When the blessed Steve Jobs descends from on high to impart his world-changing Apple touchpad computing device upon us mere mortals, we all know it’s going to be revolutionary. But we didn’t know how revolutionary until now.

Gizmodo is reporting insider information that the iPad will do a lot more than surf the web and run iPhone apps. Apple is looking to take on Amazon’s Kindle, too — and redefine what an ebook is. A big push of the iPad will be into the arena of college textbooks, where Apple believes it can present a more appealing opportunity to textbook publishers …read more

Microsoft is never one to miss out on any new trend — though they’re usually the last ones to arrive at the party. ZDNet’s Mary-Jo Foley has received some insider intel that MS has an entire division secretly working on its own cell phone, code-named “Project Pink.” Pink is part of a new strategy to eventually phase out production of Microsoft’s own Zune device and rebrand Zune as “a set of subscription services that will move to mobile phones — including Pink.”
Sounds like a Zune Phone is on the way, don’t you think?

The story gets even more interesting when Foley …read more

While the world continues to wait for Apple to announce its inevitable tablet device, its competitors keep jumping into the marketplace with Internet/media touchscreen tablets of their own. Archos is the latest to up the ante, with its new Archos 5 Internet Tablet, which runs on Google’s mobile operating system, Android.

The Archos 5 comes with a full list of features — WiFi, 3G bluetooth, built-in GPS, a multitude of media formats codecs — but the real story is Android. Because the device’s use of Google’s OS means that the Archos 5 will eventually have access to Android apps. The device …read more

Toshiba has unveiled what may amount to the first challenger to Apple’s long-rumored, upcoming tablet device (nicknamed the “iPad“) — before Apple’s device has even been officially announced. The JournE Touch is Toshiba’s attempt to be the first on the marketplace with a touchscreen tablet.

The JournE Touch is half an inch thick, sporting a 7″ screen, and weighing less than a pound. WiFi is built in of course, and the device runs on an ARM processor and Windows CE 6.0 Pro. It has 1GB of built-in storage, but an SD slot allows you to expand on that, while a USB …read more