TabletKiosk™, a leader in mobile computing solutions, today announced that the Sahara Slate PC® i440D featuring both pen and touch screen input, is now widely available with either Microsoft® Windows® XP Tablet PC Edition or Windows Vista® Business operating systems. MORE »

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CE Pro/CediaNews.com has received word that Crestron will be making a major partnership announcement with Microsoft at CEDIA this September. No hard details have been made public, but CE Pro/CediaNews.com speculates that Crestron will be gaining Direct OEM status – like the manufactures working with Microsoft for CableCARD support – to bring custom home lighting, control automation, and networked A/V tablet/in-wall display solutions that will tie directly with Windows Media Center Edition (MCE). Again, this is just speculation… but it’s the trajectory that makes the most sense.

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It looks like we may finally be getting some answers to where those missing Pika devices are. For those you who aren’t familar with the term, Pika is the v2 of Microsoft’s Media Center Extenders, which they played up big at WinHEC 2006. The devices, which are standardized on Sigma’s 8622 part, look like they’re finally getting close to the market. I have heard that there are three partners in the “network/IT” space that will be coming out with gen-2 Media Center Extenders this fall, and beyond that we will likely see some bigger consumer electronics brands in spring of 2008. This basically means we’ll probably see some vendors in the Linksys/D-Link/Netgear space with MCX devices first, possibly HP, and then possibly someone (I would guess Toshiba as a likely candidate) announced at CES. MORE »

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Got to love Linux developers for constantly coming up with ways to propagate their OS distributions. In this case, it’s via a Windows executable called Wubi that allows Windows users to easily install Ubuntu (and its derivatives: Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Edubuntu, UbuntuStudio) to a virtual disk in their Windows file system without modifying your Windows OS in any way (via digg, Softpedia). But what’s more ingenious, is that Wubi takes all your Ubuntu account/configuration info before downloading and installing the Ubuntu version of your choice, allows you to set the size of your virtual disk (which Linux will see as a real hard drive), automatically adds an entry to the Windows boot menu so you can run Ubuntu at startup, and provides a quick uninstall option if you decide Ubuntu is not for you. MORE »

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If you don’t mind being an unpaid guinea pig for a commercial software vendor, ReplayTV wants you! More specifically, they want you to download and test their in-development ATSC HD recording Windows PVR application. According to Floppyhead, all that’s required is the following: MORE »

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After 4 months of hard and deep development, the Sabayon Linux Crew is happy to announce the IMMEDIATE availability of Sabayon Linux 3.4 ! MORE »

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Shuttle Inc. – leading designer and manufacturer of small form factor (SFF) computers and accessories today announced the launch of its latest AMD platform XPC Glamor series – the Shuttle XPC Glamor SN68SG2, experience Shuttle on an AMD platform. MORE »

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One Voice Technologies, Inc., developer of 4th Generation voice solutions for the Telecom and Interactive Multimedia markets, and LTB Audio Systems, Inc., the leading manufacturer of true digital 5.1 headphone technology, announced today a strategic partnership to offer One Voice’s Media Center Communicator, voice recognition for Windows Vista Media Center, with LTB Audio’s new Q-Bean, a digital wireless device which offers everything from digital CD-quality steaming audio to a built-in microphone for voice control of Windows Vista Media Center and wireless Skype phone calling. One Voice’s Media Center Communicator, in combination with the LTB Q-Bean, enables users to move freely throughout their home and simply speak to play music, call to order a pizza using Skype, control Home Automation and much more using powerful voice commands. For more information, visit www.onev.com/mcc/ltb.htm or www.shopltb.com. MORE »

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Are you the do-it-yourself type who has some experience fiddling with Linux and has small wad ($600) of disposable income on hand? If yes, your next music server project is laid out for you in painstaking detail at LinuxDevices (via digg). What you’ll be making exactly is a silent (and the author really means silent) Debian-based mini-ITX audio server that sits on your network and handles music management/playback of stored content from a network attached storage (NAS) server like the Infrant NV+ (but just about any NAS will do) or from the Rhapsody online music service. The how-to also shows you how to integrate a web tablet like the Nokia N800 into the mix for whole home access control.

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According to Wired, “[Moblin.org], which launched last week, will host community-based development projects for the latest Intel-based [Mobile Internet Devices]. In addition to hosting code, documentation, a bug tracker and development tools, Intel also hopes to foster interoperability between the various devices.” Sounds pretty sweet. It also appears that anyone can participate, join a project (see list below) and look over the source code available at any time. What’s more, Intel has a nifty development tool called the Moblin Image Creator (screenshot) that allows developers to run a virtual MID environment on their desktop without having to test on a physical device. No word on how the code contributed will make it into final releases that manufactures can use, but I’m sure Intel has a plan for that as well. MORE »

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