Kindle Fire is Used By Women More Than Men, iPad Gets Highest Satisfaction Score, According to ComScore
ComScore is revealing its usual batch of stats, this time involving tablets, with some surprising results. It appears that Amazon Kindle Fire is more appealing to women than men, since more ladies use the slate compared to the gents. ComScore’s survey involved 6,000 tablet owners in the USA, with findings related to the iPad and [...]
Google tablet Nexus 7 vs. Apple iPad, Kindle Fire and Samsung tablets: Which …
How does Google’s new 7” tablet compare to the iPad, Kindle and Samsung tablets? This question was answered on August 3, 2012. Much of the information contained herein may have changed since posting. Google’s first tablet called the Nexus 7 (which is actually made by ASUS) is a worthy device for anyone considering a lower [...]
Survey: Tablet Buyers Rate Apps Availability and Price the Highest
U.S. tablet buyers were most influenced by the availability of applications and device price during the second quarter, according to a survey conducted by comScore. The market research company questioned 6,000 U.S. tablet owners, and divided them into three categories: iPad, Android and Kindle Fire. The latter is based on Android, but the comScore still [...]
Survey: Tablet buyers rate apps availability, price the highest
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 [...]
Giving the Gift of an eBook
Giving the gift of words is back in style as online booksellers offer the ability to gift an ebook. Actually, it’s a better idea than ever with greater accessibility and the eagerness of new readers to use their shiny new toys. Sales for eReading devices like the Kindle and Nook continue to rise each year, [...]
It’s not a race to the bottom for tablets, it’s strictly an iPad market
Apple started an avalanche of activity with the introduction of the iPad. Companies shifted gears to go after this undiscovered new tablet market. In spite of the number of players in tablets, no company has discovered the magic bullet to knock the iPad off the top of the tablet heap. Colleague Adrian Kingsley-Hughes has a [...]
The Nexus 7 Review: Google's First Tablet Gets Benchmarked
Googles’s first tablet impresses in a big way. Light, lean, and packed with Jelly Bean, the low-priced Nexus 7 hits the sweet spot and plays all the right notes. If the “perfect” tablet is what you seek, the one-of-a-kind Nexus 7 might be it. Despite the flurry of recent Google-branded device launches, I believe the [...]
Prepare For the Coming Tablet War
Just when it seemed as though Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) had cemented its position as the dominant player in the tablet market with the iPad, along came Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) to shake things up last holiday season with its 7-inch Kindle Fire. This is the smaller tablet form factor that former Apple CEO Steve Jobs declared “dead on [...]
Amazon’s Expanded Tablet Push
Someone apparently didn’t tell Demos Parneros, the president of U.S. Retail for Staples, to keep mum about Amazon’s tablet plans. Parneros reportedly told Reuters that Amazon has five or six new tablet SKUs, or stock-keeping units, up its sleeve, including a 10-inch model. Amazon declined to comment to Reuters, rendering Parneros their effective spokesperson for [...]
Amazon's Expanded Tablet Push
Someone apparently didn’t tell Demos Parneros, the president of U.S. Retail for Staples, to keep mum about Amazon’s tablet plans. Parneros reportedly told Reuters that Amazon has five or six new tablet SKUs, or stock-keeping units, up its sleeve, including a 10-inch model. Amazon declined to comment to Reuters, rendering Parneros their effective spokesperson for [...]
Apple iPad Mini to Launch This Year, Being Priced at an Affordable Rate
The folks of New York Times have it on good authority that the iPad Mini is real, but we already knew that from several other official sources. They’re reporting yet again that this will be a 7.85 inch slate and, priced much less than the current iPad. Apple is supposed to have been prototyping a [...]
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