not really surprising when you think about it. Microsoft has published a White...

Sep 20th

Thoughtfix Compares the iPod Touch to...

Thoughtfix, an unavowed Nokia N800 fan, went out and picked up an iPod Touch and has put together a...

Sep 20th

A Student's Tablet PC Toolbox

Robert at The Student Tablet PC has published an article detailing what software he’s lugging around...

Sep 20th

Comcast Starts To Define the Redefined...

We’ve been seeing reports lately that Comcast’s battle with the definition of the word “unlimited”...

Sep 20th

OneNote Printout Manager Released

This latest powertoy from Jeff Cardon, called OneNote Printout Manager, looks like a winner for...

Sep 19th

Screen Rotation for the T770 UMPC...

I’m prepping for my Amtek T770 InkShow, so this new rotation utility from todoUMPC member...

Sep 19th

Intel's Developer Forum Ultra Mobility...

Keynotes and ultra mobile MID news are coming out of the Intel Developers Forum today, and Chippy...

Sep 19th

GBM Podcast #33: All Media All The Time

In GBM Podcast #33, Matt and I get to do our first recording together and cover a wide range of...

Sep 19th

Managed Wrapper for OneNote 2007 - a...

Want to give a little to one of my most used daily Tablet PC applications?? Below is your...

Sep 19th

Toughbooks Get a Tough Test

That tough test is up at about 19,341 feet (5,895 meters)!! This test would subject it to a wide...

Sep 19th

Tablet and Touch Technology Helping to...

I love seeing the results of studies like this, especially when it involves technology helping...

Sep 19th

Office 2003 SP3 Released

Well, this one caught me and some others by surprise - Microsoft has released Office 2003 Service...

Sep 19th

A1Pro Keyboard With TouchPad and Stylus

This popped up on a lot of radars yesterday and I’ve been looking for more info on it before...

Sep 19th

Mint: Financial Management In The Cloud

At the recent TechCrunch40 Conference, where a slew of Web 2.0 startups pitched their products, the...

Sep 19th

Linda Epstein’s Candy Shop Window

Remember when you were small and you pressed your nose up against the outside of the candy shop...

Sep 19th

Stop Memory Leaks By Writing Things Down

I should have read this yesterday. Ink Blogger extraordinare, Sumocat, links to a LifeHacker article...

Sep 19th

USB 3.0 On The Horizon

Looks like there is a new USB standard on the horizon. Intel is working with its partners to...

Sep 19th

Linda Epstein Has Too Many Tablet PCs

I used to think Rob and Hugo had too many devices. But they don’t compare to Linda Epstein at...

Sep 19th

School goes ALL UMPC

A small school in Scotland is going ALL digital with some UMPC’s in the hand of every...

Sep 18th

TabletKiosk: Let's Talk About Touch

Due to feedback from OEMs and our readers, we are beginning a new feature series where we open up...

Sep 18th

Bluebeam Opens up GBM $50 Discount to...

Response to Bluebeam’s $50 discount on PDF Revu has been great. GBM Reader Poppino wanted in...

Sep 18th

CTitanic Takes an Indepth Look at the...

When CTitanic gets a hold of a machine, you know it won’t be your typical review. His review...

Sep 18th

Making the Wife Happy by Cleaning Up...

Well, maybe the headline of this post is slightly inaccurate. Read on and you’ll see why. At home,...

Sep 18th

Fujitsu U1010/U810 News

No matter what you call it (I still prefer the Storm Trooper, even with the choice of multiple...

Sep 18th

Google Announces Presently: PowerPoint...

We’ve known this has been coming for awhile and now it is here. Google took the wraps off of its...

Sep 18th

More MID News from IDF

Yesterday we posted about Intel getting ready to roll out the MID platform, aiming for 2008. Today,...

Sep 18th

Haier's Really High Priced Tablet PC

This story over at Engadget is showing one of the more expensive Tablet PC’s I’ve seen...

Sep 17th

Microsoft Acquires WebGuide - Now Free

Place-shifting media is becoming quite popular these days with Orb, SlingMedia, and WebGuide. Well,...

Sep 17th

Get Ready for the MIDS (Mobile Internet...

Looks like Intel is gettng ready for the push into MID Land. The Mobile Internet Devices (big clue...

Sep 17th

eTextBook/Resource Database? Are You Up...

A big undertaking, perhaps, but I think it’d be very useful for the digital student to have a big...

Sep 17th

Q1 Ultra Users Getting Blue In The Face

jkkmobile has picked up on some of the same things users are reporting in our forums - Samsung Q1...

Sep 17th

Asus R2H Touchscreen Woes

I’ve been following Jenneth at Gear Diary and her romance with a new Asus R2H UMPC. She’s running...

Sep 17th

Ink-enabled Activity Book Application...

Loren Heiny seems to have his hands in ton of stuff these days. He just posted an update on an...

Sep 17th

Like a Good Neighbor, State Farm and...

Several weeks ago, a huge hail storm made its way through Colorado Springs. My wife was on her way...

Sep 17th

UMPC (and Samsung SPH P9200) Coverage...

Bjorn Stromberg at UltraMobileLife.com has posted a link to a new UMPC site, UMPC Dubai, that at the...

Sep 17th

HP To Roll Out Refreshed tx Series Touch...

Reader Jayson Berger sent us a link to this Engadget post about HP getting ready to role out a slew...

Sep 17th

Time Syncing Issues and Some Help from...

I spent the weekend rebuilding a Lenovo X61 Thinkpad Tablet PC with Vista Ultimate and at one point...

Sep 17th

A really Neat Idea - BlogRush

It’s early Sunday morning here and I have had a chance to check out Blog Rush. It’s a...

Sep 16th

Pharmacy Students to be Inking Notes and...

Tablet PCs are continuing to make some strong headway in the education space. Take a look at this...

Sep 15th

Wacom's Bamboo Tablet

If you’re in the market for a Tablet, versus a Tablet PC, or perhaps in addition to one, you might...

Sep 15th

Gateway Stockholders Not Happy With Acer...

Somehow you just knew this story wasn’t over. Several weeks ago, Acer agreed to acquire Gateway to...

Sep 15th

A Look at Obscura Digital's Multi-Touch

OQO’s Model 02 announcement was held at Obscura Digital’s office. From the outside, it...

Sep 14th

Free IEEE Computer Society Mag - 'Best...

K-12 Computer Science Academic Relations Manager for Microsoft, Alfred Thompson links to a FREE (for...

Sep 14th

Best Tablet Chart

Check out the list of best tablet 1. HP Pavilion tx1000z 18.1% / 28292. Lenovo (IBM) ThinkPad...

Sep 11th

Best Tablet

Best Tablet, which of them ? Lenovo Thinkpad X60 Tablet Lenovo has yet to disappoint with a...

Sep 11th