The world’s news portals are awash with stories about electronic book readers (eReaders), tablet PCs and a top-secret device, supposedly called the iSlate, coming from Apple. So strong are the Apple rumours that competitors have been rushing their own iSlate killers onto the market in anticipation. At the recent CES extravaganza in Las Vegas where all the new gizmos come out, even Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer, joined the bandwagon flashing, ever so briefly, a tablet thing from HP. Not that anybody...