New HP Tablet Brings Touch To SMBs

Hewlett-Packard on Monday alien its aboriginal multi-touch book PC for business users while aswell afterlight some bartering notebooks with Intel's latest Westmere-class Core i3, Core i5 and Core i7 multi-core, adaptable processors.

HP, headquartered in Palo Alto, Calif., has priced its EliteBook 2740p convertible book at $1,599 and will accomplish it accessible in April. Featuring accepted voltage Intel chips for added processing ability than consumer-oriented convertible tablets from HP, the EliteBook 2740p weighs 3.8 pounds and has a 12.1-inch askew LED display.

The touchscreen on EliteBook 2740p is capacitive, acceptation users can tap and bash the awning with their fingers, utilizing the abounding arrangement of multi-touch gestures to cross through applications. A stylus is aswell provided with the assemblage as an alternating ascribe tool.

The EliteBook 2740p serves as a absolutely anatomic anthology with full-sized keyboard or, afterwards swiveling the affectation into its book position, as a slate. HP offers an advantage for an outdoor-view affectation and array flavors cover the accepted start-up that provides up to 5 hours of array life, with the advantage of abacus on the new HP 2700 Ultra-Slim Array for a abounding 11 hours of array activity if accumulated with the accepted battery.

HP said it will be targeting SMBs with the EliteBook 2740p. To that end, HP has aswell congenital a advancing base for the new tablet, the HP 2740 Ultra-Slim Expansion Base. The dock, priced at $299 and accessible starting April 12, provides an alien adviser affiliation and connects the 2740p to alien accumulator and optical drives.

HP on Monday aswell alien some accepted bartering notebooks that about extend accepted artefact curve with the a lot of able and energy-efficient new 32-nanometer adaptable processors from Santa Clara, Calif.-based Intel.

These included HP's lightest EliteBook PC to date, as able-bodied as four new notebooks in HP's ProBook s-series. At 3.3 pounds and antic a 12.1-inch display, the HP EliteBook 2540p starts at $1,099 and will be accessible in April. It has options for either a low-voltage adaptable processor or a accepted voltage dent in a high-performance configuration.

The EliteBook 2540p has several array options, all the way up to a nine-cell array that provides up to 12.5 hours of array life, according to HP. As with the added new articles HP apparent Monday, the assemblage has different biometric aegis options, including a fingerprint sensor and face acceptance via the alternative 2-megapixel Web cam congenital appropriate into the affectation frame.

The new HP ProBook s-series will be fabricated accessible in March and comes in four sizes -- the 13.3-inch HP ProBook 4320s, 14-inch 4420s, the 15.6-inch 4520s and the 17.3-inch 4720s. Prices alpha at $719 for the ProBook 4320s, but HP did not accommodate any added amount breakdown for the beyond units.

The new ProBooks are targeted at "prosumers," baby appointment users who depend on their notebooks for both business and customer use, HP told Channelweb.com during a contempo audience of its new articles in San Francisco. Buyers accept the advantage of abacus ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4350 detached cartoon from Advanced Micro Devices to the standard-issue chip cartoon from Intel to these notebooks.

Apple's iPad launch may be delayed

Apple may adjournment or absolute the admeasurement of the barrage of its advancing iPad book computer because of an "unspecified assembly problem," Canaccord Adams analyst Peter Misek wrote in a analysis agenda Monday.

Misek said Apple's Taiwan-based supplier Hon Hai Precision could be adverse a assembly aqueduct or a curtailment of components.

"An bearding assembly botheration at the iPad's manufacturer, Hon Hai Precision, will acceptable absolute the barrage arena to the U.S. and the amount of units accessible to almost (300,000) in the ages of March, far lower than the company's antecedent appraisal of (1 million) units. The adjournment in assembly access will acceptable appulse Apple's April assemblage appraisal of (800,000) as well," Misek wrote.

Apple has not about declared an official absolution date or how abounding models it is assured to put on sale. It has said that Wi-Fi models will address in "late March," while 3G models will address in April in the U.S. and called countries.

Canaccord still expects Apple to advertise 550,000 iPads in the third division catastrophe in June, and 1.2 actor iPads in the 2010 budgetary year.

"The alone actual appulse from the iPad adjournment could appear in the anatomy of balked consumers and some bashful accident of afterglow for the company's artefact launch," Misek said.

Americans Prefer Accessing News Online, Study Finds

A address from the Pew Research Center begin Americans are a lot of acceptable to get their account online as against to account a bi-weekly and the cutting majority of Americans (92 percent) use assorted platforms to get account on a archetypal day, including civic TV, bounded TV, the Internet, bounded newspapers, radio, and civic newspapers. Some 46 percent of Americans say they get account from four to six media platforms on a archetypal day. Just seven get their account from a individual media belvedere on a archetypal day, the address found.

The study’s authors appear six in ten Americans (59 percent) get account from a aggregate of online and offline sources on a archetypal day, and the Internet is now the third a lot of accepted account platform, abaft bounded television account and civic television news. While online, a lot of humans say they use amid two and 5 online account sources and 65 percent said they do not accept a individual admired website for news. Some 21 percent said they commonly await on just one website for their account and information.

“The action Americans use to get account is based on foraging and opportunism. They assume to admission account if the spirit moves them or they accept a adventitious to analysis up on headlines,” the address noted. “At the aforementioned time, acquisition the account is not absolutely an advancing analysis for consumers, even online area there are bottomless possibilities for exploring news.”

Older Windows Phones Can’t Be Upgraded to 7 Series

Even the newest and fastest Windows phones won’t be upgradable to Microsoft’s next-generation adaptable operating system, Windows Buzz 7 Series, if it acreage after this year.

Natasha Kwan, accepted administrator for Microsoft’s Adaptable Communications Business in the Asia-Pacific region, told APC Mag that accepted phones active Windows Adaptable 6.5 OS will accept incremental upgrades, but they can’t be upgraded to Windows Buzz 7 Series because they don’t accommodated the accouterments belief that Microsoft has allowable for phones active the new OS.

That will accordingly advance to some buyers’ anguish for accepted Windows Adaptable users, such as those who just bought the cast new HTC HD2. The buzz is getting disqualified out because it has 5 buttons rather than the three buttons allowable for all Windows Buzz 7 Series devices.

Microsoft endure ages alien Windows Buzz 7 Series at Adaptable World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. To abode the affair of breach — a circuitous accouterments ecosystem that requires developers to cipher several versions of one app to advertise on one belvedere for altered types of phones — Microsoft is alive added carefully with accomplishment ally in the architecture action of their hardware. Microsoft has been ambiguous about absolutely what the appropriate blueprint would be for Windows 7 Series phones.

Later, Microsoft Australia developer advocate said in a podcast that Microsoft has fatigued up three “chassis” for accepted blueprint that three altered types of Windows Buzz 7 Series will accept to meet. ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley explained that Chassi 1 will be for “big touchscreen phones,” Chassi 2 will be for handsets with sliding keyboards and Anatomy 3 will be for candybar-style phones.

Long adventure short, the bad account is accepted Windows Adaptable users won’t be able to advancement to Windows Buzz 7 Series. The acceptable account is it appears Windows buzz developers will be able to cipher apps for three altered types of phones — as against to authoritative apps for all sorts of altered handsets from assorted manufacturers, like they had to do with Windows Adaptable 6.5. Ideally, the new accomplishing of three accepted anatomy should spell out to easier development, and appropriately added Windows Buzz 7 Series apps for users.

New EU Limits on Mobile Roaming Begin

New regulations in Europe starting Monday will put a arrest to out-of-control bills for adaptable Internet use while roaming.

The new rules crave adaptable operators to action barter a absolute limit. If barter roam, the abettor accept to forward them a admonishing bulletin if they hit 80 percent of the limit. Once they hit the limit, barter won't be able to use adaptable Internet casework on their phones or laptops.

The absolute absolute can be for any bulk the chump chooses. Barter who do not accept a absolute by July 1 will get a absence €50 (US$68) limit.

Exorbitant adrift bills accept been an affair in Europe for years. The European Agency cited an archetype of a German adventurer who in 2009 accustomed a bill for €46,000 afterwards downloading a TV appearance while adrift in France.

The agency has bound the fees that operators allegation anniversary added for adrift barter who use abstracts to €1 per megabyte, a fee that will abatement over the next two years. That falling fee is accepted to abate accuse to end-users for adrift Internet use as well, the agency said.