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Tim Cook calls Android tablets “bizzare”
During yesterday’s earnings conference call, Apple COO Tim Cook was asked how Apple is planning to deal with an increasingly competitive tablet marketplace. Cook responded, Well, and if you’re look at what’s shipping today, there’s not much out there as you know. And generally speaking, there’s two kinds of groups today, that are at least […]
Continue reading...RIM’s PlayBook tablet experiencing battery performance issues – Report
Thursday, December 30, 2010
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Vaporware – a product, usually computer hardware or software, not released on the date announced by their developer, or announced months or years before their release. Fact: The iPad owns the tablet market Fact: Competitors are trying their damndest to release iPad competitors and steal away some of that iPad marketshare Fact: They are not suceeding Fact: […]
Continue reading...Leaked images and specs of upcoming HP PalmPad
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
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Hewlett Packard’s acquisition of Palm last May for $1.2 billion was largely, if not exclusively, rooted in HP’s interest in Palm’s WebOS. WebOS first debuted on the Palm Pre, a device that many initially thought would give the iPhone a serious challenge. Though Android quickly supplanted Palm as the company with the rocks to actually […]
Continue reading...Motorola hypes up upcoming tablet, criticizes iPad for being a “giant iPhone”
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
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In an effort to hype up (and we use the word loosely) the CES 2011 unveiling of their upcoming Android tablet (rumored to run Android 3.0), Motorola released a video teaser chronicling the evolution of the tablet, comically going all the way back to the Egyptian Hieroglyphic Tablet. With each successive tablet, the video explains […]
Continue reading...RIM’s Jim Balsillie takes shots at the iPad, promises “higher performance” on the Playbook
Friday, December 17, 2010
During RIM’s earnings conference call yesterday, RIM co-CEO Jim Balsillie took a few minutes to hype up the upcoming RIM Playbook while also taking a few shots at Apple. When asked about plans to take on Google and Apple in the tablet space, Balsillie didn’t mince words. “I think the PlayBook redefines what a tablet […]
Continue reading...iPad dominates corporate tablet deployment
Thursday, December 16, 2010
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Recent data compiled by ChangeWave suggests that the iPad’s stranglehold on the consumer tablet market is seeping its way into the business world. Last month, ChangeWave surveyed 1,641 business IT buyers to gauge how business are either using or plan to use tablets in the work place. The results, not surprisingly, show that corporate demand […]
Continue reading...Microsoft to unveil new tablet devices at CES 2011, one with slideout keyboard
Monday, December 13, 2010
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Bill Gates has long been a champion of tablet computing, yet as luck would have it, and as is often the case, the market for tablet computing never really took off until Apple decided to throw its hat into the ring. Over the past decade, Microsoft’s tablet initiatives have been overwhelmingly lackluster, but the Redmond-based […]
Continue reading...Acer CEO believes he can topple the iPad in 2-3 years
Sunday, November 28, 2010
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There’s a fine line between being a dreamer and utterly delusional, and Acer CEO Gianfranco Lanci probably falls somewhere in no-mans land. In an interview with Digitimes at a recent New York press conference, Lanci expressed confidence that Acer tablet PCs will supplant the iPad as the dominant tablet in the market within 2-3 years. […]
Continue reading...Impending release of iPad 2 may weaken sales of competing tablets
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
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DigiTimes reports: As rumors that Apple’s iPad 2 will launch in the first quarter of 2011 circulate the IT market, sources from notebook players pointed out that if the rumors are true, the launch is expected to seriously weaken other PC vendors’ tablet PCs, and since consumer demand for tablet PCs is still limited, while […]
Continue reading...The hidden cost of the Samsung Galaxy Tab via Verizon Wireless
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
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The Samsung Galaxy Tab is, or perhaps was, billed as a true competitor to the iPad, all this despite the fact that it sports a smaller 7-inch screen and hasn’t exactly received glowing reviews from tech reviewers thus far. That notwithstanding, if you purchase the Galaxy Tab with a Verizon Wireless plan, there are a […]
Continue reading...iPad accounts for 95% of global tablet market
Friday, November 19, 2010
It’s good to be king, and make no mistake about it, when it comes to the tablet market, Apple is definitely a king among men. According to recent data compiled by Strategy Analytics, Apple’s iPad constituted 95% of all global tablet shipments during the most recent quarter. Android tablets, the closest competitor to the iPad […]
Continue reading...iPad most likely to blame for shrinking interest in netbooks
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Remember netbooks? No? Come on, think harder. Okay, I’ll refresh your memory. Netbooks were those once-popular miniature laptops that came with small screens, cramped keyboards, and horribly designed hardware. Not too long ago, analysts wondered why Apple wasn’t entering the increasingly popular netbook market only to have their questions answered emphatically with the iPad, which […]
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Wednesday, January 19, 2011
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