Ultra-Mobile PC (aka Origami) now official

So much has been written about these devices already that I thought it might be interesting to take a different tangent on discussing the announcement. You can learn more about the devices themselves from Microsoft’s official announcement, the Origami Project website, and ongoing coverage at GottaBeMobile My interest, frankly, is less about the first generation … [Read more…]

GOOGLE sparked another battle with Microsoft

Google sparked another battle with Microsoft yesterday by agreeing to buy a small company that offers a rival product to Microsoft’s Word software.The American online search engine is buying Upstartle, the Silicon Valley-based company behind Writely.com, an internet-based word processor. The move is Google’s latest expansion away from its core search product and marks the … [Read more…]