Type of Article: MacTech Blog

Reporter’s notebook: a long trip down

It was a looong trip down to San Francisco for the 2011 Macworld Conference & Expo. I spent all day Tuesday en route. Thank goodness for the iPad and its long battery life as I needed the iBooks and videos I had stored on it.

I flew from Nashville (my home base) to Philadelphia (don’t ask), then to San Francisco. And my return route is from San Francisco to Chicago back to Nashville. I hope I don’t run into any bad weather along the way.

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Greg’s bite: Xoom info

By Greg Mills

From what I read about the upcoming Xoom tablet, it may not be the long anticipated iPad killer the PC crowd has been longing for. As I have mentioned in this space, the Tablet OS situation continues to be a problem for the companies that want a piece of Apple’s pie.  Motorola, a household name in electronics has scrambled to offer something to compete with iPad. From what is known about Xoom, Apple’s iPad is still safe.

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Off to Macworld ….

I’m off to San Francisco to join the rest of the MacNews/MacTech gang in covering Macworld 2011. I have a day of travel ahead of me, so if coverage today is more sporadic than usual, that’s why

But keep an eye on the sites this week. We’ll have plenty of Macworld coverage.

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