Samsung exec says the iPad is just a jumped-up mobile Internet device, with lack of processing power and connectivity being key drawbacks. While Samsung’s skunkworks team is busy designing the company’s own slate-based tablet, the Korean electronics colossus has described the iPad as a niche product with limited functionality. Speaking at the Samsung Forum in Singapore, the director of Samsung Australia’s IT division, Philip Newton, said the future of mobile computing lay with netbooks and Atom-powered slates which offered processing power and connectivity than the iPad. “A lot of companies have played in the MID (mobile Internet device) market and...