The front casings are still black or white glass, but the backs are brushed silver aluminum or slate anodized aluminum, respectively.
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Bob O'Donnell, vice president of the firm IDG, said he expects the new tablet or slate computer category to result in 3 million to 4 million device sales this year, an amount he said was on par with e-reader sales for 2009.
Customers in those states can choose from companies that provide such options as renewable power or a slate of pricing options, including fixed rates, rates that vary with market fluctuations, or rates that vary based on when during the day power is used.
As with other special elections, the race didn't have a state or national slate to draw voters to the polls.
After all, those learning today of plans to centralise hospital services in North Wales might not be immediately impressed with a brand new centrepiece, Welsh slate or not.
There are many alternatives, including global and semi-global SIM cards that work almost everywhere or in the slate of countries you are likely to visit.
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Google ( GOOG - news - people ) about incorporating Google's Android operating system into a slate or tablet-style computer later this year.
That iOS app, Cube Jam, allows you to record and play along with tunes from your iDevice and connects via the i-Cube Link stereo auxiliary input from the headphone jack of a slate or handset.
"The compelling combination of pen and true multi-touch offers users the freedom to select the input method of their choice, whether it be the pen or their fingertips, when interacting directly with their slate, tablet, notebook or other computing device, " said Amichai Ben-David, CEO, N-trig.
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Whether the fund in question is a mutual fund for retail investors, a retirement fund for employees of a particular company or government department, a film fund looking to finance a slate of motion pictures, or a real estate fund planning to buy apartment buildings for university students, the same basic commercial logic applies.
Sharp Electronics unveiled its Mobilon TriPad PV-6000, a Windows CE-based computing device that can be used in three different operating positions: standard notebook (clamshell), pen tablet (slate), or easel mode.
Is it appropriate for him to stay on the trail with a full slate of events, or scale back as well?
Sometimes the biggest-money players in the game, such as Mr. Negreanu, or other poker enthusiasts field a slate of players, known as a "stable" of "horses, " over a period.
Whether or not institutional investors back his slate of directors, they may be helping Wyly behind the scenes, says DeWitt Bowman, retired chief investment officer of Calpers, who helped oust chief executives at Sears and GM in the early 1990s.
It's still unclear whether the reported device takes on the traditional netbook form-factor, goes convertible like the T91, or is a 9.7-inch slate like a giant iPod touch.
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Saban quickly threw out all the old programming, making an exception only for Robertson's 700 Club. (A promise to retain that religious show was part of the sale agreement.) But the new slate of shows didn't draw the audience or the advertising volume Saban and Fox had hoped for.
But the new slate of shows didn't draw the audience, or the advertising volume, Saban and Fox had hoped for.
Hoping to keep pace with community feedback, Razer is kitting out the Edge with a 3rd gen Intel Core processor, a 10.1-inch 1, 366 x 768 display, an NVIDIA GT640M LE GPU, 4 to 8GB of DDR3 RAM, USB 3.0 and a 64, 128 or 256GB SSD, depending on the SKU. Min translated the slate's build into some digestible framerates: 59 fps in Dishonored, he told us, and 41 fps in DiRT Showdown.
They started pitching the idea of a Syfy Films slate shortly after the merger and revisited the idea every year or so, but met with little interest from the Universal side.
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Rather than beginning with the Big 3 and asking how we can change them (the default path used by our legislators), I begin with a blank slate and ask: do we have any institutions in this country or elsewhere with the resources to credibly assess the creditworthiness of nations and corporations?
The 11 new shows ABC has ordered for fall may be one less than last year's 12-show slate, but it's still far more than NBC, CBS or News Corp.
We wouldn't be surprised if Apple has done this for numerous other trademarks, either to give itself more options or to prevent others from trying to manufacture products under those names. (Slate Computing, LLC also happens to own the "Magic Slate" trademark, just so you know.) Also bought up in 2006?
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Users can quickly type using the on-screen keyboard and navigate through the slate's features with the highly responsive capacitive multi-touch screen, or write naturally on the screen using an electromagnetic pen, making it easy to take meeting notes, create documents and reports in Microsoft Office 2010, or browse online.
But while there seems to be no consumer demand for larger tablets, the use case of watching movies as a group, or flipping through photos with loved ones on the couch, on a 13-inch slate isn't too hard to imagine, says Jakob Nielsen, principal at the Nielsen Norman Group, a usability research firm.
In brief, it's a 13-inch slate with a 1, 366 x 768 display and your choice of Core i3 or i5 processor (these are Intel's Y-series Ivy Bridge chips we're talking about).
The term Blank Slate comes from a translation of the medieval Latin tabula rasa, implying a smooth tablet or a mind unmarked by experience.
Blue corn atole, a slate-coloured porridge, is a typical morning dish, hearty without being too thick or too sweet, though toppings like berries or nuts can be added to enhance the flavour.
Despite announcing it was looking to spin off or sell its handset division, corporate raider Carl Icahn told the company he was still planning to run a slate of directors for the upcoming annual meeting.
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