Anyone would think that the Apple iPad was the first ever tablet PC with all the media attention it’s been getting. But it’s not. So, is the iPad a revolution in the tablet PC segment as Apple claims? We compare nine models of tablet/slate PCs to the iPad.

“Let’s make the Web faster”. That’s not a flamboyant punch line from a new ad, but the name of a Web community launched by Google for Web developers to provide tips, tutorials and tools. Google is planning to revolutionize the Web completely and make it lightning fast as is evident from the mission statement in this official Google blog, “To optimize the speed of Web applications and make browsing the Web as fast as turning the pages of a magazine”. Google-zilla has been busy already.

Microsoft and Google coexisted in relative peace a few years back; Microsoft was happy with desktops and Google was content with the web. Then Google decided to expand and Microsoft woke up a little to the threat that junior might pose. Microsoft launched Bing to counteract the ever increasing dominance of Google’s search engine. Google has now thrown Chrome OS into the fire, and the battle of innovation has heated up. But 2009 was only a trailer; the real Web War 3 starts in 2010.

Netbooks took the computing world by storm in 2008 and 2009 but are their days numbered? As prices come down on ultra-thin notebooks that can do more, will consumers opt for larger screens and ditch the pokey keyboards of netbooks by dishing out a couple of hundred more for ultra-thin notebooks?

When Apple decided to pull out of Macworld, a lot of people hoped they’d get involved in CES 2010. Sadly, Apple was not a part of the year’s biggest technology event; instead they’re planning their own extravaganza at the end of the month. But even without the Apple iSlate or iwhatever, CES was again dominated by mobile computing goodness.

Remember when the concept of networking was implemented for the first time? Networking in the early days involved a cumbersome mess of cables and slow data transfer speeds. Constant innovation has eliminated the need for cables but Wi-Fi is not always a simple connection—there are more improvements to come.