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Windows Surface RT: Potential but not quite there

Posted on November 1, 2012 By Michael Kavka No Comments on Windows Surface RT: Potential but not quite there

This summer, when Microsoft announced it was going to make its own tablet, I was pretty excited. I had a chance to play with Windows 8 at TechEd the week before the announcement, and felt it would do well as a tablet OS. When pre-orders opened, I got my boss to get me one so…

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Hardware, Microsoft, Mobile Computing, Reviews, Tablet/E-readers

Oh Verizon, You are screwing up

Posted on January 4, 2012 By Michael Kavka No Comments on Oh Verizon, You are screwing up

Extra charges for single online pay, 4G outages, the FTC starting to look at their business practices. Verizon, what have you done? I was going to give a review of the Motorola Droid Razor today, but decided to push that off. See the Razor is available only through Verizon, and I noticed yet the start…

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Hardware, Mobile Computing, Rants

HP Proves the point

Posted on August 31, 2011 By Michael Kavka No Comments on HP Proves the point

The Touchpad isn’t completely Dead. Mostly dead, yes, but is it just a flesh wound? The Touchpad frenzy has proved a point, and now can HP, or any company, really capitalize on it?   Apple has been the cock of the walk, the king of the tablet, since the iPad came out. They came up…

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Apple, Hardware, Tablet/E-readers

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