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Amazon planning LCD tablet to compete with the iPad
By: Luis Estrada One company flying that might surprisingly be able to give Apple a run in the tablet space is, believe it or not, Amazon. One of the key downsides to tablet devices currently running Android is the lack of a centralized location to download media content. Amazon, naturally, doesn’t have that problem and […]
Continue reading...Already a losing battle? Hardware manufacturers delay iPad 2 competitors
Monday, April 18, 2011
The smartphone market is a helluva lot different from the tablet market, a fact hardware makers are slowly but surely starting to realize. Though Android was able to make significant and impressive gains on the iPhone relatively quickly, it’s an entirely different ballgame when it comes to tablets. To wit, the Motorola Xoom was launched […]
Continue reading...Roger McNamee: Not excited about Android, says Apple is killing the world wide web – in a good way
Friday, April 15, 2011
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You might recognize Roger McNamee as the angel investor who invested heavily in Palm and came up with this ludicrous prediction back in March of 2009: You know the beautiful thing: June 29, 2009, is the two- year anniversary of the first shipment of the iPhone. Not one of those people will still be using […]
Continue reading...Microsoft: Protecting the Windows monopoly at all costs
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
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Microsoft’s tablet strategy remains in shambles. The HP Slate was essentially a bust on arrival, only to be followed up by the news that HP was abandoning Microsoft altogether in light of its $1.2 billion acquisition of Palm and its heralded WebOS. So what’s Microsoft to do? It’s not working on an iOS style version […]
Continue reading...Apple’s acquisition of worldwide touchscreen supply delayed RIM’s PlayBook for a month
Thursday, April 7, 2011
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On April 19th, RIM will finally release its PlayBook tablet after months of hype and hyperbolic statements from company executives. Priced at $499 to compete with the iPad, the PlayBook will sport a 7-inch screen and will feature a UI based on QNX software. Notably, the PlayBook will run Android apps from within an emulator, which […]
Continue reading...Steve Wozniak: Tablets are PCs for “normal people”
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
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Earlier this week, Apple co-founder and all around gadget geek Steve Wozniak delivered a keynote speech at Storage Networking World in California. At one point, someone in the audience asked Woz, who is currently the Chief Scientist at Fusion-io, what his thoughts were on the iPad and how tablets were poised to affect the computer […]
Continue reading...Acer CEO Gianfranco Lanci resigns amidst struggles to compete with Apple
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
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The affect of the iPhone and iPad on the technological landscape has been momentous. Apple single handedly ushered in a wave of new and more advanced smartphone devices with the release of the iPhone. And with the release of the iPad last year, Apple, once again, single handedly resurrected a tablet market that had previously been […]
Continue reading...Microsoft research and strategy officer Craig Mundie not sure the tablet market has staying power
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
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It’s an interesting and counter-intuitive strategy. Reference a popular product that your company simply can’t compete with and question the staying power of said product. It’s an easy strategy, no doubt, and is a heck of a lot easier than actually delivering a compelling product yourself. And that’s apparently the mindset over in Redmond these […]
Continue reading...Number of apps specifically designed for Android tablets now thriving at 20
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
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When Steve Jobs took the wraps off of the iPad 2 on March 2, he characteristically took some time to bash the competition. In one memorable tidbit, Jobs boasted of the 65,000 dedicated iPad apps available on iTunes. In contrast, Jobs claimed that there were only 100 apps written exclusively for Android 3.0 (Google’s tablet […]
Continue reading...So RIM’s PlayBook will support Android Apps.. Um, okay.
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
So in an effort to quickly establish a large library of apps on launch, RIM recently announced that its upcoming PlayBook tablet will be able to run Android apps via en emulator. BusinessInsider reports: When asked why anyone would ever bother developing for RIM’s own platform again if they could just make Android apps that […]
Continue reading...Samsung trying to compete with iPad 2 thinness
Thursday, March 24, 2011
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It’s hard to say that the iPad 2 really caught anyone off guard given that Apple tends to release/announce its products on a fairly predictable schedule. But one aspect of the iPad 2 that threw some competitors for a loop is that the next-gen iPad is ultra thin. So thin, in fact, that it prompted Samsung […]
Continue reading...Marco Ament on why competitors can’t keep up with the iPad
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
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2011 has already been dubbed “The year of the tablet.” And with a bevy of iPad competitors poised to hit store shelves in the coming months, “The year of the wannabe tablets” might be a bit more apropos. Or, as Steve Jobs snidely remarked, 2011 is poised to be the “year of the copycats.” As […]
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Tuesday, May 3, 2011
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