$100 Polaroid dual-core tablet hits Big Lots
Tweet Big Lots is selling a new Polaroid 7 inch Android tablet with a dual-core processor for $100. It’s not a particularly good Android tablet, but it might be one of the cheapest dual-core models around, and it does run Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. The tablet’s only available in-stores, but you can find more details [...]
250 million tablets will be sold in 2013–Short
Wall Street Ends Near Flat; Correction Worry RisesReuters U.S. stocks ended little changed on Monday with indexes hovering near record levels as concerns about a correction … Read full story here: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/explosive-tablets-sales-overtake-pcs-180058286.html
Prime minister visits Apple HQ as Turkey ponders 10.6M-tablet buy for education
Monday, May 20, 2013, 11:55 am By Kevin Bostic Ahead of a planned purchase of more than 10 million tablets, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan visited Apple’s campus to hear the company’s pitch for the iPad’s use in education. In the course of a visit to the U.S., Erdoğan visited Apple, Microsoft, and Google [...]
Samsung Design Makes It Easier to Bring More Tablets to More Bars
Tweet Remember ATT Mobility’s old “More Bars In More Places” ads? A Samsung slate design innovation may make it easier for consumers to take more tablets to more bars, or essentially make it easier for consumers to take large 10-inch tablets to more places. As it stands, the domicile of 10-inch tablets is usually the [...]
Sony Xperia Tablet Z finally hits the shelves
Four months after Sony unveiled the Xperia Tablet Z, the Japanese maker announced that the fondleslab is now finally available to purchase worldwide through online and brick and mortar stores. Despite the fact that the Xperia Tablet Z hits the shelves later than initially planned — March 1 — the company says that this hasn’t [...]
Can new tablet features save the Nook Simple Touch?–Short
Since the time of the pharaohs, Egyptians have raised nets every autumn along the Mediterranean, to capture golden orioles, nightingales and corncrakes as they wing their way south for the winter. It’s an ancient tradition, but in recent years the custom has gotten out of hand. Read full story here: http://news.yahoo.com/tablet-features-save-nook-simple-touch-120003432.html
W3-810 Windows 8 tablet shows its 8-inch screen again, this time on Acer’s own …
Acer has partially revealed its first 8-inch tablet to run Microsoft Windows 8, and it’s the full version instead of the cut-down Windows RT software, which Acer is known for disliking. The Iconia W3 is billed as a device which puts desktop computing into a highly portable tablet form factor, thanks to its convenient 8-inch [...]
Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 8.0 leaks, yet another 8-inch tablet
Feast your eyes, tablet fans, on what’s reported to be an early look at the rumoured forthcoming Samsung Galaxy Tab 8-inch. Yes folks, just what the world needs: another 8-inch tablet! The new Tab will follow the Galaxy Tab 2 7-inch and Galaxy Tab 2 10.1-inch, splitting the difference on size. The difference between the [...]
New York Times Plans to Expand via Digital into other Countries
The New York Times attracts over 40 million readers to their website every month and the company sees it as a drop in the bucket. The newspaper is planning to expand into foreign language markets with a localized edition and unique content written by reporters based in those countries. One of the big reasons why [...]
Digital Comics: Hunter Gorinson on Valiant’s Digital Strategy
Valiant Entertainment is the newest incarnation of a legendary comics publisher that was founded in 1989 by former Marvel editor-in-chief Jim Shooter, drew in fans with strong, character-driven stories, and then fell on hard times and ceased publication in the early 2000s. The current owners bought the company in 2005 and began launching comics based [...]
HP unveils Slate7 Android consumer tablet – Business Times – Business Times
SINGAPORE: HP today announced the HP Slate7, an affordable Android consumer tablet that provides customers with easy access to Google Mobile services. With a 7-inch diagonal screen and weighing 370g, the HP Slate7 is an ideal trusted personal companion. It also is the industry’s first tablet to offer embedded Beats Audio, for the best-sounding, richest [...]
Samsung tablet with flexible display spotted in new design patent
Samsung Youm OLED flexible display demoed at CES 2013. Samsung has been recently granted a design patent for a tablet PC that appears to have a bendable display. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office awarded Samsung a slew of patents earlier this week including two design patents for tablets. As always with patents – whether [...]
-
Custom Search