Cast your mind back to June 2007, when Apple CEO Steve Jobs appeared at D:All Things Digital alongside Microsoft’s Bill Gates. Now watch this video in which Gates describes his vision of the future of computing, which sounds remarkably like, erm, an iPad…. “I don’t think you’ll have one device. I think you’ll have a full-screen device that you can carry around and you’ll do dramatically more reading off of that… yeah, I mean, I believe in the tablet form factor [...] You’ll have some way of having a hardware keyboard and some settings for that. And then you’ll have the device that fits in your…

My phone sucks. No keyboard, the 6 key is broken, FORGET emails… it’s just terrible. I was thinking about trashing it and stepping up to a Blackberry, but I’ve been holding off to see what the hullabaloo over this Blackberry tablet is all about. I may as well just go ahead with my plan, because the tablet certainly isn’t terribly exciting. At least, not in the way other tablets are.  A Bluetooth device, the Blackberry tablet has no wi-fi or 3G, and is little more than a giant screen for your existing Blackberry. Now, on the one hand, this is kind of neat – Blackberry screens are tiny, and a tiny trackball…

Microsoft may recently have scrapped its plans for the Microsoft Courier device, but that doesn’t mean the company is out of the tablet computing game, company chairman, Bill Gates, told FOX. Microsoft chairman Gates and billionaire investor (and friend of Gates) Warren Buffet were in conversation about the economy, technology, Apple and more. Gates observes his company doesn’t intend to cede the tablet computing market without a fight, despite the cancellation of Courier, “Microsoft has a lot of different tablet projects that we’re pursuing,” he said. “We think that work with…

Though you may be tiring of the iPad hype machine, this video of a forthcoming Popular Science may reignite – or create – some excitement for the device everyone can’t stop talking about. The clip is from Bonnier and Berg, who have already produced a great concept video about tablet magazines, and in it, they demonstrate not only how a magazine can look on the iPad but also how it needs its own sort of user interface. Rather than using the animated page-turn that seems to have become popular, users swipe left and right to move through pages and, when they come upon something they find interesting, swipe…

Asus isn’t planning on settling for Apple to take over the tablet market without a fight — the PC maker believes that they can compete by differentiating themselves from the competition. Asus is planning on creating at least two tablet devices, and considering Google’s Chrome OS and Android platforms and Microsoft’s Windows 7 platform to run on them. The company stated that they prefer open software solutions instead of closed systems like Apple’s. The focus will be enabling great multimedia experiences for consumers on these tablets, as it is one of the most appealing reasons for owning…

Skeptics who don’t believe people will use Apple’s iPad to read books may have to rethink their position today, after Amazon showed off a pretty impressive Kindle app for the iPad and other tablet computers. Kindle for tablets is both a reading app and a bookstore, allowing you to instantly purchase books as well providing a fancy-shmancy touch-screen interface for reading them….

It seems as the world gets bigger, we want smaller.  It took us years to finally get tired of carrying around that giant 15-inch laptop and.. what’s that? They make us push buttons too? Samsung has jumped on board and will release their version of a tablet computer. Small, light, portable, and touch screen. Yes!! Touch screen.  Now we have an even more portable DVD player to lose while sitting down at Starbucks….