Why Sub-$300 Windows 8 Tablets Don't Make Much Sense

The first Windows 8 tablets may not be exclusively for big spenders, at least according to Taiwanese trade publication Digitimes. In order to compete with low-end Android tablets like Amazon's Kindle Fire, some hardware makers are reportedly working on entry-level Windows 8 tablets priced at, or below, $300, DigiTimes' unnamed sources say. Read more...

Windows 8 Tablets Will Lower iPad Numbers By 2013

A new report from DigiTimes reveals that Microsoft and Intel have deployed a strategy to bite a good chunk out of Apple's tablet market share. The two companies ambitiously plan to push iPad's share of the global tablet market under 50 per cent, by mid-2013. Read more...

Windows FunTime, tiny tablets and cameras in your face

Admit it. You thought that when Windows 8 shipped, it'd come in eleventy-two different versions ranging from Windows 8 Everything Decent's Disabled Edition to Windows 8 Premium Super Professional Enterprise Edition On Ice. But no! There will only be three, and by three we mean two! Read more...

Connect to Any PC Remotely with Team Viewer

One of the most irritating decisions that Microsoft ever made was to split Windows Vista, and its successors, into a multitude of different versions. With XP it was simple - Home and Professional. The Home version did everything that home users needed, while the professional version added the stuff that professionals needed, such as the ability to join a centrally-managed domain rather than a peer-to-peer workgroup

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Teamviewer

It's free for personal use!

Remote desktop sharing and access are wonderful features for support, presentations, meetings, sharing, and if for nothing else, fun. Previously we covered top 5 remote access clients for Windows OS, including the wonderfully simple program, TeamViewer. While it’s paid for commercial use, the personal edition is totally free without any limitations. Keeping up with their tradition, the TeamViewer team has launched an equally wonderful iPhone/iPod Touch application, which is again free for personal use.

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Splashtop Wikipedia

Splashtop Remote allows a user to remotely connect to a main computer from another computer or mobile device to access content or run applications. Splashtop Remote Desktop is based on technology that "encodes" the screen pixels of a main computer, transmits them via the Internet, Wi-Fi, or other network protocol to a client device, where it "decodes" the transmitted data and displays it on the screen of a client device. This affords users an experience similar to sitting in front of the remote computer and controlling it. The Remote Desktop iOS client provides two connection modes. One is "sharp mode" for better resolution. The other one is "smooth mode" for better frame rate/latency. A higher fps (frames per second) rate leads to a smoother video watching experience. For latency, a lower value is better because this is the lag between the time an image on the source device shows up on the client device. Splashtop has undertaken technical cooperation with Freescale, Intel, NVIDIA, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, and other chip manufacturers to optimize its software to use graphics processing units (GPUs) for encoding and client specific processors for decoding. These techniques enable the software to stream video at up to 30 frames per second[2] when running in Smooth mode, and lead to low latency performance (quick response), which is at the same level as playing video on a local machine directly.

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Run Windows 8 on your iPad

Want to see how Windows 8 looks and feels on a tablet? Now you can tap into the experience on your iPad via an app called Win8 Metro Testbed.

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Mobile Sports Report TechWatch: Preliminary Windows 8 Tablet Specs

Intel takes wraps off of Windows 8 tablet specs
Intel has showed the expected features and capabilities of the Windows 8 tablets at its Developer Forum in Beijing last week, a nugget that was dug up by Cnet. Not surprising is the chip powering these next generation devices will be Intel’s Z2760 ‘Clover Trail’ processor.
The chip is a multithreaded dual core processor with a feature called ‘burst mode’ that enables it to accelerate performance for short periods of time. There will be two basic designs, one a 10-inch model and the second a slightly larger 11-inch that will feature a keyboard.

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