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Amazon Takes Aim At Apple’s Expensive iPad In New Kindle Ad

Killian Bell — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:33:56 +0000

Whether Samsung’s blatant Apple bashing adverts are actually convincing customers to buy its products is unclear, but they are at least inspiring other companies to mock Apple’s gadgets in their own ads. Amazion is the latest, with a new Kindle ad that takes aim at the iPad for its poor reading conditions in direct sunlight, [...]

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Microsoft To Expand iOS Offerings With Dynamic CRM

Ryan Faas — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:06:03 +0000

Microsoft has been pretty noncommittal when it comes to creating business tools for the iPhone and iPad. The company has dipped its toes in the iOS pool with consumer-oriented release of My Xbox Live and an iOS port of its Kinectimals virtual pet game. That’s in addition to an app that lets users access files [...]

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Refurbished Motorola Xooms came with private data from previous owners

Casey Johnston — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:26:00 +0000

Motorola facilitated the sale of a bunch of refurbished Xoom tablets with former owners' data still on them, the company announced in a press release Friday. The Xooms were part of a deal on flash sale site woot.com last fall, ...

RIM’s Efforts To Entice Android Developers With Free PlayBooks Reeks Of Desperation

Ryan Faas — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:28:09 +0000

It’s no secret that RIM’s attempt to create an iPad-killer with its PlayBook tablet didn’t deliver a success. In a move that was common of last year’s parade of iPad competitors, the PlayBook shipped almost as a public beta with core functionality like a native email app missing from the device. The PlayBook’s dismal sales [...]

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Windows Phone Is Finally Getting Ready For Business, But Can It Beat The iPhone?

Ryan Faas — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:40:49 +0000

Windows Phone 7 hasn’t been the runaway blockbuster that Microsoft probably envisioned when it launched nearly a year and a half ago. Despite advertising campaigns and a strategic alliance with Nokia, Windows Phone use still ranks well below iOS, Android, and BlackBerry use. But new details about the platforms future that were leaked earlier this [...]

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The route to a Kindle owner’s heart goes through the wallet

Casey Johnston — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:53:00 +0000

A customer satisfaction survey of Kindle Fire owners shows that while the vast majority are satisfied with their purchase, it is mainly the low price fueling their happiness. ChangeWave Research asked a sample of new Kindle Fire ...

Samsung in hot water with EU over 3G FRAND patent lawsuits

Chris Foresman — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 23:50:00 +0000

The European Commission announced on Tuesday that it has begun a formal investigation into Samsung's strategy of using FRAND-encumbered patents related to 3G wireless networking standards in lawsuits. The announcement comes...

2012: The year websites optimize for tablets

Ryan Kim — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:30:42 +0000

Mobify's CEO Igor Faletski, whose company helps sites optimize for mobile, said almost all of Mobify's work thus far has been to optimize for smartphones. But he said this year many sites are preparing to build specifically for tablets, taking advantage of their unique capabilities.

Kindle Fire dwarfs other Android tablets in market share after just three months

Casey Johnston — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 21:00:00 +0000

The Kindle Fire is crushing standard Android tablets in market share after only three months, according to data collected by Flurry Analytics. Measured in application sessions on Android from November 2011 to January 2012, the K...

Kindle Fire dwarfs other Android tablets in market share after just three months

Casey Johnston — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 21:00:00 +0000

Apple Confirms Kindle Fire And Other ‘Limited Function Tablets’ Have No Impact On iPad Sales

Killian Bell — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:42:46 +0000

Despite being labeled the first real competitor to the iPad, it seems Amazon’s 7-inch Kindle Fire tablet still has a long way to go before it can lure tablet users away from Apple’s device. Although it seemed to be incredibly popular when it launched last year, largely thanks to that attractive $199 price tag, Apple [...]

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Two years, 55M iPads later, Apple still rules tablets

Erica Ogg — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:02:42 +0000

Just under two years since Apple introduced the original iPad, the company said Tuesday that it's now sold a total of 55 million units. And in the last three months of 2010 alone, Apple sold 15.4 million, a company record.

Tablet and e-reader ownership jumped 60 percent after holiday season

Casey Johnston — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:25:00 +0000

E-reader and tablet ownership nearly doubled over the 2011 holiday season, according to a new study from the Pew Research Center. The percentage of people who reported owning a tablet jumped to 19 percent from December 2011 to J...

Research: 19 percent of Americans own a tablet

Megan Lavey-Heaton — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:00:00 +0000

Pew Research Center has found that the number of Americans owning tablets shot up by 10 percent to 19 percent between mid-December and early January, nearly doubling the number of tablet owners during the holiday season. The number of people owning d...

Pew: Tablet ownership doubled during holidays, bodes well for Apple’s Q1

9to5 Staff — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:50:32 +0000

Pew Research published some incredibly impressive tablet sales data over the weekend. From December to January, tablet ownership almost doubled. While both the Nook Color and the Kindle Fire were included as tablets (not eReaders) and were hot this holiday season, the iPad is still far and away the most popular tablet out there and [...]