Apple Loop: Ballmer’s Boast, A Green Redux and Amelio’s Exit
Keeping you in the loop on some of the things happening around Apple this week. Microsoft talks smack. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer started off the week acknowledging that the company decided to get into the tablet business with the who-knows-when-it’s-going-to-be-released-but-maybe-October Surface because it’s serious this time — really, really — about taking on Apple. Ballmer, [...]
Apple Projects 20 Million iPad Unit Sales Record for Q2
Although you see a lot of Samsung, Nokia, HTC and the iPhone in the daily news, know that the iPad is still popular and it doesn’t even need the iPad Mini to be that way. According to Needham Company analyst Charlie Wolf the tablet is now more popular than ever. Wolf makes a projection, saying [...]
Google Ships Nexus 7 Tablet, but Retailers Struggle to Keep up
Google has started shipping units of the highly anticipated Nexus 7 tablet, but multiple retailers said the tablet has sold out and that they are struggling to fill orders. GameStop has pulled the Nexus 7 tablet order page from its website, while Adorama and Staples said the tablet had sold out and that they were [...]
Google ships Nexus 7 tablet, retailers struggle to keep up
HTC Vertex Tablet: A Quad-Core Competitor for Nexus 7?
A new tablet by HTC called the Vertex has surfaced in benchmarks this week, and the device seems like it could be a competitor for the upcoming Google Nexus 7, judging by its specs. Google Nexus 7 Available for Pre-Order at Best Buy The upcoming Google Nexus 7 tablet is now available for pre-order at [...]
Should HTC get back into the tablet race?
Does it seem like manufacturers have slowed down on tablets? It seems like just last year when we were seeing all sorts of tablets finding their way into the market. It was even worse in 2010. They were all over the place. And, speaking truthfully, only about half of them were worth even giving a [...]
Smashwords’ CEO Mark Coker on Publishing Milestones
Yesterday, Smashwords’ CEO Mark Coker updated the company blog with a stunning announcement: Smashwords has now had a stunning five billion words uploaded to the site. GoodeReader caught up with Coker this morning prior to his speaking panel at ThrillerFest in New York to learn an even more amazing figure. “I wrote that blog post [...]
DITA Strategies Webinar Brought a Varied Educational Publishing Audience
Amber Swope, founder of DITA Strategies, hosted a webinar with Data Conversion Laboratory last week to introduce attendees to the structured architecture of XML. Some of the specific teams in attendance were educational publishers looking for a format that wasn’t so proprietary, an important factor in making digital content compatible across platforms. Swope spoke to [...]
iPad Mini Dimensions Leaked in New Sketches
The recent avalanche of iPad Mini-related rumors lead us to believe that sometime in the next months, Apple will unveil a 7.85 inch iPad with a more affordable price tag than usual. After seeing a mould of the prototype for the iPad Mini, now we get to see some leaked schematics for the device. These [...]
Is the Apple iPad Still Worth More to Consumers Than Android Tablets?
AUSTIN, TX, Jul 13, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) – The tablet market continues to grow, but how much are consumers willing to spend on these popular devices? While there are many answers to that question, iGR’s research suggests that the main variable is whether or not the tablet is an Apple iPad. In late 2011, [...]
Motion Computing CL910 Tablet Withstands Harsh Business Environments
Motion Computing, a manufacturer of rugged tablets, has introduced the CL910 Tablet PC, its latest model for the health care, field service and retail industries. The model has been updated with an Intel dual-core processor, 128GB of solid-state memory and 2GB of RAM. It runs Windows 7 Professional and incorporates a 1.6GHz Atom N2600 dual-core [...]
Google Nexus 7 has hidden "Smart Cover" feature
It seems that the Nexus 7 Android-powered tablet has a hidden feature that neither Google nor Asus — the manufacturer of the tablet — have revealed. A video has been uploaded to the internet that shows that Google’s new tablet has a sensor located bottom left-hand side of the device — when held in portrait [...]
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