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Tag: tablets

Why an Apple iPad mini will cripple the efforts of Google, Amazon and anyone else in the mini tablet market

Wednesday, August 8, 2012 11:21 pm17 Comments

An excellent survey was conducted and released on July 19th of this year that revealed…

IDC: Strong Apple iPad shipments drive robust Q212 tablet market growth

Thursday, August 2, 2012 1:04 pmThursday, August 2, 20124 Comments

A record-setting quarter for Apple’s iPad led to a better-than-anticipated second quarter…

Apple kicks Wintel in the teeth; Windows PC market share plummets to all-time low

Wednesday, August 1, 2012 10:36 amWednesday, August 1, 201228 Comments

Wintel’s grip on the PC market has dropped to an all-time low due to the encroachment of Apple’s…

Analysts predict slow enterprise adoption of touch, Windows 8

Wednesday, July 25, 2012 7:16 pmWednesday, July 25, 201221 Comments

Enterprises may see little need to buy a touchscreen enhanced OS like Windows 8…

Apple iPad up 8 percentage points to 68% of global tablet shipments in Q212

Wednesday, July 25, 2012 3:29 pmWednesday, July 25, 201212 Comments

A total of 25 million tablets were shipped worldwide in the second quarter…

Apple will sell a smaller iPad or be disrupted from the bottom up by Google’s Nexus 7

Sunday, July 22, 2012 2:36 pm57 Comments

Apple has effectively defended itself from bottom up competition twice before…

The iPad mini: Why now is the perfect time for a small Apple tablet

Thursday, July 19, 2012 11:16 amThursday, July 19, 201243 Comments

teve Jobs famously dissed 7-inch tablets…

Intel forecast portends weak PC sales

Tuesday, July 17, 2012 10:33 pmTuesday, July 17, 201217 Comments

Top chipmaker Intel Corp. reduced its growth forecast, reinforcing fears…

German court rules Apple iPad design patent valid, says Motorola Mobility Xoom doesn’t violate it

Tuesday, July 17, 2012 6:01 pmTuesday, July 17, 20128 Comments

A German court Tuesday ruled the Xoom tablet, made by Google Inc.’s Motorola Mobility…

IDC’s Ma: Apple iPad has ‘insurmountable’ lead in tablet market

Tuesday, July 10, 2012 2:16 pmTuesday, July 10, 20129 Comments

Bryan Ma, associate vice president at research firm IDC…

Nexus 7: Google’s Napoleonic moment

Monday, July 9, 2012 9:41 am28 Comments

Napoleon, ruler of France from 1803 to 1815, rose to power by conquering most of Europe…

Analyst: Apple ‘iPad mini’ would start above $199

Friday, July 6, 2012 2:03 pmFriday, July 6, 201226 Comments

Apple’s iPad has taken over more than just the consumer space…

Bill Gates: Apple may have to make a Surface-like device

Tuesday, July 3, 2012 5:35 pmTuesday, July 3, 2012116 Comments

Now that he’s in his 50s, Bill Gates is still fanatical…

NPD: Tablet shipments to surpass notebook shipments in 2016

Tuesday, July 3, 2012 4:01 pmTuesday, July 3, 201212 Comments

Tablet PCs, such as Apple’s iPad, are expected to be the growth driver…

Judge rejects Samsung bid to lift ban on U.S. tablet sales

Tuesday, July 3, 2012 9:26 am27 Comments

A U.S. judge on Monday rejected a request by Samsung Electronics Co…

HP said to dump Microsoft over Surface; to cozy up to Google Android for tablet efforts

Monday, July 2, 2012 8:51 pmMonday, July 2, 201272 Comments

Remember when we said that Microsoft management was essentially incompetent…

AP reviews Google Nexus 7 tablet: It’s no iPad; better than Kindle Fire, but lacks storage space

Monday, July 2, 2012 5:01 pmMonday, July 2, 201221 Comments

The Nexus 7 costs $199, the same that Amazon and Barnes & Noble charge…

Spec Shootout: Apple iPad vs. Google Nexus 7 vs. Amazon Kindle Fire vs. Microsoft Surface

Thursday, June 28, 2012 5:31 pmThursday, June 28, 201244 Comments

Google announced its first direct foray into the tablet market on Wednesday with the Nexus 7…

Bill Gates: Tablets in the classroom have ‘really horrible track record’

Wednesday, June 27, 2012 11:54 amWednesday, June 27, 201291 Comments

Just giving people devices has a really horrible track record…

Google said to unveil tablet this week, taking aim at Apple’s iPad

Tuesday, June 26, 2012 8:12 pmWednesday, June 27, 201239 Comments

The device will also showcase new features of Android, according to one person…

Microsoft faces ‘major dilemma’ pricing Surface tablets against iPad

Monday, June 25, 2012 3:08 pm26 Comments

Chris Whitmore with Deutsche Bank doesn’t have high hopes for the Microsoft Surface tablet lineup…

Microsoft and Google won’t have a price advantage with iPad, so they’ll have to actually make a better product

Monday, June 25, 2012 12:27 pmMonday, June 25, 201219 Comments

Last week Microsoft kinda-sorta announced its new Microsoft Surface tablet computer…

Acer founder: Microsoft will quit making tablets soon

Thursday, June 21, 2012 11:32 amThursday, June 21, 201240 Comments

Microsoft’s foray into full hardware production with its Surface tablet…

More blood on Apple iPad’s touchscreen: LG quits tablet market

Wednesday, June 20, 2012 4:01 pmWednesday, June 20, 20129 Comments

LG will sideline tablet computer development rather than compete head-on with Apple Inc.’s iPad…

Thanks to Apple, Microsoft is doomed in the era of mobile computing

Wednesday, June 20, 2012 2:50 pm36 Comments

The major battles have been fought and the handwriting is on the wall…

Microsoft’s Surface tablet destined to be as successful as the Zune

Tuesday, June 19, 2012 2:31 pmTuesday, June 19, 201264 Comments

Microsoft announced ambitious plans on Monday to produce a tablet computer…

Google to launch iPad killer in coming weeks, sources say

Tuesday, June 19, 2012 12:11 pmTuesday, June 19, 201224 Comments

Google is partly adopting Apple’s integrated model by manufacturing some devices on its own…

Surface: Why Microsoft’s big mystery turns out to be a big mistake

Tuesday, June 19, 2012 10:42 am74 Comments

Oh Microsoft, what were you thinking?

ZDNet Sr. Tech Editor Perlow: Microsoft’s Surface has catastrophe written all over it

Tuesday, June 19, 2012 9:24 amTuesday, June 19, 201243 Comments

All of this reeks of suicidal thinking from Microsoft…

Microsoft-branded tablet preview expected today

Monday, June 18, 2012 8:52 am55 Comments

Microsoft Corp. needs to shed its image as the world’s biggest purveyor of…

Apple’s revolutionary iPad widens lead as tablet sales surge

Friday, June 15, 2012 12:06 pm17 Comments

The global market for tablet computers is growing faster than expected…

Microsoft touts ‘major’ June 18 event said to showcase Windows RT tablets

Friday, June 15, 2012 9:48 amFriday, June 15, 201254 Comments

Microsoft has begun teasing that it has a ‘major’ announcement…

Beleaguered Dell suit claims Apple’s ‘shiny’ iPad not fit for business

Wednesday, June 6, 2012 9:40 amWednesday, June 6, 201244 Comments

Dell Australia managing director Joe Kremer claimed…

Apple’s massive domination of tablet market unabated as Amazon’s tiny screen Kindle Fire demand tumbles

Tuesday, June 5, 2012 1:00 pmTuesday, June 5, 201210 Comments

Amazon’s tiny screen Kindle Fire is still floundering at nowhere near the levels reached at the time of its initial launch

Acer, Toshiba, Asustek to unveil iPad killers next week

Thursday, May 31, 2012 5:54 pm35 Comments

Acer Inc., Toshiba Corp. and Asustek Computer Inc. will unveil tablets running Microsoft’s WIndows 8…

Apple’s Cook right about PC-tablet fusion fantasy: Tablet and PC not a marriage made in heaven

Thursday, May 31, 2012 10:05 am19 Comments

The Microsoft-Intel camp should listen to Apple CEO Tim Cook…

Apple’s iPad will be dominant until…

Thursday, May 24, 2012 4:21 pm12 Comments

Watching the professional industry watchers speculate on how long…

Microsoft set to release Office for Apple iOS devices in October, sources say

Wednesday, May 23, 2012 4:31 pm29 Comments

Microsoft is currently planning to release the company’s full Office suite…

Apple maintains top mobile PC share in Q112 on 162% iPad growth YOY

Tuesday, May 22, 2012 9:55 pm11 Comments

Apple shipped nearly 17.2 million mobile PCs in Q1’12, accounting for 118% Y/Y shipment growth…

The state of e-books and e-readers in the U.S.A.

Tuesday, May 8, 2012 5:00 pmTuesday, May 8, 201231 Comments

One-fifth of American adults (21%) report that they have read an e-book in the past year…

Why Microsoft’s anti-iPad strategy will backfire

Tuesday, May 8, 2012 10:56 amTuesday, May 8, 201227 Comments

For more than a decade, Microsoft has failed in its tablet ambitions…

Study: Apple’s iPad dominates tablet web traffic with 94.64% share

Friday, May 4, 2012 5:01 pmFriday, May 4, 201216 Comments

Apple’s revolutionary iPad accounted for 94.64% of all tablet-based traffic…

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