Hype surrounding Apple's long-awaited touch tablet centers on the living room. But are iPads ready for the boardroom? The cubicle? The data center? Let's dispense right up front with any notion that iPads will be successfully blocked from enterprise use. It's going to happen. Resistance was futile against PCs, laptops, instant messaging, PDAs, personal smart [...]

While making it crystal clear that this is only intended for developers that want a mega-early look at the platform, Intel and Nokia’s MeeGo team has just announced that the very first cut of the melded Moblin / Maemo mobile platform is available for download. Specifically, users of N900s, Atom notebooks, and Atom-powered Moorestown MIDs [...]

If there’s one thing that universities are good at, it’s dreaming up trendy technology initiatives. Apple knows that (as does McGraw-Hill) so it’s no surprise that the company’s been pushing to get the iPad adopted by schools around the country. And so it begins: Seton Hill University, a school in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, has announced that [...]

Our man Nicholas Negroponte was certainly excited about pushing the state of the art forward with future versions of the OLPC when we hosted him on The Engadget Show earlier this month, and now he’s got one more tool to help make that happen: the OLPC Foundation and Pixel Qi just signed a permanent and [...]

LG unveiled the world’s first Full LED 3D TV, the LX9500, in Korea. As the world’s first Full LED 3D TV, the LG LX9500 uses an innovative backlight structure to deliver spectacular pictures for the ultimate 3D experience. Illuminated by panels of LEDs directly behind the screen (the 55-inch model boasts 1,200 LEDs), the Full [...]

Sanyo will install megawatt-level HIT photovoltaic modules at the city hall, community center and other sites in Awaji City, Hyogo, Japan. Working together, the City of Awaji and Hyogo Prefecture expect that the new solar power facilities will help attract environmentally conscious companies to the area, while promoting green energy and serving as a symbol [...]

LG Display today became the world’s first to achieve the Windows 7 Touch Logo Certification with in-cell touch panels. The certified LG product is a 13.3-inch Capacitive In-Cell Multi-Touch LCD Panel for notebook PCs with multi-touch functions that enable simultaneous recognition of two touch points. Unlike the conventional touch screen products where generally films for [...]

Hyundai Motor, Korea’s largest automaker is allegedly seeking to cooperate with Apple to embrace the company’s iconic iPhone smartphone in its upcoming automobiles. Hyundai recently said it is preparing to converge vehicle and mobile phone, and is trying to co-plan and co-design with mobile-device makers. The company unveiled three concept designs using the iPhone in [...]