Adobe's Slate app enables high-impact visual storytelling on iPads

Adobe today launched Slate, a new free iPad app that makes it easier than ever to turn words and images into a story that can be published as beautifully laid-out Web content, in minutes. 

Slate brings Adobe’s creative expertise to the mass market, enabling anyone to communicate with impact. Students, teachers, non-profit organizations, small business owners or corporate communicators can now turn their next report, newsletter or travel adventure into a document that captures attention.

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Quick Contest: Win an exclusive red HP Slate 7 tablet!

Everyone likes a giveaway, right? Right. So, despite the fact that we're concurrently running a contest for not one but two brand new BlackBerry Q10 smartphones, we decided to spice things up courtesy of HP Canada and throw in another contest for good measure.

On the docket today is a brand new Android 4.1-powered HP Slate 7 tablet in exclusive red for our CanadianReviewer.com readers! For those of you not familiar with the HP Slate 7, read some obligatory copy below to getter a better feel for what the tablet is all about:

- 7-inch

- weighs just 13 ounces

- the industry’s first tablet to offer embedded Beats Audio™ for the best-sounding richest audio available.

- front-facing webcam and 3 MP camera on the back.

- Running on Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean)

- built-in HP ePrint app that allows you to send important documents and memorable photos to any ePrint-enabled HP printer and have them waiting for you at home or the office.

Intrigued? You should be. Read below on how to attain this hot new tablet from HP:

1. Leave a comment below letting us know "how you would use your new Android-based Slate 7 tablet if you won?

2. Tweet out: "I want to win an exclusive red #HPSlate7 tablet from @hp and @creviewer"

3. Follow @Creviewer on Twitter

4. That's all.

Contest is open to residents of Canada (excluding Quebec) and ends this Friday November 1st, 2013 adn 11:59 sharp.

Good luck to all who enter!

HP's Windows 8 tablets to feature unique technologies

Screenshot from HP's "Make it Matter" commercial

HP is looking to get back in the tablet game in a big way. Its Windows 8 tablets, which should be available later this year.

"We will be very focused on the commercial tablet opportunity, which is completely under penetrated. And, we have some unique intellectual property that we're going to apply," HP's SVP of Americas sales for HP's printing and personal systems division, John Solomon told  VARS and technology integrator news website CRN.

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HP Windows 8 Slate mockup shows up, teases specs and features

An image or a mockup of the HP Windows 8 slate has been showing up online and gives us an idea of what we can expect once the new Microsoft OS comes to market. Windows 8 has a touch friendly interface that is identical to Windows Phone offers. The mockup shown above comes from Neowin. According to the report the slate will ship with professional level Windows OS, offer enterprise level docking (presumaby to an external monitor, keyboard and touchpad), pretty exciting stuff.