News - TabletKiosk Roadshow, Arima UMPC Released, Office 2007 Visio Tablet PC Features

TabletKiosk Roadshow Stopping in Orlando and Houston

If you're in the Orlando or Houston area and would like to get some hands-on time with the latest Tablet PC and Ultra-Mobile PC (UMPC) hardware you're in luck. The TabletKiosk Roadshow will be visiting those towns in conjunction with training sessions held by Apex Software. Orlando is first up on the calendar on November 9th, which is today so you better get moving. Houston follows on November 30th. For more info...

Arima UMPC Released

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Engadget reports that the Taiwanese Electronics Manufacturer Arima has released a moderately-speced UMPC dubbed the UM650UV1 (yeah, pretty catchy moniker eh?). The unit sports a 1GHz VIA C7-M processor, 512 MB DDR2 Ram, and a slide out QWERTY keyboard. A VX700 UniChrome Pro Graphics chip powers the 6.5" 800x480 touchscreen with LED backlighting. The downside is that the unit is sans both WiFi and Bluetooth which is pretty inexcusable these days.

New Office 2007 Visio Features Support Pen Input on Tablet PCs

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The new Office 2007 version of venerable diagraming software Visio will be sporting some feature enhancements that support pen input on Tablet PCs. Microsoft touts the new capabilities as offering a more natural method of markup and freehand sketching. If you're a Visio user you might want to check out Microsoft's website to get the low down on the new features.