Video game makers look to get piece of tablet action
A joke of sorts told among historians: Who won the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union? Japan. While the U.S. and the Russkies were busy expending their resources on an arms race, the tiny island nation was free to expand its economy. Who won the console wars among Nintendo, Sony and [...]
Verizon, BMW, Toyota and Other Automakers Get Into a 4G Alliance; Putting Tablets In Your Cars!
Major automakers and telecom bigshot Verizon have come together in order to form the 4G Venture Forum for Connected Cars. Basically, they aim at putting 4G LTE systems on your vehicle and the brands on board with this idea are BMW, Honda, Hyundai, Kia and Toyota. North American companies are strangely enough lacking for now. [...]
U.S. tablet usage hits 'critical mass,' ComScore reports
Amazon’s Kindle Fire and Apple’s iPad. In just the two years since the release of Apple’s iPad, the U.S. tablet market has reached a “critical mass,” with nearly one in four smartphone owners also using a tablet in the three-month period ending in April, according to data released by market researcher ComScore. Tablet use among [...]
US tablet usage hits ‘critical mass,’ ComScore reports
Amazon’s Kindle Fire and Apple’s iPad. In just the two years since the release of Apple’s iPad, the U.S. tablet market has reached a “critical mass,” with nearly one in four smartphone owners also using a tablet in the three-month period ending in April, according to data released by market researcher ComScore. Tablet use among [...]
Four stories you should read this Sunday, June 10
Three years ago, my Sunday mornings started with the New York Times. Now it’s Feedly, which appealingly presents my RSS feeds synced from Google Reader. I mainly use the app on a tablet, and I highly recommend it. This morning, as Apple’s developer conference approaches tomorrow, there are loads of punditry — and much of [...]
Rumors of the week: Nexus Tablet confirmed by ASUS representative, Padfone coming to AT&T
One of the most exciting rumors currently is the said release of a Nexus Tablet. This device is said to be manufactured by ASUS and have a 7-inch display and a Tegra 3 quad-core processor. All for an exhilarating price of $150-$250. Nothing is official yet, but a substantial amount of Android fans has been [...]
More Than Half Of Tablet Owners Use Them To Watch TV And Videos
Watching television on a smart phone can be kind of a hassle. First, the battery waste is pretty extreme and people often need their phones for other purposes, like actual phone use or e-mail use on the go. While 20% of people still watch some video content on their smartphones, the issues phones may have [...]
WickedLeak launches Wammy 7 tablet for Rs 5249
New Delhi: In the realm of low-cost, ICS-running tablets currently available in the country, yet another player has made an entry and it goes by the name of Wammy 7, and has been introduced to the market by makers, Wicked Leak. The tablet aims to offer able competition to the government’s Aakash tablet, currently available [...]
Phones, tablets transform videogame market
Smartphones and tablet computers are expanding the market for handheld video games, forcing game developers to adapt to a rapidly changing landscape. Executives at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles said the industry – long focused on generating blockbuster titles for PlayStation, Wii or Xbox 360 – are taking a new look at [...]
Windows 8 tweeners take on Apple
Acer Aspire touchscreen ultrabook. (Credit: CNET Asia) Tablet or tweener? Does the Microsoft camp’s convergence argument win the day? Apple CEO Tim Cook has been clear about tablet-laptop convergence: not interested. But Microsoft, Intel, Asus, Acer, Lenovo, and a long list of PC makers are. Very. That would be due to Windows 8 and its [...]
Forecasters Predict Android to Lead Tablet Market by 2016
Despite Apple’s control of the tablet market today, analysts believe that their lead may be gone by 2016. Research marketing group IDC believes that Apple will continue to be the single biggest tablet maker on the market, but feels that Android, collectively, will overtake the iPad creators in terms of shipments. While the demand of [...]
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