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Under the sway of the machine, writes the German media scholar Friedrich A. Kittler, Nietzsche’s prose “changed from arguments to aphorisms, from thoughts to puns, from rhetoric to telegram style.”

In tablet mode the T5010 is easy to carry around and great for note-taking. The screen is bright and can be rotated in both directions. The webcam is fun to use for chatting with family and friends while away on business or at college. Since it's a tablet and the screen can turn in either direction, the webcam can take pics of your surroundings without moving the notebook.

the sleek and elegant SC4000's 12.1-inch XGA screen has a perfect viewing angle in all directions and there is a sunlight-readable version. You can now get disks up to 160GB and the unit has both an onboard 1.3 megapixel camera and a fingerprint scanner.

Bug Labs was also on hand, showing off a few new updates to its Bug Base gadget platform. The hardware is essentially the same, but the software interface for the Lego-like gadget prototyper has been improved. The device now runs Poky Linux--which is intended for small devices--and now has a Web browser and window environment

Both will feature an Intel Atom N270 processor,

According to the results of a TNS Infratest Study* commissioned by Fujitsu Siemens Computers, some 85 percent of companies use mobile devices in their daily business.

The new model line-up ranges from a smart, competitively-priced Tablet PC (LIFEBOOK T1010) targeted at beginners and students, through to ultra-portable notebooks that guarantee unrestricted flexibility for business power users