Lenovo’s first Windows 8 Pro tablet set for October release
Lenovo Announces New ThinkPad Tablet 2 for Windows 8 Debuts premier table built for professionals and designed for life RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. – AUGUST 9, 2012: Lenovo today unveiled its first tablet specifically designed for Windows 8, the ThinkPad Tablet 2. The multi-use tablet boasts differentiators that matter, including an optional digitizer and pen [...]
Nvidia rides Tegra wave, beats on revenue outlook
Fri Aug 10, 2012 3:42am IST * Mid-range of rev forecast beats expectations * Non-GAAP EPS 27 cents * Stock up 5 pct after hours (Adds comment from CEO, details on supply and margins; updates stock price) By Noel Randewich Aug 9 (Reuters) – Nvidia Corp (NVDA.O) forecast quarterly revenue and margins above Wall Street [...]
Internet Browser Version of Pulse Reader Released
Pulse Reader is one of the best reading apps for Android and iOS! It gives you a chance to read your favorite blogs in a very easily digestible format and tailored for a touchscreen interface. Today the company announced that they have released an internet browser based version of it, that is compatible with ANY [...]
Lenovo to Launch ThinkPad Tablet 2 Running Windows 8 Pro This October
We have had an inkling of Lenovo already into developing a Windows 8 device named ThinkPad Tablet 2 which would be aimed at the business community. However, while we were left with presuming how the tablet will shape up, we now have some hard facts that presents us with a clear picture of the upcoming [...]
Sony Xperia Tablet Leaked In Fresh Pictures
We brought you a piece on the rumored Sony Xperia tablet and its specs and now the device is back, this time with fresh pictures, revealing design traits. Sony’s upcoming slate seems to keep the main lines of the design from 2011, the one of the Sony Tablet S, but changes the specs. There’s also [...]
Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 Gets Priced at $644, Debuts in Hong Kong In a Week
Samsung’s Galaxy Note 10.1 was officially re-unveiled a couple of days ago, in its quad core version with 2GB of RAM. Initially at MWC 2012, this was a dual core device with 1GB of RAM, but in the meantime it evolved. Now the product gets a pricing and launch date, so it will cost $644 [...]
Lenovo tips ThinkPad tablet for October
MORRISVILLE, N.C., Aug. 9 (UPI) — Chinese computer maker Lenovo has announced its ThinkPad Tablet 2, a Windows 8 slate with optional pen input, will be in U.S. stores in October. To be released at the time of the launch of Windows 8, the Lenovo tablet will run on an Intel Atom processor and a [...]
Transformer Pad TF300TL LTE tablet revealed with Tegra 3
It appears that the quad-core ASUS Transformer Pad TF300TL tablet will be hitting Germany and Austria later this month, complete with support for 4G LTE. German site TechFokus reports that a press release gives the TF300TL a middle of August release for both countries, so it won’t be much longer before it launches in at [...]
Amazon to Halt Processing of Crowd-Funded eBook Access
Unglue.it, the recently launched crowd-funding site that allows consumers to make pledges of payment to “unglue” ebooks, thus eliminating the copyright and DRM, has just been informed by Amazon that the retailer will no longer honor pledge payments for this kind of transaction. CEO Eric Hellman issued a statement today: “Amazon Payments has informed us [...]
iPad dominates tablet market in China
San Francisco, CA, United States (4E) – Only two years since Apple’s iPad debuted in China and it already owns close to 73 percent of the country’s tablet market. Research firm Analyses International concluded that there was an increase of 63 percent in tablet sales in the second quarter this year compared to last year. [...]
Are Tablets like the iPad Poised to Dethrone Game Consoles?
Thank you, Cevat Yerli, CEO of Crytek, the guys behind the bleeding-edge PC shooter Crysis, for confirming in so many words what I’ve been saying for years: Tablet-gaming is here, and it’s a clear and present threat to console gaming. Said Yerli in a VG24/7 interview: “The current generations are drying out and the longer [...]
Apple Owns China’s Tablet Market
The iPad made its debut in China on Sept. 17, 2010. Now, not two years later, it is has captured nearly three-quarters of the country’s tablet market. According to a new survey from market research firm Analysys International, Chinese consumers purchased 2.34 million tablets during the second quarter of 2012, a 63 percent increase over [...]
