Taiwan Gossip Anyone? iPad Delay caused by Wintek & Regional Info

So it looks like this is a morning for gossip, but hey, every once and a while geeks get gitty like school girls too. But I’m going to dish a little more dirt on what has been going on in Asia to give you the complete picture to this rumor.

First of all, over the past few months there has been a labor shortage in Southern China and ACER and Winstron have been using their brand name to help attract workers to the factories which supply them computer parts. The fact that the iPad is delayed due to parts shortage is actually no surprise. In case the rest of the world was in doubt, things are fine in Asia and we aren’t seeing the same hard times that are still evident in the US.

So now that you know the reality of manufacturing in Asia, lets delve into this Digitimes Rumor which originates with a Chinese-language report on Liberty Times. According to Digitimes “The report claimed that Wintek is facing a manufacturing bottleneck in its touch panel production, and its low yield rate for touch panels has hampered its shipments to Apple.”

It doesn’t end there, in the style of Taiwanese companies and alegations like these they have filed a statement with the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TSE) saying “that all of its operations have been running in line with its plans, and it declined to comment on individual clients or particular orders”

Over the next six months as the region around Hong Kong deals with its labor shortage we might be hearing more stories like this. I hear that many factories dealing with the decision to either move further in land where there are more workers available or stay and work it out.

Source Digitimes Via Techmeme

Coffee & Girl Talk? HP Slate Specs & Price Leaked

Thoughts from the Sidelines has leaked the price and the specs for the HP Slate. Remember, I titled this post is Coffee and Girl Talk, so take this with a grain of salt but some of it we knew and the rest seems pretty reasonable. But if you lean in and look at the details of this story, the link is dead which makes this even more gossip. I will take any excuse to talk about an iPad Alternative.

Supposedly it is going to come in cheaper then the iPad at 400 Euros or $550USD.
Intel Atom Processor which one is a mystery
Win 7 (which obviously supports Flash)
USB Connectors how many, is a unknown
Card reader for which card, we aren’t sure
Webcam

We’ve also turned over a tea cup and read the leaves and we are thinking a late Summer Early Fall Launch. Well since my morning cup is seems to have come to an end, I think my tolerance for anymore gossip has too.

Via GotToBeMobile Source Thoughts from the Sidelines

The Future of Interacting with Technology “Design Outside the Box”

We watch a lot of online talks at Netbook News, we put them on, we fall asleep, we marvel at their unoriginality or their lack of information. But this talk has to be one of the best we have seen in a long time. AT Dice 2010 Jesse Schell a Professor at the Carnegie Mellon University looks at the world of game development and extends it to an eveyday reality that could become our minority report like future. He starts off with facebook and how people are interacting with it in their everyday lives, he then moves toward what will emerge from the popular “Facebook Games” era.

It is an inspirational yet slightly terrifying talk that reminds us of where this technological future could take us and asks us to question how far we are really willing to go to love and live with technology.