Lenovo ThinkPad 2: A genuine business-class Windows 8 tablet
Lenovo’s decision to ditch Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) for Windows 8 Pro makes the ThinkPad 2 a completely different beast to the original ThinkPad tablet. Microsoft’s OS gives the tablet a number of great enterprise features from Trusted Platform Module and the Computrace Mobile software for managing devices and data to multi-user log-ins. The specs are pretty [...]
eBooks Account for 15% of All Books Sold in Canada
Electronic books are catching on like wildfire in the US and UK, but in Canada, their traction leaves something to be desired. A recent study conducted by Book Net has its research saying that paperback books (including mass markets) comprised 58% of all purchases in 2012, hardcovers accounted for 24%, and ebooks 15%. Book sales [...]
Acer’s 8-inch Windows 8 Tablet Shows Its Face Again – Tom’s Hardware
Remember that 8-inch Windows 8 tablet from Acer that briefly appeared on Amazon a few weeks ago? It’s back, but this time on Acer’s own Finnish website here. Called the Iconia W3, it’s the first 8-inch Windows 8 tablet, the company claims, a true multi-user tablet with easy access to personal apps and settings. So [...]
Sony's Xperia Tablet Z goes up for preorder on O2–Short
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The NFL Says Goodbye to the Polaroid, Hello to Microsoft’s Surface Tablet
Soon, NFL players will have a better way to see what happened on the last play than tilting their heads back to check out the scoreboard. The National Football League today announced a partnership with Microsoft (MSFT), through which coaches and officials will use Microsoft’s Surface tablets on the sidelines, potentially replacing coaches’ laminated playbooks [...]
Report: Dell XPS tablet with 10.8 inch full HD screen on the way
Tweet Dell appears to be working on a successor to the XPS 10 tablet which launched this year. According to Tech2.hu, the new model will feature a 10.8 inch, full HD display. It’s not clear if it will run Windows RT like the current model, or Windows 8. The news comes from a leaked product [...]
HP Slatebook x2 Tablet with Tegra 4 hands-on
Last week the folks from HP announced their latest Android tablet, one of the first devices to be powered by NVIDIA‘s Tegra 4 quad-core, and today we were able to get our hands all over it. It’s the new HP Slatebook x2 Transformer-like tablet running on Android 4.2 Jelly Bean and coming to market in [...]
Samsung may be eyeing Intel for next-gen Galaxy tablet–Short
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$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
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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 [...]
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