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 [...]
Why Android Is Winning The Tablet Wars
Android tablets took the lead from Apple Apple‘s iOS tables in Q1 of 2013 (source). This is a huge change from three years ago, when Apple invented the modern tablet. Global electronic tablet market share by OS and Vendor; data via IDC and Strategy Analytics. What is happening and where is this going? I see [...]
Classroom Tablet Trends Win Comment From Meep
TUALATIN, OR–(Marketwired – May 8, 2013) – Oregon Scientific has issued a statement to the press regarding information in a new article in Slate. The article expresses the revolutionary functions of touch-screen tablets in the classroom, a trend that evokes celebration and concern among many educators. Lisa Guernsey discusses her experiences marveling at the innovative [...]
Details of Acer’s 8-inch, $380 Windows 8 tablet leak
A few months ago, Microsoft officially relaxed its size and screen resolution requirements for Windows 8 certified devices. The obvious target is new tablets in smaller form factors and possibly with different aspect ratios. See also: New Windows 8 hardware specs hint at 7-inch tablets and a Microsoft Reader Now, thanks to a leak from [...]
Apple Loses 20% of Tablet Market in Last 12 Months
<!– –> Follow us <!––> Follow @IBTimesUK <!– –> Like the budget Nexus 7, Amazon saw major success with its own 7in budget tablet the Kindle Fire HD, and along with the larger 8.9in version and the original Kindle Fire helped Amazon to grow over 150% to ship 1.8 million tablets in the first quarter [...]
Get a 10.1-inch Toshiba Excite tablet for $199.99 shipped
The Toshiba Excite 10 LE is kind of a steal at $199.99. (Credit: Toshiba) About a year ago, the Toshiba Excite 10 LE debuted to somewhat lukewarm reviews. Priced at a whopping $530 for the 16GB model, it was praised for its thin, lightweight design, but dinged for its so-so screen and proprietary charger. With [...]
Rumor: Apple Developing Budget Priced iPad Mini
The tablet segment that generates the most noise, apart from the iPad range, is those that make up the $199 – $250 price bracket. Apple is the latest that has woken up to this fact, with rumors saying that the Connecticut company might even have a stripped down iPad Mini for this price bracket. Of course, [...]
Get 50% Off the iPad SeeSaw Stand From Griffin Technology [Deals]
Griffin Technology is offering 50% off its SeeSaw iPad case and stand. The colorful iPad accessory makes using the tablet easier in the classroom or lab, by allowing you to view it while sitting or standing. You can also easily switch between portrait or landscape mode without removing the iPad from the case. The SeeSaw [...]
Windows 8 tablet sales: not terrible so far–Duplicate
Although Microsoft is staying mum about Windows 8 tablet sales, research firm Strategy Analytics has some slightly encouraging news. In the first quarter of 2013, Windows 8 and RT devices accounted for 7.5 percent of the tablet market, with 3 million units shipped. That’s up from 0 percent a year earlier, before Windows-based tablets were [...]
A tablet for everything
If you are part of a growing breed that reaches out for your Smartphone or iPad as you wake up every morning, there’s a good chance you will feel at home at some of the luxury hotels. The rooms come equipped with an iPad featuring a customised interactive user interface. In case you take the [...]
How to Connect iPad Retina Display to a PC
Ever wondered what it would be like when a regular retina display of an iPad is connected to a PC? Or if such a thing is at all possible in the first place? Well, here is a cool guy named Andrzej who has been able to pull off the feat. The entire operation is quite [...]
Hacker Makes Retina Display PC Out of iPad Parts
If you want a Retina display on a PC, you may want to purchase a new MacBook Pro for that and pay $1,200+ on it, or do what the guy we will tell you about did. He pulled apart an iPad and built a Retina Display for his PC using the parts. Polish hacker Andrzej [...]
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