One year ago, a pair of Boeing engineers decided to revive the spirit of a dead Microsoft project called Courier, but as an …
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No E-Mail? Maybe Microsoft’s Courier Is Better Off Dead
Two years ago, Microsoft shocked the tech world with a visionary concept called the Courier, a dual-screen tablet intended for content creators. Details were scarce, revealed only in leaked documents. But in April 2010, Microsoft at once confirmed and killed the project.
(MORE: Microsoft Admits Courier Exists, Scraps Project)
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Microsoft Courier May Live on in Taposé for iPad
Nearly a year after Microsoft scrapped its ambitious Courier tablet concept, a couple of iPad app developers are trying to keep the dream alive.
They’ve proposed an iPad app, called Taposé, that would realize the Courier’s digital journal and scrapbook features. Users would be able to import images, maps and addresses from other apps …
Toshiba’s $1100 Dual Screen Libretto Notebook Now Available
Officially unveiled back in June, Toshiba’s limited-edition “next-gen ultra-mobile concept PC” is now available for preorder at $1,099.99.
You’ll recall that the Libretto W100 features dual 7-inch 1024×600 multitouch screens, no physical keyboard, Windows 7 Home Premium, a 1.2GHz Intel CPU, 2GB of RAM, 64GB solid-state drive …
Toshiba Libretto W100 Sports Two 7-inch Screens, Windows 7
It’s hard to get a read on Toshiba’s Libretto W100. It’s being pitched by the company as “a next-gen ultra-mobile concept PC” in honor of Toshiba hitting the 25-year laptop production milestone, yet despite the “concept” tag we’re being treated to a full list of specs and news that the product will actually be sold later this summer as a …
Microsoft Admits Courier Exists, Scraps Project
RIP Microsoft Courier, we hardly knew ye.
Gizmodo, the gadget blog that first uncovered the Courier last year, reports that Microsoft has all but scraped the project. The two-screen tablet folder was intriguing based on conceptual videos also obtained by Gizmodo, but we’ll never know for sure if any of what we saw would have made …
Toshiba Prepping Windows 7 And Android Tablets
Everybody, please welcome Toshiba to the tablet party. The company is currently developing a few different slate designs and will offer some with Windows 7 and some with Android.
Toshiba America’s Jeff Barney said the devices will launch this year, although a firm timeframe hasn’t been established yet. Aside from a standard 10-inch
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Thursday Morning Omnipost
I have to run and get on a train, and my new iPhone has chosen this moment to apparently take its own life, maybe because it couldn’t face an eternity of running Wurdle over and over again. I will vent my frustration on you with a hasty and incoherent blog post.
Not that the world isn’t, on its own, fundamentally incoherent. Evidence: …