Apple iPad Gets 68% of Tablet Market in Q2 2012, Ships 17 Million Tablets
A recent report from IDC, the famous market research firm shows that global tablet shipments have increased to 25 million units in the second quarter of 2012. That’s up from 18.7 million in Q 2012, meaning that it increased quarter over quarter by 33.6%. Of all those units, Apple shipped a record number: 17 million [...]
Leaked Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet 2 Runs WIndows 8
Back in May, Lenovo indicated that the company was working on a ThinkPad tablet running Windows 8. Details were sparse, though–all we knew at the time was that the tablet would have an Intel processor and tie into a cloud service Lenovo is building. Detailed specs for the ThinkPad Tablet 2 have allegedly been unveiled, [...]
eBooks Now Account for 21% of all Sales at Simon & Schuster
Digital eBook sales at Simon Schuster are seeing strong growth in the second financial quarter of 2012. They have risen by almost 44% and now account for 21% of the companies total book sales. Revenues increased by 3% and garnered the company a cool $189 million from $183 million over the second quarter in 2011. [...]
Nvidia Ordered To Supply 3 Million Tegra 3 Chips For Nexus 7
We don’t have the numbers yet to help us pin point just how hot the Nexus 7 is right now though there are some indications to help us arrive to some conclusions. Nvidia has landed up a mega contract to supply no less than 3 million of its latest Tegra 3 quad core chips to [...]
Apple Widens Its Lead in Sizzling Tablet Market
Apple shows no signs of yielding its clear lead position in tablet sales following a record second quarter in a tablet market that’s hotter than ever, according to research from IDC. Tablet makers worldwide shipped 25 million units in the second quarter of 2012, IDC found. That’s 34 percent more than the 18.7 million they [...]
Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 Specs Leaked Again and Confirmed
The Galaxy Note 10.1 has had a random presence in the news, either leaking or being confirmed by sources, but never actually getting a 100% debut so far, at least not in the current version. Unveiled at MWC 2012 in a dual core version, the device was then reworked and turned into a quad core [...]
'Record-Setting' iPad Shipments Boost Tablet Market
The tablet market fared better than expected during the second quarter, thanks to “record-setting” shipments of Apple’s iPad , according to new data from IDC. The research firm estimated that worldwide tablet shipments for the second quarter totaled 25 million units, up 34 percent from 18.7 million in the first quarter of the year. That [...]
Tablets Trump Laptops in High School Classrooms
Tablet devices have passed laptops as the go-to tool in high school classrooms. During its quarterly earnings call on July 24, Apple announced that it sold 500,000 MacBook laptops to schools during the previous quarter—an all-time high for the tech company. It also announced that it had sold 1 million iPads to high schools and [...]
Samsung Started Sending Out Unpacked Event Invitations for IFA 2012 Berlin; They Show a Stylus!
Samsung not only has a big event scheduled on the 15th of this month, but they also have their own Unpacked show at the IFA 2012 Berlin event. The latter’s invitations have just started being sent out to the media and those interested in the new product. Seeing that there’s a big stylus on the [...]
RIM Announces 4G LTE PlayBook Tablet
RIM is launching a 4G LTE version of its 7-inch BlackBerry PlayBook tablet. Despite all the uncertainty regarding Research In Motion and its immediate future, the BlackBerry company seems intent on proving that it’s business as usual. While anxious customers are waiting for the release of BlackBerry 10 devices in 1Q13, RIM in the meantime [...]
Get your Manga Fix with 10,000 Titles on the iPad via Manga Rock 2
Manga and Apple? The two normally did not go hand and hand but Manga fiends can throw up a collective cheer with the new app Manga Rock 2! It is a great portable app that has close to 10,000 scanned titles from MangaReader, MangaFox, and MangaEden. Digital Titles can be accessed via the free app, [...]
BlackBerry PlayBook 2.0.1.668 Update Rolling out Now!
The original Blackberry Playbook has received a firmware update today but it is not the OS 2.1 update we have all been waiting for. This new firmware is the exact same one that will come bundled on the new new Playbook 4G/LTE model due out August 9th. One of the drawbacks of the latest update [...]
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