6 posts and columns on Computex

At Computex, More Than Just Tablets

in News on May 31, 2011 at 12:17 pm PT

As the Computex exhibition kicked off Tuesday, tech companies expressed support for mainstay PCs, saying that tablets aren’t a be-all, end-all. But that didn’t keep them from introducing their own tablets.

Start-Up BlueStacks Raises Cash to Bring Android Apps to Windows PCs

in Mobile on May 24, 2011 at 8:00 pm PT

Through the wonders of virtualization, BlueStacks hopes to allow all those phone apps to run on desktop, laptop and tablet PCs. The company, which is showing off its technology for the first time on Wednesday, has landed significant venture backing to fund its effort to get its software preinstalled on tens of millions of computers in the next few years.
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Android Emerges as Big Rival to iPad

in News on May 28, 2010 at 7:53 am PT

In the high-stakes race to catch Apple Inc.’s hit iPad, the Android operating system that Google Inc. popularized in cellphones is emerging as an early front-runner. Tablet-style computers–a moribund hardware category until the iPad started generating buzz earlier this year–are expected to be a big topic at next week’s Computex trade show, a major forum for product announcements by manufacturers of personal computers.

Multiplicity: China Begins Cranking Out iPad Clones

in Mobile on March 31, 2010 at 5:15 am PT

With the iPad, Apple hopes to create a new category of device, one that, in the words of CEO Steve Jobs, is “more intimate than a laptop and so much more capable than a smart phone.” And though the iPad is unproven at market, some Chinese electronics manufacturers are betting that it will succeed in doing just that. And they’re cloning the hell out of the device.

Intel Adds to the Naming Confusion in Portable PCs

in News on June 2, 2009 at 4:56 am PT

Intel, which helped shake up the PC industry last year by promoting low-priced laptops called netbooks, is at it again. But there’s not such a memorable name this time. The chip giant is expected to use the Computex trade show this week to discuss a category of portables that fall in a price band between netbooks–which can start at less than $300–and full-featured notebooks, which often cost more than $1,000.