Saturday, April 16, 2011

The forgotten tablets: Whatever happened to Cius and MeeGo?

Last summer, when everybody and his brother was announcing Android tablets for the Christmas buying season -- never mind that Google didn't even have a tablet version of the Android OS in beta -- the Android racing form saw a surprise entry from Cisco Systems, a company not exactly known for computing devices. It announced a business tablet (whatever that means) called the Cius last July and has remained fairly quiet about it ever since.

Remember the Cius, cited by many as an example of Cisco's prowess in entering new markets? (Oops. As recent events show, Cisco was all bark, no bite in that department.)

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