HP Slate 7: HP’s Bid To Top The Tablet Race

If you have been following the trend tablets have been following, you must remember a bid by HP to enter the tablet market. Their first device, HP TouchPad was a disaster but was good enough to enable the company sell all the devices that they had produced. However, that was the end of the production for HP TouchPad.

Now HP is back with HP Slate 7, a device that is sure to shake the tablet market and take the competition to a whole new level. HP Slate 7 is an Android device running on version 4.1, “Jelly Bean”, with a 7-inch screen and retailing at $140 (about Ksh12,000 without shipment and other charges). Inside is a duo-core processor of 1.6GHZ and a 1GB RAM. It has two cameras, one a 3-megapixel camera at the back and a VGA at the front.

The front camera is definitely designed for video calling but HP Slate 7 has a MAJOR advantage on this. Unlike most of the other tablets of its calibre, the front camera in the HP Slate 7 is at the centre of the 7-inch panel. Yes, you got me right; at the centre of the panel. And you know what that means? You can look straight into the eyes of the person you are talking to in a video call!

Now if you thought HP did what Samsung did with most of its earlier devices (having great features but completely forgetting to give good thought on aesthetics) you are wrong! The HP Slate 7 tablet features a bright red cover and with the HP logo embedded in silver, the thing truly stands out. What’s more is that the cover is given a rubber-like feel which makes it even more secure to handle during usage. With just one charge of the HP Slate 7, you can enjoy 5 continuous hours of HD video watching with audio devices that give you smoother sound than you will find on any regular tablets. 

How To Protect Yourself And Your Personal Data While Using The Cyber Cafe

While people continue using the internet, most of them are oblivious of the threats they might have exposed themselves to and the need to protect themselves and their data. For example, have you been using the cyber to access your email, Facebook and other useful accounts such as your company portal? Then you might have exposed yourself to serious fraud and maybe even security risk. The data you enter in usernames and passwords can be used by high tech criminals to crack information about your bank accounts or follow you for a physical robbery.

Here is a tip that will help you protect yourself and your personal data while using the internet from a cyber cafe:

If you visit a cyber cafe make sure you check the machine that you will be using. If you find any black pin attached to the rear side of the CPU as shown in the picture here, you would do yourself a great favour not to use that computer.

That pin is nothing useful to you; it is a connection which is deliberately put there to save all the
data you enter in the computer system. It is called a hardware key-logger which is very powerful. It records each and every action you perform on the system you are using.

Why should this worry you?

If anyone gets such personal data, consider it a serious risk to your privacy over the internet. What these criminals target are passwords, banking info, or any other data you enter that can lead them to get such crucial info.

Please share this information among your friends and help the secure themselves.