Another week, another day, another round of tablet rumors for the now all-but-confirmed January event. The latest news bouncing around the Inter-webs is that Apple has placed an order with panel supplier Innolux for a bevy of 10" touch panels to stick in the new devices, be they called iSlate or whatever the marketing team eventually hits on the dart board. This vibes with what we'd heard earlier about the screen being either 7 or 10" in the diagonal, and it reveals a little bit more about the process: apparently Apple wanted to go with this release earlier, but they were concerned about the strength of the glass. Now they've got the stronger glass they need, so supposedly the rumors on the wind say they're ready for a January announcement, with a release coming in March or April. They've even got another supplier lined up to crank out even more of these screens if needed.

A translated WSJ article also says a Taiwanese company called Chang Uei Precision has been signed up to provide "connectors" for the device, but that sounds quite vague and they say a release isn't planned until Q3 of next year.

As always, this all remains hearsay -- Apple hasn't even officially announced an event in January yet, much less hinted that they'll be releasing a revolutionary tablet-style device. So remember what Grandma said about counting chickens before they hatch, and don't. But if any of these rumors prove to be true, it'll be an interesting 2010.

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I get asked alot "Rocky, What kind of gear do you travel with when your out? Then I have to start mentioning the computers I carry, why two? Why I pick some items over other and so on. I figured I was long over due for this one and it needed a well deserving blog post. As you may know, I travel extensively for my company. I Work with computers and need to stay connected at all times (I’m pretty much my own ambulatory office) My preference of Choice for computers have always been Macs. I travel with a 13" Macbook Pro (decked out). This thing is fully upgraded with a 320gig hard drive and six gigs of RAM.

I get most of my corporate emails on both of my machines and Blackberry but mostly I carry it as a preference thing. I can very well get my emails on my Acer windows machine however; I don’t have the RAW power of a computer with this as I have with my Mac. I also carry around a net book Acer Aspire One. I use my machine mainly for email purposes and to log into the backbones VPN. Although I could do this on the Mac, sometimes I have to carry my computer from rooms to room for key authentications and well, the Acer PC is only 2 pounds Vs the Mac book Pro 8 pounds. For camera, I use a Cannon 8.2 Megapixel. Its not the best in the industry but it takes good shots and it does the trick.

For camcorders I use a Sony Handy Cam. This thing is so badass. It’s lightweight, slick and elegant. The fact that it has a 4 gig internal memory and also an expandable SD card memory slot, gives the icing to the cake. For portable Internet services I carry a USB connect wifi card from At&t. its 3G is ok for surfing the web and picking up emails but I’m currently looking to replace this device with a mifi from Verizon. I’m hearing lots of good reviews toward the product and the speeds are actually not bad. With Verizon upgrading their network to the 4G technology by the Q1 next year, I want to be ahead of the game and give it a shot.

My Booq mamba laptop bag finally made it's presence yesterday. I had been eyeing this thing for about a year now but just never got around to buy it. When I travel, I usually lug around my Macbook Pro 13" as well as my 8.9 Acer among hard drives, wireless cards etc etc. My other bag made by incase, made it very uncomfortable when I had to lug around both computers and accessories. I opt to finally buy the booq and it's all that in a bag of chips. This thing has such a slick design and definitely lots of cubic space inside. It has various departments to stow my cables and drives and surprisingly so it does not feel heavy. If your looking into a nice well design slick bag this is definitely a good choice.


-- Posted from my iPhone

I was recently working on a project and noticed how my thumb drive was acting somewhat really funny. I kept seeing a Autostart.inf file as well as a Winlogon.exe file. This was really starting to irritate me as I could not initialize startup without having to go through the painful task of right clicking and opening everything. Not being at home I couldn't exactly run a proper virus scan. When I did finally run the scan i found a graybird/ trojan sitting in the back of the auto.inf file. Im not sure what it was phishing but i noticed i was getting some unusual mail traffic in the last few weeks. Funny thing is that every mail I would get was something that really spiked my interest. This trojan and bot-net that was living in my thumb drive was also sleeping dormant in my parallels partition. Ugh, no matter how much you try to evade the plague somehow it lives everywhere...

Being the Apple lover and advocate that I am you would only assume that I only carry an iphone. Turns out my job forces me to carry a Blackberry as well. I don't mind the device but when I have to lug around two laptops two phones, hard drives etc etc it becomes somewhat of a pain in the neck! sure I can opt to just carry one phone as I currently get my corporate emails through my iphone but the blackberry messenger feature is very much needed. Why cant apple have a BB messenger feature or app developed by RIM. I understand its proprietary and exclusive to RIM but im sure apple can make a negotiating deal and allow apple to make an app that supports that. one can only wish small miracles like this could happen. Until then I will continue to carry both devices.

I decided since I had a little bit more of down time (then usual at least) to start my new blog spot on here. My friend and webmaster AlinS had gone through the trouble of switching over my blog into Word Press and as usual, I just wasn't feeling it. So Im back-and with a vengeance. Trying to stay in "Sync" hasn't ben all that easy (as far as blogging is concerned for that matter). With a busy travel schedule it got more of a -When I get the time i will do it routine. But who said bloggin should be a routing right? Precisely my point. It felt more like another job that I had to do rather than a cool and fun partaking project I wanted to share with the world and friends, etc etc. So heres to my new space on the web with new shiny MacBook Pro that I got for my birthday. Stay tuned for more.

P.S I have made a promise to myself to keep occupied while Im on the plane to do these pre-scheduled events. If all goes according to plan I should have ample time to kick these out with no problem. Stay tuned for my new upcoming project that Im working on. Until then....